Abstract: In order to enable a medical worker to certainly and easily know whether a patient on a home oxygen therapy, who continues to inhale an oxygen-enriched gas at home, performs the inhalation as prescribed, a history of a supply condition of the oxygen-enriched gas supplied to the patient is recorded and held as supply history information, this supply history information is compared with a prescription of the oxygen therapy of the patient to generate patient's compliance information to indicate the degree to which the oxygen therapy is performed in accordance with the prescription, the oxygen concentrating apparatus is constructed to be portable, and a doctor can confirm the patient's compliance information at the time of going to a medical institution regularly.

Abstract: In order to enable a medical worker to certainly and easily know whether a patient on a home oxygen therapy, who continues to inhale an oxygen-enriched gas at home, performs the inhalation as prescribed, a history of a supply condition of the oxygen-enriched gas supplied to the patient is recorded and held as supply history information, this supply history information is compared with a prescription of the oxygen therapy of the patient to generate patient's compliance information to indicate the degree to which the oxygen therapy is performed in accordance with the prescription, the oxygen concentrating apparatus is constructed to be portable, and a doctor can confirm the patient's compliance information at the time of going to a medical institution regularly.

Abstract: In order to enable a medical worker to certainly and easily know whether a patient on a home oxygen therapy, who continues to inhale an oxygen-enriched gas at home, performs the inhalation as prescribed, a history of a supply condition of the oxygen-enriched gas supplied to the patient is recorded and held as supply history information, this supply history information is compared with a prescription of the oxygen therapy of the patient to generate patient's compliance information to indicate the degree to which the oxygen therapy is performed in accordance with the prescription, the oxygen concentrating apparatus is constructed to be portable, and a doctor can confirm the patient's compliance information at the time of going to a medical institution regularly.

Abstract: In order to enable a medical worker to certainly and easily know whether a patient on a home oxygen therapy, who continues to inhale an oxygen-enriched gas at home, performs the inhalation as prescribed, a history of a supply condition of the oxygen-enriched gas supplied to the patient is recorded and held as supply history information, this supply history information is compared with a prescription of the oxygen therapy of the patient to generate patient's compliance information to indicate the degree to which the oxygen therapy is performed in accordance with the prescription, the oxygen concentrating apparatus is constructed to be portable, and a doctor can confirm the patient's compliance information at the time of going to a medical institution regularly.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for driving an optical system of a camera in directions along an optical axis of the optical system through an electric motor. The drive apparatus is equipped with a manual ring provided in a housing of the optical system so as to be manually rotatable about the optical axis of the optical system. The manual ring is fixedly secured to a rotatable plate having a plurality of tooth portions. Also included in the drive apparatus is a rotation detector arranged to be associated with the plurality of tooth portions of the rotatable plate so as to detect the rotation of the manual ring to output a detection signal indicative of the rotation information of the manual ring. A control section is responsive to the detection signal from the rotation detector so as to output a control signal to the electric motor so that the optical system is driven at a speed corresponding to the frequency of the detection signal therefrom.

Abstract: A superconductive device and method for the manufacture thereof is disclosed, having a tunneling Josephson element comprising a first oxide superconductor electrode, a blocking layer consisting of a metal substantially inert to oxygen formed on the surface of the oxide superconductor, an insulating thin film layer formed on the blocking layer, and a second superconductor electrode opposing said first electrode formed on the insulating thin film.

Abstract: A superconductive device and method for the manufacture thereof is disclosed, having a tunneling Josephson element comprising a first oxide superconductor electrode, a blocking layer consisting of a metal substantially inert to oxygen formed on the surface of the oxide superconductor, an insulating thin film layer formed on the blocking layer, and a second superconductor electrode opposing said first electrode formed on the insulating thin film.

Abstract: A superconducting logic circuit has a first and a second one-junction SQUID's (superconducting quantum interference device) connected by a superconducting inductor, the junction of the second SQUID having a larger critical current than that of the first SQUID, the inductance of the second SQUID being smaller than that of the inductor, and a signal applied to the first SQUID is unidirectionally transmitted to the second SQUID by applying bias currents to the junctions of the two SQUID's.

Abstract: An ion selective field-effect sensor selectively sensitive to a particular cation to be measured is disclosed. In the sensor is used a giant heterocyclic compound selectively forming a complex with the particular cation as an ion sensitive film provided on a surface of a field-effect semiconductor device.