Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor-specific electrode member is included in an electrolytic capacitor. The electrolytic capacitor-specific electrode member has a wire shape. The electrolytic capacitor-specific electrode member includes a core portion and a porous layer located around the core portion. In a cross section of the electrolytic capacitor-specific electrode member perpendicular to its axial direction, the porous layer includes a plurality of layers arranged concentrically from the core portion toward outside and at least including two layers having different void ratios.

Abstract: A laminated steel sheet for a two-piece can body with a high strain level satisfying the following formulae, the polyester resin layer composing the laminated steel sheet having a center line surface roughness (Ra) of 0.2 ?m to 1.8 ?m: r1?r,0.1?r1/R?0.25, and 1.5?h/(R?r)?4 wherein h is the height of the two-piece can body, r is the maximum radius, r1 is the minimum radius, and R is the radius of the circular laminated steel sheet before forming having the same weight as the can body.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine, in which a compressed gas from a compressor is burned in a combustor and obtained combustion gas drives a turbine, includes: a compressed gas supply portion configured to supply the compressed gas obtained from the compressor to the combustor; an annular dividing guide body disposed in a diffuser that forms an upstream-side portion of the compressed gas supply portion, the dividing guide body being configured to divide the compressed gas in a radial direction; and a guide support body that supports the dividing guide body on an inner diameter side wall of the compressed gas supply portion.

Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus and method are provided. A pulsation information detecting unit detects heartbeat information relating to a heartbeat of a subject. A pulse wave detecting unit detects a pulse wave while a portion of the subject is pressurized and depressurized by a cuff. An amplitude calculating unit detects a cardiac cycle of a heart from the heartbeat information and a maximal value of the pulse wave in each cardiac cycle, and calculates, based on the maximal value detected from the pulse wave, at least one of an amplitude value derived from the heartbeat of the subject, an amplitude value assisted by an IABP, and an amplitude value derived from a blood flow volume of the subject. A blood pressure calculating unit calculates a blood pressure value from a relationship between the amplitude values calculated by the amplitude calculating unit and a pressurizing force of the cuff.

Abstract: Provided is a crane which can suppress deformation and vibration of a crane structure in travel and stop of the crane. Inverters are installed respectively in travel devices which are arranged on the opposite sides with a gap in a transverse direction. Each of the inverters independently measures a torque generated in a motors to which the inverter is connected and reduces the rotation speed in the command from a controller to the motor such that the greater the measured torque is, the greater a ratio of reduction is.

Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus and a biological information measuring method are provided. The biological information measuring apparatus includes a pulsation information detecting unit configured to detect heartbeat information relating to a heartbeat of a subject, a blood pressure waveform measuring unit configured to measure a blood pressure waveform of the subject in an invasive manner, and a calculating unit configured to detect a cardiac cycle from the heartbeat information and to calculate, based on a detection of a maximal blood pressure value of the blood pressure waveform in the cardiac cycle, at least one of a systolic pressure of the subject, an end-diastolic pressure of the subject, an augmentation pressure of an IABP (intra-aortic balloon pumping), a systolic pressure assisted by the IABP and an end-diastolic pressure assisted by the IABP.

Abstract: An information processing device 10 includes a command recognition unit 203, a parameter extraction unit 28 and a command execution unit 253. The command recognition unit 203 specifies one of one or more pieces of object creation processing, which include at least one of processing for creating a text box, processing for creating a figure, and table creating processing for creating a table, from a combination of directions where one polygonal line is bent, the one polygonal line being inputted as a handwriting input command to a handwriting input device that enables handwriting input onto a display screen. The parameter extraction unit 208 extracts a parameter such as a position, size and the like of a designated object from a position and length of a segment that composes one polygonal line. Thus, the information processing device 10 allows a user to give a command on a screen by handwriting.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine, in which a compressed gas from a compressor of an axial-flow type is burned in a combustor and an obtained combustion gas drives a turbine, includes: a diffuser of an annular shape connected to an outlet of the compressor, the diffuser including a diffuser inner tube and a diffuser outer tube that are tubular members disposed concentrically with each other; and a plurality of partition members that are disposed in a diffuser flow path, which is an annular space formed between the diffuser inner tube and the diffuser outer tube, and divide the diffuser flow path in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes: a plurality of combustors disposed so as to incline radially outward from a turbine side toward a compressor side; and a diffuser inner tube and outer tube forming a diffuser as an upstream portion of a path that introduces a compressed gas from the compressor to the combustors. A transition duct portion of each combustor has such a shape that a circumferential dimension thereof gradually decreases from the turbine side to the compressor side so that a circumferential gap is formed between the transition duct portions. Downstream-side portions of the diffuser inner tube and outer tube each have a shape gradually increasing in diameter toward the downstream side. A turbine-side end of the circumferential gap at an inner diameter side of the transition duct portion is positioned radially inward of an imaginary extension conical surface continuous from the diffuser inner tube.

Abstract: A stereostructure includes a core portion, and a porous portion located around the core portion. The porous portion located inside a position which is inside from an outer edge of the porous portion by 3/20 of a diameter of the stereostructure in an arbitrary cross section of the stereostructure has a void ratio per unit area of less than or equal to 80%.

