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20130302380 | AGENT FOR INDUCING INTERFERON PRODUCTION CONTAINING LACTIC ACID BACTERIA - This invention provides an IFN inducer comprising, as an active ingredient, lactic acid bacteria and capable of inducing IFN production, an immunopotentiating agent or prophylactic agent against virus infection comprising such inducer, and a food or drink product comprising such IFN inducer and having IFN-inducing activity, immunopotentiating activity, or prophylactic activity against virus infection. The agent for inducing IFN production comprises, as active ingredients, lactic acid bacteria that can activate plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) and promote IFN production, such as | 11-14-2013 |
20140234379 | AGENT FOR INDUCING INTERFERON PRODUCTION CONTAINING LACTIC ACID BACTERIA - This invention provides an IFN inducer comprising, as an active ingredient, lactic acid bacteria and capable of inducing IFN production, an immunopotentiating agent or prophylactic agent against virus infection comprising such inducer, and a food or drink product comprising such IFN inducer and having IFN-inducing activity, immunopotentiating activity, or prophylactic activity against virus infection. The agent for inducing IFN production comprises, as active ingredients, lactic acid bacteria that can activate plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) and promote IFN production, such as | 08-21-2014 |
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20130013203 | Navigation Device and Method of Searching Route by the Same - Provided are navigation technologies capable of preferentially guiding a vehicle to a route of a driving lane that can be available if given conditions are met. A navigation device is provided with a storage unit adapted to store lane information including the presence or absence of a driving lane that can be available if given conditions are met (hereinafter referred to as a conditional lane), a conditional-lane determining unit adapted to determine whether a vehicle equipped with the navigation device meets the conditions for driving in the conditional lane, and a route searching unit adapted to search a recommended route to a destination, wherein said route searching unit uses lane information to preferentially search for a route which utilizes a road including the conditional lane, when the conditional-lane determining unit determines that the aforementioned conditions are met. | 01-10-2013 |
20130030691 | Navigation Device and Guidance Method Thereof - Disclosed is navigation technology for providing guidance for HOV lanes in a more readily understandable manner. A navigation device is provided with: a storage unit adapted to store lane information including the set-up of lanes which can be used when a predetermined condition is fulfilled (hereafter referred to as conditional lanes); a route guidance unit adapted to provide guidance for a recommended route to a destination; and a guidance unit adapted to provide guidance for entrances and exits for conditional lanes. If travelling along a conditional lane makes it impossible to continue without deviating from the recommended route, the guidance unit provides guidance that the conditional lane should not be entered from an entrance to the conditional lane or inhibits guidance on the presence of an entrance to the conditional lane. | 01-31-2013 |
20130035858 | Navigation Device, Guidance Method Thereof and Route Search Method Thereof - Disclosed is navigation technology for providing guidance for HOV lanes in a more readily understandable manner. A navigation device is provided with: a storage unit adapted to store, for each predetermined segment of road, lane information including whether or not it is possible to enter or exit lanes which can be used when a predetermined condition is fulfilled (hereafter referred to as conditional lanes); a route search unit adapted to search for a recommended route to a destination; and a lane guidance unit adapted to provide entry/exit guidance in a road segment where a conditional lane can be entered or exited. If a segment where a conditional lane can be exited and a segment where the conditional lane can be entered, which is before the segment which can be exited, are on the recommended route, the lane guidance unit provides entry guidance in the segment where the lane can be entered. | 02-07-2013 |
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20110255037 | Cellulose acylate film, its production method, polarizer and liquid crystal display device - A cellulose acylate film containing a cellulose acylate and a sugar ester compound having from 1 to 12 pyranose structures or furanose structures in which at least one hydroxyl group is esterified, the film satisfying 40 nm≦Re(550)≦60 nm and 100 nm≦Rth(550)≦140 nm, and having a dimensional change of −0.5 to 0.5% and an internal haze of at most 0.1%. | 10-20-2011 |
20120092594 | OPTICAL FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical film contains a cellulose acylate film, and at least two layers of an optically anisotropic layer A and an optically anisotropic layer B, wherein the cellulose acylate film satisfies the specific formulae, Re(548) of the optically anisotropic layer A is from 80 to 190 nm and the slow axis of the optically anisotropic layer A is at 45°±10° with respect to the film conveying direction, and the optically anisotropic layer B satisfies the specific formulae. | 04-19-2012 |
20120262651 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell and a polarizer arranged on at least one outer side of the liquid crystal cell, wherein the liquid crystal cell includes a pair of substrates at least one of which has an electrode and which are arranged oppositely to each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, and at least one substrate includes at least three color pixels of B, G and R satisfying the following formula (1-1), and the polarizer includes a polarizing element and a film satisfying the following formula (1-2) and containing an optically-anisotropic layer: | 10-18-2012 |
