Abstract: A blister pack for an inhalant medicator has a plurality of medical powder storage chambers spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. The inhalant medicator includes a pricking tool with a pair of parallel pins that prick inflow and outflow holes in one of the medical powder storage chambers during a preliminary operation of inhalant medication. The inflow and outflow holes are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a direction parallel to a lid panel of the blister pack to produce turbulent airflow within the medical powder storage chamber during inhalation during which the medical powder is inhaled by a patient's breathing. The medical powder storage chambers are dimensioned and designed to properly regulate or control properties of the airflow passing through the medical storage chamber, to ensure the airflow is suitable for the medical powder stored in the storage chamber.

Abstract: A blister pack for a inhalant medicator has a plurality of medical powder storage chambers spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. The inhalant medicator includes a pricking tool with a pair of parallel pins that prick inflow and outflow holes in one of the medical powder storage chambers during a preliminary operation of inhalant medication. The inflow and outflow holes are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a direction parallel to a lid panel of the blister pack to produce turbulent airflow within the medical powder storage chamber during inhalation during which the medical powder is inhaled by a patient's breathing. The medical powder storage chambers are dimensioned and designed to properly regulate or control properties of the airflow passing through the medical storage chamber, to ensure the airflow is suitable for the medical powder storage chamber.

Abstract: An inhalator including an inhalator body including a powder receiving chamber for receiving a powder, an air-powder mixture reservoir for temporarily storing an air-powder mixture flowing from the powder receiving chamber, and a diluent air passage for introducing a diluent air into the air-powder mixture reservoir. The air-powder mixture is formed within the powder receiving chamber when an air is introduced into the powder receiving chamber. The air-powder mixture within the air-powder mixture reservoir is admixed with a diluent air introduced thereinto through the diluent air passage. The diluted air-powder mixture is discharged from an air-powder mixture outlet into a user's oral or nasal cavity. A powder composition for inhalators includes at least two kinds of fine particles different in particle diameter.

Abstract: An inhalator including an inhalator body including a powder receiving chamber for receiving a powder, an air-powder mixture reservoir for temporarily storing an air-powder mixture flowing from the powder receiving chamber, and a diluent air passage for introducing a diluent air into the air-powder mixture reservoir. The air-powder mixture is formed within the powder receiving chamber when an air is introduced into the powder receiving chamber. The air-powder mixture within the air-powder mixture reservoir is admixed with a diluent air introduced thereinto through the diluent air passage. The diluted air-powder mixture is discharged from an air-powder mixture outlet into a user's oral or nasal cavity. A powder composition for inhalators includes at least two kinds of fine particles different in particle diameter.

Abstract: A diffusion chamber block 14 is provided in a block mounting hole 13A of an inhalant port 13, and a granular medicine diffusion chamber 17 is formed in the diffusion chamber block 14. The granular medicine diffusion chamber 17 is formed at a side of the inhalant port 13 with a granular medicine inflow opening 17A and at a side of a capsule housing hole 9 with a granular medicine outflow opening 17B. A diffusion chamber in flow passage 18 is provided to communicate an outflow air passageway 12 with the granular medicine inflow opening 17A, whereas a diffusion chamber outflow passage is provided to communicate the granular medicine outflow opening 17B with the inhalant port 13. When inhaling granular medicines in the capsule housing hole 9 via the inhalant port 13 by way of breathing action, there results in counter-flow vortex within the granular medicine diffusion chamber 17.

Abstract: An inhalator including an inhalator body including a powder receiving chamber for receiving a powder, an air-powder mixture reservoir for temporarily storing an air-powder mixture flowing from the powder receiving chamber, and a diluent air passage for introducing a diluent air into the air-powder mixture reservoir. The air-powder mixture is formed within the powder receiving chamber when an air is introduced into the powder receiving chamber. The air-powder mixture within the air-powder mixture reservoir is admixed with a diluent air introduced thereinto through the diluent air passage. The diluted air-powder mixture is discharged from an air-powder mixture outlet into a user's oral or nasal cavity. A powder composition for inhalators includes at least two kinds of fine particles different in particle diameter.

Abstract: An inhalant medicator includes a medicator body 1 which is formed therein with a cylindrical fit hole 2, an inhalant port 3, an inflow air passageway 5, and an outflow air passageway 6, and a medical powder storage cylindrical member 8 which is installed or fitted into the cylindrical fit hole 2 in a manner so as to open or close the air passageways 5 and 6 with respect to a medical powder storage chamber 12. The inhalant medicator is constructed by two component parts, namely the medicator body 1 and the medical powder storage cylindrical member 8, thus ensuring simplified structure and reduced production costs. Additionally, powder-and-granular medicine or medical powder 16 is tightly encapsulated within the medical powder storage chamber 12 by means of the medical powder storage cylindrical member 8, thus preventing loss of flow of the medical powder 16.

