Abstract: According to one embodiment, an insertion area setting unit sets an insertion area in a predetermined range with a planned insertion route of a puncture needle in volume data being a central axis. An expansion image generation unit generates an expansion image expressing a brightness distribution on a side surface of the insertion area in the volume data by two-dimensional polar coordinates defined by a rotational angle around the central axis and a distance from a reference point on the central axis. A display unit displays the expansion image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a silicon wafer including a step of, after growing the oxide film on one surface of a raw material silicon wafer by chemical-vapor deposition, performing double-side polishing of the raw material silicon wafer in such a manner that a suede polishing pad or a velour polishing pad with an asker-C rubber hardness of 50° or more but less than 90° is used for the oxide-film surface.

Abstract: An imaging part acquires a plurality of ultrasound image data by sequentially imaging the subject with ultrasound waves. A display controller causes a display to display, side by side, a plurality of ultrasound images based on the plurality of ultrasound image data acquired by the imaging part. Moreover, the display controller causes the display to display measurement markers for obtaining quantitative information of tissues shown in the ultrasound images in a state superimposed in relatively the same positions on the plurality of ultrasound images.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to one embodiment transmits an ultrasonic wave into a predetermined region including a diagnosis target of an object, receives a reflected wave from the predetermined region, and acquires ultrasonic image data based on the reflected wave and comprises a correction unit which executes tone correction of the ultrasonic image data, and in the tone correction, the correction unit calculates a histogram associated with brightness of the image data and calculates a brightness distribution range corresponding to the diagnosis target and a tone correction function using the histogram.

Abstract: A fixing device that fixes an unfixed image on a sheet by heat and pressure, including an endless belt, a magnetic flux generator provided outside the running path of the belt and generating magnetic flux to cause an induction heating layer in the belt to heat, a heat-control plate provided inside the running path and including a magnetic shunt alloy layer that loses magnetism upon exceeding a predetermined temperature, and a support member supporting the heat-control plate. The heat-control plate includes a first region facing the magnetic flux generator with the belt therebetween and second regions extending continuously in a circumferential direction of the belt from opposite edges of the first region. Inside the running path, the support member, is in contact with the heat-control plate at the second regions and not at the first region so as to support the heat-control plate at the second regions.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and a 3-D image data scan method that can continuously display 3-D image data in both a pre-scan mode and a triggered entire volume mode by collecting the volume data of a plurality of volume scan regions of an object from the start of the scan. In the pre-scan mode, a plurality of 3-D sub-regions are set by dividing an object scan region along a direction vertical to the reference scan plane. In a triggered volume mode for collecting volume data, a 3-D scan of a 3-D sub-region including the reference scan plane is performed in preference to other 3-D sub-regions in order to continuously display 2-D image data acquired on the reference scan plane in the pre-scan mode and MPR image data acquired in the entire triggered volume mode from an initial scan time.

Abstract: In an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, a scan controller inputs a trigger signal corresponding to heartbeat period, scans an ultrasonic beam such that a particular diagnostic region of a body under examination is scanned with the ultrasonic beam a plurality of times in response to each trigger signal, and controls the scan repetition period by controlling the pulse repetition period of the transmission pulse. An image generation unit generates an image corresponding to each of the pulse repetition periods. The scan controller controls the pulse repletion period such that an integral multiple of the scan repetition period is equal to a reference value determined based on the period of the trigger signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, based on a reception signal, the Doppler signal generation unit generates a first Doppler signal attributed to motion of a living body in a ROI and a second Doppler signal attributed to slower motion. The velocity display scale determination unit determines first and second velocity display scales based on velocity distribution ranges for the first and second Doppler signals, respectively. The image generation unit generates first and second Doppler images based on the first and second Doppler signals, respectively. The display unit displays the first and second Doppler images with the first and second velocity display scales, respectively.

Abstract: A developing device is provided with a developer transporting member for transporting a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a toner transporting member opposite to the developer transporting member and opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrying member; a first electric field forming device, which is composed of a power source for the developer transporting member and a power source for the toner transporting member, for shifting the toner in the developer held onto the developer transporting member to the toner transporting member; and a second electric field forming device for shifting the toner held onto the toner transporting member to an electrostatic latent image on the carrying member. Operation of the first electric field forming device is controlled based on an electric current flowing in the developer transporting member power source, which is detected by a detecting block.

Abstract: A developing device is provided with a first transporting member for transporting a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a second transporting member opposite to the first transporting member to interpose a first spatial region therebetween and opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrying member to interpose a second spatial region therebetween; a first electric field forming device, composed of first and second power sources, for shifting the toner in the developer held onto the first transporting member to the second transporting member; and a second electric field forming device, composed of the second power source, for shifting the toner held onto the second transporting member to an electrostatic latent image on the carrying member. The operation of the second electric field forming device is controlled based on electric currents flowing in the first and second power sources, which are detected by first and second detecting blocks, respectively.

Abstract: As one illustrative embodiment, a first calculator obtains a first power value, which is the sum of the absolute value of a plurality of data obtained by a plurality of transmissions. A velocity-vector calculating unit obtains the velocity vector based on a plurality of data. A second calculator obtains a second power value, which is the absolute value of the velocity vector. A post-filter processor comprises one or more post-filter processes to determine the power value, and in the one or more post-filter processes, a power value other than the power value used in obtaining the threshold value for determination is selected as the power value at each observation point and the selected power value is determined based on the threshold value for determination.

