Abstract: Protein disulfide isomerase, which catalyzes the exchange reaction between sulfhydryl and disulfide in a protein for formation of the most stable natural type disulfide bonds, is useful for formation of natural type disulfide bonds in a protein which is produced in a prokaryotic cell.

Abstract: The heat transfer system of the present invention transfers heat from above to below by means of phase change of an operating fluid without applying power from outside, and it facilitates to keep balance between evaporation quantity of the operating fluid by an evaporator and return quantity of the operating fluid from a condenser to the evaporator by a heat driving pump, and to improve heat transfer efficiency, heat transfer distance and heat transfer quantity. For this purpose, the condenser 2 is provided at a position lower than the evaporator 1, and the heat driving pump 3 is installed along a flow passage to send the operating fluid 9 from the condenser 2 to the evaporator 1. In the heat driving pump 3, air bubbles generated by heating of the high temperature fluid are condensed by cooling with the low temperature fluid, and by pressure change generated, the operating fluid 9 is sent back from the condenser 2 to the evaporator 9.

Abstract: A transistor element is formed on the surface of a silicon substrate. A tunnel is formed in the silicon substrate at a position right under the transistor element. A contact hole is formed to extend from the surface of the silicon substrate to the contact hole. Silicon oxide films are respectively formed on the inner surfaces of the tunnel and the contact hole. A wiring layer is buried in the tunnel and the contact hole. The wiring layer is connected to a diffusion layer of the transistor element.

Abstract: A cover pad for an air bag device, a main body of which is molded into a single layer using a resin/elastomer blend. The resin/elastomer blend is made by blending PP with an elastomer in a ratio ranging from 60/40 to 40/60 by weight. The elastomer is made by blending an EPM with a styrene-containing thermoplastic elastomer in a ratio ranging from 80/20 to 20/80 by weight. In addition, copolymerization of the EPM produces a propylene content ranging from 21 to 40 mol %; 3 mol %.ltoreq.P-P.ltoreq. 12 mol %; and 35 mol %.ltoreq.E-P.ltoreq.50 mol % (where P-P is the dyad chain configuration (.sup.13 C-NMR) of the propylene-propylene bond; and E-P is the dyad chain configuration (.sup.13 C-NMR) of the ethylene-propylene bond).

Abstract: An air bag cover is held by the bag holder in such a manner that the respective side walls of the cover are secured to their corresponding securing piece portions of the vertical walls of the bag holder. The front and rear side walls of the cover respectively include securing grooves to which the front and rear securing piece portions of the bag holder are to be secured. The opening width dimension of the securing groove is set a little smaller than the height dimension of its corresponding securing piece portion, while the opening width dimension of the securing groove is set a little larger than the height dimension of its corresponding securing piece portion. The right and left side walls respectively include securing projecting strips to which the right and left securing piece portions of the bag holder can be secured.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser such as a laser diode includes a semiconductor substrate and a laser diode region disposed on said semiconductor substrate and having a laser beam emission end. The semiconductor substrate has a front surface directly below said laser beam emission end, said front surface being retracted from said laser beam emission end. The front surface may be formed as an optically roughened surface as a side wall surface of a groove when the groove is defined in the semiconductor substrate by dicing. The laser diode region includes an active layer of GaAs or AlGaAs. The front surface may further be optically roughened by etching or sputtering.

Abstract: A pad for a steering wheel includes a membrane switch forming member and a cover member. The switch forming member includes a switch body and a support plate. The switch body has a plurality of conductive thin metal sheets and an insulating space interposed between the metal sheets. The support plate is made of rigid synthetic resin for supporting the switch body on its upper face and is formed in its outer peripheral edge with a plurality of mounting holes extending vertically. The cover member covers the air bag of an air bag device and is formed with a rapture portion adapted to be ruptured when the air bag is inflated, and mounting ribs projecting from the back face thereof and engaged with the mounting holes of the support plate. At least one of the outer peripheral edge of the support plate and the back face of the cover member is formed with gap regulating projections for setting a predetermined gap between the upper face of the support plate back face of the cover member.

