Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics

Kyowa Hakko Bio Co., Ltd.

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Shinshu University

Kyowa Hakko Food Specialties Co., Ltd.

Nes Co., Ltd

Masato Ikeda

Ryoichi Katsumata

Tetsuo Nakano

Satoshi Mitsuhashi

Yoshiro Udagawa

Kuniki Kino

Keiko Nakanishi

Nobuhiro Takeda

Keiko Ochiai

Mikiro Hayashi

Kazuyuki Okamoto

Junko Ohnishi

Takashi Sasaki

Eiichiro Ikeda

Satoshi Nakagawa

Masaki Higashihara

Katsuhiro Oyama

Satoru Furukawa

Hiroshi Mizoguchi

Nozomu Kamada

Yuko Sasao

Masao Suzuki

Kenji Takahashi

Akira Suga

Akio Ozaki

Toshikazu Yanai

Toru Kikuchi

Ryoji Kubo

Makoto Yagasaki

Shingo Tatsumi

Takao Sasakura

Haruhiko Yokoi

Yutaka Takano

Motokazu Nakayama

Hideaki Yamaki

Yoshirou Udagawa

Daiki Kondo

Seiko Ando

Jun-ichi Takano

Seiki Takeno

Mariko Shitashige

Yasuichiro Suga

Yuta Mizuno

Tokio Miyashita

Kenji Tanaka

Naoko Tateishi

Akihiro Senoh

Yayoi Abe

Satoshi c/o Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co Ltd Mitsuhashi

Mikiro c/o Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co Ltd Hayashi

Kenji c/o Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co Ltd Tanaka

Tetsuo c/o Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co Ltd Nakano

An image generation apparatus stores a plurality of selection condition rows including a plurality of selection conditions used for selecting an image from a plurality of material images, selects at least one material image from the plurality of material images as a first material image, obtains a feature quantity of the first material image, selects a selection condition row which is stored in the storage unit and includes a selection condition including the obtained feature quantity, selects a second material image from the plurality of material images based on a selection condition row which has been selected, and generates an image based on the first and the second material images which have been selected and the selection condition row which has been selected.

Image generation apparatus and control method

A technique for measuring displacement involves passing parallel laser light from a laser light source through a first diffraction grating to a semi-transparent semi-reflective mirror. A portion of the laser light is reflected as first reversed light, which passes through the first diffraction grating. The remainder of the parallel laser light proceeds to a total reflection mirror and is reflected as second reversed light that passes through the semi-transparent semi-reflective mirror and the first diffraction grating. The amount of refracted light of a predetermined order that is of the first and second reversed light and that results from the first diffraction grating is detected by a first optical sensor, and the amount of displacement is obtained from the interference band or a signal thereof corresponding to the amount of relative motion in the axial direction of the total reflection mirror with respect to the semi-transparent semi-reflective mirror.

Method and apparatus for measuring displacement

A displacement measurement device includes a first diffraction grating that generates first diffraction light of a prescribed order; a second diffraction grating movable relative to the first diffraction grating, the second diffraction grating dividing the zeroth-order light that has passed through the first diffraction grating into zeroth-order light and a second diffraction light of a prescribed order; and a first optical sensor that detects interfering light beams formed by the first diffraction light from the first diffraction grating and the second diffraction light from the second diffraction grating to determine an amount of a displacement of the second diffraction grating relative to the first diffraction grating.

Interferometric measurement of displacement in axial direction of a grating

The present invention provides a process for efficiently producing a useful substance; and a microorganism which belongs to coryneform bacteria and which can be used in the process. The present invention provides a process for producing a useful substance by using a microorganism belonging to coryneform bacteria, the microorganism having an ability to take a sugar, which is taken into a cell via a phosphotransferase system (PTS), into a cell via a system other than the PTS, and having an ability to produce a useful substance.

Process for producing useful substance

A semiconductor chip module having high degree of freedom in assignment of a circuit to each semiconductor chip and in position of a connection terminal of each semiconductor chip is provided. The present invention relates to a semiconductor chip module in which a plurality of semiconductor chips, each provided on the side face thereof with a part of a connection terminal coupled with a circuit pattern formed on the front face, have been stacked and bonded. Connection terminal portions on the side faces of the respective semiconductor chips are interconnected by a wiring pattern. The connection terminal on the semiconductor chip is led from the front face to the side face and formed by applying spraying of a conductive material in a mist state.

