Abstract: An image displaying apparatus stores plural image data and displays one of the image data, which image data represent a growing plant (animal) or represent a series of motions of an animal. The apparatus further stores plural element data for growing the plant (animal). When one of the element data is selected, another image data of the plant (animal) is displayed in place of the previously displayed imaged data to show how the plant (animal) grew up responsive to the selected element data. The apparatus is provided with a sensor for detecting motion of a user. Detecting the motion of the user, the apparatus displays new image data representing a motion of the animal in place of the previously displayed image data to show how the animal reacts to the user's motion.

Abstract: A vibration gyro which is equipped with an oscillator in which slits are made in a flat-plate piezoelectric board to form a tuning fork section. For construction of the oscillator, driving electrodes for vibrating the tuning fork section are formed in the vicinity of end portions of the slit, while detection electrodes for detecting an rotational angular velocity in a longitudinal direction of the tuning fork section are formed on the arm portions of the tuning fork section.

Abstract: This invention relates to a quinoline compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a pyridyl group or aryl, each of which may be substituted with suitable substituent(s),A is --COHN-- or --NHCO--,n is an integer of 0 or 1, and ##STR2## is a group of the formula: ##STR3## In which R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are as defined,and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to processes for preparation thereof, to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and to a method for the prevention and/or the treatment of bone diseases caused by abnormal bone metabolism in human being or animals.

Abstract: In a vibration gyroscope 1, a vibrator 2 is mounted to a mounting substrate 7 through support pins 6a and 6b. The mounting substrate 7 and a support substrate 10 are disposed opposite by inserting protrusions 11a and 11b of the support substrate 10 into second insertion holes 9a and 9b of the mounting substrate 7 and by supporting the mounting substrate 7 with convex molded sections 14a and 14b. The space between the substrates 7 and 10 are filled with elastic paste made up of synthetic resin such as urethan and silicone, or the like. The paste is dried to form a vibration absorbing member 13. Alternatively, the vibration absorbing member 13 is formed on the surface of a mounting substrate 22.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel sulfonium salt having at least one acid labile group attached to a phenyl group in a molecule and a normal, branched or cyclic C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkylsulfonate anion. The novel sulfonium salt is effective for increasing the dissolution contrast between exposed and unexposed areas. Upon exposure, it generates an alkylsulfonic acid which is a weak acid, minimizing the influence of side reaction and deactivation during PEB step. The sulfonium salt is useful in a chemically amplified positive resist composition which lends itself to fine patterning and features high resolution.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel heterocyclic compound represented by formula (I), wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which are the inhibitors of bone resorption and bone metabolism, to processes for preparation thereof, to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same and to a method for the treatment of diseases caused by abnormal bone metabolism in human being or an animal.

Abstract: Novel bisphenol carboxylic acid tertiary ester derivatives having two aromatic ether groups and an ester group which are all replaced by acid labile groups are provided. The derivatives are used as a dissolution inhibitor in a chemically amplified positive resist composition comprising an organic solvent, an alkali soluble resin, and a photo-acid generator. Since the dissolution inhibitor has a highly reactive acetal group as an acid labile group, its coupling-off rapidly takes place after exposure. The dissolution inhibitor itself is less alkali soluble and its acid decomposition product is a phenol derivative having a carboxylic acid group with high alkali solubility, leading to a high dissolution contrast.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel sulfonium salt having at least one acid labile group attached to a phenyl group in a molecule and a C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 alkylsulfonate or arylsulfonate anion whose alkyl or aryl has as a substituent an electron withdrawing group such as fluorine and nitro group. The novel sulfonium salt is effective for increasing the dissolution contrast between exposed and unexposed areas. Upon exposure, it generates a substituted alkyl or arylsulfonic acid which is a weak acid, minimizing the influence of side reaction and deactivation during PEB step. The sulfonium salt is useful in a chemically amplified positive resist composition which lends itself to fine patterning and features high resolution.

Abstract: A chemically amplified positive resist composition contains a novel trifluoromethanesulfonic or p-toluenesulfonic acid sulfonium salt having at least one tert-butoxycarbonylmethoxy group as an acid labile group. The composition is highly sensitive to high energy radiation, especially KrF excimer laser and has high sensitivity, resolution and plasma etching resistance while the resulting resist pattern is heat resistant.

Abstract: New heterocyclic derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is aryl which may have suitable substituent(s) or heterocyclic group which may have suitable substituent(s),R.sup.2 is aryl which may have suitable substituent(s) or heterocyclic group which may have suitable substituent(s),R.sup.3 is hydrogen or acyl,R.sup.4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, cyclo(lower)alkyl, cyclo(lower)alkyl-(lower)alkyl, carboxy(lower)alkyl, protected carboxy(lower)alkyl, ar(lower)alkyl which may have suitable substituent(s), ar(lower)alkenyl, bridged tricyclicalkyl, heterocyclic group which may have suitable substituent(s), acyl, or a group of the formula ##STR2## (in which A is lower alkylene), and R.sup.5 is hydrogen or lower alkyl,and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which are useful as a medicament.

