Euglena Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Metals, Ltd.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Jx Nippon Oil Energy Corporation

Shimizu Corporation

Evonik Operations Gmbh

Kengo Suzuki

Masahide Hayashi

Ayaka Nakashima

Takanori Aono

Yuta Asayama

Osamu Iwata

Eriko Yoshida

Akira Koide

Atsushi Kazama

Ryohei Nakano

Isao Sakaguchi

Ryo Arashida

Takeshi Harada

Masatoshi Kanamaru

Heewon Jeong

Hidenori Shinohara

Seiichi Katou

Takashi Kaneko

Kiyoko Yamanaka

Nobuo Aoki

Yasuo Osone

Tomohiro Matsuda

Teruhisa Akashi

Kenichi Takeuchi

Ken Amano

Stefan Hilf

Takahiro Umeyama

Tsuyoshi Yuki

Kazunori Ohta

Hirotomo Ito

Yasuo Arai

Yoshihisa Nakano

Keisuke Kojima

Hiroaki Nagai

Nobuhiro Kishida

Takao Sekiguchi

Iwao Ueda

Kazuo Unno

Yukio Fukushima

Ko Yamashita

Hiroaki Kato

Machiko Takahashi

Naotake Konno

Yuki Nakano

Takumi Takeda

Yuka Marukawa

Takeshi Hasegawa

Yoichi Kuroiwa

Masaharu Tasaki

Hideyuki Adachi

Naoki Harada

Misa Ohgushi

Mieko Ishii

The present invention provides a highly reliable stereo camera in which it is possible to prevent the heat generated by an image processing element from contributing to an increase in the temperature of an image sensor, even if the stereo camera is made more compact and the heat density is thus increased inside the stereo camera. The present invention includes: a pair of image sensorsthat have respective imaging elements disposed at the same height with a space therebetween; image processing elementsthat are disposed between the image sensors and process image signals captured by the image sensors; a casingthat has the image processing elements and the image sensors incorporated therein, and in the area between the image sensors, has an inclined surface that is inclined from the image sensorsdownward toward the imaging direction of the image sensors; an airflow paththat is defined so as to extend along the inclined surface of the casingtoward the imaging direction; and heat dissipating partsthat are thermally connected to the respective image processing elementsand disposed on the inclined surface so as to face the airflow path.

Stereo camera

Provided are an inhibitor, a prophylactic, and a therapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis that have no side effects and that can correct immune abnormality associated with rheumatoid arthritis. The inhibitor, the prophylactic, and the agent for rheumatoid arthritis contain a-derived material as an active ingredient. The inhibitor, the prophylactic and the agent are used as an antirheumatic drug for controlling the activity of rheumatoid arthritis by alleviating immune abnormality associated with rheumatoid arthritis. The inhibitor, the prophylactic, and the agent are also used for a living individual who has not been definitively diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The inhibitor, the prophylactic, and the agent are continuously administered to the living individual from any point before definitive diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis to any point after the definitive diagnosis. The-derived material is at least one material selected from the group includingalgae, paramylon derived from the, water-soluble amorphous paramylon prepared by treating the paramylon with alkali and neutralizing the treated paramylon, and emulsion paramylon prepared by ejecting a solution of the paramylon from a narrow bore nozzle at a very high pressure to cause the solution to collide with a collision surface.

Suppressive agent for rheumatoid arthritis, prophylactic agent for rheumatoid arthritis, therapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis, and food for suppressing rheumatoid arthritis

Provided are a novel renal failure progression inhibitor, prophylactic agent for renal failure, and indoxyl sulfate production inhibitor, intended for human use, in particular, for a patient with renal failure. The renal failure progression inhibitor, prophylactic agent for renal failure, and indoxyl sulfate production inhibitor each comprises paramylon derived fromor a processed product thereof as an active ingredient. In the case of the renal failure progression inhibitor, for example, paramylon is continuously orally administered to a patient suffering from chronic renal failure, undergoing a dialysis therapy, several times per day in a dose of 1 to 5 g per intake. In particular, the renal failure progression inhibitor is singly administered to the patient in a capsule or powdered preparation at a prescribed time interval before and after administration of other drugs.

