Abstract: A continuous production system continuously produces a product from a raw material powder. The system includes a first processor that performs a first process on the raw material powder, a second processor that performs a second process on the powder on which the first process has been performed by the first processor, and a test chamber through which the powder being sent from the first processor to the second processor passes. A cleaner blows gas from an inlet side opening formed in the inner face of a channel connected to the test chamber from the first processor on the downstream side of an inlet side gate valve for opening and closing the channel toward a direction to form a swirling flow along the inner face of the channel.

Abstract: A continuous manufacturing system continuously manufactures a product from a powder of a raw material. The system includes a first processing device that performs first processing on the powder of the raw material; a second processing device that performs second processing on the powder on which the first processing device has performed the first processing; and an inspection and sorting device including an inspection chamber into which powder sent from the first processing device flows. When a prescribed amount of the powder has accumulated in the inspection chamber, the inspection and sorting device inspects the powder inside the inspection chamber after blocking a path connecting the first processing device to the inspection chamber. When the inspection ends, the inspection and sorting device removes the blocking after discharging the powder from inside the inspection chamber.

Abstract: A vibration device includes a vibration element; a package including a base that is a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface that are in front-back relation, with the vibration element disposed at the first surface, an oscillation circuit that is disposed at the base and electrically coupled to the vibration element, and a lid that is a semiconductor substrate bonded to the base so as to accommodate the vibration element and electrically coupled to the base, and a resin layer disposed at the outer surface of the package.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vibration device includes preparing a base wafer including a plurality of fragmentation regions, placing vibration elements at a first surface of the base wafer, producing a device wafer in which a housing that accommodates each of the vibration elements is formed in each of the fragmentation regions by bonding a lid wafer to the base wafer, forming a first groove, which starts from the lid wafer and reaches a level shifted from the portion where the base wafer and the lid wafer are bonded to each other toward a second surface of the base wafer, along the boundary between adjacent fragmentation regions of the device wafer, placing a resin material in the first groove, and forming a second groove, which passes through the device wafer, along the boundary to fragment the device wafer.

Abstract: A method for testing an analysis apparatus that analyzes a first fluid flowing through a pipe using light that has passed through a probe attached to and disposed inside the pipe such that a portion of a light path passes outside a housing of the probe. The method includes: after a second fluid that absorbs less of the light than the first fluid has been introduced into the pipe, introducing a third fluid having predetermined absorption characteristics into the housing of the probe; and analyzing the absorption characteristics of the third fluid using the light that has passed through the probe.

Abstract: A method for testing an analysis apparatus that analyzes a first fluid flowing through a pipe using light that has passed through a probe attached to and disposed inside the pipe such that a portion of a light path passes outside a housing of the probe. The method includes: after a second fluid that absorbs less of the light than the first fluid has been introduced into the pipe, introducing a third fluid having predetermined absorption characteristics into the housing of the probe; and analyzing the absorption characteristics of the third fluid using the light that has passed through the probe.

Abstract: A polymerization inhibiting system includes a measuring apparatus, a supplying apparatus and a control apparatus. The measuring apparatus is configured to continuously measure a concentration of an oligomer that is included in at least one of a raw material containing monomer as a main component and an intermediate product from the raw material in a manufacturing process for producing a product from the raw material. The supplying apparatus is configured to supply a polymerization inhibitor in the manufacturing process. The control apparatus is configured to control a supply rate of the polymerization inhibitor by the supplying apparatus, based on a measurement result of the measurement made by the measuring apparatus.

Abstract: A sensor device includes a pressure sensor including a first diaphragm, and a pressure reference chamber which is positioned on a side opposite to the pressure receiving surface with respect to the first diaphragm and measuring pressure received by the pressure receiving surface, a differential pressure sensor including a second diaphragm which is bent and deformed by pressure reception and of which one surface is a first pressure receiving surface and the other surface is a second pressure receiving surface and measuring differential pressure which is a difference between pressure received by the first pressure receiving surface and pressure received by the second pressure receiving surface, and a correction unit correcting an output of one of the pressure sensor and the differential pressure sensor based on an output of the other of the pressure sensor and the differential pressure sensor.

Abstract: To provide a technique for evaluating a nuclear medicine brain image, the technique being hardly affected by the difference in the setting of reference regions. An embodiment of the present invention generally includes: setting a reference region on a region corresponding to the scalp in the nuclear medicine brain image; calculating information on a pixel value in the set reference region; and normalizing, using the information, a pixel value of each pixel included in the nuclear medicine brain image or a value obtained from the pixel value, and outputting the normalized value.

Abstract: An image display device that is used by being mounted on the head of an observer, includes: an image forming unit that forms a virtual image as an image that is visually recognizable to the observer; a detection unit that detects movement of the head of the observer; and a control unit that controls the image forming unit on the basis of the movement detected by the detection unit, wherein when the movement that is detected by the detection unit is larger than a predetermined amount, the control unit changes a display position of the virtual image.

