Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumiden Opcom, Ltd.

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyoto University

Keio University

Soei International Patent Firm

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Hiroshi Suganuma

Hiroaki Takimoto

Hiroshi Yokota

Tomoyuki Hattori

Kazuhiko Arimoto

Tomomi Sano

Eisuke Sasaoka

Hiroo Kanamori

Michiko Takushima

Shinji Ishikawa

Gotaro Tanaka

Masahiro Takagi

Shigeru Semura

Masayuki Nishimura

Yuji Kobayashi

Masakazu Shigehara

Makoto Katayama

Tomohiko Kanie

Tatsuhiko Saito

Akira Inoue

Yoichi Ishiguro

Minoru Watanabe

Shigeru Tanaka

Satoru Inoue

Toshiaki Okuno

Masayuki Shigematsu

Manabu Shiozaki

Kazuhito Saito

Toshio Danzuka

Hiroshi Tsukamoto

Takayuki Shimazu

Akira Urano

Shuzo Suzuki

Hiroshi Kohda

Hitoshi Hatayama

Masato Tanaka

Koji Nakazato

Noboru Takahashi

Nobuo Tomita

Takashi Kido

Ichiro Sogawa

Toru Iwashima

Takuichiro Daimaru

Yoko Sugiyama

Asako Motomura

Akinori Kimura

Junichi Yoshikawa

Dai Yui

Eiichiro Yamada

Tamoya Kenmochi

Tetsuya Iimura

Masahide Saito

Masumi Fukuma

Shigeru Hirai

Koutaro Fujimura

Tatsuhiko Tanaka

Kenichi Matsushita

Kazunori Okada

Kunio Awazu

Takeshi Aruga

Shunichi Mizuno

Takuya Okuno

Ryoutarou Suzuki

Kazunori Kurima

Toshihiro Munemitsu

Eiji Okada

Yoshiharu Okawa

Eisuke Sasoka

Toshiyuki Wakinosono

Tsutomu Funada

Tsutomu Shoumura

Seiji Ozawa

Naofumi Mitsuhashi

Toshikazu Hirano

Takeshi Nii

Toshihiro Kushibiki

Emi Kawamura

Akihiro Saimi

Tsutomu Syomura

Hidetoshi Nanbu

Maya Miyata

Akira Ishii

Masahiko Matsuda

A fine particle measurement device includes a support stand () that has a groove (F) extending in a predetermined direction and is configured to support in the groove an observation container (), which has an elongate shape and accommodates a liquid sample containing a fine particle therein such that an extending direction of the groove (F) coincides with a longitudinal direction of the observation container (); and an imaging unit () that is configured to capture an image of the fine particle in the observation container () at a position where the support stand is out of a field of view, the observation container () being supported by the support stand ().

Fine particle measurement device

An observation container () includes: a bottom portion that includes a bottom wall (A) (first plate part) and a bottom wall (B) (second plate part) which intersect each other and that is configured to accommodate a liquid sample O as a sample containing microparticles to be imaged by imaging units (A) and (B) serving as an imaging device; and a region that has transparency with respect to a wavelength of light used for observation of the microparticles.

Observation container and microparticle measurement device

A quality evaluation method includes, acquiring light intensity distribution information related to a distribution of absorbance with respect to the measurement light in the cell mass by irradiating a cell mass with measurement light including near-infrared light; and evaluating a quality of the cell mass based on the information. A quality evaluation device includes a light source that irradiates a cell mass with measurement light including near-infrared light; a light receiving unit that, by receiving transmitted light or diffusely reflected light from the cell mass, acquires light intensity distribution information related to a distribution of absorbance with respect to the measurement light in the cell mass, the transmitted light or the diffusely reflected light being emitted from the cell mass by irradiating the cell mass with the measurement light; and an analyzing unit that evaluates a quality of the cell mass based on the information.

Quality evaluation method and quality evaluation device

Sample holder

There are provided a microparticle measuring device capable of analyzing microparticles with increased accuracy and a microparticle analysis method. According to a microparticle measuring device, transmission images of microparticles in the liquid sample are captured by a plurality of image capturing units that are disposed in mutually different orientations with respect to a liquid feed pipe when viewed in a cross section orthogonal to the flowing direction of a liquid sample in the liquid feed pipe, and the microparticles are analyzed by an analyzing unit on the basis of the transmission images.

