Abstract: To provide a technique which makes it possible to obtain a proper pulse wave signal for high-accuracy blood pressure measurements, thereby saving the trouble of taking measurements repeatedly and reducing a physical burden imposed on the user by cuff pressure.

Abstract: A nozzle plate includes: a first silicon layer; a glass layer; a second silicon layer provided between the first silicon layer and the glass layer, the second silicon layer being bonded to the glass layer; and a silicon oxide layer provided between the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer. A nozzle hole passing through the first silicon layer and discharging a droplet is formed. A channel passing through the silicon oxide layer and the second silicon layer and communicating with the nozzle hole is formed. A liquid chamber formed in the glass layer and communicating with the channel is formed.

Abstract: A blood-pressure meter having storing means for storing a blood pressure measurement result, and time measurement means for measuring a time is disclosed. The blood-pressure meter includes: input means for entering behavior history; means for storing the blood pressure measurement result into the storing means while associating the blood pressure measurement result with a time when blood pressure measurement is performed; and means for storing the entered behavior history into the storing means while associating the behavior history with a time corresponding to the behavior history.

Abstract: This invention provides a blood pressure measuring apparatus capable of deriving an appropriate pressure value even in an environment in which the environmental temperature constantly changes.

Abstract: A method adjusts a pressure in a substrate processing device. The substrate processing device has a processing chamber for executing a predetermined processing for a substrate to be processed mounted on a mounting table; a pressure adjustment unit for the processing chamber which adjusts a pressure within the processing chamber; a transfer chamber connected to the processing chamber via a gate valve; and a pressure adjustment unit for the transfer chamber which adjusts a pressure in the transfer chamber and adjusts a pressure within the processing chamber while the gate valve is opened. The method is to adjust a pressure within the processing chamber to a predetermined pressure by using both the pressure adjustment unit for the processing chamber and the pressure adjustment unit for the transfer chamber.

Abstract: A droplet jet head includes: a base member holding a plurality of piezoelectric elements; a vibration plate provided on the base member and vibrated by each of the plurality of piezoelectric elements; a liquid chamber plate provided on the vibration plate and forming wall surfaces of a plurality of liquid chambers containing liquid; a nozzle plate provided on the liquid chamber plate and having a plurality of nozzles communicating with the plurality of liquid chambers, respectively; a holder plate provided on the liquid chamber plate in a manner of covering the nozzle plate and having an opening which exposes each of the plurality of nozzles; a buffer member provided between the holder plate and the nozzle plate; and a plurality of screws fastening the base member, the vibration plate, the liquid chamber plate and the holder plate.

Abstract: An automatic urine collection apparatus includes a collection container for accumulating urine transferred from a urine receiver through a tube and a main body for supporting the collection container, wherein the main body includes a suction pump for sucking the urine received by the urine receiver and carrying the urine to the collection container, a mass sensor for measuring the urine accumulated in the collection container, a control board for calculating a volume of the urine based on the measured mass of the urine, and an indicator for indicating the calculated volume of the urine.

Abstract: Shock waves occurring when opening a gate valve between two vacuum chambers and peeling of particles by a viscous force taking place when a gas is supplied into a vacuum chamber are necessary to be suppressed by the apparatus and method of the invention, whereby contamination of a substrate by particles is suppressed. If one vacuum chamber is a substrate processing chamber for performing a vacuum process on the substrate and the other chamber is a transfer chamber having a substrate transfer device therein, the gate valve is opened when inner pressures of both the vacuum chambers are less than 66.5 Pa and higher one thereof is less than twice a lower one thereof. Preferably, a purge gas for peeling of particles is supplied, before supplying the purge gas for pressure control, into the substrate processing chamber with a flow rate greater than that of the purge gas for pressure control.

Abstract: A processing system includes a transfer chamber, a plurality of chambers connected to the transfer chamber, a transfer apparatus disposed in the transfer chamber, and a control section configured to control the transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus includes a base and transfer arm configured to perform a slide motion and a swing motion, respectively. The control section includes a storage portion and an operational controller. The storage portion stores pattern model data concerning a plurality of motion patterns each indicative of a composite motion of the slide motion and the swing motion, and track model data concerning time-based motion tracks respectively corresponding to the motion patterns. The operational controller is configured to retrieve necessary data from the pattern model data and the track model data and control the transfer apparatus in accordance therewith.

