baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2003183841-A (JP)
Title: Pretreatment process of electroless plating material
Inventor: NAKANISHI MASAJI
IPC: C23C18/28
Filed: 2001-12-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a plated film showing an excellent adhesion, without subjecting a resin material to surface roughening.  <P>SOLUTION: The resin material having an unsaturated bond is brought into contact with an ozone-containing solution to perform ozone treatment. The surface of the ozone-treated resin material is stabilized through stabilizing treatment and subsequently subjected to electroless plating. It is considered that the stabilizing treatment decomposes unstable ozonides at the surface of the resin material and generates methylol or carbonyl groups. Therefore, the plated film exerts a high adhesion immediately after electroless plating.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003185268-A (JP)
Title: Hot air heater
Inventor: OKUJIMA TATSU
IPC: F24H3/04
Filed: 2001-12-18
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively heat a space in the front side of a seating part of a desk, in particular.  <P>SOLUTION: This hot air heater is so formed that a heater mechanism 6 connected to an electric source part 3 is positioned on the way to a duct part 5 connected to a ventilation port 41 of a ventilation mechanism 4 connected to and driven by a power source part 3, a tip opening part of the duct part 5 is connected to a hot air emission port 28 formed in one side of a case 2, and an air direction control mechanism 7 controllable from the outside of the case 2 is provided in the hot air emission port 28.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003185059-A (JP)
Title: Method for removing underground lead pipe
Inventor: NAKAMURA RYOICHIRO
IPC: H02G1/06
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for removing a lead pipe, in which a wire 18 and a heating unit 20 are passed through an underground lead pipe 10, this lead pipe is heated to the temperature below the melting point to make the inside in a negative pressure state and reduce the diameter by buckling of the wall of the lead pipe 10, one end of the wire 18 is connected to the lead pipe 10 via a first cover 22 and the other end is connected to a new pipe 14 via a cover with a chuck, the lead pipe 10 can be pulled out from under the ground by pulling the end of wire 18 with a winch 38, and the lead pipe 10 is scrapped to take out the heating unit 20 and the like and reuse them for another pulling out of buried lead pipe, for the diameter of the underground lead pipe 10 is reduced by buckling and the like.  <P>SOLUTION: Because the diameter of the underground pipe is reduced, the pipe can securely be pulled out from under the ground without being torn off halfway even in the case of a water passing pipe with low tensile strength. The wire and heating unit can be reused economically.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003180893-A (JP)
Title: Tool for protecting face of iron
Inventor: UENO SHINZO
IPC: A63B102/32
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an iron face protecting tool by which the heads of the irons are reliably prevented from mutually colliding with each other and being damaged in faces, the desired iron is easily taken out from a golf bag during playing golf and also a user intuitively recognizes which one of the irons is missing only by having a glance at the golf bag.  <P>SOLUTION: The tool includes nine or ten pipes A which are shafts of the irons are respectively inserted in and which are respectively provided with a length corresponding to the shaft of each iron, a cylindrical or polygonal tubular part 1 which is inserted to the golf bag to fix the pipes on the outer periphery of the part and head support parts which are arranged diagonally above the respective pipes on the outer wall surface of the tubular part where the pipes are fixed and which respectively support the heads of the irons inserted to the pipes.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003180913-A (JP)
Title: Game server, game machine, and game management method
Inventor: OKADA KAZUO
IPC: A63F5/04
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game server, a game machine, and a game management method for ensuring return for a player continuously losing games for allowing the player to play the game with relief and solving problems of reduction in the number of customers.  <P>SOLUTION: In this game machine, return is carried out at a fixed return rate when a cumulative consumption amount of credit used by the player reaches a predetermined high limit. According to a game history of the player, the game condition of the game machine on which the player plays the game is varied.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003182282-A (JP)
Title: Tail crown mounting structure for writing instrument
Inventor: KAGEYAMA SHUHEI
IPC: B43K21/16
Filed: 2001-12-20
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that in a tail crown mounting structure for a writing instrument, a barrel is stained by an adhesive or printing is difficult on the barrel itself and when a tail crown is once mounted, it is difficult to remove the crown for correction or the like.  <P>SOLUTION: The tail crown mounting structure for the writing instrument comprises fitting means provided at a reduced diameter part 11 of a rear part of the barrel 1 and at an inside of a mounting ring 22 of the tail crown 2. The fitting means has an annular protruding strip 13 or a fitting protrusion formed on the part 11 of the rear part of the barrel 1, and a fitting protrusion 24 or an annular protruding strip formed at an inside of a mounting ring part 22 of the crown 2.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003198339-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device
Inventor: NAKANISHI JINGO
IPC: H03L7/081
Filed: 2001-12-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device wherein its consumption current and layout area are made small.  <P>SOLUTION: A semiconductor integrated circuit chip 1 has a replica circuit 5 for delaying a reference clock signal RCLK, a delay sensor 4 for so controlling the delay time of the replica circuit 5 as to make it equal to one-fourth of the period of the reference clock signal RCLK, and an EX-OR gate 6 for so receiving the reference clock signal RCLK and the output clock signal RCLKD2 of the replica circuit 5 as to give to a logic circuit 7 an internal clock signal intCLK whose frequency is twice as high as the frequency of the reference clock signal RCLK. Therefore, the semiconductor integrated circuit chip 1 manages its operation with a smaller consumption power in comparison with the conventional case wherein the internal clock signal intCLK has been propagated on a clock line CL.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002352591-A (JP)
Title: Non-volatile semiconductor memory, structure of its local row decoder, semiconductor memory, and word line driving method for the device
Inventor: RI HEIKUN
IPC: G11C16/02
Filed: 2001-12-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable reducing chip area of a semiconductor memory by minimizing or reducing layout area of a local row decoder. SOLUTION: A level shifter L1 of a local row decoder 200 is constituted of a P type MOS transistor P1 receiving high voltage at its source and bias voltage at its gate, a first N type MOS transistor N1 of which its drain is connected to a drain of this P type MOS transistor P1 and which receives a sector selecting signal at its gate, and a second N type MOS transistor N2 of which its drain is connected to a source of this first N type MOS transistor N1 and its gate is connected to a global word line, and which receives erasure voltage at its source.
Patent JP-2003182190-A (JP)
Title: Recorder, printer driver, and controlling method for recorder
Inventor: OSHIKA TORU
IPC: B41J2/01
Filed: 2001-12-21
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform recording silently in a set time zone and to perform high speed recording at other time.  <P>SOLUTION: In the recorder for recording based on record information transmitted from an external apparatus and having a normal recording mode and a silent recording mode generating a lower noise as compared with the normal recording mode, data of a time band for recording in silent mode is stored in a nonvolatile memory, and data at the time of receiving the record information is acquired (S601). A decision is then made whether the received time falls within the range of the time band or not (S603) by comparing the time data with the data of time band, and a recording mode is set depending on the decision results (S604, S605).  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003193598-A (JP)
Title: Fixing structure for movable partition wall
Inventor: KAJI YOSHIAKI
IPC: E04B2/74
Filed: 2001-12-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing structure for a movable partition wall capable of forming a rigid wall without any rattling.  <P>SOLUTION: This fixing structure for the movable partition wall constructed of partition wall panels 1 arranged side by side and hung from the upper side is provided with a drop bolt 2 and a spring means 5 energizing the lower end part 2a of the drop bolt 2 inserted into a hook-and-eye 4 having an opened circumferential edge part 3, which has a part 3a having the inside diameter approximately equal to the outside diameter of the drop bolt 2 and a part 3b having the inside diameter larger than the outside diameter of the drop bolt 2. Using the part 3b having the inside diameter larger than the outside diameter of the drop bolt 2 in the hook-and-eye opened circumferential edge part 3, the lower end part 2a of the drop bolt can be inserted easily, and the lower end part 2a is energized by the spring means 5 to be fitted to the part 3a in the opened circumferential edge part 3 of the hook-and-eye 4. Consequently, rattling can be prevented between the inserted drop blot lower end part 2a and the opened circumferential edge part 3 of the hook-and-eye.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003194288-A (JP)
Title: Metallic pipe surface treatment structure and surface treatment method
Inventor: YOSHIDA YUICHIRO
IPC: F16L58/04
