Sony Corporation

Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Glory Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Zeon Corporation

Nec Corporation

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Hidekazu Tanaka

Yoshitomo Sakakura

Naoya Suzuki

Kazuto Nogami

Atsushi Sone

Toshinobu Ogatsu

Shuji Onishi

Masateru Iwasa

Yuriko Yamazaki

Ryo Hasegawa

Taketo Kawakami

Ryoma Oami

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Makoto Sato

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Shigehide Kuhara

Satoshi Sugiura

Jun Fujita

Masashi Hori

Kimiyoshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Osamu Kobayashi

Koji Kitamura

Akio Sakano

Takahiro Ishihara

Yutaka Kato

Tamio Shikano

Motohisa Yokoi

Atsushi Kamiyoshi

Tomoyuki Yoshida

Masahiko Suzuki

Yasutake Yasuhara

Takuma Kawai

Shohei Takami

Hiroyuki Shimano

Mitsuo Tanaka

Masafumi Chikamori

Shin Funayama

Fumio Kibihara

Seiji Morikawa

Daiki Yokoie

Naoki Tomigaki

Shouji Igarashi

Ken Kudou

Kota Kobayashi

Tomohiro Kajikawa

Takanori Baba

Yasunori Oie

Mitsuru Hirama

Yasushi Fujii

Masayuki Aguro

Hirofumi Kamatani

Kazumasa Morimoto

Hisashi Yamamoto

Kazutoshi Aoki

Yusuke Ohno

Yuji Adachi

Masatoshi Kageyama

Takashi Yanashima

A setting system performs setting required for causing a field device to perform a predetermined operation on the field device. The setting system includes a server apparatus configured to provide device setting data in which identification information of the field device and setting data to be set in the field device are associated with other, and an input/output device that is a device interposed between the field device and a control device controlling the field device. In a case in which connection between the input/output device and the field device has been established, the input/output device is configured to perform the setting of the field device by transmitting, to the field device, the setting data associated with the identification information of the field device with which the connection has been established out of the device setting data provided from the server apparatus.

Setting system, setting device, setting method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

Disclosed is a fixing member in which adhesion of foreign substances to its surface is suppressed, and which hardly causes lateral displacement when such fixing members are attached together to form a joined state. The fixing member disclosed herein includes a surface having a coefficient of kinetic friction of 1.50 or less, an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 5.00 μm or less, and a shear stress at the time of self-attachment of 100.00 N or more.

Fixing member and laminated body

A payment system includes: a merchandise reading unit that reads merchandise; a merchandise information acquisition unit that obtains a merchandise information about the read merchandise; a confirmation information output unit that outputs a confirmation information for confirming with a customer an intention of payment of the merchandise; a receiving unit that receives an input from the customer for the confirmation information; a face acquisition unit that obtains a face image of the customer; an iris acquisition unit that obtains an iris image of the customer; and a payment processing unit that performs a payment process for the merchandise on the basis of the input from the customer and on the basis of at least one of the face image and the iris image. According to such a payment system, the payment process for the merchandise can be properly performed.

Payment system, payment method, and computer program

A coin feeding device (for example, feeding unit) includes: a diskhaving a plurality of protrusionsat a surface, the diskdisposed so as to be rotatable in a tilted state and configured to catch coins by the protrusionsto move the coins upward while rotating; a coverconfigured to form a space for storing a coin between the coverand the surface of the disk; a guideconfigured to guide a peripheral edge of a coin such that a part of the coin having been caught by each protrusionand moved upward protrudes from the disk; and a taking-out unit (for example, taking-out mechanism) configured to grip only one coin protruding from the disk, remove the coin from the disk, and discharge the coin to outside of the disk

Coin feeding device

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

A coin handling apparatus includes: a first transport path configured to transport coins; a feeding unit configured to feed out the coins one by one to the first transport path; a recognition unit configured to recognize the coins fed out to the first transport path by the feeding unit; a storage unit arranged beneath the recognition unit, the storage unit being configured to receive the coins recognized by the recognition unit from the first transport path, and store the coins therein; and a cassette detachably mounted to the coin handling apparatus and arranged beneath the recognition unit and above the storage unit, the cassette being configured to receive the coins from the first transport path and store the coins therein.

