Abstract: A semiconductor lighting apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices for outputting light having respective colors, a projector for synthesizing output light of the semiconductor light emitting devices and outputting synthesized light, and a calculating portion. The calculating portion controls a driving current to be supplied to the semiconductor light emitting devices in such a manner that a light quantity detected by optical sensors approximates to a predetermined target light quantity, and calculates a target temperature of the semiconductor light emitting devices to control temperature regulating portions in such a manner that a temperature detected by temperature sensors approximates to the target temperature.

Abstract: A laser light source projector includes a plurality of light sources of color groups each including a plurality of laser light sources. The laser light source projector projects an image by driving the laser light sources in each of the color groups. In response to change of the light output characteristics of one or a plurality of laser light sources in an arbitrary color group, light output from a remaining laser light source in the arbitrary color group is adjusted, thereby keeping white balance constant.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to developing a glycan markers capable of detecting a hepatic disease, and more specifically to developing a glycan marker indicating a hepatic disease-state. Furthermore, the present invention is also directed to developing a glycan marker capable of distinguishing hepatic disease-states with the progress of hepatocarcinoma. The present inventors identified, among the serum glycoproteins, glycopeptides and glycoproteins in which a glycan structure specifically changes due to a hepatic diseases including hepatocarcinoma and provide these as novel glycan markers (glycopeptide and glycoprotein) specific to hepatic disease-states.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for measuring a glycan-marker glycoprotein, by which liver disease can be detected with higher accuracy than is possible with conventional methods. Also, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for examining liver disease, by which liver disease can be detected with higher accuracy than is possible with conventional methods. Disclosed is a method for measuring at least one glycoprotein selected from alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) and Mac-2-binding protein (M2BP) contained in a sample collected from a subject, comprising: measuring AGP binding to a first lectin selected from AOL and MAL, when the glycoprotein is AGP; and measuring M2BP binding to a second lectin selected from WFA, BPL, AAL, RCA120, and TJAII, when the glycoprotein is M2BP.

Abstract: First, the present inventors assessed the effect of the compound represented by formula (III) below on Huh-7 cells infected with HBV, and demonstrated that the compound alone had an anti-HBV effect in vitro. Formula (III) Then, the present inventors revealed that the HBV replication-suppressing effect of PEG-IFN is enhanced in chimeric mice having a human liver infected with genotype C or A HBV when PEG-IFN is used in combination with the compound represented by formula (III) above. The present inventors also revealed that the HBV replication-suppressing effect of Entecavir is enhanced in chimeric mice having a human liver infected with genotype C HBV (wild-type and Entecavir-resistant strains) when Entecavir is used in combination with the compound represented by formula (III) above.

Abstract: Object of the Invention The invention provides a forged exhaust poppet valve and a method of solution heat treating the same, in which only a predetermined portion of the valve is subjected to the solution heat treatment so as to provide the seat portion of the valve with satisfactory wear resistance, and a predetermined transitional neck-stem region with satisfactory high-temperature creep strength. Means for Achieving the Object An exhaust poppet valve (10) comprises a head portion (12) which has a seat portion (14) on the outer periphery thereof and is integral with the diametrically tapered neck portion (16) of a stem portion (18) of the valve. Using a radio-frequency heating apparatus, a solution heat treatment is given to a predetermined transitional region (A) defined between the neck and stem portions that is exposed to exhaust air during a valve opening period so that the grain size in the region (A) is controlled not to exceed ASTM 10.

Abstract: The present invention provides (i) a method for proliferating a hepatitis virus, the method including the steps of: infecting, with the hepatitis virus, cells packed into a lumen of a hollow fiber made of a permeabilized membrane; and culturing the cells or (ii) a method for proliferating a hepatitis virus, the method including the steps of: infecting cells with the hepatitis virus; packing the cells into a lumen of a hollow fiber made of a permeabilized membrane; and culturing the cells. This provides an experimental system for infecting in vitro culture cells with a hepatitis virus such as HBV or HCV and then proliferating the hepatitis virus.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magneto-optical recording medium in which reading of recorded information is performed through domain wall displacement in a reproduction layer is provided, in which magnetic separation of groove side-wall portions is performed more reliably; as a result a magneto-optical recording medium with satisfactory recording and reproduction characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magneto-optical recording medium in which reading of recorded information is performed through domain wall displacement in a reproduction layer is provided, in which magnetic separation of groove side-wall portions is performed more reliably; as a result a magneto-optical recording medium with satisfactory recording and reproduction characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: A dye-sensitized solar cell and a method for manufacturing the same. By maintaining a constant interval between two substrates and controlling the amount and flowability of electrolyte retained between the substrates, superior reproducibility and stable performance can be obtained. On the surface of at least one transparent substrate, a transparent conductive film and a dye-sensitized semiconductor electrode are formed. The two substrates are then stacked with an electrolyte sealed between them. Between the two substrates, a member composed of two or more wire rods and formed in the shape of a mesh is disposed, functioning as an electrode.

