Abstract: A gravimetric metering unit for bulk material includes a metering device, which has a container for bulk material to be metered and a base unit. The base unit has a screw conveyor, which is operably held in position and driven by means of a holder. The screw conveyor and the holder can be axially plugged together and are designed such that they can be operably fastened to each other by means of a plug-in connection. The plug-in connection is a magnetic connection.

Abstract: An image acquisition system configured to acquire an image of an object to be conveyed. The system includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light rays with which the object is irradiated, a light source control unit configured to switch a light source that irradiates the object with the light among the plurality of light sources, and a line scan sensor configured to detect light from the object irradiated with the light. The line scan sensor has a pixel section in which a plurality of pixels are at least one-dimensionally arrayed and is configured to switch a gain value for amplifying a signal from each pixel. The line scan sensor switches the gain value in synchronization with the switching of the light source.

Abstract: A fiber laser device includes: a housing; a first optical element configured to include a first fiber and a first fiber connector; and a second optical element configured to include a second fiber and a second fiber connector. The first optical element and the second optical element are optically connectable via the first fiber connector and the second fiber connector, at least a part of the first optical element is housed in a module housing, an opening is formed in a wall portion of the housing, the module housing is detachably attached inside the housing through the opening, and the end portion of the first fiber and the first fiber connector are provided to project from the module housing at one end portion of the module housing.

Abstract: An ocular fundus image processing device acquires a first image generated by irradiating an ocular fundus of a subject with excitation light of a blue wavelength and a second image generated by irradiating the ocular fundus with excitation light of a green wavelength, generates three trained models for predicting a correction factor for calculating a quantity of macular pigment of the subject from input images including the first image and the second image through training using three different initial values, predicts three correction factors by inputting the input images including the first image and the second image to the three trained models, calculates a statistical value of the three correction factors and derives the statistical value as the correction factor of the subject, and calculates a quantity of macular pigment of the subject on the basis of the first image and the correction factor of the subject.

Abstract: A system for exhaust gas remediation includes an engine, a plasma reactor, and a pulse source. The engine emits exhaust gas that includes NO molecules and NOx molecules. The plasma reactor includes an internal chamber that is fluidly connected to the engine such that the exhaust gas flows into the internal chamber. An electrode is disposed within the internal chamber of the plasma reactor. The electrode is electrically coupled to an electrical pulse source. The electrical pulse source delivers electrical pulse to the electrode to form a plasma from the exhaust gas, which removes at least a portion of the NO molecules and at least a portion of the NOx molecules.

Abstract: An intelligent shelf management system and operating method are revealed. The system includes an operating and display device by which users input their demands of goods; an information module electrically connected to the operating and display device and comprising a database of goods and an analysis module which receives and analyzes the demands of goods input and finds out product information matched after comparison with information in the database; a content management system electrically connected to the information module and receiving the product information from the analysis module; and a point-of-sale system having a plurality pieces of related sales information and electrically connected to the content management system or the information module. The content management system compares the product information with the plurality pieces of related sales information to collect and send the related sales information matched to the operating and display device.

Abstract: The electron tube includes a vacuum container having a light transmitting substrate, a photocathode provided on an inner surface of the light transmitting substrate, an anode provided in the vacuum container, and a prism. The prism includes a bottom surface bonded to an outer surface of the light transmitting substrate, a light incident surface, and a light reflecting surface configured to further reflect light, which is incident to the photocathode through the prism and the light transmitting substrate and reflected at an interface between the photocathode and the vacuum space, so that the light is re-enter the photocathode. The light reflecting surface has an outwardly convex curved surface shape. The light incident surface is located inward of an imaginary spherical surface that is along the light reflecting surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to scrap leather re use which is fully based on sustainable and the process of enhancing leather wastage and scrap into beautiful leather product. More particularly, the present invention relates to converting leather scrap into leather sheet with the help of glue. Further, the present invention effectively saves wastage of leather and save environment from the pollution.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a metal solid, the method being capable of easily producing a metal solid. A method for producing a metal solid, the method comprising covering at least a portion of the periphery of a metal powder with a high-melting-point material having a melting point higher than the melting point of the metal powder; and irradiating the metal powder, at least a portion of the periphery of which is covered with the high-melting-point material, with microwaves to heat the metal powder, thereby sintering or melt-solidifying the metal powder.

