Abstract: A promotion device for carbon-dioxide assimilation of plant provided with a high-voltage generating portion which boosts voltage of electric current from an A/C power source portion and converts the electric current into direct current, and an electrode portion which impresses only minus potential of the current from the high-voltage generating portion. Potential difference between the minus potential impressed to the electrode portion and an earth is ?2000 to ?6000V. And, the electrode portion is inserted to soil around a root portion of the plant.

Abstract: A pair of sliding members mounted on the broadside are vertically and slidably engaged with engagement members disposed in a pair of dolphins. The engagement members can freely move in a horizontal direction. The dolphins are provided with fenders which receive the engagement members by elastic force to absorb the rocking of a ship in forward and backward directions, and in right and left broadside directions.

Abstract: In an ultrasonic inspecting apparatus, propagation time is measured between a transmitting point of an ultrasonic wave from outer circumference of a subject material and a receiving point of the ultrasonic wave at another point on the outer circumference spaced apart from the transmitting point by a predetermined angle, and a predetermined sequence of operations is performed with the measured propagation times and the known constants, thereby internal information concerning the material, including location and shape of a defect existing therein, is provided.

Abstract: An ionization chamber comprises a plurality of cylindrical electrodes which are coaxially arranged, and a casing which holds the cylindrical electrodes in it under the condition allowing the axial shifting of the edges of the cylindrical electrodes but preventing the radial shifting of the cylindrical electrodes whereby the slight relative deviation of parts for the ionization chamber can be minimized during use at high temperature or during a severe thermal cycle.