Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Pioneer Corporation

Tohoku Pioneer Corporation

Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd.

Kyodo Insatsu

Takeshi Nakamura

Kiyoshi Ito

Toshifumi Yamaki

Miyuki Tsuruoka

Meiji Kitamura

Tomoyuki Ando

Hironori Komatsu

Yosuke Sato

Hitoki Miyake

Hideki Umetani

Tadashi Suzuki

Teruo Arii

Takuo Shinohara

Harumi Nakamura

Kazuto Ishihara

Taku Ito

Seiya Nikumaru

Kenichi Yamaguchi

Kazunaga Ida

Kazufumi Adachi

Daisuke Mochizuki

Shinichi Ishizuka

Hitoshi Takahashi

Nobuo Kato

Nobuyuki Fukazawa

Tadashi Araki

Yasuyoshi Sakai

Katsutoshi Tsuchiya

Toshihiro Oikawa

Atsushi Sakuma

Tamotsu Asano

Junko Tokuda

Hiroki Ishibashi

Yasushi Fukuiri

Kazuhiko Togashi

Ichirou Ikeda

Junya Fujiwara

Kiyotaka Hara

Takahiro Yamauchi

Kangetsu Hirase

Shungo Fukai

Makoto Nishida

Kyoko Maruyama

Hirokazu Awano

Katsuyuki Takahashi

An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source with adjustable color that is used to illuminate a makeup subject; a setting unit for setting illumination conditions with the surface light source according to an input operation; an adjustment unit for adjusting color and brightness of the surface light source according to the illumination conditions set by the setting unit; a speaker; and a playback unit that stores a plurality of musical pieces as data, plays a musical piece selected from the plurality of musical pieces according to the illumination conditions and time of illumination with the surface light source, and causes the speaker to output the selected musical piece as a reproduced sound.

Mirror unit and light source for illumination

A light-emitting control unit () controls a light source (). Specifically, the light-emitting control unit () controls the light source () in accordance with control data which is transmitted from a master control unit () through a communication line (). A communication control unit () controls connection between the light-emitting control unit () and the communication line (). Further, the communication control units () of a plurality of light-emitting modules () are connected to each other in series through a control line (). In addition, the communication control unit () located at an uppermost stream is connected to the master control unit () through the control line ().

Light-emitting device

An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source for illumination with adjustable color and adjustable brightness; a memory unit in which illumination conditions corresponding to a plurality of scenes are stored; a detection unit for detecting the color and brightness of ambient light at an installation position of the makeup mirror set; a selection unit for selecting one of the plurality of scenes according to an input operation; an acquisition unit for acquiring, from the memory unit, illumination conditions corresponding to the scene selected through the selection unit; and an adjustment unit for adjusting the color and brightness of the surface light source according to the color and brightness of the ambient light detected by the detection unit and the illumination conditions acquired by the acquisition unit.

Illuminated makeup mirror set and method of controlling light source

A lighting system includes a master device for transmitting a light emission control command, and a plurality of lighting modules. Each of the plurality of lighting modules has a surface light source, receives the light emission control command, and drives and controls the surface light source in accordance with control data for its own, the control data being included in the received light emission control command.

Lighting module having surface light source and lighting system

A novel gluconate dehydratase derived fromand a gene encoding the gluconate dehydratase are provided. By reacting the gluconate dehydratase or a transformed cell containing the gene with an aldonic acid, the corresponding 2-keto-3-deoxyaldonic acid can be efficiently produced.

Gluconate dehydratase

A desired isomer is selectively prepared by phosphorolyzing and isomerizing an anomer mixture of a 1-phosphorylated saccharide derivative while crystallizing one of the isomers to displace the equilibrium. Furthermore, using the action of a nucleoside phosphorylase, a nucleoside is prepared from the 1-phosphorylated saccharide derivative obtained and a base with improved stereoselectivity and a higher yield. This process is an anomer-selective process for preparing a 1-phosphorylated saccharide derivative and a nucleoside.

Process for selectively producing 1-phosphorylated sugar derivative anomer and process for producing nucleoside

The invention provides a nitrile hydratase activation protein participating in activation of nitrile hydratase derived from JCM3095, and a gene sequence encoding the same. Further, the invention provides a recombinant plasmid containing the gene, a recombinant plasmid containing the gene and a nitrile hydratase gene, a transformant strain obtained through transformation with the recombinant plasmid, and a process for producing a corresponding amide compound from a nitrile compound using a culture solution and cells obtained by incubating the transformant strain and treated products of the cells.

Protein participating in the activation of nitrile hydratase and gene encoding the same

Cells of a novel strain of,having practical weed controlling activity against barnyard grass (Echinochloa spp.) at temperatures ranging from 26&deg; C. to 35&deg; C., and exhibiting no pathogenicity to major crops, including rice, are used as a herbicidal component.

Strains of drechslera monoceras and weed control compositions containing the same

A method for producing phytase using a Candida boidinii transformant, by which phytase is secreted to liquid medium without substantially increasing the number of the transformant cells is disclosed. In this method, cells of a Candida boidinii transformant which is transformed with a recombinant vector comprising a promoter inducible with methanol and a gene located downstream of said promoter and operably linked to said promoter, which gene encodes a polypeptide having phytase activity, are cultured in a liquid culture medium containing phosphoric acid or a phosphate compound in an amount effective of restricting proliferation of said cells of Candida boidinii transformant such that the amount of said cells of Candida boidinii transformant is not substantially increased, while adding methanol to the culture medium, so as to make said cells secrete said phytase.

Method for producing phytase

A herbicide containing phytopathogenic microorganisms for surface application on water was obtained by a method in which the phytopathogenic microorganisms, which have virtually no adhered surfactant and are pathogenic against non-useful plants having a hydrophobic surface, are adhered to or combined with a submersible base.

Herbicide containing phytopathogenic microorganisms

The present invention provides the amino acid sequence and base sequence of a Pseudonocardia thermophila-derived nitrile hydratase, provides further a method for changing its amino acid sequence and base sequence without substantially changing the functions of said nitrile hydratase, and nitrile hydratases having a base sequence and an amino acid sequence as changed on the basis of said method, and provides furthermore a recombinant plasmid having the gene of said nitrile hydratase, a transformant containing said recombinant plasmid, a method of using said transformant for producing said enzyme, and a method of using said transformant for producing the corresponding amide compound from a nitrile compound.

Nitrile hydratase

An apparatus for grouping a plurality of printed or like objects into a plurality of equal sets, while they are conveyed in a row in which they overlap one another in a mutually equally spaced apart relation, includes an upstream conveyor supported on a plurality of rollers and a downstream conveyor disposed downstream of the upstream conveyor at a level of height which is lower than that of the upstream conveyor. At least one of the rollers is disposed above the downstream conveyor so that the upstream conveyor vertically overlaps the downstream conveyor to transfer each of the objects to the downstream conveyor along a downward path. An object holding device is provided above that portion of the upstream conveyor which is supported on the at least one roller. The holding device is downwardly movable for holding one of the objects against the upstream conveyor in response to a signal indicating that another object immediately preceding the one object has passed over the at least one roller, while a predetermined number of objects forming one group of objects ending with the immediately preceding object is counted by a counter.

Apparatus for conveying and grouping printed matter or like objects

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takeshi Nakamura