Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program use assisting program for causing a computer to execute processing including: acquiring data items included in production management data; referring to a storage that stores a data item which is used when each of a plurality of production assisting programs is executed; specifying a production assisting program of which all data items which are used at the time of execution are included in the acquired data items from among the plurality of production assisting programs as a specific program; and outputting information indicating the specific program.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program utilization support program that causes a computer to execute processing including: obtaining first data items included in production management data; specifying second data items which are used in execution of a production support program with reference to a storage that stores information indicating an execution status of the production support program; and determining whether the production support program is usable based on whether all of the second data items are included in the first data items.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores t herein a program management program for causing a computer to execute processes including: referring to a storage indicating an execution status of a production support program which is executed using production management data; specifying one or more data items which correspond to a data item not used at execution time of the production support program or a data item whose frequency of use at the execution time of the production support program is a predetermined reference value or less, among data items included in the production management data; and outputting the specified one or more data items.

Abstract: To provide a microinjection equipment capable of fitting a micro needle to a manipulator etc. manipulating the micro needle in short time on the occasion of an injection operation. Included are a micro needle transporting device 12 detachably grasping a micro needle 10 filled with an introduction substance and disposed in a predetermined standby position and transporting the micro needle 10 to a predetermined ready-for-introducing position, a manipulator 14 grasping in the attachable/detachable manner the micro needle 10 disposed in the predetermined ready-for-introducing position and inserting and removing the tip of the micro needle 10 into and from an introduction target micro body 13, and an introduction substance discharging device 15 discharging the introduction substance in the micro needle 10 by applying a predetermined pressure to an interior of the micro needle 10 grasped by the manipulator 14.

Abstract: A molding apparatus includes two metal molds arranged at positions opposing to each other and each having a die for molding a member into a desired shape, a heating unit for heating the member, an ultrasonic wave transmitting and receiving unit arranged on the metal mold for irradiating the member with an ultrasonic wave and receiving the reflected ultrasonic wave, a drive unit for driving at least one of the metal molds and a control unit for detecting a partial contact of the member with respect to the metal mold using wave readings from the ultrasonic wave transmitting and receiving unit and controlling the drive unit to adjust a pressing velocity of the metal mold.

Abstract: A holding petri dish used for a process of microinjection for introducing an introduced substance into an introduced-substance receiving body includes a well provided on a transparent material and a channel including an opening for holding the introduced-substance receiving body via suction, said opening being disposed on a side wall of the well.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a discharge apparatus for discharging a liquid includes a discharge outlet for discharging the liquid; a first conduit extending toward the discharge outlet; and a second conduit having one end connected to the first conduit for flowing a gas therethrough the second conduit extending generally in the direction toward the discharge outlet and generally approaching the first conduit toward the portion where the second conduit is connected to the first conduit. The discharge apparatus further includes a chamber connected to the other end of the second conduit; and a heater installed to the chamber for heating a gas in the chamber so as to cause the heated gas to flow into the second conduit and to push out the liquid out of the discharge outlet.

Abstract: A feed controlling apparatus that controls feeding of plural minute objects that flow along a channel of a fluid, and receive a predetermined process at a predetermined position, includes a detector that detects whether there is the object at the predetermined position, and a controller that controls feeding of the object to be supplied to the predetermined position based on a detection result by the detector.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pump unit or the like which feeds particles in a liquid with particles dispersed therein to a predetermined area. An object of the present invention is to obtain a sufficient solution feeding resolution while inhibiting mixture of bubbles. The pump unit includes a moving mechanism 13 that moves a pump 12 and a reservoir 11 relative to each other to vary the positional relationship between a tip 1221 of the pump 12 and an edge 112 of the opening 111 between a separating relationship in which the tip 1221 is separated upward from the edge 112 of the opening 111 in a liquid reserved in the reservoir 11 and a pressing relationship in which the tip 1221 is pressed against the edge 112. In the separating positional relationship, the pump 12 performs a sucking operation to take particles C into its interior. In the pressing relationship, the pump 12 performs an ejecting operation to deliver the particles C.

Abstract: To provide a microinjection equipment capable of fitting a micro needle to a manipulator etc. manipulating the micro needle in short time on the occasion of an injection operation. Included are a micro needle transporting device 12 detachably grasping a micro needle 10 filled with an introduction substance and disposed in a predetermined standby position and transporting the micro needle 10 to a predetermined ready-for-introducing position, a manipulator 14 grasping in the attachable/detachable manner the micro needle 10 disposed in the predetermined ready-for-introducing position and inserting and removing the tip of the micro needle 10 into and from an introduction target micro body 13, and an introduction substance discharging device 15 discharging the introduction substance in the micro needle 10 by applying a predetermined pressure to an interior of the micro needle 10 grasped by the manipulator 14.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a perforated member that has a pore used to discharge or suck a material, a cleansing unit that irradiates a plasma activated cleansing gas to the perforated member, and a moving unit that moves at least one of the perforated member and the cleansing unit.

