Gc Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Olympus Corporation

The University of Tokyo

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Bridgestone Corporation

Junichi Okada

Takumi Washio

Seiryo Sugiura

Toshiaki Hisada

Yoshimasa Kadooka

Makio Ueno

Kazuhiro Takagi

Yumiko Kobayashi

Yukari Nasu

Takashi Yamazaki

Yuko Matsumoto

Masahiro Watanabe

Yuki Yoshida

Yusuke Yamashita

Takashi Iwamura

Yasunari Matsukawa

Machiko Nakagawa

Tetsuro Sakuma

Kohei Hatanaka

Ryozo Nagai

Shuichi Umezawa

Yoshiko Watanabe

Akinori Oda

Fumiaki Kadoya

Yuji Kajiyama

Jinichi Obana

Akihiko Hiraoka

Taro Kariya

Hidenobu Senpuku

Yumiko Masuzawa

Ryoji Nakazato

Shigeru Hanatani

Hirohisa Tsukamoto

To provide a traveling route generation apparatus and a traveling route generation method which can suppress generation of the traveling route with bad interpolation accuracy, and can generates the traveling route with good interpolation accuracy, when generating the traveling route of the vehicle. To provide a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method which can control the traveling of vehicle based on the traveling route generated above. A traveling route generation apparatus and a traveling route generation method compares the two traveling positions and the two traveling directions which are temporally before and after relation, and determines whether to interpolate between the two traveling positions, and generates the traveling route which interpolates between the two traveling positions determined to interpolate, when it is determined to interpolate.

Traveling route generation apparatus, traveling route generation method, vehicle control apparatus, and vehicle control method

In a biological simulation apparatus, an operation unit represents a structure domain where tissues of a biological organ exist by a structure mesh model based on a Lagrange description and a fluid domain where fluid inside the biological organ exists by an ALE fluid mesh model based on an ALE description method. In a fluid-structure interaction simulation, the operation unit deforms the structure mesh model, and then deforms the ALE fluid mesh model so as to form no gap on a first interface between a domain where a site other than a certain site of the biological organ in the structure domain exists and the fluid domain or no overlap with the structure domain. The operation unit captures a position of a second interface between a domain where the certain site exists and the fluid domain by using the ALE fluid mesh model as a reference.

Biological simulation apparatus and biological simulation apparatus control method

A fluid structure interaction simulation method includes a graph information forming process to form graph information of nodes obtained by discretizing a computing region for each of a fluid and a structure that are represented by meshes, and a main time development loop process to simulate a physical phenomenon. The loop process includes arranging IMEs (Interaction Mediating Elements) that move with a displacement of the structure, on a boundary of the structure, defining, within the IME, correcting functions of a pressure and a velocity of the fluid that interact with the pressure and the velocity of the fluid and the displacement of the structure, and executing a simulation based on the correcting functions, in a state in which the meshes of the fluid are mismatched to the meshes of the structure.

Fluid structure interaction simulation method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium

A geometric model of an organ represents its shape as a collection of elements formed from nodes and connections among them. A first vessel network model represents a network of first vessels whose diameters are larger than or equal to a threshold. A plurality of second vessel networks each represent a network of second vessels whose diameters are smaller than the threshold. In a simulator apparatus, a first analysis unit analyzes hemodynamics in the first vessels, based on the geometric model and first vessel network model of the organ and reflecting the motion of the organ. A second analysis unit analyzes hemodynamics in the second vessel network models connected to the nodes, by using output data of the first analysis unit which indicates the hemodynamics in the first vessels at each of the nodes.

Parallel processing coronary circulation simulation method and simulator apparatus using newton-raphson analysis

Repeatability of control items is ensured by improving the precision of time control, and control details for the control items can be changed even when observation is underway. Provided is a laser-scanning microscope system including a microscope apparatus that scans a specimen surface with laser light from a laser light source by using a scanner; a hardware sequencer that controls the microscope apparatus so as to execute a control item that is set in an application program in correspondence with a time axis; and a software sequencer that manages control details for the control item that is set in the application program.

Laser-scanning microscope system

A process quantity measurement method with which an engine output is accurately measured in a relatively simple manner. Torque of an engine is measured based on the amount of torsion of the output shaft of the engine, and an engine output is obtained based on the measured torque. On the other hand, an engine output is calculated based on input and output heat quantity, and a difference between the engine output based on the torque and the engine output based on the input and output heat quantity is obtained in advance. When the engine is operated, the previously obtained difference is added to the engine output that is based on the calculated input and output heat quantity to obtain the engine output.

Process quantity measurement method and apparatus of engine output

A clear fluorescence image is easily obtained irrespective of variation of scattering due to variation of the depth of a focus position in a specimen. A scanning optical device includes a laser light source for emitting laser light, a scanning unit for scanning the laser light emitted from the laser light source on the specimen, a focus depth adjusting unit for adjusting the depth of the focus position in the specimen of the laser light to be scanned, a fluorescence detector for detecting fluorescence generated from the focus position of the laser light in the specimen, a reference depth information storage unit for storing the absolute height of a predetermined reference depth of the focus position of the laser light in the specimen by the focus depth adjusting unit, and a hardware setting storage unit for storing the relative height to the absolute height of the reference depth at each focus position of the laser light and at least one set value of the laser light source, the scanning unit, and the fluorescence detector in association with each other.

