Abstract: To allow assist control according to the pedal force to be performed in a bicycle electric power assist device without complicating the structure for detecting the pedal force and/or requiring modification of the bicycle, a bicycle electric power assist device (50) includes: an electric motor (54) connected in a torque transmitting relationship to a crank arm (26) or a crankshaft (24) driven by a pedal force from pedals (30) via the crank arm (28); a battery (102) to be mounted on a bicycle to serve as a power supply for the electric motor (54); a control unit (100) configured to control operation of the electric motor (54); a rotation angle sensor (110) configured to detect a crank rotation angle position of the crankshaft (24); and a current sensor (116) configured to detect a motor current of the electric motor (54), wherein the control unit (100) includes: a pedal force estimation/calculation unit (120) configured to estimate the pedal force of the pedals (30) from a difference between the motor current i

Abstract: A medical device includes: an end effector configured to apply treatment energy for treating a living tissue according to supplied power; a drive source configured to supply the power to the end effector; and a processor configured to classify, in a first time period after a supply of the power to the end effector is started, the living tissue into any one of a plurality of tissue types based on a first parameter detected in the first time period, control an operation of the drive source after the first time period based on the classified tissue type, reclassify the classified living tissue into any one of the plurality of tissue types based on a second parameter detected after the first time period, and control an operation of the drive source based on the tissue type into which the classified living tissue is reclassified.

Abstract: A treatment system can include a treatment tool including an ultrasound transducer and an end effector. The system can also include an ultrasound power source configured to output a drive signal to the ultrasound transducer, and a processor configured to detect an abnormality in the end effector, and whether end effector is immersed in a liquid. The system can continue an output of the drive signal from the ultrasound power source to the ultrasound transducer when the abnormality is detected and the end effector is immersed in the liquid.

Abstract: Provided is an optical PSA composition that can be easily peeled using an aqueous liquid such as water and has sufficient adhesive strength. An optical PSA composition comprising an acrylic polymer is provided. The PSA composition comprises at least one species of compound A selected among surfactants and compounds having polyoxyalkylene backbones. The monomers forming the acrylic polymer comprises less than 20 wt % alkoxyalkyl (meth)acrylate and less than 20 wt % alkoxypolyalkylene glycol (meth)acrylate. Alternatively, the compound A content is less than 1 part by weight to 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer.

Abstract: A storage battery management system manages a state of a storage battery that is detachably mounted. The storage battery management system includes an activation signal generation unit configured to generate an activation signal for setting a mounted storage battery to an available state, a management unit configured to manage the mounted storage battery that has received the activation signal and identification information of the mounted storage battery in association with each other, an activation signal transmission line configured to electrically connect a storage battery management unit of the mounted storage battery and the activation signal generation unit with each other, and a signal transmission line configured to electrically connect the storage battery management unit and the management unit to each other.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a novel functional silicon-containing polymer compound to which a property capable of controlling fluidity by a light stimulus is imparted and to provide a method capable of efficiently synthesizing such a polymer compound while maintaining molecular stability. Provided is a polymer compound characterized by having a backbone structure consisting of a silicon-containing polymer, and having N number of partial structures represented by the following formula (1) at the end or side chain of the backbone structure, N being 2 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a method for peeling a PSA sheet adhered on a polarizing plate. The PSA sheet has a PSA layer. The PSA layer includes a layer A forming at least one surface of the PSA layer. Of the polarizing plate, the surface to which the PSA sheet is adhered is corona-treated or plasma-treated. The peeling method includes a water-peel step in which the PSA sheet is peeled from the polarizing plate, in a state where an aqueous liquid exits at the interface between the polarizing plate and the PSA sheet at the front line of peeling the PSA sheet from the polarizing plate, with the aqueous liquid allowed to further enter the interface following the movement of the peel front line.

Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet having a PSA layer. The PSA layer includes a layer A forming at least one surface thereof. The PSA sheet has an adhesive strength N0 of 2.0 N/10 mm or greater, after one day at room temperature following application of the layer A side to a surface of an alkaline float glass plate as an adherend having a contact angle of 5°-10° with distilled water; has an N1 to N0 reduction rate of 30% or lower, wherein N1 is a water-resistant adhesive strength measured after stored at room temperature for one day, immersed in water for 30 minutes, taken out from the water and then residual water is wiped off; and has an N2 to N0 reduction rate of 40% or higher, wherein N2 is a water-peel strength measured after stored at room temperature for one day, 20 ?L distilled water is dropped onto the adherend and is allowed to enter a PSA layer/adherend interfacial edge. N2 is measured at a tensile speed of 300 mm/min at a peel angle of 180°.

Abstract: A sheet for heat bonding, having a pre-sintering layer that becomes a sintered layer by being heated, and a component migration prevention layer.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device manufacturing method which can suppress the occurrence of positional deviation or inclination of a semiconductor element when the semiconductor element is fixed so as to be sandwiched-between two insulating substrates. The semiconductor device manufacturing method includes: obtaining a laminated body in which a semiconductor element is temporarily adhered on a first electrode formed on a first insulating substrate with a first pre-sintering layer sandwiched therebetween; temporarily adhering the semiconductor element on a second electrode formed on a second insulating substrate with a second pre-sintering layer sandwiched therebetween, the second pre-sintering layer being provided on a side opposite to the first pre-sintering layer, to obtain a semiconductor device precursor; and simultaneously heating the first pre-sintering layer and the second pre-sintering layer, to bond the semiconductor element to the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: Electric power can be generated by using an existing bicycle without impairing the durability of the tire of the bicycle. The bicycle generator device (50) comprises a housing (52) configured to be attached to a frame (18) of a bicycle (10), a generator (54) attached to the housing (52), an annular rotational input member (81) for rotationally driving the generator (54), the rotational input member being rotatably mounted on the housing and positioned around a crank axis line which is a rotational center line of a crankshaft (24) and a crank arm (26) for a pedal of the bicycle, and a connecting member (90, 130) connecting the rotational input member (81) to the crankshaft (24) or the crank arm (26) in a torque transmitting relationship.

