Abstract: The present invention relates to a blood vessel wall analyzing apparatus provided with a structure enabling accurate measurement of plaque components in a blood vessel wall in a state that reduces the burden on a patient. In the blood vessel wall analyzing apparatus (1), measurement light is illuminated onto a measured portion within a blood vessel such as a carotid artery (C) from a light illuminating unit (30) provided outside the blood vessel, while light from the measured portion is detected in a light receiving unit (40) provided outside the blood vessel. Thus, since the status of the blood vessel wall can be analyzed without inserting an apparatus involved in measurement into the blood vessel, the burden on the patient is reduced during measurement.

Abstract: A wiring board includes first insulating layers and second insulating layers formed on a core layer in this order; a third insulating layer and a solder resist layer formed on another surface of the core layer in this order, first wiring layers and second wiring layers formed in the first insulating layers and the second insulating layers, respectively, wherein a first end surface of the first via wiring exposes from the first surface of the outermost first insulating layer to be directly connected with an outermost second wiring layer, the first via wiring and the outermost second wiring layer being separately formed, the first surface of the outermost first insulating layer and the first end surface of the first via wiring are polished surfaces, smooth surfaces and are flush with each other, and the wiring density of the second wiring layers is higher than that of the first wiring layers.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member, including a support, a charge generating layer on the support, and a charge transporting layer on the charge generating layer, wherein the charge generating layer includes a gallium phthalocyanine crystal, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound having a nitrogen atom having a substituent, and a compound represented by Formula (1) or (2).

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member, comprising a support, a charge generating layer on the support and a charge transporting layer on the charge generating layer, wherein the charge generating layer comprises a gallium phthalocyanine crystal, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound and a compound represented by Formula (1), wherein a nitrogen atom in a heterocyclic ring of the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound has a substituent.

Abstract: According to aspects of the present invention, an electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a surface layer comprising a cured resin obtained by polymerizing a compound having at least one polymerizable functional group. Aspects of the present invention provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member whose surface layer comprises a compound (urea derivative) having a certain structure, a method for producing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus including the electrophotographic photosensitive member.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes: a metal plate including a first surface, a second surface and a side surface; a semiconductor chip on the first surface of the metal plate, the semiconductor chip comprising a first surface, a second surface and a side surface; a first insulating layer that covers the second surface of the metal plate; a second insulating layer that covers the first surface of the metal plate, and the first surface and the side surface of the semiconductor chip; and a wiring structure on the second insulating layer and including: a wiring layer electrically connected to the semiconductor chip; and an interlayer insulating layer on the wiring layer. A thickness of the metal plate is thinner than that of the semiconductor chip, and the side surface of the metal plate is covered by the first insulating layer or the second insulating layer.

Abstract: A problem detecting system is provided with: a setting value operating portion that changes a setting value SP in accordance with an operation by an operator; a manipulated variable calculating portion that calculates and outputs a manipulated variable MV based on a setting value SP and a process variable PB; a frequency information processing portion that tabulates and holds operation frequency information for indicating a frequency of changes of the setting value SP by the setting value operating portion; a resetting portion that resets to zero the operation frequency information that is held in the frequency information processing portion when a reset signal has been received from the outside; and an alarm outputting portion that outputs an alarm when a value of the operation frequency information has exceeded a threshold value that is prescribed in advance.

Abstract: In a multi-core cable 10, plural electric wire units 12 made of stranded plural small-diameter electric wires 11 are bundled to form an electric wire assembly 14 and a shielding layer 15 made of braided a conducting wire 15a is arranged on an outer periphery of the electric wire assembly and an outside of the shielding layer is covered with a sheath 16 made of resin. In the multi-core cable 10, the conducting wire 15a of the shielding layer 15 braided is made of a copper alloy wire given silver plating, and a diameter of the wire of the conducting wire is 0.04 mm to 0.15 mm, and a conductor elongation rate of the conducting wire is 0.8% or more, and a thickness of the silver plating is set at 0.6 ?m or more.

Abstract: A spectroscopic imaging device adjusting method adjusts a relative arrangement relationship among a collimating lens, a diffraction grating, a condensing lens and an array type light receiving part so as to maximize the value of the following expression (1) for an output values ƒn from respective light receiving sensors Pn when monochromatic light is inputted to a spectroscopic imaging device, wherein ?>1 and n is each integer equal to or larger than 1 and equal to or smaller than N.

