Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

The University of Tokyo

Shin-kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.

T. Hasegawa Co., Ltd.

Mitsukan Group Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Abe, Keiko

Keiko Abe

Yasuhiro Kobayashi

Koyo Katsura

Shigeru Matsuo

Masahiro Watanabe

Hideki Inoue

Kenji Makino

Tomonari Nakayama

Soshiro Kuzunuki

Mitsuru Tanaka

Hisaaki Takabayashi

Yoshikazu Hirose

Noriyuki Murakoshi

Toshimi Yokota

Yasushi Harada

Ichiro Shimoura

Tomiko Asakura

Shinichirou Nakanami

Shouji Matsuzaki

Kimiyoshi Machii

Kazuyoshi Koga

Masaki Miura

Shinichi Sano

Junichi Maruyama

Yoshitaka Atarashi

Katsuaki Kuge

Toshiyuki Sawa

Katsuhiko Kitamoto

Toshiyuki Furukawa

Yoshiro Ishimaru

Steeves Potvin

Yoichi Kasahara

Mitsuo Tsurugai

Shigeru Tamura

Masataka Narukawa

Hiroyuki Sorimachi

Takahiro Mochizuki

Keisuke Fukuhara

Hijiri Hasegawa

Takumi Misaka

Takamasa Imada

Satoshi Fujiwara

Tazuko Uenoyama

Kenichiro Nakajima

Mikiya Kishi

Norimasa Nakata

Takamasa Kiyono

Shinichiro Nakanami

Genevieve Beland

Takanobu Sakurai

Haruyuki Yamashita

A method for screening an active ingredient of a saltiness enhancer, the screening method including the following steps: (i) a step for determining whether a test substance is a compound capable of promoting functional expression of the TMC4 gene or TMC4 protein; and (ii) a step for selecting, as an active ingredient of a saltiness enhancer, a test substance that has been determined in step (i) to be a compound capable of promoting functional expression of the TMC4 gene or TMC4 protein.

Method for screening saltiness enhancer using saltiness receptor

An accumulator and state of charge evaluation method for preparing, during charging and discharging, models for each of deterioration degrees, each representing a relationship between terminal voltage, current and state of charge, for selecting respective models for the times during charging and discharging in accordance with a total charging/discharging amount (Ah), a deterioration degree or an elapsed time of an operation of the accumulator, for further estimating state of charge from current accumulation, and for determining a final state of charge from estimated states of charge including a present state of charge estimated from the models for the times during charging and discharging of the accumulator, while using a time or a total charging/discharging amount (Ah) from a time of full-charging by equal charging of the accumulator up to present time to determine the final state of charge from the plurality of states of charge.

Accumulator device, and state of charge evaluation apparatus and method for accumulator

This invention reduces degradation of respective lead storage batteries making up a lead storage battery bank and extends the longevity of the lead storage batteries. A lead storage battery system includes an individual battery state measurement unitthat measures current, voltage, temperature etc. of individual lead storage batteriesor lead storage battery modulesmaking up a lead storage battery bank, a state-of-charge model storage unitthat accumulates state-of-charge models representing a correlation between the battery states and a state of charge, a state-of-charge estimation unitthat estimates individual states of charge of the respective lead storage batteriesor lead storage battery modulesfrom the state-of-charge models and the battery states, a state-of-charge variation range determination unitthat calculates a state-of-charge maximum value and a state-of-charge minimum value, and an equalization-charging management unitthat controls performance of an equalization charge on the lead storage battery bank. The equalization-charging management unitperforms the equalization charge so that the state-of-charge maximum value falls within a range lower than an overcharge region and the state-of-charge minimum value falls within a range higher than a sulfation region.

Lead storage battery system

While a control method is established which can maximize the lifetime of an storage battery based on a SOC capable of maximizing the lifetime of the storage battery under a temperature condition and a wind condition at an electricity generation site and on currently known ones of other operational conditions, a control system is constructed which can feedback to an actual wind power generation and storage battery system. The control system includes a wind power generation and storage battery system, an storage battery operation and deterioration data collection unit for collecting data of the wind power generation and storage battery system, an storage battery operation and deterioration relation assessment unit for assessing a relation between an operation of the storage battery and deterioration thereof based on the collected data, an storage battery operation planning unit for planning such a method of operating the storage battery as to satisfy a necessary lifetime requirement using information obtained by the storage battery operation and deterioration relation assessment unit, and an storage battery operation instruction unit for instructing the wind power generation and storage battery system to operate the storage battery in accordance with the plan of the storage battery operation planning unit.

