Sony Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Sakata Seed Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Hgst Netherlands, B.v.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

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Tohoku University

Takao Suzuki

Hisashi Hagiwara

Yoshinobu Watanabe

Yoshinao Tannaka

Atsushi Izumida

Norio Oku

Hideki Matsuoka

Takuya Kitamura

Kanji Mihara

Hiroki Kitahori

Morio Nishigaki

Minoru Nakano

Kohji Takahashi

Kazuto Noritake

Kohichi Takeuchi

Takenori Fukumoto

Shingo Horiuchi

Tetsuya Hiramoto

Makoto Kato

Hiroshi Fukukita

Atsushi Nakagawa

Akihiro Kawabata

Toshihiko Kitazawa

Hiroaki Seto

Tomoki Hiramatsu

Nobuyuki Okunaga

Susumu Oima

Ichiro Tanji

Yoichi Matsumura

Yoshinao Tan-naka

Atsushi Okubo

Mitsutoshi Shinkai

Hisao Tanaka

Akihiko Aoyagi

Hideki Ando

Shinichi Kimura

Yoshiaki Shibata

Kazuya Takagi

Masaaki Isozaki

Haruo Togashi

Hiromi Yoshinari

Shojiro Shibata

Kenji Tomida

Hiroshi Kanai

Satoshi Hayakawa

Satoshi Miyazawa

Fumiaki Henmi

Hirofumi Murakami

Takeji Sumiya

Satoshi Matsumura

Masakazu Sasaki

Takeshi Chawanya

Seiji Kawa

Atsuo Yada

Makiko Urabe

Naoaki Kanada

Yoshihiko Ito

Kazuhiro Sunagawa

Hiroshi Okawa

Kenji Hyodo

Kazutoshi Mori

Tsutomu Nakazawa

Yushi Nishimura

Kouichi Hamakawa

Hideyuki Hasegawa

Toyokazu Akamatsu

Ichiro Koyanagi

Manabu Hatakenaka

Yasuhiro Sakata

Toshihisa Kiyonaga

Takao Seki

Kenji Takebayashi

Ryouichi Watanabe

Osamu Ishikawa

Noritoshi Sakuma

Kyohei Marukawa

Kaoru Ishida

Kazuhiro Nishikawa

Kazuhiko Sayama

Eriko Iwase

A cytoplasmic male sterileplant is provided having a growth ability equivalent to that of aplant having a normal cytoplasm or a progeny of the cytoplasmic male sterileplant. For example, it is possible to improve the deterioration of growth ability which has been observed in the conventional cytoplasmic male sterileplants and provide a cytoplasmic male sterileplant having an improved growth ability.

Cytoplasmic male sterileplant having improved growth ability

The present specification discloses a method for detecting an aneuploid of aplant, including: performing real-time PCR using DNA extracted from a sample derived from aplant to be tested as a template and DNA markers specific to each of two or more chromosomes ofplant; and detecting chromosomal aneuploidy from a relative difference in amplification amount between the obtained DNA markers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to simply, accurately, and rapidly detect an off-type (chromosomal aneuploid) that may occur invarieties, in a laboratory equipped with a general molecular biological equipment in the course of seed quality control and breeding research.

Method for detecting off-type ofplant

Aplant is provided having self-compatibility, or a progeny thereof, wherein the plant excludes cauliflower and Chinese kale. For example, aplant having self-compatibility is provided. Thereby, technical means that makes it possible to accomplish stable and efficient production of parental line seeds for aplant can be provided.

Self-compatibleplant and method for producing same

The present application discloses a cabbage having resistance against downy mildew or its progeny. The present application further discloses a method for breeding downy mildew resistant cabbage, including introducing downy mildew resistance from aplant having resistance against downy mildew into desired cabbage. One embodiment of the present invention provides a novel cabbage line showing high resistance against downy mildew and having a high commercial value as cabbage, and enables breeding such cabbage.

Downy mildew resistant cabbage and breeding method therefor

A method is provided of producing aplant seed including using abee as pollination means, and providing the abee a minor nectar plant to have preference in flower visiting, in addition to a pollen parentplant and a seed parentplant and to perform a crossing of aplant using a plant species having the preference in flower visiting equivalent to or lower than that of theplant. According to one embodiment, it is possible to produce ahybrid plant seed more efficiently and economically than before while using abee as pollination means.

Method of producingplant seed using a Megachile bee

The present invention relates to a novelhaving cytoplasmic male sterility and a method for breeding the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novelhaving cytoplasmic male sterility, wherein thesubstantially lacks pollen production functions due to insufficient stamen or pollen formation, and a method for breeding the same.

Cytoplasmic male sterile eustoma and a method for developing thereof

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section, which drives a probe that transmits an ultrasonic wave toward a subject; a receiving section, which receives an ultrasonic echo, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject, through the probe, thereby generating a received signal; a property value calculating section for calculating property values of the subject based on the received signal over a period of time; a stability estimating section for sequentially estimating the degrees of stability of the property values that have been calculated over the period of time; and a presenting section for presenting the degrees of stability thereon.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

A hard disk drive is described, including a low-profile disk clamp to tied-shaft spindle/spindle motor assembly, in which a clamping nut is threaded onto a threaded spindle sleeve and a stationary shaft screw, or tied-shaft, penetrates through the HDD cover and into a shaft. The disk clamp may include a central opening for centering about the sleeve by way of the outer diameter of the clamping nut mating with the outer diameter of the clamp opening.

