Abstract: A fuel supply device of an engine includes: a fuel tank; a fuel filter which is disposed in front of the fuel tank in a front-rear direction of a vehicle; a fuel pump which is disposed in front of the fuel filter in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; a first fuel supply pipe which connects the fuel tank and the fuel filter to each other; and a second fuel supply pipe which connects the fuel filter and the fuel pump to each other. A first connecting portion to which the first fuel supply pipe is connected is formed on a front portion of the fuel filter, and a second connecting portion to which the second fuel supply pipe is connected is formed on a rear portion of the fuel filter.

Abstract: A fuel supply system is provided, which supplies fuel to a longitudinal engine having a plurality of cylinders disposed in front-and-rear directions of a vehicle, and a side surface to which a mount member is coupled, the mount member fixing the engine to a vehicle frame. The system includes a fuel supply piping configured to guide fuel from a lower part of the engine to the plurality of cylinders located in an upper part of the engine. The fuel supply piping is disposed at least partially rearward of a front end of an engine auxiliary machine that is disposed rearward of the mount member and that has a higher rigidity than the mount member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a flavor enhancer for beer and beer-like beverage and beverage of a roast material, which includes (1) heating a grinded matter of a cereal, (2) treating the grinded matter with protease, and (3) recovering an extract; and a flavor enhancer for beer and beer-like beverage and beverage of a roast material obtainable by the process. The flavor enhancer of the invention can be used for enhancing the full body and enhancement of beer and beer-like beverage and beverage of a roast material.

Abstract: A top board structure capable of easily and simply assembling and welding a reinforcing frame to a top board body, providing a sufficient strength with a reduced weight, and reducing abnormal noise that might occur when an impact is applied.

Abstract: Provided is a desk top panel, which normally protects privacy in a complete shielding form, permits facing persons to converse and documents and the like to be passed and received by opening a lower space of the desk top panel as needed, and permits a wiring cover to be easily attached/removed or opened/closed. A desk having such desk top panel attached thereon is also provided. A desk top panel is attached to the rear portion of a top board of a desk to stand, for blocking the visual fields of sitting persons.

Abstract: Chemiluminescent substances are prepared by freezing or lyophilizing a solution of a peroxidized nitrogen-containing five-membered cyclic compound. The chemiluminescent substances have a sensitivity comparable to that of luminol chemiluminescence, are highly water-soluble, have no incorporation of impurities, are not degraded during storage, have high reproducibility in measurement results, and are very suitable for use in the detection and quantification of various substances in many applications, e.g., clinical applications.

Abstract: A top board structure capable of easily and simply assembling and welding a reinforcing frame to a top board body, providing a sufficient strength with a reduced weight, and reducing abnormal noise that might occur when an impact is applied.

Abstract: Provided is a desk top panel, which normally protects privacy in a complete shielding form, permits facing persons to converse and documents and the like to be passed and received by opening a lower space of the desk top panel as needed, and permits a wiring cover to be easily attached/removed or opened/closed. A desk having such desk top panel attached thereon is also provided. A desk top panel is attached to the rear portion of a top board of a desk to stand, for blocking the visual fields of sitting persons.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a flavor enhancer for beer and beer-like beverage and beverage of a roast material, which includes (1) heating a grinded matter of a cereal, (2) treating the grinded matter with protease, and (3) recovering an extract; and a flavor enhancer for beer and beer-like beverage and beverage of a roast material obtainable by the process. The flavor enhancer of the invention can be used for enhancing the full body and enhancement of beer and beer-like beverage and beverage of a roast material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for measuring the membrane potential of red blood cells using electrophoretic analysis that analyzes red blood cells whose membrane potentials are reversed due to red blood cell agglutination.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic monolith reactor and the preparation method thereof, wherein the reactor is possible to manufacture even into a small size and even at room temperature, and the manufacturing process is simple and relatively short period of time is required. In an organic monolith reactor according to the present invention, a horseradish peroxidase is embedded onto a microscopic area with a photopolymerized polymer. The method of preparing an organic monolith reactor according to the present invention comprises (a) dispersing a horseradish peroxidase in a mixed solution of a photopolymerizable monomer and a photopolymerizing agent, (b) introducing the dispersed solution into a microscopic area, and (c) performing a photo-irradiation onto the microscopic area at room temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel chemiluminescent substances prepared by freezing or lyophilizing a solution of a peroxidized nitrogen-containing five-membered cyclic compound. The chemiluminescent substances have a sensitivity comparable to that of luminol chemiluminescence, are highly water soluble, have no incorporation of impurities, are not degraded during storage, have high reproducibility in measurement results, and are very suitable for use in the detection and quantification of various substances in many applications, e.g., clinical applications.

