Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujikura Limited

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Komatsu Corporation

Kazuya Matsumoto

Katsuhiro Wakabayashi

Mamoru Hasegawa

Hideo Adachi

Tsutomu Nakamura

Kazuhisa Karaki

Ryo Ohta

Masahiro Katashiro

Yoshitaka Kamiya

Toshihiko Isokawa

Atsushi Matsumoto

Satoshi Yoshida

Takatoshi Igarashi

Satoshi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Miyajima

Jin Hiraoka

Tatsuo Suemasu

Ryo Ota

Koichi Shiotani

Masaaki Amikura

Hiroshi Ito

Makoto Watanabe

Takeshi Suga

Hiroshi Matsuzaki

Takashi Takizawa

Shuichi Takayama

Takuro Suyama

Shinji Yasunaga

Katsuya Ono

Tadashi Morokuma

Hideharu Miyahara

Masahiko Kato

Kazuaki Kojima

Kosei Tamiya

Fukashi Yoshizawa

Michitsugu Arima

Yasuhiro Kamoshida

Yoshihiko Narita

Masashi Kitazawa

Toyokazu Mizoguchi

Jun Funazaki

Hiroyuki Sangu

Fumitaka Ozeki

Yukihiro Yamazaki

Hiroshi Iwaisako

Michio Takayama

Tetsuo Nomoto

Sayaka Hirafune

Yukiaki Minamoto

Makoto Nobayashi

Etsuro Shimizu

Satoshi Inui

Toshio Fukai

Shigeru Komiyama

Akihiro Ishihara

Kazuhiro Ogawa

Saori Akune

An ultrasonic element includes at least one cMUT provided to a substrate, wherein the cMUT includes a first electrode provided to the substrate, a frame member having a cavity, a second electrode disposed to face the first electrode with the cavity interposed between the second electrode and the first electrode, and a protective layer covering the second electrode, a length of the cavity in an X axis direction being longer than a width of the cavity in a Y axis direction, the protective layer having a convex region extending in the X axis direction, a width of the convex region in the Y axis direction varying.

Ultrasonic element and endoscope

Provided is a game system including at least one processor configured to execute predetermined game processing based on an object group including a plurality of objects, the at least one processor being configured to: display first object information on each of the plurality of objects included in the object group, on a display; add a selected object to the object group; and display second object information for identifying the object added to the object group, on the display.

Game system, game control device, and information storage medium

An engine cooling device includes: a flow path switching unit provided between an engine and an EGR cooler and the radiator and between the engine and the EGR cooler and a pump. The flow path switching unit includes a first valve that allows a cooling water to flow through a first bypass flow path extending toward the pump when a temperature of the cooling water is lower than a first temperature and that allows the cooling water to flow through a radiator connection flow path, a second valve that allows the cooling water to flow through the first bypass flow path when the temperature of the cooling water is less than a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature, and allows the cooling water to flow through the radiator connection flow path when the temperature of the cooling water is equal to or higher than the second temperature.

Engine cooling device and engine system

An ultrasound unit includes an ultrasound array that has a plurality of ultrasound elements, each of which has a first principal surface that is rectangular where a transmitting and receiving portion, a signal electrode terminal, and a ground electrode terminal are arranged in a longer side direction, longer sides of the ultrasound elements being coupled, one or more short-lines that are connected to a plurality of ground electrode terminals, a ground line that is connected to the short-line, and a plurality of signal lines, each of which is connected to one of the signal electrode terminals, and adjoining ultrasound elements of the ultrasound elements are coupled such that the signal electrode terminals are arranged alternately on opposite sides in the longer side direction of the transmitting and receiving portions that are rectangular.

Ultrasound unit and ultrasound endoscope

An ultrasound transducer element including a cell group constituted by a plurality of ultrasound transducer cells, wherein each of the plurality of ultrasound transducer cells includes a lower electrode arranged on a substrate, a membrane including an upper electrode arranged facing the lower electrode with a cavity positioned therebetween, and a plurality of pillars forming the cavity by supporting the membrane, and each cavity mutually communicates with one another.

Ultrasound transducer element and ultrasound endoscope

An ultrasound unit includes: ultrasound elements each including a plurality of ultrasound cells formed on a substrate including a semiconductor, the plurality of ultrasound cells each including an upper electrode having a ground potential and a lower electrode to which a drive signal is applied, the upper electrode and the lower electrode being arranged facing each other via a cavity and thereby forming a first capacitor; a package member in which the plurality of ultrasound elements are disposed, the package member having a ground potential; and an insulation member disposed between the package member and each of the ultrasound elements. A second capacitor is formed as a result of the insulation member serving as a gap, and a capacity of a third capacitor serially connected to the second capacitor is smaller than a capacity of the second capacitor.

An ultrasound transducer element includes a plurality of electrostatic capacitance type ultrasound cells each having a lower electrode portion and a membrane including an upper electrode portion that are oriented and disposed via a cavity circular in plan view, and a thickness of the cavity monotonously decreases in a curved manner toward an outer circumferential portion from a center portion of the cavity.

