Abstract: The invention concerns the use of redox-active compounds for the production of detection reagents for a method for the determination of an analyte as well as reagent kits that contain these redox-active compounds. In addition new redox-active compounds are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention describes a nucleic acid sequence and an amino acid sequence for novel mammalian, including human, EDG-5 receptor homologs.

Abstract: A metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor S is connected to a ladder resistance R, and the output voltage is subjected to logarithmic transformation at plural points on a waveform of temperature change byLnR=2-4 V R1/Vc+LnR1 (1)where R indicating the resistance of the metal oxide semiconductor, V R1 the output voltage to the ladder resistance, Vc the detecting voltage, R1 the resistance of the ladder resistance, and Ln natural logarithm, respectively. Standard signals comprising logarithms of resistance values of the metal oxide semiconductor in plural concentrations and at plural points on the waveform are stored in the EEPROM, and these standard signals and logarithms obtained are compared with each other to detect the gas.

Abstract: Analytical system for evaluating test elements having means of determining whether a sufficient amount of sample liquid was evenly applied to an application zone comprising in a first embodiment of the invention at least two sources of light which illuminate separate or at least not fully overlapping areas of the application zone or the evaluation zone of the test strip, a control unit with which the light sources, of which there at least two, can be independently activated, at least one sensor which detects light reflected by the evaluation zone or transmitted by the evaluation zone and supplies an output signal proportional to the intensity of light as well as an evaluation unit which receives a first output signal from the sensor and converts it into a first measured value when the first of the light sources is activated, receives a second output signal from the sensor and converts it into a second measured value when the second of the light sources, is activated and compares the measured values and determ

Abstract: A micro discharge detection current which is obtained by reducing a discharge current of a battery at a predetermined ratio is detected by a current amplifying circuit and an integration voltage showing a discharge charge amount is formed by charging a capacitor of an integrating circuit. The integration voltage of the integrating circuit is compared with a reference voltage showing a predetermined unit charge amount by a comparing circuit. When the integration voltage reaches the reference voltage, a comparison output is inverted and the capacitor of the integrating circuit is discharge reset and one pulse signal showing the unit charge amount is generated by the inversion of the comparison output. The pulse signal from the comparing circuit is counted by a counter and the count value is multiplied with the unit charge amount, thereby obtaining the present discharge charge amount of the battery.

Abstract: A memory system using at least one DRAM chip and equipped with an interface for transferring input/output data in a packet format includes a plurality of banks within each of the at least one DRAM chip. The memory system further includes a control circuit for accessing a bank for data transfer of a given packet when the bank is different from a previous bank accessed for an immediately preceding packet, and for waiting for an operation to complete in the bank when the bank is the same as the previous bank.

Abstract: A lens is provided for converging rays reflected from an object, and a line sensor is provided for receiving rays converged by the lens. The line sensor has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to predetermined pixels of one line. White level correction data are obtained for correcting a deviation of an output signal of each photoelectric conversion element from a standard value, and plane correction data is obtained for correcting unequal distribution of quantity of light dependent on the lens. An output signal of the line sensor is corrected with the white correction data and the plane correction data.

Abstract: A surface grinding method for a thin-plate workpiece is provided including the steps of (a) roughly surface grinding a first surface of a thin-plate workpiece using a thin-plate workpiece surface grinding device to create a reference plane having no sori or waviness; (b) inverting the thin-plate workpiece, the first surface of which has been roughly surface ground and, with a surface grinding device having a hard chucking plate, chucking the first surface to the hard chucking plate to roughly surface grind a second surface of the thin-plate workpiece; (c) chucking to the hard chucking plate the first surface of the thin-plate workpiece, the second surface of which has been roughly surface ground with the surface grinding device having the hard chucking plate to further finely surface grind the second surface of the thin-plate workpiece; and (d) inverting the thin-plate workpiece, the second surface of which has been finely surface ground and, with the surface grinding device having the hard chucking plate, ch

Abstract: For moistening a water roller in contact with a planographic printing plate on a plate cylinder in an offset printing press, a sprayer produces a more or less flat spray of dampening water. Baffles are positioned in front of the sprayer to define an aperture through which the spray travels before hitting the water roller. The aperture has a width shorter than the longer dimension of the cross section of the spray as measured in a plane containing the aperture, and longer than the shorter dimension of the cross section of the spray in the same plane. Thus the rate at which the dampening water is supplied to the water roller is infinitely variable by changing the angular position of the spray relative to the aperture between a minimum dampening position where the spray has the opposite longitudinal end portions of its cross section interrupted to the utmost by the baffle means and a maximum dampening position where the spray is allowed wholly through the aperture.

