Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, methods, and apparatus, for coordinating scanners in an ultrasound cart. An ultrasound system can include an ultrasound cart having a scanner holder configured to hold ultrasound scanners, a display device configured to display a visual representation of the scanner holder, and at least one of the ultrasound scanners. The visual representation can be implemented to identify locations of the ultrasound scanners on the scanner holder. The ultrasound scanners can be configured to indicate, while being held in the scanner holder, that one ultrasound scanner of the ultrasound scanners is to be selected for an ultrasound examination. The ultrasound scanner can also be configured to implement a first ultrasound imaging mode when a display device is attached to the ultrasound cart, and a second ultrasound imaging mode and not the first ultrasound imaging mode when the display device is removed from the ultrasound cart.

Abstract: A power supply system comprises an alternating-current sweep unit that outputs alternating-current power from a U-phase battery string, a V-phase battery string, and a W-phase battery string that are Y-connected, a first power supply circuit that converts output of a direct-current sweep unit to alternating-current power using an inverter and outputs the alternating-current power, the direct-current sweep unit including a first battery string; and a control device. An energy density of a battery included in the U-phase battery string, the V-phase battery string, and the W-phase battery string is higher than an energy density of a battery included in the first battery string.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure processes information about a position of an object moved by a mobile object, and includes an output unit configured to output the information about the position of the object. The information about the position of the object is obtained based on holding information indicating whether the object is held or not held by the mobile object and information about a position of the mobile object. The information about the position of the mobile object is obtained based on a captured image captured by an imaging device.

Abstract: Systems and methods to provide an ultrasound scanner with a display interface are described. An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner having an interface configured to display a visual representation, and a first transceiver configured to communicate over a communication link. The ultrasound system includes a display device having a reader configured to read the visual representation displayed by the ultrasound scanner, and a second transceiver configured to, responsive to the reader reading the visual representation, initiate communication with the first transceiver of the ultrasound scanner over the communication link to pair the ultrasound scanner and the display device.

Abstract: A power supply system includes an alternating current sweep unit and a first power supply circuit, and each of a U-phase battery string, a V-phase battery string, a W-phase battery string, and a first battery string includes a plurality of battery circuit modules connected in series, and each of the battery circuit modules includes a battery, output terminals, a first switch, and a second switch.

Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric stack including: a substrate (1); a bottom electrode film (2) on the substrate; a piezoelectric film (3) on the bottom electrode film, having a planar area smaller than a planar area of the bottom electrode film; a top electrode film (4) on the piezoelectric film; and an insulating film (5) provided from the top electrode film to the bottom electrode film and covering at least a part of a side surface of the piezoelectric film, wherein the insulating film has a slope (9a) filling a step between a top surface of the top electrode film and a top surface of the bottom electrode film, and the slope has a shape alleviating the step.

Abstract: In a power supply system, a control device is configured to select one or more target batteries that are to perform requested energy management from a plurality of batteries included in an alternating-current battery string and a direct-current battery string, and perform the requested energy management using the one or more target batteries with the batteries other than the one or more target batteries being disconnected from a circuit.

Abstract: A computer obtains a chest X-ray image, detects boundary lines in the chest X-ray image using a model constructed through machine learning, sets a third lung area including at least one of a first lung area or a second lung area, extracts a vascular index indicating at least one of thickness or density of at least one pulmonary blood vessel present in an area included in the third lung area, determines whether the area included in the third lung area is in an abnormal state on a basis of the vascular index and a reference index based on indices extracted in advance from an area in chest X-ray images in a normal state corresponding to the area included in the third lung area, and outputs, if determining that the area included in the third lung area is in an abnormal state, information indicating a result of the determination.

Abstract: Embodiments of ultrasound utility station and methods for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes displaying a status of the ultrasound machine that indicates a location of the ultrasound machine and an amount of charge of a battery of the ultrasound machine, and displaying an additional status that indicates an additional location of the ultrasound utility station and one or more available ultrasound probes on the ultrasound utility station. After receiving a selection of an ultrasound probe of the available ultrasound probes and a user input that determines a schedule for said configuring the ultrasound machine, the method instructs the ultrasound utility station to charge the battery of the ultrasound machine and provide the ultrasound probe for transfer to the ultrasound machine.