Abstract: A patient monitoring system includes an input unit and a patient monitor. The input unit has a first display section that displays a setting screen for the patient monitor, an input section that receives an input of setting information for the patient monitor, and a first communication section that transmits the input setting information to the patient monitor. The patient monitor has a second communication section that receives a biological signal of a patient and the setting information from the input unit, a second display section that displays vital sign information of the patient, and a controller that converts the biological signal to the vital sign information to control a display on the second display section, and changes, upon receipt of the setting information, a setting of the patient monitor in a state in which the vital sign information is displayed on the second display section.

Abstract: In a solid-state image capturing device, one or more vertical signal lines are disposed along one of columns of a pixel portion, and each of the vertical signal lines is divided into two parts between an upper region and a lower region of the pixel portion. Pixel signals output from a plurality of pixels of the one of the columns are read out to a plurality of column readout circuits through two or more parts of the vertical signal lines including the two parts of the one or more vertical signal lines disposed along the one of the columns. A division position of one vertical signal line among the vertical signal lines disposed in the pixel portion is different from a division position of another vertical signal line among the vertical signal lines in a row direction.

Abstract: A vital information monitor (1) includes a vital sign acquiring section (39) which acquires vital signs of a patient into whom a tracheal tube (14) connected to a respirator (13) is intubated, a producing section (31) which produces an extubation process display screen (72) on which determination items contained in an extubation process for removing the tracheal tube (14) from the patient are displayed, a displaying section (7) on which the vital signs acquired by the vital sign acquiring section and the extubation process display screen (72) are displayed, and a determining section (30) which determines whether the determination items satisfy predetermined conditions.

Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a crank chamber, a suction chamber, a drive shaft, a swash plate, and a bleeding passage connecting the crank chamber and the suction chamber. The bleeding passage has an axial passage and first and second radial passages in the drive shaft. The second radial passage opens on an outer peripheral surface of the drive shaft at a position that is closer to the swash plate than the first radial passage. The first radial passage is in constant communication with the crank chamber. The drive shaft has a valve member that is movable in the axial direction with the swash plate. The second radial passage is connected to the crank chamber when the swash plate is at maximum or minimum inclination angles and disconnected from the crank chamber by the valve member when the swash plate is at an intermediate inclination angle.

Abstract: Provided is a crane which can suppress deformation and vibration of a crane structure in travel and stop of the crane. Inverters are installed respectively in travel devices which are arranged on the opposite sides with a gap in a transverse direction. Each of the inverters independently measures a torque generated in a motors to which the inverter is connected and reduces the rotation speed in the command from a controller to the motor such that the greater the measured torque is, the greater a ratio of reduction is.

Abstract: A lid member for a press-through package, and a press-through package packing body using the same, includes a lid member which is not to be inadvertently torn, while tablets or capsules as its contents can be removed under a uniform opening strength by a predetermined force or more using fingers. The lid member of the packing body includes a resin film, an adhesive, an aluminum foil, and a thermal adhesive layer, in which tapered through holes are formed in the resin film. The resin film is laminated to the aluminum foil to reinforce the lid member so that the lid member is not to be inadvertently torn. When contents of a container are pushed out using fingers, the lid member is broken starting from the tapered through holes provided in the resin film, and so the contents can be easily taken out.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for activating helper T cells, which includes the step of activating helper T cells by adding a WT1 peptide to antigen presenting cells, wherein the WT1 peptide has the ability to bind to an MHC class II molecule selected from HLA-DRB1*08:02 molecule, an HLA-DRB1*13:02 molecule, an HLA-DRB1*14:03 molecule, an HLA-DRB1*14:05 molecule, an HLA-DQB1*03:02 molecule, and an HLA-DQB1*04:01 molecule.

Abstract: An automatic document feeder includes: a recording-medium set unit, on which a recording medium is set; a recording-medium set detecting unit that detects whether the recording medium is set on the recording-medium set unit; a conveying unit that conveys the recording medium; a sheet-feeding cover section that constitutes part of the conveying unit and that includes an openable and closable sheet feeding cover; and a control unit that separately receives a power-on signal, which is output when a power source of an image forming device including the automatic document feeder is turned on, and an energy-saving return signal, which is output when a return is made from an energy saving state where a power source of part of the device is disconnected. When the power-on signal is received, the control unit performs an initialization operation to initialize each unit of the automatic document feeder.

Abstract: A resin-coated metal sheet for can lids includes a metal sheet coated with thermoplastic resin films on both surfaces and formed into a can lid. A thermoplastic resin film A based on polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is heat-fused on a surface of the metal sheet serving as an exterior surface of the can lid, and a thermoplastic resin film B based on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is heat-fused on a surface of the metal sheet serving as an interior surface of the can lid. A composition ratio (wt %) of PBT/PET in the thermoplastic resin film A on the exterior surface is (PBT/PET)=(40/60) to (80/20), and the thermoplastic resin film B on the interior surface includes 95 mol % or more of PET.

Abstract: A document reading device including an image reader. The image reader includes a first reader to read a first image from a first face of a document fed by a document feeder and a second reader to read a second face of the document. An operation mode is switchable between a normal operation mode in which the image reader is in an operation enabled state and an energy-saving mode in which the image reader is in an operation stop state. In a return from the energy saving mode to the normal operation mode, the image reader performs a start-up operation including a first initial operation for returning the first reader to the normal operation mode and then performs a second initial operation for returning the second reader to the normal operation mode.