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20080307248 | Cpu Clock Control Device, Cpu Clock Control Method, Cpu Clock Control Program, Recording Medium, and Transmission Medium - A program execution time determining portion determines an execution start time and a processing volume per unit time of a program in such a manner that a processing volume necessary to execute the program is made equal to the extent that registered request for the execution time and allowable range are met. It is thus possible to determine the execution time of the program in such a manner that a necessary processing volume is made as equal as possible within the allowable range of the request for the execution time of the program, which enables clock control that suppresses a variation of the operating frequency of the CPU. Power consumption of the CPU can be thus reduced. | 12-11-2008 |
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20130081016 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM, VIRTUAL COMPUTER CONTROL METHOD AND ACCUMULATION CIRCUIT - The present invention relates to a virtual machine system that includes a plurality of processors and executes a plurality of virtual machines in parallel with use of the plurality of processors. An aim thereof is to suppress power consumption without sacrificing the performance of the virtual machine system. When there are at least two processors that do not have any virtual machines allocated thereto, one of the at least two processors is supplied with power so as to be placed in a standby state, and a remaining one or more of the at least two processors are not supplied with power. | 03-28-2013 |
20130097603 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM, VIRTUAL COMPUTER CONTROL METHOD, VIRTUAL COMPUTER CONTROL PROGRAM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - When a predetermined application program becomes the target of execution on a virtual machine that is currently being executed, the virtual machine that is currently being executed is designated as a parent virtual machine, and a child virtual machine to execute the predetermined application program is generated by forking. The generated child virtual machine is configured not to execute any application program other than the predetermined application program. The parent virtual machine executes a dummy application program instead of the predetermined application program. | 04-18-2013 |
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20140020086 | VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PROTECTION METHOD, AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PROTECTION PROGRAM - A virtual machine system that restricts use of confidential information only to the case where an authentication has resulted in success. The virtual machine system includes first virtual machine, second virtual machine, and hypervisor. The first virtual machine includes: storage unit storing confidential information; and authentication unit configured to perform authentication and notify the hypervisor of result of the authentication. The second virtual machine uses virtual device that is virtualized storage device. When having received authentication result indicating authentication success from the authentication unit, the hypervisor enables the second virtual machine to access, as substance of the virtual device, storage area storing the confidential information, and when not having received the authentication result indicating the authentication success from the authentication unit, the hypervisor disables the second virtual machine from accessing the storage area storing the confidential information. | 01-16-2014 |
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20100328558 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - At least either a first substrate or a second substrate has regions corresponding to subpixels ( | 12-30-2010 |
20130038807 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an active matrix substrate that enables to suppress variation in the pixel potential even if an alignment shift is present. The active matrix substrate of the present invention includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix; and a source wiring running in a column direction, wherein the source wiring has a first side portion running along one side in a column direction of at least one pixel electrode of the plurality of pixel electrodes, a crossing portion running across the pixel electrode, and a second side portion running along another side in the column direction of the pixel electrode, the first side portion and the second side portion are connected to each other via the crossing portion, and at least one crossing portion is provided on each of at least two pixel electrodes aligned in the column direction out of the plurality of pixel electrodes. | 02-14-2013 |
