Abstract: Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus capable of realizing a highly reliable insulating structure. This charged particle beam apparatus emits a charged particle beam from a charged particle beam emission device onto a sample, detects charged particles generated from the sample, and creates a sample image or processes the sample. The charged particle beam emission device is provided with a charged particle source and a shield arranged in an interior of a metal housing that is filled with an insulating gas, and an acceleration electrode arranged below the charged particle source, power being supplied to the acceleration electrode via the shield.

Abstract: There is provided a safety apparatus including a push-up member in which an ejected object is hardly displaced even during transportation, and an aerial vehicle including the safety apparatus. A safety apparatus 100 includes a cylinder 14 that accommodates a piston member 10 and is provided with a bore 13 through which the piston member 10 protrudes to the outside (upward in FIG. 1) during operation, a push-up member 15 that is pushed up in one direction by the piston member 10, an ejected object 16 that is pushed up while being supported by the push-up member 15, a gas generator 17 as a power source that moves the piston member 10 in the cylinder 14, a container 18 that has a bottomed cylindrical shape and accommodates the piston member 10, the cylinder 14, the push-up member 15, the ejected object 16, and the gas generator 17, and a lid 21 that closes an opening end of the container 18.

Abstract: A head mountable display device can include a frame defining an aperture, an optical assembly disposed in the aperture, and a curtain assembly extending between the frame and the optical assembly and occluding the aperture. The curtain assembly can include an elastic layer and an air-impermeable layer.

Abstract: An aerial vehicle safety apparatus includes a safety mechanism, a drive mechanism, an ejection mechanism, and a control mechanism. The safety mechanism is used for securing safety of at least one of an aerial vehicle and an object outside the aerial vehicle. The drive mechanism includes at least one drive unit serving as a drive source of the safety mechanism. The ejection mechanism ejects the drive mechanism together with the safety mechanism. The control mechanism controls operations of the drive mechanism for the drive mechanism to drive the safety mechanism after the ejection mechanism starts ejection of the safety mechanism.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a copper alloy wire being a wire rod formed of a copper alloy and having a tensile strength of 400 MPa or more, an elongation at break of 5% or more, a conductivity of 60% IACS or more, and a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, wherein the copper alloy has a composition containing 0.05% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less of iron, 0.01% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less of phosphorus, and 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less of tin with the balance being copper and unavoidable impurities, the copper alloy has a structure containing crystals, and a crystal grain size difference determined as a difference between a maximum crystal grain size and a minimum crystal grain size in a cross-section is 1.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: An electronic assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic component coupled to the PCB, an electrically conductive fence coupled to the PCB and surrounding a perimeter of the electronic component, and a fan assembly. The fan assembly includes a housing coupled to the fence and disposed over the electronic component and a plurality of fan blades configured to rotate within the housing.

Abstract: A pulse discrimination device is configured to receive an electrical signal from a living body in which a functional pulse propagates at a predetermined time interval, and is configured to discriminate between the functional pulse and a noise pulse which are included in the electrical signal. The pulse discrimination device includes: a pulse detector configured to sequentially detect an electrical pulse included in the electrical signal based on variation in an intensity of the electrical signal received from the living body; and a pulse discrimination unit configured to determine whether the electrical pulse detected by the pulse detector is the functional pulse or the noise pulse based on a detection interval of the electrical pulse detected by the pulse detector and a pulse time predetermined based on the predetermined time interval.

Abstract: A head mountable display device can include a frame defining an aperture, an optical assembly disposed in the aperture, and a curtain assembly extending between the frame and the optical assembly and occluding the aperture. The curtain assembly can include an elastic layer and an air-impermeable layer.

Abstract: A drive transmission device includes a plurality of drive transmission units and a heat-resistant member. The drive transmission units include a plurality of drive transmission mechanisms to transmit drive force from a plurality of drive sources to a driven member. At least two drive sources of the drive sources are included in at least two drive transmission units of the drive transmission units. The at least two drive sources are disposed at substantially a same height and on a same side with respect to at least two drive transmission mechanisms of the drive transmission mechanisms that correspond to the at least two drive sources. The heat-resistant member is disposed at a position higher than the at least two drive sources in a use state. The at least two drive transmission mechanisms are shielded from the at least two drive sources by the heat-resistant member at the position.

Abstract: An electrode foil having high capacitance per unit volume is provided. The electrode foil is an electrode foil for an electrolytic capacitor. The electrode foil is an electrode foil extending in a longitudinal direction and having a width direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the electrode foil including an enlarged surface portion on a surface of the electrode foil, wherein a crack is formed in the enlarged surface portion in a direction oblique to the width direction.

