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A slide rail device for a vehicle seat including a lower rail member fixed on a floor of the vehicle and an upper rail member slidably fitted in the lower rail member. Basically, a stopper and a notch are provided respectively at the forward and rearward ends of the upper rail member, while a striker is provided at the floor of the vehicle, erecting therefrom. When the upper rail member is located at a home position upon the lower rail member, the stopper is abutted against the forward end of the upper rail member and side of the floor, with the notch being engaged over the striker, whereby the upper rail member is prevented against separation from the lower rail member. Another striker and hook-like lock member may be provided in the case where the vehicle seat is of a jump-seat type having a seat belt anchor, so that not only the seat is locked to the upper rail member against forward jumping, but also an upwardly slant pulling force applied through the seat belt anchor is dispersed and escaped to the floor through the stopper, two strikers, the lock member and the notch. Further, a guide roller arrangement is provided at the upper rail member for supportive sliding in the lower member, which includes a guide piece at one of the guide rollers that will be exposed from the lower rail member when the upper rail member is slid away from the lower rail member, such that the exposed portion of the upper rail member can be withdrawn into the lower rail member, with guiding aid of the guide piece.

A probe-array substrate includes a plurality of probe holding units each having a projection that exhibits a hydrophilicity and a hydrophobic region disposed so as to surround each of the probe holding units. The probe-array substrate can further include an inspection region for use in checking whether mixture of probe solutions is present among the plurality of probe holding units. The inspection region is disposed between the neighboring probe holding units across the hydrophobic region.

This invention relates to a carbon structure manufacturing device, which forms carbon structures on a substrate. This manufacturing device comprises a first chamber, which forms a first space accommodating the substrate; a raw material gas supply device, which supplies raw material gas for formation of the carbon structures to the first space; a second chamber, which forms a second space separate from the first space; a gas supply device, which supplies gas for generation of plasma to the second space; a plasma generation device, which generates plasma in the second space; an aperture, connecting the first space and the second space; and, a plasma introduction device, which introduces plasma generated in the second space into the first space via the aperture; the raw material gas is used to form the carbon structures on the substrate. By means of this manufacturing device, when forming carbon structures on the substrate, the occurrence of contamination, foreign matter, and/or the like on electrodes and/or the like can be suppressed, and carbon structures can be formed satisfactorily over a broad area.

A blood analysis device for centrifugally separating plasma in a channel, wherein conveyance of blood, plasma and calibration liquid is effected within the device without using a pump or the like. The calibrator solution is reliably discharged from a sensor portion so as to make high precision analysis possible. A sensor section is provided in a plasma separating section and disposed on the side associated with a first centrifugal pressing direction as seen from a blood reservoir and a calibrator solution reservoir, while a calibrator solution waste reservoir is disposed in a second centrifugal pressing direction as seen from the plasma separating section (sensor section). The calibrator solution is conveyed to the sensor section by centrifugal operation in the first centrifugal direction. After sensor calibration, the calibrator solution can be reliably discharged from the sensor section by effecting centrifuging in the second centrifugal direction. After the calibrator solution discharge, centrifuging is effected again in the first centrifugal direction, thereby conveying the blood in the blood reservoir to the sensor section and effecting separation of blood cells and plasma. In the case of providing a plurality of sensors, a blood introducing channel from the blood reservoir is branched downwardly of a sensor groove for communication, with the blood cells being fractionated in the branch section. The individual sensors can be isolated from each other by blood cell fraction, making higher precision analysis possible.

Apparatus for sewage purifying treatment having a suction nozzle member for supplying pressurized water, an intermediate nozzle member and an injection nozzle member, each having a water passage therein, each nozzle being connected to each other. An air introducing nozzle is formed between nozzle members. An outer casing is arranged in such a fashion that an air introducing chamber is formed at the outer circumference of the intermediate nozzle member, the air introducing chamber and the air introducing nozzle communicating with each other. A pressurized water supply pipe is connected to an end of the suction nozzle member and an air supply pipe is connected to the outer casing for supplying the air to the outer casing. A groove for micronizing coarse bubbles are formed at the downstream position of the air introducing nozzles.

A vegetable room for a refrigerator includes: a vegetable box (20) disposed inside a refrigerator in which a cooling air supply unit is provided to circulate cooling air therein and a plurality of shelves (10) are provided, and having a receptacle space (5) for receiving food items therein opened upwardly; a box cover (30) for covering an opening side of the vegetable box (20) to close the receptacle space (5) of the vegetable box (20) and having a plurality of cooling air ventilating holes (31, 41) formed at one side thereof to introduce cooling air into the vegetable box (20); a cover support unit (22) interposed between the box cover (30) and the shelf (10) to support the box cover at the shelf; a plurality of opening and closing members (33, 43) for opening and closing the cooling air ventilating holes (31, 41) of the box cover (30); and an operating unit (24) for operating the opening and closing members (33, 43) simultaneously.