Filed: 2001-12-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure the adherence and corrosion resistance of an epoxy resin middle layer without including hexavalent chromium.  <P>SOLUTION: A galvanized layer 20 is formed on an outer peripheral surface of a metallic pipe 10 at a specified layer thickness. A chemical conversion coating layer 30 having tervalent chromium and a phosphatic compound as main ingredients is formed on the galvanized layer 20. An epoxy resin middle layer 40 made from epoxy resin having condensation aluminum phosphate and magnesium hexasilicate as main ingredients is formed on the chemical conversion coating layer 30. A fluorine resin layer 50 is formed on the middle layer 40, thereby producing a surface treatment structure excluding the hexavalent chromium. Therefore, influences on environment due to the hazardous hexavalent chromium is prevented, and a processing cost for making harmless is reduced. Furthermore, the adherence and corrosion resistance of the middle layer 40 is ensured.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003191617-A (JP)
Title: Ink jet recording sheet
Inventor: TAJIRI KOZO
IPC: B41M5/50
Filed: 2001-12-26
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink jet recording sheet having high printing density and gloss and suitable for photographic printing.  <P>SOLUTION: In the ink jet recording sheet wherein at least two coating layers are provided on a support, at least one of the coating layers contains cation modified fine particles of silica flocculated particles with a silica flocculated particle size of 1 μm or less, and a volume of pores with a pore size of 100 nm or less of 0.4-2.0 ml/g manufactured by condensing active silicic acid.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2002280568-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor
Inventor: TEZUKA TSUTOMU
IPC: H01L29/786
Filed: 2001-12-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a complete depletion type field effect transistor structure composed of integrated transistors different in threshold voltage. SOLUTION: An SiGe film of a high Ge composition and an SiGe film of a low Ge composition are formed on an insulation film and strained Si films are formed on these SiGe films to result in transistors having channel regions in the strained Si films, thus integrating the transistors different in threshold voltage.
Patent JP-2003192589-A (JP)
Title: External preparation composition
Inventor: ODAKA AKITO
IPC: A61P11/06
Filed: 2001-12-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an external preparation composition giving low stimulation to the diseased part (especially eye, etc.), and having excellent antiseptic action and stability.  <P>SOLUTION: The external preparation composition contains 1,3-bis(2- carboxychromon-5-yloxy)-2-hydroxypropane and/or its salt and trometamol. Examples of preferable embodiments of the invention are a composition containing an antiseptic agent, a composition to be used as an agent for mucosa or eye, and a composition containing sodium cromoglycate as the 1,3-bis(2- carboxychromon-5-yloxy)-2-hydroxypropane or its salt.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003157147-A (JP)
Title: Mouse pad
Inventor: OKADA KIYOKO
IPC: G06F3/039
Filed: 2001-11-20
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mouse pad with brush for removing dust on a personal computer. SOLUTION: A brush (3) is provided on the side face (2) of a mouse pad (1).
Patent JP-2003199224-A (JP)
Title: Duct for storing cable and fixing method therefor
Inventor: FURUMURA TAKASHI
IPC: H02G1/06
Filed: 2001-12-28
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain the high duct installation accuracy, rust prevention of an anchor bolt, and high durability of a duct body.  <P>SOLUTION: The duct 1 made of precast concrete with a roughly U-shaped cross section is installed in parallel to a wall body 7 of the side of a floor board 6 to form a new cable storage space 10. A rubber shoe 21 provided between the duct 1 and the floor board 6 forms an elliptical opening 21a, and a grout material 17 is charged from a charging hole 18 in a duct bottom 11 to achieve the rust prevention of a protruding section of an anchor bolt 14. An internal thread is formed so as to be embedded in a duct 1, and a height adjusting bolt is screwed into it to correct the height and rolling of the duct 1. The floor board 6 is formed with a drain inclination from the wall body 7 side, and a drain space is formed in a space to the adjacent rubber shoe 21.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Patent JP-2003503998-A (JP)
Title: バッテリーシステム
IPC: B60R16/02
Filed: 2000-06-21
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、発電機（３），スタータ（２）及び少なくとも１つのバッテリを有するバッテリーシステム（１）に関する。この場合、このスタータ（２）は、スターター導線（１３）を介してこのバッテリに接続されていて、この場合、電極端子（７）が、このスタータ（７）とバッテリとの間に配置されていて、このスターター導線（１３）は、この電極端子（７）を通じて遮断されている。
Patent JP-2003504629-A (JP)
IPC: B01D57/02
Filed: 2000-07-20
Abstract: In a dielectrophoretic cell having an array of electrodes and means to apply electrical signals to the electrodes. The electrodes include a planar array of serpentine or zig-zag electrodes with their curvatures in register. The serpentine electrodes may be sinusoidal, half sinusoidal, or elongated "C" in shape. The positions of maximum curvature of each serpentine or zig-zag electrode may be arranged in linear alignment, or along a curve. The cell may be used for stationary or traveling wave dielectrophoresis. Particles traveling in opposite directions in traveling wave dielectrophoresis can do so without interference, allowing "traffic control". Particles can be characterized and separated, and particles at high concentrations, or particles of different types, can be handled.
