Abstract: A lubrication device for a helicopter including: an oil sump in which oil for lubrication is retained; a lubrication pump configured to suck the oil from the oil sump to discharge the oil; and a lubrication passage extending from the lubrication pump to a first lubrication target. The lubrication passage includes: a first supply port that supplies the oil to the first lubrication target; an oil reservoir provided upstream of the first supply port; and an opening provided upstream of the oil reservoir and above the oil reservoir. The first supply port is formed right above the first lubrication target.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis of a subject, a method for assisting diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, and a method for monitoring disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis and/or therapeutic effects of an agent for rheumatoid arthritis, comprising detecting citrullination of an arginine residue of the inter-?-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain (ITIH) 4 in a biological sample obtained from the subject. This invention also provides a citrullinated protein derived from the protein having the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 5 by modification of arginine 438 into citrulline or a fragment thereof, an antibody binding to such citrullinated protein, and an agent for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis comprising such antibody.

Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a clock signal generator; a plurality of light-receiving pixels; a plurality of gate circuits; and a plurality of counters. The clock signal generator supplies a first clock signal to a clock signal path. The plurality of light-receiving pixels is provided side by side in the first direction and grouped into a plurality of pixel groups in the first direction. The plurality of light-receiving pixels each includes a light-receiving circuit, a comparison circuit, and a latch circuit. The comparison circuit performs a comparison operation on the basis of a pixel signal and a reference signal having a ramp waveform. The latch circuit latches a time code on the basis of a result of comparison. The plurality of gate circuits is each configured to output a signal in a clock signal path as a second clock signal. The plurality of gate circuits each controls, on the basis of a control signal, whether or not to output the second clock signal.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus and an electronic device capable of suppressing a delay of a control signal according to a position of a pixel in a horizontal direction. A time code generation unit (104) is provided on a first side of a pixel array (150), a signal processing unit (105) is provided on a second side, of the pixel array, opposite to the first side, a timing generation circuit (120) is provided on the second side of the pixel array, each of a plurality of transfer units (110) is disposed from the first side to the second side through the pixel array, and a control line (130) for transferring a timing signal generated by the timing signal generation unit to the time code generation unit is provided in each of two or more transfer units of the plurality of transfer units.

Abstract: A current sensor includes a bus bar in which current to be measured flows and a magnetic sensor for detecting a magnetic field generated by the current flowing in the bus bar. The bus bar includes a bypass bus bar having a cylindrical structure and a sensing bus bar disposed in a hollow area surrounded by the bypass bus bar. The magnetic sensor is disposed in the hollow area. An area having a zero magnetic field is formed in the hollow area of the bypass bus bar. Thus, by disposing the sensing bus bar in the zero magnetic field area, it is possible to accurately measure the amount of current flowing in the bus bar while preventing saturation of the magnetic sensor even when the current flowing in the bus bar is large.

Abstract: A radiographic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor that calculates an area of a lung field from a chest image obtained by radiation imaging of a chest in one direction, and estimates a residual volume, a functional residual capacity, a total lung capacity or a residual volume ratio of the lung field, based on the calculated lung field area.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis of a subject, a method for assisting diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, and a method for monitoring disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis and/or therapeutic effects of an agent for rheumatoid arthritis, comprising detecting citrullination of an arginine residue of the inter-?-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain (ITIH) 4 in a biological sample obtained from the subject. This invention also provides a citrullinated protein derived from the protein having the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 5 by modification of arginine 438 into citrulline or a fragment thereof, an antibody binding to such citrullinated protein, and an agent for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis comprising such antibody.

Abstract: A radiographic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor that calculates an area of a lung field from a chest image obtained by radiation imaging of a chest in one direction, and estimates a residual volume, a functional residual capacity, a total lung capacity or a residual volume ratio of the lung field, based on the calculated lung field area.

Abstract: Using the generally used coating method of an active material paste to a metal foil on a 3DF made the electrode properties instable due to residual air inside of the 3DF, and had the risk of causing micro short circuit of the battery due to metal fine powder and the like adhered to the 3DF and the 3DF exposed to the electrode surface. To solve the above-mentioned, the coating of the active material paste to the 3DF was made into a two-step coating process as shown below. Step one removes the air and fills the paste at the same time by applying the paste flow from one side of the 3DF (the first step coating process). Step two coats a new paste onto the surface of the electrode obtained by step one (the second step coating process).

Abstract: A connector device according to the present disclosure includes a first connector section and a second connector section. The first connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal. The second connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal, a yoke disposed to cover the waveguide, and a magnet forming a magnetic circuit with the yoke, and is couplable to the first connector section by the attractive force of the magnet. A communication system according to the present disclosure includes two communication devices and a connector device. The connector device has the above-described configuration and transmits a high-frequency signal between the two communication devices.

Abstract: An exhaust turbine power generating system includes an internal combustion engine including a first exhaust opening portion and a second exhaust opening portion for each of cylinders, an exhaust turbine power generator configured to generate electric power by rotating a turbine by using exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, a first exhaust pipe configured to connect the first exhaust opening portion and an inlet portion of the turbine, and a second exhaust pipe configured to connect the second exhaust opening portion and a turbine downstream side exhaust pipe downstream of the turbine, not via the turbine. The volume of the first exhaust pipe is smaller than the volume of the second exhaust pipe.

