Abstract: Bands for wearable devices include multiple band retainers used to maintain engagement between an assembly (e.g., a pair) of bands. Some band retainers may be permanently affixed with the band at a certain location of the band, while other band retainers can be removable. The removable band retainers can be moved to different locations of the band, thus allowing the band retainer to retain another band at different locations. As a result, the assembly of bands can be used with different users, and in particular, users with different wrist sizes. Moreover, using multiple band retainers can provide an engagement force between the bands to withstand higher-impact events, such as swimming and diving. Additionally, bands and band retainers may include one or more liquid-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials.

Abstract: The present invention has objects to provide a novel crystalline 2-O-?-D-glucosyl-L-ascorbic acid and method for producing the same. The present invention solves the above objects by providing crystalline potassium salt of 2-O-?-D-glucosyl-L-ascorbic acid and method for producing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound which can be useful for the treatment or prevention of SPT-related diseases including cancer and congenital diseases associated with sphingolipid accumulation (including Niemann-Pick disease).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound which can be useful for the treatment or prevention of SPT-related diseases including cancer and congenital diseases associated with sphingolipid accumulation (including Niemann-Pick disease).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound which can be useful for the treatment or prevention of SPT-related diseases including cancer and congenital diseases associated with sphingolipid accumulation (including Niemann-Pick disease).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound which can be useful for the treatment or prevention of SPT-related diseases including cancer and congenital diseases associated with sphingolipid accumulation (including Niemann-Pick disease).

Abstract: An airbag includes: a gas introduction portion; and a folded bag-shaped airbag main body capable of being inflated and deployed in a first direction toward an object to be protected, by gas introduced from the gas introduction portion. The folded airbag main body includes: a deployment portion disposed to face a cover; a flow-in portion through which the gas flows from the gas introduction portion into the deployment portion; and a reduction portion disposed to face the gas introduction portion and configured to make the flow-in portion narrower toward a center portion of a main tear line of the cover and guide the gas introduced from the gas introduction portion to the center portion of the main tear line.

Abstract: An airbag includes: a gas introduction portion; and a folded bag-shaped airbag main body capable of being inflated and deployed in a first direction toward an object to be protected, by gas introduced from the gas introduction portion. The folded airbag main body includes: a deployment portion disposed to face a cover; a flow-in portion through which the gas flows from the gas introduction portion into the deployment portion; and a reduction portion disposed to face the gas introduction portion and configured to make the flow-in portion narrower toward a center portion of a main tear line of the cover and guide the gas introduced from the gas introduction portion to the center portion of the main tear line.

Abstract: The present invention has objects to provide an agent for enhancing the effect of skin-whitening ingredients which enhances the skin-whitening action of skin-whitening ingredients and has an improved safeness, and to provide a skin-whitening agent, which contains the above agent and a skin-whitening ingredient(s) and has an improved and enhanced skin-whitening action. The present invention solves the above objects by providing an agent for enhancing the effect of skin-whitening ingredients, which contains one or more members selected from the group consisting of guanine and derivatives thereof as an effective ingredient(s); and a skin-whitening agent which contains the above agent along with a skin-whitening ingredient(s), particularly, one or more members selected from the group consisting of adenine including derivatives thereof and/or equol including derivatives thereof.

