Abstract: A pump probe measuring device (1) includes an ultrashort optical pulse laser generator (11) for generating a first ultrashort optical pulse train, which becomes a pump light, and a second ultrashort optical pulse train, which becomes a probe light, a delay time adjusting unit (15) for adjusting a delay time between ultrashort optical pulse trains, a first pulse picker and a second pulse picker (13, 14) for accepting each of the first and the second ultrashort optical pulse trains and allowing only one pulse to be transmitted at an arbitrary repetition periodicity, thus reducing the effective repetition frequency of the optical pulses, a delay time modulation unit (10) for periodically changing a position through which pulses are transmitted by the first and the second pulse pickers (13, 14), an irradiation optical system (16) for applying pump light and probe light to a sample (19), a measuring unit (20) for detecting probe signals from a sample (19), and a lock-in amplifier (18).

Abstract: A frame generating device includes an inserting portion and an accommodating portion. The inserting portion inserts a first fixed stuff byte and a second fixed stuff byte into a payload area of an OTU frame, the first fixed stuff byte being of (8+10n (“n” is zero or a given positive integer))×4 rows, the second fixed stuff byte being of a given byte×4 rows, the given byte being equal to zero or more and being equal to (24?10n) or more. The accommodating portion accommodates Ethernet signal in the payload area other than the first fixed stuff byte and the second fixed stuff byte.

Abstract: A frame generating apparatus includes an optical-transport-network frame generator configured to generate an optical transport network frame from a client signal; and a frame decomposer configured to perform serial-parallel conversion on the optical transport network frame to generate a plurality of virtual lanes, where the optical-transport-network frame generator arranges frame synchronization bytes and virtual lane identifiers in an overhead area and/or a fixed stuff part so that a frame synchronization byte and a virtual lane identifier are arranged in each virtual lane.

Abstract: A light transmitting material having a tubular clad material and an amorphous core material having a refractive index higher than that of the tubular clad material, characterized in that the amorphous core material comprises a polymer derived from monomers comprising a polymer polyol and a polyfunctional compound having reactivity with a hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A boot for constant-velocity universal joint includes a minor-diameter cylindrical portion, a major-diameter cylindrical portion, and a bellows. The bellows connects the minor-diameter cylindrical portion with the major-diameter cylindrical portion integrally, and includes a plurality of crests and roots, being made of a first crest, a first root, a second crest, a second root, and so on, which are disposed alternately in this order from one of the opposite ends that faces the minor-diameter cylindrical portion to the other one of the opposite ends that faces the major-diameter cylindrical portion. The bellows further includes a rising wall, which connects one of the opposite ends of the minor-diameter cylindrical portion that faces the bellows with a top of the first crest in the bellows, and which exhibits a rising angle of less than 45 degrees to an imaginary central line of the boot or that of the shaft.

Abstract: A boot for constant-velocity universal joint is retained to a shaft, which has a general surface, a tapered surface, or a vertical surface instead of the tapered surface, and a major-diameter surface that are disposed one after another in this order and coaxially. The boot includes a minor-diameter cylindrical portion, a major-diameter cylindrical portion, a tapered wall portion, or a vertical wall portion instead of the tapered wall portion, and a bellows. The minor-diameter cylindrical portion is retained to the major-diameter surface of the shaft. The major-diameter cylindrical portion is disposed separately away from the minor-diameter cylindrical portion and coaxially therewith. The tapered wall portion is in contact with the tapered surface of the shaft. The vertical wall portion is in contact with the vertical surface of the shaft. The bellows connects the tapered wall portion or the vertical wall portion with the major-diameter cylindrical portion integrally.

Abstract: A multiple frame rate synchronous detecting apparatus for synchronous-detecting received serial data having one frame rate among a plurality of predetermined frame rates is provided. The apparatus comprises a serial-to-parallel converter for serial-to-parallel converting the received serial data with matching with highest frame rate, a coincidence detector for comparing a portion of the converted parallel data corresponding to a predetermined region defined based on the frame rate, with a pattern for synchronous detection to detect coincidence, and a synchronous determiner for determining to have been synchronized with the frame rate when a periodic cycle of the coincidence detection is the same as a previous one.

Abstract: In a path status monitoring method and device which can enhance or reduce a band more rapidly, for example, SONET frames FR serially connected over 32 frames to which frame Nos. FN (“0”-“31”)) are assigned are cyclically generated respectively for paths P0-P2 in a cycle TC (=64 ms). After output timing delays TD0-TD2 of the frames FR are shifted by an optimal delay interval D (=21 ms) between the paths P0-P2 based on the number of the paths “3”, the output timing delays TD1 and TD2 are restored by preliminarily obtained transmission delays for the paths P1 and P2 to the path P0. When the frames FR are transmitted through each of the paths P0-P2, statuses (path statuses MST) where a reception fault has occurred in each of the paths P0-P2 are collected to be stored in the frame whose frame No. FN=“0”.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a non-human animal model unresponsive to a mycoplasma-derived lipoprotein/lipopeptide, and a method for screening an inhibitor or a promoter for a response to a mycoplasma-derived lipoprotein with the use of the non-human animal model. A non-human animal model whose function of a gene that encodes a protein such as TLR6 that specifically recognizes a mycoplasma-derived lipoprotein is deficient on its chromosome, for example, a TLR6 knockout mouse, is generated. With the use of the non-human animal model unresponsive to a mycoplasma-derived lipoprotein or an immune cell such as a macrophage derived from the non-human animal model, a subject material and a mycoplasma-derived lipoprotein, a response to a mycoplasma-derived lipoprotein in the non-human animal model or the immune cell is measured/evaluated, and then an inhibitor or a promoter for a response to that is screened.