An ultrasound element includes a silicon substrate, a lower electrode layer that has a plurality of lower electrode sections, and a plurality of lower wiring sections, and is connected to a lower electrode terminal to which a drive signal and a bias signal are applied, a lower insulating layer, an upper insulating layer in which a plurality of cavities smaller than the respective lower electrode sections are formed, an upper electrode layer that has a plurality of upper electrode sections that are disposed to face the respective lower electrode sections via the respective cavities, and are smaller than the lower electrode sections and larger than the cavities, and a plurality of upper wiring sections, and is connected to an upper electrode terminal at a ground potential that detects a capacitance signal, and a protection layer.

Ultrasound element and ultrasound endoscope

A US element includes a silicon substrate, wherein a lower electrode layer that has a plurality of lower electrode sections, and a plurality of lower wiring sections, and is connected to a lower electrode terminal to which a drive signal and a bias signal are applied, a lower insulating layer, an upper insulating layer in which a plurality of cavities are formed, an upper electrode layer that has a plurality of upper electrode sections and a plurality of upper wiring sections, and is connected to an upper electrode terminal at a ground potential for detecting a capacitance signal, and a protection layer are sequentially stacked on the silicon substrate, and the US element further includes a shield electrode section that is formed at least at an upper side of the lower wiring sections, and is connected to a shield electrode terminal at a ground potential.

This invention relates to a sensing method and a sensing device for quantifying the concentration of an analyte by using the property that interaction between an analyte and a labeled compound changes fluorescence intensity. A fluorescence sensor is used to acquire fluorescence intensity at predetermined quantification time points. Then, the concentration of an analyte is quantified in accordance with a non-steady concentration quantification law including the relationship between the acquired fluorescence intensity and the time derivative quantity thereof.

Sensing method and sensing device

Background object disposing means () disposes a background object () representing a background, which is photographed outside a target region () of a photographed image (), on a virtual space (). Subject object disposing means () disposes a subject object () between a viewpoint () and the background object () so that a position at which the subject object () is displayed to be superimposed on the background object () in a virtual space image (), and a position of the target region () in the photographed image (), correspond to each other. Composition target object disposing means () disposes a composition target object () representing a composition target, which is to be displayed to be combined with a real-world space () in the virtual space image (), between the background object () and the subject object ().

Image processing device, control method for an image processing device, program, and information storage medium

An ultrasound transducer array according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a plurality of groove-like recesses arranged at a predetermined interval on one surface of the substrate, a cell region arranged between the recesses on the one surface side of the substrate, a flexible film configured to cover the substrate and the cell region and having fragility lower than fragility of the substrate, and a dividing groove having a width smaller than a width of the recess and reaching from the other surface of the substrate to the flexible film in the recess.

Ultrasound transducer array, method of manufacturing ultrasound transducer array and ultrasound endoscope

An ultrasonic transducer according to the invention includes a flexible sheet, a rigid body portion including a lower electrode made of at least a thin-film conductive material on a surface of the flexible sheet, a dividing portion which divides the rigid body portion into segments, and a plurality of transducer elements including the divided rigid body portion, has at least one transducer cell composed of one of the segments, an insulating partition portion bonded to the segment, an air gap portion surrounded by the partition portion, an upper electrode opposed to the lower electrode extending to the partition portion to sandwich the air gap portion therebetween, and an upper insulating layer formed on the upper electrode, and includes an upper protection film which continuously covers a surface portion of the transducer elements and the dividing portion.

Ultrasonic transducer, method for manufacturing ultrasonic transducer, and ultrasonic endoscope

A needle-type fluorescence sensor that measures glucose based on fluorescence produced by excitation light is provided. The needle-type fluorescence sensor includes a needle body section including a sensor portion disposed in a needle distal end portion and metal lines disposed from the sensor portion to a needle proximal end portion, and a connector which is integrated with the needle body section and in which the metal lines extend. The sensor portion includes a silicon substrate having first and second principal surfaces, a PD device that converts fluorescence into an electric signal, an LED device that transmits fluorescence and emits excitation light, and an indicator layer that interacts with an analyte under the excitation light to produce fluorescence. The PD device, the LED device, and the indicator layer overlap with each other above the first principal surface of the silicon substrate.

Fluorescence sensor, needle-type fluorescence sensor, and method for measuring analyte

An ultrasound transducer includes a substrate and a lower electrode layer, a lower insulating layer, an upper insulating layer, and an upper electrode layer. The lower insulating layer and the upper insulating layer are arranged to be opposed to each other via an air gap section. The upper insulating layer and the lower insulating layer are different in a material and thickness and satisfy Equation 1 below. In Equation 1, Krepresents a relative dielectric constant of the lower insulating layer, Krepresents a relative dielectric constant of the upper insulating layer, Trepresents thickness of the lower insulating layer, Trepresents thickness of the upper insulating layer, &#x3c1;(x) represents a charge density distribution in the lower insulating layer, and &#x3c1;(y) represents a charge density distribution in the upper insulating layer. 

Ultrasound transducer and ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

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