Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: a mirror disposed so as to be tilted relative to a rotation center axis; a drive unit configured to rotate the mirror about the rotation center axis; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of laser light, reflected in a distance measurement region; and a condensing lens disposed on the rotation center axis and configured to condense the reflected light reflected by the mirror, on the photodetector. The mirror has a shape elongated in one direction and is disposed such that a short axis thereof is tilted relative to the rotation center axis in a direction parallel to a plane including the rotation center axis. A width in a short-axis direction of the mirror is smaller than a width of a lens portion of the condensing lens as viewed in a direction parallel to the rotation center axis.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a component made of a hard brittle material includes: a step of preparing a base material made of a hard brittle material; and a step of embossing the base material. A protrusion protruding in a first direction and a bottom surface surrounding the protrusion are formed on the base material by the embossing. The bottom surface extends in a plane defined by a second direction intersecting the first direction and a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction. The bottom surface and a side surface of the protrusion continuous with the bottom surface satisfy a relationship of z=Ax2?Bx in a cross section defined by the first direction and the second direction when the first direction is represented by z and the second direction is represented by x. A is 0.005 to 0.200 and B is 0.050 to 0.955.

Abstract: To improve the sensitivity of the imaging element. An imaging element includes pixels and a light guide wall. The pixels each include: a photoelectric conversion unit arranged in a semiconductor substrate to perform photoelectric conversion on incident light, an on-chip lens that concentrates the incident light on the photoelectric conversion unit, a color filter that transmits incident light having a predetermined wavelength within the concentrated incident light, and an interlayer film disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the color filter. The light guide wall is disposed at a boundary of the pixels and formed in a shape of surrounding the color filter, the light guide wall having an end portion disposed in a recess surrounding the pixel formed in the interlayer film at the boundary of the pixels to guide the incident light.

Abstract: Reflected light from a back-illuminated photoelectric conversion element is to be reduced. The photoelectric conversion element includes an on-chip lens, a substrate, a front-surface-side reflective film, and a back-surface-side reflective film. The on-chip lens condenses incident light. A photoelectric conversion unit that performs photoelectric conversion on the condensed incident light is disposed in the substrate, and the back surface side of the substrate is irradiated with the condensed incident light. The front-surface-side reflective film is disposed on the front surface side that is a different side from the back surface side of the substrate, and reflects transmitted light that is the incident light having passed through the photoelectric conversion unit. The back-surface-side reflective film is disposed on the back surface side of the substrate, has an opening of substantially the same size as the condensing size of the condensed incident light, and further reflects the reflected transmitted light.

Abstract: Reflected light from a back-illuminated imaging device is to be reduced. The imaging device includes an on-chip lens, a photoelectric conversion unit, and an absorption film. The on-chip lens included in the imaging device condenses incident light. The photoelectric conversion unit included in the imaging device is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and performs photoelectric conversion on the condensed incident light. The absorption film included in the imaging device is disposed adjacent to the semiconductor substrate, has an opening of substantially the same size as the condensing size of the condensed incident light, and absorbs reflected light of the incident light.

Abstract: A protector includes a case configured to accommodate a wire harness, wherein the case is provided with an insertion hole configured such that the wire harness is inserted through the insertion hole, a rib is provided on an inner surface of the case, the inner surface defining the insertion hole, and the rib protruding inwardly from the inner surface, and the rib is configured to: be fitted in a groove portion provided in an outer peripheral surface of a corrugated tube that is externally mounted on the wire harness; and hold a plug configured to close the insertion hole.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus and method for diagnosis acquiring information of an inside of a blood vessel and reconstructing a vascular image are disclosed, wherein when acquiring data through a rotation position and a movement of an imaging core, X-ray images at a fixed viewpoint position are synchronized so as to be continuously input along a time axis. Then, timing when vascular activity such as a cardiac beat can occur is determined based on the X-ray images. A plurality of vascular cross-sectional images on a plane orthogonal to a vascular axis acquired through the rotation and the movement of the imaging core are acquired. Then, a vascular image along the vascular axis is generated from the vascular cross-sectional image or the vascular cross-sectional images in series, and when performing a display, a site having vascular activity is displayed in a discriminable manner.

Abstract: In an imaging system, vascular tomographic images and vascular fluoroscopic images which each include a plurality of frames are collected. A position of an image of the probe included in each of the frames of the fluoroscopic images is acquired. The frame of the fluoroscopic image and the frame of the tomographic image which is taken at substantially the same time as the frame of the fluoroscopic image are displayed at the same time. A position of a blood vessel designated by a user is acquired from the displayed frame of the fluoroscopic image. The frame of the fluoroscopic image which includes the image of the probe at a position closer to the position of the blood vessel designated by the user is displayed at the same time as the frame of the tomographic image which is taken at substantially the same time as the frame of the fluoroscopic image.

Abstract: A protector includes a case configured to accommodate a wire harness, wherein the case is provided with an insertion hole configured such that the wire harness is inserted through the insertion hole, a rib is provided on an inner surface of the case, the inner surface defining the insertion hole, and the rib protruding inwardly from the inner surface, and the rib is configured to: be fitted in a groove portion provided in an outer peripheral surface of a corrugated tube that is externally mounted on the wire harness; and hold a plug configured to close the insertion hole.

