Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a latch circuit that holds a digital signal of pixel data, the digital signal having 1 bit; a driver circuit that outputs the digital signal held in the latch circuit to a read bit line pair; a sense amplifier connected to the read bit line pair; and a selector circuit that selects whether the digital signal output from the sense amplifier is to be output in normal form or in inverted form.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a first converter which converts an analog signal representing a pixel value to an upper bit of a digital signal, and a second converter which converts the analog signal to a lower bit of the digital signal. The second converter includes a first latch circuit which latches, as phase information, a plurality of clock signals having different phases upon conversion to the upper bit in the first converter, a conversion circuit which generates the lower bit of the digital signal by converting the phase information to a binary value, and an adder, and a second latch circuit which latches an addition result of the adder. The adder adds the binary value converted by the conversion circuit and a value latched by the second latch circuit.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a first A/D converter circuit and a second A/D converter circuit per column. The first A/D converter circuit performs a first A/D conversion that (i) refines, using a first comparator, a range including a potential of an analog signal through a binary search, and (ii) generates, based on a result of the binary search, a first digital signal being a high-order portion of the digital signal. The second A/D converter circuit performs a second A/D conversion that generates a second digital signal being a low-order portion that is a remainder of the digital signal by measuring a time required for an output of the second comparator to be inverted, the second comparator comparing a quantitative relationship between the analog signal refined and a ramp signal.

Abstract: A method for producing D-lactic acid in high yield, and to provide a method for producing D-lactic acid with high selectivity, in which optical purity is high and a by-product organic acid is small. In one aspect, a microorganism, wherein activity of pyruvate formate-lyase (pfl) is inactivated or decreased, and further activity of Escherichia coli-derived NADH-dependent D-lactate dehydrogenase (ldhA) is enhanced, is cultured to efficiently produce D-lactic acid. With regard to a method for enhancing ldhA activity, by linking, on a genome, a gene encoding ldhA with a promoter of a gene which controls expression of a protein involved in a glycolytic pathway, a nucleic acid biosynthesis pathway or an amino acid biosynthesis pathway, suitable results are obtained compared to the method for enhancing expression of the gene using an expression vector.

Abstract: A method for producing D-lactic acid in high yield, and to provide a method for producing D-lactic acid with high selectivity, in which optical purity is high and a by-product organic acid is small. In one aspect, a microorganism, wherein activity of pyruvate formate-lyase (pfl) is inactivated or decreased, and further activity of Escherichia coli-derived NADH-dependent D-lactate dehydrogenase (ldhA) is enhanced, is cultured to efficiently produce D-lactic acid. With regard to a method for enhancing ldhA activity, by linking, on a genome, a gene encoding ldhA with a promoter of a gene which controls expression of a protein involved in a glycolytic pathway, a nucleic acid biosynthesis pathway or an amino acid biosynthesis pathway, suitable results are obtained compared to the method for enhancing expression of the gene using an expression vector.

Abstract: The invention provides an air bag apparatus which can securely prevent gas generated from an inflator from leaking from an insertion port of the air bag provided in a mounting base portion of the air bag. The air bag apparatus has a gas generating inflator (2) for expanding and developing an air bag (1) assembled in an inner portion from an insertion port (1c) provided in a mounting base portion (1b) of the air bag (1), the inflator (2) is received inside within the air bag (1), an internal contact fabric (4) for closing the insertion port (1c) of the air bag (1) from the inner side is provided for preventing a gas leakage, and an external contact fabric (5) is provided for reinforcing the bag mounting base portion (1b).

Abstract: The invention provides an air bag apparatus which can securely prevent gas, generated from an inflator, from leaking from an insertion port of an air bag provided in a mounting base portion of the air bag. The air bag apparatus has a gas generating inflator (2) for expanding and developing an air bag (1) assembled in an inner portion from an insertion port (1c) provided in a mounting base portion (1b) of the air bag (1). The inflator (2) is positioned inside the air bag (1). An internal contact fabric (4) for closing the insertion port (1c) of the air bag (1) from the inner side is provided for preventing a gas leakage, and an external contact fabric (5) is provided for reinforcing the bag mounting base portion (1b).

Abstract: The invention provides an air bag apparatus which can securely prevent gas generated from an inflator from leaking from an insertion port of the inflator provided in a mounting base portion of the air bag. The air bag apparatus has a gas generating inflator (2) for expanding and developing an air bag (1) assembled in an inner portion from an insertion port, (1c) provided in a mounting base portion (1b) of the air bag (1), the inflator (2) is received inside within the air bag (1), an internal contact fabric (4) for closing the insertion port (1c) of the inflator (2) from the inner side is provided for preventing a gas leakage, and an external contact fabric (5) is provided for reinforcing the bag mounting base portion (1b).

