Abstract: To provide an acrylic silicone graft copolymer capable of effectively exerting a function in a composition for external application containing various oily components such as a natural oil, a hydrocarbon oil, ester oil and a silicone oil, and a composition for external application containing the acrylic silicone graft copolymer. A composition for external application including an acrylic silicone graft copolymer, which contains 2 to 25 mass % of a constitutional unit represented by formula (I), 55 to 85 mass % of a constitutional unit represented by formula (II) and 2 to 20 mass % of a constitutional unit represented by formula (III). wherein R1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R2 is an alkylene group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of 1 to 100.

Abstract: A lip cosmetic that preferably has smooth feeling of use, gives shine, has no limitation of the container that can be used, and that further allows even coloring with little color transfer. A lip cosmetic composition having an inner phase and an outer phase, wherein the inner phase includes: A) a low-viscosity oil agent that does not dissolve a solidifier, and the outer phase includes: B) the solidifier; C) a high-viscosity oil agent that dissolves the solidifier; D) a binder oil that dissolves the low-viscosity oil agent as component A at 90° C. but not at 25° C.; and E) a coloring material, and the total amount of components A, B, C, D and E contained in the lip cosmetic composition is 80 mass % or more.

Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a first non-volatile memory configured such that a control program is written thereto; a second non-volatile memory configured such that an identifier is written thereto; and a processor. The identifier is for verifying whether the control program is correct. The processor chooses either an identifier contained in advance in the control program or an identifier written in the second non-volatile memory, depending on how and/or whether the identifier is written in the second non-volatile memory. The processor verifies whether the control program is correct based on the chosen identifier.

Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a first non-volatile memory configured such that a control program is written thereto; a second non-volatile memory configured such that an identifier is written thereto; and a processor. The identifier is for verifying whether the control program is correct. The processor chooses either an identifier contained in advance in the control program or an identifier written in the second non-volatile memory, depending on how and/or whether the identifier is written in the second non-volatile memory. The processor verifies whether the control program is correct based on the chosen identifier.

Abstract: To provide an acrylic silicone graft copolymer capable of effectively exerting a function in a composition for external application containing various oily components such as a natural oil, a hydrocarbon oil, ester oil and a silicone oil, and a composition for external application containing the acrylic silicone graft copolymer. A composition for external application including an acrylic silicone graft copolymer, which contains 2 to 25 mass % of a constitutional unit represented by formula (I), 55 to 85 mass % of a constitutional unit represented by formula (II) and 2 to 20 mass % of a constitutional unit represented by formula (III). wherein R1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R2 is an alkylene group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of 1 to 100.

Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter includes a flow path housing having a measurement flow path; a pair of electrode accommodating holes formed in the flow path housing and communicating with the measurement flow path in a direction intersecting a magnetic field; a pair of sensing electrodes fitted in the pair of electrode accommodating holes; a seal member providing a seal between an inner surface of each electrode accommodating hole and an outer surface of each of the sensing electrodes; a submersion distal-end part of each sensing electrode located closer to the measurement flow path than the seal member; a pair of submersion chambers that are parts of the pair of electrode accommodating holes each located closer to the measurement flow path than the seal member and accommodating the submersion distal-end part.

Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter includes: a resin flow path housing; a pair of porous electrodes made of a porous conductor and embedded in the flow path housing; a pair of electrode opposing surfaces provided in the pair of porous electrodes; a pair of electrode accommodating holes extending from an outer face of the flow path housing and connecting to the pair of porous electrodes; a pair of solid electrodes accommodated in the pair of electrode accommodating holes; porous-side connecting parts and solid-side connecting parts respectively formed in the porous electrodes and the solid electrodes to fit and electrically connect with each other; a pair of sensing electrodes formed of the pair of solid electrodes and the pair of porous electrodes; and seal members that seal gaps respectively between the solid electrodes and the electrode accommodating holes.

