Abstract: A liquid drug delivery device 5 for delivering a liquid drug to a target site 2a in a living tissue 2 by irradiating the liquid drug with laser light L at a location 1a near the target site 2a.

Abstract: A cavitation nozzle is disclosed, including a plate, a hollow body, and a cap removably engaged with the hollow body and holding the plate against a distal end of the hollow body. The plate may have a central aperture and a distal surface, wherein the distal surface is bisected by a groove and the hollow body is configured to deliver high pressure fluid through the central aperture. The delivered high pressure fluid may be discharged as a cavitating jet.

Abstract: Equation (1) for calculating estimated cavitating jet performance E is set, a power index n(?) of a term xn(?) relating to a power law of an injection pressure p1 of a cavitating jet and a power index m(?) of a term ym(?) relating to a power law of a nozzle diameter d for producing the cavitating jet in Equation (1) are specified from data on the injection pressure p1, the nozzle diameter d and a cavitation number ? and data on cavitating jet performance ERmax corresponding to these pieces of data, and the estimated cavitating jet performance E is obtained using the data on the injection pressure p1, the nozzle diameter d and the cavitation number ?, the Equation (1) and the functions n(?), m(?) for the specified power indices.

Abstract: A water jet spray nozzle has a flow path including, from the upstream side to the end of the flow path, a small-diameter portion having a small inside diameter, an expanded portion having a larger inside diameter than the small-diameter portion, and a jet orifice having a smaller inside diameter than the expanded portion. The water jet spray nozzle is configured such that water passing through the flow path with a pressure of 0.2 to 0.6 MPa is retained in the expanded portion to as to generate cavitation bubbles from the small-diameter portion to the expanded portion. The inside diameter of the small-diameter portion § is 0.5 to 0.7 mm while the inside diameter of the jet orifice is 1 to 1.3 times larger than that of the small-diameter portion.

Abstract: A device for cleaning oral cavity and a method for cleaning oral cavity capable of cleaning stains such as plaque, tartar, and the like even in a narrow portion such as a clearance between teeth, a clearance between implants, and the like. A cover includes a jetting orifice and a discharge orifice and covers a tooth by leaving a clearance between the tooth and the cover so that the clearance can hold water. A jetting unit is mounted in the jetting orifice and includes a flow path communicating with the clearance between the tooth and the cover. The jetting unit is configured to generate cavitation bubbles. The flow path includes a small diameter part and an enlarged part. A discharge unit discharges water in the clearance between the tooth and the cover from the discharge orifice.

Abstract: This invention relates to a metal part and other surface modification method suitable for the machining industry in which shot peening is typically used to refine the surface of a metal part (to introduce compressive residual stresses, to enhance fatigue strength, to harden the workpiece) and for fields in which parts need be cleaned. According to the present invention, workpiece W is placed within a first vessel which is filled with a fluid. The first vessel is pressurized by controlling the flow rate of the fluid flowing in the first vessel from nozzle 4 distant from said workpiece on the surface and of the fluid flowing from first vessel. Thus, the collapsing impact force of cavitation bubbles is increased so that the machined part will have its surface strengthened and cleaned by applying a peening effect to the surface of the part with said impact force.

Abstract: This invention relates to a metal part and other surface modification method suitable for the machining industry in which shot peening is typically used to refine the surface of a metal part (to introduce compressive residual stresses, to enhance fatigue strength, to harden the workpiece) and for fields in which parts need be cleaned. According to the present invention, workpiece W is placed within a first vessel which is filled with a fluid. The first vessel is pressurized by controlling the flow rate of the fluid flowing in the first vessel from nozzle 4 distant from said workpiece on the surface and of the fluid flowing from first vessel. Thus, the collapsing impact force of cavitation bubbles is increased so that the machined part will have its surface strengthened and cleaned by applying a peening effect to the surface of the part with said impact force.