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20130115538 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system according to the present invention includes: a fuel cell system ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130137006 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system according to the present invention includes: a fuel cell system ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130177825 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system of the present invention includes: a fuel cell unit ( | 07-11-2013 |
20130189599 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A power generation system includes: a fuel cell ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130236802 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system according to the present invention includes: a fuel cell system ( | 09-12-2013 |
20130252122 | POWER GENERATOR AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generator according to the present invention includes a fuel cell system ( | 09-26-2013 |
20130252125 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A power generation system of the present invention comprises a fuel cell system ( | 09-26-2013 |
20130252535 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A power generation system of the present invention comprises: a power generation unit ( | 09-26-2013 |
20130266881 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system has a power generation unit ( | 10-10-2013 |
20130337354 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system includes: an air intake passage; a fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell; a case configured to house the fuel cell, a ventilator (air supply unit), and an air intake temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of the intake air supplied to the case; a combustion device that includes a combustor; an exhaust gas passage configured to discharge a flue gas generated in the combustion device to the outside; and a controller. The air intake passage and the exhaust gas passage are configured to allow heat exchange to occur between media flowing through the passages. The controller causes the combustion device to operate when the fuel cell system is activated and the temperature detected by the air intake temperature detector is equal to or lower than a first predetermined temperature. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344408 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system according to the present invention includes: a fuel cell unit including a fuel cell, a hydrogen generator having a first combustor, and a case; a controller; a combustion unit including a second combustor; and a discharge passage formed to cause the case and the combustion unit to communicate with each other. In a case where the controller causes one of the first combustor and the second combustor to perform the ignition operation, the controller maintains an operating state of the other combustor during the period of the ignition operation of the one combustor. | 12-26-2013 |
20150044585 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell to generate electric power; a casing accommodating at least the fuel cell, the casing including an air inlet and an exhaust outlet; a supply passage connected to the air inlet, to introduce external air into the casing; an exhaust passage connected to the exhaust outlet, to exchange heat with the supply passage and discharge at least air inside the casing; an air supply device to introduce the external air into the casing; a temperature detector to detect a temperature; and a controller configured to control at least the air supply device. If the temperature detected by the temperature detector after the controller has caused the air supply device to operate is lower than or equal to a first predetermined temperature, the controller reduces an amount of air supplied by the air supply device and causes the air supply device to continue operating. | 02-12-2015 |
20150147672 | POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A power generation system includes a fuel cell unit, a combustion apparatus, and a controller. The fuel cell unit includes a fuel cell, a casing, a ventilation fan (an air supply device), and a temperature detector configured to detect the temperature of outside air supplied to the casing. An air supply passage through which the outside air is supplied to the casing, and a discharge passage through which a flue gas from the combustion apparatus is discharged, are configured in such a manner as to allow a medium flowing through the air supply passage and a medium flowing through the discharge passage to exchange heat with each other. When the fuel cell unit is to be started up, if the temperature detected by the temperature detector is lower than or equal to a predetermined first temperature and the combustion apparatus is not in operation, the controller refrains from causing the fuel cell unit to operate. | 05-28-2015 |
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20130115622 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS - Provided are a prophylactic and therapeutic agent for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis containing an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor and a method of screening for a prophylactic and therapeutic drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using an induced pluripotent stem cell derived from a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. | 05-09-2013 |
20130189289 | VACCINE FOR TREATMENT OF TAUTOPATHY - This invention relates to a vaccine for preventing or treating tautopathy, comprising a vector, as an active ingredient, comprising a nucleic acid encoding a mutant tau protein linked to a secretion signal sequence, wherein the vaccine is capable of inducing an antibody against an (optionally phosphorylated) tau protein in a subject in a more sustained manner compared with a case where the mutant tau protein is administered directly. | 07-25-2013 |