Patent JP-2003505081-A (JP)
Title: 角質層の単離ポリペプチドとその使用
IPC: C12N15/09
Filed: 2000-04-20
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、カルシウム固定タンパク質のファミリーの単離ポリペプチド、該単離ポリペプチドのタンパク分解に由来するポリペプチド混合物、それを含む組成物、前記ポリペプチドの使用、及び乾燥肌、角質増殖症、錯角化症、乾癬、魚鱗癬、新生組織形成のための美容処理方法に関する。本発明はまた前記ポリペプチドをコードしているデオキシリボ核酸列及び該デオキシリボ核酸配列の使用にも関する。
Patent JP-2003507845-A (JP)
Title: ゲッターを有する真空排気されたガラスパネル
IPC: E06B3/663
Filed: 2000-08-17
Abstract: (57)【要約】
二枚の互いに離間されたガラスシート（１０及び１２）によって形成されるチャンバ（１８）と溶融エッジシール（１６）とを備える真空排気されたガラスパネル、特に真空排気された複層ガラス、を製造する方法。前記方法は、前記両ガラスシート（１０）及び（１２）を複数のピラー（１４）を使用して離間関係に配置する工程と、前記両ガラスシート間に形成される前記チャンバの領域（２２）内にゲッター（２０，２１又は２３）を配置する工程とを有する。前記両ガラスシート（１０及び１２）のエッジの周りに可溶性シーラント材（１６）が堆積され、前記両ガラスシート間の空間に不活性ガスを導入することによって、両ガラスシート間から空気を排出する。前記不活性ガスの導入後、前記シーラント材が溶融されて、このシーラント材の溶融によって形成される前記チャンバ内に前記不活性ガスを維持しながら、前記両ガラスシートの周囲に溶融エッジシール（１６）が形成される。その後、前記チャンバを真空排気し、使用されるゲッター（２０，２１又は２３）のタイプに応じて、前記チャンバの真空排気後、又は、前記両ガラスシートの周囲の前記エッジシールの溶融中に、前記ゲッターが活性化される。
Patent JP-2003509228-A (JP)
Title: 微細造作を有するデバイスの液体エンボス加工による製造
IPC: H01L21/288
Filed: 2000-09-13
Abstract: (57)【要約】
エラストマースタンプが、電気材料、生物材料、化学材料、及び機械材料の直接的なパターン形成を容易にする。材料の薄いフィルムが基体上に堆積される。堆積された材料は、当初から液体として存在し、或いは後に液化され、隆起したパターンを有するエラストマースタンプを用いて、低圧でエンボス加工することによってパターン形成される。パターン形成された液体は次いで硬化されて機能層を形成する。堆積、エンボス加工、及び硬化のステップは、同じ液体又は異なる液体について、また二次元又は三次元で多数回繰り返される。堆積される種々の層は、例えば、集積された電子部品を生成するよう相互作用する種々の電気的特性を有することができる。
Patent JP-2003514270-A (JP)
IPC: G06F9/46
Filed: 2000-09-28
Abstract: The allocation of shareable resources of a computing environment is dynamically adjusted to balance the workload of that environment. Workload is managed across two or more partitions of a plurality of partitions of the computing environment, which are preferably configured as groups of partitions. At least one group of the computing environment includes a plurality of partitions of the computing environment. Shareable resources are assigned to the partitions of the group and are managed as a group. The managing includes dynamically adjusting allocation of a shareable resource of at least one partition of the two or more partitions in order to balance workload goals of the two or more partitions. One example of this is managing central processing unit (CPU) resources within a computing environment. When the allocation of CPU resources to a partition of the computing environment is to be adjusted, the allocation is adjusted dynamically. The adjusting includes modifying processor weights associated with the partitions.
