90results about How to "Easily obtain" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for transforming a monocotyledonous plant. The time required from transformation to regeneration of a plant is shorter using the inventive method so that the frequency of emergence of mutants is smaller than the conventional methods. The inventive method may be generally applied even to the plants for which a regeneration method from a protoplast to a plant has not been established, and with which the preparation of the material to be subjected to the method is easy. That is, the present invention provides a method for transforming a monocotyledonous plant, comprising contacting a cultured tissue of said monocotyledonous plant during dedifferentiation thereof obtained by culturing an explant on a dedifferentiation-inducing medium for less than 7 days with a bacterium belonging to the genus Agrobacterium containing a super binary vector having the virulence region of a Ti plasmid, left and right border sequences of T-DNA of a Ti plasmid or an Ri plasmid of a bacterium belonging to the genus Agrobacterium, and a desired gene located between said left and right border sequences.

To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing.

The present invention concerns the use of transdifferentiated cells to treat pancreatic diseases. More particularly, it provides methods for the culture and transdifferentiation of human cord blood, cells into insulin-secreting cells. It also concerns the endocrine hormones, such as insulin, produced by such cultures, and the use of the transdifferentiated cells in the treatment of diabetes.

Methods and apparatus for processing a service request received from a client are disclosed. When a service request is received, a plurality of packets are transmitted, where each of the plurality of packets identify a different type of service via which to send the corresponding packet. In addition, a mapping of each different type of service to an IP address is preferably maintained, thereby enabling the service request to be processed via an IP address associated with a type of service identified in a first one of the plurality of packets to be received.

Coated zinc oxide particles in which the surfaces of zinc oxide particles are coated with a metallic soap exhibit excellent dispersibility in resin. A thermoplastic resin composition containing the particles and a molded product formed from the composition are endowed with excellent visible light transmission property and ultraviolet light shielding property.

The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element including image pickup pixels and focus detection pixels, and first and second focus information calculating parts respectively calculating first focus information based on outputs from the focus detection pixels and second focus information based on an output from a light-receiving element which is provided separately from the image pickup element. The focus information indicates a focus state of an image pickup optical system. The apparatus further includes a correction value calculating part calculating a correction value based on the first focus information and the second focus information, and a controlling part performing focus control of the image pickup optical system based on the second focus information corrected using the correction value.

An information processing apparatus includes a feature amount extraction unit extracting a feature amount of each frame of an image, a maximum likelihood state series estimation unit estimating maximum likelihood state series using the feature amount, a highlight label generation unit generating highlight label series with respect to the attention detector learning content, and a learning unit learning the highlight detector that is the state transition probability model using learning label series that is a pair of the maximum likelihood state series obtained from the attention detector learning content and the highlight label series.

An image processing apparatus includes an area setting unit, an image deformation unit, and a face deformation unit. The area setting unit sets, in a target image that includes a face image, an area including the face image as a compression area. The image deformation unit compresses the compression area in a specific direction at a predetermined compression rate. The face deformation unit deforms the face image by expansion amount determined on the basis of the compression rate in such a manner that at least a part of the face image is expanded in the specific direction.

A multilayer film reflector capable of simply correcting a wavefront phase and a method of forming the reflector are disclosed.

For this purpose, a reflector using reflection by a multilayer film is disclosed. This multilayer film is formed in a number of cycles larger than that necessary to substantially saturate a reflectance, and a wavefront phase of emerging rays is adjusted by cutting away the multilayer film in accordance with an amount of adjustment of the wavefront phase.

Further, the formation of a correction film as well as the formation of a multilayer larger than necessary to substantially saturate the reflectance permits the correction of a phase by cutting away also the multilayer film when the phase cannot be corrected only by cutting away the correction film, whereby the phase can be corrected more accurately.

