Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a grooved noodle which hardly sticks to another noodle after boiling and from which a boiled noodle having excellent texture is obtained. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a grooved noodle and a method for cooking a grooved noodle. The grooved noodle of the present invention is a grooved noodle having a groove or a plurality of grooves formed along a longitudinal direction of a noodle string and having a substantially circular configuration in cross section of the noodle string, wherein only grain flour including wheat flour is used as raw material flour, and a gluten vitality of the grooved noodle is 18% to 35%.

Abstract: A duct includes a circumferential wall. At least part of the circumferential wall is a fibrous portion that includes fibers. The fibrous portion includes a breathable inner layer located on an inner circumferential side in the circumferential wall and an outer layer located on an outer circumferential side of the inner layer in the circumferential wall. The outer layer is less breathable than the inner layer. A boundary between the inner layer and the outer layer is breathable.

Abstract: A capillary cartridge achieves both improvement of attachability and improvement of heat dissipation performance for realizing short-time analysis. A heat dissipation body is provided between a capillary having a detection unit provided in a part thereof and a plate-like support body that supports the capillary, and temperature increase inside the capillary is suppressed by the heat dissipation body, and thereby, electrophoresis can be performed under a high voltage application condition where the amount of heat increases and analysis time is reduced. In addition, it is possible to redress complexity of an operation by reducing a fixing place at the time of attachment to only a detection unit and an electrode holder by using an integration structure in which the capillary, the supporting body, and the heat radiating body are integrated.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fiber formed body includes forming a fiber board into a predetermined outer shape while forming a pattern on an outer surface of the fiber board by compressing the fiber board, a forming at least one positioning member by compressing the fiber board, and positioning, relative to a cutoff device, the fiber board using the positioning member, and cutting off a cutoff target part of the fiber board using the cutoff device. In the method for manufacturing the fiber formed body, formation of the pattern during the forming of the outer shape and formation of the positioning member during the forming of the positioning member are simultaneously performed.

Abstract: Provided is the technique for efficiently using the phoresis medium contained in the phoresis medium container by minimizing the remaining phoresis medium as small as possible, and further lowering the running cost. The disclosure proposes the measurement system as an example, which includes an electrophoresis device and a computer. The electrophoresis device includes a phoresis medium container for storing a phoresis medium, a capillary having its inside filled with the phoresis medium, a delivery mechanism for delivering the phoresis medium in the phoresis medium container to the capillary, and a device control section for controlling an operation of the delivery mechanism. The computer calculates a deliverable number of times from an amount of the phoresis medium in the phoresis medium container and an estimated delivery amount of the phoresis medium delivered by the delivery mechanism (see FIG 16).

Abstract: A ventilation component includes a circumferential wall. At least a part of the circumferential wall is formed by the wall portion, which includes the inner layer and the outer layer. The inner layer contains fibers and has permeability, and the outer layer is provided on the radially outer side of the inner layer and has elasticity. The wall portion forms a vibration system including the inner layer as a mass portion and the outer layer as a spring portion. The vibration system has a partially varying natural frequency.

Abstract: An air intake duct includes a peripheral wall, which is formed by a compressed fiber portion made of a compression molded fiber material. The compressed fiber portion includes high-compression portions having a high compression ratio and low-compression portions having a relatively low compression ratio. The high-compression portions include circumferentially extending sections. Each circumferentially extending section is located in a plane that is perpendicular to an extension direction of the peripheral wall with part of the circumferentially extending section disposed between the low-compression portions. Each circumferentially extending section extends continuously over the entire circumference of the peripheral wall.

Abstract: Provided are a bubble eliminating structure and a bubble eliminating method which eliminate bubbles in a liquid by agitating the liquid, and an agitating method using the same. A first groove 114, which is an upstream bubble eliminating groove, and a second groove 131, which is a downstream bubble eliminating groove, are branched from a mixing well 13. After starting suction of the liquid from mixing well 13 into the first groove 114, suction of the liquid from the mixing well 13 into the second groove 131 is started, and after completion of discharge of the liquid from the first groove 114 into the mixing well 13, discharge of the liquid from the second groove 131 into the mixing well 13 is completed. This operation is repeated to eliminate bubbles.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a base, a drive motor, disk-shaped magnetic recording media, a carriage supporting a magnetic head to be movable with respect to the magnetic recording medium, and a plurality of fixing members. The base includes a bottom wall and a side wall having a first corner and a second corner. The fixing member includes a support post erected on the bottom wall, and extending parts each extending from the support post between the magnetic recording media. The fixing members include a first fixing member provided between the magnetic recording medium and the first corner, a second fixing member provided between the magnetic recording medium and the second corner, and a third fixing member provided on a side facing the first fixing member.

