Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Takahiro Kurihara

Satoshi Nakayama

Tomohiro Kami

Yoshie Watari

Shinichi Fumuro

Fumio Kitagawa

Kazuhiro Ide

Manabu Hamamoto

Daisuke Morikawa

Kouichi Okada

A hemadynamometer has an air bag designed for attaining oppression or ischemia of radial artery only without oppressing ulnar artery, with a length of the bag made, when the bag is wound on a user's wrist on its radial side starting from such hard organization area as tendons on palm side of the wrist through the radial artery, to reach at least styloid process of radius but not to reach the ulnar artery, and with a width set for locally oppressing the radial artery at least substantially right above the styloid process of radius in longitudinal direction of the wrist.

Hemadynamometer

A compact fluid control valve effects a reliable fluid flow regulation by the use of a shape memory alloy wire. The valve comprises a barrel provided with a base member and a valve body. The valve body is cooperative with the base member to define therebetween a valve opening in the course of an internal flow path through the valve for a fluid. The valve body is movable towards and away from the base member to vary the valve opening for regulating the flow of the fluid. A bias spring urges the valve body for varying the valve opening in one direction. The shape memory alloy wire connects the valve body to the barrel to move the valve body against the bias spring for varying the valve opening when heated. The barrel has anchor members for securing the ends of the wire. The anchor members are disposed on the exterior of the barrel and at such a portion that the wire stretches between the barrel and the valve body exteriorly of the barrel in an overlapping relation with a major portion of the barrel along the axial length thereof. Thus, the wire can be kept substantially away from the internal flow path of the fluid and consequently kept thermally unaffected thereby for a reliable flow regulation. Further, since the wire overlaps with the barrel, the entire valve can have a reduced axial dimension and be therefore made compact enough to be installed in a limited space.

Flow control valve

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Kadoma, Japan

Takahiro Kurihara