A control function formula which provides a relationship between an output voltage signal Vo and an output differential value with, for example, a negative linear function is defined in a calculation means. The calculation means samples an input voltage signal, an output voltage signal and an output differential signal at time instants in synchronization with a cycle of switching of a main switching element, and calculates subsequent ON and OFF durations of the main switching elements such that the control function formula might be satisfied. A drive pulse generation means generates a drive pulse with which the main switching element is turned on and off based on the ON and OFF durations determined by the calculation means. The output differential signal is generated by, for example, a capacitor current detection means or an observer device which detect a current of a smoothing capacitor.

A paper multi-feed detection apparatus and a paper multi-feed detection method are provided for preventing the detection capability from being deteriorated by a noise factor and improving the detection precision even where an area around the feeding path has no extra space in terms of the shape and there are many noise-generating factors because of a demand for a smaller size of the device. An ultrasonic transmission opening formed in one of two feeding guide plates is large so as to discharge outside a reflected wave which returns through the ultrasonic transmission opening, and an ultrasonic receiving opening formed in the other feeding guide plate is smaller than a receiving face area of a receiver for receiving the ultrasonic wave.

The present invention is a fusion-bonded product having a high-strength part, comprising: a first preform (2a) constituted by integrally, frictionally pressure-welding a first low-carbon steel part (L1) made of low-carbon steel containing less than 0.45% of C and a high-carbon steel part (H) made of high-carbon steel containing not less than 0.45% of C; and a second preform (2b) having a second low-carbon steel part (L2) made of second low-carbon steel containing less than 0.45% of C; wherein the high-carbon steel part (H) of the first preform (2a) is provided with a high-strength part (9) that has been previously formed into a desired shape and quenched, the second low-carbon steel part (L2) of the second preform (2b) has been previously formed into a predetermined shape, and the first low-carbon steel part (L1) of the first preform (2a) and the second low-carbon steel part (L2) of the second preform (2b) are bonded to each other by fusion welding.

A method for preparing III-VI₂ nanoparticles and a thin film of polycrystalline light absorber layers. The method for preparing I-III-VI₂ nanoparticles comprises the steps of: (a1) preparing a mixed solution by mixing each element from groups I, III and VI in the periodic table with a solvent; (a2) sonicating the mixed solution; (a3) separating the solvent from the sonicated mixed solution; and (a4) drying the product resulted from the above step (a3) to obtain nanoparticles.

A tennis racket includes a frame that includes a shaft and a looped frame portion, the shaft having a grip formed on one end side thereof, the frame portion being joined to the other end side of the shaft and forming a hitting face with a string being strung across and a plurality of insertion holes that provide communication between an inner peripheral side surface and an outer peripheral side surface of the frame portion and through which the string is inserted. Shock absorbing portions and hard portions are provided in an alternating fashion on at least a part of the outer peripheral side surface of the frame portion. Each shock absorbing portion is formed between insertion holes that are adjacent to each other. Each hard portion is formed between insertion holes that are adjacent to each other and is less elastically deformable than the shock absorbing portion.

The molded article includes a resin composition with a single shaft extruder, in which the resin composition is generated by melting and mixing a raw mixture, the raw mixture being obtained by blending 40-90 parts by mass of the polyolefin (A), 3-30 parts by mass of the metaxylylene group-containing polyamide (B), and 3-50 parts by mass of the modified polyolefin (C). In the single shaft extruder, the ratio of the length of the feeding part to the screw effective length is 0.40-0.55, the ratio of the length of the compressing part to the screw effective length is 0.10-0.30, the ratio of the length of the measuring part to the screw effective length is 0.10-0.40, the upper limit of the temperature of the feeding part falls within the range of +20° C. from the melting point of the metaxylylene group-containing polyamide or less, and the temperatures of the compressing part and the measuring part fall within the range of −30° C. to +20° C. from the melting point of the metaxylylene group-containing polyamide, and the shear rate is 14/second or more.

Provided is an operation microscope apparatus for easily and speedily obtaining a suitable separation state between illumination light and observation light in a case where a front lens is replaced by another one. An illumination optical system includes a slit plate in which slit holes having different slit widths are formed. Each of a plurality of front lens having different refractive powers is integrally formed with corresponding one of storing sections. One of the storing sections is attached to an elevation regulating member. The elevation regulating member includes micro-switches. Each of the storing sections includes a protruding portion for turning on corresponding one of the micro-switches at the time of attachment. A control unit sets an illumination angle of the illumination light and a slit width of a slit based on a detection signal from a micro-switch which becomes an on state.

