Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Soichiro Fujioka

Tohru Nakamura

Osamu Mizuno

Mizuho Sakakibara

Akinobu Okuda

Toshinori Hirose

Tsuyoshi Tojo

Yoshihiko Matsukawa

Akihiro Ohta

Motoji Ohmori

Yuko Tsusaka

Rie Takahashi

Toshihisa Nakano

Natsume Matsuzaki

Shunji Harada

Masao Nonaka

Kazuhiko Yamauchi

Toshiaki Yamauchi

Yoshikatsu Ito

Takeshi Ando

Noriko Sugimoto

Shoichi Kobayashi

Norihiro Shibata

Masaya Yamamoto

Yuichi Futa

Masaya Miyazaki

Toshio Inaji

Atsushi Saso

Yoshiaki Iwata

Hiroki Yamauchi

Tomokazu Kanamaru

Yuji Adachi

Takanobu Tanimoto

Shogo Hamasaki

Toshihide Ueda

Seiji Furusawa

An apparatus for culturing cells of the present invention is an apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium in a culture vessel. The apparatus includes: pump connected to pipet held by first holder; first shifter configured to shift first holder; second holder configured to hold culture vessel; second shifter configured to grip and shift culture vessel; and controller. Controller is programmed to, when pipet draws a liquid in culture vessel or discharges a liquid into culture vessel, control second shifter to translationally shift lid of culture vessel in a horizontal direction.

Apparatus for culturing cells

An apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium, including: a replacer that replaces the culture medium in a culture vessel held by a holder; a measurer that measures a pH of the culture medium in the culture vessel; and an instructor that instructs the replacer to replace the culture medium in the culture vessel, wherein the instructor gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than a predetermined pH threshold at a first replacement of the culture medium, and gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than the predetermined pH threshold and the interval is less than an interval of a previous replacement of the culture medium at second and subsequent replacements of the culture medium.

Apparatus for culturing cells and method for culturing cells

A head care apparatus includes a unit base having independently rotatable first and second rotating shafts, a first link fixed on the first rotating shaft, a second link pivotally connected to the fist link, a third link fixed to the second rotating shaft, a fourth link pivotally connected to the third link, a support shaft pivotally connecting between the second and fourth links, an actuator supported by the support shaft, and an adjustment mechanism adjusting a posture of the actuator relative to person's head.

Head care apparatus

Provided is an automatic head care device that can reliably care a person's rear head. The automatic head care device includes a rear-head care unit, the rear-head care unit including contact units, each unit having a rotation gear rotating a plurality of contacts around a central axis of the rotation gear, a third arm rotatably holding the contact units, a cylindrical rack held between the contact units to be movable in an axial direction of the cylindrical rack, the cylindrical rack moving in the axial direction to rotate the rotation gears in opposite directions, and a motor for oscillating the contacts of the contact units by moving the cylindrical rack.

Automatic head care device and automatic head care method

An automatic head care device includes independently rotated first rotational driving shaft and second rotational driving shaft, a first link having one end fixed to the first rotational driving shaft, a second link having one end rotatably connected to another end of the first link, a third link having one end fixed to the second rotational driving shaft, a fourth link having one end rotatably connected to another end of the third link, a working shaft rotatably connecting another end of the second link to another end of the fourth link, a working body caring the person's head, the working body being rotatably supported by the working shaft, and a control unit controlling rotation of the first rotational driving shaft and the second rotational driving shaft.

Provided is an automatic hair washing apparatus for washing person's hair in a safe and effective manner without applying a straining force on person's neck. An automatic hair washing apparatuscomprises a bowlhaving a head support; washing unitsL andR arranged with the head supportinterposed therebetween, the support shafts thereof being attached to the bowl; a driving section for rotating the washing unitsL andR about the respective support shaftsL andR; and a control section for controlling the driving of the driving section; wherein each of the washing unitsL andR comprises a plurality of contactson a surface opposite to the surface supported by the support shaftL andR.

Automatic hair washing apparatus

Provided is an automatic head care system and an automatic hair washing system for caring a person's head in a safe and effective manner without applying a straining force on the person's neck. In order to achieve the object, the following steps are performed in turn: a head receiving step in which a pair of armsL,R are placed at positions for receiving a person's headon a suppotring body; a water washing step in which water ejected from a plurality of nozzlesis poured to the headwhile the pair of armsL,R are swung; a shampoo step in which washing liquid ejected from the plurality of nozzlesis poured to the headwhile the pair of armsL,R are swung; and a head care step in which the headis cared by performing the push-rotating of the pair of armsL,R in the direction of approaching the headso as to bring the plurality of contactsinto contact with the headand by swinging the pair of armsL,R while moving the plurality of contacts

Method for controlling automatic head care system and automatic hair washing system, and automatic head care system

A syringe drive deviceincludes a fixing sectionfixing an outer tube, a movable holderholding a plunger, and a drive sectiondriving the holderalong an axis of the plunger to push and pull the plunger with respect to the outer tube. An internal pressure detectorhas a positive pressure detection switchdetecting an internal pressure of a syringe. A determination sectiondetermines the issuance of an alert when the holderis stopped and the positive pressure detection switchis ON. A display sectionis lit to indicate the alert when the determination sectiondetermines to issue the alert.