Abstract: A droplet jetting applicator includes: a droplet jetting head which freely moves and includes a nozzle surface with a plurality of nozzles formed, from which droplets are jetted; a suction section which sucks the droplets jetted by the droplet jetting head from a facing position facing the nozzle surface; a support/transfer section which supports the suction section, freely moves together with the droplet jetting head, and moves the supported suction section to the facing position and a non-facing position which is apart from the facing position; and an exhaust section which evacuates the suction section to give the suction section a suction force.

Abstract: An living body information collecting apparatus having a shape suitable for being worn in the external auditory meatus of the human body, and having a sensing part for collecting living body information from the external auditory meatus is provided. In addition, a blood-pressure meter is provided, wherein the blood-pressure meter includes: a frame part including a first arm and a second arm that are opposed to each other; a pressure applying part provided on at least one of a side of the first arm opposed to the second arm and a side of the second arm opposed to the first arm; and a detection part for detecting a pulse wave.

Abstract: A processing system includes a transfer chamber, a plurality of chambers connected to the transfer chamber, a transfer apparatus disposed in the transfer chamber, and a control section configured to control the transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus includes a base and transfer arm configured to perform a slide motion and a swing motion, respectively. The control section includes a storage portion and an operational controller. The storage portion stores pattern model data concerning a plurality of motion patterns each indicative of a composite motion of the slide motion and the swing motion, and track model data concerning time-based motion tracks respectively corresponding to the motion patterns. The operational controller is configured to retrieve necessary data from the pattern model data and the track model data and control the transfer apparatus in accordance therewith.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is disclosed a gas introduction system for temperature adjustment comprising passing a gas whose temperature is managed for the temperature adjustment of an object to be processed between a mounting surface of a mounting base for holding the object to be processed under vacuum and a back surface of the object to be processed through a gas supply line, controlling a flow rate adjustment valve by control means based on a measured pressure of the gas supply line measured by a manometer, and adjusting a gas flow rate to the gas supply line so as to obtain a set pressure, so that the gas pressure can be set to a predetermined value in a short time, and the system is miniaturized with little waste of the gas.

Abstract: An ink jet applicator includes an ink jet head having nozzle via which liquid droplets are jetted, a seal mechanism sealing the nozzle using a pressure vessel; a solution supply mechanism supplying a solution to the nozzle at a predetermined pressure.

Abstract: An automatic urine collecting apparatus for collecting urine received by a urine receiver through a tube, includes: a container for receiving and storing urine; a pump that sucks and conveys urine from the urine receiver to the container through the tube, wherein the pump comprises a rotary pump. A body including the pump may cover an opening of container. An overhead portion included in the body may cover the opening of container. The apparatus may further comprise an elevator mechanism to elevate the container to couple the container to the overhead portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor processing system includes a control section that refers to recipe information on a process sequence, thereby detects that a processing apparatus will shift from an ordinary operation state to a long idle state, and switches thermo-medium circulation apparatus from an ordinary mode to an energy-saving mode after the shift to the long idle state. The control section refers to recipe information on the process sequence or another process sequence, thereby detects that the processing apparatus will shift from the long idle state to the ordinary operation state, and switches the thermo-medium circulation apparatus from the energy-saving mode to the ordinary mode before the shift to the ordinary operation state. A thermo-medium is circulated at a first flow rate and at a second flow rate smaller than the first flow rate in the ordinary mode and the energy-saving mode, respectively.

Abstract: An ophthalmic treatment apparatus has a main body and a light source unit. The main body has illumination means for illuminating illumination light to an eye to be examined, and observation means for observing reflected light from the eye to be examined. The light source unit has a light source for generating treatment beam having a predetermined wavelength, light-guiding means for guiding the treatment beam generated from the light source to a desired region of the eye to be examined and for irradiating the eye, and a casing. The light source and the light-guiding means are integrally built in the casing. The treatment beam is made incident from the light source directly to the light-guiding means.

Abstract: There are provided a disk array device in which the residing of the data in the cache memory is flexibly controlled and thereby effective use of the cache can be achieved in utilizing the resident data in the cache memory, and a cache control method for the disk array device. In the disk array device, based on cache-resident information issued in association with a job processed in a server, a storage control device controls residence or non-residence of data associated with the job in the cache memory.