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20090252509 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a coil; a rotatable image heating member capable of generating heat by a magnetic flux generated by the coil to heat an image; a temperature detecting member for detecting a temperature of the image heating member; electric power supply control means for controlling electric power supply to the coil in accordance with an output of the temperature detecting member; and an execution portion for executing a stand-by mode operation in which the image heating member is at rest, and the apparatus waits for input of an image formation signal while the electric power supply control means carries out its power supply control operation such that temperature of a part of the image heating member which is detected by the temperature detecting member is at a predetermined stand-by temperature, wherein in the stand-by mode, along no longitudinal line on said image heating member, the temperature of said image heating member exceeds Curie temperature on an entirety of the longitudinal line. | 10-08-2009 |
20110091225 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a coil; a rotatable image heating member for generating heat by a magnetic flux generated by the coil to heat an image on a recording material; a voltage source for applying a high frequency current to the coil; a temperature detecting member for detecting a temperature of the image heating member; control device for controlling electric power supply to the coil from the voltage source on the basis of an output of the temperature detecting member such that the temperature of the image heating member is maintained at a set temperature T; and protecting device for stopping the electric power supply to the coil when the output of the temperature detecting member indicates a predetermined abnormal temperature Te, wherein at least a part of the image heating member is made of a magnetism-adjusted alloy having a predetermined magnetic permeability decrease start temperature Tc′ and a predetermined Curie temperature, and wherein T≦Tc′04-21-2011 | |
20110091230 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a coil; a heater, including an electroconductive layer of magnetism-adjusted alloy having a Curie temperature lower than a durable temperature of that image heating apparatus, for heating an image on a sheet; a magnetic core for directing a magnetic flux generated by that coil to that heater; a controller for controlling electric power supply to that coil so that a temperature of that heater is an image heating temperature sufficient to heat the image on the sheet, wherein the Curie temperature is higher than the image heating temperature; and a magnetic flux blocking member of non-magnetic metal having a resistivity smaller than that of the magnetism-adjusted alloy, wherein that magnetic flux blocking member is opposed to that coil with that heater therebetween, wherein that magnetic flux blocking member is in a first opposing region in which that coil is opposed to that heater, and a length L | 04-21-2011 |
20120328338 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS, BEARING MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND RETAINING RING - An image heating apparatus includes a roller, a heating portion disposed within the roller, a bearing portion fitted around an end portion of the roller to rotably support the roller, and a retaining ring attached at an axially predetermined position of the roller to restrict the roller from moving in a axial direction of the roller with respect to the bearing portion. The retaining ring includes first and second projections fitted into a hole portion of the roller. Profiles of side surfaces of these first and second projections abutting edges of the hole portion in a circumferential direction are recessed in the circumferential direction. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328342 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MATERIAL FEEDING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a hollow image heating roller having a through hole at one axial end portion side thereof; a bearing fitted around the roller; a heat insulating bush fitted around the roller between the roller and the bearing; a retaining ring for preventing the heat insulating bush from moving relative to the roller; an annular spacer provided between the heat insulating bush and the retaining ring, the annular spacer being provided with an inwardly protruded key portion engageable with the through hole. | 12-27-2012 |
20130094887 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heater a hollow heating roller having a hole at an axial end portion thereof; a bearing supporting the heating roller; a heat insulating bush fitted between an outer surface of the heating roller and the bearing; a retaining ring for retaining the heat insulating bush in an axial direction of the heating roller, the retaining ring including a projection engaging with the hole; an annular spacer provided between the retaining ring and the heat insulating bush, wherein the spacer includes a connecting portion having a connecting hole, the retaining ring includes a hooking portion engaging with the connecting hole. | 04-18-2013 |
