摘要:
Disclosed is improvement of a quartz-glass top plate to be used as a microwave-transmitting window in a microwave plasma processing apparatus. The surface, facing a substrate W, of the top plate has surface roughness equal to or less than 0.2 μm in arithmetic mean surface roughness Ra. Thereby, generation of particles derived from the quartz glass material constituting the top plate is minimized, even when the top plate is exposed to a severe environment of high electron density and high electron temperature.
摘要:
A compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof: (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group etc., R6, R7 and R8 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group etc., R9 and R10 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a (lower cycloalkyl)(lower alkyl) group etc., and R11 represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkoxy group, a (lower alkyl)thio(lower alkoxy) group, a (lower alkyl)sulfinyl(lower alkoxy) group, a (lower alkyl)sulfonyl(lower alkoxy) group etc.), which has potent inhibitory activity on CETP.
摘要:
The present invention relates to methods for purifying immunogenic, prophylactically and therapeutically effective complexes of modified heat shock proteins noncovalently associated with antigenic peptides of cancer or infected cells. The claimed methods comprise the constructing of a nucleotide sequence encoding a secretable modified heat shock protein, expressing the sequence in an appropriate host cell, recovering the immunogenic complexes from the cell culture and the cells, and purifying the immunogenic complexes by affinity chromatography. Large amounts of such immunogenic complexes can be obtained by large-scale culturing of host cells containing the genetic sequence. The complexes can be used as a vaccine to elicit specific immune responses against cancer or infected cells, and to treat or prevent cancer or infectious diseases.
摘要:
A strategy board game is disclosed. The board for the game or playmat is comprised of several distinct regions each with a specific purpose and/or rules associated with the region. The Battlefield region is where opposing players challenge one another with various game pieces. There is also a region for keeping certain game pieces while they await to be summoned to the Battlefield. Another region, the Graveyard, is were game pieces are placed after such game pieces are taken by an opponent. Another region of the playmat is designated for the storing of currency used during play. Certain game pieces have fixed properties and other have properties that can be changed by the player during the course of the game at strategic times. A player can change the properties of a game piece by paying the cost associated therewith using the currency he or she has earned by moving game pieces and/or taking an opponents game pieces. The game can be won by capturing a special game piece of the opponent; by moving a special game piece into across the length of the playmat and into the opponent's area for storing game pieces which have not been summoned; by changing the properties of a special game piece or through the surrender to the opponent.
摘要:
In a laser output control device for use in an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus which uses output light from a semiconductor laser device to record and reproduce information onto and from an optical information recording medium, a light receiving element is provided on the peripheral portion of a laser light emitting window formed in a housing of the semiconductor laser device. The peripheral component of forward radiated light of the laser light output from the semiconductor laser device is received by the light receiving element, so as to control the output power of the semiconductor laser device in accordance with output of the light receiving element corresponding to the received light.
摘要:
In an error correction circuit, when a data loss is detected, substitute data comprising all bits of "1" or "0" are generated during a data loss period and substituted for the lost data for the data loss period. Thereafter, the whole data containing the substitute data are decoded in a predetermined error correction system to generate corrected data.
摘要:
A linear motor having a magnetic circuit and a moving coil, the magnetic circuit comprising a linear yoke provided at the center of the circuit and a pair of linear magnets, the linear yoke and the pair of linear magnets forming a pair of linear gaps with the linear yoke interposed therebetween, the magnetic circuit applying a magnetic field to the linear gaps, the movable coil mounted on the linear yoke of the magnetic circuit being moved along the linear yoke by an electromagnetic action to the magnetic circuit when the movable coil is powered, wherein the linear magnet has a larger magnetic force at opposite end portions in the longitudinal direction of the linear magnet than at an intermediate area, the magnetic reluctance of the magnetic circuit is made large to obtain a driving current of the movable coil corresponding to the magnetic reluctance when the moving coil moves at the intermediate area of the linear magnet, or the magnetic circuit is mounted on a plate made of material having the same magnetic reluctance as the linear yoke. An information recording/reproducing apparatus having a card transport stage for transporting an information recording medium and a laser unit for radiating a laser beam to the information recording medium, the information recording/reproducing apparatus writing and reading information to and from the information recording medium while reciprocally moving the card transport stage and linearly and reciprocally moving the information recording medium and applying a laser beam to the information recording medium, wherein the apparatus comprising a transport unit wherein the plane of driving force by driving means for reciprocally moving the card transport stage is made substantially flush with the center of a guide shaft for sliding the transport stage.
摘要:
A developer conveyor includes a shaft; a first blade helically wound around the shaft in a first direction, a second blade disposed away from an end of the first blade with a gap in a longitudinal axial direction of the developer conveyor and helically wound around the shaft in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a third blade helically wound around the shaft in the first direction at least at a position where the gap is formed.
摘要:
A developing device includes a developer bearer to carry, by rotation, developer to a developing range, a casing including a developer container to contain the developer and housing the developer bearer, a gap retainer adjacent to the developer container and downstream from the developing range in a rotation direction of the developer bearer, an opposing wall opposing an end face of the gap retainer in an axial direction of the developer bearer, a first seal disposed between the end face of the gap retainer and the opposing wall, and a contact portion disposed adjacent to an end portion of the gap retainer in the axial direction of the developer bearer. The gap retainer secures a predetermined gap between the developer bearer and the gap retainer. The contact portion contacts, via a second seal, the gap retainer in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the developer bearer.
摘要:
A powder amount detector includes a vibration plate secured to a powder container to contain powder and positioned at a predetermined position in a stationary state, a shaft to rotate inside the powder container, a contact member attached to the shaft, a vibration detector to detect vibration of the vibration plate, and a detection result processor to determine an amount of the powder in the powder container according to a detection result generated by the vibration detector. The contact member is to flip the vibration plate to cause the vibration plate to repeat elastic deformation and reversion to vibrate. The contact member is to exit an area opposed to the vibration plate after the contact member flips the vibration plate by the time the vibration plate returns to the predetermined position.