Abstract: A laminating system according to one embodiment includes: a film sticking-and-cutting device that sticks a film fed from a roll to a workpiece, and cuts the film at a position where the film is not overlapped with the workpiece; and a laminator that receives the workpiece delivered from the film sticking-and-cutting device, and presses the film stuck to the workpiece to the workpiece to join the film to the workpiece. The film sticking-and-cutting device includes a cooling unit that cools the workpiece or the film, before the film is cut. The laminating system may further includes a cooling device that cools the film by supplying air to the film on the workpiece delivered from the laminator, and a film peeling device that peels a layer from the film on the workpiece.

Abstract: A surgical procedure of preparing bone holes to dispose an implanted tendon to a femur when performing reconstruction of a ligament in a knee joint, includes: forming a first bone hole in the femur; and applying ultrasonic vibration from a treatment portion of an ultrasonic treatment instrument to the femur, thereby cutting and expanding the first bone hole from the inside of the knee joint to the first bone hole of the femur along a predetermined depth, and forming a second bone hole having a polygonal shape, an approximately polygonal shape, an elliptical shape or an approximately elliptical shape to receive the implanted tendon.

Abstract: An ultrasound device includes: an ultrasound generator; an ultrasound probe; and a distal end treatment portion capable of forming a bone hole when pressed against a bone. The distal end treatment portion includes a base portion, and a distal end portion. The distal end portion includes projections and a valley portion between adjacent projections. Each projection is formed of at least one excision surface that is inclined from a base of the projection to a distal top of the projection. The excision surface is capable of finely crushing the bone. The valley portion includes a valley peak at a distal-most meeting point of adjacent projections such that a surface of the valley extending distally from a point at which the valley meets an outer surface of the base portion to the valley peak is inclined.

Abstract: A surgical procedure of preparing bone holes to dispose an implanted tendon to a femur when performing reconstruction of a ligament in a knee joint, includes: forming a first bone hole in the femur; and applying ultrasonic vibration from a treatment portion of an ultrasonic treatment instrument to the femur, thereby cutting and expanding the first bone hole from the inside of the knee joint to the first bone hole of the femur along a predetermined depth, and forming a second bone hole having a polygonal shape, an approximately polygonal shape, an elliptical shape or an approximately elliptical shape to receive the implanted tendon.

Abstract: An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes an elongated shaft having respective proximal and distal end sides. An ultrasonic transducer is secured to the shaft and is configured to transmit ultrasonic vibrations from the proximal end side toward a distal end side along a longitudinal axis of the shaft. A cutting portion includes an outermost shape-defining portion that when pressed at a tip of the block shape against a bone cuts the bone in a direction of a pressing force to form a bone tunnel and to produce small particle of bone. A burying portion is configured to direct a flow of the fluid, which contains the small particle of bone produced upon formation of the bone tunnel, toward a wall formed in the bone tunnel by the cutting portion along the direction of the pressing force and to bury the small particle of bone in the wall of the bone tunnel.

Abstract: A surgical procedure of preparing bone holes to fix an implanted tendon to a femur when performing reconstruction of a ligament in a knee joint, includes: bringing a treatment portion of an ultrasonic treatment instrument into contact with the femur in the knee joint, and applying ultrasonic vibration from the treatment portion to the femur, thereby cutting and forming a first bone hole from the inside of the knee joint to the femur in a predetermined depth.

Abstract: An ultrasonic probe can include a probe main body that receives ultrasonic vibration generated by an ultrasonic transducer and a treatment unit disposed on a distal end of the probe main body. The treatment unit can include a resection portion and a guide unit that each have a projected shape when viewed along a longitudinal axis of the ultrasonic probe. The resection portion can resect a bone that needs to be treated along a resection direction. The guide unit can protrude from the resection portion on a distal end of the treatment unit. The guide unit can also help to maintain the resection direction relative to a central axis of the hole.

Abstract: An ultrasound device includes: an ultrasound generator; an ultrasound probe; and a distal end treatment portion capable of forming a bone hole when pressed against a bone. The distal end treatment portion includes a base portion, and a distal end portion. The distal end portion includes projections and a valley portion between adjacent projections. Each projection is formed of at least one excision surface that is inclined from a base of the projection to a distal top of the projection. The excision surface is capable of finely crushing the bone. The valley portion includes a valley peak at a distal-most meeting point of adjacent projections such that a surface of the valley extending distally from a point at which the valley meets an outer surface of the base portion to the valley peak is inclined.

