Abstract: A drug solution transferring device that can suppress dispersion of a toxic drug solution to a surrounding environment is provided. The drug solution transferring device includes a barrel provided with an opening, and a connection tool for connection to the barrel. The barrel includes an elastic member for closing the opening. The elastic member is formed of a plurality of membranes overlaid together. The membrane has a projection projecting into the barrel. The connection tool includes a first needle having a sharp tip end. The first needle has a liquid hole extending in an extending direction of the first needle. When the needle penetrates through the projection of the membrane, an inside and an outside of the barrel are in communication with each other through the liquid hole to allow transference of the drug solution between the barrel and the connection tool.

Abstract: The kit for suppressing drug craving K is used by connecting an instrument for suppressing drug craving 1 to a syringe 2 and the instrument for suppressing drug craving 1 has a cylindrical housing 11, a pouch 12 provided in the housing and containing pseudo-blood B and a connecting member 13 with which the distal end of a syringe is coupled and which cause the syringe to communicate with the interior of the pouch. When the syringe accommodating pseudo-drug M is connected to the instrument and the plunger is moved forward (pseudo-priming), the pseudo-drug M flows into a pouch and the pouch inflates (FIG. 2(b)), and if the plunger 4 is pulled back from this condition, the pouch 12 deflates and the pseudo-blood B flows back from the pouch 12 to the syringe 2 (flashback) (FIG. 2(C)).

Abstract: An image bearing apparatus includes an image heating belt configured and positioned to heat a toner image on a sheet in a nip; an opposing roller, disposed opposed to the image heating belt, configured to form the nip between the image heating belt and itself; a pad, disposed so as to sandwich the image heating belt between the opposing roller and itself, configured to press the image heating belt toward the opposing roller in the nip; a pressure device configured and positioned to press at least one of the pad and the opposing roller so that the image heating belt is pressed between the pad and the opposing roller in the nip; a pressure changing device configured and positioned to change a pressure in the nip by the pressing device. The pad has a thickness, at its longitudinal central portion, larger than that at its longitudinal end portions.

Abstract: A semiconductor film formation device has: a reaction vessel that includes a gas flow path to allow source gas to pass through and a substrate mount site provided in the gas flow path to mount a substrate; a temperature control means that is disposed opposite to the substrate mount site and close to the reaction vessel to control the internal temperature of the reaction vessel; and a thermal conductivity adjusting member that is disposed between the reaction vessel and the temperature control means. The thermal conductivity adjusting member has a section with a thermal conductivity different from the other section along the gas flow path.

Abstract: A pre-filled syringe including a barrel 1, a base end gasket 4 which is fluid-tightly slidable in the barrel 1, a front end gasket 8 which is fluid-tightly slidable in the barrel 1, and a nozzle part 2 provided in a front end of the barrel 1, wherein the nozzle part 2 includes a front end gasket accommodation part 23 which is capable of accommodating the front end gasket 8, and liquid flow passages 21 extending in an axial direction in an inner periphery wall, through which a liquid medicine can pass when the front end gasket 23 is accommodated in the front end gasket accommodation part 23, and a sectional area of a front end of the liquid flow passages 21 is smaller than a sectional area of a base end.

Abstract: There is provided a fine pattern transfer, belt-shaped mold, with which a fine structure having a high aspect ratio can be formed rapidly and stably using nanoimprinting, and a fine pattern transfer system (a nanoimprint system) that employs this mold. According to the present invention, a nanoimprint mold includes: a belt-shaped support member; a plurality of stampers, for each of which a fine convex-and-concave pattern, to be transferred, is formed on one surface; and an adhesive member, to which the belt-shaped support member and the stampers are to be securely adhered, wherein the adhesive member includes a porous member and adhesive layers, which are deposited on either face of the porous member, for impregnating one part of the porous member, and wherein, for the porous member, a porous area that is not impregnated with the adhesive layers, is provided and positioned so as to sandwich the porous member between portions impregnated with the adhesive layers.

