Abstract: A liquid storage body includes: a bag part being flexible and configured to store a liquid therein; a liquid outlet part attached to a first end portion of the bag part and configured to discharge to a liquid jetting apparatus stored the liquid in the bag part; and a channel part disposed inside the bag part and configured to let the liquid flow to the liquid outlet part, in which both ends of the channel part are connected to the liquid outlet part, a first area of the channel part is located near a second end portion of the bag part located farthest from the first end portion, and the channel part has a liquid inlet portion through which to take the liquid inside the bag part into the channel part.

Abstract: The object is to provide a liquid container capable of supplying liquid to a liquid ejection apparatus with simple configuration. Liquid container 100 has liquid containing bag 120 and an introduction member. The introduction member includes the first and second liquid introduction members. The first introduction member has the first spacer unit and the first coupling unit integrally connected to the first spacer unit in which the first groove for letting liquid flow to a liquid lead-out unit is formed. The second introduction member has the second spacer unit and the second coupling unit integrally connected to the second spacer unit in which the second groove for letting liquid flow to the liquid lead-out unit is formed. The first and second liquid introduction members are adjoined so that the surface on which the first groove is formed and the surface on which the second groove is formed face each other.

Abstract: A seal member configured to seal a supply port for supplying ink contained in an ink tank to an outside of the ink tank is provided. The seal member includes a first area corresponding to the supply port and an ink absorbing member disposed in a second area located outside the first area.

Abstract: A surface treatment method for an image includes a varnishing process of applying an ultraviolet curing varnish to a surface of an image containing wax and an ultraviolet irradiation process of irradiating the applied ultraviolet curing varnish with ultraviolet light. A heating process of heating the surface of the image is performed between the varnishing process and the ultraviolet irradiation process.

Abstract: There are provided a semiconductor substrate; a photoelectric conversion film stacked on a layer that is disposed on the light incidence side of the semiconductor substrate; signal reading unit formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate, for reading out, as shot image signals, signals corresponding to signal charge amounts detected by the photoelectric conversion film according to incident light quantities; a transparent substrate bonded to a layer that is disposed on the light incidence side of the photoelectric conversion film with a transparent resin as an adhesive; and electric connection terminals which are connected to the signal reading unit by interconnections and which penetrate through the semiconductor substrate and are exposed in a surface, located on the opposite side to the side where the photoelectric conversion film is provided, of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units, a plurality of signal read-out circuits, and a test terminal for testing the photoelectric conversion units. Each of the photoelectric conversion units includes a pixel electrode film, an opposing electrode film opposing the pixel electrode film and a light receiving layer disposed between the pixel electrode film and the opposing electrode film. The photoelectric conversion units are arranged in a two-dimensional array above a semiconductor substrate. Each of the signal read-out circuits are configured to read out a signal corresponding to an amount of electrical charges generated in the light receiving layer and transferred to the pixel electrode film. The test terminal is disposed outside of an area where the photoelectric conversion units are disposed, disposed on the same plane as the pixel electrode film, and made of the same material as the pixel electrode film.

Abstract: A seal member configured to seal a supply port for supplying ink contained in an ink tank to an outside of the ink tank is provided. The seal member includes a first area corresponding to the supply port and an ink absorbing member disposed in a second area located outside the first area.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units, a plurality of signal read-out circuits, and a test terminal for testing the photoelectric conversion units. Each of the photoelectric conversion units includes a pixel electrode film, an opposing electrode film opposing the pixel electrode film and a light receiving layer disposed between the pixel electrode film and the opposing electrode film. The photoelectric conversion units are arranged in a two-dimensional array above a semiconductor substrate. Each of the signal read-out circuits are configured to read out a signal corresponding to an amount of electrical charges generated in the light receiving layer and transferred to the pixel electrode film. The test terminal is disposed outside of an area where the photoelectric conversion units are disposed, disposed on the same plane as the pixel electrode film, and made of the same material as the pixel electrode film.

Abstract: There are provided a circuit board; a semiconductor substrate bonded to a light-incidence-side surface of the circuit board; a photoelectric conversion film stacked on a layer that is disposed on the light incidence side of the semiconductor substrate; an imaging device chip having signal reading means which is formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate, for reading out, as shot image signals, signals corresponding to signal charge amounts detected by the photoelectric conversion film according to incident light quantities; a transparent substrate bonded to a layer that is disposed on the light incidence side of the photoelectric conversion film with a transparent resin adhesive; and bonding wires which connect connection pads formed on a peripheral portion, not covered with the transparent substrate, of the semiconductor substrate to connection terminals on the circuit board.

Abstract: There are provided a semiconductor substrate; a photoelectric conversion film stacked on a layer that is disposed on the light incidence side of the semiconductor substrate; signal reading unit formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate, for reading out, as shot image signals, signals corresponding to signal charge amounts detected by the photoelectric conversion film according to incident light quantities; a transparent substrate bonded to a layer that is disposed on the light incidence side of the photoelectric conversion film with a transparent resin as an adhesive; and electric connection terminals which are connected to the signal reading unit by interconnections and which penetrate through the semiconductor substrate and are exposed in a surface, located on the opposite side to the side where the photoelectric conversion film is provided, of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A device for cell culture capable of automatically performing operations for cell culture over several days to several months while minimizing the risk of contamination. A new medicine can be supplied to an incubator means by using a medicine supply means or unnecessary wastewater can be discharged from the incubator means by using a wastewater discharge means without taking out the incubator means disposed in heat insulation box means from a heat insulation box, and the state of the cell culture can be observed with the incubator means formed in the heat insulation box means. Accordingly, the outside air does not enter directly into the incubator means during culturing, and the risk of contamination is completely eliminated. As a result, the culturing operations can be automatically performed over a long period.

