Toto Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Koichi Hayashi

Hirotaka Ishibashi

Makoto Hayakawa

Mitsuyoshi Machida

Tomoyasu Ichiki

Masami Ando

Takahiko Nomura

Hiroyuki Nagayama

Masaaki Ito

Atsushi Kitamura

Toshihiro Aoshima

Katsuhiro Kawakami

Satoshi Horiuchi

Tetsuaki Bundo

Takeshi Suzuki

Shigehisa Kawabe

Tan Hazama

Akifumi Sekijima

Hiroaki Nagai

Naohito Wajima

Susumu Narita

Nobuyuki Yamada

Koji Kita

A specific access space for each user is selectively specified in the hypertext space having mutual link relation between one or more hypertexts provided by one or more servers. An analysis unit interprets a page request from a user and extracts the URL and space identification information of the requested page information. A page information request unit requests for the page information to be referred to by the extracted URL to the WWW server. A specific information addition unit takes out the link comment data corresponding to the space identification information and synthesizes a page by adding the comment to the received page information. The page synthesized page information instead of the requested page information is returned to the requester user.

Apparatus and method for providing intrinsic access space to user in hypertext space

A sanitary ware comprises a sanitary ware body and a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body. The surface glaze layer has a center line average roughness Ra of less than 0.07 &mgr;m as measured with a stylus type surface roughness tester according to JIS B 0651-1996.

Sanitary ware and process for producing the same

A document outlining any work done on a workspace is to be automatically generated. A workspace history managing part holds the present and past states of a workspace together with history information on the manipulation performed on the workspace. A synthesis rule holding part holds synthesis rules for synthesizing information. A synthesizing part, working on history information managed by the workspace history managing part, synthesizes information in accordance with the synthesis rules held by the synthesis rule holding part, and thereby generates outline information. This dispenses with the need for a user to prepare documents stating the progress of his or her work, and reduces the user's workload correspondingly. Moreover, automatic generation of outline information makes the latest information available all the time.

Outline information generating apparatus and computer-readable recording medium recording thereon outline information generating program

Sanitary wares having a controlled surface are disclosed which are less likely to be stained or soiled and/or possess excellent gloss. The first sanitary ware comprises a sanitary ware body and a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body, wherein the surface glaze layer has a center line average roughness Ra of less than 0.07 &mgr;m. This sanitary ware is advantageous in that stains or soils are much less likely to be adhered to the surface thereof and, even when adhered to the surface thereof, can be removed by a weak water stream. The second sanitary ware comprises a sanitary ware body and a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body, wherein the surface glaze layer has a kurtosis Rku of less than 2.70. This sanitary ware advantageously possesses excellent surface gloss. The third sanitary ware comprises a sanitary ware body and a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body, wherein the surface of the surface glaze layer consists essentially of a vitreous component and is free from silica particles having a particle diameter of not less than 10 &mgr;m. This sanitary ware is advantageous in that stains or soils are less likely to be adhered to the surface thereof.

Disclosed is a sanitary ware which has a self-cleaning function for releasing carboxyl-containing greasy stains or soils, such as fatty acids, fatty esters, metallic soaps (scum of soaps), proteins, amino acids, bacteria, and fungi, and deposited stains or soils, such as water scale and urinary calculi. This sanitary ware comprises at least a sanitary ware body and a glaze layer as an outermost layer of the sanitary ware, a monovalent metal component and/or a metal component having a measure of the electronegativity based on Pouling's rule of not more than 1 being provided so as to be releasable evenly and continuously, over the whole surface of the glaze layer as the outermost layer, in such an amount large enough to impart a self-cleaning function for releasing stains or soils to the surface of the glaze layer as the outermost layer, the metal component being suppliable from the glaze layer as the outermost layer and/or the sanitary ware body to the whole surface of the outermost layer. The sanitary ware is advantageous in that stains or soils on the sanitary ware can be simply removed, for example, by running water without using any surfactant and without strongly scrubbing the surface of the sanitary ware by a scrubbing brush or a cleaning brush.