Abstract: The inventors perfected the present invention upon finding that a conventional fecal sampling stick is given a hollow structure that has openings a certain distant apart, permitting in aspiration through the capillary tube phenomenon. That is, the present invention is a feces collection container for collecting faeces as an analyte, which comprises a fecal sampling stick which has a holding part (11) at a base, a fecal sampling part (12) at a tip and is formed a hollow passage with openings at the tip and on the base side a predetermined distance from the tip.

Abstract: To provide a drug solution preparing kit which can be handled with ease in a substantially aseptic manner, and has no risk that a leakage of a drug solution such as a splash and a dispersion of an aerosol to an ambient environment occurs upon preparation of the drug solution There is provided a drug solution preparing kit including a pre-filled syringe and a transfusing tool, wherein the pre-filled syringe includes a sealing member which seals the tip end and can not be removed from the tip end, and that the transfusing tool includes a one-way valve which can discharge only gas from the system in an irreversible manner, and a filter which is provided so as to adjoin to the second communication channel with respect to the one-way valve.

Abstract: The prefilled syringe filled with a drug in advance, leaking of liquid from the cap is prevented, gas barrier properties are given to the whole of the barrel filled with the drug and the shoulder section so that degradation of the drug is prevented, permeation of microbial contaminants is prevented to a high extent, and efficiency of packing as a compact container can be increased. The prefilled syringe includes a guard-shaped extension projecting from the outer periphery of a shoulder section of the syringe barrel on the nozzle side, and a range from a part where a gasket of the plunger is positioned on the outer surface of the syringe barrel filled with the drug to the guard-shaped extension is covered with barrier packaging.

Abstract: A specimen sampling liquid container which eliminates the risk of an inspector being contaminated or infected with a virus and the drawback of troublesome workability. The specimen sampling liquid container comprises a bottomed tubular container having an open upper end, a sealing member for closing the opening in the tubular container, and a cap provided with a member engaging with the upper end of the tubular container at a first position, capable of being moved from the first position to a second position, receiving the sealing member, having a drip opening at the upper end, and releasing the sealing member to below the drip opening, wherein the sealing member for closing the opening in the tubular container is released when the cap is slid from the first position to the second position, thus allowing the drip opening of the cap and the tubular container to communicate with each other.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus for forming fine structure lithography comprises: a belt-like mold having a fine structure for imprint lithography formed on a surface of the belt-like mold; a cylindrical pressurizing mechanism including a pair of opposed rolls for pressurizing the belt-like mold against the surface of the imprinting object; and a supporting member for supporting the imprinting object at a position between the rolls of the cylindrical pressurizing mechanism. The belt-like mold, the imprinting object and the supporting member are configured to move to the cylindrical pressurizing mechanism in a mutually non-contact state, and then at the position between the rolls, be pressurized by the cylindrical pressurizing mechanism in a state where the imprinting object is positioned between the belt-like mold and the supporting member.

Abstract: There is provided a fine pattern transfer, belt-shaped mold, with which a fine structure having a high aspect ratio can be formed rapidly and stably using nanoimprinting, and a fine pattern transfer system (a nanoimprint system) that employs this mold. According to the present invention, a nanoimprint mold includes: a belt-shaped support member; a plurality of stampers, for each of which a fine convex-and-concave pattern, to be transferred, is formed on one surface; and an adhesive member, to which the belt-shaped support member and the stampers are to be securely adhered, wherein the adhesive member includes a porous member and adhesive layers, which are deposited on either face of the porous member, for impregnating one part of the porous member, and wherein, for the porous member, a porous area that is not impregnated with the adhesive layers, is provided and positioned so as to sandwich the porous member between portions impregnated with the adhesive layers.

Abstract: There is provided a fine pattern mold capable of transferring a fine concave/convex pattern accurately without causing deformation of the fine concave/convex pattern itself. The fine patter mold comprises: a roll; a buffer tube whose inner peripheral surface is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the roll; and a stamper tube in which its inner peripheral surface is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the buffer tube and a fine concave/convex pattern is formed on its outer peripheral surface, wherein the buffer tube has a larger coefficient of linear expansion and a smaller elastic modulus than those of the stamper tube.

Abstract: A stamper includes a substrate and a plurality of protrusions of different heights formed on one of the surfaces of the substrate, the protrusions of larger height having a stack structure formed of at least two layers of at least two types of materials, thereby transferring a plurality of patterns at the same time.

