Abstract: An ultrasonic blood vessel inspecting apparatus provided with a longitudinal cross sectional blood vessel image generating portion configured to generate a longitudinal cross sectional image of a blood vessel located below a skin of a live body, on the basis of reflected wave signals of an ultrasonic wave by using an ultrasonic probe placed on the skin of said live body, includes: an index value calculating portion configured to calculate an index value indicative of a degree of clarity of an image which represents an intima-media complex of said blood vessel and which exists within said longitudinal cross sectional image of the blood vessel.

Abstract: A blood vessel function inspecting apparatus including blood flow velocity distribution measuring portion for measuring a blood flow velocity distribution within a blood vessel in a non-invasion manner with ultrasonic waves before releasing of the blood vessel from a blood flow obstruction or after a blood vessel diameter measuring time period; viscosity-shear rate relationship calculating portion; and blood shear stress calculating portion for measuring a blood flow velocity within the blood vessel, concurrently with the measurement of a change ratio of the diameter of the blood vessel within the predetermined blood vessel diameter measuring time period after releasing of the blood vessel from the blood flow obstruction, and calculating a blood shear stress on the basis of a measured blood flow velocity, and according to a viscosity-shear rate relationship.

Abstract: A blood vessel function inspecting apparatus including a first blood state index value calculating portion that obtains estimated hematocrit values at a plurality of points predetermined within a blood vessel, on the basis of values of a blood viscosity and values of a shear rate at said plurality of points, which are respectively extracted from a viscosity distribution and a shear rate distribution, and according to reference relationships between a hematocrit value and the blood viscosity, which reference relationships respectively correspond predetermined different values of the shear rate; and a second blood state index value calculating portion that calculates, as said blood state index value, a value relating to an amount of difference of the estimated hematocrit values at said plurality of points with respect to each other, which amount is minimized by transforming said reference relationships at the same ratio for all of the values of the shear rate.

Abstract: A diesel engine is configured to be optionally set either to a low fuel consumption mode in which the amount of fuel consumption is reduced or to a low noise mode in which the noise is reduced so that a continuous regeneration mode is automatically selected when the output value of the diesel engine is greater than a predetermined value, the estimated amount of accumulation of particulate matter collected in a DPF is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, a forced regeneration mode is automatically selected when the output value of the diesel engine is less than the predetermined value and the estimated amount of accumulation of particulate matter collected in the DPF is greater than the predetermined value when either the continuous regeneration mode or forced regeneration mode is manually selected, control is started depending on the selected mode.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an EGR device for an engine in which a cooling structure such as an EGR cooler is not required and which reduces Nox contained in the exhaust gas in the whole operation areas, so as to correspond to recent exhaust gas regulation. An EGR device 30 for an engine comprises an EGR pipe 14 for continuously connecting an exhaust manifold 4 and an intake manifold 3 of an engine 1, an EGR valve 9 for controlling a passage area of the EGR pipe 14, an ECU 6 for controlling the EGR valve 9. The EGR device 30 further comprises a bypass passage 24 for bypassing the EGR valve 9 and a restrictor 25 is installed in the bypass passage 24.

Abstract: External electrodes are provided on a bottom surface of a laminate, and are connected to both ends of a main line and both ends of a sub-line, respectively. A warpage prevention conductor is provided on an insulating material layer that is provided on a top surface side of the laminate with respect to insulating material layers to which the main line is provided and with respect to insulating material layers to which the sub-line is provided. The warpage prevention conductor overlaps with the external electrodes when seen from a z-axis direction in a plan view. A conductor layer that is not connected to the main line or the sub-line is not provided on any of the insulating material layers provided on a bottom surface side of the laminate with respect to the insulating material layer on which the warpage prevention conductor is provided.