Coin handling apparatus

The present disclosure is directed to provide a package which enables repeated opening and sealing of an opening, and can be favorably closed by bringing a pair of resin adhesive parts into contact with each other while preventing sticking of materials to each resin adhesive part. A package of the present disclosure comprises a main body having an internal space and an opening in communication between the internal space and an outside; and a pair of, i.e., two, resin adhesive parts which are disposed so as to be capable of being brought into contact with each other for sealing the opening. Here, the 90-degree peel force between the pair of resin adhesive parts is 0.02 N or more, the coefficient of dynamic friction of each of the two resin adhesive parts is 1.50 or less, and the tack force of each of the two resin adhesive parts is 1.60 N or less.

Package

A magnetism detection device capable of improving the ability to detect magnetic features of coins and reducing a change in outputs due to a change in transport positions of coins, a coin recognition device, and a method for detecting magnetism using the magnetism detection device. The magnetism detection device includes a transport path on which a coin is to be transported, detection coils arranged on at least one side of a transport surface of the transport path and along a direction crossing a transport direction of the coin, and a controller configured to detect a magnetic feature of the coin based on an output signal from at least one but not all of the detection coils.

Magnetism detection device, coin recognition device, and method for detecting magnetism using magnetism detection device

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment is a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including a gradient coil unit configured to generate a gradient magnetic field in an imaging space in which a subject is placed. The gradient coil unit includes a cooling layer configured to cool the gradient coil. The cooling layer includes a first cooling pipe configured to cool the gradient coil entirely and a second cooling pipe configured to locally cool the gradient coil.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

Provided are a self-adsorbable foamed laminate sheet having excellent weather resistance and causing no paste residue, and a composition for a self-adsorbable foamed sheet used to obtain the self-adsorbable foamed laminate sheet. A composition for a self-adsorbable foamed sheet comprises: a copolymer containing an unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer unit and having a solubility parameter (SP value) of 9.7 (cal/cm)or less and a glass-transition temperature of &#x2212;10&#xb0; C. or less; and a crosslinking agent.

Self-adsorbable foamed laminate sheet and composition for self-adsorbable foamed sheet

In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes: a scanner that is provided with at least an RF coil and a gradient coil and is configured to acquire a magnetic resonance (MR) signal emitted from an object in response to applications of an RF pulse outputted from the RF coil and a gradient magnetic field generated by the gradient coli; and processing circuitry configured to reconstruct a diagnostic image of the object based on the MR signal, generate distortion correction data for correcting a non-linear characteristic of the gradient magnetic field to a linear characteristic that is defined by gradient magnetic field strength at a correction position away from a magnetic field center of the gradient coil and distance from the magnetic field center to the correction position, and correct the diagnostic image by using the distortion correction data.

MRI apparatus, image processing apparatus, and MRI method

A failure detection apparatus () includes a RAM () and a controller () configured to execute processing related to detection of a physical quantity in a predetermined sampling period (T). The RAM () includes partitioned areas generated by partitioning the entire area of the RAM (). The controller () is configured to execute sequential failure detection on a portion of the partitioned areas during a time when the controller () is not executing the processing in each of the sampling periods (T).

Failure detection apparatus, failure detection method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

A gradient coil according to an embodiment is configured to generate gradient magnetic fields along a plurality of axes in an imaging space in which a subject is imaged. The gradient coil includes a coil corresponding to at least one of the plurality of axes, wherein an electrically-conductive member of the coil is formed so as to be partitioned in a thickness direction by a plurality of electrically-insulative layers.

Gradient coil

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a static field magnet, a gradient coil and a shim housing box. The static field magnet generates a static magnetic field in a space within a substantially cylindrical hollow. The gradient coil is provided inside the static field magnet and generates a gradient magnetic field. The shim housing box is capable of housing a metallic shim, the shim housing box being formed into a shape such that an attractive force of the static magnetic field applied to the shim housing box under magnetic excitation becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and gradient coil

The present invention provides a coin recognition unit having high recognition capacity. The coin recognition unit comprises magnetic sensors each configured to collect magnetic characteristics of a transported coin; at least one optical sensor disposed with a space from the magnetic sensors and configured to collect optical characteristics of a surface of the coin; a glass plate constituting a transport surface on which the coin is transported and having a larger size than the coin; and a controller configured to control the magnetic sensors and the at least one optical sensor and perform a recognition process, the glass plate covering at least part of each magnetic sensor and at least part of each optical sensor.

Coin recognition unit

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Hidekazu Tanaka