Abstract: A vibrating gyroscope includes a vibrator. The vibrator is installed on a work plate via supporting members. A work cover is installed on the work plate so as to cover the vibrator. The vibrator, the work plate, and the work cover are installed on one main surface of a circuit board. Both end portions of the work cover and both end portions of the circuit board are surrounded by two cushion members. The work cover, the circuit board, and the cushion members are contained in a case. Though bottom faces and top faces of the cushion members respectively touch a surface of a packing on a bottom board of the case and an inside face of a case body, the work cover and the circuit board do not touch the case.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of pyrazolone derivatives represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an allyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are, respectively, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a phenyl group which may have a substituent, comprising reacting a 2,3-dihalocarboxylic acid derivative or a 2-haloacrylic acid derivative with a hydrazine derivative. A pyrazolone or 1-substituted-3-pyrazolones useful as intermediate starting materials for the synthesis of agricultural chemicals, medicine and chemical compounds can be easily and cheaply prepared from widely used industrial starting materials.

Abstract: A photonic switching method and a photonic switch utilizing the method are disclosed. Input electrical signals Ea.about.Ed are input through plural input ports 21a.about.21d are converted into optical signals with the pulse intervals of these input electrical signals being preserved unchanged. The converted optical signals are timing adjusted within the pulse interval and multiplexed in such a manner that these optical signals do not overlap with each other on the time axis. The resulting multiplexed optical signals are transferred to output ports 19a.about.19d. An optical signal, from among the multiplexed optical signals, which should be output at a target output port is separated by utilizing a mutual optical interactional function, for example, a four optical wave mixture.

Abstract: In a projection exposure method of irradiating illumination light from an illumination light source onto a photomask made of a transparent substrate with a periodic mask pattern, and projecting the resultant transmitted light from the photomask on a wafer through a projection system, thereby forming an optical image of the mask pattern on the wafer, projection/exposure with respect to the wafer is performed by a main exposure operation and a sub-exposure operation to be performed after the main exposure operation. The main exposure operation is performed by irradiating the photomask with the illumination light whose coherency becomes 0.3 or less when a period L of the mask pattern on the image plane of the optical system is not more than a value obtained by doubling an exposure wavelength .lambda. of the illumination light source, and dividing the resultant value by a numerical aperture of the projection system.

Abstract: In a chemically amplified positive resist composition comprising an organic solvent, an alkali soluble resin, an acid generator, and an optional dissolution inhibitor, a salt of a pyridine which may have an alkyl, alkoxy, amino or dialkylamino group with an alkylsulfonic acid, arylsulfonic acid or halogen atom is blended. Because of high sensitivity to deep UV and resolution and elimination of the PED problem causing T-top pattern configuration and the skirting phenomenon, the resist composition is improved in dimensional precision and lends itself to fine patterning.

Abstract: Pyrazole derivatives useful for inhibiting the production of Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and the like, which can be represented by the following formula: ##STR1## and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same and to uses thereof.

Abstract: A chemically amplified, positive resist composition contains a trifluoromethanesulfonic or p-toluenesulfonic acid bis- or tris(p-tert-butoxyphenyl)sulfonium salt and a nitrogenous compound. The composition is highly sensitive to high energy radiation, especially KrF excimer laser and has high sensitivity, resolution and plasma etching resistance while the resulting resist pattern is heat resistant.

Abstract: A positive resist composition based on a silicone polymer contains a photo acid generator which will decompose to generate an acid upon exposure to radiation. The silicone polymer includes hydroxybenzyl units wherein some OH groups are replaced by t-butoxycarbonyl, t-butoxycarbonylmethyl, trimethylsilyl or tetrahydropyranyl groups. In a first form, the photo acid generator is a specific onium salt having at least one phenyl group with a t-alkoxy, t-butoxycarbonyloxy or t-butoxycarbonylmethoxy substituent. In a second form, the composition further contains a nitrogenous compound. In a third form, the composition further contains a dissolution inhibitor in the form of a specific silicone compound. The composition is sensitive to high energy radiation and has high sensitivity and resolution.

Abstract: A switching apparatus is operated by a non contact motion made by a user. The switching apparatus is effectively used to control a mechanism, particularly a mechanism for driving a robot, by the non contact motion or gesture made by the user without touching the switching apparatus itself. The user can control or move indications, for example views of a dog, displayed on an image displaying equipment provided with the switching apparatus by his (her) motion or gesture without touching the switching apparatus. Therefore, the user can enjoy feeling as if he actually orders his dog.

Abstract: An image displaying apparatus stores plural image data and displays one of the image data, which image data represent a growing plant (animal) or represent a series of motions of an animal. The apparatus further stores plural element data for growing the plant (animal). When one of the element data is selected, another image data of the plant (animal) is displayed in place of the previously displayed imaged data to show how the plant (animal) grew up responsive to the selected element data. The apparatus is provided with a sensor for detecting motion of a user. Detecting the motion of the user, the apparatus displays new image data representing a motion of the animal in place of the previously displayed image data to show how the animal reacts to the user's motion.