Abstract: An example information processing device displays a partial area of a panoramic video on a display device. The information processing device determines a display range of the panoramic video to be displayed on the display device based on an input made on a predetermined input device. A range and/or a position on a panoramic image is set as a target. Then, the information processing device displays the panoramic video of the display range on the display device, and outputs guide information representing a relationship between the display range and the target.

Abstract: Disclosed is a convenient and effective means for quantifying an antigen-specific canine or human IgE.

Abstract: A tool stocker includes main stockers for holding a plurality of tools detachably mounted on a main spindle for machining a workpiece, an auxiliary stocker for holding and transferring tools to and from the main stockers, and a tool transfer mechanism for transferring tools between the main stockers and the auxiliary stocker. The auxiliary stocker includes a plurality of tool pods for removably supporting the tools therein, a rail in sliding engagement with outer surfaces of the tool pods, a chain for moving the tool pods in sliding engagement with the rail, and a motor for actuating the chain. The rail has a recess defined therein in alignment with the tool transfer mechanism, such that the tools transferred by the tool transfer mechanism pass through the recess.

Abstract: The present invention provides a test system that specifically detects allergy, a test system that highly sensitively reflects aggravation of allergy and the like. More particularly, the present invention provides a diagnostic reagent, particularly a diagnostic reagent for allergy, or a reagent for detecting a mast cell and/or a blastogenic T cell, comprising one or more means for measuring CHD2, which is/are selected from the group consisting of a primer, a nucleic acid probe and an antibody; a test method for allergy, comprising measuring CHD2 expression in a biological sample obtained from an animal and evaluating allergy in the animal; a method for detecting a mast cell and/or a blastogenic T cell; and the like.

Abstract: As a pet food produced to contain no proteins that can become allergens, a pet food that contains 1 or more types of amino acids or salts thereof instead of protein raw materials that can become allergens or a pet food produced to contain, in addition to the above amino acid(s), 1 or more types of protein raw materials with low allergenicity selected from any of potato, sweet potato, rice, foxtail millet, barnyard millet, kaoliang, corn, pea, brewer's yeast, and baker's yeast is provided.

Abstract: When a head passes over a track with a projected item in a seek operation, the CPU delays a seek start time to conduct the seek by changing a period of time from a seek start position to a position of the track with a projected item. Or, the CPU conducts seek control by changing a speed table. Or, the CPU changes a sequence of items of a tag queue to obtain a seek locus not passing the projected item. By the control operation, a seek error due to thermal asperity is prevented and the head is not damaged. This also prevents appearance of a new projected item produced by contact between the magneto-resistive head and the projected item on the recording medium.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided which includes a substrate of insulating resin having at least a pair of interior terminal portions on an upper surface thereof, an electronic element mounted on the terminal portions, having at least a pair of electrode terminals thereof, and a member of insulating resin, bonded on the upper surface of said substrate. The frame includes a cavity to store the electronic element. A cover member of insulating material hermetically seals over the cavity. Electrodes are formed at or in vicinity of positions of the terminals of said electronic element to electrically conduct the interior terminal portions for connection outside the device. Alternatively, roughened surfaces can be formed on metal electrode portions, which are formed on the upper surface of substrate for electrically conducting said interior terminal portions to exterior terminal portions.

Abstract: In a probe structure which has a bump contact protruded from one surface of an insulating substrate, the bump contact is deposited such that a surface roughness falls within a predetermined range specified by Rmax within a range from 0.01 to 0.8 &mgr;m, Ra within a range from 0.001 to 0.4 &mgr;m, and a ratio of Rmax/Ra within a range from 2 to 10. Such a surface roughness is realized by depositing a convex/concave layer formed by aggregation of fine grains. The convex/concave layer is directly deposited to a basic shape portion without any intermediate layer left between the convex/concave layer and the basic shape portion.

Abstract: When a head passes over a track with a projected item in a seek operation, the CPU delays a seek start time to conduct the seek by changing a period of time from a seek start position to a position of the track with a projected item. Or, the CPU conducts seek control by changing a speed table. Or, the CPU changes a sequence of items of a tag queue to obtain a seek locus not passing the projected item. By the control operation, a seek error due to thermal asperity is prevented and the head is not damaged. This also prevents appearance of a new projected item produced by contact between the magneto-resistive head and the projected item on the recording medium.

Abstract: In a probe structure which has a bump contact protruded from one surface of an insulating substrate, the bump contact is deposited such that a surface roughness falls within a predetermined range specified by Rmax within a range from 0.01 to 0.8 &mgr;m, Ra within a range from 0.001 to 0.4 &mgr;m, and a ratio of Rmax/Ra within a range from 2 to 10. Such a surface roughness is realized by depositing a convex/concave layer formed by aggregation of fine grains. The convex/concave layer is directly deposited to a basic shape portion without any intermediate layer left between the convex/concave layer and the basic shape portion.

