Abstract: A medical device for removing an object in a body lumen includes a catheter and a drive device. The drive device includes a hub support portion with which a hub portion of the catheter is interlocked. The hub portion has first and second engagement portions interlocked with the hub support portion. The hub support portion includes a rotation blocking portion that is engaged with the first engagement portion to block the hub portion from rotating with respect to the hub support portion, a movement blocking portion that is engaged with the second engagement portion to block movement of the hub portion with respect to the hub support portion in an axial direction, and a releasing portion that releases a state in which a rotation of the hub portion is blocked while maintaining a state in which movement of the hub portion is blocked.

Abstract: There is formed, on a stack formed by alternately stacking an oxide film and a nitride film or an oxide film and a polysilicon film on a substrate, a hard mask in which two or more kinds of lines made of mutually different materials are arranged in order. Then, a photoresist is applied onto the hard mask. Furthermore, the photoresist is trimmed until one line is exposed from the end of the hard mask. Moreover, one line of the hard mask exposed beneath the photoresist is etched. Furthermore, a part of the stack exposed beneath the hard mask is etched. The etching of the photoresist, the hard mask, and the stack is repeated while changing etching conditions.

Abstract: A method includes calculating an activity level of participant in a conference; determining whether to cause a voice output device to perform a speech operation to speak to one of the participants, based on a first level of the entire conference during a first period until a time that is earlier than a current time by a first time, the first level being calculated based on the respective activity levels; and when having determined to cause the voice output device to perform the speech operation, determining a person in the speech operation from among the participants, based on a second level of the entire conference during a second period until a time that is earlier than the current time by a second time longer than the first time, and the respective activity levels of the participants, the second level being calculated based on the respective activity levels of the participants.

Abstract: A device for stably maintaining the shape of a fragile object in a liquid includes a container for accommodating the fragile object, a lid member for sealing the container, and a protecting member. The device is configured to form a liquid-tight space by covering a liquid surface in the container which accommodates the fragile object and the liquid with the protecting member and further covering the protecting member and an open portion of the container with the lid member.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate holding apparatus including a base provided with a gap and a reflection member disposed in the gap and configured to reflect light that has transmitted the substrate to the substrate side, and an exposure apparatus including the substrate holding apparatus.

Abstract: An input device includes a driver that supplies drive signals to a plurality of capacitive elements, respectively; a charge detector that detects a change in an electric charge corresponding to the drive signal in each of the plurality of capacitive elements; a capacitive element identifier that identifies the capacitive element to which an object approaches based on a detection result by the charge detector; an electric field generator that generates an electric field for reducing another electric field generated as an electric charge changes in the capacitive element when the driver supplies the drive signal to the capacitive element; and a controller that adjusts the electric field generated by the electric field generator depending on whether the capacitive element to which the driver supplies the drive signal includes the capacitive element identified by the capacitive element identifier.

Abstract: A monitoring system which constitutes an oxygen measurement system includes: an oxygen partial pressure calculation unit that calculates an oxygen partial pressure in urine based on an output signal from the oxygen measurement device; a monitor that displays the oxygen partial pressure calculated by the oxygen partial pressure calculation unit; and a display control unit that changes a format of display of the oxygen partial pressure displayed by the monitor according to the flow rate of urine acquired based on the output signal from the oxygen measurement device.

Abstract: An oxygen measurement device constituting an oxygen measurement system includes a urethral catheter and an oxygen sensor main body. The urethral catheter has a shaft in which a urethral catheter lumen that enables circulation of urine flowed in via a urethral catheter port from inside a bladder is formed; and has a hub in which a urine lumen that is provided at a proximal end of the shaft and communicates with the urethral catheter lumen is formed. The oxygen sensor main body is provided on the hub in a manner capable of being brought into contact with urine circulating in the urine lumen, and detects oxygen in the urine.

Abstract: A dissecting device for dissecting tissue surrounding a blood vessel in a living body. The dissecting device includes a grasping section that includes an insertion lumen. The dissecting device includes a dissecting member at the distal portion of the grasping section. The dissecting member is insertable into the living body along the blood vessel to dissect the tissue surrounding the blood vessel in the living body. The dissecting member includes a treating section and a protruding section. The treating section performs a predetermined treatment of a branch vessel branching from the blood vessel. The protruding section protrudes from the treating section in the thickness direction of the treating section. The protruding section includes a guide section configured to guide the branch vessel toward the treating section.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate holding apparatus including a base provided with a gap and a reflection member disposed in the gap and configured to reflect light that has transmitted the substrate to the substrate side, and an exposure apparatus including the substrate holding apparatus.

