Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

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Keita Hara

Yoshiji Ohta

Masaki Hamamoto

Mikihiro Yamanaka

Megumi Hijikuro

Kenji Ohta

Kunihiko Iizuka

Jun Kudo

Joseph B Matthews

Thomas Callaghan

Tomohisa Kawata

Katsutoshi Takao

Alan G Bettisch

Yasuaki Murashi

Ryoji Nagai

Shuhji Nishiura

Toshiaki Hisada

Norie Matsui

A measuring device () of the present invention includes a detector control module () for obtaining, from a scanning mechanism including an excitation light source () for emitting excitation light and a detector () for receiving fluorescence generated from the measurement target upon irradiation with the excitation light, measurement data of the fluorescence, a position information obtaining module () for obtaining, from a driving mechanism for controlling relative positions of the scanning mechanism and the measurement target, information of a position where the measurement target is irradiated with the excitation light when the measurement data is obtained, and a fluorescence characteristic management module () for preparing fluorescence characteristic data including the measurement data and the position information.

Measuring device, measuring system, measuring method, control program, and recording medium

A measuring device () includes an analysis unit () that holds a fluid pool (B) of blood or serum therein, an irradiation unit () that irradiates fluorescent substances contained in the fluid pool (B) with excitation light, and a light receiving unit () that receives fluorescence generated from the fluorescent substances. An amount of the fluorescent substances contained in the blood or the serum after artificial dialysis is estimated from the intensity of the fluorescence.

Measuring device, dialysis end condition determining device, and dialysis progress presenting device

A detection device () includes a light receiving unit () which receives fluorescence; a light receiving intensity calculation unit () which calculates light receiving intensity of fluorescence which is received by the light receiving unit () while changing a relative position (L) between the light receiving unit () and a test subject (); and a specifying unit () which specifies an optimal position of the relative position (L) where the light receiving intensity which is calculated by the light receiving intensity calculation unit () becomes a maximum, and in which fluorescence is detected using the optimal position which is specified by the specifying unit ().

Detection device, detecting method, control program and recording medium

A measurement device () includes a probe () which irradiates a specific part or a specific location of a living body with excitation light and which receives fluorescence generated by irradiating the specific part or the specific location with excitation light.

Measurement device, measurement method, measurement result processing device, measurement system, measurement result processing method, control program, and recording medium

The present invention detects a fluorescent signal from AGEs at a blood vessel tissue of an individual to determine the condition of the tissue of the individual. This solves a problem that in measurement of AGEs used in diagnosis of diabetes, data indicative of fluorescent spectrum from AGEs at the skin of a forearm varies depending on where to measure on skin of even the same forearm, which results in variations in measurement values, leading to unreliable data and incorrect measurement result.

Device for monitoring blood vessel conditions and method for monitoring same

A chemical substance sensing elementfor detecting a specific chemical substance included in biological information includes a carbon nanostructure and, because of metal complex or a fluorescent molecule modifying its surface, exhibits substance selectivity and high sensitivity. Of the substances modifying the surface of carbon nanostructures, CoPc reacts with NO and pentane and DAF-2 reacts with NO, as the components contained in the biological information, respectively, and both produce reaction products. The reaction product derived from CoPc changes electric resistance between nodesand, and the reaction product derived from DAF-2 generates fluorescence of a specific wavelength when irradiated with excitation light. Therefore, by measuring the change in electric resistance or presence/absence and wavelength of fluorescent of the present element, sensing of NO or pentane is possible.

Chemical substance sensing element, chemical substance sensing apparatus, and method of manufacturing chemical substance sensing element

In a moving apparatus, flapping angle of a front wing shaft is &#x3b3;+&#x394;&#x3b3;/2, and the flapping angle of rear wing shaft is &#x3b3;&#x2212;&#x394;&#x3b3;/2. Specifically, amplitude difference between front wing shaft and rear wing shaft is &#x394;&#x3b3;. Further, the flapping motion of front wing shaft is represented by sin (&#x3c4;+&#x3c6;/2), and the flapping motion of rear wing shaft is represented by sin (&#x3c4;&#x2212;&#x3c6;/2). In other words, phase difference between the front and rear wing shafts is &#x3c6;. Further, amplitude difference &#x394;&#x3b3; and phase difference &#x3c6; are each represented by a function using a common parameter. Therefore, a control portion can independently change the amplitude difference &#x394;&#x3b3; and phase difference &#x3c6;, so as to variously change a torsion angle formed by a tip end portion of the wing and a prescribed phantom plane. Thus, a moving apparatus that can make an efficient transition from hovering to forward or backward flight can be provided.

