Abstract: If a temperature of a heat roller 12 rises abnormally, a thermostat 54 operates. When the thermostat 54 operates, a conduction path to an excitation coil 91 of a relay 90 is cut off so that a normally open contact 92 of the relay 90 can be operated. When the normally open contact 92 operates, the supply path of a drive signal supplied from a frequency variable oscillator 81 to a transistor 63 is cut off. By the cut-off, a high-frequency current does not flow through coils 14a to 14c; therefore, induction heating with respect to the heat roller 12 is stopped.

Abstract: A display includes an insulating substrate, a video signal line placed on a main surface of the insulating substrate and including first and second ends, pixels connected to the video signal line, a video signal line driver to which the first end is connected, an inspection signal line placed near the second end and including third and fourth ends, the third end being located at an edge of the main surface, and an analog switch connected between the second and fourth ends.

Abstract: In a computer system in which a plurality of processor boards and a plurality of input and output (I/O) boards are coupled via an address and data crossbar, a partition allocation method allocates partitions in units of the processor boards and in units of I/O controllers within the I/O boards by software setting information indicating the partitions to which the plurality of I/O ports within each of the I/O boards belong, in a register part within a corresponding one of the I/O boards.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an antibody specific to HbA1c, antibody-producing cells capable of supplying the antibody in a stable state in the future, and a method of constructing the antibody-producing cells without any probability factors, and a method which comprises fusing mouse spleen cells, which have been sensitized with an immunogen composed of a compound containing the following structural formula (I) and a binding protein, with a myeloma-origin cell line, obtaining monoclonal antibody-producing cells by cloning, and then purifying and acquiring the monoclonal antibody produced by these cells into the culture supernatant

Abstract: A seat cushion airbag unit is provided at each seat and includes a seat cushion airbag. The seat cushion airbag is disposed in an inboard portion of a seat cushion of the seat so as to support an inboard portion of buttocks of an occupant in the seat. The seat cushion airbag is changed from its inflated state from its shrunk state when the side crash or rollover of the vehicle is predicted by a controller. Thereby, the occupant's head is moved toward the center of the vehicle. Accordingly, the occupant protection device can promptly move the occupant's head toward the center of the vehicle, preventing the head from hitting against the vehicle roof, at the vehicle side crash or rollover.

Abstract: A power source supplies an input voltage. A voltage conversion circuit converts the input voltage from the power source into an operating voltage to be used to drive an electric load. A detection circuit measures an insulation resistance value on the output side of the voltage conversion circuit. A control circuit controls a voltage conversion ratio in the voltage conversion circuit, which is expressed as a ratio of the operating voltage to the input voltage, in accordance with the insulation resistance value detected by the detection circuit. The control circuit sets the voltage conversion ratio such that the operating voltage becomes lower at the time of degradation of an insulation resistance than at the time of normal operation thereof.

Abstract: An electrophotographic fixing device allowing a flow of an AC current through an electromagnetic induction coil arranged close to a heating roller having a metal layer formed of a conductor and allowing the heat generation of the heating roller to heat a to-be-fixed member, in which the fixing device comprises a circuit board for outputting the AC current from an output terminal and passing the current through the electromagnetic induction coil, a conductive plate metal having one end side fixed by a fastening screw to the output terminal of the circuit board, a male-side connection terminal provided on the other end of the plate metal, and a female-side connection terminal provided at an end of a leader line of the electromagnetic induction coil and detachably connected to a male-side connection terminal.

Abstract: A power source (120) supplies an input voltage (V 1). A voltage conversion circuit (130) converts the input voltage (V1) from the power source (120) into an operating voltage (V2) to be used to drive an electric load (150). A detection circuit (170) measures an insulation resistance value (R) on the output side of the voltage conversion circuit (130). A control circuit (160) controls a voltage conversion ratio (K (K=V2/V1)) in the voltage conversion circuit (130), which is expressed as a ratio of the operating voltage (V2) to the input voltage (V1), in accordance with the insulation resistance value (R) detected by the detection circuit (170). The control circuit (160) sets the voltage conversion ratio (K) such that the operating voltage (V2) becomes lower at the time of degradation of an insulation resistance than at the time of normal operation thereof.

Abstract: The invention aims to provide a highly accurate automatic biopolymer determination technique utilizing mass spectrometry whereby calibration prior to measurement or the addition of an internal standard to a sample can be eliminated. The biopolymer automatic identifying method of the invention comprises: retrieving a candidate molecule by matching an observed mass value X obtained by mass spectrometry with a predetermined database; selecting an arbitrary number of candidate molecules with high similarity scores; calibrating the observed mass value X using the candidate molecule as an internal standard; calculating relative error Ec between a calibrated mass value Xc and a theoretical mass value M of the candidate molecule; determining the standard deviation SEc of the relative error; determining a tolerance Tc of database search from the standard deviation SEc; and repeating a database search based on the tolerance Tc.

