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| 20090090428 | REINFORCING BAR BINDING MACHINE - A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a device for detecting a power supply voltage during a binding wire twisting step subjected to the heaviest load and comparing the power supply voltage with a predetermined CPU operation voltage, and a control device for driving a motor in a reverse direction when the voltage has dropped below the predetermined CPU operation voltage. The power supply voltage during operation is monitored, and twisting operation is suspended before the voltage drops below the CPU operation voltage, whereby the binding wire twisting mechanism is returned to the initial position. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the binding wire twisting mechanism from being stopped while grasping the binding wire, when the CPU stops. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090126824 | REINFORCEMENT BINDING MACHINE, REEL, AND METHOD OF DETECTING ROTATION OF REEL - A reinforcement binding machine capable of detecting, by the rotation of a reel, that wire on the reel is consumed and the reel, the reinforcement binding machine wherein an interrupter is installed in the cassette case of a binding machine body, a cover is rotatably held on a reel mounting shaft, an opening part is formed in the cover, a projection is formed on the reel and fitted into the opening part, and a color with a lightness different from that of the cover is applied to the projection to detect the rotation of the reel by the interrupter. | 05-21-2009 |
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| 20080210911 | VARISTOR ELEMENT - In a varistor element, Ca exists in the grain interior of grains consisting primarily of ZnO in a varistor element body and Ca also exists in a grain boundary. In this crystal structure Ca replaces oxygen defects in the grain interior of grains consisting primarily of ZnO, in the varistor element body to make the ceramic structure denser Such crystal structure also decreases a ratio of an element tending to degrade the stability of the temperature characteristic of the varistor element, e.g., Si as a firing aid, in the grain boundary between grains. As a result, the varistor element has a stable temperature characteristic, which can decrease change in capacitance and tanδ (thermal conversion factor of resistance) against change in temperature. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080308312 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A ceramic electronic component comprises a ceramic element body and an outer electrode arranged on the ceramic element body. The outer electrode includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer formed on the first electrode layer. The first electrode layer is formed on an outer surface of the ceramic element body and contains Ag and a glass material. The second electrode layer contains Pt and has a plurality of holes reaching the first electrode layer at respective locations. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090015367 | NONLINEAR RESISTOR CERAMIC COMPOSITION, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND MULTILAYER CHIP VARISTOR - A nonlinear resistor ceramic composition has a major component containing zinc oxide, a first minor component containing an oxide of a rare-earth metal, a second minor component containing an oxide of Ca, and a third minor component containing an oxide of Si. A percentage of the second minor component to 100 moles of the major component is in the range of 2 atomic % ≦ the second minor component <80 atomic % in terms of Ca. A percentage of the third minor component to 100 moles of the major component is in the range of 1 atomic % ≦ the third minor component <40 atomic % in terms of Si. An atomic ratio of Ca to Si (Ca/Si) is not less than 1. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090021341 | VARISTOR - A varistor has a ceramic composition to exhibit nonlinear voltage-current characteristics, and at least two electrodes arranged to sandwich at least a portion of the ceramic composition. The ceramic composition contains a mixture phase in which a first phase containing zinc oxide as a major component, and a second phase comprised of an oxide of Ca and Si are mixed. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090296312 | CHIP-TYPE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A chip-type electronic component has: a ceramic element body; a plurality of first and second internal electrodes arranged in the ceramic element body so as to be opposed at least in part to each other; a first external connection conductor to which the plurality of first internal electrodes are connected; a second external connection conductor to which the plurality of second internal electrodes are connected; first and second terminal electrodes; a first internal connection conductor arranged in the ceramic element body and connecting the first external connection conductor and the first terminal electrode; and a second internal connection conductor arranged in the ceramic element body and connecting the second external connection conductor and the second terminal electrode. The number of the first internal connection conductor is set to be smaller than the number of the first internal electrodes and the number of the second internal connection conductor is set to be smaller than the number of the second internal electrodes. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20110141638 | ELECTROSTATIC PROTECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - The electrostatic protection device in accordance with the present invention is the electrostatic protection device for protecting a plurality of electronic elements electrically connected in series against static electricity, the device comprising a plurality of first electrostatic protection elements having a current-voltage nonlinear resistance characteristic, a plurality of second electrostatic protection elements having a current-voltage nonlinear resistance characteristic, and a ground terminal for electrically connecting with a ground. The plurality of first electrostatic protection elements are electrically connected in parallel to the respective electronic elements, while the plurality of second electrostatic protection elements are electrically connected between input terminals of the respective electronic elements and the ground terminal. | 06-16-2011 |
