Abstract: A attachment and detachment apparatus removably attaches a filter container containing a filter, as a part of a filtration apparatus that filters fluid with the filter. The filter container includes a first mounting protrusion having a filter container flow path in fluid communication with the filter. An outer periphery surface of the first mounting protrusion includes at least two curved surfaces respectively formed to be at least a part of an arc surface. The attachment and detachment apparatus includes a first mounting protrusion holding part that holds the first mounting protrusion. The first mounting protrusion holding part having a holding part flow path for the fluid and a notch communicating between an area surrounded by the inner periphery surface and an outer side of the first mounting protrusion holding part.

Abstract: To provide an end portion sealing member for a linear motion mechanism having good lubrication characteristics and a high degree of protection against dust. An end portion seal member capable of being attached at either end of slider in linear motion mechanism comprising rail and slider, wherein said end portion seal member has support frame body arranged at an outside circumference of said rail; base fabric portion, the back surface of which is secured to an inside circumferential surface of said support frame body; and cut pile that protrudes from a front surface of said base fabric portion; wherein fiber tip portions of said cut pile are bent and made to abut the rail in such fashion as to occlude a gap between said rail and said support frame body; and lubricant has been made to be retained in advance in spaces between pile fibers of said cut pile.

Abstract: A filter attachment and detachment apparatus removably attaching a filter container containing a filter, as a part of a filtration apparatus that filters fluid with the filter, includes a first mounting protrusion at one end of the filter container to protrude from the filter container, the first mounting protrusion including a flow path in fluid communication with the filter inside the filter container, a rotation element to which a first flow path for the fluid is connected, the rotation element including an opening groove configured to receive the first mounting protrusion, and a first mounting protrusion holding part configured to rotatably hold the rotation element.

Abstract: In the present invention, a chemical-vapor-deposition silicon carbide (SIC) bulk having an improved etching characteristic includes silicon carbide (SIC) manufactured by a chemical vapor deposition method using MTS (methyltrichlorosilane), hydrogen (H2), and nitrogen (N2) gases. The SIC manufactured by the chemical vapor deposition method is ?-SiC (3C-SiC), and 6H-SiC is present in the SIC manufactured by the chemical vapor deposition method. Five peaks having a reference code of 03-065-0360 and a peak having a reference code of 00-049-1428 are confirmed to be present from XRD analysis of the silicon carbide bulk, and a nitrogen concentration value is 4.0×1018 atoms/cm3 or more at a depth of 1,500 nm or more from the surface of the bulk, which is a metastable layer.

Abstract: In order that a temperature of a measurement object whose non-transmission wavelength range is narrow, such as isopropyl alcohol can be measured highly accurately without increasing the size of a radiation thermometer, the radiation thermometer includes an infrared detection element to detect infrared ray emitted from the measurement object. The radiation thermometer is designed to measure the temperature of the measurement object on the basis of intensity of infrared ray detected by the infrared detection element. The radiation thermometer further includes a filter group made up of a plurality of infrared filters arranged on an optical path of infrared ray introduced into the infrared detection element. The filter group permits transmission of at least infrared ray in each of a first wavelength range and a second wavelength range which are not overlapped with each other.

Abstract: Provided is an electromagnetic sensor capable of stably measuring electric conductivity and the like even in the case where solid matters are mixed in a sample solution. The electromagnetic sensor includes a substrate, a through hole formed in the substrate, an electrode attached to a surface of the substrate, and a housing that covers the through hole and the electrode, and in this configuration, the sample solution supplied to a surface of the substrate opposite to the surface of the substrate having the electrode attached thereto is allowed to flow into the housing from the through hole and to be accommodated in the housing, so that the sample solution is allowed to be in contact with the electrode.

Abstract: To provide a ball transfer and a seal member for a ball transfer, a seal member is employed which is characterized in that it has a seal member employing pile fiber that, at a ball transfer having a main body which has a socket, an inner surface of which is a hemispherical concave surface, a plurality of ball bearings arranged at the main exterior socket, a primary ball, diameter of which is greater than that of said ball bearings and which is rotatably supported by the socket by way of the ball bearings, and a housing-like case which surrounds the main body socket and rotatably supports the ball bearings and the primary ball at a bearing portion thereof and which has a hole from which a portion of the primary ball is made to protrude at an upper surface of the primary ball socket.

Abstract: It is an objet to provide an oil extraction agent that is used in an oil concentration meter, that can be manufactured at low cost, that has a high oil extraction efficiency, and whose burden on the environment is small. Trimeric or higher oligomers of chlorotrifluoroethylene are contained in the overall oil extraction agent in a range between 35% by weight or more and 100% by weight or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method of preparing a SiOx, and a SiOx anode material, and more particularly, to a device and a method of preparing a SiOx, in which a SiOx is prepared by reacting liquid silicon and solid silicon dioxide in one or more crucibles, and a metal raw material is simultaneously supplied during SiOx preparing to continuously prepare a metal-SiOx in a single process, and a SiOx anode material.

Abstract: This invention is to provide an electrode device whose manufacturing cost is suppressed and whose surface is difficult to be polluted. The electrode device comprises an internal electrode, an enclosure that houses the internal electrode, an internal solution that is housed in the enclosure and that electrically communicates a liquid junction formed in the enclosure or a response glass that forms a part or all of the enclosure with the internal electrode, and an antifouling mechanism that has a light source to irradiate ultraviolet rays on a sample contact surface of the enclosure as being a surface that makes contact with a sample and that prevents the sample contact surface of the enclosure from being polluted, and the light source is directly or indirectly mounted on an outside of the enclosure, or the light source is housed inside of the enclosure.

