Abstract: According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a configuration including: a furnace body covering a reaction chamber; a heating element divided into zones and provided in the furnace body; first temperature sensors provided for the zones such that its temperature measuring point is arranged near the heating element; second temperature sensors provided such that its temperature measuring point is provided close to a temperature measuring point of a first temperature sensor; and temperature meters provided at the zones to hold the temperature measuring points of the first and the second temperature sensors to be close to each other in a protection pipe. Each temperature meter penetrates an outer periphery of the furnace body perpendicular to a central axis of the reaction chamber such that a front end of the protection pipe is located outside the reaction tube and on a tube axis thereof.

Abstract: A mental and physical condition estimation system according to the present disclosure includes: a heart rate information acquisition unit for acquiring heart rate information that is information related to a heart rate of a subject person; a heart rate variability calculation unit for calculating heart rate variability of a very low frequency component (VLF) from the acquired heart rate information; and a mental and physical condition estimation unit for estimating a concentration and effort state of the subject person from a calculated value of the heart rate variability.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting element including a first electrode and a second electrode, and an organic compound layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic compound layer includes a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer contains at least a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a luminescent compound that emits phosphorescence. Lowest excited triplet energies of the first organic compound and the second organic compound are higher than a lowest excited triplet energy of the luminescent compound. In the first organic compound and the second organic compound, all freely rotatable single bonds are carbon-carbon bonds. The organic light-emitting element satisfies a relation of formula (1): |HOMO(H2)|>|HOMO(H1)|??(1).

Abstract: A semiconductor optical amplifier includes: a waveguide layer through which a light propagates; and active layers having higher average refractive index than the waveguide layer to amplify a light. The active layers include a first active layer stacked on an upper surface of the waveguide layer and a second active layer stacked on a lower surface of the waveguide layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medicament for treating or preventing central nervous system disease whose cause is related to abnormal aggregation of proteins in the brain, which comprises as an active ingredient a compound of formula (1) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 and R2 are hydrogen, etc., R3 and R4 are hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, etc., R5 is halogen, C1-6 alkyl, etc., R6 is hydrogen, halogen, etc., X is oxygen, etc., Y is carbon, etc., m and n are an integer of 0, 1, etc., r and s are 0, 1, 2, etc., Hy is pyridine ring, etc., which has an action of suppressing or reducing the accumulation of abnormal aggregation of proteins in the brain.

Abstract: An optical distance measuring device includes a light emitting element in which a plurality of light emitting units 16 that emit light are arranged so that a gap is present between adjacent ones of the light emitting units, a transmission unit through which the light is transmitted, a drive unit that changes a positional relationship between the light emitting element and the transmission unit, and a light receiving unit that receives reflected light of the light. The drive unit changes the positional relationship between the light emitting element and the transmission unit, thereby changing an irradiation path of the light along an arrangement direction.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a quantum dot group includes a stack of plural quantum dot layers having different central wavelengths at which respective gains are maximum. A part of or all of the quantum dot layers are stacked so that the central wavelengths sequentially shifts along a stacking direction. The quantum dot group includes a longest wavelength layer group composed of some quantum dot layers including a longest wavelength layer having a longest central wavelength and at least one quantum dot layer stacked on the longest wavelength layer. The longest wavelength layer or the longest wavelength layer group has a larger gain at the central wavelength than the gain at the central wavelength of each of the other quantum dot layers.

Abstract: A power assist system according to the present disclosure includes: a robot that is worn by a user, the robot including a drive source that assists action of the user; an interference force estimation unit that estimates an interference force given from the user to the robot; an admittance model that generates a target velocity in a virtual object having a predetermined dynamic characteristic, the target velocity corresponding to the interference force estimated by the interference force estimation unit; and a control unit, in which the interference force estimation unit includes: a disturbance observer that detects a disturbance based on the momentum of the robot; and an estimation unit that estimates the interference force depending on the disturbance detected by the disturbance observer, using an ESN learning model for which learning about the interference force depending on the disturbance is performed while weights in a reservoir layer are stochastically assigned.

Abstract: A physiological state index calculation system, a physiological state index calculation method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for capturing subtle changes in a physiological state of a living body are provided. The physiological state index calculation system includes a band-pass filter that filters cerebral blood flow waveform information obtained from a cerebral blood flow of a living body in at least one frequency band, and a complex number conversion unit configured to convert the filtered cerebral blood flow waveform information into a complex number for at least one frequency band. The cerebral blood flow waveform information converted into a complex number by the complex number conversion unit is an oscillator that reflects a physiological state of a living body.

Abstract: A tool includes a socket and an attachment that includes a shaft portion. The shaft portion transmits torque to the socket. The socket includes a distal end face, a proximal end face, an accommodation hole that opens in the distal end face, and a connection hole that opens in the proximal end face and is connected to the accommodation hole. The shaft portion includes an outer peripheral surface provided with a first transmission surface for transmitting torque to the inner peripheral surface of the connection hole. The accommodation hole includes an inner peripheral surface provided with a second transmission surface for transmitting torque to threaded fastener. The accommodation hole forms an accommodation space capable of accommodating threaded fasteners in a row. The shaft portion includes, at a distal end, a contact portion, which contacts one of the threaded fasteners accommodated in the accommodation space.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a quantum dot group includes a stack of plural quantum dot layers having different central wavelengths at which respective gains are maximum. A part of or all of the quantum dot layers are stacked so that the central wavelengths sequentially shifts along a stacking direction. The quantum dot group includes a longest wavelength layer group composed of some quantum dot layers including a longest wavelength layer having a longest central wavelength and at least one quantum dot layer stacked on the longest wavelength layer. The longest wavelength layer or the longest wavelength layer group has a larger gain at the central wavelength than the gain at the central wavelength of each of the other quantum dot layers.

