Abstract:
In order to provide an ink jet print head effectively ensuring a stable print quality or capable of reducing the voltage applied to piezoelectric: elements while maintaining the volume displacement of the pressure chambers, and to provide an ink jet printer using the same, the ink jet print head of the present invention comprises a plurality of pressure chambers circularly arranged in a hounds tooth manner for allowing the passage of ink, and a plurality of ink flow paths acting as flow paths for ink flowing from the pressure chambers. It further comprises a diaphragm defining one surface of the pressure chambers, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements which apply a pressure to the pressure chambers to discharge the ink within the pressure chambers from the nozzle through the ink flow paths for printing. The pressure chambers disposed in the external portion of the hounds tooth arrangement have a circumferential length equal to or greater than that of the pressure chambers disposed in the internal portion of the hounds tooth arrangement, and have a radial length equal to or smaller than that of the latter.
Abstract:
A micro-reactor for analyzing a sample, comprises (1) a plate-shaped chip; (2) a plurality of regent storage sections each having a chamber to store respective agents; (3) a regent mixing section to mix plural regents fed from the plurality of regent storage sections so as to produce a mixed reagent; (4) a sample receiving section having an injection port through which a sample is injected from outside; and (5) a reacting section to mix and react the mixed regent fed from the reagent mixing section and the sample fed from the sample receiving section. The plurality of regent storage sections, the regent mixing section, the sample receiving section and the reacting section are incorporated in the chip and are connected through flow paths, and the regent mixing section includes a feed-out preventing mechanism to prevent an initially-mixed regent from being fed out to the reacting section.
Abstract:
The object of the present invention is to provide a micro-reactor, equipped with a high-precision liquid feed system of simple structure, capable of high-precision analysis of at least one item. The present invention provides a micro-reactor for biological substance inspection including a sample storage section, a reagent storage section, a sample pre-processing section, a micro-pump connecting section and a branched minute flow path. And a sample pre-processed by the sample pre-processing section is fed into the minute flow path branched off into at least two parts by a micro-pump and a liquid dividing section, and on the downstream side of each of the branched minute flow paths, the sample is fed to a flow path constituting a reaction site, and then to a flow path constituting the detection site, thereby providing simultaneous measurement of a plurality of items of a sample.
Abstract:
The fuel cell device is provided with: an electricity-generating unit having a fuel electrode (102), an air electrode (103), and an electrolyte film (101) sandwiched between the fuel electrode (102) and the air electrode (103); a hydrogen-generating member (104) that, by means of an oxidation reaction with water, generates hydrogen for supplying to the fuel electrode (102) of the aforementioned electricity-generating unit; a heater (105) that heats the hydrogen-generating member (104); a temperature sensor (106) that detects the temperature of the hydrogen-generating member (104); and a temperature control unit (20) that controls the temperature of the hydrogen-generating member (104) in response to the detection results of the temperature sensor (106). The temperature control unit (20) stops the passage of electricity through the heater (105) when it has been determined that the temperature of the hydrogen-generating member (104) is at least a predetermined temperature.
Abstract:
A fuel cell system (101) comprising a fuel cell (120) and a reaction container (103), wherein the fuel cell (120) comprises a fuel electrode (121), an air electrode (122) and an electrolyte film (123) and the reaction container (103) comprises a hydrogen storage material (106) and a heater (114) and can supply hydrogen to the fuel cell (120), and wherein a water flow path (109) for supplying water produced in the air electrode (122) to the reaction container (103) is provided.
Abstract:
A fuel cell device has a small and compact structure as a whole. The fuel cell device employs a fuel cell (e.g., direct methanol fuel cell of an MEA structure) using liquid fuel. Diluted liquid fuel is prepared by diluting the liquid fuel (methanol-contained liquid in the case of DMFC) with dilution liquid, and is supplied to the fuel cell. A first pump unit stacked on the fuel cell supplies the diluted liquid fuel to the fuel cell while diluting the liquid fuel by mixing the liquid fuel and the dilution liquid together. A second pump unit stacked on the fuel cell collects liquid (water usable as dilution liquid in DMFC) produced by an electrochemical reaction in the fuel cell.
Abstract:
A fuel cell system including a fuel cell including a cell body having an electrolyte membrane held between a fuel electrode and an air electrode, and a fuel supply chamber neighboring to the fuel electrode of the cell body, and having a fuel liquid supply port (and optionally a fuel liquid collecting port); and a fuel liquid supply portion for supplying a fuel liquid into the fuel supply chamber through the fuel liquid supply port. The fuel liquid supply portion supplies the fuel liquid to the fuel supply chamber while generating positive and negative pressure variations in the fuel supply chamber and/or forward and reverse flows of the liquid in the fuel supply chamber for removing a gas produced on the fuel electrode side of the cell body.
Abstract:
The invention provides gene-inspecting micro-reactor for detecting a bacterial cell wherein flexibility and high sensitivity are secured, low cost by a disposable type is realized, highly accurate detection is possible in a simple structure, and preliminary processing suitable for amplification reaction can be done for specimen efficiently and rapidly. After lysing a bacterial cell in the specimen by bacteriolysis reagent stored in bacteriolysis reagent storage section 3, and after adsorbing bacterial genes on carriers filled in carrier filling section 4, there is conducted preliminary processing for washing and detecting bacterial genes. Further, there are provided a control means that switches the direction of liquid-feeding for a liquid containing bacterial genes fed to carrier filling section 4, a check valve, amplified reagent storage section 7 and a cooling means such as Pertier element that cools reagent mixing section.
Abstract:
A micro-reactor is provided with a flow jointing section to joint flows of at least two kinds of liquids including a reacting reagent by feeding the two kinds of liquids with a micro pump; a mixing flow path connected to a downstream end of the flow jointing section so as to diffuse and mix the liquids; and a reaction advancing section to advance the reaction among the mixed liquids.
Abstract:
An ink jet print head can be formed by an anodic bonding process. In order to bond a vibrating plate to a head base, a glass surface is bonded to a conductive surface of an electrically conductive material through anodic bonding. One of the vibrating plate or the head base can be formed of glass and the other of an electrically conductive material in order to form the bond. Alternatively, a glass layer an electrically conductive layer can be formed on each of the pieces, which can then be bonded. Thus, by using appropriate layers, the head base and vibrating plate can be formed of plastic, glass or an electrically conductive material.