Abstract: A preventive or remedy for infection, an anti-endotoxin agents, a vaccine adjuvants and a growth promoter each comprising a sugar cane-derived extract as an active ingredient which agent is safe to man and animals. Also presented are foods and feeds comprising these agents.

Abstract: In a connector to be mounted to a substrate, a strengthening member is coupled to a housing holding a contact The strengthening member is adapted to fix the housing to the substrate and includes a side plate portion extending in a direction away from the substrate in a state where the connector is mounted to the substrate, a top plate portion adjacent to the side plate portion and faced to the substrate, and first and second mounting portions to be attached to the substrate, The first mounting portion extends from an end of the side plate portion adjacent to the substrate in a widthwise direction of the housing perpendicular to a fitting direction in which a mating connector is fitted to the connector. The second mounting portion extends from the top plate portion at a side opposite to a fitting side to be fitted to the mating connector.

Abstract: A connector adapted for connection to cables has a retaining member that aligns and retains the cables. The retaining member has a body portion and a bar-shaped member. The body portion has a plurality of fixing portions for fixedly retaining the bar-shaped member. The cables are firmly sandwiched between the body portion and the bar-shaped member.

Abstract: A preventive or remedy for infection, an anti-endotoxin agents, a vaccine adjuvants and a growth promoter each comprising a sugar cane-derived extract as an active ingredient which agent is safe to man and animals. Also presented are foods and feeds comprising these agents.

Abstract: An engine is constructed such that respective centers of gravity of a crank shaft, a balancer shaft and a cylinder are positioned close to one another and the mass of the engine is thus centralized. The engine includes a shaft center of a cylinder that is offset to one side with respect to a shaft center of a crank shaft, and a balancer shaft is disposed on a side of the engine where the cylinder shaft center is offset with respect to a first parallel line which intersects with the crank shaft center and extends substantially parallel to the cylinder shaft center.

Abstract: A preventive or remedy for infection, an anti-endotoxin agents, a vaccine adjuvants and a growth promoter each comprising a sugar cane-derived extract as an active ingredient which agent is safe to man and animals. Also presented are foods and feeds comprising these agents.

Abstract: In a connector, a contact group has a signal contact and a ground contact, and the signal contact is arranged adjacently to both sides of the ground contact. Each of the signal contact and the ground contact has a contact portion connected to a partner side contact and also has a terminal portion connected to a connecting object. The pitch intervals between the terminal portions of the respective contacts of the contact group are equally set. The contact portion of the signal contact approaches the contact portion of the ground contact. Thus, the pitch interval between the contact portions of the adjacent signal contacts is widened with respect to the pitch interval between the terminal portions.

Abstract: When a battery is in standby mode, a microcomputer switches to sleep mode if no charging/discharging current is supplied within a predetermined time, and controls a timer so as to start measuring the standby time of the battery. When a charging/discharging current is supplied, the microcomputer switches to wake-up mode, and controls the timer so as to stop measuring the standby time. Then, the microcomputer reads the measured standby time. Based on the read standby time, the microcomputer calculates the correction value to correct the currently stored remaining battery capacity value.

Abstract: In a communication terminal that is capable of carrying out communications based on a plurality of communication standards, for example, a cellular phone, information representing a reception carrier frequency of a wireless channel being received by a cellular-phone functional block is output from a CPU to a contactless-IC-card-reader/writer functional block. In the contactless-IC-card-reader/writer functional block, a controller controls a switching circuit to switch a transmission carrier frequency being used so that harmonic components of an electromagnetic wave radiated from a coil antenna will not work as an electromagnetic-interference wave that affects reception sensitivity of the cellular-phone functional block.

Abstract: An engine is constructed such that respective centers of gravity of a crank shaft, a balancer shaft and a cylinder are positioned close to one another and the mass of the engine is thus centralized. The engine includes a shaft center of a cylinder that is offset to one side with respect to a shaft center of a crank shaft, and a balancer shaft is disposed on a side of the engine where the cylinder shaft center is offset with respect to a first parallel line which intersects with the crank shaft center and extends substantially parallel to the cylinder shaft center.

Abstract: A connector adapted for connection to cables has a retaining member that aligns and retains the cables. The retaining member has a body portion and a bar-shaped member. The body portion has a plurality of fixing portions for fixedly retaining the bar-shaped member. The cables are firmly sandwiched between the body portion and the bar-shaped member.

Abstract: When a battery is in standby mode, a microcomputer switches to sleep mode if no charging/discharging current is supplied within a predetermined time, and controls a timer so as to start measuring the standby time of the battery. When a charging/discharging current is supplied, the microcomputer switches to wake-up mode, and controls the timer so as to stop measuring the standby time. Then, the microcomputer reads the measured standby time. Based on the read standby time, the microcomputer calculates the correction value to correct the currently stored remaining battery capacity value.

