Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a device that accurately communicates a subtle variation of an operation side to an action side. Specifically, in the present invention, an operating device is provided to perform a lock release operation of an extension device. The operating device feeds oil to a valve chamber by pressing a piston. When the flow rate of the fed oil is excessive, the valve is pressed to an opening resisting a biasing force of a compressed spring, thereby a rapid increase in the oil supplied to the action section is suppressed. Further, the supplied oil is suppressed to a very small amount by the throttle section, thereby an increase in the operation amount on the action section side is suppressed while maintaining the supply of the oil.

Abstract: When a surface-mount electronic part, which includes at least two mounting electrodes on an external underside thereof, is bonded to circuit terminals on a wiring board using solder, a protrusion, which is thicker than the circuit terminal, is provided on a surface of the wiring board facing the outer bottom surface of the electronic part to have the clearance between the mounting electrode and the circuit terminal that is not smaller than a predetermined value, so that the thickness of the solder between the mounting electrode and the circuit terminal is maintained to be large.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antiallergic agent containing, as an active ingredient, lactic acid bacteria selected from the group consisting of lactic acid bacteria of the species Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus fermentum, and combinations thereof. The antiallergic agent is capable of improving allergic diathesis by reducing the IgE level, which is contributive to development of Type I allergy, and is easy to take and highly safe. The present invention also provides use of the antiallergic agent for reducing allergy, and a method for reducing allergy using the antiallergic agent.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet and a peripheral device that is connected to the image forming apparatus. The image forming system includes an electrical power supply unit, a driving unit, a secondary battery that is charged with electrical power from the electrical power supply unit, an electrical power changing device that activates or deactivates a first supply path for supplying electrical power from the electrical power supply unit to the secondary battery and activates or deactivates a second supply path for supplying electrical power from the secondary battery to the driving unit, and a controller unit that controls the electrical power changing device so as to deactivate the first supply path and activate the second supply path when initialization of the image forming system is performed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reinforcing bar tie the enables the connection intersecting reinforcing bars. The invention houses a tie made of an elastic member in a reception space, and extrudes it with an extruding member. At this time, the curved portions provided on both ends of the tie advance while guiding portions and of a guide member push them open, and are guided to an intersecting position of two reinforcing bars. Further, by extruding with the extruding member the tie detaches from the guiding member and winds around the intersection of the two reinforcing bars with a force sufficient to couple the two reinforcing bars together.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus has a coil for generating magnetic flux, a rotatable heat generation member which generates heat by magnetic flux, a temperature detecting member for detecting a temperature of the heat generation member, an energization controller portion for controlling energization to the coil on the basis of an output of the temperature detecting member, a first magnetic flux shielding portion for blocking, in a first magnetic flux adjustment position, the magnetic flux directed toward a central portion of heat generation member, while permitting the magnetic flux directed to an end portion, and a second magnetic flux shielding portion for blocking, in a second magnetic flux adjustment position, the magnetic flux directed toward an end portion of the heat generation member, a moving unit for moving the first magnetic flux shielding portion and the second magnetic flux shielding portion, and a recovery operation controller portion for retracting the second magnetic flux shielding portion from the

