Abstract: A throttle-opening detecting apparatus has a case mounted on a handle bar of a vehicle, a throttle grip mounted on a leading end side of the handle bar so as to be rotatable with respect to the handle bar, a throttle-opening sensor incorporated in the case for detecting a rotation angle of the throttle grip and, a friction plate applying a frictional force in an opposite direction with respect to the rotation of the throttle grip to the throttle grip while the throttle grip is rotated so as to provide a throttle-opening detecting apparatus which not only can omit the throttle wire but also can obtain the rotation load of the throttle grip similar to the conventional throttle-opening detecting apparatus to thereby permit execution of the operation of the throttle grip without giving the driver a strange feeling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying a pluripotent hepatic progenitor cell, a method for separating the pluripotent hepatic progenitor cell and a method for producing the pluripotent hepatic progenitor cell.

Abstract: A throttle-opening sensor has a detect shaft rotatable about an axis in conjunction with a throttle grip, a pair of rotation terminals respectively disposed on different positions in the same circle with the rotation axis, the pair of rotation terminals being rotatable together with the detect shaft, contact pieces disposed on each of the rotation terminals at predetermined intervals in a rotation-radius direction of the rotation terminal, a printed circuit including conducting pattern portions printed along sliding loci of the contact pieces and, a resistance portion printed in a sliding range of the contact piece of the conducting pattern portion, and generating a resistance against a current flowing in the conducting pattern portion, wherein at least two detection signals variable in mutually opposite directions according to the rotation angles of the throttle grip are generated due to that the contact pieces respectively allow the conducting pattern portions to conduct therebetween.

Abstract: A sample heating apparatus comprising:

Abstract: The invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit device having therein an oscillation circuit using either an oscillator or an oscillation module, which can be freely selected by the user, as an external part of a reference oscillation circuit without increasing the number of external parts and the number of external terminals. Two external terminals are provided in correspondence with an oscillation circuit. A control terminal (base terminal) of a transistor as a component of the oscillation circuit is connected to the one external terminal as one of the external terminals, and a path for feeding back a part of an output of the transistor to the control terminal is provided so that the oscillation circuit can oscillate. The other external terminal is connected to a power source voltage terminal via a resistive element of a high resistance value. Capacitor elements are connected between the two external terminals.

Abstract: The semiconductor integrated circuit (RF IC) for a mobile telephone capable of transmitting/receiving the signals of plural bands reduces the DC offsets of the amplifiers located in the following stages of the mixers that demodulate or down-convert the reception signals. The invention scrambles the signal lines to transmit the outputs of the plural mixers that demodulate or down-convert the reception signals of different bands, so as to avoid the adjacent signal lines from making the same combination from the starting ends to the finishing ends.

Abstract: In a differential low-noise amplifier built in a semiconductor integrated circuit for a dual-band wireless transceiver, impedance components of wire bonding and package that occur in emitters are reduced and a gain is improved. Ground pins of amplifiers of the differential amplifier forming a pair are arranged adjacent to each other. Input pins and ground pins of the same amplifier are arranged adjacent to each other. Signals of the adjacent pins are allowed to have inverse phases, and trans-coupling between the pins is utilized so as to reduce impedance of the transistor emitters.

Abstract: A throttle-opening detecting apparatus has a case mounted on a handle bar of a vehicle, a throttle grip mounted on a leading end side of the handle bar from the case so as to be rotatable with respect to the handle bar, a detect member incorporated in the case and rotatable in linking with the throttle grip, a throttle-opening sensor for detecting the rotation angle of the detect member, and a rotative direction changing unit for rotating the detect member in a direction substantially perpendicular to the rotative direction of the throttle grip, so as to provide a throttle-opening detecting apparatus which can decrease the thickness-direction dimension of the case to thereby reduce the size of the throttle-opening detecting apparatus.

Abstract: A throttle-opening detecting apparatus has a case mounted on a handle bar of a vehicle, a throttle grip mounted on a leading end side of the handle bar so as to be rotatable with respect to the handle bar, a throttle-opening sensor incorporated in the case for detecting a rotation angle of the throttle grip and, a friction plate applying a frictional force in an opposite direction with respect to the rotation of the throttle grip to the throttle grip while the throttle grip is rotated so as to provide a throttle-opening detecting apparatus which not only can omit the throttle wire but also can obtain the rotation load of the throttle grip similar to the conventional throttle-opening detecting apparatus to thereby permit execution of the operation of the throttle grip without giving the driver a strange feeling.

