Abstract: A storage container includes: a substrate having a plurality of storage wells to store an object therein, the storage wells being formed on a predetermined substrate surface of the substrate. Further, the storage wells each includes an opening forming portion forming an opening portion opening on the substrate surface, and having an inclined surface that inclines from the substrate surface downward in a depth direction on an inner surface of the opening portion; and a bottomed storage portion that has a side wall surface extending in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface on a lower side in the depth direction of the storage well relative to the opening forming portion, and that communicates with a region on the substrate surface through the opening portion, and a lower end of the inclined surface is connected to the side wall surface of the storage portion, forming a ridgeline.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method for conditioning a surface of a molded article. The present invention relates to a combination of a mold used for curing a thermosetting resin and a release film placed between the thermosetting resin and the mold during the curing. The release film comprises a base layer formed of a thermoplastic resin and a surface layer formed of a particle-containing fluororesin and laminated to the face which is placed during the curing on the side of the thermosetting resin among the two faces of the base layer. The mold has an irregularity formed on the face brought into contact with the release film during the curing.

Abstract: An excimer lamp includes an exterior tube, an interior tube coaxially arranged in the exterior tube, and an inner electrode embedded between the exterior tube and a cladding tube configured to cover at least part of the exterior tube. An outer electrode is provided at the side of the outer surface of the exterior tube. The inner electrode is a foil electrode and the opposite sides of the inner electrode are flattened along the width direction. Both edges of the inner electrode are pointed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rapid load test method for a pile by use of a method resulting from extending a well-known SULP method, wherein a rapid load test is implemented on a pile head more than once in the manner of changing a drop height h of a weight, with the pile instrumented with strain gages and accelerometers at more than one depth level, followed by the processing of obtaining a rapid load Frapid-pile displacement w relation for each pile segment for each time of the rapid load test using measurement data measured by the strain gages and the accelerometers, of obtaining a soil resistance Rsoil-pile displacement w relation on each pile segment for each time of the rapid load test, of calculating an unloading point that can be a point of maximum displacement of the pile, together with an unloading point load RULP at that moment, and of obtaining a static soil resistance Rw-pile displacement w relation on each pile segment by use of an Unloading Point Connection method using the calculated unloading point and unl

Abstract: An excimer lamp includes a discharge tube, a band-shaped foil electrode provided in the discharge tube, and a dielectric configured to cover the foil electrode and maintain close contact with the foil electrode. The foil electrode extends along the axis of said discharge tube. The opposite sides of the foil electrode are flattened along the width direction of the foil electrode. Both edge portions of the foil electrode are pointed.

Abstract: An excimer lamp includes a discharge tube, a band-shaped foil electrode provided in the discharge tube, and a dielectric configured to cover the foil electrode and maintain close contact with the foil electrode. The foil electrode extends along the axis of said discharge tube. The opposite sides of the foil electrode are flattened along the width direction of the foil electrode. Both edge portions of the foil electrode are pointed.

Abstract: An optical module includes: a casing in which light is propagated; a heating portion; a device arranged inside the casing and configured to change, when heated, characteristics of the light propagated inside the casing; and a first member thermally connected to the heating portion and the device, the first member including a hollow arranged in a heat transfer path from the heating portion to the device and configured to prevent convective heat transmission to an inside of the casing.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method for conditioning a surface of a molded article. The present invention relates to a combination of a mold used for curing a thermosetting resin and a release film placed between the thermosetting resin and the mold during the curing. The release film comprises a base layer formed of a thermoplastic resin and a surface layer formed of a particle-containing fluororesin and laminated to the face which is placed during the curing on the side of the thermosetting resin among the two faces of the base layer. The mold has an irregularity formed on the face brought into contact with the release film during the curing.

Abstract: A storage container includes: a substrate having a plurality of storage wells to store an object therein, the storage wells being formed on a predetermined substrate surface of the substrate. Further, the storage wells each includes an opening forming portion forming an opening portion opening on the substrate surface, and having an inclined surface that inclines from the substrate surface downward in a depth direction on an inner surface of the opening portion; and a bottomed storage portion that has a side wall surface extending in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface on a lower side in the depth direction of the storage well relative to the opening forming portion, and that communicates with a region on the substrate surface through the opening portion, and a lower end of the inclined surface is connected to the side wall surface of the storage portion, forming a ridgeline.

Abstract: A disclosed semiconductor laser device includes a distributed feedback portion serving as a light-emittable active region the distributed feedback portion having a diffraction grating; and a distributed reflective portion serving as a passive reflective mirror, the distributed reflective portion having a diffraction grating, wherein the distributed feedback portion includes a first region adjacent to the distributed reflective portion and having a diffraction grating having a predetermined standard period, a phase shift region adjacent to the first region, the phase shift region being longer by twice or more than the standard period, and a second region adjacent to an opposite side to the first region of the phase shift region and having a diffraction grating with the standard period, and the phase shift region optically changes a phase of laser beam between the first region and the second region.

Abstract: A combination weighing apparatus having excellent sanitation includes: a plurality of weighing mechanisms, a weighing mechanism frame which stores the weighing mechanisms, and a body frame which supports the weighing mechanism frame, in which a normal to a surface of the body frame is inclined with respect to a vertical direction.

