Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressed component including an elongated top plate, a wall having one end connected to a short direction end portion of the top plate, that curves with a convex shape bowing toward an opposite side to the top plate as viewed from an upper side of the top plate, and that includes a sharp curve portion, and a flange that is connected to another end of the wall, and that extends in a plate thickness direction of the wall toward the opposite side to the top plate side. The manufacturing method includes pressing to form an intermediate formed component including a preliminary flange and pressing to deform the preliminary flange to form the preliminary flange into the flange.

Abstract: [Object] To obtain interference light having a stronger light intensity, and to more accurately measure a refractive index of a measured object, with a simplified configuration. [Solution Means] A light measurement device 100 includes a phase adjustment unit 120 and a detector 140. The phase adjustment unit 120 outputs reference light E(R) based on object light E1 being light to be obtained by transmission or reflection of light E from a light source with respect to a measured object 200, and signal light E(S) whose phase is adjusted to be different from a phase of signal light. The detector 140 derives a transmission or reflection light intensity distribution or a refractive index of the measured object 200, based on interference light E2 between signal light E(S) and reference light E(R) to be output by the phase adjustment unit 120. An optical axis of light E from a light source is linearly disposed.

Abstract: Disclosed are a blood pressure estimation device and the like which make it possible to estimate blood pressure with a high degree of accuracy. A blood pressure estimation device (101) has: a pulse wave calculation unit (102) for, on the basis of a pressure signal in a specific period and a pulse wave signal (2001) measured on the basis of the pressure of the pressure signal in the specific period, calculating a plurality of times at which a pulse signal satisfies prescribed conditions, a period representing the difference between the times, and a pressure value of the pressure signal during the period, and also calculating pulse wave information associating the period and the pressure value; and a blood pressure estimation unit (103) for estimating the blood pressure of the pulse wave signal (2001) on the basis of the pulse wave information.

Abstract: This blood pressure measuring device includes: first and second electrodes which contact the body surface near an artery; an electrocardiogram measuring means which measures a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode and obtains a first time at which at least a prescribed portion is generated in an electrocardiogram; a pulse wave detecting means which detects pulse wave information from the body surface near the artery; a pulse wave measuring means which obtains, from the pulse wave information, a second time at which a prescribed portion is generated in the pulse wave; and a blood pressure estimating means which calculates a pulse wave propagation time from the first time and the second time, and calculates an estimated blood pressure on the basis of a relationship between the pulse wave propagation time, a predefined pulse wave propagation time, and a blood pressure value.

Abstract: A light measurement device that maintains high measurement precision. The light measurement device includes: light source that irradiates light upon measurement object; branch part that splits transmitted light or reflected light from measurement object; phase-changing unit that changes the phase of one beam of the branched light beams; phase-fixing unit that maintains the phase of the other beam of the branched light beams; adjustment mechanism, which is provided in phase-changing unit or phase-fixing unit, for adjusting the propagation direction of light; multiplexer that causes the light emitted by each of phase-changing unit and phase-fixing unit to interfere with each other; detection unit that detects light that is interfered with by multiplexer; and control unit that controls the adjustment mechanism on the basis of the luminance values of an interference image that is detected by detection unit and adjusts the propagation direction of light in phase-changing unit or phase-fixing unit.

Abstract: A pressed component includes an elongated top plate; ridge line portions at both short direction ends of the top plate; and vertical walls that face each other in a state extending from the ridge line portions, and the top plate includes a minimum portion, at which the Vickers hardness value is a minimum value, between one end and another end in the short direction of the top plate, and maximum portions, at which the Vickers hardness value is a maximum value, in each of a first range between the minimum portion and the one end, and a second range between the minimum portion and the other end.

Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus 10 according to the present invention can be installed in facilities such as airports in order to improve the reliability of biometric authentication to ensure a high level of security.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a pressed component of the present disclosure is a manufacturing method for a pressed component configured including an elongated top plate, ridge line portions at both short direction ends of the top plate, and vertical walls that face each other in a state extending from the ridge line portions. A punch and a die are employed to curve a blank into a convex profile bowing from the punch side toward the die side in a state in which the punch is caused to contact a first portion of the blank where the two end ridge line portions are to be formed, and to sandwich a second portion of the blank where the top plate is to be formed between the die and the punch and indent the second portion from the die side toward the punch side.

Abstract: A method of producing a press-formed product includes a steel plate heating step, a hot forging step and a hot stamping step. In the steel plate heating step, a steel plate is heated to 950° C. or more. In the hot forging step, the heated steel plate is forged to form a varying-thickness steel plate. In the hot stamping step, the heated varying-thickness steel plate is subjected to press-working by a press tooling to form a press-formed product, and the press-formed product that is formed is cooled inside the press tooling. Thus, a press-formed product that has high strength and for which a reduction in weight is possible can be produced.

Abstract: Disclosed are a blood pressure device, etc., that is capable of highly accurate of blood pressure. The blood pressure device (101) has a blood pressure unit (102) that: finds a specific blood pressure related to pulse wave information (2002), by browsing blood pressure information (2001) associating the pulse wave information and blood pressure related to pulse wave signals caused by blood pressure during a specific period and measured, the pulse wave information associating blood pressure during the specific period and the pulse wave signals; and estimates the blood pressure relating to the pulse wave information (2002) on the basis of the found specific blood pressure.