Abstract: An exercise measurement device comprises a housing for attaching to a frame of a bicycle, a generator, an annular rotational input member for rotationally driving the generator, the rotational input member being rotatably mounted on the housing and positioned around a crank axis line, a connecting member connecting the rotational input member to the crankshaft or the crank arm in a torque transmitting relationship, a sensor for detecting at least one of electric current of the generator, a rotational speed of the generator or the crank arm, a torque of the crank arm, a position of the crank arm, a strain in the crank arm, and a pressure on the pedal, a measurement computing unit for computing at least one of power and a pedaling force from an output of the sensor, and a display unit for displaying a computed value of the measurement computing unit.

Abstract: A wide range of existing bicycles can be converted into electric power assisted bicycles with ease. The bicycle electric power assist device comprises a housing (52) configured to be attached to a frame (18) of a bicycle (10), an electric motor (54) attached to the housing (52), a battery (102) configured to be mounted to the frame and serves as a power source for the electric motor, an annular rotational output member (81) rotationally driven by the electric motor (54), the rotational output member being rotatably mounted on the housing and positioned around a crank axis line which is a rotational center line A of a crankshaft (24) and a crank arm (26) for a pedal of the bicycle, and a connecting member (90) connecting the rotational output member (81) to the crankshaft (24) or the crank arm (26) in a torque transmitting relationship.

Abstract: A generator that includes a drive circuit connected to a surgical instrument including a vibration system having a probe and an ultrasonic transducer, which supplies power to the ultrasonic transducer. The control circuit detects a first trigger causing the control circuit to perform a resonance-point search on the vibration system. Upon detecting the first trigger, the control circuit determines a resonance point of a frequency of vibration of the probe by performing the resonance-point search, and upon determining the resonance point, causes the drive circuit to execute a standby operation. The control circuit then detects a second trigger causing the surgical instrument to treat the living tissue, and upon detecting the second trigger, causes the drive circuit to execute an actual output operation by increasing the supply of power to the surgical instrument such that the surgical instrument treats the living tissue.

Abstract: Provided is a joint manufacturing method including: a step A of preparing a laminate in which two objects to be joined are temporarily adhered with a heat-joining sheet including a pre-sintering layer interposed between the two objects to be joined; a step B of increasing a temperature of the laminate from a temperature equal to or lower than a first temperature defined below to a second temperature; and a step C of holding the temperature of the laminate in a predetermined range after the step B, in which the laminate is pressurized during at least a part of the step B and at least a part of the step C. The first temperature is a temperature at which an organic component contained in the pre-sintering layer is decreased by 10% by weight when the pre-sintering layer is subjected to thermogravimetric measurement.

Abstract: A thermal bonding sheet includes a pre-sintering layer containing copper particles and polycarbonate.

Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed to a treatment system comprises a power supply apparatus and a treatment instrument configured to communicate electrically with the power supply apparatus so as to perform a treatment on a biological tissue. The treatment instrument includes an end effector that transmits a high-frequency current delivered by a first electrical energy to the biological tissue. An electric element is configured to operate the end effector by being actuated using second electric energy. The power supply apparatus includes a processor configured to receive a stop command to cutoff the supply of the first electric energy and the second electric energy in a state in which the first electric energy and the second electric energy are supplied and determine whether or not the end effector is in contact with the biological tissue based on a parameter related to the first electric energy after receiving the stop command.

Abstract: Provided are: a thermal bonding sheet suitable for actually providing sinter bonding between bonding targets while reducing misalignment of the bonding targets, and a dicing tape with such a thermal bonding sheet. This thermal bonding sheet includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer including sinterable particles containing a conductive metal. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a shear bond strength of 0.1 MPa or more determined at 70° C. with respect to a silver plane to which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer as a 5-mm square piece has been compression-bonded under compression bonding conditions of 70° C., 0.5 MPa, and 1 second. The thermal bonding sheet-associated dicing tape includes a dicing tape and the thermal bonding sheet. The dicing tape has a multilayer structure including a base and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The thermal bonding sheet is disposed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the dicing tape.

Abstract: A storage battery management system manages a state of a storage battery that is detachably mounted. The storage battery management system includes an activation signal generation unit configured to generate an activation signal for setting the mounted storage battery to an available state, a management unit configured to manage the storage battery that has received the activation signal and identification information of the storage battery in association with each other, an activation signal transmission line configured to electrically connect a storage battery management unit of the storage battery and the activation signal processing unit with each other, and a signal transmission line configured to electrically connect the storage battery management unit and the management unit to each other.

Abstract: Provided are a thermal bonding sheet capable of suppressing inhibition of sintering of sinterable metallic particles by an organic component, thereby imparting sufficient bonding reliability to a power semiconductor device, and a thermal bonding sheet with a dicing tape having the thermal bonding sheet. A thermal bonding sheet has a precursor layer that is to become a sintered layer by heating, and the precursor layer has sinterable metallic particles and an organic component, a 95% weight loss temperature of the organic component is 150° C. or more and 300° C. or less when thermogravimetry of the thermal bonding sheet is performed under an air atmosphere at a heating rate of 10° C./min.