Abstract: A disclosed semiconductor laser device includes a distributed feedback portion serving as a light-emittable active region the distributed feedback portion having a diffraction grating; and a distributed reflective portion serving as a passive reflective mirror, the distributed reflective portion having a diffraction grating, wherein the distributed feedback portion includes a first region adjacent to the distributed reflective portion and having a diffraction grating having a predetermined standard period, a phase shift region adjacent to the first region, the phase shift region being longer by twice or more than the standard period, and a second region adjacent to an opposite side to the first region of the phase shift region and having a diffraction grating with the standard period, and the phase shift region optically changes a phase of laser beam between the first region and the second region.

Abstract: Provided is a combination weighing apparatus having excellent sanitation. A combination weighing apparatus 1 includes: a plurality of weighing mechanisms 56, a weighing mechanism frame 80 which stores the weighing mechanisms 56, and a body frame 90 which supports the weighing mechanism frame 80, in which a normal to a surface of the body frame 90 is inclined with respect to a vertical direction.

Abstract: The gas circuit breaker is made up of a fixed contact, a movable contact, a sealed tank having the fixed contact and the movable contact therein, an operating mechanism for driving the movable contact, and a mechanism unit for housing a link mechanism for connecting the operating mechanism with the movable contact. The operating mechanism is made up of an opening spring and a closing spring, cases for covering respective peripheries of those elastic bodies, a control mechanism for holding and freeing the driving force of the elastic body, and a link mechanism for conveying the driving force of the elastic body to the movable contact. The opening spring is laterally disposed in the axial direction between the link mechanism and the control mechanism. An integral flange is provided on an opening spring case and a closing spring case.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser element includes: a semiconductor-layered structure including a waveguide core layer and having a distributed feedback laser portion and a distributed Bragg reflection portion, the waveguide core layer having a length continuous in an optical cavity length direction and a diffraction grating layer being disposed in vicinity of the waveguide core layer and along the waveguide core layer in the distributed feedback laser portion, and the waveguide core layer being disposed discretely and periodically to form a diffraction grating in the distributed Bragg reflection portion; and an electrode for injecting a current to the distributed feedback laser portion. The distributed feedback laser portion oscillates a laser light at a wavelength corresponding to a period of the diffraction grating layer. The diffraction grating formed by the waveguide core layer in the distributed Bragg reflection portion is set to have a stop band including the wavelength of the laser light.

Abstract: An integrated semiconductor laser device includes: a semiconductor laser including a first active layer; a semiconductor optical amplifier including a second active layer and configured to amplify output laser light of the semiconductor laser; and a substrate on which the semiconductor laser and the semiconductor optical amplifier are integrated. The first active layer and the second active layer each include a multiple quantum well structure, and the second active layer includes a larger number of quantum wells than the first active layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser element includes: a semiconductor-layered structure including a waveguide core layer and having a distributed feedback laser portion and a distributed Bragg reflection portion, the waveguide core layer having a length continuous in an optical cavity length direction and a diffraction grating layer being disposed in vicinity of the waveguide core layer and along the waveguide core layer in the distributed feedback laser portion, and the waveguide core layer being disposed discretely and periodically to form a diffraction grating in the distributed Bragg reflection portion; and an electrode for injecting a current to the distributed feedback laser portion. The distributed feedback laser portion oscillates a laser light at a wavelength corresponding to a period of the diffraction grating layer. The diffraction grating formed by the waveguide core layer in the distributed Bragg reflection portion is set to have a stop band including the wavelength of the laser light.

Abstract: The gas circuit breaker is made up of a fixed contact, a movable contact, a sealed tank having the fixed contact and the movable contact therein, an operating mechanism for driving the movable contact, and a mechanism unit for housing a link mechanism for connecting the operating mechanism with the movable contact . The operating mechanism is made up of an opening spring and a closing spring, cases for covering respective peripheries of those elastic bodies, a control mechanism for holding and freeing the driving force of the elastic body, and a link mechanism for conveying the driving force of the elastic body to the movable contact. The opening spring is laterally disposed in the axial direction between the link mechanism and the control mechanism. An integral flange is provided on an opening spring case and a closing spring case.

Abstract: A partial discharge measurement device according to the present invention includes a frequency separation unit for separating a partial discharge signal which occurs in an apparatus under diagnosis and is detected by a sensor into the partial discharge signal and a main circuit voltage phase signal, an arithmetic device which receives the partial discharge signal and the main circuit voltage phase signal separated by the frequency separation unit and calculates a partial discharge signal synchronized with a main circuit voltage based on the partial discharge signal and the main circuit voltage phase signal, a power supply device for extracting a voltage obtained by dividing the main circuit voltage and supplying a power supply voltage to the arithmetic device, and a control unit for issuing an instruction for powering on or off at least the arithmetic device to the power supply device.

Abstract: Integrated are: semiconductor lasers of distributed feedback type that oscillate in single mode at emission wavelengths different from one another; a coupler that has as many input ports as the semiconductor lasers, the input ports to which output light from the semiconductor lasers are input, the coupler guiding and outputting the output light; and an amplifier that amplifies the output light from the coupler, and a predetermined relation holds true, where “N” is the number of the semiconductor lasers, “Ldfb” is a cavity length of each of the semiconductor lasers, “??0” is a spectral linewidth of laser light output therefrom, “Lsoa” is an amplifier length of the amplifier, “A” is an amplification factor of the amplifier, “??” is a spectral linewidth of amplified laser light output therefrom, and “R” is ??/??0.