20130119052 | IMAGE HEATING DEVICE - An electromagnetic induction heating type image heating device is capable of preventing image defects caused by an increase in the temperature of a non-sheet passing portion during thin paper passage, and uses a magnetic shunt alloy having a predetermined Curie temperature. The image heating device is configured to heat a material based on heat generated by an eddy current generated in a conductive member by inducing a magnetic field in a conductive member with a magnetic flux generation unit. The conductive member includes a magnetic shunt alloy whose composition is adjusted to have a predetermined Curie temperature. The image heating device includes a cooling device configured to cool an end portion of the conductive member. Consequently, the image heating device can increase a cooling effect by the cooling device during thin paper passage, in which a fixing temperature is lower than during plain paper passage. | 05-16-2013 |
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20090047264 | ANTIALLERGIC AGENT, UTILIZATION THEREOF FOR REDUCING ALLERGY AND METHOD OF REDUCING ALLERGY - The present invention provides an antiallergic agent containing, as an active ingredient, lactic acid bacteria selected from the group consisting of lactic acid bacteria of the species | 02-19-2009 |
20090298773 | METHODS OF PRODUCING FUNCTIONAL MISO - According to the present invention a miso with good flavor and a processed food containing the miso are provided, wherein the miso and the food are expected to have an repressing effect on an increase in blood pressure or hypotensive effect by continually taking the miso or food for routinely dietary habit. The present invention also provides a method of producing a miso, wherein peptides with ACE inhibitory activity are effectively produced in the miso without lowering the quality in flavor of miso. In an embodiment of the present invention, animal milk is added at a content of 10% during a mixing step, or a fermentation and ripening step. | 12-03-2009 |
20100151080 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF FERMENTED MILK AND FERMENTED MILK BEVERAGE/FOOD - The invention provides a method for producing a fermented milk that conveniently gives excellent taste and flavor or functionalities, such as antihypertensive effect, to fermented food and beverages. The method enables effective production of particular peptides having useful functions, such as antihypertensive effect, in the resulting fermented milk. The invention also provides fermented milk food and beverages utilizing the fermented milk, which have excellent taste and flavor and even functionality. The present method includes the steps of (A) enzymatically digesting animal milk casein with protease (1) containing particular proteases such as papain, and (B) fermenting animal milk casein or the like with lactic acid bacteria, to thereby produce VPP, IPP, and YP in the resulting fermented milk. The fermented milk food and beverages of the present invention contain the fermented milk obtained by the present method or a concentrate thereof, and VPP, IPP, and YP at or over particular contents. | 06-17-2010 |
20110082281 | CASEIN HYDROLYZATE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME AND USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a casein hydrolysate containing free amino acids and in vivo indigestible peptides having minimally suppressed in vivo enzymatic digestibility, and expected to express functions, such as hypotensive effect, in living organism, and to a method for preparing such a hydrolysate, and use thereof. The casein hydrolysate of the present invention contains free amino acids and peptides, such as in vivo indigestible peptides including Xaa-Pro and Xaa-Pro-Pro, obtained by hydrolyzing animal milk casein to have an average chain length of not longer than 2.1 in terms of the number of amino acid residues, and has ACE inhibitory activity or hypotensive effect. | 04-07-2011 |
20120115786 | AGENT FOR REDUCING RISK IN ONSET OF DISEASE ASCRIBABLE TO NON-DIPPER CIRCADIAN RHYTHM OF BLOOD PRESSURE - An agent for reducing risk in onset of diseases ascribable to non-dipping circadian profile of blood pressure is provided. This agent is capable of effectively lowering SBP from night to early morning in individuals with non-dipping circadian profile of blood pressure, in particular, normal individuals with normal SBP and DBP among them, and is thus capable of reducing risk in onset, particularly likely in the morning, of diseases caused by circadian variation of blood pressure. The agent is intended for administration to such subjects, and contains a hydrolysate or a concentrate thereof, containing Val-Pro-Pro and Ile-Pro-Pro and obtained by hydrolysis of animal milk protein. Reduction of risk may be expected in onset, particularly likely in the morning, of various diseases caused by risk of circadian variation of blood pressure, such as cerebral infarction, myocardial infarction,myocardialischemia, atherosclerosis, cardiac failure, cerebral stroke, coronary artery diseases, and peripheral vascular diseases. | 05-10-2012 |
