Abstract: The invention discloses isoxazole derivatives represented by a formula, in which R1 stands for hydrogen, lower alkyl, amino, halogen, lower alkoxy and the like, R2 stands for substituted or unsubstituted aryl and the like, R3 stands for hydrogen or lower alkyl, R4 stands for substituted or unsubstituted phenyl and the like, and Y stands for —CH2—, —CO—, —CH(CH3)—, —O—, —NH— and the like, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which have excellent p38MAPkinase inhibitory action.

Abstract: A conveyor apparatus comprises step chains which couple a plurality of steps such that the steps, and driving units which drive the chains. Each of the driving units comprises a power unit comprising a motor, and a driving machine including pulleys and belts that reduce a rotation speed of the motor so as to meet a required reduction gear ratio and transfer the rotation speed to the chains, and a pair of right and left driving mechanisms that convert a rotary movement transferred from the machine of the power unit via an eccentric shaft into a movement of rocking units, and apply a propelling force to the chains via pin rollers provided at any one of sides of the rocking units and the chains and gears provided at the other side of the rocking units and the chains to engage with the rollers.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes an internal circuit. A plurality of power supply nodes are connected with the internal circuit, and a plurality of pads are respectively connected with the plurality of power supply nodes. A switch section is configured to connect the plurality of power supply nodes one after another in a probe test mode and to separate the plurality of power supply nodes from each other in a product use mode. A power supply voltage is applied to one of the plurality of pads in the probe test mode, and the power supply voltage is applied to each of the plurality of pads in the product use mode. The switch section may include n switches (n is a natural number) provided for the plurality of power supply nodes.

Abstract: A highly efficient electromagnetic actuator which can reduce leakage of the magnetic flux is provided. The electromagnetic actuator comprises a first coil 31, a movable body 2 adapted to move on the central axis of the first coil 31, a first stator 11 covering the top face, bottom face and outer peripheral face of the first coil 31, and a permanent magnet 15 adapted to firmly latch the movable body 2 at one end point of its movable range. A second stator 12 adapted to control the magnetic flux generated from the permanent magnet 15 is provided in succession with the first stator 11. By providing the second stator 12, when releasing the movable body 2 from its firmly latched state, the permanent magnet 15 is not inversely excited or demagnetized.

Abstract: A needle 2 includes a plunger member 21 and a collar member 22, and is provided to be reciprocable from a latch position to a latch release position inside a stator 1. A first magnet coil 31 has sufficient electromagnetic power to put in a latch state the needle 2 which is in a latch release state on energization. A permanent magnet 4 has sufficient absorption power for absorbing a collar member 22 of the needle 2 put in the latch state by the electromagnetic power of the first magnet coil 31 and maintaining the latch state even when the first magnet coil 31 is in a non-energized state. A second magnet coil 32 can diminish magnetic fluxes of the permanent magnet 4 and change the needle 2 from the latch state to the latch release state on energization. Thus, energy efficiency is improved by varying how to energize the magnet coils according to the state of a load side.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical component or a molding die for the optical component, the method comprising the steps of: cutting a surface of a work with a tool by rotating the tool around its axis with a cutting edge facing outward and moving in a circle to cut the work surface at a point of the circle while relatively moving the tool and the work in a line direction crossing to the axis of the tool at a predetermined feed speed; and cutting the work surface in a next line after relatively moving the tool and the work in a pitch direction perpendicular to the line direction by a pick feeding distance in such a condition that: tool rotation speed (S): 10000 to 30000 rpm; feed speed (F): 300 to 2000 mm/min; rotating radius (D) of a cutting edge of a tool: 5 to 15 mm; pick feeding distance (f): 0.01 to 0.04 mm; nose radius (r) of a cutting edge of a tool: 5 to 20 mm. The method allows to form a surface of a work into a free-form surface having a surface roughness of approximately 10 nm or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image recording portion that records an image on a sheet; a sheet stacking portion which is provided above the image recording portion and on which the sheet delivered from the image recording portion is stacked; and an image reading portion that is provided above the sheet stacking portion and reads an image on an original, the image reading portion being disposed on a rear side so that the sheet delivered from the image recording portion onto the sheet stacking portion is partially exposed to the outside on a front side of the image reading portion.

Abstract: Handrail drive belts (20A, 20B, 20C, 120A, 120B) are respectively driven in circulatory fashion within a railing (5) by drive force respectively extracted from step sprocket gears (2a, 2b) and a step chain. The handrail drive belts (20A, 20B, 20C, 120A, 120B) transmit drive force to a handrail belt (10, 110) by contacting the inner peripheral surface of the handrail belt (10, 110) at respectively different locations. In this way, the load on the handrail belt in a passenger conveyor of long travel is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a UWB communication device and a UWB communication method with which the communication speed can be improved, and with which accurate sending and receiving of data and a lower power consumption can be achieved. A communication device in accordance with the present invention employs a sending/receiving method of sending four bits of data within four cycles of a system clock, sending the four bits of data by correlating them in a 1-to-1 relationship with seven types of pulse waveforms with only one pulse during the first seven half-cycles and nine different types of pulse waveforms with two pulses during the first seven half-cycles of four cycles of the system clock, and at the receiving side demodulating the modulated input data by correlating the sixteen types of pulse waveforms that have been sent back to the four bits of data. Furthermore, when receiving, the width of the received pulses is set to a length of 1.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a sense amplifier, a drive circuit that operatively supplies a predetermined potential to the sense amplifier, and disconnection transistors that are provided between the sense amplifier and the drive circuit. According to the present invention, the disconnection transistors can disconnect the sense amplifier from the drive circuit. Therefore, when the sense amplifier is disconnected from the drive circuit during at least a part of a period from when the word line is activated till when the sense amplifier is activated, outflow and inflow of charge from and into the bit line can be stopped immediately.

Abstract: A conveyor apparatus comprises step chains which couple a plurality of steps such that the steps, and driving units which drive the chains. Each of the driving units comprises a power unit comprising a motor, and a driving machine including pulleys and belts that reduce a rotation speed of the motor so as to meet a required reduction gear ratio and transfer the rotation speed to the chains, and a pair of right and left driving mechanisms that convert a rotary movement transferred from the machine of the power unit via an eccentric shaft into a movement of rocking units, and apply a propelling force to the chains via pin rollers provided at any one of sides of the rocking units and the chains and gears provided at the other side of the rocking units and the chains to engage with the rollers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phenol resin composition comprising a phenol resin and boehmite having an average particle diameter (minor diameter) of 100 nm or less, and a phenol resin composition further comprising a benzooxazine resin in a weight ratio of the phenol resin to the benzooxazine resin within a range from 95/5 to 25/75. In a specific aspect, the phenol resin composition of the present invention is characterized in that it contains boehmite having an aspect ratio within a range from 1 to 100 and also contains an alumina-based compound as a filler, an amount of the boehmite being from 1 to 150 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the phenol resin.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second toner image forming sections and a transfer unit. The first and second toner image forming sections include first and second image carriers and first and second intermediate transfer members, respectively. The color toner images are formed on the image carrier and then transferred onto the intermediate transfer member to form a composite color toner image on the intermediate transfer member. In a first mode, the first and second toner image forming sections form both the composite dark and light color toner images on the recording material. In a second mode, the second intermediate transfer member is moved out of contact with the transfer unit and the second image carrier and the second intermediate transfer member are not operated, so that only the first toner image forming section forms the composite dark color toner image on the recording material.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image recording portion that records an image on a sheet; a sheet stacking portion which is provided above the image recording portion and on which the sheet delivered from the image recording portion is stacked; and an image reading portion that is provided above the sheet stacking portion and reads an image on an original, the image reading portion being disposed on a rear side so that the sheet delivered from the image recording portion onto the sheet stacking portion is partially exposed to the outside on a front side of the image reading portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image recording portion that records an image on a sheet; a sheet stacking portion which is provided above the image recording portion and on which the sheet delivered from the image recording portion is stacked; and an image reading portion that is provided above the sheet stacking portion and reads an image on an original, the image reading portion being disposed on a rear side so that the sheet delivered from the image recording portion onto the sheet stacking portion is partially exposed to the outside on a front side of the image reading portion.

Abstract: An electrical double-layer capacitor showing a sleight increase of resistance when used under continuous application of high voltage and maintaining high energy residual ratio after standing for a long time includes an electrode element including a pair of electrodes disposed opposite to each other with a separator interposed therebetween, and is impregnated with a nonaqueous electrolyte solution prepared by dissolving quaternary ammonium salts into cyclic carbonates and containing impurities of 30 ppm or less of glycols, 30 ppm or less of primary alcohols and less than 20 ppm of tertiary amines. The water content may be 50 ppm or less. The quaternary ammonium salt may be triethylmethylammonium tetrafluoroborate. The cyclic carbonate may be propylene carbonate. The nonaqueous electrolyte solution may have a concentration of 0.1 to 2.5 mol/liter. The electrode may be a polarizable electrode composed of activated carbon.

Abstract: A bare chip is provided with a pad for activation/deactivation control to which a deactivation control signal for converting a bare chip that has been detected as being defective into the deactivated condition is inputted. When a deactivation control signal is inputted to the pad for activation/deactivation control, internal circuit prevent a signal that has been inputted from the pad for data input/output control from being inputted to an internal circuit located further inside than the input buffer circuit. Thereby, the bare chip that has been detected as being defective can be converted to the deactivated condition. As a result, a semiconductor memory module can be obtained that can be repaired by newly mounting a good function chip without allowing the bare chip that has been detected as being defective to interfere with the functions of the semiconductor memory module.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a rolling element string wherein a smaller rolling element string can be manufactured easily at low cost, and a rolling element string being superior in the tensile strength and the flexural strength even after downsizing can be manufactured.

Abstract: In an oscillation detection circuit an internal voltage is compared with an oscillation detection level corresponding to a reference voltage plus a predetermined variation and when a voltage having a level higher than the oscillation detection level is observed a predetermined number of times within a predetermined period of time a decision is made that the internal voltage is in oscillation and an oscillation detection signal having the high level is output. In the internal power supply voltage down conversion circuit when a p-channel MOS transistor receives the oscillation detection signal of the high level the transistor turns off to interrupt a current supplied from a drive transistor to an internal power supply node.

Abstract: A bare chip is provided with a pad for activation/deactivation control to which a deactivation control signal for converting a bare chip that has been detected as being defective into the deactivated condition is inputted. When a deactivation control signal is inputted to the pad for activation/deactivation control, internal circuit prevent a signal that has been inputted from the pad for data input/output control from being inputted to an internal circuit located further inside than the input buffer circuit. Thereby, the bare chip that has been detected as being defective can be converted to the deactivated condition. As a result, a semiconductor memory module can be obtained that can be repaired by newly mounting a good function chip without allowing the bare chip that has been detected as being defective to interfere with the functions of the semiconductor memory module.