20150064734 | METHOD FOR SCREENING THERAPEUTIC AND/OR PROPHYLACTIC AGENTS FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - The present invention provides a method for screening a therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for Alzheimer's disease using at least one index selected from the group consisting of the levels of Aβ oligomers, BiP, cleaved caspase 4, PRDX4 and ROS in nerve cells or the like whose differentiation has been induced from iPS cells derived from somatic cells of a patient with Alzheimer's disease. | 03-05-2015 |
20150266937 | VACCINE FOR TREATMENT OF TAUTOPATHY - This invention relates to a vaccine for preventing or treating tautopathy, comprising a vector, as an active ingredient, comprising a nucleic acid encoding a mutant tau protein linked to a secretion signal sequence, wherein the vaccine is capable of inducing an antibody against an (optionally phospholylated) tau protein in a subject in a more sustained manner compared with a case where the mutant tau protein is administered directly. | 09-24-2015 |
20150353888 | METHOD FOR INDUCING ASTROCYTES - The present invention provides a method for producing astrocytes from neural progenitor cells, the method comprising: (1) culturing neural progenitor cells in a culture medium comprising a neurotrophic factor; (2) dissociating the cells obtained in the step (1); and (3) subjecting the cells obtained in the step (2) to adherent culture in a culture medium comprising a neurotrophic factor using an uncoated culture vessel. | 12-10-2015 |
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20100237812 | MOTOR DRIVING APPARATUS - A motor driving apparatus that includes a current changing component, a detecting component, a control component, a back electromotive voltage zero cross detecting component, and a change control component. The current changing component drives a motor. The detecting component detects a point where a value of a magnitude of a current flowing into a coil of the motor changes from a decrease to an increase. The control component controls so that supply of the current to the coil is shut down, when the point is detected and the back electromotive voltage zero cross detecting component detects a zero cross of a back electromotive voltage generated in the coil. The change control component controls so that the direction of the current flowing into the coil changes to a reverse direction opposite to the predetermined direction, when the zero cross is detected. | 09-23-2010 |
20100237813 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR DRIVING APPARATUS - A brushless motor driving apparatus that includes a rotation signal output component, a half-cycle signal generating component, a plurality of counters, and a duty control signal generating component is provided. The plurality of counters, each of which uses a different bit number to count, repeatedly resets a count value and restarts a count operation for every bit number, resets a count value together with rising or falling of a half-cycle signal, and outputs a pulse signal which is inverted for every reset that occurs while the count operation is being performed. The duty control signal generating component generates a duty control signal to determine a duty ratio of a control signal to control driving of a single-phase brushless motor, based on at least two pulse signals selected from the pulse signals output from the plurality of counters. | 09-23-2010 |
20100237816 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR DRIVING CIRCUIT - The present disclosure provides a brushless motor driving circuit capable of clamping an output voltage at a proper voltage, even when a power source voltage changes. Namely, a pre-driver circuit generates a voltage for driving a brushless motor from a source voltage by turning on/off first and second PMOS transistors and first and second NMOS transistors in an H bridge circuit of a drive voltage generating circuit, and applies the voltage to a coil of the brushless motor. A first clamp circuit turns on/off the first NMOS transistor on the ground side so that the output voltage at a first output terminal becomes equal to or lower than the source voltage. A second clamp circuit turns on/off the second NMOS transistor on the ground side so that output voltage at a second output terminal becomes equal to or lower than the source voltage. | 09-23-2010 |
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20140111551 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information-processing device includes: an enlargement/reduction instruction receiving unit configured to receive an enlargement/reduction instruction to enlarge or reduce a display region that is at least a portion of a predetermined region; a first control unit configured to, when enlarging or reducing the display region in accordance with the enlargement/reduction instruction, compute, based on a relationship between a position of a point of regard of the display region within the predetermined region and a position of a reference point of the predetermined region, a position where the point of regard is to be located within the predetermined region after the enlargement or reduction; and a second control unit configured to enlarge or reduce the display region, based on the enlargement/reduction instruction. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115532 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM - An exemplary information-processing device includes: an operation receiving unit that receives an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area; a display controlling unit that controls a display unit to display a graphic in the display area; a determining unit that determines a velocity of movement of the display area in accordance with a value derived from the operational input, and; an area managing unit that manages the display area to move the display area at the velocity of movement under a condition that, when a portion of the display area moves outside a predetermined portion of the predetermined area, a distance between the display area and the predetermined area does not exceed a threshold. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115533 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM - An exemplary information-processing device includes: an operation receiving unit that receives an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area, a display controlling unit that controls a display unit to display a graphic in the display area, and a movement controlling unit that controls movement of the display area in accordance with values derived from the operational input so that the display area moves with a restriction of movement in a predetermined direction when the display area and the predetermined area are in a predetermined positional relation. | 04-24-2014 |
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20090009368 | INPUT DEVICE, AND MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING THE SAME - Provided is an input device that does not allow an input efficiency to be drastically lowered even when the number of pressing a key falls. | 01-08-2009 |
20090085875 | INPUT DEVICE - To enable Japanese character input and the like to be performed efficiently by a simple operation. An input device includes: a device body ( | 04-02-2009 |
20090109069 | INPUT DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - The present invention provides an input device ( | 04-30-2009 |
20090140991 | INPUT DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING THE SAME - To provide the input device in the present invention, which allows comfortable operation with lightened mental and physical load, has at least one input key and includes: an association storage unit storing an array of plural information in association with the input key, the plural information each having an order; a selection unit selecting, from the array, predetermined information as input information; a touch detection unit detecting that an object touches a surface of the input key; and a movement relevant information detection unit detecting movement relevant information concerning a movement of a contact point between the surface of the input key and the object, the contact point being detected by the touch detection unit. The selection unit selects, from the array, information having a predetermined order stored in association with the input key on which the touch detection unit detects the touch by the object, based on the movement relevant information. | 06-04-2009 |
20090289923 | INPUT DEVICE AND INPUT METHOD - The present invention provides an input device which enables a user to input desired information by simple operations even though a user has pressed a wrong button, as well as to make an information inputting position stationary. | 11-26-2009 |
20140239874 | MOTOR DRIVING CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A motor driving circuit for driving a step motor includes a logical circuit synchronized with a step pulse signal to control a bridge circuit connected to a coil of the step motor and control electric power supplied to the coil of the step motor, a counter electromotive force detecting unit configured to detect a counter electromotive force generated between both ends of the coil, and a step-out predicting unit configured to assert a detection signal indicating a sign of step-out of the step motor, when the counter electromotive force detected at a detection time after the lapse of a time calculated by multiplying a predetermined coefficient to a length of a high impedance period of the coil since transition to the high impedance period is lower than a predetermined threshold voltage. | 08-28-2014 |
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20100323356 | SMALL RNA-DEPENDENT TRANSLATIONAL REGULATORY SYSTEM IN CELL OR ARTIFICIAL CELL MODEL - An object of the present invention is to construct an mRNA which specifically responds to a short RNA sequence and can activate, repress, and regulate the translation of the desired gene, and to construct an artificial cell model system using a liposome comprising the mRNA and a cell-free translational system encapsulated therein. The present invention provides: an mRNA comprising a target RNA-binding site located immediately 5′ to the ribosome-binding site, and a nucleotide sequence located 5′ to the target RNA-binding site, the nucleotide sequence being complementary to the ribosome-binding site; an mRNA comprising a small RNA-binding site located 3′ to the start codon, and a nucleotide sequence located 3′ to the small RNA-binding site, the nucleotide sequence encoding a protein; and a liposome comprising any of these mRNAs encapsulated therein. | 12-23-2010 |
20110040077 | Protein-Responsive Translational Regulatory System Using RNA-Protein Interacting Motif - An object of the present invention is to provide a translationally regulatable mRNA which has wider application and can perform specific ON-OFF regulation, an RNA-protein complex specifically bound to the mRNA, and a translational regulatory system. The present invention provides an mRNA having an RNA-protein complex interacting motif-derived nucleotide sequence 5′ to the ribosome-binding site or within the 5′ region of the open reading frame, and an mRNA having a nucleotide sequence complementary to an RNA-protein complex interacting motif-derived nucleotide sequence 5′ to the ribosome-binding site or within the 5′ region of the open reading frame. | 02-17-2011 |
