Fujitsu Corporation

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Nikon Corporation

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

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Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Mitsui Sugar Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.

Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation

Koichi Shudo

Hiroshi Murakami

Masafumi Itokazu

Kazuhiro Takahara

Munehiro Haraguchi

Ken-ichi Nakabayashi

Takeo Shimizu

Shunsuke Mori

Keizo Morita

Seiichi Araki

Mamoru Suzuki

Yukie Nagai

Yuuji Konno

Toshikazu Kawai

Jun Kashimura

Koji Yoshioka

Kenji Koge

Takeo Mizutani

Mitsuharu Nakazawa

Akira Yamamoto

Katsuya Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Seto

Takayuki Hoshiya

Michiya Oura

Tetsu Sakaida

Hongyong Zhang

Tetsuya Kobayashi

Satoshi Yoshida

Kenji Nakamura

Kei Yamaji

Hisashi Yamaguchi

Yasuo Sato

Craig Chamberlain

Kenji Sekiguchi

Nobuaki Sasagaki

Takashi Nezu

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Kikuo Maeda

Keniti Amano

Sadao Suzuki

Isao Kojima

Tadashi Uekusa

Megumi Yokoi

Toshiyuki Hoshino

Christopher Howard

Toshio Yamashita

Osamu Yuno

Yoshihiro Kusano

Satoshi Nakagawa

Masami Oda

Hirokazu Miwa

Toru Watabe

Yoshiya Kaneko

Jun Kawahara

Yoshio Nishimoto

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya

Hiroyuki Wada

Hiromi Fukumura

Akio Okayama

Teruaki Yamanaka

Gou Sugizaki

Kenichi Nakabayashi

Nobuyoshi Aida

Kiyoshi Nakamura

Harald Fiedler

Kouichi Odahara

Sojiro Shiokawa

Masaaki Izumi

Osamu Shioume

Yasuyoshi Shimazaki

Yoichiro Takeuchi

Koichi Gohara

Hajime Araya

Takuya Atsumi

Syougo Oogami

Tomohiko Fujioka

David Hoglund

Derek Jensen

Osamu Satou

Syuuichi Nakagawa

Haruki Saitou

Tomoko Ito

Tetsutaro Niisato

Hiroshi Wachi

Nobuaki Miura

Fumio Fujita

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an apparatus main body and an ultrasound probe that is used by switching between a wireless connection mode and a wired connection mode with respect to the apparatus main body, the apparatus main body having a main body-side first power supply circuit that generates a main body-side driving voltage and a main body-side second power supply circuit that generates a main body-side transmission voltage higher than the main body-side driving voltage, the ultrasound probe having a transducer array, a built-in battery, a prove-side first power supply circuit that generates a prove-side driving voltage using an output voltage of the built-in battery, a prove-side second power supply circuit that boosts the output voltage of the built-in battery to generate a prove-side transmission voltage higher than the prove-side driving voltage, and a probe side processor.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus in which an ultrasound probe is used by switching between a wireless connection mode and a wired connection mode with respect to an apparatus main body and a control method therefor

There is provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including an ultrasound probe and an apparatus main body wirelessly connected to the ultrasound probe, the ultrasound probe including a B-mode processing unit and an M-mode processing unit configured to generate a B-mode image and an M-mode image, a wireless communication circuit configured to wirelessly transmit the B-mode image and the M-mode image to the apparatus main body, and a probe control unit configured to control the wireless communication circuit such that, each time a generation of a certain number of scanning lines in the B-mode image, which is less than the number of scanning lines in a single frame of the B-mode image, is completed, wireless transmission of the certain number of scanning lines in the B-mode image and wireless transmission of the M-mode image are alternately performed.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus in which a B-mode image and an M-mode image generated by an ultrasound probe are wirelessly transmitted to an apparatus main body

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of activating an ultrasound probe only by an operation of an apparatus main body and achieving power saving. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound unit that acquires ultrasound image data, a probe-side first communication circuit and a probe-side second communication circuit each of which performs wireless communication with the apparatus main body and which have transmission capacities different from each other and power consumptions different from each other, and a power supply controller that selects one communication circuit among the probe-side first communication circuit and the probe-side second communication circuit according to a power supply mode of the ultrasound probe and performs wireless communication with the apparatus main body by using the selected communication circuit.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

Systems and methods to provide an ultrasound scanner that supports handset wireless network connectivity are described. An ultrasound scanner includes a transducer system that generates, as part of an ultrasound examination, ultrasound data based on reflections of ultrasound signals transmitted by the transducer system. The ultrasound scanner includes a first transceiver that communicates, over a first communication link, the ultrasound data to a display device that displays an ultrasound image based on the ultrasound data. The ultrasound scanner includes one or more additional transceivers that communicate, over a one or more additional communication links and simultaneously with the first transceiver communicating the ultrasound data over the first communication link, the ultrasound data through an access point of a care facility administering the ultrasound examination.

Ultrasound scanner that supports handset wireless network connectivity

A probe-side processor generates image information data on the basis of a sound ray signal generated, and the image information data generated by the probe-side processor is stored in a probe-side cine-memory. In a case where a freeze mode is designated, the past image information data stored in the probe-side cine-memory is wirelessly transmitted from the probe-side wireless communication circuit, and a terminal-side processor displays an ultrasound image on a monitor on the basis of the past image information data received by a terminal-side wireless communication circuit.

