Piolax, Inc.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Kouichi Kato

Shigeo Okada

Atsushi Takahashi

Yoshinori Tomida

Tatsuki Fukui

Takeshi Nakajima

Masato Minami

Daisuke Sasaguri

Fumiko Tomatsu

Tetsuya Yano

Kenichi Nagae

Hiroshi Abe

Yukio Furukawa

Satoshi Yuasa

Satoshi Ogawa

Fumio Yamauchi

Kengo Kanazaki

Hiroshi Nakazato

Nobuya Shinozaki

Yoshitaka Baba

Keigo Mizusawa

Sachiko Inoue

Toru Umeda

Hiroyuki Aoki

Hidetaka Kondo

Shinzaburo Ito

Provided is a damper capable of securely assembling a cap on an outer circumference of a rod while reducing a diameter of the cap and reducing an outer diameter of a cylinder. A damper has a cylinder, a rod, and a cap attached to an opening of the cylinder. The rod has a piston on its tip side and a mounting portion mounted on the other of a pair of members on its base end side, the cap has a main body that extends in an axial direction of the rod, and the main body is formed with a receiving opening that can receive the rod from an outside in a radial direction thereof.

Damper

A damper includes a cylinder, a rod including a first engaging portion at a tip end thereof, and a piston formed of an elastic resin material. The piston includes a convex portion provided so as to protrude at a base end portion located on a rod base end side and always in pressure contact with an inner circumference of the cylinder. During damper braking, the first engaging portion of the rod abuts against the other end portion of the piston, and an axial compression force acts on the piston between the first engaging portion and the convex portion in pressure contact with the inner circumference of the cylinder.

An information processing apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit and a template data acquisition unit. The image data acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of image data generated by performing a plurality of ultrasonic wave transmission and reception operations on a subject while changing an ultrasonic wave transmission and reception mode. The template data acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of template data corresponding to the plurality of ultrasonic wave transmission and reception operations, respectively. The similarity information acquisition unit acquires information indicating a similarity between an image value sequence of the plurality of pieces of image data at a target position and a template data sequence of the plurality of pieces of template data at the target position.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

A damper device includes a cylinder including an attachment portion and a piston including an attachment portion. The attachment portion of at least one of the cylinder and the piston includes an elastic portion which urges a pin member inserted therein in an axial direction and a radial direction. The elastic portion includes an axial abutment portion which abuts on a large-diameter portion of the pin member protruding radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the pin member; and a radial abutment portion which abuts on the outer peripheral surface of the pin member.

Damper device

A damper device provided between a fixed body having an opening portion and an openable and closable body mounted on the opening portion and configured to apply a braking force to the openable and closable body. An elastic resin member is mounted on a projecting portion provided on the openable and closable body. A receiving recess portion is provided on the fixed body to receive the elastic resin member. The elastic resin member has a base portion; a pair of arm portions; a bridge portion; and a stopper, which are formed integrally. The receiving recess portion has: an introducing portion configured to abut with the arm portions to bend them diametrically towards each other; and a restricting portion configured to abut with the stopper to restrict the openable and closable body from opening, when the openable and closable body opens to cause the elastic resin member to move.

The present invention provides contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging which exhibit high degrees of accumulation in tumor and low degrees of retention in the blood and can be administered into the blood. The contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging include a conjugate of a dye and a polyethyleneglycol represented by Formula (1), (5), (6), or (7) and an additive represented by Formula (301). 

Composition having dye and conjugate of polyethyleneglycol and additive and contrast agent for photoacoustic imaging having the same

There is provided an ICG-loaded polymer nanoparticle that is dynamically stable, prevents the leakage of contained ICG and the resulting discoloration, and has a high molar absorbance coefficient. The particle contains a hydrophilic dye having a sulfonate group and a hydrophobic polymer, and the particle further contains at least one of a lipid having a positively charged region, a nicotinic acid derivative and a thiamine derivative.