Syringe drive device and syringe drive method

A medicinal solution injection apparatusincludes a composite needleincluding a needle base portion, an injection needle, and an adjustment needle, a pressure generating portionconfigured to discharge a compressed air, a measuring portionconfigured to measure a filling amount and a filling speed of a medicinal solution by measuring a position of a gasketof a syringe, and a control portionconfigured to control the pressure generating portionand the measuring portion. The compressed air is introduced into a vial containerthrough an edgeof the adjustment needlelocated above a liquid surfaceof the medicinal solution in the vial container(outside the liquid surface) to press the liquid surfaceof the medicinal solution downward, so that a medicinal solutionis injected into the syringethrough an edgeof the injection needlein the medicinal solution. The medicinal solution injection apparatuscan accurately and efficiently inject the medicinal solutionof the vial containerinto the syringewhile suppressing the medicinal solutionfrom foaming.

Medicinal solution injection device and medicinal solution injection method

A receiving unitreceives, from broadcast stations (), EPG information related to all the programs to be broadcast on a plurality of channels. A program recommendation unit () extracts, from the programs indicated in the EPG information, a recommended program, which is estimated to meet the user's preferences, in accordance with history of program recording or program viewing by the user. A subscription suggestion unit () counts the broadcast frequency for each of the channels of recommended programs and for each day, and then compares the counting result with a threshold value, thereby suggesting to the user, via a display unit (), that he or she makes or cancels any one of subscriptions to the channels in accordance with the broadcast frequency of recommended programs.

Channel contract proposing apparatus, method, program and integrated circuit

An object of the present invention is to care for the occipital region supported with an occipital region supporter, without leaving an uncared-for part thereof, at time of automatic care of the person's head. In order to achieve the object, an automatic head washing apparatusaccording to the present invention, is an automatic head care apparatus that cares for a person's head automatically, which has a first end effectorand a second end effector, and which is controlled by a plurality of modes including: a first mode for rubbing a second regionof the occipital regionby moving the second end effectorin a state in which the first end effectorcontacts a first regionof the occipital regionof the person with the first end effectorbeing fixed at a first position; and a second mode for rubbing a first regionof the occipital regionby moving the first end effectorin a state in which the second end effectorcontacts a second regionof the occipital regionwith the second end effectorbeing fixed at a second position.

Automatic head care apparatus and automatic head care method

An automatic head care apparatus comprises a bowl having a head support for supporting a person's head; a washing unit configured by fourth arms comprising a plurality of contacts at an end thereof and a rotation gear having a central axis thereof for rotating the contacts, third arms for rotatably supporting the fourth arms, a support shaft for rotatably supporting the third arms, a pushing mechanism for moving the support shaft, and a motor for oscillating the contacts by rotating the rotation gear of the fourth arms; and a control device for controlling movement of at least the pushing mechanism.

Automatic head care apparatus and automatic head washing apparatus

A syringe drive deviceaccording to the present invention includes: an outer tube fixing portionthat detachably fixes an outer tubeof a syringe; a plunger holderthat holds a plungerof the syringe; and a drive portion that moves the plunger holderalong an axis of the syringe. The outer tube fixing portionincludes: a flange catcherfacing a rear end of a flangeof the outer tube, the rear end being located far from the plungerto be pushed; slide portionsandthat are located in front of a front end of the flangeto hold the flangebetween the flange catcherand the slide portions, the front end being located close to the plungerto be pushed; slide guidesandthat support the slide portionsandso as to be slidable along the axis of the syringe; and a slide portion operation mechanism that is switchable between a first state where the slide portionsandslide along the axis of the syringe, and a second state where the slide portionsandare held at positions to hold the flangebetween the flange catcherand the slide portions.

Syringe drive device

A syringe drive deviceincludes a cylinder holding sectionconfigured to detachably hold a cylindera piston manipulating sectiondetachably coupled with a piston, and a piston drive sectionincluding racksA andB coupled with the piston manipulating sectionand configured to move the piston manipulating sectionso that a pistonis moved in a push-in direction or a pull-out direction. A cylinderA having a given capacity (for example, 50 cc) is directly loaded in the syringe drive devicewith no adapter therebetween. A syringeC having a different capacity (for example, 20 cc) is loaded in the syringe drive deviceby means of a cylinder adapterand a piston adapter

A syringe drive device drives a syringe including a cylindrical cylinder and a piston. The cylinder includes a solution supply port at one end, and an opening at the other end. The piston is inserted into the cylinder through the opening. The syringe drive device includes a cylinder holder to rotatably hold the cylinder of the syringe, and a piston driver to drive the piston in its axial direction with respect to the cylinder held in the cylinder holder.

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Osaka, Japan

Soichiro Fujioka