Abstract: A transfer needle assembly including a cap-like outside guide member; a tubular inside guide member; and a puncture member. The puncture member has a tip fitting portion at a proximal end and a puncture needle at a distal end. The inside guide member can slide along an inner wall of a skirt portion of the outside guide member from a position where a distal end of the needle is receded in the inside guide member, to a position where the distal end of the needle projects outside of the inside guide member. At the position where the distal end of the needle is receded in the inside guide member, the outside guide member and the inside guide member are engaged so as to be incapable of sliding, with the engagement being releasable by inserting a mouth portion of a vial into the inside guide member.

Abstract: A two-component mixing type pre-filled syringe 1 includes a nozzle member 20, a barrel 10 formed with a bypass 13 protruding outwardly in a radial direction, a tip gasket 60 sealing a tip of the barrel 10, an intermediate gasket 70 liquid-tightly partitioning an inside of the barrel 10 into a front chamber 11 and a rear chamber 12 accommodating a liquid medicine L, and a plunger gasket 80 located in a base end side relative to the intermediate gasket 70 and sealing the inside of the barrel 10, and includes a construction in which the intermediate gasket 70 has at least one seal part 71 contacting an inner wall of the barrel 10, and a bypass communication passage 72 providing communication between the front chamber 11 and the rear chamber 12 in cooperation with the bypass 13.

Abstract: An injector for liquid medicine comprises a cylindrical body 1, first and second gasket 2, 3 contained in a lumen of cylindrical body 1. The cylindrical body 1 is provided with a fluid inlet 13 and a fluid outlet 14 in opposite sides of the cylindrical body 1 with respect to the longitudinal axis thereof. Second gasket 3 is spaced from the first gasket 2 to form a fluid chamber 4 between them. The first gasket 2 is adapted to be moved by sliding along the inner wall of the cylindrical body 1 from a first position to the distal end 11 of cylindrical body 1 via a second position. The fluid inlet 13 is opened at a position closer to the distal end 11 of the cylindrical body 1 than the outlet 14 is. The first gasket 2 is stopped at a second position where the fluid chamber 4 is communicated with the fluid outlet 14 but prevented from fluid-communication with the fluid inlet 13.

Abstract: A method of transcribing a shape of a surface of a stamper on a transcription surface of a transcription object by pressing the stamper on the transcription object, which comprises steps of: having one of the stamper and the transcription object positioned opposite a plate surface and the other of the stamper and the transcription object placed on one surface of a pressure plate; and having the one of the stamper and the transcription object pressed onto the plate surface by applying a fluid on the other surface of the pressure plate, wherein an area of the one surface of the pressure plate is larger than a contact area in which the other of the stamper and the transcription object is in contact with the pressure plate.

Abstract: A pre-filled syringe including a barrel 1, a base end gasket 4 which is fluid-tightly slidable in the barrel 1, a front end gasket 8 which is fluid-tightly slidable in the barrel 1, and a nozzle part 2 provided in a front end of the barrel 1, wherein the nozzle part 2 includes a front end gasket accommodation part 23 which is capable of accommodating the front end gasket 8, and liquid flow passages 21 extending in an axial direction in an inner periphery wall, through which a liquid medicine can pass when the front end gasket 23 is accommodated in the front end gasket accommodation part 23, and a sectional area of a front end of the liquid flow passages 21 is smaller than a sectional area of a base end.

Abstract: A filling/discharge port 10 which includes a port cap 20, a plug 40 which is slidably fitted in the inside of the port cap 20, and a plug cap 50 which is removably fitted to the tip of the plug 40 is provided for use in a liquid medicament containing chamber 563 of a container body 560 which is partitioned into a plurality of chambers 562 and 563 via a partitioning portion 561 which allows communication when the internal pressure of the container body 560 is increased, and the plug 40 is slidable from a closed position to a discharge position owing to an increase in the internal pressure. The filling/discharge port 10 reliably prevent medicaments in a medical container which contains a plurality of medicaments from being administered to a patient without being mixed so that they can be mixed during use.