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A device for increasing the time an animal takes to consume food from a food dish. The food dish of the present invention includes protrusions in the interior portion of the food dish. The protrusions create obstacles that the animal has to work around in order to remove food from the dish and thereby increases the time taken to consume food from the dish.

A noninvasive system and method for measuring vacuum pressure in a fluid in accordance with the present invention generally includes a chamber with two interconnected diaphragms having different surface areas and a force transducer that makes contact with the smaller area diaphragm. When a pressure level less than atmospheric occurs inside the chamber, the smaller area diaphragm presses with a force on the force sensor. As the pressure level in the chamber decreases, the force on the sensor increases. The present system is intended for, but not limited to, use in a Phacoemulsification machine, where it will serve to measure the vacuum in a fluid without contaminating the fluid with previous uses of the system or with any components of the system which are unable to undergo a sterilization process.

A light-weight structure capable of sufficiently ensuring any of the width size, strength and rigidity of a rack tooth (10), and a production method thereof. A rack tooth (10) is formed by plastic working on one side surface in the radial direction of a part in the axial direction of a sectionally circular rod unit (9). The radius of curvature of the section shape of a portion deviated in the circumferential direction from a rack-tooth (10) forming portion is set to be larger than the radius of curvature of the section shape of an outer circumferential surface of the remaining part in the axial direction of the rod unit (9). For this purpose, as shown by (A)->(B), the part in the axial direction and the remaining part in the circumferential direction are formed into a partially cylindrical surface portion (17) having a radius of curvature larger than that of the outer circumferential surface of a material (13) while a portion in the axial direction of the material (13) and a portion in the circumferential direction are being crushed, thereby defining an intermediate material (20).Then, as shown by (C)->(D), the above rack tooth (10) is formed at a portion in the axial direction ofthe intermediate material (20) and a portion in the circumferential direction. Finally, as shown by (E)->(F), it is subjected to sizing to complete a rack (8).

A bioreactor for culturing microorganisms which has a reactor vessel, a plurality of gas-introduction tubes and a gas-introduction system for introducing gas into a culture medium in the gas-introduction tubes via injectors, wherein the gas-introduction tubes are connected by their respective lower end, in the vertical direction, to the reactor vessel and by their opposite upper end to the upper end of an upright vessel which is likewise connected by its lower end to the reactor vessel, and at the upper end of the upright vessel an expansion vessel is arranged.