Riken Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Oncotherapy Science, Incorporated

Rikagaku Kenkyusho

Institute for Laser Technology

The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research

Megaopto Co., Ltd.

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Incorporated

Nec Tokin Corporation

Sky Perfect Jsat Corporation

Satoshi Wada

Hideo Tashiro

Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

Takuya Tsunoda

Shingo Nishikata

Atsushi Ochiai

Hideaki Tahara

Kazunori Masukawa

Hiroyuki Daigo

Yoshiyuki Takizawa

Kazuyuki Akagawa

Masashi Iwashimizu

Masayuki Maruyama

Shinji Motokoshi

Katsuhiko Tsuno

Kayo Koike

Katsushi Fujii

Yoshiharu Urata

Takayo Ogawa

Norihito Saito

Jie Zhang

Shlomo Ruschin

Kiwamu Kase

Jun Yamada

Kazuo Tsubota

Tomoyuki Haikawa

Daisuke Hirata

Tomoatsu Minamida

Shinichi Imai

Koji Miyazaki

Kazuyuki Satou

Kouichi Toyoda

Kohei Mizutani

Koji Sugioka

Mayumi Kato

Masakazu Sugiyama

Masataka Morita

Hiroshi Machida

Mikio Higuchi

Kohei Kodaira

Tomohiro Shonai

Jihong Geng

Koichi Toyoda

Tadanori Fukushima

Masaki Yumoto

Atsushi Shinjo

Daiji Yamashita

Hideaki c/o The University Of Tokyo Tahara

A direct-current bus control system is provided for controlling power variation in a DC bus connecting an input power source and a load, including: a main stabilizer including a first charge/discharge element and a first power converter; and a plurality of sub-stabilizers each including a second charge/discharge element, a charge element, or a discharge element, and a second power converter. The plurality of sub-stabilizers include a first sub-stabilizer and a second sub-stabilizer including the charge element. When the voltage of the DC bus is higher than a first charge threshold, the second power converter of the first sub-stabilizer supplies a current equal to a current target value obtained by the second power converter of the first sub-stabilizer from the DC bus to the charge element of the first sub-stabilizer.

Direct-current bus control system

A laser irradiation apparatus includes a controller configured to calculate a predicted movement position into which a target is predicted to move at a future specific time, a transmission laser source configured to generate a transmission laser, irradiation optics configured to emit the transmission laser to the target and emit a search laser to the predicted movement position and wavefront correction optics. The wavefront correction optics are configured to correct a wavefront of the transmission laser at the future specific time based on observation light that returns when the search laser is emitted to the predicted movement position.

Laser irradiation apparatus and laser irradiation method

A DC bus control system for controlling power fluctuations in a DC bus connecting an input power source and a load, comprising: a main stabilization device including a first charging/discharging element and a first power converter; a plurality of the sub stabilization devices including a second charging/discharging element, a charging element, or a discharging element and a second power converter, wherein the plurality of the sub stabilization devices includes a first sub stabilization device having a charging/discharging element and a second power converter and at least one second sub stabilization device having a charging element or a discharging element and a second power converter, and a response speed of the first sub stabilization device is set such that a charging amount of the charging element or a discharging amount of the discharging element of the second sub stabilization device changes with a predetermined time constant.

DC bus control system

A gas detector detects difluoromethane present in a remote target space. The gas detector includes a detection portion that detects the difluoromethane by using absorption of light of a predetermined wavelength. The predetermined wavelength is in a wavelength range of any of a first wavelength range of 1659 to 1673 nm, a second wavelength range of 1724 to 1726 nm, a third wavelength range of 2218 to 2221 nm, a fourth wavelength range of 2463 to 2466 nm, a fifth wavelength range of 3316 to 3318 nm, and a sixth wavelength range of 9034 to 9130 nm.

Gas detector and leakage-gas detection system

A spacecraft for changing an orbit or an attitude of a target in outer space by irradiating the target with a laser, the spacecraft includes: a laser apparatus configured to generate the laser; a focusing unit configured to converge the laser; a detecting unit configured to acquire detection information including a distance between the spacecraft and the target; and an irradiation control unit configured to control the focusing unit on the basis of the distance so that the laser converges on the target.

Spacecraft and control system

An optical correction is predictively performed based on a result of AI learning previously performed by use of learning data including measurement data. The optical compensation system is provided with wavefront correction optics, a sensor and a controller. The wavefront correction optics corrects a wavefront of light that passes through a given optical path. The sensor obtains environmental information in the optical path. The controller calculates, based on the environmental information, a predicted wavefront disturbance of the light that has passed through the optical path and controls the wavefront correction optics so as to cancel the predicted wavefront disturbance.

