Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Hitachi-High-Technologies Corporation

Nikkan Industries Co., Ltd.

Kyushu Refractories Co., Ltd.

Oki Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Ikebukuro Horo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Kawasaki Mining Co. Ltd.

Kawatetsu Minig Co., Ltd.

Tadao Shimizu

Shigeru Yano

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Akira Nagumo

Jiro Tanuma

Hidefumi Konnai

Iwao Suzuki

Koji Kamoshida

Yoshio Aso

Yasuo Nishikawa

Noriyuki Shimizu

Shoji Harada

Hiroaki Yanagida

Hirokuni Takano

Shinichi Katakura

Yukio Ota

Takao Uchida

Hiroshi Ohga

Shyoichi Watanabe

Yoshihiro Iizawa

Masami Miyamoto

Toshiro Suemune

Toshikazu Itoh

Masayosi Hori

Tetsuro Yoshida

Osamu Izaki

Noriyuki Simizu

Shouji Harada

Toshiyuki Kasajima

A sample pretreatment system is equipped with a pipetting device for pipetting multiple primary samples to make multiple aliquot samples. The sample volume expected to be held in a test tube is set as a minimum guaranteed volume for each type of test tube; and a minimum guaranteed volume value is set for each type of the test tubes. A cumulative totaling unit adds up cumulatively the aliquot volumes of the aliquot samples based on pipetting request information with regard to the supplied test tubes. A reading unit reads the minimum guaranteed volume of the supplied test tube; and an aliquot sample preparation unit compares the minimum guaranteed volume successively with the cumulative total values of the aliquot volumes of the aliquot samples, and causes a pipetting device to pipette a maximum number of the aliquot samples in a manner not exceeding the minimum guaranteed volume.

System for pretreating sample

A host system recognizes a sample pretreatment system at which a primary sample has first arrived and records the information, if multiple containers containing the primary sample are input. Upon issuing an analysis request to the sample pretreatment system, the host system determines whether the primary sample (sample bearing the same barcode for sample identification) is input to a system different from the system to which the sample was input for the first time and, if that is the case, then determines that 'the sample is input to the wrong system' and issues a 'do-nothing request' (request to do nothing) so that an aliquoting operation will not be performed. Given the &#x201c;do-nothing request&#x201d; from the host system, the sample pretreatment system does not prepare any aliquot sample and places the input sample onto a tray in a predetermined position.

Sample pretreatment system that supports multisystem configuration

The sample transport system includes a management section which holds information on the status of a sample transport system as a whole as well as sample information in order to transport and control a plurality of carriers as a consecutive group and which generates group information on a group of carriers to be handled simultaneously based on sample attributes and request information; and units made up of a conveyer line, a connecting line, and a processing section to control received carriers at a converging point based on the group information, so as to permit group management control of the carriers. In this manner, the sample transport system processes as a single batch a plurality of samples collected for the same processing purpose.

Sample transport system and method for controlling the same

Whiskers having a diameter of 0.1-10 .mu.m and a length of 5-200 .mu.m are pelletized and granulated into agglomerates which have a size of 0.1-10 mm and a bulk density of 0.2-1.0 kg/liter. To pelletize, powders of whiskers are moistened with water while mixing to form primary aggregates. Then, the powders and the primary aggregates are subjected to a rolling movement to cause the primary aggregates to grow into secondary aggregates having desired size distribution. Finally, the secondary aggregates are dried to obtain pelletized or granulated agglomerates of whiskers. Handling of whiskers is facilitated because the agglomerates are less bulky and less likely to fly up in the air. When blended into molding materials for fiber reinforcement, however, the agglomerates are readily disintegrated back into separated individual fibers to provide homogeneous dispersion.

