Olympus Corporation

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Elpida Memory, Inc.

Masayoshi Saito

Kenichi Kusaka

Eiji Yokoi

Takeshi Ito

Masayuki Kimura

Shuichi Sato

Tomoichi Watanabe

Mikio Komori

Ryuji Saito

Shinichi Iwata

Hidenori Muramoto

Toshiki Kudo

Shuhei Horigome

Noriyuki Sugizaki

Kazuyu Adachi

A light source device includes a first light source, a second light source, and a processor. The processor controls, based on spectrum setting information, an emitted light amount of the first light source and an emitted light amount of the second light source so that the emitted light amount of the first light source becomes larger than the emitted light amount of the second light source. The observation object includes a region of interest, a merkmal, and a peripheral portion. The spectrum setting information is set based on a merkmal observed ratio that is a ratio between a spectral reflectance in the merkmal and a spectral reflectance in the peripheral portion. A degree of disassociation of the merkmal observed ratio in the first wavelength region from 1 is greater than a degree of disassociation of the merkmal observed ratio in the second wavelength region from 1.

Light source device, endoscope system, and control method

A method for producing a vapor generation unit, which is for generating a vapor by heating a liquid and is to be used in a non-combustible flavor inhaler, includes: a support feeding step of feeding a wick support to a production line for the vapor generation unit; a wick feeding step of, after the support feeding step, feeding a wick toward the wick support and disposing the same on the wick support; a holder feeding step of, after the wick feeding step, feeding a wick holder toward the wick support and assembling the same on the wick support; and a heater feeding step of, after the holder feeding step, feeding a heater toward the wick holder and assembling the same on the wick support.

Method for producing vapor generation unit for non-combustible flavor inhaler

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An immersion microscope objective formed of thirteen or fewer lens elements includes, in order from the object side, first and second lens groups of positive refractive power, a third lens group, a fourth lens group having negative refractive power with its image-side surface being concave, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power with its object-side surface being concave. The first lens group includes, in order from the object side, a lens component that consists of a lens element of positive refractive power (when computed as being in air) and a meniscus lens element having its concave surface on the object side. Various conditions are satisfied to ensure that images of fluorescence, obtained when the immersion microscope objective is used in a laser scanning microscope that employs multiphoton excitation to observe a specimen, are bright and of high resolution. Various laser scanning microscopes are also disclosed.

Laser scanning microscope system

Immersion microscope objective and laser scanning microscope system using same

A photomask reticle for use in projection exposure to form a resist pattern on a workable film formed over a semiconductor substrate, includes a first area in which a light shield is formed, a second area formed around said first area, a third area formed around said second area; and a fourth area formed around said third area, the areas being formed over a substrate, a relationship between transmissivities of said areas being second area transmissivity&#x3e;fourth area transmissivity&#x3e;third area transmissivity&#x3e;first area transmissivity.

Photomask reticle for use in projection exposure, and manufacturing methods therefor

There is provided a semiconductor device including a capacitorless RAM. The semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor (FET) having a floating body structure. FET includes a channel body region arranged in a first region comprising a first semiconductor (e.g., p-SiGe) having a given band gap and a second region comprising a second semiconductor (e.g., n-Si) having a larger band gap than the first semiconductor.

Semiconductor device including capacitorless RAM

A changing apparatus comprises first and second rotating disks arranged at the terminal end portion of a first transportation path which extends form a cigarette manufacturing apparatus and transports manufactured double cigarettes, pinch grooves formed individually on parts of the respective peripheral surfaces of the first and second rotating disks, and a push groove formed on the remaining portion of the first rotating disk. As the first and second rotating disks rotate, the pinch grooves accelerate a leading double cigarette on the first transportation path in a manner such that they cyclically face each other to hold the double cigarette between them. The push groove forces out the accelerated double cigarette in the transportation direction of a second transportation path in a filter attachment.

Apparatus for changing the direction of transportation of rod members

In an apparatus for detecting micro-holes of a cigarette having a filtered section, cigarettes are successively carried to a support section which is rotated and each of the cigarettes is supported between pads 14a and 14b. The supported cigarette is moved to a pre-pressuring stage in which one end face of the cigarette is closed and a pre-pressure is applied to other end face of the cigarette from a pre-pressure source. Therefore, the cigarette is reached to a measuring stage in which a measuring pressure is applied to the other end face of the cigarette so that air flows through micro-holes of the filter section and a reduced pressure is appeared in the one end of the cigarette. The measuring and reduces pressures are detected by pressure transducers and electrical signals from the transducers are proceed so that dilution value of the cigarette is calculated.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masayoshi Saito