Abstract: An antibacterial property imparting glass composition is provided, which may be fixed in a form of, for example, a particle on the surface of a fiber substrate and/or dispersed and complexed in the fiber substrate. Such an antibacterial property imparting glass composition comprises 0.1 to 5.0% by weight of Ag2O in a composition containing 45-67 mol % of P2O5, 5 to 20 mol % of Al2O3, 1 to 40 mol % of 1 or 2 or more selected from MgO, CaO and ZnO, and 20 mol % or less of B2O3. An antibacterial fiber containing such an antibacterial property imparting glass composition at a ratio of, for example, 0.1 to 5.0% by weight shows high water resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance and detergent resistance in antibacterial property.

Abstract: A gelation agent or an emulsifying agent is provided which is obtained by mixing a water swelling clay mineral with a quarternary ammonium salt type cation surfactant and a fatty acid or a higher alcohol which is liquid at normal temperatures. The present invention can provide a gelation agent or an emulsifying agent which can be added and mixed to a wide range of oils to produce a gel composition or an emulsified composition with superior stability, safety and usability. The gelation agent or the emulsifying agent of the present invention or the gel composition or the emulsified composition using this agent is preferably used as the base agent of cosmetics and quasi-drugs, for example. Also, the sunscreen cosmetic prepared by adding ultraviolet light protection powder to the aforementioned emulsified composition exhibits superior usability, i.e.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an iontophoresis device, which can ensure the long-term stability of a drug and makes the operations for assemblage upon application easy as well as a method of assembling the device. A backing layer (4) is provided with a drug-dissolving portion (11) on a donor electrode-printed portion (6) thereof and a drug support (14) removably contacts with the drug-dissolving portion. A liner (12) is disposed on the backing layer on the skin (40) side and this is peeled off upon practical use. An opening (15) is formed on the liner (12) and an opening (5) is formed on an electrode portion (Ib). When assembling the device, these openings coincide with each other to thus easily and precisely dispose the drug support (14) on the drug-dissolving portion (11).

Abstract: A weak acid skin cleanser containing an alkali salt of N-acylamino acid and maltitolhydroxy aliphatic ether, or a hydroxy ether carboxylic acid-based anionic surfactant, or polyethylene powder, as well as water and an organic acid. Also, a weak acid skin cleanser containing an alkali salt of N-acylamino acid, a betaine-based ampholytic surfactant, water, and an organic acid. The weak acid skin cleansers mentioned above provide creamy and rich foaming, rapid rinsing, refreshing sensation during use, moist skin sensation after cleaning, and shelf stability of the base agent (separation, offensive odor, discoloration, etc.), and are free of increasing hardness over time at room temperature and below.

Abstract: A Ti-base wire rod for forming molten metal excellent both in rod feeding smoothness and arc stability is disclosed. A wire rod 301 is composed of Ti metal, and has in the surficial portion including the surface thereof an oxygen enriched layer having an oxygen concentration higher than that in an inner portion. Ratio Tw/Dw of the thickness Tw of the oxygen enriched layer and the diameter Dw of the wire rod is adjusted within a range of 1×10−3 to 1×10−1, and the average oxygen concentration of the oxygen enriched layer is adjusted to 1 wt % or above.

Abstract: A composite plate-shaped metal titanate having a composition expressed in MO.TiO2 (wherein M denotes a divalent metal) in which a surface of crystalline metal titanate is partially or entirely coated with amorphous and/or crystalline TiO2.

Abstract: A stent manufactured for treating internal tubular organs, typically for treating a blood vessel, in which the stent has a sufficient diametral shrinkage ability and an ability for returning back to the original diameter thereof. A zigzag shape-memorized stent A is manufactured by performing shape memorization where a wire 1 is fixed in a zigzag bent manner in which the wire is made from a shape-memorizing Ni—Ti alloy not having been subject to shape-memorization of any sort. A stent A being shape-memorized with a zigzag shape as well as a cylindrical shape could be manufactured by performing shape-memorization process in which a stent having been shape-memorized into a zigzag shape with the end portions thereof being connected by overlapping with each other, is attached to a cylindrical jig.

Abstract: A connector with inhibited crosstalk for high speed signal circuits, where the connector contains an insulator formed from a resin composition obtained by incorporating 5 to 85% by weight of a ceramic dielectric powder having a dielectric constant of 30 or more determined at 25° C. and 1 MHz in a matrix resin, and the insulator is substantially homogeneous in the dielectric constant throughout the insulator.

Abstract: This invention regarding the medical measurement apparatus includes an apparatus body capable of being held with a thumb and at least one of the subject testing-fingers, that is, the forefinger, the middle finger, the third finger, the fourth finger; a sensor slot bearing within a sensor in which the sensor slot is open at the side of the apparatus body capable of inserting the testing finger; a switch of the sensor in which the switch is controlled by the thumb and disposed at a prescribed position of the apparatus body; and a display device for indicating the result measured by the sensor in which the display device is arranged at the front surface of the apparatus body.

