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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new amylase effective for preventing the contamination with sundry germ, free from the gelatinization of starch and active at 50-60°C which is a temperature range sufficiently controllable by the waste steam of a plant, and provide a microorganism capable of efficiently producing the amylase, and a method for the efficient production of the amylase with the microorganism. SOLUTION: This invention relates to the amylase derived from the genus Streptomyces and having a specific amino acid sequence, Streptomyces E-2248 strain having the productivity of the amylase and a method for the production of the amylase are also disclosed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop a method for separating spawn from mucous substances of sandfish ovaries and to establish an effective utilization method of the viscous substances and the spawn. SOLUTION: The mucous substances originating from the sandfish ovaries have properties below: (1) They have a molecular weight of 43 kDa (by the SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoretic method). (2) They have an N-terminal amino acid sequence represented by sequence number 1 in the sequence table. (3) They have a viscosity of 24 mPa s (concentration: 0.8 w/v%, 1% SDS solution; shear rate of 49.5 [s -1 ]; temperature of 25°C). (4) They have thermal stability such that the viscosity (Pa s) is retained at the level of 71% when heated at 100°C for 40 min. (5) They have an isoelectric point of 5.2. The method for separating the spawn from the mucous substances comprises subjecting the sandfish ovaries to a water treatment or to cutting of ovary cores. Uses of the viscous substances and the spawn are also provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for efficiently producing an unconventional fermented food containing γ-aminobutyric acid at a high concentration, i.e., γ-aminobutyric acid-enriched fermented food. SOLUTION: This method for producing the γ-aminobutyric acid-enriched fermented food comprises, when producing the fermented food, adding to the raw material of the fermented food a culture product of lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus brevis IFO12005 strain in a medium containing sprouted brown rice bran and/or rice bran, and glutamic acid or its salt, and fermenting the product followed by maturing. The γ-aminobutyric acid-enriched fermented food produced by the method is also provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substance excellent in action promoting melanogenesis and effective in prevention and improvement of gray hair and melanization of the skin and a composition effectively utilizing the substance. SOLUTION: The melanogenesis promoter is composed of an extract of Lactuca indica L. or a lupeol fatty acid ester and/or its isomer or the melanogenesis promoter comprises the extract of Lactuca indica L. or the lupeol fatty acid ester and/or its isomer as an active ingredient. The melanogenesis-promoting composition comprises the melanogenesis promoter, the extract of Lactuca indica L. or the lupeol fatty acid ester and/or its isomer. The melanogenesis-promoting composition may also be a composition for prevention of the gray hair or a composition for melanization of the skin. Furthermore, the composition is preferably used as a cosmetic, a medicine or a food. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a W-Ti-C type composite body having high hardness, high Young's modulus characteristics, oxidation resistance, wear resistance, deposition resistance, etc., without requiring addition of Co, as a major element, which causes marked reduction in hardness and Young's modulus and also to provide its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: The W-Ti-C type composite body has a WC phase and/or a W 2 C phase and a TiC phase and/or a (Ti, W)C phase. The W-Ti-C type composite body can be manufactured by mixing powder of one or more kinds selected from W, WC and W 2 C and powder of one or more kinds selected from Ti, TiC and (Ti, W)C and sintering the resultant powder mixture. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an acoustic velocity measurement method using ultrasonic waves for simultaneously measuring the acoustic velocity of a material (sample) with improved accuracy by a relatively simple operation by using a probe even in a thin and small sample, and to provide a method for obtaining Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio based on the acoustic velocity measurement method. SOLUTION: In the case of the measurement of acoustic velocity, a bottom surface echo and a delayed echo are detected. The bottom surface echo that does not accompany any mode conversion and returns after being propagated by longitudinal waves in the sample and being returned by reflection from the bottom surface of the sample after ultrasonic waves are applied to the sample that is dipped into a medium from the probe. The delay echo is due to traverse waves being generated by mode conversion when being reflected from the bottom surface of the sample. Then a travel wave acoustic velocity C s is obtained from traverse wave propagation time obtained by subtracting the propagation time (T B /2) in the longitudinal waves of bottom surface echoes that do not accompany any mode conversion from propagation time (T X1 ) in the delayed echoes due to the mode conversion and a thickness (t) in the sample, where C s = t/(T X1 -T B /2). COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a soft magnetic film with highly saturated magnetic flux density that has a highly saturated magnetic flux density, a small coercive force, and a large anisotropic magnetic field. SOLUTION: The soft magnetic film with highly saturated magnetic flux density contains Al 2 O 3 of 3% or less to Fe x Co 1-x (0.65≤x≤0.75). COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording medium which realizes high-density information recording, particularly high recording resolution for magnetic recording. SOLUTION: An information recording layer made of a mixture of a L10 regular alloy selected from the following group (A) and MgO is used for a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The group (A) includes FePt regular alloy, CoPt regular alloy, FePd regular alloy and alloys of these. The information recording layer has a fine magnetic domain structure and makes high- density recording possible as indicated by the reproduction output spectrum showing the result of the evaluation of recording and reproducing in one example of the magnetic recording medium. The medium can be produced at a lower film forming temperature compared to a L10 regular alloy mixture thin film by conventional techniques.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lightweight expanded glass tile in order to effectively reuse a used glass, and to provide a method for producing a lightweight expanded glass tile having merits of free foaming and foamed shape having sharp corners and flat surfaces as conventional tiles. SOLUTION: This lightweight expanded glass tile is obtained by mixing pulverized glass coarse particles having 50 μm average particle diameter with fine particles having 14 μm average particle diameter at a weight ratio of (35:5) to (25:15) preferably (30:10), using 1.0-2.0 wt.% preferably 1.5 wt.% calcium carbonate as the foaming agent based on the glass powder weight, kneading the resultant with 15 wt.% water then molding at 40 kg/cm2 pressure and heating and calcinating at 750-800 deg.C for 30 min to similarly expand the molded product to the shape thereof in molding.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent air holes from being formed in a Japanese radish or the like. SOLUTION: This method for treating Japanese radish or the like to prevent the formation of air holes therein is characterized by thermally treating the Japanese radish or the like at 50 to 70 deg.C and then drying the treated Japanese radish or the like.