Abstract: A method for using a packaging material for a medical instrument set, the medical instrument set being housed in said packaging material and assembled from a plurality of medical instruments. The packaging material includes a packaging material body having an opening therein and a lid that closes the opening and holds or fastens, on an inside portion thereof, a blood collecting needle. The method includes an opening operation for peeling off the lid to expose the opening to an outside environment while letting the blood collecting needle through the opening, and then taking the blood collecting needle out from the packaging material body; a preparation operation for removing the blood collecting needle from the lid; and a blood collecting operation for collecting blood by using the blood collecting needle in a stage where the blood-processing part is housed in the packaging material body.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing 10-60 parts by weight of a non-crosslinkable crystalline polyolefin resin (A), 1-30 parts by weight of a specific propylene 1-butene random copolymer (B) and 89-10 parts by weight of an ethylene ?-olefin non-conjugated polyene copolymer rubber (C) which is composed of ethylene, an ?-olefin having 3-20 carbon atoms and a non-conjugated polyene, in such amounts that the total of the components (A), (B) and (C) is 100 parts by weight. The thermoplastic elastomer composition is dynamically crosslinked by an extruder. This thermoplastic elastomer is excellent in moldability and economic efficiency, and enables to obtain a molded body exhibiting sufficient adhesion strength to a vulcanized rubber or thermoplastic elastomer without the intermediation of an adhesive layer, as well as a lightweight molded body having sufficient hardness and rubber elasticity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a receiver that includes a plurality of tuners for receiving broadcasts such as satellite broadcast. A tuner circuit (1) includes an input terminal (11) for inputting a broadcast wave in which a video signal and/or an audio signal are modulated in a predetermined format, and a mount layer (13) on which a main circuit (12) for selecting, from the broadcast wave, a video signal and/or an audio signal included in a predetermined frequency band is mounted. In the tuner circuit (1), a first ground layer (15) is disposed, through a first dielectric layer (14), on the surface opposite to that on which the main circuit (12) of the mount layer (13) is arranged, and a second ground layer (17) is disposed through a second dielectric layer, thereby suppressing mutual interference between tuners.

Abstract: An electrode group 4 having a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate arranged with a porous insulating layer interposed therebetween and end portions of the positive and negative electrode plates protruding from the porous insulating layer is prepared, and current collector plates 10 and 11 each of which is provided with a projection 12 having a gap 12a formed therein is prepared. With the end portion 2a of the electrode plate protruding from the porous insulating layer 3 kept in contact with a principle surface of the current collector plates 10 and 11, the projection 12 is locally heated to join the end portion 2a of the electrode plate and the current collector plates 10 and 11. the end portion 2a of the electrode plate is welded to the current collector plates 10 and 11 with a fused material obtained by fusing the projection 12.

Abstract: A medical instrument set package includes a blood treating implement (medical instrument set) housed inside a packing material. The blood treating implement includes a plurality of bags, a blood collecting needle, and a filter, which are connected together by tubes. The packaging material (15) includes a packing material body (16) formed with an opening (17) therein for taking out a housed article. The packing material also has perforations (18) serving as a means for expanding the opening, and a lid (20) that closes the opening (17). An adhesive layer (22) is formed on the inner surface of the lid (20). A blood collecting needle (41), which is the medical instrument that is used first, is pasted to and held on the adhesive layer (22). The moment the lid (20) is removed to unseal the opening (17), the blood collecting needle (41) is made ready for servicing.

Abstract: A blood treatment filter which comprises a housing including an inlet and an outlet, and a filter unit for filtering blood containing erythrocytes, platelets and leukocytes as blood cell components is provided. The filter unit comprises a main filter unit which virtually removes predetermined cell components from blood and passes the remaining blood cell components, and a pre-filter unit which is arranged at the up-stream side of the main filter and virtually does not remove blood cell components. The pre-filter unit has a permeability rate of 70 to 90% for micro particles having an average particle size of 6 ?m which are contained in a suspension and passed by gravity.

