Abstract: The present invention relates to a therapeutic substance delivery device for delivering a therapeutic substance to a desired site in a bodily duct, characterized in that the therapeutic substance delivery device is provided with: a therapeutic substance loading portion; a connector which is connected to the therapeutic substance loading portion; and a supplying/discharging pipe connected to the connector; and in that the therapeutic substance loading portion includes a main body portion in which a recessed portion is formed, a resilient film, and a connecting pipe; the connector is provided with a joint main body, a flange portion fixed to the other end portion side of the joint main body, and a fixing nut through which the joint main body passes; the joint main body is provided with a tube fastening portion; and at least part of the inner wall of the fixing nut is provided with a thread.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by ejecting a liquid shaping material and then solidifying the ejected shaping material includes: an interior forming process of forming an interior portion of the three-dimensional object by the shaping material; and a periphery forming process of forming a peripheral portion of a periphery of the interior portion by stacking a plurality of layers by the shaping material, where the shaping material for forming the interior portion in the interior forming process has a larger rigidity in a solid state compared to the shaping material for forming the peripheral portion in the periphery forming process, the periphery forming process is a process of forming a groove configuring one part of the peripheral portion, and the interior forming process is a process of forming the interior portion by placing the liquid shaping material in the groove.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a separator for a fuel cell includes: a roughening step of forming a roughened region in a surface of a separator body; and a molding step of molding a gasket on the surface of the separator body. In the molding step, the gasket is molded in an area including at least a part of the roughened region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a therapeutic substance delivery device for delivering a therapeutic substance to a desired site in a bodily duct, characterized in that the therapeutic substance delivery device is provided with: a therapeutic substance loading portion; a connector which is connected to the therapeutic substance loading portion; and a supplying/discharging pipe connected to the connector; and in that the therapeutic substance loading portion includes a main body portion in which a recessed portion is formed, a resilient film, and a connecting pipe; the connector is provided with a joint main body, a flange portion fixed to the other end portion side of the joint main body, and a fixing nut through which the joint main body passes; the joint main body is provided with a tube fastening portion; and at least part of the inner wall of the fixing nut is provided with a thread.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an image formation device and a control device. The image formation device ejects an ink for image formation to a fabric to form an image on the fabric. The control device generates, based on a first image data of an original image to be formed on the fabric, a second image data of a mark-applied image which is the original image additionally including a mark at a target position of a decorative member to be attached to the fabric. Then, the control device controls the image formation device based on the second image data so as to form the mark-applied image on the fabric.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by ejecting a liquid shaping material and then solidifying the ejected shaping material includes: an interior forming process of forming an interior portion of the three-dimensional object by the shaping material; and a periphery forming process of forming a peripheral portion of a periphery of the interior portion by stacking a plurality of layers by the shaping material, where the shaping material for forming the interior portion in the interior forming process has a larger rigidity in a solid state compared to the shaping material for forming the peripheral portion in the periphery forming process, the periphery forming process is a process of forming a groove configuring one part of the peripheral portion, and the interior forming process is a process of forming the interior portion by placing the liquid shaping material in the groove.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a cell sheet composition for healing or preventing discharge from a wounded region of a luminal organ. The present invention also addresses the problem of providing a method in which the cell sheet composition is affixed to a wounded region of a luminal organ to heal or prevent discharge from the wounded region of the luminal organ. The present invention provides a cell sheet composition including mesenchymal stem cells which is characterized by being affixed to a wounded region of a luminal organ in order to heal or prevent discharge from the wounded region of the luminal organ. The present invention also provides a method in which the cell sheet composition including mesenchymal stem cells is affixed to a wounded region of a luminal organ to heal or prevent discharge from the wounded region of the luminal organ.

Abstract: The purpose is to suppress positional misalignment between the diffusion layer and the frame. The manufacturing method of an electrode frame assembly for fuel cell comprises the steps of: (a) placing a frame and a diffusion layer to be stacked on each other; and (b) punching out the diffusion layer and the frame in the stacked state to form in the frame an opening in a shape matching with the punched-out diffusion layer.

Abstract: With the present invention the sheet shaped therapeutic substance can be accurately and easily affixed to the inside of the human body. As shown in FIG. 6A, the sheet shaped substance can be mounted on the head with wrinkles being formed. When this takes place, the sheet shaped substance is held in contact with the outer periphery of the head. Then, by making the pressure of the fluid inside the vent apertures positive, the sheet shaped substance can be blown off. The surface of the head is closely parallel to an inner surface of the esophagus wall for the sheet shaped substance to be affixed. Therefore, this particularly makes it possible to perform such applying step (FIG. 6B) in a more reliable fashion.

Abstract: An overhanging portion of a three-dimensional object is formed in the absence of a support material. An inkjet head unit of a three-dimensional object forming device according to an aspect of the invention discharges an ink at a time of forming a next layer on a layer previously formed, so as to have part of the ink forming an end of the next layer that is close to an end of the layer previously formed, overlap with the ink forming the end of the layer previously formed to provide a void immediately below the remaining part of the ink of the next layer.

Abstract: The purpose is to suppress positional misalignment between the diffusion layer and the frame. The manufacturing method of an electrode frame assembly for fuel cell comprises the steps of: (a) placing a frame and a diffusion layer to be stacked on each other; and (b) punching out the diffusion layer and the frame in the stacked state to form in the frame an opening in a shape matching with the punched-out diffusion layer.