Abstract: A device for determining the distribution of glycation of erythrocytic membranes includes a container as a cell for electromagnetic-phoresis, a cathode ray and an anode ray which are connected to a direct current power supply, and a magnetic sheet which is placed outside the bottom of the container. The container has an upper surface containing a cathode hole, an anode hole, a filling hole midway between the cathode hole and the anode hole for a specimen, and an excretory hole for releasing air bubbles. After physiological saline is poured into the container, the cathode ray and the anode ray are respectively inserted into the holes to be soaked in the saline. Subsequently, a specimen of erythrocytes, which are bonded with the boric acid-magnetic beads, is infused into the container through the filling hole.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a chemiluminescence chip, which is used to detect and quantify various kinds of materials in the case of performing the enzyme labeling of a material to be measured and performing the chemiluminescence measurement of the activity of the labeled enzyme, and a chemiluminescence detecting apparatus using the same. The chemiluminescence chip is constructed such that a filling unit, in which an immobilized enzyme is filled, is mounted in a space having an inlet port, through which a material to be measured is introduced, and an outlet port, through which the material to be measured is discharged, on a supporting structure.

Abstract: A method for determining the distribution of glycation of erythrocytic membranes includes steps of bonding magnetic beads having a boric acid group with sugars on the surfaces of erythrocytic membranes, and moving the erythrocytes bonded with the boric acid-magnetic beads under an influence of an electromagnetic force. A device for determining the distribution of glycation of erythrocytic membranes includes a container as a cell for electromagnetic-phoresis, a cathode ray and an anode ray which are connected to a direct current power supply, and a magnetic sheet which is placed outside the bottom of the container. The container has an upper surface containing a cathode hole, an anode hole, a filling hole midway between the cathode hole and the anode hole for a specimen, and an excretory hole for releasing air bubbles. After physiological saline is poured into the container, the cathode ray and the anode ray are respectively inserted into the holes to be soaked in the saline.

Abstract: A method for determining hydrogen peroxide and a device for use in the method excellent at determining hydrogen peroxide in body fluid in the field of a clinical examination are provided. In the method for determining hydrogen peroxide, the intensity of light emitted by reaction of immobilized horseradish peroxidase, hydrogen peroxide and imidazoles in alkaline pH is measured. The device for determining hydrogen peroxide in body fluid includes a pump for chromatography, an autosampler, a mobile phase passage, having the pump and the autosampler for body fluid, a pump for chromatography, a mobile phase passage, having the pump for a solution of imidazoles and an alkaline buffer, a flow passage, a flow cell, packed with a horseradish peroxide immobilized stationary phase, a chemiluminometer, having the flow cell, a photomultiplier, provided on the chemiluminometer in contiguity with the surface of the flow cell for the chemiluminomter.

Abstract: A method for determining the distribution of glycation of erythrocytic membranes includes steps of bonding magnetic beads having a boric acid group with sugars on the surfaces of erythrocytic membranes, and moving the erythrocytes bonded with the boric acid-magnetic beads under an influence of an electromagnetic force. A device for determining the distribution of glycation of erythrocytic membranes includes a container as a cell for electromagnetic-phoresis, a cathode ray and an anode ray which are connected to a direct current power supply, and a magnetic sheet which is placed outside the bottom of the container. The container has an upper surface containing a cathode hole, an anode hole, a filling hole midway between the cathode hole and the anode hole for a specimen, and an excretory hole for releasing air bubbles. After physiological saline is poured into the container, the cathode ray and the anode ray are respectively inserted into the holes to be soaked in the saline.

Abstract: As the most important characteristic feature of the invention, in a radiator support apparatus for a vehicle, a radiator is allowed to effectively serve as a dynamic damper with respect to both a vertical flexural vibration in the back-and-forth direction of a vehicle, and a torsional vibration caused by a vibration in the widthwise direction of the vehicle. The invention relates to a radiator support apparatus for a vehicle, for mounting and supporting the lower end of a radiator on a vehicle body via mount members formed of elastic members at a plurality of support positions including two side positions in the widthwise direction of the vehicle body so as to cause the radiator to serve as a dynamic damper at the front end portion of the vehicle in a low-engine speed state, and is characterized in that the mount members located at the two side positions, in the widthwise direction of the vehicle body, of the lower end of the radiator have different spring constants.

Abstract: An engine cooling system includes an engine body or block having a plurality of cylinder banks, a plurality of water jackets communicated with each other for individually cooling the cylinder banks, a cooling water passage including a plurality of branch portions respectively connected to the water jackets and a joining portion convergently continued from the branch portions, and a cooling water filler provided on the joining portion at a position near one of the cylinder banks. Accordingly, the height of an engine hood of a vehicle can be effectively reduced, and in the case of filling cooling water into the filler, air in the water jackets can be smoothly expelled, thus improving water filling ability by a simple and low-cost construction.

Abstract: A process for preparing anthocyans by reducing the corresponding flavonoid glycosides with a metal and acid at temperatures not higher than 30.degree. C. under acidic conditions, precipitating the anthocyans formed from the reduction reaction as a metal salt by neutralizing the reaction solution with an alkali and isolating the free anthocyans by decomposing the metal salt with concentrated hydrochloric acid.