Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kao Corporation

Olympus Corporation

Doryokuro Kakunenryo Kaihatsu Jigyodan

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Rikagaku Kenkyusho

Masami Shimizu

Hiroshi Aizawa

Masanori Uchidoi

Nobuaki Date

Nobuyuki Suzuki

Masayoshi Yamamichi

Yukio Iura

Tokuichi Tsunekawa

Minoru Kase

Yoshiyuki Takishima

Manabu Sato

Nobuaki Sakurada

Teiji Hashimoto

Shinichi Matsuyama

Kunio Watanabe

Jun Kohori

Takaaki Watanabe

Naoto Yamada

Shigeyasu Kishioka

Junji Omi

Yoki Onishi

Tadashi Ito

Susumu Kozuki

Hiroshi Furukawa

Nobuo Tezuka

Yasushi Yamada

Ryoichi Yoshikawa

Mutsuhide Matsuda

Satoshi Takekoshi

Naoki Hosoya

Toshiteru Komatsu

Masao Aoyagi

Hiroyuki Kuroda

Masakatsu Sugiura

Kazunobu Urushibara

Shinji Yamamoto

Takao Yamaguchi

Yoshiaki Watanabe

Fumio Ito

Yukio Mashimo

Tomonori Iwashita

Yoichi Tosaka

Masao Shimizu

Kazuo Banju

Akio Sunouchi

Yoshikazu Ogura

Nobuaki Akui

Masaharu Eguchi

Hiroyashu Murakami

Eiichi Hoshino

Hiroshi Tsuyuki

Masahiro Hagihara

Shigeo Nakashima

Yukiteru Sugiyama

Hideaki Miyakawa

Yukitaka Tanaka

Nobuyoshi Yazawa

Hitoshi Takaya

Kazunobu Urushihara

Masaki Iwasaki

Eizo Maruyama

Jun Saito

Ichiro Ikari

Fuminori Tanahashi

Naoto Kudo

Yutaka Fujiwara

Kazuhiro Onozuka

Daisuke Shiiba

Tomomi Nakajima

Masaru Sakata

Norihiko Satake

Shohei Isomura

Masaki Takayama

Shinichiro Takashima

Ryohei Nakane

Tomohiro Fukita

Tomoko Fukunaga

Hisao Ohmura

Yasumasa Ohki

Masanori Komikado

Takao Hibi

Keiya Murayama

Kojirou Hashizume

Sakae Hokkanji

Nebuaki Date

Toshihiko Suzuta

Kouji Mine

A turn fixing mechanism portion of an endoscope apparatus includes: a turning portion connected to a turning unit turnably disposed; a fixed portion configured to turnably support the turning portion; an elastic member interposed between the turning portion and the fixed portion; and a holding member configured to fix a turned position of the turning unit by pressing the turning portion toward a side of the fixed portion to compress the elastic member in a turning axis direction to generate a predetermined frictional force.

Turn fixing mechanism portion of endoscope apparatus and endoscope apparatus

An operation switch includes a concave portion in which an inner peripheral surface is constituted by a first inclined surface that is reduced in diameter toward a bottom portion from an external surface of a frame and a cylindrical portion that is formed in a pressing type operation button mounted on the concave portion and in which an outer peripheral surface is constituted by a second inclined surface that has a gradient larger than a gradient of the first inclined surface and faces the inner peripheral surface of the concave portion.

Operation switch and endoscope

A portable endoscope includes: an operation portion; a video display device provided with a display portion and a device body; and a suction valve or a gas feeding adapter including a tube connecting portion provided on a fluid pipe sleeve. The body attaching portion of the device body is provided at a predetermined position positionally displaced from a central part of the device body; and the tube connecting portion is arranged along a back face of the device body and arranged in a display portion projection range projecting outward from the operation portion left side face viewed from the video display screen side.

Portable endoscope having video display device offset relative to longitudinal axis of operation portion

To provide a packaged high-catechin beverage in which a low-caffeine green tea extract is added. A packaged beverage containing from 0.03 to 1.0 wt % of non-polymer catechins, in which a low-caffeine green tea extract obtained by a method of brining a green tea extract into contact with a 91/9 to 97/3 by weight mixture of an organic solvent and water, activated carbon, and acid clay or activated clay is added.

Package drink

Provided is a process for preparing an immobilized enzyme, which comprises the steps of immobilizing an enzyme used for decomposing oil & fat on a carrier, by adsorption, without drying, bringing the immobilized enzyme into contact with a fatty acid triglyceride or fatty acid partial glyceride, or mixtures thereof, and adjusting the moisture content of the enzyme to 5% to 50% by weight based on the weight of the carrier, wherein the enzyme is used for esterification.

