Abstract: The preset invention is to mold a laminate at a high accuracy by appropriately generating slippage between fiber sheets of the laminate at bending. A method for molding a laminate includes a step in which a plurality of gripping parts, which are arranged apart from each other, grip an area, wherein slippage between fiber sheets is prevented, in a plate-shaped laminate including a plurality of fiber sheets laminated each other; a step in which the plurality of gripping parts grip the area wherein slippage between the fiber sheets is prevented, while maintaining the state wherein relative moving of the area of the laminate and the gripping parts is prevented; and a step in which the gripping parts move so as to subject the laminate to bending.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for regenerating tooth germ, and more specifically, to provide a method for regenerating tooth germ that enables the treatment of patients who have lost teeth or have had teeth damaged by dental diseases such as pyorrhea alveolaris or dental caries. The present invention provides a method for regenerating tooth germ by culturing tooth germ cells while giving mechanical stimulus to the cells, and a regenerated tooth germ.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is provided with a sequencer for executing a rapid imaging sequence of up to 100 ms at a full scan, a parallel measurement system for executing a partial encoding measurement in which the number of phase encoding operations performed for the measurement is reduced, an image processing system for reconstructing images from the information obtained though parallel measurements and composing reconstructed images of a plurality of areas to make one image, a display system for displaying the obtained images at a rate of 50 frame/second or more, and an image renewal system for taking in coordinate information of the cross-section to be imaged from position and pointing devices at intervals of about 0.1 second, and renewing the cross-section to be imaged in real time. Thus, imaging on the cross-sections indicated by a device can be performed in real time with high spatial and high time resolution.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is provided with a sequencer 4 for executing a rapid imaging sequence of up to 100 ms at a full scan, a parallel measurement system 101 for executing a partial encoding measurement in which the number of phase encoding operations performed for the measurement is reduced, an image processing system 102 for reconstructing images from the information obtained though the parallel measurements and composing reconstructed images of a plurality of areas to make one image, a display system 103 for displaying the obtained images at a rate of 50 frame/second or more, and image renewal system 104 for taking in coordinate information of the cross-section to be imaged from devices 52 and 53 at intervals of about 0.1 second, and renewing the cross-section to be imaged in real time.

Abstract: A burst wave 91 is applied as an RF magnetic filed in order to excite nuclei of hydrogen, and also a oradient magnetic field 95 along a readout direction is applied so as to excite magnetization in a stripe shape. Thereafter, while a magnetization-inverting RF magnetic field pulse 92 for selecting a slice is applied and a readout gradient magnetic field 96 is applied, a signal 97 is measured. At this time, a time instant when a spin echo is produced is made different from a time instant when a gradient magnetic field echo is produced, so that a phase rotation made by a chemical shift may be reflected on to a signal. The MR signal 97 is processed by a 2-dimensional Fourier-transform, and a phase distribution is calculated from both a real part and an imaginary part of complex data after the 2-dimensional Fourier-transform. Then, this calculated phase distribution is converted into a temperature change so as to display the temperature change.

Abstract: A plurality of signal acquisition steps 103 to 106 are executed continuously in succession to an inversion longitudinal magnetization generation step 101 for generating inversion magnetization by applying inversion RF pulses to an object. Similar process steps are iterated in another inversion longitudinal magnetization step in a slice non-selecting mode, and the difference is determined between image data acquired by the first signal acquisition steps 103 to 106 and image data acquired by the second signal acquisition steps 107 to 110 to acquire a perfusion image. In this instance, the mode of applying the gradient magnetic field is made different in each signal acquisition step, and images of a plurality of slices are acquired. The process steps described above are iterated while the correspondence relation between an inversion time TI and a selected slice is changed. An image having different inversion times can thus be acquired within a short time for a plurality of slices.

Abstract: A scanning tunneling microscope, in which the gap between a tip having a keenly sharpened end and a sample is narrowed to let flow a tunneling current between them and thereby allow observation of the surface of the sample, a strain wave detecting device is disposed on the sample or in the vicinity of the sample to detect strain waves generated within the sample. By modulating the value of the above described tunneling current, strain waves are generated within the sample. The strain waves are detected by the above described strain wave detecting device. On the basis of the amplitude information and phase information of detected strain waves, physical information regarding the inside of the sample is obtained.

Abstract: A process for producing a protein-oriented membrane which is enhanced physically and chemically by orienting protein and cross linking the oriented protein together, is described. The proteinaceous membrane which is subjected to orientation treatment alone is weak physically and chemically, and its processing and handling are therefore difficult. However, according to the present invention, the protein after the process of orientation is cross linked together to produce a protein-oriented membrane remarkably enhanced physically and chemically.

Abstract: A scanning tunneling microscope, in which the gap between a tip having a keenly sharpened end and a sample is narrowed to let flow a tunneling current between them and thereby allow observation of the surface of the sample. A strain wave device is disposed on the sample or in the vicinity of the sample to detect strain waves generated within the sample. By modulating the value of the above described tunneling current, strain waves are generated within the sample. The strain waves are detected by the above described strain wave detecting device. On the basis of the amplitude information and phase information of detected strain waves, physical information regarding the inside of the sample is obtained.

Abstract: The layers of ink formulations of different colors are transferred from a plurality of ink ductors onto predetermined areas of the outer periphery of a single ink form roller, and the body of a cylindrical container is pressed against said ink form roller and rotated as many times as the number of said ink ductors.

Abstract: A cylindrical can being transported along a vertical circular passageway is passed through a first application zone where a part of the given amount of white paint is applied to all the outer surface of the can body and then advanced to a second application zone where the rest of said white paint is applied to all the said coated surface.

Abstract: A coated metallic article has a paint film formed by applying pigment-containing synthetic resin paints to the substrate and baking or curing the coating. The paint film is made of two or three layers of paint compositions consisting of a synthetic resin in common containing a pigment in common but in different proportions.

Abstract: In a solid agricultural chemical composition containing an unstable active ingredient, when a small amount of anhydrous calcium chloride, calcium chloride monohydrate or calcium chloride dihydrate is incorporated, the active ingredient can be highly stabilized. The quality and physical properties, such as flowability, of the solid agricultural chemical composition are not at all degraded by incorporation of said stabilizer.

Abstract: A toothbrush which has a brush handle, a head on one end of the handle and a resilient, preferably multicellular pad fixed on the brush head. The pad has a concavity of a relatively large area across the pad in the area halfway between the ends of the pad on the upper surface, to form two protrusions on the opposite sides of the concavity. Each protrusion has at least one upside projection thereon substantially of the form of a triangular prism with the lateral edges extending in the lateral direction of the pad. The concavity lies preferably lower than the bottom of the troughs defined by the adjacent upside projections and can have a ridge or a plurality of ridges across the pad on the concavity. The pad has preferably an additional projection on each of the protrusions, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the pad and is of a form of a polygonal prism with the lateral edges extending in the lateral direction of the pad.

Abstract: Toothbrush having a rigid handle and a head part with a multicellular resilient pad made of compressible polyurethane sponge, the pad having a configuration of a hexagonal cylinder, one of which surfaces is provided with a concavity. The concavity has a gutter or gutters parallel to the axis of the hexagonal cylinder. The pad may have a groove or grooves parallel to the axis of the hexagonal cylinder on the back side surface of the pad.