Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Osaka Gas Company Limited

Nitta Gelatin Inc.

Sony Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Naoki Inoue

Manabu Murayama

Kota Yokoyama

Fumihito Sugihara

Seiko Koizumi

Ryusuke Horibe

Masahiro Wada

Osamu Okada

Hidetoshi Kotera

Hisayuki Kobayashi

Isaku Kanno

Fuyuki Noguchi

Chinfang Liu

Hajime Takasaki

Hiroshi Mano

Sachie Nakatani

Teruyuki Takizawa

Osamu Suzuki

Kuniko Nakata

Yoshito Saji

Shinji Takayanagi

Manabu Obata

Hironori Okazawa

Yukinori Kurakawa

Hitoshi Fujii

Futoshi Miyakawa

Mitsunori Matsumura

Yukiya Ueda

Koichiro Ikeda

Haruyuki Nakaoka

Kouichi Kugo

Hiroshi Oyama

Hideki Azuma

Shigeru Morikawa

Takashi Kobayashi

Fuyuki Nogushi

Tadashi Yoshimoto

A peptide selected from the group consisting of Ala-Hyp-Gly, Hyp-Gly-Pro, Leu-Hyp, Glu-Hyp, Gly-Pro-Hyp, Pro-Ala, Hyp-Gly and Pro-Hyp, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has a myoblast differentiation promoting effect superior to conventional arts.

Myoblast differentiation promoter

An oscillation device includes an oscillator, an oscillation detector that detects an oscillation of the oscillator and outputs an oscillation detection signal, a phase shift controller that generates a phase shift signal to provide the drive signal as positive feedback to the oscillator, and an amplitude detector that detects an amplitude of the oscillation detection signal and outputs an oscillation amplitude signal. The oscillator is controlled based on the oscillation amplitude signal and the phase shift signal.

Oscillation device, scanning-type scanner device, information terminal, phase-shift amount adjustment device, and phase-shift amount adjustment method

In a MEMS device (), a first drive portion () is divided into a first drive section () and a second drive section (). A second drive portion () is divided into a third drive section () and a fourth drive section (). The first drive section, the second drive section, the third drive section, and the fourth drive section are controlled for driving independently of each other to incline an optical component ().

MEMS device and electronic device having projector function

An oscillation device includes an oscillator, an oscillation detection unit that detects oscillation of the oscillator and outputs an oscillation detection signal, and a drive unit that generates a drive signal in keeping with the oscillation detection signal and outputs the drive signal to the oscillator. The drive unit includes a phase shift unit that shifts the phase to provide the drive signal as positive feedback to the oscillator. The phase shift unit includes a disturbance generating unit that outputs the periodic signal, a fluctuation unit that causes the amount of phase shift to fluctuate based on the periodic signal, a drive amplitude detection unit that detects the amplitude of the drive signal and outputs a drive amplitude signal, a product detection unit that outputs a detection signal after performing product detection on the drive amplitude signal based on the periodic signal, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the phase-shift amount based on the detection signal.

The present invention relates to a reformed gas production apparatus that includes a reaction chamber containing a reforming catalyst, a supply route to the reaction chamber, a reformed gas conduction route from the reaction chamber, and a reaction chamber temperature control means that controls a temperature of the reaction chamber. The supply route supplies a fluid that includes a fuel containing a hydrocarbon having at least two carbon atoms, at least one of steam and a carbon dioxide-containing gas, and an oxygen-containing gas. The fuel can be a mixed fuel that includes a plurality of types of hydrocarbons that each have at least two carbon atoms. The reaction chamber temperature control means relates to the thermal decomposition index temperature of the fuel, which defines an upper limit temperature of the reforming reaction region.

Reformed gas production method and reformed gas production apparatus

A collagen peptide mixture containing three or more kinds selected from Glu-Hyp-Gly, Glu-Hyp, Leu-Hyp-Gly, Pro-Ala, Ser-Hyp, Ala-Hyp-Gly, chemically-modified substances thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and at least one peptide selected from the group consisting of Glu-Hyp-Gly, Glu-Hyp, Leu-Hyp-Gly, Pro-Ala, Ser-Hyp, Ala-Hyp-Gly, Pro-Hyp-Gly, Leu-Hyp, Ile-Hyp, Ser-Hyp-Gly, Gly-Pro-Hyp, (Pro-Hyp-Gly), Pro-Hyp, Hyp-Gly, Pro-Gly, Pro-Pro and Ala-Hyp or a chemically-modified substance thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof have DPPTV inhibitory activity and/or GLP-1 secretion accelerating activity, and hence are effective as a therapeutic or preventive agent or the like for diabetes.

