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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7283306 | Confocal optical scanner A confocal optical scanner of Nipkow disk type for measuring a sample, in which each component of two or more color pigments, has a high reflection mirror for separating an excited light to be radiated onto the sample and a fluorescence emitted from the sample, wher... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7195895 | Method of producing template DNA and method of producing protein in cell-free protein synthesis system using the same Provided is a method of producing a template DNA used for protein synthesis comprising a step of amplifying a linear double-stranded DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), by using a reaction solution comprising a first double-stranded DNA fragment comprising a seq... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7189367 | Reactor and process for production thereof In order to be capable of a chemical reaction, analysis or the like wherein a small amount of samples is used, a reactor comprises a flat plate-like first substrate the inside of which is provided with a heating means; and a flat plate-like second substrate, which i... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7189365 | Liquid treating equipment including a storage vessel and a discharge vessel In a liquid treating equipment to maintain a small amount of liquid to a desired liquid level with constantly supplying an additional liquid into a small capacity vessel, a storage vessel 13 to store the small amount of liquid, an injection tube 16 to ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7150859 | Microarray fabricating device A device for fabricating a high-density microarray for cDNA or protein having an arbitrary pattern comprises an electrospray part for electrostatically spraying solutions containing a plurality of kinds of biologically active samples one by one, a support part suppo... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7135610 | Mouse showing neurofibril change due to senile dementia A transgenic mouse transformed with a DNA encoding a mutant human tau protein, wherein the mouse exhibits neurofibrillary tangles in its brain. The transgenic mouse is useful for the development of the agent for treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7122382 | Method for detecting proteins under mutual interaction A method for detecting proteins under mutual interaction which comprises mixing a protein having a label for detection synthesized by a cell-free protein synthesis method with another protein having a modification for separation, or synthesizing a protein having a l... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7098365 | Abscisic acid biosynthesis inhibitor Compounds represented by the following general formula (I) or salts thereof: wherein R1 represents hydrogen atom, hydroxyl group, or an alkoxy group; R2 represents hydroxyl group or an alkox... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7078590 | Method for providing a property of stress-resistance The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought stress. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing raffinose content in the plant. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7056994 | Catalyst composition The present invention relates to a catalyst composition for polymerization of a conjugated diene, comprising: (A) a metallocene-type complex represented by a general formula (I): (C5R1R2R3R4R5)a | 06/06/2006 |
| 7049490 | Gibberellin 3β-hydroxylase genes of rice and uses thereof Genomic DNA and cDNA encoding GA 3β-hydroxylase were isolated from rice. When the expression of these genes was suppressed in rice plants, the plants became dwarfed compared with the wild type plants. ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7026911 | Point contact array, not circuit, and electronic circuit comprising the same A point contact array, including plural point contacts electrically and reversibly controlling conductance between electrodes and being applicable to an arithmetic circuit, a logic circuit, a memory device, a NOT circuit, and an electronic circuit including the same... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6980010 | Method and apparatus for inspecting wire breaking of integrated circuit An apparatus that inspects wire breaking of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a voltage applying device (12), a light pulse source (14), a scanning device (16), an electromagnetic wave detection device (18), and a wire breaking ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6893825 | Microorganisms for use in the measurement of environmental factors A microorganism mixture consisting of a first microorganism that secretes a substance upon perception of an environmental factor and a second microorganism that expresses a marker gene upon perception of the secreted substance is disclosed. The present invention pro... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6892142 | Method of analyzing particles suspended in liquid and liquid-suspended particle analyzer for carrying out the method A liquid-suspended particle analyzer includes: a fine liquid droplet producing device for atomizing a liquid pumped from a sample container by a fixed-displacement pump to produce fine liquid droplets suspended in a carrier gas; an evaporator for evaporating the liq... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6873395 | Motion picture analyzing system An addition image generation module 10 sequentially timewise adds images (input images) of still pictures at individual discrete time points included in a motion picture to be analyzed, thereby generating two kinds of addition images (image A and image B), re... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6841055 | Method of preparing electrophoretic support, electrophoretic matrix, and method of electrophoresis A method of preparing an electrophoretic support comprising washing of at least a portion of the surface of a silicon-containing support member supporting an electrophoretic matrix with a weak alkali solution and supporting of said matrix by said support member; an ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6833719 | Apparatus for evaluating electrical characteristics An apparatus provided for evaluating electrical characteristics by bringing a plurality of metal probes in contact with a sample. A metal probe is formed on a free end of a cantilever on which are formed a resistor, two electrodes for resistance detection, and an el... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6813338 | Method for measuring powder x-ray diffraction data using one-or-two-dimensional detector High-resolution powder diffraction is performed using high-energy synchrotron radiation as an x-ray source in such a way that a detector mounted on a measuring instrument such as a diffractometer is moved by smaller distances than the distance between adjacent x-ray... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6813063 | Exciton polariton optical switch A waveguide having a periodic structure and the excitation of exciton polariton as one form of interactions between radiation fields and matter systems are applied to light switching to provide an optical switch that is excellent in light intensity extinction ratio ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6753461 | Method for increasing stress-resistance to a plant The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought and high salt concentration. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing galactinol content in the plant. ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6744225 | Ion accelerator The present invention mainly relates to an ion accelerator with significantly simplified construction, for accelerating an much larger amount of ions, wherein that a plasma-generating target 12, a vacuum chamber 16 for extracting ions from plasma gener... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6709804 | Printed wiring board and semiconductor device and processes to prepare the same A printed wiring board, a substrate for disposing semiconductor chips and a semiconductor device prepared by coating a substrate with a photosensitive resin composition comprising an oxygen sensitizer and a cis-diene-substituted polyamic acid or polyimide and formin... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6707070 | Wavelength-tunable light emitting device A wavelength-tunable light emitting device includes a substrate having an atomic-scale structure formed on a surface thereof, a needle member for locally applying a voltage through a vacuum space or a transparent insulating member to the substrate to cause a tunnel ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6683985 | Method of discriminating shape of free-form curved surface A principle curvature of a target curved surface S' and a principle curvature of a corresponding position of a reference surface S are obtained and each part is displayed by being classified into (a) a case where two principle curvatures increase, (b) a c... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6677043 | Nano-wrapped molecular materials Nano-wrapped molecular materials comprising molecule, molecular aggregate, or nanoparticle which has the surface at least partially covered with an ultrathin film containing oxygen-metal bond was disclosed. The nano-wrapped molecular materials successfull... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6667995 | ultrashort pulse laser oscillator For the sake of no needing to provide a mechanically actuating section such as a rotating mechanism thereby to be capable of realizing stable ultrashort pulse laser oscillation, an ultrashort pulse laser oscillator comprises a laser resonator composed of ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6627399 | RNA polymerase transcription promoters and nucleic acid sequencing method An RNA polymerase transcription accelerator comprising a compound represented by the following Formula (I) or salts thereof. ##STR1## A method of sequencing DNA in which nucleic acid transcripts are obtained using an RNA polymerase and a DNA fragment as a... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6605645 | Linear polyamine compounds and polyamine-based anti-tumor agents Nobel polyamine compounds and polyamine compounds having carcinostatic action are provided. There are also provided anticancer agents containing as active ingredient at least one of polyamine compounds represented by the following Formula (I) or (III) and... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6605257 | Micro array manufacturing apparatus A present micro array manufacturing apparatus includes a substrate placement portion 11 on which a plurality of substrates can be arranged, a tighter plate 12 for storing a solution including a living body sample, a solution storing member 52 for taking i... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6577886 | Living body function measurement method A living body function measurement method comprises separating a light from a low coherence light source into a signal light and a reference light, modulating a frequency of at least one of the signal light and the reference light, irradiating the signal ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6528231 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PRINTED WIRING BOARD, SUBSTRATE FOR DISPOSING SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING A PRINTED WIRING BOARD, A SUBSTRATE FOR DISPOSING SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS AND A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A photosensitive resin composition comprising an oxygen sensitizer and a cis-diene-substituted polyamic acid or a polyimide. A printed wiring board, a substrate for disposing semiconductor chips and a semiconductor device prepared by coating a substrate w... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6495328 | Substrate for detecting base sequences, method of manufacturing the substrate, and method of detecting base sequences using the substrate A substrate for detecting base sequences that comprises a transparent support, a thin metal film formed on one side of the transparent support, and a self-assembled monolayer with a nonionic aromatic compound being an intercalator of nucleic acid polymers... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6495132 | Method for producing polypeptides There is provided a method for producing a polypeptide using a recombinant baculovirus according to the present invention, wherein said recombinant baculovirus is constructed by ligating the untranslated region of 21 base pairs as set forth in SEQ ID NO:1... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6447376 | Plasma discharge truing apparatus and fine-machining methods using the apparatus A conductive grindstone 12, a circular disk-like discharge electrode 14 with an outer rim 14a that can access a machining surface 12a of the grindstone, an electrode rotating device 16, a position controlling device 18 that controls the relative position ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6353330 | Single-flux-quantum digital device A single-flux-quantum digital device includes a first superconducting line extended in a large ring, a second superconducting line connected to the first superconducting line, a superconducting single electron transistor for regulating a supercurrent flow... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6341999 | Glass substrate chamfering method and apparatus A method for glass substrate chamfering using a metal-bonded outer-surface grindstone 12 for simultaneously processing the end surface and the oblique surfaces of the outer periphery of a doughnut-like glass substrate 1 with a circular hole 1a at the cent... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6310343 | Electron impact elastic recoil hydrogen atom analyzer An electron impact elastic recoil hydrogen atom analyzer includes an electron gun that projects an electron beam on a surface of a specimen for electron bombardment to make hydrogen atoms contained in the specimen elastically recoil, a hydrogen detecting ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6287757 | Amino acid-trehalose composition An amino acid-trehalose composition comprising an amino acid composition which comprises proline, alanine, glycine, valine, threonine, leucine, histidine, lysine, isoleucine, arginine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan; and trehalose. The amino acid... | 09/11/2001 |
