Hitachi Medical Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

The University of Tokyo

The Jikei University

Other

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Breweries, Ltd.

Jun Kubota

Ryuichi Shinomura

Kazunari Ishida

Tsuneo Kondo

Akira Sasaki

Takashi Azuma

Shinichiro Umemura

Yutaka Sato

Yuichi Miwa

Yukinori Iizuka

Kazunari Domen

Hirotaka Baba

Koichi Tsutsumi

Tsutomu Minegishi

Hiroshi Furuhata

Seishi Mizuoka

Kenichi Kawabata

Takashi Sugiyama

Haruyuki Nakanishi

Katsuhiro Kuroda

Satoshi Tamano

Hiroshi Masuzawa

Katsunori Asafusa

Shinji Kishimoto

Kazuaki Sasaki

Shuzo Sano

Mikihiro Kaga

Shinsuke Ito

Naoto Fujita

Takaya Osawa

Toshihiro Ishibashi

Makoto Ogihara

Chika Miwada

Seishl Mizuoka

The present invention provides an electrode for water-splitting reaction that is capable of increasing conductive path between a photocatalyst layer and a current collecting layer without inhibiting light absorption by photocatalyst, which comprises: a photocatalyst layer; a current collecting layer; and a contact layerthat contains semiconductor or good conductor and is provided between the photocatalyst layerand the current collecting layer, wherein the contact layeris provided along the surface shape of the photocatalyst layerat the current collecting layerside of the photocatalyst layer

Electrode for water-splitting reaction and method for producing the same

Provided are a photocatalyst having higher activity for hydrogen production through water splitting and a photoelectrode comprising the photocatalyst. The photocatalyst for water splitting of the present invention comprises a Ga selenide, an Ag&#x2014;Ga selenide, or both thereof.

Photocatalyst for water splitting comprising gallium selenide and photoelectrode for water splitting comprising the same

To provide an unfermented beer-taste beverage provided with fermentation flavor, and a method for producing the unfermented beer-taste beverage. An unfermented beer-taste beverage provided with good fermentation flavor characteristic of beer can be provided by a method for producing an unfermented beer-taste beverage comprising a step of adding a flavor composition containing a sulfur-containing compound to an unfermented beer-taste beverage to achieve a content of the sulfur-containing compound of 1&#xd7;10ppt or more but 1&#xd7;10ppt or less.

Method for producing a non-alcoholic beverage

An ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus according to the present invention being provided with: an ultrasonic probe () provided with a group of ultrasonic transducers for diagnosis use and a group of ultrasonic transducers for therapeutic use of which at least apart of ultrasonic beam irradiation surfaces are arranged so as to overlap each other, a tomographic image producing means () that produces a tomographic image containing a diseased portion of a subject from reflection echoes received by the group of ultrasonic transducers for diagnosis use, a display means () that displays the tomographic image containing the diseased portion of the subject produced by the tomographic image producing means (), a setting means () that sets an irradiation path of the therapeutic ultrasonic waves on the tomographic image containing the diseased portion of the subject displayed by the display means () and a control means () that produces irradiation path information corresponding to the irradiation path of the therapeutic ultrasonic waves set by the setting means () and causes to display the produced irradiation path information on the display means () while correlating with the tomographic image containing the diseased portion of the subject.

Ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus

A method for detecting a crater end of a continuously cast product, including installing an ultrasonic shear wave sensor for transmitting an ultrasonic shear wave to the continuously cast product and receiving the transmitted ultrasonic shear wave in a continuous casting machine, detecting based on variations of an ultrasonic signal received by the ultrasonic shear wave sensor that the crater end of the cast product is matched with the installed position of the ultrasonic shear wave sensor, calibrating a physical property value used in a calculation based on a heat condition equation such that the crater end computed based on the heat condition equation using casting conditions at that time is matched with the installed position of the ultrasonic shear wave sensor, and after the calibration, determining the crater end by the calculation based on the heat condition equation under respective casting conditions by using the calibrated physical property value.

Method and apparatus for detecting a crater end of a continuously cast product

An apparatus for controlling a flow of a molten steel in a mold, the apparatus including: a casting-condition acquiring unit for acquiring at least five casting conditions; a calculating unit for calculating a molten steel flow velocity on a molten steel bath surface in accordance with the acquired casting conditions; a determining unit for determining whether the acquired molten steel flow velocity is higher or lower than a mold-powder entrainment critical flow velocity; a control unit for applying a shifting magnetic field to impart a braking force to a discharge flow from an immersion nozzle and applying a shifting magnetic field to rotate the molten steel in a horizontal direction; and a shifting magnetic field generating apparatus.

Apparatus for controlling flow of molten steel in mold

An ultrasonograph comprising a probe for measurement by bringing the probe into contact with a subject in a first state, first image creating means for creating a first image of the subject from the information sent from the probe, image display means for displaying the first image created by the first image creating means, means for setting at least one piece of reference information on the first image displayed by the image displaying means, second image creating means for creating a second image of the subject from the measurement information collected by bringing the probe into contact with the subject in a second state different from the first state, means for collecting information on the distortion of a desired region of interest in the second image on the basis of the variation, in the second image, of the reference information set on the first image by the setting means, and display control means for controlling the display of the distortion information collected by the distortion collecting means on the image display means.

