PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for yielding γ-aminobutyric acid in a good efficiency from glutamic acid and/or its salts, and also producing a composition containing the γ-aminobutyric acid in high concentration.

SOLUTION: This method for producing the γ-aminobutyric acid is provided by inoculating and culturing new lactobacilli, i.e. Lactobacillus brevis UAS-4 strain or Lactobac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve the low-exposure tomography or X-ray CT fluoroscopy in an X-ray CT apparatus or X-ray CT fluoroscopic apparatus.

SOLUTION: X-ray data are collected by controlling the position of an X-ray collimator or beam-forming X-ray filter in the direction of a channel so that X rays are applied to a concerned region only. The profile area of the whole subject is obtain...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce cost of a shielding apparatus and simplify its execution work.

SOLUTION: The shielding apparatus 10 is provided with a fabric-like shielding material 11 having a loop 21 formed in an upper part for inserting a bar 22. A cord 31 is intermittently inserted vertically into the shielding material 11 by fitting one end to the lower part of the shielding material 1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach various game boards with different quantities of backward projection in a game machine having a game board detachably attached to a front frame, structured to execute a display game in a display area set on the game board.

SOLUTION: Various kinds of game boards 1 with different quantities of backward projection can be attached by making a display unit 173 mov...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of executing a performance which does not make a player lose expectations of a big winning game state and suppressing the lowering of the interest of a game.

SOLUTION: When a game state is a normal state, by switching a normal background in the order of the season backgrounds of a spring background 51f, a summer background 51a, an autu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fraudulence detection technique which enables the detection of the fraudulent attempt to place an illegal CPU while leaving the normal CPU.

SOLUTION: In the main control board 20 in a pachinko game machine 10, the main CPU 210 equipped with a control bass 216 and a databass 218 for inputting or outputting data to parts of the pachinko game machine 10 detec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a body temperature measuring apparatus for ladies for which a body temperature measurement part and a main body part are separated and body temperature data are transmitted by radio especially relating to the body temperature measuring apparatus for ladies.

SOLUTION: The body temperature measuring apparatus for ladies comprises: a temperature measuring part ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an end cap of a curtain weight, allowing a user to connect an operating cord to the end cap by winding the operating cord only, and capable of improving the efficiency in the manufacture of a curtain by simplifying the connection work.

SOLUTION: The end cap 15 is formed by disposing an operating cord winding part 19 on an outer end face of a cap body 17 atta...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve the maintenance of players' desires for games by developing a group of material image data necessary for the display of images fast in a volatile image memory.

SOLUTION: The game machine is provided with a symbol CPU 311 which individually designates a texture data or the like necessary for the display of a polygon, a GPU 300 containing the symbol CPU 311 wh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a detector for a portable imaging system.

SOLUTION: The detector (26) according to this invention is provided with a flash memory (31) including a complete set of constituent set-up parameters and a calibration file. The detector (26) is also provided with a transmitter/receiver (35) for communicating with an imaging system (10). It is further provided with ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inherently hydrophobicity macromolecule membrane base material having a surface rendered hydrophilic with a hydroxyakyl cellulose and having a throughput greater than about 1,500 L/m2.

SOLUTION: A process for manufacturing the membrane includes a step of autoclaving in boiling water and/or steam or submerging in boiling water. The membrane is use...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a work positioning device for a press machine by which the occurrence of wear or damage is extremely lessened, the precision and productivity of a press machining are stably secured and also the occurrence of noise is suppressed.

SOLUTION: This device is provided with: a disk-shaped work holding member 41 having a circular outer peripheral surface 42; and a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent cost increase and eliminate need for the machine or the like requiring a wide installation space when trying to cut out the stamping image formed on a workpiece by a desired area.

SOLUTION: The device has a stamping head for forming the stamping image on the machined surface of the workpiece, a cutting head equipped with a cutter for cutting out the workpiec...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply and accurately cut a sticking margin part, without requiring a trimming piece part in the center part of one side end or a sticking margin part having a trimming piece part in a corrugated board sheet, without the need for a spare cutting blade, by using the sticking margin part cutting device of the same structure.

SOLUTION: In this sticking margin part cutt...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inexpensively manufacture a seamless belt having high elastic modulus and extremely good thickness precision and to provide an excellent intermediate transfer body which improves the percent defective between the changeover lots of a resin solution, used in a tandem type intermediate transfer type image forming apparatus, has high elastic modulus and extremely good thic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imprinting device which can prevent the occurrence of a defect in a material to be molded during the separation of a imprinting mold and an imprinting method.

SOLUTION: The imprinting device transfers the fine structure 10a of the mold to the material to be molded by pressing/demolding by making the mold 10 fixed to the side of a device body by a mold fix...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing process of a transport device which avoids the delay in the start of manufacturing moldings by largely sparing the idle time and improving the manufacturing efficiency by omitting the most of the preceding steps as compared with the actual manufacturing step.

SOLUTION: The transport device (insert head) 1 as a pseudo-core is manufactured (ste...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface protective film having antistatic property, easy detergency of contaminant and transparency.

SOLUTION: The surface protective film comprises a substrate film, an adhesive layer prepared on one surface of the substrate film, and a surface protective layer prepared on another surface of the substrate film, wherein the surface protective layer compris...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent excessive increase of brake pad temperatures in any of wheels by separately and precisely grasping the temperatures of the brake pads of the respective wheels in a vehicle having an anti-lock brake system (ABS) and a vehicle travel stable controller (VSC), with a plurality of wheels being slip-controlled separately.

SOLUTION: In a vehicle having a plurality ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle motion state determination system that can calculate quantities representing the behavior of a vehicle, such as a yaw rate, without using data maps, and can accurately determine whether the vehicle is in a normal travel state or in a spin/drift state.

SOLUTION: The vehicle motion state determination system 1 comprises a vehicle behavior estimation ...