Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (pty) Limited

Sony Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Horiba, Ltd.

Ngr Limited

Tasmit, Inc.

Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Limited

Makoto Kato

Kazuhisa Yamamoto

Kiminori Mizuuchi

Yasuo Kitaoka

Shinichiro Miyaoka

Toshihiro Furuya

Yoshiaki Komma

Kenichi Nishiuchi

Seiji Nishino

Tetsuo Yokoyama

Makoto Nohmi

Hiroaki Yamamoto

Shin-ichi Kadowaki

Kenichi Kasazumi

Tetsuo Saimi

Tomoaki Uno

Yuri Takizawa

Fuminobu Komura

Koichi Homma

Fuminori Fujii

Masahiko Hashimoto

Hisashi Hagiwara

Hidehiko Karasaki

Yoshinao Tannaka

Toyohisa Morita

Hisashi Kinoshita

Kaoru Matsuda

Kazuhide Isaji

Isao Satoh

Satoshi Uchida

Yuichiro Yamazaki

Takao Suzuki

Takashi Sonoda

Juntaro Arima

Katsuhiko Abe

Yoshikazu Hori

Shimbu Yamagata

Naoto Tochitani

Yoshinori Hyakutake

Ikunori Kobayashi

Kazuhiro Sunagawa

Yoshifumi Masuda

Hitoi Ono

Yukihiro Tanaka

Sumio Sasaki

Hiroyuki Okawara

Kaoru Momose

Masahide Umaya

Atsushi Fukui

Hidenori Wada

Shunji Ohara

Yuka Yamada

Kiyoshi Morimoto

Kazuo Momoo

Sadao Mizuno

Shinichi Kadowaki

Takanori Shibata

Kunihiko Sato

Masami Ito

Kanji Nishii

Hiroyuki Hasebe

Masahiro Sekino

Hiroshi Kutsumi

Haruo Takeda

Toshio Moriya

Sachio Sasaki

Michitaka Kosaka

Nobuaki Furuya

Akira Kagami

Yoshinobu Watanabe

Asako Satoh

Masahiko Yoshiki

Hisanao Sato

Shin Araki

Jun Momma

Naoyuki Fujimoto

Masayuki Oguchi

Kazufumi Kubota

Masahiko Kadokura

Minoru Kimura

Masashi Fujiwara

Kimikatsu Sato

Yoshihiro Okino

Hideo Noyama

Kazuya Hisaki

Toshiyuki Moritsu

Nobuo Kotatsu

Fumihiro Sogawa

Yoji Matsuoka

Isao Sato

Koichi Saito

Tadahiro Teraoka

Yoshinao Tan-naka

Shinobu Otsuka

Takao Seki

Keiichi Fujikawa

Fumiko Shiojiri

Susumu Takashima

Kenishi Kasazumi

Yoshikazu Hirayama

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for analyzing the energy of backscattered electrons generated from a specimen. The apparatus includes: an electron beam source () for generating a primary electron beam; an electron optical system () configured to direct the primary electron beam to a specimen while focusing and deflecting the primary electron beam; and an energy analyzing system configured to detect an energy spectrum of backscattered electrons emitted from the specimen. The energy analyzing system includes: a Wien filter () configured to disperse the backscattered electrons; a detector () configured to measure the energy spectrum of the backscattered electrons dispersed by the Wien filter (); and an operation controller () configured to change an intensity of a quadrupole field of the Wien filter (), while moving a detecting position of the detector () for the backscattered electrons in synchronization with the change in the intensity of the quadrupole field.

Apparatus and method for measuring energy spectrum of backscattered electrons

A scanning electron microscope includes: a retarding power source configured to apply a retarding voltage to a specimen; a combined objective lens configured to focus the primary beam on a surface of the specimen; an electrostatic deflection system configured to deflect the primary beam to direct the primary beam to each point in a field of view on the surface of the specimen; a first scintillation detector having a first scintillator configured to emit light upon incidence of secondary electrons which have been emitted from the specimen; a Wien filter configured to deflect the secondary electrons in one direction without deflecting the primary beam; and a second scintillation detector having a second scintillator configured to detect the secondary electrons deflected by the Wien filter. The second scintillator has a distal end located away from the axis of the primary beam.

Secondary particle detection system of scanning electron microscope

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section, which drives a probe that transmits an ultrasonic wave toward a subject; a receiving section, which receives an ultrasonic echo, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject, through the probe, thereby generating a received signal; a property value calculating section for calculating property values of the subject based on the received signal over a period of time; a stability estimating section for sequentially estimating the degrees of stability of the property values that have been calculated over the period of time; and a presenting section for presenting the degrees of stability thereon.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a speed accelerating step (S) of increasing a revolution number by driving to rotate a compressing portion and a turbine portion by a motor by way of a speed reducing portion, a load detecting step (S) of detecting a load applied to the speed reducing portion by a load detecting portion, and a bypass flow rate controlling step (S) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when an absolute value of the detected load is equal to or smaller than an absolute value of a predetermined value and reducing the flow rate of the bypassed working fluid when equal to or larger than the absolute value of the predetermined value.

Method of controlling turbine equipment and turbine equipment

To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a temperature elevating step (S) of elevating a temperature of a working fluid flowing to the turbine portion, a flow rate increasing step (S) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when a temperature of the working fluid flowing to the turbine portion is elevated by a heat source portion, and a flow rate reducing step (S) of reducing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid after an elapse of a predetermined time period after increasing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid.