Abstract: This invention efficiently reads out written data from differential data and restores a write state back to an arbitrary time in the past. A storage device of this invention includes list storage means for storing a data list which records a write record including a data string and an address range to be written per write request issued to a data storage unit to clearly show a time series of write requests and index storage means for storing a binary search tree for a node including an address range of the data storage unit as a key value range and pointer information to a write record including the newest data in such address range.

Abstract: A gas concentration analyzer includes: a light emitting module configured to emit a laser light with which an ethylene gas that is a measurement target gas is irradiated; a light receiving module configured to receive the laser light that has passed through the measurement target gas to output a light receiving signal; and a calculation controller configured to calculate an absorption spectrum of the laser light using the light receiving signal, and to calculate amounts of methane and amounts of ethane in the ethylene gas that is the measurement target gas based on the absorption spectrum, wherein the laser light with which the measurement target gas is irradiated is included in a wavelength region with a wavelength of 3.42 ?m or more and 3.71 ?m or less.

Abstract: A standby system calculator communicates with a currently-used system calculator for retaining data about a service, providing the service by using the data, and updating the data along with provision of the service. The standby system calculator includes a retainer that retains a copy of the data and a provider that provides the service by using the copy of the data while restricting an updating operation for updating the copy of the data in the retainer when a predetermined signal that indicates that the currently-used system calculator is operating and that has been transmitted from the currently-used system calculator to the standby system calculator, cannot be received for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: An image display device that is used by being mounted on the head of an observer, includes: an image forming unit that forms a virtual image as an image that is visually recognizable to the observer; a detection unit that detects movement of the head of the observer; and a control unit that controls the image forming unit on the basis of the movement detected by the detection unit, wherein when the movement that is detected by the detection unit is larger than a predetermined amount, the control unit changes a display position of the virtual image.

Abstract: When laminating two types of film (1, 2) with different melting points on the two sides of a metal sheet (3), the thickness of the low melting point side film (2) is adjusted. Specifically, the thickness d2 of the low melting point side film (2) at the part sandwiched between the lamination roll (10) and metal sheet (3) is made a range defined by d2?k(?MP??T)/V. Here, ?MP is the difference of melting points of the two types of film, k is k?2, 0<?T=MP1??Ti?50(° C.) (Ti is the metal sheet temperature at the inlet side of the rolls, V is the sheet running speed, ? is a constant determined by the heat removal conditions at the time of lamination, where 0.75??<1). Due to this, sticking of the low melting point side film (2) to the lamination roll (10) can be prevented.

Abstract: An optical scanning projector includes: a raster scanning unit that draws an image in a drawing area on a display surface by scanning beams in a first direction on the display surface while scanning beams in a second direction on the display surface that is orthogonal to the first direction; and a vector scanning unit that draws an image by irradiating beams so as to sequentially form segments each connecting two different points positioned on the display surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first projector that scans light on a first display section to thereby display an image; a second projector that scans the light on a second display section, which is set in a position different from a position of the first display section, to thereby display an image; and a switching section that switches plural states including a first state in which the first projector displays the image on the first display section and a second state in which the second projector displays an image on the second display section.

Abstract: A standby system calculator communicates with a currently-used system calculator for retaining data about a service, providing the service by using the data, and updating the data along with provision of the service. The standby system calculator includes a retainer that retains a copy of the data and a provider that provides the service by using the copy of the data while restricting an updating operation for updating the copy of the data in the retainer when a predetermined signal that indicates that the currently-used system calculator is operating and that has been transmitted from the currently-used system calculator to the standby system calculator, cannot be received for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: An actuator, includes: a weight part; a supporting part supporting the weight part; a connecting part coupling the weight part rotatable to the supporting part and having an elastic part; a driving member for driving and rotating the weight part; and a semiconductor circuit for driving the weight part. The driving member is operated to torsionally deform the elastic part and rotate the weight part. The elastic part has a first silicon part that is mainly made of silicon and a first resin part that is mainly made of resin and coupled to the first silicon part. The supporting part has at least a second silicon part made mainly of silicon and coupled to the first silicon part of the elastic part. The semiconductor circuit is provided on the second silicon part of the supporting part.

Abstract: A blood vessel display device includes: a detection unit that scans body tissue with laser light for detection and detects reflected light from an irradiated part of the body tissue to which the laser light for detection has been irradiated; an image data generating unit that detects a surface shape of the irradiated part and the arrangement of blood vessels, which are present in a superficial layer of the irradiated part, on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit and generates image data of an image for visualizing the blood vessels displayed on the irradiated part; and a display unit that displays an image for visualizing the blood vessels on the irradiated part by scanning the irradiated part with laser light for display on the basis of the image data generated by the image data generating unit.