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A refillable medical device comprising a base unit (4) adapted to be engaged with a refill unit (2), the device comprising means for counting the number of different refill units which are engaged with the base unit (4). The device may be in the form of a dry powder or pressurised aerosol inhaler, needleless injector, intravenous drip system etc. The device may comprise means to disable the device after a predetermined number of refill units have been used with the base.

Disclosed are a device for counting cells and a method for manufacturing the device. The device comprises a transparent upper substrate and a transparent lower substrate. Fine lattice patterns for counting cells are formed on the lower substrate. A space for filling the sample, including cells, is provided between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. A hole for injecting the samples into the space for filling the samples is provided in the upper substrate. The device is disposable, and the cost of manufacturing the device is low. It is easy to fill the samples into the filling space and to count cells by using the device. The upper substrate and the lower substrate are bonded, and thus, no cover is required.

A capacitance detection apparatus includes a first open / close switch provided between both ends of a standard capacitor, one end of the standard capacitor being connected to a first voltage source, a second open / close switch provided between one end of a first capacitor to be measured and the other end of the standard capacitor, the other end of the first capacitor to be measured being connected to a second voltage source or free space, a third open / close switch provided between both ends of the first capacitor to be measured, a voltage measurement means for measuring voltage of the other end of the standard capacitor, a switch control means for performing a first switching control performing a first switching operation to open the first open / close switch after closing thereof, performing a second switching operation to open the second open / close switch after closing thereof, and a third switching operation to close the third open / close switch after closing thereof, wherein the second and third switching operations are repeatedly performed after the first switching operation, a counting means for counting the number of repetition of the second switching operation, and a judging means for judging a change of the capacitance of the first capacitor to be measured according to the number of repetition of the second switching operation, which is the number counted by the counting means during the voltage of the other end of the standard capacitor measured by the voltage measurement means being changed from an initial voltage after the first switching operation by a predetermined magnitude.

A device for processing slaughter animals or parts thereof, for example poultry, comprises a transport system with an endless track and a chain of chain elements which can be moved along the track, wherein a plurality of chain elements are set up as carriers to carry one or more slaughter animals and / or parts thereof. The device furthermore has a delivery station for delivering slaughter animals or parts thereof to the carriers of the transport system, one or more stations being set up along the track of the transport system to perform actions relating to the slaughter animals or parts thereof. The device furthermore has location means for determining the position of the chain in relation to the track, wherein the location means comprise an identifiable chain element which has an associated identification mark, and also an identification sensor set up along the track to detect each identifiable chain element, wherein the remaining chain elements in the chain are designed as unidentifiable chain elements. The location means furthermore comprise a counting device to count the unidentifiable chain elements which pass along a counting station by the track following the passage of an identifiable chain element. Moreover, the location means furthermore comprise electronic memory means with a memory table in which a memory field is provided for each carrier, wherein the location means record a variable in the memory field representing the number of carriers counted by the counting device since the passage of the identifiable chain element located upstream.

An object recognizing apparatus is provided which is capable of precisely recognizing an object in an input image with the use of a corresponding learning image even when a local-segment of the input image coincides with a learning-local-segment of another similar learning image. The apparatus comprises (1) image dividing means for dividing an input image, which is received from image input means, into local-segments, (2) similar-local-segment extracting means for extracting a similar learning-local-segment to the local-segment of the input image from a learning image database, (3) object position estimating means for estimating the position of an object to be identified in the input image from the coordinates of the local-segment and the coordinates of the learning-local-segment corresponding to the local-segment, (4) counting means for counting the local-segments coincide with their corresponding learning-local-segments, and (5) object determining means for judging that the object to be identified is present when a result of counting is greater than a predetermined number. Consequently, the object and its position in any input image can be detected at higher accuracy.