Abstract: The invention provides a center bearing support (1) which prevents a vibration absorbing function from being lowered on the basis of an increase of a dynamic spring constant by a resonance of an elastic body (13), at the time of an input of a vibration of a propeller shaft and a vibration. An inner periphery of an outer ring (11) fixed to a vehicle body side is provided with an inner ring (12) retaining a center bearing (2) via the elastic body (13) formed as a bent shape which is convex to one side in an axial direction and made of a rubber-like elastic material, the elastic body (13) has flexible portions (132, 133) in an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side than the bent portion (131) as a spring, and a resonance frequency thereof is equal to or more than 1500 Hz.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to enable proper elimination of the remanent magnetization of the scanning magnet, which is used in a particle beam therapy system, in a short time. In the particle beam therapy system that irradiates an irradiation target with a particle beam 18 accelerated by an accelerator and scanned by scanning magnets 11 and 12, power supplies 13 and 14 to operate the scanning magnets 11 and 12 output pattern currents for demagnetizing the scanning magnets 11 and 12. The pattern current is controlled by a control circuit 15 that reads a demagnetization pattern 17 and controls the power supplies 13 and 14.

Abstract: The particle beam irradiation apparatus comprises: a position monitor that detects a passing position of a charged particle beam; and an irradiation control apparatus that calculates a distance from a predetermined reference point to the position monitor, calculates a beam irradiation position on an irradiation subject, and controls irradiation of the beam; wherein the irradiation control apparatus includes a position calculation apparatus that calculates the beam irradiation position, based on a beam position detected by the position monitor, a scanning starting point distance information on a distance from a irradiation plane of the irradiation subject to a scanning starting point, of the beam, in a scanning electromagnet, and a position monitor distance information on a distance, from the irradiation plane to the position monitor, that is calculated based on the calculated distance.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information reader wherein the degree of freedom of design can be increased, and magnetic information recorded on an information recording medium can be properly read. Specifically, the information reader comprises a medium passage through which the information recording medium having the magnetic information recorded passes, a magnetic head which is brought into contact with the information recording medium passing through the medium passage and reads the magnetic information recorded on the information recording medium, guide sections for guiding the information recording medium so that a force acts on the information recording medium and the magnetic head to push each other when the information recording medium and the magnetic head are brought into contact with each other, and a biasing mechanism which biases the magnetic head in the direction in which the information recording medium and the magnetic head are brought into contact with each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules provided between a first substrate and a second substrate; pixels forming a display area; electrodes for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels; a plurality of domain regulating structures for dividing orientations of the liquid crystal molecules and forming multiple domains within each of the pixels, when a predetermined voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels. The device also includes a structure which is formed in an outer area located next to the display area, but that does not overlap the display area, and is substantially the same as at least one of the plurality of domain regulating structures.

Abstract: A touch roller is pressed to the surface of a sheet being conveyed in a space and the amount of displacement of the touch roller is measured to evaluate the sag of the sheet at the position at which the touch roller is pressed against the sheet. The method enables the sag of a sheet to be accurately evaluated with the use of a device having a relatively simple structure and easily maintained.

Abstract: The objective is to obtain a charged particle accelerator where the amount of pattern data for operating an acceleration cavity and electromagnets based on time clocks is reduced and the pattern data communication time is shortened. An accelerator control apparatus provided in a charged particle accelerator of the present invention is characterized by including a clock generation unit that generates an acceleration cavity clock and an electromagnet clock that is synchronized with the acceleration cavity clock and has a frequency lower than that of the acceleration cavity clock; a high-frequency control unit that controls an acceleration cavity, based on an acceleration cavity pattern stored in a first pattern memory and the acceleration cavity clock; and a deflection electromagnet control unit that controls a deflection electromagnet, based on a deflection electromagnet pattern stored in a second pattern memory and the electromagnet clock.

Abstract: A charged particle beam position monitor is provided with a plurality of position monitors and a beam data processing device that performs calculation processing of the state of a charged particle beam, based on a plurality of signals outputted from the position monitors. The beam data processing device includes a plurality of channel data conversion units that perform AD conversion processing of the plurality of signals outputted from the position monitors; a position size processing unit, for each of the position monitors, that calculates the beam position of the beam, based on voltage information obtained through the AD conversion processing; and an integrated control unit that controls the plurality of channel data conversion units in such a way that while the beam is irradiated onto an irradiation subject, AD conversion processing of the signals is performed at different timings for the respective position monitors.

Abstract: A lighting device includes: a light guide plate; a light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; and a light modulation element disposed on a surface or in the inside of the light guide plate and adhered to the light guide plate. The light modulation element has a pair of transparent substrates disposed separately and oppositely, a pair of electrodes provided on respective surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer provided in a gap between the pair of transparent substrates. The light modulation layer includes a first region, having optical anisotropy, responsive to an electric field, and a second region, having optical anisotropy, unresponsive to an electric field. The second region has a striped structure with average striped texture size of 0.05 ?m to 10 ?m both inclusive in a short axis direction.

Abstract: A pyrazolopyrimidine compound represented by formula (1) that inhibits the function of HSP90 as a chaperone protein and that has antitumor activity, a medicament comprising a compound represented by formula (1), a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by formula (1), and a method for treating cancer using a compound represented by formula (1).