20130083274 | CELLULOSE ACYLATE LAMINATE FILM AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD, POLARIZER AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A cellulose acylate laminate film containing a skin B layer that contains a cellulose acetate satisfying 2.50≦Z2<3.00 (Z2 means a total degree of acyl substitution) and a core layer that is thicker than the skin B layer and contains a cellulose acylate satisfying 2.0004-04-2013 | |
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20110213030 | External Preparation For Skin - An external preparation for skin containing an alkylresorcinol and being excellent in temperature stability (especially high-temperature stability) and photostability. More particularly an external preparation for skin comprising (a) from 0.01 to 5% by mass of 4-isobutyl resorcinol or a salt thereof, and (b) from 0.01 to 5% by mass of one or more selected from L-ascorbic acid or a salt thereof and a 3-O-alkyl-L-ascorbic acid or a salt thereof. If desired, (c) one or more compounds selected from (c-1) a sterol skeleton-having compound (e.g., POE phytosterols, POE cholestanols), (c-2) a vitamin E derivative, (c-3) a compound such as polyglycerin fatty acid esters, polyoxybutene-polyglycerin alkyl ethers, sucrose fatty acid esters, and (c-4) a sorbitan skeleton-having compound may be incorporated in the preparation. | 09-01-2011 |
20120076844 | Sheet-Like Cosmetic - The present invention is a sheet-like cosmetic produced by impregnating a non-woven fabric with a cosmetic comprising (A) 4-methoxysalicylic acid or a salt thereof and (B) a water soluble polysaccharide. It also provides a sheet-like cosmetic that additionally comprises (C) an oil component, (D) an alkyl-modified carboxyvinyl polymer, (E) a water soluble polymer other than said (B) and (D), and (F) hydroxylamine or a derivative thereof. | 03-29-2012 |
20130280310 | SHEET-LIKE COSMETIC - A sheet-like cosmetic is formed by impregnating a laminated sheet having two or more non-woven fabric layer composed of ultra-fine fibers with a cosmetic containing 1 wt % or more of a specific liquid oil component. An average diameter is specified, and select portions are impregnated with a cosmetic containing 1-30 wt % of one, two or more liquid oil components selected from hydrocarbon oils, higher alcohols, higher fatty acids, ester oils, liquid fats/oils, and silicone oils. | 10-24-2013 |
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20100063272 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STEROID COMPOUND - It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel method for producing a steroid compound. The present invention provides a method for producing 5β-3,7-dioxocholanic acid or an ester derivative thereof, using, as a raw material, a sterol having double bonds at position 5 and at position 24, such as cholesta-5,7,24-trien-3β-ol, ergosta-5,7,24(28)-trien-3β-ol, desmosterol, fucosterol, or ergosta-5,24(28)-dien-3β-ol, via the following 4 steps: | 03-11-2010 |
20110009615 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STEROID COMPOUND - An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for producing a steroid compound. The present invention provides a method for producing 3,7-dioxo-5β-cholanic acid or ester derivatives thereof, which uses, as raw materials, sterols having double bonds at positions 5 and 24, such as cholesta-5,7,24-trien-3β-ol, ergosta-5,7,24(28)-trien-3β-ol, desmosterol, fucosterol, or ergosta-5,24(28)-dien-3β-ol, and which comprises the following 4 steps: (I) a step of performing oxidation of a hydroxyl group at position 3 and isomerization of a double bond at position 5 to position 4; (II) a step of converting position 24 to a carboxyl group or an ester derivative thereof by the oxidative cleavage of a side chain; (III) a step of introducing an oxygen functional group into position 7; and (IV) a step of constructing a 5β-configuration by reduction of a double bond at position 4. | 01-13-2011 |
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20130272757 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a rotatable endless belt, a heating source that heats the belt, a pad member having a sliding surface abutting on an inner surface of the belt, and a pressure roller that presses an outer surface of the belt toward the sliding surface and rotates to rotate the belt. The pressure roller works together with the belt to fix an unfixed toner image onto a medium that bears the unfixed toner image by allowing the medium to enter between the roller and the belt. Assuming that the sliding surface is divided into upstream and downstream regions in a moving direction of the belt, the upstream and downstream regions both have recessed curved surfaces in the moving direction. A first curved surface corresponding to the upstream region has an average curvature that is larger than that of a second curved surface corresponding to the downstream region. | 10-17-2013 |
