Abstract:
The present invention has an object to provide a means to effectively enhance the production of cytokines and/or chemokines in mammals. The object is solved by providing an agent for enhancing the production of cytokines and/or chemokines, which comprises, as an effective ingredient, a polypeptide having any one of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs:1 to 3; a polypeptide having any one of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs:1 to 3, where one or more amino acids thereof are deleted or replaced with other amino acid(s) and/or one or more amino acids are added thereunto, without substantially losing the biological activity of the polypeptide.
Abstract translation:本发明的目的是提供有效增强哺乳动物中细胞因子和/或趋化因子的产生的方法。 通过提供用于增强细胞因子和/或趋化因子的产生的试剂来解决该问题,所述试剂包含作为有效成分的具有SEQ ID NO:1至3的任一氨基酸序列的多肽; 具有SEQ ID NO:1至3的任何一个氨基酸序列的多肽,其中一个或多个氨基酸被缺失或被其它氨基酸和/或一个或多个氨基酸加入,而没有 基本上丧失了多肽的生物活性。
Abstract:
A torque fluctuation absorbing device includes a first rotational member transmitted with a torque from a driving power source, a damping mechanism connected with an input shaft of a transmission, the damping mechanism having a pair of frictional members of approximately annular-shaped fixed at both surfaces of a disc, and a limiter portion for frictionally engaging the pair of frictional members with the first rotational member in a substantially direct manner or in a substantially indirect manner via a pair of frictional plates. An actual length of at least one of the pair of frictional members ranges substantially between 1 percent and 6 percents of a major diameter of the at least one of the pair of frictional members.
Abstract:
A scroll compressor includes a first scroll and a second scroll. The first scroll has a step portion that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of a surface of the first scroll. A spiral wall of the second scroll has a step that separates an elevated portion and a recessed portion of the wall. A first bypass hole is provided in the elevated portion of the surface of the first scroll. A second bypass hole is provided in the recessed portion of the surface of the first scroll. The second bypass hole is within 360 degrees toward a center of the spiral of the first scroll from an outer end of the spiral. The first bypass hole is within 360 degrees from the second bypass hole toward the center of the spiral.
Abstract:
A ΣΔ analog-to-digital converter has a ΣΔ modulation section which executes ΣΔ modulation, and a digital filter which filters a digital signal output from the ΣΔ modulation section. The digital filter has gain properties that one of dips of a gain of the digital filter corresponds to a noise frequency which is, for example, the commercial frequency 60 Hz. Especially, the lowest frequency of the dips corresponds to the noise frequency.
Abstract:
A method of efficiently removing active oxy-hydrogens (e.g., existing as hetero element-containing functional groups such as COOH, CHO, and OH) present in a carbon material at a relative low temperature. The invention also provides a carbon-activating material adapted for use in a polarizable electrode typically used in an electrical double-layer capacitor. The method of removing residual active oxy-hydrogens in the carbon material starts with mixing the carbon material and a transition metal or a transition metal compound. The resulting mixture is thermally processed within a stream of a reducing gas. Preferably, the transition metal or transition metal compound is removed from the thermally processed mixture.
Abstract:
A torque fluctuation absorber which is unlikely applied with an foreign material such as dust on a limiter portion during transporting the torque fluctuation absorber. The torque fluctuation absorber includes a flywheel for transmitting a driving force from a power source and a damper mechanism having a limiter portion which includes a frictional member being frictionally engaged with the flywheel on an external peripheral side and connected to an input shaft of a transmission on an internal peripheral side. The torque fluctuation absorber further includes a supporting mechanism for performing a frictional engagement of the frictional member by supporting the frictional member in an axial direction of a drive shaft under a condition before assembling the flywheel to the damper mechanism.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a novel electric double-layer capacitor made of a carbon material having characteristics entirely different from those of the prior art activated carbon. The capacitor develops a capacitance by a mechanism entirely different from the mechanism of an electric double-layer capacitor using activated carbon. The novel capacitor has improved performance including capacitance. The capacitor has polarized electrodes immersed in an organic electrolyte. The electrodes are made of a nonporous carbon having crystallites of graphite-like carbon. When a voltage is applied, electrolyte ions are intercalated between the layers of the crystallites of the graphite-like carbon together with the solvent. Thus, electric double layers are formed. Intercalation is induced by the first cycle of charging. In the second and following cycles, the capacitance is developed.
Abstract:
A scroll compressor comprises a fixed scroll which is fixed in position and has a spiral wall body provided on one side surface of an end plate, and an orbiting scroll which has a spiral wall body provided on one side surface of an end plate, being supported by engaging of the wall bodies so as to orbit and revolve around the fixed scroll without rotation. When a length of the wall body which is further out than a first step portion which is provided on the end plate, is represented by H and a step difference of the first step portion is represented by L, L/H is 0.2 or less.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a scroll compressor that improves assembly precision and the engagement projections are not easily damaged even when a strong force is applied to the Oldham ring during operation; in order to attain this object, a scroll compressor is provided wherein a fixed scroll member comprising an end plate and an involute wrap provided on one face of the end plate, and an orbiting scroll member comprising an end plate and an involute wrap provided on one face of this end plate, and which form a plurality of compression chambers in combination with the involute wrap of the fixed scroll member, wherein a mechanism that prevents autorotation of this orbiting scroll memberand permits rotation of the orbiting scroll member with respect to fixed scroll member is provided between the orbiting scroll member and fixed scroll member.
Abstract:
Herein is disclosed a withering-preventing and quick-acting nutrition supplementing agent for a gramineous or the like plant such as a lawn grass or the like which agent comprises, as the effective ingredient (s), proline alone or both proline and inosine concurrently, according to which a withering preventing and quick-acting nutrition supplementing agent which is not a chemical fertilizer and does not adversely affect environment and humans and animals, as well as a method for applying the same, can be provided.