Abstract: A molding device includes a lower mold unit and an upper mold unit. A molding cavity is defined between the mold units. The lower mold unit has a storing chamber connected to the molding cavity. The upper mold unit has a damper chamber connected to the molding cavity. A pressurizing rod is inserted into the damper chamber. The pressurizing rod is actuated by a cylinder. When a pushing rod pushes molten metal in the storing chamber to the cavity, an excess amount of the molten metal enters the damper chamber. Therefore, the molding operation is reliably performed even if an excessive amount of molten metal is injected into the storing chamber. Further, the pressurizing rod pressurizes the excess amount of metal in the damper chamber.

Abstract: A polypeptide which contains the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1 in the Sequence Listing encoded by a gene originating in human being. Because of serving as a chemical efficacious in the suppression of the proliferation and differentiation of undifferentiated blood cells, this polypeptide is expected to be usable in medicines and medical supplies.

Abstract: A polypeptide which contains the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1 in the Sequence Listing encoded by a gene originating in human being. Because of serving as a chemical efficacious in the suppression of the proliferation and differentiation of undifferentiated blood cells, this polypeptide is expected to be usable in medicines and medical supplies.

Abstract: A polypeptide which contains the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1 in the Sequence Listing encoded by a gene originating in human being. Because of serving as a chemical efficacious in the suppression of the proliferation and differentiation of undifferentiated blood cells, this polypeptide is expected to be usable in medicines and medical supplies.

Abstract: A diamond is provided which is subjected to an improved rectangular brilliant-cut producing a facet configuration having an optimal shape for the purpose of increasing the visual-perceptible reflection ray amount. In the rectangular brilliant-cut diamond, the bezel facets at the four crown vertexes each is bent along the diagonal line parallel to the girdle, to yield the facet configuration in which the bezel facet is divided into the lower bezel facet and the upper bezel facet. The upper crown angle of an upper bezel facet can be made smaller than the crown angle of a lower bezel facet, and hence even without altering the crown height, by making the table facet slightly smaller, the tilt angles from the horizontal of the star facets and the second bezel facets, both provided with intense reflection, can be made small and the areas thereof can be made large.

Abstract: A steering apparatus controller for an electric power steering apparatus, which includes an electric motor for generating assist torque for assisting steering of a steering wheel and the steering apparatus controller is designed to execute a feedback control of the applied drive voltage to the electric motor based on the detection result of the actual current that flows through the motor. A sensor detects the actual current to produce the detection result. When detecting an abnormal decrease of the drive voltage of the sensor, a voltage controller maintains the applied voltage to the electric motor at the voltage at a predetermined time before the drive voltage abnormally decreased.

Abstract: A diamond is provided which is subjected to an improved rectangular brilliant-cut producing a facet configuration having an optimal shape for the purpose of increasing the visual-perceptible reflection ray amount. In the rectangular brilliant-cut diamond, the bezel facets at the four crown vertexes each is bent along the diagonal line parallel to the girdle, to yield the facet configuration in which the bezel facet is divided into the lower bezel facet and the upper bezel facet. The upper crown angle of an upper bezel facet can be made smaller than the crown angle of a lower bezel facet, and hence even without altering the crown height, by making the table facet slightly smaller, the tilt angles from the horizontal of the star facets and the second bezel facets, both provided with intense reflection, can be made small and the areas thereof can be made large.

Abstract: A control apparatus of an electric power steering system has first to fourth calculators and an abnormality detector. The first calculator calculates an assist current command value, which corresponds to assist force for reducing steering force of the steering wheel, based on the steering torque of the steering wheel. The second to fourth calculators calculate a compensation current command value, which corresponds to compensation force for compensating for movement of the steering wheel, based on the angular velocity of the steering wheel that has been estimated based on the terminal-to-terminal voltage of the motor. The abnormality detector detects an abnormality of the terminal voltages of the motor. When the abnormality detector detects an abnormality, the second to fourth calculators substitute zero for the steering wheel angular velocity and then calculates the compensation current command value.

Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus controller that enables a sub-computer having a capacity lower than that of a main computer to recognize computation results in the same control cycle as the main computer. A main computer of the controller computes an auxiliary torque command value of a steering motor based on the torque of a steering wheel and the velocity of the vehicle in a main control routine. A sub-computer of the controller computes a value equivalent to the command value based on the torque and the vehicle velocity in each cycle of a sub-control routine, which is longer than that of the main control routine. The sub-computer includes a first comparison circuit for comparing the command value and the torque in each cycle of the main control routine and a second comparison circuit for comparing the command value and the equivalent value in each cycle of the sub-control routine.

Abstract: A control apparatus of an electric power steering system has calculating means, controlling means, determining means suppressing means, canceling means. Calculating means calculates an assist current value that corresponds to the assist force based on steering torque of a steering wheel. Controlling means executes assist control of the motor based on the assist current value. Determining means determines an abnormality in the circuit. Suppressing means suppresses the assist control when an abnormality in the circuit is determined. If the determination of an abnormality has continued longer than a predetermined time since the suppression of the assist control, the suppressing means opens relay means that permits electric power to be supplied to the motor. When it is determined that the circuit returns to normal with the assist control suppressed, the canceling means cancels the suppression of the assist control.