This invention prevents leakage of an internal liquid and breakage of a reference electrode resulting from volume expansion of the internal liquid due to the congelation of the internal liquid, and comprises a vessel that forms a sealed space, an internal liquid that is contained in the vessel, an internal electrode that is immersed in the internal liquid, an ion conduction part that is arranged on a wall of the vessel and that electrically connects the internal liquid and a measurement sample, and a volume expansion absorption mechanismat least a part of which is immersed in the internal liquid and that absorbs volume expansion of the internal liquid due to congelation of the internal liquid.

Reference electrode and ion concentration measurement device

Disclosed herein is an electronic device connected to a camera main body and having an actuator, the electronic device including: a detection terminal adapted to come into contact with a terminal used by the camera main body to detect the connection to the electronic device when the electronic device is connected to the camera main body; a detection section adapted to detect the voltage of the detection terminal; a connection detection section adapted to detect the connection status to the camera main body based on the change in the voltage detected by the detection section; and a control section adapted to control the operation of the actuator based on the connection or disconnection to or from the camera main body detected by the connection detection section.

Electronic device, connection detection method and connection detection system

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a structure for adjusting the positional relationship between an ultrasonic transducer and a blood vessel for measuring an elasticity characteristic. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe including a transducer for transmitting an ultrasonic wave and receiving the ultrasonic wave reflected by a tissue of a biological body; and a driving device for physically moving the transducer. For measuring the elasticity characteristic of the blood vessel, the driving device moves the transducer based on a control signal to change at least one of a direction and a position at which the ultrasonic wave is to be transmitted. A determination section specifies a position of the transducer at which the reflection intensity is maximum based on intensity information representing an intensity of the reflected wave. A calculation section calculates the elasticity characteristic of the blood vessel at the specified position.

Ultrasonic diagnosis device and ultrasonic probe for use in ultrasonic diagnosis device

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a positional displacement calculating section for calculating the magnitudes of positional displacements at multiple measuring points within a body tissue; a thickness variation calculating section for calculating thicknesses or thickness variations, each measured between two arbitrary points within the tissue set with respect to the measuring points, based on the magnitudes of positional displacements; and a maximum/minimum value calculating section for finding the maximum and minimum thicknesses or thickness variations during a maximum value finding period and a minimum value finding period. At least one of the greatest thickness difference, strain and elastic property is calculated based on a difference between the maximum and minimum thicknesses or thickness variations.

Ultrasonograph and ultrasonograph control method

The present invention aims at providing an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of displaying a stable spatial distribution of elastic characteristics for each heart beat without depending on the measurement of blood pressure and the accuracy or stability of such measurement, where an ultrasonic wave transmitted from an ultrasonic probeand reflected by biomedical tissue is input to a computing sectionby way of a receiving sectiona delay time control section, phase detection sectionand filter section. In accordance with the phase detection signal acquired from the phase detection sectionthe computing sectioncomputes a relative elastic characteristic which is an elastic characteristic normalized by an elastic characteristic of an arbitrary reference area in the biomedical tissue. A distribution of relative elastic characteristics computed by the computing section is displayed on a display section

A health care system includes a sampling device for sampling body fluid of a test subject, an analysis device for analyzing the sampled body fluid, and a transmission device for transmitting analytical data obtained from the analysis to a diagnosis unit, where the diagnosis unit is for diagnosing a health status of the test subject from the transmitted analytical data. Moreover, the system includes a server for storing and accumulating analytical data and/or diagnostic results, and a health-care-information display device for receiving and displaying diagnostic results.

Health management system and health management method

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitting section for driving an ultrasonic probe sending out an ultrasonic transmitted wave toward a body tissue of an organism; a receiving section for receiving an ultrasonic reflected wave, produced by getting the transmitted wave reflected by the body tissue, through the probe; a phase detecting section for detecting the phase of the reflected wave; and a computing section for calculating the magnitudes of positional displacement at multiple measuring points on the body tissue based on a signal obtained by the detecting section and calculating the greatest thickness difference between two of the measuring points and/or an elastic property based on the magnitudes of positional displacement. The computing section calculates the maximum and minimum thicknesses or thickness variations between the two points based on the magnitudes of positional displacement at the two points during a part of one cardiac cycle, and calculates the greatest thickness difference and/or elastic property as the difference between the maximum and minimum values.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and method for controlling the same

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitting section for driving a probe transmitting an ultrasonic wave to a subject; a receiving section for amplifying a reflected echo, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected by a tissue and received at the probe, to generate a received signal; an image processing section for generating a tomographic image of the subject based on the signal; a region setting section for setting an arbitrary range of the tomographic image as a region of interest; a motion information gathering section for getting the motion information of the subject at measuring points on the subject based on the signal; a property value calculating section for calculating the property values of target tissues of the subject, specified by the measuring points, by reference to the motion information; and a distribution plotting section, which gets the property measured values and plots a frequency distribution of the property values based on the property values of the target tissues located within the region of interest set by the setting section.

After forming domain inverted layersin an LiTaOsubstrate, an optical waveguide is formed. By performing low-temperature annealing for the optical wavelength conversion element thus formed, a stable proton exchange layeris formed, where an increase in refractive index generated during high-temperature annealing is lowered, thereby providing a stable optical wavelength conversion element. Thus, the phase-matched wavelength becomes constant, and variation in harmonic wave output is eliminated. Consequently, with respect to an optical wavelength conversion element utilizing a non-linear optical effect, a highly reliable element is provided.

Optical device, laser beam source, laser apparatus and method of producing optical device

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Makoto Kato