Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a conductive member attached to a substrate surface on an other axial side. The conductive member has a connection part electrically connected with the substrate and a holding part having multiple elastic support pieces. A first penetration part axially penetrates through the connection part. A second penetration part axially penetrates through the substrate. A coil lead wire passes through the first and second penetration parts and is supported by elastic support pieces on the other axial side relative to the first penetration part. Each elastic support piece contacts an outer peripheral surface of the coil lead wire, is positioned on the axial side toward the coil lead wire, and, when elastically deformed, presses the coil lead wire against other portions in the conductive member. The holding part holds two or more coil lead wires by using the elastic support pieces.

Abstract: In a mist flow rate measuring apparatus of the present disclosure, in a transparent pipe, a camera executes imaging processing of reflected light, the imaging processing having at least a part of a mist flowing region through which a mist-containing gas flows set as an imaging target region, and acquires imaging information. A mist flow rate calculation unit executes mist flow rate calculation processing based on the imaging information. The mist flow rate calculation processing includes sum value calculation processing of obtaining a luminance sum value, which is a sum of a plurality of luminance values indicated by the imaging information, and flow rate derivation processing of deriving the flow rate of the raw material mist from the luminance sum value.

Abstract: An X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) apparatus according to an embodiment includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry is configured to store therein a table keeping first information about an energy spectrum of X-rays in correspondence with second information about a focal point position of an X-ray tube. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain third information about an energy spectrum of X-rays emitted from the X-ray tube. The processing circuitry is configured to specify a corrected focal point position on the basis of the third information and the table.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprising: an arm, a pair of grooved portions, a plurality of rollers, and a plurality of belts. The arm is configured to support an X-ray tube at one end and an X-ray detector at another end and has a shape of an arc. The grooved portions are formed on side surfaces of the arm. The plurality of rollers are configured to run in the grooved portions and slidably support the arm along the arc. Each of the belts passes over at least two of the rollers and at least partially abuts on inner walls of the grooved portions.

Abstract: A marker-coordinate detecting unit detects coordinates of a stent marker on a new image when the new image is stored in an image-data storage unit; and then a correction-image creating unit creates a correction image from the new image through, for example, image transformation processing, so as to match up the detected coordinates with reference coordinates that are coordinates of the stent marker already detected by the marker-coordinate detecting unit in a first frame. An image post-processing unit then creates an image for display by performing post-processing on the correction image created by the correction-image creating unit, the post-processing including high-frequency noise reduction filtering-processing, low-frequency component removal filtering-processing, and logarithmic-image creating processing; and then a system control unit performs control of displaying a moving image of an enlarged image of a set region that is set in the image for display, together with an original image.

Abstract: Methods of producing solid CO2 sequestering carbonate materials are provided. Aspects of the methods include introducing a divalent cation source into a flowing aqueous liquid (e.g., a bicarbonate rich product containing liquid) under conditions sufficient such that a non-slurry solid phase CO2 sequestering carbonate material is produced. Also provided are systems configured for carrying out the methods.

Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a first supporting part, a second supporting part, and one or more columns. The first supporting part is configured to support an imaging system related to imaging a subject to be examined. The second supporting part is configured to support the first supporting part from underneath the first supporting part. The one or more columns are configured to support the second supporting part so as to be movable along a vertical direction.

