Abstract:
High-speed breaker for an electric circuit, including a fixed contact, movable contact and a movable holder for the movable contact. An actuating rod is reciprocally movable toward and away from the fixed contact between first and second positions. A head is connected to the actuating rod. In the first position of the actuating rod, the head engages with the movable holder to cause the movable contact to engage with the fixed contact. In the second position of the actuating rod, the movable contact is disengaged from the fixed contact. A release member connected to the head is operative in response to overcurrent passing through the circuit when the actuating rod is in the first position, to disengage the movable holder from the head to disengage the movable contact from the fixed contact. An extension of the actuating rod is located between the engaging position of the movable holder with the head and the connecting position of the release member to the head.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a receptor of musclin and a screening system for an agonist and/or antagonist of the receptor by means of the interaction of musclin and the receptor. Hence, provided is a screening method for a substance that alters the bindability (i) a protein containing the same or substantially the same amino acid sequence as the amino acid sequence shown by SEQ ID NO:2 or a partial peptide thereof or a salt thereof and (ii) musclin or a partial peptide thereof or a salt thereof, containing using both.
Abstract translation:本发明通过莫斯林和受体的相互作用提供了受体的musclin受体和受体的激动剂和/或拮抗剂的筛选系统。 因此,提供了改变可结合性的物质的筛选方法(i)含有与SEQ ID NO:2所示的氨基酸序列或其部分肽或其盐相同或基本相同的氨基酸序列的蛋白质 和(ii)含有两者的musclin或其部分肽或其盐。
Abstract:
A housing member includes a main housing body and an intermediate tube provided around the outer periphery of the main housing body. Located in a front portion of the main housing body is an atomizer including an air motor and a rotary atomizing head, while located in a rear portion of the main housing body is a high voltage generator to apply a high voltage to paint through the air motor. A multitude of hollow cavities are uniformly formed in the intermediate tube over the entire outer surface thereof by the use of through holes opened through the intermediate tube. A cover member is fitted on the outer surface of the intermediate tube in contact with the intermediate tube, thereby intensifying electric field strength in outer corner portions of the hollow cavities to prevent deposition of charged paint particles.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a novel secretory or membrane protein expressed specifically in skeletal muscles, a nucleic acid encoding the same, an antibody against the same, useful as a prophylactic/therapeutic agent or diagnostic agent for a disease associated with an abnormality of differentiation of skeletal muscle cell or metabolism function, or as a tool for screening a drug-candidate compound effective for the prophylaxis/treatment of the disease.
Abstract:
An atomizer including an air motor and a rotary atomizing head, mounted in a front side of a housing member, while a high voltage generator applying a high voltage to paint through the air motor is mounted in a rear side of the housing member. A cover member is fitted on the housing member to cover an outer surface of the housing member. Opposite axial ends of the cover member are fitted on and attached to opposite axial ends of the housing member so as to leave an annular gap space between the cover member and the housing member. The annular gap space keeps almost entire radially confront areas of the cover member and the housing member, preventing high voltage electrostatic charges on the outer surfaces of the cover member from leaking through the housing member.
Abstract:
Buffer solution and blood are streamed in a channel of a micro chip so as to form layers. Aggregation inducing agent for aggregating platelets in blood is coated at a wall face on a buffer solution streaming side. If streaming amount of blood is increased in this state, a layer width of blood can be increased, and detail analysis between the aggregation inducing agent and the platelets is possible thereby. Even if it is necessary to take an image or a moving image for comparison between a pre-aggregation state and an aggregation state, it is sufficient to take only a portion where the aggregation inducing agent is coated, that is, a reaction portion. Then, a device can be made cheaper without two cameras or a moving mechanism for the camera or a micro chip.
Abstract:
When connecting a semiconductor device such as an IC chip with a circuit board by the flip-chip method, a semiconductor device is provided without forming bumps thereon, which enables highly reliable and low cost connection between the IC chip and circuit board while ensuring suppressing short-circuiting, lowering connection costs, suppressing stress concentrations at the joints and reducing damage of the IC chip or circuit board. The bumpless semiconductor device is provided with electrode pads 2 on the surface thereof and with a passivation film 3 at the periphery of the electrode pads 2, and conductive particles 4 are metallically bonded to the electric pads 2. Composite particles in which a metallic plating layer is formed at the surface of resin particles are employed as the conductive particles 4. This bumpless semiconductor device can be manufactured by (a) causing conductive particles to be electrostatically adsorbed onto one face of a flat plate; and (b) overlaying the surface of the plate having the adsorbed conductive particles on the surface of electrode pads of a bumpless semiconductor device which is provided with the electrode pads on the surface thereof and with a passivation film at the periphery of the electrode pads, and ultrasonically welding this assembly, so that the conductive particles are metallically bonded and transferred from the flat plate to the electrode pads.
Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus is provided. The image pickup apparatus permitting a conversion lens to be mounted and dismounted, wherein a lens hood is composed of a base portion on the mounting side and a tubular portion on the front side, the base portion and the tubular portion are detachably coupled to each other, and another lens is contained in the inside of the lens hood when the another lens is mounted on the front side of an optical system, whereby even when the conversion lens is being used, the lens hood can be used as it is, and the incident light contracting function of the lens hood can be maintained.
Abstract:
A conversion lens apparatus includes a first and second barrels for housing a first and second lenses, wherein a back portion of the first barrel is detachably attached to the main body side barrel, a back portion of the second barrel is detachably attached to a front portion of the first barrel, the first barrel is configured, so a magnification rate of total optical system including the first lens and imaging optical system is converted to be more wide-angle side than magnification rate of the imaging optical system itself, when attached to the main body side barrel, and the second barrel is configured, so the magnification rate of total optical system including the first lens and imaging optical system is converted to be more telescopic side than magnification rate of the imaging optical system itself, when attached to the first barrel which is attached to the main body side barrel.
Abstract:
This invention provides a process for producing optically active 2-[6-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-dioxan-4-yl]acetic acid derivatives, which are of value as intermediates of drugs, from inexpensive starting materials without using any special equipment such as that required for super-low temperature reactions.A process for producing optically active 2-[6-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-dioxan-4-yl]acetic acid derivatives which comprises reacting an acetic acid derivative at a temperature of not less than −30° C. with an enolate prepared by permitting either a base or a metal having a valency of 0 to act on the derivative to produce a hydroxyoxohexanoic acid derivative, reducing this compound with the aid of a strain of microorganism to provide a halomethyldioxanylacetic acid derivative, treating this compound with an acetalizing agent in the presence of an acid catalyst to provide a halomethyl-dioxanylacetic acid derivative, reacted with an acyloxylating agent to provide a acyloxymethyldioxanylacetic acid derivative, and subjecting this compound to solvolysis in the presence of a base.