Abstract: A hinge device features improved ease of installation/removal of covers thereof to/from mounting bases thereof. The hinge device, which has mounting bases and knuckles, is connected such that it swings on a hinge pin inserted in the knuckles. The covers conceal mounting screws of the mounting bases. Each of the mounting bases has recesses formed in a side surface on a non-supporting side, grooves which are formed in a side surface adjacent to both ends in the axial direction of the hinge pin and which extend to a side surface, and an engaged portion concavely formed in each of the groove. The inner side of the cover has engaging portions which are inserted in the groove and which detachably engages with the engaged portion when the cover is installed, and also has protruding streaks which enter into and engage with the recesses.

Abstract: An incubator comprising: a culture chamber configured to accommodate culture; a dish structure configured to contain a liquid; an ultrasonic vibrator provided in a part of the dish structure, the ultrasonic vibrator configured to atomize the liquid; and a gas-liquid contact structure configured to bring the atomized liquid into contact with air in the chamber to be cultured.

Abstract: A culture apparatus comprising: a fan configured to circulate air inside a culture chamber in a predetermined direction in the culture chamber; a duct configured to guide air circulating inside the culture chamber along a wall face inside the culture chamber from an upper part to a lower part of the culture chamber; and a gas generator detachable from a predetermined position at a lower part of the duct, the gas generator being configured to take in air discharged from a lower part of the duct and discharge together with the air taken in a hydrogen peroxide gas to sterilize the inside of the culture chamber generated from a hydrogen peroxide solution into the culture chamber.

Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus includes first and second refrigerant circuits including respective first and second compressors, condensers, pressure reducers, and evaporators, connected circularly with first and second refrigerant pipes, respectively, refrigerants discharged from the first and second compressors being respectively condensed at the first and second condensers and thereafter respectively evaporated at the first and second evaporators to acquire a cooling effect; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of an internal portion of a cold storage cabinet, the first and second evaporators being disposed to cool the internal portion simultaneously; and a first control device that controls the first and second compressors such that both of them are operated each time a temperature detected by the temperature sensor reaches a first temperature, and the first and second compressors are alternately operated each time a temperature detected by the temperature sensor reaches a second temperature lower t

Abstract: There is provided a culture observation system by which even a culture other than an observation target culture can be cultured and observation can be properly performed by a microscope during culturing of the culture. A culture observation system S includes a culturing cabinet 2 for forming an environment suitable for culturing cells in a culturing room 13 and an image pick-up device 3 for photographing a microscopic image of the cells. The image pick-up device 3 includes a light source 47 which is provided in the culturing room 13 and a table 37 which is provided in the culturing room 13 to hold the culture as an image pick-up target, and a shelf 7 for accommodating the cells is provided in the culturing room 13 other than the light source 47 and the table 37.

Abstract: Provided are a nitric oxide detection element capable of detecting NO gas contained in a mixed gas at a high speed even when the amount thereof is a super trace amount of ten and several parts per billion; and a process for producing the element. In a nitric oxide detection element having a substrate 12 and a sensing film 11 formed on a surface of the substrate, the sensing film is composed of nitric oxide sensing particles and a polymer adhesive. The nitric oxide sensing particles are produced by adsorbing a dye having a porphyrin skeleton and having, as a central metal, divalent cobalt onto surfaces of inorganic particles.

Abstract: Provided is a nitric oxide detection element which is capable of measuring a trace amount of NO gas contained in a gas in a scale of several ppb and of which the time degradation in performance is suppressed. The nitric oxide detection element includes at a surface thereof: a dye having a porphyrin skeleton and containing divalent cobalt as a central metal; and a radical scavenger. The nitric oxide detection element includes a substrate 12 and a sensing film 11 formed on a surface of the substrate 12. The sensing film 11 may contain the dye and the radical scavenger.

Abstract: A medication storage for storing medications while cooling down them is constituted so as to allow a medication based on prescription data to be certainly taken out. The medication storage cools down inside a storeroom for storing the medications to a predetermined temperature by a cooling unit. The medication storage, includes: a plurality of shelves rotatably provided in the storeroom; a plurality of storage partitions which are respectively constituted on each shelf and store the medications; a motor for rotating the shelves; a plurality of openings provided respectively for being arranged to correspond to each of the shelves thereby allowing only medication in any one of the storage partitions to be taken out; a plurality of doors for openably closing each opening, respectively; a plurality of lock solenoids for locking each door, respectively; and a control unit for controlling the motor and the lock solenoid.

Abstract: A culture apparatus includes a heat insulating box main body having an inner box and a heat insulating door, a culture vessel, a duct and a circulation blower forcing convection of a gas such as air in the culture vessel, a humidifying pan disposed on a bottom portion of the culture vessel within the duct, and heaters disposed on the outer side of the inner box and on the inner side of the heat insulating door, for heating the inside of the culture vessel. The culture apparatus is configured such that a rapid heater is provided on the downstream side of the circulation blower inside the duct, and the rapid heater is activated if a temperature in the culture vessel is decreased below a prescribed temperature, thereby rapidly regaining the prescribed temperature.

