Abstract: A compact vaporizer system is presented to produce a high quality vapor feed from a liquid feed to be delivered to a chemical vapor deposition processing chamber to produce thin film devices based on highly dielectric or ferroelectric materials such as BaTiO3, SrTiO3 and other such materials. The vaporization apparatus comprises a feed tank for storing the liquid feed; feed delivery means for transporting the liquid feed by way of a feed delivery path; a vaporizer section disposed in the delivery path comprising a high temperature heat exchanger having a capillary tube for transporting the liquid feed and a heat source for externally heating the capillary tube; and a vaporization prevention section disposed upstream of the vaporizer section for preventing effects of the vaporizer section to the liquid feed within the vaporization prevention section.

Abstract: For determining appropriately the direction of diffusive motion detecting gradient magnetic field to be applied for the measurement of the diffusion coefficient of a region of interest, a determining method produces three diffusion-weighted images by use of imaging pulse sequences which apply diffusive motion detecting gradient magnetic fields (MPG) along the x axis, y axis and z axis: (steps S1-S3). It composes an image from the diffusion-weighted images by allotting red color, green color and blue color to the images: (step S4). It sets a region of interest on the intensity-inverted image: (step S6). It determines the direction of diffusive motion detecting gradient magnetic field (MPG) to be applied for the measurement of the diffusion coefficient of the region of interest based on the hue of the region of interest on the intensity-inverted image: (step S7).

Abstract: A compact vaporizer system is presented to produce a high quality vapor feed from a liquid feed to be delivered to a chemical vapor deposition processing chamber to produce thin film devices based on highly dielectric or ferroelectric materials such as BaTiO3, SrTiO3 and others such materials. The vaporization apparatus comprises a feed tank for storing the liquid feed; feed delivery means for transporting the liquid feed by way of a feed delivery path; a vaporizer section disposed in the delivery path comprising a high temperature heat exchanger having a capillary tube for transporting the liquid feed and a heat source for externally heating the capillary tube; and a vaporization prevention section disposed upstream of the vaporizer section for preventing heating effects of the vaporizer section to the liquid feed within the vaporization prevention section.

Abstract: A vapor-phase film growth apparatus includes a substrate holder for holding a substrate, a gas ejection head, and a radiant heat shield device. The substrate holder has a substrate heater therein, and the gas ejection head has a gas injection surface for ejecting a material gas toward a substrate held by the substrate holder. The radiant heat shield device is disposed between the substrate holder and the gas injection head in confronting relationship to the gas injection surface of the gas ejection nozzle. The substantially planar radiant heat shield device is permeable to gases and has a heating capability.

Abstract: A vaporizer apparatus efficiently vaporizes difficult-to-vaporize materials such as complex feed materials for producing a high dielectric or ferroelectric material. The vaporizer apparatus includes a vaporizing passage formed by a pair of opposed walls separated by a minute spacing to a liquid feed entrance provided at one end of the vaporizing passage, a vaporized feed exit provided at an opposite end of the vaporizing passage, and a heating arrangement for heating the walls to a temperature in excess of a vaporizing temperature of the liquid feed so that the liquid feed material may be guided into the vaporizing passage to be vaporized.

Abstract: A vapor feed supply system including a vaporizer device and a method of cleaning a vapor flow region employing such a vaporizer device enables thorough cleaning of the system, without having to degrade the overall system vacuum in the process of cleaning the vaporizer device. The method includes defining a cleaning fluid passage having a predetermined withstand pressure by isolating a cleaning region of the vapor flow region, and flowing a cleaning fluid into the cleaning fluid passage under a pressure so as to enable the cleaning fluid to remain in a liquid state at a cleaning temperature of the cleaning region.

Abstract: A shock sensor including a magnetic reed switch extending in a direction in which shocks are to be detected, a member movable along the magnetic reed switch due to the shocks and including a magnet for imparting a magnetic force to the magnetic reed switch to turn on the magnetic reed switch, a coil spring for biasing the moving member toward one side of the magnetic reed switch, and an adjuster for adjusting the time duration in which the magnetic reed switch is on. The adjuster also reduces the moving speed of the moving member of adjusts the turn-on time when the magnetic reed switch is turned on.

Abstract: Compounds and a method useful for protection of tissue cells in a mammalian body from irreversible damages due to lactic acidosis caused by oxygen deficiency. The protection is achieved by administering a compound having a cell membrane permeability and/or ability to cross the blood brain barrier, said compound being able to provide a buffering action to prevent an increase in a hydrogen ion concentration over the physiologically acceptable levels or able to shift the intracellular pH to a more desired alkaline level.

Abstract: Fuel in a fuel tank is pressurized by a fuel pump and supplied to a fuel gallery. When a fuel injection valve connecting with this gallery is opened by an electromagnetic signal, fuel is injected from the valve into a combustion chamber of the engine. The fuel gallery is formed inside a cylinder head, and the fuel injection valve is disposed in the cylinder head such that a fuel inlet port of the valve faces the gallery. In this manner, a high pressure fuel passage does not project outside the cylinder head, and there is less risk of fuel leaking from the passage. Further, as the high pressure fuel passage does not project outside the engine, the piping around the engine is simplified.

Abstract: A method for contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based on three axial anisotropic diffusion weighted images (DWIs) of the identical imaging plane. Three primary colors, red, green, and blue, are first assigned to the gray scale of the three axial, x-, y-, z-axis, anisotropic DWIs. These three primary color images are then vectorially combined to form a single image in full visible color spectrum. Since the sum of the three primary colors of the same intensity results in cancellation (white out), the process effectively eliminates the background signals from isotropic water motion. Accordingly, each pixel of the final color image exhibits a color of a unique frequency, according to the balance of red, green, and blue, reflecting direction of anisotropic water motion in space. Water motion in neuronal fibers, especially those in axons, possesses high intravoxel anisotropy compared to other elements of the nervous system.

Abstract: A shock sensor including a switch turned on by magnetic force. The switch includes a reed switch, a magnet sliding back and forth along a case for the reed switch, and a coil spring biasing the magnet in a particular direction. When the sensor receives a shock, the biased magnet moves along the switch case, the magnetic force applied to the reed switch increases and when this magnetic force exceeds a predetermined amount, contact portions of the reed switch are closed and the switch is in the on state. Further, a weight forming an integral part of the magnet is used to increase the kinetic energy of the magnet or, between the coil spring and the switch case, there is a slack which enables movement of the coil spring in the direction of its diameter, either structure allowing the magnet to stay in the on state longer than a conventional switch.

Abstract: Compounds and a method useful for protection of tissue cells in a mammalian body from irreversible damages due to lactic acidosis caused by oxygen deficiency. The protection is achieved by administering a compound having a cell membrane permeability and/or ability to cross the blood brain barrier and being able to provide a buffering action to prevent an increase in a hydrogen ion concentration over the physiologically acceptable levels.

Abstract: A reed switch device comprises a pair of magnets such as bar magnets or ring-shaped magnets which are arranged in inverted polar orientations such that they produce magnetic fields acting in opposite directions, and a reed switch which is movable relative to the pair of magnets such that the longitudinal axis of the reed switch is maintained substantially in parallel with the axes of magnetization of the magnets. The relative position between the reed switch and the magnets is detected through activation of the reed switch between on and off states caused in response to a change in the relative position between the pair of magnets and the reed switch.