Abstract: A medical device capable of improving operativity and safety when a body surface part and an internal tissue are put in a suture is provided. The medical device used to put a body surface part and an internal tissue in a suture, includes a main body (2), a suture insertion needle (3) which is supported by the main body (2), and into which the suture can be inserted, and a suture grasping needle (4) which is provided to be proximate to the suture insertion needle (3), and into which a suture traction tool can be inserted. The suture insertion needle (3) and the suture grasping needle (4) are detachably attached to the main body (2) by an attachment and detachment unit.

Abstract: A percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy catheter including a top portion having a conical shape, wherein the conical top portion is hollow and has an opening formed at the top end thereof. The opening has such size that an engaging head formed at a top end of a guide wire passes there through. The inside of the conical hollow top portion is larger than the opening in diameter, and the hollow conical top portion is provided with an engaging piece on the inside thereof, the engaging piece allowing the head of the guide wire, which is inserted through the opening, to pass therethrough and preventing the head from being pulled out.

Abstract: A PEG catheter is prevented from being infected. An infection preventive cover includes an elongated sheath having one opening end. The opening end is embroidered with a ligature at its circumferential section. A guide wired which is inserted through an abdominal wall into a stomach and which is then drawn out of an oral cavity is linked with a joint wire of a PEG catheter. Thereafter, the PEG catheter is covered with the infection preventive cover. The opening end of the sheath is tied up by the ligature. By pulling the guide wire on the abdomen wall side, the PEG catheter covered with the cover is delivered into the stomach. By pulling a cutting wire exposed through the abdomen wall, the ligature is cut off and the opening end of the cover is opened. Further in order to make it easy to close tightly and to loose an opening end, another infection preventive cover is provided.

Abstract: To supply substantially isolated neural cells in a large amount, and to provide an application means for a neuroregenerative medicine or the like for a neurodegenerative disease, a nervous damage or the like. A method for producing a substantially isolated neural cell, comprising the step of carrying out the suspension culture of embryonic stem cells in the presence of an astrocyte conditioned medium or ingredients substantially equivalent to the conditioned medium; and a neural cell obtained thereby; a cell pharmaceutical composition comprising, as an active ingredient, the isolated neural stem cell; and a method for treating a neurodegenerative disease or nervous damage, comprising the step of introducing the neural cell into a neurodegenerative site or a nervous damage site.

Abstract: To provide a technique of the differentiation from a primate embryonic stem cell into a vascular cell, and techniques using the same. A method for differentiating a primate embryonic stem cell into a vascular cell, comprising differentiating a primate embryonic stem cell into a VEGFR-2-positive and undifferentiated primate embryonic stem cell marker-negative cell, and if need, further differentiating the resulting cell, a method of the differentiation into a vascular cell, and a vascular cell obtained by the method.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a single liquid crystal panel in which a liquid crystal material is sealed in a clearance between two transparent substrates, at least one light source, and at least one light-conducting plate. The liquid crystal panel includes a transmitting region and a reflecting region. A part of a first surface of the liquid crystal panel is a first display surface for the transmitting region and a part of a second surface of the liquid crystal panel is a second display surface for the reflecting region. A two-sided display is provided from a single liquid crystal panel and a thin and light-weight liquid crystal display device is achieved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a single liquid crystal panel in which a liquid crystal material is sealed in a clearance between two transparent substrates, at least one light source, and at least one light-conducting plate. The liquid crystal panel includes a transmitting region and a reflecting region. A part of a first surface of the liquid crystal panel is a first display surface for the transmitting region and a part of a second surface of the liquid crystal panel is a second display surface for the reflecting region. A two-sided display is provided from a single liquid crystal panel and a thin and light-weight liquid crystal display device is achieved.

Abstract: Highly efficient gene transfer into primate-derived embryonic stem (ES) cells has successfully been achieved by using a simian immunodeficiency virus vector (SIV) pseudotyped with VSV-G protein, which is a surface glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) The present invention provides simian immunodeficiency virus vectors for gene transfer to primate ES cells. The method for gene transfer to primate ES cells using the vectors of the present invention is useful in, for example, research into embryology and disease, clinical applications, and experimental models for primates. The method is also useful in assaying and screening for genes and reagents able to enhance the specific differentiation of tissues or cells, and which are useful in preparing desired cells or tissues differentiated from ES cells.

Abstract: In a subscriber apparatus and a subscriber line concentrator used for an Internet connection service or the like, the subscriber line concentrator comprises a communication control unit multiplexing/demultiplexing packets from a subscriber I/F and a network connection I/F, the network I/F converting the formats of packets from the communication control unit and the network, a transmitting/receiving unit being able to transmit recorded usage period information data to a communication managing apparatus, and a recording unit recording the usage period information data relating to a connection history between the subscriber apparatus lent from a communication carrier and the network, which prevents communication for grasping the state of usage of the subscriber apparatus from suppressing the communication bandwidth used to provide the network service to the subscriber, and carry out an efficient packet processing in an access line in the network.

Abstract: The method for producing woody moldings and the apparatus for producing woody moldings which can reduce the number of processing steps and shorten the processing time. The cellulose based fine powdery particles 3 and the thermoplastic resin 5 are kneaded and dissolved into a mixed material 7, and the mixed material 7 is cooled and agitated into a powdery particulate solid 9. Then, the powdery particulate solid 9 is molded into a predetermined shape.