Method for forming terminal of stacked package element and method for forming stacked package

A semiconductor chip module including a plurality of semiconductor chips, each provided on the side face thereof with a part of connection terminals coupled with a circuit pattern formed on the front face, the chips being stacked and bonded. The stacked element in the lowermost layer is a semiconductor chip or an interposer dedicated for attachment to an external attachment board and having a plurality of electrode elements (e.g., solder balls) arranged on a face on the attachment side, with each electrode element connected to any one of the connection terminals by a circuit pattern. Connection terminal portions on the side faces of the respective semiconductor chips and the stacked element in the lowermost layer are interconnected by a wiring pattern extending over the side faces.

Stacked package and method for forming stacked package

The present invention relates to a polypeptide having a modified amino acid sequence of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (hereinafter abbreviated as GND) derived from a microorganism belonging to the genus, said modification being substitution of the amino acid residue(s) at the position(s) corresponding to the 158th and/or the 361st amino acid(s) of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and having GND activity; DNA encoding the polypeptide; a recombinant DNA comprising the DNA; a transformant carrying the recombinant DNA; a microorganism carrying the DNA on the chromosome; and a process for producing a useful substance which comprises culturing the transformant or the microorganism in a medium.

Mutant 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase

An amplifier circuit with favorable linearity is provided. An amplifier of the present invention is provided with an amplifier MOS transistor, a diode-connected transistor block for negative feedback source impedance constituted by series-parallel connection of the limited number (including 0) of the diode-connected MOS transistors and connected to a source side of the amplifier MOS transistor, and a diode-connected transistor block for load constituted by series-parallel connection of the limited number of the diode-connected MOS transistors and connected to a drain side of the amplifier MOS transistor. A voltage gain is configured to be determined by a ratio of the sum of source impedance of the amplifier MOS transistor and the impedance of the diode-connected transistor block for negative feedback source impedance to the impedance of the diode-connected transistor block for load.

Amplifier circuit

The present invention provides a polypeptide which has: (i) an amino acid sequence wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted in the region at positionstofrom the N terminus of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; or (ii) an amino acid sequence wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted in the region at positionstofrom the N terminus of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 and one or more amino acid residues are deleted, substituted or added in the region at positionstoorto; and which has N-acetylglutamate kinase activity.

Process for producing L-arginine, L-ornithine or L-citrulline

Mutated 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase

The present invention provides a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence in which at least one amino acid is deleted, substituted or added in an amino acid sequence of isopropylmalate isomerase derived from a microorganism belonging to coryneform bacteria, wherein a coryneform bacterium which produces the polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence as the sole isopropylmalate isomerase exhibits a partial leucine requirement in a minimal medium; a DNA encoding the polypeptide, a recombinant DNA comprising the DNA, a microorganism transformed with the recombinant DNA, and a process for producing an L-amino acid using the microorganism.

Mutant isopropylmalate isomerase

An apparatus comprising: an image sensing device having a plurality of pixels for receiving light from an object upon separating the light into respective ones of different color components; an optical guidance device for accepting light rays in different directions from the same part of the object and guiding the light rays to the image sensing device; and a phase-difference determining device for determining a phase difference in an output signal of the image sensing device with respect to each of the light rays accepted in the different directions by the optical guidance device, determination being performed based upon a signal obtained by combining output signals of pixels, among the plurality of pixels, that correspond to prescribed different color components.

Focus sensing apparatus, focus sensing method using phase-differential detection and computer-readable storage medium therefor

Novel polynucleotides derived from microorganisms belonging to coryneform bacteria and fragments thereof, polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides and fragments thereof, polynucleotide arrays comprising the polynucleotides and fragments thereof, recording media in which the nucleotide sequences of the polynucleotide and fragments thereof have been recorded which are readable in a computer, and use of them.

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According to the present invention, by using a microorganism having the ability to produce the L-amino acid which carries the avtA gene encoding alanine-valine transaminase (transaminase C) and whose alanine-valine transaminase activity is enhanced compared with its parent strain, it is possible to reduce the production of by-product amino acids which disturb purification in L-amino acid production by fermentation, and an industrially advantageous process for producing an L-amino acid can be provided.

Process for producing L-amino acids via fermentation method

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Tokyo, Japan

Masato Ikeda