Sanitary earthen products

In a discharge lamp sealing apparatus , luminescent substances are charged into an arc tube through an opening thereof, and an electrode member is then inserted into the arc tube through the opening 13 . A lower end of the arc tube is supported by a support jig in a state that a glass ring is placed around the circumference of the opening . The arc tube is set in an air-tight condition by a feeding conduit and inserted into a heating unit . The heating unit fuses the glass ring with heat of an infrared lamp and thereby seals the opening . During the sealing process, one end of the arc tube is supported by the support jig . The support jig is mainly made of a material having a greater thermal conductivity than that of the material of the arc tube , for example, a metal material like Al or Cu. This arrangement enables heat to be readily conducted from the arc tube to the support jig and accordingly prevents a temperature rise in the arc tube . This prevents the luminescent substances from being vaporized and released from the arc tube

Discharge lamp, discharge lamp sealing method, discharge lamp sealing device

A document management device includes a database for storing and managing document data, a document retrieving device for retrieving the document data from the database, a document display for displaying at least one document data retrieved by the document retrieving device, and a format storage device for storing at least one evaluation format each of which has an identifier and a plurality of definitions of evaluation attributes. The evaluation format specifies the structure of evaluation data representing evaluation for the document data. A document selecting device allows for selection of one document data among the document data displayed, and a format selecting device allows for selection of one of the evaluation formats. An attribute value input device allows for inputting attribute values which are the result of evaluation for the document data selected by the document selecting device from the viewpoint represented by the evaluation attributes defined in the evaluation format. An evaluation data storage device is provided for storing the evaluation data which is a combination of the identifier of the evaluation format and attribute values inputted by the attribute value input device for the evaluation attributes defined by the evaluation format. A binding information creating device creates binding information which binds the document data selected by the document selecting device with the evaluation data stored in the evaluation data storage device. A binding information storage device stores the binding information.

Document management device and method for managing documents by

A disclosed gradient function material seal cap for discharge lamp bulb is produced by molding and thereafter firing a slurry which contains a plurality of groups of particles having different specific gravities. The plurality of groups of particles include at least a first group of particles and a second group of particles. The first group of particles comprises a group of non-metal particles having a specific gravity ranging from about 3 to 7 and a maximum particle diameter equal to or smaller than a deflocculation limit, said nonmetal particles being made of one or more materials selected from the group consisting of an oxide, a carbide, a nitride, and an oxynitride. The second group of particles comprises a group of metal particles having a specific gravity which is about 1.5 times the specific gravity of said first group of particles, and particle diameters distributed across the deflocculation limit. The gradient function material seal cap is manufactured by preparing a slurry containing a plurality of groups of particles and/or a plurality of slurries, and supplying the slurry or slurries into a porous mold to form a deposited region in the porous mold initially primarily influenced by way of attraction of the porous mold and subsequently primarily influenced by a deflocculating effect of the particles in the slurry or slurries or under the influence of the gravity.

Gradient function material seal cap for discharge lamp bulb

A disclosed gradient function material is produced by molding and thereafter firing a slurry which contains a plurality of groups of particles having different specific gravities. The plurality of groups of particles include at least a first group of particles and a second group of particles. The first group of particles comprises a group of non-metal particles having a specific gravity ranging from about 3 to 7 and a maximum particle diameter equal to or smaller than a deflocculation limit, said non-metal particles being made of one or more materials selected from the group consisting of an oxide, a carbide, a nitride, and an oxynitride. The second group of particles comprises a group of metal particles having a specific gravity which is about 1.5 times the specific gravity of said first group of particles, and particle diameters distributed across the deflocculation limit. The gradient function material is manufactured by preparing a slurry containing a plurality of groups of particles and/or a plurality of slurries, and supplying the slurry or slurries into a porous mold to form a deposited region in the porous mold initially primarily influenced by way of attraction of the porous mold and subsequently primarily influenced by a deflocculating effect of the particles in the slurry or slurries or under the influence of the gravity.

