Abstract: A facsimile capture device is provided that functions in a plurality of operating modes. In a first automatic operating mode, the facsimile device captures received facsimile or “document” data without user intervention, and subsequently transmits the data to a device represented by a capture address. In one embodiment, the data is transmitted to a file management appliance (“FMA”) which utilizes multiple processes and queues to provide document capture and indexing services to a network. In a second manual operating mode, the facsimile device selectively captures and modifies received document data based upon additionally received external input data. The facsimile device is capable transmitting the document data to a plurality of secondary devices utilizing various transmission and encapsulation protocols. In one embodiment, the facsimile device transmits captured document data to indexing and archiving devices according to standard Internet protocols.

Abstract: A flow implementation system is disclosed. The flow implementation system implements a flow created by a user into an image processing apparatus having at least one of a plotter and a scanner. The system includes a tool providing unit that provides the user with a tool for creating the flow by combining plural operations executable by the image processing apparatus and a condition for switching a path among the operations, and a flow implementing unit that implements the flow created by the user into the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that has at least one of a scanning function, a printing function, a copying function, and a facsimile function, and is connected via a communication channel to a server storing image data includes: a memory storing image information printed on or scanned from a paper sheet; a transfer unit automatically transferring appendant information specifying the image information to the server together with the image information irrespective of the presence or absence of an explicit command to transfer from a user; a display operating unit displaying a list of a plurality of users so as to obtain a user name as the appendant information so that the user selects the user name; and user name initial-part search and selective display means for performing a search on the user names by initial parts thereof using at least one letter or figure entered from the display operating unit and displaying a result.

Abstract: In a system using services, in which an image handling apparatus for controlling an image handling process concerning the service and an external processing apparatus conducting at least a part of the image handling process by taking place of the image handling apparatus are connected to the system using services through a network, a change of a state of the image handling apparatus is informs to a predetermined destination.

Abstract: A facsimile capture device is provided that functions in a plurality of operating modes. In a first automatic operating mode, the facsimile device captures received facsimile or “document” data without user intervention, and subsequently transmits the data to a device represented by a capture address. In one embodiment, the data is transmitted to a file management appliance (“FMA”) which utilizes multiple processes and queues to provide document capture and indexing services to a network. In a second manual operating mode, the facsimile device selectively captures and modifies received document data based upon additionally received external input data. The facsimile device is capable transmitting the document data to a plurality of secondary devices utilizing various transmission and encapsulation protocols. In one embodiment, the facsimile device transmits captured document data to indexing and archiving devices according to standard Internet protocols.

Abstract: A scuff plate of the invention is a scuff plate which has a luminous unit of which a side surface of side surfaces forms a luminous surface, a light source unit which emits light to the luminous unit, and a light guiding unit which is disposed in such a manner that a side surface thereof faces the luminous surface, wherein the light guiding unit has a luminous surface portion which expands in an intersecting direction relative to a front surface thereof. The scuff plate of the invention provides a scuff plate which has superior design properties without increasing the thickness of the whole thereof.

Abstract: An injection molding apparatus includes a forming mold provided with a gas inlet through which a gas is introduced into an area between a rear molding surface in a cavity and a resin material inside the cavity. A plurality of the gas inlets is provided along a passage direction of the resin material in the cavity. In injection molding the resin molded article, a molten resin material is introduced into the cavity from a resin inlet and, when filling the inside of the cavity with the resin material, the introduction of the gas is sequentially started, beginning with a gas inlet provided in an area inside the cavity which is first filled with the resin material, thereby sequentially pressing the relevant resin material against a front molding surface of the cavity.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical head, which comprises a semiconductor laser, a collimator lens for converting a beam emitted from the semiconductor laser light into parallel beam, a lens frame holding the collimator lens, a beam shaping prism for shaping the parallel beam passing through the collimator lens from an elliptic section into a circular section, an objective lens for converging the parallel beam passing through the beam shaping device on an optical recording medium formed with a track, and a photodetector for detecting a reflected light or transmitted light from an optical disk. The collimator lens is adhesively fixed to the lens frame at two positions opposed to one another along a radial direction corresponding to the minor axis direction of the cross section of the incoming parallel beam into the beam shaping prism. The optical head can suppress the displacement of detected-light spots in an photodetector caused by the displacement of an optical axis due to change in ambient temperature.

