Abstract: A storage device has an operation effective value memory for storing operation start days, effective period deadlines, and number of effective days of service functions. A controller does not provide a service function when an extension telephone set is operated to use the service function if the present day is past an effective period deadline stored in the operation effective value memory.

Abstract: An endoscope has a first bending portion and a second bending portion. The first bending portion is the distal portion of an elongated insertion member, and the second bending portion is located at the proximal end of the first bending portion. The dimension of the second bending portion in the longitudinal axis of the insertion member is smaller than the dimension of the first bending portion therein. The endoscope includes a hand-held unit having a control section that is used to bend the first bending portion and second bending portion. The control section of the hand-held unit has an angling knob that is used to bend the first bending portion, and a second angling lever that is used to bend the second bending portion.

Abstract: An endoscope has a first bending portion and a second bending portion. The first bending portion is the distal portion of an elongated insertion member and bent in four directions substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the insertion member. The second bending portion is bent in at least two directions substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the insertion member. The endoscope further includes a hand-held unit having a control section that is used to bend the first bending portion and second bending portion. The control section of the handheld unit has an angling knob that is used to bend the first bending portion, and a second angling lever that is used to bend the second bending portion.

Abstract: An endoscope has a first bending portion, a second bending portion, and a hand-held unit. The first bending portion is the distal portion of an elongated insertion member. The second bending portion is located at the proximal end of the first bending portion. The hand-held unit is located at the proximal end of the insertion member and has a control section that is used to bend the first bending portion and second bending portion. In the endoscope, the control section of the hand-held unit includes a bending knob, a second bending lever, a first locking lever, and a second locking lever. The angling knob is used to bend the first bending portion, and the second angling lever is used to bend the second bending portion. The first locking lever is used to lock the angling knob at a predetermined angular position, and the second angling lever is used to lock the second angling lever at a predetermined angular position.

Abstract: An endoscope has a first bending portion, a second bending portion, and a hand-held unit. The first bending portion is the distal portion of an elongated insertion member and has a plurality of joint pieces concatenated so that the joint pieces can rotate freely. The second bending portion is located at the proximal end of the first bending portion, and has a plurality of joint pieces concatenated so that the joint pieces can rotate freely. The hand-held unit is located at the proximal end of the insertion member, and has a control section that is used to bend the first bending portion and second bending portion. In the endoscope, the control section of the hand-held unit has an angling knob that is used to bend the first bending portion, and a second angling lever that is used to bend the second bending portion.

Abstract: This invention provides a substituted isoxazolylthiophene compound represented by the formula wherein R1 and R2 individually represent an alkyl group of 1-5 carbon atoms, R3 represents a cyano group or a group CONR5R6 (in which R5 and R6 individually represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of 1-10 carbon atoms), R4 represents an alkyl group of 1-5 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, and n is an integer of 0-2, or a salt thereof. The compounds of the invention are useful for the treatment or prevention of various bone diseases or nerve diseases, because they specifically enhance the action of the cell differentiation induction factors found in a living body.

Abstract: A storage device has an operation effective value memory for storing operation start days, effective period deadlines, and number of effective days of service functions. A controller does not provide a service function when an extension telephone set is operated to use the service function if the present day is past an effective period deadline stored in the operation effective value memory.

Abstract: An aryloxyaniline derivative represented by the formula: wherein Ar1 and Ar2 are each a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, pyridyl group or naphthyl group, R1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, etc., X1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, etc., y1 is a branched or unbranched alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a single bond; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can provide medicines having a high affinity for MDR, and therefore, exhibiting a therapeutic or preventive effect on anxiety, related diseases thereto, depression, etc.

Abstract: There is provided an optical amplifier for reducing the optical output power difference and/or obtaining high output power across a wide wavelength band. The optical amplifier comprises a plurality of optical amplifier units connected in two or more stages. At least one of the optical amplifier units comprises a first optical component of a single input and N outputs that has an optical-demultiplexing function, and P units of optical amplification means for the individual amplification of light that is output from P (where 1≦P≦N) output terminals selected from the N (integer) output terminals of the first optical component. Second optical components are provided to the input side of the first optical component or between the output side of the first optical component and the input side of the optical amplification means.

Abstract: A communication charge management system includes one or more master telephone sets serving as managing telephone sets, one or more slave telephone sets serving as telephone sets managed by the master telephone sets, and a charge informing unit. The charge informing unit informs the master telephone set of the communication charge in communication of the slave telephone set.

Abstract: An ammoxidation method in a fluidized-bed reactor, in which, when a starting material to be ammoxidized is ammoxidized by means of vapor-phase catalytic fluidized-bed reaction, the reaction is carried out in a fluidized-bed reactor to which an oxygen-containing gas is fed through feed openings provided at the bottom thereof, and a starting material to be ammoxidized is fed through feed openings provided above the feed openings for the oxygen-containing gas, the distance between the feed openings for the oxygen-containing gas and those for the starting material being from 30 to 250% of the height of a fluidized solid matter in a static state so as to form such a fluidized bed that the density of the fluidized solid matter at the feed openings for the starting material to be ammoxidized is in the range of 50 to 300 kg/m.sup.3 and that the gas velocity is 1 m/s or lower.