Moving apparatus

An adsorbent including a porous member having holes and a nanostructure formed on at least a portion of a surface of the porous member, and an air cleaning device including the adsorbent. A porous filter including a porous member having holes and a nanostructure formed on at least a portion of a surface of the porous member, and an air cleaning device including the porous filter. A method of cleaning air for decomposing a hazardous substance using the porous filter and a decomposition gas including a superheated water vapor. A method of manufacturing a porous filter including the steps of growing a nanostructure on at least a portion of a surface of a porous member having holes, allowing a catalyst particle to be contained in a dispersion gas including a superheated water vapor, and spraying the dispersion gas on a surface of the nanostructure to attach the catalyst particle thereto.

Adsorbent, porous filter, air cleaning device, method of cleaning air, and method of manufacturing porous filter

A numerical model related to fluttering of an insect, when an equivalent model of actual structure of a wing of the insect is moved in the air in accordance with a model of fluttering motion of the wing of the insect is calculated by fluid-structure interactive analysis, in which behavior of the wing and behavior of the air are given as numerical values, including interaction therebetween. Thereafter, a method of controlling a fluttering robot, wing shape and the like are determined by modifying numerical models of fluttering of an insect prepared by fluid-structure interactive analysis, in accordance with sensitivity analysis. Accordingly, a method of preparing numerical models of wing and air considering the behavior of the wing of the insect in the air is provided and, in addition, a method of manufacturing a fluttering robot utilizing the numerical model prepared by this method of preparing numerical model can be provided.

Method of manufacturing fluttering robot using a fluid-structure interactive numerical model for developing controls for wing driving apparatus

A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus of a position detecting system execute a program including the steps of transmitting a laser beam; detecting an azimuth &#x3b1;(Y) at which the laser beam is transmitted; detecting an azimuth &#x3b2; at which the reflected laser beam is received; calculating a distance L() between the transmitting apparatus and a moving body from &#x3b1;(Y), &#x3b2; and a distance D between the transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus; and calculating a distance L() between the receiving apparatus and the moving body.

Position detecting system, and transmitting and receiving apparatuses for the position detecting system

A group robot system includes a plurality of sensing robots and a base station controlling the sensing robots, and establishes communication in a hierarchical manner. The hierarchical structure is formed of a plurality of levels between a plurality of sensing robots with base station as the highest hierarchical level. The first sensing robot detects an object; the second sensing robot conducts further search on the object; and the third sensing robot conducts communication relay between the first sensing robot and the base station. When the first sensing robot detects an object, the base station provides control such that all sensing robots, other than the first, second and third sensing robots, move outside the current area of search.

Group robot system that can obtain detailed overall information of object efficiently

Communication system of a group robot system is made hierarchical, having a base station as an uppermost layer and a plurality of layers formed by a plurality of sensing robots, and the plurality of sensing robots are controlled such that a sensing robot belonging to an upper layer of the hierarchical structure has higher sensing resolution than a sensing robot belonging to a lower layer of the hierarchical structure. Thus, a group robot system capable of efficiently searching for an object can be obtained.

Group robot system, and sensing robot and base station used therefor

A fluid-structure interactive analysis is performed while n types of wing structure models are caused to flap in accordance with a prescribed model of flapping manner. Based on an analysis, data, data, . . . data n of physical values related to fluid behavior and physical values related to structural behavior are calculated. Among data, data, . . . data n, a data having a prescribed parameter such as the lift force optimized is extracted. A prototype of a wing portion is formed, which has such a structure that is specified by various parameter values of the numerical model of wing structure corresponding to the extracted data. A driving unitdrives the prototype of the wing portion in a manner of flapping that is represented by the flapping motion model equivalent to the manner of flapping of an insect. At this time, the wing has a stiffness that is suitable for flapping flight so that prescribed parameters come to have optimal values.

Rising and moving apparatus and manufacturing method thereof

A flapping apparatus includes a first disk rotated by a driving source, and a second disk that rotates in contact with a main surface of the first disk. The second disk is provided with first and second stoppers that limit its angle of rotation. When the stopper is in contact with the first disk, rotation of a wing shaft is caused only by the rotation of the first disk, and when the stoppers are not in contact with the first disk, rotation of the wing shaft is caused only by the rotation of the second disk.

Flapping apparatus

A search robot system first divides the entire area of disaster into a mesh cell of an appropriate size, and arranges a search robot for each mesh cell. A search is made for a route of travel from an outermost mesh cell to a casualty and to an adjacent mesh cell. The search robot immediately communicates with a mother robot when a casualty is found. The search robot also communicates with the mother robot when a route to an adjacent mesh cell is found. In the search robot system, a new search robot is arranged to search in an adjacent mesh cell. Accordingly, a rescue activity that is a matter of time can be carried out by a plurality of robots.

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Kashihara, Japan

Keita Hara