Abstract: A piston rod is connected to a piston and extends through a seal in the end face of a cylinder. A locking tube which surrounds the cylinder when the piston rod is retracted has a first end section mounted to the free end of the piston rod so that the locking tube is pivotable between a release position, wherein the locking tube is substantially coaxial to the piston rod, and a locking position, wherein the locking tube is inclined toward the piston rod. An opposed second end section has a supporting stop which can be positioned axially against the free end of the cylinder when the piston rod is extended and the locking tube is in the locking position. An actuable retaining device retains the locking tube in the locking position only by manually pivoting the locking tube into the locking position when the piston rod is extended.

Abstract: A lock device locks or unlocks a locking subject that relates to a power port and includes a lid. The lock device includes a detector that selectively generates a position detection signal at least corresponding to one of an open position where the lid is open, a closed position where the lid is closed, and a push position where the lid is pushed from the close position. A control unit controls locking or unlocking of the locking subject and a related device of the locking subject based on the position detection signal from the detector.

Abstract: There is provided a functional panel that can be joined and disassembled with ease by solving problems with a functional panel including electrical conductors integrally molded therewith, causing occurrence of cracking on the surface thereof, or cracking of a molded unit around the periphery of the electrical conductor, thereby rendering the electrical conductor susceptible to a break when a flexural load, an impact load, and so forth, acts on the functional panel. The functional panel comprises a main body of a panel member, an electrical conductor coated with a semi-cured resin having heat resistance and insulation properties, and a reinforcing fiber having a continuous filament, for fixing the electrical conductor to the main body of the panel member to thereby provide enhancement, and the functional panel is formed by exposing one end, and the other end of the electrical conductor from respective end faces of the panel member formed by integral molding.

Abstract: A tomato ketchup containing the following components (A) to (C): (A) saccharide from 12 to 31 mass %, (B) potassium from 0.6 to 1.9 mass %, and (C) sodium from 0.1 to 1.55 mass %.

Abstract: A sauce composition comprising gluten, sodium, and aspartic acid, wherein the content of the sodium is from 5 to 65 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the gluten, and the content of the aspartic acid is from 0.7 to 4 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the gluten.

Abstract: This invention provides a therapeutic agent for hepatitis C comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound having anti-HCV activity useful in treatment of hepatitis C. The therapeutic agent for hepatitis C comprises, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A composite material roller that itself rotates comprises a cylindrical laminate 1 of fiber-knitted cloths 2 impregnated with resin; and a sheet 4, formed of a fiber different from that of the laminate 1, for covering the rotary surface of the laminate 1. The longitudinal elastic modulus of the fiber in the cloths 2 is made lower than that of the resin in the cloths 2. Also, the rigidity of the fiber in the cloths 2 is made lower than that of the resin in cloths 2. The above configuration reduces the contract pressure between the composite material roller and a structure on which the roller slides.

Abstract: A printed circuit board fabrication method allows a fabrication time and a fabrication cost to be reduced. The fabrication method of the printed circuit board includes steps of forming a resist layer on a surface of the printed circuit board whose surface is made of an insulator, of forming a hole that is connected from the surface of the resist layer to a conductor pattern of an inner layer and a hole and grooves having a depth not connected with the conductor layer of the inner layer by irradiating lasers, of filling a conductive material into the holes and the grooves to form a conductor pattern and of removing the resist layer to project a portion of the conductor pattern out of the surface of the insulating layer.

Abstract: To provide a manufacturing apparatus of an electronic component using an interposer, having high installation flexibility and high production efficiency. The electronic component manufacturing apparatus includes a converter unit configured to place an interposer on a surface of a base circuit sheet, and an interposer supply unit configured to continuously convey carriers holding the interposers and supply the interposers to the converter unit. The interposer supply unit has the carriers that hold the interposers, and is configured to convey the interposers via the carriers.

Abstract: An adjustable beam size illumination optical apparatus includes a beam size adjusting optical system which includes groups of cylindrical array lenses disposed correspondingly to the long and short axis directions respectively and having variable intervals among the lenses, and a group of cylindrical telescope lenses disposed correspondingly to one of the long and short axis directions and having variable intervals among the lenses, and adjusts parallel light from a light source in size in accordance with the two axis directions orthogonal to each other. The lens interval of one of the cylindrical array lens groups and the cylindrical telescope lens group is changed to adjust a beam size on a projection surface in accordance with the long axis direction or the short axis direction. Thus, it is possible to adjust the beam size in accordance with the long axis direction and the short axis direction individually, and it is possible to make irradiation with the beam with uniform intensity.

Abstract: There is provided a functional panel that can be joined and disassembled with ease by solving problems with a functional panel including electrical conductors integrally molded therewith, causing occurrence of cracking on the surface thereof, or cracking of a molded unit around the periphery of the electrical conductor, thereby rendering the electrical conductor susceptible to a break when a flexural load, an impact load, and so forth, acts on the functional panel. The functional panel comprises a main body of a panel member, an electrical conductor coated with a semi-cured resin having heat resistance and insulation properties, and a reinforcing fiber having a continuous filament, for fixing the electrical conductor to the main body of the panel member to thereby provide enhancement, and the functional panel is formed by exposing one end, and the other end of the electrical conductor from respective end faces of the panel member formed by integral molding.

Abstract: The present invention relates to sliding parts, precision parts and timepieces and electronic equipment using those parts. Sliding parts are composed by a resin in which the degree of orientation of a fibrous filler is higher at the portion serving as the sliding surface than inside the sliding part, and the fibrous filler is oriented along the sliding surface on the sliding surface. Alternatively, precision parts are composed by a resin to which has been added carbon fibers for which a carbon compound is thermally decomposed to carbon in the vapor phase and simultaneously grown directly into fibers simultaneous to this thermal decomposition. Moreover, timepieces and electronic equipment are composed by these sliding parts or these precision parts.