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| 20090264172 | GAME SYSTEM - A game system includes a plurality of pedometers. The plurality of step count data respectively counted by the plurality of pedometers are acquired in the game apparatus. In the game apparatus, by utilizing the plurality of step count data, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game. Alternatively, in a server, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed by utilizing the plurality of step count data, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game in the game apparatus. For example, game processing depending on the number of players walking in the same time slot is executed, or game processing according to the totalized value of the accumulated total step count values of the plurality of pedometers is executed. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090323888 | STEP COUNT MEASURING SYSTEM - A step count measuring system includes a pedometer and a step count managing apparatus which are able to communicate, with each other. In the pedometer, a step count value sequentially detected for each unit of time is stored, and a time counted in the pedometer is stored as first time data by being brought into associated with each of the step count values. When a battery is replaced in the pedometer, a reset is executed to start initialization processing, and the time stored as first time data is stored as second time data which can be discriminated from the first time data. A recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the first time data before the initialization processing is set on the basis of the time counted by the step count managing apparatus, and a recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the second time data after the initialization processing is set on the basis of the second time data. | 12-31-2009 |
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| 20080245762 | SQUARE BOTTLE MANUFACTURED FROM SYNTHETIC RESIN - Disclosed herein are bottle-shaped containers having a trunk portion approximating a square. The trunk portion comprises four tabular side walls arrayed about a center axis and four corner walls connected to adjacent side walls in a corner-cutting form. The width of the corner walls expands from the top end and the bottom end toward a position about midway between the top end and the bottom end. By making the widths of the side walls and the corner walls about equal at a location about midway between the top portion and the bottom portion, the distance between the corner walls in mutual opposition with respect to the center axis can be decreased, forming a waist portion. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080314862 | Beverage container with easy label removal - A beverage container or plastic bottle that allows easy label or film removal is provided. The beverage container includes a shoulder portion, a base portion, a body portion extending between the shoulder portion and the base portion, the body portion having a reinforcing concave rib circumferentially formed on the body portion, the concave rib having an asymmetrical shape at a vertical cross-section of the concave rib, and a heat shrink film disposed over the body portion, the heat shrink film having an edge disposed over the concave rib. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090101660 | Plastic beverage container - A beverage container including a finger insertion indentation is provided. The beverage container includes a barrel portion having a substantially square cross-sectional shape defined by a plurality of walls including at least a front wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, and a right side wall. The container also includes a pair of indentations formed in at least one of the front and rear walls for insertion of, and engagement with, a finger, and a column portion separating the pair of indentations into left and right portions. Each of the pair of indentations has a bottom wall, a first side wall extending from the bottom wall to the column portion, and a second side wall extending from the bottom wall and facing the first side wall, the second side wall having a peak portion extending along a corner portion of the substantially square cross-sectional shape. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090166314 | Plastic bottle - A plastic bottle is provided with a constricted portion and a non-constricted portion contiguous above and below with the constricted portion. One of the constricted portion or the non-constricted portion has a substantially polygonal cross-sectional shape, and the other one of the constricted portion or the non-constricted portion has a circular cross-sectional shape. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100089863 | PLASTIC BOTTLE WITH A MOUTH - To provide a plastic bottle whose weight can be reduced without sacrificing strength of a bottle mouth, the plastic bottle is provided with a bottle mouth having a circumferential wall, including a threaded section formed on an outer circumferential surface of the circumferential wall, a support ring protruding from the outer circumferential surface below the threaded section, and punched sections formed on the circumferential wall. | 04-15-2010 |
