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| 20100087372 | GROWTH HORMONE SECRETION STIMULATOR - Provided are: an agent for promoting growth hormone-secretion, containing a milk-derived basic protein fraction as an active ingredient, with the promotion of growth hormone-secretion being mediated by the promotion of secretion of ghrelin having an effect for promoting growth hormone-secretion; and a method of promoting the secretion of ghrelin by using a milk-derived basic protein fraction. The agent for promoting growth hormone-secretion may be ingested on a daily basis and is highly safe even with its ingestion for a long period. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100099848 | RANKL PRODUCTION INHIBITOR - The production of RANKL may be inhibited by orally ingesting a milk-derived basic protein. Thus, a RANKL production inhibitor containing a milk-derived basic protein fraction as an active ingredient; a therapeutic agent for a metabolic bone disease and a therapeutic agent for an immune disease each containing the RANKL production inhibitor; and a food/beverage and a feed each containing a specified amount of the RANKL production inhibitor and being characterized by inhibiting the production of RANKL have a remarkable effect of inhibiting the production of RANKL, can be ingested on a daily basis, and exhibit high safety even when being ingested over a long period. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100234296 | FOOD MATERIAL FOR INHIBITING OSTEOCLASTOGENESIS - Disclosed is an osteoclastogenesis inhibitory agent which comprises a milk protein fraction having the following properties (1) to (4) and the agent is excellent in an osteoclastogenesis inhibitory effect and useful for preventing or treating bone diseases:
| 09-16-2010 |
| 20100261883 | BONE RESORPTION INHIBITORY FOOD MATERIAL FOR INHIBITING BONE RESORPTION - A milk protein fraction having following properties (1) to (4) is excellent in bone resorption inhibitory effect, and is useful for preventing or treating bone diseases:
| 10-14-2010 |
| 20100298204 | FOOD MATERIAL FOR PROMOTING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF OSTEOBLAST AND INHIBITING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF OSTEOCLAST - Disclosed is an osteoblast differentiation promoting and osteoclast differentiation inhibiting agent which comprises a milk protein fraction having the following characteristics (1) to (4): (1) the milk protein fraction is derived from milk; (2) the milk protein fraction is a fraction containing a protein component having a molecular weight of 75,000 to 85,000 Daltons; (3) the milk protein fraction has a basic amino acid content of 13 to 15 wt % in the constitutional amino acid composition, and has a basic amino acid/acidic amino acid of 0.5 to 0.7; and (4) the milk protein fraction has an osteoblast differentiation promoting effect and an osteoclast differentiation inhibiting. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100298228 | BONE-REINFORCING FOOD MATERIAL - Disclosed is a bone-reinforcing agent which comprises a milk protein fraction having the following properties (1) to (4): (1) the milk protein fraction is derived from milk; (2) the milk protein fraction is a fraction containing a protein component having a molecular weight of 6,000 to 150,000 Daltons; (3) the milk protein fraction has a basic amino acid content of 12 to 14 wt % in the constitutional amino acid composition, and the ratio of the amount of a basic amino acid(s) to the amount of an acidic amino acid(s) is 0.5 to 0.7; and (4) the milk protein fraction has an activity of accelerating the calcification in an osteoblast. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110165139 | GROWTH HORMONE SECRETION STIMULATOR - Provided are: an agent for promoting growth hormone-secretion, containing a milk-derived basic protein fraction as an active ingredient, with the promotion of growth hormone-secretion being mediated by the promotion of secretion of ghrelin having an effect for promoting growth hormone-secretion; and a method of promoting the secretion of ghrelin by using a milk-derived basic protein fraction. The agent for promoting growth hormone-secretion may be ingested on a daily basis and is highly safe even with its ingestion for a long period. | 07-07-2011 |
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| 20080198758 | Communication Monitoring Apparatus, Communication Monitoring Method, Communication Monitoring Program, and Recording Medium - A communication monitoring apparatus ( | 08-21-2008 |
| 20100235427 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A system of the invention is configured to communicably connect a server device that holds content data and a client apparatus that requests to reproduce the content data. The server device transmits a list of the reproducing identifier to the client apparatus, receives the reproducing identifier included in the list from the client apparatus, and acquires the content identifier and the reproducing mode information stored in the content information storage unit corresponding to the reproducing identifier received by the request receiving unit. The server device acquires the content data stored in the content storage unit corresponding to the content identifier, and transmits the content data to the client apparatus in the reproducing mode designated by the reproducing mode information. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110044335 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, RECEIVER, TRANSMITTER, CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus, the pre-reproduction connection information retaining element retains the information relating to the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus of a connection existing before a reproduction of an interruption signal, when the connection is switched to the connection for transmitting the interruption signal in order to reproduce the interruption signal. Then, the recovering element recovers the connection existed before the reproduction of the interruption signal, based on the pre-reproduction connection information retained, after the reproduction of the interruption signal ends. The information processing apparatus is a transmitting apparatus and/or a receiving apparatus forming the car AV system. By this, in case that only one logical input plug can be prepared due to the restriction of hardware resource, the information processing apparatus can recover the connection, after the interruption signal reproduction ends, with keeping the user unconscious. | 02-24-2011 |
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| 20090085431 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Devices are disclosed that include a piezoelectric vibrating piece; a glass base and lid form a package enclosing the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The piece has first and second electrodes. The base has first and second opposing surfaces. The base mounts the piezoelectric vibrating piece, and the lid seals the piezoelectric vibrating piece in the package. The base includes first and second metal wires, extending therethrough, whose ends are denuded to the first and second surfaces and connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. In disclosed methods for making the packaged devices, such as piezoelectric oscillators, multiple packaged devices are made simultaneously by stacking and simultaneously bonding respective wafers on which glass bases, piezoelectric vibrating pieces, and lids have been formed. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090096329 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Piezoelectric devices and associated fabrication methods are disclosed. An exemplary piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric vibrating piece having first and second electrodes and first and second surfaces, a glass base having first and second surfaces, and a lid. These three parts also form the device package. The first surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece is mounted to the base, and the lid is mounted to the second surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece to seal the package. The glass base includes first and second metal wires having ends that protrude from the surfaces of the base. The side surfaces of the protruding wire ends are connected to the first and the second electrodes, respectively. Manufacture is performed using whole wafers that are processed, sandwiched, bonded, and then cut to produce individual devices. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090174286 | METHODS FOR ADJUSTING FREQUENCY OF PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATING PIECES, PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES, AND TUNING-FORK TYPE PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATORS - A piezoelectric frame includes a tuning-fork type piezoelectric vibrating piece having excitation electrodes on each of at least two vibrating arms extending in a first direction from one end of a base portion thereof. Respective supporting arms extend in a first direction from respective external edges of the vibrating arms. An outer frame portion surrounds the tuning-fork type piezoelectric vibrating piece. The connecting portions have designated widths and connect the respective supporting arms to the outer frame portion. During manufacture, the designated widths are trimmed (e.g., by a pulsed laser) until the desired vibration frequency is obtained. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100123369 | Piezoelectric devices and methods for manufacturing same - Piezoelectric devices and method for making them are disclosed. An exemplary piezoelectric device has a package base defining a cavity on a first surface thereof. An opposing second surface of the package base has at least one through-hole, a mounting electrode on which a piezoelectric vibrating piece is attached, and a respective sealing electrode sealing each through-hole. At least one external electrode is on the second surface, and a lid is bonded to the package base to enclose the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The mounting electrode, sealing electrodes, and external electrodes are formed integrally. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100192342 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Piezoelectric devices and associated fabrication methods are disclosed. An exemplary piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric vibrating piece having first and second electrodes and first and second surfaces, a glass base having first and second surfaces, and a lid. These three parts also form the device package. The first surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece is mounted to the base, and the lid is mounted to the second surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece to seal the package. The glass base includes first and second metal wires having ends that protrude from the surfaces of the base. The side surfaces of the protruding wire ends are connected to the first and the second electrodes, respectively. Manufacture is performed using whole wafers that are processed, sandwiched, bonded, and then cut to produce individual devices. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110019296 | Optical filter - An object of the invention is to provide an optical filter that prevents an optical thin film formed on an optical plate from being partially removed, and prevents micro-cracks occurring in an outer peripheral edge section of a principle surface of the optical plate, and that has a high yield rate. An optical filter is provided with an optical plate which has a chamfered section formed on an outer peripheral edge section of one principle surface of the optical plate, and has isotropy with respect to wet-etching, and the chamfered section is of an arc shape which is cross-sectionally concave in an inward direction of the optical plate, and is formed by means of wet-etching. A crossing angle between the one principle surface and a concave surface where the chamfered section is formed, and a crossing angle between the concave surface and a side surface of the optical plate 3 where the chamfered section is formed, namely, crossing angles θG and θH are respectively 100° or greater and less than 180° . | 01-27-2011 |
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| 20080223328 | ENGINE STARTER - An electric engine starter in which downsizing and weight saving are improved to an extreme based on the rational design and by eliminating an unnecessary unit, wherein a battery is arranged outside the starter, a power accumulating unit has a rotation supporting unit for supporting one end of a spring, a first gear is formed on the rotation supporting unit, a second gear is fixed to an output shaft of a high-speed reduction gear mechanism, the first and the second gears are engaged with each other, the power accumulating unit and the power transmission unit are arranged on the same first axis line, the compact electric motor and the high-speed reduction gear mechanism are arranged on the same second axis line parallel to the first axis line, and the first axis line and the second axis line are arranged on the same plane surface. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090020094 | ENGINE START DEVICE FOR MANUAL WORK MACHINE, HAVING SMALL-SIZED ELECTRIC MOTOR, AND MANUAL WORK MACHINE HAVING THE START DEVICE MOUNTED THEREON - The present invention relates to a start device for a small-sized engine, which is capable of starting the small-sized engine in an appropriate starting time and is ultimately reduced in size and weight by a rational design. A plurality of secondary batteries is used as a power source required to drive a small-sized electric motor and a small-sized engine, and has a considerably large capacity and an extremely small size. A speed reduction mechanism that has a reduction ratio of 1/30 to 1/90 is disposed between the electric motor and a buffer/power storage section. The start device starts the engine in an extremely short time of 0.4 to 1.3 seconds. Within this range of staring time of the engine, an operator has no uncomfortable feelings. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20100008762 | ENGINE BLOWER - An engine blower includes a centrifugal blower, an engine, and a frame for supporting the centrifugal blower. The centrifugal blower is supported by a back support of the frame via a flexible vibration-proofing section while being connected to the back support via a belt-shaped stopper. An engaging hole is provided on at least one of the centrifugal blower and the back support, and a thick engaging section is provided on at least one end of the stopper for being engaged with the engaging hole. When the stopper is inserted into the engaging hole and the one end of the stopper is pulled, the engaging section is engaged with the engaging hole. By further pulling the one end of the stopper, the engaging section is tightly buried into the engaging hole. Thus, the stopper can be reliably attached to the centrifugal blower or the back support. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100193166 | INSULATOR - An insulator is provided with a housing section integrated with an insulating section at a lower portion thereof. The housing section forms a part of a housing of an acceleration pump. Accordingly, the acceleration pump can be disposed at a space around the insulator, which is conventionally a dead space. Thus, a dedicated space for installing the acceleration pump is not required, which achieves space saving. Further, since the acceleration pump is disposed directly around the insulating section, even when a duct that intercommunicates an insulator leading-air passage and the acceleration pump is used, the length of the duct can be reduced to simplify a structure of the interconnection. Furthermore, since the housing section is integrated with the insulating section, the number of components can be reduced to reduce costs and facilitate assembly of the acceleration pump. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100230205 | Muffler - A muffler for a small two-cycle engine includes: a muffler body having an expansion chamber; an exhaust-gas guide member covering an outlet for exhaust gas, the outlet being provided on the muffler body and a cover hood that covers a discharge port for exhaust gas, the discharge port being provided on the exhaust-gas guide member. A guide that guides the exhaust gas in the exhaust-gas guide member is gradually widened toward a top surface of the cover hood as proceeding to the discharge port. | 09-16-2010 |