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20100030364 | Automatic Thin-Section Slides Manufacturing System and Automated Thin-Section Slides Manufacturing Method - An automatic thin-section slides manufacturing system which reduces the burden of operators and automatically manufactures required number of thin section slide samples from plural embedded blocks while completely relating the manufactured thin section slide samples to the original embedded blocks to enable quality control at high precision, which comprises: a first transportation unit which is capable of transporting an arbitrarily selected embedded cassette from the plural embedded cassettes to the cutting position; a cutting unit which, after the embedded cassette is transported to the cutting position, cuts the embedded block to provide sheet-like thin sections at a predetermined thickness; a readout unit which reads out the individual data when the embedded cassette is transported to the cutting position; a flattening unit for flattening the thin section, which comprises a storage tank containing a liquid stored therein; a second transportation unit which transports the thin sections cut out by the cutting unit to the storage tank and sets them a float on the liquid surface; a transfer unit which prepares the thin section slide samples by transferring the thin section flattened in the flattening unit onto a substrate; a control unit which comprises a memory part for memorizing the individual data read out by the readout unit; and a recording unit which records the memorized individual data on the substrate upon receiving a command from the control unit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100229702 | Automatic Prepared Slide Fabricating Apparatus and Automatic Prepared Slide Fabricating Method - To enable to alleviate a burden on an operator and fabricate automatically an optimum and high quality prepared slide in accordance with a kind of an embedding block, there is provided an automatic prepared slide fabricating apparatus including first carrying means capable of carrying an embedding cassette to a cut position, cutting means for cutting out a section in a sheet-like shape by cutting an embedding block by a predetermined thickness after having been carried to the cut position, elongating means for elongating the section, second carrying means for carrying the cut section to the elongating means, transcribing means for transcribing the elongated section onto a board to fabricate a prepared slide, and controlling means for respectively controlling the respective means and having a condition table previously inputted with a fabricating condition in fabricating the prepared slide, in which the controlling means controls the respective means such that the embedding cassette carried by the first carrying means is checked with the fabricating condition inputted to the condition table, thereafter, fabricated by the condition in accordance with the embedding cassette. | 09-16-2010 |
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20100225427 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A electromagnetic relay in which bad electrical contact and failure of operation are prevented even when shavings are produced while an iron core is press-fitted into and mounted on a base. The electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnetic block supported by press-fitting both ends of an iron core of the electromagnetic block into an upper surface of a base and open or close a contact by a movable iron piece rotated by magnetization or demagnetization of the iron core with a coil, where shaving receptacles are made by forming separating ribs adjacent to at least one side of press-fit projections that are formed in press-fit concave portions provided on the upper surface of the base. | 09-09-2010 |
20100225428 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay having a high positioning accuracy of a movable iron piece and little variation in operating characteristics. A pair of upper and lower rotating shaft convex portions are provided at one end of a movable iron piece along the same shaft center. The pair of upper and lower rotating shaft convex portions are rotatably supported by a base and a spool of an electromagnetic block mounted on the base respectively. A movable contact piece is driven by the movable iron piece rotated by magnetization or demagnetization of the electromagnetic block to open or close a contact. One end of the spool has a shaft hole in which the upper rotating shaft convex portion of the movable iron piece is inserted. | 09-09-2010 |
20130293324 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnetic part, a movable iron piece, a contact driving part, a contact which is opened and closed by driving the contact driving part with a card disposed between the movable iron piece and the contact driving part. Particularly, the card is disposed between the insulating wall and the contact driving part, a driving projection projected onto an inward surface side opposed to the insulating wall of the card is inserted in and projected from a manipulation hole made in the insulating wall, and the driving projection of the card is pressed by the movable iron piece that is operated based on excitation and demagnetization of the electromagnetic part. | 11-07-2013 |
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20100209964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SAMPLE - A method for analyzing a sample includes the step of irradiating a reaction portion of a sample BL and a reagent | 08-19-2010 |
20110136222 | ACTUATORS FOR CULTURING AND HARVESTING CELLS - Actuator units, arrangements of actuator units and methods for manufacturing and using actuator units are provided. The actuator includes a core having a shell at least partially surrounding the core. The core is able to be stimulated to expand through at least one opening of the shell to provide a lifting action. This lifting action can be applied to harvest target cells. | 06-09-2011 |
20130019698 | SAMPLE ANALYZER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SAMPLE ANALYZER - A sample analyzer which transports and analyzes samples, includes: a first measurement apparatus which measures samples; a second measurement apparatus which is arranged downstream, in a transport direction, from the first measurement apparatus, and which measures samples; a transporting apparatus which transports samples to a first supply position for supplying a sample to the first measurement apparatus, and to a second supply position for supplying a sample to the second measurement apparatus; and a controller which controls transportation of a sample present at the first supply position, in accordance with a processing status of a sample present at the second supply position. | 01-24-2013 |
20130111978 | SAMPLE ANALYZER AND METHOD OF ANALYZING A SAMPLE - A sample analyzer includes a first measurement unit, a second measurement unit, a detection section which detects information about an amount of a sample in a sample container before the first measurement unit aspirates the sample in the sample container, and a control section. Based on a detection result by the detection section and based on information about a predetermined sample amount necessary for performing both in the first measurement unit and the second measurement unit, when the control section has determined that the amount of the sample in the sample container is insufficient for the predetermined sample amount, the control section controls the first measurement unit and the second measurement unit so as not to aspirate the sample in the sample container. | 05-09-2013 |
20160033593 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS - A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence controlling circuitry and image generating circuitry. The sequence controlling circuitry acquires magnetic resonance signals in an imaging region. The image generating circuitry generates an image. The sequence controlling circuitry sets timings of RF pulses such that a first time and a second time are different. Here, the first time is a time since an irradiation of a first RF pulse without selection of region until a start of acquisition. The second time is a time since an irradiation of a second RF pulse with selection of the labeling region until the start of acquisition. The second time is also a time for a liquid present in the labeling region to reach a desired position in the imaging region. The first time is also a time for longitudinal magnetization components of a background tissue to become substantially zero. | 02-04-2016 |
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20080202308 | AUTOMATIC THIN-SECTION MANUFACTURING SYSTEM - An automatic thin-section manufacturing system for manufacturing thin sections by thinly cutting out an embedded block having embedded therein a biological sample while setting said embedded block at a predetermined rake angle, and said system comprising: a long cutting blade having a cutting edge on one end; a holder disposed in such a manner that it makes the rake angle with respect to the surface of the embedded block; a mounting plane which is provided to the front end of the holder, on which plural cutting blades are mounted and aligned with their cutting edges exposed to the outer side; an adsorptive member provided along the mounting plane, which maintains the posture of the cutting blades by adsorbing the base end side of the cutting blades mounted on the mounting plane; a first pressing member provided to the holder, which presses, among the plural cutting blades that are mounted and aligned on the mounting plane, the cutting blade allocated to the predetermined position against the mounting plane; a conveyor unit which slides out the cutting blades that are linearly aligned on the mounting plane, by sequentially conveying the plural cutting blades to feed them one by one on the mounting plane; a transportation unit which moves the embedded block relative to the holder, such that the cutting blade pressed by the first pressing member cuts out the thin section from the embedded block; and a control unit which, after performing thin sectioning for a predetermined time, exchanging the cutting blade used for the thin sectioning by operating the conveyor unit to slide out the cutting blades. | 08-28-2008 |
20090133556 | THIN SECTION PREPARING APPARATUS AND THIN SECTION PREPARING METHOD - A thin section preparing apparatus is provided, which prepares a thin section from an embedded block having a biological sample embedded and carries it, including: a cutter that slices the block at a pull angle; an approaching and separating mechanism that relatively moves the block and the cutter along an approaching and separating direction; a carrying mechanism having a carrying body arranged as one end side is near a nose, and a moving unit that moves the body along a transport direction; a sliding mechanism that relatively moves the block and the body along a nose direction; and a control unit that controls a combined velocity vector that combines a transport velocity vector of the body along the transport direction with a travel velocity vector of the body along the nose direction to be nearly equal to a block velocity vector of the embedded block along the approaching and separating direction. | 05-28-2009 |