20140270869 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes an endless belt member, a secured member disposed to contact the belt member, a heating unit that heats the belt member, and a rotary pressurizing roller including an elastic layer that is elastically deformed when the belt member is pressed against a pressing surface of the secured member to form a fixing part. The pressurizing roller is curved such that a center portion is smaller in outside diameter than end portions along the axial direction. The pressing surface is curved such that a center portion projects toward the pressurizing roller more than end portions along the longitudinal direction. On the pressing surface, an amount of projection of the center portion with respect to the end portions along the longitudinal direction is set to be larger on an output side than on an input side of the fixing part along a moving direction of the belt member. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270870 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: an endless belt member; a secured member disposed to contact the belt member; a support roller that rotatably supports the belt member; a heating unit that heats the belt member; and a rotary pressurizing roller that includes an elastic surface layer that is elastically deformed when the belt member is pressed against the secured member to form a fixing part. The secured member includes a recessed part provided on a surface of the secured member that faces the pressurizing roller and configured to curve the belt member into a recessed shape, projecting parts provided upstream and downstream of the recessed part, respectively, and configured to curve the belt member into a projected shape, and a region provided between at least one of the projecting parts and the recessed part and having a small curvature compared to the corresponding projecting part. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286683 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a belt, a secured member, a support roller, a heating unit, and a pressure roller that is driven to rotate and has an elastic surface layer deformed when pressing the belt against the secured member so as to form a fixing portion. A recording medium that holds an unfixed image passes through the fixing portion. The secured member has a contact portion and an insertion portion having first and second curved surfaces respectively curved toward first and second sides opposite to each other. Conditions t(1/r | 09-25-2014 |
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20110228301 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image processing apparatus is connected to a print control device that controls a single printer, the apparatus includes a first generating unit that generates a first corrected image by adding an adjustment image to one of edges in the first direction of the first image such that a length in the first direction is equal to an integral multiple of a predetermined boundary size, a second generating unit that generates a second corrected image by adding the adjustment image to at least one of both edges in the first direction of the second image such that the length in the first direction is equal to an integer multiple of the boundary size, and a transmission unit that transmits the first corrected image and the second corrected image to the print control device. | 09-22-2011 |
20120019860 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that performs image formation on the basis of a plurality of pieces of image data for different colors, the pieces of the image data being generated by a higher-level device; a plurality of data storage units that receive the respective pieces of the image data transferred from the higher-level device via a plurality of first transfer paths corresponding to the respective pieces of the image data, and store therein the respective pieces of the image data; and a control unit that receives control information, which is used for controlling the image formation, from the higher-level device via a second transfer path and controls the data storage units on the basis of the control information so that the data storage units receive and storage therein the respective pieces of the image data transferred from the higher-level device. | 01-26-2012 |
20130188205 | PRINTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a printer controller, an obtaining unit automatically obtains the configuration of each station. Based on the obtaining result of the obtaining unit, a table creating unit creates a table of setting information for each data control unit as well as creates a table of setting information for an image output control unit; and sends the table of the setting information for the data control unit to the data control units and sends the table of the settings information for the image output control unit to the image output control unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188206 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes one or more print execution units each including a plurality of storage units configured to receive and storage pieces of image data transferred from a higher level apparatus via a first transfer path, respectively, a plurality of image forming units configured to form an image on a print medium in accordance with the pieces of image data stored in the storage units, and a selection unit configured to select a path for transferring a piece of image data stored in the storage units for each of the image forming units; and a print control unit configured to control the print execution units to print the image data in accordance with control information transferred from the higher level apparatus via a second transfer path. The selection unit selects the path in accordance with configuration information indicating configuration of all of the one or more print execution units. | 07-25-2013 |
