baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2005047249-A (JP)
Title: Liquid suction device and method of liquid injection head, and liquid injection device
Inventor: KOIKE YASUNORI
IPC: B05C11/10
Filed: 2003-12-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid suction device and a method of a liquid injection head and a liquid injection device which prevent color mixture of liquid, protect the meniscus of liquid, and do not require wiping operation by eliminating the remainder of liquid.  <P>SOLUTION: The liquid suction device 20 of the liquid injection 30 sucks liquid on the nozzle surface of the liquid injection head 30 which receives and injects liquid. It consists of a main body 80, a liquid absorbing member 83, and an elastically deformable booster member. The main body can seal the nozzle surface. The liquid absorbing member 83 is arranged inside the main body 80 and absorbs the liquid on the nozzle surface. The booster member supports the absorbing member 83 of the liquid in the main body 80 in a movable way and a biasing member 85 is provided for contacting the liquid absorbing member 83 to the nozzle surface in a non-compressed condition.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004225690-A (JP)
Title: Turbine rotor blade and gas turbine
Inventor: TOMITA YASUOKI
IPC: F02C7/18
Filed: 2003-12-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a turbine rotor blade with high heat resistance capable of being used for a long time by improving the cooling efficiency of the blade, and to enhance working efficiency as well as the heat efficiency of a gas turbine.  <P>SOLUTION: The blade is arranged inside a combustion gas flow passage, and has a plurality of blow-out openings for blowing out a cooling medium to the outer surface. Among the rear edge openings 11 for the medium provided side by side from the vicinity of the blade root part 14 to the tip part 15 along the rear edge end 10 of the blade, the opening area of the rear edge opening 11A at the blade end located in the vicinity of the blade tip part 15 is set larger than those of the other openings 11.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005178008-A (JP)
Title: Calendar
Inventor: SHIMIZU YUJI
IPC: B42D5/04
Filed: 2003-12-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an original calendar which is equipped with a layout in accordance with requests and an actual condition on every user of the calendar, does not require a user to write on the calendar by hand, and can be used as an interior without lowering the value of the calendar.  <P>SOLUTION: In the calendar in which a specified number of calendar paper sheets are bound together, the calendar papers respectively displaying a month displaying part for one month, and the calendar paper sheets respectively displaying a month displaying part for a plurality of months, are mixed and bound. In the calendar paper sheets, a month displaying part having date displaying columns divided into a plurality of parts, and individual displays requested by the user of the calendar in a blank part of the date displaying column, are provided in advance.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005178937-A (JP)
Title: Container carrying device
Inventor: MORIYA NAOHISA
IPC: B65G15/42
Filed: 2003-12-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily change formation of grippers.  <P>SOLUTION: In this carrying device, a grip unit 30 of a double-sided support type for a container 100 comprises a gripper 40 provided on a grip base 31 to grip a neck part 101 of the container 100, so that the grip base 31 on the grip unit 30 is detachably double-side supported to a carrying means 10.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005183526-A (JP)
Title: Component feeder and component packaging apparatus
Inventor: KAWAGUCHI SATOSHI
IPC: H05K13/02
Filed: 2003-12-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a component feeder wherein the optimum pressing force can always be applied to a reel presser lever which is in contact with the periphery of a reel to prevent the idling thereof.  <P>SOLUTION: The magnitude of pressing force applied to the reel 12 of the reel presser lever 18 can be adjusted steplessly. Specifically, a distance between a support pin 7 for rotatably supporting the reel 12 and a fixture 20 for turnably fixing the reel presser lever 18 can be increased or decreased steplessly. For this purpose, a long slit 17 is formed in a support lever 11 and the support pin 7, and/or the fixture 20 is made slid in the slit 17 and stopped at any position. Alternatively, a fixing position of at least either one end 26b of a spring 26 which biases the reel presser lever 18 is made movable steplessly. The fixing position can be moved by supporting the one end 26b by an eccentric pin 35 and then rotating the eccentric pin 35.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2006346510-A (JP)
Title: Double-shaft mixing machine
Inventor: FUJIKI TERUKI
IPC: B28C5/14