Gradient function material

A work environment is expressed as an information unit set (Snap), a data object or the like to be used in the work environment is expressed as an information unit (Mediator), a plurality of information unit sets are collected into a Place and are stored in Places into an information unit set hold history storage part 3, and an information unit set to be used in a current work environment is held by an information unit set hold part 14. If a given condition such as the change of a work or the like is prepared, then the information unit set held by the information unit set hold part 14 is stored into the information unit set hold history storage part 3 by a storage instruct part 7, and selection information such as the name of a work and the like is applied to the thus stored information unit set. If a certain piece of selection information is input from a user in order that a certain information unit set can be selected and used in a current work environment, then an information unit set select part 4 uses the thus input select information to select an information unit set corresponding to the present select information from the information unit set hold history storage part 3, and the present information unit set is then read out into the information unit set hold part 14 by an information unit set read part 5.

Information processing unit for automatically building work environment

A workspace management section collects resources related to a job and manages them as a workspace separately from resource management of a primary resource management section. The workspace has resource administration information as job relevant information, area information on a display screen, a base image, etc. A program can define the area information together with areas on the screen. A workspace display section superposes icons corresponding to the resources on the base image for display. The icons can be moved by a resource placement section. When an icon is moved to a different area, a job support processing execution section executes a program defined corresponding to the area to which the icon is moved, whereby different meanings can be imparted to the same resource depending on the area in which the corresponding icon is placed.

Workspace management apparatus

Light-transmissive ceramics are disclosed composed of a plurality of oxides each having a negative standard Gibbs energy of formation (.DELTA.Gf.sup.0) with an absolute value greater than 1581.9 KJ/mol. The light-transmissive ceramics are produced by subjecting the oxides to hot isostatic pressing at a high temperature under a high pressure after they have been subjected to primary sintering. The light-transmissive ceramics of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 /La.sub.2 O.sub.3 are of a composite structure with particles of La.sub.2 O.sub.3 being present between particles of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, rather than Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and La.sub.2 O.sub.3 forming a solid solution. In the composite structure, the particles of La.sub.2 O.sub.3 have sizes that are 1/3 to 1/30 of the particles of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3. Maximum size particles of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 have a longer axis of 30 .mu.m or less and a shorter axis of 20 .mu.m or less, and maximum size particles of La.sub.2 O.sub.3 or the like have a longer axis of 10 .mu.m or less and a shorter axis of 5 .mu.m or less. Before an a molded ceramics body is fully fired, it may be processed by a chelating agent, and perhaps also with hydrofluoric acid, to remove impurities therefrom for improving characteristics of the light-transmissive ceramics.

Light-transmissive ceramics and method of manufacturing same

A disclosed gradient function material is produced by molding and thereafter firing a slurry which contains a plurality of groups of particles having different specific gravities. The plurality of groups of particles include at least a first group of particles and a second group of particles. The first group of particles comprises a group of nonmetal particles having a specific gravity ranging from about 3 to 7 and a maximum particle diameter equal to or smaller than a deflocculation limit, said nonmetal particles being made of one or more materials selected from the group consisting of an oxide, a carbide, a nitride, and an oxynitride. The second group of particles comprises a group of metal particles having a specific gravity which is about 1.5 times the specific gravity of said first group of particles, and particle diameters distributed across the deflocculation limit. The gradient function material is manufactured by preparing a slurry containing a plurality of groups of particles and/or a plurality of slurries, and supplying the slurry or slurries into a porous mold to form a deposited region in the porous mold initially primarily influenced by way of attraction of the porous mold and subsequently primarily influenced by a deflocculating effect of the particles in the slurry or slurries or under the influence of the gravity.

Methods of manufacturing gradient function material

Partial layout templates are prepared for respective partial logical structures of a hierarchical logical structure of a document. Each partial layout template expresses rules for producing a layout of the corresponding partial logical structure. A partial layout generator produces a partial layout structure by recursively calling itself or by calling a content layout system while referring to the partial layout template, and pours the generated partial layout structure into a lowest-rank frame. A layout of the entire logical structure is produced by sequentially performing the partial layout operations.

Document processing device using partial layout templates

A process for producing a ceramic product comprises the steps of adding, as desired, chromium salt and magnesium salt to aluminum salt as starting materials, calcining the salts to obtain fine powder mixture of metal oxides which comprises alumina as a main component, forming the powder mixture into a desired shape of body, and sintering and hot isostatically pressing the formed body.

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Kitakyushu, Japan

Koichi Hayashi