Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nohmi Bosai Ltd.

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Komatsu Industries Corporation

Takahiro Noguchi

Sakiko Yamaguchi

Chifuyu Inagaki

Osamu Tsujii

Tetsuo Shimada

Hitomi Ogasawara

Emi Nagamine

Tatsuya Suzuki

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Shinjiro Toba

Hiroshi Komatsu

Hideki Maeshima

Kazunari Murayama

Kanji Yokomori

Nobuharu Hoshi

Hisayoshi Kojima

Koji Masuda

Kensaku Kusaka

Kenji Mizutani

Takeshi Nakata

Takeo Yamamoto

Osamu Sakata

Wataru Kaku

Hidekazu Maruta

Hideki Fujita

Takahiro Watanabe

Nobuhiro Takeuchi

Yoshinori Hirano

Daisuke Nagafuchi

Tomohiro Kato

Masamichi Uchida

Takahiro Kaneko

Yoshiki Kuno

Takuji Miyasaka

Taizo Matsuda

Satoshi Kitayama

Takuya Noda

Kiichiro Kawamoto

Shihoko Morota

A smoke detector includes: a casing; a first light emitting unit; a second light emitting unit; and a light receiving unit. A second scattering angle that is an angle between the reception axis of the light receiving unit and a second extension extending from an intersection of the second emission axis and the reception axis in a direction away from the second light emitting unit is larger than a first scattering angle that is an angle between the reception axis of the light receiving unit and a first extension extending from an intersection of the first emission axis and the reception axis in a direction away from the first light emitting unit.

Smoke detector

A press system includes a press portion and a controller configured to control the press portion. The controller includes a load pattern generator, an evaluation input unit, and an optimum load pattern setting unit configured to set an optimum load pattern based on a plurality of evaluations of the quality input by the evaluation input unit. The optimum load pattern setting unit includes a response surface generator configured to create from evaluation value data based on the plurality of load patterns and the plurality of evaluations of the quality, by using as an objective function, the evaluation value data with the load pattern being defined as a design variable, a response surface of the objective function, and an optimization calculator configured to find an optimum solution of the objective function of the response surface by optimization.

Press system and method of controlling the same

A vehicular harness using a wiring grommet having a broad utility and a high reliability can include a plurality of through-holes. The wiring grommet can include each of a first minimum thickness, a second minimum thickness, and a third minimum thickness, which can be thicker than a first threshold, a second threshold and a third threshold, respectively, and can also include a first side thickness, which can be thinner than a fourth threshold. The vehicular harness can include various wires, which can be contacted with each of inner convex surfaces having a diameter of 95 percent to 60 percent of inside diameters of the though-holes in an appressed state. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can include providing the vehicular harnesses using the wiring grommet, which can be used for vehicle lamps such as a rear lamp and the like, even when the wiring grommet is exposed to an external air.

Wiring grommet and vehicular harness using the same

A radiation CT apparatus includes a rotation unit configured to rotate about a rotation axis, a radiation generation unit and a radiation detector which are fixed on either side of the rotation axis in the rotation unit, and a gantry cover containing the radiation generation unit and the radiation detector and including a breast insert portion configured to insert a breast of an object. An opening portion that can be opened and closed is placed on the gantry cover of the radiation CT apparatus. The radiation generation unit and the radiation detector are stopped to form a space that allows a user to access the breast insert portion from the opening portion.

Radiation CT apparatus and method of controlling the same

A breast imaging apparatus includes a gantry which includes a radiation generation unit configured to generate radiation and a radiation detection unit configured to detect radiation generated by the radiation generation unit, the radiation generation unit and the radiation detection unit being capable of rotating facing each other, wherein the gantry is provided with a front cover configured to protect a subject from the radiation generation unit and the radiation detection unit which rotate during CT imaging, and the front cover has an opening in which the breast of the subject is inserted, and a breast holding portion configured to hold the breast of the subject inserted in the opening.

Breast imaging apparatus

Head mount for display

Employed is a probe support apparatus having: a base stand; an arm connected to an upper end of the base stand so that the arm can be tilted and rotated in a horizontal direction; and a probe support section connected to a distal end of the arm at a side opposite that of a portion connected to the base stand. The probe support section is constituted by a deformable section and a non-deformable section, and the non-deformable section is connected to a distal end of the arm so that the non-deformable section can rotate about an axis parallel to a rotation axis about which the arm is tilted.

Probe support apparatus

Provided is a short-circuit isolator capable of earlier detection of recovery from short circuit of a disconnected line and reconnecting the line. The short-circuit isolator includes: a switch for switching a connection state between a primary signal line and a secondary signal line; a short-circuit monitor circuit which is connected to a primary wiring of the switch through a resistor as a current limiting section and connected to a secondary wiring of the switch, for detecting short circuit when a voltage of the secondary signal line is lower than a short-circuit detection threshold and detecting recovery from the short circuit when the voltage of the secondary signal line is higher than a short-circuit recovery threshold which is a voltage value lower than the short-circuit detection threshold after the short circuit is detected; and a switch control section for turning off the switch when the short circuit is detected by the short-circuit monitor circuit and turning on the switch when the recovery from the short circuit is detected by the short-circuit monitor circuit.

Short-circuit isolator

Image forming apparatus

Imaging forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an image formation unit for forming an image on the image bearing member, and a detection unit for detecting a voltage-current characteristic between the image bearing member and the charging member. The image formation unit has a charging member contactable to the image bearing member to charge the image bearing member. An image formation condition for the image bearing member is determined on the basis of a plurality of detection operations of the detection unit.

Image forming apparatus having detection means to maintain image

An electrophotographic apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a charging member contactable to the photosensitive member for charging the photosensitive member at a charging position; exposure means for exposing the photosensitive member to electrically discharging the photosensitive member, wherein when a region of the photosensitive member discharged by the exposure means is at the charging position, a voltage-current characteristic between the charging member and the photosensitive member is detected; changing means for changing an incident light quantity to the photosensitive member from the exposure means.

Electrophotographic apparatus with pre-exposure controlled according to

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Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Noguchi