Abstract: In an embodiment, provided is a drilling method of Bawling a hole having a desired diameter in a fiber-reinforced plastic workpiece. The method includes disposing a resist layer, in which an opening having a diameter smaller than the desired diameter is formed, on the workpiece and ejecting blasting abrasives to the workpiece through the resist layer to cut a portion, which is exposed from the opening, in the workpiece while cutting a peripheral edge portion of the opening of the resist layer.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for helping prevent image quality of a three-dimensional image from becoming poor due to fluctuations in the rotation speed of an imaging core. For this purpose, if data is obtained from the imaging core by moving and rotating the imaging core, a cross-sectional image is generated at each movement position. Then, a direction where a guidewire is present in each of the cross-sectional images is detected. An angular difference between the direction of the detected guidewire and a preset direction is obtained so as to rotate each of the cross-sectional images in accordance with the angular difference. Then, the cross-sectional images which are previously rotated in this way are connected to one another, thereby generating the three-dimensional image.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a TFT substrate having pixel electrodes and opposed electrodes formed and an opposed substrate, an external conductive film of a transparent electrode is formed on an outer surface of the opposed substrate, and an upper polarizing plate is arranged on the external conductive film. A portion of the external conductive film that is not covered with the upper polarizing plate is electrically connected to a ground potential through a conductive thermocompression bonding tape.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus for diagnosis and a control method of an imaging apparatus for diagnosis are disclosed, which acquire line data represented by multiple luminance values in a radial direction from a rotation center position of an imaging core, which are derived by a rotation position and movement of the imaging core. Then, based on the acquired line data, an image of a two-dimensional space in which ? representing a rotation angle and z representing a position in a movement direction are set to two axes is generated and displayed.

Abstract: A process for producing a caking additive for coke production, the process including a step of extracting a solvent deasphalted pitch that can be used as a caking additive for coke production from a residue containing at least one of an atmospheric residue obtained by atmospheric distillation of a crude oil and a vacuum residue obtained by atmospheric distillation and vacuum distillation of a crude oil, wherein the extraction is performed using, as a solvent, a light reformate obtained by catalytic reforming a naphtha fraction that is fractionated from a crude oil by atmospheric distillation of the crude oil.

Abstract: This disclosure aims to reduce workloads and material costs when a driving circuit and a flexible wiring board are fixed to a first substrate. A display device includes a display panel having the first substrate. The driving circuit is fixed to the first substrate in a portion other than a display portion with an anisotropic conductive film. The flexible wiring board is fixed to the first substrate at an end of the portion other than the display portion with an anisotropic conductive film. The anisotropic conductive film for fixing the driving circuit and the anisotropic film for fixing the flexible wiring board are the same. The anisotropic conductive film is also formed and hardened in a region other than a region having the driving circuit and the flexible wiring board fixed therein within the portion other than the display portion of the first substrate.

Abstract: In an imaging system, vascular tomographic images and vascular fluoroscopic images which each include a plurality of frames are collected. A position of an image of the probe included in each of the frames of the fluoroscopic images is acquired. The frame of the fluoroscopic image and the frame of the tomographic image which is taken at substantially the same time as the frame of the fluoroscopic image are displayed at the same time. A position of a blood vessel designated by a user is acquired from the displayed frame of the fluoroscopic image. The frame of the fluoroscopic image which includes the image of the probe at a position closer to the position of the blood vessel designated by the user is displayed at the same time as the frame of the tomographic image which is taken at substantially the same time as the frame of the fluoroscopic image.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus and method for diagnosis acquiring information of an inside of a blood vessel and reconstructing a vascular image are disclosed, wherein when acquiring data through a rotation position and a movement of an imaging core, X-ray images at a fixed viewpoint position are synchronized so as to be continuously input along a time axis. Then, timing when vascular activity such as a cardiac beat can occur is determined based on the X-ray images. A plurality of vascular cross-sectional images on a plane orthogonal to a vascular axis acquired through the rotation and the movement of the imaging core are acquired. Then, a vascular image along the vascular axis is generated from the vascular cross-sectional image or the vascular cross-sectional images in series, and when performing a display, a site having vascular activity is displayed in a discriminable manner.

Abstract: A warp correction apparatus includes an injection mechanism including a nozzle that performs injection treatment, an adsorption table that holds the semiconductor element substrate by adsorption at a principal surface side or a film surface side, a moving mechanism that moves the adsorption table so that the semiconductor element substrate relatively moves with respect to an injection area of an injection particle by the nozzle, an injection treatment chamber that houses the semiconductor element substrate held on the adsorption table and in the interior of which injection treatment is performed, a measurement mechanism that measures a warp of the semiconductor element substrate, and a control device that, based on a difference between a target warp amount and a warp amount measured by the measurement mechanism, performs at least either one of a setting processing of an injection treatment condition of the injection mechanism and an accept/reject determination of the semiconductor element substrate for which

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for helping prevent image quality of a three-dimensional image from becoming poor due to fluctuations in the rotation speed of an imaging core. For this purpose, if data is obtained from the imaging core by moving and rotating the imaging core, a cross-sectional image is generated at each movement position. Then, a direction where a guidewire is present in each of the cross-sectional images is detected. An angular difference between the direction of the detected guidewire and a preset direction is obtained so as to rotate each of the cross-sectional images in accordance with the angular difference. Then, the cross-sectional images which are previously rotated in this way are connected to one another, thereby generating the three-dimensional image.

Abstract: A warp correction apparatus includes an injection mechanism including a nozzle that performs injection treatment, an adsorption table that holds the semiconductor element substrate by adsorption at a principal surface side or a film surface side, a moving mechanism that moves the adsorption table so that the semiconductor element substrate relatively moves with respect to an injection area of an injection particle by the nozzle, an injection treatment chamber that houses the semiconductor element substrate held on the adsorption table and in the interior of which injection treatment is performed, a measurement mechanism that measures a warp of the semiconductor element substrate, and a control device that, based on a difference between a target warp amount and a warp amount measured by the measurement mechanism, performs at least either one of a setting processing of an injection treatment condition of the injection mechanism and an accept/reject determination of the semiconductor element substrate for which