Abstract: Fuel used as a coolant in an aircraft can be thermally conditioned for active thermal management of the airframe and engine. The fuel can be thermally conditioned using the residual cooling capacity of a power and thermal module (PTM), providing flexibility of thermal system design, or via a compact engine-mounted turbo cooler, to maximize system efficiency. The fuel can be stored in a thermal reserve tank to provide a missionized heat sink capable serviceable for periodic high heat flux equipment. The cooling and provision of cooled fuel to aircraft components can be intelligently controlled to provide efficient cooling and effectively unlimited ground hold times.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a thin plate-shaped single-crystal production equipment and a thin plate-shaped single-crystal production method that can produce a thin plate-shaped single crystal having a uniform dopant concentration at an optimum chemical composition and a thickness of several hundreds of micrometers continuously at low cost with high precision even when the single crystal is a single crystal of an incongruent melting material or a solid solution material or a single crystal of a congruent melting material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is electrode comprising a current collector comprising a conductor layer having at least a first surface; and elongated metal carbide nanostructures extending from the first surface; and a carbonaceous energy storage media disposed on the first surface and in contact with the elongated metal carbide nanostructures. Disclosed herein too is an ultracapacitor comprising at least one electrode comprising a current collector comprising a conductor layer having at least a first surface; and elongated metal carbide nanostructures extending from the first surface; and a carbonaceous energy storage media disposed on the first surface and in contact with the elongated metal carbide nanostructures.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnosis support apparatus includes: an input circuit configured to acquire a first medical image; and processing circuitry configured to generate a second medical image from the first medical image in such a manner that information included in the second medical image is reduced from information included in the first medical image, extract auxiliary information from the first medical image, and perform inference of a disease by using the second medical image and the auxiliary information.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive first volume data and second volume data; set a first symmetry plane for the first volume data and a second symmetry plane for the second volume data; and conduct a registration of the first volume data and the second volume data based on the first symmetry plane and the second symmetry plane.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for training and operating (semi-)autonomous robots to complete multiple different work objectives are described. A robot control system stores a library of reusable work primitives each corresponding to a respective basic sub-task or sub-action that the robot is operative to autonomously perform. A work objective is analyzed to determine a sequence (i.e., a combination and/or permutation) of reusable work primitives that, when executed by the robot, will complete the work objective. The robot executes the sequence of reusable work primitives to complete the work objective. The reusable work primitives may include one or more reusable grasp primitives that enable(s) a robot's end effector to grasp objects. Simulated instances of real physical robots may be trained in simulated environments to develop control instructions that, once uploaded to the real physical robots, enable such real physical robots to autonomously perform reusable work primitives.

Abstract: Pulse-generator-based reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) bias-level sensors are fabricated on an RQL integrated circuit (IC) to sample AC or DC bias values provided to operational RQL circuitry on the RQL IC. The bias-level sensors include pulse generators having strengthened or weakened bias taps (transformer couplings to RQL AC clock resonators or DC bias lines) as compared to bias taps of Josephson transmission lines in the operational RQL circuitry, or Josephson junctions (JJs) with larger or smaller critical currents as compared to JJs in the operational RQL circuitry. Pulse generators with weakened bias taps or larger JJs can have lower limits of their operational ranges placed near an optimal bias point at the centroid of the operating region of the operational RQL circuitry. The bias-level sensors can be staged by relative strength to indicate whether a provided bias value is an improvement when varied over a range.

Abstract: The medical data processing apparatus according to any of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a probability that target image data has a lesion and a confidence interval indicating a reliability of the probability, and to output data on the lesion based on the probability and the confidence interval of the probability.

Abstract: In an active gas generation apparatus of the present invention, an auxiliary conductive film provided on a first electrode dielectric film is provided to overlap part of an active gas flow path in plan view, and the auxiliary conductive film is set to the ground potential. An active gas auxiliary member provided on a second electrode dielectric film is provided to fill part of the active gas flow path between a discharge space and a gas ejection hole in a dielectric space between the first and second electrode dielectric films in order to limit to an active gas flow gap.

Abstract: A control system of a power converter includes a plurality of carrier wave generating units which are respectively provided for a plurality of power converters connected between a plurality of DC power supplies and a common AC power supply and which are configured to respectively generate carrier waves on the basis of an AC voltage of the AC power supply. The control system of the power converter can thereby synchronize carrier phases of a plurality of power converters.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a power conversion circuit connected to a direct-current power supply and a power system and configured to perform conversion between direct-current power and alternating-current power; a phase-locked loop circuit configured to output a phase instruction value based on a system alternating-current voltage phase of the power system; and a control circuit configured to control the power conversion circuit based on the phase instruction value from the phase-locked loop circuit. The phase-locked loop circuit includes: a phase difference calculation section configured to calculate a phase difference in a predetermined cycle, the phase difference representing a deviation of the phase instruction value from the system alternating-current voltage phase of the power system; a phase difference correction section; and a phase instruction value generation section configured to output the phase instruction value based on an output of the phase difference correction section.

Abstract: A reconstruction device according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit acquires a plurality of pieces of second sinogram data based on a plurality of pieces of first sinogram data, acquires third sinogram data by comparing the pieces of first sinogram data with the pieces of second sinogram data and by selecting pieces of first sinogram data having close similarity, and reconstructs an image on the basis of the third sinogram data.

Abstract: A map control module receives a stream of map data characterizing a geographic region proximal to a vehicle and outputs a moving map, and the moving map is divisible into a matrix of cells. A map item control receives a stream of point of interest (POI) data characterizing a plurality of POIs within the boundary and categorizes each of the plurality of POIs to define a set of categories. The map item control determines a display location of a map item within the matrix of cells for each of the plurality of POIs and determines an importance for each POI within a same category. The map item control forms a set of clusters of map items. Each map item in a given cluster of map items has a same cell and a same category. The map item control selects a top-item for each cluster of map items.