Abstract:
The present invention provides a positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte-based secondary battery, composed of a lithium/nickel composite oxide with high capacity, low cost and excellent heat stability, and a high safety non-aqueous electrolyte-based secondary battery. A positive electrode active material, comprising lithium/nickel composite oxide powders obtained by water washing fired powders having the following composition formula (1), followed by filtering and drying: LiNi1-aMaO2 (1) (wherein, M represents at least one kind of an element selected from transition metal elements other than Ni, group 2 elements, or group 13 elements; and “a” satisfies 0.01≦a≦0.5), characterized in that specific surface area of the lithium/nickel composite oxide powders after water washing is 0.3 to 2.0 m2/g.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for producing a dipeptide from starting materials that are available at low costs through a route industrially advantageous and simple. Dipeptides are produced from amino acid esters and amino acids by using a culture of a microbe having an ability to produce a dipeptide from an amino acid ester and an amino acid, microbial cells separated from the culture, or treated microbial cell product.
Abstract:
A communication apparatus includes a communication unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit, and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus via communication lines that conform to HDMI standard. The first determination unit determines whether the first data indicating that the external apparatus displays video data transmitted from the communication unit to the external apparatus is detected by the communication unit has received via a CEC line. The second determination unit determines whether a second data indicating that the external apparatus displays video data transmitted from the communication unit to the external apparatus is detected by the communication via a TMDS line. The control unit determines whether to transmit video data to the external apparatus based on at least one of a determination result obtained by the first determination unit and a determination result obtained by the second determination unit.
Abstract:
DNA and recombinant DNA that encode a peptide-forming enzyme, a method for producing a peptide-forming enzyme, and a method for producing a dipeptide are disclosed. A method for producing a dipeptide includes producing a dipeptide from a carboxy component and an amine component by using a culture of a microbe belonging to the genus Sphingobacterium and having the ability to form the dipeptide from the carboxy component and the amine component, a microbial cell separated from the culture, treated microbial cell product of the microbe or a peptide-forming enzyme derived from the microbe.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed that allows the production of peptides having three or more amino acid residues easily, inexpensively and at high yield without going through a complex synthesis method. A novel enzyme that efficiently produces a peptide from bacteria belonging to the genus Empedobacter or the genus Sphingobacterium is provided. The enzyme acts on a carboxy component and an amine component to form peptides having three or more amino acid residues by acting on a carboxy component and an amine component.
Abstract:
A method for producing an α-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine-β-ester (also named α-L-(β-o-substituted aspartyl)-L-phenylalanine), which is an intermediate of an α-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine-α-methyl ester (also named α-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester; product name: aspartame), easily, at high yield and inexpensively without going through a complex synthesis method is provided. Further, an easy, inexpensive and high-yield production method for an α-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine-α-methyl ester is provided. α-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine-α-methyl ester is produced from a L-aspartic acid-α,β-diester and L-phenylalanine using an enzyme or enzyme-containing substance that has an ability to catalyze a reaction in which L-phenylalanine performs no nucleophilic attack on a β-ester site of L-aspartic acid-α,β-diester but performs a nucleophilic attack on an α-ester site thereof.
Abstract:
An image capture apparatus includes: a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus via a first transmission line and a second transmission line. The control unit determines whether or not the communication unit is in a predetermined state, in a case where the operation mode of the image capture apparatus changed to either a playback mode or an image capture mode. The control unit does not execute a connecting process in a case where the communication unit is in the predetermined state.
Abstract:
An alkaline dry battery including nickel oxyhydroxide and manganese dioxide as positive electrode active materials. The nickel oxyhydroxide is a solid solution including at least manganese and cobalt. The content of the manganese is 5.2×10−2 to 7.5×10−2 moles per mole of the nickel oxyhydroxide, and the content of the cobalt is 0.5×10−2 to 2.0×10−2 moles. The alkaline dry battery maintains excellent heavy-load discharge characteristics, exhibits suppressed polarization during heavy-load pulse discharge to improve the operational stability of digital devices, and has high reliability with respect to leakage resistance and safety under short-circuit conditions.
Abstract:
DNA and recombinant DNA that encode a peptide-forming enzyme, a method for producing a peptide-forming enzyme, and a method for producing a dipeptide are disclosed. A method for producing a dipeptide includes producing a dipeptide from a carboxy component and an amine component by using a culture of a microbe belonging to the genus Sphingobacterium and having the ability to form the dipeptide from the carboxy component and the amine component, a microbial cell separated from the culture, treated microbial cell product of the microbe or a peptide-forming enzyme derived from the microbe.
Abstract:
A level shifting circuit has a high-level shifter connected to a first high voltage and to a first low voltage, for amplifying the peak voltage of an input signal; a low-level shifter connected to a second high voltage lower than the first high voltage and to a second low voltage lower than the first low voltage, for amplifying the trough voltage of the input signal; a high-voltage controlling transistor connected to the first high voltage and to an output node and turned on and off according to the output of the high-level shifter; and a low-voltage controlling transistor connected to the output node and to the second low voltage and turned on and off according to the output of the low-level shifter complementarily to the high-voltage controlling transistor. The level shifting circuit is capable of amplifying both the peak and trough voltages of an input signal.