Microparticle measuring device and microparticle analysis method

A detection apparatus for detecting foreign substances or defective goods, with which it is easy to accomplish inspection even if the inspection objects have a shape that tends to allow rolling, comprises: transparent membersand, partitionsand, a supplying unit, camerasand, a control unit. A removing apparatus, which includes such detection apparatus, comprises a suction controllerand suction nozzlesto. While the partitionsmove around, inspection objects A are each put in each cell of the partitions, and are photographed by the camerasand, from above and below the transparent members, respectively. The images obtained by such photographing are analyzed, and foreign substances or defective goods mingling in the inspection objects A are detected. The foreign substances or defective goods are separated from the conforming goods by selectively sucking the inspection objects A with the suction nozzlesto

Detecting apparatus, removing apparatus, detecting method, and removing method

The present invention relates to a blood vessel wall analyzing apparatus provided with a structure enabling accurate measurement of plaque components in a blood vessel wall in a state that reduces the burden on a patient. In the blood vessel wall analyzing apparatus (), measurement light is illuminated onto a measured portion within a blood vessel such as a carotid artery (C) from a light illuminating unit () provided outside the blood vessel, while light from the measured portion is detected in a light receiving unit () provided outside the blood vessel. Thus, since the status of the blood vessel wall can be analyzed without inserting an apparatus involved in measurement into the blood vessel, the burden on the patient is reduced during measurement. In addition, as a result of carrying out measurement using near infrared light (a light component in the wavelength range of 780 nm to 2750 nm) that exhibits characteristics that differ according to the compositions of substances such as plaque adhered within the blood vessel, analysis can be carried out that distinguish compositions such as plaque using an analyzing apparatus provided outside the blood vessel.

Blood vessel wall analyzing device and blood vessel wall analyzing method

Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of obtaining images of an object at high precision even if the intensities of illuminating light temporally varies. The imaging apparatuscomprises a lamp unit, lens, a half mirror, a lens, a liquid crystal tunable filter, a lens, a reference mirror, a reference mirror, an image capturing unit, an operation unit, and a display unit. The reference mirrorsandare provided at the positions to which illuminating light led by an optical system for illuminating light is irradiated and which are located at a part of the view of the image capturing unit. The operation unitcorrects the value of the image part of the objectby using the value of the image part of the reference mirrorsandout of the images captured by the image capturing unit

Imaging apparatus

A metal heating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a light output portion for outputting light having a center wavelength in a wavelength range of 200 nm to 600 nm.

Metal heating apparatus, metal heating method, and light source apparatus

The invention offers a technique that selectively differentiation-induces mesenchymal stem cells, which can differentiate to cells that constitute various tissues and organs, to osteoblasts. In addition, the invention offers a technique that differentiation-induces mesenchymal stem cells to osteoblasts with a simple operation that needs only short time and that is noninvasive. The inventors have found that the switch for the differentiation induction to osteoblasts is turned on by translocating biological clock-relevant factors existing in mesenchymal stem cells from the cells' cytoplasm to the cells' nucleus. The inventors have also found that the switch can be turned on by irradiating the cells for a short time with a lightwave having a specific wavelength that is noninvasive.

Method of differentiation induction to osteoblasts

A vehicle speed calculating section calculates the vehicle velocity by integration of a forward and reverse acceleration of a vehicle. A first deforming speed calculating section calculates a first deforming speed by integration of acceleration from a first acceleration sensor. A second deforming speed calculating section calculates a second deforming speed by integration of acceleration from a second acceleration sensor. A first deforming speed correcting section subtracts a vehicle speed from the first deforming speed and outputs it to a determining section. A second deforming speed correcting section subtracts the vehicle speed from the second deforming speed and outputs it to the determining section. In the determining section, the collision object determination is made on the basis of the corrected deforming speed.

Collision object determination device

In the development of a Web application system, each of the components of the servlet, JSP, and Bean is define in a one-to-one relationship corresponding to each screen image, thereby making the relationship among each of the components clear. A component table generating unit is provided for generating the definition of each component as a component table from screen design. Also provided is an automatic code generating unit for automatically generating the code of servlet, JSP, and Bean using the component table and the information of the design document. This facilitates the development and alleviates the burden on developers or programmers.

Method for developing Web applications, development support system and storage medium for storing programs developed according to the method

A first optical system () has a first beam splitter (). The first beam splitter () splits light arriving through a first optical path (P) into two light beams, and outputs one light beam to a second optical path (P) and the other light beam to a third optical path (P). A second optical system () outputs the light output from the first beam splitter () to the second optical path (P) and arriving at the second optical system () upon giving the light an intensity change with wavelength dependence and a phase change, and has a second beam splitter (), first reflecting mirror (), and second reflecting mirror (). This makes it possible to provide an optical filter () which can realize a characteristic excellent in isolation with a very simple arrangement.

Optical filter, interleaver, and optical communication system

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroshi Suganuma