Abstract: A face mask that has tab parts at opposing positions approximately on an upper side of the face shape, and a ridge-folded part and a valley-folded part are alternately folded in a lateral direction of the face and further folded perpendicularly to these folding lines, where the tab parts are folded in a manner projecting outward, so that the face mask having such fold structures can easily be spread out.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for producing liposomes and a method of producing liposomes by which it is made possible to produce liposomes under sterile conditions during the manufacturing process while monitoring in line the particle diameter of liposomes.

Abstract: A fuel cell unit according to the present invention is connectable to an external apparatus and includes a fuel cell generating an electric power, an auxiliary device feeding a fuel and air to the fuel cell, and a controller controlling power generation performed using the fuel cell. After receiving an electric power supplied from the external apparatus, the controller supplies an electric power supplied from the external apparatus to the auxiliary device.

Abstract: A gear device has an outer cylinder fixed to a first mating member and a crankshaft inside the outer cylinder. An external gear is mounted to an eccentric portion of the crankshaft and meshes with internal teeth of the outer cylinder. A carrier is fixed to a second mating member. Rocking rotation of the external gear rotates the carrier coaxially to the outer cylinder. A cylindrical body is inserted in an axial through-hole of the carrier. The carrier has a first portion on one end of the cylindrical body and a second portion on an axially intermediate portion of the cylindrical body. The other end of the cylindrical body extends toward a corresponding mating member while protruding axially beyond the second portion. An outer diameter of remaining portions of the cylindrical body do not exceed an outermost diameter of the portion on which the first and second portions are fit.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises first and second members that are rotatable relative to each other. The second member is disposed in a circular hole defined in the first member. A main oil seal is disposed between the second member and an inner circumferential surface of the circular hole of the first member. A secondary oil seal is movable along a center line of the circular hole of the first member and is positioned on the opposite side of the main oil seal from the lubricant. A dust seal is positioned on the opposite side of the secondary oil seal from the lubricant. An annular groove is formed on one of the inner circumferential surface of the circular hole and an outer circumferential surface of the second member. The secondary oil seal is movable from a reserve position, which opposes the groove, to a sealing position, which does not oppose the groove.

Abstract: A low-noise speed reduction device that is simple in structure, small-sized, and little in energy loss is provided. Two-stage gears, i.e., a large-diameter gear 65 and a small-diameter gear 66 of a third external gear 63 are supported by a supporting shaft 59, and one-stage second external gear 58 that meshes with the small-diameter gear 66 is only attached to an axial one end of a crankshaft 40. Therefore, the axial length of the whole speed reduction device becomes short, and consequently, miniaturization becomes possible. Further, since gears mesh with each other only in two places until a driving force is transmitted to the crankshaft 40 from the first external gear 54, noises can be reduced, and energy loss can also be lowered.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for melt-adhering resin pipes, comprising support means (11, 12) for supporting a resin pipe (1) engaged with a resin joint (2), and laser irradiation means (30) for irradiating a laser beam onto a portion of the resin pipe engaged with the resin joint. Further, an axial direction driving means and a circumferential direction driving means may be provided so that the laser irradiation means (30) moves in the circumferential direction and in the axial direction of the resin pipe.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor and is output in a direction perpendicular to the long axis and to the short axis, a setting unit that sets a threshold in a state of the body in which a plane formed by the long axis and the short axis is approximately parallel to a direction of action of gravitational acceleration, and a controller that starts protection of the disk device on a basis of a result of comparison between the value calculated by the calculation unit and the threshold.

Abstract: A gear device includes: an input gear fixed to an output shaft of a motor; an internal gear; an external gear which rotates while revolving around a central axis of the internal gear while meshing with the internal gear; a carrier supported rotatably within the internal gear and adapted to rotate about the central axis of the internal gear in conjunction with the rotation of the external gear; a plurality of crankshafts which are rotatably supported by the carrier and are adapted to cause the external gear to revolve around the central axis of the internal gear; transmission gears each provided on a central portion of each of the crankshafts; and a cylindrical gear which meshes with the transmission gears of the crankshafts and to which rotation is transmitted from the input gear, wherein the cylindrical gear is located on a radially inner side of an imaginary line passing through a center of rotation of each crankshaft and is rotatably supported by the carrier, and wherein the input gear and the cylindrical

Abstract: A squib comprising a cup body, a cup body cover, and a header for holding a plurality of electrode pins insulated from one another and closing the opening portion of the cup body, wherein the internal of the cup body has an ignition powder, and a heating element connected to the electrode pins for igniting the ignition powder by externally applying electric current arranged in contact with the ignition powder, wherein a metal cylindrical or ring restraining member is provided in the outer periphery of the cup body and covered around with the cup body cover.

