Abstract: A method of forming an Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coating on a steel strip includes dipping steel strip into a bath of molten Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy and forming a coating of the alloy on exposed surfaces of the steel strip. The method also includes controlling conditions in the molten coating bath and downstream of the coating bath so that there is a uniform Al/Zn ratio across the surface of the coating formed on the steel strip. An Al—Zn—Mg—Si coated steel strip includes a uniform Al/Zn ratio on the surface or the outermost 1-2 ?m of the Al—Zn—Si—Mg alloy coating.

Abstract: Measurement data (raw data) transmitted via a network is received by a sensor data obtainment unit, a sensor ID is extracted from the received data and is provided to an ID data detection unit, the ID data detection unit provides detected ID data to an ID retrieval unit, and the ID retrieval unit retrieves an ID table and extracts a company name and a sensor type by using the sensor ID as a key. A calculation expression file and a parameter file are referred to on the basis of the extracted company name and sensor type, data obtained by referencing is provided to a data processing unit and/or a data correction unit, and the received measurement data is corrected to significant measurement data. A process result is provided to an external user from a signal processing unit via a measured value file.

Abstract: A vesicle comprising fine metal particles, which has a membrane formed from both a first polymer of (a) or (b) shown below and a second polymer of (c) or (d) shown below (with the proviso that a combination of (b) and (d) is excepted), wherein partial crosslinking occurs between a cationic segment and an anionic segment in the above polymers: First polymer: (a) a block copolymer (I) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and a cationic segment (b) an amino acid polymer (I) having a cationic segment Second polymer: (c) a block copolymer (II) having both an electrically non-charged hydrophilic segment and an anionic segment (d) an amino acid polymer (II) having an anionic segment.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electronic device, a column that supports the electronic device, a plate member connected to a lower end of the column, a support member that includes a lower plate segment disposed under the plate member and an upper plate segment disposed above the plate member and supports the plate member such that the plate member is allowed to swing between the lower plate segment and the upper plate segment, and a wall member that faces a side surface of the plate member to restrict a range of turning of the plate member.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electronic device, a column that supports the electronic device, a plate member connected to a lower end of the column, a support member that includes a lower plate segment disposed under the plate member and an upper plate segment disposed above the plate member and supports the plate member such that the plate member is allowed to swing between the lower plate segment and the upper plate segment, and a wall member that faces a side surface of the plate member to restrict a range of turning of the plate member.

Abstract: An image sheet forming method includes supplying a first sheet including a non-transparent layer, and transferring a toner image onto a toner image carrying surface of the first sheet. The method further includes integrating a second sheet, which includes a base layer and a transparent layer, with the first sheet in a manner that the toner image is sandwiched between the toner image carrying surface of the first sheet and the transparent layer of the second sheet. The method further includes separating the base layer from the second sheet while fixing the toner image.

Abstract: An image sheet forming method includes supplying a first sheet including a non-transparent layer, and transferring a toner image onto a toner image carrying surface of the first sheet. The method further includes integrating a second sheet, which includes a base layer and a transparent layer, with the first sheet in a manner that the toner image is sandwiched between the toner image carrying surface of the first sheet and the transparent layer of the second sheet. The method further includes separating the base layer from the second sheet while fixing the toner image.

Abstract: A pair of registration rollers align a leading edge of a recording medium having a transparent section and a non-transparent section. A boundary sensor detects a boundary between the transparent section and the non-transparent section. The boundary sensor is provided on a downstream side of a direction of conveying the recording medium by the registration rollers.

Abstract: A process for dry cleaning using a cleaning composition for dry cleaning which includes 1 to 90% by weight of a surfactant containing fluorine and 10 to 99% by weight of a fluorohydrocarbon solvent and/or an auxiliary solubilizing agent, the surfactant containing fluorine being a salt of a phosphoric acid ester of a polyoxyalkylenealkylsulfonamide ether containing fluorine.

Abstract: An agent composition for the therapy or prevention of the injury of an organ or a tissue containing a phenylthiazole derivative expressed by the following formula (1): ##STR1## (R.sub.1 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkoxy group or a cyclic amino group; R.sub.2 is a cyano group or a nitro group; R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group), and/or its salt as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions for treating gout or hyperuricemia and containing a new categorized compound, i.e. 2-arylthiazole derivatives, as an active ingredient, are provided. The 2-arylthiazole derivatives in the present invention are represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Ar is an unsubstituted or substituted pyridyl, thienyl, furyl, naphthyl or phenyl group;X is a hydrogen atom, alkyl group or carboxyl group which may be protected, andY is a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, or a hydroxyl or carbonyl group which may be protected.Furthermore, novel compounds included in the 2-arylthiazole derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are provided.

