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20130022635 | Expression Modulator For Clock Gene Bmal - The present invention provides a substance which can modulate expression of a Bmal gene effectively and with a wide range of application. Provided is an expression modulator for the Bmal gene comprising, as an active ingredient, one or more selected from the group consisting of hinoki cypress extract, | 01-24-2013 |
20130022692 | Expression Modulator For Clock Gene Period - The present invention provides a substance which can modulate expression of a Period gene effectively and with a wide range of application. Provided is an expression modulator for the Period gene comprising, as an active ingredient, one or more selected from the group consisting of arnica extract, nuphar extract, black tea extract, Zanthoxylum extract, juniper oil, cedar oil, lavender oil, clove bud oil, cypress oil, rose oil, ylang-ylang oil, galbanum oil, petitgrain oil, pepper oil, thyme oil, basil oil, and beta-caryophyllene. | 01-24-2013 |
20130143964 | SYMPATHETIC INHIBITOR, AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION, FOOD, AND SUNDRY ARTICLE CONTAINING THE SAME - Disclosed are a sympathetic inhibitor allowing more effective inhibition of activity of a sympathetic nerve, as well as a cosmetic composition, a food, and a sundry article containing the same. Ethyl 4-methoxybenzoate is efficacious for quieting down the activity of the sympathetic nerve. The sympathetic inhibitor, the cosmetic composition, the food and the sundry article containing the same enable more effective inhibition of the activity of the sympathetic nerve. | 06-06-2013 |
20130149399 | SKIN TEMPERATURE ELEVATING AGENT, AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION, FOOD AND SUNDRY ARTICLE CONTAINING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a skin temperature elevating agent that can further effectively raise a skin temperature. Another object is to provide a cosmetic composition, a food and a sundry article having a skin temperature elevating effect. A skin temperature elevating agent of the present invention is selected from one or more selected from a group consisting of: an extract of Japanese peppermint; an extract of clary sage; dihydro-β-ionol; and geraniol, and thus it can raise a skin temperature of a cheek. The skin temperature elevating agent according to the present invention is also selected from one or more selected from a group consisting of: an extract of Japanese peppermint; an extract of juniper berry; and 4-methoxystyrene, and thus it can raise a skin temperature of a hand fingertip. Hence, the skin temperature elevating agent according to the present invention can further effectively raise a skin temperature. A composition, a food, and a sundry article according to the present invention contain the skin temperature elevating agent, and thus have the skin temperature elevating effect. | 06-13-2013 |
20150072031 | SKIN TEMPERATURE ELEVATING AGENT, AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION, FOOD AND SUNDRY ARTICLE CONTAINING THE SAME - Disclosed here is a method for elevating skin temperature comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a composition comprising an effective amount of one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of dihydro-β-ionol and 4-methoxystyrene. Also disclosed is a method for elevating skin temperature comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a composition comprising an effective amount of one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of dihydro-β-ionol, 4-methoxystyrene, clary sage extract, Japanese peppermint extract, juniper berry extract, and geraniol. | 03-12-2015 |
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20110231687 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND SERVER SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a NAND flash memory includes a memory cell array includes pages, and a volatile data register with a storage capacity of one page, and configured to write page data to the memory cell array through the data register, each of the pages includes nonvolatile memory cells and being a unit of data write, a volatile RAM, and a controller includes a power saving mode in which power consumption of the RAM is reduced, and configured to transfer data of the RAM to the data register before entering the power saving mode. | 09-22-2011 |
20130262901 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND SERVER SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a NAND flash memory includes a memory cell array includes pages, and a volatile data register with a storage capacity of one page, and configured to write page data to the memory cell array through the data register, each of the pages includes nonvolatile memory cells and being a unit of data write, a volatile RAM, and a controller includes a power saving mode in which power consumption of the RAM is reduced, and configured to transfer data of the RAM to the data register before entering the power saving mode. | 10-03-2013 |
