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Nagano Keiki Seisakusho, Ltd.

The Nippon Signal Co., Ltd.

Masato Ichikawa

Mamoru Shiratori

Koichi Futsuhara

Masayoshi Sakai

Kiyoji Hashimoto

Kazuhiro Inaba

Junichi Yoshiike

Hiroaki Yanagida

Toshiyuki Wakasa

Reizi Saitoh

Yohichi Kobayashi

Masanori Matsumoto

Hirokazu Nakasone

Masaru Fujimoto

In order to provide an automatic testing apparatus with improved reliability of test results, capable of conducting automatically such operations as sterile testing, microorganism limit testing, insoluble particulate measurement testing, divided portion testing for chemical analysis and chemical reaction testing, etc., and capable of accommodating changes in the specimen or the test container with each sample as well as changes in operating procedures with each sample so as to eliminate the possibility of human error and prevent contamination of the operating environment by human hands, the automatic testing apparatus of the present invention prepares a sample by mounting a set of various pieces of equipment including the specimen or test containers required to be changed with every sample atop a same work base and providing that work base as a unit to within the operating range of a robot, with the robot then handling the various pieces of equipment atop the work base to prepare the sample.

Automatic testing apparatus

A dispensing apparatus is which, even when a small amount of a medium is to be dispensed, can satisfactorily dispense the medium. The medium dispensing apparatus (,) has: a laboratory dish transporting mechanism (,) which transports a laboratory dish (,) along a predetermined path; a movable table (,) which is disposed in the laboratory dish transportation path by the laboratory dish transporting mechanism (,), with being upward inclined by a given angle &thgr; toward a downstream side in a transportation direction of the laboratory dish (,), and which moves in circular motion in a horizontal plane along predetermined forward and backward directions, thereby moving the laboratory dish (,) placed on the table in circular motion along a horizontal direction, and in the forward and backward directions, in a state where the laboratory dish is upward inclined toward the downstream side in the transportation direction; and a medium dispensing mechanism (,) for dispensing a given amount of a medium to a portion in the laboratory dish (,) placed on the movable table (,), in a manner that at least part of the dispensed medium makes contact with the inner face of the side wall of the laboratory dish (,), the portion being on the downstream side in the transportation direction with respect to the center of the laboratory dish.

Medium dispensing apparatus and a method for the same

Residual pressure sensor and residual pressure sensor monitoring

The object of the present invention is to provide a maximum value storage sensor when detecting the maximum strain by generating an invariable electrical resistance change correlative to the strain of the detection object in a conductive body having a plurality of conductive elements. The maximum value storage sensor of the present invention has; a conductive body having a circuit which gives correlative resistance changes corresponding to the sequential cutoff of a plurality of conductive elements each having a given electrical resistance arrayed in parallel; a cutting means for cutting the conductive elements of the conductive body; and a structure for allowing one of the conductive bodies and the cutting means to move relatively to each other. The sensor is attached to an object component member in a structure so as to generate relative movements between the conductive body and the cutting means which correspond to any strains exerted upon the object component member, and it detects maximum strains in the object component member by allowing the cutting means to sequentially cut off the conductive elements of the conductive body corresponding to an amount of the relative movement.

Maximum value storage sensor

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Tokyo, Japan

Masato Ichikawa