Shimadzu Corporation

Mazda Motor Corporation

Koji Inoue

Koji Tojo

Naoya Ishigaki

Kazuma Watanabe

Ichiro Fukushi

Satoshi Irikuchi

Tunehiro Sugimoto

Hiroshi Murakami

Yoichi Fujiyama

Isao Fukui

Masamitsu Takahashi

Masahiro Hiraishi

Shinichi Kuroda

Ippei Takeuchi

Shinobu Miyaura

Shinobu Kudoh

Kazunori Ihara, Deceased

Tetsuhiro Tanaka

This specimen collection device has a channel through which a specimen can be drawn by capillarity. The channel has two channel sections that extend from the tip side to the base side and are connected at the tip side. One of the channel sections is connected to a base side specimen intake port, and the other terminates at a location prior to reaching the base end. An air hole is provided at this terminating location. The specimen collection device is equipped with an extraction unit for collecting a prescribed amount of the specimen. The extraction unit includes the two channel sections on the tip side of the air hole, and can be severed from the other sections of the device body of the specimen collection device via a severable section.

Specimen collection device, holder for specimen collection device, and specimen pre-processing method that uses specimen collection device

A solid laser apparatus has either a combination of a lowpass filter () and a highpass filter () or a bandpass filterprovided in its output control circuit () for increasing the gain and adjusting the phase of a signal in the vicinity of the relaxation oscillating frequency. Also, a solid laser apparatus has the phase shift circuit () provided in its output control circuit () for advancing the phase of a signal in the vicinity of the relaxation oscillating frequency thereof. Moreover, a solid laser apparatus has a pseudo notch filter (), which is arranged for the gain to have a local minimum at the relaxation oscillating frequency of the solid laser apparatus, provided in the output control circuit () so that the peak of the gain transmission characteristic of the nonlinear optical device () or of a combination of the nonlinear optical device () and the microchip laser crystal () is offset.

Solid laser apparatus

A solid laser apparatus has either a combination of a lowpass filter and a highpass filter or a bandpass filter provided in its output control circuit for increasing the gain and adjusting the phase of a signal in the vicinity of the relaxation oscillating frequency. Also, a solid laser apparatus has the phase shift circuit provided in its output control circuit for advancing the phase of a signal in the vicinity of the relaxation oscillating frequency thereof. Moreover, a solid laser apparatus has a pseudo notch filter, which is arranged for the gain to have a local minimum at the relaxation oscillating frequency of the solid laser apparatus, provided in the output control circuit so that the peak of the gain transmission characteristic of the nonlinear optical device or of a combination of the nonlinear optical device and the microchip laser crystal is offset.

Method of forming a catalytic bonding layer by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) onto carrier structures including internal combustion engine exhaust system and catalytic converter components, in order to bond a catalyst layer thereto, thereby providing a structure wherein additionally the bonding layer can be energized to promote catalytic conversion-activating preheating of the catalyst. In an electromagnetic induction catalytic preheating system, a ceramic lattice or a metallic network can form the base structure of the catalytic converter, wherein at least the latter is encompassed by an electrical/thermal insulating layer; around either induction coiling is wrapped and secured by a thermally insulating material. Upon engine start, current is electromagnetically induced in the catalytic bonding layer or the metallic network through the induction coiling. Furthermore, the specific heat capacity of the bonding layer is low, and its specific resistance can be predetermined; thus in heating quickly and efficiently, in tandem the catalyst is heated. The catalytic preheating is also made efficient by the insulating properties of the insulating layers.

Exhaust gas catalytic purifier construction

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Koji Inoue