Abstract: Radial cross sections of front sides in rotational direction of impellers attached to a pump shaft obliquely to a circumferential direction from an upstream side toward a downstream side have concave shapes protruding toward the upstream side, and radial cross sections of rear sides in rotational direction of the impellers have concave shapes protruding toward the downstream side.

Abstract: The motor comprises a stator, a rotor, and magnets. The stator has a plurality of magnetic poles circumferentially arranged at first spaced intervals. The rotor is rotatably arranged in a position opposing to the stator. The magnets are arranged at second spaced intervals circumferentially on a surface of the rotor. The stator is formed by laminating plate materials, and a plurality of laminated plate materials at least including outermost layers of a laminated body thereof are bent in a direction substantially parallel to the magnet in order to form extended portions. And, when a magnet opposed area of pole tip portion being closest to a magnet including the extended portion is S, and a sectional area of magnetic pole is A, then area ratio (S/A) fulfills the relation of 4.8>(S/A).

Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic, disease-resistant plants which have been transformed with an expression cassette including a constitutive gene expression promoter; and a gene, under the control of the promoter, encoding a harpin. The transformed cells in the transgenic plant effect the constitutive expression of the harpin in an amount effective for inducing a defense reaction. The harpin is a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, and possesses a hypersensitive-response-inducing activity. The present invention also provides methods for producing the transgenic plants, expression cassettes, recombinant vectors and genes encoding harpins.

Abstract: A stator 3 is provided with a plurality of magnetic poles 3a on the outer circumference thereof, and is configured from a plurality of layers of plate-shaped members. A rotor 4 is rotatably disposed around the stator. The inner circumferential face of the rotor is provided with a magnet 5. The outer circumferential ends of the magnetic poles of the stator are provided with an extended portion that is bent such that at least one plate-shaped member, including an outermost layer, of the plurality of plate-shaped members is substantially parallel to the magnet. When the inner diameter of a bent portion of a plate-shaped member that is the closest to the magnet of the at least one plate-shaped member constituting the extended portion is taken as R1i, and the thickness of the closest plate-shaped member is taken as T1, R1i<T1 is satisfied. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the driving efficiency of an outer rotor-type motor.

Abstract: A stator 3 is provided with a plurality of magnetic poles 3a on the outer circumference thereof, and is configured from a plurality of layers of plate-shaped members. A rotor 4 is rotatably disposed around the stator. The inner circumferential face of the rotor is provided with a magnet 5. The outer circumferential ends of the magnetic poles of the stator are provided with an extended portion that is bent such that at least one plate-shaped member, including an outermost layer, of the plurality of plate-shaped members is substantially parallel to the magnet. When a thickness of a thinnest plate-shaped member of the at least one plate-shaped member constituting the extended portion is taken as T1, and a thickness of a thinnest plate-shaped member of a plate-shaped member not constituting the extended portion is taken as T2, T1 >T2 is satisfied. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the driving efficiency of an outer rotor-type motor.

Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic, disease-resistant plants which have been transformed with an expression cassette including a constitutive gene expression promoter; and a gene, under the control of the promoter, encoding a harpin. The transformed cells in the transgenic plant effect the constitutive expression of the harpin in an amount effective for inducing a defense reaction. The harpin is a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, and possesses a hypersensitive-response-inducing activity. The present invention also provides methods for producing the transgenic plants, expression cassettes, recombinant vectors and genes encoding harpins.

Abstract: The guide vanes comprise two kinds of guide vanes which are alternately placed in the circumferential direction of a shroud. One kind of the guide vanes have a longer length than the other kind of the guide vanes, in the region which is close to the surface of the hub, but have substantially the same length as the other kind of the guide vanes, in the region which is close to the shroud. The leading edges of the second kind of guide vane are located further downstream in the pump axial direction than the leading edges of the first kind of guide vanes.

Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to provide disease-resistant plants which have been transformed to cause an effective defense reaction, and methods for producing the same. The present invention provides expression cassettes comprising a promoter capable of promoting a constitutive, inducible, or organ- or phase-specific gene expression, and a gene, under the control of said promoter, encoding an elicitor protein.

Abstract: A prewhirl type inlet casing for inducing a spiral stream in fluid has a suction passage arranged on an upstream side, being orthogonal to a rotary shaft of fluid machinery, and an internal passage connected to the suction passage, the internal passage being formed in a spiral shape so as to induce a swirl stream orthogonal to the rotary shaft in the fluid. A guide vane provided in the fluid passage in the inlet casing has a rectifying function capable of distributing flow rates in the swirl stream of the fluid in the internal passage between the swirl center side and the swirl outer peripheral side, and causing the fluid to deflect into the swirling direction of the swirl stream induced by the internal passage.

Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to provide disease-resistant plants which have been transformed to cause an effective defense reaction, and methods for producing the same. The present invention provides expression cassettes comprising a promoter capable of promoting a constitutive, inducible, or organ- or phase-specific gene expression, and a gene, under the control of said promoter, encoding an elicitor protein.

