Abstract: A composition for foods or medicaments, containing a fermentation product or an enzyme-treated product that is either obtained by fermenting or treating with an enzyme at least one type of component selected from the husks, pellicles and astringent skin of Coix seeds.

Abstract: A heat sink has a first flat plate, a partition plate, and a second flat plate. The first flat plate has an upper surface in which a first recess is formed. The second flat plate has a lower surface in which a second recess is formed, and an upper surface on which a semiconductor laser element is mounted. These recesses form a part of a refrigerant channel. The partition plate has a lower surface covering the first recess, an upper surface covering the second recess, and at least one through hole having the first recess communicated with the second recess. The first flat plate and the second flat plate both have a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The partition plate has a second coefficient of thermal expansion lower than the first coefficient of thermal expansion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a rotating member unit having a rotating member. The rotating member unit is detachably held in the main body. The main body of the image forming apparatus has a retainer which retains a shaft penetrating and supporting the rotating member, and the retainer has a first shaft retaining member which supports the shaft at a front side as seen from the insertion direction of the rotating member unit.

Abstract: A heat sink has a first flat plate, a partition plate, and a second flat plate. The first flat plate has an upper surface in which a first recess is formed. The second flat plate has a lower surface in which a second recess is formed, and an upper surface on which a semiconductor laser element is mounted. These recesses form a part of a refrigerant channel. The partition plate has a lower surface covering the first recess, an upper surface covering the second recess, and at least one through hole having the first recess communicated with the second recess. The first flat plate and the second flat plate both have a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The partition plate has a second coefficient of thermal expansion lower than the first coefficient of thermal expansion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has plural image forming stations along a travel direction of a transfer medium. Each image forming station has a latent image carrier that rotates in a sub scanning direction, an image writer that forms a latent image on the latent image carrier and a developer that has a toner carrier extending along a main scanning direction approximately perpendicular to the sub scanning direction. Each image writer has a line head near the latent image carrier with light emitting elements arranged in a row along the main scanning direction. Rotation drive force developing at one common motor is transmitted to plural places in sections of the apparatus to superimpose toner images one atop the other. A motor main section of the common motor overlaps the transfer medium in the in-plane arrangement viewed from a vertical direction perpendicular to both the main and sub scanning directions.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention can provide a display apparatus using a transparent EL element that can be viewed by a viewer from both sides of the light-emitting surface of the EL element, wherein the display apparatus displays clearly visible images. The display apparatus can include a sheet composed of an EL element having a light-emitting layer interposed between two opposing transparent electrodes. A light-emitting element emitting light from both sides of the sheet can be interposed between a pair of transparent substrate. A pair of polarizers arranged so that their polarization axes intersect can also be disposed on light-emitting surfaces of the light-emitting element.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a printer engine which forms an image on a medium; a unit which supplies the medium to the engine through a path; an element which emits light onto the medium at a position on the path; a receiving element which receives transmitted light of the light emitted which is transmitted through the medium; another receiving element which receives reflected light of the light emitted which is reflected by the medium; a unit which executes a detection through the emission and reception; a unit which determines a characteristic of the medium based on detection signals output by the receiving elements as a result of the detection; and a control unit which executes a control in the apparatus based on the characteristic.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an artificial mammalian chromosome which is stably held in mammalian cells and allows efficient expression of a target gene carried thereby. Namely, a first cyclic vector containing a mammalian centromere sequence and a selection marker gene and a second cyclic vector containing a functional sequence are transferred into mammalian host cells. Then transformed cells are selected by using the above-described selection marker gene and cells holding an artificial mammalian chromosome are selected from among the transformed cells thus selected. Thus, it is possible to construct an artificial mammalian chromosome which has a mammalian replication origin, the mammalian centromere sequence and the functional sequence, is in a cyclic form, can be replicated in mammalian cells, extrachromosomally held in the host cells and transferred to daughter cells in cell division.