Abstract: A LiDAR device is a light detection device including a light-emitting unit, a light-receiving unit, and an optical unit. In the light-emitting unit, a plurality of VCSEL elements respectively emitting a beam are arranged along a light source array direction. The light-receiving unit receives a reflected beam from a measurement area. The optical unit includes a first optical element and a second optical element, and forms a projected beam extending along the light source array direction. The first optical element has a negative power along a transmission direction of the beam on a main scanning plane that is orthogonal to the light source array direction. The second optical element is positioned behind the first optical element, and has a positive power along the transmission direction on the main scanning plane that is orthogonal to the light source array direction.

Abstract: A physiological state index calculation system, a physiological state index calculation method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for capturing subtle changes in a physiological state of a living body are provided. The physiological state index calculation system includes a band-pass filter that filters cerebral blood flow waveform information obtained from a cerebral blood flow of a living body in at least one frequency band, and a complex number conversion unit configured to convert the filtered cerebral blood flow waveform information into a complex number for at least one frequency band. The cerebral blood flow waveform information converted into a complex number by the complex number conversion unit is an oscillator that reflects a physiological state of a living body.

Abstract: A mental and physical condition estimation system according to the present disclosure includes: a heart rate information acquisition unit for acquiring heart rate information that is information related to a heart rate of a subject person; a heart rate variability calculation unit for calculating heart rate variability of a very low frequency component (VLF) from the acquired heart rate information; and a mental and physical condition estimation unit for estimating a concentration and effort state of the subject person from a calculated value of the heart rate variability.

Abstract: A rehabilitation evaluation apparatus includes a sensor signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a sensor signal output from a detection sensor, a selection unit configured to select at least one myoelectric signal having a correlation with the sensor signal acquired by the sensor signal acquisition unit from among the plurality of second myoelectric signals on the second-side part acquired by the myoelectric-signal acquisition unit, and a similarity output unit configured to select a first myoelectric signal that has been output from a myoelectric sensor attached in a place that is left-right symmetric to a place of the myoelectric sensor that has output the second correlated myoelectric signal selected by the selection unit from among a plurality of first myoelectric signals on the first-side part acquired by the myoelectric-signal acquisition unit, calculate a similarity between these correlated myoelectric signals, and outputs the calculated similarity.

Abstract: A video conference apparatus includes a relay unit that is configured to transmit video image data acquired at a site of a first conference system to a second terminal provided in a second conference system and transmit video image data of the second conference system to a first terminal provided in the first conference system. The relay unit is configured to transmit only a combined video image of video images at respective sites of the first conference system to the second terminal as first video image data, and transmit a video image sent from the second terminal to the first terminal as second video image data.

Abstract: A video conference apparatus includes a relay unit that is configured to transmit video image data acquired at a site of a first conference system to a second terminal provided in a second conference system and transmit video image data of the second conference system to a first terminal provided in the first conference system. The relay unit is configured to transmit only a combined video image of video images at respective sites of the first conference system to the second terminal as first video image data, and transmit a video image sent from the second terminal to the first terminal as second video image data.

Abstract: An autonomic nerve index calculation system for calculating an autonomic nerve index of a living body according to an embodiment of the present disclosure generates pulse wave waveform data using at least one pulse wave signal of the living body, filters the generated pulse wave waveform data in at least one predetermined frequency band, converts the filtered pulse wave waveform data into a complex number and calculate pulse wave complex waveform data of the at least one frequency band, and calculates the autonomic nerve index of the living body in the at least one frequency band based on the calculated pulse wave complex waveform data.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser light source module includes an emission unit provided with an upper electrode and a lower electrode, emitting a laser light in one direction; a laser diode having a plurality of emission units arranged in a state where emission directions of the laser light are aligned; a plurality of package side electrodes that supply current to respective emission units; and a plurality of first wires that electrically connect respective upper electrodes of the plurality of emission units with the package side electrodes corresponding to the upper electrodes individually. One first wire that connects one emission unit in the arranged emission units with one of package side electrodes corresponding to the one emission unit, and the other first wire that connects the other emission unit adjacent to the one emission unit with one of package side electrodes corresponding to the other emission unit are non-parallel in plan view.

Abstract: An optical distance measuring device includes a light emitting element in which a plurality of light emitting units 16 that emit light are arranged so that a gap is present between adjacent ones of the light emitting units, a transmission unit through which the light is transmitted, a drive unit that changes a positional relationship between the light emitting element and the transmission unit, and a light receiving unit that receives reflected light of the light. The drive unit changes the positional relationship between the light emitting element and the transmission unit, thereby changing an irradiation path of the light along an arrangement direction.