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Warning
Warning
Caution
Caution
INTRODUCTION
If the instrument should be operated wrongly, there may incur a risk of causing death or serious injury.
If the instrument should be operated wrongly, there may result in a bodily injury (not so serious as to cause death)
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damage to property
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INTRODUCTION
Accept our congratulations on your purchase of Laser Flare Meter KOWA FM-600 (referred to as FM-600 in this
manual).
This manual provides a description of the operation procedures of FM-600 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.
INTENDED USE
FM-600 is an instrument to measure the protein level contained in aqueous humor of the anterior chamber.
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 and property of its purchaser and other persons.
The designations and their pictorial symbols have the following meanings. These should be fully compre-
hended before reading the text of this manual.
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Meanings of Designations
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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.
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2: Damage to property means an extensive damage to the house and household goods as well as the domestic animal
and pet.
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Meanings of Symbols
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Kowa is not responsible for;
Graphical 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 pictori-
ally indicated by a picture or its associated message on or near a pictorial symbol.
Graphical indication of mandatory action (obligatory item). What must always be done is explicitly and
pictorially indicated by a picture or its associated message on or near a pictorial symbol.
• 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.
• Any damage resulting from, for instance, malfunctioning of instrument caused by a combination of con-
nected devices.