Particle and contrast agent having the particle

There is provided a fastener which can be brought into firm engagement with a mounting hole without being affected by a change in thickness of a member in which the mounting hole is provided or a larger or smaller inside diameter of the mounting hole. This fastenerincludes a pin, a metal plate spring memberand a grommet. The plate spring memberhas a base portionand a pair of elastic engagement pieceswhich are opened in their free state and which are closed when pressed against their elastic restoring force. The elastic engagement pieceshave engagement shoulder portionswhich are brought into engagement with the mounting hole, and distal ends thereof are folded to constitute folded portions. The folded portionsare offset widthwise from each other, and engagement projecting piecesare formed on inner sides thereof. Abutment piecesare formed on the folded portionsin positions lying closer to the base portionwith which a distal end portionof the pinis brought into abutment to impart a driving force thereto. Abutment portionsare formed on the abutment pieceswhich convert the driving force applied along an inserting direction of the pininto a driving force applied widthwise outwards of the abutment pieces

Fastener

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an assembling structure including: a mounting member having a mounting seat; and a clip having a head and a leg. The head includes: a neck portion; and first and second flanges outwardly protrudes therefrom to sandwich the mounting seat therebetween, wherein the mounting seat includes: a hole having a diameter larger than that of the neck portion; a groove formed to communicate the hole with outside the mounting seat; and a projection protruding from a peripheral edge of the hole, wherein the second flange includes: an inner face radially-outwardly extending therefrom to gradually come close to the first flange; a top portion; and an outer face further extending to gradually separate from the first flange, and wherein the inner face abuts the projection in an assembled state.

Assembling structure of clip and mounting member

A compound represented by Formula (1) below, where n is 2 or 3; a is an integer of 1 to 4 and b is an integer of 3 and 5 to 10, or a is 5 and b is an integer of 1 to 10; Rto Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom or a sulfonate that is any one of sodium sulfonate, potassium sulfonate, ammonium sulfonate, triethylammonium sulfonate, pyridinium sulfonate, lysine sulfonate, and arginine sulfonate; and Rto Reach independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C3 alkyl group.

Compound, probe containing the novel compound, and fluorescence-imaging contrast agent containing the novel compound or the probe

Provided is a cell chip for exposing to a portion of each of cells microdroplets dispensed with an inkjet printer or the like in a screening test of the effect of a substance on cells by using an apparatus for introducing the substance into cells including: a cell-immobilizing support including a substrate having through-holes penetrating from one side to the other side of the substrate and including cells immobilized in the through-holes so as to block up the through-holes; a liquid phase region present in contact with one side of the support and including a medium of the cells; and a mechanism present so as to face the other side of the support and imparting a microdroplet to a portion of each of the cells exposed in the openings on the other side.

Apparatus for introducing substance into cells

There is provided a fastener which can be fixed in a mounting hole in an ensured fashion and which can be removed from the mounting hole in an easy and ensured fashion. This fastenerincludes a main bodywhich is fixed in a mounting hole and a pin member for releasing the engagement of the main bodywith the mounting hole. The main bodyhas a base portionand a leg portion, a pair of elastic engagement piecesare provided on the leg portion, and distal end portionsof the elastic engagement piecesare extended towards an insertion openingin the pin member. The pin memberhas a head portionand an insertion portion, and a pressing surfaceis provided on the insertion portionfor pressing the distal end portionsso as to deflect the pair of elastic engagement piecesinwards to such an extent that the elastic engagement pieces are not brought into engagement with the mounting hole when the pin memberis pushed in a predetermined distance. A pin-side engagement portion and a main-body-side engagement portion are provided between the pin memberand the base portionof the main bodyfor holding the pin memberin a predetermined pushed-in position when the pin memberis inserted into the base portion

According to one embodiment, a functional component mounting structure includes: a functional component having: a base body; a functional portion formed on a front surface of the base body; and a latching portion extending from a back surface of the base body; a component receiver having: a base portion having an opening into which the latching portion is inserted from a front surface side to a back surface side thereof; and a latch receiving portion on which the latching portion is latched; and a cover member pivotally fitted to the component receiver to open and close the opening.

Mounting structure for functional component

A fastening device for fixing a member to be fixed to a fixing member through a screw, the fastening device includes: a top plate portion; and a pair of leg piece portions respectively suspended from the two side edges of the top plate portion, wherein the top plate portion includes two pairs of first elastic securing pieces disposed opposed to each other for defining a first screw hole formed in the screw, and two pairs of regulating pieces respectively interposed between the first elastic securing pieces for defining a first guide hole having a diameter larger than the first screw hole.

Fastening device

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fastener including: a fastener body including: a cylindrical portion having an insertion hole formed therethrough; and a locking portion protruding outward from the cylindrical portion; and an unlocking member inserted into the insertion hole, wherein the locking portion is inserted into an attachment hole of an attachment object from a front side thereof, and exposed from a rear side of the attachment hole, wherein the locking portion has an elastic claw locked to an edge of the attachment hole at the rear side, wherein the elastic claw is elastically reducible in diameter, wherein the unlocking member is movable in a position rearward of the elastic claw, and wherein the locking portion is reduced in diameter when the unlocking member is pushed.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kouichi Kato