Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Memory Corporation

Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited

3m Innovative Properties Company

Toyo Ink Sc Holdings Co., Ltd.

Toyo Ink Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.

Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company

Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth

Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Daisuke Fujiwara

Kenta Jonai

Tetsu Sugimura

Daiki Watanabe

Tomoya Onaka

Yuji Morita

Makoto Hirano

Kosuke Morinaga

Norio Suzuki

Hironori Uchikawa

Hiroaki Suzuki

Shigeki Sato

Osamu Torii

Kei Suzuki

Masaru Kato

Ryo Yamaki

Kazuhiro Jonai

Yusuke Inoue

Natsuki Makino

Seiji Aida

Toshihide Kurihara

Atsushi Yoda

Yuji Kameyama

Mayuko Okamoto

Mitsuo Umezawa

Takaaki Sasaki

Kazunori Shigemori

Harunobu Ichinose

Kumiko Ikado

Shuhei Ono

Ken Yamasaki

Naoko Kifune

Masayoshi Kondo

Kenya Tachibana

Yasuhisa Ano

Atsushi Nakazato

Shinjiro Masuko

Sho Kubota

Shinsuke Tsurutani

Kohei Yamada

Takahiro Fujiki

Hideki Koizumi

Yuka Ito

Yasushi Ariyoshi

Hiroyuki Miyauchi

Ken Yamazaki

Tohru Konno

Tomoko Tachibana

Tsutomu Hiroshima

Kenta Jounai

Ryuichi Murata

Kouhei Yamada

This invention provides an IFN inducer comprising, as an active ingredient, lactic acid bacteria and capable of inducing IFN production, an immunopotentiating agent or prophylactic agent against virus infection comprising such inducer, and a food or drink product comprising such IFN inducer and having IFN-inducing activity, immunopotentiating activity, or prophylactic activity against virus infection. The agent for inducing IFN production comprises, as active ingredients, lactic acid bacteria that can activate plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) and promote IFN production, such asNBRC100934,subsp.JCM16167,subsp.NBRC100676,subsp.JCM1180,subsp.JCM11040,subsp.NBRC12007,subsp.NRIC1150,subsp.JCM5805,subsp.JCM20101,NBRC12455,NRIC1540,JCM5886, orTA-45.

Agent for inducing interferon production containing lactic acid bacteria

An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for preventing visual dysfunction caused by exposure to light, such as so-called blue light. The present invention provides a composition comprising a lactic acid bacterium as an active ingredient for use in suppressing or improving conditions caused by retinal inflammation resulting from light damage. Eye discomfort is an exemplary condition caused by retinal inflammation resulting from light damage.

Composition for suppressing or improving eye fatigue

There is provided a water-soluble additive composition including a cyclic carboxylic acid, the water-soluble additive composition satisfying at least one of the following Conditions 1 to 4: (Condition 1) component (A) the cyclic carboxylic acid, which is other than the following component (B1), and component (B1) one or more selected from the group consisting of gallic acid and an ester thereof are included; (Condition 2) the total content of Na+ and NH4+ is equal to or more than 100 ppm and equal to or less than 5000 ppm with respect to the cyclic carboxylic acid; (Condition 3) the total inorganic ion content (excluding hydrogen ions and hydroxyl group ions) is equal to or more than 300 ppm and equal to or less than 5000 ppm with respect to the cyclic carboxylic acid; and (Condition 4) component (A) the cyclic carboxylic acid, which is other than the following component (B2), and component (B2) an amino acid are included.

Water-soluble additive composition

An image-capturing apparatus comprises a board configured to hold an image sensor, a holding member configured to hold an optical member so as to be insertable into and removable from an optical path, the holding member being held between a lens barrel and the image sensor, and a sealing member configured to surround a periphery of a light receiving surface of the image sensor, the sealing member being provided on a side of the image sensor with respect to the optical member, wherein the sealing member includes a first sealing portion which contact the board and a second sealing portion which contacts the holding member.