Method of making agglomerate of whiskers or short fibers

Method of compressing and expanding dot-matrix character

Agglomerate of whiskers or short fibers

A method of automatically inserting a printing paper in a hopper of an automatic paper feeder or a manual insertion printing paper inserted from a manual paper input slot. Upon receiving an instruction to insert a printing paper by a printer, a platen is first rotated. Thereupon, provided the presence of the printing paper is detected by a sensor even with the platen being rotated by a prescribed amount, a paper feed motor of the automatic paper feeder is rotated for obtaining a printing paper from the hopper. While, provided the presence of a printing paper is detected before the platen is rotated by the prescribed amount, the paper feed motor is not rotated, it being assumed that the manual insertion of a printing paper has been already performed. After detected the presence of the printing paper, the platen is rotated by a prescribed amount to cause the printing paper to be moved to a position where a first line of the printing paper faces the face of the printing head.

Method of automatically inserting printing paper in an automatic paper

The present invention provides an enamel frit composition which comprises a component selected from the group consisting of SiO.sub.2, B.sub.2 O.sub.3, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, CaO, MgO, Na.sub.2 O, K.sub.2 O, Li.sub.2 O, BaO, ZnO, TiO.sub.2 and ZrO.sub.2, and one or more lanthanoid elements of the atomic numbers of 58 to 60 and 62 to 71 and which enables direct coating without any ground coating.

Enamel frit composition for direct coating

A paper feeding control system of an automatic paper feeder has a setting device for enabling a position to head a printing medium to be reset. The setting device consists of a read/write enable nonvolatile memory for holding a reset value of the heading position of the printing medium. Upon taking in and setting the printing medium, an operating panel switch is operated to correct the heading position of the printing medium. In addition, the corrected value is again written in the memory, whereby the heading position of the printing medium can be corrected and altered.

Paper feeding control system of automatic paper feeder

A process for producing silver-coated potassium titanate fibers comprises admixing the potassium titanate fibers with a silver ion solution containing a reducing agent. The resulting silver-coated potassium titanate fibers can, if desired, be provided with one or more additional metal coatings superimposed on the silver coat wherein the additional metal is other than silver.

Metal coated potassium titanate fibers and method for manufacturing the

A printing system for a dot printer for printing matrix patterns in the form of aggregated dots which consist of orthogonal rows and columns, has a first memory having first and second memory areas for storing pattern data corresponding to the rows and columns of the dot matrix patterns. The data corresponding to successive columns of each one of the dot matrix patterns are stored in the first memory area and numerical data specifying a total number of times each respective successive column is to be repeated in the respective pattern are stored in the second memory area. A second memory temporarily stores the dot matrix patterns specified by the pattern data and a control means causes the dot matrix patterns to be generated in the second memory in accordance with the pattern data stored in the first memory. Thus, when two adjacent successive columns are identical, the first memory need only once store data corresponding thereto so as to thereby reduce the amount of memory area needed for storing a dot matrix pattern having repeated identical successive columns.

Memory device and printing system for dot printer

The present invention relates to a dot printer for printing letters or symbols by aggregated dots, which is characterized in that the second dot matrix pattern is generated from a basic dot matrix pattern by a simple algorithm so that gaps between dots in the basic dot matrix pattern are filled up, the basic dot matrix pattern and the second dot matrix pattern are synthetically edited, and high-grade printed letters are obtained by using the resulting edited dot matrix pattern.

Printing system in dot printer

There is provided a board for additive circuits which is formed with plural convexo-concave irregularities on the surface of an inorganic composite plate wherein a needle-like or fiber-like inorganic material is present as a mixture with an isotropic solid vitreous inorganic material while maintaining its needle-like or fiber-like form.

Board for additive circuits

There is prepared in inorganic composite containing a needle-like inorganic material or a fiber-like inorganic material which is present as a mixture in isotropic solid vitreous inorganic material while maintaining its needle-like or fiber-like structure. The inorganic composite is prepared by a process comprising the steps of

Inorganic composite and the preparation thereof

Fibrous compounds having a ratio of length to diameter of at least 10 of the formula MO.TiO.sub.2 wherein M is a bivalent metal and processes for preparing these compounds are described. Preferably M is selected from the group consisting of barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium, cobalt, lead, zinc, beryllium, and cadmium. The processes for preparing the compounds utilize fibrous potassium titanate hydrates or fibrous titanium dioxide hydrates both having a ratio of length to diameter of at least 10 as the starting material to prepare the compounds.

Processes for the preparation of fiberous titanic acid metal salts

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Tadao Shimizu