Abstract: A connector device according to the present disclosure includes a first connector section and a second connector section. The first connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal. The second connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal, a yoke disposed to cover the waveguide, and a magnet forming a magnetic circuit with the yoke, and is couplable to the first connector section by the attractive force of the magnet. A communication system according to the present disclosure includes two communication devices and a connector device. The connector device has the above-described configuration and transmits a high-frequency signal between the two communication devices.

Abstract: Using the generally used coating method of an active material paste to a metal foil on a 3DF made the electrode properties instable due to residual air inside of the 3DF, and had the risk of causing micro short circuit of the battery due to metal fine powder and the like adhered to the 3DF and the 3DF exposed to the electrode surface. To solve the above-mentioned, the coating of the active material paste to the 3DF was made into a two-step coating process as shown below. Step one removes the air and fills the paste at the same time by applying the paste flow from one side of the 3DF (the first step coating process). Step two coats a new paste onto the surface of the electrode obtained by step one (the second step coating process).

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a metal-made three-dimensional substrate, a metal foil is passed between a pair of rollers 21 and 22. Each surface S of a pair of the rollers 21 and 22 is provided with protrusion portions 23 arranged in a grid pattern, and the protrusion portions 23 are arranged so that protrusions 23 of the one roller 22 are oriented toward the center 27 of a virtual quadrangle having four adjacent protrusion portions 23a to 23d of the other roller 21 as the apices.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a cooling device for accomplishing both of required engine and compressor cooling degrees. The invention relates to a cooling device for an engine provided with a blowby gas recirculation device (50) and a turbocharger (60), the blowby gas recirculation device recirculating a blowby gas to an intake passage upstream of a compressor of the turbocharger. The cooling device comprises a first cooling device (70) for cooling a body (20) of the engine and a second cooling device (80) for cooling an intake air, separately. The second cooling device cools the compressor (61).

Abstract: The object of the invention is to suppress the generation or accumulation of deposits in a compressor of a turbocharger of an engine provided with a blowby gas recirculation device. The invention relates to a cooling device for the turbocharger (60) of the engine (10) provided with the blowby gas recirculation device (50). The cooling device has a cooled air introduction passage (70). The blowby gas recirculation device introduces a blowby gas to an area upstream of the compressor. The cooled air introduction passage introduces a cooled air to a diffuser passage (64) of the compressor. The cooled air introduction passage introduces the cooled air to the diffuser passage in a direction having an acute angle with respect to a flow direction (IA) of the intake air flowing through the diffuser passage.

Abstract: An output circuit for a bus whose output node is connected to a bus, including a first current source connected to a first reference potential, a first semiconductor switching element connected between the first current source and the output node, a current control circuit for controlling the first semiconductor switching element such that the first current source and the output node are connected when a voltage of the output node is lower than a reference voltage, and the first current source and the output node are disconnected when a voltage of the output node is higher than the reference voltage, and a voltage generating circuit which is connected between the output node and a second reference potential, and includes a second semiconductor switching element turned on/off based on an output control signal.

Abstract: An electrode group E in which a positive electrode 1 and a negative electrode 2 are spirally-rolled interposing a separator 3 is contained in a bottomed cylindrical can 4. A metal exposure portion 1a provided on an end surface of the positive electrode 1 of the electrode group E or a metal-made current collecting plate 9 electrically connected to the metal exposure portion 1a (called a current collecting portion of a positive electrode) and a cover body 8 also functioning as a positive electrode terminal are electrically connected by a metal lead plate 5. One or more electrolyte resistant metal pressers 10 are arranged and electrically connected between the current collecting portion of the positive electrode and the cover body 8. The electrode group E is applied pressure by the cover body 8 and the bottom portion 4a of the bottomed cylindrical can 4.

Abstract: In a control method of an internal combustion engine exhaust gas control system which is applied to a hybrid vehicle that is powered by an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, an exhaust throttle valve, provided downstream of an exhaust gas control catalyst, is controlled to reduce its opening amount to a target opening amount when it is determined that warm-up control of the internal combustion engine needs to be executed. Next, a target injection quantity of fuel necessary to increase the temperature of exhaust gas flowing into the internal combustion engine to a target exhaust gas temperature is calculated. Then, assist torque from the electric motor is adjusted so that the sum of torque from the internal combustion engine when the fuel injection quantity has been set to the target injection quantity and the assist torque substantially equals a required torque.

Abstract: A hybrid system control apparatus is provided in which an intercooler is disposed upstream of the motor cooling radiator in a flow path of the ambient air flowing in an engine compartment, and/or is disposed such that at least a portion of the intercooler and a portion of the motor cooling radiator contact each other. The hybrid system control apparatus includes a warm-up portion that increases temperature of the boost air by controlling a load of the engine in cold start of a hybrid system such that the boost pressure from the forced air induction device is equal to or higher than a target boost pressure.