Abstract: There is provided a method of treating cancer. According to such a method, the affected tissue is irradiated effectively with activation light thereby obtaining an effect of the light treatment. The cancer therapeutic instrument used in the treatment method is equipped with a tube of which a tip is closed, a tip end of the tube being adapted to be inserted into a subject to be treated, and an optical fiber of which a tip end is adapted to be disposed slidably inside the tube.

Abstract: An apparatus for shaping a workpiece of a super-plastic metal has a shaping die assembly for holding the workpiece therein to shape the workpiece with a pressurized gas while the workpiece is being heated, and a furnace assembly surrounding outer surfaces of the dies. The shaping die assembly includes a plurality of dies separable from and joinable to each other, the dies having flanges extending from mating surfaces thereof. The furnace assembly includes a plurality of furnaces separable from and joinable to each other, the furnaces being detachably mounted on the dies, respectively. The shaping die assembly is housed in the furnace assembly with the flanges projecting out of the furnace assembly when the dies are joined to each other. Heaters for heating the shaping die assembly are mounted on inner wall surfaces of the furnaces in a space defined between the furnace assembly and the shaping die assembly.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber is provided with a first dielectric material layer (90, 200, 220) having two surfaces, a wave reflection layer (91, 201, 221) laminated on the one surface of the first dielectric material layer, a first resistive layer (92, 202, 222) laminated on the other, opposite, surface of the first dielectric material layer (90, 200, 220), and a second dielectric material layer (95, 205, 225) disposed proximate to the first resistive layer (92, 202, 222) leaving an air space, (94, 204, 224) having a thickness sufficient to determine adjust absorption characteristics for polarized waves, between the second dielectric material layer and the first resistive layer.

Abstract: A heat-sealing apparatus includes a casing, a pair of lower and upper binding members for vertically binding a portion of a heat-fusible wrapper therebetween, a heater attached to a binding face of the lower binding member which is in turn fixed to the casing. The heater is operable to heat-fuse the portion of the wrapper. The apparatus further includes a switching mechanism for switching over the upper binding member between a binding position where the upper binding member is pressed against the binding face of the lower binding member and a releasing position where the upper binding member is retracted in an upper-rear direction away from the binding face of the lower binding member. The upper binding member is a heat-resistant elastic pressing roller rotatable about an axis extending along a length of the heater.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorber has a pair of electromagnetic wave absorbing plates (10,11) made of ohmic resistance loss material with top portions (10a,11a) and bottom portions (10b,11b), and a common bottom support member (12) for supporting the bottom portions (10b,11b) of the plates (10,11). In assembled state, the top portions (10a,11a) of the plates (10,11) are fixed with each other and the bottom portions (10b,11b) of the plates (10,11) are fixed by the bottom support member (12) so that the plates (10,11) form an wedge shape.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding material comprising a composition consisting of Mn-Zn ferrite powders, conductive carbon powders and organic high molecular weight compounds. The Mn-Zn ferrite powders may be contained in the range between 30 and 70 vol %. The composition has 10.sup.2 to 10.sup.-1 ohm.cm of volume resistivity and exhibits excellent electromagnetic absorbing property. The electromagnetic shielding material can prevent transmission of electromagnetic waves and attenuate refleted waves by absorbing the waves.

Abstract: A microwave absorber device for a microwave heater having a chamber for cooking with an opening, and a door for closing the opening with a small gap which is a leakage path between the door and the wall of the chamber. The door is provided with a choke cavity at the peripheral portions of the same, the choke cavity having an approximate 1/4 wavelength of length, and an entrance facing the leakage path. The choke cavity is provided with wave absorber which includes ferrite, and/or carbon, at an edge of the entrance or an edge of the cavity. The wave absorber closes also the leakage path. The entrance itself is sealed by dielectric material.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding material for absorbing electromagnetic energy has been found. The shielding material is flexible and has a thin conductive core with a composite ferrite material deposited around the core. The composite ferrite material is a mixture of ferrite powder and a binder for binding the powder. The conductive core may be formed in the shape of a flat sheet or an elongated textile shape. The binder may be a high molecular compound like plastic. When the core is in a textile shape, the textile covered with the composite ferrite material is woven into a cloth which is sufficiently flexible to form around any desired shape.

