Abstract: A glycoside in which at least two phenolic hydroxyl groups of a compound having at least two phenolic hydroxyl groups in its molecule are glycosidically linked to anomeric carbon atoms of at least two sugar molecules can be prepared with high yield by a method including the step of allowing phenolic hydroxyl groups of a compound having at least two phenolic hydroxyl groups in its molecule to react with sugar molecules each having an acetylated hydroxyl group attached to an anomeric carbon atom in the presence of an organic solvent and an acid catalyst while removing acetic acid formed during the reaction from the reaction system.

Abstract: An enone reductase characterized by a molecular mass of 61,300±5,000 Da; NADPH and NADH as co-factor; a temperature optimum of 55-60° C. at pH 7.4; a pH optimum of 4.5-8.5 and a substrate specificity on ?,?-unsaturated ketones, especially derived from a yeast and a process for the preparation of levodione from ketoisophorane.

Abstract: L-Cysteine is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia having an L-cysteine producing ability and modified so that cystathionine-?-lyase activity or cystathionine-?-lyase activity and tryptophanase activity should be reduced or eliminated in a medium to produce and accumulate L-cysteine in the medium and collecting the L-cysteine from the medium.

Abstract: A motor comprising a motor-wiring bus bar including a plurality of annular ring conductors connecting lead wires of the motor including a stator in which a plurality of stator cores having the lead wires is arranged in a circle or connecting the lead wires and a power line together and a plurality of terminals attached to the ring conductors. The ring conductors are different in diameter and arranged concentrically on a same plane.

Abstract: In an electric power steering apparatus that generates an auxiliary steering torque by a brushless motor in response to a steering torque applied on a steering wheel and transmits it to an output shaft of a steering mechanism while reducing it by means of a reduction gear, the apparatus comprises a rotor (10) to which a cylindrical permanent magnet for rotational driving (12) and a member to be detected (13) for detection of a rotational angle of the rotor are attached and a cylindrical stator (30) opposed to the rotor in which a laminated core (16) on which a coil is wound, detection means (17) for detecting the rotational angle of the rotor by the member to be detected and a terminal (19) for providing connection to the coil are integrally formed by resin molding. At least one bearing (8, 9) for rotatably supporting the rotor is disposed radially inside the stator and between the permanent magnet for rotational driving and the member to be detected.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus in which a conducting path formed from organic semiconductor molecules as a material has a novel structure and exhibits high mobility, and a manufacturing method for fabricating the same are provided. Fine particles that include a conductor or a semiconductor and organic semiconductor molecules, are alternately bonded through a functional group at both terminals of the organic semiconductor molecules to form a conducting path in a network form such that the conducting path in the fine particles and the conducting path in the organic semiconductor molecules are two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally linked together.

Abstract: According to a human spinal column measuring and displaying system 1 of the invention, a probe 3 is pinched between the second finger and the third finger of a measuring person, front ends of the fingers are moved from the first thoracic vertebra to the fifth lumbar vertebra of the spinal column of a measured subject, detaching amounts from reference positions in X, Y and Z directions are detected by three-dimensionally moving the front ends of the fingers, converted data storing means stores the detaching amounts detected by the probe as respective values of measured data in X-axis direction, Y-axis direction and Z-axis direction, gender and height of the measured subject is inputted by an input apparatus, when from a basic diagram data 15 stored with an average size and a basic shape of each of the vertebrae constituting the spinal column of the human body by the gender and the height of the measured subject, in accordance with the gender and the height of the measured subject inputted by the input apparatu

Abstract: It is intended to provide a multi-layered structure for fabricating an ohmic electrode for III-V compound semiconductors such as GaAs semiconductors which has practically satisfactory characteristics and an ohmic electrode obtained by using it. On a III-V compound semiconductor substrate such as an n+-type GaAs substrate, a non-single crystal semiconductor layer such as a non-single crystal In0.7Ga0.3As layer, a metal film such as a Ni film, a metal nitride film such as a WN film and a refractory metal film such as a W film are sequentially stacked by sputtering, etc. and subsequently patterned by lift-off, etc. to make a multi-layered structure for fabricating ohmic electrodes. The structure is annealed at 500 to 600° C., e.g. 550° C. for one second by, e.g. RTA method to fabricate an ohmic electrode.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to genetic material useful for the preparation of actinol, such as an isolated DNA including a nucleotide sequence coding for an enzyme having levodione reductase activity, a polypeptide encoded by such a DNA, recombinant organisms, and the like. These genetic materials may originate from Corynebacterium, Cellulomonas, Planococcus, Arthrobacter, and the like. The present invention also provides a process for the production of actinol.