Abstract: An injection apparatus that inserts an injection needle into a target region in a minute object, and injects a predetermined material into the target region from the injection needle includes a positioning controller that determines, as an insertion direction, a direction that provides the longest length in the target region among plural directions in each of which the injection needle can be inserted into the minute object, and a moving unit that moves the injection needle along the insertion direction.

Abstract: A capturing apparatus that captures plural minute objects that float on a fluid, includes a capturing part having plural attraction ports that can attract each object, and an induction part that creates a flow in the fluid used to induce the plural objects to the attraction ports.

Abstract: A capturing apparatus that captures plural minute objects that float on a fluid, includes a capturing part that includes plural attraction ports, each of which can attract each object, wherein attractions by the plural attraction ports are independent of each other.

Abstract: A feed controlling apparatus that controls feeding of plural minute objects that flow along a channel of a fluid, and receive a predetermined process at a predetermined position, includes a detector that detects whether there is the object at the predetermined position, and a controller that controls feeding of the object to be supplied to the predetermined position based on a detection result by the detector.

Abstract: An injection mold design method for correcting a profile of a product to be fabricated into a releasable profile from a mold to design an injection mold based on a corrected product shape, utilizing a storage device for storing information of the product shape and mold profile, a display device for displaying the product shape or the mold profile on a screen based on the information read from the storage device, an input device for inputting designation information necessary for correction of the product shape or the mold profile, and a controlling device for unloading information of lines or planes being obstructive to correction of the product shape and the mold profile in the storage device in response to the designation information input by the input device.

Abstract: An injection is carried out under a certain molding condition with a nozzle in an injection molding machine left open to sample an injection pressure Pr in every certain cycle for storing. Detected pressure data Pr(0) to Pr(N) for one shot is stored as reference pressure data Pr0(0) to Pr0(N). When defective molding occurs or when a resin lot is changed or the like, the injection is carried out with the nozzle left open under the same molding condition as that used in obtaining the reference pressure data to obtain the detected pressure data Pr(0) to Pr(N). Waveforms of the detected pressure data Pr(0) to Pr(N) and reference pressure data Pr0(0) to Pr0(N) are graphically represented so that variation of the molding condition is observed. It is assumed that if there are any differences, a problem resides in the resin, while if there is no difference but the defective molding occurs, the problem resides in a mold.

Abstract: An injection mold design method for correcting a profile of a product to be fabricated into a releasable profile from a mold to design an injection mold based on a corrected product shape, utilizing a storage device for storing information of the product shape and mold profile, a display device for displaying the product shape or the mold profile on a screen based on the information read from the storage device, an input device for inputting designation information necessary for correction of the product shape or the mold profile, and a controlling device for unloading information of lines or planes being obstructive to correction of the product shape and the mold profile in the storage device in response to the designation information input by the input device.

Abstract: A resin flow analysis in a die is performed by CAE or the like to obtain a resin pressure curve at a resin inlet port or a resin pressure curve at a nozzle end portion of a molding machine. Injection (air shot) is performed while a nozzle is separated from a die, so that an injection pressure curve Pa to be detected at this time is obtained. From the injection pressure curve and the resin pressure curve, an injection pressure command curve serving as a molding condition in mass production is obtained. The resin pressure curve obtained by the resin flow analysis is compensated by the injection pressure curve in an air shot for a time lag and pressure loss caused by the mechanical elements of an injection molding machine, so that molding conditions in mass production can be easily obtained. In addition, a pressure loss at the nozzle portion is also obtained, so that an injection pressure command curve is obtained from the pressure loss, the injection pressure curve, and the resin pressure curve.

Abstract: An injection mold design system for correcting a profile of a product to be fabricated into a releasable profile from a mold to design an injection mold based on a corrected product shape, comprising storing information of product shape and mold profile, displaying the product shape or the mold profile on a screen based on the information read from the storing, inputting designation information necessary for correction of the product shape or the mold profile, and unloading information of lines or planes being obstructive to correction of the product shape and the mold profile into the storing in response to the designation information input removing the lines or the planes from the screen, and replotting the line or the planes on the screen in terms of the information of lines or planes unloaded into the storing after the correction operation of the product shape or the mold profile is completed.