Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Steel Corporation

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Manabu Wada

Koichi Sato

Masaaki Mizumura

Shinya Tanaka

Tomoyuki Iwanaga

Motoya Takai

Yukihisa Kuriyama

Noboru Hasegawa

Hiroki Uchida

Shigeaki Ono

Yasuhiro Nakahara

Takaaki Fukushi

Akihiro Kushida

Yasushi Suzuki

Yuji Ota

An electric resistance welded steel pipe for a torsion beam, in which a chemical composition of a base metal portion contains, in terms of % by mass, 0.05 to 0.30% of C, 0.03 to 1.20% of Si, 0.30 to 2.50% of Mn, 0.010 to 0.200% of Ti, 0.005 to 0.500% of Al, 0.010 to 0.040% of Nb, and 0.0005 to 0.0050 % of B, the balance containing Fe and impurities, wherein: V, defined by the following Formula (i), is from 2 to 150, a mass ratio Ti/N is 3.4 or more, a microstructure of a wall thickness central portion in an L cross section at a base metal 1800 position is a tempered martensite, an average aspect ratio of prior &#x3b3; grains in the tempered martensite is 2.0 or less, and a tensile strength in the pipe axis direction is from 750 to 980 MPa:log=2.94&#x2212;0.75&#x3b2;&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula (i)&#x3b2;=2.70.40.450.82&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula (ii).

Electric resistance welded steel pipe for torsion beam

An automotive component manufacturing method includes a molding process of pressing a portion of a hollow tube formed from a metal material, or a composite material including a metal and a resin, so as to deform the portion of the hollow tube, from a tube outer side toward a tube inner side, to beyond an axial center of the hollow tube, and mold the portion of the hollow tube into a deformed section deformed with a concave profile; and a deformation process of deforming a location having a high level of residual stress in a closed cross-section configured by the deformed section so as to deform the location out-of-plane.

Automotive component manufacturing method and automotive component

An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, as a threshold value to which a signal intensity value corresponding to a shadow region is compared, a value different from a threshold value to which a signal intensity value corresponding to a region other than the shadow region is compared.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

An inspection apparatus includes: a first scanning member scanning an object by reciprocating illumination light in a main scanning direction; a second scanning member scanning the object at a constant speed in a sub-scanning direction; a scanning control unit allowing the first and second scanning members to perform 2D scans of the object with the illumination light in first and second fields within a data acquisition area; and a data acquisition unit acquiring data based on the illumination light returned from the first and second fields. The scanning control unit sets the second field by shifting the first field by a predetermined amount in the sub-scanning direction, the predetermined amount determined such that the closer to the scanning center in the main scanning direction within the data acquisition area, the more regular the interval between the first and second fields in the sub-scanning direction.

Inspection apparatus, method for controlling inspection apparatus, and program

An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit and a display control unit. The generation unit generates a subtraction image using a first region and a second region, the first region being a portion of a first fundus image acquired by performing autofluorescence imaging on a fundus of an eye to be inspected, the second region being a portion of a second fundus image acquired by performing autofluorescence imaging on the fundus of the eye to be inspected at a time different from that of the first fundus image and being at a position corresponding to the first region. The display control unit causes a display unit to display an image generated by superimposing information regarding the subtraction image at a position corresponding to the first and second regions on a fundus image acquired by performing autofluorescence imaging on the fundus.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

In pattern matching for detecting a positional difference between tomographic images of an eye to be examined, a target within the eye to be examined which causes a reduction in the similarity even though there is no positional difference, is selectively excluded.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

In order to detect a position alignment state between an apparatus and an eye to be inspected in a working distance direction with high precision at a high speed in the apparatus side, an ophthalmologic apparatus is disclosed. The position alignment state between the eye to be inspected and the apparatus in the working distance direction is detected by evaluating a contrast of an index image that is obtained as a reflection image of an index projected onto an anterior ocular segment, and a contrast of the index image is evaluated using a ratio or a difference between pixel numbers of the index image in at least two or more gray scale values.