Abstract: A surgical procedure of preparing bone holes to dispose an implanted tendon to a femur when performing reconstruction of a ligament in a knee joint, includes: forming a first bone hole in the femur; and applying ultrasonic vibration from a treatment portion of an ultrasonic treatment instrument to the femur, thereby cutting and expanding the first bone hole from the inside of the knee joint to the first bone hole of the femur along a predetermined depth, and forming a second bone hole having a polygonal shape, an approximately polygonal shape, an elliptical shape or an approximately elliptical shape to receive the implanted tendon.

Abstract: A surgical procedure of preparing bone holes to fix an implanted tendon to a femur when performing reconstruction of a ligament in a knee joint, includes: bringing a treatment portion of an ultrasonic treatment instrument into contact with the femur in the knee joint, and applying ultrasonic vibration from the treatment portion to the femur, thereby cutting and forming a first bone hole from the inside of the knee joint to the femur in a predetermined depth.

Abstract: A process of accelerating electrons with a voltage applied thereto in a vacuum, guiding the accelerated electrons into a normal-pressure atmosphere, and irradiating the electron beam (EB) onto an object. The electron beam irradiation process uses a vacuum tube-type electron beam irradiation apparatus, and with the acceleration voltage for generating an electron beam set at a value smaller than 100 kV, the electron beam is irradiated onto the object.

Abstract: A process of accelerating electrons with a voltage applied thereto in a vacuum, guiding the accelerated electrons into a normal-pressure atmosphere, and irradiating the electron beam (EB) onto an object. The electron beam irradiation process uses a vacuum tube-type electron beam irradiation apparatus, and with the acceleration voltage for generating an electron beam set at a value smaller than 100 kV, the electron beam is irradiated onto the object.

Abstract: A process of accelerating electrons with a voltage applied thereto in a vacuum, guiding the accelerated electrons into a normal-pressure atmosphere, and irradiating the electron beam (EB) onto an object. The electron beam irradiation process uses a vacuum tube-type electron beam irradiation apparatus, and with the acceleration voltage for generating an electron beam set at a value smaller than 100 kV, the electron beam is irradiated onto the object.

Abstract: An integrated SPM sensor including a cantilever having a probe on its free end, a supporting base for supporting the cantilever on its fixed end, and signal lines for conducting a signal picked up by the probe. The probe is a photodetector element constructed of any of a junction gate-type photo FET, a Schottky gate-type photo FET, an MOS-type photodiode and a Schottky-type photodiode. The integrated SPM sensor substantially lowers noise due to thermally excited dark current and easily detects weak incident light.

Abstract: An SPM cantilever comprises a cantilever portion shaped as a thin plate and extending between a proximal end and a free end, a supporting portion attached to one surface of the cantilever portion on a side of the proximal end, and a probe projecting from the other surface of the cantilever portion on a side of the free end of the cantilever portion the supporting member, and the cantilever portion and the probe are made of different materials.

Abstract: An integrated AFM sensor includes a cantilever which has two beams extending from a support portion. The beams are integrated with each other at their ends to form a triangular free end, and a probe having a sharp distal end is arranged at the free end. The cantilever is formed by stacking a passivation layer, a piezoresistive layer, and a silicon layer. Electrodes electrically connected to the piezoresistive layer are formed at the fixed end of the cantilever through contact holes.

Abstract: A system for transferring digital signals between at least two printed circuit boards (packages) provided within a digital signal processing apparatus and each mounting a plurality of electronic parts such as microprocessors between a CPU package and a peripheral control package. The CPU package has a microprocessor (CPU), a transmitting sequential address generator 1, a receiving sequential address generator circuit 1, a transmitting dual port RAM 1 and a receiving dual port RAM 1. The peripheral control package has a digital processing circuit, a transmitting sequential address generator 2, a receiving sequential address generator 2, a transmitting dual port RAM 2 and a receiving dual port RAM. When a control information is to be sent from the CPU to the digital processing circuit, the CPU is required to only write the control information in the transmitting dual port RAM.

Abstract: The plate-shaped part (wafer) transfer machine of this invention consists of a rotatable turntable that supports the carrier; carrier pressers that are set on the turntable and are used to fix the carrier; a lifter which can move vertically with a wafer in the carrier or boat supported on it; and a guide which guides the wafer when the lifter performs vertical movement (the role of the guide is played by the wafer presser used for fixing the wafer in the carrier).

Abstract: A cantilever for a scanning probe microscope comprises a lever section and a probe section disposed near the free end thereof. The probe section includes a conical distal end portion having a narrow point angle and a bulging proximal end portion continuous with the distal end portion. The cantilever is manufactured by utilizing a semiconductor process.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating an object with a liquid in which the object is immersed into the liquid in a tank which has overflow control members provided above faces of the tank with a predetermined space in an overflow area for said liquid, said space being structured to lead the overflow of said liquid by capillary action.