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Nec Corporation

Yamatake Corporation

Ibio Limited

Nobuyuki Sugiyama

Koji Seki

Shingo Ogawa

Yoshishige Kitamura

Katsuya Furuki

Kazuo Shiraiwa

Naoki Oguro

Katsumi Horiuchi

A swab testing device comprises a container () containing a diluent (), a cap () detachably mounted on an opening of the container, an elongating stick () secured to or integral with the cap, and a cotton swab () connected to a leading end of the stick and immersed in the diluent when the container opening is closed with the cap. The cap provides a communicating channel () communicatable with the interior () of the container and also communicatable with the atmosphere by an aperture () formed on the cap. The cap also includes a lid () by which the aperture may be opened and closed. Any liquid in the container may be discharged through the communicating channel and the aperture, when the lid is opened to communicate the channel with the atmosphere through the aperture, even when the container opening remains closed with the cap.

Swab testing device and method

An injection molding apparatus includes a vessel, mold, pusher, and thrust providing section. The vessel stores a molding material and has a nozzle hole which is formed in the bottom portion to inject the molding material and a first seal surface formed around the nozzle hole. The mold is made up of stacked members stacked on the lower side of the vessel and is filled with the molding material injected from the vessel. The mold has a sprue communicating with the nozzle hole and a second seal surface formed around the sprue. The stacked members respectively have third seal surfaces at portions where the members are in contact with each other. The pusher pressurizes the molding material in the vessel. The thrust providing section provides a thrust to the pusher to pressurize one of the pusher and the mold through the molding material in the vessel. The thrust providing section brings the first, second, and third seal surfaces into tight contact with each other by providing a downward thrust to the pusher with respect to the mold. An injection molding method is also disclosed.

Injection molding method using a stacked mold

A filter bag ( ) comprises a first thin plastic film ( ); a second thin plastic film ( ) having substantially the same size with the first plastic film and sealed to the first plastic film at a first side-peripheral edge ( ), a second side-peripheral edge ( ) opposite to the first side-peripheral edge and a bottom peripheral edge ( ) thereof to provide an open-top interior, and a filter sheet ( ) having a length substantially equal to the first and second plastic films and a width smaller than the first and second plastic films. The filter sheet has a first longitudinal edge ( ) interposed and sealed together between the first side-peripheral edges of the first and second plastic films and a second longitudinal edge ( ), opposite to the first longitudinal edge, sealed to the inside of the first plastic film at an intermediate position in width of the filter bag. The filter sheet is also sealed to the inside of the second plastic film, in vicinity to the first longitudinal edge, to provide a half-length seam ( ) extending from the open top edge halfway toward the bottom of the filter bag. A sample receiving section ( ) of a larger volume is defined between the first and second plastic films and the filter sheet whereas a suspension collection section ( ) of a smaller volume is defined between the first plastic film and the filter sheet. The first plastic film preferably includes a pull-tab ( ) near the open top edge, between the second longitudinal edge and the half-length seam. The pull-tab is manually pulled down over a given length to provide a pipette-inserting window.

Filter bag

A programmable logic array has a plurality of column units aligned parallel to each other. Each column unit consists of at least one MOSFET column, and at least one load element aligned vertically. Each MOSFET column has a plurality of MOSFETs aligned vertically. The MOSFETs have at least one common gate electrode. The MOSFETs belonging to two parallel MOSFET columns have a common linear source electrode.

Semiconductor integrated circuit with a programmable logic array

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Nobuyuki Sugiyama