Optical compensation system and optical compensation method

An optical device includes a first axicon lens to which collimated light is incident and which is configured to form diverging ring-shaped light; a lens to which the ring-shaped light formed by the first axicon lens is incident and which is configured to form ring-shaped collimated light; and a condensing mirror that is configured to condense the ring-shaped collimated light formed by the lens. A photoacoustic microscope includes the optical device described above and a detector that is configured to detect an acoustic wave caused by light condensed by the condensing mirror.

Optical device and photoacoustic microscope

An optical system that obtains characteristics of a transmission path in atmosphere, when laser light propagates through this transmission path, at a place separated from this transmission path and before the propagation, and corrects wavefront of the laser light based on the obtained characteristics, is provided. The optical system is provided with an irradiation device and an atmospheric characteristics obtaining system. The irradiation device irradiates an external target with light via a first optical path. The atmospheric characteristics obtaining system is arranged in a second optical path separated from the first optical path and obtains characteristics of atmospheric environment in the first optical path with respect to the irradiated light. The irradiation device is provided with wavefront correction optics. The wavefront correction optics correct wavefront of the irradiated light based on the obtained characteristics.

Optical system and optical compensation method

A laser beam irradiation apparatus including: a plurality of laser light sources emitting first laser beams; and a light-condensing optics system having an incident face on which the first laser beams are made incident and performing an optical operation on the first laser beams to emit second laser beams. The plurality of laser light sources are configured to emit the first laser beams so that beam diameters are expanded towards the incident face. Each first laser beam overlaps at least one of the other laser beams on the incident face. The light-condensing optics system is configured so that beam diameters of second laser beams emitted from the light-condensing optics system are minimal on a target face, and a distance between a center of each second laser beam and the optical axis on the target face is smaller than a beam radius of each second laser beam on the target face.

Laser beam irradiation apparatus and laser beam irradiation system

A driving optical system is used to observe a disturbance of a wavefront of reference light received from a target and generate a wavefront in a conjugate relationship with the wavefront. A plurality of control signals are generated on a basis of a plurality of Zernike coefficients calculated as a Zernike polynomial which approximates the wavefront disturbance in order to respectively drive a plurality of deformable mirrors included in the driving optical system. An adaptive optical system is provided which can optically compensate a wavefront disturbance derived from an atmospheric fluctuation even in a case of radiating laser light to a target moving at a high speed.

Adaptive optical system and adaptive optical method comprising a controller with Zernike coefficients and Zernike polunomial calculation

A direct current bus control system including a direct current bus connecting between an input power supply and a load, including a main stabilizing device including a first charge-&-discharge element and a first power converter, and at least one sub-stabilizing device including a second charge-&-discharge element, a charge element, or a discharge element, and including a second power converter, wherein the first power converter is configured to derive a bus voltage target value according to a power storage amount index of the first charge-&-discharge element, and to bidirectionally pass direct current power, so that the voltage of the direct current bus matches the bus voltage target value, and the second power converter is configured to derive a current target value, and to pass direct current power, so that a current equal to the current target value flows.

Direct current bus control system

To provide a gas analysis device comprising: a cell; a light source; and a detector, wherein two or more types of gaseous components contained in the gas are measurement targets, a mid-infrared light with a wavelength that is caused to match the absorption spectrum of the measurement target gaseous components is output from the light source, and concentrations of the gaseous components are obtained based on light intensity detected by the detector. The gas analysis device sets a cumulative measurement time for the mid-infrared lights with the wavelengths for respective ones of the measurement target gaseous components; and controls at least one of an output time of the light source and a detection time of the detector in accordance with the cumulative measurement times, thereby efficiently measuring the plurality of types of gaseous components contained in the gas by using the mid-infrared lights with the plurality of wavelengths.

Gas analysis device and gas analysis method

The present invention provides a method of measuring the elasticity of crystalline lens and an apparatus for measuring the elasticity of the crystalline lens for measuring stiffness of the crystalline lens, wherein the crystalline lensis irradiated with pulse laser light to generate photoelastic waves from the crystalline lens, and the photoelastic waves from the crystalline lensare measured.

Method of measuring the elasticity of crystalline lens, a method of determining whether crystalline lens is presbyopic, an apparatus for measuring the elasticity of crystalline lens and an apparatus for determining whether crystalline lens is presbyopic

The present invention provides nonapeptides selected from peptides comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, 3, 5, 8, 11, or 12; nonapeptides or decapeptides selected from peptides comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:29, 30, 33, 34, 40, or 46; and peptides with cytotoxic T cell inducibility, in which one, two, or several amino acids are substituted or added to the above-mentioned amino acid sequences, as well as pharmaceuticals for treating or preventing tumors, where the pharmaceuticals comprise these peptides. The peptides of this invention can be used as vaccines.

KDR peptides and vaccines comprising the same

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Saitama, Japan

Satoshi Wada