Nikko Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nix, Inc.

Komatsu Corporation

Nobuo Katsuura

Osamu Igarashi

Atsushi Nakayama

Masakatsu Sano

Junji Arisawa

Kazuyuki Kimura

Toru Takahashi

Kanichi Kadotani

Toshihide Imamura

Hitoshi Takano

Takashi Furusawa

Ryoji Saito

Sumito Hasegawa

Atsunori Nakata

Takashi Dei

A dust remover includes: a rotary brush for removing dust from a workpiece; a workpiece carrying unit for carrying the workpiece in a first direction; a brush rotation unit for rotating the rotary brush around its axis in synchronization with the movement of the workpiece carrying unit; and a back-and-forth brush movement unit for moving the rotary brush back and forth along its axis, a second direction intersecting with the first direction, in synchronization with the movement of the workpiece carrying unit.

Dust remover and dust removal method

The present invention provides a method of extracting virus genes, which is excellent in quickness and convenience and can be automated, and this invention also provides an apparatus for such extraction of virus genes. A conductive hollow fiber membrane (module)is immersed in a virus suspensionand thus viral particles suspended in the virus suspensionare captured in the conductive hollow fiber membrane (module). The coating of the thus captured virus is lysed and the virus genes are released. Next, the virus genes are collected by subjecting the conductive hollow fiber membrane (module)to at least one of an electrical treatment and a physical treatment.

Method of extracting virus genes and extraction apparatus

The present invention provides a convenient and highly reliable joint device which contains a small number of components by simplifying the coupling structure, which is small-sized and can be manufactured at low cost, which is leak-proof under a wide range of conditions, regardless of the degree of internal pressure, and which does not contaminate the liquid inside the joint device. Concerning the liquid sending and receiving joint device of this invention for connecting a liquid reservoir, which contains the liquid, with a liquid acceptorwhich receives the liquid from the liquid reservoir, an elastic memberorhaving at least a holeand a valvewith a flow path is provided at a joint part of either the liquid reservoir or the liquid acceptor, or both of them, wherein the valvefits in or engages with the hole

Liquid sending and receiving joint device

A frame structure for housing panel plates includes a box-shaped structure having openings at opposite ends. The box structure includes a pair of side plates, the inner surfaces of which are provided with grooves for housing panel plates, two pairs of bases, one pair being affixed to the upper portions of the pair of side plates and the other pair being affixed to the lower portions of the pair of side plates, and two pairs of connecting plates, one pair connecting the one pair of bases at the upper portions and the other pair connecting the other pair of bases at the lower portions. Stop members are provided at the openings at the opposite ends to prevent housed panel plates from dropping out. A stop member support device has one end affixed to the base, and at the other end is a stop member support portion. The support device uses a cam mechanism to move the stop members between a first position at which the stop members are in contact with the panel plates, and a second position at which the stop members are not in contact with the panel plates.

Frame structure for housing panel plates

This invention provides a method for recovering nucleic acids and a device for the same purpose, which method and device are capable of continuously recovering nucleic acids by enabling the recovery of nucleic acids in one simple operation. This nucleic acid recovering device comprises: a container to which a solution containing micro-organisms is supplied; electrodes which are made of a hollow fiber membrane coated with a conductive metal and which send electricity to the solution; a pulse oscillator which sends pulse waves to the electrodes; and a micropump which draws up the solution within the hollow fiber membrane coated with metal.

Method for recovering nucleic acid and device for the same purpose

The collapsible housing frame has a pair of side frame boards opposed to each other, and connecting mechanisms which connect both the opposed ends of the side frame boards. Both ends of the side frame boards are connected to the connecting mechanisms through first hinges. Each of the connecting mechanisms is formed to be collapsible at a second hinge of the connecting mechanism, and a lock-unlock system to lock and unlock the hinge is provided at the second hinge.

Collapsible housing frame

A porous hollow fiber membrane is dipped into either a high concentration alkali solution or a high concentration solution of chromic acid and sulfuric acid, etched and then dipped into a palladium ion solution. The membrane is then dipped into a solution containing reducing and complexing agents as well as metallic ions, and subjected to an electroless treatment. In this way, a porous hollow fiber membrane, to which a metallic layer is chemically bonded, can be obtained. The porous hollow fiber membrane is provided in which the bond strength between the membrane and the metallic layer and the amount of metal to be coated are increased. Because of a large amount of metal, it is possible to render the membrane sufficiently electrically conductive.

Resin membrane having metallic layer and method of producing the same

A cable holder for securing a cable airtightly comprises a mounting body with a hollow cylinder for receiving the cable, a clamping cap to be threaded with the thread on the outer periphery of the mounting body and having an opening on each end in its axial direction and frustoconical gripper assembly to be inserted between the cylinder and the clamping cap. The gripper assembly is formed in a shape of a iris diaphragm of a camera and each of the diaphragms is movable and capable of shorting its inner circular diameter defined by the diaphragms for gripping the cable.

Cable holder

Device for locking a panel plate to a housing and releasing it therefrom is comprised a saddle body including a saddle seat and a pair of parallel leg plates extending therefrom. Each of the leg plates has an aperture bored at a portion remote from the seat, and a pin which is made integral with one leg plate by means of a plurality of thin film strips extends outwardly from the periphery of the aperture in that plate in a direction normal thereto. After positioning the panel plate between the leg plates and bringing the apertures in the leg plates into alignment with the aperture bored in the corner of front side of the panel plate, the pin is driven into the apertures, whereupon the device is pivotally attached to the panel plate.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Nobuo Katsuura