20090133561 | THIN SECTION PREPARING APPARATUS AND THIN SECTION PREPARING METHOD - An apparatus that slices an embedded block having a biological sample embedded therein to prepare a thin section, includes: a cutter that slices the embedded block; a moving mechanism that relatively moves the block and the cutter along an approaching and separating direction in which they approach and separate from each other; a height adjusting mechanism that relatively moves them along a vertical direction; a sliding mechanism that relatively moves them along a sliding direction nearly orthogonal to the approaching and separating direction; and a control unit that controls them to begin to move at initial positions set in advance, the block to be brought into contact at the same point of a nose of the cutter, and the cutter to be slid in the same direction as a ratio between a velocity in the approaching and separating direction and a velocity in the sliding direction is kept the same. | 05-28-2009 |
20090137028 | EMBEDDED BLOCK HUMIDIFIER, AUTOMATIC THIN SLICE MANUFACTURING DEVICE, AND AUTOMATIC THIN SLICE SPECIMEN MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - An embedded block is capable of being humidified in a short time without influencing a surface temperature of the embedded block as much as possible. An embedded block humidifier for humidifying an embedded block having a biological specimen embedded in an embedding agent is provided which includes a vapor generating mechanism for generating vapor heated at a predetermined temperature and a guiding mechanism for guiding the vapor to the embedded block so that the generated vapor contacts with a surface of the embedded block set at a predetermined standby position. | 05-28-2009 |
20100050888 | EMBEDDING CASSETTE PRINTING APPARATUS - The invention is intended to achieve high-precision quality control by alleviating a burden of personnel by improving the operation efficiency and preventing erroneous storage of embedding cassettes in a container. A control unit controls a cassette carrying unit so as to take out a cassette of a predetermined kind from a cassette storage in a predetermined order and carry the same to a cassette printing unit, and carry a cassette on which data is printed to a base container set in a container holding unit. | 03-04-2010 |
20110150723 | EMBEDDING CASSETTE - An embedding cassette that is used as a container for performing a paraffin replacement treatment of a biological specimen and also used as a loading table of an embedding block in which the biological specimen subjected to the paraffin replacement treatment is embedded in an embedding material, the embedding cassette includes: a cassette body that is formed from a polyester resin and has an accommodation concave portion that accommodates the biological specimen and a flat printing surface; a thin-film layer that is formed on the printing surface from a resin having chemical resistance with respect to formic acid, formalin, ethanol, and xylene, that has a color different at least in lightness from a color of the cassette body; and an identification code that is displayed in the thin-film layer by cutting by irradiation with a laser beam. | 06-23-2011 |
20120011975 | THIN SECTION PREPARING METHOD - An apparatus that slices an embedded block having a biological sample embedded therein to prepare a thin section, includes: a cutter that slices the embedded block; a moving mechanism that relatively moves the block and the cutter along an approaching and separating direction in which they approach and separate from each other; a height adjusting mechanism that relatively moves them along a vertical direction; a sliding mechanism that relatively moves them along a sliding direction nearly orthogonal to the approaching and separating direction; and a control unit that controls them to begin to move at initial positions set in advance, the block to be brought into contact at the same point of a nose of the cutter, and the cutter to be slid in the same direction as a ratio between a velocity in the approaching and separating direction and a velocity in the sliding direction is kept the same. | 01-19-2012 |
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20110177584 | ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSOR AND DETECTION METHOD USING ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSOR - An acoustic wave sensor having significantly increased sensitivity and excellent sensing reproducibility and stability includes a piezoelectric substrate, an acoustic wave element including an electrode disposed on the piezoelectric substrate, and a reactive membrane which overlies the acoustic wave element and which is reduced in mass by direct or indirect chemical reaction with a measured substance. The measured substance is detected such that a change in mass applied to the acoustic wave element from the reactive membrane is detected by a change in frequency. | 07-21-2011 |