Abstract: In a seat with a side air bag system, of two stay clothes (9, 10) continuously extending from a sewing portion corresponding to a breaking portion (8, 80) of a trim cover (7), one stay cloth (9) is taken into a cavity (3) from an opening edge of a back pad (2), the other stay cloth (10) is taken into the cavity (3) of the back pad (2) from a front side of an air bag system (1) so as to wrap the air bag system (1) with two stay clothes (9, 10), the stay clothes (9, 10) are connected and supported by wear plates (11, 12, 110) gripping and fixing a take-in end of each of the stay clothes (9, 10) between the air bag system (1) and the side plate (6). Accordingly, each of the stay clothes (9, 10) can be easily assembled and the air bag system (1) can be directly wrapped with two stay clothes so as to efficiently concentrate an inflating pressure of the air bag on the sewing portion corresponding to the breaking portion (8, 80) of the trim cover (7), thereby quickly inflating and developing the air bag.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene(s) wherein tissues or cells of a plant which produces taxane-type diterpene(s) is cultured in the presence of at least one selected from the group consisting of jasmonic acids, compounds containing a heavy metal, complex ions containing a heavy metal, heavy metal ions, amines and antiethylene agents, a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene wherein the tissues or the cells of the plant are cultured by controlling the oxygen concentration in a gas phase in a culture vessel to less than the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere from the initial stage of the culture, or by controlling the dissolved oxygen concentration in a fluid medium which is in contact with the tissue or the cell to less than the saturated dissolved oxygen concentration at that temperature from the initial stage of the culture, a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene wherein the tissue or the cell of the plant is cultured in a culture vessel, while oxygenic g

Abstract: In a seat with a side air bag system, of two stay cloths (9, 10) continuously extending from a sewing portion corresponding to a breaking portion (8, 80) of a trim cover (7), one stay cloth (9) is taken into a cavity (3) from an opening edge of a back pad (2) so as to fasten a take-in end within the cavity, the other stay cloth (10) is rolled in a rear side of the back pad (2) from a front side of an air bag system (1) so as to fasten a roll-in end in the rear side of the back pad, and the air bag system is wrapped by the two stay cloths. Accordingly, each of the stay cloths (9, 10) can be easily assembled and the air bag system (1) can be directly wrapped by the two stay cloths so as to efficiently concentrate an inflating pressure of the air bag on the sewing portion corresponding to the breaking portion (8, 80) of the trim cover (7), thereby quickly inflating and developing the air bag.

Abstract: There is provided an air bag system in which leakage of gas generated by an inflator through an insertion opening formed at a mounting base portion of an air bag is prevented reliably. The air bag system has the air bag in which the inflator for generating gas for inflating and deploying the air bag is mounted through the insertion opening formed at the mounting base portion of said air bag. The air bag system has an applied cloth mounted to an outside of the air bag such that the insertion opening for the inflator is covered with the applied cloth by making one side of the applied cloth an open hole and fixing edges of three other sides of the applied cloth to an outside face of the mounting base portion.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene(s) wherein tissues or cells of a plant which produces taxane-type diterpene(s) is cultured in the presence of at least one selected from the group consisting of jasmonic acids, compounds containing a heavy metal, complex ions containing a heavy metal, heavy metal ions, amines and antiethylene agents, a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene wherein the tissues or the cells of the plant are cultured by controlling the oxygen concentration in a gas phase in a culture vessel to less than the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere from the initial stage of the culture, or by controlling the dissolved oxygen concentration in a fluid medium which is in contact with the tissue or the cell to less than the saturated dissolved oxygen concentration at that temperature from the initial stage of the culture, a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene wherein the tissue or the cell of the plant is cultured in a culture vessel, while oxygenic g

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of producing a taxane-type diterpene(s) wherein tissues or cells of a plant which produces taxane-type diterpene(s) are cultured in the presence of at least one member selected from the group consisting of jasmonic acids, wherein the tissues or the cells of the plant are cultured by controlling the oxygen concentration in a gas phase in a culture vessel to less than the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere from the initial stage of the culture, or by controlling the dissolved oxygen concentration in a fluid medium which is in contact with the tissue or the cell to less than the saturated dissolved oxygen concentration at that temperature from the initial stage of the culture, while oxygenic gas containing 0.