Abstract: A starting apparatus of a diaphragm-type carburetor, a starting pump disposed at a convenient and accessible location which is separate from a carburetor main body, and air is prevented from being mixed into fuel, in such a structure constructed as a suction-type starting pump. A suction passage extends from a fuel metering chamber and extends beyond an outer portion of the carburetor main body. A starting pump conveniently disposed is separate from the carburetor, and an inlet check valve of the starting pump is disposed in the carburetor main body so as to reduce a volumetric capacity of a section extending to the inlet check valve from the fuel metering chamber, thereby preventing the air from remaining within the suction passage.

Abstract: This invention relates to the subject matter identified in the title. An effective interaction is conducted by giving the user adequate information during information search so as to improve the search efficiency and accuracy. A CPU initially sets a set G containing deleted solution candidates to null and receives input for a search question Q from the user (S1). The CPU refers to a database storage section and creates a solution candidate set F as the result of the search of the database (D) in response to the search question Q by using the similarity of labels defined by a thesaurus T or a subset R of the thesaurus T (S2). The CPU presents the user the information concerning the solution candidates and search question Q as the help for interaction on a display part (S3). The user can check if there is a solution among the solution candidates.

Abstract: The invention provides a wheel-acting force measuring device free from the influences of cross talk due to brake torque (torsional torque). A hole is formed in or adjacent an axle of a vehicle at a brake caliper angle or an angle close thereto, and a stress detecting sensor is embedded at a position in the hole which coincides with the stress center axis of or adjacent the axle.

Abstract: A transposase encoded by the Tol2 element; a polynucleotide encoding the same; a method of modifying the gene structure of a cell (preferably a vertebrate cell) by using the above protein; a method of modifying the function of a cell by modifying the gene structure thereof; and a cell having been modified in function by these methods. Also the structure of a cis element necessary in gene transfer is clarified and presented.

Abstract: A transposase encoded by the Tol2 element; a polynucleotide encoding the same; a method of modifying the gene structure of a cell (preferably a vertebrate cell) by using the above protein; a method of modifying the function of a cell by modifying the gene structure thereof; and a cell having been modified in function by these methods. Also the structure of a cis element necessary in gene transfer is clarified and presented.

Abstract: In an in-flow chemical reaction system (A) of the present invention, a sample solution (1) containing glycoprotein is injected into a reaction tube (7) in which an alkaline solution continuously flows. When a mixed solution of the sample solution and the alkaline solution reach a thermostat bath (6), reaction for cleaving a glycoside linkage takes place, thereby separating a carbohydrate chain from glycoprotein. From the solution containing the carbohydrate chain, alkali is removed by using an ion-exchange column (12), so that a fraction of a carbohydrate chain (14) is collected into a sample tube (13). In the in-flow chemical reaction system (A), reaction takes place in minutes, so that reaction time is significantly reduced compared to a conventional method. Thus, a glycoside linkage is readily cleaved with high precision in a short time, thereby separating carbohydrate from a glycoside-linkage-having compound.

Abstract: A method for cyclically controlling the braking of a vehicle includes the following steps: (a) detecting a road surface frictional force of said vehicle, (b) detecting a brake fluid pressure, and (c) controlling the brake fluid pressure in response to detected values including the brake fluid pressure and the road surface frictional force, the controlling including decreasing the brake fluid pressure in response to the road surface frictional force declining during an increase of the brake fluid pressure and increasing the brake fluid pressure in response to the road surface frictional force declining during fall-off of the brake fluid pressure.

Abstract: In an information recording medium comprising at least a substrate, a recording layer, and a resin layer, the substrate is formed with at least a pit corresponding to a read only area 31 and a groove corresponding to a recording/reproducing area 32 without overlapping with each other. A reflectivity of the recording layer is specified to be more than 10%. The recording layer and the resin layer are continuously adhered over both the read only and recording/reproducing areas 31 and 32. The information recording medium is characterized in that both push-pull signal outputs T1 and T2, which are reproduced from the read only area 31 and the recording/reproducing area 32 respectively, are more than 0.1 and satisfy an inequality 1.5?T1/T2?0.5.

Abstract: A transposase encoded by the Tol2 element; a polynucleotide encoding the same; a method of modifying the gene structure of a cell (preferably a vertebrate cell) by using the above protein; a method of modifying the function of a cell by modifying the gene structure thereof; and a cell having been modified in function by these methods. Also the structure of a cis element necessary in gene transfer is clarified and presented.

Abstract: A spindle motor (100) is composed of a rotor section (R) having a chucking magnet (3) for sucking in a disc hub (11) made from a magnetic material, wherein the rotor section (R) is rotatably maintained with respect to a stator section (S). The chucking magnet (3) is further composed of a first magnet (3a) in almost an arc shape having a first width W1 in a radial direction and a second magnet (3b) in almost an arc shape having a second width W2 in a radial direction, wherein the first magnet (3a) is magnetized in a plurality of magnetic poles at a first angular interval P1 in a circumferential direction and the second magnet (3b) is magnetized in a plurality of magnetic poles at a second angular interval P2 in a circumferential direction, and wherein a relationship between each width and each angular interval satisfies an equation W1/W2=P1/P2.

