Hitachi, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Hitachi-lg Data Storage, Inc.

Tdk Corporation

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.

Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Inc.

Kaneko Sangyo Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.

Masayuki Kobayashi

Koji Harada

Masayuki Sugasawa

Toshiaki Mabuchi

Noriaki Yamanaka

Toru Ishikawa

Yoshiro Okazaki

Kouji Harada

Yoshiyuki Kumada

Michihiro Sugahara

Harumichi Hino

Kyo Takagi

Hirokazu Hirayama

Yasuhiro Takemoto

Yoshiyuki Tsuchida

Ryo Yoshitake

Naoko Noto

Shunichiro Miyoshi

Yusuke Nakamura

Noriyuki Fukushima

Masahiro Watanabe

Hitoshi Arai

Tomoto Kawamura

Naoki Kobayashi

Tomomi Okamoto

Shinji Fujita

Shinji Yamazaki

Keiichi Matsuzawa

Akinobu Watanabe

Hiroatsu Tokuda

Chiyo Ohno

Toshihiro Kato

Takakiyo Yasukawa

Kazuo Ojima

Kazuyoshi Hanabusa

Tatsuo Hariyama

Yuki Ejiri

Takeshi Kamono

Masahide Ohnishi

Keiichi Uraki

Hideo Suenaga

Kotaro Oishi

Takehiro Kimura

Kayuri Kimura

Takuya Murashige

Keisuke Tsurimoto

Shimpei Usui

Hiroyuki Mochizuki

Masaru Kawai

Motoshi Horita

Cong Chen

Nobuyoshi Toda

Kazuomi Abe

The problem to be solved by the invention is to accurately detect a distant object while preventing an increase in cost. An object recognition device includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire a plurality of thermal images having an object captured therein; a stereo matching unit configured to perform stereo matching using the plurality of thermal images and calculate a distance to the object; a specific temperature region extracting unit configured to extract a specific temperature region from the thermal images; and an area ratio estimating unit configured to estimate, based on the distance to the object calculated by the stereo matching unit, a ratio of an area of the object included in a pixel for the specific temperature region.

Object recognition device and object recognition method

A motive-power transmitting mechanism includes: an elongated driving member that passes through a joint portion that can be flexed or bent and connects an end effector and a motive-power generating portion, and that transmits a motive power generated by the motive-power generating portion to the end effector; and a biasing member that expands/contracts between the driving member and a stationary member disposed in an area surrounding the driving member to bias the driving member, wherein the driving member generates a component force in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the driving member on a basis of a biasing force of the biasing member, and the component force increases in a same direction as a direction of the motive power with an increase in a displacement amount of the driving member in a direction along the longitudinal axis in association with flexing or bending of the joint portion.

Motive-power transmitting mechanism and treatment tool

A force transmission mechanism includes a force adjuster that receives a driving force and that is configured to change a force transmission efficiency, and also includes a driving member that is configured to connect an end effector and the force adjuster via a joint section and transmit the driving force. The force adjuster converts the driving force into a linear force via a rotational force, and increases the conversion efficiency from the driving force to the linear force such that an amount of increase in the force transmission efficiency increases with increasing displacement amount of the driving member when the driving member is displaced in accordance with flexing or curving of the joint section.

Force transmission mechanism and instrument

A medical manipulator includes: an elongated support member; an end effector that is supported at a distal end of the support member so as to be movable in a longitudinal axial direction; a first pulling pulley that is supported so as to be rotatable about a first shaft that is secured to the end effector and that is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis; and a first wire that is wound around the first pulling pulley so as to cause, when a proximal end thereof is pulled, tensile forces in substantially the same directions to act on the first pulling pulley on either side of the first pulling pulley flanking the first shaft.

Medical manipulator

Provided are: a shut-off valve control device which is capable of reducing the difference between a set opening amount and the actual opening amount, when executing a partial valve stroke test; a shut-off valve control system; a method for calculating a shut-off valve control coefficient; and a method for controlling a shut-off valve. This shut-off valve control device is provided with a microcomputer for controlling the opening and closing of a solenoid valve which supplies air from an air supply source, to a cylinder of an air cylinder for controlling a valve shaft of a shut-off valve, and discharges said air. The microcomputer acquires a set opening amount of the shut-off valve. Furthermore, the microcomputer controls the solenoid valve to a value obtained by dividing the acquired set opening amount by a predetermined coefficient C.

Shut-off valve control device, shut-off valve control system, method for calculating shut-off valve control coefficient, and method for controlling shut-off valve

Provided are: a valve control device which is capable of reducing the difference between a set opening amount and the actual opening amount, when executing a partial valve stroke test; a valve control system; a method for calculating a valve control coefficient; and a valve control method. This shut-off valve control device is provided with a microcomputer for controlling the opening and closing of a solenoid valve which supplies air from an air supply source, to a cylinder of an air cylinder for controlling a valve shaft of a shut-off valve, and discharges said air. The microcomputer acquires a set opening amount of the shut-off valve. Furthermore, the microcomputer controls the solenoid valve to a value obtained by dividing the acquired set opening amount by a predetermined coefficient C.

