Abstract: A water treatment system to be installed in a tanker or other cargo ship for destruction of aquatic organisms and microorganisms that may be contained in the water, usually seawater, being pumped into the ship's ballast tank or tanks. Included is a ballast pump having an intake conduit for drawing water from the sea, and a delivery conduit for delivering the water under pressure to the ballast tank. The delivery conduit has mounted therein a slitted or otherwise open-worked screen for mechanically killing the aquatic lifeforms contained in the water by shearing action. For chemical treatment, on the other hand, part of the water being delivered by the ballast pump is bypassed into an ozone impregnator thereby to be impregnated with ozone from an ozonizer. A bypass pump repressurizes the ozone-impregnated water for returning the same into the delivery conduit.

Abstract: A water treatment system to be installed in a tanker or other cargo ship for destruction of aquatic organisms and microorganisms that may be contained in the water, usually seawater, being pumped into the ship's ballast tank or tanks. Included is a ballast pump having an intake conduit for drawing water from the sea, and a delivery conduit for delivering the water under pressure to the ballast tank. The delivery conduit has mounted therein a slitted or otherwise open-worked screen for mechanically killing the aquatic lifeforms contained in the water by shearing action. For chemical treatment, on the other hand, part of the water being delivered by the ballast pump is bypassed into an ozone impregnator thereby to be impregnated with ozone from an ozonizer. A bypass pump repressurizes the ozone-impregnated water for returning the same into the delivery conduit.

Abstract: A fault diagnosis apparatus and method capable of simultaneously detecting the fault of a multiplexer and the fault of an A/D converter and isolating and identifying causes of these faults, the multiplexer and the A/D converter being used in a multi-channel analog input/output circuit. Test-voltage values are inputted from a diagnosis-voltage input unit into the multiplexer and the A/D converter constituting an analog-signal conversion unit, the multiplexer having plural channels, the A/D converter converting outputs from the multiplexer into digital signals, the test-voltage values being different from each other for each channel of the multiplexer. Comparisons are made between the digital voltage values and the test-voltage values inputted, the digital voltage values being outputted for each channel of the multiplexer. From this comparison result, it is judged whether the multiplexer is at fault or the A/D converter is at fault.

Abstract: The insertion device (2) includes a main body (3) including a lens housing portion (3b) in which an intraocular lens (1) is housed and an insertion cylindrical portion (3a) for ejecting the lens into the eye through its front end opening (3j), a pushing shaft (4) configured to move the lens from the lens housing portion to push out the lens into the eye through the insertion cylindrical portion, and a liquid flow path (10) configured to cause liquid filled in an inside of the main body to flow from the inside of the main body to an outside thereof, the liquid flow path not including the front end opening (3j). The pushing shaft includes a structure configured to shut off the liquid flow path after the lens is ejected from the front end opening and thereby flow of the liquid through the front end opening is allowed.

Abstract: The insertion device (2) for inserting an intraocular lens (1) into an eye includes a main body (12) including a lens housing portion (12b) in which the lens is housed and a nozzle portion (12c) for ejecting the lens into the eye, a pushing shaft (16) moving the lens from the lens housing portion and pushes out the lens into the eye through a front end opening (12j) of the nozzle portion, a first flow path configured to cause liquid to flow between the front end opening of the nozzle portion and an opening other than the front end opening, and a second flow path configured to cause liquid to flow between a portion (30a) protruding from the front end opening of the nozzle portion and an outside of the insertion device.

Abstract: A practical treatment apparatus for ship ballast water, which can kill aquatic organisms contained in the ballast water, is provided by being easily incorporated in an existing ballast-water system piping in a ship.

Abstract: A ceramic body, a ceramic catalyst body, a ceramic catalyst body and related manufacturing methods are disclosed wherein a cordierite porous base material has a surface, formed with acicular particles made of a component different from that of cordierite porous base material, which has an increased specific surface area with high resistance to a sintering effect. The ceramic body is manufactured by preparing a slurry containing an acicular particle source material, preparing a porous base material, applying the slurry onto a surface of the porous base material and firing the porous base material, whose surface is coated with the slurry, to cause acicular particles to develop on the surface of the porous base material. A part of or a whole of surfaces of the acicular particles is coated with a constituent element different from that of the acicular particles.

Abstract: A ceramic body, a ceramic catalyst body, a ceramic catalyst body and related manufacturing methods are disclosed wherein a cordierite porous base material has a surface, formed with acicular particles made of a component different from that of cordierite porous base material, which has an increased specific surface area with high resistance to a sintering effect. The ceramic body is manufactured by preparing a slurry containing an acicular particle source material, preparing a porous base material, applying the slurry onto a surface of the porous base material and firing the porous base material, whose surface is coated with the slurry, to cause acicular particles to develop on the surface of the porous base material. A part of or a whole of surfaces of the acicular particles is coated with a constituent element different from that of the acicular particles.

