Abstract: An objective lens unit for a liquid immersion microscope includes: a first liquid passage in a pipe shape including an opening disposed at a lens surface end as a lens surface of a lens at a closest side to an observing object, the first liquid passage being coupled to an outside of the objective lens unit, and a second liquid passage in a pipe shape disposed independently from the first liquid passage, the second liquid passage including an opening disposed at a position adjacent to the opening of the first liquid passage on the lens surface end, the second liquid passage being coupled to the outside of the objective lens unit.

Abstract: A bicycle operating device includes a base, a pulling pawl, a positioning ratchet and a positioning pawl. The pulling pawl includes first and second apart contact parts that are spaced apart. The positioning pawl is movable between holding and releasing positions. The positioning pawl engages the positioning ratchet to selectively establish predetermined positions of the positioning ratchet while in the holding position. The positioning pawl disengages from the positioning ratchet to permit the positioning ratchet to move in one direction while in the releasing position. The first contact part contacts the positioning ratchet to move the positioning ratchet during movement of the positioning ratchet in the other direction from a first predetermined position of the predetermined positions. The second contact part contacts the positioning ratchet to move the positioning ratchet during movement of the positioning ratchet in the first direction from a second predetermined position of the predetermined positions.

Abstract: A bicycle operating device includes a base, a positioning ratchet, a positioning pawl and a release. The base includes a base plate having first and second oppositely facing surfaces. The positioning pawl is movable between holding and releasing positions. The positioning pawl engages the positioning ratchet to selectively establish predetermined positions of the positioning ratchet while in the holding position. The positioning pawl disengages from the positioning ratchet to permit the positioning ratchet to move in one direction while in the releasing position. The release is movable between first and second positions. The release moves the positioning pawl from the holding position to the releasing position as the release moves from the first position towards the second position. The release contacts the positioning pawl at a contact area disposed between the first and second oppositely facing surfaces while the release is in the second position.

Abstract: A sealing mechanism functioning as a separator between two spaces having different pressures includes: a housing; a shaft inserted into the housing; an annular sealing member sealing a gap by contacting a radial outer surface of the shaft or a radial outer surface of a rotary portion fixed to the shaft; and a lubricant groove storing a lubricant to be supplied between the annular sealing member and the radial outer surface.

Abstract: A biological information processing device and method includes selecting image ranges of processing targets from input image data, estimating pulse rates of the processing targets corresponding to the image ranges on the basis of image data of the selected image ranges of the processing targets, performing relative comparison between the estimated pulse rates of the processing targets and thus detecting a target which will possibly be abnormal or a target requiring special attention, and outputting information regarding the detected target which will possibly be abnormal or the detected target requiring special attention.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor core, the method including laminating first laminated steel plates in an axial direction. The first laminated steel plates each include a plurality of flake portions arranged in a circumferential direction with gaps between each other and a plurality of protrusions protruding radially outward from an outer side surface of a base portion and each having at least a portion located in the gap between the flake portions. The method further includes fixing the base portions to each other and fixing the flake portions to each other. The method further includes removing the protrusions of the laminated steel plates radially outward.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus case including a ventilation portion on at least one side of the electronic apparatus case is provided. The ventilation portion further includes: an outer wall portion including a first ventilation port; an inner wall portion including a second ventilation port provided in a staggered manner with respect to the first ventilation port of the outer wall portion; and a discharge port provided between the outer wall portion and the inner wall portion.

Abstract: A bicycle operating device is basically provided with a base member, a positioning ratchet, a first positioning pawl and a second positioning pawl. The positioning ratchet pivots with respect to the base member about a pivot axis. The positioning ratchet pivots in first and second directions. The first and second positioning pawls are pivotally mounted about a pawl pivot axis between holding positions and releasing positions. The first and second positioning pawls include contact points that selectively contact the positioning ratchet to prevent pivoting of the positioning ratchet in the first direction while the holding position. The contact points of the first and second positioning pawls are perpendicularly spaced from the pawl pivot axis by first and second linear lengths, respectively, that are different. The pivot axis and the pawl pivot axis defines a plane. The first and second contact points are located on a same side of the plane.

Abstract: A resist composition which generates an acid through exposure and whose solubility in a developer changes by the action of an acid. The resist composition contains a polymer compound having at least two kinds of specific constituent units. A resist pattern forming method, including forming a resist film on a support using the resist composition, subjecting the resist film to exposure, and forming a resist pattern through patterning by developing the resist film having undergone exposure by using a developer.

Abstract: A resist composition which generates acid upon exposure and exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution by the action of acid, which includes a polymeric compound having at least two specific structural units.

