Abstract: A plurality of clipping portions which clip a plurality of lamps to be juxtaposed are provided on one face, and a mounting portion to be mounted on a supporting member by which the lamps are supported, and holding projecting portions for holding positions of the clipping portions with respect to the supporting member are provided, and two flexible portions which can bend in a direction in which a distance between the supporting sections is changed are provided between at least two clipping portions.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device for an internal combustion engine, provided with a swirl generating means for generating a swirl which has a strong swirl force and applying reduced resistance to the swirl. A swirl generating device for generating a swirl which has a strong swirl force and applying reduced resistance to the swirl is also provided. An exhaust gas purifying device (100) for an internal combustion engine is provided with an exhaust pipe (1), a reduction catalyst (2), a reducing agent supply means (3), and a swirl generating means (40). The swirl generating means (40) has two blades (410, 420) formed by dividing a substantially elliptic plate into two in the direction of the major axis thereof. The two blades (410, 420) are integrated together such that the two blades are rotated relative to each other about the minor axis of the plate so as to cross each other, and the two blades are mounted such that the direction of the major axis is parallel to the direction of flow of exhaust gas.

Abstract: A cloth-holder frame transfer apparatus for a sewing machine includes a carriage detachably attachable to a cloth-holder frame holding workpiece cloth, a carriage driving mechanism including an actuator moving the carriage in two directions intersecting each other on a horizontal plane, an external force detector which detects an external force applied by an operator to the cloth-holder frame attached to the carriage, an assisting force output device which produces force assisting the movement of the cloth-holder frame by the external force, and a control device controlling the assisting force output device based on the external force detected by the external force detector. The carriage driving mechanism includes first and second direction movement actuators provided with first and second direction displacement sensors respectively. The first and second direction movement actuators include respective stepping motors, and the first and second direction displacement sensors include respective rotary encoders.

Abstract: An immunity-inducing agent comprising as an effective ingredient(s) at least one polypeptide selected from the following polypeptides, the polypeptide(s) having an immunity-inducing activity/activities, or as an effective ingredient(s) a recombinant vector(s) which comprise(s) a polynucleotide(s) encoding the polypeptide(s) and is/are capable of expressing the polypeptide(s) in vivo can be used for therapy and/or prophylaxis of cancer: (a) a polypeptide consisting essentially of not less than 7 consecutive amino acids in any one of the amino acid sequences shown in the odd number IDs of SEQ ID NOs:3 to 95 in SEQUENCE LISTING; (b) a polypeptide having a sequence identity of not less than 90% with the polypeptide (a) and consisting essentially of not less than 7 amino acids; and (c) a polypeptide comprising the polypeptide (a) or (b) as a partial sequence thereof.

Abstract: An antibody or a fragment thereof having immunoreactivity to a polypeptide comprising not less than 7 continuous amino acids in the CD179b protein, which was identified as a cancer antigen protein specifically expressed on the surfaces of cancer cells, can be used as a pharmaceutical composition for therapy and/or prophylaxis of cancer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an immunity-inducing agent comprising, as an active ingredient, at least one polypeptide having immunity-inducing activity that is selected from among polypeptides (a), (b), and (c): (a) a polypeptide of at least seven contiguous amino acids of the amino acid sequence shown by any even SEQ ID number selected from SEQ ID NOs: 2 to 30 listed in the Sequence Listing; (b) a polypeptide of at least seven amino acids having 90% or more sequence identity with the polypeptide (a); and (c) a polypeptide comprising the polypeptide (a) or (b) as a partial sequence thereof, or a recombinant vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding said polypeptide and capable of expressing said polypeptide in vivo.

Abstract: A driving apparatus and a driving method are disclosed that are capable of uniformly lighting each entire fluorescent tube irrespective of the length or number of fluorescent tubes when simultaneously driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes in a fluorescent tube lighting apparatus. When two inverter circuits having respective transformers are provided at both ends of a fluorescent tube to light the fluorescent tube by push-pull driving, feedback windings of transformers not used in self-excited oscillation of each inverter circuit are connected together, with the transformer connection that connects together the feedback windings being either in-phase or in opposite phase, and the method of connection for fluorescent tubes connecting to secondary windings of each transformer can be changed in accordance with that connection method.

