Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.

Nippon Flour Mills Co., Ltd

Akira Fukuchi

Masataka Konishi

Yasunori Fujimoto

Kouichi Kimura

Shogo Kamiya

Masakatsu Eda

Fukushi Hirayama

Toshinori Sasaki

Satoshi Matsuzaka

Hirokazu Yamamoto

Keita Yano

Hideki Nakashima

Masakazu Takahashi

Hiroshi Ogawara

Shigenobu Kadota

Keijiro Uchino

Naoki Yamamoto

Takanori Sasaki

Masaya Iwamoto

Masashi Hiramoto

Hitoshi Hamasaki

A belt device includes a belt; a driving unit that is provided inside the belt and drives the belt; a supporting unit that is provided inside the belt and supports the belt; and a position determination member that is fixed to one end in an axial direction of the driving unit or the supporting unit and comes in contact with an edge portion of the belt in the case where the belt is mounted so as to determine a position of the belt.

Belt device and fixing device

Sulfated tannins or salts thereof are herein disclosed. These compounds can be prepared by a method which comprises reacting tannin with a sulfonating agent under a basic condition. These compounds show antiviral activity and reverse transcriptase inhibitor, effects and can be used to treat patients infected with a variety of virus such as AIDS virus, herpesvirus, influenza virus or rhinovirus.

Sulfated tannins and their salts

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akira Fukuchi