Abstract: The present invention provides writing instruments having a mechanism for extending and retracting a writing tip and advancing a lead by rotational operation. The writing instrument is comprised of a front tubular member (1); a front inner tubular member (2) disposed within the front tubular member (1); a refill (3) inserted into the front inner tubular member (2); and a driver (10) mounted in the front tubular member (1) and the front inner tubular member (2). The driver (10) is allowed to rotate but not be axial displaced relative to the front tubular member (1) and the front inner tubular member (2). A rear tubular member (5) is detachably connected to the driver (10) so as not to allow rotation relative to the driver (10). A rear inner tubular member (4) is inserted in the driver (10). The rear inner tubular member (4) and the driver (10) interengage with each other by engagement between at least one axial groove (11) and corresponding projections (12).

Abstract: A pad or cover for an air bag assembly formed of a thermoplastic elastomer and having an outer wall that includes a substantially H-shaped thin-walled breaking seam designed to break when the air bag is actuated. The breaking seam is H-shaped, as viewed in a vertical direction, and the cover includes an ordinary portion outside of the breaking seam. A horizontal seam portion of the substantially H-shaped portion has straight line portions respectively connected to two vertical seam portions lying on both left and right sides of the substantially H-shaped configuration and a curved U-shaped portion that is interposed between the straight line portions. The thickness of the ordinary portion at the outer peripheral side of the U-shaped portion is thicker than the thickness of the ordinary portions in the vicinities of intersections between the vertical seam portions and the straight line portions.

Abstract: A heat transfer recording device which performs recording by heating a heat transfer medium to transfer the ink possessed by the heat transfer medium onto an image-receiving medium, thereby effecting recording on the image-receiving medium. The device having: a platen; a recording head having a plurality of heat-generating elements capable of heat generating; and a pressing member for pressing the recording head against the platen under a pressing force of 800 gf/cm to 3500 gf/cm.

Abstract: A pad for an air bag comprises an outer covering including an upper wall part, hinge portions disposed at a periphery of the upper wall part, and side wall parts extending from the hinge portions. The side wall parts together with the upper wall part and the hinge portions of the outer covering are adapted to substantially confine the air bag when the air bag is in an uninflated condition. The upper wall part is conditionable to permit the airbag to escape the confines of the outer covering in response to an inflation of the air bag. The pad also includes a synthetic resin insert having a base part, collar parts, and lid parts respectively embedded in the side wall parts, the hinge portions, and the upper wall part of the outer covering. The collar part couples the base part with the lid parts.

Abstract: A system and method for continuous operation of a virtual machine system having operation modes including a guest mode in which virtual machines are operated and a nonguest mode in which a virtual machine monitor for controlling the virtual machines is operated. The continuous guest is a virtual machine which does not stop executing operation at the occurrence of a failure due to program error of the virtual machine monitor. A main storage is provided with two areas. One of the two areas is a continuous guest area having the same host absolute address in the nonguest mode as a guest absolute address in the guest mode, the area is used by the continuous guest which is a virtual machine which continues to operate on transition of the operation mode from the guest mode to the nonguest mode. The other is an area in which a program module for dispatching the continuous guest in response to the transition of the operation mode from the guest mode to the nonguest mode.

Abstract: An air bag apparatus includes a pad provided with a mounting piece portion extending downwardly from a bottom surface of the pad and having mounting holes. The mounting piece portion is fixed to a side wall of a bag holder in a state in which the mounting piece portion is held between a backplate and the side wall of the bag holder by rivets inserted into the mounting holes of the mounting piece portion and into mounting holes of the side wall of the bag holder and mounting holes of the backplate. Engagement portions for regulating an upward movement of the mounting piece portion are formed at a lower end portion of the mounting piece portion and the backplate except at those portions below the mounting holes. The engagement portions are formed to be recesses and projections which are adapted to engage are another.

