Abstract: A medical device includes an extracorporeal unit including a power transmitting unit that transmits electric power from outside of a living body into the living body in a non-contact manner, and a medical instrument embedded in the living body. The medical instrument includes a power receiving unit that receives the electric power transmitted from the power transmitting unit, a soft portion through which an injection needle is inserted, and a plurality of light emitting units that are provided along an outer edge of the soft portion and are each configured to emit light using the electric power received by the power receiving unit. A light amount adjusting unit that adjusts a light amount of a light-irradiated region including one or more light-irradiated portions to be projected on a body surface from the plurality of light emitting units.

Abstract: A medical device that can confirm a predetermined portion in a medical instrument implanted for use in a body. A medical instrument includes a main body part, and a medicinal solution container installed in the main body part. A notification part includes a plurality of light emitting portions that emit light by use of power received by a power receiving part to notify that a predetermined state is reached, when a relative positional relation between a power transmission part and the power receiving part reaches the predetermined state by moving the power transmission part, and a soft part into which an injection needle is inserted, the plurality of light emitting portions are arranged along an outer edge of the soft part. A first coil is a coreless coil disposed to have an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the medicinal solution container.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a power transmission coil which supplies electric power from outside the body in a non-contact manner via a power reception coil of an intracorporeal implanting-type medical appliance to which a drug solution is injected from outside the body. A support supports the power transmission coil, and an adhesive part is formed on the side of the support facing the body surface of a living subject.

Abstract: A medical device used for implanting in a body includes a main body, a container included in the main body, and an insulating soft portion that closes an opening of the container. An electrically conductive first conductive portion is disposed on a bottom of the container, and an electrically conductive second conductive portion disposed on the main body. The first conductive portion and the second conductive portion are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: An implantable medical instrument for use within a body includes a container that has an opening and holds a medicinal solution, and a soft portion that closes the opening. The medical instrument further includes a power receiver that receives power transmitted externally, and a light emitter that emits light by way of the power received by the power receiver. The light emitter includes at least one of a first light emitter that emits light having a center wavelength of 600 nm or more and 1100 nm or less, and a second light emitter that emits light having a center wavelength of 400 nm or more and 480 nm or less.

Abstract: A hollow needle includes a needle body made of an electrically conductive material, forming a cylindrical shape, and including a shaft part, a tip part connected with the shaft part, and an opening for discharging or drawing in a liquid in which a cavity communicating between the shaft part and the opening is formed. Also included is an annular insulating film made of an electrically insulative material, which exposes the opening and at least part of the tip part, and coats at least part of an outer circumferential surface of the shaft part.

Abstract: A power transmission unit includes a second coil which contactlessly transmits power, a power reception unit includes a first coil that receives the power transmitted from the power transmission unit, and a medical instrument includes the power reception unit and is embedded in a body. The medical instrument includes a notification unit that is composed of a plurality of light emitting units that provides notification that a relative positional relationship between the power transmission unit and the power reception unit has reached a predetermined state by emitting light using the power received at the power reception unit when the predetermined state is reached by the movement of the power transmission unit. A soft unit into which an injection needle is inserted, the plurality of light emitting units being arranged so as to extend along an outer edge of the soft unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical connector includes at least one optical fiber; and a lens element including at least one lens that couples light to an end face of the optical fiber. The distance FLh between the end face of the optical fiber and a vertex of the lens is expressed by the sum of the distance FL from the vertex of the lens to the focal point F positioned in a back face direction of the lens and the length ? between the end face of the optical fiber and the focal point F, and the length ? is longer than 10 ?m.

Abstract: A power transmission unit includes a second coil which contactlessly transmits power, a power reception unit includes a first coil that receives the power transmitted from the power transmission unit, and a medical instrument includes the power reception unit and is embedded in a body. The medical instrument includes a notification unit that is composed of a plurality of light emitting units that provides notification that a relative positional relationship between the power transmission unit and the power reception unit has reached a predetermined state by emitting light using the power received at the power reception unit when the predetermined state is reached by the movement of the power transmission unit. A soft unit into which an injection needle is inserted, the plurality of light emitting units being arranged so as to extend along an outer edge of the soft unit.

Abstract: A support information generating device includes a processor configured to: obtain first related information including a plurality of first captured images sequentially captured in chronological order, the plurality of first captured images being associated respectively with first captured position information indicating captured positions at which the first captured images are captured; analyze the plurality of first captured images; recognize a specific facility captured in at least one first captured image of the plurality of first captured images; determine a classification of the specific facility captured in the first captured image; generate first facility classification information indicating the classification; and generate support information including the first facility classification information and first facility position information associated with each other, the first facility position information indicating a position of the specific facility based on the first captured position information a

Abstract: An optical fiber is contacted by a first guide part on the inside of a bend. The first guide part is disposed apart from a region of a fixing member from which the optical fiber is drawn out. Specifically, a first non-contact part in which the optical fiber does not contact a guide member is provided between the first guide part and the drawn out part of the optical fiber from the fixing member. The optical fiber also contacts a second guide part on the outside of the bend. The second guide part is disposed apart from the first guide part, and a second non-contact part in which the optical fiber does not contact the guide member is also provided between the first guide part and the second guide part.