Abstract: The present invention provides a moving apparatus capable of efficiently utilizing work space on a desk, and stabilizing an operating load. The present invention includes a placing portion to place a personal computer, a moving portion to move the personal computer from a use position for using the personal computer to a non-use position different from the use position, and a fixing device to detachably fix the moving portion to a desk. The position of the placing portion is determined by the length of an extension mechanism. The positioning operation to determine the length of the extension mechanism is performed by an operating device that transfers the displacement magnitude of an operating portion to an action portion by hydraulic pressure. The operating load is stabilized because the displacement magnitude is transferred by hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a moving apparatus capable of efficiently utilizing work space on a desk, and stabilizing an operating load. The present invention includes a placing portion to place a personal computer, a moving portion to move the personal computer from a use position for using the personal computer to a non-use position different from the use position, and a fixing device to detachably fix the moving portion to a desk. The position of the placing portion is determined by the length of an extension mechanism. The positioning operation to determine the length of the extension mechanism is performed by an operating device that transfers the displacement magnitude of an operating portion to an action portion by hydraulic pressure. The operating load is stabilized because the displacement magnitude is transferred by hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of outputting, without using any special device, an image which is free from changes in density and tint even upon crisscross rotation and exhibits good proportion of a small character. To accomplish this, the pulse width of a laser emission signal is controlled at 16 levels for one dot at 600 dpi, controlling an actual image in the main scanning direction. When adjusting vertical and horizontal line widths, patch data are created by rotating an anisotropic pattern through 0° and 90° (S1 in FIG. 5). Then, a reader/scanner (15) reads each patch as density data (S2 in FIG. 5). A pulse width, that is, line width correction value at which the densities of the patch patterns rotated through 0° and 90° become equal to each other is obtained (S3 in FIG. 5).

Abstract: A rocker arm installed module 1 is constructed by installing the cam shaft 3, the rocker arm 4 and the pivot 5 to the housing 2. The housing 2 is provided with a drop-off preventing means 21 for supporting and preventing the rocker arm 4, which is disposed on the pivot 5, from dropping off. The rocker arm installed module 1 is constructed by disposing the rocker arm 4 among the cam 31 of the cam shaft 3, the pivot 5 and the drop-off preventing means 21 in the housing 2 to form a module, the module being configured to be disposed in a concave portion 61 of the cylinder head 6 while preventing the rocker arm 4 from dropping off.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is constituted by an image bearing member; a corona charging member including a wire; a heat generating member for generating heat by energization; a shielding member, including the heat generating member, capable of shielding a portion of the corona charging member opposing to the image bearing member from the image bearing member by being moved between the corona charging member and the image bearing member; an energization control member for controlling energization of the heat generating member; and moving member for moving the shielding member to a first position at which the shielding member shields the portion and a second position retracted from the first position. When the shielding member is located at the first position, at least a part of the heat generating member is disposed between the corona charging member and the image bearing member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a casein hydrolysate containing free amino acids and in vivo indigestible peptides having minimally suppressed in vivo enzymatic digestibility, and expected to express functions, such as hypotensive effect, in living organism, and to a method for preparing such a hydrolysate, and use thereof. The casein hydrolysate of the present invention contains free amino acids and peptides, such as in vivo indigestible peptides including Xaa-Pro and Xaa-Pro-Pro, obtained by hydrolyzing animal milk casein to have an average chain length of not longer than 2.1 in terms of the number of amino acid residues, and has ACE inhibitory activity or hypotensive effect.

Abstract: There is provided a fermented milk product that contains lactic acid bacteria capable of producing a large amount of lactotripeptide and a large amount of active ingredient having hypotensive activity and anti-stress effect, and that can be taken pleasantly as foods or beverages. Lactic acid bacteria of Lactobacillus helveticus having specific bacteriological properties, the bacteria, when cultured in a medium of animal milk containing 9 wt % solid of non-fat milk, producing tripeptides Val-Pro-Pro and Ile-Pro-Pro in an amount of 60 ?g in terms of Val-Pro-Pro per ml medium, and the bacteria exhibiting extracellular proteinase activity of not lower than 400 U/OD590. Lactobacillus helveticus CM4 strain (deposited at National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, deposition number FERM BP-6060). A fermented milk product obtained by fermenting an animal milk with these lactic acid bacteria.

Abstract: An electromagnetic induction heating apparatus capable of uniformize a temperature distribution in a longitudinal direction of an induction heating member includes: an exciting coil (magnetic flux generation means); a fixation roller (induction heating member) for generating heat by electromagnetic induction heating by action of magnetic flux generated by the exciting coil the induction heating member heating a material to be heated through heat generation thereof by introducing the material to be heated into a heating portion and conveying the material to be heated in contact with the fixation roller; and magnetic flux shielding plate (magnetic flux adjusting means) for changing a distribution of a density of an effective magnetic flux which is the magnetic flux generated by the exciting coil and actable on the fixation roller, in a longitudinal direction of the heating portion perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the material to be heated.

