Abstract: In a header plate structure of heat exchangers having a core divided in plurality, a flat tube is inserted into each of the tube insertion holes having a burring, which is formed in a header plate; the flat tube is joined at an inner surface in the vicinity of a top portion of the burring; a burring with height H1 is formed to a long side portion of a dummy tube insertion hole; and a burring with height H2 is formed to a long side portion of an end portion tube insertion hole adjacent to the dummy tube insertion hole, in which height H2 of the burring of the end portion tube insertion hole has been formed higher than the height H1 of the burring of the dummy tube insertion hole.

Abstract: The information processing device includes: a storage; and a controller that: stores, in the storage, participation status information indicating a user participation status in an event occurrence area, wherein the participation status information is associated with the event occurrence area that is set up at a location in a virtual game space corresponding to a location in a real space, determines whether the event occurrence area is in a crowded state based on the participation status information, after determining that the event occurrence area is in the crowded state, restricts participation to the event occurrence area in the virtual game space, and after determining that the event occurrence area is in the crowded state, sets up another event occurrence area in the virtual game space.

Abstract: A testing system collects a specimen from a subject and measures the collected specimen to test the specimen, and includes a first unit to collect and receive the specimen, a second unit to be connected to the first unit and to preprocess the specimen before measurement, a third unit to be connected to the second unit and to measure the preprocessed specimen, and a robot provided in at least one of the first unit, the second unit, or the third unit to process the specimen.

Abstract: A testing system collects a specimen from a subject and measures the collected specimen to test the specimen, and includes a box to allow at least one of specimen collection for collecting and receiving the specimen, preprocessing for processing the collected specimen before measurement, or specimen measurement for measuring the preprocessed specimen to be performed therein.

Abstract: In a dispensing system, a body is arranged outside a specimen processing cabinet, and in a state where a hand and a dispenser are inserted into the specimen processing cabinets, a specimen accommodated in a specimen container held by the hand is dispensed into a dispensing container by the dispenser.

Abstract: A testing equipment system collects a specimen from a subject and measures the specimen, and includes a first unit portion forming a collection room including equipment to collect the specimen, a second unit portion forming a measurement room including equipment to measure the specimen, separately from the collection room, and a third unit portion including equipment to output a measurement result. The testing equipment system is placed at a moving base for passenger transportation.

Abstract: A diagnosis system performs, while a vehicle is being driven, a diagnosis of a rotation portion of a rotating electrical machine included in the vehicle. The diagnosis system includes a measurement unit that, when performing the diagnosis of the rotation portion, stops charging of a storage battery included in the vehicle from the rotating electrical machine, and measures an inductive voltage of the rotating electrical machine generated by a rotation of the rotation portion, and a judgment unit that judges that there is an anomaly in the rotation portion when a magnitude of the inductive voltage is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.

Abstract: Methods and systems for angiographic imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) are described using ratio-based and angiographic deviation based calculations. In using these calculations to determine motion, arbitrary interframe permutations may be used, post- calculated, non-linear results for projection visualization may be averaged, poor matches may be eliminated on an A-line by A-line basis, windowing functions may be used to improve results, partial spectrums may be used when capturing data, and a minimum intensity threshold may be used for determining which pixels to use.

Abstract: A part management apparatus may include an acquisition unit configured to acquire part information indicating a part having a symptom of a failure among a plurality of parts configuring a drive mechanism mounted to a vehicle. The part management apparatus may include an identification unit configured to refer to a storage unit that is configured to store a material configuring each of the plurality of parts to identify a material of the part indicated by the part information. The part management apparatus may include a notification unit configured to notify a material management apparatus configured to manage an inventory of a material of a part, of information related to the material of the part.

Abstract: A vehicle management apparatus may include a collection unit configured to collect data indicating a state of a vehicle based on a detection result of a sensor configured to detect the state of the vehicle from a plurality of vehicles. The vehicle management apparatus may include a classification unit configured to classify the plurality of vehicles into a plurality of group according to a predetermined algorithm based on the data of each of the plurality of vehicles. The vehicle management apparatus may include an identification unit configured to identify, when a faulty vehicle in which a failure has occurred is present among the plurality of vehicles, another vehicle belonging to a group to which the faulty vehicle belongs from among a plurality of groups as a failure symptom vehicle having a symptom of occurrence of a failure.

Abstract: A rotor may be provided with a rotor core that is fixed to a shaft and includes a plurality of through holes along an axial direction of the shaft. The rotor may be provided with a permanent magnet disposed in each of the plurality of through holes. The rotor may be provided with a functional fluid having a magneto rheological effect of fixing the permanent magnet in each of the plurality of through holes.

