Abstract: Described is chondroitin sulfate obtained from microbial sources, and related compositions and methods.

Abstract: A liquid fuel catcher has a case which defines a plurality of chambers formed as depressions in a passage so that a liquid fuel is accumulated. The case has a communicating portion which communicates the chambers in series at upper portions thereof. The case has openings at each bottom portions of the chambers. The case has a return passage which returns the liquid fuel accumulated in the chambers to a fuel tank. The liquid fuel catcher has a return valve. The return valve closes the return passage, when the liquid fuel level in the fuel tank exceeds a predetermined level. The return valve opens the return passage, when the liquid fuel level in the fuel tank is less than a predetermined level. The fuel returns to the fuel tank from the chambers through the return valve.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a measuring unit that carries out a potential measuring process that measures potential at measured positions on a surface of a laminated body, in which a plurality of plate-like or film-like component parts with different physical properties have been laminated, in a state where an electrical signal has been supplied to the surface, and a processing unit that carries out a computational process, which has been decided in advance, using measurement values of the potential that have been measured by the potential measuring process to find an interfacial resistance of an interface between the component parts in the laminated body.

Abstract: A liquid fuel catcher has a case which defines a plurality of chambers formed as depressions in a passage so that a liquid fuel is accumulated. The case has a communicating portion which communicates the chambers in series at upper portions thereof. The case has openings at each bottom portions of the chambers. The case has a return passage which returns the liquid fuel accumulated in the chambers to a fuel tank. The liquid fuel catcher has a return valve. The return valve closes the return passage, when the liquid fuel level in the fuel tank exceeds a predetermined level. The return valve opens the return passage, when the liquid fuel level in the fuel tank is less than a predetermined level. The fuel returns to the fuel tank from the chambers through the return valve.

Abstract: Described is chondroitin sulfate obtained from microbial sources, and related compositions and methods.

Abstract: A control valve is disposed on a vapor control system which controls vapor. A case and caps hold a diaphragm. The case and the diaphragm define a primary chamber. The caps and the diaphragm define a secondary chamber. The secondary chamber communicates to an inlet passage via a through hole formed as an orifice. An inlet pipe is arranged so that the inlet passage and the secondary chamber are adjacent each other by being separated by an outer wall. By employing this arrangement, the through hole can be formed without increasing a vapor permeable surface area. Since the through hole is not formed on the diaphragm, a stable open-and-close characteristic can be provided. The through hole may be formed by using a molding die for forming the inlet passage. Thereby, it is possible to improve productivity.

Abstract: An environmental parameter setting aiding device includes: a data acquiring system that acquires, and saves as environmental parameter information, a current parameter value of an environmental parameter of an air conditioning controlling system, and acquires, and saves as complaint information, complaints from various occupants indicating perceptions that a temperature environment, using the parameter value, is too hot or too cold; a complaint proportion calculating portion that calculates, from the complaint information that has been stored, a complaint proportion, indicating a proportion of perceptions of being too hot or too cold, for each individual parameter value; a parameter value selecting portion that selects, as a recommended parameter value, the parameter value wherein the complaint proportion is nearest to 50%; and an aid screen displaying portion that presents the recommended value in an aid screen.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an enzyme composition. The enzyme composition may be used to treat gluten intolerant subjects, including suffering from non-Celiac gluten intolerance and/or non-Celiac gluten sensitivity. The enzyme composition may also be used to reduce gluten exposure in certain individuals. For example, the enzyme composition may also be used as a prophylactic to reduce exposure to gluten oligopeptides.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to prove a technique useful for controlling the reaction of oxidoreductase, and to provide a reaction system allowing efficient conversion from carbon dioxide to formic acid, and an efficient methanol production system including the reaction system. The reverse redox reaction is selectively promoted by carrying out the reaction catalyzed by an oxidoreductase using an artificial electron carrier. The reaction system is used for the production of methanol.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an enzyme composition. The enzyme composition may be used to treat gluten intolerant subjects, including suffering from non-Celiac gluten intolerance and/or non-Celiac gluten sensitivity. The enzyme composition may also be used to reduce gluten exposure in certain individuals. For example, the enzyme composition may also be used as a prophylactic to reduce exposure to gluten oligopeptides.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic device including a manipulation unit configured to acquire manipulation by a user, and a control unit configured to selectively execute one of a plurality of controls of the electronic device which are associated with a duration of the manipulation and to perform switching of at least one of the plurality of controls according to information indicating a state of the electronic device.