Abstract: The present invention has objects to provide an agent for enhancing the effect of skin-whitening ingredients which enhances the skin-whitening action of skin-whitening ingredients and has an improved safeness, and to provide a skin-whitening agent, which contains the above agent and a skin-whitening ingredient(s) and has an improved and enhanced skin-whitening action. The present invention solves the above objects by providing an agent for enhancing the effect of skin-whitening ingredients, which contains one or more members selected from the group consisting of guanine and derivatives thereof as an effective ingredient(s); and a skin-whitening agent which contains the above agent along with a skin-whitening ingredient(s) particularly, members derivatives thereof and/or equol including derivatives thereof.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus in which steering assistance is achieved by transmitting a rotary motion of an electric motor for steering assistance to a steering shaft on which a worm wheel is mounted through a worm shaft on which a worm is mounted, wherein the worm shaft is deflectable toward the worm wheel and equipped with a biasing member biasing the worm shaft in the deflective direction thereof, or alternatively, the worm wheel is deflectable toward the worm shaft and equipped with a biasing member biasing the worm wheel in the deflective direction thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide anti-inflammatory agent having an excellent effect and less adverse side-effects. The object is attained by providing an anti-inflammatory agent comprising 2-aminophenol or a derivative thereof as an effective ingredient.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an anti-allergic agent, which efficaciously relieves symptoms accompanying an allergic disease without causing any serious side effect. This object is achieved by providing an anti-allergic agent which contains, as an effective ingredient, proteins collected from royal jelly or purified royal jelly, or royal jelly or purified royal jelly containing the proteins.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hydraulic control valve and a power steering apparatus using the same in which chamfer portions are provided only on throttle portions between oil supply chambers and first oil feed chambers and between the oil supply chambers and second oil feed chambers, or only throttle portions between oil discharge chambers 11 and the first oil feed chambers and between the oil discharge chambers 11 and the second oil feed chambers. With this design, even if six or more oil grooves of each of a valve body and a valve spool are disposed at equal distances from one another, when the minimum flow rate to be controlled is reduced as small as possible, a distribution amount for one portion where the flow rate is controlled can be doubled as compared with a conventional structure, it is possible to stabilize the hydraulic characteristics in a region where the flow rate to be controlled is minimum, and to eliminate the discontinuity of the hydraulic characteristics.

Abstract: The objects of the present invention are to reveal a specific combination of human interferon-? subtypes that remarkably enhances the expression of protein synthesis inhibitory genes, and to provide an expression enhancer comprising as effective ingredients interferon-? subtypes in such a combination and uses thereof. The above objects are solved by providing an expression enhancer for protein synthesis inhibitory genes which comprises as effective ingredients interferon-?2 and interferon-?8 subtypes of human interferon-?, and uses thereof including pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: In a hydraulic power steering apparatus, when the relative rotation between input and output shafts which are connected by a torsion bar is converted into the relative rotation between an outer valve element and an inner valve element, the ratio of the relative rotation angle of the latter to the relative rotation angle of the former is varied in accordance with an operating condition of a vehicle. The hydraulic pressure to generate steering assist force is controlled in accordance with the relative rotation angles between both valve elements. The outer valve element is capable of relative coaxial rotation to the input and output shafts, and the inner valve element is formed integrally with the input shaft. A swinging member is supported by first, second and third supporting parts which respectively rotate together with the input shaft, the output shaft or the outer valve element.

Abstract: A power steering unit capable of finely controlling the steering assistance power generated by a hydraulic actuator in accordance with the steering direction and driving condition without requiring a complex structure is provided at low cost. The right steering assistance power generating state or the left steering assistance power generating state can be alternatively selected by switching the flow path of hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator 10 for generating the steering assistance power with a motor-operated switching valve 23. The switching valve 23 is controlled so that the steering assistance power acts in accordance with the determined steering direction, and an electric motor 22 for driving a pump 21 is controlled so that the pressure of the hydraulic fluid discharged from the pump 21 is varied in accordance with the determined driving condition.

Abstract: A electric power supplying device includes a protector for receiving a wire harness curved in a loop, a first harness guide disposed opposite to a slack of the wire harness in the protector, and an outlet arranged nearer the slack of the wire harness than the first harness guide. The harness guide is curved in the loop from the first harness guide, and the loop is led outward from the outlet. Further, a second harness guide is provided movably in a radial direction of the loop, arranged nearer the harness slack than the first harness guide. An energizing means forces the second harness guide in a direction increasing a diameter of the loop. At least one of the first and second harness guides is a rotatable guide roller. The second harness guide is movable along an elongated guiding member formed on the protector.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an anti-allergic agent, which efficaciously relieves symptoms accompanying an allergic disease without causing any serious side effect. This object is achieved by providing an anti-allergic agent which contains, as an effective ingredient, proteins collected from royal jelly or purified royal jelly, or royal jelly or purified royal jelly containing the proteins.

Abstract: In a hydraulic power steering apparatus, when the relative rotation between input and output shafts which are connected by a torsion bar is converted into the relative rotation between an outer valve element and an inner valve element, the ratio of the relative rotation angle of the latter to the relative rotation angle of the former is varied in accordance with an operating condition of a vehicle. The hydraulic pressure to generate steering assist force is controlled in accordance with the relative rotation angles between both valve elements. The outer valve element is capable of relative coaxial rotation to the input and output shafts, and the inner valve element is formed integrally with the input shaft. A swinging member is supported by first, second and third supporting parts which respectively rotate together with the input shaft, the output shaft or the outer valve element.