Abstract: A process for producing materials for fish paste products which comprises the step 1 of milling a frozen ground fish meat to thereby give a frozen ground fish meat in the form of fine particles, thawing a frozen ground fish meat under milling to thereby give a thawed ground fish meat in the form of fine particles, or thawing a frozen ground fish meat and then cutting it to thereby give a thawed ground fish meat, and the step 2 of mixing under stirring the ground fish meat obtained in the step 1 with the use of a stirring means.

Abstract: A piezoelectric transformer element includes electrodes formed on a maximum-area of the front surface and rear surface of a long-plate shaped piezoelectric body. A case in which the piezoelectric transformer element is housed includes first lead terminals and second lead terminals. The first lead terminals press the electrodes on the front surface of the piezoelectric transformer element and are electrically connected to the electrodes. The second lead terminals press the electrodes on the rear surface of the piezoelectric transformer element and are electrically connected to the electrodes. The piezoelectric transformer element is held within the case by the first and second lead terminals and ring-shaped elastic bodies in which the piezoelectric transformer element is inserted. Thus, inhibition of vibration of the piezoelectric transformer element is suppressed and energy conversion efficiency of the piezoelectric transformer element is improved.

Abstract: A piezoelectric transformer includes strip form electrodes on opposing upper and lower surfaces of a piezoelectric ceramic plate formed by screen printing using a conductive paste. By using strip form electrodes, discharge of a driving portion during polarization, degradation of reliability of mechanical strength due to excessive stress in a power generating portion during polarization, and instability of transformer output due to breakage of the electrode is prevented.

Abstract: In order to achieve the above and other objects, a piezoelectric transformer unit is provided. The unit contains a piezoelectric transformer element, a first upper electrode, a first lower electrode, an insulator casing, a first lead terminal, and an insulator elastic member. The piezoelectric transformer element has a upper element surface, a lower element surface, and a first side element surface. The first upper electrode is formed on the upper element surface of the piezoelectric transformer element, and the first lower electrode is formed on the lower element surface of the piezoelectric transformer element. The insulator casing houses the piezoelectric transformer element. The first lead terminal protrudes from an inner surface of the insulator casing, supports the piezoelectric transformer element within the insulator casing, and vertically presses the an oscillation nodal point of the piezoelectric transformer element.

Abstract: Disclosure is made of a process for producing materials for fish paste products which comprises the step 1 of milling a frozen ground fish meat to thereby give a frozen ground fish meat in the form of fine particles having a diameter of 1 mm or less, thawing a frozen ground fish meat under milling to thereby give a thawed ground fish meat in the form of fine particles, or thawing a frozen ground fish meat and then cutting it to thereby give a thawed ground fish meat, and the step 2 of mixing under stirring the ground fish meat obtained in the step 1 with the use of a stirring means, provided that a cake mixer is employed as the stirring means, when a frozen ground fish meat is thawed to give thawed ground fish meat in the step 1. Use of this process makes it possible to efficiently provide materials ensuring the production of fish paste products with good qualities, e.g. improved gel strength.

Abstract: A piezoelectric transformer having a structure where an electrode on a side of a transformer element and a lead terminal made of a leaf spring on a side of a package are brought into pressural contact with each other by an elastic spring performance of the lead terminal. An angle of inclination is given to a terminal portion of the lead terminal in respect of a base portion, whereby the terminal portion of the lead terminal is opened in a direction of extending the base portion, when the base portion is bent, with a side wall of a case being a fulcrum for the bending, by receiving a static pressing force from a transformer element on the terminal portion. An angle of rotation caused at the terminal portion by bending the base portion is counteracted by this angle of inclination, by which the terminal portion and the electrode of the transformer element are always kept in parallel with each other.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device and a method of making a semiconductor device capable of preventing exfoliation at a pad electrode portion, a barrier metal layer 14, a silicon layer 15 and an aluminum layer 16 are formed on a side of a main face of a silicon substrate 11 (step A), the barrier metal layer 14, the silicon layer 15 and the aluminum layer 16 are patterned into a shape of a pad electrode (step B) and a silicide layer 17 is formed by an annealing treatment successive to the patterning step (step C).

Abstract: A novel L-sorbose dehydrogenase (SDH) and a novel L-sorbosone dehydrogenase (SNDH) both derived from Gluconobacter oxydans T-100, a DNA which encodes the SDH and/or SNDH, an expression vector which contains the DNA, a host cell transformed by the expression vector and a process for producing the SDH and/or SNDH, which comprises culturing the host cell in a medium and recovering the SDH and/or SNDH from the resulting culture. The SDH and SNDH of the present invention are useful enzymes having preferable properties for the production of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid, as well as L-ascorbic acid. According to the production method of the present invention, the SDH and SNDH having such preferable properties can be produced in large amounts by genetic engineering.

Abstract: A novel L-sorbose dehydrogenase (SDH) and a novel L-sorbosone dehydrogenase both derived from Gluconobacter oxydans T-100, a DNA which encodes the SDH and/or SNDH, an expression vector which contains the DNA, a host cell transformed by the expression vector and a process for producing the SDH and/or SNDH, which comprises culturing the host cell in a medium and recovering the SDH and/or SNDH from the resulting culture. The SDH and SNDH of the present invention are useful enzymes having preferable properties for the production of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid, as well as L-ascorbic acid. According to the production method of the present invention, the SDH and SNDH having such preferable properties can be produced in large amounts by genetic engineering.

