Abstract: A contact pressure sensor including a semiconductor chip having opposite surfaces, at least one pressure sensing element provided in one of the opposite surfaces of the chip, a spacer member supporting the other surface of the chip, a substrate having a surface to which the spacer member is fixed, the one surface of the chip being pressed against an object which produces a pressure, so that the at least one sensing element detects the pressure produced by the object, a first connection terminal provided in the one surface of the chip, a second connection terminal provided in the surface of the substrate, and a flexible flat cable connecting between the first and second connection terminals, the flexible flat cable being bent into two portions one of which extends along a side surface of the spacer member and the other of which extends along the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for measuring blood pressure of a subject by using a pulse wave sensor for detecting pulse wave produced from an arterial vessel of the subject, and pressing device for pressing the pulse wave sensor against the arterial vessel via a body surface of the subject, the method comprising the steps of pressing the pulse wave sensor against the arterial vessel with a continuously variable pressing force produced by the pressing device, detecting variation in magnitude of the pulse wave with the pulse wave sensor while the pressing force of the pressing device is continuously varied, and determining blood pressure of the subject based on the detected magnitude variation of the pulse wave.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically measuring a blood pressure of a subject, including a device for defining an inflatable pressure chamber, the device being set on a body portion of the subject, a flexible piping, a device for supplying a pressurized fluid to the inflatable pressure chamber via the flexible piping so as to increase fluid pressure in the pressure chamber and thereby press the body portion of the subject, and a relief device for discharging the pressurized fluid in the inflatable pressure chamber, into atmosphere, if the fluid pressure in the pressure chamber exceeds a predetermined value, the relief means being supported by the means for defining the pressure chamber.

Abstract: An optically active arylacetic acid derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and are each an hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a phenyl group; and Ar is a group of the formula: ##STR2## a group of the formula: ##STR3## wherein R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different and are each a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a difluoromethoxy group, a trifluoromethyl group or a phenyl group is prepared in good conversion and optical yield by asymmetrically reducing an ethylenically unsaturated compound of the formula: ##STR4## wherein R.sub.1, and R.sub.2 and Ar are the same as defined above with hydrogen in the presence of a metal catalyst modified with a ligand selected from the group consisting of a specific optically active metallocenyl phosphine derivative and a specific optically active binaphthyl derivative.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting and displaying a pulse wave based on pulsations of an arterial vessel of a human body, with an improved accuracy irrespective of variations in pressing force of a sensing unit against a body member and/or irrespective of deviation of the depressed sensing unit from the arterial vessel to be detected, thereby providing the user of the apparatus with reliable medical diagnostic information on blood circulating organs.

Abstract: In a method for coating an article by electrodeposition which comprises: immersing the article to be coated in a bath comprising a powder containing electrodeposition coating composition comprising a water thinnable cationic synthetic resin which is a nitrogen-containing basic resin partially neutralized with an acidic compound and a synthetic resin in the form of fine powder which is solid at a room temperature but can melt when heated;employing as a cathode, said article to be coated;and applying a voltage between the cathode and plural anodes placed in the bath,the improvement which comprises positioning the above-mentioned anodes to face the respective surface of said article to be coated and controlling the amount of coating on the respective surfaces of said article by regulating the quantity of electricity allowed flowing to each anode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for replenishing an electrodeposition coating bath by subjecting to an ultrafiltration, an electro-deposition bath liquid which has been decomposed with time under a pressure of 0.2-3.0 kg/cm.sup.2 changing the direction of the bath liquid during the ultrafiltration step so as to cause the liquid to flow in opposite directions in the ultrafiltering apparatus; recycling the concentrate obtained from the ultrafiltration to the electrodeposition coating bath for the purpose of adjusting the liquid characteristics of the bath and using the thus-obtained filtrate, obtained from the ultrafiltration, the diluent for preparing a replenishing supply liquid.