Abstract: As a support for an external patch, a laminated sheet having a laminate structure of two or three layers in which a secondary sheet made of hydrophobic fibers is laminated on one side or both sides of a main sheet made of hydrophilic fibers is used.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a novel external patch packaging structure which suppresses leakage of a chemical solution at the time of opening a bag material. In an external patch packaging structure obtained by enclosing an external patch in which a support is impregnated with a chemical solution in a bag material, as the bag material, one closed by a heat seal band provided at a periphery is used, the heat seal band includes: an easy-peel seal portion; and a strong seal portion having a higher seal strength than the easy-peel seal portion, and when the easy-peel seal portion is peeled off and the bag material is opened, the strong seal portion restricts a peeling area of the heat seal band, and thus a liquid storage pocket is formed inside the bag material.

Abstract: There is a need to reduce the amount of overlapping parts of a nonwoven fabric of a filter component to thereby lengthen the life of the filter component. This need is met by the filter component formed of a cylindrical nonwoven fabric having a center axis, and having a plurality of polygon-shaped cross-sections which are a same shape that are formed side-by-side at predetermined intervals along the center axis. Each side of each of the polygons is formed by a mountain fold part on a plane perpendicular to the center axis, and each vertex of one polygon is connected by a mountain fold part to each vertex of another polygon, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention intends to enable light path length to be kept the same between sample measurement and reference measurement and thereby improve measurement accuracy, and is an optical analyzer that analyzes a sample flowing through a pipe having translucency. In addition, the optical analyzer includes: a light source unit that has a light source and a condenser lens; a light detection unit that detects light of the light source unit; and a support mechanism that movably supports the light source unit and the light detection unit. Further, the support mechanism moves the light source unit and the light detection unit between a sample measurement position and a reference measurement position.

Abstract: A liquid analyzer is one that performs analysis in a state of being immersed in a flowing analysis target liquid, and in order to simply make a good/bad determination and increase reliability, includes: a sensor adapted to, in a state where a responsive membrane is immersed in the flowing analysis target liquid, sense a predetermined component contained in the analysis target liquid; an analysis mechanism adapted to analyze the analysis target liquid with use of voltage generated in the sensor; and a resistance measurement mechanism adapted to, in the state where the responsive membrane is immersed in the flowing analysis target liquid, apply DC voltage to the responsive membrane to measure the resistance of the responsive membrane.

Abstract: The filter vessel attachment/detachment apparatus includes a first conduit end, wherein a first conduit for the fluid to flow through is coupled to the first conduit end, and the first conduit end has a clamping portion capable of clamping the flange of the filter vessel; a contact surface capable of strongly contacting to the inlet or the outlet of the filter vessel; and a guide member capable of, for a direction from the first conduit toward the inlet or the outlet, rotating about a second axis separated from a first axis by a predetermined distance, the first axis being from the first conduit toward the inlet, the guide member having a holding portion capable of holding the inlet or the outlet.

Abstract: An optical measurement cell including first and second translucent members, which sandwich an internal space storing test liquid, are configured so that light incident on the first translucent member passes through the internal space and is emitted from the second translucent member. The cell includes a first holding member that holds down the circumference of a light transmission area on an outward surface of the first translucent member; a second holding member that holds down the circumference of a light transmission area on an outward surface of the second translucent member; and seal members that are respectively interposed between the first translucent and holding members and between the second translucent and holding members. In addition, areas excluding parts of surfaces of the respective translucent members are coated with coated films, and the end parts of the coated films are positioned on light transmission area sides of the seal members.

Abstract: An elastic roller is capable of elastic deformation at low load, lightweight and low-cost, and the surface speed of the roller has been made stable. At a drawing showing the view from the side of pipe 2 and flange 3 which make up roller 1, roller 1 which has pipe 2 and flange 3 is supported by shaft 8 which is inserted therein along axis 8a of shaft 8, the situation being such that elastic deformation occurs upon being pressed downward by pressure P from pressure-applying body 11 above pipe. None of the four outermost ribs 7a disposed in outermost gap 6a between outermost ring 4a of flange 3 and middle ring 4b which is mutually adjacent thereto and toward the interior therefrom is present in the upper portion of pipe 2.

Abstract: An apparatus for exhaust gas abatement under reduced pressure includes a reaction tube having, in an interior thereof, an exhaust gas treatment space in which an exhaust gas supplied from an exhaust gas source via a vacuum pump is heated by an electric heater or excited by a plasma for decomposition and/or reaction treatment. The apparatus also includes a downstream vacuum pump connected to an exhaust gas outlet located downstream of the reaction tube to reduce a pressure in a region located downstream of an outlet of the vacuum pump and including the interior of the reaction tube. The downstream vacuum pump is a water-sealed pump. The apparatus further includes a water-washing unit for washing a downstream end of an exhaust gas flow path in the reaction tube with washing water. The washing water supplied by the water-washing unit is reused as seal water for the downstream vacuum pump.

Abstract: In a topical adhesive skin patch provided with a support and a base material layer laminated to one or both sides of the support, or in a topical adhesive skin patch intended to be used by placing only a gel sheet against the skin surface, the base material layer or gel sheet includes an oil-in-water type gel base containing at least water, oil, an emulsifier, and a water-absorbent polymer, such that prior to application to the skin surface, the base material layer or gel sheet is opaque due to emulsification of the base material layer or gel sheet, and subsequent to application to the skin surface, moisture contained in the base material layer or gel sheet gradually evaporates causing the opacity of the base material layer or gel sheet to decline over time, so that decline in opacity over time can be visually ascertained.