Abstract: An inhalant medicator comprises a medicator body formed at one axial end with a capsule housing hole and at another axial end with an inhalant port, an inflow air passageway having an axial inflow passage extending in an axial direction of the medicator body and a first pin insertion hole extending in a radial direction of the medicator body for communicating the capsule housing hole with the atmosphere, an outflow air passageway having an outflow passage extending in the axial direction of the medicator body and a second pin insertion hole extending in the radial direction of the medicator body for communicating the capsule housing hole with the inhalant port, and a boring tool having pins insertable toward a capsule through the first and second insertion holes for pricking holes in the capsule accommodated in the capsule housing hole with the pins.

Abstract: A cylindrical main body 3 of a medicine administering device main body 1 is formed with a holder accommodating section 5, in which a capsule holding section 9 of a capsule holder 8 is disposed to be able to get in and out of the holder accommodating section 5. Accordingly, the capsule can be installed in a capsule fitting depression 10 formed in the capsule holding section 9, or the capsule after use can be taken out at a drawn-out position where the capsule holding section is drawn out of the holder accommodating section 5, so that installation and taking-out operations for the capsule can be easily made without decomposing respective parts like in a conventional technique. Additionally, the capsule can be located at a pushed-in position by pushing the capsule holding section 9 in the holder accommodating section 5.

Abstract: An inhalant medicator comprises a medicator body having a granular medicine accommodation chamber and an inhalant port, and air passageways disposed in the medicator body and communicating the inhalant port via the granular medicine accommodation chamber to the atmosphere for supplying granular medicines into the inhalant port. Also provided is a granular medicine diffusion means located downstream of the granular medicine accommodation chamber for efficiently diffusing the granular medicines. A cylindrical adapter 10 is detachably installed in the inhalant port 9.

Abstract: A medicine administering device for nasal cavities, comprising a capsule holding section formed with a capsule containing powder-state medicine. An air supply section is connected to the lower end of the capsule holding section and formed with an air supply passage which is in communication with the capsule accommodating chamber. A branched passage section is connected to the upper end of the capsule holding section and has an air flow passage in communication with the capsule accommodating chamber. The air flow passage is bifurcated to form first and second outlet passage portions which are arranged to form a generally Y-shape. First and second medicine passages are formed such that air from the branched passage section flows therethrough to carry the medicine in the capsule into right-side and left-side nasal cavities of a patient. The first and second passages are respectively in communication with the first and second outlet passages of the branched passage section.

Abstract: An inhalation type medication delivery device includes a dispenser body having a powder containment chamber at one axial side thereof and an inhalation port for drawing in a powder type medication on the another. An attached lid is provided on the dispenser body for opening and/or closing the powder containment chamber. In addition, an air passage is defined in the body allowing a powder type medication to be introduced into an airflow toward the inhalation port according to inhalation by a user. One end of the air passage opens through the lid towards the outside atmosphere and the other end communicates with the inhalation port while passing through the powder containment chamber. Also, a check valve is installed in the lid to prevent air drawn into said inhalation port from flowing in an outward direction opposite a medication delivery direction toward the inhalation port.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of feeding sheets. The sheets such as photographic photosensitive films are fed one by one by a suction pad in an image recording apparatus. The suction pad is displaced at a higher speed toward a stack of sheets, and then the speed of the suction pad is reduced to cause the suction pad to approach the stacked sheets ata lower speed. It is thereafter detected whether or not an uppermost one of the stacked sheets is attracted by the suction pad. Further, the suction pad is stopped from being moved toward the stacked sheets immediately upon detecting that the suction pad has attracted the uppermost sheet, and is also displaced away from the stacked sheets until the suction pad reaches a desired position.

Abstract: A video image storage device comprises a signal input means capable of analog-to-digital conversion of input video signals including various types of scanning lines such as different numbers of scanning lines, a frame memory means capable of memorizing image signals and signal output means. The video image storage device further comprises an input signal generating means, an output signal generating means and a frame memory control means. The input signal generating means comprises a N multiplying circuit capable of N multiplying horizontal synchronizing pulses. The number of N in a dividing circuit can be arbitarily determined by the relation between effective image period and blanking period, and thus the video image storage device can store input video signals having different scanning line numbers which depend upon the types of diagnostic modalities.

Abstract: A synchronizing signal generating circuit is incorporated in a digital image storing device. When a plurality of video signals composed of different numbers of scanning lines and issued from television cameras of different types of various diagnostic apparatus are converted from analog to digital signals and stored per frame in an image memory in the digital image storing apparatus, sampling pulses for an A/D converter which are synchronous with the horizontal synchronizing signals of the video signals and field discriminating signals relative to odd-numbered fields and even-numbered fields, among composite synchronizing signals, are generated by using an N-multiplier including an equalizing pulse remover controlled by an F/V converter and a field discriminating circuit with a field discriminating time constant being automatically controlled by the F/V converter.

Abstract: A method is provided for fractionating an oil to separate high melting components thereof, which comprises the steps of:(a) adjusting the temperature of an oil or fat to a temperature from the complete melting point to thirty Celsius degrees above the slip melting point of the oil or fat;(b) seeding the temperature-adjusted oil or fat with seed crystals of the high melting point components of said oil or fat;(c) cooling said seeded oil or fat below said temperature to crystallize said high melting point components; and(d) separating the crystals of said high melting point components from the slurry obtained in step (c).