Abstract: An EEPROM device has an array of memory cells composed of nonvolatile data-storage elements that allow electrical writing and erasing of data. The array of memory cells is provided with an area for storing data representing the length of writing time for which the writing and erasing of data are performed. The writing-time data is read out from this area and held in a latch circuit. The latched data is used as the target count up to which a counter counts a clock. The counter starts counting in response to a start signal and stops counting when the actual count reaches the target count. The counter, while it is counting, outputs a high-level signal, which determines the length of writing time for which writing is performed in the memory cells.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a circuit including a plurality of memory blocks connected in series and operating in synchronism with a clock signal, the circuit holding data in each of the memory blocks during a data-hold state and holding the data between adjacent ones of the memory blocks during a data-transition state. The semiconductor integrated circuit further includes a memory circuit inserted between at least two adjacent ones of the memory blocks and operating in synchronism with the clock signal, the memory circuit holding the data between the at least two adjacent ones of the memory blocks during the data-transition period.

Abstract: An optical disk apparatus includes a spindle motor for rotating a mounted optical disk, and a swing-motion type optical head apparatus. The swing-motion type optical head apparatus scans the optical disk in a radial direction of the optical disk by moving the objective lens. The head apparatus is made to swing about a swing axis in a plane parallel to a recording surface of the mounted optical disk. The swing-motion type optical head apparatus includes an arm carrying the objective lens thereupon, and provided at the first side of the mounted optical disk. A supporting member is provided for supporting the arm so as to enable the arm to swing about the axis. Driving device are provided for causing the arm to swing. The supporting member and the driving device are provided at a location outside the optical disk when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the recording surface.

Abstract: Compound needles, each comprising a needle proper having a hook at the top end thereof and a slider including two thin plates put together are arranged in a pair of needle beds, and the needle proper and the slider of each compound needle can be moved forward and backward independently of each other. The needle proper of the compound needle of the first bed is moved forward into the trick gap. Then the slider is removed forward further to move the stitch loop from the hood of the needle proper onto the tongue of the slider. Both the hook and tongue of the compound needle of the second bed are inserted into the stitch loop being kept on the tongue of the slider of the first bed. Then the slider of the compound needle of the first bed is moved backward to deliver the stitch loop onto the tongue of the slider of the second bed.

Abstract: During a precharging period, first a bit line is precharged to a first potential and a sense amplifier is precharged to a second potential. Then, the bit line and the sense amplifier are connected together thorough a bit line transfer gate, and the precharge potential at the bit line is set to a third potential in accordance with a ratio of their capacitances. Following this, a word line is rendered active to connect a memory cell to the bit line. In accordance with the potential in the memory cell, a minute voltage is generated to the bit line, and the sense amplifier detects the minute voltage and amplifies it. Since the first and the second potentials differ from each other, the third potential can be an intermediate potential nearer the first potential. For example, when the first potential is set to a ground potential and the second potential is set to one available at a high potential power source, the third potential is set to shift toward the ground potential from half the power source potential.

Abstract: A hood or trunk lid is a blow-molded article and includes an outer skin and a stiffener integral with the outer skin. The stiffener has a tub-like molded portion which extends in a widthwise direction of a vehicle body and protrudes toward the outer skin. A ridge of the tub-like molded portion is spaced apart from the outer skin, so that the hood or trunk lid is folded from a start point provided by the tub-like molded portion by a shock force from a collision.

Abstract: A yarn feeding system of a flat knitting machine having needle beds. Each needle bed having a plurality of needles. A plurality of yarn carrier rails extend in parallel to the needle beds in a longitudinal direction of the needle beds. A cam carriage reciprocates over the needle beds while yarn carriers caught/released by a yarn carrier catcher mounted on the cam carriage travels on a yarn carrier rail to feed yarn to the needles of the needle beds. The yarn feeding system has shifting members that extend along and in the longitudinal direction of the yarm carrier rails. A shifter reciprocally shifts the shifting members in the longitudinal direction of the yarn carriers. An engager engages the yarn carriers to the shifting members such that the yarn carriers are disengaged and released from the shifting members when catching and carrying is affected by the catcher.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a three-dimensional display device so adapted that an uncomfortable feeding in a case where a right eye image and a left eye image on a screen are replaced with each other in correspondence to the position of the head of a viewer can be eliminated, to laterally move the position of a shading barrier to laterally move a normal view position or a reversed view position upon selectively turning liquid crystal shutters provided in both ends in the lateral direction of a slit of the shading barrier on and off by barrier movement means when the head of the viewer is in a moire position between the normal view position and the reversed view position.