Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.

Abstract: A lens barrel includes a lens drive unit that moves a lens holder holding a lens in an optical axis direction, a locking mechanism that regulates movement of the lens holder at a movable end of the lens holder, and a control unit that performs, as a shift process for shifting the lens holder to a movement regulated state produced by the locking mechanism, control for moving the lens holder by using the lens drive unit to a position where movement regulation is achieved by the locking mechanism in a state where movement regulating force generated by the locking mechanism is reduced.

Abstract: A patient-monitoring device includes a main device with a recess and a first group of electrical contacts provided in the recess. The patient-monitoring device further includes a battery pack that engages the recess and that includes a second group of electrical contacts. A first gasket is provided in patient-monitoring device and is located on either the main device or the battery pack. The first gasket surrounds the first group of electrical contacts and the second group of electrical contacts when the battery pack engages the recess.

Abstract: A charger assembly including a housing with a first surface, a second surface that is not parallel with the first surface, a first recess in the first surface, a second recess in the second surface, and a first opening connecting the first recess and the second recess. The charger assembly further includes a first group of electrical contacts in the first recess and a second group of electrical contacts in the second recess. Each of the first recess and the second recess is configured to receive a battery pack.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.

Abstract: A dripping detection apparatus includes a cylindrical drip cylinder into which a nozzle is inserted from an upper side and that receives inside a liquid droplet dripping from a lower end of the nozzle, and a photo interrupter that has equal to or more than one light emitting element emitting light and equal to or more than two light receiving elements receiving the light, wherein the equal to or more than one light emitting element and the equal to or more than two light receiving elements are arranged at opposing or substantially opposing positions with the drip cylinder interposed between the elements and equal to or more than two light paths connecting the equal to or more than one light emitting element to the equal to or more than two light receiving elements are located at a lower side relative to the lower end of the nozzle.

Abstract: A patient-monitoring device includes a housing including a first opening, a snap located in the first opening to connect to an electrode through the first opening, and a dielectric potting compound covering the snap. A method of manufacturing a patient-monitoring device includes attaching a wire to a snap, providing a housing, providing a substrate including a connector and circuitry components, installing the snap into the housing, installing the substrate into the housing, providing a dielectric potting compound into the housing such that the dielectric potting compound covers the snap and the substrate, and curing the dielectric potting compound.

Abstract: A patient-monitoring device includes an adapter with a flexible printed circuit, the flexible printed circuit includes a rigid portion with a rigid stiffener and a flexible portion with a trace, and with a connector that is connected to one end of the trace, that is movable in two or three dimensions independent of the rigid portion, and that is connectible to an electrode assembly.

Abstract: A pulse oximeter includes a curved holder. A flexible substrate is coupled to a curved inner surface of an outer portion of the curved holder. A light emitter, a light receiver, and a reinforcement are coupled to a curved inner surface of the flexible substrate. The reinforcement is curved to extend in conformance with the curved form of the flexible substrate. The material of the reinforcement has a Young's modulus that is larger than the Young's modulus of the material of the outer portion and the Young's modulus of the material of an inner portion.

Abstract: A pulse oximeter includes a curved holder. A flexible substrate is coupled to a curved inner surface of an outer portion of the curved holder. A light emitter, a light receiver, and a reinforcement are coupled to a curved inner surface of the flexible substrate. The reinforcement is curved to extend in conformance with the curved form of the flexible substrate. The material of the reinforcement has a Young's modulus that is larger than the Young's modulus of the material of the outer portion and the Young's modulus of the material of an inner portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, a controller, and a board. The nonvolatile memory stores data. The volatile memory holds a part of the data stored in the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller controls the volatile memory and the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory, the volatile memory, and the memory controller are provided on the board. The memory controller transmits an interrupt signal to a request source, when the volatile memory does not have any data corresponding to an address which the request source requests to access.

Abstract: A fluid control device includes a tube insertion portion formed in a casing, a fixing member that fixedly holds, in the tube insertion portion, a tube inserted into the tube insertion portion, a pressing member driven by an actuator to press the tube within the tube insertion portion, and a controller that controls the actuator for the pressing member, wherein the controller controls the pressing member to start pressing on the tube after the fixing member has fixedly hold the tube in the tube insertion portion.

Abstract: Single-chain ?-glucans can be obtained by hydrothermal treatment of a solution containing (1,3)(1,6)-?-glucan for a predetermined time in a temperature range of from 145° C. to 200° C. at a pressure at or above the saturated vapor pressure at the treatment temperature. ?-Glucans capable of maintaining a single-chain state for an extended period of time can be produced without chemical treatment.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the memory device includes a non-volatile memory, a volatile memory, and a controller. The controller carries out the transition to two different sleep states depending on a sleep instruction from the host device and saves sleep state information indicating the sleep state after the transition to the host-side storage device. Upon receiving a return instruction from the host device, the controller carries out return processing in accordance with the sleep state information stored in the host-side storage device.

Abstract: A dropping rate measuring device for measuring a flow rate of liquid droplets which grow on a lower end of a nozzle and intermittently drop from the lower end of the nozzle includes an imaging unit that images a growing liquid droplet which is growing on the lower end of the nozzle at a plurality of time points and acquires a plurality of pieces of image data of the growing liquid droplet, and a data processor that calculates the flow rate by analyzing the plurality of pieces of image data acquired by the imaging unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a highly sensitive piezoelectric sensor in which mixing of electromagnetic noise into signals output from a piezoelectric device is suppressed. The present disclosure provides a piezoelectric sensor including a piezoelectric device which includes a piezoelectric film having an insulating film and a piezoelectric layer stacked on one principal surface of the insulating film and a signal electrode layer stacked on one principal surface of the piezoelectric film, an amplifier electrically connected to the signal electrode layer, and a shield member which is not electrically connected to the signal electrode layer and is composed of a grounded conductor, wherein the piezoelectric film, the signal electrode layer, and the amplifier are accommodated inside the shield member.

Abstract: A battery sensor assembly (10) is provided with a positioner (11) and a battery sensor (1). The positioner (11) is provided with a sensor-fixing part (29) for fixing the battery sensor (1) and a rotation-blocking part (31) capable of coming in contact with a side surface (2b) of a battery (2). The sensor-fixing part (29) is provided with a fitting section (30). The fitting section (30) allows a casing (8) of the battery sensor (1) to be inserted from a prescribed insertion direction and fits to the inserted battery sensor (1). Additionally, the rotation-blocking part (31) is provided with a reinforcement rib.

Abstract: Provided is a plant disease control composition that has a plurality of disease spectra against various plant pathogens and demonstrates superior control effects (synergistic control effects) that cannot be predicted from each component alone. The plant disease control composition comprises as active ingredients thereof at least one quinoline compounds represented by the following general formula: wherein, R1 and R2 represent, for example, optionally substituted alkyl groups or optionally substituted aryl groups, R3 and R4 represent, for example, hydrogen atoms, fluorine atom or methyl group, X represents, for example, a halogen atom or optionally substituted alkyl group, and Y represents a fluorine atom or methyl group, n is 0 to 2 and m is 0 or 1, or a salt thereof (group a), and one or more fungicidal compounds selected from group b.