Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes the following. An ultrasound probe includes a transmitting opening including a plurality of transducers, and the transmitting opening includes a plurality of transducer groups including at least a first transducer group and a second transducer group. A transmitter generates a plurality of driving signals with different driving waveforms including at least a first driving signal and a second driving signal, provides a time delay to the plurality of driving signals so that the transmitting ultrasound focuses to a same focal point, outputs the first driving signal to the first transducer group, outputs the second driving signal to the second transducer group, and outputs the plurality of driving signals to the plurality of transducer groups of the transmitting opening. A receiver receives the receiving signal from the ultrasound probe. An image generator generates the ultrasound image data from the receiving signal.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe, a transmitter, a receiver, a signal intensity adjuster and an image data generator. The ultrasound probe transmits transmission ultrasound to an examination object, receives echo from the examination object and generates an echo signal. The transmitter generates a drive signal and outputs the drive signal to the ultrasound probe to cause the ultrasound probe to generate the transmission ultrasound. The receiver receives the echo signal from the ultrasound probe. The signal intensity adjuster adjusts signal intensity of the echo signal to signal intensity having a flat frequency range. The image data generator generates ultrasound image data from the echo signal having the adjusted signal intensity.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic equipment is equipped with an ultrasound probe which transmits an ultrasound wave toward an inner part of a subject and receives the ultrasound wave reflected with a particle body in the subject and acquires a received signal to displays internal body information in the subject based on the received signal. The ultrasound diagnostic equipment includes: an acquisition section to acquire the received signal for each of ultrasound waves of which frequencies differ; an intensity ratio calculation section to calculate an intensity ratio of the ultrasound wave for each of frequencies; and a display section to display the information on the intensity ratio.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound toward a subject due to a pulse signal being input and which outputs a received signal by receiving reflected ultrasound from the subject and a transmission unit which makes the ultrasound probe generate the transmission ultrasound by outputting a pulse signal whose drive waveform is formed of rectangular waves. The transmission unit outputs pulse signals whose drive waveforms are asymmetric to each other on a same scanning line for a plurality of times with a time interval therebetween. The ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus further includes an image generation unit which combines received signals each of which obtained from the reflected ultrasound of the transmission ultrasound generated by each output of pulse signal and generates ultrasound image data on a basis of a composite received signal.

Abstract: Described is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus which includes an ultrasound probe and which generates ultrasound image data sets for displaying an ultrasound image. The ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a transmitting unit which performs ultrasound scanning for a plurality of times so that a part of or all of scan regions overlap in a plurality of different directions, an image processing unit which generates a plurality of ultrasound image data sets according to the receive signals and an anisotropic aspect evaluation unit which evaluates an anisotropic aspect of ultrasound wave reflection in the subject according to at least either of the ultrasound image data sets and the receive signals. In the ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus, the image processing unit generates synthetic image data in which the plurality of ultrasound image data sets are synthesized according to an evaluation result of the anisotropic aspect evaluation unit.

Abstract: An ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe, a transmitter and an image generator. The ultrasound probe transmits ultrasound to a subject and generates a reception signal. The transmitter drives the ultrasound probe to transmit ultrasound that satisfies the following requirements: a wave packet duration is equivalent to or more than the length of 1.5 waveforms at the lower limit frequency of the ?6 dB transmission bandwidth of the ultrasound probe; signal intensity of frequency components in the ?6 dB transmission bandwidth has a standard deviation of 6 or less; and lower limit frequency components in the ?6 dB transmission bandwidth have a signal intensity of ?8 [dB] or higher, the signal intensity being normalized with respect to the maximum intensity of 0 [dB]. The image generator extracts harmonic components from the reception signal and generates ultrasound image data.

Abstract: Described is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus which includes an ultrasound probe and which generates ultrasound image data sets for displaying an ultrasound image. The ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a transmitting unit which performs ultrasound scanning for a plurality of times so that a part of or all of scan regions overlap in a plurality of different directions, an image processing unit which generates a plurality of ultrasound image data sets according to the receive signals and an anisotropic aspect evaluation unit which evaluates an anisotropic aspect of ultrasound wave reflection in the subject according to at least either of the ultrasound image data sets and the receive signals. In the ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus, the image processing unit generates synthetic image data in which the plurality of ultrasound image data sets are synthesized according to an evaluation result of the anisotropic aspect evaluation unit.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe includes: an ultrasound input/output unit to output a transmission ultrasound to a test object by a pulse signal; and a signal input/output unit to output a reception signal when the ultrasound input/output unit receives a reflected ultrasound from the test object, wherein the ultrasound probe is set so that a difference between maximum and minimum values of a group delay in a transmission/reception frequency band at ?20 dB of the ultrasonic probe is equal to or less than 0.15 radian, the group delay being obtained from a phase difference for each frequency between the input pulse signal and the reception signal obtained from the reflected ultrasound of the transmission ultrasound output by the pulse signal, or so that a standard deviation of the group delay in the transmission/reception frequency band at ?20 dB of the ultrasonic probe is equal to or less than 0.025.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound toward a subject due to a pulse signal being input and which outputs a received signal by receiving reflected ultrasound from the subject and a transmission unit which makes the ultrasound probe generate the transmission ultrasound by outputting a pulse signal whose drive waveform is formed of rectangular waves. The transmission unit outputs pulse signals whose drive waveforms are asymmetric to each other on a same scanning line for a plurality of times with a time interval therebetween. The ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus further includes an image generation unit which combines received signals each of which obtained from the reflected ultrasound of the transmission ultrasound generated by each output of pulse signal and generates ultrasound image data on a basis of a composite received signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound toward a subject due to a pulse signal being input and which outputs a received signal by receiving reflected ultrasound from the subject, and a transmission unit which makes the ultrasound probe generate the transmission ultrasound by outputting a pulse signal whose drive waveform is formed of rectangular waves. The frequency power spectrum of the pulse signal has intensity peaks in a frequency band included in a transmission frequency band at ?20 dB of the ultrasound probe on a low frequency side and a high frequency side of a center frequency of the transmission frequency band, respectively, and intensity of a frequency region between the intensity peaks is ?20 dB or greater with a maximum value of intensity among the intensity peaks being a reference.

Abstract: The control unit 60 controls driving units 45b, 45c and 45d in such a manner that, when the detecting unit 36b detects at least the one paper sheet P2, the detected paper sheet P2 and the bundled of paper sheet P1 escrowed in the loop portion are merged to each other, and that the merged paper sheets P1 and P2 are escrowed in the loop portion. At this time, the control unit 60 controls the drive units 45b, 45c and 45d such that, after the detected paper sheet P2 and the escrowed bundle of paper sheet P1 have been merged or partly merged to each other, the merged or partly-merged paper sheets P1 and P2 are accelerated in at least the loop portion.

Abstract: Described is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus which includes an ultrasound probe and which generates ultrasound image data sets for displaying an ultrasound image. The ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a transmitting unit which performs ultrasound scanning for a plurality of times so that a part of or all of scan regions overlap in a plurality of different directions, an image processing unit which generates a plurality of ultrasound image data sets according to the receive signals and an anisotropic aspect evaluation unit which evaluates an anisotropic aspect of ultrasound wave reflection in the subject according to at least either of the ultrasound image data sets and the receive signals. In the ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus, the image processing unit generates synthetic image data in which the plurality of ultrasound image data sets are synthesized according to an evaluation result of the anisotropic aspect evaluation unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel compound and a pharmaceutical product, each having a remarkable uricosuric effect. Specifically disclosed are: a novel phenol derivative represented by general formula (1) that is shown in FIG. 1; a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a hydrate of the derivative or the salt; and a solvate of the derivative or the salt. (In the formula, R1 and R2 may be the same or different and each represents a lower alkyl group, a lower alkenyl group, a lower alkynyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a haloalkyl group, a haloalkoxy group, an alkylsulfanyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, a lower alkyl-substituted carbamoyl group, a saturated nitrogen-containing heterocyclic N-carbonyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group or a hydrogen atom; R3 represents a lower alkyl group, a haloalkyl group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group or a hydrogen atom; and X represents a sulfur atom, an —S(?O)— group or an —S(?O)2— group.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic equipment is equipped with an ultrasound probe which transmits an ultrasound wave toward an inner part of a subject and receives the ultrasound wave reflected with a particle body in the subject and acquires a received signal to displays internal body information in the subject based on the received signal. The ultrasound diagnostic equipment includes: an acquisition section to acquire the received signal for each of ultrasound waves of which frequencies differ; an intensity ratio calculation section to calculate an intensity ratio of the ultrasound wave for each of frequencies; and a display section to display the information on the intensity ratio.