Abstract: (1) A method for producing a flexible optical waveguide, containing: a step of forming a first cladding layer; a step of forming a first core layer by laminating a resin film for forming a core layer on at least one end portion of the first cladding layer; a step of forming a second core layer by laminating a resin film for forming a core layer on an entire surface of the first core layer and the first cladding layer; a step of forming a core pattern by patterning the first and second core layers; and a step of embedding the core pattern by forming a second cladding layer on the core pattern and the first cladding layer, (2) a flexible optical waveguide containing a lower cladding layer, a core part and an upper cladding layer, the upper cladding layer having a width that is smaller than a width of the lower cladding layer at least in a bent portion, and is equal to or smaller than a width of the lower cladding layer in an end portion, and the lower cladding layer having a width in a bent portion that is equa

Abstract: In an electronic component, a first LC resonant circuit includes a first coil including coil portions that extend from a first external electrode to a second external electrode while turning in a first direction. A second LC resonant circuit includes a second coil including coil portions that extend from a third external electrode to a fourth external electrode while turning in the first direction. A third LC resonant circuit includes a third coil and a capacitor. The third coil includes coil portions that extend from the capacitor of the third LC resonant circuit to the second external electrode while turning in a second direction opposite to the first direction around the coil portions of the first coil and the second coil.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring structure of a semiconductor device having a stacked structure is arranged to restrain reliability degradation due to stress applied to the region of wiring between opposite upper and lower plugs. The rate of overlap of contact surface between upper plug and wiring on contact surface between lower plug and wiring, is small to the extent that no void is generated. The multilayer wiring structure is produced such that no grain boundary is contained in the region of wiring between upper and lower plugs. The difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the material of wiring and the material of upper and lower plugs, is small to the extent that no void is generated.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a laminated body including an insulating material layer made of a first dielectric material and a second insulating material layer made of a second dielectric material having a relative dielectric constant greater than that of the first dielectric material that are laminated to one another. An LC filter is defined by a coil included in the laminated body and a capacitor. The coil includes a coil conductor layer provided on the insulating material layer. The coil conductor layer is provided within a region including the insulating material layer.

Abstract: A pressure vessel is provided with an annular inflation bag and an annular inflation bag for sealing the pressure vessel at intermediate positions of brachium and antebrachium of the live body in longitudinal direction of the arms of the live body, and is configured to permit a change of an internal pressure therein over a pressure range a lower limit of which is a negative value, while a portion of the brachium and antebrachium between first and second positions in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the pressure vessel, so that the pressure vessel can be comparatively small-sized even where arterial vessel (luminal part) of a comparatively large diameter is accommodated in the pressure vessel, whereby the physical and mental burden on the subject person can be reduced.

Abstract: An object is to provide a diesel engine (2) capable of reliably preventing an excessive rise in temperature inside a particulate filter (10) and capable of rapidly enabling driving in a low-rotation and low-load area when there is no possibility of excessive rise in temperature, making it possible to prevent unnecessary consumption of fuel. A diesel engine (2) includes a diesel engine (2) exhaust emission purifier (1). The diesel engine (2) exhaust emission purifier (1) includes a particulate filter (10) and regenerating means (30) for forcibly removing a particulate accumulable in the particulate filter (10) to regenerate the particulate filter (10).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical waveguide comprising a lower cladding layer, a patternized core layer and an upper cladding layer, wherein a striking part for positioning is provided in one end part thereof, and an optical path turning mirror face is formed in a position different from a striking part-forming end part in the above core layer. Capable of being provided are an optical waveguide and an optoelectronic circuit board each having a simple configuration in which an optical device is not mounted on an optical wiring part or an optoelectronic composite wiring part and capable of connecting an optical device with a core of an optical waveguide in an optical wiring part (optical waveguide) or an optoelectronic composite wiring part (optoelectronic circuit board) at a high position accuracy and an optical module comprising an optical waveguide or an optoelectronic circuit board and a connector.