Valve control device, valve control system, valve control coefficient calculation method, and valve control method

Provided are an electric device and a heat radiator capable of suppressing vibration caused by external stress of the heat radiator. The electric device includes a substrate; an electronic component attached to the substrate; and a heat radiator including at least one first fin, and a second fin facing the first fin, thermally connected to the first fin, and provided at a position closer to an attachment surface of the substrate than any of the first fins. The heat radiator is thermally connected to the electronic component, and one end of an attachment member is attached to the first fin, and another end of the attachment member is attached to the substrate. The attachment member has a height with respect to the attachment surface that is higher than a thickness of the first fin.

Electric device and heat radiator

A medical stapler according to the present invention is provided with: a staple housing provided with a gripping surface from which a staple for suturing tissue is ejected, and a cutter that cuts the tissue by being made to protrude from the gripping surface; an anvil that is disposed facing a direction in which the staple is ejected, and that is configured so that the tissue can be gripped between the gripping surface and the anvil; and a receiving member that is provided in the anvil, and that has a receiving surface that receives a cutting edge of the cutter, wherein the receiving surface of the receiving member has a shape in which only a portion thereof comes into contact with the cutting edge of the cutter at individual time points during a cutting step over the entire length of a cut length of the tissue.

Medical stapler

When a part already transmitted to an object storage is updated by a file system management section while a plurality of parts are being transmitted to the object storage, a file transfer section requests the object storage to generate a temporary object that is a temporarily generated object containing the transmitted and updated part by combining the parts transmitted before update, re-splits a file into a plurality of parts so that the transmitted and updated data and not-transmitted data are handled as parts different from transmitted and not-updated data, and transmits the part containing the transmitted and updated data or the part containing the not-transmitted data to the object storage.

File storage, object storage, and storage system

An object of the present invention is to provide a compact and highly-accurate three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus. The three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus according to the present invention causes a part of a measurement light to proceed in a direction which is different from a direction with respect to a subject as an angle measurement light, and detects a rotation angle using the angle measurement light.

Three-dimensional shape measuring apparatus, three-dimensional shape measuring probe

A power feeding coil unit for wireless power transmission including a base portion with bottom having an opening on an upper end, a magnetic body having a plurality of magnetic plates disposed on a bottom surface of the base portion, a power feeding coil formed by winding a conductive wire on the magnetic body, a cover portion covering the opening of the base portion, and a rib extending from the base portion toward the cover portion between the plurality of magnetic plates and between the wires of the conductive wires, wherein, a distance between the rib and the cover portion is smaller than a distance between the power feeding coil and the cover portion.

Power feeding coil unit, wireless power feeding device and wireless power transmission device

A coil unit provided on a ground side, including a coil, at least one sensor for detecting an object existing above or around the coil unit, a housing for accommodating the coil and the at least one sensor, wherein, the housing is provided with a dividing plate and at least one pillar for maintaining the internal space of the space for sensor, the dividing plate divides the space into a space for coil and a space for sensor located vertically above the space for coil, the space for coil is for accommodating the coil and the space for sensor is for accommodating the at least one sensor, and the at least one sensor is disposed on the dividing plate without contacting with an upper inner surface portion of the housing in the space for sensor.

Coil unit, wireless power feeding device, wireless power receiving device and wireless power transmission device

A power transmission device, which is used for a contactless power transmission to a movable body moving on a travelling surface in a power transmission direction parallel to the travelling surface, including a power transmission coil and a shielding plate, wherein, the power transmission coil is installed so that a coil surface is approximately vertical to the travelling surface, and at least a part of the shielding plate is disposed inside the region on the travelling surface sandwiched between a plane surface defined by a coil surface of the power transmission coil and a plane surface defined by a coil surface of a power receiving coil mounted on the movable body.

Power transmission device

An access port is fixed to a biological membrane, such as the pericardium, in a state in which it penetrates the biological membrane. Provided is an access port including an inner tube and an outer tube fitted together so as to be movable relative to each other in an axial direction, wherein at least one of the inner tube and the outer tube has holding surfaces having substantially complementary shapes that are brought close to or away from each other by relative movement of the inner tube and the outer tube.

Access port

Disclosed is an operation method of an endoscope, the method comprising: a sheath insertion step of percutaneously inserting at least one sheath in a pericardial cavity of a heart; an insertion step of inserting a rigid scope in the sheath; a view field securing step for securing the view field for a surgical site within the pericardial cavity; a guide step for guiding the rigid scope to the surgical site; and an observation step of observing the surgical site with the rigid scope.

Operation method of endoscope

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Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Kobayashi