Abstract: A nanocarbon generation equipment designed such that organic processed materials can be quickly thermally decomposed therein and the decomposed materials are then quenched and liquefied to obtain liquefied materials is disclosed. This equipment comprises thermal reactor for quickly thermally decomposing the organic processed materials, apparatus for recovering the liquefied materials which are liquefied through quenching of thermally decomposed organic processed materials, a rotary furnace to be filled with a reducing atmosphere and loaded with hydrocarbons to be obtained through vaporization of liquefied materials after impurities contained in the liquefied materials are removed, and metal balls made of a metal selected from stainless steel, iron, nickel, chromium and an optional combination thereof, wherein the hydrocarbon introduced into the rotary furnace is decomposed into carbon and hydrogen, thus enabling nanocarbon to be produced through vapor-phase growth.

Abstract: There is disclosed a nanocarbon generating equipment which is designed to execute a process wherein an organic processed material is thermally decomposed at first and then the decomposed matter is cooled and liquefied. The apparatus comprising a thermal reactor for thermally decomposing the organic processed material, a recovering device which is configured to cool and liquefy a decomposed organic processed material and to recover a liquefied product, and a high-temperature furnace for treating the liquefied product, wherein impurities contained in the liquefied product is removed and the resultant liquefied product is introduced into the high-temperature furnace kept in a reducing atmosphere to generate nanocarbon through a vapor-phase growth.

Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer excellent in rubber elasticity and extrudability and a molded object thereof. The thermoplastic elastomer comprises a partly or wholly crosslinked rubber (A), an isotactic polypropylene (B) having an isotactic pentad content of 0.8 or higher, a syndiotactic polypropylene (C) having a syndiotactic pentad content of 0.6 or higher, and a softener (D), the content of the syndiotactic of the syndiotactic polypropylene (C) being in the range of 0.5 to 10 wt. % based on the sum of the crosslinked rubber (A), isotactic polypropylene (B), syndiotactic polypropylene (C), and softener (D), the thermoplastic elastomer having a melt flow rate of 0.01 to 1000 g/10 min as measured in accordance with ASTMD 1238 at 230° C. under a load of 10 kg. The molded object is obtained by extrusion-molding the elastomer.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a vulcanized rubber molded product which upon melt bonding of olefinic thermoplastic elastomer thereto without an adhesive layer, can form a molded product having sufficient adhesion while generating matrix breakage upon release, as well as a molded composite comprising thermoplastic elastomer melt-bonded to the vulcanized rubber molded product. The vulcanized rubber molded product of the invention is a vulcanized rubber molded product used in melt-bonding to olefinic thermoplastic elastomer and containing 2 to 10 wt % olefinic resin having a crystallinity of 10% or more as determined by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).

Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer excellent in rubber elasticity and extrudability and a molded object thereof. The thermoplastic elastomer comprises a partly or wholly crosslinked rubber (A), an isotactic polypropylene (B) having an isotactic pentad content of 0.8 or higher, a syndiotactic polypropylene (C) having a syndiotactic pentad content of 0.6 or higher, and a softener (D), the content of the syndiotactic of the syndiotactic polypropylene (C) being in the range of 0.5 to 10 wt. % based on the sum of the crosslinked rubber (A), isotactic polypropylene (B), syndiotactic polypropylene (C), and softener (D), the thermoplastic elastomer having a melt flow rate of 0.01 to 1000 g/10 min as measured in accordance with ASTMD 1238 at 230° C. under a load of 10 kg. The molded object is obtained by extrusion-molding the elastomer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a receiver that includes a plurality of tuners for receiving broadcasts such as satellite broadcast. A tuner circuit (1) includes an input terminal (11) for inputting a broadcast wave in which a video signal and/or an audio signal are modulated in a predetermined format, and a mount layer (13) on which a main circuit (12) for selecting, from the broadcast wave, a video signal and/or an audio signal included in a predetermined frequency band is mounted. In the tuner circuit (1), a first ground layer (15) is disposed, through a first dielectric layer (14), on the surface opposite to that on which the main circuit (12) of the mount layer (13) is arranged, and a second ground layer (17) is disposed through a second dielectric layer, thereby suppressing mutual interference between tuners.

