Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujitsu Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Empire Technology Development LLC

Sony Corporation

Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi-high-technologies Corporation

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Kao Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Takata Corporation

Hiroshi Goto

Yasuo Kurosaki

Kiyofumi Nagai

Eisuke Furuichi

Katsumi Morimoto

Masaru Shimada

Hideaki Ema

Akihiko Matsuyama

Kyoji Tsutsui

Keishi Kubo

Eiichi Kawamura

Ichiro Sawamura

Shoji Maruyama

Takehito Yamaguchi

Keishi Taniguchi

Mitsunori Kokubo

Norihiko Inaba

Hiroki Kuboyama

Yuki Kobayashi

Tamotsu Aruga

Atsushi Shionozaki

Mitsunobu Morita

Shinichi Irisawa

Hidetoshi Fujii

Kiyoshi Ishida

Junichi Rekimoto

Shunji Maeda

Shigeru Matsui

Kiyoshi Sakai

Takayuki Ono

Keigo Ihara

Kaoru Sakai

Makoto Murata

Naoya Morohoshi

Masayuki Koyano

Koichi Hashimoto

Takafumi Okabe

Yuuki Yokohama

Hiroyuki Kikuchi

Hisashi Habashi

Takeshi Kuroe

Tohru Ohshima

Akihiro Nagata

Yoshitaka Ohshima

Keiko Yamashita

Shigenori Nozawa

Kunio Fukai

Toshihiro Watanabe

Minoru Sakata

Masayuki Kuwabara

Naoya Takeuchi

Masahiro Watanabe

Hiroshi Fujii

Masahiko Nakayama

Kazuhiko Kanno

Noriyoshi Tarumi

Tsutomu Nishiuwatoko

Akira Kuroda

Akihiko Gotoh

Hitoshi Arai

Makoto Obu

Tadahiro Igawa

Yoshinori Sugiura

Yuji Furumura

Fumito Nonaka

Takeshi Fukuyo

Hidefumi Nagashima

Masafumi Maeda

Yoji Shibata

Atsushi Shimoda

Toshiroh Tokuno

Shinichi Sugimoto

Hisashi Matsuo

Yasuhito Tsubakimoto

Kouji Miura

Koji Katsuragi

Takeshi Niimura

Noriyoshi Ishikawa

Akihito Hirai

Satoshi Iijima

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Susumu Fujinami

Susumu Okawa

Masakazu Nagasawa

Toshiaki Harada

Kenji Tominaga

Jun Azuma

Itsuo Ikeda

Toshiya Nagatsuyu

Yoshihiro Matsuo

Tatsuo Hamada

Tsutomu Ogawa

Akifumi Takedomi

Tomohisa Hirata

Takao Miura

Toshiaki Ikeda

Hiromi Hayashi

Kenji Sugishima

Tomohiro Kudo

Mitsugu Iwatsubo

A balloon catheter and a method for arranging a balloon are disclosed, which are capable of suppressing the separation of a drug with which an outer surface of a balloon is coated. A balloon catheter in which a balloon with an outer surface coated with a drug is disposed to an inside of a protective tube, in which: the balloon includes a plurality of wing portions that protrude radially outward, and a plurality of base portions that are in contact with an inner tube; each of the plurality of wing portions include a wing distal end portion that is positioned on a protruding side, a wing proximal end portion that is connected to the base portion, and a wing middle portion that is positioned between the wing distal end portion and the wing proximal end portion.

Balloon catheter and balloon arrangement method

A folding method of an inflatable balloon disposed on an outer peripheral surface of an inner tube of a balloon catheter is disclosed. The method includes: disposing the balloon to an inner side of a plurality of first blade portions arranged so as to surround a reference position while maintaining a state where pressure is applied to an inside of the balloon; correcting a bend of the balloon by moving the plurality of first blade portions toward the reference position in the state where the pressure is applied to the inside of the balloon; pleating a plurality of wing portions protruding radially outward on the balloon by further moving the plurality of first blade portions toward the reference position to partially press the balloon while gradually discharging the fluid inside the balloon; and folding the balloon along the inner tube.