20130210732 | AGENT FOR REDUCING RISK IN ONSET OF DISEASE ASCRIBABLE TO NON-DIPPER CIRCADIAN RHYTHM OF BLOOD PRESSURE - An agent for reducing risk in onset of diseases ascribable to non-dipping circadian profile of blood pressure is provided. This agent is capable of effectively lowering SBP from night to early morning in individuals with non-dipping circadian profile of blood pressure, in particular, normal individuals with normal SBP and DBP among them, and is thus capable of reducing risk in onset, particularly likely in the morning, of diseases caused by circadian variation of blood pressure. The agent is intended for administration to such subjects, and contains a hydrolysate or a concentrate thereof, containing Val-Pro-Pro and Ile-Pro-Pro and obtained by hydrolysis of animal milk protein. | 08-15-2013 |
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20100112711 | METHOD OF DETECTING AMPLIFICATION OR DELETION IN GENOMIC DNA FRAGMENT - [Problems] To provide a CGH method, in particular a CGH microarray method, enabling detection at an elevated accuracy and elevated sensitivity. | 05-06-2010 |
20100330700 | SUBSTRATE FOR ASSAYING BETA-GLUCAN AND/OR ENDOTOXIN AND ASSAY METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a peptide derivative for determining β-glucan or endotoxin which allows high sensitivity measurement, and a method for determining β-glucan and/or endotoxin using the same. The present invention relates to (1) a peptide derivative represented by the following general formula [1]: | 12-30-2010 |
20140113311 | AGGLUTINATION ENHANCER - The purpose of the present invention is to provide an agglutination enhancer which shows superior agglutination enhancing effect to those of conventional immunoagglutination enhancers, and the present invention relates to an agglutination enhancer for an immunoagglutination measurement method which comprises a polymer having a monomer unit shown by the following general formula [1]: | 04-24-2014 |
20150176069 | METHOD FOR DETECTING METHYLATED CYTOSINE BY USING BISULFITE REACTION - The invention provides a method for converting non-methylated cytosine in a single-stranded DNA into uracil by a bisulfite reaction with a high conversion efficiency from non-methylated cytosine into uracil. The invention also provides a method for amplifying the single-stranded DNA in which non-methylated cytosine has been converted into uracil, as well as a method for detecting methylated cytosine in the single-stranded DNA. | 06-25-2015 |
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20090069546 | PYRAZOLE-BASED CYANINE DYE - Problem Provided is a novel cyanine dye derivative with a pyrazole skeleton and an indole skeleton, having high sensitivity performance in a shorter wavelength region as compared with a conventional optical system, and showing high water solubility.
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20090215097 | Novel Polymer and Method of Measuring Cholesterol Therewith - It is an object of the present invention to provide the method for determining cholesterol in lipoprotein and reagent for determining cholesterol comprising the polymer, and the present invention relates to the reagent for determining cholesterol in lipoproteins such as high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and the determination method using the polymer comprising the following units as constituents: | 08-27-2009 |
20120043207 | MEASUREMENT METHOD UTILIZING INTERNAL STANDARD SUBSTANCE - A subject of the present invention is to provide a measurement method using an internal standard substance in an electrophoresis where an analyte is a protein or a compound. The present invention relates to a measurement method for an analyte by an electrophoresis, characterized in that a peak of the analyte is identified by using as an internal standard substance (1) a combination of a compound I having 3 or more anion groups in a molecule and a compound II where 1 to 3 groups of the anion groups of said compound I have been substituted by cation groups, or (2) a combination of a compound III having 3 or more cation groups in a molecule and a compound IV where 1 to 3 groups of the cation groups of said compound III have been substituted by cation groups. | 02-23-2012 |
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20090136253 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is constituted by an image bearing member; a corona charging member including a wire; a heat generating member for generating heat by energization; a shielding member, including the heat generating member, capable of shielding a portion of the corona charging member opposing to the image bearing member from the image bearing member by being moved between the corona charging member and the image bearing member; an energization control member for controlling energization of the heat generating member; and moving member for moving the shielding member to a first position at which the shielding member shields the portion and a second position retracted from the first position. When the shielding member is located at the first position, at least a part of the heat generating member is disposed between the corona charging member and the image bearing member. | 05-28-2009 |