Abstract: 1,3-Bis(3-aminophenoxy)benzene effective, for example, as a raw material for highly heat-resistant polyimide is produced industrially at a high yield by a reaction between 1,3-difluorobenzene and an alkali metal salt of 3-aminophenol.

Abstract: L-Cysteine is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia having an L-cysteine producing ability and modified so that cystathionine-&bgr;-lyase activity or cystathionine-&bgr;-lyase activity and tryptophanase activity should be reduced or eliminated in a medium to produce and accumulate L-cysteine in the medium and collecting the L-cysteine from the medium.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to genetic material useful for the preparation of actinol, such as an isolated DNA including a nucleotide sequence coding for an enzyme having levodione reductase activity, a polypeptide encoded by such a DNA, recombinant organisms, and the like. These genetic materials may originate from Corynebacterium, Cellulomonas, Planococcus, Arthrobacter, and the like. The present invention also provides a process for the production of actinol.

Abstract: The invention is a novel developer composition which comprises one or more phenol derivative of sulfonamide structure represented by the formula (1) and one or more constituents selected from a polyvalent metal compound, antioxidant and reducing agent and provides dispersion having excellent preservation stability on atomization in water. The heat sensitive recording material comprising the developer composition has high color density in developed image and is also excellent in whiteness degree before recording. wherein X1 is a hydrogen or halogen atom, an alkyl, alkoxy or hydroxyl group, Z1 is a hydrogen atom or alkyl group, and R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or aryl group.

Abstract: L-cysteine is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium in which intracellular serine acetyltransferase activity is increased by transformation with a gene coding for serine acetyltransferase, such modification of an expression control sequence of a gene coding for serine acetyltransferase that expression of the gene in a cell should be enhanced and for forth, preferably in which L-cysteine decomposition system is further suppressed, in a medium to produce and accumulate L-cysteine in culture and collecting the L-cysteine from the culture.

Abstract: 1,3-Bis(3-aminophenoxy)benzene effective, for example, as a raw material for highly heat-resistant polyimide is produced industrially at a high yield by a reaction between 1,3-difluorobenzene and an alkali metal salt of 3-aminophenol.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to genetic material useful for the preparation of actinol, such as an isolated DNA including a nucleotide sequence coding for an enzyme having levodione reductase activity, a polypeptide encoded by such a DNA, recombinant organisms, and the like. These genetic materials may originate from Corynebacterium, Cellulomonas, Planococcus, Arthrobacter, and the like. The present invention also provides a process for the production of actinol.

Abstract: An automatic ice maker of the open-cell type including a box-type housing, a plurality of spaced ice making cell casings arranged on a horizontal plane in an upper portion of the housing and opened downward, a cooling pipe mounted on the cell casings to be supplied with refrigerant from a freezing circuit, and a sprinkler mounted within a bottom portion of the housing and placed under the cell casings to spout ice making water into the respective cell casings, wherein a base plate is mounted within the upper portion of the housing to form an ice making chamber, and wherein the ice making cell casings are secured to a bottom surface of the base plate, while the cooling pipe is mounted on the base plate at positions located above the cell casings and welded to an upper surface of the base plate.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to genetic material useful for the preparation of actinol, such as an isolated DNA including a nucleotide sequence coding for an enzyme having levodione reductase activity, a polypeptide encoded by such a DNA, recombinant organisms, and the like. These genetic materials may originate from Corynebacterium, Cellulomonas, Planococcus, Arthrobacter, and the like. The present invention also provides a process for the production of actinol.

Abstract: A levodione reductase having the following physical properties is provided: molecular weight: from about 142,000 to about 155,000±10,000 (consisting of four homologous subunits having a molecular weight of 36,000±5,000); co-factor: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (AND/NADH); substrate specificity: active on levodione; optimum temperature: about 15° C. to about 20° C. at pH 7.0; optimum pH: 7.5; and activator: K+, Cs+, Rb+, Na+ and NH4+. The levodione reductase according to the present invention produces actinol, an important intermediate for the production of zeaxanthin, from levodione. This enzyme may be produced from a microorganism belonging to the genus Corynebacterium, preferably the microorganism Corynebacterium aquaticum AKU 611 (FERM BP-6448) or a functional equivalent, subculture, mutant or variant thereof.

Abstract: An enzyme having carbonyl reduction activity of reducing a carbonyl compound asymmetrically to produce an optically active alcohol, a DNA coding the enzyme, a plasmid having the DNA, a transformant which is a cell transformed with the plasmid, and a production method of an optically active alcohol using the enzyme and/or the transformed cell are provided.