Renal insufficiency progression inhibitor, prophylactic agent for renal insufficiency and indoxyl sulfate production inhibitor

The present invention makes it possible to, even when a stainless steel is adopted in a diaphragm: prevent the diaphragm and a strain sensor from exfoliating from each other; be hardly susceptible to the influence of temperature in an operating environment; not allow the sensitivity of a pressure sensor to be dominated only by the mechanical characteristic of a material constituting the diaphragm; and increase the degree of freedom in design of members constituting the pressure sensor. A pressure sensor according to the present invention is, in order to solve the above problems, characterized in that: the pressure sensor has a diaphragm deforming by the pressure of a fluid, an elastic body covering the whole surface of the diaphragm and joining to the diaphragm on one side, and a strain sensor being arranged by joining on the other side of the elastic body and on an end side apart from a position corresponding to the center of the diaphragm and detecting the deformation of the elastic body working together with the deformation of the diaphragm as a strain; and the elastic body is formed of a material having a linear expansion coefficient close to the linear expansion coefficient of a material constituting the strain sensor.

Pressure sensor, differential pressure sensor, and mass flow rate control device using same

Provided are a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for a peptic ulcer, a food additive for prevention and treatment of a peptic ulcer, an iNOS expression inhibitor, and a COX-2 expression inhibitor, all of which have little side effects. The prophylactic or therapeutic agent contains a-derived material as an active ingredient. The-derived material may be, paramylon, or an acid-treated paramylon. The prophylactic or therapeutic agent is useful for the prevention or treatment of a peptic ulcer induced by psychological stress. The peptic ulcer may be a gastric ulcer. The food additive contains a-derived material as an active ingredient.

Prophylactic or therapeutic agent for peptic ulcer, food additive for prophylactic or therapeutic use, iNOS expression inhibitor and COX-2 expression inhibitor

An algae culture method capable of efficiently producing an osmotic pressure adjusting substance, a production method of the substance, and an algae culture method for recovering carbon dioxide from a mixed gas containing carbon dioxide and sulfurous acid gas. The methods involve preparing a plurality of enrichment cultures each containing betaine by culturing a culture of microalgae derived from an environmental specimen under a photoautotrophic condition and under a plurality of culture conditions; making a cultivation plan in which an optimum enrichment culture suitable for a main culture is selected from the plurality of enrichment cultures; producing a main culture that contains betaine under the photoautotrophic condition and a salt concentration of 10 wt. % or more; and separating betaine. In the main culture, the algae containing betaine are cultured while the mixed gas containing sulfurous acid gas and carbon dioxide is blown to a culture solution of the algae.

Algae cultivation method and production method for osmotic pressure regulator

There is provided a pressure sensor which includes: a diaphragm having an inside surface facing to a fluid-tight space, the diaphragm including a diaphragm film that is part of the inside surface and deformable in response to a pressure application, and a diaphragm film support that is part of the inside surface and constitutes a periphery of the diaphragm film; a strain sensor bonded to the inside surface so as to lie partially on the periphery and having plural strain gauges thereon; and a depression formed on the inside surface, when defining an x-direction oriented from center of the inside surface to a position bonded of the strain sensor and a y-direction perpendicular to the x-direction on the inside surface, the depression extending a certain length in the y-direction, the depression being adjacent to or a certain distance apart from an edge of the strain sensor in the y-direction.

Pressure sensor, and mass flow meter, and mass flow controller using same

A &#x3b2;-1,3-glucanase that exhibits decomposition activity with respect to paramylon derived from the genus. The &#x3b2;-1,3-glucanase is derived from the genusand exhibits the properties indicated below: (1) effect: hydrolyzing the &#x3b2;-1,3-bond of &#x3b2;-1,3-glucan; and (2) substrate specificity: decomposing at least paramylon. The &#x3b2;-1,3-glucanase additionally exhibits the properties indicated below: (3) decomposition activity: the ratio of paramylon decomposition activity with respect to laminarin decomposition activity is 20% or higher; (4) optimum pH: 3.7-7.0; and (5) optimum temperature: 30-70&#xb0; C.