Abstract: A heating apparatus has an induction heat generation member for electromagnetic induction heat generation by the magnetic flux at a heating portion, wherein a material to be heated is introduced to the heating portion and is fed in direct contact with the induction heat generation member or in contact to a heat transfer material for receiving heat from the induction heat generation member; a magnetic flux adjusting unit for changing a distribution of a density of an effective magnetic flux actable on the induction heat generation member with respect to a widthwise direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the material to be heated; wherein magnetic flux adjusting unit has a plurality of steps which extend in the feeding direction and are selectable to change the distribution of the magnetic flux density in response to a width of the material measured in the widthwise direction, wherein a step of the steps for a largest magnetic flux adjustment region measured in the widthwise direction is largest.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit; a heating rotatable member; a magnetic flux generator for generating a magnetic flux for induction heat generation in the heating rotatable member; a controller for controlling a temperature of the heating rotatable member; a temperature detector for detecting a temperature of the heating rotatable member at a predetermined region; magnetic flux confinor for confining the magnetic flux from the magnetic flux generator in accordance with an output of the temperature detector; and a moving unit for movement the magnetic flux confinor between a magnetic-flux-confinement position and a n on-magnetic-flux-confinement position, wherein when the output of the temperature detector indicates a temperature outside a predetermined temperature range, an image forming operation is interrupted, and executes operation of the moving unit to move the magnetic flux confinor to the non-magnetic-flux-confinement position and restoring operation to restore the temperature of t

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating an image on a recording material in a heating nip; a magnetic flux generator for generating a magnetic flux for induction heat generation in the heating rotatable member; a magnetic flux confining device for confining the magnetic flux directed toward a predetermined region of the heating rotatable member from the magnetic flux generator; and a moving device for repeatedly moving the magnetic flux confining device during a heating operation between the operating position and a retracted position retracted from the operation position, when the recording material which has a predetermined width overlapping with a part of the predetermined region is continuously heated by the apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet and a peripheral device that is connected to the image forming apparatus. The image forming system includes an electrical power supply unit, a driving unit, a secondary battery that is charged with electrical power from the electrical power supply unit, an electrical power changing device that activates or deactivates a first supply path for supplying electrical power from the electrical power supply unit to the secondary battery and activates or deactivates a second supply path for supplying electrical power from the secondary battery to the driving unit, and a controller unit that controls the electrical power changing device so as to deactivate the first supply path and activate the second supply path when initialization of the image forming system is performed.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel in vivo indigestible peptides that are highly absorbable and hardly digestible in living organism when administered orally or through other route, and expected to effectively exhibit functions, such as hypotensive effect, in living organism, and ACE inhibitors prepared with the peptides, and medicine or functional food expected to effectively exhibit hypotensive effect in living organism. The in vivo indigestible peptides are dipeptides or tripeptides having Pro at the carboxyl terminals, selected from the group consisting of Ile-Pro, Glu-Pro, Arg-Pro, Gln-Pro, Met-Pro, and Ser-Pro-Pro.

Abstract: The objective of the current invention is to efficiently utilize work space on a desk when a personal computer is not in use. Thus, the current invention comprises a placing portion 18 to place a personal computer (laptop type), a moving portion 12 to move the personal computer from a use position for using the personal computer to a nonuse position different from the use position, and a fixing device 14 to detachably fix the moving portion 12 to a desk 16. By placing the placing portion to the nonuse position, the work space on the desk can be effectively used when the personal computer is not in use. The moving apparatus is detachable from the desk 16 because the moving portion 12 is detachably fixed to the desk 16, so that the desk and the personal computer can be moved separately, which is useful when relocating or replacing the desk.