Nissan Motor Company Limited

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Nippon Oil Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd.

Mitsui Minings & Melting Co., Ltd.

Unisia Jecs Corporation

Mitsubishi Chemical Engineering Corporation

Horoshi Yamamoto

Dia-Nitrix Co., Ltd.

Martin, Jean Michel

Makoto Kano

Yutaka Mabuchi

Takahiro Hamada

Yoshiteru Yasuda

Tetsurou Tayu

Munekatsu Shimada

Shozaburo Konishi

Takafumi Ueno

Kenshi Ushijima

Hideaki Ono

Nobutaka Chiba

Akira Fujiki

Yoshio Kawashita

Takao Ishikawa

Takae Ono, Legal Representative

Kenji Tsushima

Ichiro Tanimoto

Shigeki Takeshima

Yusuke Okamoto

Jean Michel Martin

Ryoji Nakayama

Toshikazu Nanbu

Masahiro Omata

Katsuhiko Mori

Kiyotaka Nakamura

Jun Watanabe

Kimio Nishimura

Takashi Murata

Teruo Takahashi

Hidenobu Matsuyama

Osamu Kawamura

Noriko Uchiyama

Masahiko Watanabe

Masashi Yamaguchi

Akio Koide

Muneaki Watanabe

Hiroyasu Banba

Kozo Murao

Bala Ramachandran

Ryuji Ninomiya

Yoshihiro Maki

Koichiro Morimoto

Takuya Hirata

Takumaru Sagawa

Tokio Sakane

Hiroo Ueda

Takamitsu Kariya

Hidenori Miyake

Shojiro Miyake

Minoru Oota

Manabu Wakuta

Takeshi Ojiro

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Koji Watanabe

Shinichi Takemura

Kenji Suzuki

Takahiro Miura

Shoji Morita

Shinichiro Kitada

Yohei Ikawa

Jay William Benayon

Hiroyuki Endo

Kei Ishii

Koichiro Hayashi

Shinichi Shirahama

Te-Kai Liu

Tetsuo Shibuya

Takanori Sawada

Yutaka Ikenoue

Koichi Miyake

Mamoru Sayashi

Kaori Fujiwara

Kimihiro Shibata

Mitsuo Uchiyama

Toshimitsu Matsuoka

Takuro Yamaguchi

Tomohito Ota

Atsushi Ehira

Shin Nomura

Yu Owada

Takeshi Yamauchi

Yasutaka Nakamura

Takeshi Kato

Michiko Takahashi

Shinji Asano

Naoshi Sakata

Tomohiko Mawatari

Tsutomu Hirachi

Keizo Tachibana

Masahiro Kamide

Megumu Morimoto

Saihei Kano

Yuuji Azuma

Miki Murakami

Ryoji Makino

Shigeoki Sawada

Yukata Ikenoue

This method for producing a compound uses a continuous tank reactor which is provided with two or more reaction tanks for producing the compound and with a reaction liquid feeding pipe that feeds a reaction liquid from an upstream reaction tank to a downstream reaction tank, said method being characterized in that the Reynold's number of the reaction liquid that flows in the reaction liquid feeding pipe is configured to be 1800-22000. Furthermore, this compound production system is used in said method for producing a compound, and is formed by housing at least one of the reaction tanks in a portable container.

Method for producing compound and compound production system used in production method

Provided is a method that is for producing acrylamide, continuously produces acrylamide from acrylonitrile using a biocatalyst, and is characterized in that a continuous reaction is started by means of introducing acrylamide into a reaction vessel and then causing acrylonitrile to contact a biocatalyst. The method for producing acrylamide has superior operability and a low cost, and is capable of continuously extracting an aqueous solution of acrylamide at a target concentration in a short period of time after starting the continuous reaction.

Method for producing acrylamide

A low friction assembly is desired. The present invention relates to a new low-friction lubrication assembly comprising a first member relatively slidable against a second member, the first member having chemical affinity with an OH-group on its sliding surface; and one or more oxygen containing compounds, provided on the sliding surface of the first member and being able to produce a tribofilm attached to the sliding surface of the first member through hydrogen bond interactions. Preferably the second member comprises a similar OH-terminated sliding surface wherein an oxygen containing compound (lubricant)-supported interface between the first and second sliding surfaces results in a H- and/or OH-terminated interface developing repulsive forces thereinbetween.

Low friction lubrication assembly

The invention pertains to a technique for suppressing a decrease in nitrile hydratase activity and improving the productivity of the amide compound in the course of producing an amide compound from a nitrile compound using a biocatalyst. Specifically, the invention pertains to a method for producing the corresponding amide compound from a nitrile compound in the presence of a biocatalyst having nitrile hydratase activity, wherein the method for producing an amide compound using a nitrile compound is characterized in that the zinc concentration of the nitrile compound is 0.4 ppm or less.

Method for producing amide compound

A method for producing acrylamide from acrylonitrile by a biocatalyst method, wherein both evaporation of acrylonitrile into a gas phase and damaging of a catalyst by stirring are prevented, is provided. In the present invention, the production of acrylamide from acrylonitrile by the biocatalyst method comprises feeding acrylonitrile into an aqueous medium comprising a microbial catalyst.

Method for producing acrylamide using microbial catalyst

A support apparatus, computer-implemented method, and article of manufacture for supporting a processing of a character string in a document. The support apparatus includes: a document storage unit; a designation reception unit; a document acquisition unit; a historical-information storage unit; a reference-information generator; and a presentation unit. The method includes: receiving designation from a user; acquiring a document from the document storage device based on the designation by the user; reading pieces of historical information related to the acquired document from the historical-information storage device, and thereby generating reference information for helping the user to select a processing of the character string in the document; and presenting, to the user, a screen for receiving the designation of the processing of the character string in the acquired document, together with the reference information.