Abstract: A hydrogen-peroxide-gas generator includes: an atomizing unit to atomize hydrogen-peroxide solution stored in a storage portion by applying ultrasonic vibration; a heater provided above the atomizing unit, the heater configured to heat and gasify the hydrogen-peroxide solution atomized in the atomizing unit; an internal cylindrical portion, made of metal, whose internal space has the heater arranged therein, the internal cylindrical portion configured to guide upward the hydrogen-peroxide solution atomized in the atomizing unit flowing together with a carrier gas; and an external cylindrical portion, double-pipe constructed, whose internal space has the internal cylindrical portion arranged therein, having a gas-flow path for the carrier gas flowing downward toward the storage portion formed between the external cylindrical portion and the internal cylindrical portion, the carrier gas flowing through the gas-flow path caused to contact the internal cylindrical portion heated by the heater, the heated carrier

Abstract: A culture apparatus includes a heat insulating box main body having an inner box; a culture vessel; a duct and a circulation blower forcing convection of a gas in the culture vessel; a humidifying pan disposed on the bottom of the culture vessel and positioned inside the duct; a heat pipe having a heat insulating section, a heat input section disposed at one end of the heat insulating section and a heat dissipation section disposed at the other end of the heat insulating section. The heat pipe is attached to the culture apparatus with the heat dissipation section being disposed outside the culture apparatus, the heat insulating section passing through the heat insulating box main body and the inner box, and the heat input section being disposed in a gas passage in the duct.

Abstract: A culture apparatus which is capable of shortening sterilization time includes a gas concentration measuring sensor, pipes connected to a gas concentration measuring device and every corner of a cultivating chamber, and a sterilizing gas generator that supplies sterilizing gas into a cultivating chamber and atomizes a sterilizer solution (oxygenated water) by means of an ultrasonic vibrator. The culture apparatus further includes an ultraviolet lamp that irradiates gas in the cultivating chamber, a freely opening/closing door, a door-locking device, and a controller for controlling the locking device to prevent the door from being opened from start of the sterilization process to end of the decomposition process.

Abstract: A solid preparation packaging apparatus includes a solid preparation accommodating unit, a transfer mechanism unit and a solid preparation packaging mechanism unit each individually accommodated in a main body so as to be capable of being pulled out or pushed back in the back-and-forth direction; an electrical component chamber containing a CPU circuit board and a power supply at the lowest portion of the solid preparation packaging apparatus, and a flexible wiring cover mounted across the electrical component chamber and the solid preparation packaging mechanism unit in order to pass, through the flexible wiring cover, a wiring of the solid preparation accommodating unit, the transfer mechanism unit and the solid preparation packaging mechanism unit to the CPU circuit board and the power supply.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus includes: a dish mounting portion having a mounting surface mounted with a dish having a bottom surface and a side surface surrounding the bottom surface; a syringe, arranged above the dish mounting portion, having a nozzle configured to discharge liquid toward an interior of the dish; and a first driving portion configured to change the syringe in direction with respect to a first axis as a center, wherein the first axis is orthogonal to a normal to the mounting surface of the dish mounting portion.

Abstract: A low-temperature storage includes: a thermally-insulating casing including an accommodating portion accommodating an item to be refrigerated; a door to be closed in a manner capable of opening/closing the portion; a cooling mechanism cooling an interior thereof; a temperature-detecting unit measuring a temperature in the portion; an opening/closing-detecting unit detecting a door open/close state; and a control unit including a temperature-adjusting unit controlling the cooling mechanism so that the temperature reaches a target temperature, first- and second-temperature-storing units storing first and second temperatures, respectively, a target-temperature-setting unit setting the target temperature at the first temperature when the opening/closing-detecting unit detects that the door has changed from an open to closed state, and thereafter, setting the target temperature at the second temperature, and a control-information-setting unit setting the first or second temperatures, and when a difference therebet

Abstract: A cooling box to perform temperature control so that an internal temperature of the cooling box storing an item to be refrigerated becomes equal to a set temperature includes: a control device including an ambient-temperature sensor to detect an ambient temperature of the box, and adjust a supply amount of warm air into the box after stopping supply of cold air thereinto based on the ambient temperature; and a thermally-insulating-door sensor to detect whether an opening connected with the interior of the cooling box is in either an open or closed state, when the sensor detects a change of the opening from an open to closed state, the control device executing control so that the warm-air-supply-amount reaches a first value until a predetermined period has elapsed, and executing control so that the warm-air-supply-amount reaches a second value smaller than the first value after the predetermined period has elapsed.

Abstract: An isolator capable of having a culture apparatus demountably mounted thereto, the isolator includes: a working chamber; a storage chamber; a first opening configured to allow a culture chamber of the culture apparatus and the working chamber to communicate with each other, when the culture apparatus has been mounted; a second opening configured to allow the working chamber and the storage chamber to communicate with each other; a first door configured to close the second opening so as to hermetically seal the storage chamber; and a temperature adjusting device configured to, when culture taken out of the culture chamber has been stored in the storage chamber, and the storage chamber has been hermetically sealed, and thereafter the culture apparatus has been demounted, adjust temperature of the culture stored in the storage chamber.