Abstract: A multicarrier direct sequence spread spectrum system and method. A maximal combiner is employed at the receiver for maximizing signal-to-noise ratio out of the receiver. The multicarrier system provides robustness against multipath fading, and narrowband interference suppression. The multicarrier system is suitable for a CDMA overlay scheme for PCN.

Abstract: A combined cleaner and toner magazine (CTM) applicable to an image forming apparatus and implemented as a single unit made up of a device for supplying a toner to a developing unit and a cleaning device for removing and storing part of the toner which remains on a photoconductive element after image transfer. The CTM has an electromagnetic shutter or a permanent magnet for preventing the toner left on the photoconductive element without being collected by the cleaning device from being scattered around in the apparatus. When a toner reservoir included in the toner supply device is emptied and, at the same time, a waste toner tank in the cleaning device is filled up, a supplementary toner is filled in the toner reservoir via a predetermined opening and the waste toner is discharged from the waste toner tank via another predetermined opening.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a process and apparatus for electroosmotic dehydration of sludge with aluminum salt added to the sludge to reduce the clogging of the filter cloths of the dehydrator, and to improve the cake release. The aluminum salt is preferably polyaluminum chloride.

Abstract: An electrode comprising a carbonaceous material including carbon fibers, which are bound together by means of carbon atoms. It is preferable that 10-50 w/w % of the carbonaceous material are short carbon fibers 2-20 mm long, which are dispersed and stacked in random directions substantially in a two-dimensional plane and shaped into a plate or sheet, in which the fibers bind to each other by means of carbon atoms to form a carbonaceous electrode. The invention further comprises the method of compressive and electro-osmotic dehydration, wherein direct current is flowed between the electrode, and the polarity is reversed after each predetermined amount of current flow.

Abstract: A dehydrator comprising a filter press including a pair of first and second, electrically insulating press plates supported in parallel on a frame and adapted to be moved relative to each other. Each of the press plates has a wide recess, the recesses forming a closed space between them when they engage. A pair of filter cloths for enclosing feed liquid are provided between the plates. An electricaly insulating diaphragm is fixed at its margin to the first press plate, covers the associated recess, and is adapted to swell outwardly with compressed fluid collected between the diaphragm and the first plate. A metal core plate is embedded within the diaphragm to reinforce it except for its marginal portion, and the core plate is connected to one of the positive and negative poles of an electric DC power source. Electric conductors are fixed in electric connection to the core plate, and project outwardly through the diaphragm.

Abstract: There is disclosed a connector device installed on an automotive steering wheel. The device comprises a stationary body, a movable body capable of rotating relative to the stationary body, and two belt-like flat cables stacked on each other. The cables are mounted in the space formed between the stationary body and the movable body. Each cable is wound with a given turns, and comprises two base sheet of film bonded together. Several straight conductors are juxtaposed and sandwiched between the base sheets.

Abstract: A device for moving a door provided in an air conditioner upstream of an area in which cold air and hot air are mixed to produce a stream of air having an appropriate temperature includes an electric motor which is rotatable in either direction for rotating the door in either direction. An electric switch is connected to the motor for controlling its operation. The switch is reciprocatively slidable by a lever. A cam follower is connected to the motor reciprocatively slidably in parallel to the switch for changing an electrical circuit connection between the switch and the motor. The cam follower is connected to the motor by a wire and the door is also connected to the motor by a wire. The switch has a rotatable arm which is engageable with the cam follower. The arm has a neutral position in which it is engaged with the cam follower so that no electric current may be supplied to the motor. The arm is rotatable in two opposite directions from its neutral position.

Abstract: An automatic window regulator for automobiles includes a drive motor for lifting and lowering the window glass, and a detector for detecting when there is a foreign object jammed between the window glass as it is lifted or lowered and a window frame. The detector includes sensor means for measuring motor characteristic values of the drive motor and comparator means for comparing a first motor characteristic value measured by the sensor means with a second motor characteristic value measured by the sensor means a prescribed period of time prior to the first motor characteristic value and for generating a detected signal indicative of the jammed foreign object when any difference between the compared first and second motor characteristic values is greater than a predetermined range.

Abstract: A mirror position control device for use in an automobile has mirror angle adjusting motors for adjusting the angle of the mirror to a position previously determined by an individual driver, a memory unit for storing the angles of the mirror desired by each of a plurality of drivers, an angle detector for detecting the actual angle of the mirror, and a control unit for comparing the actual angle as detected by the angle detector with the predetermined angle of an individual driver stored in the memory unit and for applying a control signal to the mirror angle adjusting motors to adjust the angle of the mirror to the optimum angle suited for the individual driver.