Abstract: A backlight device (20) is disclosed which includes regularly provided light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c), the backlight device (20) being arranged such that (i) the light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c) have their respective light-emitting surfaces (32a, 32b, and 32c) and light-entering surfaces (34a, 34b, and 34c) via which light from light sources enters the light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c), (ii) the light guide plates (40a, 40b, and 40c) are provided so that a first light guide plate (40a) overlaps a second light guide plate (40b) adjacent to the first light guide plate (40a), and (iii) a distance between a light-entering surface (34b) and a light-emitting surface (32b) of the second light guide plate (40b) is different from a distance between a light-entering surface (34a) and a light-emitting surface (32a) of the first light guide plate (40a). As a result, it is possible to provide an illumination device in which an increase in the number of components can be prevented.

Abstract: In a sewing machine, a control device is configured to execute a needle thread cutting operation including driving a movable cutting blade to a predetermined pivot location, driving a wiper driving mechanism for protruding a wiper by a predetermined stroke, driving the thread take-up driving mechanism to lower the thread take-up by a predetermined distance, driving a wiper driving mechanism to draw back the wiper by a predetermined amount corresponding to the lowering of the thread take-up, driving the movable cutting blade to a standby position, driving the thread tension adjusting mechanism to release a thread tension adjusting mechanism, and driving the thread take-up driving mechanism to move the thread take-up to an original uppermost position.

Abstract: An object is to prevent fall of a lamp clip due to an external factor such as vibration or impact. It is structured that a reflective member 30 provided inside a backlight device has fitting holes 32 each including an insertion hole 32b and a holding hole 32a, a pair of fitting holes 32 are provided in a direction where the holding holes 32a with respect to the insertion holes 32b are mutually opposed, a pair of locking sections 16 on a substrate 12 of a lamp clip 10 are inserted into the insertion holes 32b in the fitting holes 32, and thereafter, the lamp clip 10 is rotated counter-clockwise or clockwise, so that the locking sections 16 are held in the holding hole 32a.

Abstract: A skin cleansing composition contains the following ingredients (A), (B) and (C): (A) a polyoxyethylene alkylether sulfate, (B) a polyoxyethylene alkylether carboxylate, and (C) a cationic group-containing polymer having a cationic charge density of not less than 4.5 meq/g, and/or polyvinylpyrrolidone. A weight ratio (A):(B) of the ingredient (A) to the ingredient (B) is from 85:15 to 25:75. A total content of the ingredients (A) and (B) based on the whole composition ranges from 5 to 25 wt %. A content of the ingredient (C) ranges from 0.05 to 1 wt %. The skin cleansing composition is excellent in foamability and foam quality, and provides a good stop feeling during rinsing and a refreshed touch feeling after towel blotting.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a needle bar that is equipped with a sewing needle at a lower end of the needle bar, a presser bar that is equipped with a presser foot at a lower end of the presser bar, which holds down a work cloth, a sewing machine motor which is a driving source that drives the needle bar in an up and down direction, and a switching device that switches between a normal mode in which the needle bar is driven in the up and down direction to form stitches and a practice mode in which the sewing machine is operated in a condition where at least the needle bar is not driven.

Abstract: An electronic sewing machine includes a sewing machine motor that vertically drives a sewing needle via a rotation of a main shaft; a stitch-pitch setting unit that sets a stitch-pitch in sewing manually fed workpiece cloth; a consumed thread amount detection unit that detects consumed thread amount of at least either of a needle thread or a bobbin thread consumed in each ongoing sewing cycle; a consumed thread amount calculation unit that calculates consumed thread amount based on an output from the consumed thread amount detection unit; and a speed control unit that controls rotational speed of the sewing machine motor based on calculated result of the consumed thread amount calculation unit so that an amount of manual cloth feed equals the stitch-pitch set by the stitch-pitch setting unit.