Abstract: In a probe structure which has a bump contact protruded from one surface of an insulating substrate, the bump contact is deposited such that a surface roughness falls within a predetermined range specified by Rmax within a range from 0.01 to 0.8 &mgr;m, Ra within a range from 0.001 to 0.4 &mgr;m, and a ratio of Rmax/Ra within a range from 2 to 10. Such a surface roughness is realized by depositing a convex/concave layer formed by aggregation of fine grains. The convex/concave layer is directly deposited to a basic shape portion without any intermediate layer left between the convex/concave layer and the basic shape portion.

Abstract: In a high-voltage generating transformer having primary and secondary coil bobbins coaxially mounted on one another relative to a center core, an element wire of the primary coil is wound spirally around the primary coil bobbin in such a way that the both staring and terminating ends of the wire are disposed at the same end of the coil bobbin by forward and backward winding of the wire. This enables the transformer to have considerably reduced number of turns of the wires in the primary coil relative to that in the secondary coil, thus improving the voltage transformation ratio and obtaining a sufficiently high voltage at the secondary side.

Abstract: An electronic device, comprising: a substrate of insulating resin having at least a pair of interior terminal portions for connection upon an upper surface thereof; an electronic element mounted on the terminal portions on the upper surface of said substrate, having at least a pair of electrode terminals thereof; a frame member of insulating resin, bonded on the upper surface of said substrate, and having a cavity formed for storing said electronic element therein; and a cover member of insulating material, for hermetically sealing over the cavity of said frame member, in which said electronic element is stored, wherein electrodes are formed at or in vicinity of positions of the terminals of said electronic element stored within said cavity, for electrically conducting said interior terminal portions for connection to an outside, or wherein roughened surfaces are formed on metal electrode portions, which are formed on the upper surface of said substrate for electrically conducting said interior terminal porti

Abstract: A method for predicting the constitution susceptible to the onset of specific diseases in individual humans, for example, respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, sinobronchial syndrome, pulmonary emphysema, diffuse panbronchiolitis or bronchiectasis, effects of treatment on patients or prognosis of the treatment by analyzing the genetic polymorphisms of a human trypsin-like enzyme of the respiratory tract.

Abstract: In a probe structure which has a bump contact protruded from one surface of an insulating substrate, the bump contact is deposited such that a surface roughness falls within a predetermined range specified by Rmax within a range from 0.01 to 0.8 &mgr;m, Ra within a range from 0.001 to 0.4 &mgr;m, and a ratio of Rmax/Ra within a range from 2 to 10. Such a surface roughness is realized by depositing a convex/concave layer formed by aggregation of fine grains. The convex/concave layer is directly deposited to a basic shape portion without any intermediate layer left between the convex/concave layer and the basic shape portion.

Abstract: A discharge lamp unit has a housing provided with a lamp socket fitted thereon and accommodating a printed circuit board with a lamp lighting circuit and a high voltage generating transformer assembly mounted thereon. The transformer assembly consists of a primary coil being a plate conductor spirally wound around a coil case containing a secondary coil-wound bobbin with a core inserted in a hollow center thereof. The discharge lamp unit is formed as a single solid device by potting all of the components in the housing with insulating resin poured in a melted state and solidified therein. This unit is easy to mount with no need for laying a high-voltage between the circuitry and the lamp socket, and includes a very compact and light transformer having an increased conversion efficiency of the primary and secondary coils.

Abstract: A discharge-lamp lighting device has a housing with a power supply socket formed therein and accommodating a printed circuit board with a coil case having a primary coil formed by plural parallel plate-conductors insert-molded around the body thereof and a discharge lamp socket integrally fitted thereon and including a secondary coil therein. A lamp lighting circuit is formed by mounting the coil case on the printed circuit board. The discharge lamp lighting device is formed as a single solid device by potting all the components in the housing with insulating resin poured in a melted state and solidified therein, thus eliminating the need of providing a high-voltage cable between the circuitry and the lamp socket.

Abstract: The present invention provides an elastase inhibitory polypeptide comprising a C-terminal half of a human secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) and having an elastase inhibitory activity wherein inhibitory activity of a trypsin-like serine protease does not exceed 1/10 of elastase inhibitory activity, and polypeptides having the above-mentioned biological activity wherein one or more than one amino acid is added, one or more than one amino acid is deleted and/or one or more than one amino acid is replaced. The present invention also provides a process for the production of the above-mentioned protein or other protein via a corresponding fused protein.

Abstract: This invention provides a nucleic acid sequence encoding a trypsin-like enzyme which can be present at the trachea of human lungs, and can selectively digest a synthetic substrate for trypsin and a synthetic substrate for thrombin, and fibrinogen; and a process for producing the trypsin-like enzyme by genetic engineering utilizing the nucleic acid sequence.

Abstract: A plasmid for expression of human coagulation factor VIII H-chain, a plasmid for expression of human coagulation factor VIII L-chain, an animal cell transformed with either said H-chain expression plasmid or said L-chain expression plasmid or with both thereof, and a process for preparing a human coagulation factor VIII protein complex which comprises forming a transformed animal cell by introducing both said H-chain expression plasmid and said L-chain expression plasmid into said animal cell, culturing said cell to produce the human coagulation factor VIII protein complex in the culture medium and collecting the same. The process of the present invention allows for the production of a safe factor VIII at a high expression level applicable for the production of Factor VIII on an industrial scale.