Abstract: In a cylindrical guard electrode (5) provided on the outer peripheral side of an electron generation part (31) of an emitter (3), a distal end section (5A) 5 positioned in the emission direction of an electron beam (L1) from the electron generation part (31) includes: a distal end inner-peripheral-side part (A1) having an inner-peripheral-side curved surface portion (a1) convex in the emission direction; a distal end outer-peripheral-side part (A2) having an outer-peripheral-side curved portion (a2) convex in the emission direction; and a 10 distal end middle part (A3) positioned between the distal end inner-peripheral-side (A1) and the distal end outer-peripheral-side part (A2). The distal end middle part (A3) has a flat surface portion (a3) between the inner-peripheral-surface portion (a1) and the outer-peripheral-side curved surface portion (a2) so as to extend in the direction therebetween.

Abstract: A display device attachment structure comprises a plate member configured to be attached to a rear housing of a display device and to which a component of the display device is configured to be attached, a fastening member attached to the plate member for fixing the plate member to a back surface of the rear housing opposite a display surface of the display device via a fastening hole, and a fixing member attached to the plate member for fixing the plate member to the back surface of the rear housing, the fixing member being a different type of fastener than the fastening member.

Abstract: A blower includes a body having a main inlet opening and a discharge opening, a motor assembly housed in the body, and an auxiliary inlet opening. The motor assembly includes a case, a motor and a fan. The case has a first opening and a second opening. The motor is housed within the case. The fan is configured to rotate in response to driving of the motor to generate a flow of air passing the main inlet opening, the first opening, the motor, the second opening and the discharge opening in this order. A first space that communicates with the main inlet opening and the first opening of the case is formed within the body. The auxiliary inlet opening is configured to introduce the air from an outside of the body into the first space.

Abstract: A laser scanning method that is a method for scanning a laser beam emitted from a distal end of an optical fiber in a liquid medium. The laser scanning method includes emission of a pulsed laser beam from the distal end in the medium, wherein the emission of the pulsed laser beam includes: generating a bubble that is to come into contact with the distal end and an operation member by means of the laser beam emitted from the distal end, the operation member being disposed only at one side of the distal end in a radial direction of the optical fiber; and contracting the bubble by stopping the emission of the laser beam from the distal end.

Abstract: A laser scanning method including emitting a pulsed laser beam from a distal end of an optical fiber in a liquid medium during a first period, the pulsed laser beam being emitted for generating a bubble at the distal end, stopping emission of the pulsed laser beam from the distal end during a second period, wherein the first period is a period for moving the optical fiber closer toward an operation member disposed parallel to the optical fiber by utilizing contraction of the bubble that comes into contact with or close to the operation member, and wherein the second period is a period for moving the optical fiber away from the operation member.

Abstract: A vehicle door lock device includes: a latch mechanism switching member which switches a latch mechanism to an unlatching state; a first lever member which moves to an operating position when a door handle is operated to open a door; a link member movable to an unlock position where the link member is engaged with the latch mechanism switching member and the latch mechanism is switched to the unlatching state, and a lock position where the latch mechanism is not switched to the unlatching state; a second lever member releasably engageable with the link member and causing the latch mechanism switching member to move to the operating position by moving from an initial position to an operating position; a biasing member which biases the link member toward the lock position; and a drive unit which drives the second lever member to move from the initial position to the operating position.

Abstract: A blower includes a body having a main inlet opening and a discharge opening, a motor assembly housed in the body, and an auxiliary inlet opening. The motor assembly includes a case, a motor and a fan. The case has a first opening and a second opening. The motor is housed within the case. The fan is configured to rotate in response to driving of the motor to generate a flow of air passing the main inlet opening, the first opening, the motor, the second opening and the discharge opening in this order. A first space that communicates with the main inlet opening and the first opening of the case is formed within the body. The auxiliary inlet opening is configured to introduce the air from an outside of the body into the first space.

Abstract: A high voltage generator including a Cockcroft-Walton circuit structured to receive alternating-current power supplied from an alternating-current power source and apply a potential difference to a load includes: three or more circuit boards arranged at intervals in a thickness direction thereof; capacitors, each of which is shaped flat and mounted to a corresponding one of the circuit boards; and diodes, each of which is connected to corresponding ones of the circuit boards. Out of the three or more circuit boards, each circuit board other than two circuit boards disposed at both ends of the arrangement of the three or more circuit boards includes indentations. Each of the diodes is disposed in a corresponding one of the indentations.

Abstract: In a cylindrical guard electrode (5) provided on the outer peripheral side of an electron generation part (31) of an emitter (3), a distal end section (5A) 5 positioned in the emission direction of an electron beam (L1) from the electron generation part (31) includes: a distal end inner-peripheral-side part (A1) having an inner-peripheral-side curved surface portion (a1) convex in the emission direction; a distal end outer-peripheral-side part (A2) having an outer-peripheral-side curved portion (a2) convex in the emission direction; and a 10 distal end middle part (A3) positioned between the distal end inner-peripheral-side (A1) and the distal end outer-peripheral-side part (A2). The distal end middle part (A3) has a flat surface portion (a3) between the inner-peripheral-surface portion (a1) and the outer-peripheral-side curved surface portion (a2) so as to extend in the direction therebetween.

Abstract: A high voltage generator including a Cockcroft-Walton circuit structured to receive alternating-current power supplied from an alternating-current power source and apply a potential difference to a load includes: three or more circuit boards arranged at intervals in a thickness direction thereof; capacitors, each of which is shaped flat and mounted to a corresponding one of the circuit boards; and diodes, each of which is connected to corresponding ones of the circuit boards. Out of the three or more circuit boards, each circuit board other than two circuit boards disposed at both ends of the arrangement of the three or more circuit boards includes indentations. Each of the diodes is disposed in a corresponding one of the indentations.

