Abstract: In a process of varying pressure of a pressure container (24) accommodating a forearm (22) of a subject (20) in a pressure range including negative pressure, a diameter (cross-sectional shape value) (D) of an artery 44 in the forearm (22) accommodated in the pressure container (24) is measured non-invasively by a vascular diameter calculating unit (76). In addition, a display controller (display controlling means) (80) operates to display on a displaying device (16) a variation of an internal pressure (Pc) in the pressure container (24) and a variation of the diameter (D) of the artery (44) varying depending thereon. Based on the diameter (D) of the artery (44) obtained in the high pressure region, the variation of the internal pressure Pc in the pressure container 24 and the variation of the diameter (D) of the artery 44 varying depending thereon i.e. mechanical properties of the artery (44) are displayed on the displaying device (16).

Abstract: [Problem] To enable easy charging control when charging a filter capacitor. [Means for Resolution] In an electric vehicle control apparatus, a converter 3 having a bridge circuit formed by making inverse-parallel connection of rectifying devices 1a to 1d and self-arc-suppressing devices 2a to 2d is connected to a secondary winding 5a of a main transformer 5, and a filter capacitor 8 is connected to an output end of the converter 3. Moreover, an inverter 9 that converts DC power to AC power is connected to both ends of the filter capacitor 8, and charging of the filter capacitor 8 is carried out before the inverter 9 is actuated.

Abstract: In an electric car control apparatus for driving an induction motor, detection accuracy of a DC voltage is improved. A DC power supply device is provided which has a maximum potential terminal A, an intermediate potential terminal B, a minimum potential terminal C, an upstream side capacitor 6 between the maximum potential terminal A and the intermediate potential terminal B, and a downstream side capacitor 7 between the intermediate potential terminal B and the minimum potential terminal C. Also, an overvoltage suppression part is provided which includes a resistor 8 and a thyristor 9 between the maximum potential terminal A and the minimum potential terminal C.

Abstract: A pressing apparatus using a motor, in which a fast feed drive lowers an upper die to a position immediately before pressing, and a motor for pressing performs a pressing operation. The fast feed drive and the motor for pressing operate cooperatively, and only one position detector, which detects a present position of a slider, is provided for a set of the fast feed drive and the motor for pressing.

Abstract: An aspiration-type spray system includes a spraying mechanism, a gas cylinder, and a chamber for containing fluid to be sprayed. The spraying mechanism aspirates and sprays the fluid contained in the chamber by spouting a gas from the gas cylinder. The spraying mechanism includes a cylinder-connecting member connected to the stem of the gas cylinder, a fluid-connecting member connected to the fluid chamber, and an actuator for hand-operated spraying. An open/close valve is provided in the fluid-connecting member, and the operation of the actuator not only opens the open/close valve of the fluid-connecting member but presses the stem.

Abstract: An aspiration-type spray system includes a spraying mechanism, a gas cylinder, and a chamber for containing fluid to be sprayed. The spraying mechanism aspirates and sprays the fluid contained in the chamber by spouting a gas from the gas cylinder. The spraying mechanism includes a cylinder-connecting member connected to the stem of the gas cylinder, a fluid-connecting member connected to the fluid chamber, and an actuator for hand-operated spraying. An open/close valve is provided in the fluid-connecting member, and the operation of the actuator not only opens the open/close valve of the fluid-connecting member but presses the stem.

Abstract: In an electric car control apparatus for driving an induction motor, detection accuracy of a DC voltage is improved. A DC power supply device is provided which has a maximum potential terminal A, an intermediate potential terminal B, a minimum potential terminal C, an upstream side capacitor 6 between the maximum potential terminal A and the intermediate potential terminal B, and a downstream side capacitor 7 between the intermediate potential terminal B and the minimum potential terminal C. Also, an overvoltage suppression part is provided which includes a resistor 8 and a thyristor 9 between the maximum potential terminal A and the minimum potential terminal C.

