Abstract: A steering system (1) is employed in a ship to which left and right propulsors (2L, 2R) are attached. The steering system (1) includes a first input device (11) configured to receive an input of any one of a forward thrust parameter and a reverse thrust parameter of the propulsors, a second input device (15) configured to receive an input of the other of the forward thrust parameter and the reverse thrust parameter of the propulsors, and a controller (17) configured to reflect the forward thrust parameter and the reverse thrust parameter to the propulsors in real time. In the steering system, the first input device and the second input device receive the inputs in parallel when a steering pattern for a ship is set.

Abstract: A stool comprising a plurality of hinges and a plurality of supporting members connected via the plurality of hinges. The stool further comprises a handle connected to one of the plurality of supporting members with a connecting member. The plurality of supporting members including at least two top members, a front member, a back member, a pair of right-side members and a pair of left side members. The handle includes a top part, a middle part and a bottom part. The bottom part of the handle is connected to one of the plurality of supporting members with a joining component. The plurality of supporting members are in open position when pushed down against the floor by applying the downward force through the handle. The handle further comprises a lever mechanism to fold the plurality of supporting members when the long handle is lifted.

Abstract: A leakage detector for a fuel vapor treatment device includes a control unit. The control unit shifts a purge control valve and a shutoff valve to a first state with the purge control valve is an opened position and the shutoff valve in a closed position, and then shifts the purge control valve and the shutoff valve to a second state with the purge control valve is a closed position and the shutoff valve in a closed position. The control unit compares a first purge passage pressure acquired from the purge passage pressure detector when the purge control valve and the shutoff valve were shifted to the second state with a second purge passage pressure acquired from the purge passage pressure detector after a lapse of a first waiting time after being shifting to the second state. This comparison is used to determine leakage in the purge passage.

Abstract: A foldable holding device provided in a floorboard of a luggage compartment includes: a housing member that is provided at the floorboard; a raisable pair of top panels that nests within the housing member in a housed state, the top panels stand when the top panels are outwardly opened; and a pair of side panels foldably connected to the side edges of each of the top panels, the side panels being configured to outwardly move as the top panels are raised and to form, together with the top panels, a cross section of an open state of the foldable holding device being an inverted trapezoid. Part of a lower edge of one of the side panels is located at an outer side of a line connecting ends of the lower edges of the top panels with respect to the housing member in the plan view in the open state.

Abstract: A leakage detector for a fuel vapor treatment device includes a control unit. The control unit shifts a purge control valve and a shutoff valve to a first state with the purge control valve is an opened position and the shutoff valve in a closed position, and then shifts the purge control valve and the shutoff valve to a second state with the purge control valve is a closed position and the shutoff valve in a closed position. The control unit compares a first purge passage pressure acquired from the purge passage pressure detector when the purge control valve and the shutoff valve were shifted to the second state with a second purge passage pressure acquired from the purge passage pressure detector after a lapse of a first waiting time after being shifting to the second state. This comparison is used to determine leakage in the purge passage.

Abstract: An exhaust leak detecting apparatus includes an exhaust pressure sensor to detect the exhaust pressure in a portion of an exhaust passage that allows exhaust gas discharged from an engine to flow therethrough, the portion being located at a position upstream of a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, and an exhaust leak determining part to determine that exhaust gas is leaking or may leak from the exhaust passage upstream of the catalyst and generate a warning when the exhaust pressure detected by the exhaust pressure sensor falls outside a predetermined range.

Abstract: A foldable holding device provided in a floorboard of a luggage compartment includes: a housing member that is provided at the floorboard; a raisable pair of top panels that nests within the housing member in a housed state, the top panels stand when the top panels are outwardly opened; and a pair of side panels foldably connected to the side edges of each of the top panels, the side panels being configured to outwardly move as the top panels are raised and to form, together with the top panels, a cross section of an open state of the foldable holding device being an inverted trapezoid. Part of a lower edge of one of the side panels is located at an outer side of a line connecting ends of the lower edges of the top panels with respect to the housing member in the plan view in the open state.

Abstract: A foldable holding device that is provided in or on a floorboard, the foldable holding device including: a housing member; raisable top panels that fits into the housing member while the raisable top panels are housed; side panels foldably connected to side edges of the raisable top panels such that as the raisable top panels are raised, the side panels outwardly moves to form the foldable holding device in a reversed truncated quadrangular pyramid shape. The foldable holding device fixed to the floorboard so that the foldable holding device and floorboard configure a single member. Alternatively, the foldable holding device is detachable to the floorboard.

Abstract: An exhaust leak detecting apparatus includes an exhaust pressure sensor to detect the exhaust pressure in a portion of an exhaust passage that allows exhaust gas discharged from an engine to flow therethrough, the portion being located at a position upstream of a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas, and an exhaust leak determining part to determine that exhaust gas is leaking or may leak from the exhaust passage upstream of the catalyst and generate a warning when the exhaust pressure detected by the exhaust pressure sensor falls outside a predetermined range.

Abstract: A foldable holding device that is provided in a floorboard, the foldable holding device including: a housing recess; a raisable top panel that fits into the housing recess while the raisable top panel is housed; a side panel foldably connected to one of side edges of the raisable top panel such that as the raisable top panel is raised, the side panel outwardly moves to form the foldable holding device in an open state; first and second holding sub-members respectively provided in the housing recess and at a position located directly adjacent to a lower edge of the side panel, and the first and second holding sub-members being configured to maintain a raised position of the side panel by engaging the first holding sub-members and the second holding sub-members to each other.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for introducing a target substance into undifferentiated cells, and a carrier therefor, whereby the target substance can be specifically introduced into the undifferentiated cells by contacting the undifferentiated cells with an rBC2LCN-target substance fusion product in which rBC2LCN lectin is fused to the target substance. Particularly, an rBC2LCN-toxin fusion product in which rBC2LCN lectin is fused to a toxin functioning in cells or its domain having the ability to kill cells functions as an agent for eliminating undifferentiated stem cells and can be administered into a medium after inducing the differentiation of the stem cells to reliably kill only the stem cells in an undifferentiated state.

