Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a transformation method that is applicable to a wide variety of species of algae with high efficiency. The promoter of the present invention is characterized in containing a polynucleotide constituting a non-coding region located upstream from a gene encoding a replication-associated protein of a CdebDNA virus or the like.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a highly-efficient transformation technology, specifically, a highly-efficient promoter used for transforming algae, a vector comprising the promoter, and a method for transforming algae by using the vector. The promoter according to the present invention is characterized in comprising a polynucleotide constituting a non-coding region located upstream of a gene encoding a structural protein of a ClorDNA virus, and the like.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a highly-efficient transformation technology, specifically, a highly-efficient promoter used for transforming algae, a vector comprising the promoter, and a method for transforming algae by using the vector. The promoter according to the present invention is characterized in comprising a polynucleotide constituting a non-coding region located upstream of a gene encoding a structural protein of a ClorDNA virus, and the like.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a transformation method that is applicable to a wide variety of species of algae with high efficiency. The promoter of the present invention is characterized in containing a polynucleotide constituting a non-coding region located upstream from a gene encoding a replication-associated protein of a CdebDNA virus or the like.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the driver's operation quantity and the vehicle running status are measured, the target value of speed ratio or the target value of revolution speed on the input side of the transmission is determined on the basis of the above measured values, and the speed ratio is changed using different algorithms (particularly fuzzy rules) on the basis of the magnitude of deviation between the target value and the actual value.Furthermore, when a vehicle has a continuously variable transmission, a change of at least one of the vehicle acceleration and the shaft torque of a drive wheel is predicted, the engine output torque is controlled on the basis of the prediction, and finite speed ratio characteristics or intermediate characteristics between finite speed ratio characteristics and continuously variable speed ratio characteristics are controlled for the continuously variable transmission.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling a mold employed in injection molding machines including a pair of bolt members, each composed of a threaded leg which engages a threaded hole formed at a coolant opening of the mold; a head driven by a fastening tool; a cylindrical body integrally extending between the leg and the head; and a coolant flow path extending from an open end of the leg, through the cylindrical body and to a side opening. The apparatus further includes first and second pipes, each having a main cylindrical portion of the same length as the cylindrical bodies of the pair of bolt members for receiving the bolt members, with a pair of ring packings being disposed above and below the side opening and surrounding the bolt members. The pipes further have secondary cylindrical portions, each integrally protruding sideways from the main cylindrical portion so as to engage one with another liquid-tightly and in a telescoping manner.

Abstract: In order to cope appropriately with transient changes in the rotational angle of a vehicle body in various traveling states of the vehicle body, the rotational angle of the vehicle body is presumed on the basis of a beforehand stored equation of motion on the vehicle body and a sensed value of an acceleration of the vehicle body and supply of a fluid to suspension cylinders is controlled in accordance with the presumed rotational angle.

Abstract: In an active suspension control system for a vehicle, a unit for adjusting the distance between each wheel and the body, i.e., a vehicle body height adjusting unit is added to the conventional suspension using a spring and a damper in combination. Since the amount of adjustment to be done by the body height adjusting unit is determined in accordance with the cause of generation of such a vibration of the vehicle as pitching or rolling, the suspension control system further comprises sensors for detecting pitching and rolling angles of the vehicle, respectively, a sensor, associated with each wheel, for detecting a relative displacement in the distance between each wheel and the body and an arithmetic unit, for example, a microcomputer for determining the amount of adjustement by the body height adjusting unit on the basis of the output of each sensor.

Abstract: A visual sensor system includes a moving object movable along a two-dimensional plane, and a one-dimensional array of photosensitive means fixedly mounted on the moving object. The photosensitive means are arranged in such a manner that the array is located within a first plane substantially perpendicular to a central axis of a line of sight and forms, within the second plane, a given angle with a line intersecting a second plane containing the central axis of the line of sight and substantially perpendicular to the two-dimensional plane.

Abstract: A suspension control apparatus for a vehicle comprises a measuring unit for measuring relative motion between sprung mass and unsprung mass at each of wheels, a decision unit for discriminatively determining occurrence and convergence of at least one of rolling or pitching and bouncing or unsprung mass vibration on the basis of measurement data available from the measuring unit, and a control unit for controlling at least one of damping coefficient and spring constant in the suspension characteristics on the basis of the result of decision made by the decision unit.

Abstract: A transmission which comprises eccentric swing gears composed of a speed change internal gear and a speed change external gear each having a pressure angle of a tooth form within 30.degree. to 45.degree. and an addendum h satisfying the relation of m/2>h>0 (m=module), the speed change external gear engaging with the speed change internal gear therein, and coupling gears composed of a coupling internal gear having a trapezoidal or a substantially trapezoidal tooth form and a coupling external gear similarly having a trapezoidal or a substantially trapezoidal tooth form and having the same number of teeth as the coupling internal gear, the coupling external gear engaging with the coupling internal gear therein, the tooth forms of the coupling internal and external gears being molded so that the following relation may be satisfied between .theta..sub.1 and .theta..sub.2 :.theta..sub.2 =(360.degree./Z.times.1/2)+.theta..sub.

Abstract: A control method for an open channel for obtaining a stable condition of flow of water by coping with a transient change therein, comprising the steps of representing each space divided by gates of the open channel by a three water tank model including three imaginary water tanks in series and two imaginary conduits connecting the imaginary water tanks with each other; solving this model so as to obtain estimated future values of parameters of a state of the open channel; and determining a degree of opening of each gate so as to keep a liquid level of the space constant on the basis of the estimated future values of the parameters.