Abstract: An electric-brake controller controls an electric brake operable by an electric motor. The electric-brake controller includes: a rotation-angle obtainer including (i) a relative-rotation-angle obtaining unit that obtains a relative rotation angle of the electric motor for a set time, based on values output and received from a rotation-angle sensor at intervals of the set time, and (ii) an absolute-rotation-angle obtaining unit that calculates the obtained relative rotation angle with consideration of an orientation of the relative rotation angle to obtain an absolute rotation angle that is a rotation angle of the electric motor from a start of its operation; a recognition-error detector that detects a recognition error in the rotation-angle obtainer based on the obtained absolute rotation angle or a changing state of the absolute rotation angle; and a motor controller that controls the electric motor based on a result of detection performed by the recognition-error detector.

Abstract: A brake control device is configured such that a hydraulic braking device is provided for one of a front wheel and a rear wheel, and an electric braking device is provided for the other one of them. The electric braking device is provided with a mechanism configured to prohibit retreat of a piston for pressing friction members against a rotor that rotates with the wheel. The brake control device is configured to maintain, by an operation of the mechanism, a braking force that does not depend on a force of an electric motor as a drive force and to control a braking force generated by the hydraulic braking device based on a difference between the braking force thus maintained and a braking force requested for the electric braking device.

Abstract: An oxygen measurement device includes a catheter including a flexible hollow shaft, the flexible shaft having an open port configured to allow urine from a bladder to flow into the open port, and a urinary passage in communication with the open port configured to discharge the urine; and an oxygen sensor including an oxygen sensor main body capable of detecting oxygen in the urine, the oxygen sensor being disposed in the catheter and configured such that the oxygen sensor main body is in contact with the urine flowing in the urinary passage.

Abstract: An input device includes a driver that supplies drive signals to a plurality of capacitive elements, respectively; a charge detector that detects a change in an electric charge corresponding to the drive signal in each of the plurality of capacitive elements; a capacitive element identifier that identifies the capacitive element to which an object approaches based on a detection result by the charge detector; an electric field generator that generates an electric field for reducing another electric field generated as an electric charge changes in the capacitive element when the driver supplies the drive signal to the capacitive element; and a controller that adjusts the electric field generated by the electric field generator depending on whether the capacitive element to which the driver supplies the drive signal includes the capacitive element identified by the capacitive element identifier.

Abstract: A boost converter is configured of a boost chopper having a diode of an upper arm and a switching element of a lower arm. Output power from a battery to a load is limited such that a current flowing through boost converter does not exceed a current upper limit value for thermal protection of boost converter. The current upper limit value is set based not only on a cooling water temperature of boost converter but also on an output voltage VH of boost converter, in consideration of characteristics that, as output voltage VH rises, an amount of heat generated in diode decreases, diode being regarded as a main target of thermal protection since it receives a power running current to load. Thereby, the boost converter can be protected from overheating without excessively deteriorating vehicle traveling performance.

Abstract: A brake control device is configured such that a hydraulic braking device is provided for one of a front wheel and a rear wheel, and an electric braking device is provided for the other one of them. The electric braking device is provided with a mechanism configured to prohibit retreat of a piston for pressing friction members against a rotor that rotates with the wheel. The brake control device is configured to maintain, by an operation of the mechanism, a braking force that does not depend on a force of an electric motor as a drive force and to control a braking force generated by the hydraulic braking device based on a difference between the braking force thus maintained and a braking force requested for the electric braking device.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes a sensor section configured to include a plurality of detection units, and to control positive and negative polarities of a detection signal at each detection position, a control unit configured to generate a group of combined detection signals in which polarity patterns are different from each other, and a signal reproduction unit configured to reproduce signal levels of a group of detection signals on the basis of a group of combined detection signals and a group of polarity patterns, in which at least some of the plurality of detection units differ in the number of detection positions, and the control unit selects the group of polarity patterns according to the number of detection positions so that the number of positive polarities and the number of negative polarities included in each of the polarity patterns are similar to each other.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a generation program that causes a computer to execute a process including: acquiring a character string recognized from a voice of a speaker, and data representing a movement of the speaker in a period corresponding to a period in which the voice is output; and generating information indicating a correspondence relationship between a character string and a movement based on the acquired character string and the acquired data representing the movement.

Abstract: An input device includes an input unit on which an operator performs a predetermined operation to perform input, a storage unit that stores a reference range set on a virtual coordinate, a control unit that identifies the operation of the operator based on a trajectory of the operation performed on the input unit by the operator and the reference range, a determination unit that determines whether the trajectory of the operation of the operator exceeds the reference range, and a range setting unit that updates the reference range based on a determination result of the determination unit.

Abstract: A dissecting device for dissecting tissue surrounding a blood vessel in a living body. The dissecting device includes a grasping section that includes an insertion lumen. The dissecting device includes a dissecting member at the distal portion of the grasping section. The dissecting member is insertable into the living body along the blood vessel to dissect the tissue surrounding the blood vessel in the living body. The dissecting member includes a treating section and a protruding section. The treating section performs a predetermined treatment of a branch vessel branching from the blood vessel. The protruding section protrudes from the treating section in the thickness direction of the treating section. The protruding section includes a guide section configured to guide the branch vessel toward the treating section.