Abstract: A foldable holding device that is provided in or on a floorboard, the foldable holding device including: a housing member; raisable top panels that fits into the housing member while the raisable top panels are housed; side panels foldably connected to side edges of the raisable top panels such that as the raisable top panels are raised, the side panels outwardly moves to form the foldable holding device in a reversed truncated quadrangular pyramid shape. The foldable holding device fixed to the floorboard so that the foldable holding device and floorboard configure a single member. Alternatively, the foldable holding device is detachable to the floorboard.

Abstract: A foldable holding device that is provided in a floorboard, the foldable holding device including: a housing recess; a raisable top panel that fits into the housing recess while the raisable top panel is housed; a side panel foldably connected to one of side edges of the raisable top panel such that as the raisable top panel is raised, the side panel outwardly moves to form the foldable holding device in an open state; first and second holding sub-members respectively provided in the housing recess and at a position located directly adjacent to a lower edge of the side panel, and the first and second holding sub-members being configured to maintain a raised position of the side panel by engaging the first holding sub-members and the second holding sub-members to each other.

Abstract: A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a fuel tank, a canister configured to adsorb vaporized fuel and connected to an internal combustion engine, a vapor path connecting the fuel tank to the canister, a closing valve having a stepping motor and configured to open and close the vapor path, and an electric control unit configured to cause the closing valve to an initial position in order to initialize the closing valve. The electric control unit is configured to determine whether it is in a predetermined initialization permission time when the initialization of the closing valve does not adversely affect running of the internal combustion engine. When it is determined that it is in the predetermined initialization permission time, the electric control unit is configured to output signals to start the initialization of the closing valve.

Abstract: A foldable holding device that is provided in a floorboard, the foldable holding device including: a housing recess that is provided in the floorboard; a top panel that fits into the housing recess, the top panel having a plurality of legs that are continuously and outwardly formed from a lower edge of the top panel, top surfaces of the top panel and the floorboard forming a plane surface when the top panel is housed in the housing recess; a pair of side panels foldably connected to the side edges of the top panel such that when the top panel is raised, the pair of side panels are raised to mutually opposed positions; side panel holding protrusions that are provided in the housing recess; and a plurality of leg-holding members that respectively hold the plurality of legs when the top panel is raised.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for evaluating a differentiation status of cells using a culture supernatant of stem cells. Provided is “undifferentiation sugar chain marker” composed of the sugar chain structure “Fuc?1-2Gal?1-3GlcNAc” or “Fuc?1-2Gal?1-3GalNAc” and capable of sensitively determining the undifferentiated state of stem cells using a culture supernatant of stem cells. Also found is BC2LCN lectin or a modified product thereof capable of sensitively recognizing the “undifferentiation sugar chain marker” as excellent “probe for detecting the undifferentiation sugar chain marker” capable of determining the undifferentiation status of cells using a culture supernatant.

Abstract: A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a canister, a closing valve provided in a vapor passage connecting the canister and the fuel tank, an actuator coupled to the movable valve member, and a control device coupled to the actuator. The control device may perform a learning control, in which a valve opening start position is learned based on a stroke distance of the movable valve member, which is given at the time when an internal pressure of the fuel tank is reduced by a predetermined pressure value while the moving distance of the movable valve member is changed such that (a) the movable valve member moves from the reference position to a learning start position at a first speed in a valve opening direction and (b) the movable valve member moves further from the learning start position at a second speed in the valve opening direction.

Abstract: A rotational angle detecting device includes a resistor of which one end is connected to the power source and the other end is grounded, a rotary potentiometer having two wipers which come into sliding contact with the surface of the resistor, a control unit which detects voltage applied to each of the wipers depending on the positions thereof upon the surface of the resistor, two resistors connected at one end to each of the two wipers, and switching means which switch the connection state between the other end of the two resistors and the power source under control of the control unit.

Abstract: A foldable luggage-holding device comprising; a foldable floorboard having a luggage-holding unit comprising; a floorboard body to be housed on the floor inside a luggage compartment having a core material and carpet material adhesively attached to said core material; a housing recession in said core material recessed one step below the other areas thereof; a raisable top panel that fits into said housing recession when housed; a pair of side panels foldably connected to each end of said top panel such that when said top panel is raised the side panels are raised to mutually opposed positions to form, together with said top panel, said luggage-holding unit; side panel holding protrusions, formed in said housing recession for maintaining the raised position of said pair of side panels after the lower edge of each side panel has passed over the respective protrusion when said side panels are raised; and leg-holding points formed in said housing recession into which legs protruding from the lower edges of said t

Abstract: Provided are a method for accurately evaluating the differentiation status of stem cells by selectively staining only stem cells in an undifferentiated state, and a method for positively isolating only stem cells in an undifferentiated state. Specifically provided is a method for determining differentiation of a cell comprising a step of contacting a test cell with a probe comprising protein (A) or (B) below and a step of detecting the presence of binding of the probe to the test cell. The method for determining differentiation of a cell is capable of detecting the presence or absence of an undifferentiated stem cell in test cells by using a probe that specifically reacts with undifferentiated stem cells and detecting the presence of bonding to the test cell.