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20110019972 | VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING APPARATUS AND EDITING METHOD - A video and audio recording apparatus includes a recording medium that records base data therein and a control unit that starts and stops destructive editing in response to an instruction to start and stop destructive editing received through an operation unit. When part of the base data is deleted, the control unit writes, using management information for managing a physical area of the base data in the recording medium on the per predetermined recording unit basis, information indicating that the physical area in which the deleted part of the base data was recorded is defined as a reserved area on the per predetermined recording unit basis to the management information. When the edit data is input in response to the instruction to start editing, the edit data is overwritten into the physical area managed using the management information and defined as a reserved area on a preferential basis. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019973 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In an editing apparatus; overwriting data used for insertion editing on base data, which is segmented into each picture including data having a predetermined unit of data amount X, and includes variable-length encoded real data, is variable-length encoded; each picture is sequentially obtained as a target picture, and regarding the target picture, if an amount of the overwriting data is equal to X, the overwriting data is handled as insertion data as it is, otherwise, insertion data is created by adding stuffing data to the overwriting data so that the amount of the overwriting data can be equal to X; a filler having the same amount as a filler of the base data is added to the insertion data having the same total amount as the real data; and the resultant insertion data is added onto the base data. | 01-27-2011 |
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20110255770 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING LINE WIDTH AND/OR POSITIONAL ERRORS OF A PATTERN - A method and system for imaging an object to be inspected and obtaining an optical image; creating a reference image from design pattern data; preparing an inspection recipe including one or more templates and parameter settings necessary for the inspection; checking the pattern and the template against each other, and selecting the reference image which corresponds to the template; detecting first and second edges in the selected reference image in accordance with the parameter setting using determined coordinates as a reference; detecting first and second edges in the optical image, this optical image corresponds to the selected reference image; and determining an inspection value by acquiring the difference between the line width of the optical image and the reference image using the first edge and second edge of the reference image and the first edge and second edges of the optical image. | 10-20-2011 |
20140205702 | TEMPLATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE TEMPLATE, AND POSITION MEASURING METHOD IN THE TEMPLATE - According to one embodiment, provided is a template in which a transfer region on which a first pattern to be transferred to a processing target is arranged and a non-transfer region surrounding the transfer region are formed on a principal surface of a template substrate. The template includes a second pattern used to measure deviation of a pattern formed on the template substrate from a design position in at least the transfer region. The second pattern arranged on the transfer region is not transferred to the processing target when a transfer to the processing target is performed through an imprint material. | 07-24-2014 |
20140300893 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION APPARATUS - An illumination apparatus comprising, a light source that emits a laser beam, a lens array on which the laser beam is illuminated, a plurality of element lenses having a diameter greater than or equal to the laser beam are arranged in the lens array, the lens array being rotatable around an optical axis of the laser beam, wherein the two lens arrays are arrayed in an optical axis direction of the laser beam, and | 10-09-2014 |
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20110150525 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCLUDING SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A development device includes a developer carrier, a supply compartment having a downstream end portion positioned outside the development area in the axial direction of the developer carrier, a collection compartment disposed lower than the supply compartment, first and second communication ports respectively formed in the downstream end portion and an upstream end portion of the supply compartment, a developer circulation unit including first and second developer conveyance members respectively provided in the supply compartment and the collection compartment, a toner supply port formed in an upper portion of the downstream end portion of the supply compartment, and an airflow path limiter provided in the downstream end portion of the supply compartment, closer to the development area than the toner supply port in the axial direction of the developer carrier, to restrict an airflow path above the developer in the downstream end portion of the supply compartment. | 06-23-2011 |
20120207492 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a developer container for containing developer, a developer bearer to carry by rotation the developer contained in the developer container to a development range facing a latent image bearer, a partition dividing the developer container into an upper compartment and a lower compartment arranged vertically, an upper developer conveyance member disposed in the upper compartment, a lower developer conveyance member disposed in the lower compartment, a communication portion through which the developer moves from the lower compartment to the upper compartment, disposed in a downstream end portion of the lower compartment in a direction in which the lower developer conveyance member transports the developer, and a toner concentration detector to detect a concentration of toner in the developer beneath the communication portion inside the lower compartment. | 08-16-2012 |