20130070002 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a display panel and a display device in each of which the white luminance and/or the color reproduction range are/is sufficiently improved by changing the sub-pixel area for each color, so that unevenness of luminance is sufficiently suppressed, and the influence of line width variation on the aperture ratio is reduced. The display panel according to the present invention includes a pair of substrates, a display element sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and pixels each formed by sub-pixels of four or more colors, and is featured in that one of the pair of substrates includes scanning lines, signal lines, and sub-pixel electrodes, and in that the area of at least one of the sub-pixels of four or more colors is different from the area of the other sub-pixels, and the sub-pixel having the larger area overlaps with a plurality of the signal lines in plan view of the main surface of the display panel. | 03-21-2013 |
20130088681 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a display panel and a display device which are able to sufficiently increase the luminance, and to suppress the occurrence of difference in response speed, transmissivity, and viewing angle characteristics, and the like for each color, and which are also able to improve the yield in the manufacturing process, and are able to be applied to various display modes, such as a CPA mode, an MVA mode, and an IPS mode. According to the present invention, there is provided a display panel in which one pixel is formed by a plurality of sub-pixels, the display panel being configured such that, when one pixel is divided into a plurality of rectangular regions, at least one of the rectangular regions includes two or more sub-pixels, such that, in each of the sub-pixels, the length of the side in parallel with the short side of the rectangular region is substantially the same, and such that, in at least one of the sub-pixels, the length of the side in parallel with the long side of the rectangular region is different. | 04-11-2013 |
20130222746 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel which can prevents roughness of the displayed image and reduction in the contrast ratio accompanying a use of four or more color filters of different colors. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel comprising a color filter substrate provided with four or more color layers of different colors and a light shielding layer, each pixel including a repeating unit composed of the four or more color layers, the four or more color layers partially overlap the light shielding layer, the liquid crystal display panel having a region where color layers of the same color in different pixels are arranged in the same rows or the same columns, and of the four or more color layers of different colors in one pixel, a color layer of a color with higher brightness overlaps a portion of the light shielding layer that is positioned between the color layer and another color layer of the same color with an overlapping width smaller than that with which a color layer of a color with lower brightness overlaps a portion of the light shielding layer that is positioned between the color layer and another color layer of the same color. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222747 | DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention provides a display panel capable of suppressing display unevenness caused by the capacitance change due to misalignment when four primary colors are used. The display panel of the present invention includes: signal lines; pixel electrodes; and a common electrode. In the display panel, a single pixel is constituted by picture elements of four or more colors. Each of the pixel electrodes is connected to each one of the signal lines. The pixel electrodes, which are included in the single pixel, are arranged in a squared shape, and include a pixel electrode having larger area and a pixel electrode having smaller area. Both of a signal line connected to the pixel electrode having the larger area and a signal line connected to the pixel electrode having the smaller area overlap with the pixel electrode having the larger area. | 08-29-2013 |
20140176891 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel which facilitates laser repair for repairing defects even if an electrode facing a pixel electrode with an insulating film therebetween is a transparent electrode. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a first substrate having an insulating substrate, a thin film transistor, a scan signal line, a first light-shielding electrode, a first insulating film, a second light-shielding electrode, a second insulating film, a transparent electrode, a third insulating film, and a pixel electrode; a second substrate having an insulating substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second light-shielding electrode is located between the thin film transistor and the pixel electrode and connected to the pixel electrode through a connecting portion formed through the second insulating film and the third insulating film. The first light-shielding electrode at least partly overlaps with the second light-shielding electrode through the first insulating film. The transparent electrode is in a layer closer to the liquid crystal layer than both a layer including the scan signal line and a layer including the second light-shielding electrode are. | 06-26-2014 |