Abstract: A throttle-opening sensor has a detect shaft rotatable about an axis in conjunction with a throttle grip, a pair of rotation terminals respectively disposed on different positions in the same circle with the rotation axis, the pair of rotation terminals being rotatable together with the detect shaft, contact pieces disposed on each of the rotation terminals at predetermined intervals in a rotation-radius direction of the rotation terminal, a printed circuit including conducting pattern portions printed along sliding loci of the contact pieces and, a resistance portion printed in a sliding range of the contact piece of the conducting pattern portion, and generating a resistance against a current flowing in the conducting pattern portion, wherein at least two detection signals variable in mutually opposite directions according to the rotation angles of the throttle grip are generated due to that the contact pieces respectively allow the conducting pattern portions to conduct therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention provides a PLL circuit, which can make convergence at a high speed and convert an IF signal into an RF signal, and a wireless mobile station with that PLL circuit. An LPF charging constant current source, a discharging constant current source and a high-speed charging constant current source are connected to an output terminal of a phase comparator with current mode output of the PLL circuit. By doing so, in the case where a convergence frequency of the PLL circuit is low, an input voltage of a VCO is increased from 0V so as to be converged by using the constant current source. Meanwhile, in the case where the convergence frequency of the PLL circuit is high, the input voltage of the PLL circuit is temporarily increased to the maximum voltage by using the constant current source. Thereafter, the input voltage is gradually dropped from the maximum voltage so as to be converged by using the constant current source.

Abstract: A DNA characterized by coding for a single-stranded antibody capable of binding to a hepatitis B virus core protein: a single-stranded antibody coding for the DNA: a therapeutic agent for hepatitis B comprising the single-stranded antibody as the active ingredient; and a gene therapeutic agent containing the DNA as the active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ameliorant for enhancing the therapeutic effect of IFN-&agr; on hepatitis C; a therapeutic composition for the treatment of hepatitis C which comprises IFN-&agr; and IFN-&ggr; as active ingredients and further contains a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; a kit for the treatment of hepatitis C which comprises an IFN-&agr; preparation and an IFN-&ggr; preparation; and a therapeutic method for the treatment of hepatitis C which comprises administering IFN-&agr; and IFN-&ggr; to a subject at the same time or administering IFN-&ggr; before the administration of IFN-&agr;. The present invention is capable of making the patient continuously HCV-RNA negative and is extremely useful in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C which is intractable with, IFN-&agr; and conventionally difficult to remedy.

Abstract: The invention provides a signal processing semiconductor integrated circuit of the direct conversion system, which includes a dummy amplifier having the same circuit configuration as a low noise amplifier being the first stage amplifier, in which the DC offset calibrations on the subsequent stage amplifiers are carried out during shifting into the reception mode in a state that the low noise amplifier is deactivated and the dummy amplifier is activated. Thereby, the invention achieves to suppress generation of the DC offsets resulting from the leakage noises of the local oscillator during shifting into the reception mode, and to enhance the reception sensitivity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a PLL circuit, which can make convergence at a high speed and convert an IF signal into an RF signal, and a wireless mobile station with that PLL circuit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a PLL circuit, which can make convergence at a high speed and convert an IF signal into an RF signal, and a wireless mobile station with that PLL circuit.

Abstract: In a differential low-noise amplifier built in a semiconductor integrated circuit for a dual-band wireless transceiver, impedance components of wire bonding and package that occur in emitters are reduced and a gain is improved. Ground pins of amplifiers of the differential amplifier forming a pair are arranged adjacent to each other. Input pins and ground pins of the same amplifier are arranged adjacent to each other. Signals of the adjacent pins are allowed to have inverse phases, and trans-coupling between the pins is utilized so as to reduce impedance of the transistor emitters.

Abstract: A method of detecting an end point of polishing arranged to perform CMP polishing with which an insulating layer of a wafer incorporating a substrate having a metal-containing permalloy layer formed thereon and the insulating layer formed on the metal-containing permalloy layer is chemimechanically polished to expose the flat permalloy layer, the method of detecting an end point of polishing, having the steps of: collecting abrasive material slurry on a surface plate for polishing as a continuous flow from the start or during CMP polishing; continuously mixing a color developing reagent with the collected continuous flow to prepare a specimen for the continuos flow; reading the color of the specimen as a digital value (Ii) by a color identifying sensor; and determining a moment of time at which the digital value (Ii) reaches a digital value (Io) of a specimen of a waste flow of the abrasive material slurry at the end of polishing to be the end of CMP polishing.

Abstract: A casting method and apparatus using a resin core wherein a portion of a wall of the resin core that receives a greater heat and/or load than other portions of the wall of the resin core, is increased in thickness. As a result, even if the resin core receives more heat and/or load in places, a local deformation or breakage of the resin core is effectively prevented.

Abstract: A casting method is disclosed in which a resin core is fabricated by using a resin which maintains a mechanical strength satisfying a shape accuracy required for a cast product until solidification of molten metal in contact with the core and is softened when heated beyond the core temperature at which the molten metal in contact with the core was solidified. The removal of the resin core from the cast product after the cast product containing the core from a die, includes a step of forcedly cooling the cast product containing the core down to a predetermined temperature at which the resin core can be removed from the cast product without being broken apart by pulling one of its ends, and a step of withdrawing the core at the predetermined temperature from the cast product having been forcedly cooled down. It is thus possible to cool the core down to a predetermined temperature suited for the withdrawal and preclude the inconvenience that the core being pulled is broken apart.