Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080213869 | Hydrogel for separating cell and method of separating cell - Cell/organism is separated by using a hydrogel capable of selectively moving a cell in accordance with a difference in the concentration of a physiologically active substance. The invention provides a hydrogel capable of conducting separation (fractionation, differential separation, fractional collection) of cell/organism having a variety of taxes, which could not be attained in the prior art. | 09-04-2008 |
20090047738 | FEEDER CELL DERIVED FROM TISSUE STEM CELL - It is an object of the present invention to provide a feeder cell with less variation in quality. The present invention relates to a feeder cell derived from a tissue stem and/or progenitor cell. A method of preparation of the feeder cell, a method of preparation of a cultured cell using the feeder cell, and a cell culturing kit are also provided. | 02-19-2009 |
20090120315 | LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING METHOD - The present invention relates to a lithographic printing method that uses inks selected from amongst yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks, the method comprising using yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks for which the number of representable colors obtained when printing the yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks with the density values for the yellow, magenta and cyan inks set to standard density values is at least 1.1 times the number of representable colors obtained when printing yellow, magenta, cyan and black Japan Color standard inks with the density values for the yellow, magenta and cyan Japan Color standard inks set to standard density values, and printing the yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks with the density values for the yellow, magenta and cyan inks set to 1.0 to 1.5 times the standard density values. The standard density values are from 1.40 to 1.44 for yellow, from 1.52 to 1.56 for magenta, and from 1.63 to 1.67 for cyan, and the number of representable colors refers to the number of colors that can be expressed when printing is conducted using either the yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks, or the yellow, magenta, cyan and black Japan Color standard inks, and is the number of colors that can be represented by the L*a*b* color system (wherein, L*=10y (wherein, y is an integer from 0 to 10), a*=10x (wherein, x is an integer from −12 to 12), and b*=10z (wherein, z is an integer from −12 to 12). | 05-14-2009 |
20090147793 | PACKET COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND PACKET COMMUNICATION METHOD - A packet communication network is connected between a first external network and a second external network. The packet communication network includes a classifier, a parallel network that includes a plurality of physically or logically independent networks, and a multiplexing router. The classifier classifies a packet input from the first external network to one of the networks in the parallel network. Each of the networks in the parallel network transmits the packet to the multiplexing router. The multiplexing router multiplexes a packet received from the networks in the parallel network and outputs the multiplexed packet to the second external network. | 06-11-2009 |
20110105682 | HEAT ADHERENT POLYURETHANE FILM - The object of the present invention is to provide a polyurethane film having heat adhesion and further having high stress retention and excellent elastic functions, and the polyurethane film of the present invention is a heat adherent polyurethane film wherein the thermal adhesion peeling stress indicated by a maximum stress when separating a film from a cotton fabric after hot-pressing the film to the cotton fabric at a temperature of 130° C. under a pressure of 4 bar for 25 seconds is 5.88 N/cm or more and the stress retention at an elongation percentage of 200% indicated by a ratio of a stress (f | 05-05-2011 |
20110251344 | THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE TAPE - The object of the present invention is to provide a thermoplastic polyurethane tape having excellent elastic functions, and the polyurethane tape of the present invention is a thermoplastic polyurethane tape with the residual strain after 300% stretching at 20° C. being from 5 to 40%, wherein the recovery percentage after repeating a 300% stretching/recovery cycle at −10° C. three times is preferably 85% or more. | 10-13-2011 |
20110318967 | CARD CONNECTOR - The card connector, into which an IC card having a plurality of pads arranged in parallel at front and back positions is inserted, includes a plurality of contacts each contacting a corresponding one of the plurality of pads of the IC card and a base member that supports the plurality of contacts. Each of the plurality of contacts has a first and a second elastic piece each having a contact point portion that electrically contacts a pad of the IC card. The first and second elastic pieces are formed such that contact pressures of the respective contact point portions against the pads are different from each other. The plurality of contacts is arranged on the base member in parallel at front and back positions and a first and a second contact piece are arranged in an opposite manner in contacts aligned linearly at front and back positions. | 12-29-2011 |
20120024506 | SWITCHGEAR - In order to obtain a switchgear which can improve heat dissipation efficiency, in the switchgear which dissipates heat outside an apparatus vessel, the heat being generated from an electrical apparatus placed in the apparatus vessel, the switchgear includes a first heat conductor in which one side is connected to a heat generation portion of the apparatus vessel and the other side is extended toward the apparatus vessel side, a second heat conductor in which one side is disposed near the other side of the first heat conductor and the other side is extended outside the apparatus vessel, and an insulating member between conductors disposed between the other side of the first heat conductor and one side of the second heat conductor. | 02-02-2012 |
20120103941 | POWER SWITCHING APPARATUS - A power switching apparatus includes: a pressure tank having tube-like openings in a shank portion and having an insulating gas sealed therein; a vacuum valve housed in the pressure tank and connected to the pressure tank at one end; bushing conductors penetrating through the openings of the pressure tank and electrically connected to the vacuum valve; and current transformers provided on an outside of the pressure tank and measuring a current flowing through the bushing conductors. Tube-like current transformer installation portions on which to install the current transformers are provided above the openings of the pressure tank and an outside diameter of the openings of the pressure tank is made larger than an outside diameter of the current transformer installation portions. | 05-03-2012 |
