Abstract: There is provided a start control apparatus for an internal combustion engine (1) which starts the engine with injecting fuel to each cylinder (2) of the internal combustion engine in an intake stroke. The apparatus comprises a stop position distinction device (20) which distinguishes a piston position at a time of a stop of the internal combustion engine, and a fuel injection amount control device (20) which specifies a cylinder in which a piston stops in the intake stroke based on a distinction result of the stop position distinction device and which increases a fuel injection amount at starting for the specified cylinder more than a fuel injection amount for other cylinders.

Abstract: A retractable lens camera includes: a lens barrel; three or more lens groups provided in the lens barrel; a retracting unit that retracts the lens barrel and the lens groups into a camera body; and a displacing unit that displaces at least two lens groups to an escaping space out of an optical axis.

Abstract: The vehicle-use power supply control apparatus includes a first battery supplying electric power to a load, an alternator driven by a vehicle engine, a second electric accumulator parallel-connected to the first battery, an electric power converter performing two-way power transmission between the first and second batteries, and a power supply control unit. The power supply control includes a function of setting a target power generation efficiency index, a function of setting a target power generation amount of the alternator on the basis of the target power generation efficiency index, while referring to a map defining relationship between a power generation efficiency index and a power generation amount of the alternator, and a function of controlling an amount and a transmission direction of transmission power of the electric power converter in order that an amount of electric power generated by the alternator becomes equal to the target power generation amount.

Abstract: There is provided a start control apparatus for an internal combustion engine (1) which starts the engine with injecting fuel to each cylinder (2) of the internal combustion engine in an intake stroke. The apparatus comprises a stop position distinction device (20) which distinguishes a piston position at a time of a stop of the internal combustion engine, and a fuel injection amount control device (20) which specifies a cylinder in which a piston stops in the intake stroke based on a distinction result of the stop position distinction device and which increases a fuel injection amount at starting for the specified cylinder more than a fuel injection amount for other cylinders.

Abstract: A winding device of a slitter capable of winding web material on a winding shaft supportedly disposed between a pair of side plates after the web material is slit, the winding shaft including two divided shafts positioned substantially end to end, the divided portions thereof are supported on an intermediate support member, the web material is wound on the winding shaft in that state, and after the web material is wound, the divided portions are moved in a direction apart from each other in the axial direction of the winding shaft to extract the winding shaft from a wound product, whereby, even if the width of the web material is large, the web material can be accurately wound, and after winding, the wound product and the winding shaft can be easily separated from each other.

Abstract: A plurality of pistons are slidably provided in cylinders of an engine respectively. The engine includes a plurality of connection pipes connecting cylinders successively experiencing combustion to each other during operation of engine, a plurality of opening-closing valves for setting each of connection pipes to a connected state or a closed state, and an ECU for controlling the plurality of opening-closing valves such that the piston is stopped at a predetermined position when the operation of the engine is stopped.

Abstract: To provide a stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin having an attractive force between sheets is 50 g or less. The stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin has no charge therein and can be processed secondarily with lesser electrostatic disturbance even in a low-humidity environment.

Abstract: Provided are a printing paper which is made of an aliphatic polyester resin making use of a biomass raw material derived from plant resources, is excellent in running stability on a printer, substrate strength, halftone dot reproducibility, printing sharpness and water resistance and is suited for use in sheetfed offset printing, for example, commercial printing of outside posters, maps, catalogues, brochures and menus; and a label using the printing paper. The printing paper is made of an aliphatic polyester resin composition comprising from 40 to 90 wt. % of (a) an aliphatic polyester resin having at least an aliphatic diol unit represented by the following formula (I) and an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid unit represented by the following formula (II); and from 60 to 10 wt.

Abstract: A probe and a testing head including the probe is used for inspecting electric characteristics of a wiring pattern of circuit board. The testing head includes a guiding member having a first guiding base having a first through hole, and a second guiding base arranged to face the first guiding base with a gap defined therebetween and having a second through hole aligned with the first through hole. The probe includes a first pin body having a measuring end arranged to be in contact with the circuit board, a measuring-end side of the first pin body is slidably supported in the first through hole of the first guiding base and the other-end side is slidably supported in the second through hole of the second guiding base. The probe also includes a second pin body arranged coaxial with the first pin body and supported in the second through hole. The second pin has one end directed to the other end of the first pin body and an external connection end to be connected to an electrode.

Abstract: A digital camera includes: an image processing unit that creates first display image data and second display image data; a display device that displays a first screen image and a second screen image so as to allow a user to observe the first screen image when viewed along a first direction with respect to a display face and so as to allow the user to observe the second screen image when viewed along a second direction that differs from the first direction; and a control unit that instructs the display device to display the first display image data as the first screen image, and the second display image data as the second screen image.

