A connector for interconnecting a multiconductor cable and a printed circuit board. The connector includes means for receiving and contacting individual conductors at one end of the conductor housing. It also includes at the other end means for plugging the connector onto a printed circuit board so that electrical contact is made between the conductors of the cable and contact strips on the printe...

A therapeutically active solid unit dosage form comprising a carrier base material combined with a therapeutically active medicament and shaped and compressed to a solid unit dosage form having a controlled and sustained release pattern upon administration, the carrier base material comprising a mixture of one or more nonionic cellulose ethers and an alkali metal carboxylate, wherein at least one ...

PCT No. PCT/JP88/00483 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 9, 1988 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 9, 1988 PCT Filed May 23, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO89/05635 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 29, 1989.Solid medicament forms, such as granules, beads, tablets, are first coated with a hot aqueous dispersion of a cellulose ether, which is soluble in cold water but insoluble in hot water, and then subjected to a wax treatment with heating to form ...

Described are amino acid compounds of the formula: wherein R is a lower alkyl group, R1 is a hydrogen atom or a protecting group for carboxyl, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a protecting group for amino, an optionally substituted allyl group of the formula: (wherein R3 and R4 are each a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aryl group), a beta-hydroxyethyl group in which the hydroxyl grou...

PURPOSE:To obtain a patch capable of percutaneously absorbing a drug effectively, by forming a tacky agent layer containing a drug, a water absorbing filler and a tacky base on one side of a substrate. CONSTITUTION:0.1-30wt.% drug except eperisone, triperisone and salts thereof is blended with 0.5-20wt.% water absorbing filler (e.g. crosslinked polyvinylpyrrolidone), a tacky base and optionally a ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a plaster having low skin-irritation, resistant to peeling and remaining on the surface of skin over a long period, exhibiting excellent drug-releasability and achieving high transcutaneous absorbability of drug by applying a tacky adhesive layer containing a specific compound on one surface of a substrate. CONSTITUTION:A surface of a flexible film or sheet (e.g. polyethylene fil...

Compounds of the formula I wherein R1 is halogen, C1-4-alkyl, halo-(C1-4-alkyl) or C2-4-alkanoyl, R2 is hydrogen, hydroxy, C1-4alkoxy, C1-4-alkylthio or phenyl-(C1-4-alkoxy) or , when X is O, also acyloxy, R3 is hydrogen or C1-4-alkyl, R4 is a carbocyclic group or a heterocyclic group, R5 is hydrogen or fluorine, m stands for zero, 1 or 2, X is O or NH and Y is a direct bond, -CH=CH-,...

Pharmaceutical compsn. comprises as active ingredient a therapeuticall effective ant. of an N-(4-piperidinyl)-3H-imidazo (4,5-b) pyridine-2-amine or N-(4-piperidinyl)-1H-benzimidazole-2-amine cpd. of formula (I) or its pharmaceutically acceptable acid addn. salt or steroisomer: where L=H, 1-6C alkoxy-carbonyl or benzyloxyearbonyl, A= gp. of formula (a) -CH=CH-CH=CH-, (b) -N=CH-CH=CH-, (c) -CH2N-CH...

PURPOSE:To industrially and advantageously obtain the title compound useful as an antibiotic substance, plant growth retardant, etc., by protecting amino group of an optically active N-carboxyamino acid anhydride, reacting the protected compound with an optically active histidine ester, deprotecting and cyclizing the resultant product. CONSTITUTION:The amino group at the 3-position of an optically...

A compound of the formula: in which R<1> and R<2> are each hydrogen, halogen, lower alkoxy or halo(lower)alkyl, R<3> is aryl or ar(lower)alkyl, both of which may have one or more suitable substituent(s), or heterocyclic(lower)alkyl, R<4> is carboxy or protected carboxy, A is oxygen or sulfur atom, Y is carbonyl, thiocarbonyl or sulfonyl and Z is lower alkylene, and pharmaceutically...

The invention relates to a blood product, excluding albumin, which blood product is inactivated towards infectious agents and corresponds to a total virus reduction factor of at least 40, with a biological activity of at least 50 % relative to the activity used for carrying out the inactivation of the infectious agents. The blood product according to the invention can be prepared from conventional...

The invention relates to a process for determining the capacity of an inactivation treatment to inactivate virus, which treatment comprises at least one inactivation method in which the reduction factor is determined with the aid of a test virus. According to the invention, the test virus is added repeatedly during at least the one inactivation method and the individual reduction factors of at lea...

The drainage channel has a locking spring (10) with collars (11) which engage recesses (6) in the side walls (3) of the drainage channel body (1). The locking spring has two spring shanks (12) each with a backward section (13) and an upward slope (14). The cover grating (2) has locking arms (4) with inwardly directed shanks (5) which in positioning the cover grating, engage the backward sections o...

PURPOSE:To prevent the light guide incidence terminal of an endoscope from being heated with excessive light by providing a 2nd light shield member having a small hole for passing part of light emitted by a light source. CONSTITUTION:The light emitted by the lamp 3 passes through the small hole 6 of a 1st light shield plate 7 and excessive light is cut off to some extent, but the diameter of the s...

PURPOSE:To observe a minute ruggedness on the wall surface of a body cavity by constituting an endoscope device of a pair of illuminating means which alternately illuminate the inside of the body cavity, means which convert body cavity inside images obtained by respective illuminating light to visible images, and a shielding means which alternately shields right and left visual fields synchronousl...

PURPOSE:To reduce the influence of heat generating by illumination light to a human body and to obtain continuous images by providing an illumination means which emits light and increases the quantity of the light at a specific interval. CONSTITUTION:A counter 25 outputs a pulse every time it counts a vertical synchronizing signal VD outputted by a synchronizing generating circuit 21 up to a speci...

PURPOSE:To obtain an endoscope using a solid-state image pickup element where there is a sufficient space for an illuminating means, a channel for treating tool, or the like by shifting the optical part in an incidence-side part of an objective optical system from the center of the front end part of the endoscope. CONSTITUTION:Since the objective optical system is so formed that its optical axis O...

PURPOSE:To prevent an observation from being impeded even owing to the clouding of a optical observation system by employing airtight structure of rat least part of the optical observation system. CONSTITUTION:A main endoscope body 1 is formed in airtight structure by using an adhesive, etc., and the optical observation system which extends from an objective 8 to an ocular 13 is formed in airtight...

PURPOSE:To exactly and stably carry out an operation such as a curvature operation and the grasping of an endoscope by inclining the axial core of a grasping part downward for the axial core of an inserting part so as to be far from the tip of the inserting part. CONSTITUTION:An axial core 11a of the grasping part is inclined downward for an axial core 20a of the inserting part so as to be far fro...