Abstract: An electrophoresis device has: a sample tray (112) on which there are placed a positive-electrode-side buffer solution container (103) containing a buffer solution and a phoresis medium container (102) containing a phoresis medium, and which is driven in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction; a thermostat oven unit (113) that holds a capillary array having a capillary head in which a plurality of capillaries are bundled in a single unit at one end thereof in a state where the capillary array being held in a state in which the capillary head protrudes downward, and that keeps the interior temperature constant; a solution-delivering mechanism (106) for delivering the phoresis medium in the phoresis medium container to the capillary array from the capillary head; and a power source for applying a voltage to both ends of the capillary array. Holes for insertion of the capillary head are provided in upper sections of the positive-electrode-side buffer solution container and the phoresis medium container.

Abstract: An intake duct for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of segments coupled together into a tubular shape. The segments include at least a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is formed from a material harder than the second segment. The first segment includes a groove that extends in the extending direction in a portion coupled to the second segment and projections that project from one of two inner surfaces of the groove. The second segment is formed from a material that allows for elastic deformation. The second segment includes a rib. The rib extends in the extending direction and has a projection width that is less than the opening width of the groove. The rib is fitted into the groove so that the projections locally compress the rib in the width direction of the groove.

Abstract: A pre-cleaner for an internal combustion engine is arranged in an intake passage of the internal combustion engine at an upstream side of a filter of an air cleaner. The pre-cleaner includes a casing that includes a cylindrical side wall and swirl generation vanes that swirl intake air about an axis of the casing. The side wall has a portion located next to an upstream side of the swirl generation vanes that is formed from an air-permeable fibrous molded body.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophoresis device that, by electrophoresis, feeds a sample into capillaries and optically detects the sample, the electrophoresis device being provided with capillaries, a capillary head provided at the distal end of the capillaries, a phoretic medium-filled container used for electrophoresis and filled with a phoretic medium, a guide member that covers the side surface of the phoretic medium-filled container, a seal member that seals from below the phoretic medium filled in the phoretic medium-filled container, and a plunger that presses the seal member.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an electrophoretic medium container capable of stabilizing a liquid delivery pressure while ensuring sealing of an electrophoretic medium. In order to resolve this problem, this electrophoretic medium container is provided with a syringe part for holding an electrophoretic medium, and a sealing component for sealing one end of the syringe part, the electrophoretic medium container being characterized in that the sealing component has a sealing surface, a body part, and a groove provided between the sealing surface and the body part, wherein the sealing surface is in contact with the inner wall of the syringe part.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophoresis device that, by electrophoresis, feeds a sample into capillaries and optically detects the sample, the electrophoresis device being provided with capillaries, a capillary head provided at the distal end of the capillaries, a phoretic medium-filled container used for electrophoresis and filled with a phoretic medium, a guide member that covers the side surface of the phoretic medium-filled container, a seal member that seals from below the phoretic medium filled in the phoretic medium-filled container, and a plunger that presses the seal member.

Abstract: An intake duct for an internal combustion engine includes a pipe-shaped shell. The shell includes a first molded product and a second molded product. The first molded product is formed by a plastic molded product and includes an opening extending through the first molded product in the thickness direction. The second molded product is formed by a fiber molded product produced through compression molding. The second molded product includes an air-permeable fitting projection fitted into the opening, and the second molded product is joined with an outer surface of the first molded product.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophoresis device for enhancing its analysis performance. In order to achieve the task, the electrophoresis device includes a capillary array constituted by a capillary, a capillary head for bundling an end of the capillary, an electrode holder for holding an electrode provided at the other end of the capillary and a detector provided for the capillary, a first heater for heating the capillary, and an irradiation detection unit for irradiating a light to the detector to detect a fluorescence generated from a fluorescence labelled sample in the capillary. The electrophoresis device further includes a second heater for heating the detector.

Abstract: An inlet duct includes a tubular main body formed by a compression-molded fibrous molded body. The main body includes an alternate layout region in which an air-impermeable high-compression portion and an air-permeable low-compression portion hat is compression-molded at a lower compressibility than a compressibility of the high-compression portion are alternately laid out in an axial direction of the main body. The alternate layout region is configured such that an arbitrary pair of points at an equal distance in the axial direction to a central position in an upstream region and a downstream region of the alternate layout region include only points that are both located in the low-compression portions and points one of which is located in the low-compression portion and the other one of which is located in the high-compression portion.

Abstract: An inlet duct for an internal combustion engine includes a duct member made of a compression molded fiber material. The duct member includes a main body and end portions provided on opposite sides in an axial direction of the main body. The main body includes at least one high-compression portion and at least one low-compression portion, which is made through compression molding at a compression ratio lower than that of the at least one high-compression portion. The at least one low-compression portion extends throughout a length in the axial direction of the main body.

Abstract: This drive screw device is provided with: a drive screw; a drive unit which causes the drive screw to rotate; a slider which moves along the drive screw by means of the rotation of the drive screw; and an external load which is provided on the drive screw and applies a rotational load to the drive screw. By this means it is possible to provide a drive screw device with which there is little pressure variation even if a frictional force varies.