Abstract: There are provided left and right gripper devices for holding left and right tip side portions of a slide fastener chain, transferring the fastener chain in a longitudinal direction (an X-axis direction) and opening and closing the left and right tip side portions in a Y-axis direction orthogonal to the X-axis direction based on a command sent from operation control means. There is provided an electric motor for controllably driving the left and right gripper devices in the X-Y axis direction based on a command sent from a numeric control section of the operation control means in the X-Y axis direction of the gripper devices. A slider can be automatically inserted by only a specified operation using a single device without preparing a special device for all types of fastener chains and sliders and requiring a time for a considerable reconstruction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer comprising steps of obtaining information of a device manufacturing process, selecting a wafer manufacturing process corresponding thereto, and manufacturing a semiconductor wafer according to the selected wafer manufacturing process.

Abstract: An optical head device includes: an optical element collecting light reflected from a reproduction information layer (a target information layer in an optical information recording medium) and light reflected from information layers adjacent to the reproduction information layer at different positions; a light receiving element obtaining a detection signal from the reflected light collected by this optical element; and arithmetic circuitry obtaining a reproduction signal from this detection signal.

Abstract: An information recording medium is provided that includes a recording portion (3), which is irradiated with a recording light or a reproducing light so that information is recorded or reproduced thereto or therefrom. The recording portion (3) contains a first phosphor and a photon-mode photosensitive material. The first phosphor has a property of absorbing a first light having a wavelength of ?1/n and then emitting a second light having a wavelength longer than that of the first light, where ?1 is a wavelength of the recording light. The photosensitive material absorbs the second light and then exhibits a change in an optical constant thereof. A n-photon absorption sensitivity of the first phosphor with respect to the recording light is greater than a n-photon absorption sensitivity of the photosensitive material with respect to the recording light, where n is an integer not less than 2.

Abstract: A therapeutic agent for soft tissue sarcoma (particularly synovial sarcoma) contains a histone deacetylase inhibitor (particularly compound of formula I) as an active ingredient

Abstract: An optical information recording carrier comprising a substrate and at least one recording film arranged on the substrate is disclosed. Information is recorded on the recording film through irradiation with a recording light having a predetermined wavelength (?). The recording film is composed of a heat generating layer and at least one dielectric layer arranged in contact with the heat generating layer. The heat generating layer and the dielectric layer are substantially transparent to the recording light with wavelength (?), and are respectively formed to have a predetermined thickness and a predetermined refractive index so that the field intensity of the recording light becomes maximum at the interface between the heat generating layer and the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A therapeutic agent for soft tissue sarcoma (particularly synovial sarcoma), contains a histone deacetylase inhibitor (particularly a compound of formula I) as an active ingredient

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for performing a process relating to forming of an image includes a log management unit to manage generated log information, and a log transfer unit to transfer log information of a type specified in log transfer information among the log information managed by the log management unit to a transfer destination specified in the log transfer information.

Abstract: An operation definition information producing method can easily produce operation definition information which can define an operation of a client when using services. The operation definition information defines an operation of a client when using service in a system in which a server providing the service and the client using the service are connected by a network. A user is caused to define a state of the client when using the service and an operation in the state. A producing step produces the operation definition information that defines the operation of the client when using the service from the state of the client when using the service and the operation in the state that are defined by the user.

Abstract: A bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus includes a bag manufacturing unit that tubularly forms a strip film and manufactures a bag filled with articles; a feed roller unit that feeds a strip, to which the bag manufactured by the bag manufacturing unit is mounted; and a mounting unit that mounts the bag to the strip fed by the feed roller unit. The strip is rectilinearly maintained between the feed roller unit and the mounting unit by imparting a bend on the strip in the transverse cross section that intersects a transport pathway of the strip. The object of the present invention is to provide a bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus that, even if the strip to which bags are mounted lacks rigidity, can smoothly feed the strip, automatically thread the strip to the mounting unit, and form appropriate slits in the strip.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for slicing a single crystal, wherein the single crystal is sliced by irradiating a portion to be sliced with an ultra short pulse laser beam while supplying a gas containing gaseous molecules or radicals that react with atoms constituting the single crystal to become stable gaseous molecules in the vicinity of the portion under slicing. Thus, there is provided a method for slicing a single crystal by using a laser processing, in which a single crystal is processed while obtaining a good sliced surface and markedly reducing a slicing loss.

Abstract: An optical recording medium which is a multilayer optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers and records or reproduces information by the irradiation of light having a wavelength of ?0. At least one recording layer out of a plurality of recording layers includes a variable absorption film. The variable absorption film contains a material in which an electron energy has a band structure, and the absorption end of an absorption spectrum moves toward a longer wavelength side with a rise in temperature when light is absorbed by transition between electron bands, has a first absorptance to light having a wavelength of ?0 when a film temperature is a first temperature (application environment temperature), and has a second absorptance higher than the first absorptance to light having a wavelength of ?0 when a film temperature is a second temperature higher than the first temperature.