All The Claims

I claim:

1. A method for treating a patient suffering from an autoimmune disorder, said method comprising administering an effective amount of an antibody composition, wherein said antibody composition comprises anti-idiotype antibodies, or antigen binding fragments thereof, which can bind to and inhibit self-reactive pathogenic autoantibodies present in the patient.
2. The method, according to claim 1, wherein said autoimmune disorder is characterized by the destruction of patients’ cells by autoantibodies.
3. The method, according to claim 2, wherein said anti-idiotype antibodies are immunoreactive with idiotypic determinants present or antibodies associated with an autoimmune disease selected from the group comprising systemic lupus erythematosus, masthenia gravis, and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
4. The method, according to claim 3, wherein said anti-idiotype antibodies are immunoreactive with anti-DNA antibodies.
5. The method, according to claim 4, wherein said anti-idiotype antibodies are immunoreactive with idiotypic determinants present on said anti-DNA antibodies, wherein said idiotypic determinants are selected from the group consisting of F4, 3I, 8.12, and 166.
6. The method, according to claim 1, wherein said antibody composition is administered intravenously.
7. The method, according to claim 6, wherein said antibody composition is administered as a dextrose saline solution.
8. A method for preparing an antibody composition comprising anti-idiotype antibodies, comprising the steps of:
(a) contacting pooled gamma globulin with a solid phase substrate, said substrate comprising an idiotypic determinant of a self-reactive pathogenic autoantibody, wherein said anti-idiotype antibodies present in said pooled gamma globulin bind to said idiotypic determinant; and
(b) eluting said anti-idiotype antibodies bound to said idiotypic determinant.
9. The method, according to claim 8, wherein said idiotypic determinant is expressed on an antibody coupled to said substrate.
10. The method according to claim 9 wherein said antibody coupled to said substrate expresses anti-DNA idiotypic determinants selected from the group consisting of F4, 3I, 8.12 and 166.
11. The method according to claim 8 further comprising washing said substrate with a suitable wash buffer prior to eluting in Step (b).
12. The method, according to claim 8, wherein said substrate comprises a plurality of idiotypic determinants of self-reactive pathogenic autoantibody.
13. The method, according to claim 8, wherein said idiotypic determinant comprises a synthetic peptide that duplicates an idiotypic determinant present on a self-reactive autoantibody.
14. An antibody composition, wherein said antibody composition comprises anti-idiotypic antibodies, or antigen binding fragments thereof, which can bind to and inhibit self-reactive pathogenic autoantibodies.
15. The antibody composition, according to claim 14, wherein said anti-idiotypic antibodies are immunoreactive with idiotypic determinants present or antibodies associated with an autoimmune diseased selected from the group comprising systemic lupus erythematosus, masthenia gravis, and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
16. The antibody composition, according to claim 14, wherein said anti-idiotypic antibodies are immunoreactive with anti-DNA antibodies.
17. The antibody composition, according to claim 16, wherein said anti-idiotypic antibodies are immunoreactive with idiotypic determinants present on said anti-DNA antibodies, wherein said idiotypic determinants are selected from the group consisting of F4, 3I, 8.12, and 166.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An exhaust gas catalytic converter having an upstream catalyst and a downstream catalyst which are arranged in upstream and downstream sides of an engine exhaust passage through which exhaust gas flows, wherein
each of the upstream catalyst and the downstream catalyst contains an oxygen storage component, wherein
the oxygen storage component in the upstream catalyst has a structure in which Rh atoms are placed at or between crystal lattice points of a mixed oxide containing Ce and Zr and has a larger amount of oxygen storage than the oxygen storage component in the downstream catalyst under a same temperature conditions.
2. The exhaust gas catalytic converter of claim 1, wherein
the oxygen storage component in the downstream catalyst has a structure in which Rh atoms are placed at or between crystal lattice points of a mixed oxide containing different ingredients from the oxygen storage component in the upstream catalyst, and
the oxygen storage component in the upstream catalyst has a higher rate of oxygen storage than the oxygen storage component in the downstream catalyst under a same temperature conditions.
3. The exhaust gas catalytic converter of claim 2, wherein
the oxygen storage component in the upstream catalyst has a structure in which Rh atoms are placed at or between crystal lattice points of a Ce\u2014\u2014Zr\u2014\u2014Nd ternary oxide, and
the oxygen storage component in the downstream catalyst has a structure in which Rh atoms are placed at or between crystal lattice points of a Ce\u2014\u2014Zr binary oxide.
4. An exhaust gas catalytic converter having an upstream catalyst and a downstream catalyst which are arranged in upstream and downstream sides of an engine exhaust passage through which exhaust gas flows, wherein
the upstream catalyst comprises an inner catalytic layer disposed on a support and an outer catalytic layer disposed on the inner catalytic layer, and
the outer catalytic layer contains an oxygen storage component in which Rh atoms are placed at or between crystal lattice points of a mixed oxide containing Ce, Zr and Nd.
5. The exhaust gas catalytic converter of claim 4, wherein the downstream catalyst contains at least one of an oxygen storage component in which Rh atoms are placed at or between crystal lattice points of a mixed oxide containing Ce and Zr and an oxygen storage component in which Rh particles are carried on a mixed oxide containing Ce and Zr.
6. The exhaust gas catalytic converter of claim 4 or 5, wherein the inner and outer catalytic layers of the upstream catalyst contain Pd and Pt, respectively.

