Abstract: A rotation stabilizing device in a microgravitational rotating apparatus has vibration suppressed and rotation stabilized. Recess portions 10a, 10b are provided on a casing 10 so that bearings 14, 15 are arranged therein for supporting a rotary shaft 30. Experimental boxes 17a to 17h fixed to arms 16a to 16h rotate together with the rotary shaft 30. A fin 33 is fixed to outer circumferential surfaces of the experimental boxes 17a to 17h projecting outwardly therefrom. Pairs of electromagnetic coils 31a, 31b, in which the fin 33 is interposed with a predetermined gap maintained therebetween, and gap sensors 32 close thereto, are fitted on the casing 10 side. Displacement of the fin 33 is detected by the gap sensors 32 to be inputted into a control unit to thereby control excitation current of the electromagnetic coils 31a, 31b. The gap is brought into a position within a demand value and rotation is stabilized.

Abstract: A discharged-waste processing material for pet animals is formed from a waste material of double sided water resistant paper as a raw material. A chief material of the discharged-waste processing material is crushed paper pieces obtained by finely crushing the double sided water resistant paper having laminate layers on both sides. A granular body is formed of an aggregate of the crushed paper pieces and has voids formed between the laminate layers of adjacent crushed paper pieces for guiding discharged urine into a core part of the granular body. The granular body has a water retaining structure in which the discharged urine is absorbed into a paper layer between the laminate layers through a sheared surface of each crushed paper piece, and the absorbed urine is cut off by the laminate layers so that the urine is retained in the paper layers.

Abstract: A receiving case of a disc is displayed with the receiving case locked in a display case to prevent the display case from being left in a shop upon rental. The display case includes a box body having a bottom wall and peripheral walls protruding from edges of the bottom wall, and a lid body at an edge of the box body via a hinge. A lock apparatus of the display case can not be unlocked except at the shop, and a locking part can be retained when unlocked. A receiving case has a box body for receiving a disc, and a lid body with side wall ends rotatably mounted to the box body via pins. The receiving case is fitted in the display case such that the hinges thereof are arranged adjacently parallel.

Abstract: A fastening structure capable of preventing deterioration in the flatness of a surface of a flange portion (2) when a serration (7) of a bolt (5) is press-fit into the flange portion (2). In this fastening structure, one portion in an axial direction of an outer peripheral surface (6) of the bolt (5) is provided with the serration (7). The bolt (5) is press-fit into a bolthole (3) formed through the flange portion (2) of a mounting member (1). The serration (7) is located apart from respective end surfaces (2A) and (2B) of the flange portion (2) by first and second distances (D, C), and the first and second distances (D, C) each exceed 13% of the thickness (A) of the flange portion (2). With this arrangement, the serration (7) presses a bolthole inner peripheral surface (13) only in the region located far apart from both of the end surfaces (2A and 2B) of the flange portion (2).

Abstract: A hands-free telephone conversation system includes a communication device having a microphone that receives a voice from a user, a speaker that outputs the other party's voice, a control unit that detects the status of the wireless communication, and a local wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with a relay device. The relay device includes a microphone that receives the voice from the user, a local wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with the communication device, a communication control unit that detects the status of the wireless communication, a microphone switch unit that switches the voice input reception of the microphone, and a network communication unit that sends and receives the voice to and from the other party's communication device through a network.

Abstract: For a carrier wave carrying a microwave from an MW sensor 1, pulse intervals are varied between when the MW sensor 1 generates an alert and when the MW sensor 1 does not generate an alert. When checking a sensing area, an operator carries a receiver being able to receive a transmitted wave from the MW sensor 1, walks around an area thought to be the sensing area and checks a monitor screen of the receiver. In this way, the sensing area can be checked at hand by the operator.

Abstract: This invention relates to a composition comprising ubiquinone having superior dispersion-stability in an aqueous solution and high bioavailability. The ubiquinone(s) is dispersed and emulsified in an aqueous solution of a water-soluble material in the presence of an organic acid(s) to form a protective colloid, the average particle size of the suspended particles being not more than 5 ?m. The liquid composition can be adsorbed in or carried on an excipient, or dried.

Abstract: The hook 5, as shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, serves to latch between the pearls 2 at an optional position in the above-defined predetermined section of the necklace 1. Referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 5, the hook 5 has an open end 51 whose opening is smaller than the outer diameter of the spacers 4. Opposite to the open end 51 and at an innermost area of the hook 5, the hook 5 also has a spacer fitting area 52 which is defined by a curve that matches an external circumference of the spacers 4. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 5 a width dimension of the spacer fitting area 52 is substantially equal to a width dimension of the spacer. The hook 5 has a smooth surface and such a thickness as to be comfortably inserted between the pearls 2. Thus, the hook 5 avoids damaging the pearls 2.

Abstract: A sensor has a trigger level that is set in advance in which a distance to a detected object and a signal level of waves reflected from the object are associated. The sensor only dispatches an object detection signal indicating that the detected object is an object to be considered as a detection target having a size larger than a predetermined size when a reflected wave that has a signal level exceeding the trigger level is received.

Abstract: The present application provides a vector for trapping an unknown gene of Drosophila melanogaster, which is a recombinant plasmid comprising the following nucleotide sequences in this order: an artificial consensus splicing acceptor site; a synthetic “stop/start” sequence; a reporter gene; a drug resistance gene; a gene responsible for a detectable phenotype of the Drosophila melanogaster; and a synthetic splicing donor site. The present application also provide a method for trapping an unknown gene of Drosophila melanogaster by using the vector.