20140192308 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that suppresses defects caused by variation in process and improves display performance. The present invention is a liquid crystal display including: a first electrode; an insulating film provided on the first electrode; and a second electrode provided on the insulating film, the second electrode having a plurality of slits formed within a pixel, the first electrode facing the plurality of slits, the plurality of slits being parallel with each other, the plurality of slits each having a first straight portion that has a first end and a second end and extends in a first direction, a second straight portion that is connected to the first end of the first straight portion and extends in a second direction, and a bent portion bent in a connecting region of the first straight portion and the second straight portion, a plurality of the first straight portions having the second ends aligned along the same straight line, on an assumption of a first slit being an endmost slit among the plurality of slits in the pixel, a slit next to the first slit bending in a manner that the first straight portion and the second straight portion of the slit come closer to the first slit, a slit more distant from the first slit having a shorter first straight portion. | 07-10-2014 |
20140347614 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - This liquid crystal display device ( | 11-27-2014 |
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20100035439 | FILM FORMING METHOD AND FILM FORMING APPARATUS - The invention includes inserting an object to be processed into a processing vessel, which can be maintained vacuum, and making the processing vessel vacuum; performing a sequence of forming a ZrO | 02-11-2010 |
20110197813 | FILM FORMING APPARATUS - The invention includes inserting an object to be processed into a processing vessel, which can be maintained vacuum, and making the processing vessel vacuum; performing a sequence of forming a ZrO | 08-18-2011 |
20110300719 | FILM FORMATION METHOD AND FILM FORMATION APPARATUS - When an object to be processed is transferred into a process chamber capable of keeping a vacuum and an interior of the process chamber is kept in a vacuum state, the film formation method includes performing forming a first ZrO film on the object to be processed by supplying a zirconium material and an oxidizing agent in the order listed above into the process chamber and forming a second ZrO film doped with Si on the object to be processed by supplying the zirconium material, a silicon material, and the oxidizing agent in the order listed above into the process chamber, in such a way that a number of times the forming the first ZrO film is performed and a number of times the forming the second ZrO film is performed are adjusted, respectively, to form a zirconia-based film having a predetermined film thickness while controlling a Si concentration in the film. | 12-08-2011 |
20120067846 | Liquid Processing Method, Recording Medium Having Recorded Program for Executing Liquid Processing Method Therein and Liquid Processing Apparatus - Disclosed is a method for processing a substrate including a first process and a second process. The first process comprises supporting the substrate formed with a titanium-containing film on its front surface and rear surface by a support unit which is rotatably installed; rotating the substrate along with the support unit; and supplying a first processing liquid containing hydrofluoric acid to the rear surface of the substrate thereby processing the rear surface of the substrate with the first processing liquid. The second process comprises supplying a second processing liquid containing ammonia hydrogen peroxide mixture to the rear surface of the substrate after the first process is completed, thereby processing the rear surface of the substrate with the second processing liquid. | 03-22-2012 |
20120219710 | METHOD OF FORMING TITANIUM NITRIDE FILM, APPARATUS FOR FORMING TITANIUM NITRIDE FILM, AND PROGRAM - According to the method of forming a titanium nitride film, first, an inside of a reaction pipe accommodating a semiconductor wafer is heated up to 200° C. to 350° C. by using a temperature increasing heater. Then, the titanium nitride film is formed on the semiconductor wafer by supplying a film forming gas including a titanium raw material into the reaction pipe. Methylcyclopentadienyl tris(dimethylamino)titanium that does not include a chlorine atom and includes titanium is used as the titanium raw material. | 08-30-2012 |
20130200491 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAPACITOR, CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF FORMING DIELECTRIC FILM FOR USE IN CAPACITOR - Provided are a method of manufacturing a capacitor capable of achieving a high dielectric constant property and a low leakage current, a capacitor, and a method of forming a dielectric film used in the capacitor. The capacitor is fabricated by forming a lower electrode layer on a substrate; forming a first TiO | 08-08-2013 |
20130292700 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including GaN (gallium nitride) that composes a semiconductor layer and includes forming a gate insulating film, in which at least one film selected from the group of a SiO | 11-07-2013 |
