Abstract: An oral antibacterial, 7beta-[(Z)-2-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-2-alkenoylamino]-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid pharmaceutically acceptable ester represented by the following formula: ##STR1## (wherein R is amino or protected amino,R.sup.1 is straight, branched, or cyclic alkyl optionally substituted by alkoxy,R.sup.2 is hydrogen or a 3-substitutent of cephalosporins,R.sup.3 is a pharmaceutically acceptable ester group, andX is sulfur or sulfinyl).

Abstract: A color image processing apparatus comprising an input unit which receives a plurality of color component signals in parallel. A color correction device receives the plurality of color component signals and a signals representing the kind of a corrected color signal and outputs a selected kind of corrected color signal in order to sequentially obtain different corrected color signals for respective colors from the plurality of color component signals. A color image forming device forms respective color images sequentially using the corrected color signals output from the color correction device.

Abstract: A color image processing apparatus comprises a detector for detecting an edge of an image and a control unit for controlling a black reproduction quantity for the edge in accordance with an output of the detector.

Abstract: There is disclosed a recording apparatus with plural light-emitting elements. The elements are divided into plural groups, and in each group plural light-emitting elements receive image signals simultaneously to improve print quality in relation to subsidiary scanning. Also each light-emitting element is intensity modulated to reproduce a halftone image without the use of dither process.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a decoder for decoding input image data, a pulse width modulation circuit for producing a signal for pulse width modulation of a laser beam from a laser diode in accordance with decoded image data, and latch circuits to delay the output signal from the pulse width modulation circuit. The apparatus produces a half tone image with the center of each dot of each different size coinciding with that of a pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus having an input unit for entering image information, a setting unit for setting the processing conditions for processing the image information entered from the input unit, and a processor for processing the image information entered from the input unit according to certain processing conditions, wherein the setting unit is adapted to set numerical data included in the processing conditions in the form of variables.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus capable of responding to high-speed input image signals by dividedly storing image signals of a line into plural memory units, for parallel output, for example, thus achieving higher speed of signal storage than the speed of signal readout.

Abstract: A hot-water storage type hot-water supply apparatus operates under a natural circulation principle wherein hot-water is accumulated within a hot-water tank by circulating cold water or hot-water contained therein through a first circulation pipe connected to the bottom thereof, a heat exchanger, and a second circulation pipe. A thermal valve is mounted in the second circulation pipe downstream of the heat exchanger such that its opening area is varied depending upon the hot-water temperature in the second circulation pipe so as to maintain the temperature of the hot-water flowing out of the heat exchanger at a substantially constant temperature, resulting in the temperature distribution of the hot-water within the tank at the time of its boiling being kept substantially constant throughout the storage tank instantaneously at the start of the boiling of the hot-water.

Abstract: A tin-lead alloy plating bath based on a principal plating bath comprising an alkanesulfonic or alkanolsulfonic acid and both bivalent tin and lead salts thereof is characterized by the addition of a guanamine compound having the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, represent each a hydrogen atom, C.sub.1-18 straight- or branched-chain alkyl radical, C.sub.1-18 straight- or branched-chain alkoxy-lower alkyl radical, or a C.sub.3-7 cycloalkyl radical, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may combine to form a carbon cycle or hetero cycle, and A represents a lower alkylene radical.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of eliminating unnecessary images other than the original image has a solid-state scanning device for reading an original and providing corresponding image information, a recording unit for recording on a recording sheet according to said image information, identifying unit for identifying the size of the original according to the output signals from said solid-state scanning device, and selector for selecting a recording sheet in said recording unit according to the identified size of the original.

Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus for encoding video into binary signals employs dither coding. The apparatus comprises a device for setting a plural number of divided areas of an original image and a processing circuit for processing video signals corresponding to the respective divided areas using different dither patterns.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus utilizing plural solid-state imaging devices, in which the boundaries of the mutually overlapping image reading areas of said imaging devices are detected to remove such overlapping with a simple processing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of eliminating unnecessary images other than the original image has a solid-state scanning device for reading an original and providing corresponding image information, a recording unit for recording on a recording sheet according to said image information, identifying unit for identifying the size of the original according to the output signals from said solid-state scanning device, and selector for selecting a recording sheet in said recording unit according to the identified size of the original.

Abstract: 7.beta.-(2-Cyano-aliphatic acylamino)-7.alpha.-methoxy-3-heterocyclic thiomethyl-1-dethia-1-oxa-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acids and salts or pharmacologically acceptable esters generically represented by the following formula are potent antibacterials and esters are prospective oral drugs: ##STR1## (wherein A is a lower alkyl, lower alkenyl or lower alkynyl group;B is a hydrogen atom, salt forming atom, salt forming group or physiologically hydrolyzable ester group; andHet is a heterocyclic group).

Abstract: A new antibiotic having .beta.-lactamase inhibitory activity, PA-31088-IV, being useful as a medicament and a veterinary drug for inhibiting the growth of gram-positive and gram-negative phathogenic microorganisms and a process for preparing the same, being characterized by cultivating Streptomyces tokunonensis sp. nov. in a suitable medium and recovering PA-31088-IV from the cultured broth.