Abstract: The drum supporting structure comprises larger and smaller diameter portions and a radially raised wall portion which are defined by the aluminum drum support, the radially raised wall portion being arranged at an axially base end of the larger diameter portion and the larger diameter portion having seal rings concentrically mounted thereon; a first steel sleeve coaxially fitted to a cylindrical inner wall of the larger diameter bore, the first steel sleeve including a cylindrical major portion which is slidably put on the seal rings and a cylindrical end portion which is slidably and directly supported on the larger diameter portion of the drum support and a second steel sleeve coaxially fitted to a cylindrical outer wall of the smaller diameter portion of the drum support to bear a cylindrical inner wall of the smaller diameter bore of the drum.

Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.

Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst for hydrocarbon oils containing aromatic hydrocarbons is provided. The catalyst has a silica-magnesia oxide carrier with a magnesia content within a range from 25 to 50 weight percent calculated in terms of the metal oxide, to which a noble metal selected from among the group VIII metals of the periodic table is added as the active component. In addition, the pore characteristics of the catalyst are such that the volume of pores with a pore size of at least 4 nm as measured by a mercury porosimetry method is within the range from 0.3 to 0.6 ml/g, the volume of pores with a pore size of at least 200 nm as measured by a mercury porosimetry method is no more than 0.05 ml/g, the volume of pores with a pore size from 0.7 to 2 nm as measured by nitrogen adsorption-t-plot method is within the range from 0.2 to 0.3 ml/g, and the volume of pores with a pore size from 2 to 4 nm as measured by nitrogen adsorption-DH method is within the range from 0.15 to 0.2 ml/g.

Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.

Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst for hydrocarbon oils containing aromatic hydrocarbons is provided. The catalyst has a silica-magnesia oxide carrier with a magnesia content within a range from 25 to 50 weight percent calculated in terms of the metal oxide, to which a noble metal selected from among the group VIII metals of the periodic table is added as the active component. In addition, the pore characteristics of the catalyst are such that the volume of pores with a pore size of at least 4 nm as measured by a mercury porosimetry method is within the range from 0.3 to 0.6 ml/g, the volume of pores with a pore size of at least 200 nm as measured by a mercury porosimetry method is no more than 0.05 ml/g, the volume of pores with a pore size from 0.7 to 2 nm as measured by nitrogen adsorption-t-plot method is within the range from 0.2 to 0.3 ml/g, and the volume of pores with a pore size from 2 to 4 nm as measured by nitrogen adsorption-DH method is within the range from 0.15 to 0.2 ml/g.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing spherical catalyst carrier of silica, silica-alumina composition, zirconia-alumina composition, titania-alumina composition, boria-alumina composition, or boria-silica-alumina composition which has almost the same pore characteristics as alumina hydrate gel, silica-alumina hydrate gel, zirconia-alumina hydrate gel, or titania-alumina hydrate gel (or alumina hydrate paste, boria-alumina hydrate paste, or boria-silica-alumina hydrate paste) as the major raw material, has uniform sphericity and smooth surface and homogeneity, and has a macropore volume that can be controlled.

Abstract: A distributed object management method and system, and a recording medium for recording a processing program of the method and the system are disclosed. According to this method, a server object can be changed in operation. The method for managing objects in a distributed object environment includes steps of requesting server object information of server objects to be accessed, selecting and supplying a requester with server object information of the newest one of requested server objects, accessing the server object indicated in the server object supplied, and performing processing requested by the access.

Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.

Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.

Abstract: A pattern lithography system for lithographing a pattern with reference to a pattern data by deflecting an electron beam includes a controller, an extracting unit, a dividing unit, and an expansion unit. The controller analyzes the pattern data and determines stripes of the pattern to be successively lithographed. The extracting unit extracts parts of the pattern data corresponding to stripes of the pattern in response to commands from the controller and sends the data to the dividing unit. The dividing unit divides the part of the pattern data into a plurality of sub-patterns. The sub-patterns are sized smaller than a minimum deflection range of the electron beam. The expanding unit expands the sub-patterns in accordance with a command from the controller to produce stripe data for driving a lithographing unit to lithograph the stripe. Stripes may have at least one sub-pattern in common such that multiple lithography is performed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing spherical catalyst carrier of silica, silica-alumina composition, zirconia-alumina composition, titania-alumina composition, boria-alumina composition, or boria-silica-alumina composition which has almost the same pore characteristics as alumina hydrate gel, silica-alumina hydrate gel, zirconia-alumina hydrate gel, or titania-alumina hydrate gel (or alumina hydrate paste, boria-alumina hydrate paste, or boria-silica-alumina hydrate paste) as the major raw material, has uniform sphericity and smooth surface and homogeneity, and has a macropore volume that can be controlled.

