PURPOSE: To provide a vas stent with flexibility in the unexpanded state in insertion, and with high rigidity and ring strength in the expanded state after insertion by extending the side face of a cell in parallel to the longitudinal axis of a tubular body when the tubular body is in the unexpanded state, and slanting the side face of the cell when the tubular body is in the expanded state. CONST...

PURPOSE: To enhance the bending strength by taking procedures to specify the dry bulk density of a composite substance in a concentrated tissue state based on the density and ratio of a composition, when a composite substance is manufactured of a binder which is hardened by hydration with a mixed water and a fiber (a supply substance). CONSTITUTION: A composite substance, especially a two-floor pl...

PURPOSE: To effectively open printed product pieces without depending upon the state of a folded printed product and characteristics. CONSTITUTION: Folds 22 side of printed products 20 is held by a feeding clamp 14 of a feeder 10, hung, an open end 28 fed in a feeding direction F is placed on a support member 30, both the pieces 32, 36 brought into contact with each other are laterally separated t...

PURPOSE:To provide a glazed cement mortar product having excellent physical and chemical properties at a low cost by using a cement mortar as a substrate. CONSTITUTION:The glazed cement mortar product is produced by 3 steps comprising (1) the 1st step to preheat a formed article of cured and hardened cement mortar preferably at 150-450 deg.C to remove included free water, organic ingredients, etc....

PURPOSE:To make it possible to remove efflorescence and remove its regeneration by forming a waterproof agent with specified cyanogen compound or their low condensates and coating the surface of an efflorescence generated material with the waterproof agent and impregnating and then pickling the surface of the material. CONSTITUTION:About 100w.t. of decyltrimethoxy silane is diluted in about 900w.t...

A container for use in heating by a microwave oven which is capable of preventing hardening and drying of the corners of the contents, and of allowing its contents to be uniformly and effectively heated. Referring to FIG. 1, the container of the present invention comprises an oblong container proper 1, a device 3 for elevating the container proper 1, a lid 5 and a microwave shielding layer 4. The ...

A medical appliance driving apparatus has a switching valve connected to both positive and negative pressure sources to output positive and negative pressures while switching them from one to the other, and an isolator having an input chamber and an output chamber which are defined by a movable membrane, the input chamber being connected to the switching valve. A solenoid valve is connected to the...

A medical appliance driving apparatus has pressure regulating control valves connected to positive and negative pressure sources and an isolator having an input chamber and an output chamber which are defined by a moveable membrane. The input chamber is connected to the pressure regulating control valves. An output valve is connected to the output chamber of the isolator, and a microcomputer is pr...

A collection container for body fluids includes a bag (16) having walls (68,70) constrained for movement with relatively stiff and flexible sheet members (78,80). A squeezing force applied to the side edges (85,87) of the members causes them to bend outwardly thereby expanding the bag (16). A holder (18) is provided to maintain the bag (16) in the expanded condition. The bag (16) is intended for c...

An implantable fixing device for extraoral applications includes a basic structure implantable in the bone and having either a thread-pressing or a thread-cutting helix, and an implant post being connectible to the basic structure by being inserted in an axial bore therein.

PURPOSE:To make it possible to surely separate a molded item from molds by a method wherein the molded item, the cross-section of the outer surface of which is non-circular and the inner surface of which is an internally threaded part, is pushed out by means of the screwing action under the state that said non-circular cross-sectional shape acts as an anti- rotation work. CONSTITUTION:Molding is d...

Concrete/mortar is manufactured using a small amount of water by using fine grain ice or dry clathrate water for the cement mixture. Fine grain ice is used in such a manner that water is impregnated into a water absorbent polymer, which is capable of keeping an independent fine grain particulate structure when porating water, and then frozen. Also, dry clathrate water is used in a form in which wa...

Described is a hypodermic syringe which includes provision for a rigid sheath cover or sleeve which encompasses the rubber needle cover and provides protection in the operating mode as well as other advantages. The rubber needle cover is placed over the needle and provides a sterile barrier for the needle after the syringe unit is sterilized. The sheath cover can be made of plastic and includes a ...

A least-recently used (LRU) storage means and its associated logic maintain usage history for associativity class entries of a cache directory. The storage means includes an independent storage array for each of six bit positions of an LRU binary code pattern. Parity bits are provided in the arrays for each LRU bit. Separate read/write controls simultaneously write three update LRU bits to three o...

The present invention relates to a rapid-setting, hydraulic binder containing calcium silicate cements, in particular Portland cement, reactive calcium aluminates, in particular aluminous cement, and, if appropriate, additives and/or aggregates known per se, which binder is characterised by a content of: a) 0.1 to 2.0% by weight of an organic and/or inorganic accelerator for the hydration of the...

An apparatus for inserting a thoracotomy tube in a patient without damaging adjacent lung tissues is provided. The thoracotomy tube is adapted to receive a trocar having screw threads on the distal end thereof. The proximal end of the trocar has a handle thereon to rotate the trocar so that the screw threaded distal end forms an incision within the skin of the patient and the tip end of the screw ...

The present invention is directed to compounds useful as probes for characterizing and studying the adenosine A2 receptor. The present invention is also directed to methods of treating central nervous system disorders and cardiovascular disorders which include treating hypertension and thrombosis by administering said compounds.

A method is disclosed for derivatizing oligosaccharides to form synthetic N-linked glycoconjugates by converting a glycosylamine derivative of the oligosaccharide to a haloacetylated derivative as an intermediate compound prior to formation of the synthetic N-linked glycoconjugate to thereby directly maintain the (beta)-anomeric configuration of said N-linked glycoconjugate.

An apparatus for multi-axis rotational motion includes a spherical structure (102) and a housing (104), the housing (104) at least partially enclosing the spherical structure (102) and movably coupled thereto. Magnetically compliant poles (106, 107, 108, 109) are mechanically coupled to one of the spherical structure (102) and the housing (104), and a magnetic drive mechanism (114) is mechanicanic...

An apparatus (10) is disclosed for guiding the needle (112) of a tissue sampling device to a target location (132) within the body of a patient. The device permits accurate and easy retrieval of acceptable tissue speciments from locations within the body of a patient which require angling of the needle to reach the target tissue. The apparatus further permits accurate and easy retrieval of tissue ...