Abstract: A process for the production of a molded article having a surface including a sealed pattern by an injection compression molding method, which comprisesplacing a substrate (thickness: X (mm)) having a pattern on the front surface thereof in a cavity of a mold with the reverse surface of the substrate in contact with a cavity wall of the mold, injecting a molten thermoplastic resin into a space surrounded by cavity walls and the front surface of the substrate, and thereby forming a resin layer (thickness: Y (mm)) on the front surface of the substrate to form a molded article having the pattern sealed with the resin layer and having a thickness of 1 to 6 mm (=X+Y (mm)),wherein:a distance (Z+Y (mm)) of the space in the molded article thickness direction is set to satisfy the following relationships when the substrate is placed in the cavity of the mold, when Y is in the range of 0.3.ltoreq.Y<0.5 mm, {7.5-10Y}(mm).ltoreq.Z.ltoreq.5.0 (mm); when Y is in the range of 0.5.ltoreq.Y<2.0 mm, {3.0-Y}(mm).ltoreq.Z.

Abstract: A testing apparatus for a transmission system provided with a test pattern insertion unit for inputting a test pattern to the transmission system to be tested and a test pattern confirmation unit for inspecting signals passing through the transmission system and discriminating if the test pattern was normally received, the testing apparatus being provided with a non-test pattern followup unit for sending out to the transmission system, a non-test pattern different from the test pattern for a predetermined time following the end of the testing, whereby continued output of an alarm due to a false synchronized state occurring in the testing apparatus is prevented.

Abstract: A POS terminal device which performs the function of a cash register upon input of a commodity code, with date and hour data included in the commodity code being checked at the time of data input and a caution indication that the term of validity has expired or the term of validity is approaching. The POS terminal device comprising time measuring device, input device for inputting a commodity code including date and hour data, judgment step for comparing date and hour data indicated by the time measuring device with date and hour data included in a commodity code inputted by the input device, and caution device, whereby in the case where the date and hour data indicated by the time measuring device represents a time not earlier than that represented by the date and hour data included in the commodity code as a result of comparison in the judgment step, and which informs an operator about that fact.

Abstract: A stepping motor characterized by the provision of an anisotropic resin magnet rotor which is the rotor of the motor and comprises an anisotropic resin magnet and which has recesses formed at the centers of the magnetic poles thereof and in which the wave form of the magnetic force is one of a two-head wave form and a trapezoidal wave form in the range of 0.1-0.2 of the air gap between the rotor and stator teeth during the use of the motor.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a variable displacement type hydraulic pump including an engine as a driving power source is disclosed. The subject invention detects the number of revolutions of the engine and the pressure of hydraulic oil delivered from the hydraulic pump, and sets a pump absorption torque characteristic which decreases in relation to the number of revolutions of the engine. The inclination angle of a swash plate in the pump is detected with reference to the pump absorption torque characteristic and the pressure of hydraulic oil delivered from the pump, and the swash plate in the pump can be controlled so as to assure its inclination angle; the number of revolutions of the engine can be reduced without the absorption torque of the hydraulic pump exceeding the allowable torque of the engine. When the controlled apparatus is utilized, the number of revolutions of the engine can be optimally reduced and fuel consumption cost reduced correspondingly.

Abstract: This invention discloses a horizontal multistage press which comprises a pair of frames disposed upright in face-to-face relationship with each other, at least one upper lateral beam disposed to connect the upper portions of the abovementioned pair of frames, at least one lower lateral beam disposed to connect the lower portions of the pair of frames, rails disposed on at least either of such pair of upper and lower lateral beams and extending along the length thereof, a multiplicity of hot plates disposed parallel to one another between the pair of frames and supported by the rails for reciprocal movement along the length of such rails, a multiplicity of unprocessed sheets being heat-pressed between the hot plates, at least one urging means disposed on at least one of the frames for urging the multiplicity of hot plates toward and away from one another, and travel members for loading and unloading the unprocessed and processed sheets in and from the gaps between the hot plates, such travel members including

Abstract: The present invention relates to a braking device for a focal plane shutter in a camera. In the early stage of a braking operation on a shutter curtain, a relatively weak braking force is applied, and in the closing stage of the braking operation, a strong braking force is applied to insure that without causing the shutter curtain to bounce or to be damaged by shock, the shutter curtain is stopped. The device is constructed from two brake members arranged so that in the early stage the first brake member takes action, and in the closing stage, the second brake member takes action to add a braking force to that of the first brake member.

Abstract: In a focal plane shutter of the kind having a plurality of divided blades pivotally arranged to be turnable on driving arms in an overlapped state, the weight of the blades is reduced by making them from very thin material; the blades are reinforced with embossed protrusions which are formed in the longitudinal direction of the blades for the purpose of preventing them from flexing and being damaged during their travel. Each of the embossed protrusions is within the difference in stepped height between the surfaces of the blades and the heads of blade carrying studs disposed on the driving arms. Therefore, the shutter can be smoothly operated without increasing the thickness of the blades as a whole.