Abstract: This invention deals with a portable terminal that reduces extraneous tones in a portable terminal in which is mounted an electromagnetic induction actuator that produces voice signals, a buzzer signal or a low frequency vibration. By short-circuiting the terminal fittings of the electromagnetic induction actuator or by connecting them electrically to amplifiers or to a signal generator that produces a constant voltage signal or a constant-frequency signal, the extraneous tone produced by vibration of the mechanical vibration system of the actuator is reduced.

Abstract: Epidermal keratinocytes not incorporating magnetic particles therein and epidermal keratinocytes incorporating magnetic particles therein were seeded in a 24-well ultra-low-attachment plate, and cultured for one day after a neodymium magnet was placed outside the bottom of the well. As a result, control epidermal keratinocytes not incorporating magnetic particles therein did not adhere to the bottom of the well and did not form an undifferentiated cell sheet. On the contrary, epidermal keratinocytes incorporating magnetic particles therein, while being attracted to the bottom of the well by magnetic force, formed a multilayered cell sheet. This cell sheet could be easily recovered by removing the neodymium magnet placed outside the bottom of the well, then bringing a magnet having a hydrophilic film attached thereto close to the cell sheet from upside and to attract it via this hydrophilic film, and lifting it.

Abstract: The pharmaceutical formulation for inhibiting wound contraction of the present invention includes secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor as an active ingredient. The SLPI concentration in the pharmaceutical formulation is preferably 1–5000 ng/ml, and more preferably 1–100 ng/ml. The pharmaceutical formulation for inhibiting wound contraction of the present invention may be prepared as an external preparation including a base and the SLPI as an active ingredient. The pharmaceutical formulation for inhibiting wound contraction of the present invention may be prepared as an injection including the SLPI as an active ingredient. The external preparation may preferably include a preservative. The injection may preferably include a stabilizer (an antioxidant), a preservative and an analgesic agent.

Abstract: An air-fuel mixing and delivery apparatus for an internal combustion engine is situated to be shielded from exposure to water or mud during travel of a vehicle, to protect fuel system components such as a fuel injector. In the air-fuel mixing and delivery apparatus, an air-intake port, a throttle body, and an air cleaner are arranged substantially linearly and extending rearwardly above a main body of the internal combustion engine, toward the rear of the vehicle. A fuel injector is positioned on the side of the throttle body, below a seat of the vehicle. The apparatus may include a fuel pump operatively attached to the throttle body as well as a fuel injector, so that the apparatus can be compactly consolidated. Optionally, a pressure regulator may also be attached to the throttle body.

Abstract: An improved vibrating actuator for notifying the user of a call upon signal arrival by any of a buzzer, a speech and a vibration, and a power supply mechanism thereof. The device has high impact resistance by a magnetic yoke having a flange, a damper material is provided between an oscillation plate and a cover to prevent generation of noise, and a hole is provided in the cover to change acoustic characteristics as required within the same frequency band. As a power supply mechanism for ensuring electrical connection, a projecting electrical connection terminal is provided on the actuator side, and a conductive material touching with the electrical connection terminal is provided as a power supply terminal electrically connected to a power supply section of a circuit board.

Abstract: An improved electromagnetic actuator having a coil (10) on which a current is impressed, a magnet (20) that forms a magnetic circuit across a magnetic gap (G) with a magnet yoke (21), and having a diaphragm (11) that vibrates when a high-frequency current is impressed, and a vibration plate (22) that vibrates when a low-frequency current is impressed, with these parts enclosed within a basket (3) and the coil (10) placed within the magnetic gap (G). As one invention, a radial array of magnets, a vibration plate with a double-suspension structure, and a bottom plate of magnetic shielding material are placed in the basket to suppress the leakage of magnetic flux.

Abstract: To manufacture fuel piping for connecting a fuel tank and a drive unit including an engine using a resin material at a low cost and to cause the fuel piping to suitably follow the movement of the fuel tank and the drive unit when the vehicle is being operated. A fuel piping includes connectors at both ends of a pipe member formed of resin material into a thin tubular shape for connecting between a fuel tank and a fuel injection apparatus for supplying fuel to an engine of a two-wheel vehicle or the like via the connectors. One or more bent portions are formed at the midsection of the pipe member of the fuel piping.

Abstract: An air-fuel mixing and delivery apparatus for an internal combustion engine is situated to be shielded from exposure to water or mud during travel of a vehicle, to protect fuel system components such as a fuel injector. In the air-fuel mixing and delivery apparatus, an air-intake port, a throttle body, and an air cleaner are arranged substantially linearly and extending rearwardly above a main body of the internal combustion engine, toward the rear of the vehicle. A fuel injector is positioned on the side of the throttle body, below a seat of the vehicle. The apparatus may include a fuel pump operatively attached to the throttle body as well as a fuel injector, so that the apparatus can be compactly consolidated. Optionally, a pressure regulator may also be attached to the throttle body.

Abstract: An improved electromagnetic actuator having a coil (10) on which a current is impressed, a magnet (20) that forms a magnetic circuit across a magnetic gap (G) with a magnet yoke (21), and having a diaphragm (11) that vibrates when a high-frequency current is impressed, and a vibration plate (22) that vibrates when a low-frequency current is impressed, with these parts enclosed within a basket (3) and the coil (10) placed within the magnetic gap (G). As one invention, a radial array of magnets, a vibration plate with a double-suspension structure, and a bottom plate of magnetic shielding material are placed in the basket to suppress the leakage of magnetic flux.

Abstract: An amount of movement of an air passing through a clearance G2 is adjusted by adjusting the clearance G2 by placing an outer shape surface 35 of a yoke 3 in proximity of an inner side surface of a housing 1. Accordingly, a vibration characteristic having a wide frequency bandwidth can be obtained, thereby improving stability and convenience of body-sensible vibration characteristic of a multifunctional vibration actuator.