Patent JP-2003511158-A (JP)
IPC: A61M5/19
Filed: 2000-10-06
Abstract: Apparatus for supporting a syringe (6, 10) includes a handle portion (2) and a cradle (4). A clip (14) is provided for connecting the plungers (8) of two or more syringes (6, 10), and two or more syringes (6, 10) are operated by placing one (6) in the cradle (4) and attaching the clip (14) to the plungers (8) for simultaneous operation of the plungers (8). The handle portion (2) also forms a cavity for storing the clips (14). The apparatus is preferably used in combination with an applicator tip (12) that combines the outputs from the two or more syringes (6, 10).
Patent JP-2003526806-A (JP)
Title: ファスナ・クリップ
IPC: G09F3/14
Filed: 2000-10-13
Abstract: (57)【要約】
略平行かつ並列に配置された複数の個々のファスナ（１３）を備えた、一体型プラスチック・ファスナ・クリップ（１１）。各ファスナ（１３）は、第１の拡大端（１７）と第２の拡大端（１９）とを有する細長の可撓性フィラメント（１５）を備えている。別の実施形態では、第１の拡大端（１７）が不均一な横断面を持つ横棒であり、第２の拡大端（１９）が概ねノブ状のヘッドである。第１のコネクタ・ポスト（２１−１）が、第１のファスナ（１３）の第１の拡大端（１７）を、第２のファスナ（１３）の第１の拡大端（１７）に接続し、第２のコネクタ・ポスト（２１−２）が、第１のファスナ（１３）の第２の拡大端（１９）を、第２のファスナ（１３）の第２の拡大端（１９）に接続する。
Patent JP-2003512706-A (JP)
Title: 遮蔽部を備える差込接続装置
IPC: H01R13/514
Filed: 2000-10-18
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、電子部品や電子モジュール、特に配線板の電気回線を相互に、有利には取外し可能に接続可能である、遮蔽部を備える差込接続装置、特に１列または多列の有利には雄型コネクタと雌型コネクタとで構成された４極の差込接続装置に関する。雄型コネクタは少なくとも１つの第1の接触部材を有するとともに、雌型コネクタは、第1の接触部材に対応する少なくとも１つの第２の接触部材を有している。雌型コネクタはその外側の本体領域の表面または内部に少なくとも部分的に遮蔽薄板を備えており、差込接続の遮蔽部が、雌型コネクタに設けられた遮蔽薄板に加えて、少なくとも１つの第1の部材を有する遮蔽グループで構成されており、この第1の部材が前記雄型コネクタに配置されていることを特徴としている。有利には、遮蔽グループは基本部分と対抗部分とで構成される。
Patent JP-2003515447-A (JP)
IPC: B07B4/02
Filed: 2000-11-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a conical sifter for sifting bulk material, which cannot be poured easily or at all and which comprises a lightweight material fraction and a heavy material fraction, and to a method for carrying out the sifting. The aim of the invention is to prevent blockages inside the inlet tube and deposits on the surfaces of the cone. To these ends, at least one filling air inlet (28) is connected to the filling tube (4) for admitting a downwardly directed flow of air inside at least one part of the filling tube (4). In addition, the invention provides that at least one displacing cone air inlet (46) is connected to the interior (44) of the displacing cone (40) and that an annular gap (48) is provided between the cylindrical spout (42) and the double cone (6). The invention also relates to a method for sifting bulk material, which cannot be poured easily or at all and which comprises a lightweight material fraction and a heavy material fraction, during which the aforementioned conical sifter is used.