Ultrasound system and control method of ultrasound system

An ultrasound probe includes a housing; a transducer array housed in the housing; a transmission/reception unit which is housed in the housing, transmits ultrasonic wave from the transducer array, and generates a sound ray signal on the basis of a reception signal acquired by the transducer array; an image information data generation unit which is housed in the housing, and generates image information data on the basis of the sound ray signal generated by the transmission/reception unit; a wireless communication unit which is housed in the housing, and wirelessly transmits the image information data generated by the image information data generation unit; a light emission unit which is housed in the housing, and emits light to an outside of the housing; and a light emission control unit which is housed in the housing, and causes the light emission unit to emit light in synchronization with a transmission timing of the ultrasonic wave by the transmission/reception unit in a case of a manufacturing inspection.

Ultrasound probe, control method of ultrasound probe, and ultrasound probe inspection system

A damping force adjustable shock absorber in2cludes an electromagnetic damping force adjustment device () having a damping force adjustment valve (), and a solenoid () configured to variably adjust the damping force. The solenoid includes a coil () configured to generate a magnetic force by power supply, a movable iron core () located on an inner peripheral side of the coil, an anchor member () configured to attract the movable iron core. The movable iron core includes a thick cylindrical portion (A) and a taper cylindrical portion (B). The thick cylindrical portion includes a fixation hole (A) in which a shaft portion () is fixed. The taper cylindrical portion has an inner peripheral surface flaring so as to define a taper shape. A recessed portion (A) is formed around the fixation hole. The recessed portion allows hydraulic fluid to flow in an axial direction of the movable iron core.

Damping force adjustable shock absorber

A damping force adjustable shock absorber includes an electromagnetic damping force adjustment device () having a damping force adjustment valve (), and a solenoid () configured to variably adjust the damping force. The solenoid includes a coil () configured to generate a magnetic force by power supply, a movable iron core () located on an inner peripheral side of the coil, an anchor member () configured to attract the movable iron core. The movable iron core includes a thick cylindrical portion (A) and a taper cylindrical portion (B). The thick cylindrical portion includes a fixation hole (A) in which a shaft portion () is fixed. The taper cylindrical portion has an inner peripheral surface flaring so as to define a taper shape. A recessed portion (A) is formed around the fixation hole. The recessed portion allows hydraulic fluid to flow in an axial direction of the movable iron core.

A baffle plate (, partition member) is manufactured by being integrally formed of a single material including flexible or pliable NBR (nitrile rubber), and a projection () formed on an abutment surface (B) of the baffle plate () is fitted into a recess () in a reduced-diameter portion () of an intermediate tube (). Thus, when the intermediate tube () fitted with the baffle plate () is assembled into an outer tube, the sheet-shaped baffle plate () can be prevented from rotating about a connecting pipe (), and it is possible to improve the productivity and assembleability of the shock absorber.

Shock absorber and manufacturing method therefor

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises a transducer array for transmitting ultrasonic beams to a subject, a multiplexer for sequentially selecting one channel of reception signal in every N number of channels of reception signals out of a plurality of channels of reception signals outputted from the transducer array which has received receiving ultrasonic echoes from the subject, a plurality of reception signal processors for sequentially processing an N number of channels of reception signals selected by the multiplexer to produce reception data, a beam former for performing beam forming on reception data sequentially produced by the plurality of reception signal processors and having time difference to produce sound ray signals, and an image producing unit for producing an ultrasound image based on the sound ray signals produced by the beam former.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and ultrasound image producing method

A shock absorber in which a flow of hydraulic oil caused by sliding movement of a piston in a cylinder is controlled by a pilot type main valve and a pilot valve to generate damping force. The valve-opening operation of the main valve is controlled by adjusting the pressure in a pilot chamber with the pilot valve. A valve block and a solenoid block are connected together into one unit and inserted into a casing before being secured with a nut. At this time, an actuating rod of the solenoid block is engaged with a pilot valve member retained by a pilot spring and a fail-safe spring in a cylindrical portion of a pilot body of the valve block.

Shock absorber

An endoscope system includes an endoscope including an imaging part and a controller separated from the endoscope and connected to the endoscope through a signal line. The imaging part includes a plurality of light receiving portions two-dimensionally arranged and a driving part that reads a charge signal stored in each of the light receiving portions. The driving part conducts read scan in which read of the charge signals from the light receiving portions in a main and sub scanning direction. The driving part changes an order of outputting the lines in the image data by conducting the read scan on all lines included in the captured image so as to scan some lines successively with a prescribed number of lines interlaced along the sub scanning direction and scan the other lines successively from an interlaced line with the prescribed number of lines interlaced.

Endoscope system

In a system including a plurality of CPU units having a cache memory of different capacity each other and a system controller that connects to the plurality of CPUs and controls cache synchronization, the system controller includes a cache synchronization unit which monitors an address contention between a preceding request and a subsequent request and a setting unit which sets different monitoring range of the contention between the preceding request and the subsequent request for each capacity of the cache memory in each of the CPU units.

Information processing system and a system controller

A method of setting transfer rate for information processing apparatus having a plurality of processing apparatus including a processor outputting data and connected by one or a plurality of data transfer apparatuses for transferring the data outputted from the processor, the method includes obtaining a dividing information indicating a manner of dividing the information processing apparatus into a plurality of partitions including at least one of the plurality of processing apparatuses, and setting a transfer rate of each partition for broadcasting data to all of the processors included in the plurality of processing apparatuses in each partition based on the obtained dividing information.

Data transfer apparatus, information processing apparatus and method of setting data transfer rate

A data processing apparatus includes a first memory that has first storage areas, a capacity of each first storage area being variable, a second memory that has second storage areas, a capacity of each second storage area being variable, and each second storage area is redundant to a first storage area corresponding to a second storage area, a memory controller that stores data stored in each first storage area to the corresponding second storage area, and writes data stored in a second storage area to the corresponding varied first storage area and writes data stored in a first storage area to the corresponding varied second storage area when capacities of the first storage area and the second storage areas are varied.

Interleaving data across corresponding storage groups

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Kawasaki, Japan

Hiroshi Murakami