PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiple set pipe device having a cylindrical or regular polygonal piping showing constant longitudinal section or constant cross section in a longitudinal direction and having internal cavities demarcated by separation membranes. SOLUTION: In this multiple set pipe device in the case of a heptagonal device, six cavities are of irregular trapezoidal shape, and th...

In the method in unwinding, paper web (W) is discharged from a reel (R1) that is becoming empty and the paper web of a new full reel (R2) is spliced at the discharge speed to the paper web discharged from the reel that is becoming empty. The terminal end point (L) of the web of the reel (R1) that is becoming empty is stored as information indicating its position in the longitudinal direction of th...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output an endoscope picture to a digital external device or the like and also selectively use picture data of the progressive system or the interlace system. SOLUTION: For example, a CCD drive circuit H is provided with a timing generator 5 that generates a control pulse of the progressive system and the interlace system, a frequency converter 7 and a timing control circui...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily recognize characters superimposed on a picture in the case of both a usual output and a magnified output in an electronic endoscope. SOLUTION: The electronic endoscope is provided with a mask circuit 41 that produces a mask picture from part of photographing data, a character superimposing circuit 42 that superimposes character information onto the photographing dat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flexible wiring board, together with its manufacturing method, etc., wherein warping of a base substrate is reduced. SOLUTION: A flexible wiring board comprises a long base substrate 10 and a wiring pattern 20 formed on it. Here, each wiring pattern 20 comprises a plurality of wirings 22, each of which comprises a part extending rightward and that extending leftw...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor wafer processing system for improving the manufacturing yield of a semiconductor by drastically making uniform the thickness distribution of a photoresist film on a wafer, for reducing the deviation of the line width of a pattern, and efficiently suppressing the contamination of the wafer in a housing by dust or the like. SOLUTION: An upper space 24...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light source device capable of obtaining good color reproduction and image quality and miniaturizing the overall device at a low cost. SOLUTION: A metal halide lamp is fixed to an elliptic mirror 2, and the light emitted from the metal halide lamp is reflected on the elliptic mirror 2 and is focused on the end face of a light guide 3. A color-correcting filter 4 ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To switch banks at a low cost without adding a complicated circuit in a data transfer system adopting a bank switching system. SOLUTION: The system is provided with a counter 40 for generating output data expressing the bank switching addresses A10 to A14 of a bank memory 50 on the basis of a clock CLK inputted from a main CPU 10. Output data Q1 to Q5 from the counter 40 are ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and accurately update the operation programs of both microcomputers in an electronic endoscope device adopting a two microcomputer system, and to reduce the number of photocouplers for isolation. SOLUTION: A patient side circuit 1 is provided with a patient side microcomputer processing part 10 and a ROM 11 mounted on a socket. An IO side circuit 2 is provided with ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of fluff or the like by welding a cut part at a cutting work time by manufacturing the light shielding material of a specified shape attached at an aperture part side wall by executing a cutting work for a textile fabric-like light shielding material by light having a converging property such as a laser beam. SOLUTION: Slit-like aperture parts 27b an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a lens barrel from entering a lens barrel hold part and to eliminate the need for drawing-out operation using a jig etc. SOLUTION: The lens barrel 12 holds an objective optical system in a lens frame 13 and a lens barrel hold member 4 which holds the lens barrel 12 movably along the optical axis has an optical path space longer than the length of the lens barrel. F...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To light up and observe both a microscope for surgery and an endoscope when a surgery using the endoscope in combination with the microscope is carried out, to improve the operability of the endoscope, to provide a sufficient operation area for surgeons, to secure the space in the operating room, to make an endoscope observation at low cost. SOLUTION: The microscope 1 for sur...

An immersion semiconductor wafer cleaning device (4), employing an acoustic window made of the wafer material for megasound transmission into the cleaning fluid, is new.;

Dispositif, dénommé plongeur, pour nettoyer les galettes de matériaux semi-conducteurs et en particulier celles en Silicium.L'invention concerne un dispositif permettant de générer des mégasons (ultrasons de hautes fréquences)...

The air filter comprises a housing (1) containing a sealed filter complex (20) and a test chamber (10) to provide a fluid link between the outlet (14) and intake (15) sides of the filter complex. The test chamber is offset to one side of the main housing (1), with the housing forming at least part of the chamber wall. The housing also has a cover (2) with an air intake (9), sealed to the side wall...

There is provided a purified compound of the formula wherein R1 and R2 are H; and wherein the group Polycycle is a residue of an oestrogen wherein the compound is an inhibitor of an enzyme having steroid sulphatase activity (E.C.3.1.6.2); wherein if the sulphamate group on the compound were to be replaced with a sulphate group to form a sulphate compound and incubated with a steroid sulphat...

There is provided a purified compound of the formula wherein R1 and R2 are H; and wherein the group Polycycle is a residue of an oestrogen wherein the compound is an inhibitor of an enzyme having steroid sulphatase activity (E.C.3.1.6.2); wherein if the sulphamate group on the compound were to be replaced with a sulphate group to form a sulphate compound and incubated with a steroid sulphat...

There is provided a purified compound of the formula wherein R1 and R2 are H; and wherein the group Polycycle is a residue of an oestrogen wherein the compound is an inhibitor of an enzyme having steroid sulphatase activity (E.C.3.1.6.2); wherein if the sulphamate group on the compound were to be replaced with a sulphate group to form a sulphate compound and incubated with a steroid sulphat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve throughput by drastically reducing the heating time of a wafer, while using both lamp heating and hot wall heating and at the same time, making uniform temperature distribution within the wafer. SOLUTION: A lamp 10 is installed outside a furnace body 3 of a hot-wall type CVD system. The hot-wall type CVD device is heated to and retained at a specific temperature in...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adapter which can be used for converting a conventional reactive ion etching chamber into a chamber, capable of the dry etching of a photomask without substantially using expensive or complicated equipment. SOLUTION: A reticle adapter 132, capable of supporting a reticle 130 in a conventional reactive ion etching chamber which is designed for etching a circular ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress occurrence of slippage by lessening the temperature difference under the surface of a wafer at temperature rise and/or temperature drop, when putting a semiconductor wafer in place within a treatment chamber and performing annealing at near, for example, 1,000 deg.C while supplying a as from a gas supply part opposed to the wafer to the wafer. SOLUTION: Heat treat...