Patent JP-2003515411-A (JP)
Title: 改良構造を持つ使い捨ての水蒸気透過性・液体不透過性マットレスカバーアセンブリ
IPC: A47C21/06
Filed: 2000-12-08
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、マットレスを完全に包み込むことのできる保護用カバーを形成するための使い捨てマットレスカバーアセンブリに関連する。使い捨てマットレスカバーアセンブリは、保護用マットレスカバーを形成するため協働結合手段により連結される第１および第２層を含む。本発明による使い捨てマットレスカバーアセンブリには、使いやすさとともに水蒸気透過性が液体不透過性と組み合わされることが望ましい多様な用途が見出される。
Patent JP-2003520075-A (JP)
Title: 薬物ディスペンサ
IPC: A61M11/00
Filed: 2000-12-08
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本体（４）と、薬物キャリア（８０）と、患者への薬物通過用の出口チャネル（７０）と、患者に使用させるため、出口チャネル（７０）を直接的または間接的に露出させるアクセス手段とを含み、アクセス手段（７０）がアクセス結合器（７４）を含む、薬物ディスペンサが提供される。結合器（７４）は、そこに非機械エネルギーが加えられるのに応答して、可逆的に変形可能である。非機械エネルギーには、熱エネルギー、電流エネルギー、電界エネルギー、または磁界エネルギーを含めることができる。
Patent JP-2003517204-A (JP)
Title: 炭化ケイ素半導体装置においてより高い反転層移動度を得る方法
IPC: H01L21/308
Filed: 2000-12-01
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、炭化ケイ素の上部の高特性熱成長酸化物の製造方法を提供する。この方法は、イオン注入によって単結晶炭化ケイ素基板の少なくとも１つの領域の炭化ケイ素をアモルファス化するステップと、炭素をアモルファス化炭化ケイ素から選択的に取り除き、アモルファスシリコン含有領域を生じるのに有効なエッチング液で生じる有効量の炭素をアモルファス化炭化ケイ素から取り除くステップと、（１）（ｉ）主にあるいは完全にアモルファスシリコンにあるアモルファスシリコン含有領域あるいは（ｉｉ）少量のアモルファス炭化ケイ素および／または二酸化シリコンと結合した主にアモルファスシリコンの混合物のいずれか、（２）単結晶シリコン領域において（１）あるいは（２）が炭化ケイ素基板の領域上にある、（３）炭化ケイ素基板の領域、の上に酸化物領域を有する装置を生成するように酸化物をエッチングされた表面上に形成するステップとを含む。
Patent JP-2003517862-A (JP)
IPC: B01D46/24
Filed: 2000-08-21
Abstract: The invention provides a filter assembly for use in a vacuum cleaner having a first filter portion that includes a foam filter, and a second filter portion located downstream of the first filter portion and containing a HEPA grade filter medium, the first and second filter portions being held directly adjacent one another. The first filter portion also includes an electrostatic filter located on a side of the foam filter facing the second filter portion. The foam filter of the first filter portion is, in use, exposed directly to a dust-laden airflow. The provision of the electrostatic filter on the foam filter eliminates the possibility of dust initially retained by but later released from the foam filter escaping from the first filter portion.
Patent JP-2003519503-A (JP)
IPC: A61K35/16
Filed: 2000-01-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing and/or decreasing the concentration of immunomodulatory-active substances in substance mixtures which contain potentially immunomodulatory-active substances. The aim of the invention is to provide a method, which is improved with regard to prior art methods, for altering the concentration of immunomodulatory-active substances in a substance mixture or in a solution. To this end, the substance mixture is introduced into a bioreactor and is brought into contact with cells therein. The cells are selected such that they comprise receptors for at least one species chosen from a group G1 of immunomodulatory-active substances, whose concentration in the substance mixture should be decreased, and such that they are capable of absorbing these species, and/or the cells are selected such that they produce at least one species chosen from another group G2 of immunomodulatory-active substances, whose concentration in the substance mixture should be increased, and such that they are capable of releasing these species into the substance mixture. In addition, the substance mixture is subsequently separated from the cells and removed from the bioreactor. The invention also relates to a corresponding device for carrying out said method.