Abstract: A fluorescent tube is prevented from being wrongly attached and broken when being attached, and luminance nonuniformity of backlight due to luminance difference generated in the tube axis direction of the fluorescent tube is reduced. In a backlight device (2), a plurality of fluorescent tube sets, each of which is composed of four fluorescent tubes (21) having electrodes (211) at the both ends and a pair of lamp holders (5) storing portions close to the both electrodes at the both ends of the four fluorescent tubes (21), and the fluorescent tube sets are driven by a pair of inverter circuit board.

Abstract: A driving apparatus and a driving method are disclosed that are capable of uniformly lighting each entire fluorescent tube irrespective of the length or number of fluorescent tubes when simultaneously driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes in a fluorescent tube lighting apparatus. When two inverter circuits having respective transformers are provided at both ends of a fluorescent tube to light the fluorescent tube by push-pull driving, feedback windings of transformers not used in self-excited oscillation of each inverter circuit are connected together, with the transformer connection that connects together the feedback windings being either in-phase or in opposite phase, and the method of connection for fluorescent tubes connecting to secondary windings of each transformer can be changed in accordance with that connection method.

Abstract: A driving apparatus and a driving method are disclosed that are capable of uniformly lighting each entire fluorescent tube irrespective of the length or number of fluorescent tubes when simultaneously driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes in a fluorescent tube lighting apparatus. When two inverter circuits having respective transformers are provided at both ends of a fluorescent tube to light the fluorescent tube by push-pull driving, feedback windings of transformers not used in self-excited oscillation of each inverter circuit are connected together, with the transformer connection that connects together the feedback windings being either in-phase or in opposite phase, and the method of connection for fluorescent tubes connecting to secondary windings of each transformer can be changed in accordance with that connection method.

Abstract: A driving apparatus and a driving method are disclosed that are capable of uniformly lighting each entire fluorescent tube irrespective of the length or number of fluorescent tubes when simultaneously driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes in a fluorescent tube lighting apparatus. When two inverter circuits having respective transformers are provided at both ends of a fluorescent tube to light the fluorescent tube by push-pull driving, feedback windings of transformers not used in self-excited oscillation of each inverter circuit are connected together, with the transformer connection that connects together the feedback windings being either in-phase or in opposite phase, and the method of connection for fluorescent tubes connecting to secondary windings of each transformer can be changed in accordance with that connection method.

Abstract: The present invention includes a plurality of linear sources 17 arranged parallel to one another, and a light reflecting member 40 arranged on the side of the linear light sources 17 that corresponds to the opposite side of the light emitting side. The linear light sources 17 are arranged so that a narrow-interval area 17A where the arrangement interval thereof is relatively narrow and a wide-interval area 17B where the arrangement interval is relatively wide are provided. The light reflecting member 40 includes an opening section 50 located directly below the linear light sources 17. The opening section 50 is provided so that the opening ratio as a ratio between a total area of the light reflecting member 40 and areas of the opening section 50 is higher at an area of the light reflecting member 40 corresponding to the narrow-interval area 17A than at an area of the light reflecting member 40 corresponding to the wide-interval area 17B.

Abstract: A lighting device 12 of the present invention includes a plurality of linear light sources 17 arranged parallel to one another, and a light reflecting member 40 arranged on the side of the linear light sources that corresponds to the opposite side of the light emitting side. The linear light sources are arranged so that a narrow-interval area 17A where the arrangement interval thereof is relatively narrow and a wide-interval area 17B where the arrangement interval is relatively wide are provided. An opening section 50 is formed in the light reflecting member. The opening section 50 is provided so that the opening ratio as a ratio of the area of the opening section 50 in the entire light reflecting member 40 is higher at an area corresponding to the narrow-interval area 17A, than at an area corresponding to the wide-interval area 17B.

Abstract: In order to control light emission of light emitting diodes, current dividing circuits are used to supply currents of a substantially fixed level to all lines. Light emitting diodes are arranged in groups of a predetermined number of LEDs in series, and sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the first line and sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the second line are laid out on the same straight line so as to form a single row. Substrates with these formed thereon are arranged adjacent to each other in the direction of the rows, so that sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the first line and sets of the light emitting diodes connected to the second line are arranged alternately. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a backlight device with a plurality of LED arrays arranged thereon, which can uniformly illuminate the entire screen with light from the LED arrays.