Abstract: A particle beam treatment device includes an irradiation nozzle which moves a particle beam in a direction which is perpendicular to an advancing direction; a dose monitor which measures the dose of the particle beam; a planning part which sets the irradiation dose applied to a target volume; and a controlling part which controls the irradiation dose applied to a target volume based on irradiation dose set value which is set by a value measured by the dose monitor and the planning part, wherein the planning part stores the absorbed dose distribution data in the depth direction which is prepared in advance using the absorbed dose at the reference depth which is a predetermined position nearer to an incident side of the particle beam than the position of Bragg peak as the reference and calculates the irradiation dose set value using the absorbed dose at the reference depth.

Abstract: The objective is to obtain a particle beam therapy system that can suppress the effect of a leakage dose. There are provided a scanning nozzle that irradiates in a predetermined direction a particle beam emitted from an accelerator; an irradiation control unit that controls operation of the irradiation nozzle in such a way that the particle beam of a predetermined dose is sequentially irradiated onto each of a plurality of spots set in a planar direction in an irradiation subject; and a control unit that on/off-controls emission of the particle beam from the accelerator. The irradiation control unit makes the irradiation nozzle scan in a diluting manner the particle beam onto a predetermined area in the irradiation subject, in a predetermined period after a time point when emission is switched from ON to OFF, or in a period from the time point when emission is switched from ON to OFF to a time point when the particle beam is cut off.

Abstract: The invention provides a center bearing support which can effectively suppress an inflow of a muddy water or the like into a center bearing side even at a time when a rotating shaft stops, without using a contact type seal such as an oil seal or the like. In a center bearing support in which an inner ring retaining a center bearing is provided in an inner periphery of an outer ring fixed to a vehicle body side via an elastic body made of a rubber-like elastic material, a rib guiding a flow of a muddy water or the like in a circumferential direction is formed on a convex surface constructed by a bellow-like bent portion of the elastic body.

Abstract: A particle beam treatment device includes an irradiation nozzle which moves a particle beam in a direction which is perpendicular to an advancing direction; a dose monitor which measures the dose of the particle beam; a planning part which sets the irradiation dose applied to a target volume; and a controlling part which controls the irradiation dose applied to a target volume based on irradiation dose set value which is set by a value measured by the dose monitor and the planning part, wherein the planning part stores the absorbed dose distribution data in the depth direction which is prepared in advance using the absorbed dose at the reference depth which is a predetermined position nearer to an incident side of the particle beam than the position of Bragg peak as the reference and calculates the irradiation dose set value using the absorbed dose at the reference depth.

Abstract: An information reading apparatus includes: a transfer path for transferring an information recording medium (a passport); an image sensor which is placed in a frame constructing the transfer path and optically reads information recorded in the information recording medium (the passport); and non-contact communication antennas which send and receive information to/from an antenna or an antenna embedded in the information recording medium (the passport), through electromagnetic induction. The plurality of non-contact communication antennas are laid out in the frame constructing the transfer path.

Abstract: In order to achieve downsizing, and to prevent a cleaning fluid from staying inside, a dynamic damper for a hollow rotating shaft is provided with a mass body floatingly inserted to an inner periphery of the hollow rotating shaft, of which a vibration is to be reduced, and an elastic body structured such that an inner diameter portion is fitly attached to an outer periphery of the mass body and an outer diameter portion is brought into pressure contact with an inner peripheral surface of the hollow rotating shaft, and made of a rubber-like elastic material, wherein grooves having both ends open to spaces at both sides in an axial direction of the elastic body are formed in one of fitted surfaces to each other of the mass body and the elastic body.

Abstract: A circular accelerator comprises a target current value memory which stores a target current value of a beam current of charged particle which is extracted from an extracting device; and a frequency determination part in which a frequency change ratio is obtained by performing a feedback control based on an error signal between a detection signal of a beam current detector and a target current value which is stored in a target current value memory, and determines a subsequent frequency from the obtained frequency change ratio and a current frequency, wherein the subsequent frequency which is determined by the frequency determination part is stored in a frequency memory and a radio-frequency generator generates the subsequent radio-frequency of frequency which is determined.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a monoclonal antibody or an antibody fragment thereof, which binds to the extracellular region of human Trop-2 with high affinity and exhibits high ADCC activity and high antitumor activity; a hybridoma which produces the antibody; a DNA which encodes the antibody; a vector which comprises the DNA; a transformant obtainable by introducing the vector; a process for producing an antibody or an antibody fragment thereof using the hybridoma or the transformant; and a therapeutic agent or a diagnostic agent using the antibody fragment thereof.

Abstract: In a particle beam therapy system which scans a particle beam and irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation position of an irradiation subject and has a dose monitoring device for measuring a dose of the particle beam and an ionization chamber smaller than the dose monitoring device, the ionization chamber measuring a dose of a particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device, the dose of the particle beam irradiated by the dose monitoring device is measured; the dose of the particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device is measured by the small ionization chamber; and a correction coefficient of the dose measured by the dose monitoring device corresponding to the irradiation position is found based on the dose of the particle beam measured by the small ionization chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information reader wherein the degree of freedom of design can be increased, and magnetic information recorded on an information recording medium can be properly read. Specifically, the information reader comprises a medium passage through which the information recording medium having the magnetic information recorded passes, a magnetic head which is brought into contact with the information recording medium passing through the medium passage and reads the magnetic information recorded on the information recording medium, guide sections for guiding the information recording medium so that a force acts on the information recording medium and the magnetic head to push each other when the information recording medium and the magnetic head are brought into contact with each other, and a biasing mechanism which biases the magnetic head in the direction in which the information recording medium and the magnetic head are brought into contact with each other.