Abstract: A manufacturing method comprising: a process S1 of forming a plate member which has a substantially annular scrap portion having a center hole through an axial direction and a core plate portion defining a portion of the core pieces arranged continuously with the scrap portion on a radially inner side of the scrap portion; a process S2 of forming a laminated body, which has the core pieces, by laminating the plate member; a process S3 of providing the laminated body and the shaft in a mold; a process S4 of forming a molding body by inserting a molten resin or a nonmagnetic material in the mold and forming the filling portion of which at least a portion is located between the core pieces; and a process S5 of separating the scrap portion and the core plate portion.

Abstract: A face detection device and method are provided. The face detection device receives captured images from a camera, and extracts vital information from a face region included in the captured images. The face detection device determines, based on the vital information, whether or not a face included in the face region is in a living state, and collates a feature quantity of the face included in the face region with information of a face which is previously registered. The face detection device selects, according to a user input, whether or not to perform at least one or both of a process for the determining, and a process for the collating.

Abstract: A table apparatus includes a first driver applying force in a first axis direction to a table, and a second driver applying force in a second axis direction to the table. The first driver includes a first actuator generating power for moving the table in the first axis direction, and a first movable member moving along a first drive axis parallel to the first axis by actuation of the first actuator. The first movable member includes: a first linear bearing moving along the first drive axis; a first rotary bearing disposed around a first rod member fixed to the first linear bearing and rotatable relative to the first rod member; and a second linear bearing connected to the first rotary bearing and guided in the second axis direction by a second guide member fixed to an edge of the table in the first axis direction.

Abstract: To provide a motor capable of preventing particles generated inside from being emitted to the outside, more reliably. The motor includes: a stator that is provided with a coil and a stator core; a rotor that is disposed on the inner side of the stator in a radial direction, and rotated relatively with respect to the stator; a stator housing that has a first exhaust hole through which the air is exhausted by suctioning, and to which the stator is fixed; a first sealing portion where the stator housing and the rotor housing face each other with a first gap therebetween across the entire circumference in the circumferential direction, with the first sealing portion being provided between an internal space and the outside of the stator housing; and a first squeeze portion that is at a position different from the first sealing portion, and that has a second gap connecting the internal space and the first exhaust hole.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image input that receives input of image data of a captured human being, a region detector that detects a specific color region of the image data, a filter that smooths a pixel value in the specific color region detected by the region detector by using a frame of the image data input into the image input and each of previous and subsequent frames of the image data of the inputting into the image input, a coder that codes an output image of the filter, and an output that outputs the output image of the filter coded by the coder.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a monocrystalline silicon includes: a growth step in which a seed crystal having contacted a silicon melt is pulled up and a crucible is rotated and raised to form a straight body of the monocrystalline silicon; a separating step in which the monocrystalline silicon is separated from the silicon melt; a state holding step in which the crucible and the monocrystalline silicon are lowered and the monocrystalline silicon is kept at a level at which an upper end of the straight body is located at the same level as an upper end of a heat shield or is located below the upper end of the heat shield for a predetermined time; and a draw-out step in which the monocrystalline silicon is drawn out of a chamber.

Abstract: A pulse can be stably estimated based on an image data suitable for extracting a pulse signal. A pulse estimation device includes image input portion (21) to which time-sequential captured images including at least a portion of subject H as an object are input from camera (2); region extractor (22) that extracts a skin-color region from each of the captured images; zoom commander (28) that transmits a zoom command to camera (2) that has imaged the captured images or a user of camera (2) in order to adjust a size of the skin-color region; and pulse estimator (23) that estimates a pulse of subject H based on the skin-color region of the captured images obtained by imaging with camera (2), after the zoom command is transmitted.

Abstract: There is provided is a method for enhancing a video image capable of achieving high image quality improvement for both a texture area and an edge area. A maximum limit value and a minimum limit value of a video signal value enhanced on the basis of a pixel signal value in an area set around the target pixel are calculated, the maximum limit value and the minimum limit value are corrected according to a texture value calculated as a scale value that indicates a variation of the pixel signal value in the corresponding area, and the corrected maximum limit value and minimum limit value are applied to the enhanced video signal value.

Abstract: A table apparatus includes a first driver applying force in a first axis direction to a table, and a second driver applying force in a second axis direction to the table. The first driver includes a first actuator generating power for moving the table in the first axis direction, and a first movable member moving along a first drive axis parallel to the first axis by actuation of the first actuator. The first movable member includes: a first linear bearing moving along the first drive axis; a first rotary bearing disposed around a first rod member fixed to the first linear bearing and rotatable relative to the first rod member; and a second linear bearing connected to the first rotary bearing and guided in the second axis direction by a second guide member fixed to an edge of the table in the first axis direction.

Abstract: Face detection device that detects a face from an image including a person. The device includes a processor and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving captured images by a camera, detecting one face region or more in the captured images, extracting vital information which includes an index indicating a living state of a face imaged in the face region, based on image data regarding the detected face region; and determining whether or not the face in the face region is in a living state, based on the vital information. The face region detector recognizes a face region corresponding to the face which is determined to be in the living state by the vitality determiner among the one face region or more, as a face region based on a living body.