Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Tatsuhiko Osaka

Hiroshi Terawaki

Toji Mukai

Koichi Yamasaki

Sadaaki Nakaoka

Yoichi Hamada

Tomoaki Ueda

Susumu Fujita

Harumi Tanaka

Hideo Katayama

Yoshiaki Yoshida

Takashige Kai

Yasuhiro Nagata, Deceased

Mitsunari Okamoto

Hitonaga Nakano

Kazuo Nishiguchi

A test apparatus for measuring concentration of test solution, in which a thin sheet having a plurality of through holes and diffusion-limiting membranes to cover corresponding through hole, is movably installed, and one or two openings for deposition and a concentration measuring section are disposed in a thin sheet moving direction.

Test apparatus for measuring concentration of test substance in liquid

A disk-shaped thin plate or a long-sized thin plate having a roll appearance housed in a casing in which openings for penetration of test substance are formed and on which diffusion-limiting membranes are adhered to cover each openings. Also a driving mechanism for moving the thin plate is provided with the casing. The casing thus houses the thin plate and is provided with the driving mechanism and is positioned in a test apparatus body having a concentration measuring electrode therein. Multiple measurments of concentration of a test substance are carried out by moving the thin plate by the driving mechanism to position the diffusion-limiting membrane having the test solution deposited thereon to the position available to contact with the concentration measuring electrode, while keeping the casing placed in the test apparatus body. As a result, a plurality of measurements of concentration of the test substance is carried out easily.

Apparatus for measuring concentration of test substance in liquid

An apparatus for mounting a diffusion-limiting membrane for a sensor in which a mounting member for mounting a diffusion-limiting membrane holding plate is movable toward and away from an enzyme electrode unit and in which, with the mounting member positioned away from the enzyme electrode unit, a diffusion-limiting membrane holding plate having a diffusion-limiting membrane mounted thereon is mounted on or removed from the mounting member, thus preventing the diffusion-limiting membrane from being slidingly rubbed with the surface of the enzyme electrode and in which, with the holding plate mounted on the mounting member, the mounting member ius moved toward the enzyme electrode unit, causing the diffusion-limiting membrane to be stuck to the surface of the enzyme electrode unit.

Apparatus for mounting a diffusion-limiting membrane for a sensor

A diffusion-limiting membrane holding means for a sensor comprising: a slender resilient thin plate, of which one shorter side serves as an engagement side, and of which one longer side is provided at its predetermined position with an engagement portion, an opening being formed in the thin plate between the engagement side and the engagement portion; and a diffusion-limiting membrane integrally attached to the thin plate as covering the opening; whereby the resliency of the thin plate causes the diffusion-limiting membrane to be stuck to the surface of an enzyme electrode unit of a sensor, thus enhancing the accuracy of concentration measurement of a target substance to be measured.

Diffusion-limiting membrane holding means for sensor

An enzyme electrode unit having, on the surfaces of the base electrodes thereof, an enzyme-immobilized membrane for oxidizing or reducing a target substance to be measured, and a diffusion-limiting membrane unit of a two-layer structure disposed on the surface of the enzyme-immobilized membrane, only the diffusion-limiting membrane having a lower target substance diffusion limiting effect being replaceable, thus maintaining substantially constant the general target substance diffusion limiting effect of the diffusion-limiting membrane unit, even after the replaceable diffusion-limiting membrane has been replaced.

Enzyme electrode unit

A polygon-filling apparatus discriminates whether the polygon marks off ony one continuous lot of each scanning line according to a number of maximal values and a number of minimal values in a direction perpendicular to a scanning line and which transforms polygons discriminated as marking off two or more continuous lots on each scanning line to obtain only polygons marking off one continuous lot of each scanning line. The apparatus detects other apexes from any apex of the obtained polygon corresponding to maximum and minimum coordinate values in a direction perpendicular to the scanning line and paints a predetermined region according to ridge data on the left and right sides of each scanning line. The ridge data are obtained by interpolation between data indicative of neighoring apexes chained from apexes having maximum and minimum values.

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Kurita, Japan

Tatsuhiko Osaka