Abstract: A press forming machine comprising driving shafts for pressing three or more respective pressure points and displacement measuring means for measuring a displacement close to the pressure point. A central driving shaft among the driving shafts has a gap (the slack) larger than those of other driving shafts between each of the driving shafts and a pressure plate. During press formation at a trial stage, a positional displacement close to each pressure point is measured by the displacement measuring means and control data is supplied to each driving source for driving a driving shaft to drive the pressure plate. Then, production press-formation is performed in accordance with the above result. Therefore, the central driving source can avoid overload by the slack of the driving shaft with the pressure plate.

Abstract: The invention provides a pressing apparatus using a motor, in which driving means for fast feed, which lowers a upper die to a position immediately before pressing, and a motor for pressing, which performs a pressing operation, are used to cause the driving means for fast feed and the motor for pressing to operate cooperatively, and only one position detector, which detects a present position of a slider, is provided for a set of the driving means for fast feed and the motor for pressing.

Abstract: A press forming machine comprising driving shafts for pressing three or more respective pressure points and displacement measuring means for measuring a displacement close to the pressure point. A central driving shaft among the driving shafts has a gap (the slack) larger than those of other driving shafts between each of the driving shafts and a pressure plate. During press formation at a trial stage, a positional displacement close to each pressure point is measured by the displacement measuring means and control data is supplied to each driving source for driving a driving shaft to drive the pressure plate. Then, production press-formation is performed in accordance with the above result. Therefore, the central driving source can avoid overload by the slack of the driving shaft with the pressure plate.

Abstract: Hydrogen fluoride is effectively removed from a mixture of hydrogen fluoride, dichloromethane, chlorofluoromethane and/or difluoromethane by distilling the mixture so that two-component azeotropic mixtures of hydrogen fluoride and dichloromethane, hydrogen fluoride and chlorofluoromethane and hydrogen fluoride and difluoromethane are removed, or by liquid-separating the mixture into an upper liquid phase rich in hydrogen fluoride and a lower liquid phase not rich in hydrogen fluoride before each liquid phase is distilled as described above.

Abstract: Hydrogen fluoride is effectively removed from a mixture of hydrogen fluoride, dichloromethane, chlorofluoromethane and/or difluoromethane by distilling the mixture so that two-component azeotropic mixtures of hydrogen fluoride and dichloromethane, hydrogen fluoride and chlorofluoromethane and hydrogen fluoride and difluoromethane are removed, or by liquid-separating the mixture into an upper liquid phase rich in hydrogen fluoride and a lower liquid phase not rich in hydrogen fluoride before each liquid phase is distilled as described above.

Abstract: Hydrogen fluoride is effectively removed from a mixture of hydrogen fluoride, dichloromethane, chlorofluoromethane and/or difluoromethane by distilling the mixture so that two-component azeotropic mixtures of hydrogen fluoride and dichloromethane, hydrogen fluoride and chlorofluoromethane and hydrogen fluoride and difluoromethane are removed, or by liquid-separating the mixture into an upper liquid phase rich in hydrogen fluoride and a lower liquid phase not rich in hydrogen fluoride before each liquid phase is distilled as described above.

Abstract: A diester monomer is represented by the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent a hadrogen atom, an alkoxy, alkenyloxy or hydroxyalkyloxy carbonyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a phosphorylcholine derivative ##STR2## where Y denotes --(CH.sub.2)n, --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 -- ##STR3## n denotes 1 to 8, m is an integer of 0 or 1, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 denote an alkyl or aryl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or a hydroxyalkyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms; on the proviso that if R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, neither R.sub.2 nor R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom and at least one of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 denotes the aforesaid phosphorylcholine derivative group, and that if R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom, neither R.sub.1 nor R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom and at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 denotes the aforesaid phosphorycholine derivative group.

