Abstract: The cutting method is a cutting method for cutting a workpiece using a wire tool, including: supplying a slurry containing abrasive grains having an electrical dielectric property to a region of the workpiece into which the wire tool cuts; generating an alternating electric field in a region between the wire tool and the workpiece; and running the wire tool along a direction in which the wire tool is drawn while the wire tool abuts on the workpiece.

Abstract: Acceleration and automation of immunohistochemical staining are achieved as follows: an automatic electric field immunohistochemical staining apparatus is configured to provided with a sample mounting unit, a solution supply unit, an electric field stifling unit, and a washing unit; the sample mounting unit on which a glass substrate with a tissue specimen fixed thereto is mounted and the electric field stirring unit that includes an upper electrode are operated in coordination to activate an antigen in the tissue specimen; the sample mounting unit and the solution supply unit containing various solutions are operated in coordination to supply a primary-antibody-containing solution to the tissue specimen; the sample mounting unit and the electric field stirring unit are operated in coordination to perform an antigen-antibody reaction of the antigen in the tissue specimen and a primary antibody; and the electric field stirring unit and the washing unit are operated in coordination.

Abstract: Acceleration and automation of immunohistochemical staining are achieved as follows: an automatic electric field immunohistochemical staining apparatus is configured to provided with a sample mounting unit, a solution supply unit, an electric field stifling unit, and a washing unit; the sample mounting unit on which a glass substrate with a tissue specimen fixed thereto is mounted and the electric field stirring unit that includes an upper electrode are operated in coordination to activate an antigen in the tissue specimen; the sample mounting unit and the solution supply unit containing various solutions are operated in coordination to supply a primary-antibody-containing solution to the tissue specimen; the sample mounting unit and the electric field stirring unit are operated in coordination to perform an antigen-antibody reaction of the antigen in the tissue specimen and a primary antibody; and the electric field stirring unit and the washing unit are operated in coordination.

Abstract: A noncontact stirring method, a noncontact stirring apparatus, a method and apparatus for reacting nucleic acid hybridization using the apparatus, a method for detecting nucleic acid in a sample, an apparatus for detecting nucleic acid, a method for detecting antibodies in a sample, and an apparatus for detecting antibodies in minute droplets 1 ?mL or less in an electric field are proposed that can be utilized to speed up biodetection processes, hybridization processes in DNA analysis, ELISA antigen fixing processes, blocking processes, antibody-antigen reaction processes and color reaction processes; and pathogen identification, CRP tests, methods of propagating cells or bacilli such as colon bacilli in a liquid culture medium, and chemical analyses.

Abstract: An immunohistochemical staining apparatus for carrying out immunohistochemical staining includes a sample chamber (1) in which a primary sample (s1) comprised of a tissue specimen (t) to which a primary antibody (Ig1) is applied is disposed between a sample-side electrode (11) and an opposed electrode (12). The sample chamber (1) has first stirring means for noncontactlessly stirring the primary sample (s1) by applying for a first prescribed time period an alternating electric field adjusted so that the opposed electrode (12) is minus with respect to the sample-side electrode (11), and second stirring means for noncontactlessly stirring a secondary sample (s2) comprised of the noncontactlessly-stirred primary sample (s1) to which a labeled secondary antibody (Ig2) is applied by applying for a second prescribed time period an alternating electric field adjusted so that the opposed electrode (12) is minus with respect to the sample-side electrode (11).

Abstract: A noncontact stirring method, a noncontact stirring apparatus, a method and apparatus for reacting nucleic acid hybridization using the apparatus, a method for detecting nucleic acid in a sample, an apparatus for detecting nucleic acid, a method for detecting antibodies in a sample, and an apparatus for detecting antibodies in minute droplets 1 ?mL or less in an electric field are proposed that can be utilized to speed up biodetection processes, hybridization processes in DNA analysis, ELISA antigen fixing processes, blocking processes, antibody-antigen reaction processes and color reaction processes; and pathogen identification, CRP tests, methods of propagating cells or bacilli such as colon bacilli in a liquid culture medium, and chemical analyses.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece by utilizing a fluid including abrasive particles having a dielectric property. The polishing apparatus includes an electrode for applying processing pressure to the abrasive particles on the workpiece and having electrode elements for collecting and arranging the abrasive particles by a Coulomb force produced by application of an alternating-current voltage to the electrode, and a driving device for driving the electrode.

Abstract: A polishing method with a polishing apparatus includes an electrode constituted as a plurality of electrode elements, a device of driving the electrode, and dielectric abrasive particles disposed between the electrode and a workpiece. Polishing pressure is applied to the particles by a Coulomb force generated when an alternating-current voltage is applied to the electrode.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus includes an electrode constituted as a plurality of electrode elements, a device of driving the electrode, and dielectric abrasive particles disposed between the electrode and a workpiece. Polishing pressure is applied to the particles by a Coulomb force generated when an alternating-current voltage is applied to the electrode.