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A micro bead having a digitally coded structure that is partially transmissive and opaque to light. The pattern of transmitted light is determined by to decode the bead. The coded bead may be structured a series of alternating light transmissive and opaque sections, with relative positions, widths and spacing resembling a 1D or 2D bar code image. To decode the image, the alternating transmissive and opaque sections of the body are scanned in analogous fashion to bar code scanning. The coded bead may be coated or immobilized with a capture or probe to effect a desired bioassay. The coded bead may include a paramagnetic material. A bioanalysis system conducts high throughput bioanalysis using the coded bead, including a reaction detection zone and a decoding zone. Alternative method for barcode determination is based on barcode pattern image processes. Microbeads can also be settled down to the bottom of the well in a microplate, so the barcode can be decoded by image processed directly. Therefore, multiple-analyte tests can be performed in one single well. Microplate is a standard format; each plate can have 96, 384, or 1536 patient samples. The bead image is taken with a conventional microscope and optical detector from the bottom of an optically clear microplate, and barcode pattern can be decoded by image software. Therefore, the whole bead experiment can be performed in the microplate without taking the beads out.

A fuel cell (2) includes: a membrane electrode assembly (6) having an electrolyte membrane (3), an anode (5) disposed on one side of the electrolyte membrane, and a cathode (4) disposed on the other side thereof; a porous passage (8) that is disposed on at least one side of the membrane electrode assembly (6), and through which a fuel gas is supplied to the anode (5) or an oxidant gas is supplied to the cathode (4); and a manifold portion (20a), through which the fuel gas or the oxidant gas is supplied to the porous passage (8), and that is provided so as to pass through the fuel cell (2) in a stacking direction, in which the electrolyte membrane (3), the anode (5), the cathode (4), and the porous passage (8) are stacked, wherein a manifold portion-side end portion of the porous passage (8) has a gas inlet at at least one of stacking surfaces of the porous passage (8) that face in the stacking direction.

A data traffic control method and system is provided for controlling data transmission amount efficiently in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. The traffic control method of the present invention includes monitoring to detect overload of traffic by checking radio resource usage periodically; checking, when traffic overload is detected, a non-controlled packet ratio; and determining whether to control the traffic depending on the non-controlled packet ratio.

An outer shell structure surrounds a heat exchange unit formed of plates, which has first to third pairs of opposite planes. The structure has opposite end walls, opposite first walls and opposite second walls, and gap closure members. The end walls are placed on the pair of first opposite planes of the heat exchange unit. The first walls having openings are placed outside apart from the pair of second opposite planes of the heat exchange unit and connected water-tightly to edges of the end walls. The second walls having openings are placed outside apart from the pair of third opposite planes of the heat exchange unit and connected water-tightly to edges of the end walls. The gap closure members close a gap between the first walls and the heat exchange unit and a gap between the second walls and the heat exchange unit.

In a working vehicle, an exhaust gas aftertreatment device is provided in an engine compartment that is adjacent to a cooling fan through which cooling air is supplied to a heat exchanger. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device includes a selective catalytic reduction device in which ammonia obtained from a urea aqueous solution is used as a reduction-causing agent. A urea aqueous solution pipe through which the urea aqueous solution is supplied is laid to the selective catalytic reduction device through the engine compartment. In the engine compartment, a pipeline-forming member having pipelines in which the urea aqueous solution pipe is installed. The cooling air sucked by a cooling fan flows into the pipelines.

An electromagnetic flow meter is disclosed which can be used to measure flow in low conductivity fluids, for example alcohol, turpentine, oil or other organic solvents. In one embodiment, the electromagnetic flow meter includes an elongate flow conduit having a direction of elongation corresponding to a direction of fluid flow, magnetic field generating means for generating a magnetic field across the flow conduit and potential sensing electrodes for sensing a potential generated by the magnetic field in a fluid flowing through the conduit. Both the field generating means and the potential sensing electrodes of the flow meter are elongate in the direction of flow.