Abstract: Multilevel pattern registration is achieved by modifying the shape of an exposure pattern according to deviation of the shape of a microlithographically defined pattern due to distortion produced on a substrate. A substrate to be exposed is pretreated in a given manner. The substrate is photographed to obtain image data (1). Processing for extracting feature points is performed from the image data. Results of the extraction of feature points and design pattern data to be exposed are compared (2). Processing for detecting amounts of deviations is performed (3). Using results of the processing for detecting amounts of deviations, processing for modifying shapes of images in the design pattern data is performed (4). The images obtained by the results of the processing for modifying the shapes of the images are produced as an exposure pattern by an exposure image generator (5). The exposure pattern is exposed onto the exposed substrate (6).

Abstract: In order to latch an object member that is movable in a predetermined direction, a latch device has a heart cam that follows movement of the object member, and a latch member that is movable between a first position where it does not engage the object member and a second position where it engages the object member in the predetermined direction. A cam follower engaging the heart cam and the latch member urges the latch member toward one of the first and second positions following movement of the heart cam. However, actual movement of the latch member is controlled by a control mechanism that operates depending on the shape and the number of times of movement of the heart cam.

Abstract: A method for detecting a linear image in a planar picture is provided whereby the positions of a linear image can be determined by devising suitable processing of image data, even if a linear image traced by a moving object, such as space debris, a meteor, or the like, does not appear clearly on a picture.

Abstract: A connector apparatus has a first connector, a second connector to be mated with and unmated from the first connector, and a mating detecting member for detecting a mated state and an unmated state of the first and the second connectors. The first connector has a lock lever to be engaged with the second connector. The mating detecting member has a detecting portion for detecting the mated and the unmated states, a holding portion for locking the mating detecting member at a standby position, and an operating portion for locking the mating detecting member at an assurance position. The detecting portion has a locking portion to be engaged with the lock lever. The holding portion is displaced in a direction different from the mating and the unmating directions to be engaged with the first connector.

Abstract: The micro-lens array in which a plural of convexly-protruded micro-lens are closely arranged two-dimensionally and a plural of convex sub-lenses having a curvature-radius smaller than that of the micro-lens are protrusively formed on the surface of each micro-lens has a large view angle, since Dsav/D is in a range from 0.1 to 0.3 where D is the micro-lens bottom face width obtained by halving the summation of the maximum and the minimum width which are measured along the line passing through the center of the bottom face of the micro-lens; Ds is the sub-lens bottom face width obtained by halving the summation of the maximum and the minimum width which are measured along the line passing through the center of the bottom face of the sub-lens; and Dsav is the average sub-lens bottom face width obtained by averaging a plural of the sub-lens bottom face widths Ds.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic disk drive in which a flying-height fluctuation produced by the operation of a fine actuator is decreased, the reliability is high, and recording density is high. For this purpose, the magnetic disk drive is configured as described below. The magnetic disk drive has a suspension including a base plate connected to a carriage, a load beam fitted with a slider, and a fine actuator which is provided on the base plate and finely moves the load beam. The configuration is such that the shortest track travel time using the fine actuator is larger than the inverse number of the local maximum of a flying-height fluctuation frequency of the suspension by the fine actuator. Also, the configuration is such that the shortest track travel time using the fine actuator is larger than the inverse number of the natural frequency of first torsion mode of the suspension by the fine actuator.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for constructing cell lineage that is less labor intensive and requires less time as a result of using a computer. The method comprises the step for obtaining a plurality of 2D images different in focal plane and a time by taking a plurality of the 2D images by changing the focal plane and taking a plurality of the 2D images in a time series for a cell constituting the subject of observation. The method further comprises the steps of extracting a nucleus area by carrying out image processing for individual 2D images; unifying the nucleus area, which is derived from the identical nucleus, from the nucleus area extracted from the individual 2D images; and constructing the cell lineage from a time and a position, where the nucleus area appears and disappears in the image, in the unified nucleus area.

Abstract: In a convention inductive head, since a large magnetic field is leaked from the end of the magnetic pole end of an upper magnetic core, at recording the recording magnetic field is applied to a recording media in a region larger than a desired track width, thereby damaging the adjacent information. In an inductive head according to the present invention, in order to efficiently carry a magnetic flux to a magnetic pole tip layer, the top surface of the rear end of the magnetic pole tip layer is etched away so as to connect the rear end of the magnetic pole tip layer to the front end of an upper magnetic core having a width larger than that of the rear end of the magnetic pole tip layer. It is possible to realize a recording head having a large recording magnetic field.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit having a breakdown voltage higher than that of the first circuit. Operation voltages of the first and second circuits can be made equal to or different from each other. The second circuit has a level shift circuit for shifting the level of an output signal of the first circuit in accordance with an operation voltage of the second circuit, an external output buffer having an input that can receive, selectively, an output signal of the level shift circuit or an input signal that bypasses the level shift circuit. When the first and second circuits operate with a low voltage, bypass is selected. In high-voltage operation and burn-in, the level shift circuit is selected.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel DNA sequence having a flower organ-specific promoter activity which makes it possible to express a foreign gene specifically in pistil or lodicule, this enabling genetic manipulation. The present invention provides a DNA fragment comprising the sequence of positions 1 to 5369 in the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:3 in Sequence Listing, the sequence of positions 3335 to 5108 therein, a part of these sequences or a sequence derived from these sequences by deletion, substitution, insertion or addition of one or more nucleotides and having a promoter activity; and a flower organ-specific promoter sequence which can be identified from among sequences obtained by screening a genomic library of rice or other plants by using as a probe the nucleotide sequence as described above or a part thereof.