1. A method for treating a keratoconjunctival disorder comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of
(i) 5- 4- 3-methyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydro-2-quinazolinylmethoxyphenylmethylthiazolidine-2,4-dione or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and
(ii) N-(4-methoxyphenoxy)carbonyl-N-4-2-(5-methyl-2-phenyl-4-oxazolyl) ethoxyphenylmethylglycine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the keratoconjunctival disorder is dry eyes, corneal ulcer, keratitis, conjunctivitis, superficial punctate keratopathy, corneal epithelial defects, conjunctive epithelial defects, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis or filamentary keratitis.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the administration is instillation of an eye drop or administration of an ophthalmic ointment.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the compound is 5-4-3-methyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydro-2-quinazolinylmethoxy phenylmethylthiazolidine-2, 4-dione or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the compound is N-(4-methoxyphenoxy) carbonyl-N-4-2-(5-methyl 2-phenyl-4-oxazolyl)ethoxylphenylmethylglycine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A controller configured to control a device comprising a servo axis based on a time chart, comprising:
a time chart execution unit configured to output a control signal serving as a signal for controlling an operation of the device based on a description for controlling the operation of the device included in the time chart;
an internal time counter configured to count an internal time corresponding to a time on a time axis of the time chart; and
an internal time stopper configured to stop, for at least one device as the device, the counting of the internal time conducted by the internal time counter until an operation of the at least one device is finished when the operation of the at least one device has not been finished after a scheduled finish time point of the operation of the at least one device on the time chart.
2. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the internal time stopper stops the counting conductedby the internal time counter when the device comprises a plurality of the devices and when an operation of any one of the plurality of the devices has not been finished.
3. The controller according to claim 1, further comprising a servo axis scheduled finish time point calculation unit configured to calculate a servo axis operation scheduled finish time point serving as a scheduled finish time point of an operation of the servo axis based on the description for controlling the operation of the servo axis included in the time chart.
4. The controller according to claim 1, further comprising an internal time halting unit configured to stop the counting of the internal time conducted by the internal time counter in accordance with a halt instruction set on the time chart, and restart the counting of the internal time conducted by the internal time counter in accordance with a halt cancellation signal.
5. The controller according to claim 4, wherein the internal time halting unit stops operations of all the servo axes in accordance with the halt instruction.
6. A time chart creation apparatus to be connected to the controller of claim 1, comprising at least one of:
a servo axis operation scheduled finish time point calculation unit configured to calculate a servo axis operation scheduled finish time point serving as a scheduled finish time point of an operation of the servo axis included in the time chart; and
a servo axis operation scheduled finish time point designation unit configured to designate the servo axis operation scheduled finish time point.
7. A time chart creation apparatus to be connected to the controller of claim 4, comprising a halt instruction setting unit configured to set the halt instruction on the time chart.
8. A time chart creation apparatus to be connected to the controller of claim 1, comprising a servo axis operation adding unit configured to conduct one operation at an arbitrary position in a time axis within a chart for describing an operation of the servo axis, to thereby add a description for controlling the operation of the servo axis using a waveform defined in advance to the time chart.
9. A tangible computer-readable information storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, the computer program for causing a computer to function as the time chart creation apparatus of claim 6.
10. A controlling method to control a device comprising a servo axis based on a time chart, comprising:
outputting a control signal serving as a signal for controlling an operation of the device based on a description for controlling the operation of the device included in the time chart;
counting an internal time corresponding to a time on a time axis of the time chart; and
stopping, for at least one device as the device, the counting of the internal time until an operation of the at least one device is finished when the operation of the at least one device has not been finished after a scheduled finish time point of the operation of the at least one device on the time chart.
11. A controller configured to control a device comprising a servo axis based on a time chart, comprising:
a means for outputting a control signal serving as a signal for controlling an operation of the device based on a description for controlling the operation of the device included in the time chart;
a means for counting an internal time corresponding to a time on a time axis of the time chart; and
a means for stopping, for at least one device as the device, the counting of the internal time until an operation of the at least one device is finished when the operation of the at least one device has not been finished after a scheduled finish time point of the operation of the at least one device on the time chart.