Abstract: The molding device comprises a lower mold unit and an upper mold unit. When the upper mold unit approaches the lower mold unit, a molding cavity is defined between the lower and upper mold units. The lower mold unit has a storing chamber that is. communicated with the molding cavity. The lower mold unit comprises a pressure-decreasing mechanism and a pushing mechanism. A molten material is stored in the storing chamber. When the molding cavity is formed between the lower mold unit and the upper mold unit, the pressure-decreasing mechanism decreases pressure in the molding cavity. Afterwards, in sync with the operation that the upper mold unit pushing down a lower mold-holding member of the lower mold unit, an injection rod of the pushing mechanism pushes out the molten material in the storing chamber to the molding cavity. As a result, the efficiency of the molding operation is improved.

Abstract: An isolated polypeptide comprising a first amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs. 1 to 3, and a second amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO. 22 and Fc sequence below hinge region of human IgG, wherein said second amino acid sequence is linked to the C-terminal of said first amino acid sequence.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium exhibiting excellent noise characteristics and thermal stability. On a substrate, a first undercoat film, a first perpendicular magnetic film, a second undercoat film, a non-magnetic intermediate film, a second perpendicular magnetic film, and a protective film are successively formed, and the magnetic anisotropy energy of the first perpendicular magnetic film is higher than that of the second perpendicular magnetic film.

Abstract: A seat device of a vehicle including a substantially flat floor surface substantially extending across a full cabin space of the vehicle, front row seats, center row seats and a rear row seat disposed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle on the floor surface, a seat storage pan extending rearward the rear row seat and downward a level of the floor surface, the front row seats being disposed with a space, the center row seats including a plurality of seats in which at least one of the seats is movable in a lateral direction of the vehicle. When the rear row seat is received in the seat storage pan, a substantially flat and continuous surface of a substantially same level as the floor surface is formed rearward the center row seats to a rear end of the cabin space with a substantially full width of the cabin space.

Abstract: A control apparatus of an electric power steering system has first to fourth calculators and an abnormality detector. The first calculator calculates an assist current command value, which corresponds to assist force for reducing steering force of the steering wheel, based on the steering torque of the steering wheel. The second to fourth calculators calculate a compensation current command value, which corresponds to compensation force for compensating for movement of the steering wheel, based on the angular velocity of the steering wheel that has been estimated based on the terminal-to-terminal voltage of the motor. The abnormality detector detects an abnormality of the terminal voltages of the motor. When the abnormality detector detects an abnormality, the second to fourth calculators substitute zero for the steering wheel angular velocity and then calculates the compensation current command value.

Abstract: A control apparatus of an electric power steering system has calculating means, controlling means, determining means suppressing means, canceling means. Calculating means calculates an assist current value that corresponds to the assist force based on steering torque of a steering wheel. Controlling means executes assist control of the motor based on the assist current value. Determining means determines an abnormality in the circuit. Suppressing means suppresses the assist control when an abnormality in the circuit is determined. If the determination of an abnormality has continued longer than a predetermined time since the suppression of the assist control, the suppressing means opens relay means that permits electric power to be supplied to the motor. When it is determined that the circuit returns to normal with the assist control suppressed, the canceling means cancels the suppression of the assist control.

Abstract: A steering apparatus controller for an electric power steering apparatus, which includes an electric motor for generating assist torque for assisting steering of a steering wheel and the steering apparatus controller is designed to execute a feedback control of the applied drive voltage to the electric motor based on the detection result of the actual current that flows through the motor. A sensor detects the actual current to produce the detection result. When detecting an abnormal decrease of the drive voltage of the sensor, a voltage controller maintains the applied voltage to the electric motor at the voltage at a predetermined time before the drive voltage abnormally decreased.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an agent for specific adsorption of type 5 adenoviral vector to undifferentiated blood cells which enables infection with a viral concentration that does not impart toxicity to undifferentiated blood cells, without requiring the construction of a new viral genome, or special modification of viral particles such as biotination, etc. The above objective has been achieved by providing a polypeptide which has affinity for both adenovirus and undifferentiated blood cells. Use of the polypeptide of the present invention enables improved efficiency of adenoviral vector-mediated gene transfer of any gene to undifferentiated blood cells, and there is provided a method of introducing any gene for which transient expression in these cells is desired. In particular, the method is useful for intracellular DNA recombination by transiently expressing site-specific recombinase, and for induction into any cells of different lines by transient expression of master genes.

Abstract: A novel human serrate-2 polypeptide consisting of a polypeptide containing the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO:1 in the Sequence Listing and having the effect of regulating the differentiation of undifferentiated cells involving stem cells; its gene; a process for producing the same; and an antibody specifically recognizing the polypeptide.

Abstract: The present invention provides an expression control system with which any gene of interest can be transferred into mammalian cells to thereby change the nature thereof and the gene can be excised at any time by administering a low molecular weight compound to the cells.