Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Otics Corporation

Yukio Okamura

Chikara Ohto

Masaru Takagi

Nobuhiko Muramoto

Norihiro Mitsukawa

Kyoko Matsui

Tomotsugu Koyama

Hiroshi Chatani

Nobutaka Mitsuda

Tetsuhiro Ishikawa

Kenji Mori

Masatoshi Uchida

Koichi Numata

Hiroyuki Yamada

Osamu Asami

Toshiaki Kimura

Yoshitaka Asakura

Akihiko Kido

Yasushi Oda

Yutaka Matsumoto

Masami Miyata

Kiichi Iwasaki

Chitose Shibata

Katsumi Sakakibara

Ikuo Nishida

Yoko Yamanaka

Kazuhiko Sato

Akihiro Ohno

Kazumasa Kodama

Yasutaka Fukumoto

Yoshihiro Kon

Tetsuo Kondo

Yasuhiro Ishikawa

Junichi Kato

Yoshiharu Amano

Naoki Murakami

Wakana Yagi

Hideaki Yazawa

Yoshimi Suzuki

Hidetomi Nagai

This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.

Genes that increase plant oil and method for using the same

An ecological-point management system includes an electric powered vehicle, a charging facility, a communication network, a management server, point recipients each having a device capable of accessing the communication network. The electric storage device of the electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by the charging facility. In the ecological-point management system, an ecological point in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by the electric powered vehicle is given to the point recipients. The point recipients can include an owner or a driver of the electric powered vehicle, and a manufacture, an installation personnel, an owner of the charging facility, and an owner of an installation place, and further a provider of the charging power.

Ecological-point management system

It is an object of this invention to provide a method for efficiently synthesizing monocarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid, and tricarboxylic acid with the use of unsaturated triacyl glycerol as a starting material and hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant. Such method comprises allowing unsaturated triacyl glycerol to react with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a quaternary ammonium polybasic acid hydrogen salt and at least one member selected from the group consisting of tungstic acid, heterotungstic acid, and salts thereof.

Method for producing carboxylic acid

An electric storage device of an electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by a charging facility. At the time of external charge by the charging facility, a management server selects advertising information based on information stored inside the electric powered vehicle to be charged and/or information of the charging facility performing the external charge to the electric powered vehicle including a mechanism capable of reproducing the advertising information from an advertising provider, and transmits the selected advertising information. The management server performs billing so that in exchange for the transmission of the advertising information, at least part of a charging power fee is caused to be borne by the advertising provider side to thereby discount an amount borne by an electric powered vehicle user.

Charging system of electric powered vehicle

There is provided a method for controlling a target microorganism characterized in that an extrinsic environmental factor is added to a culture system where said target microorganism and other microbes coexist, said extrinsic environmental factor providing a desirable growth condition for the other microorganisms but an undesirable growth condition for the target microorganism, and said extrinsic environmental factor is typically an organic substance that is assimilable by the above other microorganisms but not by the target microorganism, and includes a sugar, an amino acid, an alkanol amine, an organic acid, and the like. In particular, the target microorganism is N16-1 strain of(FERM BP-5504) and the substance is D-serine.

Method for controlling target microorganism

Microorganism and method for environmental purification using the same

A novel microorganism which has the following characteristics: morphology (coccoid, rod shaped), gram staining (&plus;), spore forming (&minus;), motility (&minus;), relationship to exygen (aerobic), oxidase test (&minus;), catalase test (&plus;), resistance to acid (&minus;), rod-coccus cycle (&plus;), and GC content of DNA (mole %) (73 (by HPLC)), and which can decompose chloroethylene. The microorganism can decompose in 24 hours 30 ppm of trichloroethylene, and decompose of 100 ppm of trichloroethylene by 50%.

A ball joint generates play when wear of a ball sheet reaches a predetermined allowable amount so that the end of service life of the ball joint can be recognized by a simple inspection. A spherical portion of a ball stud is interposed between an upper sheet and a lower sheet. The upper sheet is displaced toward the lower sheet when the upper sheet or the lower sheet has been worn due to sliding of the spherical portion. The displacement of the upper sheet is restricted so that the upper sheet is supported at a predetermined position relative to the lower sheet.

Ball joint having extended service life

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Nagoya, Japan

Yukio Okamura