Abstract: Conductor layers 2A and insulating layers 4A are alternately stacked so as to prepare a base material 17. A plurality of grooves 18 having a predetermined width are formed in a surface of the base material 17 in such a manner that these plural grooves 18 are located parallel to each other along a stacking layer direction in order to form a coil inner peripheral portion. Embedding materials 5 are filled into the grooves 18. Surfaces 16 of the base material into which the embedding materials 5 have been filled are flattened by polishing. The conductor layers 2A located adjacent to each other are connected to each other, so that helical coils which constitute inductive elements are constructed. Then, both the front plane and the rear plane of the resultant base material are covered by an insulating layer, which is cut so as to obtain respective chips.

Abstract: Conductor layers 2A and insulating layers 4A are alternately stacked so as to prepare a base material 17. A plurality of grooves 18 having a predetermined width are formed in a surface of the base material 17 in such a manner that these plural grooves 18 are located parallel to each other along a stacking layer direction in order to form a coil inner peripheral portion. Embedding materials 5 are filled into the grooves 18. Surfaces 16 of the base material into which the embedding materials 5 have been filled are flattened by polishing. The conductor layers 2A located adjacent to each other are connected to each other, so that helical coils which constitute inductive elements are constructed. Then, both the front plane and the rear plane of the resultant base material are covered by an insulating layer, which is cut so as to obtain respective chips.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating cancer in a mammal comprising administering to the mammal a dendritic cell-mediator, such as CD40L or MDC, and dendritic cells, wherein the dendritic cells can be unmodified or activated, and the dendritic cell-mediator preferably is encoded by a viral vector, such as an adenoviral vector.

Abstract: An on-off valve mounted in a high pressurized gas container, which has a holding portion for holding a flow amount controlling member in a path formed in an upper stream side of the body of the valve, and in which a flow amount controlling member is movably held. In the flow amount controlling member, an orifice is formed. When the valve moves into an opening position, a high pressurized oxygen gas is flowed into a valve chamber by gas pressure, the flow amount controlling member moves and closes the path. At this time, the gas flow amount is restricted by the orifice, so that the pressurizing speed of the gas pressure at the down stream side of the orifice becomes slow and then heat generation due to the adiabatic compression is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of enhancing immunity in a mammal. The method comprises modifying a dendritic cell (DC) in vivo or ex vivo to produce a dendritic cell-mediator in the mammal. The dendritic cell-mediator up-regulates DC in the mammal, thereby enhancing immunity in the mammal. The present invention further provides a method of inducing an immune response to an antigen, cancer, or infectious disease in a mammal. In one embodiment, the method comprises administering the antigen or an antigen of the cancer or infectious disease to a mammal, which has been treated as described above, whereupon an immune response to the antigen, cancer, or infectious disease, respectively, is induced in the mammal.

Abstract: This method relates to a non-draining type human waste disposal by pulse combustion drying. In the method, a pulsating combustion gas is discharged downward into a vertically cylindrical dryer from a pulse combustor disposed at the top of the dryer, and making contact the pulsating combustion gas with residue-removed human waste, digester chamber sludges or their mixtures charged therein, turning the charged matters to dried powder and steam under the dryer conditions of 120.degree.-150.degree. C., withdrawing the dried powder from the bottom of the dryer and the combustion gas containing steam from a lower side of the dryer, dust-removing the combustion gas containing steam maintained at 120.degree.-150.degree. C., deodorizing the dust-removed combustion gas, and exhausting the deodorized gas into the air. As an alternative method, the dried powder and the combustion gas containing steam are withdrawn from the bottom of the dryer, the withdrawn material maintained at 120.degree.-150.degree. C.

Abstract: A cartridge used for an electric stapler is provided which comprises a cartridge body (701) containing a pile of sheet-staples (S), a delivering portion (710) mounted on an upper end of a front wall (701F) of the cartridge body (701) and having a delivery path (711) along which the sheet-staple (S) is delivered, and a driving-out portion (720) mounted in a front end of the delivering portion (710). A reciprocating driver enters the driven-out portion (720), so that a U-shaped staple is driven from the driven-out portion (720). The driver enters the driving-out portion 720 from above the delivery path (711).

Abstract: An electric stapler is provided which comprises a stapler body (10) having a driving-out portion (720) and a driver (321) for driving a staple from the driving-out portion (720) into, for example, sheets of paper while reciprocating. The stapler body (10) includes a table (100) which reciprocates in conjunction with a driving mechanism by which the driver (321) is reciprocated. The sheets of paper are held between the table (100) and the driving-out portion (720) when the table (100) reciprocates. Clinchers (401, 402) are disposed on the table (100). The clinchers (401, 402) clinch the ends of the staple which is driven by the driver (321) and has passed through the sheets. After the sheets of paper are held between the table (100) and the driving-out portion (720), the driver (321) drives the staple into the sheets, and the clinchers (401, 402) are then actuated.

Abstract: A stapler includes a driver-and-clincher mechanism for operating a driver and a clincher such that the driver-and-clincher operating mechanism operates the driver until the driver nearly reaches a bottom dead point thereof during a first half downward movement of an operating handle and then the driver-and-clincher mechanism operates the clincher during a latter half movement of the operating handle.

Abstract: A throttle control system reliably determines failure of a throttle valve driving system. During engine idling, a throttle valve is opened and closed by an actuator. A central processing unit generates a pulse-like drive signal to the actuator through a back-up integrated circuit. When the frequency of the drive signal exceeds a predetermined value, the back-up integrated circuit determines that a failure in the central processing unit has occurred. Since this determination is based on the frequency of the drive signal, a driving system failure can be reliably detected even using pulse-like signals.

