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 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: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a display control program for causing a computer to execute a process including: identifying, from voice information of a participant of a conference or image information of the conference stored in a storage unit, a speaking partner of a remark to be recorded in minutes generated on a basis of the voice information; and displaying the remark to be recorded in the minutes and a relationship between a speaker who has made the remark and the participant other than the speaker in conjunction with each other.

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: 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: A probe pin inspection mechanism a includes a base, a pair of movable bodies, a pair of movable-body elastic bodies, and a conductor. The movable bodies are supported by the base to be movable in a first direction from a first position with respect to the base, and respectively include ends and terminals electrically connected to the respective ends. The movable-body elastic bodies elastically press the movable bodies in a second direction. The conductor is supported by the base and electrically connects the terminals of the movable bodies by making contact with the terminals. The state between the terminals and the conductor is switched, according to the position of the movable bodies, between a conductive state in which the terminals and the conductor are in contact with each other and a non-conductive state in which the terminals and the conductor are separated from each other.

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: 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: Provided is a medical device capable of easily changing a position of the device inside a biological lumen and effectively removing a cut object. The medical device for removing the object in the biological lumen has a drive shaft, a cutting portion, a first housing that accommodates the drive shaft to be rotatable, a second housing that is rotatable with respect to the first housing, and a support portion that supports the first housing and the second housing. The second housing and the support portion relatively move along an axis to restrict relative rotation of the first housing and the second housing. The support portion supports the second housing to be rotatable around the axis, and restricts a relative movement and a relative inclination of the second housing and the support portion in a direction intersecting with the axis.

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.