Abstract: An ablation system includes: an endoscope; an ablation treatment tool; an overtube; a first operation member that is provided at a base end portion of the overtube; and a second operation member that is attachable to and detachable from an intermediate position in a longitudinal direction of an insertion portion of the endoscope. The overtube has a balloon that is configured to fix the overtube to the gastro-intestinal tract; the insertion portion and the ablation treatment tool can be integrally moved in the overtube in the longitudinal direction; and the first and second operation members each have a finger holder that holds at least one finger of one hand. The first operation member is distinct from the overtube, and is attachable to and detachable from an outer circumferential surface of the overtube, at an arbitrary position in the longitudinal direction of the overtube.

Abstract: An electric working machine may include a support rod, a head unit, a position fixing mechanism, and a resistance member. The support rod may extend in a front-rear direction and include an attachment portion located at a front end of the support rod. The head unit may include a front tool, a motor configured to drive the front tool, and a head housing supporting the front tool and coupled to the attachment portion rotatably about a rotation axis. The position fixing mechanism may be configured to fix a rotation position of the head unit with respect to the support rod. The resistance member may be interposed between the attachment portion and the head housing with respect to a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis. The resistance member may be configured to provide a resistance force against rotation of the head unit with respect to the support rod.

Abstract: An electric working machine may include a support rod extending in a front-rear direction; a head unit attached to a front end of the support rod and including a front tool and a motor configured to drive the front tool; and a grip unit attached to a rear end of the support rod. The grip unit may include a grip housing configured to be gripped by an operator; a detection sensor attached to the grip housing and configured to detect an on/off operation for the motor by the operator; and a presence sensor attached to the grip housing and configured to detect a grip by the operator on the grip housing. The support rod may not penetrate through the grip housing. in a rear plan view of the electric working machine, at least one of the detection sensor and the presence sensor at least partially may overlap the support rod.

Abstract: An ileal-mucosa ablation treatment method including: setting a length of a treatment area in an ileal mucosa, wherein the length of the treatment area is set on the basis of at least one of patient characteristics and pathophysiological conditions; marking an end point of the treatment area in the ileal mucosa; and performing ablation treatment on the ileal mucosa, wherein, in the performing ablation treatment, ablation treatment is performed on the ileal mucosa from a start point to the end point while changing treatment positions toward the end point from the start point, and the start point is at a position that is separated from the end point in a longitudinal direction of the ileum by the set length.

Abstract: The objects of an embodiment are to improve the reliability of visual function examination and to shorten the time required for the examination. A visual function examination apparatus of an embodiment includes an application optical system, a biological information detector, and an evaluation information generator. The application optical system includes an optical scanner disposed in an optical path of laser light output from a laser light source, and is configured to apply the laser light that has travelled via the optical scanner to a retina of a subject's eye. The biological information detector is configured to detect biological information representing a reaction of a subject to application of the laser light. The evaluation information generator is configured to generate evaluation information on visual function of the subject's eye based on the biological information detected.

Abstract: An imaging phantom according to the present invention includes a main body having an optical characteristic simulating an optical characteristic of biological tissue and a structure (3) installed in the main body, the structure having a fractal structure simulating a tissue structure having a fractal nature present in the biological tissue.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: a light source unit configured to emit partially coherent light having a coherence length that is equal to or more than inverse of a scattering coefficient of a light scattering body and shorter than half of inverse of a reduced scattering coefficient of the light scattering body; an illumination unit configured to irradiate an illumination area on a surface of the light scattering body, with the partially coherent light emitted from the light source unit; a detection unit configured to detect, in a detection area including the illumination area, a signal of scattered and returned light from the light scattering body; and an interference component extracting unit configured to extract an interference component by excluding a noninterference component from the signal of the scattered and returned light detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A measurement probe is configured to be detachably connected to a biological optical measurement apparatus that performs an optical measurement on body tissue. The measurement probe includes an illumination fiber configured to irradiate the body tissue with illumination light, and a plurality of detection fibers configured to detect return light of at least one of the illumination light reflected from the body tissue and the illumination light scattered from the body tissue. On a plane which is away from distal ends of the illumination fiber and the plurality of detection fibers and through which the illumination light and the return light can pass, a detection area of the return light in each of the plurality of detection fibers is included in all of an illumination area of the illumination fiber or inside of the illumination area.

Abstract: A contact detecting apparatus detects contact between a body tissue and a probe for emitting illumination light onto the body tissue and receiving return light of the illumination light scattered from the body tissue. The contact detecting apparatus includes: a laser light source that emits laser light to irradiate a specified region of the body tissue via the probe; a photoelectric conversion unit that converts light received via the probe into an electric signal; and a signal processing unit that determines whether or not there is contact between a distal end of the probe and the body tissue based on whether the electric signal includes a component of a beat signal caused by interference of the return light of the laser light scattered from each of a surface of the body tissue and a surface of the distal end of the probe.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle has a compressor for an air-conditioning device that is driven by a vehicle drive source, and a condenser for the air-conditioning device that is disposed at a front side of the vehicle. A request torque to the vehicle drive source is determined as a sum of an air-conditioning load which is spent for driving the compressor and a running torque necessary to drive the vehicle by a drive wheel. The running torque is calculated based on an accelerator manipulation of a driver. A range-position signal indicating a selected range position is read. A value of the air-conditioning load when the air-conditioning device is in operation and the range position is in a Reverse-range is larger than a value of the air-conditioning load when the range position is in a Drive-range with respect to an identical refrigerant pressure of the air-conditioning device.