Hard disk drive low profile disk clamp to tied-shaft motor assembly

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: an ultrasonic signal processing section, which performs transmission processing for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward a subject's blood vessel by driving a probe and reception processing for generating a received signal based on the ultrasonic wave reflected from the subject's blood vessel and received at the probe; a tomographic image processing section, which generates a tomographic image based on the received signal; a boundary detecting section, which detects the lumen-intima and media-adventitia boundaries of the blood vessel based on the received signal or the tomographic image; a vascular wall thickness calculating section, which calculates, as a vascular wall thickness value, the interval between the lumen-intima and media-adventitia boundaries detected by the boundary detecting section; a reliability determining section, which determines the reliability of the vascular wall thickness value by a signal feature of the received signal or an image information feature of the tomographic image at a location on the lumen-intima and/or media-adventitia boundaries detected; and a control section, which decides, in accordance with the decision made by the reliability determining section, that the vascular wall thickness value be defined as an intima-media thickness.

Ultrasonic diagnostic device, and method for measuring initma-media complex thickness

A HDD including a temperature sensor for sensing ambient temperature in the HDD, a spindle motor comprising a fluid dynamic bearing; and a controller configured for adjusting a rotational speed of the spindle motor based on the measured ambient temperature while a rigidity of the fluid dynamic bearing is maintained, and reducing power consumption of the HDD based on the adjusting the rotational speed of the spindle motor.

Adjusting rotational speed based on ambient temperature in a HDD

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus transmits an ultrasonic wave toward a body and obtains biological information based on an echo signal received and includes: an intensity distribution generating section that generates an echo intensity distribution in a depth direction about a vascular wall based on the echo signal; a template generating section that generates a template to detect a boundary based on template data provided in advance to represent a reference pattern of the intensity distribution; a pattern similarity calculating section that changes the depth and intima-media thickness pattern of the template to calculate similarity between the template and the intensity distribution on any change made; and a boundary defining section that defines lumen and adventitia boundaries based on the degree of similarity calculated on any change made. The intima-media thickness is thus determined without depending on the magnitudes of echo intensity variations on the lumen and adventitia sides.

Ultrasonic diagnostic device, and method for measuring intima-media thickness

There are provided a transmission unit () and a reception unit () for transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave with respect to a subject, a tissue tracing unit () for analyzing a received signal to trace the movement of a tissue of the subject, and a property detection unit () for detecting a property concerning the movement of the tissue of the subject. The property detection unit () subjects either one of the received signal, a Doppler shift, and the movement of the tissue of the subject to signal processing, detects a property concerning the movement of the tissue of the subject that is in synchronization with a heartbeat, and generates an initializing pulse based on the detected property. The tissue tracing unit () is initialized by the initializing pulse. It is possible to obtain a distribution image of an elastic modulus of the tissue of the subject as well as a tomographic image of the subject with a simple operation of only applying a probe to the subject without the necessity for a special connection between the subject and the device.

A disk drive comprising a guide member configured to guide a strip-shaped flexible wiring board, wherein the strip-shaped flexible wiring board has one end attached to a side portion of a carriage that is rotatably supported, in such a way that another end thereof is oriented toward a mounting position. A U-shaped component of the guide member comprises a pair of edge components and is formed into a U-shape, wherein the U-shaped component is inserted between two projecting components comprising a front-side projecting component and a rear-side projecting component which are arranged to a front and a rear portion of the carriage respectively and are provided on a side portion of the carriage, and the pair of edge components come into contact with the two projecting components, respectively, wherein the U-shaped components is elastically deformed in such a way that the pair of edge components come closer together.

Magnetic disk device and guide member for guiding a flexible wiring board

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitting section for driving an ultrasonic probe that sends out an ultrasonic transmitted wave toward a vital tissue; a receiving section for amplifying an ultrasonic reflected wave, produced by getting the ultrasonic transmitted wave reflected by the vital tissue and then received at the ultrasonic probe, to generate a received signal; a reference point shift measuring section for measuring the magnitude of shift of a reference point that has been set on the received signal; a received signal adjusting section for adjusting the position of the received signal in a distance direction according to the magnitude of shift of the reference point; and a shape variation calculating section for determining the magnitudes of positional displacements at multiple measuring points that have been set in the vital tissue by the received signal adjusted.

Ultrasonograph that measures tissue displacements based on a reference point

A disk-enclosure cover for a low-profile, hard-disk drive (HDD). The disk-enclosure cover includes a substantially flat, plate-like portion that includes a periphery, and a peripheral flange that is disposed at the periphery. The peripheral flange includes a recessed portion that is configured to be recessed from a SATA connector in proximity to the SATA connector. In addition, the recessed portion is configured to allow a top portion of the SATA connector to be disposed in close proximity to the peripheral flange when the SATA connector is seated on a receiving connector of the low-profile HDD.

Low profile hard-disk drive enclosure cover which includes a flange recess for accommodating a SATA connector

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takao Suzuki