Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Reverse Proteomics Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Astellas Pharma Gmbh

Tomohiro Terada

Atsushi Yamashita

Takuya Hirai

Nobuyuki Nakano

Ryotaro Iwami

Kenji Sugihara

Akito Tanaka

Akira Yamazaki

Norihiko Kimura

Yoshitoshi Noda

Katsuji Taniguchi

Masayuki Haramura

Tsuruki Tamura

Takashi Kuwabara

Akira Ishida

Susumu Ibaraki

Atsushi Iisaka

Toshihiko Kurosaki

Satoshi Nakaya

Takeshi Tsutsumi

Hidenori Nakajima

Takaaki Shiyama

Minoru Furuya

An onboard air conditioning device wherein the heating capability of air conditioning is improved, and gas is prevented from flowing into the vehicle interior even in the unlikely event that gas is produced by a battery. In this device, one end of an air flow channel is connected to an air conditioning unit for blowing temperature-regulated air into a vehicle interior, and the other end opens into the vehicle interior. The air flow channel draws air into the vehicle interior from the opening, the intake air is passed through a battery and heated by heat exchange, and the air is then sent to the air conditioning unit. The air conditioning unit sends the air from the air flow channel to a sensible heat exchanger, and after this air undergoes heat exchange with air taken in from another channel, the air is exhausted out of the vehicle interior.

Onboard air conditioning device, air conditioning unit, and vehicle

A heat pump device for a vehicle capable of effectively utilizing the heat of structural members. This heat pump device for a vehicle comprises: an electric compressor for compressing and discharging refrigerant and a high-temperature water-refrigerant heat exchanger for conducting heat exchange between the high-temperature, high-pressure refrigerant discharged by the electric compressor and a first cooling liquid which is antifreeze, the high-temperature water-refrigerant heat exchanger surrounding and being in contact with the electric compressor so as to be capable of heat exchange with the electric compressor.

Heat pump device for vehicle

The purpose is to provide an electric vehicle charging device capable of preventing arc discharge when disconnecting a power supply connector and a vehicle-side connector. An electric vehicle charging device provided with: a power supply connector () for supplying electrical energy from outside the vehicle; a vehicle-side connector () for connecting to the power supply connector () and positioned in the vehicle; a spring () for generating repulsive force in the direction in which the power supply connector () and the vehicle-side connector () separate; and an engaging part () for detecting the disconnection of the power supply connector () and the vehicle-side connector (); wherein the spring () generates repulsive force in the direction in which the power supply connector () and the vehicle-side connector () separate when the engaging part () detects that the power supply connector () and the vehicle-side connector () have disconnected.

Electric vehicle charging device

Provided is an in-vehicle charger capable of reliably obtaining charging control parameters prior to charging and capable of safe charging. In this charger, a charging unit () charges a battery () in accordance with the charging control parameters. A storage unit () stores a table in which a plurality of areas on a map and the charging control parameters are made to correspond to each other. A position information receiving unit () obtains position indicating the current position of a vehicle (). A control unit () refers to the table on the basis of the position information and sets the charging control parameters made to correspond to an area including the current position when a charging cable () is not connected.

In-vehicle charger

A risk-degree setting unit () sets the degree of risk for the case where an inverter () performs conversion processing (inverter risk degree), and sets the degree of risk for the case where a storage battery () stores electrical energy (storage battery risk degree). A final output destination determination unit (), based on the degrees of risk set by the risk-degree setting unit (), determines the final output destination of electrical energy output from an electric motor (), and controls the turning ON or OFF of a relay (). The final output destination determination unit () turns the relay () ON when the storage battery () is determined as the final output destination of the electrical energy output from the electric motor (), and turns the relay () OFF when the inverter () is determined as the final output destination of the electrical energy output from the electric motor ().

Vehicle power source device

A user interface device allocates each of functions for operating an instrument to fingertips in response to a hand movement and allowing an operator to intuitively comprehend the allocation of each of the functions to the fingertips. The device includes a GUI button allocation section that first allocates a GUI button, read out from a GUI button data storing section, to each fingertip in a hand shape acquired by a hand shape acquiring section when a contact position acquiring section detects a contact to an operation surface by the operator. Then, in accordance with a change of hand shape direction, the GUI button allocation section reallocates the GUI button to each fingertip of the hand shape. The device also includes a superimposed image creating section that creates a composite image of an image of a GUI button allocated by the GUI button allocation section and an image of the hand shape, and a displaying section that displays the composite image of the image of the GUI button and the image of the hand shape created by the superimposed image creating section.

User interface device

An input device for a mobile body allows for a safe input operation at the time of operating equipment, such as a car, regardless of whether the mobile body is traveling or stopped. The input device includes an input section for receiving inputs by hand and voice operations, a traveling state determination section for determining a traveling state of the mobile body, and an item executability determination section for determining, in the determined traveling state, whether each of the received inputs corresponds to an item executable by the hand and voice operations. The input device also includes a display content generation section for generating a display mode which distinguishably shows whether nor not the item is executable by the hand and voice operations in accordance with a determination by the item executability determination section, and a display section for displaying the generated display mode.

