Abstract: Problems of a conventional cover glass sticking device, in which a slide glass having one end side, where a describing portion is formed, is stored in a storage container and the one end side is always projected from level of a protection liquid therein, are solved by the device of the present invention.

Abstract: The staining and sticking system includes a staining device and a sticking device provided separately from the staining device. The staining device stains a specimen in a predetermined color by dipping a basket containing a glass slide with the specimen in a plurality of tubs sequentially. The sticking device sticks a cover film piece onto the stained specimen on the glass slide, which has been taken out of the basket transferred from the staining device by transfer means. A staining control unit and a sticking control unit are interconnected so as to communicate with each other. Sticking condition data, related to the basket fed from the staining device, out of staining condition data and sticking condition data inputted to the staining control unit correspondingly to baskets, are sent from the staining control unit to the sticking control unit, and then the sticking device sticks the cover film piece.

Abstract: Problems of a conventional cover glass sticking device, in which a slide glass having one end side, where a describing portion is formed, is stored in a storage container and the one end side is always projected from level of a protection liquid therein, are solved by the device of the present invention.

Abstract: The staining and sticking system is composed of a staining device and a sticking device, which is provided separately from the staining device, is capable of lightening the staining and sticking work and can be downsized.

Abstract: An air filter device (1) with a replaceable bag-type air filter medium is provided. The air filter device (1) comprises a bag-type air filter medium (2) having a fixing perimeter zone (7) defining an airflow inlet; an annular filter medium receiving member (4) having an annular cavity (13) for receiving the fixing perimeter zone of the air filter medium; and an elastically deformable filter medium holding member (5) disposed within the annular cavity and adapted to hold the fixing perimeter zone of the air filter medium between the filter medium receiving member and the filter medium holding member to fix the air filter medium and adapted to release the fixing perimeter zone of the air filter medium from the filter medium receiving member and the filter medium holding member.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object to provide an air filter not only for trapping suspended particulate substances but also for not generating hazardous contaminates in the air, which cause trouble in the manufacture of semiconductor devices. As a binder to bind fibers of the air filter together, a polymer dispersion is used in which a copolymer of a hydrophilic monomer and a hydrophobic monomer is dispersed in water. As an initiator for polymerization of the copolymer, an organic peroxide is used. When an air filter (8) is installed downstream of a chemical filter (7), the space (4) placed downstream of the air filter (8) is made substantially free of organic substances and/or inorganic substances that cause trouble in the manufacture of semiconductor devices.

Abstract: The cover glass adhering device is capable of dropping fixed amount of mounting medium, using cover glasses having various length, and being small in size. In the cover glass adhering device, a drop nozzle drops the mounting medium onto a specimen on a slide glass, which is held horizontally. A removing member removes a drop of the mounting medium dangling from the drop nozzle. The removing member is located outside of the slide glass. A traveling unit travels the drop nozzle, from which the dangling drop of the mounting medium has been removed by the removing member, along the specimen on the slide glass so as to drop a prescribed amount of the mounting medium over the specimen.

Abstract: An air cleaning filter having a carrier made of activated carbon fibers in the form of a web which supports at least one kind of chemical agent selected from the group consisting of (a) an alkali agent selected from a hydroxide or carbonate or an alkali metal, (b) an acidifying agent selected from acid aluminum phosphate or phosphoric acid, and (c) an oxidizing agent composed of two compounds, i.e. active manganese dioxide resulting from an alkali permanganate and an alkali iodate, or which supports combined chemicals of (a) the alkali agent and (c) the oxidizing agent, or combined chemicals of (b) the acidifying agent and (c) the oxidizing agent, wherein one or both surfaces of the web are covered with a nonwoven fabric to make an integrated filter.