Abstract: This wireless communication control device is a first wireless control device provided with: a control circuit that causes the waveform of a reference signal transmitted to a wireless communication device in coordination with a second wireless communication control device to differ, either in the frequency domain or the time domain, from the waveform of a reference signal transmitted to the wireless communication device by the second wireless communication control device; and a transmission circuit that transmits the reference signal.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide means for efficiently incorporating substances such as lactic acid bacteria, which are useful for intestinal immune induction, into the intestinal tract. According to the present invention, the following are provided: an agent for promoting substance incorporation in the intestinal tract which has a surface layer protein (S-layer protein) having peptide motifs found in common among lactic acid bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus; a complex of the agent for promoting substance incorporation in the intestinal tract and a substance to be incorporated into the intestinal tract; a beverage or food product or a pharmaceutical product having the complex; and a method for screening for a lactic acid bacterium having a high level of ability to be transferred into the intestinal tract, by determining the expression level of an S-layer protein in the surface layers of bacterial cells of a test lactic acid bacterium.

Abstract: An electrical discharge machine for forming a small hole including an intermediate guide having an upper guide and lower guide to support an electrode for forming a small hole at two points between an electrode holder and a small hole guide and also having a chuck, which can be opened and closed, provided in each guide; a first drive unit to drive the intermediate guide in the longitudinal direction of the electrode, a second drive unit to open and close the guide chucks of the intermediate guide; and a third drive unit to variably change distance L between the upper guide and lower guide of the intermediate guide in the longitudinal direction of the electrode.

Abstract: In an electric discharge machining apparatus using linear motor drive in which a machining power supply unit supplies an inter-electrode space between an electrode (1) and a workpiece (2) with a machining power and the workpiece (2) is machined while the electrode (1) and the workpiece (2) are moved in relation to each other by means of a driving device (8, 9, 10) implemented by a linear motor, a magnet supporting plate (17) for supporting a magnet (16) which is on the secondary side of the linear motor; a base plate (18) formed with at least one hole portion (18a); a spacer (19) for holding the magnet supporting plate (17) and the base plate (18) while leaving a predetermined space therebetween; and a compressor, (23), a dryer (24), a lubricator (25) and a regulator (26) for injecting compressed gas (20) from the hole portion (18a) toward the magnet supporting plate (17) are provided.

Abstract: Separately from an electrode jumping operation (an amount of rise of a first electrode jump (22)) aimed at discharging machining debris produced during electrical discharge machining, an electrode jumping operation (an amount of rise of a second electrode jump (23)) is inserted for which is set an amount of rise of jump with which balls or rollers used on a sliding portion of a mechanically driving part undergo one revolution or more. Further, in a case where an abnormality of a lubricant supplying unit (101) is detected, as for a program being continued, machining is stopped after the termination of the program, or machining is stopped after continuing the program within a fixed time duration, or a program other than for machining operation is made executable.

Abstract: In an electric discharge machining apparatus, a vertically movable processing tank is provided for reserving therein a processing liquid. The processing tank is variable in a vertical direction. A link mechanism is used as a unit for vertically moving the processing tank. A processing-tank vertically-moving arrangement has an air cylinder for retaining the processing tank through an entire stoke of the processing tank moving vertically and a spring operative through the entire stroke and having a retaining force which varies depending upon a position of the stroke without the necessity of control from the outside. In a second embodiment a cylindrical bellows element is used to seal a table on which the workpiece is mounted to the tank.