Abstract: A hydrogen permeation membrane that selectively allows the passage of hydrogen and that can be formed in a desired shape is obtained by using a silicon resin that includes at least phenylheptamethylcyclotetrasiloxane and/or 2,6-cis-diphenylhexamethylcyclotetrasiloxane. A heat-resistant coating that is resistance to temperature of 300° C. or higher is obtained in a sintering process at temperature of 200° C. to 500° C., thereby providing a hydrogen or helium permeation membrane that has excellent water resistance. Similarly, a hydrogen or helium storage membrane that selectively stores hydrogen and that can be formed in a desired shape can be formed by using a silicon resin that includes at least phenylheptamethylcyclotetrasiloxane and/or 2,6-cis-diphenylhexamethylcyclotetrasiloxane. A heat-resistant coating that is resistance to temperature of 300° C. or higher is obtained in a sintering process at temperature of 200° C. to 500° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for precisely and adequately evaluating actual quality of reproduced data whenever applying a maximum likelihood decoder for converting signal reproduced from a recording medium into binary signal Based on data arrays of a pair of binary data outputted from a “Viterbi” decoder, SAM values are secured by selecting any of path-metric differential values (00) and (11) being the difference between a pair of values compared when renewing path-metric values PMM (00) and (11) outputted from the “Viterbi” decoder. The minimum SAM value for an ideally-reproduced signal is outputted from a constant generating circuit. If the SAM values are verified as valid, and yet, if the SAM values coincide with the equation “input SAM values”?“data value outputted from the constant generating circuit”, then squared values outputted from a square circuit are averaged by an averaging circuit. Finally, the average value is outputted as the reproduced signal evaluation.

Abstract: A metal oxide catalyst material which comprises one or more of transition metal elements having a 4d shell electron or a 5d shell electron as an electron bearing the electroconductivity thereof; and a catalyst for treating a combustion exhaust gas comprising the catalyst material. The contact of an exhaust gas with the metal oxide catalyst material allows harmful substances such as nitrogen oxides contained in the following exhaust gases to be decomposed or removed as a whole and simultaneously.

Abstract: A laser beam from an LD 11 is irradiated onto a magnetooptic disk 33 by a predetermined power for a heat treatment. After the heat treatment, the laser beam of a power smaller than the power upon heat treatment is irradiated to the heat-treated area. Reflection light of the laser beam of the small power enters photodetectors 24 and 26 and reflection light amounts of a P wave and an S wave are detected, respectively. A differential detecting circuit 27 detects a level of a magnetooptic signal corresponding to the heat-treated area on the basis of the reflection light amounts of the P wave and the S wave. A controller 28 determines whether or not the magnetooptic signal level detected by the differential detecting circuit 28 lies within a permissible range. If it is out of the range, the power of the laser beam to execute the heat treatment is adjusted and the process of a magnetooptic disk is stopped or a message showing such a fact is displayed, or the like.

Abstract: A pulley unit made by interposing a one-way clutch in an annular space between a pulley and an axial body providing a deep groove ball bearing on a base end side of the one-way clutch, and a roller bearing on the free end side; setting an inner rolling surface of a roller of the one-way clutch to be an outer diameter surface of the axial body and an inner rolling surface of a rolling member of the roller bearing to be an outer diameter surface of the axial body. The pulley unit permits easy position setting of the pulley, so that stabilized lock and free operation can be expected and productivity can be improved.

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium includes a first magnetic layer (reproduction layer), a second magnetic layer (control layer), a third magnetic layer (blocking layer), and a fourth magnetic layer (recording layer) having respective Curie temperatures TC1, TC2, TC3 and TC4. The Curie temperatures of the layers satisfy the relationships TC1>TC3>TC2 and TC4>TC3. In addition, the magnetic anisotropy of the third magnetic layer Ku3 is greater than that of the second magnetic layer Ku2. A magnetic domain wall in the first magnetic layer in front of the spot irradiated by the reproduction light in the direction of travel is displaced toward the peak temperature portion so that a recorded domain is expanded. Displacement in the spot direction of a domain wall in the first magnetic layer behind the reproduction light spot in the direction of travel is suppressed. The second and third magnetic layers control the magnetic exchange coupling between the first and fourth magnetic layers.

Abstract: A nitrogen oxides-removing material has fixed onto surfaces of metal fibers a complex compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Group VIII elements, Group IX elements and Group X elements in the periodic table of the elements and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Group I elements, Group II elements, Group XIII elements and Group XIV elements in the periodic table of the elements. A nitrogen oxides-removing device includes the nitrogen oxides-removing material and a means to elevate a temperature of the nitrogen oxides-removing material to than 100° C. or more.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an annealing apparatus adapted for performing anneal processing with respect to a magneto optical recording medium, which comprises a diffraction optical unit (3) for optically separating light beams emitted from a laser light source (1) into first light beams which are the 0 (zero)-th order diffracted light beams and second and third light beams which are the first order diffracted light beams, an object lens (5) for converging the first light beams to irradiate the first light beams thus converged onto magnetic layers of guide grooves or land portions forming both sides of the guide grooves, and for converging the second and third light beams to irradiate the second and third light beams thus converged onto magnetic layers in the vicinity of the boundary portions between guide grooves and land portions, and a biaxial actuator unit (6) for controlling the object lens (5) on the basis of linear characteristic of a first tracking error signal generated on the basis of inten

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording/reproducing method is disclosed which causes a laser beam to be emitted to a disc recording medium having information recorded thereon earlier by magnetic field modulation, the laser beam causing the disc recording medium to develop a temperature distribution such as to generate a driving force for moving a domain wall of a magnetic domain in the medium so that the magnetic domain smaller in diameter than a spot of the laser beam is expanded sufficiently to let information recorded in the domain be detected. The method comprises the steps of: recording information to the disc recording medium while rotating the medium in a first rotating direction; and reproducing the information that was recorded to the disc recording medium in the recording step while rotating the medium in a second rotating direction reverse to the first rotating direction.

Abstract: An alternator pulley includes a driving member driven and rotated via a belt from an output shaft of an engine. A driving member is disposed on an inner surface of the driving member and a one-way clutch is interposed between the driving and driven member. The one-way clutch includes rollers capable of rolling in a locked side direction along which a rotating power of the driving member is transmitted to the driven member or a free side direction along which the rotating powder is interrupted. Depending on a relative speed difference between the driving member and the driven member, the rollers are biased for pressing in the locked side direction and a torque value of the pressing is set preferably to less than 4 Nm.