Guideline for PRIUS Users
January 15, 2024
1. Please submit the signed Commitment Form and receive Safety and Health
Manual and Guidelines for PRIUS Users at PRIUS office on 3F (#386) in theResearch Building on your first visit of every fiscal year for completing the user
registration.
2. Please discuss with your project member(s) from GRC at least a month prior toyour visit about your plan on use of our equipment and devices. Please follow aguideline and rules on each apparatus such as analytical instruments and so on.
3. Please avoid using our facilities during the period from November to January
because many users can be concentrated during the period.
4. As a general rule, our facilities are available from 8 am to 8 pm o weekdays.
However, you may use them beyond the designated hours with a permission fromGRC staff.
5. Please master necessary skills under the supervision on your project
member(s) from GRC or a responsible person on each equipment for using ourfacilities. Do not use any equipment without permission, even if you haveexperience using it.
6. If there is any problem or a breakdown on our equipment or devices, and any
damages on the supplies accompanied by those equipment while using them,please report to a responsible person on the equipment and your project
member(s) from GRC immediately as well as in the notebook corresponding to theeach equipment or device.
7. When using the laboratory, do not use any room, equipment, or desk otherthan that permitted by a responsible person on the equipment or your project
member(s) from GRC. Do not eat or drink in the laboratory.
8. Please always keep your name tag (user card) with you while you are at our lab
except when you use machine such as a lathe turning machine and so on thatmay cause a risk of entanglement.
9. Please submit a visit report using our form that can be downloaded from PRIUS
website to PRIUS office within a week after your visit.
http://grc.ehime-u.ac.jp/en/guidelines

Guideline for Multi-anvil Device Users
1. In principle, you are allowed to use the device 10 times at a maximum for yourproject in a year and a reservation can be made through either your project
member(s) from GRC or a responsible person on the device.
2. For the short term users staying within 2 weeks are allowed to reserve thedevice 3 days per week at a maximum and we accept a reservation more than 2weeks prior to the date of your visit.
3. For the long term users staying more than 2 weeks are allowed to reserve thedevice 2 days per week at a maximum however, you may use the device without
making an advanced reservation with a permission of your project member(s)from GRC and a responsible person on the device if the device is available, but
total number of use on the device should not exceed 10 days per year.
4. You are not allowed to use or reserve multiple devices including analytical
instruments on the same day for your safety. However, you are allowed to usethem if you use them with several people for different PRIUS project under thesupervision of the project leader or equivalent persons from your project
members. In the instance of using multi-anvil devices and analytical instruments,
you may also use them with a permission of your project member(s) from GRC
and a responsible person on the device only if you use them with several people.
5. You are allowed to use multi-anvil devices and machine tools from 8am to 8pm
in principle for your safely. However, you may use them at other time period if you
consult with your project members from GRC beforehand and use them withseveral people. For the process of decompression and using analyticalinstruments, we do not set a limit on the time of use.
6. ORANGE-2000 is only for users from Ehime University in principle. As for
MADONNA and BOTCHAN, you are allowed to use them if necessary, however you
need to have enough skills and knowledges in order to use them and theoperation on BOTCHAN is conducted only by a person who is in charge of thedevice in GRC.
7. Please bring your own experimental materials such as sintered diamond anvils
and special anvils, also noble metals such as Re foil, Pt foil, Au tube, Pt tube, T.C.
for making coils and so on for your experiment.
Supplementary Provisions
This guideline shall come into force as of May 1, 2021.
Revised and effective January 15, 2024.