PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simply structured, low-cost temperature difference sensor having no restrictions on two kinds of materials constituting a thermocouple and capable of detecting a temperature difference with sensitivity equal to a conventional temperature difference sensor made by forming thrmocouple material of thin film patterns, forming contact points at two portions between wh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized, low-priced pressure switch allowing its set value to be set with a commonly used tester, or the like, without providing the pressure switch with a display means or without connecting it to a dedicated display mechanism on the exterior. SOLUTION: In this pressure switch 1, a detected pressure signal outputted from a pressure detection part 13 is compa...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an equipment which can measure the wavelength dispersion characteristics without requiring an extra pair of fibers in addition to a DUT. SOLUTION: The equipment for measuring optical characteristics comprises a master unit 10 for projecting a measuring light to a DUT 30, a slave unit 20 for receiving the light transmitted the DUT 30 and measuring the characteristic...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an equipment which can measure wavelength dispersion even if the wavelength of a variable wavelength light source is equal to the reference wavelength of a fixed wavelength light source. SOLUTION: Variable wavelength light from a variable wavelength light source 12 is subjected to intensity modulation at a frequency (f) by a first optical modulator 15a and transmit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an equipment in which waveform distortion of outgoing light can be reduced when a light having wavelength within a specified narrow range enters an optical fiber. SOLUTION: The optical characteristics measuring equipment comprises a light source system 10 for supplying an incident light to an optical fiber line 110, a waveform monitor 42 for measuring waveform disto...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an equipment for measuring a spring while eliminating the effect of static electricity due to manual operation. SOLUTION: A plurality of springs 10, 10,... are sucked by means of a sucker 31 while being arranged on a carrier 4 and separated therefrom. While moving the sucker 31 intermittently, the resilient deforming part 1a of each spring 10 is applied to a measur...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To miniaturize an X-ray inspection device for obtaining the image of the desired inspection surface of an object to be inspected. SOLUTION: An X-ray source 1, a first table 21 and a second table 22 are successively arranged along an imaginary reference line L. The first and second tables 21, 22 have first and second reference surfaces 21a, 22a. The fault surface on the first ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sample introduction device for a flat gel electrophoresis device and its sample introduction method improving efficiency and speed of sample introduction into the flat gel electrophoresis device for treating a many kinds of samples at once so as to carry out efficient high-speed analysis such as SNP. SOLUTION: The flat gel electrophoresis device is provided with ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide power source equipment allowing safe installation of a power source without any error of polarity even by neglectful operation of an operator when an electrophoresis power source is arranged in an electrophoresis device. SOLUTION: A power source system is roughly divided into two casing bodies, an insulated low voltage direct current is connected from a commercial ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device capable of accurately and quickly measuring an ultrasonic resonance frequency, an ultrasonic acoustic velocity, and an acoustic anisotropy in a metallic thin plate. SOLUTION: An optional waveform generating means 3 produces a chirp pulse waveform so as to transmit it to a voltage amplifier 4. The voltage amplifier 4 amplifies the transmitted w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily predict a new biological/functional activity unknown yet such as a decarboxylation activity of prion protein and a &beta -amyloid protein precursor to oxaloacetate and a biological activity analogous to calcitonin and human growth hormone. SOLUTION: An EIIP index number is given to amino acid (or nucleic acid) in an amino acid sequence area existing in the complete ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biochemical reaction accelerator finishing a biochemical reaction system such as an antigen-antibody reaction, an enzyme-substrate reaction, and a DNA-DNA reaction for a clinical examination purpose in a short time so as to allow highly sensitive measurement when it is simply added into the reaction. SOLUTION: This biochemical reaction accelerator consists of a p...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately calibrate and adjust a wind speed sensor in a low wind speed region with relatively simple constitution. SOLUTION: A rotating drum 4 is rotatably held to a frame. A plurality of radial tares are formed at constant spaces at the outer peripheral part of the rotating drum 4. A measuring wind speed sensor 22 is fitted piercing a slit of the rotating drum 4 from the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multi-slice radiation detector joined to a light-receiving element on a substrate by easily dividing a scintillator in X and Y directions by a separator. SOLUTION: The scintillator 1 is bonded to an optical reflector 6, and grooves 8a in a long side direction are cut by a dicing apparatus from the side of the scintillator 1. The separator 56 of a white plastic fi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a rechargeable electronic watch energy-saving by eliminating the wasteful consumption of electric power in such a way that the operation of a circuit system is changed according to a change in power generation. SOLUTION: The circuit system which is operated while a power-supply device composed of a power generation means 10 and a capacitor 14 charged with power genera...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an hourglass in which the falling speed of a granular substance can be made identical even when the kind of the granular substance is changed and in which the generation of air bubbles due to the thermal contraction of a liquid is prevented. SOLUTION: A liquid silicone is used as the liquid 4 to be sealed in a container 10. The viscosity of the liquid is changed ac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reactor output monitor in which the total system can be simplified while satisfying a matter required for a safety protective system, i.e., redundancy and electrical/physical separation of the system, and reliability, economy and maintainability can be enhanced. SOLUTION: The reactor output monitor comprises a plurality of local output region monitors 1P-1 to 1P-...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antireflection film having superior antireflection effect and contamination resistance and formable by heat curing or by a photo-curing reaction even in the presence of oxygen. SOLUTION: The antireflection film is obtained by heat-curing and/or photo- curing a coating composition containing (A) a product prepared by hydrolyzing and condensing an organosilane of ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To drop each coloring material on a substrate with a black matrix according to pixels of a color filter in response to the meandering of a stage without varying the attachment angle of ink jet heads when the color filter is manufactured by applying the coloring material on the substrate by an ink jet system. SOLUTION: Ink jet heads 4 having satisfactory resolving power are us...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent color mixture and the occurrence of voids in a method for producing a color filter using an ink jet system. SOLUTION: Partition walls 3 are formed on a supporting substrate 1, the openings are filled with a resin composition 5 and fluorination treatment is carried out to increase the ink repellency of only the tops of the partition walls 3. The resin composition 5 ...