Abstract: An isolator includes a work chamber, a sterilizing substance supply unit, a gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit, a work chamber barometer, and a controller. The controller is configured to control execution of a gas flow channel leak test for checking a gas leak in a gas flow channel based on a detection result by the work chamber barometer after making the gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit increase or decrease the pressure in the gas flow channel, and is configured to control supply of the sterilizing substance by the sterilizing substance supply unit. The controller performs heating of a heater, which accompanies the supply of the sterilizing substance, in parallel with the gas flow channel leak test.

Abstract: In an electric device (1), an air inlet (3),a gas-liquid contact portion (5), a water collecting portion (6) and an air outlet (7) are arranged in sequential order from upstream of an air duct (2). In a water storage portion (8) the gas-liquid contact portion (5) is dipped and the water collected thereby is stored. An electrolyzing portion (9) generates the electrolyzed water (4) containing an active oxygen species by electrolyzing the water stored in the water storage portion (8). As a result, a compact electric device with an air cleaning function is provided at low cost that is capable of generating water containing an active oxygen species without requiring additional water feed and without generating a by-product.

Abstract: An isolator includes a work chamber, a sterilizing substance supply unit, a gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit, a work chamber barometer, and a controller. The controller is configured to control execution of a gas flow channel leak test for checking a gas leak in a gas flow channel based on a detection result by the work chamber barometer after making the gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit increase or decrease the pressure in the gas flow channel, and is configured to control supply of the sterilizing substance by the sterilizing substance supply unit. The controller performs heating of a heater, which accompanies the supply of the sterilizing substance, in parallel with the gas flow channel leak test.

Abstract: A storage system includes: a data storing means configured to store storage target data and also store address data so as to be tree-structured, the address data being based on a content and storing position of data to be referred to, and the address data referring to the storage target data or other address data; an operation log generating means configured to generate an operation log that represents a content of an operation of storing the storage target data into the data storing means and a content of an operation of storing the tree-structured address data referring to the storage target data into the data storing means; and a file system committing means configured to store the storage target data and the tree-structured address data into the data storing means based on the operation log.

Abstract: An heat pump drying machine has a normal dry mode (e.g., compression ratio is equal to or greater than 3) for operating a compressor at a predetermined dry operation frequency and an energy saving dry mode (e.g., compression ratio is equal to or greater than 2.3 and is less than 3) for operating the compressor at an energy saving operation frequency that is lower than the dry operation frequency. A control device is provided to control an operation frequency of the compressor 5so that the two dry operation modes are switched to each other. The control device can execute the control for increasing the operation frequency of the compressor to the dry operation frequency during the operation of the energy saving dry mode.

Abstract: A storage device includes: a temporary buffer for sequentially storing data configuring a file requested to be written for every reception from outside; a data writing means for immediately separating the data in the temporary buffer into mutually corresponding data portion and marker portion classified by preset criteria and storing into a data storing means in an associated state, and deleting from the temporary buffer; an unseparated data writing means for storing the data that cannot be separated into the data portion and the marker portion among the data in the temporary buffer, into an unseparated data storing means; and a re-separation processing means for separating the data in the unseparated data storing means into the data portion and the marker portion by preset criteria and storing into the data storing means with the data portion and the marker portion associated, and deleting from the unseparated data storing means.

Abstract: A sterilizing material supply apparatus has a sterilizing material gas generator including a mist generation unit and a vaporizing unit. In the mist generation unit, hydrogen peroxide solution in a cup is converted into a mist by ultrasonic vibration generated by an ultrasonic vibrator. The hydrogen peroxide solution which has been turned into the mist is heated by a heater in the vaporizing unit so as to be gasified. The gasified hydrogen peroxide solution is supplied to a workroom of an isolator as a sterilizing gas.

Abstract: A storage system includes: a data storing means configured to store storage target data and also store address data so as to be tree-structured, the address data being based on a content and storing position of data to be referred to, and the address data referring to the storage target data or other address data; an operation log generating means configured to generate an operation log that represents a content of an operation of storing the storage target data into the data storing means and a content of an operation of storing the tree-structured address data referring to the storage target data into the data storing means; and a file system committing means configured to store the storage target data and the tree-structured address data into the data storing means based on the operation log.

Abstract: An electric device 1 includes: an air inlet 3 through which air is taken in; a gas-liquid contact portion 5 for making gas-liquid contact between the air taken in and electrolyzed water 4 to purify the air; a water collecting portion 6 for collecting moisture in the air after the gas-liquid contact; an air outlet 7 through which the air the moisture in which was collected is ejected, wherein the air inlet 3, the gas-liquid contact portion 5, the water collecting portion 6, and the air outlet 7 are arranged in sequential order from upstream of an air duct 2; a water storage portion 8 in which the gas-liquid contact portion 5 is dipped and in which the water collected by the water collecting portion 6 is stored; and an electrolyzing portion 9 for generating the electrolyzed water 4 containing an active oxygen species by electrolyzing the water stored in the water storage portion 8.

Abstract: An isolator includes a work chamber, a sterilizing substance supply unit, a gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit, a work chamber barometer, and a controller. The controller is configured to control execution of a gas flow channel leak test for checking a gas leak in a gas flow channel based on a detection result by the work chamber barometer after making the gas flow channel pressure adjustment unit increase or decrease the pressure in the gas flow channel, and is configured to control supply of the sterilizing substance by the sterilizing substance supply unit. The controller performs heating of a heater, which accompanies the supply of the sterilizing substance, in parallel with the gas flow channel leak test.