Ultrasonograph, method for displaying information on distortion of biological tissue in ultrasonic image

An ultrasonographic apparatus in which the S/N ratio of a compound image is improved operates by combining a plurality of reception beam signals from probes arranged at different positions relative to a sample, converting the combined ultrasonic beam into a luminance signal, and displaying the luminance signal.

Ultrasonographic apparatus, ultrasonographic data processing method, and ultrasonographic data processing program

A thrombus detecting apparatus provided with: a transducer (), which is attached to a monitor portion of a subject and transmits and receives ultrasonic waves, a transmitter and receiver unit (), which transmits and applies driving pulses to the transducer () and receives echo signals output from the transducer, and a detector () making use of ultrasonic waves, which processes output signals of the transmitter and receiver unit () and detects a thrombus passing through a blood vessel, and/or a light source (), which generates living body inspection light, a probe (), which is attached to a monitor portion of the subject and irradiates the living body inspection light from the light source () to the subject, a light receiving unit (), which receives living body inspection light irradiated from the probe () and passed through the subject and outputs electrical signals depending on the intensity of the received living body inspection light, and a detector () making use of living body light, which processes the output signals of the light receiving unit () and detects a thrombus passing through a blood vessel.

Thrombus detecting apparatus, thrombus treating apparatus and methods therefor

A method for controlling a flow of molten steel in a slab continuous casting machine including controlling a molten steel flow velocity on a molten steel bath surface to a predetermined flow velocity by applying a shifting magnetic field; controlling the molten steel flow velocity on the molten steel bath surface from an inclusion-adherence critical flow velocity or more to a mold-powder entrainment critical flow velocity or less by applying a shifting magnetic field; and controlling the molten steel flow velocity on the molten steel bath surface from the inclusion-adherence critical flow velocity or more to the mold-powder entrainment critical flow velocity or less by applying a shifting magnetic field.

Method for controlling flow of molten steel in mold and method for continuously producing a cast product

A method for detecting a crater end of a continuously cast product including installing an ultrasonic shear wave sensor for transmitting an ultrasonic shear wave to a cast product and receiving the transmitted ultrasonic longitudinal wave and an ultrasonic longitudinal wave sensor for transmitting an ultrasonic longitudinal wave to the cast product and receiving the transmitted ultrasonic longitudinal wave at the same position in a continuous casting machine or at positions apart from each other in a casting direction, but at the same position in a transverse direction of the cast product, detecting based on variations of an ultrasonic signal received by the ultrasonic shear wave sensor that the crater end of the cast product is matched with the installed position of the ultrasonic shear wave sensor, calibrating a calculation formula for determining the crater end and determining the crater end.

Method and apparatus for detecting crater end of continuously cast product, and method for producing continuously cast product

An ultrasound probe comprises therapeutic transducers which include a plurality of arrayed first transducer elements and emit therapeutic ultrasounds to a subject, and diagnostic transducers which include a plurality of arrayed second transducer elements and emit diagnostic ultrasounds to the subject and receive the diagnostic ultrasounds, wherein the therapeutic transducers are stacked over the diagnostic transducers.

Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic device

When a molten steel flow velocity (u) on a bath surface is higher than a mold-powder entrainment critical flow velocity of 0.32 m/sec, the molten steel flow velocity (u) is controlled to a predetermined molten steel flow velocity by applying a shifting magnetic field to impart a braking force to a discharge flow from an immersion nozzle. When the molten steel flow velocity (u) is lower than an inclusion-adherence critical flow velocity of 0.20 m/sec and is higher than or equal to a bath-surface skinning critical flow velocity of 0.10 m/sec, the molten steel flow velocity (u) is controlled to the range of 0.20-0.32 m/sec by applying a shifting magnetic field to rotate the intra-mold molten steel in a horizontal direction. When the molten steel flow velocity (u) is lower than the inclusion-adherence critical flow velocity, the molten steel flow velocity (u) is controlled to the range of 0.20-0.32 m/sec by applying a shifting magnetic field to impart an accelerating force to the discharge flow from the immersion nozzle.

Method and apparatus for controlling flow of molten steel in mold, and method for producing continuous castings

An ultrasonic probe in which two-dimensional array transducer elements are arrayed convexly both in one direction of the two-dimensional array and in the direction perpendicular to the former direction relative to the direction where an ultrasonic wave is transmitted. By switching a transducer element selecting switch circuit provided near the transducer elements, the shape of the diameter of the probe for transmitting and receiving of ultrasound and the position of the diameter are arbitrarily determined. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in which a fresnel ring is formed as an diameter by a control signal to a transducer element selecting switch circuit, the number of cables for connection between the probe and the main body is decreased by bundling the transducer elements in one ring and effecting the connection, the fresnel ring is moved every ultrasonic transmission/reception cycle by the control signal to the transducer element selection switching circuit, and an object is three-dimensionally scanned with an ultrasonic beam.

Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic diagnostic device comprising the same

An ultrasonic imaging apparatus having a depth range setter for setting a threshold value of detection level for a Doppler signal in an ultrasonic circuit unit , a unit for extracting a time at which the Doppler signal exceeds the set detection level and a signal level in excess of the set detection level, and a ROI depth data generator for determining, for an adaptive phase controller , a ROI depth range for correction necessary to make echo signals of neighboring channels be in phase by using the extracted time and signal level, whereby the focal point can follow the ROI region in an object to be inspected by correcting echo signals from the region where the intensity of the Doppler signal reaches the detection level or its neighboring region so as to make them be in phase between adjacent transducers.

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Chiba, Japan

Jun Kubota