Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd.

Mitsunori Kaneko

Yoichi Ishikawa

Yukinori Miyake

Tomoaki Inoue

A variable delay line includes a package housing (61); a circuit board (68) provided within the package housing; a ground conductor pattern (69) provided on a backside of the circuit board; an electrical circuit (70) provided on a top surface of the circuit board and including input and output terminal lands (72, 75); a plurality of pairs of shunt lands (76), each pair being connected by a microstrip line (77); a plurality of pairs of element connection lands (78), each being connected to a delay element (79, 80, 81); and a plurality of pairs of connecting contacts (67) movable between a first position in which the connecting contacts connect the shunt microstrip line in series to the electrical circuit and a second position in which the connecting contacts connect the delay element in series to the electrical circuit while disconnecting the shunt microstrip line from the electrical circuit, eliminating major mismatching elements from the delay line, thereby improving high-frequency characteristics.

Variable delay line with microstrip delay elements selectively connected

A variable delay line includes a housing package (20, 21); an input terminal (27) extending outwardly from a first side of the housing package; an output terminal (28) extending outwardly from a second side of the housing package which is opposite to the first side; a circuit board (23) provided within the housing package; an input terminal connection land (31) provided on the circuit board and connected to an end of the input terminal; an output terminal connection land (32) provided on the circuit board and connected to an end of the output terminal; a plurality of delay elements (36); a plurality of pairs of delay element connection fixed pads (33), each pair thereof connected to each of the delay elements; and a plurality of series connection fixed contact pads (34, 35) each corresponding to each pair of the delay element connection fixed pads and connectable in series across the input and output terminal connection lands.

Variable delay line

A carbon dioxide sensor for measuring dissolved carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide in gas is sterilizable with steam under pressure at a temperature of 120-130 degrees Celsius. The sensor comprises an outer tube having on its one end a gas-permeable membrane and a pH electrode disposed in the outer tube and supporting a spacer of poor hydrophobicity positioned between the distal end of the electrode and the membrane. For measurement of carbon dioxide, a liquid containing sodium bicarbonate is poured into the outer tube to form a layer of electrolyte at the spacer, and the outer tube is mounted on a fermentor. The pH electrode can be removed from the outer tube which is attached to the fermentor, and a membrane protecting rod can be inserted into the outer tube for sterilization of the membrane. The gas-permeable membrane can easily be replaced.

Steam-sterilizable carbon dioxide sensor

A carbon dioxide sensor for measuring dissolved carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide in gas is sterilizable with steam under pressure at a temperature of 120-130 degrees Celsius. The sensor comprises an outer tube having on its one end a gas-permeable membrane and a pH electrode disposed in the outer tube and supporting a spacer of poor hydrophobicity so as to be positioned between the distal end of the electrode and the membrane. For measurement of carbon dioxide, a liquid containing sodium bicarbonate is poured into the outer tube to form a layer of electrolyte at the spacer, and the outer tube is mounted on a fermentor. The pH electrode can be removed from the outer tube which is attached to the fermentor, and a membrane protecting rod can be inserted into the outer tube for sterilization of the membrane. The gas-permeable membrane can easily be replaced.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsunori Kaneko