Balloon folding method

Provided are a program and the like, in which it is possible to display a globe in a photographed image and three-dimensionally display a cloud at the corresponding position. A program according to one aspect causes a computer to execute processing of acquiring an altitude of a cloud at each position, and displaying, when a globe of a reality space is held up, a globe of a first virtual space, in response to a movement of the globe of the reality space, while three-dimensionally displaying a cloud according to a specified altitude at a corresponding position on the first virtual space. Accordingly, it is possible to display the globe in the photographed image and three-dimensionally display the cloud at the corresponding position.

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, information processing method, and information processing device

A composite printed wiring board includes a first printed wiring board, a second printed wiring board, an intermediate plate, a first bonding layer, and a second bonding layer. The intermediate plate is provided to surround a space. The first printed wiring board closes one side of the space and is bonded to the intermediate plate. The second printed wiring board closes the other side of the space and is bonded to the intermediate plate. At least any of the first printed wiring board and the second printed wiring board has a through hole. A cavity is provided that is the space surrounded by the first printed wiring board, the second printed wiring board, the intermediate plate, the first bonding layer, and the second bonding layer. The through hole in communication with the cavity.

Composite printed wiring board and method of manufacturing composite printed wiring board

A balloon catheter is disclosed that can effectively deliver a drug to living body tissue, a method of manufacturing a balloon catheter, and a treatment method. A balloon catheter is disclosed, the balloon catheter is provided on an outer surface of a balloon with a plurality of elongate bodies which are independent crystals of a water-insoluble drug extending in an elongate form. The elongate bodies include fixed-side elongate bodies which are fixed to the outer surface side of the balloon, and top-side elongate bodies which are bent or broken from the fixed-side elongate bodies and are continuous with or independent of the fixed-side elongate bodies.

Balloon catheter, method of manufacturing a balloon catheter, and treatment method

Provided are a drug layer applying device and a method for forming a drug layer which can quickly and easily apply or provide an appropriate amount of a drug on a surface of a medical instrument such as a balloon. A drug layer applying device that applies a drug layer on a surface of a balloon to be inserted into a living body, includes: a deformable porous body capable of holding a coating solution containing a drug and a solvent; a removal unit that is flexibly deformable and arranged alongside the porous body; and a holding base that holds the porous body and the removal unit.

Drug layer applying device and method for forming drug layer

Provided is a spatter scattering prevention apparatus that eliminates the necessity to, for example, remove scattered spatters and thus makes it possible to facilitate maintenance work, and also provided is a flash butt welder including the spatter scattering prevention apparatus. The spatter scattering prevention apparatusaccording to the present invention is characterized by being configured to form a water screen in midair in the vicinity of a welding spot, at which welding is performed, wherein the water screen is for preventing spatters, generated during the welding, from scattering. The spatter scattering prevention apparatus is also characterized by being configured to form the water screen on one side in a lateral direction of the welding spot and form the water screen on the other side, laterally opposite to the one side, of the welding spot.

Spatter scattering prevention apparatus and flash butt welder including the same

A thermoelectric element to convert thermal energy into electrical energy includes a first electrode part, a second electrode part having a different work function than the first electrode part and arranged at a distance from the first electrode part, on a same surface of a substrate as the first electrode part, and a middle part provided between the first electrode part and the second electrode part.