1. A cleaning body comprising:
a shaft portion; and
a porous member that is mounted to an outer periphery of the shaft portion at an incline with respect to an axial direction of the shaft portion, and in which a plurality of cavities are formed,
wherein the porous member has projecting portions that project toward a radial direction outer side of the shaft portion in a cross-section along the axial direction of the shaft portion, and the projecting portions contact a body to be cleaned and clean the body to be cleaned, and lengths, along a radial direction of the shaft portion, of the plurality of cavities are longer than lengths along the axial direction of the shaft portion.
2. A cleaning device comprising:
the cleaning body of claim 1 that is slave-rotated due to the projecting portions of the porous member contacting the body to be cleaned that rotates, and that cleans the body to be cleaned; and
a supporting member that supports the shaft portion of the cleaning body rotatably.
3. A charging device comprising:
the cleaning device of claim 2; and
a charging body that serves as the body to be cleaned that rotates.
4. An assembly comprising:
the cleaning device of claim 2;
a body to be charged; and
a charging body that charges the body to be charged, and that serves as the body to be cleaned that rotates,
wherein the assembly is integrally assembled detachably at a device main body.
5. An image forming device comprising:
the cleaning device of claim 2;
an image holding body that can hold an image;
a charging body that charges the image holding body, and that serves as the body to be cleaned that rotates;
an exposure device that exposes the image holding body that has been charged by the charging body, and forms an electrostatic latent image; and
a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image holding body by the exposure device.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A fuel composition comprising or obtainable from a mixture comprising:
a. an isoprenoid compound having the formula
\u2003or a stereoisomer thereof, wherein Z is H, O\u2014R, or O\u2014C(\u2550O)R; and R is H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl;
b. a conventional fuel component; and
c. a fuel additive,
\u2003wherein the amount of the isoprenoid compound is at least 2 vol. % and the amount of the conventional fuel component is at least about 5 vol. %, both amounts based on the total volume of the fuel composition, and wherein the fuel composition has a flash point equal to or greater than 38\xb0 C.
2. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein Z is H.
3. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the conventional fuel component is derived from petroleum or coal.
4. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the conventional fuel component comprises a diesel fuel, jet fuel, kerosene, gasoline, or a combination thereof.
5. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel additive is at least one additive selected from the consisting of an antioxidant, a cetane improver, a stabilizer, a lubricity improver and combinations thereof.
6. The fuel composition of claim 5 wherein the fuel additive is a lubricity improver.
7. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T90 distillation temperature from about 270\xb0 C. to about 350\xb0 C.
8. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T90 distillation temperature from about 282\xb0 C. to about 338\xb0 C.
9. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T50 distillation temperature from about 175\xb0 C. to about 375\xb0 C.
10. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T50 distillation temperature from about 200\xb0 C. to about 350\xb0 C.
11. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T50 distillation temperature from about 225\xb0 C. to about 325\xb0 C.
12. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T50 distillation temperature from about 250\xb0 C. to about 300\xb0 C.
13. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T10 distillation temperature from about 150\xb0 C. to about 350\xb0 C.
14. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T10 distillation temperature from about 175\xb0 C. to about 325\xb0 C.
15. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T10 distillation temperature from about 200\xb0 C. to about 300\xb0 C.
16. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a T10 distillation temperature from about 225\xb0 C. to about 275\xb0 C.
17. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a cetane number from 40 to 90.
18. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has an initial boiling point between about 100\xb0 C. to about 200\xb0 C.
19. The fuel composition of claim 1 wherein the fuel composition has a sulfur content of less than 500 ppm, based on the total weight of the fuel composition.
20. A fuel composition comprising or obtainable from a mixture comprising:
a. C20 hydrocarbons in an amount at least about 1 vol. %;
b. an isoprenoid compound having the formula
\u2003or a stereoisomer thereof, in an amount at least about 2 vol. %, wherein Z is H, O\u2014R, or O\u2014C(\u2550O)R; and R is H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl, wherein both amounts are based on the total volume of the fuel composition, and wherein the fuel composition has a flash point equal to or greater than 38\xb0 C.
21. The fuel composition of claim 20 wherein Z is H.
22. The fuel composition of claim 20 further comprising C10 hydrocarbons in an amount at least about 1 vol. %.
23. The fuel composition of claim 20 further comprising C11-C19 hydrocarbons wherein each C11, C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, C17, C18 and C19 hydrocarbon is present in an amount at least about 1 vol. %, based on the total volume of the fuel composition.