Abstract: A gate-type shift lever device in which a pin is formed at a mounting piece formed at a back wall portion of a base, which pin axially supports a plate switch. Two levers are formed at the plate switch. A shift lever abuts and presses one of the levers during a shift operation from a “D” position to a “4” position. The shift lever abuts and presses another of the levers, during a shift operation from a “2” position to an “L” position. In accordance with rotation of the plate switch due to the pressing forces received by the levers, a holder contact moves transversely. Thus, the shift operations from the “D” position to the “4” position and from the “2” position to the “L” position can be detected.

Abstract: When a key is rotated, it is moved in order of an ON position, an R position, an N position and a D position so that the range of an automatic transmission is switched. Moreover, when the key 13 is pressed in the ON position and the N position, it is moved to a START position so that power is applied to a starter. In this case, it is possible to carry out an operation for starting an engine and an operation for switching the range of the automatic transmission by manipulating the same key in a different direction. Therefore, the operation for starting an engine and the operation for switching the range of the automatic transmission can be carried out easily.

Abstract: Disclosed is an infection preventive catheter kit for preventing the infection of the wound. A percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) catheter 20 is inserted into an infection preventive cover 10, which is provided with a socket 13 at a distal end thereof. A head portion 15a of a guide wire 15 which is inserted into the PEG catheter 20 through a top end thereof and an in-stomach remaining member 23 provided at a distal end of the PEG catheter 20 are engaged with (fixed to) the socket 13 of the infection preventive cover 10 by a pin 14 penetrating the socket 13.

Abstract: A golf ball having a predetermined radius, and a spherical outer surface with a multiplicity of dimples formed therein. A protrusion is formed in each of the dimples which are located in hit portions having a diameter of 5-15 mm, or alternatively, is formed in each of all the dimples. The protrusion has a distal end whose radial distance from the center of the golf ball is equal to the predetermined radius of the golf ball. The protrusion has a partition wall which divides a space in each dimple into a plurality of segmental spaces. The protrusion may have two partition walls which are perpendicular to each other and intersect at right angles for dividing a space in each of the dimples into four segmental spaces.

Abstract: The lever body 17 includes a recess (receiver) 66 defined by an upper plate 70 and the projections 65a, 65b, as shown in FIG. 7. A notch 67 is formed in the upper plate 70 (see FIG. 1). The notch 67 permits the first locking piece 61 to move from its retreating position to the operating position in the recess 66. The dimension of the notch 67 in the Y direction (the width of the notch 67) and the dimension of the notch 67 in the notch X direction (the depth of the notch 67) are both shorter than the corresponding dimensions of the recess 66. The upper plate 70 functions as a prohibiting member.

Abstract: In a vibration actuator using a magnetic circuit device (14), a supporting arrangement (23) elastically supports the magnetic circuit device. A coil (17) is inserted into a magnetic gap (15) of the magnetic circuit device and is supported by a vibration plate (19). The vibration actuator has a first operation mode in which the magnetic circuit device mainly vibrates to transmit vibration through the vibration plate to the outside, a second vibration mode in which the coil mainly vibrates to produce a buzzer sound through the vibration plate, and a third vibration mode in which the magnetic circuit device and the coil mainly vibrate to produce a sound corresponding to a speech through the vibration plate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a single liquid crystal panel in which liquid crystal is sealed in a clearance formed between two transparent substrates, at least one light source, and at least one light-conducting plate. The liquid crystal panel includes a transmitting type region and a reflecting type region. A part of one surface of the liquid crystal panel is defined to be a first display surface for the transmitting type region and a part of the other surface of the liquid crystal panel is defined to be a second display surface for the reflecting type region. Both-sided display is enabled by using a single liquid crystal panel and a thin and light-weighted structure of the liquid crystal display device is achieved thereby.

Abstract: A flat cable, which has an insulating coating composed of a polyester resin composition, the composition containing: (A) 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic aromatic polyester; (B) 10 to 120 parts by weight of a polyester block copolymer composed of: 20 to 80 wt % of a hard segment whose main component is poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) that is composed of an acid component in which terephthalic acid occupies 60 mole % or more and a diol component in which tetramethylene glycol occupies 60 mole % or more; and 80 to 20 wt % of a soft segment whose main component is a polyester that is composed of an acid component in which an aromatic dicarboxylic acid occupies 60 mole % or more and a diol component of a long-chain diol having 5 to 12 carbon atoms; and (C) 1 to 50 parts by weight of an olefin-acrylate copolymer modified by a glycidyl compound.

Abstract: In a vibration actuator using a magnetic circuit device (14), a supporting arrangement (23) elastically supports the magnetic circuit device. A coil (17) is inserted into a magnetic gap (15) of the magnetic circuit device and is supported by a vibration plate (19). The vibration actuator has a first operation mode in which the magnetic circuit device mainly vibrates to transmit vibration through the vibration plate to the outside, a second vibration mode in which the coil mainly vibrates to produce a buzzer sound through the vibration plate, and a third vibration mode in which the magnetic circuit device and the coil mainly vibrate to produce a sound corresponding to a speech through the vibration plate.

Abstract: A PEG catheter is prevented from being infected. An infection preventive cover includes an elongated sheath having one opening end. The opening end is embroidered with a ligature at its circumferential section. A guide wired which is inserted through an abdominal wall into a stomach and which is then drawn out of an oral cavity is linked with a joint wire of a PEG catheter. Thereafter, the PEG catheter is covered with the infection preventive cover. The opening end of the sheath is tied up by the ligature. By pulling the guide wire on the abdomen wall side, the PEG catheter covered with the cover is delivered into the stomach. By pulling a cutting wire exposed through the abdomen wall, the ligature is cut off and the opening end of the cover is opened. Further in order to make it easy to close tightly and to loose an opening end, another infection preventive cover is provided.