Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Hazime Inagaki

Isemi Igarashi

Toshikazu Ishihara

Tomoyuki Kitano

Masakazu Mizuno

Atsushi Nakashima

Yousuke Moriuchi

Fumihiro Ushijima

Fumihisa Hirose

Katsumi Nawata

Katsuhiro Minami

Yasuhiro Goto

Masashi Hashimoto

Osamu Tabata

Ritsuo Suzuki

Toshiyuki Taguchi

There is provided a measuring apparatus for alcohol contained in an exhalation, the measuring apparatus measuring concentration of alcohol with a high accuracy in a short time. An alcohol sensor is provided inside an air passage to measure concentration of alcohol contained in air passing through the air passage. The alcohol sensor has a sensing element for sensing alcohol and a heating element for heating the sensing element. A suction pump is provided to the air passage so as to suction air from an inlet of the air passage. The sensing element is situated inside an air trapping chamber so that the air flowing through the air passage does not directly hit the sensing element.

Measuring apparatus for a component contained in exhalation

A disposable pressure transducer for measuring fluid pressure, which includes a sensor assembly in a housing. The housing includes a fluid chamber and a sensor-accommodating chamber which are formed integrally with each other. The sensor assembly comprises: a sensor chip for converting pressure into an electrical signal; an insulating board on which the sensor chip is mounted and which is provided with an integrated-circuit for processing an output signal of the sensor chip so that an external measuring device can read the signal; a cylindrical coupling lid which is bonded to the board in such a manner as to surround the sensor chip and which is fitted into a communication through-hole which provides communication between the fluid chamber and the sensor-accommodating chamber of the housing; a pressure-transmitting medium charged into the interior of the coupling lid so as to provide electrical insulation between the fluid chamber and the sensor chip; and an electrical cable connected to the board and electrically connected to the external measuring device.

Disposable pressure transducer and disposable pressure transducer

A semiconductor flow velocity sensor having a semiconductor substrate and an electrical heating unit arranged on the substrate. The sensor located in the fluid flow to be measured can electrically detect the radiation from the heating unit which varies depending on the velocity of fluid flow. Thermal insulator is provided between the semiconductor (silicon) substrate and the heating unit so as to thermally shield the substrate from the heating unit. On the thermally isolated area of the substrate is provided an external sensor circuit so as to enable to increase the integration of the sensor.

Semiconductor flow velocity sensor

A hematocrit measuring instrument of the type which determines hematocrit of blood from the electrical resistivity of the blood is provided with a blood resistivity measurement device, an ultrafilter for filtering a part of the plasma from the blood, a filtrate resistivity measurement device for measuring the resistivity of the filtrate from the ultrafilter and an arithmetic circuit for calculating the hematocrit of the blood from the resistivities of the blood and the filtrate. The hematocrit measuring instrument is connected into a circulatory path for the blood outside of the patient's body and continuously measures the hematocrit of the blood from the resistivity of the blood and the resistivity of the filtrate from the ultrafilter.

Hematocrit measuring instrument

A telemetering intracranial pressure transducer comprises an airtight casing member housing a pressure-electric transducer for detecting an intracranial pressure, a pressure-receiving layer disposed in contact with the pressure-electric transducer and in pressed engagement with the dura under the skull, and a transmitting circuit for transmitting an output signal indicative of the intracranial pressure through a transmitting antenna. The transmitting circuit includes a telemetering transmission circuit, a microbattery and a switch for switching on and off the microbattery. The transducer thus constructed is entirely embedded below the head, dispensing with external wires or a receiving coil on the head, and detects an intracranial pressure safely and accurately without confining or disturbing the activities of a testee.

Telemetering intracranial pressure transducer

A catheter tip pressure transducer for detecting the pressure in various portions of a living body accurately and safely comprises a pressure sensor disposed within the end portion of a catheter. The pressure sensor comprises a pressure sensitive diaphragm whereon strain gauges are formed by a diffusion method. The pressure sensor is mounted on an insulated supporting member without being secured firmly thereto. A protecting member made of silicone rubber fills the hollow portion of the catheter so as to isolate and protect the pressure sensor and the ambient body tissue. Pressure is accurately measured by the pressure sensor without being influenced by the thermal stresses which occur in the supporting member. Furthermore, electrical isolation and mechanical safety are obtained.

Catheter tip pressure transducer

An intracranial pressure transducer includes a casing comprising an annular member having a screwed part on an outer wall thereof for fitting and securing a skull of a body. A pressure-electric transducing portion including a supporting member which is inserted within an inner wall of the casing and is tightly fixed to the predetermined upper portion from a tip portion of the casing, an indicating circuit for indicating the intracranial pressure in response to an output of strain sensitive elements, and indicating means. The intracranial pressure transducer converts intracranial pressure of a cerebrospinal fluid to the internal pressure of a pressure receiving layer of the transducer by the copanar Coplanar method which maintains the dura to be coplanar by the depression of the pressure receiving layer of the transducer against the dura, applies internal pressure of the pressure receiving layer to a strain sensing member, supplies an electrical signal by a strain sensitive element in response to the internal pressure of the pressure receiving layer, and accurately and safely indicates the intracranial pressure on the indicating means.

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Aichi, Japan

Hazime Inagaki