Abstract: A method for microbiologically producing zeaxanthin at high concentration and low cost while suppressing production of gluconic acid is presented. Specifically, a method for producing carotenoids containing zeaxanthin by culturing a bacterium producing carotenoids containing zeaxanthin in a medium containing biotin is provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for microbiologically producing astaxanthin of high concentration at low cost while suppressing production of canthaxanthin. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for producing carotenoids including astaxanthin comprising culturing a bacterium that concurrently produces astaxanthin and canthaxanthin in a medium containing biotin, wherein a ratio of concentration of produced canthaxanthin to concentration of produced astaxanthin in a culture product after the end of culture in the medium is lower than that in a culture product after the end of culture in a biotin-free medium.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a casing, a printing material containing portion, a printing material flow path and first and second insertion holes formed in a front face of the casing. A rod used for detection of the out-of-printing material state is inserted into the first insertion hole, and a printing material supply tube is inserted into the second insertion hole. The first insertion hole is located on the front face at a middle position between a first side face and a second side face of the casing.

Abstract: An antenna device and a communication device capable of changing over polarization characteristics of an antenna to improve transmission capacity in various kinds of polarization environments and used configuration by preventing reduction of the communication capacity for a reception signal degrading or varying depending on momentarily changing polarization conditions between a base station and a terminal. The antenna device (110) includes a plurality of first antenna elements (111,112) for a first polarizing direction, a second antenna element (121) provided in the direction orthogonal to the first polarizing direction, a plurality of switches (131,132) for switching connection between the plurality of first antenna elements (111,112) and the second antenna element (121), and power supply parts (141,142) respectively provided on the plurality of first antenna elements (111,112).

Abstract: A cam roller is engaged with a first engaged surface facing downward in a lifting and lowering direction of a cap and moves so as to follow the rotation trajectory about a shaft in the upward direction approaching a liquid ejecting head and in the downward direction separating from the liquid ejecting head. In addition, in the lifting and lowering direction of the cap, the cam roller is engaged from above with a second engaged surface which faces upward at a position lower than the first engaged surface and the first engaged surface has a plane portion as a non-overlapped area which does not overlap the second engaged surface in a direction perpendicular to both of the lifting and lowering direction and the direction of the shaft in a range that the cam roller follows the rotation trajectory about the shaft.

Abstract: An image processor, includes: an image pickup part configured to pick up a pickup image of a certain area; an irradiator configured to irradiate at least a part of the certain area for the pickup image picked up by the image pickup part; an extractor configured to extract, as an irradiation image, a light irradiated from the irradiator, the irradiation image being extracted from the pickup image picked up by the image pickup part; an image generating part configured to generate an irradiation removed image which is obtained by removing the irradiation image from the pickup image; an object recognizer configured to recognize an object in the certain area, based on the irradiation removed image generated by the image generating part; and a distance sensor configured to sense a distance to the object sensed by the object recognizer.

Abstract: The removing jig includes a frame member and an arm member. The arm member includes a pair of side plates each provided with an axial hole. The arm member further includes an engagement portion that engages with the lever portion at its tip. The frame member includes a contact portion that contacts with a back surface of the connector body, a pair of side frame plates each provided with a guide groove formed with respect to the axial hole, and a first window portion from which the engagement portion protrudes.

Abstract: A pressure state indicator indicates whether or not positive pressure fluid or negative pressure fluid is supplied to a fluid path. A fluid guide member 17 is constituted of a joint main body 11 in which a fluid path 12 is formed and a partition member 16 provided outside the joint main body 11, and an accommodation space 19 is formed by the partition member 16 and the joint main body 11. A pressure chamber 22a communicating with the fluid path 12 through a communicating hole 23 is formed in the accommodation space 19 by a sliding sealing member 21 provided in the accommodation space 19. The sliding sleeve 24 is located at a non-supply position by a spring member 25 when no pressure is supplied to the fluid path 12, and the sliding sleeve 24 is moved to a supply position when pressure is supplied thereto. A pressure state in the fluid path 12 is externally confirmed by observing positions of the sliding sealing member 21 and the sliding sleeve 24 from outside.

Abstract: A digital filter device that filters a digital sound signal input to an input terminal and outputs an output digital signal from an output terminal, has a peak value controlling circuit compares a first gain multiplier value and a second gain multiplier value with each other, and replaces a filter coefficients stored in a first coefficient register with a new filter coefficients stored in a second coefficient register at a timing when the gain multiplier value applied to a gain multiplier becomes zero or becomes closest to zero for the first time during shifting the gain multiplier value from a first gain multiplier value to a second gain multiplier value if said first gain multiplier value and said second gain multiplier value are different in sign.

Abstract: A method for controlling a reproduction device which reproduces data held in a USB device connected to a USB terminal is provided. The method includes: detecting that the USB device is connected to the USB terminal; transmitting a call to the USB device, if the connection of the USB device is detected; detecting, during a first waiting time, a response from the USB device to the call transmitted to the USB device; detecting, during a second waiting time, different from the first waiting time, a response from the USB device to the call transmitted to the USB device, if the response from the USB device is not detected during the first waiting time; and reproducing the data held in the USB device, if the response from the USB device is detected during the first waiting time or during the second waiting time.