Filed: 2003-12-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a double-shaft mixing machine which includes two horizontal parallel rotary axes disposed in a stirring tank, and a pair of stirring tools rotating in mutually opposite directions around respective rotary axes, wherein materials are moved surely from one shaft side to the opposite shaft side.  <P>SOLUTION: The pair of stirring tools each comprise a kneading blade spirally formed along the rotary axis and a turn-over blade formed as a spiral whose winding direction is opposite to that of the spiral of the kneading blade. The kneading blade is disposed at one end of one of stirring tools and the turn-over blade is disposed at one end of the other of stirring tools on the side opposed to the kneading blade of one of stirring tools. The kneading blade and the turn-over blade are disposed so that when the kneading blade and the turn-over blade, which are opposed to each other, are rotated and made to pass along the lowest part of the stirring tank, firstly the kneading blade is made to pass along the lowest part of the stirring tank and secondly the turn-over blade is made to pass along the lowest part of the stirring tank.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2005184954-A (JP)
Title: Rotary electric machine
Inventor: MAEDA HIDEAKI
IPC: H02K3/50
Filed: 2003-12-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the number of components in the production process of the coil end part of a rotary electric machine, while ensuring high rigidity.  <P>SOLUTION: In a coil end structure, formed of an upper port stator coil 2 and a lower port stator coil 3 extending from the opposite end parts of a stator core 1 made by laminating steel plates, and a series joint 8 for coupling them electrically, a plurality of resin rings 5 are arranged; and the resin rings 5 and the coils 2, 3 are bundled and coupled by means of a glass tape 4 impregnated with resin. Furthermore, in order to reduce the number of the resin rings 5 and glass tapes 4, mixture is poured to the series joint 8 and hardened integrally and rigidity of the entire coil end part is ensured.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005180599-A (JP)
Title: Structure for preventing electrolytic corrosion of clamping portion
Inventor: KOBAYASHI TAKASHI
IPC: B62K21/18
Filed: 2003-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure for preventing the electrolytic corrosion of a clamping portion, which structure can maintain the insulation property and can prevent the corrosion due to the electrolytic corrosion.  <P>SOLUTION: The structure for preventing the electrolytic corrosion of the clamping portion made of light alloy connects a first boss portion (8) and a second boss portion (9) opposed to each other across a clearance by means of a bolt (4) made of steel. A first male screw (16) and a second male screw (17) are formed on both end portions of the bolt. The bolt is made so as to penetrate the bolt hole (15) of the second boss portion (9), and the first male screw of the bolt is engaged with a threaded hole (31) formed in the first boss portion (8) so as to stand therefrom. The first and second boss portions are tightened by means of a nut (6) to be engaged with the second male screw of the bolt protruding from the second boss portion. An insulation coating layer having insulation property is formed at least on the surface of the bolt.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004203879-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing 2-nitro-4'-fluorobenzophenone
Inventor: MALESKI ROBERT JOSEPH
IPC: C07C201/12
Filed: 2003-12-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing 2-nitro-4'-fluorobenzophenone, capable of greatly improving yield and purity of the product when compared with those of an existing product.  <P>SOLUTION: This improved method for producing the 2-nitro-4'-fluorobenzophenone comprises bringing 2-nitrobenzoyl chloride into contact with fluorobenzene in a reaction medium in the presence of anhydrous ferric chloride. The method is typically conducted at a temperature of -20 to 25°C.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005180375-A (JP)
Title: Fuel injection nozzle
Inventor: DATE KENJI
IPC: F02M61/18
Filed: 2003-12-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection nozzle which keeps injection hole opened in a nozzle body wall at the downstream of a sheet surface and reduces emission of smoke to perform uniform and clean combustion by realizing spray with low-achieving force for a low-injection area and spray with high-achieving force for a high-injection area.  <P>SOLUTION: A vertical hole is formed at a nozzle body 2 as a fuel passage 13, and a needle 3 is engaged and inserted within the vertical hole so that it can slide freely both ways. Then an injection hole part 6 is arranged at the bottom of the fuel passage 13 penetrating an inner radius wall of a sack chamber 15 at the downstream of the sheet surface 5. The injection hole part 6 is arranged so that two injection holes 61, 62 adjacent to each other seemingly form one spray, and a common injection hole chamber 63 is arranged at an exit part. Since each passage area of the injection holes 61 and 62 rapidly increases at the exit part because of the injection hole chamber 63, the direction of the injection and the expanse of the spray increase at each exit part of injection holes 61, 62, thus spray with low-achieving force is realized at the time of low injection pressure with low velocity of flow of fuel. Then at the time of high injection pressure, the velocity of flow of fuel is high. So the direction of the injection and the expanse of the spray are controlled, and spray with high-achieving force is realized.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005183312-A (JP)
Title: Connector
Inventor: NORO YUTAKA
IPC: H01R13/40
