Abstract: A blood pressure measurement method includes wrapping a cuff around a site. The cuff includes: a first bladder that swells due to receiving fluid and is arranged at an outer surface of the site that corresponds to a first half surface where an artery is; and a second bladder that swells due to receiving fluid and is arranged at the outer circumferential surface of the measurement site that corresponds to a second half surface opposite to the first half surface. During inflation, the pressure of the second bladder is made larger than the first bladder by supplying more fluid such that the stroke amount by which the second fluid bladder swells is larger in the thickness direction. Then, the two bladders are inflated at equal rates. In the process of inflating, or in the process of deflating at rates equal to each other after inflating, blood pressure is measured.

Abstract: A fluid bladder has a first fluid bladder region that inflates due to receiving a supply of fluid and is contained in a portion of an outer circumferential surface of a measurement site in a lengthwise direction of a cuff, the portion corresponding to a first half surface, where an artery is. Also, the fluid bladder has an expansion region that is expanded due to an action from outside, and is contained at a portion of the outer circumferential surface of the measurement site that corresponds to a second half surface, in the lengthwise direction of the cuff. During inflation for blood pressure measurement, a stroke amount by which the expansion region expands is larger in the thickness direction than a stroke amount by which the first fluid bladder region swells.

Abstract: A zoom lens with a bent optical path includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit including the reflecting member and having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves closer to the first lens unit only toward the object side, the third lens unit moves in such a way that it becomes closest to the second lens unit at an intermediate focal length position in the course of zooming as compared to the state at the wide angle end and the state at the telephoto end, and the fourth lens unit moves. The zoom lens satisfies a certain condition.

Abstract: An appliance includes a belt that is worn by being wound around a wrist. The appliance includes: at least a first display region that is positioned in an area of the belt that corresponds to a volar-side surface or a radius-side surface of the wrist; and a second display region that is positioned in an area of the belt that corresponds to a back-side surface of the wrist. During a blood pressure measurement period, first control for displaying ongoing blood pressure measurement information only on the first display region is performed, and during a period other than the blood pressure measurement period, second control for displaying information that needs to be displayed on the first or second display region is performed.

Abstract: A fluid bladder has a first fluid bladder region that inflates due to receiving a supply of fluid and is contained in a portion of an outer circumferential surface of a measurement site in a lengthwise direction of a cuff, the portion corresponding to a first half surface, where an artery is. Also, the fluid bladder has an expansion region that is expanded due to an action from outside, and is contained at a portion of the outer circumferential surface of the measurement site that corresponds to a second half surface, in the lengthwise direction of the cuff. During inflation for blood pressure measurement, a stroke amount by which the expansion region expands is larger in the thickness direction than a stroke amount by which the first fluid bladder region swells.

Abstract: A blood pressure meter includes a pump and a first fluid path provided inside a main body. The first fluid path feeds a fluid from the pump to a fluid bladder or discharges the fluid from the fluid bladder. A pressure sensor is mounted on a first substrate disposed inside the main body. A second fluid path that introduces the fluid from the fluid bladder to the pressure sensor is provided. The second fluid path includes an inlet pipe that is integrally formed with a sensor package that incorporates the pressure sensor, and extends straight between the fluid bladder and the pressure sensor. A second substrate on which a blood pressure measurement element is mounted is disposed in a space that is located between the first substrate and the fluid bladder in a thickness direction and is adjacent to the second fluid path in a planar direction.

Abstract: Provided is a fragrance device for vehicle with an aim to restrain an olfactory adaptation of an occupant, to continuously provide the occupant for a long time with changes in sensory intensity of smell caused by intermittent smell emission, and to provide the occupant for a long time with a relaxation effect due to a smell, the fragrance device for vehicle includes: a fragrance holder holding a fragrance; a blowing means for blowing air to the fragrance holder to blow a smell of the fragrance into a vehicle cabin; and a fragrance blowing control means for sequentially repeating the repeating of a predetermined cycle of blowing a smell of the fragrance and a pause predetermined times by intermittently blowing the smell at each cycle, and then the providing of a stop time for stopping the blowing out of the smell of the fragrance for a predetermined time period.

Abstract: Provided is an image reading apparatus, including: a reader comprising a light source upstream of an image reading position and a light source downstream of the image reading position in a moving direction, each light sources sequentially irradiating an original with light of different colors, the reader reading an original image at the image reading position while moving each light sources relatively to the original in the moving direction; a controller controlling the reading of the original image by the reader by setting a light amount ratio of the light source arranged on the upstream side to the light source arranged on the downstream side for a particular color of the different colors to be different from a light amount ratio for another color; and a detector detecting an image pattern of the particular color depending on the light amount ratio from the original image read by the reader.

