Abstract: This terminal device controls a display unit so as to: transmit a code inputted to a code input screen to a server device; receive, from the server device, screen information corresponding to a pharmacy specified on the basis of the code; and display a first service selection screen on the basis of the screen information. The first service selection screen accepts an operation by which the user of the terminal device selects a desired service from among options that include common and exclusive services.

Abstract: A medication history management method in which a server apparatus transmits/receives information to/from a medical institution terminal and a patient terminal and manages a medication history includes: generating random-number-value information based on a request for the random-number-value information received from a medical institution terminal; storing the random-number-value information in a predetermined storage section and displaying the random-number-value information on the medical institution terminal; receiving the random value information inputted from the patient terminal and patient-identification information stored in the patient terminal from the patient terminal; and reading, when the random value information stored in the predetermined storage section coincides with the random value information received from the patient terminal, the medication history information corresponding to the patient-identification information from the predetermined storage section and displaying the medication hist

Abstract: A medicine prescription support method in a server which provides information of medicines to a user terminal through a communication network. The server executes the steps of: receiving patient data and prescription medicine data from the user terminal; determining whether a patient corresponding to the patient data is a subscriber to a predetermined medical insurance based on subscriber data to the predetermined medical insurance and the patient data; and when the patient is a subscriber to the predetermined medical insurance, determining whether there is a medicine that can be replaced by a generic medicine in the prescription medicine data based on a database in which original medicines are associated with generic medicines corresponding thereto, and when there is a medicine that can be replaced by a generic medicine, transmitting data of the replaceable generic medicine to the user terminal.

Abstract: A server controls propriety of access to a medicine taking history through a communication network A medicine prescription support method in the server includes: receiving patient data and prescription medicine data from a user terminal; and when receiving the patient data and the prescription medicine data, setting an access propriety identifier indicating propriety of access from a pharmacy terminal to a medicine taking history of a patient corresponding to the patient data such that the access propriety identifier indicates permission of access.

Abstract: A gas generator includes a metallic housing, an ignition device including an igniter assembly, and gas generating agent, the igniter assembly including an igniter main body fixed to a metallic cylindrical fixing member with a resin and a connector-connecting portion for fitting a connector, at least part of the metallic cylindrical fixing member being electro-conductive to the housing, and including an exposed portion exposed to an inner surface of the connector-connecting portion, the exposed portion of the metallic cylindrical fixing member serving as a ground terminal, when the connector is connected to the connector-connecting portion, the ground terminal being in contact with an earth terminal of the connector, a grounding lead wire of the connector being grounded to a ground circuit located outside the gas generator.

Abstract: A gas generator for a restraining device includes, a housing having an ignition device and a diffuser portion, and a gas generating agent charged in an inner space of the housing, a partition member, having a communication hole, and inclining with respect to a longitudinal axis (X) of the housing, thereby dividing the inner space into a gas generating agent charging space and a gas flow channel space, the gas flow channel space communicating with the diffuser portion, both of the edges of the partition member abutting against an inner circumferential surface of the housing, a cross-sectional area of the gas generating agent charging space decreasing from the ignition device side at one end of the housing to the diffuser portion side at the other end of the housing, and a cross-sectional area of the gas flow channel space increasing from the ignition device side to the diffuser portion side.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generator including a metallic housing, an ignition device including an igniter assembly, and gas generating agent, the igniter assembly including an igniter main body fixed to a metallic cylindrical fixing member with a resin and a connector-connecting portion for fitting a connector, at least part of the metallic cylindrical fixing member being electro-conductive to the housing, and including an exposed portion exposed to an inner surface of the connector-connecting portion, the exposed portion of the metallic cylindrical fixing member serving as a ground terminal, when the connector is connected to the connector-connecting portion, the ground terminal being in contact with an earth terminal of the connector, a grounding lead wire of the connector being grounded to a ground circuit located outside the gas generator.

Abstract: A gas generator for a restraining device includes, a housing having an ignition device and a diffuser portion, and a gas generating agent charged in an inner space of the housing, a partition member having a communication hole and being disposed to incline regarding a long axis of the housing, thereby dividing the inner space into a gas generating agent charging space and a gas flow channel space, the gas flow channel space communicating with the diffuser portion, both of the edges of the partition member being abutted against an inner circumferential surface of the housing, a cross-sectional area of the gas generating agent charging space decreasing from the ignition device side at one end of the housing to the diffuser portion side at the other end of the housing, a cross-sectional area of the gas flow channel space increasing from the ignition device side to the diffuser portion side.

Abstract: An instrument is provided for pharmacologic measurement capable of detecting a very small and short time change in electric signal caused by a pharmacologic action of a biologic specimen with quickness and a high sensitivity by steeply decreasing an external disturbance component mixed into the system while dropping/exchange of medicinal solutions is conducted in a batch mode.

Abstract: A substrate including a channel part having a chamber in which a liquid can be fed stepwise from a chamber to another chamber at the channel part formed in the substrate, depending on the rotational speed of the substrate. A first chamber, a second chamber, a third chamber, and a channel interconnecting them are formed at the channel part formed in the substrate. Furthermore, the width and/or the depth of the first chamber is set smaller than the width and/or the depth of the second chamber. Consequently, the volume of solution subjected to centrifugal force in the first chamber is larger than the volume of solution subjected to centrifugal force in the second chamber.

Abstract: Provided is a measuring chip, which can spot a specimen liquid of a minute quantity for an immune agglutination easily and precisely to the measuring chip and which can prevent the flow of the specimen liquid and the contamination of the specimen. The measuring chip comprises at least two substrates, a spacer arranged between the substrates, at least one passage made of the substrates and the spacer into a hollow shape and having two open ends, counter electrodes for applying an electric field, and a specimen-spotted portion to be spotted with the specimen. The specimen-spotted portion has a structure made of a square, circular, elliptical or sector shape by that spacer. Moreover, the specimen-spotted portion has two open ends, one of which is connected to one open end of that passage.