A display unit has an organic light emitting diode (OLED) 21 provided in correspondence with each of pixels and capable of emitting light by itself, a drive transistor 22 for driving the OLED 21, a twig transistor 23 which is formed so as to have a portion of an electrode of the drive transistor 22 independently formed, and which is used to detect a threshold voltage (Vth) of the drive transistor 22, a compensating capacitor 28 in which the threshold voltage (Vth) detected by the twig transistor 23 is written, a signal capacitor 27 in which a signal voltage to be supplied to the drive transistor 22 is written, a first transistor 24 provided between a data line and the signal capacitor 27, a second transistor 25 provided between the signal capacitor 27 and the compensating capacitor 28, and a third transistor 26 provided between a gate electrode and another electrode of the twig transistor 23.

In order to change over heating temperature and pressing force of a fixing device to heat, press and fix images on recording media, an image forming apparatus of this invention has a changeover portion to change over a heating temperature and a pressing force by the same indicating operation. Operator is not required to perform the heating temperature changeover operation and the pressing force changeover operation separately. Thus, the operability of the heat press and fixing device in changing over the fixing condition of the heating pressing and fixing device for the heat roller 20 and the press roll 21 is improved.

A gapped core leg for a shunt reactor, comprising magnetic core elements separated by spacers cast directly between the core elements. Accordingly, a rigid core leg construction is achieved.

To provide a process for producing CeO₂ fine particles having high crystallinity, being excellent in uniformity of composition and particle size and having a small particle size, and a polishing slurry containing such fine particles.

A process for producing CeO₂ fine particles, which comprises a step of obtaining a melt containing, as represented by mol % based on oxides, from 5 to 50% of CeO₂, from 10 to 50% of RO (wherein R is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba) and from 30 to 75% of B₂O₃, a step of quenching the melt to obtain an amorphous material, a step of precipitating CeO₂ crystals from the amorphous material, and a step of separating the CeO₂ crystals from the obtained crystallized product, in this order. A polishing slurry containing from 0.1 to 20 mass % of such fine particles.

The image recording apparatus includes an image allocating section allocating the plural images with respect to each recording medium, an image recording section recording the plural images on each recording medium, a cutting section cutting the one recording medium on which the plural images are recorded into the plural prints, a arranging section unifying the plural prints in a single line, a sort transporting section accumulating the plural prints, a discharge control section acquiring at least status information of the arranging section, and controls operations of the cutting section, the arranging section, and the sort transporting section, and an entire control section performing adjustment of allocating operations, or controls the operation of the arranging section, based upon at least one of an appointed delivery date of the plural prints and the status information.

The Modular Adjustable Handlebar Kit contains a center mounting segment and linking units of varying degrees of angles, curves and/or segments with differing shapes both radius and straight and/or compounded curves with straights. Each of the linking units have a male and female end and are attached to adjoining linking units and center mounting segment via means of a plurality of aligning openings spaced about the circumference of each end of the linking units and a securing mechanism. The openings on the male end of the linking units form inner and outer rows, in which the openings are offset from each other. The female ends of the linking units have front and rear openings which are generally parallel to each other. The securing mechanism may be a clamping device and may utilize a dowel which extends through the aligned openings on the adjoined linking units. The clamping device is then secured to prevent disengagement of the pin.