Abstract: An optical tomographic image acquiring device which can suppress the occurrence of an artifact, and which can obtain an exact optical tomographic image of a measurement object includes a light source, a detector, an analysis unit, a circulator, a coupler, condensing lenses, optical fibers, and a reference mirror. Let ?k be a maximum value of intervals in wavenumber of lights received by adjacent two light receiving elements in the detector, an optical path length L0ref from the coupler to the detector via the reference mirror and an optical path length L0obj from the coupler to the detector via the measurement object satisfy |L0obj?L0ref|<?/?k, and an optical path length L1ref from the coupler to the detector via the condensing lens and an optical path length L1obj from the coupler to the detector via the condensing lens satisfy |L1obj?L1ref|>>?/?k.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, in which the photosensitive layer includes a phthalocyanine crystal containing a compound satisfying the following formulae (A) and (B) in itself: 8.9??P?10.7 (A) and ?3.2?L??1.5 (B) (in the formula (A), ?P represents a polar term of Hansen Solubility Parameters, and in the formula (B), L represents an energy level (eV) of an LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) obtained as a result of structural optimization calculation based on density functional calculation B3LYP/6-31G).

Abstract: A composition for a resist underlayer film is provided. The composition has excellent storage stability and can form a resist underlayer film which has excellent adhesion to a resist film, can improve reproducibility of a resist pattern and is resistant to an alkaline liquid used in development and to oxygen asking during the removal of a resist. The composition comprises a hydrolyzate and/or a condensate of a silane compound of the following formula (A), R1bR2cSi(OR3)4-a??(A) wherein R1 is a monovalent organic group having at least one unsaturated bond, R2 individually represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a monovalent organic group, R3 individually represents a monovalent organic group, R1 is a group other than OR3, a is an integer of 1 to 3, b is an integer of 1 to 3, and c is an integer of 0 to 2, provided that a=b+c.

Abstract: A controlling device includes an upper limit elapsed time measuring portion measuring an elapsed time TH after updating of a manipulated variable upper limit value OH1 through communication, a lower limit elapsed time measuring portion measuring an elapsed time TL after updating of a manipulated variable lower limit value OL1 through communication, an upper limit automatic reset portion storing, as a new manipulated variable upper limit value OH1, a manipulated variable upper limit value OH2 when the elapsed time TH has arrived at a specified time TR, and a lower limit automatic reset portion storing, as a new manipulated variable lower limit value OL1, a manipulated variable lower limit value OL2 when the elapsed time TL has arrived at the specified time TR.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member that includes the outermost surface layer formed by curing a mixture of a charge transporting substance having a chain-polymerizable functional group and a urea compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2), and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member.

Abstract: A controlling device comprises: a temperature ramp-up time estimating portion for estimating a required temperature ramp-up time for the controlled quantity in each individual control loop to reach a set point when the operating quantity output upper limit value of each individual control loop has been sent to a specified output upper limit value; a required output estimating portion for estimating, for each individual control loop, a required operating quantity output for the controlled quantity to reach the set point within the temperature ramp-up time; an output upper limit value setting portion for setting, temporarily, the operating quantity output as the operating quantity output upper limit value of the individual control loop; and a controlling portion that is provided for each individual control loop.

Abstract: A regulator has: a data recording portion recording a setting value; an elapsed time measuring portion measuring elapsed time after commencement of data collection; a data collection initiating portion initiating the data collection if a direction of change of the setting value is a direction of change of the setting value that is a trigger for starting the data collection, when the data collection is stopped; a data collection terminating portion terminating the data collection when time elapsed after the commencement of the data collection has arrived at a data collection termination time limit, when the data collection is being performed; and a data displaying portion switching a display of a graph display of most recent time-series data, from the commencement of most recent data collection until termination of the most recent data collection, recorded by the data recording portion, when the data collection has been completed.

Abstract: A regulator includes an elapsed time measuring portion that measures an elapsed time after commencement of data collection, a data recording portion that records a setting value, a process variable and a manipulated variable, a data collection initiating portion that initiates the data collection when a direction of change of the setting value, when the data collection is stopped, is in a same direction as a direction of change that is a trigger for initiating the data collection, and a data collection terminating portion that terminates the data collection when the direction of change of the setting value, when data is being collected, is in the direction opposite from the direction of change that is the trigger for initiating the data collection, or when time elapsed after the commencement of data collection arrives at a time limit stored in a time limit recording portion of the regulator.

Abstract: A need identifying device is provided with a need storing portion that receives, from an informant, a need pertaining to the surrounding environment, an environment state variable controlling portion that calculates an environment state variable for indicating the state of the surrounding environment of the informant based on an environment element measured value collected from a space occupied by the informant, and calculates, from the environment state variable, a dissatisfaction level for the surrounding environment of the informant, and an identification processing portion that identifies, based on the dissatisfaction level, a need from the informant as a temporary need or as a persistent need.

Abstract: A diffusing plate includes a microlens array in which a plurality of microlenses are arranged, wherein the microlenses have such a shape that a curvature of a sectional shape including a center line of the microlenses varies depending on a direction of the center line, and wherein microlenses that are different in the direction of a center line where the curvature of the outline is largest are arranged.

Abstract: In order to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member with which a ghost is suppressed even under a low temperature and low humidity environment, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the electrophotographic photosensitive member, the electrophotographic photosensitive member has a support, an undercoat layer formed on the support, and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer and comprising a charge generating material and a hole transporting material, wherein the undercoat layer comprises a particular amine compound.