Abstract: A microwave absorber device for a microwave heater having a main body with an opening and a door for closing said opening with a leakage path between the door and the main body. The absorber device has a choke cavity along a leakage path of the microwave energy between the main body and the door, said choke cavity having an approximate 1/4 wavelength of length, and an entrance facing said leakage path for accepting microwave energy. Said entrance of the choke cavity is closed by a cover plate made of ferro-magnetic material, which is a mixture of ferrite and gum. Preferably, an additional microwave absorber made of ferro-magnetic material which is integral with said cover plate is provided next to the choke cavity. Preferably, the dielectric constant of the material of the cover plate is less than 15. Still, preferably, the ratio of the imaginary part of the complex permeability to the real part of the same of the cover plate material is larger than 0.5.

Abstract: A composite ferrite cloth having ferro-magnetic property weaved with composite ferrite textile has been found. The composite ferrite textile is the mixture of ferrite powder and the binder for coupling the same. The binder may be a high molecule compound like plastics, or glass with low melting point. The composite textile may be produced either by slicing a composite ferrite sheet attached on a plastics substrate, depositing composite ferrite paint around a core textile similar to the producing process of an electric wire, or just mixing ferrite powder with plastics or glass. The ferrite cloth which is weaved with composite ferrite textile is flexible and has many fields of application.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electromagnetic interference shielding material used for shielding radios and the like from electromagnetic waves emitted from a computer or the like. In the prior art, a zinc flame-sprayed shielding material is applied on the housing of a computer or the like to shield it from electromagnetic waves.The present invention provides an electromagnetic interference shielding material having an improved durability and shield effectiveness (SE) and comprising a ferromagnetic amorphous alloy having a conductivity of 10.sup.2 .OMEGA..sup.-1 .multidot.cm.sup.-1 or more and a permeability of 100 or more at 1 kHz.

Abstract: A popped corn making apparatus used in a microwave oven comprises a bowl having an opening at the upper part and a narrow closed bottom and a substantially conical shape; and a resonator placed at the bottom of said bowl. The electric field resulted by resonance of said resonator under an application of microwave, is applied to grains of corn contained in said bowl to produce a popped corn.It is possible to use a lumped element resonator comprising a one turn coil having a ring shape having an opening which is placed at the bottom of said bowl and which is formed by an inductance provided by said coil and a capacitance provided by said bowl and said grains of corn.

Abstract: Electromagnetic wave-absorbing wall comprising ferrimagnetic plates arranged at some intervals in the direction of the electric field of the electromagnetic wave said ferrimagnetic plates being plates of ferrite having the following general formula:MFe.sub.2 O.sub.4wherein M is a bivalent metal such as Mn, Ni, Co, Mg, Cu, Zn and Cd, or plates of a mixture of ferrite powders or carbonyl iron with organic high molecular weight compounds, and said plates having a specified thickness according to the interval.

Abstract: A microwave heating oven has a seal located in the path formed by a gap between the oven body and the oven door for preventing microwave leakage. The seal may comprise several seals, and includes a microwave absorber as one of the seals. The microwave absorber consists of a mixture of a powder of magnetic material and an organic high molecular weight compound. The length of the microwave absorber in the direction of propagation of microwave in the path of microwave leakage is an integral multiple of about 1/2.lambda., wherein .lambda. is a wavelength of the microwave in the microwave absorber. Absorption is improved by setting the absorber in a recess in the wall or door of the oven, or by surrounding the absorber by a metal layer except on the surface thereof parallel to the direction of propagation and facing the gap.

Abstract: Microwave absorber comprising a mixture of ferrite powder having particle size of less than 1.65 mm and an organic high molecular weight compound.