Abstract: An electronic thermometer includes a temperature sensing assembly incorporating a temperature sensor element, and a measuring and processing unit for determining and displaying the temperature, wherein the temperature sensing assembly and the measuring and processing unit are physically separable from each other. The temperature sensing assembly includes a code for recording information of the temperature characteristic or the like of the incorporated temperature sensor element. With the aid of the code, the measuring and processing unit is capable of correcting nonuniformity in the characteristic of the mutually exchangeable temperature sensing assemblies, to thereby assure a correct reading.

Abstract: An improved steam inhaler for producing steam from water and aspirating inhalation liquid having a certain medical efficacy with the steam, comprising: a water supply tank, a first conduit, a first heating chamber, a second conduit, a second heating chamber, and a steam nozzle, along the path the water conveyed. The first and second heating chambers are provided with heating elements, and a one-way valve is provided in the first conduit. Therefore, the water boiled in the first chamber is conducted into the second heating chamber and prevented from returning to the water tank by the one-way valve. The water is completely vaporized in the second heating chamber. Since the water is thus metered from the water tank into the first heating chamber substantially upon demand, the steam inhaler can be activated immediately after the power is turned on, and can be deactivated immediately after the power is turned off.

Abstract: A semiconductor producing apparatus for use in photochemical vapor deposition for forming various types of film on a substrate at a low temperature as a first reaction gas excited and decomposed by a laser beam and a second reaction gas converted into a plasma state by a plasma generator react with each other in a reaction chamber in which a substrate is mounted. Two kinds of electrodes are provided in upper and lower positions in the reaction chamber opposing each other. The upper electrode is connected to a high-frequency power source and the lower electrode is used as a common electrode on which the substrate is mounted to control film forming speed, while an ultraviolet light source for irradiating the interior of the reaction chamber with ultraviolet rays is provided to obtain a dense film.

Abstract: A composite unit including metal and resin wherein a metal member and a resin member are formed integrally. A seal film made of resin or rubber having high affinity to metal and characterized by flexibility is interposed between contact surfaces of the metal member and the resin member. The seal film is formed of a dispersion having as its main component a copolymer of alkyl methacrylate-alkyl acrylate. The metal member is formed of an Fe group material and the resin member is formed of polyamide resin. The seal film, after being coated on the outer surface of the metal member as a liquid material is embedded in the resin member by insert-molding resin. The metal member is formed to provide a bracket of a starter motor and the resin member to provide a brush holder. A seal member made of rubber is baked onto the contact surfaces between the bracket and the brush holder, and the seal member is embedded in the brush holder made of resin.

Abstract: A revolving electric machine wherein a brush holder formed of resin is solidly secured to a bracket and this bracket is jointed to an opening of a yoke. The bracket is formed into a thin plate shape. A portion of the bracket is clamped from the opposite side by a resin material of the brush holder, whereby the bracket is integrally formed with the brush holder. A faucet joint portion of the brush holder is formed when the brush holder is formed of resin and the faucet joint portion is faucet-jointed to the opening of the yoke, whereby the bracket is center-aligned with the yoke. One of the terminals of a brush penetrates through a resin material of the brush holder and is extracted to the outside. The outer of the terminals of the brush is connected to the outside of the bracket.

Abstract: A cutter for a welding apparatus for cutting a welding workpiece upon welding. In order to facilitate the positioning of the cutter during the movement of the cutter for the cutting operation and to make the entire apparatus small-sized, a shear frame is formed with substantially the shaped of a C, and the opposing portions of the C-shaped shear frame are connected by a connecting rod, enabling the reaction force during the cutting operation to be resisted by the shear frame itself.

Abstract: An insulating pipe joint is disclosed. The joint comprises a first tubular member, a second tubular member comprising a cylinder having the same inside diameter as that of the first tubular member and an annular metal stopper at one end of said cylinder, and an insulator made of a glass/mica composition and a cured organic, solventless resin. The annular metal stopper has an inside diameter larger than the outside diameter of the first tubular member, and the annular metal stopper nests the first tubular member with a space left between them. The insulator fills the space to hold the first and second tubular members in position and provide air- and water-tightness, and secures the insulation creeping distance between each tubular member.