20110286767 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is constituted by an image bearing member; a corona charging member including a wire; a heat generating member for generating heat by energization; a shielding member, including the heat generating member, capable of shielding a portion of the corona charging member opposing to the image bearing member from the image bearing member by being moved between the corona charging member and the image bearing member; an energization control member for controlling energization of the heat generating member; and moving member for moving the shielding member to a first position at which the shielding member shields the portion and a second position retracted from the first position. When the shielding member is located at the first position, at least a part of the heat generating member is disposed between the corona charging member and the image bearing member. | 11-24-2011 |
20120118877 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a coil for generating a magnetic flux by a current flowing therethrough; an image heating member having an electroconductive layer in which an eddy current is produced by the magnetic flux by which heat is generated, to heat an image on a recording material; an electroconductive magnetic flux adjusting member movable from a first position and a second position to decrease the eddy current produced in the image heating member by the magnetic flux; a sensor for sensing the temperature of the image heating member; and a controller for controlling electric power supplied to the coil on the basis of an output of the sensor. The controller changes an electric power condition to be supplied to the coil before start of the movement from the first position to the second position of magnetic flux adjusting member. | 05-17-2012 |
20130098900 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a coil for generating a magnetic flux by a current flowing therethrough; an image heating member having an electroconductive layer in which an eddy current is produced by the magnetic flux by which heat is generated, the image heating member being effective to heat an image on a recording material; an electroconductive magnetic flux adjusting member movable from a first position and a second position to decrease the eddy current produced in the image heating member by the magnetic flux; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of image heating member; electric power control means for control electric power supplied to the coil on the basis of an output of the temperature sensor, wherein the electric power control means changes an electric power condition to be supplied to the coil before start of the movement from the first position to the second position of magnetic flux adjusting member. | 04-25-2013 |
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20080271406 | Tie, tie assembly, and tie attachment device - The present invention provides a reinforcing bar tie the enables the connection intersecting reinforcing bars. The invention houses a tie made of an elastic member in a reception space, and extrudes it with an extruding member. At this time, the curved portions provided on both ends of the tie advance while guiding portions and of a guide member push them open, and are guided to an intersecting position of two reinforcing bars. Further, by extruding with the extruding member the tie detaches from the guiding member and winds around the intersection of the two reinforcing bars with a force sufficient to couple the two reinforcing bars together. | 11-06-2008 |
20090056326 | Operating device - The objective of the present invention is to provide a device that accurately communicates a subtle variation of an operation side to an action side. Specifically, in the present invention, an operating device is provided to perform a lock release operation of an extension device. The operating device feeds oil to a valve chamber by pressing a piston. When the flow rate of the fed oil is excessive, the valve is pressed to an opening resisting a biasing force of a compressed spring, thereby a rapid increase in the oil supplied to the action section is suppressed. Further, the supplied oil is suppressed to a very small amount by the throttle section, thereby an increase in the operation amount on the action section side is suppressed while maintaining the supply of the oil. | 03-05-2009 |
20120186496 | OPERATING DEVICE - The present invention provides a moving apparatus capable of efficiently utilizing work space on a desk, and stabilizing an operating load. The present invention includes a placing portion to place a personal computer, a moving portion to move the personal computer from a use position for using the personal computer to a non-use position different from the use position, and a fixing device to detachably fix the moving portion to a desk. The position of the placing portion is determined by the length of an extension mechanism. The positioning operation to determine the length of the extension mechanism is performed by an operating device that transfers the displacement magnitude of an operating portion to an action portion by hydraulic pressure. The operating load is stabilized because the displacement magnitude is transferred by hydraulic pressure. | 07-26-2012 |