Abstract: A method for concentration of fine particles dispersed in a dispersion into an ionic liquid comprising, adding an ionic liquid, especially an organic ionic liquid at ordinary temperature, e.g., a salt of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium with PF6? to a dilute dispersion of fine particles so as to concentrate the fine particles into the ionic liquid.

Abstract: A system for processing supercritical and subcritical fluid capable of bringing the inside of at least one processing container (1) formed in a flow passage into a supercritical or subcritical high pressure field, wherein thermal operation is applied to process fluid to apply thermal expansion to the fluid to produce a pressure difference between the processing container (1) and the outside, whereby a specified temperature and the high pressure field suitable for the processing of the supercritical or subcritical fluid can be provided in the processing container (1).

Abstract: A device for cell culture capable of automatically performing operations for cell culture over several days to several months while minimizing the risk of contamination. A new medicine can be supplied to an incubator means by using a medicine supply means or unnecessary wastewater can be discharged from the incubator means by using a wastewater discharge means without taking out the incubator means disposed in heat insulation box means from a heat insulation box, and the state of the cell culture can be observed with the incubator means formed in the heat insulation box means. Accordingly, the outside air does not enter directly into the incubator means during culturing, and the risk of contamination is completely eliminated. As a result, the culturing operations can be automatically performed over a long period.

Abstract: A method for concentration of fine particles dispersed in a dispersion into an ionic liquid comprising, adding an ionic liquid, especially an organic ionic liquid at ordinary temperature, e.g., a salt of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium with PF6? to a dilute dispersion of fine particles so as to concentrate the fine particles into the ionic liquid.

Abstract: A system for processing supercritical and subcritical fluid capable of bringing the inside of at least one processing container (1) formed in a flow passage into a supercritical or subcritical high pressure field, wherein thermal operation is applied to process fluid to apply thermal expansion to the fluid to produce a pressure difference between the processing container (1) and the outside, whereby a specified temperature and the high pressure field suitable for the processing of the supercritical or subcritical fluid can be provided in the processing container (1).

Abstract: A method uses a high density compressed liquefied gas in cleaning applications in a closed recycle system to achieve effective and economical cleaning without using any high pressure generating device. The closed recycle system can include a pressure cleaning vessel provided with a plurality of nozzles for pre-cleaning, atmospheric containers for expanding compressed liquid, sound wave generators and an agitator. The system can also include a pressure recovery vessel provided at a lower portion than the pressure cleaning vessel and having a detachable drain cylinder suspended from under the pressure recovery vessel and also having a temperature regulator for receiving contaminated liquid that has been pre-cleaned from a pressure cleaning room.

Abstract: A novel and very efficient method is disclosed for the introduction of perfluoroalkyl groups into an organopolysiloxane by utilizing the hydrosilation reaction with an organohydrogenpolysiloxane. Different from the conventional but inefficient hydrosilation reaction using a perfluoroalkyl-substituted ethylene as the olefin compound, the inventive method utilizes a propene-1 3-substituted by a perfluoroalkyl group compound as the olefin compound to react with an organohydrogenpolysiloxane by which a very high efficiency in the hydrosilation reaction can be obtained without side reactions which otherwise greatly decrease the yield of the desired perfluoroalkyl-containing organopolysiloxane product.

Abstract: A chain organopolysiloxane is obtained by polymerizing a fluorine-containing cyclotrisiloxane of the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein R.sup.1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, and Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group or perfluoroalkyl ether group)in the presence of a lithium silanolate catalyst, silylating the resulting polymerization product, and treating the silylated product at a temperature of not lower than 100.degree. C. under a reduced pressure of not higher than 10.sup.-1 mmHg to remove volatile components therefrom. The organopolysiloxane is essentially free of volatile low-molecular siloxanes. Therefore, the chain organopolysiloxane can be used without the problems which might arise from the volatile low-molecular siloxanes, such as evaporation of low-molecular siloxanes from a cured rubber product with the result of electrical-contact troubles.

Abstract: A casing of a fixed disc memory unit consisting of a case body and a covering member jointly forming the casing with an air-tight sealing of a rubbery gasket therebetween can be imparted with very reliable moisture-proofness of sealing by forming the rubbery gasket by the FIPG method using a curable rubber composition comprising: (a) a fluorocarbon-containing organosiloxane polymer containing vinyl groups and consisting of the recurring units each represented by the general formula--[--SiMe.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --Rf--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --SiMe.sub.2 --O--]--,in which Rf is a fluorinated divalent polyether group; (b) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane or a fluorocarbon-containing organohydrogensiloxane having, in a molecule, at least two hydrogen atoms directly bonded to the silicon atoms; and (c) a catalytic compound in an amount sufficient to effect the addition reaction between the components (a) and (b).