Abstract: A retractor holds a surgical incision in a body in an opened state to ensure a surgical field in small-incision endoscopic surgery, and includes a base body that is a thin plate made of tin having a purity of not less than 99.9% and has an elongated rectangular shape in an extended state of the base body. The retractor, in an extended form in a rectangular shape or in a rounded form in a small shape, can be inserted from a small incision wound into the body, and can easily be delivered to the surgical incision in the body by a surgical instrument. The base body is bent and deformed into a desired shape by the surgical instrument and is applied to the surgical incision in the body, so that the surgical incision can be held in an opened state so as to ensure the surgical field.

Abstract: This retractor easily ensures a surgical field as desired by an operator, can flexibly ensure and change the surgical field in accordance with the surgical site and the surgical situation, and can easily be moved to a desired position in the surgical site and taken out after the surgery. A retractor 1 holds a surgical incision in a body in an opened state to ensure a surgical field in small-incision endoscopic surgery, and includes a base body 2 that is a thin plate made of tin having a purity of not less than 99.9% and has an elongated rectangular shape in an extended state of the base body. The retractor 1, in an extended form in a rectangular shape or in a rounded form in a small shape, can be inserted from a small incision wound into the body, and can easily be delivered to the surgical incision in the body by a surgical instrument.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a method of removing sulfide(s), which is safe, is effective over long periods at low cost, and exerts no adverse influences on the environment. The present invention relates to a method of removing sulfide(s), characterized in that a medium containing sulfide(s), including hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan(s), is allowed to come into contact with 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diyl diacetate. Also, the present invention relates to the method, wherein the medium is a solid, liquid, or gas. In accordance with the present invention, sulfide(s), including hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan(s), can efficiently be treated so that they may be removed at low cost without the need for large-capacity equipment. In addition, the present invention can be safely practiced because there is no generation of byproducts that irritate the skin.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a method of removing sulfide(s), which is safe, is effective over long periods at low cost, and exerts no adverse influences on the environment. The present invention relates to a method of removing sulfide(s), characterized in that a medium containing sulfide(s), including hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan(s), is allowed to come into contact with 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diyl diacetate. Also, the present invention relates to the method, wherein the medium is a solid, liquid, or gas. In accordance with the present invention, sulfide(s), including hydrogen sulfide and mercaptan(s), can efficiently be treated so that they may be removed at low cost without the need for large-capacity equipment. In addition, the present invention can be safely practiced because there is no generation of byproducts that irritate the skin.

Abstract: A conductive sheet is disclosed, which consists of a nonwoven fabric consisting of 40 to 90 wt % of a heat fusible fiber comprising a vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate copolymer and 10 to 60 wt % of a metal-plated fiber having a fiber diameter of 3 to 50 .mu.m and an aspect ratio of 1,000 to 10,000, wherein the nonwoven fabric is hot-press molded and wherein the conductive sheet has a metal content of 2 to 30% by weight and a specific volume of at most 2 cm.sup.3 /g. The conductive sheet has excellent electromagnetic interference shielding and electrical control effects.

Abstract: In a radio communication network system for use in carrying out communication with a plurality of radio telephone sets in a service zone by the use of a control channel and a plurality of speech channels, a connecting equipment unit (CE) is selectively operable in cooperation with a radio control unit (RCU) in a speech mode of forming a speech path through a selected one of the speech channels and an additional mode of selectively monitoring the control and the speech channels. The additional mode may be divided into first and second control modes for allowing and rejecting reception of a call with the control channel monitored, respectively. Alternatively, either a rest mode or a combination of rest and initial program loading modes may be added to the additional mode. A plurality of the connecting equipment units may be located in a single service zone and selectively put into the speech and the additional modes with only one of the connecting equipment units kept in the first control mode.

Abstract: A radio telephone system has a radio telephone set which has a receiving circuit the power of which is turned on or off in predetermined cycles, a radio connector transmit an ID number of the radio zone where it exists for a longer period than the period of turning on or off the power supply of the receiving circuit of the radio telephone set in predetermined cycles, the radio telephone set compares the ID number of the radio zone received with that stored in a memory, and when the ID numbers fail to coincide with each other, the ID number of the radio telephone set and the ID number of the radio zone received are transmitted as a position entry signal to a radio channel control unit through the radio connector, and the radio channel control unit being adapted to register the ID number of the radio telephone set and that of the radio zone.

Abstract: For use in a mobile radio telephone network including radio telephone sets movable in an area divided into a predetermined number of zones, a communication control system includes a searching arrangement (25, 33) for searching one (15') of radio communication devices of the network as a searched communication device that is assigned to a present one of the zones into which a specific one (11') of the radio telephone sets has moved from a previous one of the zones. For operation of the searching arrangement, a communicating arrangement (22, 25, 32) of the system sends a call signal to a specific one of the radio communication devices that is assigned to the previous zone to transmit the call signal to the specific telephone set and receives a response signal transmitted from the specific telephone set if the specific telephone set were in the previous zone.

Abstract: When a steel sheet or the like is heated in a furnace to a temperature somewhat higher than the room temperature and is still or moved, its temperature can be measured by detecting the radiant energy therefrom. The measurement is normally difficult due to the influence of background noise of radiant energy from the surroundings, change of the transmittance factor of the environment or atmosphere for radiant energy, and change of the emissivity of the object to be measured.

Abstract: An improved measuring lance to be inserted into a bath of molten metal, for example, molten steel, is disclosed having thermocouples on its tip end and in its receptacle chamber, respectively. The lance is provided with means to discharge air from inside a cover for a thermocouple in a receptacle chamber. A deoxidation chamber made of steel may be provided in the lance. Means to spray gas from around the connector of the lance may also be provided. These means assure accurate measuring of the temperature, composition, etc. of the bath.