Abstract: A structure for preventing intrusion of rainwater into an engine room includes: an air intake cover that is fixed to an engine cover having an inclined portion where a height gradually lowers from a cabin side to a rear door side; a first rainwater gutter that is disposed below an air intake opening portion of the air intake cover and extends horizontally in a vehicle width direction; a second rainwater gutter that is disposed below the first rainwater gutter, and receives rainwater that flows out from an end portion of the first rainwater gutter in the vehicle width direction and allows the rainwater to flow toward a rear door side; and a third rainwater gutter that is disposed on an inner side of an upper edge of the rear door, receives rainwater that flows out from the second rainwater gutter and discharges rainwater to the outside of an engine room.

Abstract: An optical amplification system includes: an optical mixer which combined first light, second light, third light, and fourth light, then branches the combined lights, and outputs first combined light, second combined light, third combined light, and fourth combined light; a first brancher that branches the first combined light and outputs first excitation light and second excitation light; a second brancher that branches the second combined light and outputs third excitation light and fourth excitation light; a third brancher that branches the third combined light and outputs fifth excitation light and sixth excitation light; and a fourth brancher that branches the fourth combined light and outputs seventh excitation light and eighth excitation light.

Abstract: A compressor module includes: an evaporator configured to evaporate a refrigerant of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle; a liquid storage configured to store the refrigerant in a liquid phase; a compressor configured to suction and compress the refrigerant; and a flow passage forming member to which the evaporator, the liquid storage and the compressor are installed. The flow passage forming member forms at least a portion of a flow passage of the refrigerant. The compressor is positioned on a lower side of the flow passage forming member, and the flow passage of the refrigerant includes a suction-side refrigerant flow passage, through which the refrigerant in a gas-phase to be suctioned into the compressor flows. The suction-side refrigerant flow passage has a rising portion that rises upward as the rising portion approaches the compressor.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus including a line section through which working dialysate to be introduced into a blood purifier or drain liquid discharged from the blood purifier is caused to flow; a delivery unit that delivers liquid in the line section; an introduction port connected to a supply route through which undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate is supplied, the introduction port allowing the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate in the supply route to be introduced into the apparatus; an introduction route connected to the introduction port and through which the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate introduced from the introduction port flows into the line section; a valve unit provided to the introduction route and being capable of opening or closing the introduction route by being opened or closed; and a control unit that controls an operation of opening or closing the valve unit.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that is capable of, with no preparatory operations, performing substitution by supplying dialysate in a dialysate introduction line to a blood circuit during ultrafiltration treatment, or performing blood return by immediately supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line to the blood circuit after the ultrafiltration treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line L2 through which drain liquid from the dialyzer is drained, and an ultrafiltration pump capable of removing water from the blood in the blood circuit. The blood purification apparatus is capable of performing substitution or blood return by supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line L1 to the blood circuit.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element having a longitudinal direction, a case including a lid portion, a bottom portion, and a tubular portion and housing the piezoelectric element inside, and a strain gauge positioned at the tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a plurality of bent portions in the longitudinal direction, each of the plurality of bent portions bending in response to extension and contraction of the piezoelectric element. The strain gauge is positioned at the bent portion.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus including a line section through which working dialysate to be introduced into a blood purifier or drain liquid discharged from the blood purifier is caused to flow; a delivery unit that delivers liquid in the line section; an introduction port connected to a supply route through which undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate is supplied, the introduction port allowing the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate in the supply route to be introduced into the apparatus; an introduction route connected to the introduction port and through which the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate introduced from the introduction port flows into the line section; a valve unit provided to the introduction route and being capable of opening or closing the introduction route by being opened or closed; and a control unit that controls an operation of opening or closing the valve unit.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus employing a single-needle double-pump method and being capable of automatically discharging a priming solution that has undergone substitution from a blood circuit during blood removal. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit to which an only puncture needle is connectable, a dialyzer that purifies blood flowing in the blood circuit, a first blood pump, a second blood pump, and a control device that allows the blood of a patient to be extracorporeally circulated through the blood circuit by causing the first blood pump and the second blood pump to alternately undergo normal rotation. During blood removal, the control device operates to substitute a priming solution in the blood circuit with the blood of the patient and to discharge the priming solution having undergone the substitution from the blood circuit by causing the first blood pump to undergo normal rotation and the second blood pump to undergo reverse rotation.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to a blood purification apparatus in which the connection of a substitution line to a collecting port can be checked accurately and instantly and even during blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit, a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line, a substitution line one end of which is connected to a collecting port provided at a predetermined position of the dialysate introduction line and an other end of which is connected to the blood circuit, a substitution pump configured to form a pressure-increasing portion that includes the collecting port, and a pressure-measuring device capable of measuring a pressure in the pressure-increasing portion. The blood purification apparatus performs a testing process by increasing a liquid pressure in the pressure-increasing portion by utilizing a liquid-feeding pressure applied from a liquid-feeding device and measuring the pressure with the pressure-measuring device.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus and a blood purification system that is operable with increased ease even if a blood purifier requires special treatment conditions and operational settings is used. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood purifier for giving blood purification treatment by purifying blood of a patient; and a control device that executes, in accordance with preset treatment conditions and/or operational settings, an operation for performing the blood purification treatment or an operation associated with the blood purification treatment.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided in which parameters related to ultrafiltration can be changed assuredly and smoothly at the restart of blood purification treatment suspended with the release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus in which the blood purification treatment that is suspended with the release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment is restartable includes a touch panel (M) capable of displaying, simultaneously on one particular screen, a plurality of variable amounts related to the patients body weight that changes with the suspension and restart of the blood purification treatment.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided in which parameters related to ultrafiltration can be changed assuredly and smoothly at the restart of blood purification treatment suspended with the release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus in which the blood purification treatment that is suspended with a release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment is restartable includes a calculating device capable of calculating a variable amount related to a patients body weight that changes with the suspension and restart of the blood purification treatment; and a changing device capable of changing, in accordance with the variable amount calculated by the calculating device, a parameter related to ultrafiltration that is set by a setting device.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that is capable of, with no preparatory operations, performing substitution by supplying dialysate in a dialysate introduction line to a blood circuit during ultrafiltration treatment, or performing blood return by immediately supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line to the blood circuit after the ultrafiltration treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line L2 through which drain liquid from the dialyzer is drained, and an ultrafiltration pump capable of removing water from the blood in the blood circuit. The blood purification apparatus is capable of performing substitution or blood return by supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line L1 to the blood circuit.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided that can easily and accurately determine before treatment whether or not blocking of liquid by a check valve is appropriate.

Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a soft magnetic member, a material powder that includes ferrous particles and an organic layer formed on a surface of each of the ferrous particles is prepared. The organic layer contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of Si, Mg, Ti, and V. The material powder is compacted to form a green compact, and the green compact is induction-heated with a frequency of 100 kHz or higher to form an insulation layer made of an oxide containing the element on the surface of each of the ferrous particles.

Abstract: The present application provides a bispecific antibody for preventing or treating an immune inflammatory disease by acting on both human TLR2 and human TLR4 to inhibit human TLR2- and human TLR4-mediated immune inflammatory effects. More specifically, the provided bispecific antibody is a bispecific antibody for human TLR2 and human TLR4, including a heavy chain variable region of an anti-human TLR2 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 1 to 120 of SEQ ID NO: 4; a light chain variable region of an anti-human TLR2 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 1 to 113 of SEQ ID NO: 6; a heavy chain variable region of an anti-human TLR4 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 491 to 609 of SEQ ID NO: 4; and a light chain variable region of an anti-human TLR4 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 625 to 732 of SEQ ID NO: 4.

Abstract: A busbar unit includes a busbar connected by welding to a connection terminal of a ceramic capacitor and a molding part formed of the molding resin to cover the busbar, the busbar includes a body part covered by the molding part and a terminal part projecting from the molding part and connected to the connection terminal of the ceramic capacitor, and the molding part is formed with a guide hole to guide the connection terminal of the ceramic capacitor to bring the connection terminal into contact with or into proximity to the terminal part.

Abstract: There are provided a blood purification apparatus and a priming method thereof which can reliably perform air bubble purging of a blood purification device while workability is maintained during priming. During the priming, an air purging step is performed by causing a blood pump to perform reverse rotation, and electromagnetic valves and are brought into an opened state so as to open the overflow line (L) and a priming solution supply line and so as to discharge a priming solution from an overflow line while supplying a dialysate functioning as the priming solution from the priming solution supply line.

Abstract: An electronic component holder 100 for holding a cylindrical electrolytic capacitors 5 provided in an electronic control device 10 includes a clip portion 11 that is formed to be capable of expanding and contracting and accommodates the electrolytic capacitor 5 while gripping the outer peripheral surface 5A of the electrolytic capacitor 5, and a restricting portion 30 that is latched to the clip portion 11 to prevent the clip portion 11 from separating from the outer peripheral surface 5A of the electrolytic capacitor 5.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to a blood purification apparatus in which the connection of a substitution line to a collecting port can be checked accurately and instantly and even during blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit, a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line, a substitution line one end of which is connected to a collecting port provided at a predetermined position of the dialysate introduction line and an other end of which is connected to the blood circuit, a substitution pump configured to form a pressure-increasing portion that includes the collecting port, and a pressure-measuring device capable of measuring a pressure in the pressure-increasing portion. The blood purification apparatus performs a testing process by increasing a liquid pressure in the pressure-increasing portion by utilizing a liquid-feeding pressure applied from a liquid-feeding device and measuring the pressure with the pressure-measuring device.