A system is disclosed for storing and maintaining a plurality of field orders and a corresponding plurality of invoices. This system allows a supplier and a buyer to easily view and obtain copies of one or more of the field orders and their corresponding invoices when proper security constraints are satisfied. The system includes a computer server adapted to receive input data comprising a plurality of field orders and a corresponding plurality of invoices, the field orders and the invoices being stored in a memory of the server. A processor of the server will execute a software package stored in a memory of the server called a report generation software. When the report generation software is executed by the processor of the server, a ‘special report’ is available for display on the server's recorder or display device, that ‘special report’ being adapted to be viewed by either the buyer or the supplier. On that ‘special report’, there are three columns. A first column consists of a plurality of descriptions of goods or services. A second column consists of a plurality of field orders. A third column consists of a plurality of invoices corresponding, respectively, to the plurality of field orders. The ‘special report’ can be viewed by the buyer when the buyer accesses the supplier's server via the internet and initiates an ‘automatch’ function. However, before accessing the supplier's server, the buyer must first input certain security constraints, such as username and password.

In an AC-AC converter comprising a primary side, a secondary side and a regulator, wherein the regulator comprises a voltage regulation circuit configured to determine an error voltage based on an at least partially alternating feedback voltage fed into the regulator from the secondary side of the AC-AC converter and to supply this error voltage and/or an information about this error voltage to the primary side of the AC-AC converter, the regulator comprises an averaging circuit configured to determine an average DC voltage based on the feedback voltage.

A composite wafer 10 includes a supporting substrate 12 and a semiconductor substrate 14 which are bonded to each other by direct bonding. The supporting substrate 12 is a translucent alumina substrate with an alumina purity of 99% or more. The linear transmittance of the supporting substrate 12 at the visible light range is 40% or less. Furthermore, the total light transmittance from the front at a wavelength of 200 to 250 nm of the supporting substrate 12 is 60% or more. The average crystal grain size of the supporting substrate 12 is 10 to μm. The semiconductor substrate 14 is a single crystal silicon substrate. Such a composite wafer 10 has insulation performance and thermal conduction comparable to those of a SOS wafer, can be manufactured at low cost, and can be easily made to have a large diameter.

A mobile terminal capable of receiving a radio signal from a wireless access point (AP) and a method of computing absolute coordinates of a wireless AP thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a main body; a location information unit mounted in the main body and collecting absolute coordinates of the main body; a wireless communication unit computing relative distance information between an external wireless access point (AP) and the main body by using radio signals transmitted and received between the wireless AP and the main body; a detection unit detecting relative coordinates of the main body by using the distance information and relative coordinates of the wireless AP; and a controller computing absolute coordinates of the wireless AP.

An UAV according to an embodiment may include housing, a tactile sensor disposed on at least a partial surface of the housing, at least one motor, a propeller connected the at least one motor, and a processor electrically connected to the tactile sensor and the at least one motor and controlling the at least one motor. Moreover, various embodiment grasped through the disclosure are possible.

A plant information display apparatus and a plant information display method are provided. A defining section 11 defines correspondence relationships between all of plant data and softwares displaying the corresponding plant data. A plant data displaying section 12 expands and displays the plant data in a hierarchical manner. A plant data selection accepting section 13 accepts an operation of selecting the plant data on the screen displayed by the plant data displaying section 12. A software selection accepting section 14 displays a selecting screen for selecting one of the softwares, and accepts an operation of selecting the one of the softwares in accordance with an operation of the selecting screen. A extracting section 15 extracts the software or plant data based on the defining section 11.

A nitride semiconductor laser chip is provided that offers sufficient reliability even at high output. The nitride semiconductor laser chip has a nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate, a resonator facet formed on the nitride semiconductor layer, and a coating film formed on the resonator facet and containing Ar. The coating film has, in a region contiguous with the resonator facet and in the vicinity thereof, a low-Ar region with a low Ar content and, on the side of this low-Ar region opposite from the resonator facet, a high-Ar region with a higher Ar content than the low-Ar region.

The present invention relates to a negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, which has a composition containing Si in an amount of from 30 to 65% by mass and has a two phase matrix structure including an Sn—Cu based alloy matrix having an Sn content of 50% by mass or more, Si crystallites dispersed in the Sn—Cu based alloy matrix and an Si—X based alloy crystallized so as to at least partially cover the Si crystallites, in which X is at least one element selected from Fe, Ni and Co and is added in the Si—X based alloy in an amount of 1% by mass or more.