Abstract: With the present invention the sheet shaped therapeutic substance can be accurately and easily affixed to the inside of the human body. As shown in FIG. 6A, the sheet shaped substance can be mounted on the head with wrinkles being formed. When this takes place, the sheet shaped substance is held in contact with the outer periphery of the head. Then, by making the pressure of the fluid inside the vent apertures positive, the sheet shaped substance can be blown off. The surface of the head is closely parallel to an inner surface of the esophagus wall for the sheet shaped substance to be affixed. Therefore, this particularly makes it possible to perform such applying step (FIG. 6B) in a more reliable fashion.

Abstract: Each of collectors 22 of an electrode structure 20, which partially constitutes a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, is formed from a metal lath MR having a large number of through-holes. A stopping portion 22a in which the through-holes are reduced in diameter is formed at a peripheral end portion of the collector 22. The peripheral end portion of the collector 22 is folded; subsequently, the folded peripheral end portion is pressed, thereby forming the stopping portion 22a. A resin seal portion 23 for sealing introduced fuel gas and oxidizer gas is formed integrally with the stopping portions 22a by insert molding which is performed such that an injected molten resin encloses the stopping portions 22a. The resin seal portion 23 formed integrally with the stopping portions 22a can reliably prevent inflow of the molten resin toward central portions of the collectors 22.

Abstract: A short-arc type high pressure discharge lamp in which durability is improved and a lamp apparatus including the same is provided. Glass material portions 52A into which glass material enters respectively are provided on both sides of an electrode axis 5402 between the outer circumferential surface 5406 thereof and a curved portion 58 of a sealed metal foil 56, and a gap S3 being continuous with a sealed space 60 remains among the glass material portion 52A, the outer circumferential portion 5406 of the electrode axis 5402, and the curved portion 58. An angle formed by a surface 52-1 of the glass material portion 52A facing the gap S3 and the curved portion 58 is an obtuse angle ?. In other words, an angle formed by the surface 52-1 of the glass material portion 52A facing the gap S3 and a surface 5602 of the curved portion 58 of the sealed metal foil 56 is the obtuse angle ?.

Abstract: A short-arc type high pressure discharge lamp in which durability is improved and a lamp apparatus including the same is provided. Glass material portions 52A into which glass material enters respectively are provided on both sides of an electrode axis 5402 between the outer circumferential surface 5406 thereof and a curved portion 58 of a sealed metal foil 56, and a gap S3 being continuous with a sealed space 60 remains among the glass material portion 52A, the outer circumferential portion 5406 of the electrode axis 5402, and the curved portion 58. An angle formed by a surface 52-1 of the glass material portion 52A facing the gap S3 and the curved portion 58 is an obtuse angle ?. In other words, an angle formed by the surface 52-1 of the glass material portion 52A facing the gap S3 and a surface 5602 of the curved portion 58 of the sealed metal foil 56 is the obtuse angle ?.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus provides a plurality of recording units to form images based on their respective image data, overlaying the images formed by the plurality of recording units on a single transfer member traveling in a predetermined direction, control means to sequentially cause registration patterns of predetermined shape to be formed by the plurality of recording units, and detecting means to detect each registration pattern on the transfer member in at least two locations in both the diretion of travel of the transfer member and a direction perpendicular thereto, and output non-integrated detection values.

Abstract: In a multibeam scanning optical apparatus of a type where two parallel lines are simultaneously scanned by two laser beams irradiated from two semiconductor lasers, stable images are formed on the scanned surface by the two laser beams and the cost is reduced. The two laser beams irradiated from the two semiconductor lasers are directed substantially in the same direction through a beam splitter and then shaped by a condenser lens into two luminous fluxes whose optical axes are substantially parallel to each other. In another arrangement, the semiconductor lasers are directly secured to a surface of the beam splitter by use of an ultraviolet setting resin.

Abstract: A laser beam scanning optical apparatus has a focusing lens having different optical powers in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction, moving means for moving the focusing lens on an optical direction, detecting means for detecting a state of convergence of the laser beam on a scanned surface, and control means for adjusting the convergence position of the laser beam by moving the focusing lens via driving said moving means based on the detection result of the detection means. In the aforementioned construction, the state of the convergence of the laser beam on a scanned surface is adjusted in the main scanning direction and the sub-scan direction by moving the focusing lens in an optical axis. The focusing lens is moved to a position of optimum convergence based on the construction of the optical system by detecting the state of convergence in the main scan direction and the sub-scan direction via a detecting means.

Abstract: In a scanning optical system in which image-surface curvature in the traverse direction is corrected properly without degrading imaging performance in the scanning direction and in which the transverse magnification is approximately uniform irrespective of the deflection angle, the influence of form errors in the imaging lens upon the image is substantially suppressed so as not to degrade the quality of the image. The scanning optical system is provided with a aspherical lens having a refractive power only in the traverse direction and having a TSL shape whose curvature radius increases as the distance in the scanning direction from the center of the lens (the position in which the curvature radius in the traverse direction is smallest) increases. The aspherical lens is disposed in such a way that the line of symmetry that passes through its center is parallel to and at a distance from the optical axis of a first lens unit on the upstream side of a scanning path in the scanning direction.

Abstract: In a scanning optical system in which a plurality of light beams emitted from a plurality of light sources are, after being formed into beams converging in a predetermined manner, deflected by a single deflector and are then shone, through scanning lens systems provided one for each light beam, onto a scanned surface so that the scanned surface is scanned by the light beams for image formation, at least one of the scanning lens systems satisfies the condition 0<-{(L-HH')+k}/k.ltoreq.0.2, where L represents the distance from the point of deflection of the light beam to the scanned surface, HH' represents the distance from the front-side principal point to the rear-side principal point of the scanning lens system, and k (k<0) represents the constant of proportionality defined by the formula y'=k.theta., where y' represents the image height on the scanned surface in the main scanning direction, and .theta.