Nipro Corporation

Nissho Corporation

Shionogi Company Limited

Fujimori Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Medical Corporation

Takeshi Nizuka

Hiroyuki Inoue

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Kozo Nakamura

Kazuhiko Ishihara

Toyoaki Suzuki

Takashi Uemura

Toshiya Kai

Masayuki Kyomoto

Naohisa Katayama

Manabu Fujimoto

Tomohiro Konno

Toru Moro

Koichi Miura

Yoshio Takatori

Akira Ito

Kaori Ikeda

Yoshihisa Murai

Masashi Ishida

Kenji Omori

Yoshinori Kida

Noboru Yamawaki

Hideji Kashiwagi

Dai Sudo

Ippei Fukutomi

Makoto Kondo

Taku Numao

Masami Hashimoto

Yoshikazu Arimatsu

Kenji Sugimoto

Masashi Moteki

Hidetoshi Myojyo

Shin-ich Kawamura

Dai Sutou

Hiroaki Takadama

Nobuo Wada

The present invention provides a bearing material that is excellent in durability and is capable of maintaining wear resistance over a long period of time. The bearing material of the present invention is a high wear-resistance bearing materialfor being used under a humid environment comprising: a base bodymade of a polymer material having a methylene group; and a polymer layercovering a bearing surfaceof the substrate, the polymer layercomprising polymer chains which have a phosphorylcholine group and are grafted from the bearing surface, wherein a phosphoric index of the sliding surfacewhich is calculated by dividing a peak intensity of phosphate group in an infrared spectrum measured on the sliding surface by a peak intensity of the methylene group therein is not less than 0.28.

High wear-resistant bearing material and artificial joint replacement using the same

A medical container comprising a body for containing a medicament, the body of the medical container being formed of a multilayered film comprising (i) a layer formed of a linear polyolefin and (ii) a layer formed of a cyclic polyolefin adjacent to the layer (i), and the layer (i) formed of the linear polyolefin satisfying the following conditions (a) and/or (b):

Medical container and medical duplex container

A syringe coated with a lubricant containing a silicone oil and a fine silica powder on the inner surface of the barrel of the syringe can be used for injection of a surface-active drug solution without oil droplet formation on the inner surface while preventing an increase of the gasket sliding friction.

Syringe

A method of removing carbon monoxide from an oxygen carrier including setting a carbon monoxide bonded oxygen carrier solution across a separation membrane from an oxygen-dissolved solution; and exposing the setting part to the light and a method of removing carbon monoxide from an oxygen carrier including setting a carbon monoxide oxygen carrier solution across a hollow fiber separation membrane from an oxygen-dissolved solution; and exposing the setting part to light.

Method of removing carbon monoxide from an oxygen carrier and apparatus for removing carbon monoxide

A piercing needle having a low piercing resistance even if repeatedly caused to pierce is provided. The piercing needle has an undercoat of a silane coupling agent, preferably, an amino group-containing alkoxysilane or an epoxy group-containing alkoxysilane, and an outer surface of a mixture of a (1) reactive silicone such as a reaction product of an amino group-containing alkoxysilane, an epoxy group-containing alkoxysilane and a silicone having silanol groups at both terminal ends, with (2) a non-reactive silicone.

Piercing needle

A medical device having good surface lubricity in the wet condition, high frictional durability and surface lubricity stability includes a body and a smoothing or lublicating coating on a surface of the body. The coating is produced by applying a solution of a mixture of maleic anhydride high polymer and polyurethane having allophanate bond on a surface of the body, insolubilizing the resultant coating by heating, and then hydrophilizing the coating with a hydrophilizing agent such as ammonia, amine or alcohol.

Medical device and production thereof

A needle which has decreased piercing resistance, which resistance does not increase by repeated piercing and of which a sterilizing means is not limited, is provided by the present invention. The needle is coated on its outside surface with a mixture of (1) a polyorganosiloxane having amino groups at both terminal ends reacted with an alkoxysilane having epoxy groups and (2) a non-reactive polyorganosiloxane which has a lower average degree of polymerization of its siloxane part than that of polyorganosiloxane (1).

Syringe needle coated with polyorganosiloxanes

A method for washing a hollow fiber membrane used for blood dialysis, comprising washing the inner wall of the hollow fiber with a clearing solvent comprising, as a main component, a specific aliphatic hydrocarbon having a boiling point of 110-240.degree. C. and a flash point of not less than 21.degree. C. According to the present invention, the lipophilic liquid contained in the core part of the hollow fiber can be removed selectively without removing the glycerol filled in the pores of the hollow fiber membrane. In addition, the method of the present invention is free of the problems of flammability and pollution of global environment.

Method for washing hollow fiber membrane

A medical device having good surface lubricity in the wet condition, high frictional durability and surface lubricity stability comprises a body and a smoothing or lubricating coating on a surface of the body. The coating is produced by applying a solution of a mixture of maleic anhydride high polymer and polyurethane having allophanate bond on a surface of the body, insolubilizing the resultant coating by heating, and then hydrophilizing the coating with a hydrophilizing agent such as ammonia, amine or alcohol.

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Osaka, Japan

Takeshi Nizuka