Image-capturing apparatus with holding member for holding optical member

A lens barrel moves a plurality of lens groups efficiently in an optical axis direction while inhibiting size of the lens barrel from increasing. The lens barrel comprises a plurality of holding members respectively holding optical components, respectively provided with cam followers, and supported movably in optical axis direction, a cam cylinder having cam grooves engaged with the cam followers, and held rotatably around an axis parallel to an optical axis, and a driving unit configured to drive one holding member out of the plurality in the optical axis direction. By driving the one holding member being in the optical axis direction, the cam cylinder rotates, and another holding member out of the plurality is driven in the optical axis direction. The driving unit includes a vibration-type linear actuator configured to generate thrust force to drive the one holding member by an elliptical vibration generated in a vibrator.

Lens barrel that holds lens groups moving forwardly and backwardly in optical axis direction, image pickup unit, and image pickup apparatus

An image-capturing apparatus comprises a fixed portion configured to fix an image-capturing lens, the fixed portion having an opening portion on its side surface, and a holding base configured to be inserted through the opening portion in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the image-capturing lens, wherein the holding base holds, slidably with respect to an orthogonal plane which is orthogonal to the optical axis, an optical element holding frame which holds an optical element, the fixed portion includes a first sliding portion in an inside of the fixed portion formed through the opening portion, and the optical element holding frame includes a second sliding portion which slidably contacts the first sliding portion.

Image-capturing apparatus for reducing a number of components of an optical element switching mechanism

An optical apparatus includes a holding frame configured to hold an optical element and including a rack, and a driver configured to drive the holding frame. The driver includes a worm rotated by the actuator, a worm wheel configured to form a worm gear together with the worm, and a pinion configured to rotate with a rotation of the worm wheel and engaged with the rack.

Optical apparatus

An image pickup unit including a lens barrel having a plurality of first holding members holding optical components, respectively. The image pickup unit includes two vibration-type linear actuators each configured to drive different driving objects in an optical axis direction of the lens barrel. One of the two vibration-type linear actuators drives at least one of the first holding members in the optical axis direction of the lens barrel. The two vibration-type linear actuators are disposed on a first side surface parallel to an optical axis of the lens barrel.

Image pickup unit and image pickup apparatus for holding lens group movably in optical axis direction

A lens barrel has a first lens-holding frame that holds a first lens group; a second lens-holding frame that holds a second lens group; and a lens-barrel casing. A first lens-driving unit drives the first lens-holding frame in the optical axis direction. A second lens-driving unit drives the second lens-holding frame in the optical axis direction. The first lens-driving unit is fixed to the fixing member. The second lens-driving unit is fixed to the first lens-holding frame.

Lens barrel and imaging device

A memory system in an embodiment includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The memory stores a multi-dimensional error correction code including at least one symbol that is capable of being protected by at least a first and a second component code. The controller reads the error correction code from the memory, executes hard decision decoding of the first component code with respect to the read error correction code and outputs a first decoding result and index information for calculating likelihood of the first decoding result, executes, when the hard decision decoding fails, soft decision decoding of the second component code by using the first decoding result and the index information and outputs a decoding result as a hard bit, and, executes, when the soft decision decoding fails, the hard decision decoding with respect to the result of the soft decision decoding output.

Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory

Provided are a composition and a food or drink, having the effect of enhancing an immune response to an antigen, which is administered by another route such as subcutaneous injection, by orally administering to a subject, lactic acid bacteria, a culture thereof, a treated product thereof, or a composition comprising the same. An oral ingestion composition, which comprises a lactic acid bacterium strain that issubsp.enhancing the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and the generation of antibodies, or a culture or treated product thereof, and is used in combination with an antigen as a vaccine, wherein the oral ingestion composition is for use in enhancing the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) specific to the antigen and the generation of antibodies specific to the antigen.

Method for enhancing generation of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and antibodies

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Daisuke Fujiwara