Process for preparing an immobilized enzyme

An image capturing apparatus represented by digital camerais capable of accessing at least two storage media. Each time one of the storage media becomes full, the image capturing apparatus switches the image data recording destination to the other storage medium. While one of the storage media is serving as the image data recording destination, image data in the other storage medium is transferred to a host unit by communication.

Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method

An endoscope imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit in which an imaging optical unit that contains at least one optical lens in a rigid member the one end side of which is airtightly sealed is airtightly joined to an imaging element unit that contains at least one imaging element in a rigid member the one end side of which is airtightly sealed through a tubular member to which a bellows portion having an elastic force is formed.

Endoscope imaging apparatus

In a circumstance in which light is emitted from many electronic flashes, e.g., a press conference hall or a wedding hall, light emission from other electronic flashes overlaps preliminary light emission performed before main light emission. This decreases the photometry accuracy with respect to preliminary light emission and makes it difficult to perform proper flash exposure. In a camera system designed to perform preliminary light emission before main light emission, photometry is performed a plurality of number of times upon preliminary light emission, and flash exposure is performed by suppressing photometric values which may have been influenced by light emission as disturbance other than the preliminary light emission.

Camera and control method therefor

An operating mechanism for a medical device comprises a photo-interrupter that can designate specified functional operations, an air-tight unit that can accommodate this photo-interrupter air-tightly, a moving member which is disposed inside the air-tight unit, and which moves between a position in which the photo-interrupter designates an operation and a position in which the photo-interrupter does not designate an operation, a coil spring which directly or indirectly biases the moving member to the position in which no operation is designated, an operating member which is disposed on the outside of the air-tight unit, and which can be operated by an operator, and a pair of magnets which transmit a magnetic force that moves the moving member into the position in which an operation is designated against the elastic force of the coil spring in accordance with the operation of the operating member.

Operating mechanism for medical device

In an image processing method for processing complex data including at least RAW data, first simulation image data of which data amount is less than the RAW data, and a first processing condition for the RAW data, when a second processing condition for the RAW data is set, second simulation image data is generated by reflecting the second processing condition on the RAW data and then reducing its data amount, and the complex data is updated with the second processing condition and the second simulation image data.

Image processing method and apparatus, and image sensing apparatus

Provided is a preparation process of diglycerides which comprises reacting a fatty acid or lower alkyl ester thereof with glycerin in the presence of an immobilized partial glyceride lipase while removing water, which is generated upon reaction, out of the system. The reaction is preferably terminated when the acid value (AV) of the reaction mixture satisfies the following range: 50R-60&#x3e;AV&#x3e;70R-150 (with the proviso that AV&#x3e;0). The present process makes it possible to efficiently prepare a high purity of diglycerides without impairing lipase activity even under reduced pressure. The present process is effective without being influenced by variations in reaction conditions such as fatty acid/glycerin ratio, reaction temperature or enzyme concentration. Particularly, even when the fatty acid/glycerin ratio is high, a high purity of diglycerides can be produced at a high reaction yield.

Process for the production of diglycerides

An imaging system includes: an optical-system holding member for holding an optical system to form an optical image of a subject; an imaging-device holding member for holding an imaging device to obtain the optical image formed by the optical system; a case for hermetically enclosing the optical-system holding member and the imaging-device holding member; a hermetic connector for hermetically sealing the case, the hermetic connector being electrically connected to the imaging device; a power generator for generating a driving force to move either of the optical-system holding member and the imaging-device holding member; and a driving-force transfer member for connecting the power generator and either the optical-system holding member or the imaging-device holding member to transfer the driving force of the power generator to either the optical-system holding member or the imaging-device holding member.

Hermetically sealed imaging system for medical applications

A lipolytic enzyme such as lipase is adsorbed on a porous anion-exchange resin carrier to obtain an immobilized enzyme without drying. The un-dried immobilized enzyme is contacted with a fat or oil for a time which may be about 2 hours to about 24 hours to stabilize the immobilized enzyme, and the immobilized enzyme is recovered from the fat or oil. The recovered immobilized enzyme is then used for esterifying or hydrolyzing a substrate. Water content of the un-dried immobilized enzyme may be 20% or more be weight such as 20-60%. Prior to immobilization, the resin carrier may be treated with a lypophylic aliphatic acid which preferably has 8 to 18 carbons.

Esterification or hydrolysis with substrate treated un-dried immobilized lipolytic enzyme

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Masami Shimizu