Abstract: A heat exchange system includes: a gas line through which a gas to be cooled flows; a first heat exchanger disposed in the gas line and configured to cool the gas through heat exchange with a refrigerant; a refrigerant introduction line for introducing the refrigerant into the first heat exchanger; a refrigerant discharge line for discharging the refrigerant after cooling the gas from the first heat exchanger; a recirculation line for recirculating at least a part of the refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant discharge line into the refrigerant introduction line; and a flow-rate adjustment unit for adjusting a flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through the recirculation line so that a temperature of the refrigerant introduced into the first heat exchanger from the refrigerant introduction line is not lower than a threshold.

Abstract: An exemplary aspect is a method of processing data acquired by applying an optical coherence tomography (OCT) scan to a sample. The method includes preparing a three dimensional data set acquired from a sample, creating a two dimensional map based on representative intensity values of a plurality of pieces of A-scan data included in the three dimensional data set, placing the three dimensional data set based on the two dimensional map, and executing a process based on at least a partial data set of the three dimensional data set on which placement based on the two dimensional map has been performed.

Abstract: An OCT imaging method of some exemplary aspects includes acquiring a first three dimensional data set by applying an OCT scan targeting a first three dimensional region of a sample, creating a first two dimensional map based on representative intensity values respectively of a plurality of pieces of A-scan data included in the first three dimensional data set, designating a second three dimensional region of the sample based on the first two dimensional map, acquiring a second three dimensional data set by applying an OCT scan targeting the second three dimensional region, and generating image data from at least part of the second three dimensional data set.

Abstract: A droplet dispensing apparatus includes a crystal sensor, a resonance frequency measuring unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain the resonance frequency of the crystal sensor before droplets are discharged from a liquid dropping device, control the liquid dropping device to discharge droplets on to the crystal sensor, and obtain the resonance frequency of the crystal sensor after droplets are discharged from the liquid dropping device. The controller estimates a volatilization amount for the droplets on the crystal sensor based on a temporal change trend in the resonance frequency of the crystal sensor and calculates the total weight of the droplets discharged from the liquid dropping device based on the difference in resonance frequency of the crystal sensor before and after the droplets are discharged and the estimated volatilization amount.

Abstract: A storage device of an ophthalmologic image display device of an embodiment stores a three dimensional data set acquired by scanning a subject's eye using OCT. An image processor forms, based on the three dimensional data set, a B-mode image, front images, and composite front image obtained from the front images. A display controller displays the B-mode image, front images and composite front image in a predetermined layout. The display controller displays distinguishment color information for distinguishment between the front images by colors and slice area information that indicates a partial region of the B-mode image corresponding to a slice area of the three dimensional data set represented by each front image in a color according to the distinguishment color information, and displays a composite front image based on the front images, each of which is expressed by a color according to the distinguishment color information.

Abstract: An optical array includes a plurality of optical elements arrayed in a longitudinal direction of the optical array, each of the optical elements comprises a convex portion, a part of which is surrounded by a first groove, and a pair of flange sections between which the optical elements are arrayed. A second groove that communicates with the first groove of each optical element is formed on at least one of the flange sections.

Abstract: An exemplary aspect is a method of processing data acquired by applying an optical coherence tomography (OCT) scan to a sample. The method includes preparing a three dimensional data set acquired from a sample, creating a two dimensional map based on representative intensity values of a plurality of pieces of A-scan data included in the three dimensional data set, placing the three dimensional data set based on the two dimensional map, and executing a process based on at least a partial data set of the three dimensional data set on which placement based on the two dimensional map has been performed.

Abstract: An OCT imaging method of some exemplary aspects includes acquiring a first three dimensional data set by applying an OCT scan targeting a first three dimensional region of a sample, creating a first two dimensional map based on representative intensity values respectively of a plurality of pieces of A-scan data included in the first three dimensional data set, designating a second three dimensional region of the sample based on the first two dimensional map, acquiring a second three dimensional data set by applying an OCT scan targeting the second three dimensional region, and generating image data from at least part of the second three dimensional data set.

Abstract: An OCT apparatus of an exemplary aspect includes an OCT scanner, image data generating unit, registration unit, and image data composing unit. The OCT scanner is configured to acquire three dimensional data sets by applying an OCT scan to mutually different three dimensional regions of a sample. The image data generating unit is configured to generate a plurality of pieces of image data from the three dimensional data sets. The registration unit is configured to perform a first registration between the plurality of pieces of image data by applying an image correlation calculation to each of overlap regions in the plurality of pieces of image data. The image data composing unit is configured to compose the plurality of pieces of image data based on a result of the first registration.