Filed: 2003-12-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To lower height of a connector wherein wires are arranged in a plurality of stages.  <P>SOLUTION: The connector is provided with a plurality of terminal fittings 30, to which the wires 20 are connected, and a housing 10 for housing a plurality of terminal fittings 30. The terminal fittings 30 are housed in the housing 10 in a state wherein the wires 20 are piled, while abutting on each other, and a terminal fitting 30A connected to an upper stage side wire 20A among the wires 20 abutting on each other is arranged at a position separated from a terminal fitting 30B connected to a lower stage side wire 20B in the wire extension direction to shorten height of the connector.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004207742-A (JP)
Title: Light emitting device having compact active region
Inventor: MISRA MIRA S
IPC: H01L51/52
Filed: 2003-12-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light emitting device having an LED structure in which the amount of light extracted from the device is increased and a reflector.  <P>SOLUTION: The light emitting device comprises a first conductive region, a second conductive region, an active region, and electrodes, and the active region is arranged between the first conductive region and the second conductive region and the second conductive region is arranged between the active region and the electrodes. The active region has a total thickness less than or equal to about 0.25λ<SB>n</SB>and a part located between about 0.6λ<SB>n</SB>and 0.75λ<SB>n</SB>from the electrodes, where λ<SB>n</SB>is the wavelength of light radiated from the active region of the second conductive region. In some embodiments, the active region includes a plurality of clusters and a part of a first cluster is located between about 0.6λ<SB>n</SB>and 0.75λ<SB>n</SB>from the electrodes and a part of a second cluster is located between about 1.2λ<SB>n</SB>and 1.35λ<SB>n</SB>from the electrodes.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005179311-A (JP)
Title: Jelly state sleeping medicine preparation
Inventor: TAGUCHI SHINYA
IPC: A61P25/20
Filed: 2003-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a sleeping medicine composition having a good taking property, easily being taken without water by suppressing an irritating feeling to tongue caused by the sleeping medicine such as diphenhydramine (salt) on taking.  <P>SOLUTION: The subject jelly state sleeping medicine preparation contains 0.1-5 mass% diphenhydramine and/or its salt and a gelling agent.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005179867-A (JP)
Title: Clothing
Inventor: SAKAMOTO KOJI
IPC: A41B9/12
Filed: 2003-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide clothing easy to put on and take off and easy to wear by a person who needs caring such as a bedridden elderly person and a sick person.  <P>SOLUTION: The clothing is used so as to cover the body and has fastening parts on at least part thereof. The fastening parts (12, 51, 61, 71, 72, and 73) are composed into a knitting texture made by plain knit sinker-overknitting elastic yarns of upper thread (40) and under thread (41). In the case of socks, a belly band and a supporter, it is good to interknit rubber threads (42) in one, two or three stitches in the course direction for the opening into of the socks, the opening of the belly band and the insertion opening of the supporter, and also the opening of the neck circumference, the cuff or the trunk bottom opening of a sweater.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005188984-A (JP)
Title: Display device for vehicle
Inventor: SUGIMOTO SHIRO
IPC: B60R16/02
Filed: 2003-12-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device for vehicle, capable of realizing conventional display method at a relatively low cost by incorporating a mechanically driving display to a digital display.  <P>SOLUTION: This device comprises display means 1 and 3 configured so that each display column can perform a numeric display with a predetermined number of display segments, and a control means 100 updating display numerical values to be displayed in order and driving the display segments of the display means 1 and 3 for displaying the updated display numerical values in each display column. The control means 100 displays the updating process of the display numerical values by the use of a part of the display segments constituting the display numerical values, before updating the display numerical values after updating.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004092015-A (JP)
Title: Individualized balky fiber of chemically crosslinked cellulose comprising cellulose fiber chemically crosslinked in fiber
Inventor: WEST HUGH
IPC: D04H1/04
Filed: 2003-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chemically crosslinked individualized balky fiber comprising a cellulose fiber chemically crosslinked in fiber.  <P>SOLUTION: The bulky fiber comprises a cellulose fiber chemically crosslinked in fiber by a polycarboxylic acid crosslinking agent selected from a group consisting of tartaric acid, malic acid, poly(acrylic acid), poly(methacrylic acid), poly(maleic acid), poly(methyvinylether-co-maleate) copolymer, poly(methylvinylether-co-itaconate) copolymer and their mixtures.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Patent JP-2005187628-A (JP)
Title: Pigment-clad phosphor and method for producing the same
Inventor: KANEKO YUZO
IPC: C09K11/08