Abstract: The olefin thermoplastic elastomer of the invention has an islands-sea structure, in which the average particle diameter of the islands phases is not more than 2 &mgr;m, and has a gel fraction ranging from 0.5 to 15% by weight and a quantity of heat of melt at a temperature of 125° C. or below, as measured in a different scanning calorimeter (DSC), of 40% or more of the total quantity of heat of melt. The olefin thermoplastic elastomer can be obtained by melt blending in the presence of a crosslinking agent of a specific amount a blend that contains specific amounts of: a high density polyethylene having a density of 0.940 g/cm3 or more, or a crystalline ethylene polymer having a crystallinity determined by a DSC method of 10% or more and a density of less than 0.940 g/cm3, an ethylene/&agr;-olefin(/non-conjugated polyene) copolymer rubber comprising ethylene, an &agr;-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms and optionally a non-conjugated polyene, and a polypropylene.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus and method which can prevent second order harmonic interference and beat interference in a direct orthogonal detector is disclosed. When a control signal of the high level is inputted to a control terminal, then a first high frequency switch diode is turned on and a second high frequency switch diode is turned off. In this instance, a filter circuit functions as a low-pass filter. When a control signal of a low level is inputted to the control terminal, then the first high frequency switch diode is turned off and the second high frequency switch diode is turned on. In this instance, the filter circuit functions as a high-pass filter.

Abstract: The olefin thermoplastic elastomer of the invention has an islands-sea structure, in which the average particle diameter of the islands phases is not more than 2 &mgr;m, and has a gel fraction ranging from 0.5 to 15% by weight and a quantity of heat of melt at a temperature of 125° C. or below, as measured in a different scanning calorimeter (DSC), of 40% or more of the total quantity of heat of melt. The olefin thermoplastic elastomer can be obtained by melt blending in the presence of a crosslinking agent of a specific amount a blend that contains specific amounts of: a high density polyethylene having a density of 0.940 g/cm3 or more, or a crystalline ethylene polymer having a crystallinity determined by a DSC method of 10% or more and a density of less than 0.940 g/cm3, an ethylene/&agr;-olefin(/non-conjugated polyene) copolymer rubber comprising ethylene, an &agr;-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms and optionally a non-conjugated polyene, and a polypropylene.

Abstract: A method for refining molten steel by immersing the lower opening end of a cylindrical immersion tube equipped with a lance into the molten steel contained in a ladle, controlling the pressure in the cylindrical immersion tube to a prescribed pressure range to suck up the molten steel, injecting an agitation gas from the bottom of the ladle towards the surface of the sucked-up molten steel, and decarburizing and refining the molten steel under a reduced pressure, characterized in that the method comprising the steps of; controlling the pressure Pt (Torr) in the cylindrical immersion tube so as to satisfy the following formulae (1) and (2), blowing oxygen gas to the surface of the molten steel through the lance, and decarburizing and refining the molten steel under a reduced pressure; Pt>760−1.297×107/Dc2  (1) K=1.71×Dl0.211×Dc0.438×Wm−1.124×Qg0.519×Pt−0.410>0.

Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition, which is light weighing, has very high values for the stiffness and heat resistance and is superior in the scratch-proof property with better moldability upon molding and which can be injection-molded into formed articles without occurrence of cracking, comprising 5-25% by weight of a higher molecular weight polypropylene (A) having an intrinsic viscosity [&eegr;], determined in decalin at 135° C., in the range from 6 to 11 dl/g and 95-75% by weight of a lower molecular weight polypropylene (B) having an intrinsic viscosity [&eegr;], determined in decalin at 135° C., in the range from 0.6 to 1.6 dl/g, wherein the said resin composition has the following charactristic features <<1>> and <<2>>, namely, <<1>> an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm-fraction), determined by 13C-NMR, of at least 96.

Abstract: An oscillation circuit comprises a surface acoustic wave resonance device of the single port type, an active circuit portion with which the surface acoustic wave resonance device is connected so that a signal feedback from the active circuit portion to the surface acoustic wave resonance device is carried out, an inductive element connected substantially in parallel with the surface acoustic wave resonance device, and a damping portion connected with one or both of the inductive element and the surface acoustic wave resonance device for suppressing parasitic oscillations caused by coaction between the inductive element and stray capacitance accompanying the surface acoustic wave resonance device.

Abstract: A deodorizer comprises a hydrophilic solvent extract of fruit-bodies of champignon mushroom or powder of the extract as an effective component. The extract of champignon mushroom used as an effective component can be prepared by a method which comprises the step of immersing the mushroom in a hydrophilic solvent at a temperature ranging from 60.degree. to 1000.degree. C. for 15 minutes to 2 hours to perform extraction. The extract can further be treated to obtain the effective components in the form of powder.