Abstract: A measuring circuit device comprising a measuring circuit, a display associated with the measuring circuit for displaying data generated by the measuring circuit, a display test circuit for testing the display, a performance test circuit associated with the measuring circuit for actuating the measuring circuit to display predetermined reference measured data by the display, a switch for initiating operation of the device, a switch circuit which upon actuation of the switch actuates the display test circuit and the performance test circuit, and which in a predetermined time period, initiates a measuring operation by the measuring circuit.

Abstract: An electrode device for electrically heating underground deposits of hydrocarbons in which an insulated pipe is disposed between an electrode and a main guide pipe. The two end portions of the insulated pipe are formed as flanges having outer circumferential surfaces counter tapered to diverge at a predetermined angle toward the end portions. Shock absorbers are disposed between fastening fixtures and the counter-tapered surfaces of the insulated pipe and the fastening fixtures are coupled to connectors on the main guide pipe and the electrode through bolts. If desired, the abutting surfaces of the main guide pipe and the electrode can be formed counter tapered similarly to the counter-tapered surfaces of the insulated pipe.

Abstract: An electrode unit for electrically heating underground hydrocarbon deposits having a main conduit pipe assembly, a cylindrical water pipe and an electrical conductor arranged coaxially with the electrical conductor disposed between the water pipe and the main conduit pipe assembly. The spaces between the main conduit pipe assembly and the cylindrical water pipe are filled with a solid insulating material, wherein it is not necessary to recirculate cooling oil through the assembly. Connectors are disposed for joining ends of adjacent main conduit pipe assemblies, ends of adjacent water pipes and electrical conductors. Preferably, the electrical conductor is made of a material such as a metal mesh which can stretch longitudinally.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dripping fluid level detector comprising a pair of electrodes oppositely disposed around a drip chamber of a supply passage of dripping medical fluid and a detecting circuit which detects the remaining amount of medical fluid according to changes in the electrostatic capacity caused between said pair of electrodes.

Abstract: A kind of radiating floor board is disclosed which radiates heat. The floor board has a stratified structure comprising a metallic surface plate, a depressed metallic tube for hot water circulation located meanderingly under the plate, a heat insulating material and a base board.

Abstract: Amorphous solids of macrolide antibiotics which are stable with the passage of time are prepared by dissolving a macrolide antibiotic and a cellulose polymer selected from the group consisting of ethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose and hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose as a stabilizing substance in a volatile organic solvent selected from the group consisting of dichloromethane, 1,1,1-trichloroethane and chloroform and spray drying the resulting solution.

Abstract: A process for preparing preparations for oral administration which do not have a bitter taste which comprises either dissolving a bitter taste-masking substance at a high concentration in a solvent to be used for dissolving or suspending a bitter active ingredient and adding the active ingredient to the resulting solution followed by kneading, or kneading a solution or suspension in which a bitter active ingredient has been dissolved or suspended with the bitter taste-masking substance, adding silicic acid anhydride to the resulting kneaded substance to form a powder and granulating the powder using a solution of the bitter taste-masking substance in a fluidized bed granulator.

Abstract: This invention relates to an antibiotic preparation comprising a macrolide antibiotic, which is highly stabilized against an acidic solution or acidic substance because of the presence of a polymer component incorporated with the macrolide antibiotic by specific solvent treatment, and to a process for the production of such antibiotic preparation. The antibiotic preparation of this invention overcomes the defect of macrolide antibiotics that they are easily decomposed upon contact with an acidic solution or acidic substance.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of gelatin capsules having a good disintegrating property, in which a material selected from the group consisting of a protein, an amino acid, a substance having at least one amino group, an antioxidant, monobasic sodium phosphate, and the mixture thereof is added to the encapsulated contents.