Abstract: A series hybrid vehicle control method for controlling a vehicle that has a battery, an electric power generating motor, a drive motor and an internal combustion engine. The battery charged with the electric power from the electric power generating motor that generates electric power by being driven by the internal combustion engine, and charged with the electric power regenerated by regenerative braking of the drive motor. The drive motor drives a drive wheel. The electric power consumption for motoring is greater in a B range than in a D range. The control method sets deceleration caused by regenerative braking of the drive motor to be greater in the B range than in the D range, and starts motoring of the internal combustion engine in the B range at a lower SOC of the battery than the SOC of the battery in the D range.

Abstract: In a control method of a vehicle, an electric power consumption, which is an electric power consumed by the motoring, includes a friction electric power consumption, which is an electric power consumption of the motoring determined according to friction of the internal combustion engine, and an inertia electric power, which is an electric power consumed for an inertia torque for changing a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A series hybrid vehicle control method for controlling a vehicle that has a battery, an electric power generating motor, a drive motor and an internal combustion engine. The battery charged with the electric power from the electric power generating motor that generates electric power by being driven by the internal combustion engine, and charged with the electric power regenerated by regenerative braking of the drive motor. The drive motor drives a drive wheel. The electric power consumption for motoring is greater in a B range than in a D range. The control method sets deceleration caused by regenerative braking of the drive motor to be greater in the B range than in the D range, and starts motoring of the internal combustion engine in the B range at a lower SOC of the battery than the SOC of the battery in the D range.

Abstract: A series hybrid vehicle control method charges a battery with electric power generated by an electric power generation motor driven by an internal combustion engine, and electric power regenerated by a drive motor. The control method starts generating the electric power by the engine if a requested output exceeds a power generation start threshold value, and stops generating electric power by the engine if the requested output falls below a power generation stop threshold value. A deceleration rate by regeneration of the drive motor is greater in a second advancement shift position than in a first advancement shift position. The power generation start threshold value and/or the power generation stop threshold value where the second advancement shift position has been selected is greater than the power generation start threshold value or the power generation stop threshold value where the first advancement shift position has been selected.

Abstract: An operating portion which allows a bending treatment instrument to be inserted into an endoscope channel and bendably operated smoothly through intuition. The operating portion is connected with a device wire and bending wires and used to operate the treatment instrument and bend a freely bendable, bending treatment instrument, where the device wire is connected to a treatment instrument provided at a distal end of the bending treatment instrument and is used to operate the treatment instrument and the plurality of bending wires is used to bend the bending treatment instrument, the operating portion including: an operating portion body; a guide unit penetrated by the device wire; a bending wire pulling unit connected with the bending wires and swingably assembled onto the guide unit; and a grip portion connected with the device wire and configured to be reciprocable in an axial direction of the bending wire pulling unit.

Abstract: A fixing stand to which an endoscope body and treatment instruments can be easily attached in an easy-to-operate manner and which facilitates increase or decrease in the number of such items is provided. A fixing stand includes legs and a fixing stand body erected on the legs, the fixing stand allowing at least one or more of an endoscope body of an endoscope and an operation input portion of a treatment instrument for use in a surgery to be attached to the fixing stand in a detachable manner. The endoscope body and the operation input portion are attached to fixtures which are disposed side by side substantially horizontally to the direction in which the fixing stand is erected. The fixtures are detachably attached to a fixing base which extends substantially horizontally to the fixing stand body. A hanger component is further attached to the fixing base.

Abstract: A fixing device for an endoscope that allows easy detachment of the endoscope from an endoscope holder even with the endoscope kept inserted in a body cavity is provided. A fixing device for fixing an endoscope capable of observing an operative site in a body cavity using an endoscope having an insertion portion to be inserted into the body cavity and an endoscope body attached at an end of the insertion portion. The fixing device includes a holder body which is attached to a fixing stand placed on a floor and holds the endoscope body in a rotatable manner. The holder body includes a detaching mechanism that allows the endoscope body to be detached from the holder body while keeping the insertion portion inserted in the body cavity.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a structure for an aircraft includes a first structural member, a second structural member coupled to the first structural member, a fastener and a conductive object. The fastener couples the first structural member to the second structural member. The fastener is inserted into an insertion hole formed in a portion where the first structural member is overlapped with the second structural member. The fastener is in electrically non-contact with the first and second structural members in the insertion hole. The conductive object is embedded inside at least either one of the first and second structural members. The conductive object prevents a spark between the fastener and each of the first and second structural members by forming a current pathway that leads current, flowing inside the at least either one of the first and second structural members, to the other structural member.

Abstract: A hinge member of a bending treatment instrument in an endoscope channel and used bendably and capable of withstanding loads from grasping and resection motions of treatment instruments and a bending treatment instrument that uses the hinge member. Tubular hinge members arranged in a row substantially coaxially with one another make up the instrument and a hinge member includes: two recesses on edges of an end face on a proximal side in an axial direction; and two projections on an edge of an end face on a distal side shifted 90 degrees in a circumferential direction from the recess and facing each other in radial direction, wherein a bending-wire passage hole penetrating the hinge member in the axial direction is at a position avoiding the projections on the end face on the distal side, and a device-wire passage hole penetrating an axial center portion.