Abstract: To provide a winding mechanism and a trawling apparatus capable of eliminating an excessive tension or slack generated in a wire wound around a drum and keeping the tension or wire length of the wire constant. A winding mechanism with tension control function includes a reversibly rotatable liquid-pressure motor rotating a drum having a wire wound therearound, a liquid-pressure pump coupled directly with the liquid-pressure motor and supplying hydraulic oil, and an electric motor rotating to drive the liquid-pressure pump. The winding mechanism further includes a control unit controlling a torque of the electric motor based on a variation in load current of the electric motor and winding off or winding up the wire to keep the tension of the wire at a set value.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted image-processing device and method is provided to remove fixed pattern noise from images due to the image pickup element. Images captured consecutively with a camera are superimposed and stored in an image memory. A controller extracts the high spatial frequency component from the stored images, and the images are corrected with the extracted high spatial frequency component used as the correction data for removing the fixed pattern noise.

Abstract: An antenna device and a communication device capable of changing over polarization characteristics of an antenna to improve transmission capacity in various kinds of polarization environments and used configuration by preventing reduction of the communication capacity for a reception signal degrading or varying depending on momentarily changing polarization conditions between a base station and a terminal. The antenna device (110) includes a plurality of first antenna elements (111,112) for a first polarizing direction, a second antenna element (121) provided in the direction orthogonal to the first polarizing direction, a plurality of switches (131,132) for switching connection between the plurality of first antenna elements (111,112) and the second antenna element (121), and power supply parts (141,142) respectively provided on the plurality of first antenna elements (111,112).

Abstract: A pressure state indicator indicates whether or not positive pressure fluid or negative pressure fluid is supplied to a fluid path. A fluid guide member 17 is constituted of a joint main body 11 in which a fluid path 12 is formed and a partition member 16 provided outside the joint main body 11, and an accommodation space 19 is formed by the partition member 16 and the joint main body 11. A pressure chamber 22a communicating with the fluid path 12 through a communicating hole 23 is formed in the accommodation space 19 by a sliding sealing member 21 provided in the accommodation space 19. The sliding sleeve 24 is located at a non-supply position by a spring member 25 when no pressure is supplied to the fluid path 12, and the sliding sleeve 24 is moved to a supply position when pressure is supplied thereto. A pressure state in the fluid path 12 is externally confirmed by observing positions of the sliding sealing member 21 and the sliding sleeve 24 from outside.

Abstract: A hoisting device can be small-sized and energy can be saved. A hoisting device 10 according to the present invention has a hoist 30 and a control unit 32. The hoist 30 rotates a drum 12 having a wire 14 wound thereon by an oil pressure motor 42 rotatable in normal and reverse directions. To the oil pressure motor 42, operating oil is supplied from an oil pressure pump 44. The oil pressure pump 44 is a two-way discharge fixed capacity type, and rotated by a servomotor 46. An acceleration/displacement transducer 34 in the control unit 32 finds a moving direction and a moving speed of a wire hanging point in the vertical direction from an output signal of an acceleration sensor 24.

Abstract: A hoisting device can be small-sized and energy can be saved. A hoisting device 10 according to the present invention has a hoist 30 and a control unit 32. The hoist 30 rotates a drum 12 having a wire 14 wound thereon by an oil pressure motor 42 rotatable in normal and reverse directions. To the oil pressure motor 42, operating oil is supplied from an oil pressure pump 44. The oil pressure pump 44 is a two-way discharge fixed capacity type, and rotated by a servomotor 46. An acceleration/displacement transducer 34 in the control unit 32 finds a moving direction and a moving speed of a wire hanging point in the vertical direction from an output signal of an acceleration sensor 24.

Abstract: A cassette control device by which high-speed processing can be expected even by using an arithmetical unit with current processing capability, even when the number of cassettes increases simultaneously with an increase in the number of nozzles which can suck electronic parts. There is provided storage unit (18) having storage regions in which programs for respective operation patterns of the cassettes (3-1 to 3-M) are set for each of the nozzles. An arithmetic unit (19) extracts a specific program required for driving in a specific operation pattern based on a command (17) inputted according to the content of packaging, from a specific region which is provided in the storage unit (18) to correspond to a specific nozzle to be used, and the arithmetic unit (19) operates the specific cassette using the specific program.

Abstract: A wire winding apparatus winds one side of wire and simultaneously releases other side of wire by driving a winding actuator. A drive gear is disposed to rotate in an arbitrary direction when the winding actuator is driven. A pair of wire drums is disposed on both sides of the drive gear, respectively, and separately winds the one side of wire and the other side of wire in opposite directions. A rotation of the drive gear is transmitted to each of the wire drums.

Abstract: A peel-treating agent comprising a reaction product of an aliphatic isocyanate having an aliphatic group of at least 8 carbon number with an ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer or polyvinyl alcohol as an effective component, wherein a bisurea form content in the reaction product is at most 3 wt %.

Abstract: Provided is a water based liquid makeup cosmetic which is filled in an applicator for a liquid cosmetic equipped with a brush-like coating part to be suitably used for making up, particularly a water based liquid makeup cosmetic which is suited for making up around eyes, and in order to obtain the cosmetic, assumed is a formation comprising at least a tabular pigment, a pigment dispersant, a coating film-forming agent, 0.001 to 0.5 mass % of a surfactant and water and further comprising a spherical powder. According to the formation for a water based liquid makeup cosmetic, obtained is a water based liquid makeup cosmetic which makes it easy to rehomogenize (redisperse) the cosmetic by slightly shaking even after turned into an uneven state with standing still during storage and which makes fine lines liable to be drawn and is excellent in a water resistant fixing performance.