A mouthpiece 15 is configured to be provided with a plurality of air nozzles 22 which are positioned around an admission port, and from which the air to enclose the surroundings of medicine powder flow discharged from the admission port 20 is blown off. Accordingly, when the breath is inhaled while an outer body 21 of the mouthpiece 15 is being held in the mouth, the air to be blown off from the air nozzles 22 forms an air curtain 24 to enclose the surroundings of the medicine powder flow 23 discharged from the admission port 20. Thereby, medicine powder included in the medicine powder flow 23 is prevented, by the air curtain 24, from adhering to the surface of the tongue, the internal surface of the oral cavity and the like. Thus, the medicine powder can be inhaled comfortably while unnecessary taste of the medicine powder such as sweetness, saltiness, sourness, bitterness and the like, is not being sensed.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes, a plurality of liquid ejecting sections ejecting liquid, and a liquid supplying flow path. In the device, an upstream side of the liquid supplying flow path is coupled to the liquid supplying source while a downstream side of the liquid supplying flow path branches into a plurality of flow paths at a branch point and each of the plurality of flow paths is coupled to one of the liquid ejecting sections. In the liquid supplying flow path, an average flow path resistance value of a flow path upstream of the branch point serving as a reference is smaller than an average flow path resistance value of a flow path having the smallest average flow path resistance value among average flow path resistance values of flow paths downstream of the branch point serving as the reference.

The present invention provides improved anesthesia delivery systems that consistently and reliably deliver anesthesia gas to multiple gas outlets. The systems are particularly useful for anesthetizing multiple mammals and living specimens to be imaged by a low-light level imaging system. The anesthesia delivery systems are suitable for use with conventional oxygen sources, and convert the high pressures associated with a conventional oxygen source to lower pressures suitable for use with small mammals and suitable for combination with an anesthesia gas at low flow rates. The systems include an anesthesia gas source that combines anesthesia gas with the oxygen. The combination of anesthesia gas and oxygen is supplied to one or more multiple outlets.

An oil pan (6) is mounted to a lower surface of a cylinder block (1) in order to reserve an oil. An oil pump housing (7) is cast integrally with the inner side of the right side surface (6a) of the oil pan (6). A rib (14) is formed in order to connect the right side surface (6a) and a left side surface (6b) of the oil pan (6).

In a method of monitoring pollution of an air filter (Filt1) in a device in which an air flow (A) generated by a fan (F) engaged by a motor (M) passes the air filter (Filt1), the pollution is determined using data representative of a pressure difference (D2) over the fan (F), a pressure difference (D1) over the air filter, and a motor current (I) to the motor (M). The method comprises the steps of: estimating a flow through the air filter from data representative of the pressure difference (D2) over the fan (F), and the motor current (I) to the motor (M), estimating a filter resistance of the air filter from data representative of the flow through the air filter, and the pressure difference (D1) over the air filter, and estimating the pollution of the air filter from data representative of the filter resistance of the air filter.

A radiation image capturing apparatus includes a cooling mechanism for causing cooling medium to flow from a rear surface side to a radiation detector to a front surface side of radiation detector through a narrow space formed between an end of the radiation detector and a casing for housing the radiation detector. It is therefore possible to cool the narrow space, as well as regions in the vicinity of the narrow space, with the cooling medium and to discharge the cooling medium from the front surface side of the radiation detector.

A circuit board is provided that includes an outermost conductor layer including a plurality of terminals for flip-chip bonding and an outermost resin insulating layer defining a first opening and a second opening in an electronic-component mounting region. One of a power supply terminal and a ground terminal is exposed in the first opening. A plurality of signal terminals are exposed in the second opening. The resin insulating layer includes a reinforcing portion that defines an inner bottom surface of the second opening. A height of a portion of the terminal exposed in the first opening, the portion projecting from an inner bottom surface of the first opening, is greater than a height of portions of the terminals exposed in the second opening, the portions projecting from the inner bottom surface of the second opening.

A device for dispensing liquid including a liquid reservoir which can be deformed so as to dispense liquid by pressing on the reservoir,a liquid-dispensing end piece fitted on the reservoir, a channel for the passage of liquid, a channel for the passage of air from the outside to the inside of the reservoir, the channel for the passage of air being closed off by a member made of an air-permeable polymeric material, this material being non-porous, the member being called the air-permeable member.

The problem to be solved is to provide a tensioner lever that inhibits friction-induced wear or seizure on a surface of a pivoting support boss contacting a shoulder bolt so that high durability is achieved, and that is easily producible and enables cost reduction. As a solution to the problem noted above, the tensioner lever includes a shoe having a traveling surface, a lever body, and a pivotal support boss provided at a proximal end of the lever body to allow a distal end thereof to swing. The shoe and the lever body are integrally formed and assembled together by double injection molding. The lever body includes a slide bearing member, and a connecting part that connects the slide bearing member and the shoe. The slide bearing member, the connecting part, and the shoe are made of the same synthetic resin, and configured as a continuous one-piece component.