Filed: 2003-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pigment-clad phosphor where the surface of a phosphor is uniformly and firmly clad with a pigment, excellent in coatability in forming fluorescent film, and capable of forming a fluorescent surface of high image quality.  <P>SOLUTION: The pigment-clad phosphor is such that the surface of a phosphor is provided with two or more polymer layers interacting with each other. A method for producing the pigment-clad phosphor is also provided, comprising the following procedure: A 1st polymer layer charged with either one of cation or anion is formed on the surface of the phosphor followed by forming a 2nd polymer layer charged with the other and then cladding a pigment on the 2nd polymer layer. With the help of the two or more polymer layers interacting with each other, the pigment can be clad uniformly and firmly on the surface of the phosphor.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005185570-A (JP)
Title: Vacuum cleaner
Inventor: KOJIMA KENJI
IPC: A47L9/10
Filed: 2003-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vacuum cleaner in which degradation of suction force is suppressed by easily keeping the filtering performance of a filter for separating dust-containing air to dust and air.  <P>SOLUTION: This cleaner is provided with a dust treating unit (dust treating means) 24 in a suction air course for guiding the air sucked together with the dust to an electric blower. The dust treating unit 24 is provided with a dust collection chamber 31, an introduction part 34 and a filter 33. The introduction part 34 introduces the dust-containing air to the dust collection chamber 31. The filter 33 is provided by facing the dust collection chamber 31 so as to make the dust-containing air introduced from the introduction part 34 blow obliquely to the filter 33 to filter the dust-containing air and separate the air into the dust to be accumulated in the dust collection chamber 31 and air flowing through the suction air course on a downstream side compared with the filter 33. With the dust-containing air made to blow obliquely to the filter 33, the dust on the surface of the filter 33 is blown off.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005190427-A (JP)
Title: Set extracting method of variation element for identifying sequence
Inventor: TSUKADA MAMORU
IPC: G16B30/10
Filed: 2003-12-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable to get candidates of sets of identification elements for identification with accuracy and efficiency.  <P>SOLUTION: An information processing method is for getting information concerning with elements (sequence moiety) which can identify a specific sequence in plural sequence data. One step of the method is to get data which is aligned in common areas which have a similar sequence. The other step is to get candidates of elements which are identifiable based on the result of an operation after the same operation for each of the aligned datum is performed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2005169029-A (JP)
Title: Bipedal walking toy driving module
Inventor: INOMATA KOJI
IPC: A63H30/02
Filed: 2003-12-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bipedal walking toy driving module which enables forward walking, backward walking, and change of a walking direction during the forward or backward walking for a bipedal walking toy which performs complete bipedal walking, not pseud-bipedal walking, by alternatively raising and lowering each leg.  <P>SOLUTION: Two motors controlled by remote control are stored in a body. Leg parts perform complete bipedal walking, not pseudo-bipedal walking, by alternatively raising each leg so as to completely separate from a walking floor face through a gear string and a crank member driven by one of the motors. One of driving wheels is driven through a worm gear, a long pinion gear, a long shaft, a pinion gear, and a crank gear which are driven by the other motor so that the walking direction is changed freely during bipedal walking.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Patent JP-2004527992-A (JP)
Title: 最近傍推奨方法及びシステム
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 2002-06-06
Abstract: 番組レコードモジュールと様々な最近傍モジュールを利用した番組推奨システムが開示される。番組レコードの受信に応答して、番組レコードモジュールは、番組レコードの各キーフィールドを特性値に変換する。シングル近傍モジュールは、受信した番組レコードの最近傍としての保存番組レコードに基づき、番組レコードに対応する番組の推奨を選択的に生成する。マルチ近傍モジュールは、受信した番組レコードのN個の最近傍としてのN個の保存番組レコードに基づき、番組レコードに対応する番組の推奨を選択的に生成する。近傍クラスタは、受信した番組レコードの最近傍としての保存番組レコードのクラスタに基づき、番組レコードに対応する番組の推奨を選択的に生成する。
Patent JP-2004533465-A (JP)
IPC: A61K51/00
Filed: 2002-06-11
Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof wherein R is aryl or heteroaryl and each of the above groups R may be substituted by 1 to 4 groups selected from: halogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, halo C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C2-C6 alkynyl, halo C1-C6 alkoxy, -COR4, nitro, -NR3R4 cyano, or a group R5; R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C2-C6 alkynyl, halo C1-C6 alkyl, halo C1-C6 alkoxy, halogen, NR3R4 or cyano; R2 corresponds to a group CHR6R7; R3 is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl; R4 independently from R3, has the same meanings; R5 is C3-C7 cycloalkyl, which may contain one or more double bonds; aryl; or a 5-6 membered heterocycle; wherein each of the above groups R5 may be substituted by one or more groups selected from: halogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, halo C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, C2-C6 alkynyl, halo C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 dialkylamino, nitro or cyano; R6 is hydrogen, C2-C6 alkenyl or C1-C6 alkyl, wherein each of the above groups R6 may be substituted by one or more groups selected from: C1-C6 alkoxy and hydroxy; R7 independently from R6, has the same meanings; X is carbon or nitrogen; to processes for their preparation, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to their use in the treatment of conditions mediated by corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF).
