Abstract: A vascular-endothelial-cell-function evaluating apparatus including a pressing device including a cuff that is adapted to be worn on a first portion of a living subject, and a cuff-pressure changing device that changes a pressure in the cuff so as to press the first portion of the subject in a pressing period, a pulse-wave detecting device that detects a pulse wave including a plurality of heartbeat-synchronous pulses, from the first portion of the subject, or a second portion of the subject located on a distal side of the first portion, and a pulse-wave-second-half-information obtaining device that obtains a plurality of sets of pulse-wave-second-half information that represent respective characteristics of respective second-half portions of respective heartbeat-synchronous pulses of the pulse wave that are detected by the pulse-wave detecting device at respective different times, the respective second-half portions of the respective heartbeat-synchronous pulses being respective portions of the respective pu

Abstract: An ankle-blood-pressure measuring apparatus for measuring a blood pressure of an ankle of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be worn on the ankle of the subject; a cuff-pressure changing device which decreases a pressure in the cuff from a pressure higher than a systolic blood pressure of the ankle; a distal-pulse-wave detecting device which is adapted to be worn on a distal portion of the subject that is located on a distal side of the ankle and detects a distal pulse wave produced from the distal portion; an increasing-point detecting device for detecting at least one increasing point where a magnitude of the distal pulse wave continuously detected by the distal-pulse-wave detecting device when the pressure of the cuff is decreased by the cuff-pressure changing device, significantly increases; and an ankle-blood-pressure determining device which determines a pressure of the cuff when the increasing-point detecting device detects the second increasing point, as a systolic bloo

Abstract: A memory device which includes dynamic random access memories for effecting data read and write operations, first and second data terminals for receiving data, and a controller having a first data input connected to receive first data, a second data input connected to receive second data, a third data input connected to receive a function mode signal, and operation unit for executing operations between the first data and the second data. The operation unit includes a function setting unit for setting a function indicated by a function mode signal prior to receipt of the first data. The second data is read out of a selected part of the storage locations. The operation corresponding to the set function is executed for the first and second data. The operation result is written into the selected part of the storage locations during one memory cycle.

Abstract: A blood-pressure measuring apparatus including a cuff which is adapted to be worn on a portion of a living subject to press the portion, an augmentation-index determining device for determining an augmentation index of the subject based on a cuff pulse wave obtained from the cuff, and a cuff-pulse-wave obtaining device for obtaining, during a pressing period in which the cuff presses the portion of the subject for measuring a blood pressure of the subject, the cuff pulse wave from the cuff so that the augmentation-index determining device determines the augmentation index based on the obtained cuff pulse wave.

Abstract: A blood-pressure measuring apparatus including a cuff which is adapted to be worn on a portion of a living subject to press the portion, a waveform analyzing device for analyzing a form of a cuff pulse wave which is obtained from the cuff, and a cuff-pulse-wave obtaining device for obtaining, before the cuff presses the portion of the subject for measuring a blood pressure of the subject, the cuff pulse wave from the cuff so that the waveform analyzing device analyzes the form of the cuff pulse wave.

Abstract: An augmentation-index measuring apparatus including a cuff which is adapted to be worn on a portion of a living subject to press the portion, an augmentation-index determining device for determining an augmentation index of the subject based on a cuff pulse wave obtained from the cuff, and a preliminary pressing device for preliminarily pressing, before the cuff pulse wave is obtained, for the determination of the augmentation index, from the cuff having a pulse-wave detection pressure, the portion of the subject using the cuff having a pressure higher than the pulse-wave detection pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a periodic physical information of a living subject, including a measuring device which iteratively measures, from the subject, a value of the periodic physical information including a periodically changing component, a waveform determining device for determining a changing-component waveform representing the periodically changing component of the periodic physical information, a difference determining device for determining at least one difference between at least one first value of the periodic physical information measured by the measuring device at at least one time and at least one second value of the changing-component waveform at the at least one time, and a removing device for judging, based on the at least one difference determined by the difference determining device, whether the at least one first value is abnormal, and removing the at least one first value judged as being abnormal.

Abstract: An arteriosclerosis inspecting apparatus including an information obtaining device which obtains information that is related to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates in a living subject, a blood-pressure measuring device which measures a blood pressure of the subject, a heart-rate measuring device which measures a heart rate of the subject, a pre-ejection-period measuring device which measures a pre-ejection period from a time of starting of contraction of the heart of the subject to a time of starting of ejection of blood from the heart, an ejection-time measuring device which measures an ejection time from the time of starting of ejection of blood from the heart to a time of ending of ejection of blood from the heart, and an arteriosclerosis-inspection-related-augmentation-index determining means for determining an arteriosclerosis-inspection-related augmentation index of the subject, based on the obtained pulse-wave-velocity-related information, the measured blood pressure, the measured heart rate, t

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a blood pressure of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which has an inside surface adapted to contact a body surface of the subject and an outside surface exposed to an ambient air, and which is adapted to be wound around a portion of the subject to press the portion of the subject, a temperature sensor which is provided in the inside surface of the cuff and detects, in a state in which the cuff is wound around the portion of the subject, a temperature of the portion of the subject, and a display device which displays the temperature of the portion of the subject detected by the first temperature sensor.

