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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7901594 | Polyacene derivatives and production thereof The present invention relates to polyacene derivatives represented by general formula (I) below: (wherein R1 to R10, etc. each represents hydrogen atom, hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group; A1 | 03/08/2011 |
| 7820423 | Method and a system for predicting protein functional site, a method for improving protein function, and a function-modified protein The present application provides a method for predicting the functional site of a protein using data of the entire proteins of an organism of which genome data or cDNA data is known. More specifically, the present application provides a method for predicting a prote... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7604972 | Nicotianamine synthase A nicotianamine synthase is isolated and purified. Then the gene of this enzyme is cloned and the base sequence and amino acid sequence thereof are determined. This gene is employed in constructing plants, in particular, grass plants highly tolerant to iron-deficien... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7585931 | Optically active high-molecular compounds Disclosed are optically active high-molecular-weight compounds of the following formula and stationary-phase materials containing the same. The high-molecular-weight compounds exhibit optical activity by virtue of their sta... | 09/08/2009 |
| 6815508 | Propylene/ethylene block copolymer, blushing-resistant transparent polypropylene resin for molding, elastomer for molding, and molded article obtained from these A polypropylene/ethylene block copolymer, which has a poly(ethylene-co-propylene) segment content of 5 to 100 wt. %, excluding 100 wt. %, and a total ethylene content of 2 to 95 wt. %. (a) The block polymer comprises polypropylene segments and poly(ethylene-co-propy... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6812292 | Propylene/ethylene block copolymer, blushing-resistant transparent polypropylene resin for molding, elastomer for molding, and molded article obtained therefrom A polypropylene/ethylene block copolymer, which has a poly(ethylene-co-propylene) segment content of 5 to 100 wt. %, excluding 100 wt. %, and a total ethylene content of 2 to 95 wt. %. (a) The block polymer comprises polypropylene segments and poly(ethylene-co-propy... | 11/02/2004 |
| 7488698 | Microencapsulated metal catalyst A microencapsulated Group VIII metal catalyst which is stable even in air, easy to recover, and reusable is disclosed. It comprises a polymer with side chains containing an aromatic substituent, and a metal catalyst comprising a Group VIII metal encapsulated in to t... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7460702 | Entropy filter, and area extracting method using the filter A smooth portion is efficiently extracted from an image. There is provided an entropy filter in which a noted pixel (x, y) is determined in an original image, said image is partitioned by a window of size (width, height)=(A, B) from the noted pixel, entropy of the p... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7425430 | Probe for visualizing phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of protein and method of detecting and quantifying phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of protein As a versatile method of detecting and assaying intracellular protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation that enables nondestructive monitoring as well as spatial and temporal analysis for living cells, animal bodies, plant bodies and the like, a probe for imagin... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7413895 | DNA encoding neutral amino acid transporter A novel amino acid transporter molecule mediating transportation of amino acids, which are nutrients essentially required in the survival and proliferation of various normal cells constituting a living body and various pathology-associated abnormal cells such as tum... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411997 | Apparatus and method for filtering a spectrum spread communication A filter (201) accepts spreading code sequences or the like as input sequences of a chip rate 1/D, the accepted spreading code sequences are sequentially delayed and distributed by delay circuits (202) connected in series, delay times of individual sig... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7404922 | Method for producing SiC fiber-reinforced SiC composite material by means of hot press A powdery mixture of fine SiC powder with one or more oxide sintering additives of Al2O3, Y2O3, SiO2 and CaO is blended and uniformly dispersed in a polymeric SiC precursor to prepare a matrix-forming polymeric ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7384520 | Method for manufacturing hybrid carbon nanotube The invention of present application relates to a method for enabling a hybrid carbon nanotube having an arbitrary composition ratio to be readily manufactured, and the hybrid carbon nanotube. A method for manufacturing a hybrid carbon nanotube, which comprises imme... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7374938 | Process for producing non-cellulosic callose fiber by plant protoplast and callose fiber A method for producing non-cellulosic callose fiber by using plant protoplast, which imposes less burden to the environment with reduced energy consumption compared to conventional natural fibers is provided; it comprises the addition of an inorganic ion to a plant ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7361696 | 1,4-disubstituted diacetyline polymer and process for producing the same A 1,4-di-substituted diacetylene polymer that is soluble in organic solvent, is composed of a repeating unit represented by the general formula ═CR—C≡C—CR′═ (wherein, R and R′ represent identical or different monovalent organic substituents), and has a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354771 | Method of determining absolute configuration of chiral compound The absolute configuration of a chiral compound is determined by (i) coordinating the chiral compound to a metalloporphyrin having a carbon chain-crosslinked porphyrin dimer structure in which one of the two porphyrin rings has at least one ethyl or substituent bulk... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351531 | Molecules capable of binding to telomere and the like and method with the use of the same A method of forming a self-connective structure (a hairpin structure, a four-stranded structure, etc.) of a single-stranded oligonucleotide chain by forming a mimetic base pair of a mismatch base pair failing to form any normal base pair among base pairs of the sing... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341740 | Human mitochondrial proteins and polynucleotide encoding the proteins The invention of the present application provides an isolated and purified human mitochondrial protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 4, which is a novel human protein promoting aggregation and fusion of mitochondria. The present in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7335283 | Production method for composite oxide thin film and device therefor and composite oxide film produced thereby A method and an apparatus which permits making a composite oxide thin film excellent in crystallinity easily and at a low temperature, with the capability of controlling the basic unit cell structure as desired, and without the need for a post annealing, as well as ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335734 | Protein polymer having unfold activity on higher-order structure of protein The invention of this application provides a protein polymer of 8 to 15 proteins in association, wherein each protein has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, and where the protein polymer has an unfold activity on the higher-order structure of a protein and thi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335622 | Manganese/oxygen compound with arsenic adsorption A novel technique that is able to efficiently remove, in addition to pentavalent arsenic, trivalent arsenic that has been considered to be difficult to remove. By using a manganese oxygen compound which is characterized by being a product of burning or heating which... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335482 | Method using neutral amino acid transporter expressing cell A novel amino acid transporter molecule mediating transportation of amino acids, which are nutrients essentially required in the survival and proliferation of various normal cells constituting a living body and various pathology-associated abnormal cells such as tum... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332293 | Neutral amino acid transporter binding method A novel amino acid transporter molecule mediating transportation of amino acids, which are nutrients essentially required in the survival and proliferation of various normal cells constituting a living body and various pathology-associated abnormal cells such as tum... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332572 | Neutral amino acid transporter and gene thereof A novel amino acid transporter molecule mediating transportation of amino acids, which are nutrients essentially required in the survival and proliferation of various normal cells constituting a living body and various pathology-associated abnormal cells such as tum... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329494 | Method of detection and quantification of cGMP by using a cGMP-visualizing probe As a cGMP-visualizing probe capable of detecting and quantifying cGMP easily and accurately even in vivo and for a method of detecting and quantifying cGMP by using the same, a cGMP-visualizing probe comprising a polypeptide, which binds specifically to cGMP, and tw... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7323603 | Method for aldol reaction in water A method for aldol reaction in water, which comprises: reacting an aldehyde with a silyl enol ether in an aqueous medium in the presence of a boronic acid represented by the following general formula (1): R1R2BOH (1) (w... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318906 | Method for producing SiC fiber-reinforced SiC composite material A preformed of SiC fiber, which is coated with one or more of C, BN and SiC, is impregnated with a slurry, which suspends fine SiC powder and a sintering additive therein. The impregnated preform is hot-pressed at 1600-1800° C. with a pressure of 10 MPa or more. Th... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7314727 | Methods to facilitate diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus The present invention relates to methods for differentiating demential diseases comprising measuring the concentration of human lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase in a sample of a body fluid collected from a subject and kits for differentiating demential diseas... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315412 | Focus stabilizing mechanism for microscopes and similar optical instruments An optical microscope of high stability such that problems wherein an image of a sample becomes unsharp during observation and movement (drift) of the object point (object) occurs are solved because the defocusing in the Z direction attributable to thermal expansion... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7307193 | Microencapsulated metal catalyst A microencapsulated Group VIII metal catalyst which is stable even in air, easy to recover, and reusable is disclosed. It comprises a polymer with side chains containing an aromatic substituent, and a metal catalyst comprising a Group VIII metal encapsulated in to t... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7270998 | Method of concentrating and separating dopaminergic neurons The invention of this application provides a method comprising introducing a reporter nucleic acid molecule that expresses a fluorescent protein under control of the promoter/enhancer of a gene that is expressed in dopaminergic neurons, into each of cells, and isola... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255998 | High sensitivity immunoassay method A method for detecting a cytokine in a biological fluid sample with a high sensitivity is provided. A time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay (TR-FIA) method including a step of forming on a solid phase a composite in which a cytokine is captured and which includes a fluore... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253269 | Modified cDNA of rat gene and modified protein The present invention provides an genetically engineered cDNA of the rat bcl-x gene, which has at least one substitution selected from the substitutions that change residues 22 Tyr to Phe, residues 26 Gln to Asn and residues 165 Arg to Lys, in the coding region of r... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7235620 | Polyester having π-conjugated group in side chain and charge transporting material using the same A polyester expressed by the following structural formula 1, and a charge transport material obtained by adding an electron acceptor compound or an electron donor compound to this polyester. In the aforesaid struct... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235267 | Brain cell or nerve cell-protecting agents comprising medicinal ginseng The present invention provides medicinal or pharmaceutical compositions and preparations for administration, which are useful as cytoprotective agents and a remedy for neurotrauma, comprising ginseng, its extract, ginseng components, metabolites thereof or salts the... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231301 | Method and a system for predicting protein functional site, a method for improving protein function, and a function-modified protein The present application provides a method for predicting the functional site of a protein using data of the entire proteins of an organism of which genome data or cDNA data is known. More specifically, the present application provides a method for predicting a prote... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229773 | Screening method for apoptosis-suppressing or-promoting substance To provide a screening method for an apoptosis-suppressing substance or an apoptosis-promoting substance, the application of which substances to pharmaceuticals or diagnostic drugs are expected, also to provide an apoptosis-suppressing substance or an apoptosis-prom... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226997 | Mast cell-specific signal transducer and cDNA thereof The present invention provides a signal transducer specifically expressed in mouse mast cells that has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2, a signal transducer specifically expressed in human mast cells that has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 4, polynucle... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226935 | Hypoglycemic agent A zinc(II) complex which is lowly toxic, has high insulin-like activity, and is effectively usable as a hypoglycemic agent for the prevention or treatment of diabetes; a hypoglycemic agent containing the complex; a medicinal preparation which contains the complex an... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221795 | Document processing method, recording medium having recorded thereon document processing program, document processing program, document processing apparatus, and character-input document A character overlapping with a line of an entry box is extracted utilizing a dot box. At document input step S2, a document to be recognized is read and converted into electronic data to produce character box data. At electronic data storing step S3, t... | 05/22/2007 |