Scanning optical device which sets hardware in association with a depth of a focus position based on hardware set values stored in association with depths of focus positions

The invention provides a multiphoton-excitation observation apparatus comprising a light-source unit for emitting pulsed laser light; an observation apparatus main unit for irradiating a specimen with laser light emitted from the light-source unit and observing fluorescence emitted from the specimen; an incidence adjusting device, disposed between the light-source unit and the observation apparatus main unit, for adjusting the beam diameter of the laser light emitted from the light-source unit; and a control apparatus for controlling the incidence-adjusting unit according to the depth of an observation plane in the specimen.

Multiphoton-excitation observation apparatus

To provide a simple examination method of buffer capacity of saliva without influence by examiner's subjectivity and an examination instrument to carry out suitably the examination method, an examination instrument, in which two to ten kinds of chemical liquids each containing a pH indicator having a transition interval within a pH range of 3.0 to 7.0 and capable of easily discriminating its indicated color at two or more stages and an acid in an amount so as to exhibit a different pH value within a pH range of 1.5 or more but lower than 3.0 when water in the same amount as that of saliva to be examined is added at a temperature of 25&#xb0; C. and a humidity of 50% are each immersed in a water-absorptive material, or are in a liquid or gel state and are accommodated within a constant-volume container, is prepared; saliva of a subject in a volume to be examined is added to each of the chemical liquids; after lapsing a predetermined time, the color of each chemical liquid is measured as a readily discriminable indicated color; and the buffer capacity of saliva is determined by overall evaluation from the readily discriminable indicated color as exhibited by the chemical liquid.

Examination method of buffer capacity of saliva and examination instrument of buffer capacity of saliva

In a pretreatment instrument and a pretreatment method of saliva, used for identification and quantitation ofin saliva by the immunochromatographic method utilizing an antigen-antibody reaction, the instrument includes a swab and a mixing container for saliva and a treatment liquid, the swab having a stick and a soft synthetic resin-made sponge capable of absorbing a predetermined amount or more of saliva, and the mixing container being made of a transparent or translucent soft synthetic resin and comprising a bag-like portion formed integrally with and continuously to a constricted portion as the end of a tapering introduction portion having an opening thoroughly larger than the sponge, wherein the constricted portion and the bag-like portion have elasticity such that the sponge can be squashed by a finger pressure in a state that the sponge is inserted therein; the constricted portion has a width such that a pressure can be applied by fingers and has a shape such that when the sponge is taken out in a squashed state by the finger pressure, a minimum amount necessary for the pretreatment or more of the saliva can be squeezed out.

Pretreatment instrument of saliva and pretreatment method of saliva

The present invention provides a composition for an oral cavity that contains the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, which is safe and effective without imparting bacterial resistance.

Oral modified SSP-5 antibacterial composition

To provide a pre-treatment kit for saliva and a pre-treatment method for saliva for identification and quantitation of mutans streptococci in human saliva by the immunochromatographic method, which can eliminate mucin in saliva and prevent mutans streptococci from chaining and aggregation in a simple method, the pre-treatment kit is constructed of (A) an aqueous solution containing sodium hydroxide, (B) a tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane buffer solution containing tartaric acid and/or citric acid, and (C) a nonionic surfactant and/or an amphoteric surfactant, wherein the component (C) is previously mixed with or prepared separately from the component (A) and/or the component (B), and further (D) a pH indicator having a color transition range of pH 5 to 9 is previously mixed with or prepared separately from the component (A) or the component (A) having the component (C) previously mixed therewith, and/or the component (B) or the component (B) having the component (C) previously mixed therewith. According the pre-treatment method, the respective components of the pre-treatment kit is added dropwise into and mixed with saliva in an arbitrary order.

Pre-treatment kit for saliva and pre-treatment method for saliva using the same

To provide an examination method of buffer capacity of saliva and an examination instrument of buffer capacity of saliva, by which the buffer capacity of saliva of a subject can be examined simply without being influenced by an amount of saliva and preciously without being influenced by the subjectivity of an examiner, an end portion of an absorptive material in a predetermined shape, containing a pH indicator at least having one or more color transition range of pH 4.0 to 7.0 and an acid, is dipped in saliva to allow the saliva to penetrate into the absorptive material, and a buffer capacity of the saliva is examined from a distance where a color to be exhibited by the pH indicator has changed by the penetrated saliva from a predetermined place of the absorptive material and a distance where the saliva has penetrated from a predetermined place of the absorptive material.

The denture base relining resin comprises a powder component that is a methacrylate ester polymer powder with benzoyl peroxide added thereto and a liquid component that comprises a combination of methyl methacrylate, a methacrylate and a monomer having a specific structure with at least one compound selected from 4-dimethylaminobenzoate and 4,4'-dimethylaminobenzophenone, a specific tertiary amine and a polymerization inhibitor, all incorporated in said liquid component at specific ratios.

Denture base relining resins

A photocuring denture base lining material is disclosed, comprising:

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