Abstract: When carrying out magnetization, annealing, and initialization of a recording film by applying a laser beam to the recording film while rotating an optical recording medium 10 by a motor 11, light of a strong visible-light lamp 15 is projected as parallel light to a reflecting mirror 14 via a lens 16 so as to apply light reflected by the reflecting mirror 14 to an area wider than a spot of the laser beam on the medium 10 for heating. At that time, a control unit 18 controls an intensity of the strong visible-light lamp 15 to raise a temperature of the medium 10 to a temperature of 80° C. or higher and a softening point of a substrate or lower, for example.

Abstract: A method for obtaining information on the primary structure of peptides comprising fragmenting the proteins, which enables automation of obtaining information on the primary structure of a peptide sample; a device for use in the method; and an automatic analysis system on the primary structure of the peptides. The method for obtaining information on the primary structure of peptides comprising the steps of: denaturing, reducing, and alkylating a protein; immobilizing the reduced alkylated protein obtained on a hydrophobic microparticulate carrier; chemically or enzymatically fragmenting the immobilized protein obtained; and obtaining information on the primary structure of the peptides fragmented.

Abstract: The present invention is a composition for modifying an amount of charges on a surface of a target particle in a sample and separating or quantitatively determining the target particle in the sample, based on the modified surface charge amount, and relates to the composition comprising a charge control agent having a positive or negative charge in a solution and being capable of specifically binding to the target particle. The present invention also relates to a method of separating or quantitatively determining the target particle in the sample.

Abstract: A power source (120) supplies an input voltage (V 1). A voltage conversion circuit (130) converts the input voltage (V1) from the power source (120) into an operating voltage (V2) to be used to drive an electric load (150). A detection circuit (170) measures an insulation resistance value (R) on the output side of the voltage conversion circuit (130). A control circuit (160) controls a voltage conversion ratio (K(K=V2/V1)) in the voltage conversion circuit (130), which is expressed as a ratio of the operating voltage (V2) to the input voltage (V1), in accordance with the insulation resistance value (R) detected by the detection circuit (170). The control circuit (160) sets the voltage conversion ratio (K) such that the operating voltage (V2) becomes lower at the time of degradation of an insulation resistance than at the time of normal operation thereof.

Abstract: By reacting two types of organosiloxane compounds in the presence of an alkaline compound and under conditions that do not substantially promote equilibration reaction, a linear organosiloxane polymer having a single peak molecular weight distribution is simply and economically produced with minimized formation of cyclics.

Abstract: A control device receives a power supply current from a current sensor and a reactor current from a current sensor and detects a maximum value and a minimum value from the reactor current and from the detected maximum and minimum values and the power supply current determines whether the reactor current traverses the zero point, and if so the control device generates and outputs a signal to an up converter which responds to the signal by stopping switching to perform an up or down converting operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a forming unit which forms an image onto a recording medium on the basis of acquired image information, a fixing unit which fixes the formed image by heating the recording medium onto which the image has been formed by the forming unit, and a control unit which detects temperatures of the fixing unit and generates a temperature change table, and which carries out temperature control on the basis thereof.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium, which includes both of a land surface and a groove surface as a recording track and presents high signal quality. The optical information recording medium includes both a land and a groove as the recording track on a substrate, in which a laser light is irradiated from a reverse side of the substrate to thereby carry out a recording and a reproduction, and an inclination angle of a groove side is 25° or more and 40° or less, and both of arithmetic average roughness (Ra) on the land surface and the groove surface are assumed to be 0.2 to 0.7 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fixing device and a digital photocopier which can shorten the time from an instruction of starting image formation to end of fixing. The fixing device is provided in a cylinder made of metal and having a small thickness, and includes a magnetic excitation coil. When the power source is turned on, all the electric power defined by subtracting an electric power amount consumed by components other than the fixing device is supplied to the magnetic excitation coil to perform heating. As the structural components of the photocopier and auxiliary devices added to the photocopier operate, the electric power defined by subtracting, from the maximum input electric power, the electric power consumed by the structural components of the photocopier and the auxiliary devices is supplied to perform heating. In this manner, the heat roller of the fixing device is heated, in a short time, to a temperature which enables fixing, so that the time required for first copying can be shortened.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a forming unit which forms an image onto a recording medium on the basis of acquired image information, a fixing unit which fixes the formed image by heating the recording medium onto which the image has been formed by the forming unit, and a control unit which detects temperatures of the fixing unit and generates a temperature change table, and which carries out temperature control on the basis thereof.