Therapeutic or preventive agent for diabetes

A catalytic reactor including: a reaction container filled with a catalyst having ruthenium; and an introduction part for introducing a material fluid to the reaction container. The reaction container is supplied with a mixed gas as material fluid to produce synthetic gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of the catalyst. The introduction part is connected to the reaction container in a horizontal direction or a direction inclined downward from above a horizontal plane, and a height of the catalyst filled in the reaction container is adjusted above a height at which the material fluid is fed from the introduction part to the reaction container. Also, a method of using the catalytic reactor including monitoring a molar ratio of carbon and oxygen contained in the material fluid and stopping the supply of an oxygen-containing gas to the reaction container before the molar ratio becomes excessively low.

Method of operating ruthenium catalyst reactor

This vibrating mirror element () includes a mirror portion (), a first driving portion (), being cantilevered, including a first fixed end () formed on a first side of a first direction and a first free end () formed on a second side thereof, and linearly extending, a first mirror support portion () capable of supporting the mirror portion () in an inclined state, a second driving portion (), being cantilevered, including a second fixed end () formed on the second side of the first direction and a second free end () formed on the first side thereof, being point-symmetrical to the first driving portion with respect to the center of a mirror, and linearly extending, and a second mirror support portion () being point-symmetrical to the first mirror support portion with respect to the center of the mirror and capable of supporting the mirror portion in an inclined state.

Vibrating mirror element

There is provided a technique and an apparatus for manufacturing a hydrogen-containing gas. An oxygen-containing gas is mixed with a feed gas obtained by mixing steam with a hydrocarbon fuel, this mixture is introduced into a catalytic reaction chamber, and a partial oxidation reaction and a steam reforming reaction are conducted to obtain a hydrogen-containing gas. In this reforming, an antechamber of the catalytic reaction chamber is heated up to a self-ignition temperature in a first catalyst section, where the self-ignition temperature is the temperature at which a mixed gas self-ignites during the advection period required for the mixed gas to move from a mixing chamber to the catalytic reaction chamber, with this temperature being at least a minimum partial-oxidation temperature and lower than a minimum steam reforming temperature.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing hydrogen-containing gas

The invention provides a method for operating a reformed gas production apparatus with which it is possible to achieve a high reforming efficiency while preventing a drop in catalyst activity due to the deposition of carbon. The reformed gas production method uses a reforming catalyst to reform a fuel that contains a hydrocarbon having at least two carbon atoms to produce a reformed gas that includes methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide. With this method, a fluid that includes the fuel, at least one of steam and a carbon dioxide-containing gas, and an oxygen-containing gas, is supplied to a reforming reaction region, and with the thermal decomposition index temperature of the fuel, which is determined by the type and the concentration of the hydrocarbons having at least two carbon atoms that make up the fuel, serving as an upper limit temperature of the reforming reaction region, the fluid is brought into contact with the reforming catalyst to produce the reformed gas.

This vibrating mirror element includes a mirror portion reflecting light, a torsionally deformable beam portion connected to the mirror portion for supporting the mirror portion in a vibratile manner, and a driving portion having a connecting portion connected with the beam portion for driving the mirror portion through the torsionally deformable beam portion. The width of the connecting portion of the driving portion is rendered smaller than the width of a portion of the driving portion other than the connecting portion in plan view.

This vibrating mirror element includes a mirror portion swingable on a first axis, a driving portion, including a free end and a fixed end, for swinging the mirror portion by deformation and a shaft portion provided between the mirror portion and the driving portion to extend along the first axis. The free end of the driving portion is connected to the shaft portion, while the fixed end of the driving portion is fixed on a side of the driving portion closer to the mirror portion and in the vicinity of the shaft portion.

Vibrating mirror element and optical scanner

A problem that the present invention is to solve is to provide: a main body of a peptide molecule which is effective for inhibition of various maladies such as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and pressure ulcer, particularly, a dipeptide which is easy to absorb into a body in an intestine; a collagen peptide which comprises the dipeptide as an essential dipeptide; and a malady inhibitor which comprises the dipeptide as an essential effective component. As a means of solving such a problem, a collagen peptide according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a dipeptide having a structure of Hyp-Gly as an essential dipeptide. A dipeptide according to the present invention is characterized by having a structure of Hyp-Gly. A malady inhibitor according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a dipeptide having a structure of Hyp-Gly as an essential effective component.

Collagen peptide, dipeptide and malady inhibitor

There is provided a technique for manufacturing a hydrogen-containing gas. An oxygen-containing gas is mixed with a feed gas obtained by mixing steam with a hydrocarbon fuel, this mixture is introduced into a catalytic reaction chamber, and a partial oxidation reaction and a steam reforming reaction are conducted to obtain a hydrogen-containing gas. In this reforming, an antechamber of the catalytic reaction chamber is heated up to a self-ignition temperature in a first catalyst section, where the self-ignition temperature is the temperature at which a mixed gas self-ignites during the advection period required for the mixed gas to move from a mixing chamber to the catalytic reaction chamber, with this temperature being at least a minimum partial-oxidation temperature and lower than a minimum steam reforming temperature.

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Daito, Japan

Naoki Inoue