Abstract: An idling stop control of the invention attains an auto start and an auto stop of an engine. At a time point t1, pre-set stop conditions are met to cut off a fuel supply to the engine. Preset starting conditions may be met at a time point t2 when the engine still continues rotating in a normal direction by the inertial force. In this state, the idling stop control starts cranking the engine. The preset starting conditions may be met at a time point t4 when a piston does not complete a compression cycle immediately before a stop of the engine but is pressed back by the compressed air to rotate the engine in a reverse direction. In this state, the idling stop control waits until cancellation of the reverse rotation of the engine and then starts cranking the engine. The arrangement of the invention desirably ensures a quick start of the engine, while effectively preventing an excess stress from acting on a gear mechanism, which connects a starter motor to the engine.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide ES cells and mammals having enhanced RNAi effect, which can be used to analyze gene functions at an individual level. The present invention provides ES cells having enhanced RNAi effect, which are obtained by performing genetic manipulation on ES cells.

Abstract: A retractable lens camera includes: a lens barrel; three or more lens groups provided in the lens barrel; a retracting unit that retracts the lens barrel and the lens groups into a camera body; and a displacing unit that displaces at least two lens groups to an escaping space out of an optical axis.

Abstract: A winding device of a slitter capable of winding web material on a winding shaft supportedly disposed between a pair of side plates after the web material is slit, wherein the winding shaft is divided into two parts in the axial direction, the divided portions thereof are supported on an intermediate support member, the web material is wound on the winding shaft in that state, and after the web material is wound, the divided portions are moved in a direction apart from each other in the axial direction of the winding shaft to extract the winding shaft from a wound product, whereby, even if the width of the web material is large, the web material can be accurately wound, and after winding, the wound product and the winding shaft can be easily separated from each other.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide ES cells and mammals having enhanced RNAi effect, which can be used to analyze gene functions at an individual level. The present invention provides ES cells having enhanced RNAi effect, which are obtained by performing genetic manipulation on ES cells.

Abstract: To provide a stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin having an attractive force between sheets is 50 g or less. The stretched film of void-containing thermoplastic resin has no charge therein and can be processed secondarily with lesser electrostatic disturbance even in a low-humidity environment.

Abstract: The invention facilitates to meet both of the mode of use that finds precedence in frequent rewrite to the nonvolatile memory and data retention during the power supply being cut off, and the mode of use that finds precedence in the data retention characteristic. The controller enables an information storage operation to the nonvolatile memory cells, by means of erase and write processing through boosting of the voltage applied to the nonvolatile memory cells and clamping of the boosted voltage, and performs a selection control that selects the application interval of the boosted voltage applied during the information storage operation and so forth. This selection control enables utilizing the nonvolatile memory cells as temporary rewrite areas, and facilitates to meet both of the mode of use that finds precedence in data retention during the power supply being cut off, and the mode of use that finds precedence in the data retention characteristic.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transgenic animal which is useful in a test for forecasting fetal toxicity and teratogenicity of drugs. The present invention provides a transgenic non-human animal or a part thereof wherein several foreign (human-type) proteins which are involved in the drug metabolism or mutant proteins thereof are expressed in the body; a recombinant gene which is useful for the production of said non-human animal; and a method for screening a substance having fetal toxicity and teratogenicity using said non-human animal.

Abstract: The invention facilitates to meet both of the mode of use that finds precedence in frequent rewrite to the nonvolatile memory and data retention during the power supply being cut off, and the mode of use that finds precedence in the data retention characteristic. The controller enables an information storage operation to the nonvolatile memory cells, by means of erase and write processing through boosting of the voltage applied to the nonvolatile memory cells and clamping of the boosted voltage, and performs a selection control that selects the application interval of the boosted voltage applied during the information storage operation and so forth. This selection control enables utilizing the nonvolatile memory cells as temporary rewrite areas, and facilitates to meet both of the mode of use that finds precedence in data retention during the power supply being cut off, and the mode of use that finds precedence in the data retention characteristic.

Abstract: The invention facilitates to meet both of the mode of use that finds precedence in frequent rewrite to the nonvolatile memory and data retention during the power supply being cut off, and the mode of use that finds precedence in the data retention characteristic. The controller enables an information storage operation to the nonvolatile memory cells, by means of erase and write processing through boosting of the voltage applied to the nonvolatile memory cells and clamping of the boosted voltage, and performs a selection control that selects the application interval of the boosted voltage applied during the information storage operation and so forth. This selection control enables utilizing the nonvolatile memory cells as temporary rewrite areas, and facilitates to meet both of the mode of use that finds precedence in data retention during the power supply being cut off, and the mode of use that finds precedence in the data retention characteristic.