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20110290382 | HIGH-STRENGTH STABILIZER STEEL FOR VEHICLES HAVING EXCELLENT CORROSION RESISTANCE AND LOW-TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND STABILIZER - According to one embodiment, a high-strength stabilizer steel for vehicles having excellent corrosion resistance and low-temperature toughness, containing 0.07 to 0.20% C, more than 0.6% and 1.5% or less Si, 1 to 3% Mn, 0.1 to 1.0% Cr, 0.005 to 0.080% sAl, 0.005 to 0.060% Ti, 0.005 to 0.060% Nb, 0.070% or less Ti+Nb, 150 ppm or less N, 0.035% or less P, 0.035% or less S, 0.01 to 1.00% Cu, 0.01 to 1.00% Ni, the remainder being Fe, and unavoidable impurities, wherein a structure before molding a stabilizer is any one of a bainite, a martensite, and a mixed structure of bainite/martensite and an original austenitic crystal grain size number after a heat treatment of the stabilizer is Gh 9 or more. | 12-01-2011 |
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20090047430 | INK, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING UNIT AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink containing at least two coloring materials of a first coloring material and a second coloring material, wherein the first coloring material is a compound represented by the general formula (I), and the second coloring material is a compound represented by the general formula (II): | 02-19-2009 |
20090238975 | INK JET INK, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING UNIT AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet ink providing an image having excellent lightfastness and having sticking resistance and intermittent ejection stability. The ink jet ink is characterized by containing at least a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a compound represented by the following general formula (II). | 09-24-2009 |
20090238976 | INK JET INK, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING UNIT, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an ink jet ink, which gives a superior lightfastness to an ink image, has a superior sticking resistance and intermittent ejection stability, and gives a preferable color tone to the image. The ink includes an azo-based dye represented by formula (I) and a water-soluble organic solvent represented by bis(2-hydroxyethyl)sulfone represented by formula (II). | 09-24-2009 |
20110067598 | COLORANT COMPOUND - The present invention is a colorant compound represented by the following general formula (1): | 03-24-2011 |
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20100235424 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHODS THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - This invention provides an image processing system and information processing apparatus, which can improve user's operability upon execution of a workflow without causing any productivity or reliability drop, and control methods thereof. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus included in this image processing system receives digital data of a document read by an image processing apparatus, specifies feature information of the received digital data, and executes matching between the specified feature information and a plurality of templates. The information processing apparatus acquires a processing status of a workflow which is being currently executed from a workflow server. When a process indicated by attribute information of a template whose matching has succeeded matches a process indicated by the acquired processing status, the information processing apparatus registers the digital data in a document server as a document. | 09-16-2010 |
20110082796 | COPYRIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A copyright management system for registering a document read by a multifunction peripheral in a database as a copyrighted work and charging a copyright fee for use of the registered document includes a setting unit, a registration control unit, and a notification unit. The setting unit sets attribute information including a monitoring range within which to monitor an update status of the document read by the multifunction peripheral. The registration control unit adds the attribute information set by the setting unit to the document and registers the document with the added attribute information in the database. The notification unit monitors the update status of the document within the monitoring range and notifies an apparatus set as a notification destination in the attribute information of the monitored update status. | 04-07-2011 |
20120005601 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus according to this invention, being capable of communicating with a Web server via a network, receives from the Web server a response to a processing request issued to a Web application of the Web server. The information processing apparatus changes, when screen control information described in a header of the response contains information which designates priority of a screen display by a Web browser of the information processing apparatus, priority of the screen display by the Web browser to the designated priority. When an event to display a screen other than a screen by the Web browser occurs while the Web browser presents a screen display corresponding to the response, the information processing apparatus inhibits an interrupt display by the event in order for the designated priority. | 01-05-2012 |