Abstract: A medical device includes: a power transmitter to transmit power without contact; a power receiver to receive the power that is transmitted from the power transmitter; a medical tool that includes any one of the power transmitter and the power receiver and that is to be embedded in a body and is used; and a notification unit to, when a relative positional relationship between the power transmitter and the power receiver reaches a given state in association with move of any one of the power transmitter and the power receiver, notify that the relative positional relationship enters the given state.

Abstract: A return loss in an optical connector connection structure according to a lens scheme is reduced. An optical connector (10) according to this disclosure, includes: a plurality of optical fibers (18) arranged in an array; and a lens array plate (14) that includes a first principal surface (40) with a plurality of lenses (44) corresponding to the respective optical fibers being formed on this surface, and a second principal surface (41) joined to end faces (180) of the optical fibers so as to be opposed to the first principal surface and optically coupled to the optical fibers to which the respective lenses correspond, wherein at least one of the end faces of the optical fibers and the second principal surface is inclined from a plane (182) perpendicular to optical axes (181) of the optical fibers.

Abstract: An optical fiber is contacted by a first guide part on the inside of a bend. The first guide part is disposed apart from a region of a fixing member from which the optical fiber is drawn out. Specifically, a first non-contact part in which the optical fiber does not contact a guide member is provided between the first guide part and the drawn out part of the optical fiber from the fixing member. The optical fiber also contacts a second guide part on the outside of the bend. The second guide part is disposed apart from the first guide part, and a second non-contact part in which the optical fiber does not contact the guide member is also provided between the first guide part and the second guide part.

Abstract: A return loss in an optical connector connection structure according to a lens scheme is reduced. An optical connector (10) according to this disclosure, includes: a plurality of optical fibers (18) arranged in an array; and a lens array plate (14) that includes a first principal surface (40) with a plurality of lenses (44) corresponding to the respective optical fibers being formed on this surface, and a second principal surface (41) joined to end faces (180) of the optical fibers so as to be opposed to the first principal surface and optically coupled to the optical fibers to which the respective lenses correspond, wherein at least one of the end faces of the optical fibers and the second principal surface is inclined from a plane (182) perpendicular to optical axes (181) of the optical fibers.

Abstract: An optical fiber array according to one embodiment includes: an optical fiber; and a support member that supports the optical fiber. The support member comprises a mixture material of a base material and a solid material made of a material different from the base material, in which the base material contains at least either of thermoplastic resin or thermosetting resin, a light transmittance for at least one wavelength within a UV light wavelength range greater than or equal to 300 nm and less than or equal to 450 nm with respect to the support member having a thickness of 3 mm is 30% or greater, and an average light transmittance for a wavelength within a visible light wavelength range greater than or equal to 380 nm and less than or equal to 780 nm with respect to the support member having a thickness of 3 mm is 70% or less.

Abstract: An optical fiber array according to one embodiment includes: an optical fiber; and a support member that supports the optical fiber. The support member comprises a mixture material of a base material and a solid material made of a material different from the base material, in which the base material contains at least either of thermoplastic resin or thermosetting resin, a light transmittance for at least one wavelength within a UV light wavelength range greater than or equal to 300 nm and less than or equal to 450 nm with respect to the support member having a thickness of 3 mm is 30% or greater, and an average light transmittance for a wavelength within a visible light wavelength range greater than or equal to 380 nm and less than or equal to 780 nm with respect to the support member having a thickness of 3 mm is 70% or less.

Abstract: A plurality of holes are formed in a ferrule. The holes are at sites penetrated by the tips of optical fibers. An opening is formed in the upper surface of the ferrule and an internal housing section is exposed from the opening. The housing section is at a site at which an optical fiber holding member is housed. The optical fibers are held by the optical fiber holding member. The optical fibers are multi-core fibers. In other words, the optical fibers have a specified axis of symmetry in a cross-section vertical to the longitudinal direction of the optical fibers and have orientation relative to a rotation direction having the longitudinal direction as the axis thereof.

Abstract: A connector with built-in bent optical fibers includes an optical fiber array including a plurality of bent optical fibers each having a bent portion and a linear portion formed integrally with the bent portion, a ferrule having a plurality of positioning mechanisms that align end portions of the plurality of bent optical fibers, and a resin portion disposed at an outer periphery of the bent portion. The resin portion is filled in the ferrule. The bent portion has a bending angle of 85°-150°. When the bent portion of one bent optical fiber is divided into a plurality of regions along a longitudinal direction at 10°, a variation in bend radius among the plurality of regions excluding regions corresponding to 10° at both ends is 0.3 mm or less, an outer diameter of the bent portion of the bent optical fiber is smaller than an outer diameter of the linear portion.

Abstract: A plurality of holes are formed in a ferrule. The holes are at sites penetrated by the tips of optical fibers. An opening is formed in the upper surface of the ferrule and an internal housing section is exposed from the opening. The housing section is at a site at which an optical fiber holding member is housed. The optical fibers are held by the optical fiber holding member. The optical fibers are multi-core fibers. In other words, the optical fibers have a specified axis of symmetry in a cross-section vertical to the longitudinal direction of the optical fibers and have orientation relative to a rotation direction having the longitudinal direction as the axis thereof.