20140036417 | SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR - A solid electrolytic capacitor having grooves provided in a valve-acting metal substrate that includes a porous surface part and a non-porous body part, the bottoms of the grooves being non-porous. The valve-acting metal substrate is divided into a plurality of unit regions by the grooves, and define cathode layer formation parts in the porous surface parts for each unit region. A dielectric layer covers the surfaces of the cathode layer formation parts of the valve-acting metal substrate and the grooves between the cathode layer formation parts. A solid electrolyte layer and a cathode extraction layer cover the surface of the dielectric layer, thereby providing a sheet in which a plurality of solid electrolytic capacitor elements are prepared integrally with the grooves interposed therebetween. The sheet is cut at the grooves, and a dielectric layer is formed on the cut surfaces located around the cathode layer formation parts. | 02-06-2014 |
20140285951 | SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes: a laminated body having a plurality of capacitor elements stacked to have principal surfaces thereof overlapped with each other. The capacitor elements each include a valve-action metallic substrate having two principal surfaces opposed to each other, a dielectric oxide film covering a surface of the valve-action metallic substrate, and a cathode layer covering a surface of the dielectric oxide film. The laminated body has two principal surfaces and more than one side surface, and has at least one of the side surfaces with the valve-action metallic substrates exposed. An anode terminal is electrically connected to the side surface of the laminated body having the valve-action metallic substrates exposed therefrom, and the cathode layers and the anode terminal are insulated with insulators interposed therebetween, the insulators being obtained from the cathode layers. | 09-25-2014 |
20160071654 | SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a positive external electrode electrically connected to a core part of a valve-acting metal base included in a capacitor element, a first conductive layer in direct contact with the core part of the valve-acting metal base and covering one end surface of the valve-acting metal base and at least a part of an exterior located around the end surface. | 03-10-2016 |
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20110217207 | ANALYSIS TOOL, IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, AND ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A technique is provided, which makes it possible to easily judge whether or not an analysis tool to be used for an analysis process for a sample is authentic and which makes it possible to secure the reliability of an analysis result thereby. An identification apparatus for identifying an analysis tool having a reagent portion to be used for an analysis process for a sample is provided, wherein the analysis tool further includes an identifying marker portion which is formed by using an invisible substance, the identification apparatus comprising a light emitter which emits a light toward the identifying marker portion, a light receiver which receives a light emitted by the invisible substance for forming the identifying marker portion exposed with the emitted light emitted by the light emitter, and an identification unit which identifies the analysis tool on the basis of a light-receiving result obtained by the light receiver. | 09-08-2011 |
20130091792 | AIR EXCHANGING THERMALLY RESPONSIVE WALL PANELS AND METHODS - Thermally responsive walls can be formed of wall panels made from different materials and having staggered conduits with respect to each other when coupled together (e.g., pancaked or layered) to form a wall at one temperature. The staggered conduits in the different wall panels are configured such that they become aligned at a second temperature due to differences in expansion coefficients. The wall panels can be designed using a computing system that processes an algorithm that accounts for various parameters, such as the different thermal expansion coefficients. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095572 | ANALYSIS DEVICE, ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS METHOD - An analysis device of performing predetermined analysis processing to a sample. The analysis device includes: a first analysis unit, a second analysis unit and a simple analysis unit to perform at first analysis process to the sample, a second analysis process to the sample and a short-time analysis process to the sample, by which an analysis result is given in a shorter time than by the first analysis process, respectively; and a judging unit to judge, before a result of the first analysis process is given, whether or not to perform the second analysis process on a basis of a result of the first analysis process. | 04-18-2013 |
20150019473 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A diagnosis support system obtains input information corresponding to a case, identifies a diagnosis corresponding to the case based on the input information, obtains the inference probability of the diagnosis, and displays supporting information corresponding to the inference probability of the identified diagnosis on a display unit. | 01-15-2015 |
20150023579 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A diagnosis support apparatus obtains a plurality of images as interpretation targets, selects one item of a plurality of image finding items, sequentially assigns evaluations for the selected image finding item to the plurality of images in accordance with an operation input by a user, and displays an image for which an evaluation is assigned, in accordance with the operation input, in a display area, of a plurality of display areas corresponding to evaluations configured to be assigned for the selected image finding item, which corresponds to the evaluation assigned for the image. | 01-22-2015 |