20120268784 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS OPERATION SCREEN AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus that is capable of controlling a screen appropriately even when a screen is switched while processing a job. A Web browser receives screen data from an external apparatus, displays an operation screen based on the screen data, transfers a processing instruction based on a user's operation on the operation screen to a service provider, and transmits a job executed result according to the processing instruction to the external apparatus. The service provider executes the job according to the processing instruction transmitted from the Web browser, and transmits the result of the executed job to the Web browser. The Web browser displays a completion screen with a different tab from the operation screen when another user's operation is performed while executing the job, and displays the completion screen with the same tab as the operation screen when another user's operation is not performed while executing the job. | 10-25-2012 |
20120293837 | RELAY DEVICE, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RELAY DEVICE - A relay device for properly causing an information processing apparatus to process a Web service request from an external apparatus even when a firewall exists between the information processing apparatus and the external apparatus or even when the information processing apparatus exists in an environment in which address translation is performed. A mediation application of a mediation apparatus transmits a request corresponding to an operation on an operation screen displayed on an MFP, to a server, and receives a response to the request from the server. The mediation application determines to which of a Web browser and a service provider section of the MFP according to the content of the response. The mediation application transmits the response to one of the Web browser and the service provider section according to a result of the determination. | 11-22-2012 |
20130097297 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - A job execution instruction is received from an information processing apparatus, an environment variable instructed in the job execution instruction is acquired, and an environment variable management table is searched for an environment variable definition that corresponds to the acquired environment variable. An apparatus that is in the network and holds a value that is to replace the environment variable is selected based on an environment variable definition that was searched, the value that is to replace the environment variable is acquired from the selected apparatus, and the environment variable is replaced with the value. | 04-18-2013 |
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20080221890 | UNSUPERVISED LEXICON ACQUISITION FROM SPEECH AND TEXT - Techniques for acquiring, from an input text and an input speech, a set of a character string and a pronunciation thereof which should be recognized as a word. A system according to the present invention: selects, from an input text, plural candidate character strings which are candidates to be recognized as a word; generates plural pronunciation candidates of the selected candidate character strings; generates frequency data by combining data in which the generated pronunciation candidates are respectively associated with the character strings; generates recognition data in which character strings respectively indicating plural words contained in the input speech are associated with pronunciations; and selects and outputs a combination contained in the recognition data, out of combinations each consisting of one of the candidate character strings and one of the pronunciation candidates. | 09-11-2008 |
20080228463 | Word boundary probability estimating, probabilistic language model building, kana-kanji converting, and unknown word model building - Calculates a word n-gram probability with high accuracy in a situation where a first corpus), which is a relatively small corpus containing manually segmented word information, and a second corpus, which is a relatively large corpus, are given as a training corpus that is storage containing vast quantities of sample sentences. Vocabulary including contextual information is expanded from words occurring in first corpus of relatively small size to words occurring in second corpus of relatively large size by using a word n-gram probability estimated from an unknown word model and the raw corpus. The first corpus (word-segmented) is used for calculating n-grams and the probability that the word boundary between two adjacent characters will be the boundary of two words (segmentation probability). The second corpus (word-unsegmented), in which probabilistic word boundaries are assigned based on information in the first corpus (word-segmented), is used for calculating a word n-grams. | 09-18-2008 |
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20100300821 | VOLUME COMPENSATION ACCUMULATOR APPARATUS AND SUSPENSION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - The present invention enables easy formation of an extremely small orifice in a volume compensation accumulator apparatus connected to a conduit connecting hydraulic cylinders in a suspension system. The volume compensation accumulator apparatus comprises an arrangement of the two orifice plates in series in a spaced-apart relation, which eliminates the necessity of reducing the diameters of the orifices while providing the same orifice characteristic as that of an orifice having a smaller diameter, thereby making the boring process of the orifice easy, and reducing clogging of the orifices with foreign objects. | 12-02-2010 |