Abstract: Long awaited is a human liver-like three-dimensional construct that makes it possible to carry out evaluation of human-specific toxicity and the like accurately and in a simple manner. The present invention provides a human liver-like three-dimensional construct comprising a heterospheroid, in which human hepatic cells and other human-derived cells which are not human hepatic cells are aggregated. This human liver-like three-dimensional construct is characterized in that the other human-derived cells are at least one selected from human hepatic stellate cells and the like, and the other human-derived cell to the human hepatic cell count ratio is at least 0.01 but less than 1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the CO2 and O2 remover. The CO2 and O2 remover comprises 65 to 85 weight percent (wt. %) of a nickel oxide (NiO), 5 to 20 wt. % of a magnesium oxide (MgO), wherein the weight ratio of the nickel oxide and the magnesium oxide (NiO/MgO) is 4 to 11, and wherein the wt. % is based on the weight of the CO2 and O2 remover.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a support part, a light source, a spatial light modulator, a converging part, and a controller. The controller controls the spatial light modulator so that laser light is branched into a plurality of rays of processing light including 0th-order light and a plurality of converging points for the plurality of rays of processing light are located at positions different from each other in a Z direction and an X direction, and controls at least one of the support part and the converging part. The controller controls the spatial light modulator so that a converging point of the 0th-order light in the Z direction is located on an opposite side of a converging point of non-modulated light of the laser light with respect to an ideal converging point of the 0th-order light.

Abstract: A photodetector device includes an avalanche photodiode array substrate formed from compound semiconductor. A plurality of avalanche photodiodes arranged to operate in a Geiger mode are two-dimensionally arranged on the avalanche photodiode array substrate. A circuit substrate includes a plurality of output units which are connected to each other in parallel to form at least one channel. Each of the output units includes a passive quenching element and a capacitative element. The passive quenching element is connected in series to at least one of the plurality of avalanche photodiodes. The capacitative element is connected in series to at least one of the avalanche photodiodes and is connected in parallel to the passive quenching element.

Abstract: A lubrication system includes a coupling; a bushing in the coupling; a lubricant inlet to the coupling; a flat surface against a front surface of the bushing; and a path for lubricant to flow from the lubricant inlet to a groove on the front surface of the bushing and out between the flat surface and the front surface to lubricate an interface between the flat surface and the front surface.

Abstract: A brain measurement apparatus includes: a magnetoencephalograph module having a cell, a pump laser configured to emit pump light, a probe laser configured to emit probe light to a sensitivity region intersecting the pump light in the cell, an optical sensor group configured to detect a polarization plane angle of the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region, and a bias magnetic field coil configured to apply a bias magnetic field; and an MRI module having a transmission coil for transmitting an RF pulse of a predetermined frequency, and a receiver coil configured to detect a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated by transmission of the RF pulse. The magnetoencephalograph module and the MRI module are surrounded by a magnetic shield including a soft magnetic material.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes a cell, a pump light incidence unit causing pump light to be incident on a plurality of sensitivity regions inside the cell in a first direction, a probe light incidence unit causing probe light to be incident on the sensitivity regions in a direction intersecting the first direction, bias magnetic field coils applying a bias magnetic field to the inside of the cell and determining a resonance frequency of the electron spins, an electron spin tilting unit tilting a rotation axis direction of the electron spins in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, an optical sensor detecting the probe light; and a magnetic field measuring unit measuring magnetic field strengths related to the sensitivity regions, wherein the bias magnetic field coils respectively apply a plurality of the bias magnetic fields having strengths different from each other to the plurality of corresponding sensitivity regions.

Abstract: A brain measurement apparatus includes: a magnetoencephalograph module having a cell; a pump laser configured to emit pump light; a probe laser configured to emit probe light; an optical sensor group configured to detect a polarization plane angle of the probe light having passed through the sensitivity region; a bias magnetic field coil configured to apply a bias magnetic field; and bias magnetic field gradient correction coils configured to correct a gradient of the bias magnetic field; and an MRI module having a transmission coil for transmitting an RF pulse of a predetermined frequency and a receiver coil configured to detect a nuclear magnetic resonance signal. At least one of the coil that applies a static magnetic field and the coil that applies a gradient magnetic field is configured by the same coil as the bias magnetic field coil or the bias magnetic field gradient correction coils.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting element includes a semiconductor stacked layer, an electrode, and an electrode. The semiconductor stacked layer includes an active layer and a phase modulation layer. The phase modulation layer includes a plurality of phase modulation areas. Each of the plurality of phase modulation areas includes a basic region which has a first refractive index and a plurality of different-refractive-index regions which have a second refractive index different from the first refractive index and which are distributed in a two-dimensional shape. The electrode includes a plurality of electrode parts overlapping the plurality of phase modulation areas when seen in a stacking direction of the semiconductor stacked layer. The plurality of electrode parts are electrically isolated from each other.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a sensor panel having a light receiving surface, a first scintillator panel and a second scintillator panel disposed on the light receiving surface in a state of being adjacent to each other along the light receiving surface, and an adhesive layer. The first scintillator panel has a first substrate and a first scintillator layer including a plurality of columnar crystals. The second scintillator panel has a second substrate and a second scintillator layer including a plurality of columnar crystals. The first scintillator layer reaches at least a first portion of the first substrate. The second scintillator layer reaches at least a second portion of the second substrate. The adhesive layer is separated for each of the first scintillator panel and the second scintillator panel.