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Warning
Warning
Warning
Caution
Caution
INTRODUCTION
Accept our congratulations on your purchase of Kowa's Portable Slit-lamp. This manual provides a description of the
operating procedure of this unit along with important precautions to be observed during its use. Please read this entire
manual carefully to assure that the instrument can demonstrate its full capabilities and be used effectively. After you have
finished reading it, please keep it in an easily accessible location near the instrument for future reference.
Operational Considerations for Safety and Accident Prevention
This manual describes important precautions to be observed during its use to assure that the instrument can be used
safely without causing any damage to the body and property of its purchaser and other persons. The designations and
their pictorial symbols have the following meanings. These should be fully comprehended before reading the text of this
manual.
■ Exclusion
Kowa is not responsible for:
• Any damage caused by fire, earthquake, third party's action, any other accident or user's intentional or unintentional
error, abuse or use under abnormal conditions;
• Any damage resulting from use of the product or its malfunction (e.g., operating loss, shutdown, change/loss of
stored data and so forth);
• Any damage resulting from disobedience of what is described in the instruction manual; and
• Any damage resulting from, for instance, malfunctioning of the instrument caused by a combination of connected
devices.
Indication of any danger (including warning and caution) .What is warned is explicitly and pictorially indicated by a picture
or its associated message on or near a pictorial symbol.
Graphical indication of prohibited operation (prohibitive item) What is prohibited is explicitly and pictorially indicated by a
picture or its associated message on or near a pictorial symbol.
Indication of mandatory action (obligatory item) What must always be done is explicitly and pictorially indicated by a
pictureor its associated message on or near a pictorial symbol.
■ Meanings of symbols
*1 : An injury to the body means any injury, burn, electrical shock and so forth that will not necessitate hospitalization or
long-term outpatient treatment.
*2: Damage to property means an extensive damage to the house and household goods as well as the domestic animal
and pet.
If the instrument should be operated wrongly, there may occur a danger of causing death or serious injury.
If the instrument should be operated wrongly, there may result an injury to the body (not so serious as to cause death
though) *1 or damage to property only *2.
If the instrument should be operated wrongly, there may occur an imminent danger of causing death or serious injury.
■ Meanings of designations