Abstract: A fixing member manufacturing method includes: a first step of externally fitting a resin tube around an elastic material; and a second step of squeezing an excessive adhesive between the elastic material and the resin tube. The second step includes: a step of externally fitting, around the resin tube in a longitudinal end side, a ring member having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the resin tube externally fitted around the elastic material; and a step of moving the ring member from the longitudinal end side toward another longitudinal end side of the resin tube while bringing the ring member into contact with an outer peripheral surface of the resin tube by air pressure.

Abstract: A fixing member manufacturing method includes: a step of forming a laser-irradiated region by irradiating a surface of an elastic material with laser light of 120 nm or more and 10600 nm or less in oscillation wavelength; a step of applying an adhesive onto the elastic material on which the laser-irradiated region is formed; a step of coating the elastic material, after the applying step, with a resin tube and then elongating the resin tube on the elastic material in a longitudinal direction; a step of locally fixing the elastic material and the resin tube while maintaining the elongation of the resin tube in the longitudinal direction by heating the laser-irradiated region from above the resin tube; and a step of fixing a whole of the resin tube to the elastic material by curing the adhesive.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of manufacturing a dielectric device and an ashing method that are capable of suppressing the occurrence of resist residue. [Solving Means] In the ashing method, a base material having a surface etched by a plasma of chlorine gas or fluorocarbon gas via a resist mask (6) formed of an organic material is disposed in a chamber, bombardment treatment is performed on the resist mask (6) by using oxygen ions in the chamber, and the resist mask is removed by using oxygen radicals in the chamber. According to the ashing method described above, etching reactants adhering to the surface of the resist mask are physically removed by the bombardment treatment using oxygen ions. Thus, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of resist residue due to the etching reactants and efficiently remove the resist mask from the surface of the base material.

Abstract: A method for operating a substrate processing apparatus is provided which can contain generation of particles by generating plasma in a stable manner. After a substrate is disposed in an evacuated vacuum chamber, a rare gas is initially supplied into the vacuum chamber, a voltage is applied to a plasma generating means, and plasma of the rare gas is generated. Subsequently, a reaction gas is supplied into the vacuum chamber, the reaction gas is brought into contact with the plasma of the rare gas, and plasma of the reaction gas is generated. The plasma of the reaction gas is brought into contact with the substrate; and the substrate is processed. Plasma is stably generated not by turning the reaction gas into plasma but by first turning the rare gas into plasma by the plasma generating means, and generation of particles is subsequently suppressed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric element, in which a ferroelectric film is processed in an appropriate shape by plasma etching, is provided. A metal mask made of a metal thin film which is hard to be etched by oxygen gas is placed on an object to be processed formed by laminating a lower electrode layer and a ferroelectric film on a substrate in this order. An etching gas containing a mixture gas of the oxygen gas and a reactive gas including fluorine in a chemical structure is turned into plasma and is brought into contact with the metal mask and the object to be processed. An AC voltage is applied to an electrode disposed beneath the object to be processed so that ions in the plasma are caused to enter the object to be processed to perform anisotropic etching on the ferroelectric film.

Abstract: Two magnets in a circumferential direction of a rotor are provided in each slot of the rotor. The two magnets are consistently pulled in a direction in which they are mutually separated by magnetism of a stator and fixed on inner surfaces on both sides of the slot in the circumferential direction of the rotor.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide hydrogen-reduced water which contains a relatively large amount of dissolved hydrogen as a reactive substance having a relatively high reaction rate with respect to active oxygen in human body, has a relatively high rate of temperature change, and therefore is able to efficiently remove active oxygen, and also provide a production method and a storage method of the hydrogen-reduced water. To achieve the object, the present invention provides hydrogen-reduced water, having under a predetermined temperature condition a rate of temperature change higher than that of a water not containing hydrogen therein.

Abstract: Two magnets in a circumferential direction of a rotor are provided in each slot of the rotor. The two magnets are consistently pulled in a direction in which they are mutually separated by magnetism of a stator and fixed on inner surfaces on both sides of the slot in the circumferential direction of the rotor.

Abstract: Highly reductive hydrogen reduced water, which is suitable for drinking, and which is superior to conventional reduced water, is produced by dissolving large quantities of hydrogen gas in raw water. A pressure vessel 6 is filled with hydrogen gas; the pressure of the hydrogen gas in the pressure vessel 6 is maintained within a predetermined range; and raw water is introduced into the pressure vessel 6. More particularly, the raw water is introduced into the pressure vessel 6 as a shower from a nozzle 7, provided at the upper interior of the pressure vessel 6. After contacting hydrogen gas with the raw water in the pressure vessel 6 and dissolving the hydrogen gas in the raw water by these means, the water is packaged and sealed in a highly airtight container, and heat sterilization is performed in this state.