Abstract: This invention concerns an electromagnetic induction actuator to be mounted in small equipment such as portable telephones and pagers; also concerns such portable telecommunications equipment. The electromagnetic induction actuator, as well as the portable telecommunications equipment in which it is mounted, can be assembled in a thin and small package even though there are tabs as shock resistance stoppers, and has good acoustical characteristics. In the electromagnetic induction actuator there is a yoke that has tabs as stoppers to provide shock resistance, and there are springs that have inner rings, outer rings, bridge arms that connect the inner and outer rings and recesses that correspond to the tabs of the yoke.

Abstract: There is a terminal block with leaf spring metal terminals that extend downward from a housing on the side opposite the open end of the housing in which a diaphragm is fitted and fixed, and an elastic material functions as a pad that is sandwiched between the surface of a circuit board and the open side of the housing on the side from which the metal terminals project, with the metal terminals pressed against the conduction pattern of the circuit board to make an electrical connection.

Abstract: This invention realizes an incoming call notification operation for portable equipments in which the amplitude of vibration matches the rhythm of the melody, by electrically connecting an electromagnetic induction actuator that produces melody and vibration to an integrated circuit that outputs the melody generation signal and the vibration signal, and by applying to the electromagnetic induction actuator either the melody generation signal from the integrated circuit or a signal created by mixing the melody generation signal and the vibration generation signal.

Abstract: The following are provided: a method for manufacturing artificial cartilages characterized in that undifferentiated mesenchymal cells are cultured in a cartilage differentiation inducing medium, and the cells are irradiated with ultrasound, as a method in which chondrocytes can be obtained in a short time in an amount sufficient for performing the treatment of cartilage disorder with surgical operation when a conservative therapy such as limitation of movement exhibits no effect, among various treatments of cartilage disorder; an artificial cartilage that has been produced by the method; and an apparatus for manufacturing artificial cartilages comprising a culture vessel containing cultured undifferentiated mesenchymal cells, an ultrasound transducer for applying ultrasound to the vessel, a control means for controlling the ultrasound, and a holding water-tank for installing the ultrasound transducer and the culture vessel in the holding water-tank in such a state that they are in contact with each other.

Abstract: An improved vibrating actuator for notifying the user of a call upon signal arrival by any of a buzzer, a speech and a vibration, and a power supply mechanism thereof. The device has high impact resistance by a magnetic yoke having a flange, a damper material is provided between an oscillation plate and a cover to prevent generation of noise, and a hole is provided in the cover to change acoustic characteristics as required within the same frequency band. As a power supply mechanism for ensuring electrical connection, a projecting electrical connection terminal is provided on the actuator side, and a conductive material touching with the electrical connection terminal is provided as a power supply terminal electrically connected to a power supply section of a circuit board.

Abstract: An improved vibrating actuator for notifying the user of a call upon signal arrival by any of a buzzer, a speech and a vibration, and a power supply mechanism thereof. The device has high impact resistance by a magnetic yoke having a flange, a damper material is provided between an oscillation plate and a cover to prevent generation of noise, and a hole is provided in the cover to change acoustic characteristics as required within the same frequency band. As a power supply mechanism for ensuring electrical connection, a projecting electrical connection terminal is provided on the actuator side, and a conductive material touching with the electrical connection terminal is provided as a power supply terminal electrically connected to a power supply section of a circuit board.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a microlens substrate capable of facilitating optical axis alignment and simplifying manufacturing processes by patterning a lens shape of a second microlens array using a first microlens array. The lens shape of the cylindrical second microlens array is patterned by irradiating the first microlens array with ultraviolet rays. Light emitted from a linear light source which is variable in its position is imaged on a focal surface of the first microlens array by a collimator lens and the first microlens array, and a resist layer formed by being coated on the focal surface is exposed. By performing exposure while changing the position of the linear light source, a resist pattern of a desired cylindrical shape can be obtained. Thereafter, etching is performed to transfer the shape of the resist pattern onto an intermediate glass layer, and recesses are buried with a high refractive index UV curable resin.

Abstract: An amount of movement of an air passing through a clearance G2 is adjusted by adjusting the clearance G2 by placing an outer shape surface 35 of a yoke 3 in proximity of an inner side surface of a housing 1. Accordingly, a vibration characteristic having a wide frequency bandwidth can be obtained, thereby improving stability and convenience of body-sensible vibration characteristic of a multifunctional vibration actuator.

Abstract: There is a roughly rectangular housing that is narrower in one direction, with a pair of suspensions having two arms that are located in the narrow space of the housing and attach to the main part that supports the electromagnetic circuit and that extend gradually outward from the attachment on the main part of the suspension in the same or crossing directions, with the tips of the two arms of each suspension set in the narrow walls of the housing, such that the electromagnetic circuit can vibrate in the two suspensions.

Abstract: The present invention provides the sheets preserving a compound being volatile at room temperature, wherein plural sheets comprising of the compound being volatile at room temperature are constructed as layers. The volatile compound may be selected from the group consisting of N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide, carane-3,4-diol, and pyrethroid compounds such as 1-ethynyl-2-methyl-2-pentenyl (1R)-3-(2-methyl-1-propenyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate; 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzyl (1R)-trans-3-(2,2-dichlorovinyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate; 1-ethynyl-2-methyl-2-pentenyl 3-(2-chloro-2-fluorovinyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate; 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-4-methylbenzyl 3-(2-methyl-1-propenyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate; 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-4-methylbenzyl 3-(2-chloro-2-fluorovinyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate; and 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-4-methylbenzyl 3-(1-propenyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate.