Abstract:
Cells of Pseudomonas bacteria having a high nitrile hydratase activity can be obtained in a high yield by adding to a culture medium at least one .alpha.-amino acid, except for cysteine or cystine alone and a combination of these .alpha.-amino acids alone, in the preparation of cells of bacteria having nitrile hydratase activity by cultivating under nitrile hydratase-inducing conditions Pseudomonas bacteria capable of producing nitrile hydratase.
Abstract:
Cells of Pseudomonas bacteria having a high nitrile hydratase activity can be obtained in a high yield by adding sequentially to a culture medium at least one compound selected from the group consisting of propionitrile, isobutyronitrile, propionamide, and isobutyramide in the process of cultivation of Pseudomonas bacteria capable of producing nitrile hydratase.
Abstract:
Cells of Pseudomonas bacteria having a high nitrile hydratase activity can be obtained in a high yield by adding to a culture medium cysteine and (or) cystine in the preparation of cells of bacteria having nitrile hydratase activity by cultivating under nitrile hydratase-inducing conditions Pseudomonas bacteria capable of producing nitrile hydratase.
Abstract:
Nitrile hydration activity of nitrile hydratase produced by a microorganism of the genus Pseudomonas or Pseudomonas microorganism cells per se or in the immobilized state, all having nitrile hydration activity can be stably preserved by adding as a stabilizer at least one compound selected from nitriles, amides, and organic acids and salts thereof to a suspension or solution of the nitrile hydratase, or the microorganism cells per se or in the immobilized state.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for separating a surface layer of a diamond, which comprises implanting ions into a diamond to form a non-diamond layer near a surface of the diamond; and etching the non-diamond layer in the diamond by applying an alternating-current voltage across electrodes in an electrolytic solution; and a method for separating a grown layer of a diamond, which further comprises the step of growing a diamond by a vapor-phase synthesis method, after forming a non-diamond layer according to the above-described method. The invention is applicable to various single-crystal and polycrystal diamonds. More specifically, even with a large single-crystal diamond, a portion of the single-crystal diamond can be efficiently separated in a reusable form in a relatively short period of time.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for producing a large substrate of single-crystal diamond, including the steps of preparing a plurality of single-crystal diamond layers separated form an identical parent substrate, placing the single-crystal diamond layers in a mosaic pattern on a flat support, and growing a single-crystal diamond by a vapor-phase synthesis method on faces of the single-crystal diamond layers where they have been separated from the parent substrate.According to the method of the invention, a mosaic single-crystal diamond having a large area and good quality can be produced relatively easily.
Abstract:
An inclination detection method is disclosed, which uses a pair of electrodes placed so as to face each other and having a fixed positional relation and an electric conductor which can move between the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electrodes is in either a conducting state or a nonconducting state depending on the position of the movable electric conductor, the conducting state in a predetermined period is expressed as any one of a plurality of level values, and a movement state of the pair of electrodes is estimated based on which of the plurality of level values the conducting state takes on.
Abstract:
A clock generating device includes: a DDS circuit that generates a periodic signal; and a comparator that compares an input signal and a reference signal and outputs a binary signal. The clock generating device includes a rate-of-change correcting unit that applies correction for increasing a rate of change at a crossing point with the reference signal to the periodic signal generated by the DDS circuit.
Abstract:
A communication method includes: (a) dividing one bit data group into a plurality of bit groups, the one bit data group being taken out from a plurality of bit data groups defined by a communication protocol for transmitting predetermined information, and exerting no substantial influence on the predetermined information even when arbitrarily inverting a value of the bit; (b) determining whether or not the values of the bits constituting the bit group are all the same by each of the plurality of bit groups divided into in step (a); (c) inverting at least one of the values of the bits of the bit group determined in step (b) that the values of the bits are all the same; and (d) arranging the plurality of bit groups, each of which has at least one of the values of the bits inverted in step (c), in the plurality of bit data groups except the one bit data group at regular intervals.
Abstract:
A sensor chip has a substrate and a comb-teeth electrode arranged on the substrate. The sensor chip is fixed to a diaphragm structure to be distorted by receiving pressure, and is fixed to the diaphragm structure only through a predetermined fix area so as to detect the pressure. The fix area is defined on only a part of the sensor chip opposing to the diaphragm structure. The sensor chip is restrained by the diaphragm structure in a direction of transmitting surface acoustic wave. Flexibility of the sensor chip in a perpendicular direction approximately perpendicular to the wave transmitting direction is larger than that in the transmitting direction.