Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a basic crosslinked polymer having excellent ion exchange and catalyst properties with high resistance to thermal degradation which is, therefore, useful for a broad range of application, a method for producing said crosslinked polymer with great ease and high efficiency, and methods of using said crosslinked polymer.

Abstract: An information providing system and method and a storage medium which provide information services to each client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, through the cooperation with the operation of the object. A server apparatus has a view server for providing content to the browser, a communication server for making communication with the object, and an application sever for making the view server and the application server cooperate with each other. When a read operation from the object is performed, the communication server notifies the application server of a result of the read operation, thereby providing synchronization between the communication server and the view server.

Abstract: Crosslinked polymers excellent in ion exchange capacity and catalytic activity and in resistance to thermal decomposition and widely applicable in various fields of use; a crosslinking agent which is suited for use as a raw material in the production of crosslinked polymers; a method of producing crosslinked polymers; a method of producing a spherical particle which is suited for use in the production of crosslinked polymers; a method of producing a hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylate; and a method of producing glycols using the crosslinked polymers are provided.

Abstract: An electronic equipment comprises a device body 1 having a first input unit 3, and a second key input unit 4 slidably attached to the device body 1 and capable of covering and exposing the first input unit 3 by sliding movement. The second key input unit 4 is connected by a FPC to a circuit in a circuit board disposed on the device body 1. Key input can be carried out by both the first input unit 3 and the second key input unit 4. As for the second key input unit 4, it enables key input at any slide position which ranges from the first position for covering the first input unit 3 and the second position for entirely exposing the first input unit 3. The exterior of the second key input unit 4 is constituted by a cabinet 51 and key tops 52a both of which have inclined top surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a crosslinked polymer excellent in ion exchange capacity and catalytic activity and in resistance to thermal decomposition and widely applicable in various fields of use; a crosslinking agent which is suited for use as a raw material in the production of crosslinked polymers; a method of producing crosslinked polymers; a method of producing a spherical particle which is suited for use in the production of crosslinked polymers; a method of producing a hydroxy alkyl (meth)acrylate; and a method of producing glycols using the crosslinked polymers.

Abstract: Active hydrogen in an active-hydrogen-containing compound is activated by using a polymer gel having a three-dimensional network structure holding a solvent inside thereof and active sites inside the three-dimensional network structure and surfaces thereof. The ratio of swell of the polymer gel is preferably set to not less than 2, and it is preferable for the polymer gel to have a basic functional group derived from at least one compound selected from the group consisting of tertiary amine compounds, quaternary ammonium salts, cyclic amine compounds and sulfides. The activation of active hydrogen in the active-hydrogen-containing compound is preferably carried out under the condition that the amount of basic active sites of the polymer gel per unit volume in the active system accompanying the activation of active hydrogen is set to not less than 0.43 mmol/cc.

Abstract: Image data are rotated when transferring the image data to a printer engine which are stored in a storage unit for storing bit map data generated on the basis of print data. The above characteristic permits the rotation of the image data to be made without a decrease in the throughput of a printer and high-speed printing to be carried out.

Abstract: A carboxylic acid polymer containing a carboxylic group and having at least one kind of bond selected from the group consisting of an amino bond, an ether bond, and a thioether bond in a side chain is prepared by polymerizing a monomer component containing a carboxylic acid monomer represented by General Formula (3): ##STR1## where Y.sub.4 is a hydrogen atom, an allyl group, or a --(CHR.sub.4).sub.c --W.sub.2 --(CHR.sub.5).sub.d --COOR.sub.6 group, each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6, independent of the others, is either a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of a carbon number from 1 to 6, each of W.sub.1 and W.sub.2, independent of the other, is either an --NH-- group, an --S-- group, or an --O-- group, and each of a, b, c, and d, independent of the others, is an integer from 0 to 6. The carboxylic acid polymer has a superior metal-scavenging ability (chelating ability) and can be suitably used, for example, as a chelating agent.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an output unit for providing a printout by generating output information from input information received from an information processing apparatus, and a power consumption control unit for controlling power consumption of the entire printing apparatus by controlling electric power supply to the output unit based on information received from the information processing apparatus. An information outputting apparatus includes an output unit for outputting information to an output apparatus using a wire system or a radio system, and a control unit for controlling the output unit by switching between the wire system and the radio system in accordance with a transmission/reception relationship between an information processing apparatus and the output apparatus.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an output unit for providing a printout by generating output information from input information received from an information processing apparatus, and a power consumption control unit for controlling power consumption of the entire printing apparatus by controlling electric power supply to the output unit based on information received from the information processing apparatus. An information outputting apparatus includes an output unit for outputting information to an output apparatus using a wire system or a radio system, and a control unit for controlling the output unit by switching between the wire system and the radio system in accordance with a transmission/reception relationship between an information processing apparatus and the output apparatus.

Abstract: A disc device for reproducing and outputting an information signal recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium is disclosed. This disc device reproduces, from the disc-shaped recording medium, an information signal which has been sequentially input, converted to a data structure having a specified format in specified block units and recorded on the medium, and generates a time code for the reproduced information signal based on reproduced information blocks and addresses of these blocks.

Abstract: Access to a location on a tape along a transportation path thereof is controlled by controlling a revolution velocity of a reel motor based on a distance from a current location of the tape to a preselected location thereon, and in accordance with an estimated deviation in the revolution velocity between an optimum value at which the reel motor ideally should be driven and an actual revolution velocity at which the reel motor is actually driven.

Abstract: An image pickup device for generating three pulses 120 degrees out of phase with one another and having the same period, to clamp, sample and hold, and reset an image signal output from an image pickup element. The pulse width of the sample and hold pulse is less than one third of the period. The image signal is read from the image pickup element using three transfer pulses 120 degrees out of phase with one another and having the same period. Each of the transfer pulses is less in width than one third of the period, and also serves as a timing signal for sampling and holding the image signal. In one embodiment, the image pickup device may have three read-out devices for reading out three horizontal lines at one time (not, however, in phase), with a separate train of transfer pulses being used for each of the three lines.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a system for picking up an image by means of electrical charge generation and accumulation. In the disclosed method and system, to shorten the actual or substantial charge integration period, the charges are once cleared off as unwanted charges from the imaging part of an image pickup element before reading out of the wanted charges from the pickup element. The image pickup element further has a signal erasure part for erasing the excess charges generated at the imaging part. This erasure part, according the disclosed method and the system, is operated before the clearing off of the unwanted charges as well as after the clearing off of the unwanted charges. Thus, it is possible to prevent the unwanted charges from overflowing and affecting the wanted charges to be read out but also possible to reduce the stored quantity of the unwanted charges to be eliminated.