Sony Corporation

Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

Shingo Mouri

Kenji Hirose

Hiroki Sato

Masahiro Saito

Hiroshi Koyama

Katsuhisa Hakoda

Masahiko Nakamura

Daisuke Iseki

Hisayoshi Otaki

Hidetaka Okamoto

Nobuo Ueda

To provide a technique that enables the risk of contamination to be reduced. Provided is a microparticle measuring apparatus including at least: a relay unit that enables a flow path through which microparticles flow and a cleaning fluid storage unit to communicate with each other; a sheath fluid tube that causes the flow path and a sheath fluid storage unit to communicate with each other; and a cleaning fluid tube that causes the relay unit and the cleaning fluid storage unit to communicate with each other, in which the relay unit includes a first connector that can be connected to a joint portion on the sheath fluid storage unit side of the sheath fluid tube.

Microparticle measuring apparatus with measurement and cleaning modes

A medical observation device that includes a microscope that images a surgical site, a holding section that holds the microscope, a base section to which the holding section is connected, and an operation section that receives operating input, the operation section being provided at the base section, the holding section being configured as a balance arm provided with a counterweight, when the base section is viewed from an upper side of the medical observation device, the base section having a first area inside a movable range of the counterweight and a second area outside the movable range of the counterweight, the base end of the holding section being connected to the base section at a location in the first area, and the operation section being arranged at another location in the second area.

Medical observation device and medical observation system

There is provided a disbursing device in a paper sheet counting machine. The disbursing device comprises a feed roller continuously rotated in one direction, a first brake plate disposed along the periphery of the feed roller to confront the feed roller, with a gap between the feed roller and the brake plate being freely adjustable, and a second brake plate disposed just behind the first brake plate and arranged so that a gap between the second brake plate and the feed roller can be adjusted independently of the adjustment of the first-mentioned gap. Two gaps can be adjusted respectively according to the thickness of paper sheets to be disbursed. The gap adjustment is performed in two stages, whereby paper sheets are reliably delivered one at a time.

Disbursing device in machine for counting paper sheets

A coin selecting and counting machine for selecting and counting a number of mixed coins in accordance with the kinds thereof on the basis of differences in their diameters. The coin selecting and counting machine includes a rotary disc which is made rotatable for discharging the mixed coins by the centrifugal force thereof and a selecting and counting track formed with selecting holes for receiving the discharged mixed coins to allow the same to fall into the corresponding holes, while being unidirectionally conveyed one by one. The track is composed of a guide rail section, a curved rail section and a counting rail section. The curved rail section extends between the other two rail sections for changing the moving direction of the mixed coins to force the same into contact with its curved inner wall. Thus, the coins, which might otherwise be imprecisely located widthwise of the track, can have their circumferences further forced into contact with the inner wall of the counting rail section while being selected and counted.

Coin selecting and counting machine

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Tokyo, Japan

Shingo Mouri