Kuraray Co., Ltd.

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Kurary Company, Ltd.

Makoto Yano

Kyoichiro Shibatani

Kiyoo Shimada

Michihiro Nakamura

Tsutomu Makimoto

Noriaki Yoshimura

Koji Hirai

Yasuo Tokitoh

Hayami Yoshimochi

Toshihiro Omatsu

Yoichi Matsumoto

Osamu Kusudo

Masao Ishida

Yoshito Hamamoto

Hidenori Gion

Kenji Kubota

Hiroshi Tsurumi

Keiji Kubo

Hidehiko Ikeya

Novel trimethylolheptanes having three highly reactive hydroxyl groups are provided. They are useful as raw materials for the production of polyesters for use in or as raw materials or modifiers for paints, inks, adhesives, coating compositions and molding resins. Uses for the trimethylolheptanes are also provided.

Trimethylolheptanes and use thereof

A blood component monitoring system for monitoring chemical substances of interest in blood, which includes a transfusion circuit including a flow-through cell adapted to be fluid-connected with a blood vessel through an indwelling catheter, a reservoir for accommodating a quantity of physiologically compatible sensor correcting solution, a connecting tubing extending between the reservoir and the flow-through cell and a transfusion pump; a detector unit including a temperature sensor and a chemical sensitive sensor device both incorporated inside the flow-through cell. A transfusion pump drive circuit is provided for controlling operation of the transfusion pump, a sensor drive circuit is provided for driving the temperature sensor and the chemical sensitive sensor device, a processing unit is provided for controlling both of the transfusion pump drive circuit and the sensor drive circuit and for reading respective outputs from the temperature sensor and the chemical sensitive sensor device and converting the outputs into respective measured values, and an output device is provided for externally outputting the measured values.

Blood component monitoring system

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

An apparatus for measuring the quantities of chemical substances contained in a solution to be assayed by using a chemical-substance sensitive sensor consists of a potentiometric electrode which responds selectively to chemical substances, and a liquid-junction type reference electrode including a tube, a porous thread member housed in the front end opening of the tube and having a pore capacity of 0.2 cc/g or more and at least the surface of which is hydrophilic, a silver-silver chloride wire is provided and housed in the tube so that at one end of the wire is in contact with the thread member and the wire which extends along the tube. The wire is connected to a connector at the other end opening of the tube, an electrical insulating resin fills said tube, at least at the front end portion thereof, for fixing both the silver-silver chloride wire and the thread member by contact therewith and for stopping said tube. An internal solution is retained by suction in said porous thread member. This apparatus is advantageously used for monitoring the living body and may be thermally sterilized.

Chemical substance measuring apparatus

A gas sensor which includes a reference electrode deposited on the surface of a pH-sensitive transducer having a gate-insulated field-effect transistor (FET) structure and adjacent a gate region of the FET, the transducer and reference electrode being housed in a flexible tube so that the gate region of the FET is located in an opening provided at the front end of or on the side wall of the tube. Lead wires connected to the FET and to the reference electrode extend along the tube. Between the inner wall of the tube and lead-wire FET bonding part is placed electrical insulation resin filling to stop the tube. A hydrophilic polymer layer containing electrolyte is provided which at least extends over both the FET gate region and a part of the reference electrode. A gas permeable membrane is laid over the polymer layer.

Gas sensor with pH-sensitive FET transducer

An electrical circuitry for use in the measurement of the activity of ions in an electrolyte solution carried out by the use of an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor transducer having a gate or ion sensitive layer, a source and a drain. The measurement is carried out by adjusting the drain current flowing through the field-effect transistor to a predetermined value such that the temperature dependency of the electroconductivity of the channel of the transistor becomes equal to the sum of the temperature dependency of the potential at an interface between a reference electrode and the electrolyte solution and the temperature dependency of the potential at an interface between the ion-sensitive layer and the electrolyte solution.

A chemical sensitive field effect transistor transducer is provided having a semipermeable membrane on the surface of a chemical selective system overlying an insulated gate field effect transistor. Such a field effect transistor transducer is effective for the measurement of chemical constituents of factory waste water containing micro-particles, saliva or blood containing proteins, etc., where conventional devices give unreliable results.

Selective chemical sensitive field effect transistor transducers

A reference electrode of an insulated gate field effect transistor having the surface of the gate region thereof coated with a hydrophobic organic polymer membrane. Since this reference electrode is much smaller in size than conventional reference electrodes, an integrated measurement system can easily be constructed by using this reference electrode. This measurement system is especially effective for measuring various ions in the living body.

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Makoto Yano