Abstract: In order to simplify the fabrication process, form a lightweight air bag device and increase safety by reliably preventing damage to an insert during the inflation of an air bag, a pad according to the present invention includes a pad body made of a soft synthetic resin, such as urethane, and an insert 14 formed of a synthetic resin plate material with a shape-retaining characteristic. The insert 14 includes a substantially square cylindrical base portion 16 and two opening portions 18A, 18B integrally connected to the base portion via hinge portions 17A, 17B. Arcuate, gradual shape-changing portions 23, 24 are formed at the boundary edge portions between the base portion 16 and the hinge portions 17A, 17B and at boundary edge portions between the opening portions 18A, 18B and the hinge portions 17A, 17B, respectively to distribute stresses and minimize breakage.

Abstract: A liquid jet recording method of recording on a recording material with liquid droplets discharged trough plural scanning nozzles, in which:n/(s/p).gtoreq.2n/(s/p).times.k=g-1are satisfied,where n (n.gtoreq.2) is a number of the nozzles arranged at pitch P (.mu.m); s (.mu.m) is a distance of relative movement between the nozzles and the recording material between adjacent scans; k (k.gtoreq.1) is a maximum number of ink droplets per pixel and per scan; g (g.gtoreq.3) is a number of tone levels.

Abstract: A ridge or groove is formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate which is formed on a first electrode and whose major surface having a ridge or groove is slanted to a <110> crystal axis direction from a {001} crystal plane. A first semiconductor layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate, then a semiconductor function layer deviating from a {111} B crystal plane is formed on the first semiconductor layer, then a second semiconductor layer is formed on the semiconductor function layer and then a second electrode is formed on the second semiconductor layer. The ridge or groove extends to the <110> crystal axis direction, and at least one of the first semiconductor layer, the semiconductor function layer and the second semiconductor layer includes phosphorus.

Abstract: There is provided a DRAM memory cell structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having a main surface, source and drain regions of a second conductivity type formed in the main surface area of the semiconductor substrate, word lines extending in a first plane direction and formed on those portions of the semiconductor substrate which respectively lie between the source and drain regions, capacitors each having one of the source and drain regions as a storage node electrode, and bit lines buried in the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the source or drain regions, respectively.

Abstract: A pad of air bag apparatus which, as a molded part, has an enhanced soft touch and which is protected against accelerated time-dependent changes in the physical properties of the pad's core and skin layers, wherein the pad covers the upper surface of an air bag apparatus which is to be mounted on the steering wheel of an automobile or in any other necessary areas. The pad includes of a skin layer formed of a soft first resin material and a core layer formed of a second resin material harder than the first resin material. The first resin material is a styrenic thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) or olefinic TPE having a hardness (JIS A) of 70 and less whereas the second resin material is a polyester based TPE having a flexural modulus of 1,000-4,000 kgf/cm.sup.2 (98-392 MPa) or a polyurethane based TPE having a flexural modulus of 1,000-2,500 kgf/cm.sup.2 (98-245 MPa).

Abstract: A stick-shaped material propelling container comprised of a flat-shaped outer sleeve, a chuck in the form of tweezers having a pair of opposing flat arms inserted into the outer sleeve and having a base in the rear portion thereof, and a chuck ring connected to the front portion of the outer sleeve and positioned around the front portion of the chuck. A through hole is formed through the base of the chuck in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction thereof, and a retaining portion is formed on an inner surface of the outer sleeve. An elastic member is mounted between the rear inner surface of the through hole and the retaining portion of the chuck.

Abstract: A pressure pad comprises a plenum chamber, adapted to be conneceted to a pressurized-fluid supply means, having a pair of parallel slit nozzles formed in a top wall, and the chamber is arranged underneath a path of a strip. The plenum chamber is provided with holes in the top wall and at least two obstructions on the top wall. The holes are arranged on imaginary lines that extend between the nozzles on both sides of the top wall and central portions thereof point to adjacent edges of the path. Each of the obstructions comprises at least one obstructing wall arranged on either side of one of the imaginary lines. The lines may have V-, Arch- or Bracket-shaped configurations.