20110037239 | STABILIZER DEVICE - A stabilizer device according to the present invention includes a first stabilizer bar, a second stabilizer bar, and a variable rigidity unit coupling the stabilizer bars and adjusting torsion rigidity. The variable rigidity unit includes a linear motion mechanism adapted to perform a linear motion according to a relative rotation between the first stabilizer bar and the second stabilizer bar, a biasing mechanism for biasing the linear motion mechanism in a direction for preventing the linear motion, and a biasing force adjustment mechanism for adjusting a biasing force of the biasing mechanism. | 02-17-2011 |
20120305347 | SHOCK ABSORBER AND SUSPENSION APPARATUS - A shock absorber includes: at least one cylinder apparatus including a cylinder sealingly containing operating fluid, a piston slidably fittedly inserted in the cylinder to divide an interior of the cylinder into two chambers, and a piston rod coupled to the piston and extending to an outside of the cylinder; and at least one damping force generation mechanism connected to the cylinder apparatus, and capable of generating a damping force to be applied to a flow of the operating fluid caused by a movement of the piston and adjusting the damping force from the outside. The damping force generation mechanism includes a damping valve for generating the damping force, a pilot chamber for applying a pilot pressure by the operating fluid to the damping valve, and a pump for at least supplying or discharging the operating fluid to or from the pilot chamber. | 12-06-2012 |
20120305349 | SHOCK ABSORBER - A shock absorber in which a flow of hydraulic oil caused by sliding movement of a piston in a cylinder is controlled by a pilot type main valve and a pilot valve to generate damping force. The valve-opening operation of the main valve is controlled by adjusting the pressure in a pilot chamber with the pilot valve. A valve block and a solenoid block are connected together into one unit and inserted into a casing before being secured with a nut. At this time, an actuating rod of the solenoid block is engaged with a pilot valve member retained by a pilot spring and a fail-safe spring in a cylindrical portion of a pilot body of the valve block. | 12-06-2012 |
20140353099 | DAMPING FORCE CONTROL TYPE SHOCK ABSORBER - For the extension and compression strokes of a piston rod, a damping force generating mechanism generates a damping force by controlling the flow of hydraulic oil caused by the sliding movement of a piston in a cylinder. The damping force generating mechanism has a pilot-type main valve, a pilot-type control valve, and a pilot valve. The main valve has a pilot chamber into which the oil is introduced to adjust the valve-opening pressure of the main valve by the pressure in the pilot chamber. The control valve has a pilot chamber into which the oil is introduced to adjust the valve-opening pressure of the control valve by the pressure in the pilot chamber. The pilot valve controls the pressure in the pilot chamber of the control valve. The control valve controls the pressure in the pilot chamber of the main valve. | 12-04-2014 |
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20150084230 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ENCAPSULATING MATERIAL SHEET FOR SOLAR BATTERY - A method for manufacturing an encapsulating material sheet for a solar battery of the invention includes a step of producing an additive-containing pellet by soaking an additive A into a pellet including a polyolefin-based resin as a main component, a step of injecting the additive-containing pellet into a cylinder from a supply opening in an extrusion molder, and melting and kneading a resin composition including the polyolefin-based resin and the additive A in the cylinder, and a step of molding by extrusion the resin composition from a die in the extrusion molder into a sheet shape. | 03-26-2015 |
20150122331 | ENCAPSULATING SHEET FOR SOLAR CELL, SOLAR CELL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL - An encapsulating sheet for solar cell for encapsulating a solar cell, in which, in a case in which a square sheet obtained by cutting the sheet so that a planar shape becomes a square shape is heated at the atmospheric pressure and 150° C. for 15 minutes and is thus thermally shrunk, when a length of one side of the square sheet before being thermally shrunk is represented by L, a direction in parallel with a first side is considered as a first direction, and a direction perpendicular to the first side is considered as a second direction, and in the thermally-shrunk square sheet, a shortest length in the first direction is represented by M1, and a shortest length in the second direction is represented by M2, 0≦|(M1−M2)/L|≦0.4 is satisfied. | 05-07-2015 |
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20100097648 | DISPLAY CONTOROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A display control apparatus includes a communication control unit configured to control a first communication for receiving a video signal based on image data from a printing apparatus using a first communication protocol for receiving a video signal, and a second communication for sending image data to the printing apparatus using a second communication protocol for sending data to be used for printing. The communication control unit performs control to communicate with the printing apparatus using the second communication protocol in response to a storage medium being connected to the display control apparatus, and performs control to communicate with the printing apparatus using the first communication protocol in response to receiving a notification indicating that a storage medium is connected to the printing apparatus. | 04-22-2010 |