20140161706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF FORMING METAL COMPOUND FILM, AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCT - Provided is a method of forming a film of metal compound of first and second materials on an object to be processed, one of the first and second materials being metal, which includes: supplying a raw material gas containing the first material to the object such that the first material is adsorbed onto the object; supplying a raw material gas containing the second material to the object with the first material adsorbed thereon such that the second material is adsorbed onto the object with the first material adsorbed thereon; and supplying a third material different from the first and second materials onto the first and second materials adsorbed onto the object such that the first to third materials are chemically combined with one another. | 06-12-2014 |
20140367699 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The method for fabricating a semiconductor device is to fabricate a semiconductor device including GaN (gallium nitride) that composes a semiconductor layer and includes a step of forming a gate insulating film. In the step, at least one film selected from the group consisting of a SiO | 12-18-2014 |
20150279683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING TiSiN FILM - Provided is a method of forming a TiSiN film on a surface of an object to be processed, the method including: repeating a first cycle a first predetermined number of times, the first cycle including supplying Ti raw material gas containing Ti raw material into a processing chamber, and supplying nitriding gas containing a nitridant into the processing chamber after the Ti raw material gas is supplied into the processing chamber; and repeating a second cycle a second predetermined number of times after repeating the first cycle the first predetermined number of times, the second cycle including supplying Si raw material gas containing Si raw material into the processing chamber, and supplying nitriding gas containing a nitridant into the processing chamber after the Si raw material gas is supplied into the processing chamber, wherein the Si raw material gas comprises an amine-based Si raw material gas. | 10-01-2015 |
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20110004018 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING DIAMINE AND POLYAMIDE - A method for producing a diamine includes purifying a diamine from an aqueous solution containing a diamine salt by adding an alkaline substance to the aqueous solution and then filtering the resulting solution by allowing the solution to pass through a nanofiltration membrane to remove the salt, thereby obtaining an aqueous diamine solution. | 01-06-2011 |
20110177551 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CHEMICAL PRODUCT AND CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION APPARATUS - To control flow velocity of a culture liquid inside a membrane separation tank without giving influences to culture conditions in the fermentation tank, and also suppress precipitation of microorganisms or culture cells so that the production efficiency of the chemical product can be improved, in a method for producing a chemical product including the steps of: cultivating microorganisms or culture cells in a fermentation tank; transferring a culture liquid from the fermentation tank to a membrane separation tank so as to filter the culture liquid through a separation membrane; and collecting a fermentation product from a filtration liquid as the chemical product while refluxing an unfiltered culture liquid that has not been filtered so as to be joined to the culture liquid on an upstream side of the membrane separation tank, one portion of the culture liquid to be transferred from the fermentation tank is allowed to bypass the membrane separation tank depending on a pressure at the culture liquid flow-in side of the membrane separation tank. | 07-21-2011 |
20110263811 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYLACTIC ACID - Lactic acid is obtained by a method including (A) a step of continuous fermentation wherein a fermentation culture medium of a microorganism having an ability of lactic acid fermentation is filtered through a porous membrane having an average pore size of not less than 0.01 μm and less than 1 μm with a transmembrane pressure difference within the range of 0.1 to 20 kPa, and the permeate is collected, while retaining the non-permeated liquid in or returning the non-permeated liquid to the culture, and adding a fermentation feedstock to the culture; (B) a step of filtering the permeate obtained in Step (A) through a nanofiltration membrane; and (C) a step of distilling the permeate obtained in Step (B) under a pressure of not less than 1 Pa and not more than atmospheric pressure, at 25° C. to 200° C. to recover lactic acid. | 10-27-2011 |
