A drug effective for prevention and therapy of endometriosis is disclosed. The drug for prevention and/or therapy of endometriosis according to the present invention comprises an antiallergic agent as an effective ingredient.

The present invention provides phosphorescent materials and polymer phosphorescent materials that generate lights of various colors including blue, green, yellow, orange and red, which are useful for high performance multicolor organic light- emitting EL devices, and also provides an organic light emitting device material containing a gold complex represented by formulae such as (2) and (6) below ...

Thin films are formed on substrates (300) disposed in a chamber (15) in a thin film forming device (6) by a plasma CVD method (chemical vapor deposition method). A plurality of thin film forming regions 17u, 17v, and 17w, the regions having electrodes (40) for generating plasma, are disposed in the chamber (15). The thin film forming device (6) is provided with a power supply system (36) for s...

An object of the present invention is to provide a shank attachment structure capable of, for example, supplying coolant even if a drill without a center pin is attached. In the shank attachment structure, a shank 30 can be detachably attached to a shank attachment hole 2 with a single motion. The outer diameter of the shank 30 is set such that the shank 30 can be inserted into the shank attachmen...

A playback system and method allows for dynamic remapping of location identifiers in a playlist. An original playlist is created based on select content material located at a first set of storage locations. When the playlist is transferred to a different environment, having access to a second set of storage locations containing unknown content material, the playback device at this different enviro...

A voice browser dialog enabler for multimodal dialog uses a multimodal markup document with fields have markup-based forms associated with each field and defining fragments. A voice browser driver resides on a communication device and provides the fragments and identifiers that identify the fragments. A voice browser implementation resides on a remote voice server and receives the fragments from t...

When a film is deposited by sputtering employing an AC power supply, output from the AC power supply is interrupted by detecting occurrence of arc discharge quickly and generation of particles or splash can be prevented effectively by reducing energy when arc discharge is generated. A pair of targets (41a, 41b) provided in a vacuum chamber (11) are applied with a voltage at a predetermined frequen...

A cracking tube (50) for use in thermal cracking furnaces for producing ethylene or the like has fins (1) formed on an inner surface thereof and inclined with respect to an axis of the tube for stirring a fluid inside the tube. The fins are arranged discretely on one or a plurality of helical loci, and the tube inner surface has regions (ZB) wherein no fins are present over the entire axial length...

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that reduces data burst overhead in an Ethernet passive optical network which includes a central node and at least one remote node, wherein downstream data from the central node is broadcast to the remote nodes, and wherein upstream data from a remote node is transmitted to the central node in a unicast manner. During operation, the central...

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates transmission control in an Ethernet passive optical network, which includes a central node and at least one remote node, and wherein a remote node implements a data-link layer and a physical layer. During operation, the system starts by receiving, at the physical layer of a remote node, a word which is communicated from the...

In a lithographic system, data transmission is carried out by a powerful electro-optical free-beam connection system enabling optical pattern data to be guided from light exit places to light entrance places inside the vacuum chamber by free-space optical beams in order to produce control signals. The burden on the pattern production system is significantly reduced by the disappearance of mechanic...

A semiconductor workpiece processing apparatus having a first chamber, a transport vehicle, and another chamber. The first chamber is capable of being isolated from an outside atmosphere. The transport vehicle is located in the first chamber and is movably supported from the first chamber for moving linearly relative to the first chamber. The transport vehicle includes a base, and an integral semi...

A semiconductor 100 has a P− body region and an N− drift region in the order from an upper surface side thereof. A gate trench and a terminal trench passing through the P− body region are formed. The respective trenches are surrounded with P diffusion regions at the bottom thereof. The gate trench builds a gate electrode therein. A P−− diffusion region, which is in contact with the end portion in ...

An engine model is configured so as to include a crankshaft periphery motion equations computing block, a friction model, an intake air pressure estimation model, an in-cylinder pressure estimation model, a combustion waveform calculation block, an atmospheric pressure correction term calculation block, and an atmospheric temperature correction term calculation block. While combustion is cut off, ...

A legged robot that can ensure a large step length while keeping the height of a body trunk at a low position without increasing a moment that is generated due to the gravitational force acting on the trunk and acting on roll joints of legs when standing on one leg is realized. In the legged robot (100), a pair of legs (20R, 20L) is connected so as to be able to rotate around a pitch axis (Y-axis)...

The present invention relates to a method for allocating addresses to intelligent information appliances and their subordinate devices, this method comprising: the network side sends down-link broadcast message, triggering intelligent information appliances newly connected to the network to return device connection information containing its MAC address to the network side; or an newly connected i...

An object of the invention is to provide a lightweight fire extinguisher. A fire extinguisher (1), which is portable, includes a pressure-source fluid container (2) capable of retaining compressed air; extinguishant containers (3, 4) capable of retaining extinguishant; a pressure-source fluid tube (5) connected to the pressure-source fluid container (2) and the extinguishant containers (3, 4), for...

There are provided an information recording medium, and an information processing apparatus and method by which content usage in compliance with copyright protection is made possible in information processing devices such as a CD player and a PC. In the information recording medium, a first data storage area on which a copying prevention process is performed, and a second data storage area in whic...

UN RECIPIENTE Y UN MÉTODO PARA PRODUCIR UN RECIPIENTE. EN UN EJEMPLO, EL RECIPIENTE INCLUYE UNA PORCIÓN SUPERIOR QUE TIENE UN ACABADO QUE DEFINE UN EJE LONGITUDINAL Y UNA ABERTURA DENTRO DEL RECIPIENTE. UNA REGIÓN DE HOMBRO SE FORMA INTEGRALMENTE CON Y EXTIENDE DESDE LA PORCIÓN SUPERIOR. UNA PORCIÓN DE PARED LATERAL SE EXTIENDE DESDE LA REGIÓN DE HOMBRO A UNA PORCIÓN BASE. UNA BANDA EVIDENTE DE MA...

UN RECIPIENTE Y UN MÉTODO PARA PRODUCIR UN RECIPIENTE. EN UN EJEMPLO, SE DISPONE UNA PREFORMA SOBRE LA CAVIDAD DE MOLDE QUE TIENE UN MONTAJE PARA FORMACIÓN DE BASE. EL MONTAJE PARA FORMACIÓN DE BASE INCLUYE UN INSERTO DE BASE Y UN INSERTO DE ANILLO MÓVIL. LA PREFORMA SE SOPLA CONTRA LA CAVIDAD DE MOLDE PARA FORMAR UN CUERPO QUE DEFINE UNA PORCIÓN BASE. EL INSERTO DE ANILLO MÓVIL SE AVANZA DENTRO D...