A polypeptide having lipase activity that retains at least 80% activity after 4 days at 20 DEG C at a pH in the range of 3.5-8, retains at least 60% of its activity after 1 hour at 60 DEG C in acetate buffer at pH 5.0, and has an isoelectric point in the range of 3.5-4.5. The polypeptide is useful as a dough and bread quality improving agent and it reduces crumb pore diameter, increases crumb pore...

A process and a means are described for treatment of water that forms a growth environment for marine organisms, where this water is in a main tank that is placed on land. The invention provides a sufficient treatment/cleaning of the water so that it can be continuously re-circulated, and thus form a closed loop where one is not dependent on supply of external water.

PURPOSE: To provide a more improved microbial fouling control method capable of simultaneously suppressing microbial slime adhesion and disinfecting microorganisms in an aqueous system. CONSTITUTION: The method for controlling microbial fouling in aqueous system is characterized in that chlorine based oxidizer, sulfamate ion supply source and aqueous bromide ion supply source are injected into an ...

PURPOSE: An optical head, an LD module, an optical recording/reproducing device and a diffraction element used for the optical recording/reproducing device are provided to have certain grating patterns or to use a diffraction element, thereby removing DC offset components while dividing a beam regardless of whether a lens shift exists. CONSTITUTION: A light source(1) consists of a laser unit. A di...

The invention relates to a method for achieving lower emissions when operating a vehicle comprising a combustion engine (10) that emits exhaust gases to an exhaust system (140; 120), a catalyzer (320) located in the exhaust system, and a transmission (90) that is driven by the engine. Simulations are carried out continually with the object of predicting when cleaning of the catalyzer (320) should ...

A beverage product that comprises a dispenser and a pressurised beverage. The dispenser has a container for holding the beverage and a valve. The beverage has a sparingly soluble effervescence inducing gas dissolved therein and is held under a gaseous pressure in the head space of the container that is sufficient to cause the beverage to be discharged from the dispenser as an effervescent fluid wh...

The invention relates to a method for purifying wastewaters, particularly wastewaters produced in the paper industry, involving the following steps: a) aerobic clarification of the wastewater using activated sludge in an activation stage; b) carrying out, in a secondary settling tank, a subsequent clarification of a portion of the wastewater/activated sludge mixture leaving the activation stage; c...

An apparatus for selective diversion of objects such as containers, packing and packing units of different mass. The apparatus has a first transport device for the objects and a diversion device for diverting predetermined objects from the first transport device onto a second transport device. The intensity with which the objects are diverted from the first transport device onto the second transpo...

PURPOSE: A converting device is provided to improve the responsiveness by switching the separation guide body quickly and reducing response time with an electric flexible driving unit, and to simplify the structure of the separation unit by forming the simple electric wire and the signal line. CONSTITUTION: A converting device is composed of a couple of left and right variable turning bodies insta...

The insert (1) floats freely inside a sealed can, filled with e.g. carbonated water. It floats on its side at a free surface separating the liquid from the gas in the can. It floats with the narrow end of the egg-shaped outer container (20) uppermost. A small hole (4) in the narrow end of the egg-shape equalizes the gas pressure inside and outside the egg-shape. The cylindrical inner container is ...

PURPOSE: A demultiplexer API(Application Programming Interface) is provided to reduce the need for the large number of API's for filters by allowing a consumer to use muxed stream and video(compressed or uncompressed) and allowing demultiplexers to be used as an independent component. CONSTITUTION: A demultiplexer API includes a set of interfaces, data structures and events for representing a demu...

PURPOSE: A method, a server, and a client used in a client-server distributed system using synchronous communication are provided to reduce a turnaround time until the client receives notification completion of a server function from call of the server function without the client calls the server function many times. CONSTITUTION: A pre-process register(101) is a part of process corresponding to t...

PURPOSE: A surface acoustic wave apparatus and a communication apparatus are provided, which have low insertion loss and low VSWR and prevent the degradation of a withstanding voltage. CONSTITUTION: A butt-coupled resonator type surface acoustic wave apparatus has a plurality of comb electrodes having a plurality of electrode fingers(49,50,51,52) along a propagation direction of a surface acoustic...

The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in a computing environment to present and provide access to user information . The system may include a sidebar for hosting a plurality of tiles. Applications may be minimized and inserted into the sidebar upon minimization. Selected features of the application remain available through a tile when the application is represented by a ...

The invention relates to a method, a mobile communication terminal and a system for enabling a VPN connection to be established between a first (150) and a second (160) computer connected to a network such as the Internet. A first mobile terminal (154) is arranged for local Bluetooth communication with the first (150) computer. Likewise, a second mobile terminal (164) is arranged for local Bluetoo...

PURPOSE: Provided is a stripping and cleaning composition for microelectronic substrates, particularly FPD microelectronic substrates, which are able to essentially completely clean such substrates without generating no metal corrosion of the metal elements in the substrates. CONSTITUTION: The stripping and cleaning composition for microelectronic substrates comprises (a) a nucleophilic amine, (b)...

PURPOSE: A dielectric composition which has compatibility with an aluminum nitride(AlN) substrate and thus to be suitably used thereon as a thick film, is provided without using Pd and Cd. CONSTITUTION: The dielectric composition suitably used as a thick film for AlN substrate comprises: a glass composition comprising 1-10mol% of MO, wherein M is selected from Ba, Sr, Ca and their mixtures, 5-30mo...

PURPOSE: A wireless packet communication device and a method are provided to connect individual packets in plural while capsulating the connected packets to transmit the capsulated packets, thereby reducing an overlapped waiting time or overlapped information, consequently an entire system capacity can be increased. CONSTITUTION: A connection packet transmission controller(13) comprises as follows...

The present invention is directed to a process for separating polyester, and particularly polyethylene terephthalate, from various contaminants and impurities. In general, the process includes the steps of mixing materials containing polyester with an alkaline composition in a mixer. The mixer imparts sufficient energy to the slurry to provide substantially complete, even coating of the polyester ...

A cover for a drainage device, in particular a drainage channel with a channel body such that the cover can be set on an upper edge of the channel body, which comprises detent ridges that extend into the channel body and which has at least one fixing element to attach the cover to the channel body or to a frame disposed on the channel body to reinforce its upper edge, such that in a locked state t...