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| 20120120717 | SRAM CELL - The present invention provides an SRAM cell which does not have the constraints on the size of transistors in order to realize stabilized write and read operations, which has a fewer number of control signal lines per port, and which can be easily multi-ported in the read operation as well as the write operation so that the write and read operations can be performed through a single bit line. The SRAM cell includes a feedback control transistor for controlling connection or disconnection of a positive feedback circuit between particularly two inverters, a write control transistor and a read control transistor connected to a single bit line, and a read buffer transistor connected to the read control transistor. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120108830 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN EPOXY COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR EPOXIDIZING A CARBON-CARBON DOUBLE BOND - The present invention provides a method for producing an epoxy compound, comprising oxidizing a carbon-carbon double bond of an organic compound by hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a neutral inorganic salt and a mixed catalyst of a tungsten compound (a), at least one phosphorus compound selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acids, phosphonic acids, and salts thereof (b) and a surfactant (c), and an epoxidizing method comprising oxidizing a carbon-carbon double bond by hydrogen peroxide in the presence of the catalyst and the neutral inorganic salt. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120108008 | ELECTRODE CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP, CONDUCTIVE MEMBER, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electrode connection structure of a semiconductor chip is provided to realize a highly reliable electrical connection with low stress without using a bump. A conductive member may be used for such an electrode connection structure. A semiconductor device is provided wherein semiconductor chips are arranged in layers without providing the semiconductor chips with a through via, and a method is provided for manufacturing such a semiconductor device. A part or all of the surface of a horizontal recess, which is formed in an adhesive layer arranged between a first electrode of a lower layer and a second electrode of an upper layer, is provided with a conductive member for connecting the first electrode and the second electrode. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107557 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PIEZOELECTRIC-BODY FILM, AND PIEZOELECTRIC-BODY FILM MANUFACTURED BY THE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric thin film including an aluminum nitride thin film containing scandium on a substrate, the method includes: sputtering step for sputtering aluminum and scandium under an atmosphere containing at least a nitrogen gas. In the sputtering step in the method according to the present invention, a scandium content rate falls within the range from 0.5% by atom to 50% by atom when a temperature of the substrate falls within the range from 5° C. to 450° C. during the sputtering step. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120095332 | BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION INSPECTING APPARATUS - A blood vessel function inspecting apparatus including blood flow velocity distribution measuring portion for measuring a blood flow velocity distribution within a blood vessel in a non-invasion manner with ultrasonic waves before releasing of the blood vessel from a blood flow obstruction or after a blood vessel diameter measuring time period; viscosity-shear rate relationship calculating portion; and blood shear stress calculating portion for measuring a blood flow velocity within the blood vessel, concurrently with the measurement of a change ratio of the diameter of the blood vessel within the predetermined blood vessel diameter measuring time period after releasing of the blood vessel from the blood flow obstruction, and calculating a blood shear stress on the basis of a measured blood flow velocity, and according to a viscosity-shear rate relationship. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120089020 | BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION INSPECTING APPARATUS - A blood vessel function inspecting apparatus including a first blood state index value calculating portion that obtains estimated hematocrit values at a plurality of points predetermined within a blood vessel, on the basis of values of a blood viscosity and values of a shear rate at said plurality of points, which are respectively extracted from a viscosity distribution and a shear rate distribution, and according to reference relationships between a hematocrit value and the blood viscosity, which reference relationships respectively correspond predetermined different values of the shear rate; and a second blood state index value calculating portion that calculates, as said blood state index value, a value relating to an amount of difference of the estimated hematocrit values at said plurality of points with respect to each other, which amount is minimized by transforming said reference relationships at the same ratio for all of the values of the shear rate. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120077037 | METAL COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method for producing metal complex nanoparticles, the method having: providing an aqueous solution containing a metal cyano complex anion having a metal atom M | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120074463 | SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE - Provided is a semiconductor wafer including: a base wafer containing silicon; an inhibitor that has been formed on the base wafer, has an aperture in which a surface of the base wafer is exposed, and inhibits crystal growth; and a light-absorptive structure that has been formed inside the aperture in contact with a surface of the base wafer exposed inside the aperture, where the light-absorptive structure includes a first semiconductor and a second semiconductor. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120070396 | ACTIVATOR INCLUDING BIOSURFACTANT AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT, MANNOSYL ERYTHRITOL LIPID, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention includes as an active ingredient at least one biosurfactant, in particular mannosyl alditol lipid (such as MEL and MML) or triacylated mannosyl alditol lipid. This allows providing an activator and anti-aging agent that is excellent in activating and anti-aging effects on cells and that is safe enough to be used for a long time, and also providing cosmetics, quasi-drugs, drugs, and drinks and foods including the activator and the anti-aging agent as active ingredients. Further, the present invention provides MEL whose mannosyl erythritol skeleton in a molecular structure is 1-O-β-D-mannopyranosyl-meso-erythritol and a method for producing the MEL with use of a microorganism. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120065089 | Method For Detecting And Distinguishing Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma - Disclosed are a method for early, sensitively and reliably detecting and distinguishing intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in a malignant tumor occurring primarily in the liver in a simple way, and a kit therefor. In the method, a glycan biomarker consisting of a lectin WFA (Wisteria floribunda Agglutinin)-binding glycoprotein derived from intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is used as a cancer marker to detect intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma by detecting the cancer marker in a test specimen. The method for detecting intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma can clearly differentiate intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma from hepatocellular carcinoma and enables early detection and determination with a performance clinically acceptable in terms of applicability, sensitivity and precision. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063777 | OPTICAL PATH SWITCHING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION APPARATUS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - An optical path switching type optical signal transmission/reception apparatus includes a one-to-seven compatible optically controlled optical path switching apparatus | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120039789 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ALUMINUM NITRIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ALUMINUM NITRIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL, AND ALUMINUM NITRIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL - Provided is a manufacturing device of an aluminum nitride single crystal including a crucible. An aluminum nitride raw material and a seed crystal are stored in an inner portion of the crucible. The seed crystal is placed so as to face the aluminum nitride raw material. The crucible includes an inner crucible and an outer crucible. The inner crucible stores the aluminum nitride raw material and the seed crystal inside the inner crucible. The inner crucible is also corrosion resistant to a sublimation gas of the aluminum nitride raw material. The inner crucible includes either, a single body of a metal having an ion radius larger than an ion radius of an aluminum, or includes a nitride of the metal. The outer crucible includes a boron nitride. The outer crucible covers the inner crucible. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120034474 | JOINED PRODUCT - A joined product according to the present invention is a joined product including a cemented carbide sintered compact serving as a first material to be joined and a cBN sintered compact or a diamond sintered compact serving as a second material to be joined. The first material to be joined and the second material to be joined are joined by a joining material that forms a liquid phase at a temperature exceeding 800° C. and lower than 1000° C. and that is placed between the first material to be joined and the second material to be joined. The first material to be joined and the second material to be joined are joined by resistance heating and pressing at a pressure of 0.1 to 200 MPa. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120031599 | HEAT EXCHANGER-INTEGRATED REACTION DEVICE HAVING SUPPLYING AND RETURN DUCTS FOR REACTION SECTION - The present invention provides a compact heat exchanger-integrated reaction device, comprising a heat exchange section and a reaction section, capable of providing high heat recovery performance, with a small number of ducts of the reaction section formed for supplying and return paths without increasing the volume of the entire reaction device. With the heat exchanger-integrated reaction device equipped with ducts in the reaction section adjacent to the plate-stacking-type heat exchange section, collection ducts for allowing a plurality of regions having openings for discharging a fluid to be processed to be connected with at least one supplying duct of the reaction section, and distribution ducts for allowing at least one supplying duct of the reaction section to be connected with a plurality of regions having openings for receiving the fluid from the heat exchange section are provided between the heat exchange section and the duct of the reaction section. The collection and distribution ducts are placed between one side surface of the heat exchange section and the supplying/return ducts of the reaction section, and the above structure can be obtained by opening a part of the contact surface between the heat exchange section and the duct of the reaction section. Even if the region having the inlets/outlets of the heat exchange section is divided into pieces in order to increase heat exchange performance, the reaction section is integrated into an uninterrupted flow or flows whose quantity is smaller than the total quantity of the regions. Consequently, reactions and heating can be controlled easily. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120027926 | REFERENCE ELECTRODE, ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL - [PROBLEM] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a reference electrode which is easy to manufacture and handle, its manufacturing method, and an electrochemical cell using this. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120002783 | NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION SYSTEM USING NUCLEAR RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE - Isotope identification imaging of nuclear fuel material or explosives concealed in a drum or container in which nuclear reactor fuel or radioactive waste are sealed is realized while ensuring high precision, high reliability, and safety. A sample | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110315919 | PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR LITHIUM-BORATE-SYSTEM COMPOUND - A process is provided, process which makes it possible to produce lithium-borate-system materials by means of relatively simple means, lithium-borate-system materials which are useful as positive-electrode active materials for lithium-ion secondary battery, and the like, whose cyclic characteristics, capacities, and so forth, are improved, and which have better performance. The present production is characterized in that a divalent metallic compound including at least one member of compounds that is selected from the group consisting of divalent-iron compounds and divalent-manganese compounds, and boric acid as well as lithium hydroxide are reacted at 400-650° C. in a molten salt of a carbonate mixture comprising lithium carbonate and at least one member of alkali-metal carbonates that is selected from the group consisting of potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, rubidium carbonate and cesium carbonate in a reducing atmosphere. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110312103 | SAMPLE DETECTION SENSOR AND SAMPLE DETECTION METHOD - The present invention uses a detecting plate having a transparent substrate on which a single-crystal Si thin film layer, a transparent thin film layer, and a sample capturing layer for capturing a sample are provided. The present invention comprises a light directing mechanism for directing light through said transparent substrate of the detecting plate, and a light detection mechanism for detecting reflected light of the incident light from the detecting plate. The present invention is configured so that a change in absorbance occurs at the sample capturing layer or in the vicinity thereof, when said sample is captured on said sample capturing layer. The wavelengths of said incident light are determined in a range of wavelengths within which said change in absorbance occurs. In this way, the sample is detected by means of measuring a significant change in intensity of the reflected light which is generated when the sample is captured on the sample capturing layer. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110305595 | HYDROGEN FATIGUE RESISTANT FERRITIC STEEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A ferritic steel having tensile properties and fatigue properties capable of withstanding use in a hydrogen environment and a method of manufacture thereof are provided. By adding one or more element selected from among vanadium (V), titanium (Ti) and niobium (Nb) so that the steel includes, together with at least ferrite grains in the structure, a carbide or carbides of one or more element selected from among V, Ti and Nb, the reduction of area and the fatigue crack propagation rate of the ferritic steel in a hydrogen environment are improved. The advantages of the invention were confirmed in cases where the ferrite grains are small grains of 1 μm or less in size, and in cases where the ferrite grains are coarse grains from several micrometers to 20 μm in size, and moreover in cases where the ferrite grains are coarse grains from several micrometers to 60 μm in size. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110297955 | Semiconductor Light Emitting Diode - A highly-efficient semiconductor light emitting diode with improved light extraction efficiency comprising at least a substrate having a plurality of crystal planes, a first conductivity-type barrier layer, an active layer serving as a light emitting layer and a second conductivity-type barrier layer stacked on the substrate. The semiconductor light emitting diode comprises a ridge structure configured from one flat surface and at least two inclining surfaces in the in-plane direction. The width (W) of the flat surface of the ridge structure is 2λ (λ: light emission wavelength) or less. The active layer is positioned in the laminating direction so that the shortest length (L) between two points is λ (light emission wavelength) or less, wherewith the first point is the shortest point where the light emitted from the center (C) of the active layer begins total internal reflection at the interface between the inclining surfaces of the ridge structure and air, and the second point is a point where the flat surface begins. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110287459 | Luciferin luminescent substrate of marine ostracod crustacean and method for production thereof - The present invention relates to a method for producing marine ostracod crustacean luciferin or a derivative thereof represented by a general formula (4), characterized by reacting a compound represented by a general formula (2) with a compound represented by a general formula (3): | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110287320 | Nickel Positive Electrode for Fiber Battery - Disclosed is a nickel positive electrode for a fiber battery having a long life duration, and also being enabling a high output and high capacity to be attained. For this purpose, the nickel positive electrode for a fiber battery is obtained by coating a carbon fiber with nickel, then causing a cathodic polarization in a nickel nitrate bath using the nickel-coated carbon fiber as a cathode, and then immersing the precipitate, which was deposited on the surface of the carbon fiber by the cathodic polarization, in an aqueous caustic alkali solution. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110284809 | PARTICLES, METHOD OF PRODUCING PARTICLES, AND COATING MATERIAL, FILM, AND INK INCLUDING PARTICLES - Particles having a thermochromic property include rod-shaped single crystals including vanadium dioxide (VO | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110282006 | METHOD OF MELT KNEADING, EXTRUDATE, AND TRANSPARENT RESIN MATERIAL - It is an object of the present invention to obtain an optically transparent nano-dispersion polymer blend extrudate and a transparent resin having a microscopic dispersion structure in which incompatible polymer blend is melted and kneaded, one of resins is formed into a matrix, a size of dispersed phase of the other resin is controlled to 300 nm or less, more preferably 100 nm or less. Extra additive such as a compatibilizer is not added. When the incompatible polymer blend is melted and kneaded using a high shearing and forming apparatus having an inner feedback type screw under a condition that the screw rotation speed is 600 rpm to 3000 rpm, the rotation speed of the inner feedback type screw is increased, the kneading time is set under constant rotation speed, the high shearing forming condition is adjusted, and a structure in which a size of dispersed phase is controlled to 300 nm or less, more preferably 100 nm or less is formed. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110274127 | PULSE LASER, OPTICAL FREQUENCY STABILIZED LASER, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - The object is to measure the carrier envelope offset frequency of a mode-locked laser. Provided is a pulse laser that measures a carrier envelope offset frequency of a mode-locked laser, pulse laser comprising a mode-locked laser that generates an optical pulse; a band expanding section that expands an oscillated frequency range of the mode-locked laser; a harmonic generating section that generates a harmonic component of the mode-locked laser; a light transmitting section that inputs light to the harmonic generating section without changing relative timings of a predetermined frequency component of the mode-locked laser output from the band expanding section and a frequency component that is at least double the predetermined frequency component; a detecting section that detects a beat signal of the harmonic component and the component passed through the harmonic generating section by the mode-locked laser; and a calculating section that calculates a carrier envelope offset frequency and a repeating frequency based on the beat signal. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110273205 | RECONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A reconfigurable integrated circuit has non-volatile storage cells which form a plurality of programmable routing switches between basic tiles. The circuit includes a plurality of non-volatile storage cells providing a multiplexer-type programmable routing switch including a plurality of input terminals and an output terminal. The non-volatile storage cells are structured as a field effect transistor with a switch function and are placed in a propagation path of signal voltage from the input terminals to the output terminal, and the non-volatile storage cells configure the multiplexer-type programmable routing switch to selectively propagate the signal voltage from the input terminals, to provide a control circuit which directly writes conducted or non-conducted status for the non-volatile storage cells, erases the connection information, and reads to verify the conducted or non-conducted status of the non-volatile storage cells. . | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110266919 | DETECTION SENSOR AND RESONATOR OF DETECTION SENSOR - A detection sensor ( | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110262817 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - Disclosed is a lithium ion secondary battery, in which comprises a vinyl alcohol polymer or a derivative thereof in an amount of 0.3 mg or more per 1 mAh of battery capacity in terms of a vinyl alcohol unit moiety content. The lithium ion secondary battery can decrease the battery voltage under high-temperature conditions and cannot be recharged after being exposed to high-temperature conditions. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110257116 | BIOSURFACTANT-CONTAINING SKIN CARE COSMETIC AND SKIN ROUGHNESS-IMPROVING AGENT - The present invention relates to a cosmetic for skin roughness improvement/skin care containing a biosurfactant, particularly MEL-A, MEL-B or MEL-C. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110247209 | METHOD OF MAKING CONTACT PROBE - [Problem] To provide a contact probe which can easily be connected with a measurement apparatus electrically, can measure a high speed and high frequency signal with a fine pitch easily and correctly, and can easily cope with signal measurement for a plurality of channels, and a method of making the contact probe. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110242881 | SRAM DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an SRAM device which can set a threshold voltage of a selection transistor appropriate for all the cells on an SRAM array. The SRAM device uses a field effect transistor as the selection transistor, the field effect transistor comprising a gate to drive the transistor and a terminal to control a threshold voltage, which are electrically separated from each other, wherein the SRAM device comprises a circuit which gradually increases, on a reading operation, a voltage supplied to the terminal to control the threshold of the selection transistor from a voltage at the start of the reading. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239825 | METAL COMPONENT COLLECTION AGENT AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING METAL COMPONENT - The present invention provides a metal component collection agent for collecting one or more metal components from a metal component-containing material; the agent containing, as an active ingredient, a compound containing one or more group 2 elements of the periodic table, or a compound containing one or more lanthanoid elements. The present invention further provides a method for collecting one or more metal components from a metal component-containing material; the method comprising heating the metal component-containing material and the metal component collection agent in such a manner that a metal vapor or metal oxide vapor produced by heating the metal component-containing material is brought into contact with the metal component collection agent. According to the present invention, metal components can be easily and efficiently collected from materials containing highly useful metal components such as noble or rare metal. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110235898 | MATCHING PROCESS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL REGISTRATION AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM THEREOF - The matching process includes: finding first and second three-dimensional reconstruction point sets that contain three-dimensional position coordinates of segments, and first and second feature set that contain three-dimensional information regarding vertices of the segments, from image data of an object (S | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110223481 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING METAL SULFIDE - The present invention provides a production process of a metal sulfide, which includes placing a metal component and sulfur in a conductive container, and applying a pulsed direct current to the container in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to cause the metal component to react with sulfur, and also provides a metal sulfide obtained by the process and represented by a composition formula: MS | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222289 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, LASER BEAM OSCILLATION DEVICE AND LASER BEAM AMPLIFYING DEVICE - An optical element | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110220247 | FLUX COMPOSITION AND SOLDERING PASTE COMPOSITION - Disclosed herein are a flux and a soldering paste based on the flux. The flux is free from a change in viscosity with age, “skinned surface,” and “rough and crumbling,” and is excellent in printability and solderability. The flux contains, as elements, a resin, a thixo agent, an activator, a solvent and glucopyranosylamine type nanotube. The soldering paste further contains a solder powder. Preferably, the solder powder is free from lead. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110213269 | PORTABLE TERMINAL HAVING FUNCTION OF MEASURING MENTAL FATIGUE, METHOD FOR MEASURING SAME AND SERVER COMPUTER - This invention aims to provide a portable terminal device capable of easily and accurately measuring and evaluating mental fatigue, its measuring method, and a server computer. The portable terminal device includes an operation unit | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110211844 | OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - An optical gate switch circuit includes: an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer having an optical path that outputs control light and probe light to a second optical directional coupler via a first optical directional coupler and an optical phase modulation element, and another optical path that connects a third optical directional coupler to which the probe light is input, to the second optical directional coupler via a variable optical attenuator and an optical phase shifter; and a bandpass filter connected to the second optical directional coupler. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110209244 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF PLANT IMPARTED WITH STRESS TOLERANCE AND USE THEREOF - The present invention provides a method for producing a plant with a stress tolerance, comprising the step of inhibiting, in a plant, a function of a first polypeptide including an amino acid sequence represented by any one of SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. This enables developing a new technique capable of producing a plant with a stress tolerance such as a salt tolerance and a high osmotic pressure tolerance. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110207284 | SOLID-STATE MEMORY MANUFACTURING METHOD - A method of at least one embodiment of the present invention of manufacturing a solid-state memory is a method of manufacturing a solid-state memory, the solid-state memory including a recording film whose electric characteristics are varied by phase transformation, the method including: forming the recording film by forming a laminate of two or more layers so that a superlattice structure is provided, each of the layers having a parent phase which shows solid-to-solid phase-transformation, the recording film being formed at a temperature not lower than a temperature highest among crystallization temperatures of the parent phases. It is thus possible to manufacture a solid-state memory which requires lower current for recording and erasing data and has a greater rewriting cycle number. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110200875 | SULFUR-MODIFIED POLYACRYLONITRILE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATION THEREOF - Provided is a sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile manufacturing method that is characterized in that a starting base powder that comprises sulfur powder and polyacrylonitrile powder is mixed and the mixture is heated in a non-oxidizing environment while outflow of sulfur vapor is prevented. Also provided are a cathode for lithium batteries that uses, as the active substance, the sulfur-modified polyacrylonitrile manufactured with the method, and a lithium secondary battery that includes the cathode as a component element. This enables the practical use of an inexpensive sulfur-based material as the cathode material for lithium secondary batteries, and in particular, a sulfur-based cathode material that enables higher output and has excellent cycle life characteristics, as well as other characteristics, and secondary lithium batteries using the same can be obtained. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110193133 | PHOTO DETECTION DEVICE - A highly sensitive and wide spectra-range mesa type photodetector having the impurity diffusion along the mesa-sidewall is provided with. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110192506 | Hydrogen absorbing alloy, hydrogen absorbing alloy electrode, secondary battery, and production method of hydrogen absorbing alloy - The present invention provides a hydrogen absorbing alloy containing a phase of a Pr | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110192255 | COMPOSITION FOR COLLECTING METAL COMPONENT - The present invention provides a composition for collecting a metal component from a metal component-containing material, the composition containing a compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of lanthanoid elements and elements in group 2 of the periodic table, and a compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of elements in groups 3, 4, 12, and 13 of the periodic table and transition metal elements in the 4th period of the periodic table. The present invention further provides a method for collecting a metal component using this composition. With the use of the composition of the present invention, a metal component can be easily and efficiently collected from a material containing a highly useful metal component such as noble or rare metal. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110189723 | CELL DETECTION METHOD, AND MICROARRAY CHIP FOR USE IN THE METHOD - Disclosed is a detection method for detecting a specific cell in a sample containing multiple cells including the specific cell. Specifically disclosed is a detection method for detecting a specific cell in a sample containing multiple cells including the specific cell, which comprises the following steps (1) and (2): (1) retaining cells contained in the sample on a microarray chip which comprises multiple microchambers, wherein each of the microchambers can contain multiple cells; and (2) confirming the presence or absence of the specific cell in the cells retained on the microarray chip. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110189070 | Method of Producing Amorphous Aluminum Silicate, Amorphous Aluminum Silicate Obtained with said Method, and Adsorbent using the same - The present invention aims to provide an adsorbent with superior adsorption performance of 20 wt % or more in a humidity range of 5 to 60 wt % by using a low-cost reagent as the raw material. Aluminum sulfate is used as the Al source, the respective aqueous solutions are mixed to achieve a Si/Al molar ratio of 0.70 to 1.0 in the mixed solution, the pH is adjusted to be 6 to 9 with acid or alkali, the solution is heated at 90 to 110° C. and subsequently subject to desalination treatment in order to synthesize an amorphous aluminum silicate. The obtained amorphous aluminum silicate yields a superior water vapor adsorption performance of 20 wt % or more in a relative humidity of 60%, and can be used as an adsorbent for desiccant air conditioning and as other adsorbents. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110183438 | Method for Sensing a Substance to be Detected in a Sample - A single-electron transistor comprising at least a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on top of the substrate opposing to each other, and a channel arranged between the source electrode is disclosed wherein the channel is composed of ultra fine fibers. By having such a constitution, a sensor can have excellent sensitivity. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182545 | WAVELENGTH DOMAIN OPTICAL SWITCH - To provide a waveguide type wavelength domain optical switch which makes it possible to use a cheap lens, makes it possible to correct aberration of the demultiplexed wavelengths produced in a plurality of waveguide type demultiplexing circuits, a wavelength domain optical switch is provided with: an integrated element formed by laminating three or more waveguide type demultiplexing circuits; a first lens for collecting light emitted from the integrated element; a polarization separation element for separating light emitted from the first lens into X polarization and Y polarization and emitting the X polarization and the Y polarization at different angles; a second lens for collecting the X polarization and the Y polarization; a first reflective optical phase modulator for reflecting the collected X polarization and Y polarization at any angles; a ½-wavelength plate disposed between the second lens and the first reflective optical phase modulator in order to make polarization directions of the X polarization and the Y polarization identical; and a second reflective optical phase modulator for inputting light from the first reflective optical phase modulator into one of the waveguide type demultiplexing circuits. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110180427 | Method for Sensing a Substance to be Detected in a Sample - A single-electron transistor comprising at least a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on top of the substrate opposing to each other, and a channel arranged between the source electrode is disclosed wherein the channel is composed of ultra fine fibers. By having such a constitution, a sensor can have excellent sensitivity. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110173720 | Method for Modifying Sugar Chain Structure in Plant, and Plant Produced by the Method - The present invention provides a method for reducing or inhibiting fucose modification to a N-linked sugar chain in a plant, and a transgenic plant, or the like, in which the fucose modification has been reduced or inhibited. Transcription or translation of a gene coding for an enzyme involved in synthesis of sugar nucleotide GDP-fucose is inhibited by post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) or transcriptional gene silencing (TGS), and an amount of GDP-fucose in a plant cell is reduced, to reduce or inhibit fucose modification to a sugar chain including glycoprotein sugar chain, glycolipid sugar chain, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide, and the like, thereby enabling production of a glycoprotein, or the like, from which fucose modification, which may become an allergen, has been removed, and enabling clinical application of a medicinal glycoprotein produced with a plant. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110145579 | PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION METHOD - There is provided an authentication method which is secure against various attacks such as a KCI attack on a public network, and can reduce a required calculation amount compared to a conventional method. In this authentication method, a mutual authentication processing technique using Diffie-Hellman type key exchange is modified to compute a master secret Ks in a server by Ks=g | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110132793 | CONTAINER ACCOMMODATING AN OBJECT - There is provided a container which can accommodate an object inside an internal space shaped by an inner surface of the container. The inner surface substantially has a shape of a sphere, a semiregular polyhedron or a dual polyhedron of a semiregular polyhedron. The inner surface is formed by plural segmented members made of a refractory material. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110129743 | CATALYST FOR GENERATING HYDROGEN AND METHOD FOR GENERATING HYDROGEN - The present invention provides a catalyst for generating hydrogen containing at least one composite metal selected from the group consisting of a composite metal of platinum and nickel and a composite metal of iridium and nickel, the catalyst being used in a decomposition reaction of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of hydrazine and a hydrate thereof; and a method for generating hydrogen, including contacting the catalyst for generating hydrogen with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of hydrazine and a hydrate thereof. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110124793 | MELT-KNEADED PRODUCTS AND MOLDED RESIN PRODUCTS - A melt-kneaded product includes: a disperse medium selected from an a rubber, elastomer, thermoplastic resin, or thermosetting resin; and a filling material constituted by nano-size filler particles having a mutually aggregating nature, said nano-size filler particles being uniformly dispersed in the disperse medium. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110121722 | PEROVSKITE OXIDE THIN FILM EL ELEMENT - There are provided a perovskite oxide thin film EL element in which a hole transport layer/a light-emitting layer/an electron transport layer comprising a perovskite oxide thin film are formed on a lower electrode, and an upper electrode is formed thereon, and a perovskite oxide thin film EL element that provides red light emission in the vicinity of a wavelength of 610 nm, which is the basis of display making. A perovskite oxide thin film EL element comprising a lower electrode | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110121316 | SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The area of each body region is minimized, and the gate oxide films at the bottoms of the trenches are more effectively protected by depletion layers extending from the body regions. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110115363 | ELECTRON EMITTER AND FIELD EMISSION DEVICE PROVIDED WITH ELECTRON EMITTER - An electron emitter includes a guard electrode | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110113927 | SEPARATION REAGENT OF PLATINUM GROUP METAL, METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND RECOVERING PLATINUM GROUP METAL, AND AMIDE-CONTAINING TERTIARY AMINE COMPOUND - The present invention provides a novel separation reagent capable of obtaining a high extraction % of rhodium in a chlorine-based acid solution, which has never existed heretofore, and a method for separating and recovering a platinum group metal using the same. An organic phase composed of an amide-containing tertiary amine separation reagent represented by the structural formula shown below is brought into contact with an acid solution containing a platinum group metal, thereby extracting rhodium, platinum and palladium with the organic phase. Among the metals extracted with the organic phase, rhodium is selectively back-extracted with a highly-concentrated hydrochloric acid solution, while palladium and platinum are back-extracted with a highly-concentrated nitric acid solution: | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110112994 | MUSICAL PIECE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, MUSICAL PIECE RECOMMENDATION METHOD, AND MUSICAL PIECE RECOMMENDATION COMPUTER PROGRAM - A musical piece recommendation system is provided that allows instantaneous registration of a new user and a new musical piece without retraining in a basic training section. A first incremental training section | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110111501 | COMPLEX OF POLYSACCHARIDE AND DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA - An object of the present invention is to provide novel double-stranded RNA having an RNA interference effect, in which the cellular uptake and the resistance to enzymatic degradation are improved, without reducing the RNA interference effect. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110108399 | Switching Element - There is provided a switching element which facilitates integration with higher density and lamination in a device, the switching element including: an insulating substrate; a first electrode provided on the insulating substrate; a second electrode provided above the first electrode; and a between-electrode gap section provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a nanometer-scale gap for causing a switching phenomenon of a resistor by applying a prescribed voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110104767 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHAs) USING HALOBACTERIUM AND HALOBACTERIUM - Disclosed are a method for producing polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) using a halobacterium belonging to the genus | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110095242 | THERMOCHROMIC MICROPARTICLES, DISPERSIONS THEREOF, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AS WELL AS LIGHT-MODULATING COATINGS, LIGHT-MODULATING FILMS AND LIGHT-MODULATING INKS - Thermochromic microparticles including vanadium dioxide (VO | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110094875 | MAGNETORESISTANCE EFFECT DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF THE SAME - A magnetoresistance effect device including a multilayer structure having a pair of ferromagnetic layers and a barrier layer positioned between them, wherein at least one ferromagnetic layer has at least the part contacting the barrier layer made amorphous and the barrier layer is an MgO layer having a highly oriented texture structure. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110091769 | IONIC LIQUID - Disclosed is an ionic liquid having a low melting point, a low viscosity, and high electrical conductivity. Specifically disclosed is an anion represented by [CF | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110081691 | GENE THAT INCREASES PRODUCTION OF PLANT FAT-AND-OIL AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - This invention is intended to search for a transcription regulator having a novel function of improving the amount of substances produced per individual plant and to enhance such properties in a plant. A chimeric protein resulting from the fusion of a transcription factor belonging a transcription factor family that includes a transcription factor comprising the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 4 with the repressor domain is expressed in a plant. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110081478 | Organic electroluminescent element and manufacturing method thereof - An method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element, the method including a positive electrode and a glass substrate sequentially laminated on one side of a light-emitting layer and a negative electrode formed on the other side of the light-emitting layer. The organic electroluminescent element has a functional layer which is formed by causing gas molecules of at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of dyes and charge transport materials to contact and penetrate a π conjugated organic polymer compound. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110070486 | IONIC LIQUID - An object of the invention is to provide an ionic liquid having a low viscosity and low melting point, and having a high electrical conductivity and thermal stability. The ionic liquid comprises fluorosulfonyl(trifluoromethylsulfonylamide) (FTA) as an anion and a cation selected from N1111, N1112, N1113, N1122, N1133, N2221, N1224, DEME, N2222, N3333, N4444, N5555, AS44, DMI, PMI, BMI, Py11, Py12, Py14, PP11, PP12, PP13, PP14, P2222, and PS44. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110070362 | BATTERY ELECTRODE SUBSTRATE, AND ELECTRODE EMPLOYING THE SAME - An electrode substrate for a battery has nickel applied as a coat on the surface of a base constituted of crossing of a plurality of fibers including a core formed of synthetic resin and a coating of synthetic resin having a softening temperature lower than the softening temperature of the synthetic resin forming the core. The electrode substrate has the fibers of the base fusion-bonded at a cross point by heat treatment. The ratio of the coating occupying a II-II cross section of the fiber cross point is larger than the ratio of the coating occupying a fiber cross section (III-III cross section) at a site other than at the cross point. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110059466 | SUPPORT FOR ELECTROPHORESIS INCLUDING HYDROPHOBIC POLYMER MEMBRANE, AND ELECTROPHORETIC SEPARATION METHOD USING THE SAME - There is provided a membrane electrophoresis which renders possible glycan analysis of polysaccharide and glycoprotein by separating protein, glycoprotein or polysaccharide by electrophoresis, followed by carrying out a glycan-releasing treatment of the membrane used in the electrophoresis, or a membrane electrophoresis which renders possible detection of the same by an immunostaining which uses an antibody, wherein a layer containing a hydrophilic polymer is formed on a hydrophobic polymer membrane by coating the hydrophilic polymer on the whole surface of the hydrophobic polymer membrane or by soaking the hydrophobic polymer membrane in a solution of the hydrophilic polymer, which is used as a substrate for electrophoresis. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110057163 | NANO-WIRE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE TRANSISTOR, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE TRANSISTOR - Provided is a method for fabricating a nano-wire field effect transistor including steps of: preparing a nano-wire field effect transistor including two columnar members made of a silicon crystal configuring a nano-wire on a substrate are arranged on a substrate in parallel and one above the other, and an SOI substrate having a (100) surface orientation; processing a silicon crystal layer configuring the SOI substrate into a standing plate-shaped member having a rectangular cross-section; processing the silicon crystal by orientation dependent wet etching and thermal oxidation into a shape where two triangular columnar members are arranged one above the other with a spacing from each other as to face along the ridge lines of the triangular columnar members; and processing the triangular columnar member into a circular columnar member configuring a nano-wire by hydrogen-annealing or a thermal oxidation; and an integrated circuit including the transistor. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110056844 | ELECTROCHEMICAL MOLECULAR RECOGNITION PROBES - Constitute a molecular recognition probe comprising: an electrochemically active group; an activity suppression group that suppresses an electrochemical activity of the electrochemically active group; a receptor area where a molecule of a target substance is specifically recognized; and a molecule area where a steric structure is changed as a result of molecular recognition; wherein the electrochemically active group is suppressed of its activity by the activity suppression group before the molecule is recognized and restores its activity after the molecule is recognized; or constitute a molecular recognition sensor by providing an anchor area on the molecular recognition probe and fixing it on a surface of an electrode. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110054910 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC TEMPORAL ADJUSTMENT BETWEEN MUSIC AUDIO SIGNAL AND LYRICS - A system provided herein may perform automatic temporal alignment between music audio signal and lyrics with higher accuracy than ever. A non-fricative section extracting | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110052702 | Method and Apparatus for Producing Organic Nanotubes - An object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus capable of continuously producing organic nanotubes, wherein an organic nanotube material dispersion solution consisting of an organic nanotube material and an organic solvent is pressurized and caused to pass through a very narrow orifice. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110046285 | POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIAL, OPTICAL MATERIAL INCLUDING THE SAME, AND THERMOPLASTIC AROMATIC POLYMER - The present invention develops a new thermoplastic aromatic polymer in which metal oxide particles can be uniformly dispersed even without any special functional group in the polymer, and provides a high-performance polymer composite material including the thermoplastic aromatic polymer. A polymer composite material of the present invention includes: a polymer matrix including a thermoplastic aromatic polymer having both an ester bond and an ether bond; and metal oxide particles dispersed in the polymer matrix. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110037037 | COMPOSITE OF METAL SULFIDE AND METAL OXIDE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOSITE - The present invention provides a process for producing a composite of metal sulfide and metal oxide obtained by dispersing a metal sulfide, which is nickel sulfide, copper sulfide, iron sulfide or a mixture thereof, in a metal salt-containing aqueous solution, and depositing metal salt on the metal sulfide by drying the aqueous solution; and heat-treating the metal sulfide comprising a metal salt deposited thereon at 400 to 900° C. in a sulfur-containing atmosphere. Also disclosed is a composite obtained by the aforementioned process, comprising a metal sulfide having a surface partially covered with a metal oxide. The composite of the present invention has improved cycle characteristics while maintaining a high charge/discharge capacity and excellent electrical conductivity inherently possessed by metal sulfide, which is usable as a material having a high theoretical capacity and excellent electrical conductivity when used as a positive-electrode material for a lithium secondary battery. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110031570 | Magnetic tunnel junction device and method of manufacturing the same - The output voltage of an MRAM is increased by means of an Fe(001)/MgO(001)/Fe(001) MTJ device, which is formed by microfabrication of a sample prepared by the following steps. A single-crystalline MgO (001) substrate | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110027872 | CANTILEVER FOR MEASURING INTRA-CELLULAR AND INTER-CELLULAR MICROSPACES - A cantilever for measuring intra-cellular and inter-cellular microspaces of the present invention includes a support portion, a lever portion provided to the support portion so as to protrude therefrom, and a probe portion provided near a free end of the lever portion. The probe portion includes a conductive probe made of a carbon-based material, and an insulating film to coat a periphery of the conductive probe. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110026296 | Nonvolatile Optical Memory Element, Memory Device, and Reading Method Thereof - A nonvolatile optical memory element in which a ferromagnetic body is provided on a semiconductor causes such a problem that in a case where magnetization of the ferromagnetic body is read by light, magneto-optical response becomes very small when the ferromagnetic body is small in volume. The present invention provides a memory element, a memory device, and a data reading method, each of which is applicable to data reading from a nonvolatile optical memory element. In a nonvolatile optical memory element having a structure in which a ferromagnetic body is provided on a semiconductor that is connected to an optical waveguide, electrons are injected into the semiconductor via the ferromagnetic body so that the electrons that are spin-polarized according to a magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic body are injected into the semiconductor, thereby enlarging a region in which a photomagnetic effect occurs effectively. By applying an electric pulse and an optical pulse to the nonvolatile optical memory element, it is possible to effectively read recorded data according to a magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic body. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110012050 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL - Provided is a piezoelectric material including a lead-free perovskite-type composite oxide which is excellent in piezoelectric characteristics and temperature characteristics and is represented by the general formula (1): | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110010319 | CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING PROGRAM, ANNOTATION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND ANNOTATION PROGRAM, AND RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD AND RETRIEVAL PROGRAM - An image data processing system has a learning storage apparatus that stores projection matrixes obtained by canonical correlation analysis so as to derive, based on at least one of an image feature and a word feature, a latent variable as an abstract concept used for associating an image with a word corresponding thereto and that further stores information required for obtaining the latent variable acquired by use of the projection matrixes, a probability of occurrence of an arbitrary image feature from a certain latent variable and a probability of occurrence of an arbitrary word feature from a certain latent variable. In this way, a probability of the image feature and word feature being simultaneously outputted can be easily and quickly determined, thereby executing a high-speed annotation or retrieval with high precision. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110005645 | AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL, AND METHOD FOR REMOVING HYDROGEN THEREFROM - The present invention focuses on diffusible hydrogen and non-diffusible hydrogen that cause hydrogen embrittlement in an austenitic stainless steel, and provides the austenitic stainless steel having diffusible hydrogen and non-diffusible hydrogen removed therefrom, and a method for removing hydrogen therefrom. In order to remove diffusible hydrogen and non-diffusible hydrogen, which cause hydrogen embrittlement in the austenitic stainless steel, an aging treatment is performed to the austenitic stainless steel at a temperature ranging from 200 to 1100° C. while being kept in an air atmosphere. As a result, the hydrogen (H) content in the austenitic steel is removed to 0.001 wt % (1 wt ppm) or less. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110004415 | DIGITAL CELL - It is intended to provide a method and system for carrying out data production with respect to the actual status of cells as a profile. It is also intended to provide a system and method for presenting time-lapse and/or real-time information of cell interior directly, or as it is, from the viewpoint of a complex system. It is further intended to provide a method of presenting a digital cell. Thus, there is provided a method of producing profile data relating to cell information, comprising the step (a) of arranging cells in an immobilized form on a support and the step (b) of monitoring over time biological factors on or inside the cells or an aggregate thereof, thereby producing profile data for the cells. Furthermore, there is provided a method of producing a digital cell, comprising procuring experimental data by the use of the above method. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110003695 | METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF AQUEOUS EMULSION USING INTERFACIALLY ACTIVE ORGANIC COMPOUND AS EMULSIFYING AGENT - The present invention provides a method for obtaining O/W emulsions by emulsifying various to-be-emulsified material without the use of any organic solvent, and drying and making into powder the O/W emulsion. The invention relates to a method for producing an O/W emulsion including after preliminarily dispersing a to-be-emulsified material and an interfacially active organic compound in water, heating the preliminary dispersion to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of the to-be-emulsified material and equal to or higher than the phase transition temperature of a self-assembled product of the interfacially active organic compound in the absence of an organic solvent, and performing emulsification under a pressure. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110003348 | ORGANIC MATERIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING BIOMASS MATERIAL AND METHOD - An organic material production system includes: a pretreatment device ( | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100323249 | AIR ELECTRODE - Provided are an air electrode having a structure in which an anion exchange membrane and an air electrode catalyst layer are laminated and the anion exchange membrane is disposed in contact with an aqueous alkaline solution; and a metal-air battery, an alkaline fuel cell, and a water electrolysis device each having the air electrode. The air electrode of the present invention can reduce or solve various conventional problems of an air electrode in a metal-air battery, fuel cell, and the like, which use an aqueous alkaline solution as an electrolyte, and can maintain high performance for a long period of time. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100315728 | OPTICAL PART HOLDING MEMBER AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to an optical part holding member made of ceramic and a production method thereof, and provides an effective permeability to prevent dew condensation. The optical part holding member is made of a silicon nitride ceramic base composite material to hold an optical part, which is produced through a process of nitriding in which silicon is caused to react with nitrogen. By using the silicon nitride ceramic base composite material containing silicon carbide and an iron compound, an airflow volume of 50 ml or more per minute is achieved in an effective airflow area of 1.5 cm | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100315727 | OPTICAL PART HOLDING MEMBER AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to an optical part holding member made of ceramic and a production method thereof, and provides an optical part holding member made of ceramic such that a sintered body after processes of degreasing and sintering has small dimensional changes over dimensions of a mold, and a production method thereof. An example includes a lens holder to hold an optical part, made of a silicon nitride ceramic base composite material produced through a process in which silicon and nitrogen are reacted to be nitrided and contains silicon carbide and an iron compound. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100311171 | VECTORS FOR GENERATING PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS USING THE SAME - Stem cell reprogramming genes cloned into a single sustained expression-type Sendai viral vector are shown to reprogram differentiated somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells without integration of vector sequences into the host cell's genome. The genes are transduced into normal differentiated somatic cells via infection with recombinant Sendai virus. After expression of the reprogramming genes and subsequent induction of pluripotency, the vector genome RNA including the reprogramming genes is removed from the cell to establish an iPS cell that is genetically identical to the parent somatic differentiated cell thus reducing the risk of tumorigenic transformation caused by random integration of vector sequences into the host genome. The method promises to provide safe, autologous iPS cells that can be used for human cell replacement and regeneration therapeutic applications. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100304455 | ETHANOL PRODUCING PROCESS AND APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a process for producing ethanol by carrying out the following steps: performing enzymatic saccharification of pre-treated lignocellulosic biomass in a reaction system; performing ethanol fermentation of fermentable sugars obtained from the saccharified pre-treated lignocellulosic biomass in the same reaction zone as the enzymatic saccharification; distilling ethanol directly off from a reaction treatment liquid in the reaction zone, so as to recover the ethanol. The process suitably uses an ethanol producing apparatus including: one reaction vessel having a biomass raw material inlet, a diastatic enzyme inlet, and a fermentation microorganism inlet; heating means for adjusting a temperature inside the reaction vessel; pH controlling means for controlling pH inside the reaction vessel; stirring means for stirring a liquid inside the reaction vessel; and distilling means for distilling the liquid inside the reaction vessel, which distilling means is directly connected to the reaction vessel. Hence, the present invention enables efficient production of ethanol from the lignocellulosic biomass with simple operations. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100304145 | CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PREPREG OF GAS BARRIER PROPERTIES, CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME - There are provided a carbon fiber reinforced prepreg of gas barrier properties comprising a sheet-like carbon fiber reinforcement and a matrix resin including therein a gas barrier layer having a clay mineral with a plate-like crystal structure unidirectionally aligned and densely laminated, and a carbon fiber reinforced plastic produced from the carbon fiber reinforced prepreg. Such prepreg is obtained by disposing a film material of gas barrier properties having a clay mineral with a plate-like crystal structure unidirectionally aligned and densely laminated, in at least one interlayer of a laminate of a carbon fiber reinforced prepreg comprising a sheet form carbon fiber reinforcement and a matrix resin; and then heating and/or pressurizing the laminate. The carbon fiber-reinforced composite material of the invention exhibits high gas barrier properties, and particularly hydrogen gas barrier properties. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100304141 | CARBON MICROPARTICLE HAVING LIGNIN AS RAW MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides a method for preparing a carbon microparticle from an organic raw material having lignin as a main constituent, and a carbon microparticle obtained thereby. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100298411 | LIPID-MODIFIED DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA HAVING POTENT RNA INTERFERENCE EFFECT - An object of the present invention is to provide a novel double-stranded RNA that has high nuclease resistance and high cellular uptake efficiency, and that is capable of producing an excellent RNA interference effect. The present invention provides a lipid-modified double-stranded RNA comprising a sense strand having a nucleotide sequence complementary to a target sequence, and an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence complementary to the sense strand, the double-stranded RNA being capable of inhibiting the expression of the target gene, the sense strand having a lipid linked to at least one of the first to sixth nucleotides from the 5′ end side directly or via a linker. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100295016 | FLUORESCENT FIBER CONTAINING SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES - The present invention provides a luminescent fiber, which retains a certain shape with assembled nanoparticles, and a method for producing the luminescent fiber. Specifically, the present invention provides a luminescent fiber comprising silicon and semiconductor nanoparticles having a mean particle size of 2 to 12 nm, the luminescent fiber having a diameter of 20 nm to 2 μm, a length of 40 nm to 500 μm, an aspect ratio of 2 to 1,000, and photoluminescence efficiency of not less than 5%. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100292525 | Method of processing waste material - An aspect of the present invention is a method of processing a waste material that contains mercury or a mercury compound, and chlorine or a mercury chloride, the method including a step of adding a chlorine scavenger to the waste material, and stowing the waste material in a treatment vessel; and a step of subjecting the waste material to a blasting treatment by fitting an explosive to the treatment vessel and detonating the explosive inside a pressure-proof container. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100286042 | Medicinal Composition Containing Highly Functionalized Chimeric Protein - There is provided an FGF2 substitute containing medicinal composition which comprises, as an active ingredient, a chimeric protein comprising the amino acid sequence of an FGF1 protein in which a partial sequence including a sequence of at least positions 62-83 within a sequence of positions 41-83 is substituted with a partial sequence at the corresponding positions in the amino acid sequence of an FGF2 protein; and the remaining region is formed of the amino acid sequence of FGF1. In particular, this medicinal composition is used for wound healing and for the prevention and treatment of radiation-induced damage, and it exhibits a pharmacological action superior to that of an FGF2 medicinal composition, and further, it can be easily formulated into a preparation. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283000 | STRUCTURAL BODY COMPRISING FILLER AND INCOMPATIBLE RESIN OR ELASTOMER, AND PRODUCTION PROCESS OR USE THEREOF - The present invention provides a novel structure in which a filling material that is a filler is dispersed in an incompatible resin selected from a thermoplastic resin or a thermosetting resin and/or an incompatible elastomer; and use of the novel structure. In a cocontinuous structure formed from a binary system that is selected from an incompatible resin selected from a thermoplastic resin or a thermosetting resin and/or an incompatible elastomer, a filling material that is a filler is dispersed selectively and uniformly in one of the incompatible resin selected from the thermoplastic resin or the thermosetting resin and/or the incompatible elastomer. The structure is obtained by putting the filling material and the resin and/or the elastomer in a cylinder having a screw through a put-in part provided at an end of a melt-kneading part having a heating part; processing the resin or elastomer under the conditions where a rotation speed of the screw is 100 rpm to 3000 rpm and a shear rate is 150 to 4500 sec | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100279355 | BETA 1,3-N-ACETYL-D-GALACTOSAMINE TRANSFERASE PROTEIN, NUCLEIC ACID ENCODING THE SAME AND METHOD OF EXAMINING CANCERATION USING THE SAME - The N-acetyl-D-galactosamine transferase protein of the present invention is characterized by transferring N-acetyl-D-galactosamine to N-acetyl-D-glucosamine with β1,3 linkage, and it preferably has the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4. The canceration assay according to the present invention uses a nucleic acid for measurement which hybridizes under stringent conditions to the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3 or a nucleotide sequence complementary to at least one of them. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100276593 | INFRARED SENSOR MANUFACTURED BY METHOD SUITABLE FOR MASS PRODUCTION - An infrared sensor manufacturing method according to this invention includes a step of forming a bridge structure of an insulating material on an Si substrate, a step of forming a vanadium oxide thin film on the bridge structure by a dry film forming method, a step of irradiating laser light onto the vanadium oxide thin film to thereby change material properties thereof, a step of forming the vanadium oxide thin film with the changed material properties into a bolometer resistor having a predetermined pattern, and a step of forming a protective layer of an insulating material so as to cover the bolometer resistor having the predetermined pattern and the bridge structure. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100274392 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING ILLUMINANCE WITH HIGH UNIFORMITY - An illumination apparatus of the present invention quickly adjusts illuminance of the light radiated from the light source in the irradiation surface to have high uniformity. The illumination apparatus includes the light source that emits a light beam having a rectangular shape, a DMD on which light emitted from the light source is incident and which controls reflection/non-reflection of the incident light by opening/closing control of minute mirrors, an optical system that shapes the light reflected by the DMD, a half mirror that splits the light emitted from the optical system into irradiation light and monitor light, the irradiation surface irradiated with the irradiation light, a monitor unit that measures illuminance of the monitor light, and a control unit that transmits a control signal to control opening/closing of the minute mirrors of the DMD to the DMD, based on a measurement result measured by the monitor unit. In this case, an illuminance distribution in the irradiation surface is adjusted to a predetermined value. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100272977 | CHARGE EXCHANGE DEVICE - The present invention provides a charge exchange member having a new function, which solves problems of fragility of a diamond thin film and a low electron density of a CNTS that are challenges of a charge exchange foil. The present invention relates to a charge exchange device comprising a diamond thin film and a non-woven carbon nanotube sheet, in which the diamond thin film is deposited on the non-woven carbon nanotube sheet. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100267002 | PEPTIDE HAVING LIFE-LENGTHENING EFFECT ON CELLS - This invention provides a substance that exhibits excellent life-lengthening effects on cells, that is excellent in terms of productivity, and that has low immunological toxicity. The present invention relates to a preservative for a biomaterial comprising (a) a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 or (b) a peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 by deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of 1 or several amino acids and having life-lengthening effects on cells and a method for preserving a biomaterial utilizing such peptide. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100262259 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING BONE GRAFTING MATERIAL, BONE GRAFTING MATERIAL, THREE-DIMENSIONAL SUPPORT FOR CELL CULTURE, AND SEPARATION SUPPORT FOR CHROMATOGRAPHY - A novel method for producing a bone filling material is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) kneading ingredient comprising calcium-based material and material comprising binder; (b) molding a predetermined shape of the mixture obtained in step (a) with an injection molding machine having a mold; (c) removing the binder contained in the mold formed in step (b) (i.e., degreasing) to obtain a degreased body; (d) and heating and sintering the degreased body obtained in step (c) to obtain a sintered body. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100258440 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND ANALYSIS METHOD FOR CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS - A capillary electrophoresis analysis apparatus is provided for analyzing samples by a capillary electrophoresis method that allows for rapid and highly accurate separation and detection, wherein the apparatus may be used in the diagnosis and/or monitoring of selected diseases. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100252778 | NOVEL NANOPARTICLE PHOSPHOR - An object of the present invention is to reduce the incompleteness of the surface state due to lattice constant and steric hindrance, which was heretofore nearly unavoidable, in the surface treatment of light-emitting semiconductor nanoparticles. The present invention provides an excellent luminescent material that has enhanced photoluminescence efficiency, reduced photoluminescence spectrum width, and increased chemical resistance. Specifically, the present invention provides a luminescent material comprising semiconductor nanoparticles having a mean particle size of 2 to 12 nm and a band gap of 3.8 eV or less, each of the semiconductor nanoparticles being coated with a silicon-containing layer, the semiconductor nanoparticles in the luminescent material having a peak emission wavelength 20 nm or more towards the longer-wavelength side than the peak emission wavelength of the semiconductor nanoparticles alone. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100238646 | LUMINESCENT GLASS - The present invention provides a process for producing a luminescent glass, comprising the steps of adsorbing, to a porous high silica glass, at least one metal component selected from the group consisting of elements of Groups IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA, VIII, IB, IIB and IVB of the Periodic Table; and thereafter heating the porous glass in a reducing atmosphere. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100234623 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE OXIDE - Disclosed is a method for producing propylene oxide wherein propylene is directly oxidized with oxygen, as required, water and a catalytic amount of hydrogen in a gas phase in the presence of a gold cluster catalyst supported on an alkali-treated titanosilicalite or mesoporous titanosilicate support, which is produced by an alkaline treatment of titanosilicalite or mesoporous titanosilicate with aqueous solution of NaOH, KOH or CsOH. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231096 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE - Provided is a piezoelectric material having a good piezoelectric property and Curie temperature (Tc) of 150° C. or higher, and a piezoelectric device using the piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material includes a sintered body made of a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by the following general formula (1): xBi(Mg | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100228149 | SENSOR DEVICE - A sensor device has a needle-integrated type sensor element which is detachably mounted therein and which has a sensor chip, a lancet needle fixed to an end portion of the sensor chip, and a flow path forming element provided compressibly and restorably at the end portion of the sensor chip, to which the lancet needle is fixed. The sensor device includes a puncture mechanism (a drive spring) configured to cause the sensor element to puncture a target, and a pressing mechanism (a pressure spring) configured to urge the sensor element to the extent that the sensor element is prevented from being detached from the target by a restoring force of the flow path forming element after the target is punctured. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228013 | ACTIVATOR INCLUDING BIOSURFACTANT AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT, MANNOSYL ERYTHRITOL LIPID, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention includes as an active ingredient at least one biosurfactant, in particular mannosyl alditol lipid (such as MEL and MML) or triacylated mannosyl alditol lipid. This allows providing an activator and anti-aging agent that is excellent in activating and anti-aging effects on cells and that is safe enough to be used for a long time, and also providing cosmetics, quasi-drugs, drugs, and drinks and foods including the activator and the anti-aging agent as active ingredients. Further, the present invention provides MEL whose mannosyl erythritol skeleton in a molecular structure is 1-O-β-D-mannopyranosyl-meso-erythritol and a method for producing the MEL with use of a microorganism. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100223987 | Detection sensor - There is provided a technique that can increase sensitivity of a resonator. A ratio Rb/Ra between an inner diameter Rb and an outer diameter Ra of the resonator | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100221835 | METHOD FOR CARTILAGE TISSUE REGENERATION VIA SIMULATED MICROGRAVITY CULTURE USING SCAFFOLDS - This invention relates to a method for cartilage tissue engineering using scaffolds in simulated microgravity culture. This invention enables engineering of homogeneous cartilage tissue using bone marrow cells in a more rapid manner in a simulated microgravity environment, while allowing control of the configuration of the resulting cartilage tissue. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100214788 | Glass Substrate With Light Directivity and Illuminator Employing the Same - The present invention provides a high-precision planar light source with a sufficiently uniform luminance and sufficient light directivity to direct light to travel in a specific direction, using a simple production process. More specifically, the invention provides: a glass substrate with light directivity produced by applying a paste containing at least one member selected from the group consisting of lithium compounds, sodium compounds, potassium compounds, rubidium compounds, cesium compounds, copper compounds, silver compounds, and thallium compounds, an organic resin, and an organic solvent to one or both sides of a glass substrate containing an alkali metal as a glass component, and then performing heat treatment at a temperature lower than the softening temperature of the glass substrate; and a planar light source using the glass substrate. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100213546 | FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE SAME - A field-effect transistor comprising a movable gate electrode that suppresses a leakage current from the gate electrode, and has a large current drivability and a low leakage current between a source and a drain. The field-effect transistor comprises: an insulating substrate; a semiconductor layer of triangle cross-sectional shape formed on the insulating substrate, having a gate insulation film on a surface, and forming a channel in a lateral direction; fixed electrodes that are arranged adjacent to both sides of the semiconductor layer and in parallel to the semiconductor layer, each of the electrodes having an insulation film on a surface; a source/drain formed at the end part of the semiconductor layer; and the movable gate electrode formed above the semiconductor layer and the fixed electrodes with a gap. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100212503 | HOLLOW FIBER CARBON MEMBRANE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A hollow fiber carbon membrane is provided, which has excellent gas separation performance, unbreakable flexibility and high utility. The hollow fiber carbon membrane comprises carbonized substance obtained by calcination of a hollow fiber-like material formed from a polyphenylene oxide derivative, and has an external diameter in the range of 0.08 mm to 0.25 mm. The polyphenylene oxide derivative substantially comprises repeating units represented by the following (a) and (b) (in the structural formula, R | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100206217 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING SURFACE LAYER OR GROWTH LAYER OF DIAMOND - The present invention provides a method for separating a surface layer of a diamond, which comprises implanting ions into a diamond to form a non-diamond layer near a surface of the diamond; and etching the non-diamond layer in the diamond by applying an alternating-current voltage across electrodes in an electrolytic solution; and a method for separating a grown layer of a diamond, which further comprises the step of growing a diamond by a vapor-phase synthesis method, after forming a non-diamond layer according to the above-described method. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100191013 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF CARBONYL FLUORIDE - The present invention provides a method for inexpensively, efficiently, safely, and continuously producing COF | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100187110 | PROCESS FOR ANALYZING SAMPLE BY CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS METHOD - A process for analyzing a sample by a capillary electrophoresis method is provided that allows the apparatus to be reduced in size, allows a high analytical precision to be obtained, and can be carried out easily. The analytical process of the present invention is a process for analyzing a sample by a capillary electrophoresis method. The analytical process includes preparing a capillary tube to be used for the capillary electrophoresis method, and performing electrophoretic separation of a complex of a sample and an anionic group-containing compound that are bonded together, in the capillary tube, wherein the capillary tube includes an anionic layer that is formed of the anionic group-containing compound and that is coated on the inner wall of the capillary tube, and the anionic layer is fixed to the inner wall of the capillary tube by a covalent bond. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100181632 | Magnetic tunnel junction device and memory device including the same - The output voltage of an MRAM is increased by means of an Fe( | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100178561 | Hydrogen Storage Alloy, Hydrogen Storage Alloy Electrode, Secondary Battery, And Method For Producing Hydrogen Storage Alloy - Provided is a hydrogen storage alloy which is characterized in that two or more crystal phases having different crystal structures are layered in a c-axis direction of the crystal structures. The hydrogen storage alloy is further characterized in that a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a lattice constant a in the crystal structures of the laminated two or more crystal phases is 0.03 Å or less. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100175991 | Enzyme Electrode and Enzyme Sensor - An enzyme electrode having excellent sensitivity, excellent stability, and a longer operating life, and an enzyme sensor using the enzyme electrode are provided. The enzyme electrode includes an electrode | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100174095 | ORGANIC COMPOUND, SEMICONDUCTOR FILM ELECTRODE EMPLOYING THE ORGANIC COMPOUND, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT EMPLOYING THE ORGANIC COMPOUND, AND PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SOLAR CELL EMPLOYING THE ORGANIC COMPOUND - The present invention provides: an organic compound increasing an open circuit voltage, and showing high photoelectric conversion efficiency; a semiconductor film electrode employing the organic compound as a dye; a photoelectric conversion element employing the semiconductor film electrode; and a photoelectrochemical solar cell employing the photoelectric conversion element. The organic compound is represented by the following general formula: | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100169454 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A storage management system ( | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100168405 | ACTIVATOR INCLUDING BIOSURFACTANT AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT, MANNOSYL ERYTHRITOL LIPID, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention includes as an active ingredient at least one biosurfactant, in particular mannosyl alditol lipid (such as MEL and MML) or triacylated mannosyl alditol lipid. This allows providing an activator and anti-aging agent that is excellent in activating and anti-aging effects on cells and that is safe enough to be used for a long time, and also providing cosmetics, quasi-drugs, drugs, and drinks and foods including the activator and the anti-aging agent as active ingredients. Further, the present invention provides MEL whose mannosyl erythritol skeleton in a molecular structure is 1-O-β-D-mannopyranosyl-meso-erythritol and a method for producing the MEL with use of a microorganism. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100166636 | LARGE DIAMOND CRYSTAL SUBSTRATES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for producing a large substrate of single-crystal diamond, including the steps of preparing a plurality of single-crystal diamond layers separated form an identical parent substrate, placing the single-crystal diamond layers in a mosaic pattern on a flat support, and growing a single-crystal diamond by a vapor-phase synthesis method on faces of the single-crystal diamond layers where they have been separated from the parent substrate. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100165454 | Method for Manufacturing Gradient-Index Optical Element Having Infrared Absorbing Ability - A method of readily producing a gradient optical element having infrared absorbing ability by easily forming a refractive index distribution in a desired portion of a glass substrate having infrared absorbing ability without requiring a specific treatment atmosphere nor using a molten salt. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100155647 | OXYNITRIDE PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided are an oxynitride piezoelectric material which exhibits ferroelectricity and has good piezoelectric properties and a method of producing the oxynitride piezoelectric material. The oxynitride piezoelectric material includes a tetragonal perovskite-type oxynitride represented by the following general formula (1): | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100155242 | Method of Analyzing a Sample by Capillary Electrophoresis - The present invention is directed to the described capillary electrophoresis apparatus and methods of using such apparatus for separating and analyzing components of a sample. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100154939 | AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND PROCESS FOR REMOVING HYDROGEN THEREFROM - By focusing on the non-diffusible hydrogen that causes hydrogen embrittlement of austenitic stainless steel, the present invention provides an austenitic stainless steel in which the non-diffusible hydrogen is removed by maintaining the austenitic stainless steel in a vacuum of 0.2 Pa or less and heating at a heating temperature of 200° C. to 500° C. for 460 hours or less to remove the hydrogen (H) contained therein to a level of 0.00007 mass % (0.7 mass ppm) or less. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100146666 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT WITH MODIFIED FLOWER MORPHOLOGY - A plant with modified flower morphology is produced by suppressing a function of a transcription factor involved in determining the polarity of plants. More particularly, a plant with modified flower morphology is produced by the steps of obtaining a transformed cell by introducing a chimeric DNA in which a DNA encoding a transcription factor involved in determining the polarity and a functional peptide converting a transcription factor into a transcription repressor are fused; and regenerating a transformed plant from the transformed cell. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100140756 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON OXIDE THIN FILM AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SILICON OXIDE THIN FILM - An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor thin film device which employs a silicon oxide thin film having an equivalent level of high insulating performance to those currently used in electronic devices, through a low-temperature printing process on a plastic substrate having plasticity or other types of substrates at a temperature equal to or lower than the heat resistant temperature of the substrate, and to provide a method for forming the device. The semiconductor thin film device is formed as follows: a coating film of a silicon compound including a silazane structure or a siloxane structure is formed on a plastic substrate having plasticity; the coating film is converted into a silicon oxide thin film; and the thin film is utilized as part of an insulating layer or a sealing layer. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100137131 | PHOTOCATALYST STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a photocatalyst structure capable of improving catalyst efficiency dramatically and stably. In the present invention, the photocatalyst structure is comprised of a metal nanoparticle, a semiconductor photocatalyst, and a material intervening between the metal nanoparticle and the semiconductor photocatalyst. The material is transparent to a light of a wavelength which excites the semiconductor photocatalyst. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100136618 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLULASE AND HEMICELLULASE HAVING HIGH HYDROLYTIC ACTIVITY - The present invention provides a novel cellulase-producing fungus, i.e. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100133487 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PRUSSIAN BLUE-TYPE METAL COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES, AND PRUSSIAN BLUE-TYPE METAL COMPLEX NANOPARTICLES OBTAINED BY THE METHOD, DISPERSION OF THE NANOPARTICLES, METHOD OF REGULATING THE COLOR OF THE NANOPARTICLES, AND ELECTRODE AND TRANSMITTED LIGHT-REGULATOR EACH USING THE NANOPARTICLES - To provide a method of producing Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles without necessarily requiring complicated steps and an excessive amount of raw materials, but allowing one to obtain nanometer-size fine particles having desired fine particle properties, and Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles obtained by the method, a dispersion of the nanoparticles, a method of regulating the color of the nanoparticles, and an electrode and a transmitted light-regulator each using the nanoparticles; Prussian blue-type metal complex nanoparticles are produced by: mixing an aqueous solution containing a metal cyano complex anion having predetermined metal atom M | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100131086 | SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION SYSTEM, SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION - An audio signal produced by playing a plurality of musical instruments is separated into sound sources according to respective instrument sounds. Each time a separation process is performed, the updated model parameter estimation/storage section | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100129870 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING OLIGONUCLEOTIDE - The present invention is to provide a method for obtaining an oligonucleotide such as RNA aptamer having high binding capacity to a target substance with easy-to-use and high purity. The method for obtaining oligonucleotide according to the present invention is as follows: | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100129455 | NANOPARTICLE-DISPERSED FINE GLASS BEADS HAVING A CAVITY THEREIN, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides fine silicon-containing glass beads each having one or more cavities therein and containing nanoparticles in a glass phase of each of the silicon-containing glass beads, and a method of producing such glass beads, and also provides silicon-containing glass beads containing nanoparticles, which may be identical to or different from the nanoparticles in the glass phase, and a functional material such as pharmaceutical molecules (e.g., materials having fluorescent properties, magnetic properties, drug effects, etc.), and a method of producing such glass beads. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100116660 | Electrophoresis Chip, Electrophoresis Apparatus, and Method for Analyzing Sample by Capillary Electrophoresis - An electrophoresis chip that can be small and simple and that can analyze a sample with high accuracy is provided. The electrophoresis chip includes an upper substrate | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100113265 | Carbon Dioxide Adsorbent capable of Adsorption and Desorption in dependence on Pressure of Atmospheric Pressure or Higher - Provided is an adsorbent adapted to adsorb carbon dioxide by increasing the pressure, and to carry out 10% or more adsorption and adsorption of the adsorbed carbon dioxide by lowering the pressure at atmospheric pressure or higher in a range of 100 to 900 kPa without vacuuming or the like. As a result of using amorphous aluminum silicate with a Si/Al ratio of 0.7 to 1.0 and having a peak in the vicinity of −78 ppm and −87 ppm in a | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100112553 | LUCIFERASE GENE OPTIMIZED FOR USE IN IMAGING OF INTRACELLULAR LUMINESCENCE - The present invention provides a gene construct encoding pH insensitive luciferase for visualizing intracellular information, wherein an intracellular expression activity is higher compared with a gene construct of luciferase derived from a firefly. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100107765 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DAMAGE TO HIGH-PRESSURE TANK - There are provided a method and an apparatus for detecting damage to a high-pressure tank, with which a sign of failure of a high-pressure tank containing a high-pressure fluid can be detected early and non-destructively. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100101953 | Methods for producing microchannel chips, microchannel chips, methods for separating biomolecules using the microchannel chips, and electrophoretic apparatus having the microchannel chips - The methods for producing microchannel chips of the present invention comprise the steps of shielding substrate surfaces on which groove-like channels have been formed, using a mask that exposes the channels, and then forming polymer membranes on the exposed surfaces of the substrates; and the step of laminating cover materials onto the side of the substrate surfaces on which the channels have been formed. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100100366 | MICRORNA DETECTING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A microRNA detecting apparatus finds a region matching a microRNA model from a base sequence using base vector sequence data generated from inputted base sequence information of a detection processing target and a microRNA model that is a probability model of known microRNA. The base vector sequence data is a sequence of base vectors corresponding to respective bases of the base sequence. Each of the base vectors includes a parameter of a degree of evolutional conservation that is a characteristic of microRNA and parameters of a secondary structure that characterize a stable hairpin structure. Concerning the secondary structure, the base vector includes a stem parameter and a loop parameter in addition to a parameter of minimum free energy. The Hidden Markov Model is used as the microRNA model. It is possible to improve the accuracy of detection of the microRNA region on the base sequence when the base sequence information is processed by the bioinformatics technique. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100099547 | Ceramic Porous Body With Communication Macropores and Process for Producing the Ceramic Porous Body - The present invention is a method for producing a ceramic porous body with high porosity and continuous macropores, which comprises mixing a ceramic powder with an aqueous solution of a gelable water-soluble polymer to form a slurry, gelling for a while to fix the tissue structure, freezing it to produce ice crystals in the gel tissue and creating structures that become continuous pores, thawing the ice by controlled atmospheric substitution-type drying method with the resulting water being replaced without damaging the gel, and then sintering it to produce a ceramic porous body having various porosities, pore diameters and pore shapes, while conventionally cracks and contraction were likely to occur during drying when the solids concentration of the slurry is less than 20 vol %, with the method of the present invention it is possible to control these problems even at a solids concentration of 10 vol % or less, manufacture and provide a ceramic porous body with a porosity of 72% to 99% and a compression strength of 0.4 MPa or more. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100092786 | DEVICE MANUFACTURED BY ROOM-TEMPERATURE BONDING, DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ROOM-TEMPERATURE BONDING APPARATUS - An inter-substrate material layer is formed between a first substrate and a second substrate to generate a bonding strength. A plurality of metal elements are present in the inter-substrate material layer. An interface element existence ratio of the plurality of metal elements is 0.07 or above. A device can be obtained in which substrates difficult to bond (for example, SiO | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100091639 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING SUPER RESOLUTION REPRODUCTION AND OPTICAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The invention performs super resolution reproduction with a recording layer and a signal reproducing functional layer laminated on a grooved substrate. A length of a mark recorded in a Mark Position method is only one length that is less than the resolution limit in an optical system to be used, and recording marks are formed both on a land and in a groove of the grooved substrate. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100085539 | MENTAL FATIGUE DETECTING METHOD AND DEVICE - A mental fatigue detection device for detecting mental fatigue without arbitrariness using a flickering light includes: a light-emitting unit ( | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100075114 | MOLD FOR OPTICAL ELEMENT, HAVING NANOSTRUCTURE, MOLD FOR NANOSTRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE MOLD, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT - This invention provides a method for manufacturing a mold for an optical element having a nanostructure of nano-order fine depressions and elevations on a surface of a substrate. The method includes: forming at least one etching transfer layer on the substrate, and forming a thin film for hemispherical fine particle formation on the etching transfer layer; forming multiple hemispherical island-shaped fine particles, with any of thermal-, photo- and gas reactions or combination thereof to cause any of aggregation, decomposition and nucleation functions of a material of the thin film; and forming a conical pattern on the fine surface of the substrate, by successively etching the etching transfer layer and the substrate with a reactant gas, using the multiple island-shaped fine particles as a protective mask, thereby manufacturing a mold for an optical element having fine depressions and elevations or a nanostructure mold face on the surface of the substrate. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100070263 | SPEECH DATA RETRIEVING WEB SITE SYSTEM - A speech data retrieving Web site system is provided which may improve erroneous indexing with participation of a user by allowing the user to correct text data obtained by conversion using a speech recognition technique. Speech data published on a Web is converted into text data by a speech recognition section | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100069792 | BIOSENSOR CARTRIDGE, BIOSENSOR DEVICE, SAMPLE COLLECTING METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF BIOSENSOR CARTRIDGE, AND NEEDLE INTEGRAL SENSOR - A biosensor cartridge capable of performing puncturing in an exact position, and easily collecting and measuring a sample of a puncture hole without requiring the operation of bringing a sample collection opening close to the puncture hole is provided. When tip portion | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100067900 | Optical waveguide-type wavelength domain switch - An optical waveguide-type wavelength domain switch includes a waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate comprising three or more laminated waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing devices, a lens system positioned on a demultiplex side of the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate, and a reflective optical phase-modulating cell positioned on an opposite side of the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing device laminate to the lens system. The lens system includes a lens alignment composed of plural lenses in one-to-one correspondence with the waveguide-type multi/demultiplexing devices and having a light-collecting or collimating function in the lens-aligning direction, an image-magnifying optical system having an N:1 (N>1) image-magnifying function arranged on the optical phase-modulating cell side of the lens alignment, an f-f lens (Y) arranged on the optical phase-modulating cell side of the image-magnifying optical system, and having a light-collecting or collimating function in the same direction as the lens-aligning direction of the lens alignment, and an f-f lens (X) having a light-collecting or collimating function in a perpendicular direction to the lens-aligning direction of the lens alignment. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100065927 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD OF THE SAME - A disclosed semiconductor device includes a gate insulation film formed on a silicon substrate and a metal gate electrode formed in the gate insulation film, wherein the gate insulation film includes a first insulation film, a second insulation film that is formed on the first insulation film and has a greater dielectric constant than the first insulation film, and a third insulation film formed on the second insulation film. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100061441 | DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD AND DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - A serial-parallel converter/encoder unit | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100055397 | MOLD FOR OPTICAL DEVICE WITH ANTI-REFLECTION STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A process for producing through simple operations a molding die for optical device having an antireflective structure of nano-order microscopic uneven plane on a substratum surface. The molding die for optical device having microscopic uneven plane (antireflective structure die plane) on a surface of substratum is produced by a process comprising forming one or more etching transfer layers on substratum; forming thin film for formation of semispherical microparticles on the etching transfer layers; causing the thin film to undergo aggregation, or decomposition, or nucleation of the material by the use of any of thermal reaction, photoreaction and gas reaction or a combination of these reactions so as to form multiple semispherical island-like microparticles; and using the multiple islandlike microparticles as a protective mask, carrying out sequential etching of the etching transfer layers and substratum by reactive gas to thereby form a conical pattern on the microscopic surface of the substratum. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100051458 | CARBON QUANTITY DETECTING SENSOR WITH INCREASED DETECTING PRECISION - A carbon quantity detecting sensor for continuously detecting a carbon quantity of measuring gases with increased precision using a simplifier structure is disclosed. The sensor includes at least a proton conductive body composed of a solid electrolyte body having a proton conductivity, an electrode pair composed of a measuring electrode and a reference electrode formed on the proton conductive body at opposing surfaces thereof respectively, and a power source for applying at least one of a given current or a given voltage across the electrode pair. The measuring gases electrode is exposed to the measuring gases and the reference electrode is isolated from the measuring gases. This enables the carbon quantity of measuring gases to be detected with increased precision for a long period of time without causing a carbon component to accumulate on a surface of the measuring electrode due to an electrochemical reaction. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100044870 | Electrode connection structure of semiconductor chip, conductive member, and semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same - An electrode connection structure of a semiconductor chip is provided to realize a highly reliable electrical connection with low stress without using a bump. A conductive member may be used for such an electrode connection structure. A semiconductor device is provided wherein semiconductor chips are arranged in layers without providing the semiconductor chips with a through via, and a method is provided for manufacturing such a semiconductor device. A part or all of the surface of a horizontal recess, which is formed in an adhesive layer arranged between a first electrode of a lower layer and a second electrode of an upper layer, is provided with a conductive member for connecting the first electrode and the second electrode. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100041002 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE HAVING FUNCTION OF MEASURING MENTAL FATIGUE AND ITS MEASURING METHOD - A portable terminal device ( | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100039647 | Method for Detecting Trace Substance using Organic Electroluminescent Device - Provided is a detection method and device for analyzing trace substance of interest in a short time and with high accuracy without the need of performing any treatment for binding a fluorescent substance to the substance of interest or using any large apparatus. The substance of interest is detected by being immobilizing on a surface of any one of a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer, a luminescent layer, a buffer layer, and inside surfaces of electrodes for an organic electroluminescent device based on a change in at least one luminescent property selected from luminescence intensity, luminous efficiency, and emission spectrum of the organic electroluminescent device before and after the immobilization of the substance of interest. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100036106 | High-Affinity RNA Aptamer Molecule Against Glutathione-S-Transferase Protein - The present invention provides a “nucleic acid adaptor molecule” having specific binding affinity to a GST protein portion serving as an N-terminal fusion partner in a fusion protein consisting of the GST protein and a protein of interest. A “nucleic acid adaptor molecule against a GST protein” according to the present invention is an RNA aptamer molecule having any of the following nucleotide sequences I to III: | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100028237 | Amorphous Aluminum Silicate and Adsorbent Each having Excellent Moisture Adsorption/Desorption Characteristics in Medium-Humidity Range - Provided is an adsorbent having excellent adsorption performance in a medium-humidity range by employing an amorphous aluminum silicate formed from protoimogolite. The amorphous aluminum silicate formed from protoimogolite is synthesized by setting the Si/Al ratio in solution mixing to be of a condition that is higher than synthesizing imogolite or amorphous imogolite, and performing desalting treatment and heating thereto. The obtained amorphous aluminum silicate formed from protoimogolite yields a superior water vapor adsorption performance of 30 wt % or higher at a relative humidity of 60%, and can be used as an adsorbent for desiccant air conditioning. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100027236 | SOLAR SIMULATOR - According to the present invention, it is possible to simultaneously solve problems of high parallelism and high illuminance of emission light and increase uniformity of the emission light. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100019759 | OBJECT STATE DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - There is provided an apparatus and method for identifying and measuring the electric field strength which occurs from each of RFID tags arranged in a detection target space by a receiver to grasp the state of an object. The apparatus is provided with m (m>=1) electromagnetic field generation means provided near a space, the space being occupied by the object when the object is in a particular state; n (n>=1) electric field strength measurement means for identifying and measuring electric field strength which occurs from each of the m electromagnetic field generation means; characteristic extraction means for calculating characteristics from m×n time-series data of the electric field strength; and state identification means for identifying, by statistical processing, a state from the characteristics and characteristic data in each state for learning. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100014140 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device of the invention includes: a substrate main body;
| 01-21-2010 |
| 20100012923 | DOPANT MATERIAL, DOPANT MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME - It is to provide a thermodynamically and chemically stable dopant material which can achieve controls of the pn conduction types, carrier density, and threshold value of gate voltage, and a manufacturing method thereof. Further, it is to provide an actually operable semiconductor device such as a transistor with an excellent high-speed operability and high-integration characteristic. Provided is a dopant material obtained by depositing, on a carbon nanotube, a donor with a smaller ionization potential than an intrinsic work function of the carbon nanotube or an acceptor with a larger electron affinity than the intrinsic work function of the carbon nanotube. The ionization potential of the donor in vacuum is desired to be 6.4 eV or less, and the electron affinity of the acceptor in vacuum to be 2.3 eV or more. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100012911 | SWITCHING DEVICE - An objective of the present invention is to provide a switching device that shows two markedly different stable resistance characteristics reversibly and repetitively, and which is applicable to highly integrated nonvolatile memories. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100004559 | BIOSENSOR CARTRIDGE, METHOD OF USING BIOSENSOR CARTRIDGE, BIOSENSOR DEVICE, AND NEEDLE INTEGRAL SENSOR - A biosensor cartridge capable of making the collected amount of a sample required for measurement into a small quantity to reduce a user's burden, and easily collecting and measuring a sample of a puncture hole without requiring the operation of bringing a sample collection opening close to the puncture hole is provided. When one end portion of biosensor chip is pushed against subject, elastic body is compressed, and puncturing tool can protrude and perform puncturing. Additionally, if a pushing force is weakened, puncturing tool is extracted from subject by the restoring force of elastic body, and blood (sample) flows out of the puncture hole. In this case, since the puncture hole, and sample collection opening provided at biosensor chip are contained in enclosed half-open space formed by elastic body, even a small amount of blood (sample) can also be easily collected. Additionally, elastic body is formed with a groove which forms a ventilation passage, so that enclosed half-open space can be opened to the atmosphere. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100004472 | BIOSURFACTANT-CONTAINING SKIN CARE COSMETIC AND SKIN ROUGHNESS-IMPROVING AGENT - The present invention relates to a cosmetic for skin roughness improvement/skin care containing a biosurfactant, particularly MEL-A, MEL-B or MEL-C. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100003933 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - A signal transmission apparatus of the invention comprises: a correlator | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100000967 | REMOVAL METHOD OF SURFACE DAMAGE OF SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND - The present invention provides a process for removing surface damage of a single-crystal diamond, which comprises implanting ions into a single-crystal diamond to form a non-diamond layer near a surface of the diamond, graphitizing the non-diamond layer, and removing a surface layer by etching. According to the invention, the surface damage can be removed or reduced without increasing the surface roughness of a single crystal diamond. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090323071 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR A LIQUID OR MOLTEN MATERIAL - An apparatus for optical measurement of a liquid or molten material, which has: a transparent container which has a bottom face and is capable of containing a to-be-measured material therein, with the bottom face at least having a flat face and being transparent; and an optical device that irradiates a light to the bottom face of the container and that detects and measures a reflected light from the bottom face; and a method for optically measuring a liquid or molten material using the apparatus. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090315446 | WATER-DISPERSIBLE NANOPARTICLES HAVING HIGH LUMINOUS EFFICIENCY AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides nanoparticles having a core/shell structure consisting of a core comprising a Group III element and a Group V element at a molar ratio of the Group III element to the Group V element in the range of 1.25 to 3.0, and a shell comprising a Group II element and a Group VI element and having a thickness of 0.2 nm to 4 nm, the nanoparticles having a photoluminescence efficiency of 10% or more and a diameter of 2.5 to 10 nm; a method of producing the water-dispersible nanoparticles comprising bringing a dispersion of III-V semiconductor nanoparticles in an organic solvent into contact with an aqueous solution of a Group II element-containing compound and a Group VI element-containing compound to thereby transfer the III-V semiconductor nanoparticles of the organic solvent dispersion to the aqueous solution, and then irradiating the aqueous solution with light; and a method of producing a glass matrix having the nanoparticles dispersed therein. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090315432 | METAL OXIDE, PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - Provided are a piezoelectric material without using lead or an alkali metal, the piezoelectric material having a stable crystal structure in a wide temperature range, high insulation property, and high piezoelectric property, and a piezoelectric element using the piezoelectric material, in which the piezoelectric material is made of a metal oxide having a tetragonal crystal structure and expressed by Ba(Si | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090308305 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SINGLE-CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE WITH OFF ANGLE - The invention provides a process for producing a single-crystal substrate with an off-angle, which comprises using, as a substrate, a material capable of epitaxial growth by a vapor-phase synthesis method, whose surface has an off-angle with respect to a crystal plane capable of epitaxial growth; implanting ions into the substrate having a surface with an off-angle to form a layer with a deteriorated crystal structure near the surface of the substrate; growing a crystal on the surface with an off-angle of the substrate by a vapor-phase synthesis method; and separating a grown crystal layer from the substrate. In accordance with the process of the invention, when producing off-substrates usable in vapor-phase synthesis of single crystals, the manufacturing costs can be reduced, and substrates with an identical off-angle can be produced easily and in large quantities. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090306987 | SINGING SYNTHESIS PARAMETER DATA ESTIMATION SYSTEM - There is provided a singing synthesis parameter data estimation system that automatically estimates singing synthesis parameter data for automatically synthesizing a human-like singing voice from an audio signal of input singing voice. A pitch parameter estimating section | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090306552 | ULTRASONIC MEDICAL APPARATUS - The present invention solves the issue of bacterial infection by medical devices such as intracorporeal indwelling catheters. The present invention relates to an ultrasonic medical apparatus including a medical device (titanium oxide coated medical device | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090305910 | Variable pitch array spotter - At each lattice point | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090293161 | CANTILEVER DEVICE AND CANTILEVER CONTROLLING METHOD - The amplitude control of a cantilever based on the van der Pol model is performed through a feedback using the measurement data on a deflection of the cantilever. A self-oscillating circuit integrates a deflection angle signal of a cantilever detected by a deflection angle measuring mechanism using an integrator, multiplies a resulting integral value by linear feedback gain K | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090289355 | SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus which performs a rapid heat treatment in which metallic thin films | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090269781 | Single-Molecule-Format Probe And Utilization Thereof - A single-chain probe of the present invention for detecting a ligand, comprises: a ligand binding protein for binding the ligand; a recognition protein for recognizing that the ligand is bound by the ligand binding protein; and C— and N-terminal fragments, generated by dissecting an enzyme, between the ligand binding protein and the recognition protein, wherein a carboxy terminal end of the C-terminal fragment is located upstream of an amino terminal end of the N-terminal fragment, and the C— and N-terminal fragments vary the enzyme activity via complementation in case where the recognition protein recognizes that the ligand is bound by the ligand binding protein. This makes it possible to achieve detection of a target protein-specific ligand using the single chain with a high efficiency. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090263880 | MUTANT LUCIFERASE - An object of the present invention is to provide a mutant luciferase having luciferase activity with an altered emission spectrum. A specific amino acid residue(s) is substituted in a luciferase derived from | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090263269 | AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND PROCESS FOR REMOVING HYDROGEN THEREFROM - By focusing on the non-diffusible hydrogen that causes hydrogen embrittlement of austenitic stainless steel, the present invention provides an austenitic stainless steel in which the non-diffusible hydrogen is removed by maintaining the austenitic stainless steel in a vacuum of 0.2 Pa or less and heating at a heating temperature of 200° C. to 500° C. for 460 hours or less to remove the hydrogen (H) contained therein to a level of 0.00007 mass % (0.7 mass ppm) or less. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090253915 | NOVEL EPOXY COMPOUNDS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF THE SAME - Novel epoxy compounds having imide structures represented by general formula (I) or general formula (II) below, and having an allyl group in the same molecule, as well as a process for their production. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090253872 | Acetylene-Based Polymer - An acetylene-based polymer, comprising n recurring units represented by the following Formula ( | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090251199 | Switching Element - A switching element | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090246405 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PEROVSKITE-STRUCTURE OXIDE - The present invention provides a method for producing a perovskite-structure oxide, with which a highly crystalline oxide layer is formed on a base layer that is metal or the like. The method comprises the steps of: forming, on a base layer, a buffer layer having thermal conductivity lower than thermal conductivity of the base layer; forming a precursor layer of an ABO | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090239037 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CLAY THIN FILM AND CLAY THIN FILM - A method for producing a clay thin film, which is formed of clay alone or in combination with an additive and has a structure where oriented clay particles are laminated, the method including paste-making in which clay alone or in combination with an additive are dispersed in a dispersion medium formed of water, an organic solvent, or a mixed solvent of water and an organic solvent to prepare clay paste; coating in which a thin film is formed by coating the clay paste on a substrate; planarization in which the thin film is planarized; drying in which water, an organic solvent, or water and an organic solvent are removed from the thin film; and separation in which the thin film is separated from the substrate. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090235693 | Manufacturing Method of Plate Glass - Proposed is a manufacturing method to continuously fabricate plate glass which comprises supporting at least bottom surface of the traveling glass before stiffening by means of a gas generated from support members and controlling the gravitational effect on the glass to provide the partial displacement and deformation repeatedly while changing the position thereof so as to achieve propagation of overall glass extension. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090231830 | Transparent White Fluorescent Glass - A transparent white fluorescent glass is provided which contains a soda lime glass as a base material, 0.8 to 2.5 wt % of Sn, calculated as SnO, and 0.045 wt % or less of Fe, calculated as Fe | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090223823 | METHOD OF SEPARATING PROTEIN, METHOD OF STAINING PROTEIN AND LIQUID PROTEIN-STAINING AGENT AND PROTEIN-STAINING KIT TO BE USED IN THESE METHODS - A method of separating a protein by gel electrophoresis, which comprises a staining step for bringing a protein-containing sample into contact with a staining liquid containing a staining agent, a surfactant and a buffer solution, and an electrophoresis step for subjecting the protein-containing sample after the staining step to gel electrophoresis. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090216705 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING SUGAR CHAIN STRUCTURE - An object of the present invention is to provide a method for conveniently analyzing sugar chain (isomer) structure using a sample of approximately 1 picomole, which is generally subjected to analysis in proteomics without using any sugar chain preparation. The present invention relates to a method for analyzing sugar chain structure, comprising a step of obtaining the fragmentation pattern of a test sugar chain through fragmentation of the test sugar chain and a step of predicting the structure of the test sugar chain through comparison of the sugar chain predicted fragmentation pattern data generated based on fragmentation pattern templates with the fragmentation pattern of the test sugar chain. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090211907 | Separation Medium for Biochemical Analysis - The invention provides a novel packing composition for separation and/or analysis which permits easy capillary replacement; a process for the production of the packing composition; a method for filling a capillary with the packing composition; and electrophoretic methods (such as capillary electrophoresis) with the same. The invention relates to a packing composition for electrophoretic separation and/or analysis which contains a long self-assembly produced by dissolving a low-molecular-weight amphiphilic compound having a hydrophobic moiety and a hydrophilic moiety in water under heating and then cooling the resulting solution; a process for the production of the packing composition; a method of separation and/or analysis with the composition; and so on. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090211494 | ULTRAFINE PARTICLES OF PRUSSIAN BLUE-TYPE METAL COMPLEX, DISPERSION LIQUID THEREOF AND THEIR PRODUCTION METHODS - Disclosed is a method for producing ultrafine particles of a Prussian blue-type metal complex wherein (A) an aqueous solution containing an anionic metal cyano complex having a metal atom M | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090209753 | COLUMN PACKING MATERIAL, COLUMN USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF SEPARATION USING THE SAME - Aimed at readily and exactly separate 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) contained in a sample, a column packing material used for separating 8-OHdG, which contains a packing material composed of a material having a straight-chain hydrocarbon group having 6 or more and 30 or less carbon atoms as a functional group, and having a carbon content over the surface of carrier of 18% or less by element ratio, wherein the packing material contains 1 cumulative percent or more and 20 cumulative percent or less, on the particle-count basis, of particles having a circle-equivalent diameter, measured using a flow-type particle image analyzer, of 0.5 μm or larger and 10 μm or smaller, is used. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090207548 | Ion Generating Element, Ion Generator and Neutralizer - An ion generating element capable of cost reduction and space saving while exhibiting a high generation efficiency of positive ions and negative ions and stabilized generation capacity with less variation, and an ion generator and a neutralizer employing it. The ion generating element comprises a dielectric body having at least two faces, at least two discharge electrodes arranged on the at least two faces of the dielectric body, and an induction electrode arranged in the dielectric body and subjected to the action of the at least two discharge electrodes and is characterized in that positive ions and negative ions are generated on the body, and ions are generated from the at least two faces of the dielectric body through discharge generated because of the potential difference between the discharge electrode of the ion generating element and the induction electrode when a drive voltage is applied between them. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090202641 | HOLLOW FIBROUS ORGANIC NANOTUBE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a method of synthesizing a water-free nanotube capable of efficiently encapsulating a functional substance therein, in large quantities. The method comprises: dissolving, in an organic solvent heated up to a temperature equal to or less than a boiling point thereof, an N-glycoside type glycolipid represented by the following general formula (1): G-NHCO—R | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090197770 | BISMUTH BASED OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR THIN FILMS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A Bi-based oxide superconductor thin film whose c-axis is oriented parallel to the substrate and whose a-axis (or b-axis) is oriented perpendicular to the substrate, is manufactured in order to obtain a high performance layered Josephson junction using a Bi-based oxide superconductor. The method of manufacturing an a-axis oriented Bi-based oxide superconductor thin film, involves an epitaxial growth process using an LaSrAlO | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090197273 | NOVEL N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE TRANSFERASES AND NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING THE SAME - An enzyme which transfers N-acetylgalactosamine to N-acetylglucosamine via a β1-4 linkage was isolated and the structure of its gene was explained. This led to the production of said enzyme or the like by genetic engineering techniques, the production of oligosaccharides using said enzyme, and the diagnosis of diseases on the basis of said gene or the like. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090186223 | Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Fiber Aggregate Containing the Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, and Method for Producing Those - It relates to high purity single-walled carbon nanotubes having controlled diameter, useful as industrial materials, including high-strength carbon wire rods, particularly uniform single-walled carbon nanotubes having diameter fallen in a range of from 1.0 to 2.0 nm, and a method for producing the same efficiently, in large amount and inexpensively. The single-walled carbon nanotube obtained is characterized in that its diameter is fallen in a range of from 1.0 to 2.0 nm, and an intensity ratio IG/ID between G-band and D-band in a Raman spectrum is 200 or more. Furthermore, those single-walled carbon nanotubes are synthesized by a gas-phase flow CVD method that uses a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon which is liquid at ordinary temperature as a first carbon source and an unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon which is gas at ordinary temperature as a second carbon source. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090186073 | Design of Delivery Vehicle Based On Rolling Model - Objects of the present invention are to provide a method for designing an optimum delivery preparation with the use of a convenient experiment and/or assay and to search for the thus produced delivery vehicle. The present invention provides a method for producing a delivery vehicle for achieving the delivery of a desired substance to a desired site, which comprises the steps of:
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| 20090178513 | Extractants for palladium and method of rapidly separating and recovering palladium using the same - Provided is a novel extractant for palladium capable of improving an extraction rate compared to the conventional extractant, DHS, and also capable of back-extracting palladium using an ammonia solution, and a method of separating and recovering palladium using the novel extractant. The present invention provides a method for obtaining an aqueous solution containing palladium only by: bringing an acidic aqueous solution containing at least palladium into contact with an organic solution containing a sulfide-containing monoamide as an active integredient represented by the following structural formula (I), | 07-16-2009 |