Abstract: An electronic control system for an internal combustion engine. The system detects a property of the gasoline such as a vaporization characteristic by using refractive indexes. The system then detects various operating conditions of the engine. The system also determines various control amounts of the engine in accordance with the detected gasoline property and the various engine operating conditions. The system may determine a rate of fuel injection into the engine in accordance with the detected gasoline property. The system also controls the engine in accordance with the various control amount. Finally, the system detects that the engine is in an improper controlled state and may suppress one or more of the controls.

Abstract: A control apparatus for speedily warming up a catalyst disposed within an exhaust pipe connected to an internal combustion engine. The control apparatus calculates a demand fuel injection quantity into the engine on the basis of an operating state of said engine, and corrects the calculated demand fuel injection quantity on the basis of a warming-up state of a catalyst provided in an exhaust pipe of the engine so that an air fuel ratio in the engine is repeatedly controlled to a rich side and a lean side in a state that the warming-up of the catalyst is not completed. The control apparatus is equipped with an inhibiting function to inhibit the air fuel ratio from being controlled to the rich side and the lean side when the engine takes an operating state that the injection quantity is set to a rich side with respect to the theoretical air fuel ratio.

Abstract: The invention relates to a technique for retouching a pattern which is formed on one side of a substrate and which partially has defects. A method of retouching the pattern, according to the invention, comprises coating the one side of the substrate including the pattern, with a retouching protective membrane, exposing the one side of the substrate, with reference to portions having defects, filling the portions of the exposed one side of the substrate, with retouching material, and removing the retouching protective membrane. One of the retouching protective membrane and the retouching material is made of water-soluble material, while the other is made of oil-soluble material.

Abstract: A control apparatus for rapidly warming up a catalyst disposed within an exhaust pipe connected to an internal combustion engine. The control apparatus first determines a fuel injection amount and an ignition timing of the engine on the basis of an engine operating condition such as an intake air pressure of the engine and a rotational speed of the engine. The control apparatus is also responsive to temperature information of the catalyst for adjusting the fuel injection amount and the ignition timing in accordance with the catalyst temperature information. When the catalyst temperature does not reach the effective emission-purifying temperature, the control apparatus alternately adjusts the fuel injection amount to a rich amount and a lean amount and further intermittently retards the ignition timing. This injection and ignition control operation allows acceleration of the warming-up of the catalyst to suppress the deterioration of the emissions from the engine.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a quantity of fuel injected into an internal combustion engine comprises a sensor for detecting atomspheric pressure, a sensor for detecting a load condition of an internal combustion engine, and an electronic control device including a microprocessor.

Abstract: A fiber bundle cutting device is disclosed which includes an elastic roller; a cutting roller having a plurality of thin plate-like cutter blades extending radially therefrom, the cutter roller being disposed in parallel relation with the elastic roller in such a manner that the cutter blades can be slightly pressed against a surface of the elastic roller; a plurality of push-out members each movably mounted between a respective pair of the cutter blades and disposed adjacent to one another; and ring members respectively holding the opposite ends of each of the push-out members to maintain the push-out members in a generally cylindrical configuration; the ring members and the push-out members held by the ring members being movable to an eccentric position relative to the cutter roller so as to progressively move from the proximal to the distal edge of the cutting blades during the operation of the cutting device to discharge the cut pieces of a fiber bundle.

Abstract: A remote controlled rearview mirror assembly is disclosed, in which a mirror body is foldably mounted on a shaft forwardly or rerawardly, a mirror is tiltably mounted on a pivot in the mirror body, and a mirror angle control lever with a ball joint provided on the shaft is mounted on the back side of the mirror via a mirror operation arm. The ball joint consists of a pair of semi-spherical members being vertically separable with a clutch provided between opposed surfaces of these members. When the mirror body is folded forwardly or rearwardly from its neutral position, the ball joint is separated into the upper and lower semi-spherical members by the clutch between the opposed surfaces of the members, so that the connection between the control lever and mirror operation arm is released. When the mirror body is returned to the neutral position, the clutch is engaged again to restore the connection between the control lever and mirror operation lever.

Abstract: A method of fabricating uranium dioxide (UO.sub.2) powder from uranium hexafluoride (UF.sub.6) is disclosed, which comprises(1) reacting UF.sub.6 gas with steam with controlling the temperature of reaction between said UF.sub.6 gas and said steam at a predetermined temperature within the range of 200.degree. to 700.degree. C., to form solid uranyl fluoride (UO.sub.2 F.sub.2) and/or uranium oxide with an O/U ratio (oxygen-to-uranium atomic ratio) of 2.7 to 3,(2) dissolving said UO.sub.2 F.sub.2 and/or uranium oxide in water or nitric acid to form an aqueous uranyl solution containing UO.sub.2 F.sub.2 and/or uranyl nitrate (UO.sub.2 (NO.sub.3).sub.2),(3) reacting said aqueous uranyl solution with ammonia to precipitate ammonium diuranate (ADU),(4) filtering said precipitate,(5) drying said precipitate,(6) calcining said dry precipitate, and(7) reducing said calcined precipitate, whereby controlling the characteristics of said UO.sub.2 powder.

Abstract: The actuator unit housing for a rearview mirror includes two electric motors for tilting a mirror element in an actuator unit, and a drive transmission, and means for foldably supporting a mirror element on the upper surface of the actuator housing. A guide inlet for inserting an electric supply and control harness line of the motors is formed in the actuator unit housing. Since the guide inlet is composed of a plurality of lateral slits with labyrinths, the movement of the harness line occurred when the actuator is assembled or repaired can be suppressed. When a connector socket is buried in the slit, the socket is positioned by the labyrinth, and even if an external force by engaging a plug piece is applied, the socket can be stably held.