Abstract: A photometric dispensing nozzle unit, a photometric dispensing apparatus, and a photometric dispensing method are for preventing an increase in apparatus scale and have a simple structure to be easily handled. A nozzle performs suction/discharge of gas through a distal end opening and can have a dispensing tip attached thereto. A light guide end portion is provided in the nozzle and can receive or irradiate light at a distal end of the nozzle. A dispensing cylinder has a cylinder having a cavity therein, a plunger that is slidable in the cavity, and a suction/discharge port that performs suction/discharge of gas. A suction/discharge flow path passes through the nozzle and communicates with the suction/discharge port and the distal end opening of the nozzle. A light guide path is optically connected to the light guide end portion through the nozzle but not through the dispensing cylinder.

Abstract: A dispensing cylinder capable of performing a dispensing treatment for both minute and large amounts of liquid includes: a cylinder having a cavity; a nozzle provided at one end of the cylinder, having a through hole in fluid communication with the cavity and extending in an axial direction of the cavity, and a plunger slidable in the cavity in the axial direction. The cavity has a large diameter region having a large inner peripheral surface and a small diameter region having a second inner peripheral surface. The plunger has a thick shaft portion slidable in the large diameter region and a thin shaft portion protruding from a distal end of the thick shaft portion in the axial direction and slidable in the small diameter region.

Abstract: A roll press apparatus includes a first press roll and a second press roll. The first press roll includes a first contact part configured to contact an active material portion of a strip-shaped electrode sheet and a second contact part configured to contact an active-material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode sheet. The second contact part has a large frictional-force generating form that causes a larger frictional force to be generated between the second contact part and the active-material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode sheet than an imaginary frictional force which would be generated if the active-material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode sheet were made to contact the first contact part.

Abstract: A roll press apparatus forms a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pressing a strip-shaped electrode plate including an active material portion and an active material absent portion and including a tensile-force-ratio adjustment mechanism adjusting a tensile force ratio of an upstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to an upstream side and a downstream active material absent portion tensile force applied to a downstream side of an inter-roll active material absent portion held in a non-compressed state between a pair of press rolls in an active material absent portion of the strip-shaped electrode plate.

Abstract: Provided is a high-performance sliding seismic isolation device with a slider that realizes a contact pressure of 60 MPa. The device includes an upper shoe 1 and a lower shoe (2) having sliding surfaces 1a and 2a with curvatures, respectively; and a columnar steel slider (7) disposed between the upper shoe (1) and the lower shoe (2), the slider having an upper surface 4a and a lower surface 4b that are in contact with the upper and lower shoes, respectively, and have curvatures. The upper surface 4a and the lower surface 4b of the slider (7) have double-woven fabric layers (5) and (6), respectively, each double-woven fabric layer containing PTFE fibers and fibers with higher tensile strength than that of the PTFE fibers, and the PTFE fibers being arranged on the sides of the sliding surfaces 1a and 2a of the upper shoe (1) and the lower shoe (2).

Abstract: Provided is a high-performance sliding seismic isolation device with a slider that realizes a contact pressure of 60 MPa. The device includes an upper shoe 1 and a lower shoe (2) having sliding surfaces 1a and 2a with curvatures, respectively; and a columnar steel slider (7) disposed between the upper shoe (1) and the lower shoe (2), the slider having an upper surface 4a and a lower surface 4b that are in contact with the upper and lower shoes, respectively, and have curvatures. The upper surface 4a and the lower surface 4b of the slider (7) have double-woven fabric layers (5) and (6), respectively, each double-woven fabric layer containing PTFE fibers and fibers with higher tensile strength than that of the PTFE fibers, and the PTFE fibers being arranged on the sides of the sliding surfaces 1a and 2a of the upper shoe (1) and the lower shoe (2).

Abstract: According to the present invention, HDGF in the blood of patients with chronic liver disease is measured to diagnose whether the patients have liver cancer. A measurement kit for the diagnosis is also provided.

Abstract: In order to provide a battery charging state arithmetic operation device which can judge a charging state of a battery currently being used easily and in a short time, there are provided battery voltage calculation means 6 with specified load for calculating a first and a second battery voltages when a battery current is at a specified load current value from a first I-V characteristic of the battery which is in a first state as a currently used state and is stored in first I-V characteristic storage means 3 and a second I-V characteristic which is in a second state where the amount of remaining energy is small and is stored in second I-V characteristic storage means 4, and SOC arithmetic operation means 7 for calculating an SOC (charging state) of the battery in the first state by using the first and the second battery voltages calculated.

Abstract: In order to provide a battery charging state arithmetic operation device which can judge a charging state of a battery currently being used easily and in a short time, there are provided battery voltage calculation means 6 with specified load for calculating a first and a second battery voltages when a battery current is at a specified load current value from a first I-V characteristic of the battery which is in a first state as a currently used state and is stored in first I-V characteristic storage means 3 and a second I-V characteristic which is in a second state where the amount of remaining energy is small and is stored in second I-V characteristic storage means 4, and SOC arithmetic operation means 7 for calculating an SOC (charging state) of the battery in the first state by using the first and the second battery voltages calculated.

Abstract: A plurality of battery modules are provided for each module monitoring unit. When a battery module is normal, a photo-FET of a photocoupler contained in a module monitoring unit 5 associated with the battery module is turned on. When it is abnormal, the photo-FET is turned off. Those photo-FETs, provided in association with the battery modules, are connected in series by two signal lines. A management unit detects whether the circuit including those signal lines is opened or closed, and finds an abnormal battery module on the basis of the detection.

Abstract: Forced discharging circuits each of which is configured by connecting in series a transistor, a reverse blocking Zener diode, and a discharging resistor are connected between positive and negative output terminals of cells, respectively. In each of the Zener diodes, the Zener voltage is set to be substantially equal to the cut-off voltage of discharge of the corresponding cell. The bases of the transistors are connected to a switching control circuit. The transistor of each of the forced discharging circuits is set so as to have a larger on-duty ratio, as the cell to which the forced discharging circuit is connected is remoter from a ground line, so that the average currents flowing through the cells are equal to one another.

Abstract: A steel center axis force member passes through a steel buckling-restriction member. A stick preventing coat is disposed between the surface of the center axis force member and the buckling-restriction member. Thereby, a buckling-restriction bracing member having a narrower body and lighter weight can be provided to facilitate a rapid manufacture with lower cost.