Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Hidenori Gion

Makoto Yano

Michihiro Nakamura

Yasuzo Kirita

Kenji Kubota

Takumi Yoda

Kazuhito Zaima

Noriyuki Kurata

An apparatus for easily drawing blood from arm or leg, which is provided with an inflatable air bag to be wound around the arm or leg and to intermittently squeeze a part of the arm or leg in a fixed length. Control over inflation and contraction of the air bag by means of an electronic circuit permits free and precise change of a length of time for inflating or contracting the air bag as well as pressure in the air bag. An apparatus according to this invention for drawing blood from swollen vein extending within a part between the air bag and the tip of arm of leg can increase a quantity of blood to be drawn. Therefore, this apparatus is generally used together with an extracorporporeal blood circulation and treating apparatus.

Method for easily drawing blood from arm or leg

An ion activity monitoring device is disclosed, having a semi-conductor device including an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor, for detecting the activity of ions in a liquid medium of interest, and a temperature sensor, for detecting the temperature of the liquid medium of interest, a constant current circuit for supplying a drain current of a particular value to the transistor, and a processing circuit for calculating the concentration of the ions in the liquid medium of interest. The drain current is of a value satisfying the relationship of .vertline.Id/.beta..vertline..ltoreq.0.10 volt.sup.2, wherein Id represents the drain current and .beta. represents the channel characteristic value of the ion-sensitive field-effect transistor. A method for operating the transistor is also disclosed.

Method and device for compensating temperature-dependent characteristic

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Okayama, Japan

Hidenori Gion