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20090159438 | IMMOBILIZATION SUPPORT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRODE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRODE REACTION UTILIZING APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An immobilization carrier containing an electron acceptor compound is used in addition to glutaraldehyde and poly-L-lysine to immobilize an enzyme and an electron acceptor compound simultaneously to an electrode. For example, here are used diaphorase as the enzyme and 2-amino-3-carboxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (ACNQ) as the electron acceptor compound. | 06-25-2009 |
20090166193 | IMMOBILIZATION SUPPORT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRODE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRODE REACTION UTILIZING APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An immobilization carrier containing an electron acceptor compound is used in addition to glutaraldehyde and poly-L-lysine to immobilize an enzyme and an electron acceptor compound simultaneously to an electrode. For example, here are used diaphorase as the enzyme and 2-amino-3-carboxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (ACNQ) as the electron acceptor compound. | 07-02-2009 |
20090166194 | IMMOBILIZATION SUPPORT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRODE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ELECTRODE REACTION UTILIZING APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An immobilization carrier containing an electron acceptor compound is used in addition to glutaraldehyde and poly-L-lysine to immobilize an enzyme and an electron acceptor compound simultaneously to an electrode. For example, here are used diaphorase as the enzyme and 2-amino-3-carboxy-1, 4-naphthoquinone (ACNQ) as the electron acceptor compound. | 07-02-2009 |
20090176262 | COENZYME-BINDING GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE - The present invention provides a microorganism-derived soluble coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase which catalyzes a reaction for oxidizing glucose in the presence of an electron acceptor, has an activity to maltose as low as 5% or less, and is inhibited by 1,10-phenanthroline. The invention also provides a method for producing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase, and a method and a reagent for measuring employing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase. According to the invention, the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase can be applied to an industrial field, and a use becomes possible also in a material production or analysis including a method for measuring or eliminating glucose in a sample using the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase as well as a method for producing an organic compound. It became also possible to provide a glucose sensor capable of accurately measuring a blood sugar level. Therefore, it became possible to provide an enzyme having a high utility, such as an ability of being used for modifying a material in the fields of pharmaceuticals, clinical studies and food products. | 07-09-2009 |
20100297743 | COENZYME-BINDING GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE - The present invention provides a microorganism-derived soluble coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase which catalyzes a reaction for oxidizing glucose in the presence of an electron acceptor, has an activity to maltose as low as 5% or less, and is inhibited by 1,10-phenanthroline. The invention also provides a method for producing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase, and a method and a reagent for measuring employing the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase. According to the invention, the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase can be applied to an industrial field, and a use becomes possible also in a material production or analysis including a method for measuring or eliminating glucose in a sample using the coenzyme-binding glucose dehydrogenase as well as a method for producing an organic compound. It became also possible to provide a glucose sensor capable of accurately measuring a blood sugar level. Therefore, it became possible to provide an enzyme having a high utility, such as an ability of being used for modifying a material in the fields of pharmaceuticals, clinical studies and food products. | 11-25-2010 |
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20120112696 | POWER CONTROL SYSTEM, POWER CONTROL METHOD, POWER CONTROL DEVICE AND POWER CONTROL PROGRAM - Disclosed are a power control system, a power control method, a power control device and a power control program, which can efficiently supply power to an electric device and charge an electric vehicle. A power control device ( | 05-10-2012 |
20130060352 | ELECTRICAL DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM, SERVER, ELECTRICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - An input accepting unit accepts an input of desired time information showing a desired operation start time or a desired operation end time of a household electrical appliance, a sending unit sends, to a server, the desired time information, and electric power information showing an electric power required for the household electrical appliance to be operated, an electric power charge information acquiring unit acquires electric power charge information showing an electric power charge which changes per hour, an operation time computing unit computes an operation start time or an operation end time of the household electrical appliance based on the desired time information, the electric power information, and the electric power charge information, and an operation control unit starts the operation of the household electrical appliance according to the operation start time or the operation end time. | 03-07-2013 |
20130173440 | ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT - An equipment control device has: a reception unit for receiving desired time information indicating a desired operation start time or a desired operation termination time, operation period information and electrical power information; a time-shift period setting unit for setting a time-shift period indicating a period which has a time range including the desired time information and during which the operation start time or the operation termination time of a household appliance is shiftable; an electrical power charge information acquisition unit for acquiring electrical power charge information; an operation time computing unit for computing the operation start time or the operation termination time, on the basis of which the electricity charge that is billed when the household appliance is operated within the time-shift period falls to or below a predetermined charge; and a transmission unit for transmitting the operation start time or the operation termination time to the household appliance. | 07-04-2013 |