20100132004 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND CONVERSION ADAPTER - A communication device includes a first communication unit that complies with an HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) standard and a second communication unit that complies with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) standard. The communication device selects one of the first communication unit and the second communication unit as a communication unit that uses a DDC (Display Data Channel) line. | 05-27-2010 |
20100271545 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a conversion unit for converting first video data having a first frame rate to second video data having a second frame rate which is “n” times as high as the first frame rate (“n” is an integer of two or larger), and a display unit for displaying the second video data. When the first video data is video data of two successive frame images having different brightness, the conversion unit performs a first frame rate converting process for converting the first video data to the second video data by outputting a frame image group made of two successive frame images in the first video data “n” times in a row at the second frame rate. Consequently, the frame rate converting process can be performed without deteriorating a visual effect such as an HDR effect, and viewing environment comfortable for the user can be realized. | 10-28-2010 |
20130027609 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a conversion unit for converting first video data having a first frame rate to second video data having a second frame rate which is “n” times as high as the first frame rate (“n” being an integer of two or larger), and a display unit for displaying the second video data. When the first video data is video data of two successive frame images having different brightnesses, the conversion unit performs a first frame rate converting process for converting the first video data to the second video data by outputting a frame image group made of two successive frame images in the first video data “n” times in a row at the second frame rate. Consequently, the frame rate converting process can be performed without causing a deterioration of a visual effect such as an HDR effect, and a viewing environment comfortable for the user can be realized. | 01-31-2013 |
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20080310874 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus including a controller configured to control each unit of the image forming apparatus, and an engine to which a startup instruction is sent from the controller and a plurality of peripheral devices is connected in series. Power is supplied to the controller and the engine separately, and further supplied to the plurality of peripheral devices from the engine. The engine independently sends startup instructions to the plurality of peripheral devices. | 12-18-2008 |
20100165371 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - When multiple-size double-side printing in an APS mode has been selected, a system CPU first reads an original which corresponds to a second side of a paper sheet, prints data of the original on the second side of the paper sheet having the same size as the original, and stacks the paper sheet on an automatic double-side unit. Subsequently, the system CPU reads an original which corresponds to a first side of the paper sheet and prints data of the original on the first side of the paper sheet stacked on the automatic double-side unit, thus completing the double-side printing. However, where the size of an original corresponding to a second side differs from the size of an original corresponding to a first side, single-side printing is effected. The original corresponding to the first side is read and data thereof is printed on a paper sheet having the same size as the original and the sheet is discharged (single-side printing). Then, the original corresponding to the first side is read and data thereof is printed on a paper sheet having the same size as the original and the sheet is discharged (single-side printing). | 07-01-2010 |
20110279830 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - When multiple-size double-side printing in an APS mode has been selected, a system CPU first reads an original which corresponds to a second side of a paper sheet, prints data of the original on the second side of the paper sheet having the same size as the original, and stacks the paper sheet on an automatic double-side unit. Subsequently, the system CPU reads an original which corresponds to a first side of the paper sheet and prints data of the original on the first side of the paper sheet stacked on the automatic double-side unit, thus completing the double-side printing. However, where the size of an original corresponding to a second side differs from the size of an original corresponding to a first side, single-side printing is effected. The original corresponding to the first side is read and data thereof is printed on a paper sheet having the same size as the original and the sheet is discharged (single-side printing). Then, the original corresponding to the first side is read and data thereof is printed on a paper sheet having the same size as the original and the sheet is discharged (single-side printing). | 11-17-2011 |