Abstract: A VOB composed of a plurality of VOBUs and Cell information are recorded on an optical disk. Each VOBU includes a plurality of sets of picture data, and the Cell information specifies a reproduction section (Cell). According to a user indication, picture data corresponding to an IN point of a delete section and picture data corresponding to an OUT point of the delete section are specified in the Cell. If the number (j?i?1) of VOBUs present between the ith VOBU including the former picture data and the jth VOBU including the latter picture data is smaller than a predetermined number u, a warning of a data size increase is displayed. If j?i?1 is greater than u, the Cell information is rewritten so that the parts of the Cell preceding and succeeding the delete section become two consecutive Cells, and the (i+s+1)th to (j?t?1)th VOBUs are deleted from the optical disk.

Abstract: A magnetic display has two non-magnetic substrates, at least one of which is transparent; and a microcapsule coating layer is applied between the non-magnetic substrates. The microcapsules contain and seal light-absorptive black magnetic fine particles and light-reflective non-magnetic fine particles dispersed in an oily dispersion liquid. An array layer is buried in a capsule wall of each of the microcapsules for enclosing the oily dispersion liquid that contains the light-absorptive black magnetic fine particles and light-reflective non-magnetic fine particles. The array layer includes flake-shaped particles with a multi-layered structure for converting the black color of a character or image formed on a display surface, which is a color inherently exhibited by the light-absorptive black magnetic fine particles, into a variety of interference colors.

Abstract: A metallized-film capacitor includes a slit (5a) at approx. center of the width (W) of an effective electrode which actually forms a capacitance of a pair of deposited electrodes (110, 210). Divisional electrodes (2a, 2b) exist at a place between the center and insulation margins (4a, 4b), and the electrodes (2a, 2b) are coupled in parallel to each other by fuses (7a, 7b) disposed away from metallized contacts (6a, 6b). Such a structure as placing fuses (7a, 7b) away from the contacts (6a, 6b) allows reducing a current supplied from the contacts (6a, 6b) and running through fuses (7a, 7b), thereby lowering heat generated from fuses (7a, 7b). As a result, a temperature rise in the metallized-film capacitor can be suppressed.

Abstract: The invention of the present application provides an isolated and purified human mitochondrial protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 4, which is a novel human protein promoting aggregation and fusion of mitochondria. The present invention also provides a polynucleotide encoding such a mitochondrial protein, antibody against such a mitochondrial protein, and a proteoliposome composed of such a mitochondrial protein and lipid. Mitochondrial proteins are useful for clarifying causes of mitochondrial diseases as well as for developing preventive and therapeutic methods thereof. Furthermore, antibodies and probes derived from genes encoding such proteins are potentially useful materials for diagnosis of condition of mitochondria in particular diseases. Furthermore, proteoliposomes provide measures for specific transfer of foreign genes or drugs targeted toward mitochondria.

Abstract: To provide an aqueous emulsion composition which has high adhesion strength for a wide variety of materials including molded products and affords sufficient wettability even for the object to be adhesive bonded of low surface polarity so that it can develop sufficient adhesiveness and whose emulsion is stable so satisfactorily as to provide good mechanical stability and storage stability, and to provide an adherent composition comprising the aqueous emulsion composition, at least ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or modified resin thereof, photo polymerization initiator, and unsaturated ethylenic monomer are mixed and dissolved or dispersed, to prepare oil drop component, followed by emulsifying the oil drop component in water by using a surface-active agent, whereby an aqueous emulsion composition, in which micelles each encapsulating at least the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or modified resin thereof, the photo polymerization initiator and unsaturated ethylenic monomer are dispersed in water, is prepared

Abstract: A composition containing 3,3?-thiobis(propane-1,2-dithiol) and one or more enic compounds which composition is photocurable and can give a cured product having a high refractive index and adequate hardness.

Abstract: An incombustible withdrawing system withdraws an incombustible from a fluidized-bed furnace having a fluidized bed formed therein by a fluidized medium. The incombustible withdrawing system has a mixture delivery path to deliver a mixture of the fluidized medium and the incombustible from a bottom of the fluidized-bed furnace. The incombustible withdrawing system also has a fluidized-bed separating chamber disposed downstream of the mixture delivery path to fluidize the mixture by a fluidizing gas and to separate the mixture into a first separated mixture and a second separated mixture. The incombustible withdrawing system includes a return passage to return the first separated mixture to the fluidized-bed furnace, and an incombustible discharge passage to discharge the second separated mixture to an exterior of the fluidized-bed furnace.

Abstract: The present provides a leakage detection circuit for an electric vehicle, and so on, capable of calculating a leakage resistance. The leakage detection circuit for an electric vehicle detects a current Ig11(t1) that flows in leakage resistances Ra and Rb when one leakage detection switch SW1 is closed at t1 and the other leakage detection switch SW2 is opened, and detects a current Ig12(t2) when the switch SW1 is opened at t2 and the switch SW2 is closed. In addition, the circuit detects voltages Vl11(t1, t2) and Vl12(t1, t2) of portions where these leakage detection resistances Ra are connected. A combined value Rl of the leakage resistances is calculated by a leakage calculator based on the following equation 34 R l = R a V l12 ? ( t 2 ) V g11 ? ( t 2 ) - V g12 ? ( t 2 ) - V l11 ? ( t 1 ) V g11 ? ( t 1 ) - V g12 ? ( t 1 ) - ( R a + R b ) .

Abstract: A compound represented by the general formula: wherein R20 is —CH2COOH and the like; R21 is —COCONH2 and the like; R22 is C4–C6 alkyl; and the like; R23 is —CH2—R18 wherein R18 is aryl and the like; R24 is hydrogen or C1–C6 alkyl and the like; an optical active compound, a prodrug thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a solvate having type X sPLA2 inhibitory effect was found.