Abstract: A cabin frame for a cabin of a construction machine includes a combination of a posterior frame body having a predetermined strength and an anterior frame body disposed in front thereof. The posterior frame body defines a common element that is used in common between different machine models, whereas the anterior frame body defines an adjustment element such that its dimension in a front-back direction of the construction machine is determined according to the corresponding machine model. Another cabin frame includes a combination of an anterior frame body defining a common element used in common between three machine models, namely, a model with an operator-protecting function, a low-tare model with an operator-protecting function, and a high-tare model with an operator-protecting function; and a posterior frame body defining a replaceable element having a predetermined strength selected from a plurality of strengths set for the corresponding machine models.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for increasing a memory T cell response by administering to a patient a composition that increases the activity of IL-15 and that decreases the activity of IL-2. Also disclosed is a vaccine adjuvant useful for increasing memory T cell responses. A method for inhibiting undesirable immune responses, such as autoimmune responses, is also disclosed, as is a composition useful in such a method. The composition includes a compound that increases the activity of IL-2 and in one embodiment, further includes a compound that decreases the activity of IL-15.

Abstract: An evaporator includes a container, a wick provided in contact with an inner peripheral surface of said container and formed such that (1) if the number of pores per unit volume is fixed, the diameter of pores is varied, or (2) if the diameters of pores are formed substantially uniformly, the number of pores is varied, a sump having said wick as its inner wall surface and connected to a liquid pipe for supplying a liquid-phase working fluid, and a vapor channel formed in a contact surface of said container with respect to said wick so as to guide a gas-phase working fluid into a vapor pipe connected to an end portion of said container.

Abstract: A construction machine comprising a floor plate, an air conditioning unit mounted at the rear of an upper surface of the floor plate, an operator's seat mounted in a central portion of the upper surface of the floor plate, a cab installed on the floor plate from top and provided with a front window and a front air conditioning blowing opening at the front part, and a front duct for connecting between the air conditioning unit and the front air conditioning blowing opening and being divided into at least two detachably connected parts, one out of the divided front ducts being connected to the air conditioning unit, the other being connected to the front air conditioning blowing opening. The front duct for connecting between the air conditioning unit and the front air conditioning blowing opening is divided into at least two parts, and the divided front ducts are respectively connected to the air conditioning unit and the front air conditioning blowing opening, respectively, in advance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resist processing method for an object to be processed, including the processing step of supplying a process solution onto the object to be processed to perform a process on the object to be processed, and the cleaning step of supplying a cleaning solution onto the object to be processed to clean the object to be processed, wherein the processing step at least partially overlaps the cleaning step.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resist processing method for an object to be processed, including the processing step of supplying a process solution onto the object to be processed to perform a process on the object to be processed, and the cleaning step of supplying a cleaning solution onto the object to be processed to clean the object to be processed, wherein the processing step at least partially overlaps the cleaning step.

Abstract: A invention provides a resist processing method for an object to be processed, including the processing step of supplying a process solution onto the object to be processed to perform a process on the object to be processed, and the cleaning step of supplying a cleaning solution onto the object to be processed to clean the object to be processed, wherein the processing step at least partially overlaps the cleaning step.

Abstract: A coating apparatus comprises a chuck on which a semiconductor wafer is adhered, a resist liquid supplying system for supplying a resist liquid to the semiconductor wafer, a motor for rotating the semiconductor wafer, thereby spreading the resist liquid over the semiconductor wafer, and a plate, on which the semiconductor wafer is placed, for creating a temperature distribution on the semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: A substrate solution-processing method comprising the steps of preparing a pair of spin chucks by which semiconductor wafers are supported, a housing by which the wafers supported by the spin chucks are enclosed, motor for rotating the spin chucks, a nozzle through which developing or resist solution is applied to each wafer, means for moving the nozzle between the wafers, and a waiting trench at which the nozzle is kept waiting, setting substantially same the times needed to finish the cycles of processing the wafers supported on at least two spin chucks and delaying one process cycle from the other, and keeping the nozzle waiting at the waiting trench unless developing or resist solution is applied to each wafer through the nozzle.

Abstract: A heat pipe comprising a hermetic shell tube, a heat conveying fluid within the shell tube and a plurality of capillary circumferential or axial grooves provided entirely of an inner surface of the shell. A capillary axial channel structure which includes axially extending plates defining a U-shaped or V-shaped channels therebetween circumferential grooves and having an opening defining therein a meniscus of the heat conveying fluid in the liquid phase at least in the evaporator section and the condenser section. The capillary axial channel structure may comprise an inner tube for defining a tubular, axially extending capillary space therebetween. The inner tube has open ends disposed within the evaporation and condensation sections for allowing the heat conveying fluid to flow therethrough.

Abstract: A heat transport system is disclosed which comprises an evaporator, a condenser, an accumulator, switching means and connecting pipe therethrough. The switching means changes the operation mode from the first mode to the second mode alternatively. In the first mode, cooled liquid flows into the accumulator. In the second mode, the capillary pressure occurring in the evaporator leads the liquid in the accumulator to the evaporator. By switching the first mode and the second mode alternatively, the heat is transported from the evaporator to the condenser. Because of the operation of the capillary pressure, the heat transport system of the present invention can work even in gravity-free environments.

Abstract: An apparatus operable on each elevator platform for opening or closing doors wherein the apparatus includes a pair of doors for opening or closing an inlet/outlet on the elevator platform, a rail for guiding the rolling movement of rollers carried by a hanger plate standing upright on the upper surface of each door and a door-sill arranged below said inlet/outlet for guiding the slidable movement of a door shoe at the lower end of each door. Each door is essentially composed of a door main body having a vertically extending reinforcement member for supporting the dead weight of each door and a thermal insulating panel fixedly secured to the door main body on the elevator platform side, the thermally insulating panel being filled with a thermal insulating material, and a decorative plate is adhesively secured to the front surface of the thermal insulating panel on the elevator platform side.

Abstract: CPU stores information showing a time-temperature relationship and applicable for either heating a semiconductor wafer to a hold temperature for a predetermined period of time or cooling the wafer from the hold temperature over a predetermined period of time, or for both, read the information. A conductive thin film heats the wafer in accordance with the information. A sensor detects the temperature of the wafer. A control system controls either the heating of the wafer or the cooling thereof, or both, in accordance with the detected temperature signal and the information.

Abstract: A heat transmission device comprises a heat receiving part, a heat radiating part, and a looped pipeline connecting these parts in which a working fluid having condensing properties as a heat transferring medium is filled in the pipeline. A plurality of accumulators are interposed in a parallel arrangement in the pipeline at the upper stream of the heat receiving part but at the downstream of the heat radiating part; there are provided a heating/cooling means for heating and cooling the accumulators, and a control means which performs alternately the first operation of feeding the working fluid condensed at the heat radiating part to at least one of the accumulators and the second operation of circulating the working fluid in the at least one accumulator to the heat receiving part and performs alternately the first and second operations in the reverse order for the other accumulator.