20120070871 | POLYPEPTIDE HAVING D-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY, POLYNUCLEOTIDE ENCODING THE POLYPEPTIDE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF D-LACTIC ACID - Highly productive D-lactic acid fermentation uses a transformant obtained by introducing into a host cell a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide according to any one of the following (A) to (C) in such a manner that the polypeptide is expressed, which polypeptide has a D-lactate dehydrogenase activity higher than those of conventional polypeptides: (A) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1 or 2; (B) a polypeptide having the same amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1 or 2 except that one or several amino acids are substituted, deleted, inserted and/or added, which polypeptide has a D-lactate dehydrogenase activity; and (C) a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence which has a sequence identity of not less than 80% to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1 or 2, which polypeptide has a D-lactate dehydrogenase activity. | 03-22-2012 |
20130059345 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SUGAR SOLUTION AND DEVICE FOR SAME - A method of hydrolysis of cellulose uses a filamentous fungus-derived cellulase as a carbohydrase and includes adding the carbohydrase to cellulose to perform primary hydrolysis and then subjecting the primary hydrolysate to solid-liquid separation into a primary sugar liquid and solids; adding water to the solids and performing secondary hydrolysis, followed by subjecting the secondary hydrolysate to solid-liquid separation into a secondary sugar liquid and a residue; and filtering the primary sugar liquid and/or secondary sugar liquid through an ultrafiltration membrane, and recovering the carbohydrase from the feed side and recovering a sugar solution from the permeate side. | 03-07-2013 |
20130095539 | LACTIC ACID PRODUCTION METHOD - A method of producing lactic acid by separating lactic acid produced in a culture solution by microbial fermentation, comprising: a step (A) of filtering the culture solution through a nano-filtration membrane; and a step (B) of distilling a lactic-acid-containing solution produced in step (A) under a pressure of 1 Pa to atmospheric pressure (inclusive) at a temperature of 25 to 200° C. (inclusive) to recover lactic acid. | 04-18-2013 |
20130203117 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SUGAR SOLUTION AND DEVICE FOR SAME - A method produces a sugar liquid by repeating a sugar liquid production process including (1) to (3): (1) adding a filamentous fungus-derived cellulase to cellulose to perform primary hydrolysis; (2) adding a fresh filamentous fungus-derived cellulase to the hydrolysate in Step (1) to perform secondary hydrolysis; and (3) subjecting the hydrolysate in Step (2) to solid-liquid separation to obtain a sugar liquid, from which a recovered enzyme is obtained; wherein the recovered enzyme obtained in Step (3) is used for Step (1) of the next and later sugar liquid production processes. | 08-08-2013 |
20130312738 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUGAR SOLUTION - A method of producing a sugar liquid, includes filtering a cellulose-derived sugar liquid through one or more separation membranes selected from the group consisting of ultrafiltration membranes, nanofiltration membranes and reverse osmosis membranes, and washing the separation membrane(s) after filtration with warm water at a temperature of not less than 50° C. | 11-28-2013 |
20140012041 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTATE - A method produces a lactic acid salt and includes subjecting an aqueous lactic acid salt solution comprising a formic acid salt in an amount of not less than 7.0% by weight with respect to the lactic acid salt to crystallization, and recovering the lactic acid salt. By subjecting the aqueous lactic acid salt solution including a formic acid salt in an amount of not less than 7.0% by weight with respect to the lactic acid salt to crystallization, supersaturation of the lactic acid salt can be stabilized, and the recovery of the lactic acid salt can be increased. | 01-09-2014 |
20140296471 | DIOL COMPOSITION AND POLYESTER - A diol composition includes a diol as a major component and has an electrical conductivity of 0.6 to 30 mS/m. | 10-02-2014 |
20150140606 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SUGAR LIQUID - A method of producing a sugar liquid from cellulose-containing biomass includes (1) to (4): (1) subjecting a cellulose-containing biomass to a dilute sulfuric acid treatment and thereafter separating the treated cellulose-containing biomass into a dilute sulfuric acid-treated liquid and a cellulose-containing solid content; (2) adding a cellulase to the cellulose-containing solid content to hydrolyze the cellulose and thereafter obtaining a sugar liquid; (3) filtering the dilute sulfuric acid-treated liquid through a nanofiltration membrane at pH 2.5 or lower to thereby separate a sugar concentrated liquid as a retentate and at the same time recover a sulfuric acid aqueous solution as a permeate; and (4) reusing the whole amount or a part of the sulfuric acid aqueous solution obtained in (3) in the dilute sulfuric acid treatment in (1). | 05-21-2015 |