Abstract: An operating portion which allows a bending treatment instrument to be inserted into an endoscope channel and bendably operated smoothly through intuition. The operating portion is connected with a device wire and bending wires and used to operate the treatment instrument and bend a freely bendable, bending treatment instrument, where the device wire is connected to a treatment instrument provided at a distal end of the bending treatment instrument and is used to operate the treatment instrument and the plurality of bending wires is used to bend the bending treatment instrument, the operating portion including: an operating portion body; a guide unit penetrated by the device wire; a bending wire pulling unit connected with the bending wires and swingably assembled onto the guide unit; and a grip portion connected with the device wire and configured to be reciprocable in an axial direction of the bending wire pulling unit.

Abstract: A composite material includes laminated composite material sheets having conductivity, partitioning members provided between end parts of sets of the composite material sheets to mutually separate the sets of the composite material sheets, and metal sheets respectively provided in the separated end parts of the composite material sheets so as to be respectively pinched between the composite material sheets.

Abstract: To provide a treatment instrument that combines a capability to grip a target tissue and a capability to resect and ablate the target tissue without the need to interchange left and right devices or adjust a field of view of an endoscope, which can reduce burden on a surgeon. A high frequency forceps includes a pair of forceps pieces configured to open and close on a pivot and equipped with incision blades adapted to pass a high-frequency current to a living tissue, in which the incision blades are formed, respectively, on opposite faces of the pair of forceps pieces, extending from a side of the pivot to a distal side; and the incision blades are spaced away from each other when the pair of forceps pieces is closed.

Abstract: Composite material sheets containing conductive fibers are laminated, and release films are interposed between the sheets so as to extend from one end to the center of the sheets. The sheets are heated under pressure to shape a composite material. Discrete conductive wires through which a measurement current is passed are connected to end surfaces of the respective layers in the composite material on the side on which the release films are interposed. A common conductive wire through which the measurement current is passed is connected to a surface of one of an uppermost layer and a lowermost layer at an end of the composite material opposite to the side on which the release films are interposed. A current is passed between the common conductive wire and the discrete conductive wires. Currents in the respective layers are sequentially or simultaneously measured using an ammeter.

Abstract: A composite material includes laminated composite material sheets having conductivity, partitioning members provided between end parts of sets of the composite material sheets to mutually separate the sets of the composite material sheets, and metal sheets respectively provided in the separated end parts of the composite material sheets so as to be respectively pinched between the composite material sheets.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a structure for an aircraft includes a first structural member, a second structural member coupled to the first structural member, a fastener and a conductive object. The fastener couples the first structural member to the second structural member. The fastener is inserted into an insertion hole formed in a portion where the first structural member is overlapped with the second structural member. The fastener is in electrically non-contact with the first and second structural members in the insertion hole. The conductive object is embedded inside at least either one of the first and second structural members. The conductive object prevents a spark between the fastener and each of the first and second structural members by forming a current pathway that leads current, flowing inside the at least either one of the first and second structural members, to the other structural member.

Abstract: Composite material sheets containing conductive fibers are laminated, and release films are interposed between the sheets so as to extend from one end to the center of the sheets. The sheets are heated under pressure to shape a composite material. Discrete conductive wires through which a measurement current is passed are connected to end surfaces of the respective layers in the composite material on the side on which the release films are interposed. A common conductive wire through which the measurement current is passed is connected to a surface of one of an uppermost layer and a lowermost layer at an end of the composite material opposite to the side on which the release films are interposed. A current is passed between the common conductive wire and the discrete conductive wires. Currents in the respective layers are sequentially or simultaneously measured using an ammeter.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus is made so as to have respective chambers in which a main exposure system, a substrate carrying system, and a mask carrying system are housed. The apparatus is structured so that the respective environments in the chambers are substantially independently maintained from each other. Substrate processing can be facilitated by incorporating photoelectric detection of the substrate center in association with handing-over of the substrate from one substrate carrying member to another, and/or storage of a cleaning substrate in a storage member which also holds substrates being processed by the apparatus.

Abstract: The exposure apparatus and the substrate processing unit is connected via an in-line I/F portion. In addition, information on the substrate carriage is communicated in between the control unit of the exposure apparatus side and the control unit of the substrate processing unit, and both units decide their next operation that contribute to improving the processing capacity related to the wafer carriage, before actually starting the operation. Therefore, the throughput of the series of wafer processing performed by the substrate processing unit and the exposure apparatus can be improved, and as a consequence, becomes possible to improve the productivity of the device. In this case, for example, information on the predicted time or the expected time when the substrate can be received or sent out is reciprocally communicated between both units.

Abstract: The exposure apparatus and the substrate processing unit is connected via an in-line I/F portion. In addition, information on the substrate carriage is communicated in between the control unit of the exposure apparatus side and the control unit of the substrate processing unit, and both units decide their next operation that contribute to improving the processing capacity related to the wafer carriage, before actually starting the operation. Therefore, the throughput of the series of wafer processing performed by the substrate processing unit and the exposure apparatus can be improved, and as a consequence, becomes possible to improve the productivity of the device. In this case, for example, information on the predicted time or the expected time when the substrate can be received or sent out is reciprocally communicated between both units.

Abstract: The exposure apparatus and the substrate processing unit is connected via an in-line I/F portion. In addition, information on the substrate carriage is communicated in between the control unit of the exposure apparatus side and the control unit of the substrate processing unit, and both units decide their next operation that contribute to improving the processing capacity related to the wafer carriage, before actually starting the operation. Therefore, the throughput of the series of wafer processing performed by the substrate processing unit and the exposure apparatus can be improved, and as a consequence, becomes possible to improve the productivity of the device. In this case, for example, information on the predicted time or the expected time when the substrate can be received or sent out is reciprocally communicated between both units.