Apparatus, method, and program for supporting processing of character string in document

A system and method for analyzing and managing business performance by designing and evaluating the performance of a business process model comprising a flow of business tasks and artifact sources that generate business artifacts. Business processes may be parsed to identify transformation opportunities meeting transformation conditions specified in a transformation knowledge. One or more identified transformation opportunities may be adopted, and parts of the process may be transformed according to transformation rules specified in a transformation knowledge. Analytics and computer simulation may be employed to evaluate business performance metrics of each of said transformed business processes. Iterative changes may be made to said business processes to manage business performance, reiterating transformation and evaluation steps until a satisfactory business process model is obtained. The resulting output is finally produced as a business process model in machine-readable format and can be deployed to a business environment.

System and method for analyzing and managing business performance

A transition metal nitride is obtained by a nitriding treatment of a surface of a base material including a transition metal or an alloy of the transition metal, and the transition metal nitride has a crystal structure of an MN type and a crystal structure of an &#x3b5;-MN type, and is formed over a whole area of the surface of the base material and continuously in a depth direction from the surface.

Transition metal nitride, separator for fuel cells, fuel cell stack, fuel cell vehicle, method of manufacturing transition metal nitride, and method of manufacturing separator for fuel cells

Analyzes chromosomal states based on amounts of expression of genes. An example apparatus comprising: a unit for storing probability distribution of amounts of expression of genes for each chromosomal state, assuming any of the chromosomal states in which the distributions of amounts of expression are different; a unit for supplying state transition probability indicating probability in which when each of the genes arrayed on the chromosome assumes any one of the chromosomal states, a certain gene array assumes any one of the chromosomal states; an input unit for receiving an expression amount measurement value of the amount of expression for each of the genes on the chromosome; and a unit for detecting a combination of the chromosomal states maximizing a probability among those that can be assumed by the genes on the chromosome, based on the probability distribution and the state transition probability.

System and method for analyzing chromosomal states based on gene expression

There is provided a sliding member including a base body and a hard carbon coating formed on the base body to define a sliding surface for sliding contact with an opposing member under lubrication according to one embodiment of the present invention. The hard carbon coating has an outermost surface portion lower in hydrogen content than a remaining portion thereof, or an outermost coating layer lower in hydrogen content than at least one other coating layer.

Sliding member and production process thereof

This rare earth magnet having high strength and high electrical resistance has a structure including an R&#x2014;Fe&#x2014;B-based rare earth magnet particleswhich are enclosed with a high strength and high electrical resistance composite layer. The high strength and high electrical resistance composite layeris constituted from a glass-based layerthat has a structure comprising a glass phase or R oxide particlesdispersed in glass phase, and R oxide particle-based mixture layersthat are formed on both sides of the glass-based layerand contain an R-rich alloy phasewhich contains 50 atomic % or more of R in the grain boundary of the R oxide particles.

Rare earth magnet having high strength and high electrical resistance

[Summary] [Object] A low friction assembly is desired. [Solving Means] The present invention relates to a new low-friction lubrication assembly comprising a first member relatively slidable against a second member, the first member having chemical affinity with an OH-group on its sliding surface; and one or more oxygen containing compounds, provided on the sliding surface of the first member and being able to produce a tribofilm attached to the sliding surface of the first member through hydrogen bond interactions. Preferably the second member comprises a similar OH-terminated sliding surface wherein an oxygen containing compound (lubricant)-supported interface between the first and second sliding surfaces results in a H- and/or OH-terminated interface developing repulsive forces thereinbetween.

The invention provides a low-friction sliding mechanism, a low-friction agent composition, a friction reduction method, a manual transmission and a final reduction gear unit that can exert very excellent low friction characteristics to sliding surfaces present under various applications, and, in particular, that have more excellent low friction characteristics than that of a combination of an existing steel material and an organic Mo compound. The low-friction sliding mechanism has an oxygen-containing organic compound or an aliphatic amine compound interposed between sliding surfaces that a DLC coated sliding member and a sliding member form. The low-friction agent composition contains an oxygen-containing organic compound or an aliphatic amine compound. The friction reduction method includes supplying the low-friction agent composition between sliding surfaces that a DLC coated sliding member and a sliding member form. The manual transmission includes, as at least one of sliding members, a DLC coated sliding section. The final reduction gear unit includes, as at least one of sliding members, a DLC coated sliding section.

Low-friction sliding mechanism, low-friction agent composition and method of friction reduction

A low-friction sliding mechanism includes first and second sliding members having respective sliding surfaces slidable relative to each other and a lubricant applied to the sliding surfaces of the first and second sliding members. At least the sliding surface of the first sliding member is made of a diamond-like carbon material, and at least the sliding surface of the second sliding member is made of either an aluminum-based alloy material, a magnesium-based alloy material or a diamond-like carbon material. The lubricant contains a base oil and at least one of an ashless fatty-ester friction modifier and an ashless aliphatic-amine friction modifier.

Low-friction sliding mechanism

A gear comprised of a tooth surface and a hard carbon film formed on at least a part of the tooth surface. When the gear is used in lubricant including a specific component, a friction of a tooth surface of the gear is largely decreased, and therefore the gear performs an excellent power transmission efficiency. Further, when the gear is employed in a planetary gear mechanism or speed reducing mechanism which has a plurality of meshing portions of gears, the power transmission efficiency of the mechanism is also improved.

Gear

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Yokohama, Japan

Makoto Kano