Abstract: A process for producing spherical catalyst carrier of silica, silica-alumina composition, zirconia-alumina composition, titania-alumina composition, boria-alumina composition, or boria-silica-alumina composition which has almost the same pore characteristics as alumina hydrate gel, silica-alumina hydrate gel, zirconia-alumina hydrate gel, or titania-alumina hydrate gel (or alumina hydrate paste, boria-alumina hydrate paste, or boria-silica-alumina hydrate paste) as the major raw material, having uniform sphericity and smooth surface and homogeneity, and has a macropore volume that can be controlled includes adding a polysaccharide solution to any of alumina, silica-alumina, zirconia-alumina, or titania-alumina in the form of hydrate gel, or alumina, boria-alumina, or boria-silica-alumina in the form of hydrate paste, mixing them to form a slurry with a controlled concentration, dropping the slurry into a solution containing multivalent metal ions, thereby forming spherical hydrogel, and performing the additio

Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.

Abstract: A cylinder member holder is used to subject the outer circumferential surface of a cylinder member to cutting machining by non-rotatably supporting left and right ends of a tubular cylinder member by left and right holders and feeding a cutting tool longitudinally of the cylinder member while causing the cutting tool to rotate about the outer circumferential surface of the cylinder member. A plurality of discontinuous solid bodies which fill the inner diameter portion of the cylinder body so as to lie along the longitudinal direction thereof are inserted via a resilient body, thereby reducing or eliminating chatter vibration produced at cutting.

Abstract: The present invention provides a charged beam drawing method comprising a first step of setting a stripe field independent of drawing pattern definition data and of determining the drawing pattern definition data which belongs to the stripe field set, a second step of setting a sub-field independent of the drawing pattern definition data and of determining the drawing pattern definition data which belongs to the sub-field, among the drawing pattern definition data determined, a third step of drawing the drawing pattern definition data which belongs to the sub-field onto an object to be subjected to drawing, a fourth step of shifting a position of the stripe field by a first predetermined value, and of shifting a position of the sub-field by a second predetermined value, and a fifth step of repeating the first to fourth steps for at least two times.

Abstract: An electron beam lithography apparatus is provided for drawing a exposure pattern on a sample by dividing the exposure pattern into a plurality of pattern elements and individually directing the electron beam to the sample at the pattern element. The size of the pattern element is adjusted in accordance with a gradient of a spatial variation of a back scattering dose. By doing so, it is possible to suppress distortion at the exposure area of one shot and to suppress an uneven edge of an exposure area row. If the size of the pattern element is made uniformly smaller, the drawing throughput is markedly lowered. The sizes of the pattern element varies in accordance with the gradient of a spatial variation of the back scattering dose and it is, therefore, possible to suppress a fall in the drawing throughput.

Abstract: A longitudinal revascularization conduit is formed in the body of an implant. It is blind at the distal end of the body to be implanted in one bone fragment, such as the trochanter, and open via transverse orifices and at the proximal end of the body to be implanted in another bone fragment, such as the femoral head. At least one self-tapping section situated at the distal end of the body immobilizes the body in the bone, or an anchor end-piece is slidably mounted on the body and contains a damping device adapted to push the end-piece in the proximal direction and the body in the distal direction in order to maintain the fracture in compression. The distal end of the body may be mounted in a cylindrical portion of a plate secured on the diaphysis of the femur.

Abstract: In a multi-computer system having a plurality of computers, an input/output device configuration definition table and an input/output device configuration reference table are adapted to be collectively managed. A configuration management program manages the configuration definition of all input/output devices of a plurality of computers by using the input/output device configuration definition table, and generates a changed data file when an input/output device configuration is changed. Dynamic system alteration is effected by changing the contents of the input/output device configuration reference table stored in a shared memory, in accordance with the changed data file. The input/output device configuration definition table and the input/output device configuration reference table each have an input/output device information part and an input/output device connection information part arranged in a matrix form to allow addition/deletion of an input/output device and a computer.

Abstract: A park lock arrangement for use in a continuously variable transmission including a housing, an end cover and a casing having one end portion coupled with the housing and the opposite end portion coupled with the end cover. The casing has an inwardly recessed portion to define a reduced container space. A follower shaft supporting a follower pulley has one end portion rotatably supported on the end cover and the opposite end portion extending into the housing. A driver gear is mounted on the opposite end portion of the follower shaft. A parking gear is disposed on the follower shaft between the follower pulley and the driver gear. A control shaft extends through the reduced container space and has one end portion projecting outwardly from the inwardly recessed portion of the casing. The control shaft drivingly supports a park lock mechanism for locking the parking gear. The park lock mechanism is disposed within the reduced container space.

Abstract: A pulley device for a continuously variable transmission includes a shaft having first and second ends, the second end being formed with two axially separated ring grooves. A C-shaped ring is engaged with one of the two ring grooves disposed near to a movable conical plate. A ring-shaped retainer is arranged to restrain radial movement of the C-shaped ring. A snap ring is engaged with the other of the two ring grooves to restrain an axial position of the retainer.