Abstract: Aqueous solution preparations which comprise azulene sodium sulfonate as an active ingredient and 20 w/v % or more of a polyhydric alcohol are disclosed wherein azulene sodium sulfonate is stable in the preparation for a prolonged period of time is suited for use in treating inflammation of the oral cavity and/or throat.

Abstract: A lid device for a wide-mouthed container comprises a metallic lid body having an inner margin defining an opening of a predetermined shape, a resinous rim member extending along and anchored to the inner margin of the lid body, and a closure film attached to the rim member to close the opening of the lid body. The lid body is fittable to an open mouth of the container. For opening, the closure film may be peeled off the rim member or torn along the rim member.

Abstract: In accordance with the method of the invention, the electromagnetic wave is absorbed by disposing an oriented carbon fiber-containing composition in such a manner that the longitudinal axis of its carbon fiber is aligned with the direction of the electric field of the wave W to be absorbed.

Abstract: A lid device for a wide-mouthed container comprises a metallic lid body having an inner margin defining an opening of a predetermined shape, a resinous rim member extending along and anchored to the inner margin of the lid body, and a closure film attached to the rim member to close the opening of the lid body. The lid body is fittable to an open mouth of the container. For opening, the closure film may be peeled off the rim member or torn along the rim member.

Abstract: A method for producing a lid device for a wide-mouthed container which comprises a lid body having an opening of a predetermined shape, and a closure member made of a soft synthetic resin for closing the opening of the lid body. According to the method, the lid body and a vapor impervious film are placed between a first mold body and a second mold body with the film located on the side of the second mold body. The first mold body has a closure forming cavity, whereas the second mold body has a tab forming cavity. A fluid synthetic resin is injected under pressure from the side of the first mold body to fill the closure forming cavity. The resin is caused to break through the film to fill the tab forming cavity, thereby forming a pull tab integral with the closure member.

Abstract: A lid device for a wide-mouthed container comprises a metallic lid body having an inner margin defining an opening of a predetermined shape, and a closure member made of a soft synthetic resin for closing said opening of said lid body. The closure member is integrally formed with a pull tab used to open the closure member along a weakening line. The entire outer surface of the closure member is covered by a vapor impervious film, so that passage of water vapor through the lid device can be prevented even if the closure member itself is vapor pervious.

Abstract: An enzyme electrode unit having, on the surfaces of the base electrodes thereof, an enzyme-immobilized membrane for oxidizing or reducing a target substance to be measured, and a diffusion-limiting membrane unit of a two-layer structure disposed on the surface of the enzyme-immobilized membrane, only the diffusion-limiting membrane having a lower target substance diffusion limiting effect being replaceable, thus maintaining substantially constant the general target substance diffusion limiting effect of the diffusion-limiting membrane unit, even after the replaceable diffusion-limiting membrane has been replaced.

Abstract: An apparatus for the high speed supply of individual circular or cylindrical articles such as chip resistors, shafts, pins and the like to a printed circuit board or other type of equipment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first turn table, a vertically movable mounting table carried by the first turn table, a plurality of hoppers disposed in a circle on the mounting table, pipes movable into and out of the hoppers, chutes in the form of coiled springs, cylindrical chutes provided on the first turn table and connected to the pipes through the chutes in the form of coiled springs, escapement pushers having article holding holes disposed on the underside of the cylindrical chutes, a pickup chuck adapted to grip an article disposed in the article holding hole of a respective escapement pusher and to remove the article therefrom, and a push lever adapted to push each escapement pusher when each pusher is brought to a predetermined position as a result of rotation of said first turn table.

Abstract: A sliver guide has a restrictor and deflectors for imposing uniform transverse forces on a sliver immediately before the latter is supplied to a feed roller in an open-end spinning unit, thereby spreading the sliver and loosening the core thereof. The sliver guide serves to prevent grain variations and neps that are otherwise caused in the spun yarn by the hard core and twists of the sliver which naturally form as the latter is being produced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mounting apparatus for leadless electronic parts wherein leadless electronic parts 3 supplied through a cylindrical chute 5 are dropped one by one into a part holding hole 7 of a part feeding pusher 6, with the part holding hole having a cutout, the part feeding pusher 6 transports the leadless electronic part 3 between chucks 10 and 11, and then a main block 8 including the chucks 10 and 11 is pivoted such that the leadless electronic parts 3 are taken out and mounted on a mounting portion of a printed circuit board 1 rapidly and reliably.

Abstract: In a fiber opening device in open-end spinning unit, having a combing roller which is encased by a casing and forming a fiber transferring passage between said combing roller and said casing, a wear-resistant member, preferably a member having a pin shape, is provided at an edge of an opening, e.g. a trash exit port opening formed in said casing and communicated with said passage. The structure of the fiber opening device according to the present invention makes possible easy installation of the wear-resistant member, and prevents harmful wear or bruising at said edge portion of the opening in the casing.