Abstract: A trench gate semiconductor device includes a high concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a low concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and a trench. The second conductivity type semiconductor is provided at a position corresponding to the bottom-side portion of the trench. The junction between the first conductivity type semiconductor and the second conductivity type semiconductor is provided at the side of the bottom-side portion of the trench. The junction extends upward from the interface between the high concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer and the low concentration first conductivity type semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A zoom lens with a bent optical path includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit including the reflecting member and having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves closer to the first lens unit only toward the object side, the third lens unit moves in such a way that it becomes closest to the second lens unit at an intermediate focal length position in the course of zooming as compared to the state at the wide angle end and the state at the telephoto end, and the fourth lens unit moves. The zoom lens satisfies a certain condition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to acid-fast bacillary lipoarabinomannan, particularly tubercle bacillary lipoarabinomannan, the antibody being set forth below: (A) a monoclonal antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region joined via a linker, the heavy chain variable region comprising heavy chains CDR1 to CDR3 shown in (a) to (c) below, and the light chain variable region comprising light chains CDR1 to CDR3 shown in (d) to (f) below: (a) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, (b) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2, (c) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 3, (d) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4, (e) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5, and (f) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set fo

Abstract: A zoom lens with a bent optical path includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit including the reflecting member and having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves closer to the first lens unit only toward the object side, the third lens unit moves in such a way that it becomes closest to the second lens unit at an intermediate focal length position in the course of zooming as compared to the state at the wide angle end and the state at the telephoto end, and the fourth lens unit moves. The zoom lens satisfies a certain condition.

Abstract: The zoom lens comprises, from an object side, a first lens group, a second lens group that includes an aperture stop moving integrally therewith, a third lens group, and a fourth lens group having, respectively, negative, positive, negative, and positive refracting power, and during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, a spacing between the first and second lens groups becomes narrow, between the second and third lens groups changes, and between the third and fourth lens groups grows wide, and the first lens group includes a first lens having negative refracting power, a second lens having a reflective surface for bending a light ray coming out of an object and a third lens having positive refracting power, and in said second lens group, a most image-plane-side surface of a lens having negative refracting power is configured in a concave shape on an image plane side.

Abstract: The present invention provides a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to acid-fast bacillary lipoarabinomannan, particularly tubercle bacillary lipoarabinomannan, the antibody being set forth below: (A) a monoclonal antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region joined via a linker, the heavy chain variable region comprising heavy chains CDR1 to CDR3 shown in (a) to (c) below, and the light chain variable region comprising light chains CDR1 to CDR3 shown in (d) to (f) below: (a) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, (b) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2, (c) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 3, (d) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4, (e) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5, and (f) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set

Abstract: A zoom lens with a bent optical path includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit including the reflecting member and having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves closer to the first lens unit only toward the object side, the third lens unit moves in such a way that it becomes closest to the second lens unit at an intermediate focal length position in the course of zooming as compared to the state at the wide angle end and the state at the telephoto end, and the fourth lens unit moves. The zoom lens satisfies a certain condition.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit including a lens. The distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit changes during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens unit consists, in order from the object side, of a front sub lens unit having a negative refractive power, an optical path bending member, and a rear sub lens unit having a positive refractive power. The front sub lens unit includes a biconcave single lens, and the rear sub lens unit includes one or two single lenses.

Abstract: A zoom lens with a bent optical path includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit including the reflecting member and having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, the second lens unit moves closer to the first lens unit only toward the object side, the third lens unit moves in such a way that it becomes closest to the second lens unit at an intermediate focal length position in the course of zooming as compared to the state at the wide angle end and the state at the telephoto end, and the fourth lens unit moves. The zoom lens satisfies a certain condition.

Abstract: Generation of byproducts is inhibited in a buffer space even in a single-wafer-type apparatus using the buffer space. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes (a) loading a substrate into a process chamber; (b) supplying a first-element-containing gas via a buffer chamber of a shower head to the substrate placed in the process chamber; (c) supplying a second-element-containing gas to the substrate via the buffer chamber; and (d) performing an exhaust process between (b) and (c), wherein (d) includes: exhausting an atmosphere of the buffer chamber; and exhausting an atmosphere of the process chamber after exhausting the atmosphere of the buffer chamber.

Abstract: Generation of byproducts is inhibited in a buffer space even in a single-wafer-type apparatus using the buffer space. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes (a) loading a substrate into a process chamber; (b) supplying a first-element-containing gas via a buffer chamber of a shower head to the substrate placed in the process chamber; (c) supplying a second-element-containing gas to the substrate via the buffer chamber; and (d) performing an exhaust process between (b) and (c), wherein (d) includes: exhausting an atmosphere of the buffer chamber; and exhausting an atmosphere of the process chamber after exhausting the atmosphere of the buffer chamber.

Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit including a lens. The distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit changes during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens unit consists, in order from the object side, of a front sub lens unit having a negative refractive power, an optical path bending member, and a rear sub lens unit having a positive refractive power. The front sub lens unit includes a biconcave single lens, and the rear sub lens unit includes one or two single lenses.