20130204445 | APPARATUS CONTROL DEVICE AND APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - Provided are an apparatus control device and an apparatus control method that make it possible to improve convenience for the user. An apparatus control device includes: a time-shift time computation unit that computes a time-shift time indicating an operation start time or an operation end time at which an electricity cost billed when an electric apparatus is operated is equal to or less than a predetermined rate, a recomputation determination unit that determines whether or not to change the time-shift time computed by the time-shift time computation unit, and a notification unit that, when determination is made by the recomputation determination unit that the time-shift time is to be changed, notifies the user that the initially computed time-shift time is to be changed. | 08-08-2013 |
20130211560 | HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE - A washer-dryer is provided with a time shift function for performing timer presetting processing on the basis of a time shift computation result which indicates an operation start time suitable for operation. The washer-dryer includes: an input operation unit for allowing a user to perform operations for operating the washer-dryer; a display unit for displaying information relating to the operation of the washer-dryer; and an operation control unit for controlling the operation of the washer-dryer on the basis of the time shift computation result. When a start button on the input operation unit is operated by the user, the operation control unit automatically performs the timer presetting processing on the basis of the time shift computation result and also displays a timer preset time at the display unit. | 08-15-2013 |
20140129004 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR CONTROL INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTROL INFORMATION, AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING CONTROL INFORMATION - A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136448 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR GENERATING ELECTRIC POWER PRICE LIST, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An electric power price information acquisition unit ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140207256 | ELECTRIC DEVICE AND ELECTRIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - An electric device includes operation unit, working unit, and a number-of-times detecting unit that counts the number of times of instructions being against energy savings. In addition, the device includes time measuring unit that measures time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting, and a controller that generates a signal to induce a modification of a first energy-saving pattern. When the time is within a first predetermined period, the controller generates a signal that requires the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a more lenient second energy-saving pattern, with the time being from when time measuring unit starts the measurement to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value. | 07-24-2014 |
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20140088738 | HOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE - A home electric appliance of the present invention includes an input operation unit for inputting desired time information indicating any of a desired operation start time and a desired operation end time; a receiving unit for receiving a time shift calculation result including any of an operation start time and an operation end time and an electricity charge of which an amount becomes not more than a predetermined value when the appliance is operated according to the operation start time or the operation end time within a predetermined period determined by the desired time information; a storage unit for storing a reference value with which the time shift calculation result is evaluated; a comparison evaluation unit for carrying out comparison processing which compares the time shift calculation result with the reference value stored in the storage unit; an operation control unit for controlling operation of the appliance based on the time shift calculation result; and a display unit for displaying information regarding the operation. The display unit changes a display method according to a comparison result by the comparison evaluation unit. | 03-27-2014 |
20140180443 | CONTROL DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a control device that makes it possible to surely give an appropriate instruction to operate. An appliance control device that controls an electric appliance that performs one of a first operation and a second operation includes: a price obtaining unit that obtains information indicating a price of power; a detecting unit that detects a change in the price in a not shorter one of the first period and the second period, the price being indicated in the obtained information; a first calculating unit that calculates a first cost produced when the electric appliance performs the first operation, in the case where the change is detected; a second calculating unit that calculates a second cost produced when the electric appliance performs the second operation, in the case where the change is detected; a comparing unit; and an instructing unit that instructs performing of a determined operation. | 06-26-2014 |
20140236375 | ELECTRIC POWER CONDITIONING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING ELECTRIC POWER - The electric power conditioning device, connected to an apparatus and an electric storage device in a house, comprises an electric power receiving section, a communication section and an operation section. The electric power receiving section, connected to a commercial power supply, acquires a total electric power consumption amount of the commercial power supply. The operation section makes comparison as to whether an integrated value obtained by integrating the total electric power consumption amount and an electric power consumption amount which is an amount of electric power expected to be consumed when the apparatus is operated exceeds a predetermined value. When the integrated value does not exceed, the operation section transmits a use permission signal to the apparatus via the communication section. When the integrated value exceeds, the electric power conditioning device transmits to the electric storage device a supply electric power inquiring signal via the communication section. | 08-21-2014 |