Abstract: opening edge surface (45a) of an emitter supporting unit female screw bore (45) provided at an emitter supporting unit (4) extends along radial direction of the emitter supporting unit female screw bore (45). An emitter supporting unit operation hole (32) provided at a flange portion (30a) of a vacuum enclosure (11) has shape into which one selected from a position adjustment shaft (6) and a pressing shaft (9) can be inserted from their shaft tip sides. The position adjustment shaft is provided, on an outer circumferential surface of its tip (61), with a tip side male screw portion (61a) that can be screwed into the emitter supporting unit female screw bore (45). The pressing shaft has, at its tip (91), a tip surface (91a) having a larger diameter than an opening diameter of the emitter supporting unit female screw bore (45) and extending along radial direction of the pressing shaft.

Abstract: A storage device attachment and detachment structure comprising a holding member configured to hold a storage device with a storage medium, and a pressure member including a biasing portion that has an end portion connected to the holding member, the biasing portion being configured to contact the storage device to press the storage device in a biasing direction toward the holding member, the pressure member being movable to a pressure release position in which the pressure member is separated from the storage device in an opposite direction of the biasing direction to release pressure relative to the storage device.

Abstract: A display device comprises a display unit having a display surface, a light source that irradiates light onto the display unit, a rear housing attached to an opposite side of the display unit from the display surface, a rear cover that covers a part of the rear housing, and a speaker attached to the rear housing. The speaker includes a speaker main body, a first cover member to which the speaker main body is attached and having an outer surface facing the rear housing, a second cover member disposed so as to face the first cover member across the speaker main body, a retaining member disposed between the speaker main body and the first cover member and fixed to the rear housing by a fastening member, and a magnet attached to the outer surface of the first cover member and fixing the speaker main body to the rear housing.

Abstract: A screw-tightening tool includes a housing, a motor, a spindle, a first clutch and a second clutch. The first clutch is operably coupled to an output shaft and the spindle, and is configured to transmit power from the output shaft to the spindle only when the output shaft is rotationally driven in a first direction. The second clutch is operably coupled to the output shaft and the spindle, and is configured to transmit the power from the output shaft to the spindle only when the output shaft is rotationally driven in a second direction. An output rotation speed of the spindle when the power is transmitted via the first clutch is different from an output rotation speed of the spindle when the power is transmitted via the second clutch, in response to the same rotation speed of the output shaft of the motor.

Abstract: A laser light irradiation system that irradiates a stone in a body with laser light to cause the stone to be dust, the laser light irradiation system including a laser fiber that emits the laser light, and a processor configured to control a frequency of the laser light emitted from the laser fiber, wherein the processor is configured to switch between first laser light of a first frequency and second laser light of a second frequency such that the second laser light is emitted at least before or after an emission timing of the first laser light, the first laser light generating a water flow that pulls the stone toward the laser fiber, the second laser light generating a water flow that stirs the stone.

Abstract: A vehicle door lock device includes: a latch that has a full latch claw portion and a half latch claw portion, engages with a striker attached to a vehicle body during a closing operation of a vehicle door, is rotatable between an unlatch position and a full latch position, and rotates from the unlatch position to the full latch position; a pawl that is rotatable between an engagement position and a disengagement position, is pressed by the full latch claw portion to rotate in a direction from the engagement position toward the disengagement position, and engages with the full latch claw portion by rotating from the disengagement position to the engagement position; a block lever that is rotatable between a restriction position and a non-restriction position; and a half latch lever that is rotatable between an operation position, and a non-operation position.

Abstract: A vehicular door lock device includes a rotary member being movable between a releasing position and an unlocking correspondent position by rotation of an electric motor and being elastically urged to a neutral position, a release lever switching a latch mechanism to an unlatched state by rotation of the rotary member from the neutral position to the releasing position, an active lever switching the vehicular door lock device to an unlocked state by rotational movement of the rotary member from the neutral position to the unlocking correspondent position and switching the vehicular door lock device to a locked state by rotational movement of the rotary member to a locking correspondent position, and a block lever blocking rotational movement of the rotary member from the locking correspondent position to the releasing position when switching from the unlocked state to the locked state is made.

Abstract: A display device attachment structure comprises a plate member configured to be attached to a rear housing of a display device and to which a component of the display device is configured to be attached, a fastening member attached to the plate member for fixing the plate member to a back surface of the rear housing opposite a display surface of the display device via a fastening hole, and a fixing member attached to the plate member for fixing the plate member to the back surface of the rear housing, the fixing member being a different type of fastener than the fastening member.

Abstract: A display device comprises a display device main body that includes a display, a main body support member that supports a back surface of the display device main body, a cover member that covers the main body support member so as to form a space extending from one end portion of the cover member, which is closer to the back surface than the other end portion, to the other end portion between the main body support member and the cover member and allow wiring connected to the display device main body to pass through the space, and at least one first vibration absorbing member that is provided between the main body support member and the cover member to suppress transmission of vibration between the main body support member and the cover member.

Abstract: Provided is a waveform control device for a laser lithotripsy apparatus including: a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: pulse a laser beam; change an output of the pulsed laser beam; continuously emit the laser beam until a bubble generated from a laser emission end by an irradiation of the laser beam reaches a crushing target; and after the bubble generated from the laser emission end reaches the crushing target, reduce the output of the laser beam or turn off the irradiation of the laser beam during a period in which there is the bubble between the laser emission end and the crushing target, and the bubble does not couple the laser emission end and the crushing target.