Abstract: Completion of atrial-appendage ligation using a ligation loop is confirmed easily and more reliably. Provided is an atrial-appendage ligation treatment tool including: an insertion portion that is introduced into a cardiac sac through a sheath penetrated through a pericardium; a securing part that secures a distal end of the insertion portion to an atrial appendage; and a sensor that is provided at the distal end of the insertion portion and that detects the state of the atrial appendage.

Abstract: Even if atrial-appendage tissue is damaged due to an excessive force unintentionally exerted during ligation of the atrial appendage, the effect of the damage is minimized. Provided is an atrial-appendage ligation treatment tool that is used, together with an atrial-appendage ligation tool having a ligation part, to perform atrial-appendage ligation treatment. The atrial-appendage ligation treatment tool includes: a compressing portion that is introduced, separately from the ligation part, to a cardiac sac through a sheath penetrated through a pericardium and that compresses the atrial appendage from outside to occlude an internal space therein; and a shaft that is disposed in the sheath in an inserted manner and that supports, at a distal end thereof, the compressing portion.

Abstract: An atrial-appendage ligation surgical tool that includes a pressing part and a shaft, in which the pressing part is guided into a pericardium via a sheath penetrating through a pericardial membrane, and includes contact portions that press the vicinity of a base of an atrial appendage and have a circular cross-sectional shape and round distal ends, and in which the shaft is in an inserted state in the sheath, supports the pressing part at a distal end, and has a rigidity that enables transmission of a pressing force acting in the longitudinal direction, applied from the proximal end side of the sheath.

Abstract: An atrial appendage ligation surgical tool that includes: a tubular loop shaft having an inner hole that penetrates therethrough in a longitudinal direction; and a ligature loop that is in an inserted state in the inner hole of the loop shaft and formed of a wire that forms a loop closed with a knot at a distal end of the loop shaft, the loop being contractible in size by being pulled from a proximal end of the loop shaft. The ligature loop is given a tendency to form a flat ring-shaped loop having a size an atrial appendage is insertable when in a free state, and the knot is placed near an end of the loop in a long axis direction thereof.

Abstract: A scanning endoscope apparatus is provided with: a scanner that has an optical fiber, which guides light coming from a light source and makes the light exit from an exit end thereof, and a drive portion, which displaces the exit end in a direction that intersects an optical axis, and that scans the light that is made to exit from the exit end over an observation subject; a light detection portion that receives return light coming from the observation subject generated by scanning the light by the scanner; a speed detection portion that detects the moving speed of the scanner; and a control portion that controls the drive portion so as to decrease a length of a scanning track of the light on the observation subject with an increase in the moving speed detected by the speed detection portion.

Abstract: A tablet supplying portion of a medicine supply apparatus includes: a tablet supplying portion body including a supply cell; a bottom plate; and a bottom plate supporting member. A lower opening portion of the supply cell is opened and closed by the bottom plate. The bottom plate supporting member can restrict a pivotal movement of the bottom plate. The tablet supplying portion body and the bottom plate supporting member are relatively movable in a horizontal direction. The bottom plate pivotally moves between a state where the lower opening portion is blocked from opening and an opened state, along with this relative movement. In a state where the bottom plate closes the lower opening portion, at least part of an upper surface of the bottom plate is located higher than a lower surface in a periphery of the lower opening portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, including the following components (A) to (E), in which the component (D) is contained in an amount of from 0.1 to 1.5% by weight of the whole of the epoxy resin composition: (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a phenol resin; (C) an inorganic filler; (D) a compound represented by the following formula (1) in which R1 represents a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group, and n is an integer of from 1 to 7; and (E) a release agent including at least one of the following (?) and (?): (?) a linear saturated carboxylic acid having a number average molecular weight of from 550 to 800, and (?) an oxidized polyethylene wax: R1CH2—CH2—OnR2??(1).

Abstract: A tablet supplying portion of a medicine supply apparatus includes a tablet supplying portion body including a supply cell, a bottom plate, and a bottom plate supporting member. A lower opening portion of the supply cell is opened and closed by the bottom plate. The bottom plate supporting member can restrict a pivotal movement of the bottom plate. The tablet supplying portion body and the bottom plate supporting member are relatively movable in a horizontal direction. The bottom plate pivotally moves between a state where the lower opening portion is blocked from opening and an opened state, along with this relative movement. In a state where the bottom plate closes the lower opening portion, at least part of an upper surface of the bottom plate is located higher, whereas a lower surface in a periphery of the lower opening portion is located lower.