Abstract: To achieve thinner liquid crystal display panels and to reduce the power consumption for turning on a backlight during an image display operation to a minimum amount, a controller controls display operations of a main display panel and a sub-display panel via a first driver and a second driver. Based on the controlling of the display operations, the controller performs lighting control of LEDs of a backlight corresponding to the dimensions and position of the display panel used for image display. Accordingly, the backlight can be turned on for the display panel used for image display by consuming a minimum amount of power. Furthermore, the backlight includes a light-guiding plate and multiple LEDs and can emit light from both sides of the backlight, thus achieving reduction in thickness.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a printer engine which forms an image on a medium; a unit which supplies the medium to the engine through a path; an element which emits light onto the medium at a position on the path; a receiving element which receives transmitted light of the light emitted which is transmitted through the medium; another receiving element which receives reflected light of the light emitted which is reflected by the medium; a unit which executes a detection through the emission and reception; a unit which determines a characteristic of the medium based on detection signals output by the receiving elements as a result of the detection; and a control unit which executes a control in the apparatus based on the characteristic.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a printer engine which forms an image on a medium; a unit which supplies the medium to the engine through a path; an element which emits light onto the medium at a position on the path; a receiving element which receives transmitted light of the light emitted which is transmitted through the medium; another receiving element which receives reflected light of the light emitted which is reflected by the medium; a unit which executes a detection through the emission and reception; a unit which determines a characteristic of the medium based on detection signals output by the receiving elements as a result of the detection; and a control unit which executes a control in the apparatus based on the characteristic.

Abstract: The invention provides a display unit that displays images on both the front and the rear surfaces and that displays images brightly without increasing the electrical power consumption. A liquid crystal display unit includes two liquid crystal cells, a backlight, which is interposed between the two liquid crystal cells and which emits light to the liquid crystal cells, and two reflective polarizers interposed between the backlight and each of the liquid crystal cells, respectively.

Abstract: The invention provides a display unit that displays images on both the front and the rear surfaces and that displays images brightly without increasing the electrical power consumption. A liquid crystal display unit includes two liquid crystal cells, a backlight, which is interposed between the two liquid crystal cells and which emits light to the liquid crystal cells, and two reflective polarizers interposed between the backlight and each of the liquid crystal cells, respectively.

Abstract: A composition for foods or medicaments, containing a fermentation product or an enzyme-treated product that is either obtained by fermenting or treating with an enzyme at least one type of component selected from the husks, pellicles and astringent skin of Coix seeds.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus comprising a main body and a rotating member unit having a rotating member, the rotating member unit being detachably held in the main body. The main body of the image forming apparatus has a retainer which retains a shaft penetrating and supporting the rotating member, and the retainer has a first shaft retaining member which supports the shaft at a front side as seen from the insertion direction of the rotating member unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has plural image forming stations along a travel direction of a transfer medium. Each image forming station has a latent image carrier that rotates in a sub scanning direction, an image writer that forms a latent image on the latent image carrier and a developer that has a toner carrier extending along a main scanning direction approximately perpendicular to the sub scanning direction. Each image writer has a line head near the latent image carrier with light emitting elements arranged in a row along the main scanning direction. Rotation drive force developing at one common motor is transmitted to plural places in sections of the apparatus to superimpose toner images one atop the other. A motor main section of the common motor overlaps the transfer medium in the in-plane arrangement viewed from a vertical direction perpendicular to both the main and sub scanning directions.

Abstract: The invention provides a display unit that displays images on both the front and the rear surfaces and that displays images brightly without increasing the electrical power consumption. A liquid crystal display unit includes two liquid crystal cells, a backlight, which is interposed between the two liquid crystal cells and which emits light to the liquid crystal cells, and two reflective polarizers interposed between the backlight and each of the liquid crystal cells, respectively.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet tray configured to accommodate stacked sheets and a sheet feeding device configured to feed the stacked sheets in the sheet tray. A light emitting device emits light toward the stacked sheets, and the emitted light includes at least two values of light. A light receiving device receives the light emitted by the light emitting device. Further, a control device detects the number of paper sheets in the stack based on a quantity of a decrease of the transmitted light emitted by the light emitting device. An image forming device is configured to form images on the sheets.

Abstract: To provide a display device that can display images on both the front and the rear surfaces and that can display images brightly without increasing the electrical power consumption. A liquid crystal device 100 includes two liquid crystal cells 10 and 20, a backlight 40, which is interposed between the two liquid crystal cells 10 and 20 and which can emit light to the liquid crystal cells 10 and 20, and two reflective polarizers 31 and 32 interposed between the backlight 40 and each of the liquid crystal cells 10 and 20, respectively.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet tray configured to accommodate stacked sheets and a sheet feeding device configured to feed the stacked sheets in the sheet tray. A light emitting device emits light toward the stacked sheets, and the emitted light includes at least two values of light. A light receiving device receives the light emitted by the light emitting device. Further, a control device detects the number of paper sheets in the stack based on a quantity of a decrease of the transmitted light emitted by the light emitting device. An image forming device is configured to form images on the sheets.