Abstract: A liftable side rail for a lying table such as a bed, comprising a side rail proper, being pivotally rotatably connected with a pair of support arms pivotally rotatably supported at side rail installation points of the lying table, to be supported in such a manner that the side rail proper may be lifted and lowered by the pivotally rotational motion of these support arms along the pivotally rotational loci between an upper service position and a lower stored position, and each of the support arms, having protrusions functioning as auxiliary side rail members on both sides of the straight line connecting said installation point and the connection point with the side rail proper. When the side rail is held at the lower stored position, the protrusions provided for the support arms are placed along the side rail proper without protruding above and below. So, the tops and bottoms of the protrusions do not constitute any obstruction.

Abstract: A closure structure is provided for a vacuum specimen collection container which can maintain a vacuum pressure within the specimen collection tube and which includes a needle cannula penetrating portion having needle hole sealability. The closure structure can be detachably fitted in an open end of a specimen collection container in an airtight manner to maintain a vacuum condition within the specimen collection container. The closure structure includes a grip section, a rubber elastic needle cannula penetrating portion disposed to fill up a through-hole in a grip section and a rubber elastic fitting portion configured to follow an interior surface profile of an open end of a specimen collection container, thereby to fit therein in a airtight fashion. The grip section has a higher rigidity relative to the needle cannula penetrating portion and the fitting portion. A tubular side wall of a grip section has on its inner side at least one raised portion or recessed portion to prevent kickback.

Abstract: A transdermal or transmucosal drug delivery device excellent in terms of drug permeability and skin irritability and capable of reducing power consumption, is disclosed. An output control circuit (4) of an energization pattern controller (1) supplies a combined energization of pulse depolarized type energization and at least one of direct current type energization and pulse energization between an anode-side device (5) and a cathode-side device (6) of iontophoresis. The details of combination of energization in the output control circuit (4) is determined based on external setting of the energization pattern controller (1) or internal storage information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical scalpel for incising a spherical biological tissue comprising a shank and a planar blade portion integrated with the shank. The planar blade portion has a first face and a second face opposed in parallel as a whole with each other. The planar blade portion has a pointed end to thereby show a reverse-V profile and has, on both sides of such pointed end, an edge in parallel as a whole with the first face and the second face, the blade portion being formed so as to have a ratio of the partial thickness thereof on one side of a virtual flat plane surrounded by said edge to the total thickness thereof within a range of from 75 to 93%.

Abstract: A mounting method and a mounting apparatus of an electronic part onto a substrate are provided, which enable inspection of a bond formed between an electronic part and a substrate when flip-chip bonding is executed by an ultrasonic wave and thermocompression bonding connecting method. The semiconductor chip has bumps which, when are compressed and subjected to ultrasonic vibration, enable formation of a connection between the semiconductor chip and a substrate conductor.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a visual image of ions in a thin frozen tissue sample by placing the tissue sample in contact with a thin membrane having a water soluble gel or hydrophobic plastic thin film which has incorporated in or placed on its surface a fluorescent or color ion indicator which fluoresces or changes color under light of a particular wavelength. The thin frozen tissue sample is then subjected to light having a wavelength to cause the ion indicator to fluoresce or change color.

Abstract: A handling-convenient device for iontophoresis, which can supply spotted regions suffering from disease with a proper quantity of current at the same time. The device for iontophoresis includes a power source apparatus having a plurality of output terminals outputting currents of predetermined values adjusted by a plurality of current control circuits, respectively, and a plurality of connecting cords, each cord being connected with one of the output terminals of the power source apparatus at one end thereof and being connected with an electrode structure at the other end. The connecting cords are attached with the power source apparatus in a mutually attachable/detachable fashion via connection terminals. The power source apparatus has an LED located thereon to notify of the energization status of the device and a power switch externally located thereon to control starts and stops of the apparatus.

Abstract: A wound type common mode choke coil resulting in a tip shape finished product is provided, having a good appearance, high reliability, and excellent common mode characteristics, by reducing the profile of the common mode component. This wound type common mode choke coil has a magnetic core with square collar portions at both ends of a winding core, grooves in the square collars, first electrodes, a pair of coil conductors wound around the winding core portion connected conductively to the first electrode layers of the collar portions, a non-magnetic first insulation coating layer coating the outer circumference of the magnetic core, a second insulation coating layer containing magnetic power armor-coated to the whole outer circumference of the common mode choke coil, and second electrode layers coating from the groove portions over the first electrode layers.

Abstract: A dental instrument for root canal therapy having a shaft portion and an operational portion extended from such shaft portion, wherein at least a region from the tip of the operational portion down to a predetermined distant position has a sectional form surrounded by an arc and a chord, and a length of a line segment along a vertical bisector of the chord sectioned between such chord and such arc equals to or longer than five-eighths of the diameter of a virtual circle composed by such arc was disclosed.

Abstract: An endermic liniment which characteristically contains an extract from a plant of the Solanaceae family (Solanaceae), genus Withania (Withania). A whitening endermic liniment with a superior whitening effect can be provided.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an iontophoresis device suitable for effective use of a drug supported on a drug support. A donor electrode-printed portion (6) and a reference electrode-printed portion (7) are arranged on a backing layer (4). The backing layer is provided with, at the periphery, an adhesive film (3) for fixing a pharmaceutical preparation to an application site. The both electrode-printed portions (6), (7) are electrically connected to a current-generating portion (Ia) through a conductive snap connector (Id). The drug support (14) is removably joined with a conductive layer (11) formed on the electrode on the side of the donor electrode-printed portion (6). The drug support (14) is subjected to a drug diffusion-inhibitory treatment (30).