Abstract: The following is provided based on the disclosure: a method of producing a molded product: including treating a metal sheet having a bcc structure and a surface that satisfies either of the following conditions (a) or (b); and molding the metal sheet to cause plane strain tensile deformation and biaxial tensile deformation and allowing at least one part of the metal sheet to have a sheet thickness decrease rate of from 10% to 30%: (a) an area fraction of crystal grains having a crystal orientation of 15° or less relative to a (001) plane parallel to a surface of the metal sheet is from 0.20 to 0.35; (b) the area fraction of crystal grains having a crystal orientation of 15° or less relative to a (001) plane parallel to a surface of the metal sheet is 0.45 or less, and the average crystal grain size thereof is 15 ?m or less; or a molded product that satisfies either of the conditions (a) or (b).

Abstract: Provided are a light source unit for an endoscope and an endoscopy system, which clarify the color difference between a first dye and a second dye in an observation image. The light source unit has a white LED light source and a band limiting section. The white LED light source has an excitation light source that emits blue excitation light and a phosphor layer that emits yellow fluorescence upon receipt of the excitation light. As a mixture of the fluorescence and part of the excitation light, the white LED light source outputs light having an intensity spectrum continuous across blue, green and red regions. The band limiting section reduces part of the output light in a wavelength band of not lower than a threshold. The threshold is not less than 650 nm. At the threshold, the first dye (pyoktanin) has an optical reflectance of not less than a constant value, whereas the second dye (indigocarmine) has an optical reflectance of substantially zero.

Abstract: A near-infrared absorbing composition including a near-infrared absorbing dye [A], a resin-based dispersant [B1] having an amine value in the range from 20 to 200 (mg KOH/g), and a binder resin [C] having a weight average molecular weight in the range from 5,000 to 40,000 and an acid value of 130 mg KOH/g or less.

Abstract: A resin composition containing (a) an olefinic polymer (A) having a melting endotherm (?H-D) of 0 J/g or more and 80 J/g or less and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of less than 3.0, (b) an olefinic polymer (B) having a melting point (Tm-D) of 100° C. or higher, and (c) fibers (C) having an aspect ratio of 10 or more, and a mean fiber diameter of 0.01 ?m or more and 1,000 ?m or less.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrocardiogram measurement apparatus capable of significantly reducing the number of electrodes and measuring even a faint signal. The present invention provides an electrocardiogram measurement apparatus including a first electrode and a second electrode to be brought into contact with a body surface near an artery, an electrocardiogram measurement means for measuring a signal obtained from the first electrode and the second electrode, an artery position measurement means for identifying a position at which a measured value of a measured signal is largest as a position of an artery; and a notification means for notifying a user of information indicating the position of an artery.

Abstract: Provided are an endoscope system and a method of operating the same capable of assisting in capturing an image defined by guidelines. In order to obtain a reference-equivalent image equivalent to a predetermined reference image for each examination region, an examination image is acquired by imaging an examination region. An at-examination imaging condition acquisition unit acquires an at-examination imaging condition obtained at an acquisition timing of an examination image. A still image saving request signal output unit outputs a still image saving request signal for requesting saving of a still image of the examination image in a case where an at-examination imaging condition satisfies a reference imaging condition for obtaining a predetermined reference image for each examination region.

Abstract: A polyolefin molded product comprising a resin composition containing (1) from 1 to 30% by mass of an olefin-based polymer having an elastic modulus of from 5 to 450 MPa, (2) a propylene-based polymer having an elastic modulus of 500 MPa or more (the content of the component (2) is the balance), and (3) from 0.0001 to 2% by mass of an additive.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus including a cutting unit on which a cutting blade is detachably mounted, a control unit for controlling the cutting unit, and a blade case holder for holding a blade case for storing the cutting blade is provided. The blade case is provided with an IC tag allowing reading and writing of use history information of the cutting blade. The control unit is connected to a read/write unit for reading the use history information from the IC tag of the blade case held by the blade case holder and writing the use history information to the IC tag. The use history information read from the IC tag by the read/write unit is reflected in processing conditions for a workpiece to be processed, and the use history information after processing of the workpiece is written to the IC tag by the read/write unit.

Abstract: A living body is accurately determined while minimizing increases in the size of a device and increases in the number of components.

Abstract: A living body determination device includes: a light irradiation device that irradiates a measuring object with a first light including a plurality of spectrums; a spectroscopic device that disperses a light at intensity depending on a wavelength and outputs the light; an image acquisition device that receives the light output by the spectroscopic device and outputs image information representing brightness depending on the intensity of the light; and a control unit. The control unit, for each spectrum of the first light, acquires image information with respect to the measuring object from the image acquisition device, based on the image information, selects one or more areas, for each of the areas, acquires spectroscopic information, and based on whether the spectroscopic information satisfies a predetermined condition, determines whether the measuring object is a living body.