Abstract: A measurement probe is configured to be detachably connected to an optical measurement apparatus for optically measuring a living tissue and includes: an illuminating fiber configured to apply illumination light to the living tissue; a plurality of light receiving fibers configured to receive, at different positions, the backscattering light which is applied by the illuminating fiber and backreflected and/or backscattered from the living tissue; and a support section that is substantially cylindrical and configured to make a distance from each distal end of the illuminating fiber and the plurality of light receiving fibers to the living tissue constant, and permit the illumination light to pass through at least a part of a side surface thereof. An illumination area of the illumination light applied by the illuminating fiber on the living tissue is larger than the area of a distal end of the support section.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device is provided for controlling a drive system. The hybrid vehicle control device is programmed to perform an engine start control using a motor/generator as an engine start motor when an engine start request is present. The hybrid vehicle control device includes a second clutch control section and an engine start control section. The second clutch control section completely disengages the second clutch. The engine start control section engages or slip engages of the first clutch, and performs engine start control resulting from performing an engine cranking operation, injecting air and fuel and igniting same. The hybrid vehicle control module disengages the first clutch and engages the second clutch during coasting/regenerating driving with the motor/generator while traveling in an electric vehicle mode when the engine start request is due to a driver input for an increase in a required driving force.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: a light source unit configured to emit partially coherent light having a coherence length that is equal to or more than inverse of a scattering coefficient of a light scattering body and shorter than half of inverse of a reduced scattering coefficient of the light scattering body; an illumination unit configured to irradiate an illumination area on a surface of the light scattering body, with the partially coherent light emitted from the light source unit; a detection unit configured to detect, in a detection area including the illumination area, a signal of scattered and returned light from the light scattering body; and an interference component extracting unit configured to extract an interference component by excluding a noninterference component from the signal of the scattered and returned light detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle that uses a combination of an engine and a traveling motor as vehicle drive sources has an engine speed detector configured to detect an engine rotational speed, an EV-state determination unit configured to determine whether a mode is an EV state in which the traveling motor is mainly used as the drive source; an EV-state annunciator configured to notify a driver about the EV state, and a switching controller configured to control switching between notification and non-notification about the EV state. The switching controller is configured to bring the EV-state annunciator to a non-notification state when the EV-state determination unit determines that the mode is not the EV state and the engine rotational speed is greater than a predetermined first threshold value.

Abstract: An optical measuring device includes: a light source unit; a measurement probe including a fiber bundle, an illumination fiber that illuminates a living tissue with a illumination light, and a plurality of light-receiving fibers that receives return light of the illumination light reflected and/or scattered at the living tissue; a detection unit that receives the return light of the illumination light detected by the plurality of respective light-receiving fibers, and performs photoelectric conversion to detect respective signal intensities; and an association unit that associates the respective signal intensities detected by the detection unit with distances from the illumination fiber to the respective light-receiving fibers on an end face of a distal end portion of the measurement probe, when light having an intensity gradient around the illumination fiber is projected to the end face of the distal end portion of the measurement probe.

Abstract: The objects of an embodiment are to improve the reliability of visual function examination and to shorten the time required for the examination. A visual function examination apparatus of an embodiment includes an application optical system, a biological information detector, and an evaluation information generator. The application optical system includes an optical scanner disposed in an optical path of laser light output from a laser light source, and is configured to apply the laser light that has travelled via the optical scanner to a retina of a subject's eye. The biological information detector is configured to detect biological information representing a reaction of a subject to application of the laser light. The evaluation information generator is configured to generate evaluation information on visual function of the subject's eye based on the biological information detected.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device for a drive system is provided with an engine, a motor and an automatic transmission. The hybrid vehicle control device is configured such that when there is a mode switch request during an EV mode where only the motor is used as a drive source, a shift is made to an HEV mode where the engine and the motor are used as drive sources. The hybrid vehicle control device is further configured such that if a mode switch request and a downshift request for the automatic transmission (are generated, mode switch control is immediately started first. The configuration is also such that downshift control is started once the rotational speed of the engine has reached a combustion possible rotational speed, and the transmission speed at this time is made to be faster than an ordinary transmission speed.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle has a compressor for an air-conditioning device that is driven by a vehicle drive source, and a condenser for the air-conditioning device that is disposed at a front side of the vehicle. A request torque to the vehicle drive source is determined as a sum of an air-conditioning load which is spent for driving the compressor and a running torque necessary to drive the vehicle by a drive wheel. The running torque is calculated based on an accelerator manipulation of a driver. A range-position signal indicating a selected range position is read. A value of the air-conditioning load when the air-conditioning device is in operation and the range position is in a Reverse-range is larger than a value of the air-conditioning load when the range position is in a Drive-range with respect to an identical refrigerant pressure of the air-conditioning device.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control device is provided for controlling a drive system. The hybrid vehicle control device is programmed to perform an engine start control using a motor/generator as an engine start motor when an engine start request is present. The hybrid vehicle control device includes a second clutch control section and an engine start control section. The second clutch control section completely disengages the second clutch. The engine start control section engages or slip engages of the first clutch, and performs engine start control resulting from performing an engine cranking operation, injecting air and fuel and igniting same. The hybrid vehicle control module disengages the first clutch and engages the second clutch during coasting/regenerating driving with the motor/generator while traveling in an electric vehicle mode when the engine start request is due to a driver input for an increase in a required driving force.

Abstract: A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle that uses a combination of an engine and a traveling motor as vehicle drive sources has an engine speed detector configured to detect an engine rotational speed, an EV-state determination unit configured to determine whether a mode is an EV state in which the traveling motor is mainly used as the drive source; an EV-state annunciator configured to notify a driver about the EV state, and a switching controller configured to control switching between notification and non-notification about the EV state. The switching controller is configured to bring the EV-state annunciator to a non-notification state when the EV-state determination unit determines that the mode is not the EV state and the engine rotational speed is greater than a predetermined first threshold value.