Abstract: A packet transmission system is disclosed. The system serves between terminal apparatuses that include a supervisory control circuit configured to transmit a supervisory signal in a direction opposite to the transmission direction of a main signal on each of and both of an upstream circuit and a downstream circuit. The packet transmission system transmits overhead information of a packet frame of the main signal of the upstream circuit and the downstream circuit using the supervisory control circuit of the downstream circuit and the upstream circuit, respectively.

Abstract: There is provided an adhesive sheet comprising an adhesive base sheet, an adhesive layer, and a release sheet laminated in sequence from the adhesive base sheet. The release sheet comprises a release agent layer and a release base material laminated in sequence from the adhesive layer. A release force between the release sheet and the adhesive layer is decreased by an external stimulus.

Abstract: A blade-type optical transmission apparatus includes a plurality of main-signal blades, each of which is provided with an external optical signal interface unit, a cross-connect unit, and an internal optical signal interface unit, a blade enclosure in which the plurality of main-signal blades are enclosed, and a back plane which is situated inside the blade enclosure and provides a ring connection for the internal optical signal interface unit between the main-signal blades.

Abstract: The clamping band is capable of reducing a diameter with an ordinary tool or without the tool and improving working efficiency of clamping object members. The clamping band comprises: a first hook including a first projection, which can be engaged with the tool, and a second projection, which prevents rotation of a ring-shaped band member when a lever is pressed onto an external member; a second hook for engaging with the tool, the second hook being outwardly projected from the band member and located close to a position on which the lever is laid; and a clipping member for clipping and holding the lever in a laid state, the clipping member being located close to buckles.

Abstract: A casting roll unit (U) with side weirs (6) and a delivery nozzle (8) being detachably attached thereto is fixed at a casting position. Side-weir and delivery-nozzle preheating furnaces (29, 30) are arranged away from the casting roll unit (U). Arranged adjacent to the roll unit (U) are replacing robots (31, 32) which can selectively clamp the side weirs (6) or the delivery nozzle or nozzles (8) and which can move between the roll unit (U) and the side-weir or delivery-nozzle preheating furnace (29 or 30) for installation/removal of the side weirs (6) or delivery nozzle or nozzles (8).

Abstract: A casting roll unit (U) with side weirs (6) and a delivery nozzle (8) being detachably attached thereto is fixed at a casting position. Side-weir and delivery-nozzle preheating furnaces (29, 30) are arranged away from the casting roll unit (U). Arranged adjacent to the roll unit (U) are replacing robots (31, 32) which can selectively clamp the side weirs (6) or the delivery nozzle or nozzles (8) and which can move between the roll unit (U) and the side-weir or delivery-nozzle preheating furnace (29 or 30) for installation/removal of the side weirs (6) or delivery nozzle or nozzles (8).

Abstract: A knockout mouse which is unresponsive to peptidoglycan, a lipoprotein/lipopeptide and the like, and is useful for elucidating the contribution of individual members of the TLR family to a signaling stimulated with bacterial cell components in vivo, in particular, the role of TLR2 and MyD88 in vivo. A bacterial cell component-unresponsive knockout mouse is generated by a process comprising the steps of: a targeting vector is constructed by replacing a whole or a part of a gene fragment of an exon region containing a cytoplasmic region of TLR2 or MyD88 gene and the like with a plasmid having a poly A signal and a marker gene; the targeting vector is introduced into an embryonic stem cell; the targeting embryonic stem cell having a homologously recombined TLR2 or MyD88 gene is microinjected into the blastocyst of a mouse and the blastocyst is put back into the uterus of a recipient mouse.

Abstract: A data reading control unit select packets to be transmitted so that the number of packets that are transmitted per unit time does not exceed the number of packets that can be transmitted per unit time. The data reading control unit performs this packet selection according to the transmission amount per unit time calculated by a transmission amount calculation unit, the priority information in a priority storing unit, and the transmission queue information in a transmission queue information storing unit. The data reading control unit 109 reads pointers to the selected packets from a cycle transmission queue buffer, reads TS packets from a TS packet buffer according to the read pointers, and outputs the read TS packets to a transmission unit.

Abstract: The clamping band is capable of reducing a diameter with an ordinary tool or without the tool and improving working efficiency of clamping object members. The clamping band comprises: a first hook including a first projection, which can be engaged with the tool, and a second projection, which prevents rotation of a ring-shaped band member when a lever is pressed onto an external member; a second hook for engaging with the tool, the second hook being outwardly projected from the band member and located close to a position on which the lever is laid; and a clipping member for clipping and holding the lever in a laid state, the clipping member being located close to buckles.

Abstract: Disclosed is a measuring apparatus for a physical phenomenon by photoexcitation, in particular a delay time modulated and time-resolved, scanning probe microscope apparatus providing an ultimate resolution both temporal and spatial. The apparatus comprises an ultrashort laser pulse generator (2); a delay time modulating circuit (6) which splits an ultrashort laser pulse (3) produced by the ultrashort laser pulse generator (2) into two and which also modulates a delay time td between the two ultrashort laser pulses (4 and 5) with a frequency (?); a scanning probe microscope (7); and a lock-in detection unit (8) which performs lock-in detection with the delay time modulation frequency (?) of a probe signal (11) from the scanning probe microscope (7).

Abstract: A blade-type optical transmission apparatus includes a plurality of main-signal blades, each of which is provided with an external optical signal interface unit, a cross-connect unit, and an internal optical signal interface unit, a blade enclosure in which the plurality of main-signal blades are enclosed, and a back plane which is situated inside the blade enclosure and provides a ring connection for the internal optical signal interface unit between the main-signal blades.