Omron Healthcare Company Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Kyoto University

Hideo Utsuno

Toshihiko Ogura

Hironori Sato

Hiroshi Matsuhisa

Kenichi Tanaka

Hiroaki Nakanishi

Naoki Mori

Shozo Takamatsu

Haruhisa Okuda

Masaharu Komori

Keisuke Yamada

Kazuhiro Izui

Tetsuo Sawaragi

Akio Noda

Hajime Mizuyama

Yukio Horiguchi

Tomoko Hashimoto

Takehisa Kouda

Kimihiko Kichikawa

Shinya Umeda

Hirofumi Ito

Yasuyoshi Yokokouji

A measurement device includes a detection device to detect a pulse wave signal at a first measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of a measurement subject to an area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur and a pulse wave signal at a second measurement location in a vascular pathway from the heart of the measurement subject to an area that is different from the area where an arterial aneurysm is predicted to occur, a comparison device to calculate a comparison result by comparing frequency characteristics between the pulse wave signals, and a determination device to determine at least one of the presence/absence and size of an arterial aneurysm based on a predetermined characteristic amount for a frequency contained in the comparison result.

Measurement device, measurement method, and recording medium storing a measurement program

A first calculation unit receives phase characteristics Pa(f) and Pb(f) outputted from frequency transform units, calculates a propagation time difference based on a phase difference between the two phase characteristics in a high-frequency component thereof, and calculates a pulse wave velocity by dividing a difference in the distances of vascular pathways from the heart to respective measurement areas. Meanwhile, a second calculation unit calculates a pulse wave velocity by dividing the stated difference in the distances by a appearance time difference at a predetermined position in respective pulse waveforms obtained by rendering the measurement signals Pa(t) and Pb(t) on a time axis. A comparison unit compares the pulse wave velocities, and in the case where the ratio thereof is outside a predetermined range, an evaluation result indicating that it is possible that a predetermined pathologic change is present in the vascular pathway is outputted to a display processing unit.

Measurement apparatus

An industrial robot system may enable a reduction in an installation/adjustment period, and an increase in a no-error continuous operation period. The system includes an action planning section for temporary halts, an error-inducing-task restraining section, a section for teaching task, an operation mastering section, a hand library, an optimum-task-operation generating section, a specific task library, an error-recovery-task teaching section, an error recovery library, a finger-eye-camera measurement section including an omnidirectional mirror, a three-dimensional recognition section, a controller, a manipulator, and a hand with a plurality of fingers.

Industrial robot system including action planning circuitry for temporary halts

A phase line tilt calculating unit (actual measurement) receives phase characteristics Pa(f) and Pb(f) outputted from frequency conversion units, and calculates phase difference characteristics of actual measurement based on a phase difference on each frequency component between the phase characteristics. A phase line tilt calculating unit (model) calculates phase difference characteristics between a transfer function Ga(f) and a transfer function Gb(f) calculated by a transfer function calculating unit, and outputs the calculated phase difference characteristics to a search unit. The search unit fits a variable k and determines a variable k(optimum solution) in which a tilt g(k) and a tilt gsubstantially match each other. The variable kis an index indicating a degree of arterial sclerosis of a subject.

Blood vessel state evaluating device, blood vessel state evaluating method, and computer-readable recording medium storing blood vessel state evaluating program

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Kyoto, Japan

Hideo Utsuno