Abstract: The present invention provides a center crank eccentrically oscillating speed reducer enabled to increase the available cross-sectional area of a hollow hole, while the generation of large noises is suppressed, as compared with the conventional center crank eccentrically oscillating speed reducer.

Abstract: A polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) brush bristle material has irregularities of 1 to 12 ?m formed in its tapered section and offers flexibility and high powder-cosmetic trapping property equivalent to those of natural animal hairs.

Abstract: An emulation technique adjusts the execution timing of instructions included in an application to be emulated. An emulator executes an instruction stream consisting of a plurality of instructions included in the application for an apparatus to be emulated to perform the object AP. This emulator performs successively the instructions included in the instruction stream at a predetermined period, and includes a speed controller for adjusting the emulation speed by intermittently inserting a wait into the instruction stream to emulate execution of the instruction stream. Preferably, this emulator includes a clock generator (145), in which the speed controller counts the clock input from the clock generator (145).

Abstract: There is provided a joint mechanism capable of restraining a rise in a temperature of a lubricant of a speed reducer, bringing the speed reducer into a stable operating state and preventing early destruction of the speed reducer.

Abstract: To provide a novel packing material for liquid chromatography capable of separating and purifying, or collecting and recovering, a biopolymer such as a protein or a peptide by adsorption and desorption by a pH change without being influenced by the isoelectric point of the protein or by the salt concentration in a solvent in which the biopolymer such as the protein is dissolved, and to provide a process for concentrating and recovering a desired biopolymer such as a protein or a peptide from a large amount of dilute cell culture solution by means of such a packing material.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for detecting liver cancer capable of detecting liver cancer with high specificity and a diagnostic therefor, as well as a novel therapeutic drug for cancer having an excellent anticancer effect. The method for detecting liver cancer cells in a sample utilizes as an index the expression of dlk gene. The expression of dlk gene may be measured by immunoassay using an anti-dlk antibody or by measuring mRNA of dlk gene. The therapeutic drug for cancer comprises as an effective ingredient an antibody which undergoes antigen-antibody reaction with Dlk expressing on surfaces of cancer cells and which exerts anticancer action against the cancer cells.

Abstract: A wireless communication device quickly connectable to an access point of a destination service area without wasting power when the wireless communication device moves from a service area to a different one. When a state change detecting section (203) of the wireless communication device detects that the received radio field intensity of the radio wave from the connected access point lowers to a threshold or less, a service area information acquiring section (204) acquires information on the service area where the wireless communication device is present and information on a neighboring service area. A profile information acquiring section (206) acquires profile information corresponding to the service area information. A priority order setting section (211) sets the order of priority to the acquired profile information in such a way that the access point of a neighboring service area neighboring to the service area formed by the connected access point is precedingly connected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cosmetic applicator that allows a cosmetic material based on solid fine powder to transfer roughly uniformly onto the apical surface of the brush, prevents the cosmetic material from scattering from the brush, and causes the cosmetic material to attach roughly uniformly when applied to the skin, and said cosmetic applicator conforming to the present invention is a cosmetic applicator for application of apply a powdery cosmetic material containing fine powder, which includes a handle part and a brush part constituted by a bristle material implanted on the aforementioned handle part, wherein said cosmetic applicator is characterized in that the hairs of the aforementioned brush part extend upward from the aforementioned handle part, and the distal end of the hairs form a horizontally shaped outer periphery with respect to the aforementioned handle part, from which outer periphery a shape gradually concaving toward the center axis of the brush part is formed.

Abstract: A heat-sealing device for sheet packages includes: a pressure heat-sealing part that presses and heat seals a lid unit component placed on a moving bag-forming film; a heat-sealing mechanism having a frame body to support the pressure heat-sealing part; a drive mechanism having a linear motor that serves as a drive source to move the heat-sealing mechanism back and forth; and a link mechanism that links the two mechanisms, wherein the heat-sealing mechanism includes double heat-sealing mechanisms having two units of the heat-sealing mechanism installed side by side in parallel at positions vertical to the moving direction of the bag-forming film.

Abstract: The present invention is an antimicrobially-treated material which has a coloring preventing function and is in contact with water or moisture or contains water, comprising (A) a silver-based antimicrobial agent which dissociates silver ions in the water system and (B) a silver ion trapping agent for trapping silver ions comprising one or more kinds of compounds selected from the group consisting of purine bases, pyrimidine bases, thiabendazole, and potassium iodide, wherein a ratio of (A)/(B) is 1/1 to 100/1 by weight.