Abstract: In medical guide wire (1A), a tapered second helical spring (7) is interposed continuously between a first helical spring (6) and the third helical spring (8) each wound around a leading end portion (2). From a middle portion of the second helical spring (7) to a leading top end of the first helical spring (6), a spiral blood stream path (10) is serially provided along a line gap (C1) of the helical springs (7, 6). A gap-stopper (12) is provided between the leading end portion (2) and the second helical spring (7) in order to induce a high speed spiral blood flow (17) along the spiral blood stream path (10) when the leading end portion (2) reaches a diseased area (13). The high speed spiral blood flow (17) provides the leading end portion (2) with the advancing force (F) and the rotational force (T).

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystalline polyester resin composition for connectors that is excellent in fluidity at the time of molding and is therefore capable of producing connectors with further suppressed degree of warpage. The object is achieved by providing a liquid crystalline polyester resin composition for connectors comprising a liquid crystalline polyester resin mixture which comprises a liquid crystalline polyester (A) having a specific flow beginning temperature and a liquid crystalline polyester resin (B) having a specific flow beginning temperature and the flow beginning temperature between the liquid crystalline polyester resin (A) and the liquid crystalline polyester resin (B) is from 20° C. to 60° C., and from 15 to 180 parts by weight of a fibrous and/or plate-shaped inorganic filler; wherein both of the liquid crystalline polyester resin (A) and the liquid crystalline polyester resin (B) are produced by the specific method.

Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester resin mixture having a stabilized plastication time and accordingly possible to be molded in constant cycles and giving a molded article excellent in mechanical properties and thermal stability is provided. The liquid crystal polyester resin mixture comprises 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polyester resin composition which comprises 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polyester and from 0 to 150 parts by weight of a filler, and either from 0.001 to 5 parts by weight of a fatty acid amide having a formula; R1—CO—NH2 (wherein R1 denotes a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon of 10 to 30 carbons) or from 0.001 to 2 parts by weight of a high molecular weight polyethylene with a molecular weight of 10,000 or higher.

Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester resin composition having an apparent melt viscosity of 10 to 100 Pa·sec at a shearing rate of 1000 sec−1 and a flow temperature of +40° C., obtained by compounding 10 to 100 parts by weight of an inorganic filler in the form of fiber and 10 to 100 parts by weight of an inorganic filler in the form of plate based on 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polyester resin, wherein the liquid crystal polyester resin contains at least 30 molt of a repeating structural unit of the following formula Al and has a flow temperature of 270° C. to 400° C., the inorganic filler in the form of fiber has an average fiber diameter of 0.

Abstract: In medical guide wire (1A), a tapered second helical spring (7) is interposed continuously between a first helical spring (6) and the third helical spring (8) each wound around a leading end portion (2). From a middle portion of the second helical spring (7) to a leading top end of the first helical spring (6), a spiral blood stream path (10) is serially provided along a line gap (C1) of the helical springs (7, 6). A gap-stopper (12) is provided between the leading end portion (2) and the second helical spring (7) in order to induce a high speed spiral blood flow (17) along the spiral blood stream path (10) when the leading end portion (2) reaches a diseased area (13). The high speed spiral blood flow (17) provides the leading end portion (2) with the advancing force (F) and the rotational force (T).

Abstract: Provided is an aromatic polysulfone resin composition comprising 5 to 50 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polyester resin having a flow temperature of 250 to 320° C., based on 100 parts by weight of an aromatic polysulfone resin having a melt viscosity of less than 500 Pa·s measured at 340° C. and a shear rate of 1000/second and a molded article thereof. The composition shows excellent flowability in molding without losing excellent mechanical property and heat-resistance of the molded article thereof.

Abstract: A medical guide wire which is to ensure a good maneuverability when inserting its front end portion into blood vessels while turning the front end portion around its axis so as to provide an improved remedial treatment with patients. For this purpose, a core elongation has a torsional rigidity coefficient of 16 or less in terms of K ×103. A helical spring has a helical diameter-to-line diameter ratio in the range of 2.5˜3.5. Where the torsional rigidity coefficient is a divided value of (a maximum torsional stress based on a torsional moment to which the core member is subjected)/(the torsional moment to which the core member is subjected). The helical diameter-to-line diameter ratio is a value of (a mean value of outer and inner diameters of the helical spring)/(a line element diameter of the helical spring).

Abstract: A method for providing and sending advertisement information via satellite wave or terrestrial radio wave, receives history information from the broadcasting receiver terminal having the advertisement information which has been played, and calculates the advertisement charge to be paid by a commercial sponsor.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal polyester resin composition, which comprises 5-20 parts by weight of glass fiber having a specific number average fiber diameter and fiber length after molding and 100 parts by weight of a specific liquid crystal polyester resin, and the flexural modulus thereof measured with using a test piece of 0.5 mm thickness is 25 GPa or more; and also provided a process for producing a molded article therefrom. The liquid crystal polyester resin composition is low in specific gravity, and is excellent in processability, mechanical properties, and heat resistance.