20150376669 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SUGAR SOLUTION - A method of producing sugar solution by repeating a sugar solution production process includes steps (1) to (3), wherein a wash solution obtained in step (4) of washing a separation membrane after step (3) is used for step (1) of subsequent sugar solution production processes:
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20120253082 | METHOD OF PRODUCING DIOL OR TRIOL - A method for producing a diol or triol, which has a step of removing impurities contained in a diol- or triol-containing solution, is provided. In the method, a diol- or triol-containing solution is filtered through a nanofiltration membrane having a polyamide-containing functional layer. The diol- or triol-containing solution is then collected from the permeate flow of the nanofiltration membrane. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253086 | METHOD OF PRODUCING BUTANOL - A method of producing butanol, which has a step of removing impurities contained in a butanol-containing solution, is provided. In the method, a butanol-containing solution is filtered through a nanofiltration membrane. Then the butanol-containing solution is collected from the permeate flow of the nanofiltration membrane. | 10-04-2012 |
20130041187 | BUTANOL MANUFACTURING METHOD - Highly pure butanol can be produced by a method for producing butanol, the method comprising: Step A, wherein a butanol-containing solution is filtered through a nanofiltration membrane and a butanol-containing solution is recovered from the permeate side; Step B, wherein the butanol-containing solution obtained in Step A is passed through a reverse osmosis membrane and thereby concentrated to cause two-phase separation into a butanol phase and an aqueous phase; and Step C, wherein butanol is recovered from the butanol phase obtained in Step B. | 02-14-2013 |
20130189761 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING GLUCOSIDASE, ENZYME COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR HYDROLYZING BIOMASS - A method for producing a mutant glucosidase includes introducing DNA encoding a secretion signal sequence and DNA encoding Asn-X-Ser or Asn-X-Thr into DNA encoding a glucosidase derived from a thermophile, and introducing the resulting DNA into a eukaryotic microorganism and expressing it as a secretory protein. An enzyme composition contains the mutant glucosidase. | 07-25-2013 |
20130344543 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUGAR SOLUTION - A method produces a sugar liquid by adding a filamentous fungus-derived cellulase to a pretreated product of cellulose to obtain a hydrolysate; adding waste molasses to said hydrolysate to obtain a mixed sugar liquid; and subjecting said mixed sugar liquid to solid-liquid separation and filtering the obtained solution component through an ultrafiltration membrane, to recover the filamentous fungus-derived cellulase as a non-permeate and to obtain a sugar liquid as a permeate. | 12-26-2013 |
20140017729 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUGAR SOLUTION - A method of producing a sugar liquid includes concentrating an aqueous cellulose-derived sugar solution with a nanofiltration membrane and/or reverse osmosis membrane, wherein the concentration is carried out after adding a water-soluble anionic polymer to the aqueous cellulose-derived sugar solution to remove a fermentation inhibitor(s) into a permeate side of the nanofiltration membrane and/or reverse osmosis membrane. | 01-16-2014 |
20140017736 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUGAR SOLUTION - A method of producing a sugar liquid includes hydrolyzing with a filamentous fungus-derived cellulase a product obtained by adding a water-soluble inorganic salt(s) to a pretreated product of cellulose to a final concentration of 5 to 35 g/L; and subjecting the hydrolysate to solid-liquid separation and filtering the obtained solution component through an ultrafiltration membrane to recover the filamentous fungus-derived cellulase as a non-permeate and to obtain a sugar liquid as a permeate. | 01-16-2014 |
20140127759 | MUTANT B-GLUCOSIDASE, ENZYME COMPOSITION FOR DECOMPOSING BIOMASS, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SUGAR SOLUTION - A β-glucosidase exhibits high activity in the presence of biomass and has high thermal stability compared to conventional enzymes. The β-glucosidase includes substitutions and/or deletions of amino acids, at least three amino acids selected from the group consisting of Glu39, Asp169, Arg170, Arg220, Tyr227, and Glu330, of the parent β-glucosidase with other amino acids and exhibits a decomposition activity. | 05-08-2014 |
20140158642 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FILTER AID - A method of producing a filter aid includes: (A) obtaining a pretreated biomass by pulverization treatment and/or thermochemical treatment of a cellulose-containing biomass; (B) treating the pretreated biomass obtained in (A) with cellulase to obtain a cellulase-treated product; and (C) obtaining a solid content of the cellulase-treated product of (B). | 06-12-2014 |