Abstract: The transmitting section of an ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus outputs a square pulse signal to allow a transducer to generate transmission ultrasound. The transmitting section sets the duty ratio of a pulse signal so that one of peaks of the first step response of the transducer which is generated when a change is made to voltage of the pulse signal overlaps with one of peaks of the second step response of the transducer which is generated when another change is made to the voltage of the pulse signal.

Abstract: A paper sheet handling apparatus includes a transport unit having a main transport path and a return transport path, a detection unit arranged at a predetermined detection position in the main transport path, and a controller controlling the transport unit based on the detection result of the detection unit. The controller leads, at the diversion position in the main transport path, a paper sheet transported along the main transport path into the return transport path, transports a subsequent paper sheet along the main transport path, and controls the transportation of the paper sheet and the transportation of the subsequent paper sheet respectively in response to the arrival of the subsequent paper sheet at the detection position such that the paper sheets are stacked into a batch at the joining position of the two transport paths with certain parts of the paper sheets being aligned.

Abstract: The control unit 60 controls driving units 45b, 45c and 45d in such a manner that, when the detecting unit 36b detects at least the one paper sheet P2, the detected paper sheet P2 and the bundled of paper sheet P1 escrowed in the loop portion are merged to each other, and that the merged paper sheets P1 and P2 are escrowed in the loop portion. At this time, the control unit 60 controls the drive units 45b, 45c and 45d such that, after the detected paper sheet P2 and the escrowed bundle of paper sheet P1 have been merged or partly merged to each other, the merged or partly-merged paper sheets P1 and P2 are accelerated in at least the loop portion.

Abstract: A paper sheet stacking apparatus includes: a feeding unit 26 configured to feed in paper sheets one by one from outside; a rotary body 10 including a holding member 16 for holding the paper sheet fed in by the feeding unit 26, the rotary body 10 being configured to be rotated with the paper sheet being held by the holding member 16, so as to transport the paper sheet along a rotational direction of the rotary body 10; and a stacking unit 32 on which the paper sheets transported by the rotary body 10 are stacked on one another.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel compound and a pharmaceutical product, each having a remarkable uricosuric effect. Specifically disclosed are: a novel phenol derivative represented by general formula (1) that is shown in FIG. 1; a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a hydrate of the derivative or the salt; and a solvate of the derivative or the salt. (In the formula, R1 and R2 may be the same or different and each represents a lower alkyl group, a lower alkenyl group, a lower alkynyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a haloalkyl group, a haloalkoxy group, an alkylsulfanyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, a lower alkyl-substituted carbamoyl group, a saturated nitrogen-containing heterocyclic N-carbonyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group or a hydrogen atom; R3 represents a lower alkyl group, a haloalkyl group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group or a hydrogen atom; and X represents a sulfur atom, an —S(?O)— group or an —S(?O)2— group.

Abstract: A paper sheet handling mechanism and method includes a loop-shaped part configured to hold a paper sheet (W1). Once a paper sheet (W2) present on the upstream side of a transport path relative to the loop-shaped part is fed to the loop-shaped part, the paper sheet (W2) present on the upstream side and the paper sheet (W1) present on the loop-shaped part are respectively moved, such that the paper sheet (W2) can be stacked with paper sheet (W1) circulated along the loop-shaped part. A paper sheet length detector determines whether the length of the paper sheet (W2) in the transport direction, which is fed to the loop-shaped part from the upstream side relative to the loop-shaped part along the transport path, is longer than a predetermined length. If the length is longer than the predetermined length, the paper sheet (W2) is ejected from the loop-shaped part.