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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple cyanogen measuring device which is easy to handle and is capable of measuring the concentration of cyanogen at a level equivalent to the environmental standard within a short time, and a simple cyanogen measuring method. SOLUTION: In a detection tube-type simple cyanogen concentration measuring device 1 measures the concentration of cyanogen in water by developed hue, a water-absorbing material 5 is filled in a glass tube 3 at the bottom, and a reagent 7 and then a pigment holding material 9 are filled at the top. The reagent 7 includes a pH buffer 11; a chloramine T agent 13; an excipient 15; and a coloring reagent 17, and these components are filled in the stated order in layer forms from the bottom to the top. The water-absorbing material 5, the reagent 7, and the color holding material 9 are able to suck water by capillary action. For cyanogen concentration measurement, all needed is to immerse a lower end 19 of the simple cyanogen concentration measuring device 1 in a sample water 21. The measurement time is about 3 minutes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reinforcing bar sensing method for undertaking construction without breaking a reinforcing bar even if a position of the reinforcing bar is unknown within a reinforced concrete structure, and a cutting apparatus with a reinforcing bar sensing means. SOLUTION: There is provided the method for sensing the reinforcing bar within a to-be-cut object when the to-be-cut object including the reinforcing bar is cut by a cutting means. The method for sensing the reinforcing bar applies a DC voltage (E) to the cutting means through a sensing resistor (R1) while the reinforcing bar contacts the ground, measures a sensing voltage (E1) in the sensing resistor (R1), and senses contact between a part cut by the cutting means and the reinforcing bar by a change in the sensing voltage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for measuring a concentration of vitamin A and beta-carotene in blood of domestic animals, capable of measuring the concentration of vitamin A and beta-carotene in the blood of domestic animals in situ. SOLUTION: The method includes a step (V) of mixing a protein modified liquid, a lipid-soluble component extract, and an antioxidant agent to prepare a mixture liquid, a step (W) of mixing and stirring the mixture liquid and a whole blood of a domestic animal to prepare a stirred mixture liquid, a step (X) of extracting vitamin A and beta-carotene in blood of the domestic animal into a layer of the lipid-soluble component extract by centrifuging the stirred mixture liquid, a step (Y) of irradiating the layer of the lipid-soluble component extract with light having two specific wavelengths and measuring each absorbance in each irradiating wavelength, and a step (Z) of computing the concentration of vitamin A and beta-carotene in the whole blood of the domestic animal from the absorbance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surface-modified steel having a thick modified layer with a thickness of >1 mm which is free from defects in the surface part and in which carbon and silicon are enriched, and to provide a precise casting method which can obtain cast iron and a cast steel product having the modified layer and having excellent dimensional precision. SOLUTION: There is provided the surface modified steel, wherein the base part has a composition comprising, by mass, ≤3.9% C, ≤3.1% Si, ≤2.5% Mn, ≤0.8% P and ≤0.15% S, and the balance iron (Fe) with inevitable impurities, and the composition of the surface part is enriched in C: higher than the C% of the base part to 5.0%, and Si: higher than the Si% of the base part to 6.0%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cultivation method having insect control effects such as moth proofing while regulating flowering control of a short-day plant such as chrysanthemum, and to provide a lighting system suitable for the cultivation. SOLUTION: This plant cultivation method having insect control effects includes lighting plants during the night or under the environment on which light does not shine. The lighting is such that an outgoing beam has a luminescence peak wavelength in a region from green to red, and blinks in a blinking pattern of a prescribed light period range and dark period range. The blinking has a duty=light period range/(light period range+dark period range) of ≤50%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing mannosyl erythritol lipids as a kind of biosurfactant in improved efficiency( in greater quantities, at higher speed and in higher yield ). SOLUTION: The method comprises culturing microorganisms having the ability to produce the mannosyl erythritol lipids in a culture fluid containing vegetable fat-and-oil and nutrients while adjusting the pH of the culture fluid to 5.2-5.8. Preferable embodiments include the following: The culture is carried out at 10-20 mass% in the initial concentration of the vegetable fat-and-oil. The culture is started at 14-20 mass% in the initial concentration of the vegetable fat-and-oil and additional vegetable fat-and-oil is fed at a rate of 0.9-1.1 g/L/h from 6-7 days after starting the culture into the culture fluid. The culture is carried out under the condition of being ≥25 mass% in the total concentration of the vegetable fat-and-oil( initial plus additional ). COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable manufacture of a thermomodule by an effective method of low cost. SOLUTION: In this manufacturing method for a thermomodule, p-type semiconductor elements and n-type semiconductor elements are alternately connected in series, and the p-type semiconductor elements and the n-type semiconductor elements are clamped by ceramics substrates. An electrode 103 is formed by depositing metal fine grains on the ceramics substrate 100. The p-type semiconductor element and the n-type semiconductor element are formed by depositing p-type semiconductor fine grains and n-type semiconductor fine grains on the electrode 103. Slice of an ingot, plating of a wafer, dicing of a wafer, soldering of an electrode and a semiconductor element, etc., in the conventional case are made unnecessary, so that an effective manufacturing method of low cost can be obtained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a powerless wastewater treatment method for removing organic matter and/or nitrogen in wastewater by natural ventilation by forming a gas-liquid separation interface between wastewater and the atmosphere through an oxygen permeable membrane. SOLUTION: The powerless wastewater treatment method is constituted so as to remove organic matter and/or nitrogen in wastewater by natural ventilation by forming the gas-liquid separation interface between wastewater and the atmosphere through the oxygen permeable membrane and includes at least a process (1) for taking atmospheric oxygen in wastewater through the oxygen permeable membrane to aerobically treat organic matter by the biological film generated on the surface of the membrane, a process (2) for oxidizing ammonia nitrogen in wastewater to form nitrate nitrogen and a process (3) for diffusing nitrate nitrogen into wastewater held under an anaerobic environment going away from the biological film to perform denitrification reaction. Herein, the oxygen permeable membrane is formed into a cylindrical or tubular shape and arranged in the atmosphere while wastewater is introduced into the hollow part of the membrane or arranged in wastewater while the atmosphere is introduced into the hollow part of the membrane. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop and provide a detecting method for frictional resistance reduction by bubbles in a ship and its device which notifies an operator on the real time basis that reduction in frictional resistance by the bubbles is generated in the both of a ship to the maximum and enables operation in the reduced frictional resistance state by the minimum air quantity. SOLUTION: In the ship on which an bubble generating device is mounted to reduce frictional resistance of the body of the ship by discharging bubbles to the bottom of the ship, whether for not the frictional resistance reduction in the body of the ship is generated to the maximum is detected by a mixed flow (5) formed by the bubbles discharged by the bubble generating device 3 to the bottom of the ship from a generated local load. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robot hand with flexibility, decorativeness and behavior of a human hand by moving a plurality of fingers by a one-axis drive source to works to be held including those of different diameter. SOLUTION: A multi-finger movable robot hand comprises at least two fingers (an index finger 16, a middle finger 17, a ring finger 18 and a little finger 19) which have joints and disposed parallel to each other, a thumb disposed facing these fingers, and a flexible member pulled to bend the joints of at least two fingers except the thumb. The power generated from one drive source 1 is transmitted to at least two flexible members via at least one running block (10 and 11) in order to enable the holding motion by bringing at least two fingers and the thumb into contact with the works to be held including those of different diameter, and the holding power is generated in at least two fingers by pulling each flexible member.