Input device and input method for mobile body

A voice input device, in which a content spoken by a user is reflected on a confirmation screen when executing the content, allows the user to confirm that a command, corresponding to the content which is spoken by the user who intended for the execution, is executed after being recognized by the voice input device. The voice input device includes a command storage section that stores a command in which one representative command name is associated with at least one paraphrased command name, a voice acquisition section that acquires voice spoken by a user, a command recognition section that refers to the command storage section and to recognize a paraphrased command name based on the voice acquired by the voice acquisition section, an execution section that executes a command corresponding to the paraphrased command name recognized by the command recognition section, and a display control section that displays the paraphrased command name recognized by the command recognition section when the execution section executes the command corresponding to the paraphrased command name.

Voice input device

An input device for inputting a command and information to a device, includes a body shape input section acquiring body shape information of a user and a display information generation section generating a display image necessary for the user to input the command and the information. Further, the input device includes an operation section having an operation surface corresponding to the display image, a body shape extraction section extracting a portion corresponding to the operation surface from the body shape information acquired by the body shape input section and generating a body image, an image composition section making a composite image of the display image generated by the display information generation section and the body image generated by the body shape extraction section, and a display section displaying the composite image made by the image composition section.

Input device and its method

The present invention provides a method of suppressing the nonspecific interaction between molecules, characterized in that in a process to immobilize a molecule onto a solid phase carrier and analyze the specific interaction between the molecule and a molecule that specifically interacts with the molecule on the solid phase, the hydrophobic property of the solid phase surface in the solid phase carrier is regulated, particularly a hydrophilic spacer is interlaid at the time of immobilization of the molecule onto the solid phase carrier, which method makes it possible to suppress the nonspecific interaction between the molecules, and to reduce nonspecific adsorption to the solid phase.

Method of inhibiting nonspecific interaction between molecules on solid phase support

A user interface system having an improved usability is provided. The user interface system comprises: an operation section () an operation section for receiving an instruction inputted by a user; a finger position detecting section () for detecting a group of first coordinate values, each indicating a current position of a fingertip, of a user, which is placed on an operation surface of the operation section; a component storing section () for storing component data representing a GUI (Graphical User Interface) component; an assignment section () for uniquely assigning the component data stored in the component storing section to each of the first coordinate values detected by the finger position detecting section (); an image generating section () for generating a GUI image representing a user interface in which the GUI component represented by the component data stored in the component storing section () is uniquely associated with each of the first coordinate values detected by the finger position detecting section (), in accordance with an assignment performed by the assignment section; and a display controlling section () for displaying the GUI image generated by the image generating section () on a display screen.

User interface system

The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing, as an active ingredient, a compound that specifically binds to KSRP or a functional fragment thereof, and a screening method for the compound. KSRP is a novel target protein for anticancer agents; a compound capable of regulating the expression and activity of such a protein and a pharmaceutical composition containing it are highly useful for proliferative diseases, particularly as anticancer agents. By providing the novel target protein, the mechanism behind the anticancer effect that has conventionally been unexplainable can be elucidated.

Target protein of anticancer agent and novel anticancer agent (spnal) corresponding thereto

The present invention provides a method of analyzing the specific interaction between a molecule to be analyzed and a molecule that specifically interacts with the former molecule on a solid phase using a molecule-immobilized solid phase support mixture prepared by binding the subject molecule to the solid phase support without specifying the binding position on the molecule side, particularly a method wherein the immobilization is conducted via a spacer introduced to the molecule without specifying the binding position on the molecule side, which method makes it possible to identify and select only a molecule that exhibits a specific interaction with a molecule to be analyzed, without an investigation of structure-activity correlation, which has conventionally been essential, and hence enables an analysis of the interaction between these molecules.

Method of immobilizing compound on solid phase support

An interactive route guide device capable of providing an appropriate amount of information with an appropriate timing in accordance with a user's desire. In the interactive route guide device, a storage device stores at least one table which defines a type of guide information to be provided for a route from a departure point to a destination point. An arithmetic processing unit generates the guide information according to the table in the storage device, and an output device outputs the generated guide information. The user uses an input device to input a guide request. The arithmetic processing unit manages at least a content of the inputted guide request and the number of times the guide request is inputted, and edits the table stored in the storage device in accordance with the content of the inputted guide request and the number of times the guide request is inputted.

Interactive route guide device

A navigation apparatus for guiding a vehicle to a destination, a data storing section stores an information set including at least location information for identifying a location of a travel burden point on a road network, link information indicating a road linked to the travel burden point, and a reference hesitation value indicating a degree of a driver's hesitation to go through the travel burden point, and a characteristic value of the driver. A point guidance data generating section generates point guidance data representing guidance for the travel burden point based on a current location derived by a location deriving section, a path obtained by a path obtaining section, and the information set and the driver characteristic value stored in the data storing section.

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Osaka, Japan

Tomohiro Terada