20140171614 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANIC ACID - By subjecting an organic acid derived from a biomass resource to oxidation treatment using an oxidizing agent such as hydrogen peroxide, tert-butylhydroperoxide, ozone, sodium hypochlorite or sodium chlorite, colored impurities contained in the organic acid derived from a biomass resource can be removed. | 06-19-2014 |
20140178937 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUGAR SOLUTION - A method of producing a sugar liquid with a cellulose-containing biomass as a raw material includes (1) hydrolyzing a cellulose-containing biomass to produce an aqueous sugar solution, and (2) filtering the aqueous sugar solution obtain in (1) through an ultrafiltration membrane having a molecular weight cutoff of 600 to 2,000 to remove a fermentation inhibitor(s) into the permeate side and collect a sugar liquid from the feed side. | 06-26-2014 |
20140178947 | MUTANT ENDOGLUCANASE - Endoglucanase characterized by a decreased degree of activity inhibition by a lignin-derived aromatic compound, and prepared by substituting tryptophan at position 273 in the amino acid sequence of wild-type thermophilic bacterium-derived endoglucanase with an amino acid other than aromatic amino acids. | 06-26-2014 |
20140238841 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL - A method of producing 2,3-butanediol includes subjecting a 2,3-butanediol culture liquid produced by microbial fermentation to nanofiltration membrane treatment and ion-exchange treatment (Step A), and then adding an alkaline substance and performing distillation (Step B). | 08-28-2014 |
20140287461 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUGAR LIQUID - A method of producing a sugar liquid using a cellulose-containing biomass as a raw material includes (a) hydrolyzing a cellulose-containing biomass to produce an aqueous sugar solution and (b) filtering the obtained aqueous sugar solution through a reverse osmosis membrane to collect a purified sugar liquid from a feed side, while removing fermentation-inhibiting substances from a permeate side. | 09-25-2014 |
20140295525 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLULASE AND APPARATUS FOR SAID METHOD - A method of producing cellulase includes steps (1) to (3): (1) subjecting an aqueous solution of cellulase derived from filamentaous fungi to filtration through an ultrafiltration membrane with a molecular weight cut off of 100,000 to 200,000 to obtain a filtrate and concurrently obtain a concentrated enzyme liquid as a retentate; (2) further subjecting the filtrate obtained in step (1) to filtration through a second ultrafiltration membrane with a molecular weight cut off of 5,000 to 50,000 to obtain a second concentrated enzyme liquid as a retentate; and (3) mixing the concentrated enzyme liquid obtained in steps (1) and (2) to obtain cellulase derived from filamentaous fungi. | 10-02-2014 |
20140342444 | PRODUCTION APPARATUS OF SUGAR SOLUTION AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM OF SUGAR SOLUTION - A sugar solution production apparatus includes a saccharification tank that obtains a saccharified solution containing a solid substance from a cellulose-containing biomass, a solid-liquid separator that separates the solid substance from the saccharified solution to obtain a sugar solution, an enzyme recovery solution tank that stores an enzyme recovery solution, a sugar solution extraction line that extracts the sugar solution from the solid-liquid separator, a warm water supply unit that supplies warm water to the solid-liquid separator, an enzyme recovery solution supply line that supplies the enzyme recovery solution from the enzyme recovery solution tank to the solid-liquid separator, an enzyme recovery solution recovery line that feeds the enzyme recovery solution containing the saccharifying enzyme recovered from the solid substance to the enzyme recovery solution tank, and an enzyme recovery solution return line that returns the enzyme recovery solution to the saccharification tank. | 11-20-2014 |
20140349354 | METHOD OF PRODUCING CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE - A method produces a chemical product by continuous fermentation including filtering a culture liquid of a microorganism(s) through a separation membrane, retaining unfiltered liquid in, or refluxing unfiltered liquid to, the culture liquid, adding a fermentation feedstock to the culture liquid, and recovering a product in the filtrate, wherein the microorganism(s) is/are a microorganism(s) that undergo(es) catabolite repression, and the fermentation feedstock comprises hexose and pentose. | 11-27-2014 |
20140378710 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING P-XYLENE AND/OR P-TOLUALDEHYDE - Disclosed is a method for producing p-xylene and/or p-tolualdehyde with high yield through a short process using biomass resource-derived substances as raw materials. The method for producing p-xylene and/or p-tolualdehyde of the present invention comprises: a cyclization step of producing 4-methyl-3-cyclohexenecarboxaldehyde from isoprene and acrolein; and an aromatization step of producing p-xylene and/or p-tolualdehyde from 4-methyl-3-cyclohexenecarboxaldehyde by gas-phase flow reaction using a catalyst(s). | 12-25-2014 |
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