Abstract: Provided is an endoscope including an inserted portion that is inserted into a body, an observation optical system that is provided at a distal-end portion of the inserted portion and that acquires an image of the heart, and a supporting expansion portion that makes the heart support the distal-end portion of the inserted portion and that is provided with a basal-end-portion balloon, which is provided closer to a base-end portion than the distal-end portion of the inserted portion is, and a distal-end-portion balloon, which is provided so as to overhang forward from the distal-end portion of the inserted portion, wherein the base-end-portion balloon is disposed on the opposite side from the distal-end-portion balloon, with the inserted portion interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A tablet supplying portion of a medicine supply apparatus includes a tablet supplying portion body including a supply cell, a bottom plate, and a bottom plate supporting member. A lower opening portion of the supply cell is opened and closed by the bottom plate. The bottom plate supporting member can restrict a pivotal movement of the bottom plate. The tablet supplying portion body and the bottom plate supporting member are relatively movable in a horizontal direction. The bottom plate pivotally moves between a state where the lower opening portion is blocked from opening and an opened state, along with this relative movement. In a state where the bottom plate closes the lower opening portion, at least part of an upper surface of the bottom plate is located higher, whereas a lower surface in a periphery of the lower opening portion is located lower.

Abstract: A positive photosensitive composition includes: a resin (A) whose dissolution rate in an alkaline developing solution increases by the action of an acid, the resin (A) containing an acid decomposable repeating unit represented by a general formula (I) and an acid nondecomposable repeating unit represented by a general formula (II); and a compound (B) capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with one of active rays and radiations: wherein Xa1 represents one of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cyano group, and a halogen atom, A1 represents one of a single bond and a divalent connecting group, ALG represents an acid leaving hydrocarbon group, Xa2 represents one of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cyano group, and a halogen atom, A2 represents one of a single bond and a divalent connecting group, and ACG represents an acid nonleaving hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: An apparatus including a detecting unit that detects information indicating a state of an organism from the organism or an organism specimen extracted from the organism and outputs the detected information as a current, a current-voltage conversion circuit that converts the current output from the detecting unit into a voltage, a double-integration-type A/D conversion circuit having an integration capacitor that is charged based on a voltage output from the current-voltage conversion circuit and is thereafter discharged, and a counter that measures a charge time during which the integration capacitor is charged and a discharge time during which the integration capacitor is discharged, the A/D conversion circuit converting into digital quantities the charge time and the discharge time measured by the counter, and outputting the digital quantities, and an information processing unit that calculates a state quantity of the organism based on the digital quantities output from the A/D conversion circuit.

Abstract: In a vehicle-mounted display system, a spare attentiveness level deriving part derives a spare attentiveness level that is a parameter determined according to a state of a driver of a vehicle at a present moment and a risk level deriving part derives a risk level that is a parameter determined according to a risk level of an accident at the present moment. Then a display continuously displays a driving state mark that is a reference graphic, determined according to the spare attentiveness level and the risk level, while the driver is driving the vehicle. Therefore, the driver can continuously understand the own state and the risk level of an accident at the present moment.

Abstract: A tablet supplying portion of a medicine supply apparatus includes: a tablet supplying portion body including a supply cell; a bottom plate; and a bottom plate supporting member. A second end portion of the bottom plate pivotally moves about a first end portion of the bottom plate supported by the tablet supplying portion body, whereby a lower opening portion of the supply cell is opened and closed. The bottom plate supporting member can restrict a pivotal movement of the bottom plate. The tablet supplying portion body and the bottom plate supporting member are relatively movable in a horizontal direction. The bottom plate pivotally moves between a state where the lower opening portion is blocked from opening and an opened state, along with this relative movement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, including the following components (A) to (D): (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a phenol resin; (C) an inorganic filler, and (D) a silicone compound containing an alkoxy group directly bonded to silicon atom in an amount of 10 to 45 wt % based on the entire silicone compound and having a specific gravity of 1.10 to 1.30.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, including the following components (A) to (F): (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a phenol resin; (C) a curing accelerator; (D) an inorganic filler; (E) a hydrotalcite compound; and (F) a carboxyl group-containing wax having an acid value of 10 to 100 mg KOH/g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, including the following components (A) to (E), in which the component (D) is contained in an amount of from 0.1 to 1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, including the following components (A) to (D): (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a phenol resin; (C) an inorganic filler, and (D) a silicone compound containing an alkoxy group directly bonded to silicon atom in an amount of 10 to 45 wt % based on the entire silicone compound and having a specific gravity of 1.10 to 1.30.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image projection system implemented with a spatial light modulator (SLM) to modulate an illumination light projected from a light source wherein said SLM comprising a first conductive layer to wire and function as a bit line; a second conductive layer to wire and function as a word line; and a first conductive and second conductive capacitor layers functioning as a capacitor wherein the bit line is wired along a direction crossing the word line and the capacitor is disposed in parallel with the bit line.

Abstract: The waterproof property of a bodily fluid component measurement system is improved. A bodily fluid component measurement system according to this invention includes a sensor unit which is indwelled in the skin of a subject and connected to a bodily fluid in the subject to measure a predetermined bodily fluid component, and a transmission unit which is detachably attached to the sensor unit and transmits, to a display unit, a measurement signal obtained by the sensor unit or a calculation result calculated as a concentration of the bodily fluid component in a bodily fluid of the same type as or different type from the bodily fluid based on the measurement signal. The sensor unit measures the bodily fluid component and transmits the measurement signal to the transmission unit by being activated by electromagnetic induction caused by an electromagnetic field generated by the transmission unit.