Abstract: An image reading device and an image forming apparatus. The image reading device includes an image reader to read an image of a document, and a color reference component arranged to face the image reader. In the image reading device, the image reader reads the color reference component at a prescribed timing to obtain color reference image data, and correction data generating processes are executed based on the obtained color reference image data to generate correction data used to correct data of the image read by the image reader. In the image reading device, wherein the color reference component is moved relative to the image reader in a direction orthogonal to a direction toward and away from the image reader. The image forming apparatus includes the image reading device, and an image is formed on a recording material based on data of the image read by the image reading device.

Abstract: A thermosensitive probe includes: a non-metallic thermoconductive member defining a housing space; a thermosensitive element disposed in the housing space; and a coupling member having a portion surrounding the thermosensitive element in the housing space while fixing the thermosensitive element to the thermoconductive member.

Abstract: A physiological information system includes: a plurality of physiological information sensors configured to acquire physiological information data of a subject being tested, and a physiological information processing apparatus communicatively connected to each of the plurality of physiological information sensors. The physiological information processing apparatus is configured to transmit a synchronous packet toward each of the plurality of physiological information sensors.

Abstract: A solenoid valve system includes a supply solenoid valve, a plurality of exhaust solenoid valves, and a valve control section controlling opening and closing operation of the supply solenoid valve and the plurality of exhaust solenoid valves using PWM or PFM. The plurality of exhaust solenoid valves are disposed in parallel with each other. The supply solenoid valve and the plurality of exhaust solenoid valves have substantially identical flow rate characteristics. The number of the plurality of the exhaust solenoid valves is twice the number of the supply solenoid valve.

Abstract: A pulse discrimination device is configured to receive electrical signals from a plurality of positions of a living body to which a pacing device for outputting a pacing pulse to cause a heart to beat is attached, and is configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals. The pulse discrimination device includes: a differential processor configured to calculate a difference of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions, a sum processor configured to calculate a sum of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions, and a pulse discrimination unit configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals based on the difference obtained by the differential processor and the sum obtained by the sum processor.

Abstract: An image reading device and an image forming apparatus. The image reading device includes an image reader to read an image of a document, and a color reference component arranged to face the image reader. In the image reading device, the image reader reads the color reference component at a prescribed timing to obtain color reference image data, and correction data generating processes are executed based on the obtained color reference image data to generate correction data used to correct data of the image read by the image reader. In the image reading device, wherein the color reference component is moved relative to the image reader in a direction orthogonal to a direction toward and away from the image reader. The image forming apparatus includes the image reading device, and an image is formed on a recording material based on data of the image read by the image reading device.

Abstract: A pulse discrimination device is configured to receive electrical signals from a plurality of positions of a living body to which a pacing device for outputting a pacing pulse to cause a heart to beat is attached, and is configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals. The pulse discrimination device includes: a differential processor configured to calculate a difference of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions; a sum processor configured to calculate a sum of the electrical signals received from the plurality of positions; and a pulse discrimination unit configured to discriminate the pacing pulse included in the electrical signals based on the difference obtained by the differential processor and the sum obtained by the sum processor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a packaging material that allows for lesser adsorption of a medicinal component on the material, that can be processed into a packaging pouch without using an adhesive, and that has excellent tearability. Specifically, the present invention provides a packaging material including, on or above one or both surfaces of a substrate, a primer layer and a low-adsorption coating layer with a grammage of 0.5 to 20 g/m2 in this order, wherein the primer layer contains an acid-modified product of a block copolymer that contains a block A containing a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, and a block B containing a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and/or an acid-modified product of a hydrogenated product of the block copolymer; and the low-adsorption coating layer contains a cyclic polyolefin.

Abstract: An inclination detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect, in image information that is an image of an object imaged by an imaging device at an imaging position where a background member forms a background, a first boundary between the background member and a shadow of the object; detect a second boundary between the object and the shadow of the object in the image information; and detect an inclination of the object in the image information from the first boundary and the second boundary detected by the processing circuitry.

Abstract: To provide a display device that implements highly reliable waterproofness without reducing the ratio of a display member in a housing. The display device includes a display member having a flat-plate shape, a frame provided on a peripheral edge of a back surface facing a display surface of the display member, and a housing member provided on a side surface of the display member to surround the display surface, in which the housing member is provided with adhesive members on surfaces substantially parallel to the display surface and different from each other on a long side and a short side of the housing member, and at least one or more corners of four corners of the display surface are provided with a connecting adhesive member that connects the adhesive member of the long side of the housing member and the adhesive member of the short side of the housing member.