Thermoelectric element, thermoelectric device, and method for forming thermoelectric element

A balloon catheter by which a drug can be effectively delivered to living body tissue and a method of manufacturing the balloon catheter, and a treatment method. The balloon catheter is provided on an outer surface of a balloon with a plurality of elongate bodies which are independent crystals of a water-insoluble drug that extend in an elongate form. The elongate bodies have long axes extending in directions along the outer surface of the balloon when the balloon is in a deflated state. Deformation, when the balloon is inflated from the deflated state, of portions on an outer surface side of the balloon to which end portions of the elongate bodies are fixed causes a force to act on the elongate bodies such that the long axes of the elongate bodies approach perpendicularity to the outer surface of the balloon.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a drug coating layer capable of preventing breakage of elongated drug crystals on a surface of a balloon and maintaining the drug crystals in an appropriate shape in order to act on a living body. The method includes supplying a coating solution which contains the water-insoluble drug, a water-soluble additive, an organic solvent, and water to the surface of the balloon and evaporating the organic solvent and the water to form an additive layer containing the water-soluble additive and a protruding crystal having a tip end protruding from the additive layer, cutting a surplus portion protruding from the additive layer of the protruding crystal from a part surrounded by the additive layer and forming the part surrounded by the additive layer as the elongated body, and removing the cut-out surplus portion from the drug coating layer.

Method and apparatus for forming drug coating layer

A balloon catheter includes an elongated main body extending in an axial direction and a balloon connected to the elongated main body. The balloon is inflatable and deflatable in the radial direction. The outer surface of the balloon includes a plurality of recesses that are spaced apart from one another. The balloon catheter also includes a plurality of elongate bodies on the outer surface of the balloon. The elongate bodies are crystals of a water-insoluble drug extending in the radial direction of the balloon away from the interior of the balloon. The elongate bodies each possess an independent long axis. At least two elongate bodies of the elongate bodies are positioned in one of the recesses in the outer surface of the balloon. These two elongate bodies extend from within the recess to a surrounding environment in the radial direction of the balloon.

Balloon catheter and manufacturing method thereof, and treatment method

A balloon catheter that includes an elongated main body, a balloon connected to the elongated main body, and a base layer on the outer surface of the balloon. The base layer includes a water-soluble low-molecular weight compound. The balloon catheter also includes a plurality of elongate bodies extending radially away from the outer surface of the balloon. The elongate bodies are crystals of a water-insoluble drug. The elongate bodies each possesses an independent longitudinal axis. At least part of at least some of the elongate bodies are located in the interior of the base layer on the outer surface of the balloon.

A balloon catheter is disclosed having a balloon at a distal portion of a catheter shaft and on a surface of the balloon are elongate bodies which are crystals of a water-insoluble drug having independent long axes. The balloon in a deflated state has a plurality of wing portions in a circumferential direction of the balloon, and a circumferential surface portion along a circumferential direction of the catheter shaft, the plurality of wing portions being folded along the circumferential direction of the balloon. A surface of the circumferential surface portion which faces the plurality of wing portions that are folded has a region in which tip portions are not in contact with the surface of the balloon or with other elongate bodies, and a surface which faces the plurality of wing portions that are folded which faces an outer circumferential side has a region in which the tip portions are in contact with the surface of the balloon or with the other elongate bodies.

A lighting device includes a light-emitting device, a heat sink having a hollow unit inside, a translucent cover, and a thermoelectric element. The thermoelectric element includes a casing unit having a housing unit, and includes a first electrode unit, a second electrode unit having a work function different from that of the first electrode unit, and a middle unit including nanoparticles having a work function between the work function of the first electrode unit and the work function of the second electrode unit, which are provided inside the housing unit. The casing unit is provided on the inner surface of the hollow unit of the heat sink.

Lighting device with electric power generation function

A balloon catheter is disclosed capable of effectively delivering a drug to living body tissue and a manufacturing method of the balloon catheter, and a treatment method. The balloon catheter has a balloon at a distal portion of a catheter shaft, and is provided on a surface of the balloon with elongate bodies which are crystals of a water-insoluble drug extending in a longitudinal direction. The surface of the balloon is provided with crystal conjugates formed of a plurality of elongate bodies united to one another while being in a tilted state.

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Hiroshi Goto