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Introduction
This manual provides a description of the operating procedures of KOWA 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 work safely. After you have finished reading, please keep this manual in an
easily accessible location near the instrument for future reference.
Operational considerations for safety
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 human body or property of its purchaser and other persons. The
designations and their pictorial symbols used in this manual have the following meanings. These should be fully
comprehended before reading the text of this manual.
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Meanings of markings
Warning
If the instrument should be operated wrongly, there may incur a risk of causing death or serious injury.
Caution
If the instrument should be operated wrongly, there may result a bodily injury
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or damage to property
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*1: A bodily injury means an 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/or household goods as well as a domestic
animal and pet.
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Meanings of symbols
Graphical indication of any 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 it's associated message on or near a pictorial symbol.
Graphical indication of mandatory action (obligatory item). What must always be done is explic-
itly and pictorially indicated by a picture or it's associated message on or near a pictorial symbol.
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Disclaimer
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 this manual.
• Any damage resulting from, for instance, malfunctioning of the instrument caused by a combination of
connected devices.