Abstract: A sensing element for measuring extracellular potential including a substrate, a well provided in a substrate, a guide section provided on the wall of the well, and a detective electrode formed at a lower surface of the substrate. The guide section is for guiding drug. The well is provided at the bottom with a depression, and a first throughhole penetrating through the depression and the lower surface of the substrate. The well is for mixing a subject cell, a culture solution and the drug together. The above-configured sensing element accurately measures a change generated by a subject cell.

Abstract: A substrate having a channel portion in which a liquid transfers, wherein, even if the channel portion has no micro-channel interconnecting chambers, a liquid can transfer stepwise from one region to the next region according to the speed of rotation of the substrate. The substrate can be rotated about a rotation axis as the center, and has the channel portion including the chambers formed therein. The inner wall of each chamber has a first area including an area intersecting with a centrifugal direction from the center; and also has a second area placed at a position farther from the center than the first area, and including a surface intersecting with the centrifugal direction from the center. Further, the first area has a region for holding a droplet of a liquid provided; and also has a region where a contact with the droplet expands when the substrate is rotated, and that communicate with the second area.

Abstract: A sensing element for measuring extracellular potential including a substrate, a well provided in a substrate, a guide section provided on the wall of the well, and a detective electrode formed at a lower surface of the substrate. The guide section is for guiding drug. The well is provided at the bottom with a depression, and a first throughhole penetrating through the depression and the lower surface of the substrate. The well is for mixing a subject cell, a culture solution and the drug together. The above-configured sensing element accurately measures a change generated by a subject cell.

Abstract: Provided is a measuring chip, which can spot a specimen liquid of a minute quantity for an immune agglutination easily and precisely to the measuring chip and which can prevent the flow of the specimen liquid and the contamination of the specimen. The measuring chip comprises at least two substrates, a spacer arranged between the substrates, at least one passage made of the substrates and the spacer into a hollow shape and having two open ends, counter electrodes for applying an electric field, and a specimen-spotted portion to be spotted with the specimen. The specimen-spotted portion has a structure made of a square, circular, elliptical or sector shape by that spacer. Moreover, the specimen-spotted portion has two open ends, one of which is connected to one open end of that passage.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus for determining a biologically specifically reactive substance using the acceleration of a biologically specific reaction by pearl chaining of carrier particles. The apparatus can suppress the generation of heat caused by the pearl chaining to suppress the vaporization of a sample solution. The apparatus comprises a substrate comprising a pair of electrodes and a reaction field disposed between the pair of electrodes, voltage applying means for applying an alternating voltage to the pair of electrodes, and carrier particles which are disposed in the reaction field and undergo pearl chaining upon exposure of an alternating electric field applied to the reaction field by the alternating voltage. The apparatus is characterized in that the voltage applying means applies two or more alternating voltages different from each other in amplitude.

Abstract: A chamber chip 17 is provided with a pre-branching chamber 21, branching chamber 22, and a guiding fluid passage 24 for these chambers 21. The branching chamber 22 has a separation wall 23 which defines two branching compartments 29A and 29B. A wall surface of the branching chamber positioned at a side of the rotary shaft 13 has a spread angle ?e from an outlet end section 24b of the guiding fluid passage 24 which is an obtuse angle. The rotation of the chamber chip 17 about the rotary shaft 13 causes a liquid 23 to flow from the pre-branching chamber 21 through the guiding fluid passage 24 into the branching chamber 22. By a Coriolis force acting in an opposite direction to a rotation direction R1, R2 about the rotary shaft 13, the liquid 23 is selectively supplied to any one of the branching compartments 29A and 29B.

Abstract: A probe for measuring an electric potential of a cell includes a plate having a surface having a first cavity provided therein, and a sensor element provided in the first cavity. A second cavity is provided in the bottom surface of the first cavity. The first flow passage having first and second openings is provided in the plate. The first and second openings of the first flow passage open to the second cavity and outside the plate, respectively. The sensor element includes a thin plate, and a supporting substrate provided around the thin plate and in the first cavity of the plate. The thin plate has a through-hole therein having a first opening and a second opening communicating with the second cavity of the plate. The first flow passage allows fluid to flow therein. A sucking device is coupled with the second opening of the first flow passage as to suck the fluid flowing in the first flow passage. This probe can measure an electric potential of a cell floating in solution as it is in this environment.

Abstract: A probe for measuring an electric potential of a cell includes a plate having a surface having a first cavity provided therein, and a sensor element provided in the first cavity. A second cavity is provided in the bottomsurface of the first cavity. The first flow passage having first and second openings is provided in the plate. The first and second openings of the first flow passage open to the second cavity and outside the plate, respectively. The sensor element includes a thin plate, and a supporting substrate provided around the thin plate and in the first cavity of the plate. The thin plate has a through-hole therein having a first opening and a second opening communicating with the second cavity of the plate. The first flow passage allows fluid to flow therein. A sucking device is coupled with the second opening of the first flow passage as to suck the fluid flowing in the first flow passage. This probe can measure an electric potential of a cell floating in solution as it is in this environment.

Abstract: A substrate including a channel part having a chamber in which a liquid can be fed stepwise from a chamber to another chamber at the channel part formed in the substrate, depending on the rotational speed of the substrate. A first chamber, a second chamber, a third chamber, and a channel interconnecting them are formed at the channel part formed in the substrate. Furthermore, the width and/or the depth of the first chamber is set smaller than the width and/or the depth of the second chamber. Consequently, the volume of solution subjected to centrifugal force in the first chamber is larger than the volume of solution subjected to centrifugal force in the second chamber.