Abstract: Radial cross sections of front sides in rotational direction of impellers attached to a pump shaft obliquely to a circumferential direction from an upstream side toward a downstream side have concave shapes protruding toward the upstream side, and radial cross sections of rear sides in rotational direction of the impellers have concave shapes protruding toward the downstream side.

Abstract: An additional image is formed on a recording medium by filling a predetermined area including a punched portion or a stapled portion, in addition to an image which is to be formed originally, such as a text document. The additional image is formed with white developer or transparent developer. Since the thickness of the recording medium is increased by the white developer or transparent developer forming the additional image portion, the region around the punched portion or the stapled portion is reinforced and the recording medium is kept from being broken easily. When the image and the additional image are superposed, the superposition of the image and the additional image is avoided by either reducing the image or changing the position of the image to be formed.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to screen and identify a novel antimicrobial protein which can inhibit the growth of plant pathogenic microorganisms at a relatively low concentration such as Pyricularia oryzae and Rhizoctonia solani causative of two major diseases causing damage to rice crops and, further, to clone the gene of this protein. According to the present invention, an antimicrobial protein which can be obtained from a fraction of an aqueous extract of Lyophyllum shimeji precipitated by the ammonium sulfate precipitation method, has an antimicrobial activity at least against Rhizoctonia solani or Pyricularia oryzae, and shows the presence of components of about 70 kDa and/or about 65 kDa in molecular weight in the SDS-PAGE method. A gene encoding this protein and a method of using the same are provided.

Abstract: The guide vanes comprise two kinds of guide vanes which are alternatively placed around the angular direction. One kind of the guide vanes have longer length than the other kinds of the guide vanes at the region which is close to the surface of hub but have substantially same lengths the other kind of the guide vanes at the region which is close to the shroud. The leading edges of the second kind of guide vane locate in the further downstream of the pump axial direction than the fist kind of guide vanes.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to screen and identify a novel antimicrobial protein which can inhibit the growth of plant pathogenic microorganisms at a relatively low concentration such as Pyricularia oryzae and Rhizoctonia solani causative of two major diseases causing damage to rice crops and, further, to clone the gene of this protein. According to the present invention, an antimicrobial protein which can be obtained from a fraction of an aqueous extract of Lyophyllum shimeji precipitated by the ammonium sulfate precipitation method, has an antimicrobial activity at least against Rhizoctonia solani or Pyricularia oryzae, and shows the presence of components of about 70 kDa and/or about 65 kDa in molecular weight in the SDS-PAGE method. A gene encoding this protein and a method of using the same are provided.

Abstract: A prewhirl type inlet casing for inducing a spiral stream in fluid comprising a suction passage arranged on an upstream side, being orthogonal to a rotary shaft of fluid machinery, and an internal passage connected to the suction passage, the internal passage being formed in a spiral shape so as to induce a swirl stream orthogonal to the rotary shaft in the fluid. A guide vane is provided in the fluid passage in the inlet casing. The guide vane has a rectifying function capable of distributing flow rates in the swirl stream of the fluid in the internal passage between the swirl center side and the swirl outer peripheral side and has a rectifying function capable of causing the fluid to deflect into the swirling direction of the swirl stream induced by the internal passage. With these rectifying functions, a rectified swirl stream can be easily created in the in internal passage so as to prevent occurrence of a deviation of a cavitations inducing zone.

Abstract: An additional image is formed on a recording medium by filling a predetermined area including a punched portion or a stapled portion, in addition to an image which is to be formed originally, such as a text document. The additional image is formed with white developer or transparent developer. Since the thickness of the recording medium is increased by the white developer or transparent developer forming the additional image portion, the region around the punched portion or the stapled portion is reinforced and the recording medium is kept from being broken easily. When the image and the additional image are superposed, the superposition of the image and the additional image is avoided by either reducing the image or changing the position of the image to be formed.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to screen and identify a novel antimicrobial protein which can inhibit the growth of plant pathogenic microorganisms at a relatively low concentration such as Pyricularia oryzae and Rhizoctonia solani causative of two major diseases causing damage to rice crops and, further, to clone the gene of this protein. According to the present invention, an antimicrobial protein which can be obtained from a fraction of an aqueous extract of Lyophyllum shimeji precipitated by the ammonium sulfate precipitation method, has an antimicrobial activity at least against Rhizoctonia solani or Pyricularia oryzae, and shows the presence of components of about 70 kDa and/or about 65 kDa in molecular weight in the SDS-PAGE method. A gene encoding this protein and a method of using the same are provided.

Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to provide disease-resistant plants which have been transformed to cause an effective defense reaction, and methods for producing the same.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a paper transport unit, and a control unit for supplying the image forming unit with image data for a plurality of pages so that the image forming unit forms images page by page on sheets transported by the paper transport unit, wherein, when the image data for each page includes data representative of blanks on a leading end side and on a tail end side of the page in a paper transport direction, the control unit deletes the data representative of the blank either on the leading end side or on the tail end side from the image data prior to supplying the image forming unit with the image data, and controls the paper transport unit so that a plurality of sheets are transported sequentially to the image formation unit in a multiple state in which one sheet partially overlaps with another in the paper transport direction by a length corresponding to the deleted data representative of the blank.