Abstract: An object is to provide a diesel engine (2) that eliminates discomfort when an operator of a working machine coupled to the diesel engine (2) is at work while a particulate filter (10) is being regenerated. A diesel engine (2) includes an exhaust emission purifier (1) and selecting means (41) capable of selecting any one control method from isochronous control and droop control. The exhaust emission purifier (1) includes a particulate filter (10) and a pressure regulation valve (61). The particulate filter (10) is disposed along an exhaust stream to purify exhaust gas. The pressure regulation valve (61) is configured to apply a load onto the diesel engine (2) so as to raise a temperature of the particulate filter (10) so that a particulate accumulable in the particulate filter (10) is forcibly removed and that the particulate filter (10) is regenerated.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring structure of a semiconductor device having a stacked structure is arranged to restrain reliability degradation due to stress applied to the region of wiring between opposite upper and lower plugs. The rate of overlap of contact surface between upper plug and wiring on contact surface between lower plug and wiring, is small to the extent that no void is generated. The multilayer wiring structure is produced such that no grain boundary is contained in the region of wiring between upper and lower plugs. The difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the material of wiring and the material of upper and lower plugs, is small to the extent that no void is generated.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas purifier provided in an engine, a filter regeneration control recovering a PM collecting capacity of filter means on the basis of a chemical reaction can be efficiently executed by a simple structure. An exhaust gas purifier in accordance with the present invention is provided with a particulate filter (50) for purifying an exhaust gas arranged in an exhaust path of an engine (5), an actuation portion hydraulic pump (101) driving on the basis of a power of the engine (5), a pressure sensor (68) capable of detecting a clogging state of the particulate filter (50), and a pressure control valve (104) and a switching solenoid valve (106) for forcibly increasing an actuation amount of the actuation portion hydraulic pump (101).

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus including an optical amplifier for providing a high-power optical amplifier on the receive side, in which a wavelength of pumping light for an optical amplifier on the transmission side is suitably shifted to be different from a wavelength of pumping light for an optical amplifier on the receive side, pumping optical power for the optical amplifier on the transmission side is not all consumed in a doped fiber in amplification process, and remnant pump light that was left surplus is added by a wavelength multiplex coupler to the pumping light for the optical amplifier on the receive side, thereby enhancing a gain and light output without an increase in output power of the pumping light used for the optical amplifier on the receive side.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring structure of a semiconductor device having a stacked structure is arranged to restrain reliability degradation due to stress applied to the region of wiring between opposite upper and lower plugs. The rate of overlap of contact surface between upper plug and wiring on contact surface between lower plug and wiring, is small to the extent that no void is generated. The multilayer wiring structure is produced such that no grain boundary is contained in the region of wiring between upper and lower plugs. The difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the material of wiring and the material of upper and lower plugs, is small to the extent that no void is generated.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a short-axis image of a blood vessel under a skin of a living being, the apparatus including an ultrasonic probe including an ultrasonic array which has a plurality of ultrasonic transducers arranged in one direction in an emission surface and which emits, from the emission surface, an ultrasonic beam toward the blood vessel, the ultrasonic probe additionally including a main frame which is adapted to be placed on the skin of the living being, an x-axis supporting device which is supported by the main frame and which supports the ultrasonic array such that the ultrasonic array is rotatable about an x axis parallel to the direction of arrangement of the ultrasonic transducers in the emission surface, and an x-axis control device which controls a posture of the ultrasonic array supported by the x-axis supporting device such that in a y-z plane, the emission surface of the ultrasonic array is parallel to the blood vessel.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus comprising a first detector for detecting the power of the supervisory signal light separated from received wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights; a second detector for detecting the power of the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights after the separation of the supervisory signal light; a gain-controlled type optical amplifier for amplifying the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights; an optical attenuator coupled to the amplifier; and a control unit for controlling the optical amplifier and the optical attenuator so as to keep the output level of the wavelength-division multiplexed signal lights to a predetermined target value, wherein the control unit restrains automatic output level control by the optical attenuator when the supervisory signal light power fluctuates within its permissible range and fluctuations in the signal light power have deviated from its permissible range.