Abstract: A thrust race of a thrust roller bearing has a race portion and a cylindrical portion extending from the race portion in an axial direction. At a plurality of locations along a circumferential direction on the cylindrical portion, cutout portions are formed such that each of the cutout portions is recessed in the axial direction from a distal edge of the cylindrical portion toward the race portion. A protrusion is provided at a portion closer to the race portion from a bottom edge of each of the cutout portions such that the protrusion protrudes in a radial direction from the cylindrical portion toward a side away from the race portion. The protrusion serves as a race-retaining locking portion to prevent a race from moving out from a mating member on which the race is mounted.

Abstract: An atomic oscillator, a control method of the atomic oscillator and a quantum interference apparatus are provided in which high frequency stability can be maintained even though EIT signal intensity changes.

Abstract: A pair of rim portions (4a) and (4b) is formed in the shape of a discontinuous segmental circular ring, which includes cutout portions (8a) and (8b), respectively, at one position. The cutout portions of the respective rim portions are concentrically disposed so as to face each other with a predetermined interval therebetween in an axial direction while having the same phase in a circumferential direction. A plurality of pillar portions (6) form pockets (10) where rollers (14) are retained. An expandable elastic connecting portion (12), which connects one end portion (84a) of one rim portion in the circumferential direction to the other end portion (82b) of the other rim portion in the circumferential direction, is provided at the pair of rim portions.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes plural functional modules each of which is a minimum part unit that contributes to change in input/output potentials, and has an input and an output of one power line or one set of power lines, except for power lines having a same potential as that on an overhead wire side or that on a ground side. The functional module has an interface surface on one side surface, to which both of a signal line and the power line are connected. Each interface surface is divided into a first interface area in which a signal line terminal connected to the signal line is placed, and a second interface area in which a power line terminal connected to the power line is placed. The plural functional modules are adjacently arranged such that the interface surfaces face in a same direction, the first interface areas are located on one end side in common, and the second interface areas are located on the other end side in common.

Abstract: There is provided an RFID tag, which includes: a first substrate having flexibility and configured to include an antenna provided on a first surface of the first substrate; a second substrate; an IC chip mounted on a first surface of the second substrate; an anisotropic conductive rubber configured to contact the first substrate to the second substrate with the IC chip facing the first surface of the first substrate and to contact a terminal of the IC chip to the antenna; and an exterior rubber configured to cover the first substrate, the second substrate, and the IC chip.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic device, the method includes: applying an adhesive film on a package board; placing an electronic component on the package board with a bump therebetween; applying a first load to the electronic component while heating the electronic component to a first temperature higher than a reaction start temperature of the adhesive film and lower than a melting point of the bump; reducing the first load to a second load lower than the first load while maintaining the first temperature; and heating the electronic component to a second temperature higher than or equal to the melting point of the bump while maintaining the second load.

Abstract: A power converter is installed in a casing attached beneath the floor of an electric vehicle. The power converter includes a capacitor unit and a power semiconductor module housed in a hermetically sealed part of the casing closed by a cover for closing an access port, and a cooler installed in an exposed part, the cooler cooling heat generated from the power semiconductor module. The power converter includes a bus bar that electrically connects the power semiconductor module and the capacitor unit, and a conductive bar that electrically connects the capacitor unit and the bus bar. The conductive bar is drawn from the upper surface of the capacitor unit, and is bent into a crank.