System for control of wind power generation storage battery and method of control thereof

The life of a lead acid storage battery is extended by changing an over-frequency equalized charge interval performed on a lead acid storage battery, in accordance with a transition situation of a state of charge (SOC) of the lead acid storage battery. The lead acid storage battery is also made to be advantageous in terms of cost by reducing the equalized charge with a low degree of urgency to reduce the power and cost for equalized charge, and by reducing the number of stops of a natural energy storage system. A lead acid storage battery and a lead acid storage battery system whose operational management can be easily performed are achieved by a method in which the future timing when the equalized charge is performed can be grasped by people operating the lead acid storage battery.

Lead acid storage battery and lead acid storage battery system for natural energy utilization system

[Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a sweet taste receptor-expressing construct which can functionally stably express both of a sweet taste receptor (T1R2+T1R3) and a G protein &#x3b1; subunit at a high expression efficacy, and a stable expression cell body expressing the construct. [Solution] The sweet taste receptor-expressing construct of the present invention is such that respective genes encoding sweet taste receptor subunits T1R2 and T1R3, and a G protein &#x3b1; subunit are inserted into the same plasmid. The cell body of the present invention is such that the sweet taste receptor-expressing construct of the present invention is gene-introduced into a 293 cell in which an FRT (Flippase Recognition Target) sequence is incorporated into one place in a genome, to express sweet taste receptor subunits T1R2 and T1R3, and a G protein &#x3b1; subunit simultaneously.

Sweet taste receptor-expressing construct, cell body expressing the same, and utilization thereof

Disclosed is a polypeptide shown in the following in (A), and a protein dimer neoculin comprising the polypeptide Neoculin Acidic Subunit (NAS) and the polypeptide Neoculin Basic Subunit (NBS) and having a taste-modifying activity:

DNA encoding a neoculin acidic subunit of curculin

An electric power trading support system includes a demand prediction unit, a demand prediction error evaluation unit, a demand predicted value upward adjustment ratio (quantity) setting unit, a private power generation/power purchase ratio (quantities) setting unit, an optimization unit for evaluating optimum values of the demand predicted value upward adjustment ratio (quantity) and the self power generation/power purchase ratio (quantities) based on costs, and a display unit for displaying the optimum values evaluated by the optimization unit, maximizing profit to an electric power retailer by minimizing the cost for power generation and power purchase when the electric power retailer sells electric power by use of a private power generator and backup electric power purchased from an electric power company.

Electric power trading support system

An operation assisting system enhances the operator's willingness to participate in energy-saving efforts. The operation assisting system stores information about the actual operation of operated equipment carried out by the operator, evaluates the stored operation information, and displays the results of evaluation. The evaluation results relate to the cost concerning the operated equipment, the cost of supplying energy to the operation target facility, the cost concerning the operated equipment, the amount of emission of carbon dioxide, nitride oxide, and global warming substances, the amount of primary energy consumption, the crude oil-converted amount of energy consumption, the amount of excess or shortage of supply of energy, or electric power quality.

Operation-assisting system and operation-assisting computer program

An information providing system is capable of rendering map-information services even if the size of a free area in a memory employed in a terminal becomes small, disallowing all details of a map to be downloaded. A server employed in the information providing system has a search engine for searching a map data base for a map suitable for a destination and the present position of the terminal as received from the terminal, a route computing unit for computing a guide route from the present position to the destination, a map display location determination unit for determining a location at which route information including a map based on the calculated guide route is to be transmitted to the terminal and a thinning determination unit for thinning the information to be transmitted based on information on the terminal received from the terminal. The thinning determination unit has a priority-level definition table for defining priority levels assigned to map elements stored in the map data base.

Information providing system

A document or sentence processing apparatus having an input unit for inputting characters, a display unit for displaying input characters and a processing unit for converting and editing the input characters, in which the processing unit has a candidate word extraction unit which extracts candidates for the words with their characters omitted and/or omitted words themselves by referring to the vocabulary dictionary storing words and their usage frequency, to the dictionary of transition between words defining the information on the transition between words and the probability of the transition between words, and by searching the characters before and after the elliptic character included in the input sentence into the vocabulary dictionary, and a determination unit which selects a single word among the extracted candidate words by referring to the dictionary of transition between words.

Sentence processing apparatus and method thereof,utilizing dictionaries to interpolate elliptic characters or symbols

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Keiko Abe