Patent JP-2004536083-A (JP)
Title: カチオン性ホモポリマーを含有する組成物と酸化溶液を安定化するためのそれらの用途
IPC: A61Q5/04
Filed: 2002-06-18
Abstract: (ａ)式(Ｉ)の繰り返し単位を有する少なくとも一のカチオン性ホモポリマー；(ｂ)少なくとも一の脂肪アルコール；(ｃ)少なくとも一のアルコキシル化脂肪アルコール；(ｄ)少なくとも一の脂肪アミド；及び(ｅ)少なくとも一の酸化剤を含有する組成物、及び酸化組成物を物理的に安定化させるため、及びケラチン繊維の処理用組成物における該組成物の使用方法。
Patent JP-2004536086-A (JP)
Title: 眼圧降下剤としての３、７、または３および７チアまたはオキサプロスタン酸誘導体
IPC: C07C323/52
Filed: 2002-05-13
Abstract: 本発明は、高眼圧または緑内障の動物に、処置有効量の式I［式中、A、B、D、X、Y、Z、R 1 、R 3 およびR 4 は明細書に定義する通りである］の化合物を投与することを含んで成る、高眼圧または緑内障の処置方法を提供する。
Patent JP-2004537124-A (JP)
Title: サーバ・プログラムで符号化された記憶媒体、及び記憶媒体を用いる方法
IPC: G06F9/445
Filed: 2002-07-23
Abstract: 【課題】本発明は、コンピュータまたはコンピュテーショナル・ユーザ・インターフェイスのハード・ドライブ等の記憶媒体にサーバ・プログラムを導入することを必要としない記憶媒体を提供する。 【解決手段】本発明による記憶媒体（１２）は、コンピュータまたはコンピュテーショナル・ユーザ・インターフェイス（１６）によって読取り可能でありかつ記憶媒体からまたはそれがコピーされた別の記憶媒体からまたはその両方からコンピュータまたは計算ユーザ・インターフェイスによってランチャブルであるサーバ・プログラムで符号化される。サーバ・プログラムは、それがランチされる記憶媒体のマニピュレーションを必要としない。情報資源をアクセルする方法は、独立型サーバ・プログラムで符号化された静的記憶媒体を得ることを含む。サーバ・プログラムは、インターネット（２０）に少なくとも一部が存在している情報資源にリンク可能である。サーバ・プログラムは、静的記憶媒体からランチされる。ウェブ・ブラウザは、ランチされる。インターネットに存在している情報資源から得られるデータに対する要求は、ウェブ・ブラウザを用いて送られる。要求に対する応答は、サーバ・プログラムを用いて構築される。 【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2004535827-A (JP)
IPC: A61P31/04
Filed: 2002-07-30
Abstract: The construction of a mutant in the phoP gene by means of homologous recombination from clinically isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis reduces the virulence thereof in mouse bone marrow macrophage. Moreover, the phoP mutant reduces the virulence thereof in the experimental mouse model. Said phoP mutant can persist without being eliminated both in the macrophage and in the mouse. Mice inoculated with the phoP mutant are protected against M.tuberculosis infection. The use of mutants of mycobacteria in which the phoP gene or the genes regulated by phoP have been inactivated are candidates for vaccines against human and animal tuberculosis as well as possible recombinant vaccines against other pathogens.