20110263026 | Construction of Protein-Responsive shRNA/RNAi Control System Using RNP Motif - An object of the present invention is to provide an RNAi control system using an RNA-protein interaction motif. The present invention provides an shRNA comprising: a guide strand having a sequence complementary to a target sequence; a passenger strand which forms a duplex with the guide strand; and a linker strand which links the guide strand and the passenger strand, wherein the linker strand comprises an RNP-derived protein-binding motif sequence. The present invention also provides an RNAi control system comprising: the shRNA; and an RNP-derived protein which specifically binds to a protein-binding motif sequence in the shRNA. | 10-27-2011 |
20140030707 | SMALL RNA-DEPENDENT TRANSLATIONAL REGULATORY SYSTEM IN CELL OR ARTIFICIAL CELL MODEL - An object of the present invention is to construct an mRNA which specifically responds to a short RNA sequence and can activate, repress, and regulate the translation of the desired gene, and to construct an artificial cell model system using a liposome comprising the mRNA and a cell-free translational system encapsulated therein. The present invention provides: an mRNA comprising a target RNA-binding site located immediately 5′ to the ribosome-binding site, and a nucleotide sequence located 5′ to the target RNA-binding site, the nucleotide sequence being complementary to the ribosome-binding site; an mRNA comprising a small RNA-binding site located 3′ to the start codon, and a nucleotide sequence located 3′ to the small RNA-binding site, the nucleotide sequence encoding a protein; and a liposome comprising any of these mRNAs encapsulated therein. | 01-30-2014 |
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20090001094 | Medication Managing Apparatus - A medication managing apparatus, comprising a medicine package case formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape to store medicine packages in which medicine taken by users is contained. The medicine package case comprises a plurality of blocks partitioned by walls, arranged parallel with each other, and storing medicine packages, openings formed in the opposed walls of the blocks at positions facing each other through the medicine packages stored in the blocks, and an openable cover covering the plurality of blocks and enabling the storage and taking-out of the medicine packages. The blocks are formed in the flat rectangular parallelepiped shape, and arranged in the depth direction of the medicine package case while alternately displacing positions in the depth direction. The openings are formed in the opposed walls of the blocks at positions in the depth direction of the blocks. | 01-01-2009 |
20090043605 | MEDICATION MANAGING APPARATUS - When the present time of a clock circuit is a medication time recorded in advance in a SD card, a notice that the medication time has come is given by a voice output portion or the like. Presence/absence of a medicine package in each block of a medicine package case is sensed by a medicine package sensor. The time point and the presence/absence of the medicine package are recorded in the SD card. A notice corresponding to the presence/absence is output. At a time except for the medication time, taking-out of the case, opening/closing of the cover, taking-out and return of the medicine package are recorded in the SD card based on detection signals from the medicine package sensor, medicine package case sensor, and case cover opening/closing sensor. A notice corresponding to the sensed situation is output, | 02-12-2009 |
20090261011 | MEDICATION MANAGING APPARATUS - A medication managing apparatus includes a medicine package case and a main body unit removably storing the medicine package case. The medicine package case includes blocks each storing a medicine package, openings provided at walls of each block and formed at positions facing each other such that the medicine package stored in the block is sandwiched therebetween, and an openable/closable cover. The main body unit includes a sensor portion (a medicine package sensor) disposed corresponding to each opening at the opposing walls of each block, to sense a medicine package based on that the medicine package stored in the block blocks a gap between a pair of openings, and a switch lever and a micro-switch (a medicine package case sensor) sensing attachment/removal of the medicine package case to/from the main body unit. | 10-22-2009 |
20140129252 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A biological information measurement system measures a plurality of types of biological information of a specific patient, selects recording biological information that is to be kept as a record of each type of biological information from the plurality of types of measured biological information based on a predetermined selection standard, and records the selected recording biological information so that the recording biological information can be confirmed later. As a result, highly-reliable biological information can be recorded efficiently and with certainty. | 05-08-2014 |
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20110288397 | MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS - Provided is a medical image diagnosis apparatus which requires a small area for installation, has a short length in an axial direction of the apparatus, can reduce a problem of the strength of a top plate, and can simultaneously carry out dynamic PET-imaging of the entire body. A top plate ( | 11-24-2011 |