20130045029 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A development device includes a development casing, a developer bearer, a first developer conveyance member to supply developer to the developer bearer, a second developer conveyance member to transport developer axially, and a partition dividing an interior of the development casing into a supply channel and a collecting channel via which developer received from a downstream end portion of the supply channel is forwarded to an upstream end portion of the supply channel. The supply channel includes a conveyance area and a buffer area disposed adjacent to the conveyance area in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction to temporarily retain developer and midway in the developer conveyance direction inside the supply channel, and an upstream end face defining an upstream end of the buffer area is inclined relative to the axial direction to draw away from the conveyance area downstream in the developer conveyance direction. | 02-21-2013 |
20130064570 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge installed in a body of an image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a development device that includes a developer bearer, a rotary developer conveyance member, and a shaft projecting from a development casing in an axial direction, a gear train including an idler gear provided to the shaft projecting from the development casing, a first side plate, and a hollow shaft projecting in the axial direction from the first side plate. The first side plate includes an image bearer positioning portion and a developer bearer positioning portion to support axial end portions of the developer bearer and the image bearer, the shaft projecting from the development casing is inserted into a recess inside the hollow shaft, and the hollow shaft is inserted into a hollow shaft positioning hole formed in the body. | 03-14-2013 |
20140270838 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A developing device includes a developer bearer to carry developer, disposed facing an image bearer, a developer conveyance member disposed facing the developer bearer, to agitate and supply developer to the developer bearer, a decompression portion surrounded by upper walls of the developing device and including multiple vents arranged in a longitudinal direction of the developing device and a filter. A number of the multiple vents is greater in either end portion than in a center portion in the longitudinal direction of the developing device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140376970 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A development device includes a development casing, a developer bearer, a first developer conveyance member to supply developer to the developer bearer, a second developer conveyance member to transport developer axially, and a partition dividing an interior of the development casing into a supply channel and a collecting channel via which developer received from a downstream end portion of the supply channel is forwarded to an upstream end portion of the supply channel. The supply channel includes a conveyance area and a buffer area disposed adjacent to the conveyance area in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction to temporarily retain developer and midway in the developer conveyance direction inside the supply channel, and an upstream end face defining an upstream end of the buffer area is inclined relative to the axial direction to draw away from the conveyance area downstream in the developer conveyance direction. | 12-25-2014 |
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20140070790 | TYPE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, TYPE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A type determination apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to chronologically acquire power consumption consumed by an electrical device; and a determination unit configured to determine that a type of the electrical device is a type to be determined in accordance with a reference pattern representing a predetermined pattern of a power fluctuation when a fluctuation pattern of the power consumption acquired for a duration equal to or more than a reference period of time is matched with the reference pattern. | 03-13-2014 |
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20140114493 | ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PERFORMING THE SAME AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An environment control system comprising: a positioning system; and an electric facility control system, the positioning system comprising: at least one sensor configured to detect the location and the motion of the human being; and an operation unit configured to compute at least a value of a motion activity of the human being, the electric facility control system comprising: a determining unit configured to determine whether the human being is in a moving state or a resting state by comparing the value of the motion activity with a predetermined threshold value; and a controller configured to control the electric facility to change the environment of the given space, wherein the operation unit computes the value of the motion activity based on the operation result. | 04-24-2014 |
20140266153 | ARBITRATION DEVICE, ARBITRATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An arbitration device comprises a determining unit that determines priority of each of a plurality of electrical devices according to at least either a position or an action status of a person present in a target area for control; and a calculating unit that calculates electrical power to be allotted to each of the electrical devices in such a way that a total of electrical power allotted to a plurality of the electrical devices is within a limit value and the electrical devices having the priority at high levels are allotted with electrical power on a priority basis. | 09-18-2014 |