20140124480 | TANK TYPE VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER - In a tank type vacuum circuit breaker in which each of movable side and fixed side connection terminals of a vacuum interrupter arranged in a main tank and the lower end of each of conductors of a pair of bushings arranged in a standing condition in the main tank are connected by a flexible conductor and a shield for surrounding connection portions is provided, the shield is configured by combining: a main body side shield which is provided on axial both sides of the vacuum interrupter and covers a connection portion of the flexible conductor and the connection terminal; and a bushing side shield which is provided on the lower end side of the conductor and covers a connection portion of the conductor and the flexible conductor. | 05-08-2014 |
20140284463 | OPTICAL MODULE - On a predetermined mounting surface of a surface ( | 09-25-2014 |
20140315305 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL - The invention provides a method of efficiently producing corneal endothelial cells, particularly from corneal stroma or iPS cell-derived neural crest stem cells, a method of producing corneal endothelial cells stably in a large amount by inducing more efficient differentiation of stem cells into corneal endothelial cells, and a medicament containing corneal endothelial cells. The method of inducing differentiation of stem cells into corneal endothelial cells includes a step of culturing the stem cells in a differentiation induction medium containing a GSK3 inhibitor (preferably a GSK3β inhibitor) and retinoic acid, with the differentiation induction medium preferably further containing one or more of TGFb2, insulin, a ROCK inhibitor, and the like. | 10-23-2014 |
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20080260432 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a toner supplying device, a toner container, and a developing device. The toner supplying device supplies toners stored in the toner container to the developing device. The toner supplying device includes a toner tank which stores toners discharged from the toner container, a toner carrying section which carries the toners stored in the toner tank in an obliquely upward direction, and a toner dropping route which causes the toners carried by the toner carrying section to drop into the developing device by toner own weight. The toner carrying section controls an amount of the toners to flow into the toner dropping route. | 10-23-2008 |
20090080943 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a rotator that rotates around a shaft, and a bearing element that supports the shaft to a housing. A sliding element formed of a composite material that contains self-lubricating thermoplastic olefin resin as a base material is used as the bearing element. The sliding element formed of the composite material has at least a ratio of numerical values of “Rockwell hardness”/“bending elastic modulus” in a range from 25 to 45, and provides a sliding surface of which a frictional coefficient is lower than that of the sliding element formed of the base material. | 03-26-2009 |
20090317140 | TONER SUPPLYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner supplying device which supplies toners contained in a toner container to a developing device is disclosed. The toner supplying device includes a toner tank which stores the toners discharged from the toner container, a toner carrying section which carries the toners stored in the toner tank, a toner dropping route which causes the toners carried by the toner carrying section to drop into the developing device by toner's own weight, a control unit which controls an amount of the toners to flow into the toner dropping route from the toner carrying section, and a stirring member which stirs the toners staying at a region between the toner tank and the toner carrying section. | 12-24-2009 |
20100226690 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet. | 09-09-2010 |
20100329699 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a toner supplying device, a toner container, and a developing device. The toner supplying device supplies toners stored in the toner container to the developing device. The toner supplying device includes a toner tank which stores toners discharged from the toner container, a toner carrying section which carries the toners stored in the toner tank in an obliquely upward direction, and a toner dropping route which causes the toners carried by the toner carrying section to drop into the developing device by toner own weight. The toner carrying section controls an amount of the toners to flow into the toner dropping route. | 12-30-2010 |
20110176820 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A development device includes a toner-containing chamber for containing supplied toner having an interior wall, a developer-containing chamber for containing developer including toner and carrier communicating with the toner-containing chamber; and a transport screw to transport the supplied toner from the toner-containing chamber to the developer-containing chamber, disposed in the toner-containing chamber so that there is no gap between the outer edge of the transport screw and the interior wall of the toner-containing chamber in a portion lower than a level of the supplied toner in the toner-containing chamber. | 07-21-2011 |
20110311281 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING A MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATING UNIT AT THE TONER CARRYING SECTION - An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a toner supplying device, a toner container, and a developing device. The toner supplying device supplies toners stored in the toner container to the developing device. The toner supplying device includes a toner tank which stores toners discharged from the toner container, a toner carrying section which carries the toners stored in the toner tank in an obliquely upward direction, and a toner dropping route which causes the toners carried by the toner carrying section to drop into the developing device by toner own weight. The toner carrying section controls an amount of the toners to flow into the toner dropping route. | 12-22-2011 |
20130129391 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet. | 05-23-2013 |
20140050509 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet. | 02-20-2014 |
20150054898 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a media roll, art image forming device, and a feeder. In the media roll, a printing medium having an adhesive face is wound in a roll shape. The image forming device forms an image on the printing medium. The feeder feeds the printing medium. The feeder includes a protection belt and a pair of rotary bodies. The protection belt presses against and protects the adhesive face of the printing medium. The pair of rotary bodies sandwich and press the printing medium and the protection belt between the pair of rotary bodies. An approach angle of the printing medium is within a range from 0° to 30° and is formed by the printing medium drawn from the media roll and approaching to between the pair of rotary bodies and an opposing face of the protection belt opposing the image forming device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150086244 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet. | 03-26-2015 |