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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a three-dimensional interactive display which enables multi-touch sensing, three-dimensional gesture recognition, or the like and also can be thinned.SOLUTION: The three-dimensional interactive display includes: a light source 11 for irradiating an object 15 to be detected with light; a light modulation layer 12, into which scattered light 17 generated by irradiating the object 15 with light 16 from the light source 11 enters, and which has a function at least for modulating an intensity of the scattered light 17; a transparent light-receiving layer 13 for receiving the light transmitted through the light modulation layer 12; and a display panel 14 or a back light panel disposed on the opposite side of the transparent light-receiving layer 13 from the light modulation layer 12. The transparent light-receiving layer 13 has a two-dimensional array of light-receiving elements D.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid-uncontacting all-solid-state protein photoelectric conversion element capable of working even when a liquid such as water is not present in the interior or exterior of the element, and to provide a method of manufacturing the element. SOLUTION: The liquid-uncontacting all-solid-state protein photoelectric conversion element has a structure in which a solid protein layer 13 including an electron transport protein is sandwiched between an electrode 11 and an electrode 12. The solid protein layer 13 is immobilized on both the electrode 11 and the electrode 12. The solid protein layer 13 contains no liquid such as water. The solid protein layer 13 includes a monomolecular film or multi-molecular film of the electron transfer protein. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color imaging device and a photosensor that are stably usable for a long period with high definition and high sensitivity, and to provide a molecular device which is suitably used therefor. SOLUTION: A photoelectric conversion element is formed by immobilizing cytochrome c552 13 on a gold electrode 11 via a self-assembled molecular monolayer 12 and coupling an electron transfer protein 14 having a photoelectric conversion function to the cytochrome c552 13. Alternatively, a photoelectric conversion element for green light or blue light is formed by immobilizing zinc-substituted cytochrome c552 or zinc-modified porphyrin cytochrome c552 on the gold electrode. The color imaging device or photosensor is constituted using those photoelectric conversion elements. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrolytic process, by which reverse reaction of an enzyme can be suppressed and the electrolysis rate can be improved. SOLUTION: When fuel such as glucose is electrolyzed by using an enzyme/electron mediator 1 in which an enzyme such as gluconic acid-5-dehydrogenase, alcohol dehydrogenase and malic acid dehydrogenase, and an electron mediator are fixed to a porous electrode made of a carbon material or the like, the electrolytic reaction is induced only within the enzyme/electron mediator 1 electrode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell that, when an enzyme is immobilized on at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, can obtain satisfactory buffering capability even during high-output operation, can satisfactorily exhibit capability inherent in the enzyme, and has excellent performance. SOLUTION: The fuel cell is a biofuel cell having a structure comprising a positive electrode 2 and a negative electrode 1 arranged opposite to each other through an electrolyte layer 3 containing a buffering substance, an enzyme being immobilized on at least one of the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 2. An imidazole ring-containing compound is included as a buffering substance in the electrolyte layer 3. Further, at least one acid selected from a group consisting of acetic acid, phosphoric acid, and sulfuric acid is added. For the imidazole ring-containing compound, imidazole, 1-methylimidazole, 2-methylimidazole, 4-methylimidazole, or 2-ethylimidazole is used. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for designing a variant-type tyrosine-dependent oxidation-reduction enzyme in which the degree of heat-resistance is equal to or more than a predetermined level. SOLUTION: The method for designing a heat-resistant variant-type enzyme includes making the distance between α4-helix and α6-helix in a three-dimensional protein structure smaller than that of a wild-type enzyme by deleting, substituting, adding or inserting one or several amino acids of the amino acid sequence of the wild-type enzyme in a tyrosine-dependent oxidation-reduction enzyme. In the method for designing a heat-resistant variant-type enzyme, it is possible to specially select gluconate dehydrogenase as a tyrosine-dependent oxidation-reduction enzyme. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mutant type protein having the degree of diaphorase activity or thermostability thereof at a prescribed level or higher. SOLUTION: The mutant type protein is composed of an amino acid sequence in which at least one or more amino acid residues are deleted, substituted, added or inserted in a specific natural type amino acid sequence and has the diaphorase activity with ≥245 value of the enzyme activity. Furthermore, the thermostable mutant type protein has the diaphorase activity with ≥245 value of the enzyme activity and ≥41% residual enzyme activity after a heat treatment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photoelectric conversion element capable of not only forming the photoelectric conversion element on a curved surface having an optional shape, but also simply constituting a photoelectric conversion material without using complicated chemical synthesis, and having a bidirectional property of photo current. SOLUTION: The photoelectric conversion element comprises a first electrode 11 made of a conductive material such as metal, zinc cytochrome c 12 fixed to the first electrode 11, and a second electrode 13 made of a conductive material such as metal. When the zinc cytochrome c 12 is irradiated with light, photo current flows on the inside of the element, By adjusting at least one of potential difference between the fist electrode 11 and the second electrode 13, the intensity of light irradiated to the zinc cytochrome c, and the wavelength of light irradiated to the zinc cytochrome c, the magnitude and/or the polarity of the photo current are/is changed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a protein photoelectric conversion element using various proteins such as metal substitution cytochrome bprepared based on cytochrome bderived from Escherichia, and to provide a method of manufacturing the same.SOLUTION: A protein-immobilized electrode is formed by immobilizing a protein 12 comprising a metal substitution cytochrome bor a zinc chlorine cytochrome bor their derivative or mutant on a gold electrode 11. A protein photoelectric conversion element is manufactured using this protein-immobilized electrode. This protein photoelectric conversion element is used in a photoelectric conversion system such as a color imaging element.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mutant gluconate dehydrogenase having a predetermined level or higher of enzymatic activity and/or heat resistance. SOLUTION: The mutant gluconate dehydrogenase comprises an amino acid sequence produced by deleting, substituting, adding or inserting one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence represented by a specific sequence, has enzymatic activity that is 120% or more of that of wild-type gluconate dehydrogenase that comprises the specific amino acid sequence, and/or, after the mutant gluconate dehydrogenase is subjected to a heat treatment under predetermined conditions, has residual enzymatic activity that is 20% or more of the enzymatic activity before the heat treatment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT