Abstract: A low-frequency therapeutic device of a compact type which effectively carries out a comfortable and effective treatment, which does not require a user to find sweet or effective spots and which can be operated easily. The therapeutic device includes a therapeutic main body with a built-in low-frequency pulse output devices, a power supply fitted to the main body, a flexible sheet electrode having an area greater than that of the bottom surface of the therapeutic device main body, and an adhesive pad spread on the sheet electrode.

Abstract: In a twin-drum type continuous casting machine including a pair of drums having rotary shafts supported in parallel to each other from a pair of frames via chocks and rotating in the opposite directions to each other with a gap space held therebetween, and a depressing device for the drums, a method for detecting a sheet thickness of a thin sheet being cast is improved so that detection of a sheet thickness can be carried out reliably at a high precision without delay. A gap space distance between the drums is calculated by detecting a depressed position from the depressing device. A correction value for the gap space distance is calculated from a deflection of the frame by detecting a depressing force of the depressing device. A correction value for the gap space distance is also calculated from a thermal deformation of the frame by detecting a temperature of frame coolant water of the frame.