Abstract: An arterial-pulse-wave detecting apparatus, including a plurality of pulse-wave detecting devices which are adapted to be worn on a plurality of portions of a living subject, respectively, and detect respective pulse waves that are produced in synchronism with each other from respective arteries of the plurality of portions of the subject, a memory device which stores the respective pulse waves produced in synchronism with each other and detected by the plurality of pulse-wave detecting devices, and a pulse-wave-display control device for controlling a display device to display the respective pulse waves produced in synchronism with each other and stored by the memory device, such that the respective pulse waves are superposed on each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating a function of an autonomic nerve of a living subject, including a heart-rate measuring device which iteratively measures a heart rate of the subject, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressure in a first cuff adapted to be wound around an inferior limb of the subject, and a pressure in a second cuff adapted to be wound around a superior limb of the subject, so as to press the inferior and superior limbs, and a dispersion-degree determining device for determining a first degree of dispersion of the heart-rate values iteratively measured by the heart-rate measuring device after the cuff-pressure changing device starts pressing the inferior and superior limbs.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a pressure pulse wave produced by an artery of a living subject, including a pressure-pulse-wave sensor which is adapted to be pressed against the artery of the subject via a skin of the subject, detects the pressure pulse wave produced by the artery, and generates a pressure-pulse-wave signal representing the detected pressure pulse wave, a band-pass filter which extracts, from the pressure-pulse-wave signal, a blood-flow-noise signal having frequencies in a prescribed blood-flow-noise frequency range, and an output device which outputs the blood-flow-noise signal extracted by the band-pass filter.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a portion of the subject, an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, an augmentation index indicating a proportion of a reflected-wave component of the pulse wave to an incident-wave component thereof, so that the arteriosclerosis of the subject is inspected based on the augmentation index determined by the augmentation-index determining device, a waveform-related-information obtaining device which obtains waveform-related information that is related to a change of a waveform of the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, a display device, an augmentation-index displaying device for operating the display device to display the augmentation index determined by the augmentation-index determining device, and a waveform-related-information displaying device for operating the displ

Abstract: In each of the information processing apparatuses connected to each other via a network, there is arranged a quality of service (QOS) table to which functions and performance thereof are registered. When an information processing apparatus is additionally linked with the network, a QOS table thereof is automatically registered to a local directory of the network such that an agent converts the contents of the QOS table into service information to be supplied via a user interface to the user. Thanks to the operation, information of functions and performance of each information processing apparatus connected to the network is converted into service information for the user. Consequently, the user can much more directly receive necessary services.

Abstract: An augmentation-index determining apparatus, including a cuff, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressing pressure of the cuff, a pulse-wave extracting device which extracts a pulse wave from the cuff, a peak-occurrence-time determining device for determining, based on a high-cuff-pressure pulse wave which is extracted by the pulse-wave extracting device when the cuff-pressure changing device makes the pressing pressure of the cuff higher than a systolic blood pressure of a subject, a time of occurrence of a peak point of an incident-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse and a time of occurrence of a peak point of a reflected-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse wave, and an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the respective times of occurrence of the respective peak points of the incident-wave and reflected-wave components of the high-cuff-pressure pulse, respective times of occurrence of respective peak points of incident-wave and reflected-wave c

Abstract: An apparatus for examining arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a first portion of the subject, a stenosis-related-information obtaining device for obtaining, based on a shape of the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, stenosis-related information that changes in relation with stenosis of an artery of a second portion of the subject that is located upstream of the first portion of the subject in a direction in which blood flows in the artery, and a stenosis judging device for making, based on the stenosis-related information obtained by the stenosis-related-information obtaining device, a judgment about the stenosis of the artery of the second portion of the subject.

Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be wound around a first portion of the subject to press the first portion with a pressing pressure, a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave that is produced from an artery of the first portion of the subject pressed by the cuff with the pressing pressure and is transmitted to the cuff, and an arteriosclerosis judging device for judging, based on a change of the pulse wave caused by a change of the pressing pressure of the cuff, whether there is an arteriosclerotic lesion in a second portion of the subject that is located upstream of the first portion in a direction in which blood flows in the artery.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring an inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index of a patient, including an inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring device, a superior-limb blood-pressure measuring device, an index determining device for determining the inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index, based on a blood pressure of an inferior limb measured by the inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring device and a blood pressure of a superior limb measured by the superior-limb blood-pressure measuring device, an inferior-limb-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains inferior-limb-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, an upper-half-body-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains upper-half-body-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, and an evaluation-information obtaining device for obtaining, based on the inferior-limb-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information and the upper-half-body-pulse-wave-p

Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining information relating to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates in a living subject, the apparatus including a first inflatable cuff and a second inflatable cuff which are adapted to be worn on two different portions of the subject, respectively, at least one cuff-pulse-wave detecting device which detects the pulse wave occurring to each of the first and second cuffs worn on the two different portions of the subject, and a velocity-relating-information obtaining device which obtains the information relating to the velocity, based on a time difference between a first time when the cuff-pulse-wave detecting device detects the pulse wave occurring to the first cuff, and a second time when the cuff-pulse-wave detecting device detects the pulse wave occurring to the second cuff.

Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating a degree of arteriosclerosis of a living subject, the apparatus including a blood-pressure measuring device which measures a systolic and a diastolic blood pressure of the subject, a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates through an artery of the subject, a display device, and a control device which controls the display device to display, in a two-dimensional graph defined by a first axis indicative of blood pressure and a second axis indicative of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, at least one symbol indicating two positions one of which corresponds to the systolic blood pressure measured by the blood-pressure measuring device and the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information obtained by the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device, and the other of which corresponds t