Abstract: Provided is a lightweight mesh nonwoven fabric having excellent adhesiveness between uniaxially oriented bodies, excellent low-temperature heat sealability, and high strength. A mesh structure 1 includes two or more uniaxially oriented bodies 2, 3; which include a thermoplastic resin layer and a linear low-density polyethylene layer laminated on at least one side of the thermoplastic resin layer; the mesh structure is produced by laminating or weaving the uniaxially oriented bodies through the linear low-density polyethylene layer in such a way that orientation axes L, T of the uniaxially oriented bodies cross; and the mesh structure has properties of: (1) a fiber weight per unit area of 5 to 70 g/m2, (2) a thickness of the linear low-density polyethylene layer of 2 to 10 ?m, (3) an adhesive force between the uniaxially oriented bodies of 10 to 60 N, and (4) a tensile strength of 20 to 600 N/50mm.

Abstract: A joint structure is a joint structure between a first member having a pillared end part made of a fiber-reinforced plastic and a second member different from the first member. The end part of the first member is reversely tapered in an axial direction, while a joining member is disposed along a reversely tapered form of the end part. The second member is provided in contact with an end face of the first member and connected to the joining member. A plurality of fibers substantially extending in the axial direction of the end part of the first member are provided within the end part and disposed to form a larger angle with the axial direction of the end part of the first member as they are disposed to be closer to a surface constituting the reversely tapered form in a radial direction of the end part.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a distance detection unit that detects an object distance; a shake detection unit that detects an amount of shake of the imaging apparatus; a driving unit that moves an optical element or an imaging element included in an imaging optical system to correct an image blur caused by a shake of the imaging apparatus; and a control unit that calculates an amount of movement of the optical element or the imaging element moved by the driving unit based on the amount of shake detected by the shake detection unit and controls the driving unit, and the control unit directs the imaging element to continuously capture images in response to an imaging instruction and changes a correction gain which is used to calculate the amount of movement for each imaging operation, depending on the object distance detected by the distance detection unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a distance detection unit that detects an object distance; a shake detection unit that detects an amount of shake of the imaging apparatus; a driving unit that moves an optical element or an imaging element included in an imaging optical system to correct an image blur caused by a shake of the imaging apparatus; and a control unit that calculates an amount of movement of the optical element or the imaging element moved by the driving unit based on the amount of shake detected by the shake detection unit and controls the driving unit, and the control unit directs the imaging element to continuously capture images in response to an imaging instruction and changes a correction gain which is used to calculate the amount of movement for each imaging operation, depending on the object distance detected by the distance detection unit.

Abstract: Provided is a lightweight mesh nonwoven fabric having excellent adhesiveness between uniaxially oriented bodies, excellent low-temperature heat sealability, and high strength. A mesh structure 1 includes two or more uniaxially oriented bodies 2, 3; which include a thermoplastic resin layer and a linear low-density polyethylene layer laminated on at least one side of the thermoplastic resin layer; the mesh structure is produced by laminating or weaving the uniaxially oriented bodies through the linear low-density polyethylene layer in such a way that orientation axes L, T of the uniaxially oriented bodies cross; and the mesh structure has properties of: (1) a fiber weight per unit area of 5 to 70 g/m2, (2) a thickness of the linear low-density polyethylene layer of 2 to 10 ?m, (3) an adhesive force between the uniaxially oriented bodies of 10 to 60 N, and (4) a tensile strength of 20 to 600 N/50 mm.

Abstract: A joint structure is a joint structure between a first member having a pillared end part made of a fiber-reinforced plastic and a second member different from the first member. The end part of the first member is reversely tapered in an axial direction, while a joining member is disposed along a reversely tapered form of the end part. The second member is provided in contact with an end face of the first member and connected to the joining member. A plurality of fibers substantially extending in the axial direction of the end part of the first member are provided within the end part and disposed to form a larger angle with the axial direction of the end part of the first member as they are disposed to be closer to a surface constituting the reversely tapered form in a radial direction of the end part.