Abstract: An accounting method is provided wherein advertisement information is provided from an exchange to a terminal accommodated in the exchange and the communication charge to be charged to the terminal is discounted based on an amount of advertisement information received by the terminal.Advertisement information is provided from an advertisement apparatus provided in an exchange to a subscriber terminal, and a discount money amount is determined based on an amount of advertisement information provided. Each time the subscriber telephone set receives advertisement information, a discount money amount for the subscriber telephone set is cumulatively stored into an accounting apparatus, and the amount of money to be charged to the subscriber telephone set is determined based on the discount money amount recorded in the accounting apparatus and the money amount of communication charges imposed based on ordinary communication.

Abstract: In a talkie connecting apparatus and method between switchboards, each switchboard is provided with a talkie type memory for storing as fixed information the type number of a talkie device mounted in a switchboard, and when a talkie guide is required to be performed for a calling terminal in a connection process of connecting the calling terminal to a called terminal through plural switchboards, an adjustment is performed between the switchboards so that the nearest switchboard to the calling terminal performs the talkie connection. Accordingly, the talkie guide can be performed by using no line between the switchboards.

Abstract: In a process for producing acrylonitrile by the ammoxidation of propylene, comprising bringing, in a fluidized-bed reactor, a gas containing propylene, ammonia and molecular oxygen into contact with a highly-active ammoxidation catalyst (this catalyst being one which can attain a rate constant of 2 s.sup.-1 or more for the ammoxidation reaction of propylene, assuming that the reaction is a first-order reaction) which is in a state of being fluidized by the gas, the improvement comprising carrying out the ammoxidation under the following conditions:(a) the superficial gas velocity in the fluidized-bed reactor is maintained at 1 to 10 m/s under such an operation condition that the rate constant of the ammoxidation reaction of propylene is 2 s.sup.-1 or more, assuming that the reaction is a first-order reaction;(b) an area in which the density of fluidized solid matter is 100 kg/m.sup.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of and an apparatus for connecting terminals between switches wherein a connection of terminals via a plurality of switches can be established using a necessary minimum number of lines. In order to additionally connect, where terminal 1 and terminal 2 are interconnected via a plurality of switches and lines, terminal 3 to the connection, information, with which it can be identified which one of two switches is nearer to the added terminal, is stored into a short distance memory of each of the switches, and the terminal connection between the switches is adjusted using the short distance memories so that, from among the transit switches and transit lines, the line of the switch which is nearest to the added terminal may be connected to the added terminal.

Abstract: A bag has a bag body made of two sheets and sealed throughout the periphery except at one place. A flattened, cylindrical inlet-outlet spout is connected at a base end thereof to the one place and extends at another end outwardly of the bag body. A pocket disposed on the bag body at the base end of the inlet-outlet spout, and is adapted to receive the inlet-outlet spout in an axially folded state. This bag is simple in construction and yet capable of reliably preventing leakage of contents.

Abstract: In an optical filter module and an optical amplification apparatus for a wavelength division multiplex (WDM light), the respective wavelength intervals of the plural passing center wavelengths and the filter characteristics in the vicinities of the respective center wavelengths can be set independently, whereby the BPF1 is provided with different passing center wavelengths .lambda.1, .lambda.2 . . . .lambda.n and different filter characteristics. And, when the WDM signal light including wavelengths .lambda.1, .lambda.2 . . . .lambda.n is inputted into the port 2-1a, the .lambda.k (k=1,2 . . . n) component is transmitted by the corresponding BPF1-k, and the transmitted light is multiplexed sequentially and outputted from the port 2-nb and the other wavelength components (noise light components) are reflected by all of the BPFs and outputted from the port 2-nc. When the WDM signal light including wavelengths except for .lambda.1, .lambda.2 . . . .lambda.

Abstract: To develop a zeolite catalyst which can prevent the drastic lowering of dimethylamine selectivity to be caused in the production of dimethylamine using a zeolite catalyst when the conversion of methanol is high, and which can give higher dimethylamine selectivity and lower trimethylamine selectivity as well as higher methanol-consuming reaction activity; and to provide a process for producing dimethylamine with high selectivity, using the catalyst.A process for producing dimethylamine by allowing methanol, or methanol and a methylamine mixture, or a methylamine mixture to react with ammonia in the gaseous phase in the presence of a catalyst, characterized in that a modified zeolite prepared by treating a zeolite with a solution containing a chelating agent is used as the catalyst.

Abstract: The improved thermotropic LCP composition comprises 10-13 wt. % of a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer resin and 90-87 wt. % of zircon and is useful as an electrical insulator. The composition is a good electrical insulator, permits good heat conduction and experiences small thermal expansion, thus insuring high reliability. The composition may be injection molded to form an electrically insulated housing of a stator for electric machines or appliances that includes a coil and terminals thereof.

Abstract: The improved thermotropic LCP composition comprises 10-13 wt % of a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer resin and 90-87 wt % of zircon and is useful as an electrical insulator. The composition is a good electrical insulator, permits good heat conduction and experiences small thermal expansion, thus insuring high reliability. The composition may be injection molded to form an electrically insulated housing of a stator for electric machines or appliances that includes a coil and terminals thereof.