Ophthalmologic apparatus and method thereof

An optical coherence tomographic imaging apparatus includes a movement amount acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of rotation of a subject's eye based on a plurality of images of the subject's eye acquired at different times, and a control unit configured to control a scanning unit to correct, based on the acquired amount of rotation, a scanning position between a scan and a next scan performed by the scanning unit.

Optical coherence tomographic imaging apparatus and method of controlling the same

A structural hydroformed joint member has projecting portions () formed integrally on an outer peripheral face of a hollow main tube part () by hydroforming an element tube with an outside diameter D. In this case, both intersecting planes (), which are projecting planes of end faces () of the projecting portions () toward the main tube part (), share a plane perpendicular to the main axis () of the main tube part () only in portions () of the intersecting planes (). At that time, by setting areas of the portions () to 30% or more and 90% or less relative to an area of each of the intersecting planes (), a projecting height of each of the projecting portions () is 0.3D or higher for functioning as a joint.

Structural member

A image processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select either first color tone conversion processing or second color tone conversion processing having a ratio of red wavelength component set lower than either blue wavelength or green wavelength components with respect to the first color tone conversion processing, and a color tone conversion unit configured to convert a color of a fundus image by the selected color tone conversion processing.

Image processing apparatus for fundus image, image processing method for fundus image, and program medium

A fundus image is displayed, which enables accurate positioning and focusing to be easily performed with respect to an eye to be examined even on a small display unit by selecting a display magnification. At a first display magnification, an opening portion 'm' of a mask specifying a predetermined angle of field of the fundus is displayed with no part missed in both of horizontal and vertical directions of a display unit. At a second display magnification, the opening 'm' of the mask is displayed with no part missed in the horizontal direction in the display area of the display unitand with some part missed in the vertical direction. Thus, the second display magnification is used to observe an essential part when the fundus is accurately observed.

Fundus imaging apparatus and method therefor

An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes a light source configured to emit photographing light for illuminating a subject's eye through an illumination optical system, a changing unit configured to change a light emission amount of the light source, a selecting unit configured to select at least one of a plurality of photographing modes for photographing the subject's eye, a storage unit configured to store the changed light emission amount by the changing unit as a changed value during the photography in the photographing mode selected by the selecting unit, and a setting unit configured to set a light emission amount at a start of the photography to a light emission amount which is set beforehand as an initial state of the light source or to the changed value according to the plurality of photographing modes.

Ophthalmologic photographing apparatus, and its photographing method

An ophthalmologic apparatus images a cross-section of the cornea of the eye to be examined based on return light from the eye illuminated with measurement light, measures a corneal thickness from a cornea cross-sectional image of the imaged eye, and corrects the corneal thickness based on the position of the cornea cross-sectional image on an imaging plane.

Ophthalmologic apparatus having corneal thickness correction

A structural hydroformed joint member has projecting portions () formed integrally on an outer peripheral face of a hollow main tube part () by hydroforming an element tube with an outside diameter D. In this case, both intersecting planes (), which are projecting planes of end faces () of the projecting portions () toward the main tube part (), share a plane perpendicular to the main axis () of the main tube part () only in portions () of the intersecting planes (). At that time, by setting areas of the portions () to 30% or more and 90% or less relative to an area of each of the intersecting planes (), a projecting height of each of the projecting portions () is 0.3 D or higher for functioning as a joint.

A hydroforming apparatus and working method able to simply find a load path are proposed, which system and method use a mold in which contact sensors able to judge contact with a metal tube inside the mold are mounted at least at two different positions in the tube axial direction, perform a first step of axially pushing tube ends in a state with the internal pressure held at a constant value and stopping the progress of the axial pushing action when judging that among the contact sensors not yet in contact mounted at positions closest to the tube ends detect contact with the metal tube, next perform a second step of raising only the internal pressure while leaving the positions of the tube ends fixed and stopping the increase in the internal pressure when the contact sensor not yet in contact judges contact, next perform a third step of lowering the internal pressure to the value before raising it while leaving the positions of the tube ends fixed, and repeat said first step to third step until all of said contact sensors judge contact so as to obtain a hydroformed part.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Manabu Wada