Abstract: The pressure vessel includes a tubular portion and a cover portion made of fiber reinforced plastics. The outer peripheral surface of an end portion of the tubular portion has a reverse-tapered shape of which the diameter is increased toward an end face. The cover portion includes a wedge-shaped member installed along the reverse-tapered shape of the outer periphery surface of the end portion of the tubular portion, an outer ring for covering the wedge-shaped member from the outside, an inner ring installed to cover an opening of the tubular portion and the wedge-shaped member and connected to the outer ring, and a sample cap connected to the inner ring.

Abstract: The present application provides a composite particle having a good feeling upon application and capable of effectively preventing make-up smudges by selectively adsorbing sebum, particularly, free fatty acid, and moreover, having a toning effect on the skin texture, and a cosmetic composition containing the composite particle. The composite particle of the present invention comprises a resin particle coated on its surface with amorphous calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate, which resin particle contains a polymer of a vinyl monomer and any one of a phosphorous acid diester component having a certain configuration and a partially esterified phosphoric acid component having a certain configuration.

Abstract: To easily change internal pressure of a container according to a change in external pressure. In a strain gauge device 100, a piston 54 attached to a tubular opening portion 53A provided at a housing part 53 slides in response to external pressure. Thereby varying the volumes of a regulator oil containing region 52 and a sensitive region 15 so as to achieve a balance with the external pressure, to change the internal pressure. Then, in the above-described strain gauge device, because the internal pressures of the regulator oil containing region 52 and the sensitive region 15 are changed according to a change in external pressure only by sliding of the piston 54, it is possible to easily perform regulation of the internal pressure. Further, because the above-described pressure balance mechanism 51 is achieved with a simple configuration, it is possible to easily perform regulation of the external pressure and the internal pressure even in a high-temperature/high-pressure environment.

Abstract: In a method for producing a target substance utilizing a microorganism comprising culturing the microorganism in a medium to produce and accumulate the target substance in the medium and collecting the target substance, microorganism is employed, which is a mutant strain or a genetic recombinant strain constructed from a parent strain of the microorganism having a respiratory chain pathway of high energy efficiency and a respiratory chain pathway of low energy efficiency as respiratory chain pathways, and having either one or both of the following characteristics: (A) the respiratory chain pathway of high energy efficiency is enhanced, (B) the respiratory chain pathway of low energy efficiency is deficient.

Abstract: In a method for producing a target substance utilizing a microorganism comprising culturing the microorganism in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of the target substance in the medium and collecting the target substance, there is used, as the microorganism, a mutant strain or a genetic recombinant strain constructed from a parent strain of the microorganism having a respiratory chain pathway of high energy efficiency and a respiratory chain pathway of low energy efficiency as respiratory chain pathways, and having either one or both of the following characteristics: (A) the respiratory chain pathway of high energy efficiency is enhanced, (B) the respiratory chain pathway of low energy efficiency is deficient.

Abstract: An image processing method for calculating feature amounts of a facial part in a face on the basis of a plurality of image data obtained in chronological order, comparing the calculated feature amounts with a threshold value, and recognizing the facial part, includes: calculating face orientations on the basis of image data; storing, in a storage, the feature amounts calculated from the image data, the feature amounts being associated with the face orientations; and recognizing a facial part in different image data of the face other than the plurality of the image data on the basis of a feature amount calculated from the different image data, the feature amounts stored in the storage associated with the face orientation in the different image data, and a threshold.

Abstract: A method for producing a target substance by utilizing a microorganism by culturing the microorganism in a medium to produce and accumulate the target substance in the medium and collecting the target substance from the culture is described. The microorganism is a mutant recombinant strain in which maltose assimilation is controlled by reducing or eliminating the interaction between IIAGlc protein of the glucose PTS and a protein involved in non-PTS uptake of maltose.