Abstract: Grasping forceps include a cylindrical sheath, a shaft furnished inside the sheath, an operation unit provided near a base end of the sheath and sliding the shaft by converting rotating operation force into an axial direction of the shaft through a pin, and a grasping unit provided near a front end of the sheath and enabling upper and lower jaw units to be open and closed. The grasping unit includes a link unit that couples the upper and lower jaw units, and the front end of the shaft through a pin and opens and closes the upper and lower jaw units according to a slide of the shaft, and the link unit, when the upper and lower jaw units are in a closed state, sets facing grasping surfaces to be parallel and have a predetermined gap dimension.

Abstract: An exercise support apparatus includes an information processing unit that supports a setting of a next exercise menu for improvement to a targeted body, based on prior body motion information on a subject detected by a motion sensor.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to prevent generation of leak caused by deterioration of a frit glass component at AlN/KB glass sealing section which is caused by discharge at the time of laser tube operation.In the present invention, a high fusing point glass made up of a zinc/boric acids material is used at the sealing section of AlN/KB glass, adding to use a conventional low fusing point glass made up of a lead/sillic acids material. By means of this, it is possible to reduce the number of bubbles generation on the sealing interface of an AlN component and a low fusing point glass and to prevent deterioration of the low fusing point glass at laser tube operation and leak at the sealing section.

Abstract: The discharge section of an ion laser tube is made up of a plurality of axially spaced pillar members, each accommodating and holding a respective capillary tube within a central hole, the capillary tubes defining the discharge path. The pillar members are made of high thermal conductivity material, such as aluminum nitride, while the capillary tuves are made of a material, such as silicon carbide, having a high durability under plasma bombardment. The gap between adjacent capillary tubes is preferably equal to or less than the inner diameter of the capillary tubes.

Abstract: A gas laser tube comprises an elongated insulative envelope for containing a laser active medium therein, and an anode electrode and a cathode electrode provided in the elongated envelope for an electric discharge therebetween within the envelope. The anode electrode is formed of a metallic disc having an outer surface in ceaseless contact with an inner surface of the envelope. Further, the metallic disc having at least one slot formed in the outer surface thereof to extend between a pair of opposite end surfaces of the metallic disc.