Abstract: A pump including an impeller having a magnet or a second conductor therein, the impeller being adapted to be directly rotated by virtue of magnetic fields of stator coils. The impeller is rotated within a casing in close proximity thereto via ceramic bearing members, one bearing member having spiral grooves on its slide surface. The ceramic bearing members constitute a dynamic pressure bearing means.

Abstract: A thrust bearing contructed to comprise a pair of disc elements one of which is arranged to rotate and the other of which is kept stationary, the surface of the rotating side opposing the stationary element being provided with a pattern of spiral grooves which are non-reflective while the remaining lands of the pattern are reflective so that a pulsed light beam is reflected from the pattern when a light beam is directed onto the rotating pattern through a hole provided in the stationary element, the reflected light pulses being utilized for determining the rotational speed of the element under rotation.

Abstract: A magnet coupling, in which a ceramic isolating plate 5 is provided between a driven magnet 4 and a drive-side magnet 3 and ceramic bearing members 13, 14 are placed between the respective sides of the isolating plate 5 and the driven magnet 4 and the drive-side magnet 3, whereby the gap between the drive-side and load-side is minimized.

Abstract: A thrust bearing adapted to be rotated reversibly in the normal and opposite directions comprises two flat disc elements disposed in face-to-face contact, one of the elements being provided with spiral grooves on its opposite side surfaces, one of which is reverse to the other with respect to the spiral directions, both elements having a dent formed centrally on their opposing surfaces, respectively, to form a small space in combination in which a core member of sphere is installed with a small clearance between the surfaces of the small space and the core member.

Abstract: An apparatus for locating a carrier, such as a lens carrier in a process camera unit, exactly at a desired position, the apparatus collecting data of the inertia acting upon the driving system including a motor and a shifting means, and obtaining a mean value from the collected measured values so as to correct the data of inertia in the driving system with the mean value. From the corrected data of inertia an information about the control of the driving system is derived, and applied to locate the carrier at a desired position.

Abstract: A novel thrust bearing is provided in which a spiral element having a disc shape is loosely interposed between a pair of flat elements one of which is rotatable and the other of which is stationary, the spiral element having a spiral groove pattern on each of the opposite surfaces of the disc with the patterns on the respective surfaces reverse in relation to each other in their spiral direction.

Abstract: A process for producing an anthracycline derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is an acyl group, each of X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom, a methoxy group, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom or a lower alkyl group, each of Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group or a hydroxyl group, and Z is a hydrogen atom or a protected hydroxyl group, which comprises reacting an anthracyclinone derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR2## where R is a hydrogen atom or a trialkylsilyl group, and X.sup.1, X.sup.2, Y.sup.1, Y.sup.2 and Z are as defined above, with a 1-acyl-sugar derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR3## where R.sup.2 is an acyl group and R.sup.1 is as defined above, in the presence of a silyl sulfonic acid derivative represented by the general formula:R.sup.5 R.sup.4 R.sup.3 SiOSO.sub.2 A (IV)where each of R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.

Abstract: A method for obtaining a composite color picture out of a plurality of original pictures and a camera employing the method are disclosed, wherein a plurality of original color picture are selectively exposed on a sheet of film one by one in a sequential manner with appropriate color compensation, magnification or reduction in size, and proper masking conducted upon each exposure. Both photographic film on which to duplicate composite picture and the original pictures are displaced across and on the optical center line of a camera in such a manner that, on the composite photographic picture thus obtained, the original pictures are laid out according to a plan.

Abstract: A composition for polyurethane foam comprising (a) polyols containing at least one of alkylene oxide adducts of aniline-formaldehyde condensates and alkylene oxide adducts of reduced compounds of nitrated toluenes in an amount of 30 to 70% by weight of the polyols, (b) at least one isocyanate of the formula: ##STR1## a fire retardant, together with one or more conventional catalysts, foam stabilizers, blowing agents and the like additives, can give fire retardant, high impact and heat resistant urethane foams.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for color compensation exposure are disclosed, wherein, a color compensation exposure is performed firstly with white light only, secondly with a primary filter, and thirdly with a secondary filter in combination with the primary filter, and the time periods of these partial exposures are computed according to a certain algorithm from information on the required kind of color compensation expressed in terms of partial indices of color compensation filters.

Abstract: An automatic masking device including an aperture extension means for use in a printer, wherein a reproduction picture to be projected onto a photosensitive film sheet mounted on a holder is masked by masking plates which are arranged in front of the holder, and are adapted to be movable over the surface of the holder so as to open and close an aperture between the masking plates, and which are adapted to be settled to form the aperture of the predetermined size, and wherein the aperture extension means is capable of extending the aperture beyond the predetermined size and of returning it to the predetermined size.

Abstract: An automatic masking device for use in a printer, wherein a reproduction picture to be projected onto a photosensitive film sheet mounted on a holder is masked by a pair of masking plates which are separated at a certain distance away from the surface of the photosensitive film sheet, and are adapted to be movable over the surface of the film sheet so as to open and close the opening distance between the masking plates, and wherein the opening distance between the masking plates is settled by moving the masking plates depending on an magnification and a size of the reproduction picture.