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20090128648 | Image processing device and image processing method for performing three dimensional measurements - An image processing device for the user to easily perform the setting for specifying the location to be performed with three dimensional measurement on the image where the photographed is shown, the device including an imaging section ( | 05-21-2009 |
20130329954 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus, connected to an imaging part to capture an image of workpieces conveyed on a conveyer, includes an interface that receives a signal indicating a travel distance of the conveyer, an interface that communicates with a control device for controlling a moving machine disposed downstream of an imaging area of a imaging part, a positional information acquisition unit that processes the image captured by the imaging part and thereby acquiring positional information of a pre-registered workpiece in the image, a travel distance obtaining unit that obtains the travel distance of the conveyer synchronized with the control device, an initiating unit that initiates the capturing by the imaging part in response to an imaging command, and a transmission unit that transmits, to the control device, the positional information and the travel distance upon the capturing of the image used to acquire the positional information. | 12-12-2013 |
20140015956 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device is connected to an imaging unit. The imaging unit has an overlapping region in an imaging range before and after continuous imaging. The image processing device includes: an interface that receives a plurality of captured images obtained by the imaging unit; a measurement unit configured to acquire a measurement result of a subject in the captured image by performing measurement processing to the captured image; a synthesis unit configured to generate a synthesized image by synthesizing the plurality of captured images such that the captured images overlap with one another within an overlapping range corresponding to the overlapping region in imaging order; and an output unit configured to output the synthesized image, information indicating the overlapping range correlated with the synthesized image, and information indicating the measurement result. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015957 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: an image receiving part configured to receive an image of a target workpiece on a surface of a conveying path captured by means of the imaging unit; a position acquiring part configured to acquire a position of the target workpiece in the captured image; a tilt acquiring part configured to acquire, by using the position of the target workpiece in the captured image acquired by means of the position acquiring part, a tilt angle of an imaging plane of the imaging unit relative to the surface of conveying path; and an outputting part configured to output assistant information used for assisting in the adjustment of the posture of the imaging unit by using the acquired tilt angle. | 01-16-2014 |
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20100196895 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF ONSET RISK OF GLAUCOMA - A method of determining the presence or the absence of a glaucoma risk, including the steps of detecting in vitro an allele and/or a genotype of a single nucleotide polymorphism which is located on a 31st base of a base sequence, in a sample from a subject, wherein the base sequence is at least one base sequence selected from the group consisting of base sequences shown in SEQ ID NOs: 203 to 514 or a complementary sequence thereto (step A), and comparing the allele and/or the genotype detected in the step A with at least one of an allele and/or a genotype, containing a high-risk allele, in the base sequences shown in SEQ ID NOs: 203 to 514 (step B). According to the method of the present invention, the level of an onset risk of glaucoma in a sample donor can be determined by analyzing an allele or a genotype of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the present invention on the sample, so that the sample donor can take a preventive measure of glaucoma, or can receive appropriate treatments, on the basis of this risk. | 08-05-2010 |
20110207122 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF PROGRESSION RISK OF GLAUCOMA - A method of determining the presence or the absence of a glaucoma risk, including the steps of detecting in vitro an allele and/or a genotype of a single nucleotide polymorphism which is located on a 31st base of a base sequence, in a sample from a subject, wherein the base sequence is at least one base sequence selected from the group consisting of base sequences shown in SEQ ID NOs: 203 to 752 or a complementary sequence thereto (step A), and comparing the allele and/or the genotype detected in the step A with at least one of an allele and/or a genotype, containing a high-risk allele, in the base sequences shown in SEQ ID NOs: 203 to 752 (step B). According to the method of the present invention, the level of a progressive risk of glaucoma in a sample donor can be determined by analyzing an allele or a genotype of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the present invention in the sample, so that the sample donor can take a preventive measure of glaucoma, or can receive appropriate treatments, on the basis of this risk. | 08-25-2011 |
20130275349 | Comprehensive Glaucoma Determination Method Utilizing Glaucoma Diagnosis Chip And Deformed Proteomics Cluster Analysis - Provided is a technique for determining a physiological attribute in a mammal, including the onset or progression of human glaucoma, with high accuracy. The results of the determination of genotype date and the results of the determination of cytokine date are consolidated by a consolidated determination unit ( | 10-17-2013 |