Abstract: A bolt set is provided that is made of steel free from technical difficulties in production, inexpensive in production cost, and improved in fatigue strength by a simple configuration. More particularly, a bolt set made of steel in which a tensile fluctuation stress acts upon an external thread side, characterized by setting a pitch difference ?P(=Pf?Pm) between a pitch Pm of the external thread and a pitch Pf of the internal thread within a range of 0.5-0.8% based on a pitch P prescribed in JIS B 0205 of Japan Industrial Standard.

Abstract: A medicament is provided containing as an active ingredient at least one of riboflavin, a riboflavin derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, which has the action of suppressing IL-1?, IL-6, IL-10, INF-?, TNF-?, GM-CSF, IL-8, MCP-1 and other cytokines. Moreover, a preventative or therapeutic agent for inflammatory diseases accompanied by hypercytokinemia is provided which has excellent cytokine suppression effect.

Abstract: A process for producing an artificial bone model in accordance with the selective laser sintering process which comprises extending a powder material for sintering comprising 30 to 90 parts by weight of powder of a synthetic resin and 10 to 70% by weight of an inorganic filler to form a thin layer and irradiating a portion of the thin layer having the shape formed based on tomograpic information of a natural bone with laser light so that the irradiated portion of the thin layer is sintered. The extension of the powder material for sintering to form the thin layer and the irradiation of the thin layer with laser light for sintering are conducted repeatedly. The artificial bone model can three-dimensionally reproduce steric shapes of natural bones such as bones in the human body precisely and accurately and exhibits the property for cutting closely similar to that of natural bones. The artificial bone model can be used for educational training or for studying a plan for curing before a surgical operation.

Abstract: In a connector, a contact group has a signal contact and a ground contact, and the signal contact is arranged adjacently to both sides of the ground contact. Each of the signal contact and the ground contact has a contact portion connected to a partner side contact and also has a terminal portion connected to a connecting object. The pitch intervals between the terminal portions of the respective contacts of the contact group are equally set. The contact portion of the signal contact approaches the contact portion of the ground contact. Thus, the pitch interval between the contact portions of the adjacent signal contacts is widened with respect to the pitch interval between the terminal portions.

Abstract: A shell (30) included in an electrical connector has a top wall (40) having a first front end (40a), a bottom wall (42) having a second front end (42a1, 42b1), and side walls (44) having third front ends (44a), respectively. The first to the third front ends (40a, 42a1, 42b1, 44a) constitutes a front edge (31) of the shell (30), the front edge (31) defining an opening for receiving another shell of a mating connector inserted along an insertion direction into the shell (30). From the front edge (31), a pair of front mounting posts (33) continues rearwardly in the insertion direction and extends downwardly in a vertical direction below the bottom wall (42). Adjacent to a rear end (32) opposite to the front edge (31), a pair of rear mounting posts (34) is provided. Each of the rear mounting posts (34) is spaced from the corresponding front mounting post (33) in the insertion direction and extends downwardly in the vertical direction below a plane on which the bottom wall (42) is laid.

Abstract: When a battery is in a standby mode, a microcomputer switches to a sleep mode when no charging/discharging current is supplied within a predetermined time and controls a timer to start measuring the standby time of the battery. When a charging/discharging current is supplied, the microcomputer switches to a wake-up mode and controls the timer to stop measuring the standby time. Then, the microcomputer reads the measured standby time. Based on the read standby time, the microcomputer calculates the correction value to correct the currently stored remaining battery capacity value.

Abstract: A connector (70) comprises a connector body (10), a shell (30, 40) and two latch members (20). The shell (30, 40) has two openings (33) formed therein at positions near the interface end. Each of the latch members (20) includes a latch projection (28) formed on one end thereof in the Y direction. The latch projections (28) project from an inside of the shell (30, 40) through the openings (33) to an outside of the shell (30, 40). The latch projection (28) further comprises a plate portion (24) and a bulged portion (25), which is formed on the plate portion (24) and serves as a control point for movement of the latch projection (28). The shell (30, 40) further comprises two apertures (43), each of which has a first area size. The plate portion (24) has a second area size larger than the first area size while the bulged portion (25) has a third area size smaller than the first area size.

Abstract: A process for producing an artificial bone model in accordance with the selective laser sintering process which comprises extending a powder material for sintering comprising 30 to 90 parts by weight of powder of a synthetic resin and 10 to 70% by weight of an inorganic filler to form a thin layer and irradiating a portion of the thin layer having the shape formed based on tomograpic information of a natural bone with laser light so that the irradiated portion of the thin layer is sintered. The extension of the powder material for sintering to form the thin layer and the irradiation of the thin layer with laser light for sintering are conducted repeatedly. The artificial bone model can three-dimensionally reproduce steric shapes of natural bones such as bones in the human body precisely and accurately and exhibits the property for cutting closely similar to that of natural bones. The artificial bone model can be used for educational training or for studying a plan for curing before a surgical operation.