Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

International Business Machines Corporation

Nitto Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

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Shiseido Company, Limited

Nitto Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nitto Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.

Tetsuji Nakamura

Fujio Yu

Takanori Akiyama

Ichiro Watanabe

Wataru Mizunashi

Shigefumi Odaohhara

Fumiaki Watanabe

Miki Sakai

Dai Ujihara

Osamu Katoh

Hiromitsu Yamaguchi

Hideaki Yamada

Seiichi Kawano

Fusanobu Nakamura

Takashi Yanagisawa

Yasumichi Tsukamoto

Tomiyuki Nanba

Hirohide Komiyama

Keiichi Sakashita

Noritoshi Yoshiyama

Masayoshi Nakano

Takashi Inui

Katsuyuki Kaneko

Toshitsugu Mito

Satoshi Tomomasa

Makoto Kaneko

Toru Nagasawa

Eiji Satou

Kazunori Yamazaki

Teruhiko Hineno

Atsushi Kumaki

Toshitaka Uragaki

Kunihiko Yoshida

Hiroshi Nakagawa

Tomoyuki Maruichi

Shigefumi Odeohhara

Kuniko Takabayashi

Koichi Nakamura

Yasuhiro Ninomiya

An apparatus for supplying power to a portable electronic device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first receptacle to which an AC/DC adaptor is connectable, a second receptacle to which an electronic device is connectable, a battery charger for charging a battery using power supplied by the AC/DC adaptor, an output circuit for supplying power to the electronic device from the AC/DC adaptor when the AC/DC adaptor is connected to the apparatus, and supplies power to the electronic device from the battery when the AC/DC adaptor is not connected to the apparatus, and a control circuit for controlling the battery charger to supply power to the electronic device while charging the battery when the AC/DC adaptor is connected to the apparatus.

Method and apparatus for extending battery operation time of an electronic device

The present invention provides a modified ethylenediamine-N,N'-disuccinate:ethylenediamine lyase. The present invention also provides a protein that comprises the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1; or a protein that comprises an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or more amino acid residues, and has an ethylenediamine-N,N&#x2032;-disuccinate:ethylenediamine lyase activity.

Modified ethylenediamine-N,N'-disuccinate:ethylenediamine lyase

Modified ethylenediamine-N, N'-disuccinate: ethylenediamine lyase

The present invention relates to an amide hydrolase which is with excellent thermostability and stereoselectively hydrolyzes an &#x3b1;-amino acid amide; a gene encoding the enzyme protein; a novel recombinant vector containing the gene; a transformant containing the recombinant vector; and a process for producing an L-&#x3b1;-amino acid using the transformant.

Polynucleotide encoding a thermostable amide hydrolase and methods for producing an L-&#x3b1;-amino acid

The present invention provides: a protein having an improved nitrile hydratase activity, whereby heat resistance has been improved when compared with a wild-type nitrile hydratase activity, wherein the amino acid sequence of a nitrile hydratase is modified; a gene DNA encoding the above protein; a recombinant vector having the above gene DNA; a transformant or transductant having the above recombinant vector; a nitrile hydratase collected from a culture of the above transformant or transductant, and a production method thereof; and a method for producing an amide compound.

Heat-resistant nitrile hydratase

A method for producing lactones, which comprises reacting an amide compound of Formula (I): [wherein X represents a halogen atom; R, R' and Rto Reach independently represents a hydrogen atom or any desired substituent; and n represents an integer of 0 to 2] with an aqueous medium.

Process for producing lactone

An information processor having a normal-operation mode in which coherence control is performed for making data in a cache memory of a processor identical to data in a main memory and a power-saving mode in which the coherence control is suppressed to lower the power consumption from power consumption in the normal-operation mode and entering the normal-operation mode when an input/output device accesses the main memory in the power-saving mode includes an attribute setting module for setting a device area of the main memory, accessed by the input/output device of the information processor to a non-cacheable attribute for exempting said device area from said coherence control even in the normal-operation mode; an operation mode setting module for allowing the input/output device to access the device area while keeping the operation mode of the information processor in the power-saving mode when the input/output device requests access to the device area in the power-saving mode.

Information processor with suppressed cache coherence in low power mode

A device, method, and computer program product for a self-calibrating input device are provided. The input device includes a designated value change unit operable to change a designated value using a variation amount associated with the designated value, the designated value being changed using a predetermined first variation amount when a first designated value change directive is received from an operator, and a variation amount change unit operable to alter the variation amount associated with the designated value from the predetermined first variation amount to a smaller second variation amount when a second designated value change directive that is opposite the first designated value change directive is received from the operator within a predetermined variation amount change period.

System and method for a self-calibrating input device

The present invention provides a process for efficiently producing an optically active &#x3b1;-amino acid and an optically active &#x3b1;-amino acid amide. After contacting with cells or processed cells thereof having an ability to asymmetrically hydrolyse, a water solvent is substituted with at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of linear, branched, or cyclic alcohol having 3 or more carbon atoms and the optically active &#x3b1;-amino acid is preferentially precipitated from the alcohol solution. The addition of basic compounds, particularly potassium compounds to the alcohol solution containing the optically active &#x3b1;-amino acid amide, which is obtained after the separation of the optically active &#x3b1;-amino acid, enables the purification of the amide without the inclusion of amino acid into amino acid amide. Thus, the amide is subjected to the step of racemization and then recycled.

Process for producing optically active &#x3b1;-amino acid and optically active &#x3b1;-amino acid amide

A portable information processor includes a computer main body and a digitizer connected by a flexible hinge defined in a cover. The hinge allows the computer main body and the digitizer to assume different superposed states by means of a flexible separable portion of the cover. In the superposed state of the computer main body and the digitizer, arbitrariness in folding back the separable portion causes runout between the computer main body and the digitizer. In spite of this runout, the superposed state can be accurately detected by means of an optical sensor, including an infrared radiator and an infrared-ray detector, disposed in the computer main body. A flexible reflection member is fixed to a predetermined surface of the separable portion of the leather cover, while assuring a predetermined area. If the computer main body and the digitizer assume a superposed state, light emitted from the infrared radiator is reflected by the flexible reflection member and is incident on the infrared-ray detector.

Portable information processor

An intelligent battery pack in an electronic device such as a PC, sends such information as a voltage, a current, etc. related to power consumption to a controller via a line when the PC is driven by a battery. When the AC adapter is supplying electrical power to the device, the power source is changed to the battery pack once only during the measuring time so as to display data using both measuring and communicating functions of the battery pack. Consequently, no special electric power detector is provided in the power supply system of the AC adapter.

Method for displaying information concerning power consumption and electronic device

The present invention relates to a novel protein having amidase activity that stereoselectively hydrolyzes &agr;-amino acid amides and &agr;-hydroxy acid amides, and a gene encoding said protein.

Amidase gene

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Yokohama, Japan

Tetsuji Nakamura