B-1,3-glucanase, polynucleotide, recombinant vector, transformant, production method for B-1,3- glucanase, enzyme preparation, and production method for paramylon having reduced molecular weight

There are provided a process for fabricating MEMS device that includes a plurality of through-holes capable being arranged at a high density, the through-holes having a tapered end portion. Through-holes having vertical side surfaces and tapered bottoms are provided by a processing method including the steps of: disposing quadrilateral patterning having desired dimensions on a silicon substrate having a flat surface of a crystal plane, etching the substrate to a desired depth by dry etching that can realize a high aspect ratio etching, and anisotropic wet etching the dry etched substrate with a KOH aqueous solution containing isopropyl alcohol mixed thereinto.

Process for fabricating MEMS device

An acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor are sealed in respective pressure atmospheres suitable therefor in the process of a series of bonding steps, thereby improving the detection sensibilities of the sensors. A movable memberof an acceleration sensorand a vibratorof an angular velocity sensorare fabricated on the same sensor waferwith a wallinterposed therebetween. A cap waferis formed in which gapscorresponding to the movable memberof the acceleration sensorand the vibratorof the angular velocity sensorare provided. Bumpsare disposed near the gapof the angular velocity sensor. The acceleration sensoris sealed at atmospheric pressure. Then, the angular velocity sensoris subjected to high temperature and a high-load and is vacuum-sealed. Thereafter, cutting with a diamond grindstone and mounting of circuit substrates and a wiring substrate are performed to form a combined sensor.

Combined sensor and method for manufacturing the same

The present invention provides a production method for biofuel based on a technology to convert carbon-dioxide as a carbon source through photosynthesis by photosynthetic microorganisms to biomass and produce biofuel of the biomass. The production method for biofuel of the present invention comprises a culturing process (S) of culturing in a culture solution photosynthetic microorganisms which store oils, fats and carbohydrates in cells of the photosynthetic microorganisms, an oil and fat conversion process (S) of converting the carbohydrates stored in the cells of the photosynthetic microorganisms cultured in the culture apparatus to oils and fats, an extraction process (S) of extracting the oils and fats out of the cells of the photosynthetic microorganisms, and a reforming process (S) to reform the extracted oils and fats.

Production method for biofuel

The present invention provides an allergy inhibitor using the efficacy of amorphous paramylon which is a substance obtained by changing the crystalline structure of paramylon. The present invention relates to a substance for inhibiting allergic diseases. Amorphous paramylon of the present invention is an allergy inhibitor comprising amorphous paramylon which is obtained by amorphosizing crystalline paramylon derived from Euglena, and has a relative crystallinity of 20% or lower to the crystallinity of crystalline paramylon, determined by an X-ray diffractometry. This allergy inhibitor enables efficacious inhibition of allergic diseases such as atopic dermatitis, pollinosis, and the like.

Allergy inhibitor

Provided is an inertial sensor device comprising a detection part having an MEMS structure, wherein convenience during sensor installation is ensured while erroneous operation caused by the application of external vibration is controlled. To achieve this objective, an anti-vibration structure () is provided in the inertial sensor device, between a semiconductor chip () mounted on a package substrate and a semiconductor chip () comprising a sensor detection part. The anti-vibration structure () has a structure in which the periphery of an anti-vibration part () is surrounded by an anti-vibration part () comprising a material having a larger Young's modulus.

Physical quantity detector

A movable device of acceleration sensors and a vibration device of a gyroscope are formed on the same sensor wafer spaced apart from each other by a wall. A cap wafer having gaps corresponding to the movable mechanical components of the acceleration sensors and gyroscope is provided for the wafer and an adsorbent divided into a plurality of divisional portions is disposed in the gap for the gyroscope. After the sensor wafer and the cap wafer have been bonded together at a temperature of inactivation of the adsorbent and in an atmospheric pressure ambience of noble gas and activated gas, the adsorbent divisional portions are activated in sequence to adsorb the activated gas so as to adjust the pressure inside the gyroscope, thus manufacturing a combined sensor wafer.

Manufacturing method of combined sensor

There is provided a physical sensor which ensures long-term reliability and can be miniaturized and increased in density, and a method of producing the same. A physical sensor includes a supporting substrate, an element substrate that includes a sensor element and is joined to the supporting substrate through an insulating layer, a glass cap that covers an area of the sensor element and is joined to the element substrate, and a built-in electrode that is electrically connected to the sensor element. The built-in electrode is formed in a through hole passing through the element substrate, the insulating layer and the supporting substrate. A portion of the glass cap that covers an area of the built-in electrode is anodically bonded to the element substrate.

Physical sensor and method of process

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