Abstract: An optical connector comprising: first and second movable members 7, 8 held on an optical connector body 6 to be axially movable in a longitudinal direction; locking means for locking the first and second movable members when the first movable member is located at a predetermined locking position in a tip part of the optical connector body, and integrally moving the first and second movable members; and unlocking means formed in the optical connector body 6, and including a locking acting portion which acts on the locking means when the first movable member is located rearwardly of a predetermined unlocking position in a rear part of the optical connector body, to unlock the first and second movable members, and which locks the first and second movable members when the first movable member is located forwardly of the unlocking position, and a second movable member hooking portion 10 for inhibiting rearward movement of the second movable member after the first and second movable members are unlocked, and where

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-viral agent comprising a compound represented by the following formula (I): (wherein X represents CH, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom; Y and Z are the same or different and each represents a nitrogen atom or C—R8, and at least one of them represents a nitrogen atom; R1 to R8 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a linear C1-10-hydrocarbon group, a hydroxy group, or a substituted or unsubstituted benzyl group; and, when X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R5 is absent), or the following formula (II): (wherein X? represents CH or a nitrogen atom; Y? and Z? are the same or different and each represents a nitrogen atom or N—R9, or C—R8 and at least one of them represents a nitrogen atom or N—R9; R1 to R4 and R6 to R8 are as defined above; R9 represents a hydrogen atom, a linear C1-10-hydrocarbon group, a hydroxy group, or a substituted or unsubstituted benzyl group; and, the C ring has the maximum numbe

Abstract: A transfer apparatus has a first conveying device for holding and conveying a transferring-work to be transferred; a second conveying device for holding and conveying a carrier work on which the transferring-work is placed; and a transfer device to receive the transferring-work from the first conveying device and transfer the transferring-work to the carrier work of the second conveying device. The transfer device has two or more end-effectors that revolve along the same circumference to convey the transferring-work, and each of the end-effectors revolves independently of the other end-effectors. Each of the end-effectors has a holding surface that holds the transferring-work, and the holding surface is able to advance and retract along a revolution axis of each of the end-effectors.

Abstract: A chip transfer apparatus includes a first carrier for feeding chips and a second carrier for carrying works on it. The transfer apparatus also includes a transfer engine including two or more coaxial revolvers, which can revolve coaxially with each other. Each of the coaxial revolvers includes an end-effector for receiving a chip from the first carrier and transferring the received chip onto a work on the second carrier. The end-effectors of the coaxial revolvers are arranged in a circle coaxial with the revolvers. The end-effectors sequentially receive chips from the first carrier at substantially zero speed relative to the first carrier and transfer the received chips onto works on the second carrier at substantially zero speed relative to the second carrier. While the end-effectors are revolving, they undergo periodic speed change control for timing adjustment and speed adjustment for the chip reception and transfer.

Abstract: A production method for producing sanitary tampons implements a cord placement step of placing at least two continuous string-like cords in parallel on surfaces of at least two cotton pad pieces sequentially placed along a sewing line in a sewing direction of a sewing machine, a first cord sewing step of sewing the cord to one of two cotton pad pieces placed in an adjacent manner, a second cord sewing step of sewing the cord to the other of the two cotton pad pieces, and a cord switching step of switching the cords to be sewn to the cotton pad piece between the first cord sewing step and the second cord sewing step.

Abstract: The present invention relates to sliding parts, precision parts and timepieces and electronic equipment using those parts. Sliding parts are composed by a resin in which the degree of orientation of a fibrous filler is higher at the portion serving as the sliding surface than inside the sliding part, and the fibrous filler is oriented along the sliding surface on the sliding surface. Alternatively, precision parts are composed by a resin to which has been added carbon fibers for which a carbon compound is thermally decomposed to carbon in the vapor phase and simultaneously grown directly into fibers simultaneous to this thermal decomposition. Moreover, timepieces and electronic equipment are composed by these sliding parts or these precision parts.

Abstract: A process for producing an optically active compound based on the hydrolysis of an alkenyl ester compound or the cleavage of an alkenyl ether compound. The process uses neither an acidic compound nor a basic compound, and reactants can be reacted in a high concentration. It does not necessitate a buffer, nutrient, etc. unlike enzymatic reactions or reactions using a microorganism. It is a simple process which attains a satisfactory production efficiency. The process, which is for producing an optically active carboxylic acid or optically active alcohol represented by the general formula (VI): (wherein R1, R2, and R3 are different groups; and A represents methylene, carbonyl, or a single bond), is characterized by causing water to act on an alkenyl ester or alkenyl ether represented by the general formula (I): (wherein R4, R5, and R6 each represents hydrogen, alkyl, etc.) in the presence of a specific transition metal complex having an optically active ligand.

Abstract: Manufacturing an electronic component 5 in which an interposer 50 is bonded to a base circuit sheet includes a base circuit forming step for forming a base-side terminal in a continuous base member 610 in continuous sheet form, an arranging/bonding step for arranging the interposer 50 on a surface of the continuous base member 610 in which the base-side terminal is formed and bonding the interposer 50, and a separating step for cutting out the electronic component 5 from the continuous base member 610 to which the interposer 50 is bonded. In this electronic component manufacturing method, for the common continuous base member 610, each of the steps is repeated in parallel while this continuous base material 610 is being advanced.