Abstract: A sterilizing material supply apparatus has a sterilizing material gas generator including a mist generation unit and a vaporizing unit. In the mist generation unit, hydrogen peroxide solution in a cup is converted into a mist by ultrasonic vibration generated by an ultrasonic vibrator. The hydrogen peroxide solution which has been turned into the mist is heated by a heater in the vaporizing unit so as to be gasified. The gasified hydrogen peroxide solution is supplied to a workroom of an isolator as a sterilizing gas.

Abstract: An heat pump drying machine has a normal dry mode (e.g., compression ratio is equal to or greater than 3) for operating a compressor at a predetermined dry operation frequency and an energy saving dry mode (e.g., compression ratio is equal to or greater than 2.3 and is less than 3) for operating the compressor at an energy saving operation frequency that is lower than the dry operation frequency. A control device is provided to control an operation frequency of the compressor 5 so that the two dry operation modes are switched to each other. The control device can execute the control for increasing the operation frequency of the compressor to the dry operation frequency during the operation of the energy saving dry mode.

Abstract: There is disclosed an air cleaning apparatus usable regardless of seasons, weather, environmental conditions and the like. The air cleaning apparatus brings air to be treated into contact with a cleaning solution including active oxygen species to purify the air to be treated includes a water tank which stores the cleaning solution, and a temperature controller which controls a temperature of the cleaning solution stored in the water tank. The temperature controller includes a heat exchanger as a cooling/heating unit which cools or heats the cleaning solution stored in the water tank, and controls the temperature of the cleaning solution into 0° C. or more to 40° C. or less.

Abstract: A plate having light and shade thereon, wherein a semi-transparent film (3) is formed on an opaque or light reflective bedding plate (2) having a variable thickness according to the shading of an image by flushing and solidifying semi-transparent liquid, the thick portion of the semi-transparent film (3) reflects less quantity of light since much reflected light from the bedding plate (2) is absorbed by the semi-transparent film (3), and the thin portion of the semi-transparent film (3) reflects much quantity of light since the reflected light from the bedding plate (2) is not much absorbed by the semi-transparent film (3), whereby the bright and dark or light and shadow of the expressed image can be expressed by utilizing the reflected light (FIG. 1).

Abstract: The present invention provides a drum-type washing machine which features suppression of vibrations and noises during dehydration. To this end, an unbalanced load occurring around a rotation axis of the drum due to uneven distribution of laundry is canceled. More specifically, a plurality of water tanks (20) each having an opening on the inner periphery thereof are provided around the rotation axis on the back side of the drum (3). Where an eccentric load occurring due to the uneven distribution of the laundry is greater than an allowable level, a water supply valve (14) is opened to introduce water into the respective water tanks (20) with the drum 3 kept rotated, and the water is kept retained in the water tanks by a centrifugal force.

Abstract: A surface treatment agent for a model according to this invention can improve finish of a surface treatment for a model and can shorten time necessary for finish. The surface treatment agent is used for filling stair-steppings on a model surface, mainly comprising base resin which is cured by physical action and microparticles which have good wettability to the base resin and have a particle diameter equal to or smaller than the stair-stepping.

Abstract: The guanidine derivative represented by the formula [III], ##STR1## (commonly known under the name "Cimetidine") is produced by reaction of the compound represented by the formula [I], ##STR2## with a compound represented by the formula [II], ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6, is each hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, phenyl group, or a radical of --OR.sub.7 or --COOR.sub.7, in which R.sub.7 is hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an alkali metal, followed by reaction with methylamine.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for preparing with a high yield an aminoalkylsulfonic acid represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms or a hydroxyl-containing alkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms and n stands for an integer of 2 or 3, which process comprises reacting a sulfite with a halogenated alkylamine represented by the following general formula: ##STR2## wherein X means a chlorine, bromine or iodine atom, and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and n have the same meanings as defined above by adding the halogenated alkylamine little by little either continuously or intermittently over a certain period of time to a heated aqueous solution of the sulfite.

Abstract: A process for producing 2-mercaptoethylamine hydrohalides of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a hydroxy-substituted lower alkyl group or a phenyl group, and X represents a halogen atom,which comprises reacting a 2-mercaptothiazoline of the general formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are as defined above, with a 2-halogenoethylamine hydrohalide of the general formula ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and X are as defined above, in the presence of water.

Abstract: A process for preparing an organic phosphorous compound of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.A represents ##STR2## where X.sup.1 is a halogen atom, Y is --CH.sub.2 -- or --CH.sub.2 --C.sub.2 --, andR.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3 when Y is --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, or H, CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5 when Y is --CH.sub.2 --,R.sub.B represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a halogenated alkyl group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms,R.sub.C represents ##STR3## where X.sup.2 is a halogen atom, Z is --CH.sub.2 --or --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, andR.sub.2 is H or CH.sub.3 when Z is --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, or H, CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5 when Z is --CH.sub.2 --, andR.sub.D represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a halogenated alkyl group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms,the process including the steps of reacting a cyclic halogenophosphite with a cyclic phosphorous acid and acetone in a molar ratio of 1:1:1, reacting the resulting product with a molecular halogen X.sub.2.sup.