Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Kiyoshi Kitagawa

Yoshio Kawai

Chikau Onodera

Tadashi Onuma

Akira Sogawa

Yoshikazu Kokubu

Hiroaki Satoh

Isao Okazaki

Atsushi Yoshihara

Kazue Endo

Yoshio Hosoi

A method of heating a tract organ of the living body with high-frequency electric current, includes the step of controlling a flow volume of a coolant supplied into a first electrode so as to be substantially equal to that of a blood which flows in a living body tissue at a portion where the first electrode is disposed while controlling a temperature of the coolant to a temperature range of the living body tissue at the portion, the coolant being an aqueous solution of salts at a predetermined concentration. The method makes it possible to effect safely a hyperthermic treatment. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.

Apparatus for dielectric-heating living body by high-frequency current

An electrode device for heating a tumor in an endotract organ by high frequency convergent electric current has a container of a flexible polymeric material provided with thick side wall, a thick bottom wall connected to one end of the side wall and an opening defined by the other end of the side wall. The device further has a deformable electrode member disposed near an inner surface of the thick bottom wall, and a flexible polymeric film fluid-tightly attached to the other end of the thick side wall. A mesh-like member of a flexible polymeric material is disposed between the electrode member and the flexible polymeric film, and has a plurality of first passages leading to a top surface thereof and a bottom surface thereof, and a plurality of second passages each communicating the first passages with each other.

Electrode device for heating tumor in endotract organ

A high-frequency capacitive heating electrode device comprises a cap-shaped electrode, a flexible support for supporting the electrode with one end thereof capped with the electrode, a flexible polymer film which surrounds the electrode and forms a gastight space between the support and the flexible polymer film, and passages for respectively introducing and discharging a cooling medium to and from the gastight space. The high-frequency capacitive heating electrode device is disposed in the vicinity of the target portion of a living body to be heated and is useful for the hyperthermia therapy for a cancer of the uterine cervix.

High-frequency capacitive heating electrode device

The disclosed invention relates to a cell unit for use in observing an electophoresis which utilizes a measurement cell which accommodates a liquid specimen. A pair of conduit elements are used to introduce and discharge the liquid specimen into and from the measurement cell with one of the conduit elements having a flexible tube portion. Also included is a pair of valves for closing a pair of conduit elements with at least one of the valves being utilized as a pinch valve to pinch the flexible tube. A pair of housing elements accommodate a pair of electrodes with the electrodes producing an electric potential gradient in the specimen. Lastly, a pair of diaphragm elements are each disposed between the measurement cell and one of the pair of housing elements in order to separate a space in the measurement cell from the space in the associated housing element. One of the pair of diaphragm elements is disposed in order to absorb a fluctuation of pressure in the liquid in a particular space defined by the pair of diaphragm elements and the valves in order to securely and easily seal the liquid specimen within the space defined by the pair of diaphragm elements and the valves. The device is also used to minimize the flow of liquid specimen within the measurement cell after sealing.

Cell unit for observing electrophoresis

A pinch valve device comprising a nipping element having a pair of nipping portions adapted to be brought nearer to and apart from each other and to nip a resilient tube therebetween when brought nearer with each other to thereby close a passage in the tube, and a stop element adapted to stop at least one of the nipping portions, tended to be apart from each other by the resilient repulsion of the resilient tube, at a predetermined spacing allowing to close the passage in the resilient tube when the nipping portions are brought nearer to each other than the predetermined spacing against the resilient repulsion of the resilient tube can surely close the passage in the resilient tube and reduce the degradation of the tube.

Pinch valve device

A cell unit for observing electrophoresis comprising

A method and apparatus are disclosed for measuring interfacial electrokinetic phenomena such as electrophoresis by applying stationary electric field to a sample, wherein the voltage between two points in the sample other than the electrodes for an electric current application is detected and the electric current is supplied to the sample to maintain the detected voltage constant, and the sample is preheated while the particles being substantially kept in a stationary state by applying an alternating voltage prior to the application of the stationary voltage, to thereby obtain the mobility of the charged particle in the sample at high accuracy.

Method and apparatus for measuring interfacial electrokinetic phenomena

The invention resides in an electrolytic cell element representing a frame structure defining partially an anode chamber and a cathode chamber. The frame is composed of a carbon fiber-high polymer composite material.

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Komae, Japan

Kiyoshi Kitagawa