Sunday, October 27, 2013

Painless injection needle

Everyone hates receiving an injection, but the diabetic patients should take many injections in a day, and it would be very painful.

M/s. Okano industries planned to make a needle that is painless.
Usually the tip of the very thin pipe formed beforehand is sharpened by tapering it to a point, but M/s. Okano industries established a new needle manufacturing process by taking a flat sheet and making into circular shape, and succeeded in developing the "Painless injection needle" of taper shape that is thinnest in the world.




While the tip of the usual injection needle is 0.4mm, the "Nanopass 33" of M/s. Okano industries is half of that 0.2mm.
At present more than thousands of injections are given in a year exclusively for diabetic patients. If this 0.2mm needle is used all over the world sooner or later, then even the children may not dislike the injection.

The sale of "Nanopass 33"was started as an injection needle for diabetic insulin in 2005, and the regular export to China was started from 2011.

M/s. Okano industries manufactures the needle, and the medical device manufacturer M/s. TERUMO sells it.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fall colors of Nison-in

As informed in the last year blog of "Kourankei"
I introduce the fall colors of the Nison-in Temple in Kyoto.

If you look inside from the entrance, you can see a clear and straight tunnel made of Japanese maple.

You will be excited by the scene to the extent of taking and breath and say "Wow! What a beauty"
Walking inside the grounds of the shrine, you will feel as if some magic was done with the Japanese maple. The grounds of the shrine will be engulfed with red and orange color during autumn, and overwhelm the viewer.

The fall colors change from Green Yellow Red Fallen leaves along with the dropping temperature, and hence you will have a quite different impression when you see the Nison-in temple this week and the next week.



You will be amused with a different scenery whenever you go. I think the transience of, being able to see only during the decided period, is itself the fascination of the fall colors.

The viewing of fall colors of Nison-in is from the October 1st week to December 2nd week.
Please visit Kyoto and Nison-in temple during autumn without fail.

Please check the following youtube videos

These videos are taken around Kyoto






Sunday, October 13, 2013

Pink Hybrid Crown

The car originally called as crown succeeded in business, to the extent of creating the phrase [Eventually crown], and it is a car that many would say that "I will get in the crown some time. This car was the flagship model of Toyota for a long time.

The transformation of present Toyota as the enterprise, and the desire to have a good time can be seen by selling a limited edition model of the fantastic pink color car with such a history.




Before the Leeman shock, it was an enterprise that was not able to grasp that separation of the car for young adult segment is very fascinating, from an average car making, and by only lining up the car that does not have an impact.




In the year 2009, the present president Akio Toyota took the office, and in the inaugural interview he expressed the sense of an impending crisis of "The car industry is now in a critical moment, and needs the 21st century".

After that, he made little by little orbit correction from an average car manufacturer, the Toyota car has started to emphasize on individuality little by little, like the Spindle grill etc. that was started for use in the 86 sale and Lexus (Lexus is a luxury car brand of Toyota).






When emphasizing on the individuality the likes and dislike will arise, and we would like that president Akio manufactures good cars in the future without fear.







We wish that they manufacture the cars that would make the future children to feel that this is so stylish and cool car, and also eagerly wish that they will soon return to F1.
 
I got diverted from the topic, and now coming back, this pink crown will be for limited sale from September 1st to 30th. It seems that there will be 650 number of order receipts, and the price will be from 6 million yen.
I love the Toyota that has sprouted to have a good time.

Website - http://crown-reborn.jp/

Please check this youtube video.



Sunday, October 6, 2013

Doctor Yellow

This train runs in the Bullet train section while checking the bend in the railway track, condition of the overhead wiring, situation of signal current etc.
The pet name of this train originates from the work it does like checking the track, electrical installation and signal equipment, and from the yellow color of the train.


The condition of the railway track is detected using various sensors kept below the floor level. The measured data is used for maintenance and repair work.

The Japanese bullet train takes pride in safety for not having even a single fatal accident over a long period of 50 years, thanks to this honest work since the bullet train started for business.
Though there are a lot of high speed railways in other countries where only the speed is the selling point, but none of the counties have this level of continuous safety record in high speed railways.
 
This train Doctor yellow could not be seen often because it does not have a timetable, and runs during the night time and the time gap available in between the running of the bullet train about three times a month. Due to this scarcity in running, it is very popular among the railway fan and children to have a glance at the running of this train.

You can check the following youtube videos.