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Koshin International Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitoshi Sakuragi

Tadashi Motomura

Yasushi Takigawa

Hiroshi Inoue

A method for disposing of suture needles. The method includes attaching the needle storage receptacle to a mounting surface by positioning a first adhesive surface against the mounting surface, peeling back a strip of protective material from a second adhesive surface of a needle storage unit and placing a suture needle between the protective material and the second adhesive surface, removing the protective material from the second adhesive surface and a third adhesive surface adjacent the second adhesive surface, and folding the second adhesive surface into contact with the third adhesive surface to permanently trap the needle.

Storage receptacle for used suture needles

Needle storage receptacle for safely storing and disposing of used suture needles in the operating room. The receptacle is lent a structure having a plurality of linked needle-storing units and having film-anchoring portions at both right-and-left ends, with each needle-storing unit being provided with a mounting pad for adhering a used suture needle, a lid part for covering the mounting pad, and a grip tab in order that the lid part may be grasped when the needle storing unit is to be open/closed, with the mounting pads being provided with adhesive surfaces on the front and rear sides, the lid parts having an adhesive surface on the front side, and on the rear side being printed with marks in such a way when the lid parts are overlaid onto and stuck together with the mounting pads numerals may be recognized through the front side.

A conductive device is applied to the skin of a subject suffering from symptoms such as musculoskeletal discomfort or pain, cold constitution, poor blood circulation, and the like, wherein a stream of charged particles is generated in the body of the subject due to the different ionization tendencies of two different types of metals employed in the conductive device.

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Otsu, Japan

Hitoshi Sakuragi