Abstract: In a thermal decomposition extruder, a hopper has an upper end closed. A sidewall of the hopper is provided with an emission hole for emission of decomposition gas produced during thermal decomposition of a polymer, to the outside of the hopper.

Abstract: A solid titanium catalyst component (I) for olefin polymer production contains titanium, magnesium, halogen, and a cyclic multiple-ester-group-containing compound (a) represented by the formula (1). Preferably, a propylene polymer that is obtained by the olefin polymerization method and has specific thermal properties as determined primarily by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

Abstract: The solid titanium catalyst component (I) of the present invention contains titanium, magnesium, halogen, and a cyclic multiple-ester-group-containing compound (a) represented by the following formula (1).

Abstract: An X-ray phase imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source; an X-ray detector; a plurality of gratings; a subject holder arranged in an X-ray irradiation area and configured to hold the subject; and an image processor configured to generate an X-ray phase contrast image based on an intensity distribution of the X-rays detected by the X-ray detector. The subject holder is formed of a first material having an X-ray transmittance greater than metal and a scattering degree smaller than the metal.

Abstract: An electric power supply system includes an alternating current electric power supply circuit that converts direct current electric power of a first direct current sweep unit including a battery string into alternating current electric power using a first inverter and outputs it, and an alternating current sweep unit that includes a U-phase battery string, a V-phase battery string, and a W-phase battery string that are Y-connected. Output densities of batteries of the battery string are higher than output densities of batteries of the alternating current sweep unit. Alternating current electric power is output from the alternating current sweep unit and the alternating current electric power supply circuit, and after a predetermined period elapses, the output of the alternating current electric power from the alternating current electric power supply circuit is stopped.

Abstract: In a power supply system, a control device is configured to adjust a state of charge of each of an alternating-current battery string and a direct-current battery string by power transfer between the alternating-current battery string and the direct-current battery string before performing requested energy management.

Abstract: A management apparatus is configured to adjust an upper limit amount of electric power for charging. The management apparatus may be provided in an electric vehicle or a charging apparatus. The management apparatus may include a dial for adjusting the upper limit amount of electric power, and a user may be able to adjust the upper limit amount of electric power by operating the dial. A user who drives 300 km per week for commute may set the amount of electric power corresponding to 300 km (plus extra travel distance) for the upper limit amount of electric power. The user may connect a battery to the charging apparatus on weekends. When the battery has a capacity to store the amount of electric power corresponding to, for example, 500 km, the management apparatus may stop charging when the battery is charged with the set upper limit amount of electric power.

Abstract: A power supply system that outputs AC power to an object to which power is to be supplied includes: a first power supply circuit including a DC battery string and an inverter and configured to output first AC power; a second power supply circuit including an AC battery string and configured to output second AC power; and a control device. In the first mode, power is transferred between the object and the second power supply circuit. In the second mode, power is transferred between the object and each of the first and second power supply circuits. The control device starts supplying the second AC power to the object in the first mode, and when a power supply current becomes larger than a first threshold, supply the first and second AC power to the object in the second mode.

Abstract: Embodiments of ultrasound utility station and methods for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes displaying a status of the ultrasound machine that indicates a location of the ultrasound machine and an amount of charge of a battery of the ultrasound machine, and displaying an additional status that indicates an additional location of the ultrasound utility station and one or more available ultrasound probes on the ultrasound utility station. After receiving a selection of an ultrasound probe of the available ultrasound probes and a user input that determines a schedule for said configuring the ultrasound machine, the method instructs the ultrasound utility station to charge the battery of the ultrasound machine and provide the ultrasound probe for transfer to the ultrasound machine.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a forcible disconnecting unit configured to forcibly disconnect a battery in a battery module from series regardless of a gate drive signal. The power supply system obtains the number of batteries included in the battery modules which can be forcibly disconnected from the series according to the maximum voltage of the batteries that can be connected in the series and a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be output, and forcibly disconnects the obtained number of the batteries from the series by the forcible disconnecting unit.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a plurality of battery modules, the battery modules are connected to one another in series according to a gate driving signal from a controller, the power supply device delays the gate driving signal in a gate driving signal processing circuit included in each of the battery modules, and thereafter, transmits the gate driving signal from an upstream to a downstream of the series connection, and the power supply device controls the battery modules by superimposing a control signal for the battery module on the gate driving signal.