Abstract: A highly hydrous soft contact lens comprising a copolymer which contains as an ingredient a monomer having constitution similar to that of phospholipid represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## n is an integer of 1-20, and, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different groups and alkyl or hydroxyalkyl of 1-8 carbon atoms.Further, a treating solution for contact lenses which comprises a polymer containing as an ingredient the above monomer and a solvent which can dissolve the polymer.

Abstract: A polymer comprising fluoroalkyl group has a structure in which one or two parts of the fluoroalkyl group at the one or both ends of the molecule are linked to a part of alkylene groups or alkylene groups substituted with halogen, a part of alkylene group substituted with functional groups, such as halogen, cyano group, alkylsulfonic acid group, amidoalkylsulfonic acid group, carboxylic acid group, carboxyl group, oxycarbonyl group, ether group, epoxy group and the like, and/or a part of silicone group. A method of preparation of the polymer comprising fluoroalkyl group contains reaction of a fluoroalkanoyl peroxide with a monomer comprising the functional group or a monomer comprising silicone group. A surface active agent comprises fluoroalkyl group and caroxylic acid salt group. A surface treatment agent comprises the polymer comprising fluoroalkyl group, hydrolysis products thereof, hydrolytic condensation products thereof, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: Trioxane derivatives represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A and RA are the same with or different from each other, and represent a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group, respectively, or represent R.sub.1 --X.sub.1 --or R.sub.2 --X.sub.2 --in which X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 represent independently a divalent organic residue, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent independently carboxyl group, amino group, hydroxyl group or mercapto group, and Z represents hydrogen atom, halogen atom, methyl group, ethyl group or propyl group, or carboxyl, amino, hydroxyl or mercapto group through a divalent organic residue, and process for the preparation thereof, as well as method for chemiluminescence comprising mixing the trioxane derivatives and a base.

Abstract: A fluoroalkyl group-containing organosilicon oligomer is represented by the following formula (I) or (IV) of: ##STR1## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, X and Y each are the same or different groups and stand for an alkyl, alkoxy or alkylcarbonyloxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, n represents an integer of 1 to 3, m.sub.1 and m.sub.3 represent an integer of 1 to 10, m.sub.2 represents an integer of 0 to 10, m.sub.4 represents an integer of 1 to 5 and R.sub.F represents ##STR2## where A stands for a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a chlorine atom, n.sub.1 represents an integer of 1 to 10 and n.sub.2 represents an integer of 0 to 8. A surface treating agent contains the oligomer defined by the formula (I) or (IV).

Abstract: A polymer comprising fluoroalkyl group has a structure in which one or two parts of the fluoroalkyl group at the one or both ends of the molecule are linked to a part of alkylene groups or alkylene groups substituted with halogen, a part of alkylene group substituted with functional groups, such as halogen, cyano group, alkylsulfonic acid group, amidoalkylsulfonic acid group, carboxylic acid group, carboxyl group, oxycarbonyl group, ether group, epoxy group and the like, and/or a part of silicone group. A method of preparation of the polymer comprising fluoroalkyl group contains reaction of a fluoroalkanoyl peroxide with a monomer comprising the functional group or a monomer comprising silicone group. A surface active agent comprises fluoroalkyl group and caroxylic acid salt group. A surface treatment agent comprises the polymer comprising fluoroalkyl group, hydrolysis products thereof, hydrolytic condensation products thereof, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A fluoroalkyl group-containing organosilicon oligomer is represented by the following formula (I) or (IV) of: ##STR1## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, X and Y each are the same or different groups and stand for an alkyl, alkoxy or alkylcarbonyloxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, n represents an integer of 1 to 3, m.sub.1 and m.sub.3 represent an integer of 1 to 10, m.sub.2 represents an integer of 0 to 10, m.sub.4 represents an integer of 1 to 5 and R.sub.F represents --CF.sub.2).sub.n.sbsb.1 A or ##STR2## where A stands for a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a chlorine atom, n.sub.1 represents an integer of 1 to 10 and n.sub.2 represents an integer of 0 to 8. A surface treating agent contains the oligomer defined by the formula (I) or (IV).