Abstract: The invention relates to biologically active substances coated with a coating composition containing at least one substance selected from the group consisting of hardened vegetable fats and oils, hardened animal fats and oils, fatty acid esters and phospholipids and an enzyme and/or enzyme activator where the outermost surface portion of the coating layer contains substantially no enzyme and/or enzyme activator. The invention materials exhibit excellent protection in the rumen of ruminant animals and allow for the dissolution in the post-abomasum lower digestive organs of the ruminant.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel cutting tool used in wood working, which has a sufficiently thick cutting edge allowing stable cutting of a veneer from a log as well as an apparatus for and a method of grinding the cutting edge to have a favorable shape and a relatively large angle. The apparatus of the invention includes a table which an elongated cutting tool extending along a longitudinal axis of the table is mounted on, a fixing element for pressing the cutting tool upright against an upright plate, and a carriage which is reciprocatingly movable along the longitudinal axis of the table. The carriage is provided with a pair of grinding wheels which are respectively movable into and out of endwise grinding contact with an upper surface and a lower surface of the cutting edge of the upright cutting tool at desirable angles.

Abstract: A downflow spin dryer, includes a housing; a rotor rotating within the housing in a direction of rotation, the rotor including first and second opposite mounting holes at different heights; a cradle fitted within the rotor for accommodating semiconductor substrates to be dried, the cradle having a rear portion and a front portion as viewed with respect to the direction of rotation of the rotor, the cradle being fitted to the rotor such that the rear portion of the cradle is at a lower position than the front portion of the cradle, the cradle including first and second opposite mounting holes in alignment with the first and second mounting holes, respectively, of the rotor when the cradle is fitted within the rotor, the first and second mounting holes of the cradle being at the same height; screws for entering the first mounting holes of the cradle and the rotor, and for entering the second mounting holes of the cradle and the rotor, so as to mount the cradle within the rotor; an air inlet in an upper surface

Abstract: A shared bus control system for multiprocessor system having shared buses for a plurality of processors comprises a bus mediation circuit which outputs the switch control signal to switch accessing to the shared buses by the plurality of processors with synchronizing the system clock and a bus selection circuit which selects the address and data from one processor according to the switch control signal and outputs them to the shared buses. It further comprises a state detection circuit which decodes the bus status signal from the particular processor among the processors and detects the bus state of the particular processor and a clock modulation circuit to modulate the operation clock for the particular processor when the state detection circuit detects the particular bus states.

Abstract: An engine exhaust gas cleaning system including a converter section that is disposed at the rear end of the exhaust pipe and which has an outer shell that is surrounded by a further outer shell having a rearwardly disposed atmospheric air inlet and a forwardly disposed atmospheric air outlet that communicates with the inlet of the converter through a venturi section. This heats the air admitted to the converter and also insures that any exhaust sound or exhaust leakage will be disposed rearwardly.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device. A hole accumulation layer is provided on the surface of a photosensor region. Voltage lower than the voltage of the hole accumulation layer is applied to a light-shielding film, so that positive charges existing in a thin insulation film can be attracted toward the light-shielding film. Consequently it becomes possible to reduce a dark current.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved apparatus for grinding longitudinal ends of the cutting edge to a desired degree of superfine finish as a grinding wheel reciprocates between the ends. The apparatus applies a relatively constant pressure to the grinding wheel, thus allowing stable and desirable grind.

Abstract: A high-purity stable aqueous silica sol is prepared which has an SiO.sub.2 concentration of from 30 to 50% by weight and which is substantially free from any other polyvalent metal oxides than silica and in which the colloidal silica has a mean particle size falling within the range of from 10 to 30 millimicrons. The silica sol obtained by the method of the present invention has an extremely low content of oxides of polyvalent metals such as iron or aluminum and may therefore be employed for uses which require the absence of such metals in the silica sol, for example, as an abrasive for semiconductors.

Abstract: For superfinishing an elongate cutting tool which has been rough-ground by a separate machine, a pair of grinding wheels are first urged against the opposite sides of the work via respective fluid-actuated cylinders, until sufficient fluid energy builds up in the cylinders to enable the grinding wheels to grind the work to any desired depths. Being mounted on a common carriage, the grinding wheels are then reciprocated longitudinally of the work while being held in constant rotation and being urged against the work under the fluid pressure. On reaching either end of the work during such reciprocation, the grinding wheels are relieved of the fluid pressure until they restart traveling toward the other end, in order to avoid overgrinding the opposite ends of the work. The reciprocation of the grinding wheels is terminated when the opposite sides of the work are ground to required degrees. The complete operation can be automated.

Abstract: For superfinishing an elongate cutting tool which has been rough-ground by a separate machine, a pair of grinding wheels are first urged against the opposite sides of the work via respective fluid-actuated cylinders, until sufficient fluid energy builds up in the cylinders to enable the grinding wheels to grind the work to any desired depths. Being mounted on a common carriage, the grinding wheels are then reciprocated longitudinally of the work while being held in constant rotation and being urged against the work under the fluid pressure. On reaching either end of the work during such reciprocation, the grinding wheels are relieved of the fluid pressure until they restart traveling toward the other end, in order to avoid overgrinding the opposite ends of the work. The reciprocation of the grinding wheels is terminated when the opposite sides of the work are ground to required degrees. The complete operation can be automated.

Abstract: A power generation cassette type power plant for marine electric propulsion includes a multiplicity of power generation units each being formed as a power generation cassette including a power generator, a prime mover, for example an internal combustion engine for driving the power generator and a support structure for supporting the power generator and the engine internally. The support structure is formed in the same shape as that of a container for transporting cargo. When the power generators of the multiplicity of power generation units are operated in parallel to each other to supply electric power to a load, controllers serve to share the load to the generators properly.