Disclosed herein is a scroll compressor, and more particularly, a fixed scroll of the scroll compressor which can allow part of gaseous refrigerant to be smoothly introduced into a compression chamber while preventing introduction of the remaining gaseous refrigerant that is heated in the compressor. The fixed scroll includes a scroll body having an involuted wrap to define a compression chamber therein and provided, around a lower end thereof, with a mounting flange to be arranged on an upper surface of a main frame, and an interceptive suction portion configured to guide part of the gaseous refrigerant, that is directed upward along the main frame, into the compression chamber while preventing introduction of the remaining gaseous refrigerant that is circulated around the scroll body.

In a fuel cell vehicle of the present invention, a floor panel is constructed to have a center tunnel formed to extend in a front-back direction of the vehicle. A fuel cell system is at least partly located below the center tunnel and includes at least one fuel cell stack and a hydrogen gas supply assembly constructed to supply a hydrogen gas to the fuel cell stack. At least one of a front end and a rear end of the center tunnel extended in the front-rear direction of the vehicle is open to outside of the center tunnel. The center tunnel is continuously inclined to have a greater height at a location closer to the at least one open end thereof. In the event of leakage of the hydrogen gas during a vehicle stop time, the fuel cell vehicle of this arrangement desirably enables the leaked hydrogen gas to be smoothly introduced and released out of the vehicle.

A plasma processing apparatus of this invention includes a sealable chamber, a gas supply source of reactive material gas, placed outside the chamber, a gas introduction pipe connected to the gas supply source, for introducing the material gas into the chamber, and a plurality of sets of cathode-anode bodies for forming a plurality of discharge spaces which perform plasma discharge of the material gas in the chamber. Herein, the gas introduction pipe includes a gas branch section arranged in the chamber, a main pipe for connecting the gas supply source to the gas branch section, and a plurality of branch pipes connected from the main pipe to each of the discharge spaces via the gas branch section. The branch pipes are configured so that conductances thereof are substantially equivalent to each other.

In a fuel cell vehicle of the present invention, a floor panel is constructed to have a center tunnel formed to extend in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. A fluid distributor provided below the floor panel is at least partly located in the center tunnel and is operative to distribute a supply of a fluid in a vehicle width direction. At least one fuel cell stack is provided adjacent to the fluid distributor in the vehicle width direction below the floor panel and is operative to receive the distributive supply of the fluid from the fluid distributor. This fuel cell system has an efficient component layout from the total standpoint of the operability and the space efficiency.

A printer includes a recording head and a maintenance mechanism for sucking an ink in the recording head. A plurality of cartridges to be attached to the printer includes a first housing portion for storing an ink to be supplied to the recording head and a second housing portion for storing a waste ink discharged from the maintenance mechanism. In a first one of the cartridges, the flow path resistance of a cartridge side flow path from a waste ink introducing portion to an air communicating hole for discharging air in a waste ink reservoir portion to an outside through the waste ink reservoir portion is lower than the flow path resistance of each of the cartridge side flow paths of the other cartridges.

A piezoelectric actuator 3 of a liquid transporting apparatus includes grooves 40 which are formed on a surface of a vibration plate 30 on a side of pressure chambers 14, and each of the grooves 40 is formed at an area which is inside of the edge of one of the pressure chambers and which is outside of an area overlapping with one of individual electrodes 32. With the grooves 40, it is possible to partially reduce the rigidity of the vibration plate 30 at portions each of which surrounding one of the individual electrodes 32 (driving portions 31a), thereby improving the driving efficiency of the piezoelectric actuator 3 and to reduce the crosstalk between adjacent pressure chambers 14.

A ball joint capable of maintaining a good sealing characteristic even when a film part of a dust cover is strained and capable of improving the assembly characteristic of the dust cover is provided at low cost. In a ball joint having a ball stud having a spherical head part, a socket turnably housing the spherical head part and having an opening in one side, and a dust cover; the ball stud is provided with a first flange part, an intermediate shaft part, and a second flange part; and the dust cover is provided with an inner peripheral part sandwiched between the first flange part and the second flange part and fitting the intermediate shaft part, a lip part being in close contact with the second flange part, and a protruding part having a gap at least at one location and abutting the second flange part.

In a wireless communication system, a base station control device has following two steps on the basis of latitude/longitude information obtained from a GPS, that is, a first step of recognizing, from the positional information obtained from the GPS, the fact that base stations in new and old systems are installed at the same location, and a second step of linking a neighbor list of the old system to a neighbor list of the new system with use of the result of the first step.

A substrate cleaning apparatus includes: a pure water supply line provided with a pure water flow regulator and a pure water supply valve; chemical supply lines each provided with a chemical flow regulator and a chemical supply valve; a merging line where pure water and a plurality of liquid chemicals meet to form a cleaning liquid; a cleaning liquid supply line configured to supply the cleaning liquid to a substrate; and a controller configured to control the pure water flow regulator, the pure water supply valve, the chemical flow regulators, and the chemical supply valves such that the pure water and the plurality of liquid chemicals are present at a predetermined ratio at a meeting point.