Abstract: A developing device has a first toner carrier which carries, on an outer peripheral surface, toner to be fed to an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier and which is arranged out of contact with the image carrier; a second toner carrier which carries, on an outer peripheral surface, toner to be fed to the electrostatic latent image and which is arranged out of contact with the image carrier; and a developer carrier which carries a developer made up of toner and carriers and which feeds the toner to the first toner carrier and the second toner carrier. The toner carried by each of the first toner carrier and the second toner carrier is caused to adhere to the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier by application of an AC bias voltage to each of the first toner carrier and the second toner carrier.

Abstract: A developing device having: a plurality of toner support members for supporting toner on their peripheral surfaces, the plurality of toner support members being arranged in a direction of rotation of an image support member out of contact with the image support member; and a developer support member for supporting a developer containing toner and carriers and supplying the toner to the plurality of toner support members; wherein the plurality of toner support members have dielectric layers on their surfaces, the dielectric layers satisfying a condition d1/?1>d2/?2; and wherein the first toner support member and the second toner support member are connected to a single power source.

Abstract: A developing device including a housing, toner a developing roller, and a feed roller in pressure contact with the developing roller so as to form a nip portion and which feeds toner to the developing roller. The developing device including a feed stabilizing member contacting a lower portion of the feed roller so as to form a second nip portion and restricting toner feed quantity. The feed stabilizing member extending from a generally triangular-shaped first region below the first nip portion up to one side of the nip portion opposite to the first region side. The developing device further including a toner circulation path for pushing back toner from the first region through below the feed stabilizing member to a second region on the one side opposite to the first region side with an aid of pressure of toner that tends to accumulate in the first region.

Abstract: A developing device having a plurality of toner carrying members for carrying toner on their outer peripheral surfaces, the plurality of toner carrying members being placed along a rotating direction of an image carrying member and out of contact with the image carrying member; and a developer carrying member for carrying a developer composed of toner and carriers and for supplying the toner to the plurality of toner carrying members. In the developing device, AC bias voltages are applied to the toner carrying members so as to cause the toner carried by the toner carrying members to stick to an electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrying member by the effect of electric fields induced by a voltage of the electrostatic latent image and the AC bias voltages applied to the toner carrying members.

Abstract: A shade apparatus for a vehicle includes first and second rails, each of which includes a guide groove extending in a longitudinal direction thereof, arranged so as to keep a first distance therebetween in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, a roller shaft provided at one end portions of the respective first and second rails and arranged so as to extend in the orthogonal direction, a shade member reeled on and reeled out from the roller shaft, and first and second sliding members provided at the shade member, arranged while keeping a second distance therebetween along a reel out direction of the shade member, and being slidable within the corresponding guide grooves, wherein the first distance between the first and second rails is set to be relatively greater at a portion thereof than the second distance between the first and second sliding members in a natural state.

Abstract: A developing device is provided with a first transporting member for transporting a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a second transporting member opposite to the first transporting member to interpose a first spatial region therebetween and opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrying member to interpose a second spatial region therebetween; a first electric field forming device, composed of first and second power sources, for shifting the toner in the developer held onto the first transporting member to the second transporting member; and a second electric field forming device, composed of the second power source, for shifting the toner held onto the second transporting member to an electrostatic latent image on the carrying member. The operation of the second electric field forming device is controlled based on electric currents flowing in the first and second power sources, which are detected by first and second detecting blocks, respectively.

Abstract: A developing device is provided with a developer transporting member for transporting a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a toner transporting member opposite to the developer transporting member and opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrying member; a first electric field forming device, which is composed of a power source for the developer transporting member and a power source for the toner transporting member, for shifting the toner in the developer held onto the developer transporting member to the toner transporting member; and a second electric field forming device for shifting the toner held onto the toner transporting member to an electrostatic latent image on the carrying member. Operation of the first electric field forming device is controlled based on an electric current flowing in the developer transporting member power source, which is detected by a detecting block.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus has a unit which sets a display region for displaying a 3D image, a unit which transmits and receives ultrasound waves, a unit which generates volume data, a unit, on the basis of the volume data, which sets an analysis region, a unit, on the basis of the data on the analysis region contained in the volume data, which analyzes a fluctuations in signal intensity over time, a unit, on the basis of the analysis result, which calculates a cardiac cycle, a unit, on the basis of the cardiac cycle and the volume data, which generates data set constructed by data with substantially equal cardiac cycle, and generates data sets corresponding to a plurality of cardiac cycles, and a unit which displays the 3D images based on the data sets as a moving image.

Abstract: As an ROI for display and an ROI for valve observation as well as a projecting direction are input, a volume-rendering processing unit creates a first image in the ROI for display through volume rendering processing, and the ray-tracing processing unit creates a second image in the ROI for valve observation through ray tracing processing. An image compositing unit then creates a composite image by compositing the first image and the second image, and the composite image created by the image compositing unit (13) is displayed on a monitor.