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| 20080227699 | Therapeutic Agent for Neurodegenerative Diseases - The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and/or prevention of a neurodegenerative disease, comprising the following polypeptide shown in any of (a) to (c): (a) a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence represented by Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala-Pro-Ala-Gly-Ala-Ser-Arg-Leu-Leu-Leu-Leu-Thr-Gly-Glu-Ile-Asp-Leu-Pro (SEQ ID NO: 1); (b) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having a deletion, substitution, insertion, and/or addition of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence consisting of Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala-Pro-Ala-Gly-Ala-Ser-Arg-Leu-Leu-Leu-Leu-Thr-Gly-Glu-Ile-Asp-Leu-Pro (SEQ ID NO: 1), and having an activity that inhibits neuronal cell death associated with neurodegenerative disease; and (c) a modified polypeptide from the polypeptide (a) or (b), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an effective ingredient. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090075900 | Therapeutic agent for motor neuron disease - An object of the present invention is to provide an agent effective for the treatment and/or prevention of motor neuron disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The present invention provides a therapeutic and/or preventive agent for motor neuron disease comprising the following oligopeptide shown in any of (a) to (c) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient: (a) an oligopeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1); (b) an oligopeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence having a deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of one or several amino acids in Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1), and having an activity that inhibits neuronal cell death caused by a mutant superoxide dismutase-1 gene; and (c) a modified oligopeptide from the oligopeptide (a) or (b). | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100223684 | HUMANIN RECEPTOR OR HUMANIN-LIKE POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR - One aspect of the present invention is directed to search receptors based on the information of HN signaling pathways in order to find Humanin receptor or Humanin-like polypeptide receptor (HNR), and to reveal a mechanism of promoting or suppressing the intracellular signal transduction for neuroprotecting activity of HN and identify a compound involved in the mechanism. The aspect of the invention is directed to a method for screening of HNR agonist and HNR antagonist, to utilize the screened compound in development of a drug for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease, and to provide an assay system of AD neuronal cell death, and to provide methods for the compulsory expression of HNR gene or knocking-out of intracellular genes. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100279942 | METHODS FOR TREATING MOTOR NEURON DISEASE - An object of the present invention is to provide an agent effective for the treatment and/or prevention of motor neuron disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The present invention provides a therapeutic and/or preventive agent for motor neuron disease comprising the following oligopeptide shown in any of (a) to (c) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient: (a) an oligopeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1); (b) an oligopeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence having a deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of one or several amino acids in Ser-Ala-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Ile-Pro-Ala (SEQ ID NO: 1), and having an activity that inhibits neuronal cell death caused by a mutant superoxide dismutase-1 gene; and (c) a modified oligopeptide from the oligopeptide (a) or (b). | 11-04-2010 |
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| 20090022918 | Method for Manufacturing Pressure-Resistant Container Liner and Liquid Crystal Resin Liner - A resin composition formed by blending 10 to 25 weight parts of the epoxy modified polystyrene resin (B) to 100 weight parts of the liquid crystal polyester and/or the liquid crystal polyester amide (A) and by melt-kneading the two materials, wherein the resin composition having a melt viscosity of 60 to 4000 Pa·s at a shear rate of 1000/second at a temperature which is 20° C. higher than the melting point and having a melt tension of 20 mN or more at a take-over speed of 15 m/minute, is melt within a temperature range of a melting point to the melting point +40° C., a parison P is formed by extruding it with an extrusion speed equal to or higher than 0.3 kg/minute and lower than 5 kg/minute, a pair of moldings placed so as to sandwich the parison P are closed at a predetermined mold closing pressure, and air is blown into the parison P. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20100028584 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRESSURE-RESISTANT CONTAINER LINER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL RESIN LINER - A resin composition formed by mixing 99 to 70 weight % of specific whole aromatic polyesteramide liquid crystal resin (A) with 1 to 30 weight % of epoxy modified polyolefin-base resin (B) and by melting and kneading both of the resins, wherein the resin composition having a melt viscosity of 60 to 4000 Pa·s at a shear rate of 1000/second at a temperature which is 20° C. higher than the melting point and having a melt tension of 20 mN or more at a take-over speed of 14.8 m/minute, is melt within a temperature range of a melting point to the melting point +40° C., a parison (P) is formed by extruding it with an extrusion speed equal to or higher than 0.3 kg/minute and lower than 5 kg/minute, a pair of moldings placed so as to sandwich the parison (P) are closed at a predetermined mold closing pressure, and air is blown into the parison (P). | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100116420 | TANK FOR VERY LOW TEMPERATURE LIQUIDS - The present invention relates to a tank for holding a cryogenic liquid. According to the present invention, there is provided a light and durable tank which is airtight even at cryogenic temperatures without generating cracks. The tank includes: a pressure-resistant layer having an inner shell and an outer shell; and an airtight resin layer on an inner surface of the inner shell, wherein the inner shell is comprised of a fiber-reinforced resin composite which can withstand temperatures above the melting point of the airtight resin layer, and the outer shell is comprised of another fiber-reinforced resin composite which can be cured at a temperature below the melting point of the airtight resin layer. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100163565 | Pressure-Resistant Container - In a pressure-resistant container | 07-01-2010 |
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| 20080239434 | MULTI-BEAM SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A multi-beam scanning optical system configured to scan a plurality of laser beams on a scanned surface in a predetermined scanning direction includes a light source emitting a plurality of laser beams from respective laser emitters spaced from each other in the predetermined scanning direction, a diverging property changing element changing a diverging property of each of the emitted laser beams, a deflector configured to be sine-functionally oscillated and to deflect each of the laser beams with the diverging property thereof as changed so as to scan each of the laser beams on the scanned surface in the predetermined scanning direction, and a scanning speed controlling element configured to control a scanning speed at which each of the laser beams deflected by the deflector is scanned on the scanned surface. The multi-beam scanning optical system is configured to satisfy a predetermined condition. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080239439 | SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM - A scanning optical system configured to scan laser light on a scanned surface in a scanning direction, includes a light source emitting the laser light, a converging element converging the emitted laser light in the predetermined scanning direction, a deflector deflecting the converged laser light to scan the laser light on the scanned surface, and a scanning speed controlling element controlling the deflected laser light to be scanned at a constant scanning speed. The scanning optical system is configured to satisfy predetermined conditions. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20100302610 | MULTIBEAM SCANNING DEVICE - A multibeam scanning device, comprising: a plurality of first optical systems, each of the plurality of optical systems including a light source unit configured to emit a non-collimated light beam, and an optical element having a predetermined power and having an optical effect on the laser beam; a second optical system arranged on a downstream side of the plurality of first optical systems, including a first deflector on which light beams emitted by the plurality of first optical systems are incident, the first deflector being to deflect the laser beams, and a common optical system configured to change degree of divergence of each of the plurality of light beams; and an optical path shifting system configured to translate an incident optical path of the light beam which is emitted by the light source and incident on the optical element, wherein all the light beams incident on the first deflector are incident on the first deflector at substantially the same position, and wherein the optical elements are arranged such that optical axes of the optical elements intersect at a position spaced from the optical element by a distance equal to a focal length of the optical element. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110001855 | IMAGE SENSOR - An imaging sensor comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. The pixels comprise photoelectric converters and optical members. The optical member covers the photoelectric converter. Incident light passes through the optical member. The pixels are arranged in two dimensions on a light-receiving area. First differences are created for the distances between the photoelectric converter and a far-side surface of the optical member in two of the pixels in a part of pixel pairs among all of the pixel pairs. The far-side surface is an opposite surface of a near-side surface. The near-side surface of the optical member faces the photoelectric converter. The pixel pair includes two of the pixels selected from the plurality of the pixels. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110001856 | IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor comprising a plurality of first pixels is provided. The pixels comprise photoelectric converters and first optical members. The first optical member covers the photoelectric converter. Light incident on the photoelectric converter passes through the first optical member. The first pixels are arranged on a light-receiving area. First differences are created for the thicknesses of the first optical members in two of the first pixels in a part of first pixel pairs among all first pixel pairs. The first pixel pair includes two of the first pixels selected from the plurality of said first pixels. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110013247 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING PROJECTOR - A two-dimensional scanning projector causing a light beam to scan in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, comprising: a first deflector which deflects the light beam in the first direction; and a scanning optical system arranged between the first deflector and a scanned surface, wherein the first deflector is arranged such that a rotation axis of the first deflector is inclined, in a plane including an optical axis of the scanning optical system and the second direction, by a first angle with respect to the second direction, and the light beam is incident on the first deflector such that, in the plane including the optical axis and the second direction, a chief ray of the light beam entering a center of a projected image is obliquely incident on the first deflector to form a second angle with respect to the optical axis. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110157454 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging sensor comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. Each pixel comprises photoelectric converters and optical members. The optical member covers the photoelectric converter. Light toward the photoelectric converter passes through the optical member. The pixels are arranged in two dimensions on a light-receiving area. At least a part of the light-receiving area comprises an area of irregularity. First and second pixels are arranged irregularly in the area of irregularity. Distances between the photoelectric converter and a far-side surface of the optical member are first and second distances in the first and second pixels, respectively. The far-side surface is an opposite surface of a near-side surface. The near-side surface of the optical member faces the photoelectric converter. The second distance is shorter than the first distance. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110176191 | SCANNING OPTICAL DEVICE - A scanning optical device that scans a light beam through a relay optical system, the relay optical system comprising: front group lenses arranged at a light source side; rear group lenses arranged at a side of a surface to be scanned; and first and second minors arranged between the front group lenses and the rear group lenses and supported by a common supporting member, wherein a normal vector of a minor surface of the first minor makes an angle (180−ω) with an incident optical axis from the front group lenses, a normal vector of the second minor makes an angle α (α≠180×m) with the normal vector of the first minor, and the supporting member includes a mechanism being linearly movable in a direction which makes an angle (ω−α+90) with the normal vector of the first mirror. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176192 | SCANNING OPTICAL DEVICE - A scanning optical device includes at least one light source unit for emitting a light beam, a first deflector for deflecting the emitted light beam in an auxiliary scanning direction, a condensing optical system for generating an intermediate image of the light beam deflected by the first deflector, a collecting optical system for condensing a light beam diverged from the generated intermediate image, a second deflector for deflecting the condensed light beam in a main-scanning direction, and a scanning optical system for scanning the surface to be scanned with the light beam deflected by the second deflector. The condensing optical system has an f-θ characteristic, the collecting optical system has an f-sin θ characteristic, and the scanning optical system has an f-sin θ characteristic. | 07-21-2011 |
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| 20080295259 | METHOD FOR STABILIZING LEUCO-TYPE COLORANT - Provided are a method of stabilizing a leuco dye storable as a liquid for a long time, a method of reducing nonspecific color development thereof at a time of a color development reaction, and a stable liquid reagent composition using the methods. The inventors of the present invention found that coexistence of the leuco dye with a specific reducing agent resulted in suppression of self color development and its remarkably improved stability in a solution, and that when a color development reaction of the leuco dye with hydrogen peroxide was performed, coexistence of the leuco dye, in a reaction solution, with another dye which had an absorption spectrum not influencing a measurement wavelength of the leuco dye and did not react with hydrogen peroxide suppressed nonspecific color development and lowered a reagent blank value, which was applied to an analytical reagent. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20120040387 | METHOD AND REAGENT FOR MEASURING MEVALONIC ACID, 3-HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A, AND COENZYME A - The present invention provides a method for measuring the concentration of an analyte in a test solution wherein the analyte is mevalonic acid and/or 3-hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A, comprising the following steps (p) and (q): (p) a step of allowing an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction represented by Reaction Formula 1 and an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction represented by Reaction Formula 2 to act on a test solution containing mevalonic acid and/or 3-hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor X, a hydrogen donor Y, and coenzyme A; and (q) a step of measuring an amount of: a reduced hydrogen acceptor X that is produced; or an oxidized hydrogen donor Y that is produced; or a hydrogen acceptor X that is decreased; or a hydrogen donor Y that is decreased, wherein the hydrogen donor Y and the reduced hydrogen acceptor X are not the same. | 02-16-2012 |
