Plougmann Vingtoft a/s

Use of sulfated gluco-galactooligosaccharide in the preparation of drugs for treating atopic dermatitis. Sulfated gluco-galactooligosaccharide may significantly improve the skin condition of DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis mouse model, including reducing the levels of skin inflammatory cytokines, improving skin barrier function, decreasing lymph node weight and lymphocyte count. Meanwhile, the sulfated gluco-galactooligosaccharide shows no adverse effects on routine blood parameters, and possesses advantages such as low administration dosage, low pharmaceutical cost, high safety without side effects and strong efficacy, thus holding broad application prospects.

A method for communication of audio between a plurality of devices in a wireless radio network connection using a Mesh principle, e.g. a flooded Mesh principle, for distribution of audio data packets from one of the devices to all of the devices in the wireless radio network. The devices are time synchronized (SNC_TDMA) to a predetermined TDMA frame structure with consecutive frames each with a predetermined number of individual slots dedicated for audio data packet transmission. A NOF value indicative of a predetermined number of consecutive frames (NOF) to be used in the Mesh distribution of audio data packets is stored in all devices. By transmitting (T_ADP) an audio data packet in a slot of a frame, a Time-To-Play (TTP) counter is associated with each audio data block in the audio data packet. When another device receives the audio data packet, received audio data blocks are buffered along with their associated TTP counters. The individual TTP counters for the buffered audio data block are updated once for each frame. Finally, the device plays audio according to one or more buffered audio data blocks in time synchronization with the TDMA frame structure, when the TTP counter associated with the one or more buffered audio data blocks indicates that the NOF value is reached. With the TTP counter and NOF value, it is ensured that distributed audio will be played simultaneously by all devices having received the audio with a known latency.

A first reference portion includes a lower surface of a first color. A second reference portion is adjacent to the first reference portion in a first direction, and includes a lower surface of a second color. An end reference portion is arranged in an end portion of a movable region for a scanning unit to be adjacent to the first reference portion in a second direction. The end reference portion includes a lower surface that includes surfaces of a plurality of specific colors that are aligned in a primary scanning direction. One of the plurality of specific colors is a third color. A data processing section performs a color determination process to determine a color for reference pixel data being included in line image data and corresponding to a reference region. A unit driving apparatus performs drive operations to position the scanning unit at a home position, where the drive operations performed by the unit driving apparatus are successively selected from a plurality of trial drive operations according to a determination result obtained by the color determination process, and the scanning unit is moved a different distance or in a different direction in each of the plurality of trial drive operations.

An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of units, a control portion and a switching portion. The plurality of units share in executing part or all of an image forming process. The control portion accesses a non-volatile storage portion provided in each of the units. The switching portion switches a connection target connected to the control portion via one communication line between the plurality of storage portions corresponding to the plurality of units.

A charging unit charges a belt member in a non-contact manner by corona discharge. Each of a pair of end portion support members includes a unit support portion, a belt support portion, and an abutting portion. The unit support portion supports an end portion of a heater unit in a specific direction. The belt support portion is inserted into an end portion of the belt member in the specific direction, rotatably supports the end portion of the belt member, and guides a rotational trajectory of the end portion of the belt member. The abutting portion protrudes toward a side of the charging unit and abuts against an end portion of the charging unit in the specific direction to retain an interval between the belt support portion and the charging unit constant.

A unit support mechanism is capable of adjusting a unit distance which is a distance between a conveying path and a contact image sensor unit. A filter processing device executes sharpening filter processing on read image data. A control device causes, before a print job is executed, the unit support mechanism to execute an operation of adjusting the unit distance to a representative distance corresponding to representative sheet characteristics. The control device specifies, every time the sharpening filter processing is executed, a target parameter corresponding to a combination of target sheet characteristics and the representative distance from among a plurality of candidate parameters, and sets the target parameter in the filter processing device.

A robot system (1) includes a plurality of arms (A1-A4), a housing (20) to house one arm (A4) and a motor (23) for moving the one arm (A4), a metal bracket (26) disposed in the housing between the motor (23) and the outer housing (20) circumference, and a capacitive proximate sensor (4). The capacitive proximate sensor (4) includes a shield member (8b) located adjacent to the metal bracket (26) on a side of the metal bracket (26) opposite to the motor (23), a detection electrode (8d) located adjacent to the shield member (8b) on a side of the shield member (8b) opposite to the metal bracket (26), a circuit substrate (9) to transmit and receive a signal to and from the detection electrode (8d), and a signal cable (100). The signa cable (100) includes a signal line (104) to transmit the signal between the circuit substrate (9) and the detection electrode (8d), a cylindrical shield line (102) formed to surround the signal line (104) to transmit a signal between the circuit substrate (9) and the shield member (8b) and an insulating coating (101) coated to surround the shield line (102).

A reinforcing member is fixed to a part of joined square pipes. The plurality of square pipes include a first column pipe, a second column pipe, a first beam pipe, and a second beam pipe. The first beam pipe is joined to a lower end portion of the first column pipe and a lower end portion of the second column pipe. The second beam pipe is joined to the first column pipe and the second column pipe above the first beam pipe. The reinforcing member has a pair of beam contact portions and a connecting portion. The pair of beam contact portions contact an upper surface of the first beam pipe and a lower surface of the second beam pipe, respectively. The connecting portion is connected to the pair of beam contact portions via a pair of first bent portions.

A movable member has a first through portion and a second through portion through which a support shaft passes, and a first contact surface and a second contact surface. In a support state in which a support mechanism supports a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion of a processing unit at a target position, the support shaft contacts a lower edge portion of a first through hole in the first through portion, the first contact surface sandwiches the first protruding portion between the first contact surface and a first support portion due to a biasing force of a biasing member, the second contact surface sandwiches the second protruding portion between the second protruding portion and a second support portion, and lower and upper edge portions of a second through hole in the second through portion do not contact the support shaft.

The invention provides an optical system 1 and a method for angular scanning of incident light. The optical system is comprising an optical sensor 12, a first displaceable optical component 14 capable of reflecting or refracting light, and a second displaceable optical component 16 capable of reflecting or refracting light. The first displaceable optical component and the second displaceable optical component are relatively translationally displaceable parallel to each other by one, or more, actuator(s) 22, such that the incident light 10 is deflected to form deflected light 11 in accordance with the translational displacement of the displaceable optical components 14, 16, and the optical sensor is arranged to record the deflected light from multiple translational displacement positions 35 of the first and the second displaceable optical component.