Abstract: A guide wire for medical treatment has a flexible main wire and a coil spring in which the main wire is inserted. The coil spring has an untransmissive part and a transmissive part and is manufactured by welding together under a proper welding load a wire made of a material through which radiation cannot pass and a wire made of a material through which radiation can pass to form a base wire, which is coiled to form the coil spring. The guide wire can be smoothly curved and smoothly inserted or extracted into or from the blood vessel without injuring the blood vessel.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a tubular member over an article includes means for feeding a continuous web of a flattened tubular material, means for cutting an individual tubular member from the web, a first belt conveyor unit for conveying the tubular member fed from the cutting means, a second belt conveyor unit for conveying the tubular member in such a manner as to open up at least a leading end of the tubular member as the tubular member is continuously conveyed, a mandrel for receiving the tubular member from the opened up leading end of the tubular member, and a means for sliding the tubular member along a peripheral surface of the mandrel so that the tubular member is entirely opened up. A distance between a point where the cutting means cuts the tubular member from the web of the tubular material and a point where the first belt conveyor unit starts to convey the tubular member is greater than the length of the individual tubular member.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising an inorganic filler in the form of fiber or plate compounded in a liquid crystal polyester resin composition obtained by compounding 10 to 150 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polyester (B) into 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polyester (A), wherein the liquid crystal polyester (A) has a flow temperature of from 310 to 400.degree. C., the liquid crystal polyester (B) has a flow temperature of from 270 to 370.degree. C., the difference between the flow temperature of the liquid crystal polyester (A) and the flow temperature of the liquid crystal polyester (B) is from 10 to 60.degree. C., and the content of the inorganic filler is from 15 to 180 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the liquid crystal polyester (A) and the liquid crystal polyester (B).The resin composition is excellent in thin-wall flowability and can provide a molded article having excellent heat resistance and low warpage, and can provide a super thin-wall molded article.

Abstract: An apparatus for opening flatly folded tubes of synthetic resin or the like material and fitting same on containers or the like objects. Operation of fitting opened tubes on the objects can be performed without requiring any complicated movement of the objects. Each opened tube and each object are transported in same direction and, in the course of this transport, either the tube or the object is moved gradually toward the other so that the one is fitted on or inserted into the other.

Abstract: A folded tube is paid out downward through the rotation of opposing feed rollers, and fitted on a mandrel member. The tube is then fitted on the mandrel and cut to a predetermined length by a cutting device disposed between the feed rollers and the mandrel. Subsequently the tube cut to the predetermined length is drawn downward along the mandrel by the rotating members and the tube is unfolded. Finally, the sufficient unfolded tube is dropped down from the mandrel and fitted on a cap portion of a bottle or container to be sealed.

Abstract: A one piece sheet metal pulley has a support structure for rigidly affixing the pulley to an end of a rotary shaft. The pulley includes a peripheral surface, a web, and a hub integrally formed of a single metal sheet. A plurality of protrusions are raised from the hub, each protrusion being a portion between two spaced slits bent upwards to hold the shaft end. The bent-up portion is contiguous with the sheet metal hub at opposite ends of the slits and is raised axially from the hub intermediate the ends, the protrusions bearing radially against the shaft adjacent the shaft end. A bolt hole is centrally provided in the hub for inserting an axial bolt through the hub and into the shaft, and a rotation preventing means having an eccentric attachment means on the hub resists relative rotation.

Abstract: A sheet metal pulley having a generally circular base with an upstanding circumferential flange. The flange is formed to provide teeth for engaging a toothed belt. The outer tooth sections are separated by tooth bottom sections and these sections are interconnected by intermediate walls. Reinforcing ribs extend circumferentially on the inside of the outer tooth sections between the intermediate walls on either side thereof. This patent also discloses a method for cold-forging this pulley from a sheet metal cup-like member.

Abstract: A magnetic amplifier having two saturable reactor cores with a separate excitation winding on each connected in series opposition, a common control winding and a common output winding, is adapted for use as a low level signal transducer by exciting the separate excitation windings in push-pull mode through a center tapped transformer, and including at least one diode in series with a load resistor connected to the output winding. A resistor in series with the output winding and load resistor is connected between the center tap of the excitation transformer and the connection between the two excitation windings of the saturable cores. This series resistor provides a return current path for the output winding and allows the excitation windings of the saturable cores to operate as primary windings of transformers.

Abstract: In a paralleled inverter system, a positive feedback current derived from the total current from all of the modules of the inverter system is applied to the base drive of each of the power transistors of all modules, thereby to provide all modules protection against open or short circuit faults occuring in any of the modules, and force more equal current sharing among the modules during turn-on of the power transistors.

Abstract: Redundant operation of counter modules is maintained by detecting the zero state of each counter and clearing the other to that state, thus periodically resynchronizing the counters, and obtaining an output from both counters through AC coupled diode-OR gates. Redundant operation of counter flip-flops is maintained in a similar manner, and synchronous operation of redundant squarewave clock generators of the feedback type is effected by connecting together the feedback inputs of the squarewave generators through a coupling resistor, and obtaining an output from both generators through AC coupled diode-OR gates.

Abstract: A module failure isolation circuit for paralleled inverters senses and averages the collector current of each inverter power transistor and compares the collector current of each power transistor with the average collector current of all power transistors to determine when the sensed collector current of a power transistor in any one inverter falls below a predetermined ratio of the average collector current. The module associated with any transistor that fails to maintain a current level above the predetermined ratio of the average collector current is then shut off. A separate circuit detects when there is no load, or a light load, to inhibit operation of the isolation circuit during no load or light load conditions.