20120238883 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, PORTABLE OPTICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE USED THEREIN, AND REHABILITATION PLANNING METHOD USING SAME - An optical measurement system having a main and a portable optical measurement devices. The portable optical measurement device is provided with a second case portable by the subject, C second light sending means for illuminating the subject, D second light receiving means receiving light emitted from the subject, a second holder worn on the head of the subject and having at least (C+D) through holes therein, a control unit acquiring measurement data relating to a brain activity while controlling the second light sending and receiving means, and a communication unit communicating with the main optical measurement device, that (C+D)>(A+B) is satisfied, and that the communication unit of the portable optical measurement device transmits the measurement data acquired by the control unit of the portable optical measurement device to the main optical measurement device. | 09-20-2012 |
20130066214 | HOLDER AND LIGHT MEASURING DEVICE USING SAME - Provided is a holder which comprises at least two probe mount portions and is to be put on the head of a subject by inserting a light-transmitting probe for emitting light from the tip thereof or a light-receiving probe for receiving light through the tip thereof in the probe mount portion, the holder characterized by being provided with a linear backbone portion extending in a first direction, at least two linear branch portions extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and a disposition reference point disposed so as to match a first specific point, the first specific point being set in the head of the subject. | 03-14-2013 |
20130072804 | LIGHT TRANSMITTING PROBE, LIGHT RECEIVING PROBE, LIGHT TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PROBE, AND LIGHT MEASUREMENT DEVICE USING SAME - A light transmitting probe comprising: a housing for fixing the probe to a mounting portion of a holder to be mounted on a subject; a light emitter for emitting light, the light emitter being placed in an end portion of the housing; and a transmission channel, one end of which is connected to the light emitter, and the other end of each is connected to a controller; the light transmitting probe irradiating the subject with light when fixed to the holder, and being characterized in that the end portion of the housing has a number of rod-shaped protrusions, the light emitter is a number of light emitting elements, the light emitting elements are respectively placed in an end portion of each protrusion, the transmission channel is a number of transmission channels, and the transmission channels are respectively placed inside each protrusion. | 03-21-2013 |
20130116521 | HOLDER AND LIGHT MEASUREMENT DEVICE EMPLOYING SAME - Provided is a holder which comprises at least two probe mount portions into which a light-transmitting probe for emitting light from the tip thereof or a light-receiving probe for receiving light through the tip thereof is inserted from above and is to be put on the head of a subject, the holder being characterized by further comprising: a linear backbone portion that extends in a first direction that is perpendicular to the above-described direction from above; and at least two linear branch portions that extend in a second direction that is perpendicular to the above-described direction from above and is different from the first direction, wherein the lower end portions of the probe mount portions protrude from the lower surface of the backbone portion or a branch portion and are tapered. | 05-09-2013 |
20140018640 | HOLDER SET AND BRAIN FUNCTION MEASURING DEVICE USING SAME - This holder set is provided with: an optical bioinstrumentation holder which has at least two probe mounting units into which are inserted light-transmitting probes which irradiate light from the tip, or light-receiving probes which receive light from the tip, and which is mounted on the subject's head; and a electroencephalograph holder which has at least one electrode mounting unit into which an EEG electrode is inserted which detects the potential difference with a reference electrode. This optical bioinstrumentation holder is provided with a linear trunk unit extending in a first direction, and at least two linear branches extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and the electroencephalograph holder is provided with a linear trunk unit extending in a first direction, and at least one linear branch extending in the direction opposite to said second direction. | 01-16-2014 |
20140243611 | REHABILITATION DEVICE - A rehabilitation device includes a head mounted unit disposed on the scalp surface of a subject, a brain measurement data acquisition unit which acquires brain measurement data relating to a brain activity, a determination unit which determines whether the subject's brain can recall the brain activity corresponding to an exercise which is a subject for rehabilitation based on the brain measurement data, a motion sensor attached to a part of the subject's body, a body measurement data acquisition unit which acquires body measurement data relating to a body movement of a part of the subject's body from the motion sensor, and a warning unit which gives a warning to stop the body movement of the part of the subject's body when there is a body movement that does not correspond to the exercise which is the subject for rehabilitation based on the body measurement data. | 08-28-2014 |
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20150201841 | OPTICAL BIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND ANALYSIS METHOD USING THE SAME - An optical biological measuring device includes a light transmission/reception element | 07-23-2015 |