Abstract: It is intended to provide MSCs for transplantation that have an improved post-transplantation cell survival rate and engraftment rate and are highly safe with fewer adverse reactions, and a method for conveniently producing MSCs for transplantation having a high cell survival rate and engraftment rate. As means therefor, the present invention provides a stem cell for transplantation comprising an MSC capable of overexpressing IL-10.

Abstract: To provide a ceramic composite and a production method therefor allowing ease of processing to be improved and fracture toughness to be improved simultaneously. The invention includes the steps of: preparing at least a liquid-form resin and a ceramic sintered body which has been sintered at a temperature which is 700° C. to 100° C. less than a sintering temperature at which a theoretical density is obtained; immersing the ceramic sintered body in the liquid-form resin, causing the liquid-form resin to infiltrate the ceramic sintered body; and hardening the infiltrated liquid-form resin to obtain a ceramic composite having a relative density of between 40% and 90% by causing the resin to infiltrate. Gaps where no resin has infiltrated are formed in the ceramic composite.

Abstract: A ceramic body for dental prosthesis can suppress a variation in quality in the sole ceramic body for dental prosthesis due to expansion of its diameter. The ceramic body for dental prosthesis is made of a ceramic material, is shaped to have a circular planar shape and a disk-like external shape, and has a diameter of 50 mm or more. The method for manufacturing this ceramic body for dental prosthesis includes: preparing a ceramic material; shaping the ceramic material by press shaping or by a machine tool; temporarily sintering the ceramic material at a temperature from a sintering temperature that provides theoretical density ?700° C. or more to the sintering temperature ?100° C. or less; and shaping the ceramic material to have a circular planar shape and a disk-like external shape so as to prepare the ceramic body for dental prosthesis having a diameter of 50 mm or more.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a sensor unit including two sensor boards stacked together, a base supporting the sensor unit, an electrical component on an opposite side to the sensor unit relative to the base, and a heat insulation member including a portion located between the electrical component and the sensor unit. A heat conductivity of the heat insulation member is lower than a heat conductivity of the base.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure-resistant container that allows a time required for winding a fiber-reinforced member on both a tubular barrel portion and dome portions of a container body to be shortened. A pressure-resistant container includes: a container body having a tubular barrel portion, and dome portions that are provided integrally on both end portions, respectively, in an axial direction, of the tubular barrel portion; and a fiber-reinforced member that covers an outer surface of the container body. The fiber-reinforced member includes a first fiber sheet that is formed from fibers oriented in one direction, and that has a fiber direction in which the fibers extend such that the fiber direction is tilted relative to the axial direction of the container body at such an angle as to cover both the dome portions, on both sides in the axial direction, of the container body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a housing including a resin frame. The resin frame is divided in a sheet feeding direction to include a conveyance frame, a process frame and a fixation frame. Moreover, the image forming apparatus comprises a driving unit and a drive frame. The driving unit is attachably and detachably provided in the drive frame, and applies a rotational driving force to rotating bodies. The drive frame is positioned with respect to the conveyance frame or the process frame, supports the rotating bodies, and has an attaching portion for the driving unit. Moreover, the drive frame is attached to one surface of the resin frame.

Abstract: A configuration is realized in which a packet delimiter can be discriminated from an MMTP packet string including MMT format data, and a packet can be selectively acquired and reproduced. The MMT format data is input through a broadcast wave or the like, a packet length of an MMT protocol (MMTP) packet including the MMT format data is acquired, and recording data in which an additional header storing the acquired packet length is set before the MMTP packet, is generated, and is recorded in an information recording medium. A reproducing device is capable of discriminating a delimiter of each MMTP packet, according to the packet length of the MMTP packet, read from the additional header, is capable of acquiring reproducing data, for example, image data, from the selected packet, and is capable of decoding and reproducing the acquired data.

Abstract: An authority transfer device is used for a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode in which driving operation is autonomously performed for a driver and a manual driving mode in which driving operation is manually performed by the driver using at least a steering wheel. The authority transfer device includes a controller configured, when switching from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode, to transfer a driving authority of the vehicle to the driver on condition that at least a grip of the driver on the steering wheel is detected. The controller notifies the driver that the driving authority will be transferred before the driving authority is transferred.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a speaker that is stored inside a housing and includes an attachment guide to which the speaker is attached on a housing front surface. The attachment guide has at least one angle deciding portion which inclines a front surface of the speaker relative to the housing front surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a housing including a resin frame. The resin frame is divided in a sheet feeding direction to include a conveyance frame, a process frame and a fixation frame. Moreover, the image forming apparatus comprises a driving unit and a drive frame. The driving unit is attachably and detachably provided in the drive frame, and applies a rotational driving force to rotating bodies. The drive frame is positioned with respect to the conveyance frame or the process frame, supports the rotating bodies, and has an attaching portion for the driving unit. Moreover, the drive frame is attached to one surface of the resin frame.

Abstract: An imaging table includes: a bucky apparatus to which a radiation imaging apparatus capable of being installed; a top plate connected to the bucky apparatus and allowing a subject to get on the top plate; and a rotation mechanism arranged to connect the bucky apparatus and the top plate in a relatively rotatable manner. The imaging table of the present invention can easily correspond to a plurality of imaging techniques.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus is provided. The radiation image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to capture a radiation image. The image capturing unit includes a detection element configured to detect radiation. The radiation image capturing apparatus comprises a processor configured to perform, in accordance with an exposure request from a user, a first reset operation of resetting the detection element, and configured to detect an amount of irradiation of the radiation based on a signal from the detection element after the first reset operation.

Abstract: It is intended to provide MSCs for transplantation that have an improved post-transplantation cell survival rate and engraftment rate and are highly safe with fewer adverse reactions, and a method for conveniently producing MSCs for transplantation having a high cell survival rate and engraftment rate. As means therefor, the present invention provides a stem cell for transplantation comprising an MSC capable of overexpressing IL-10.

Abstract: A configuration is realized in which a packet delimiter can be discriminated from an MMTP packet string including MMT format data, and a packet can be selectively acquired and reproduced. The MMT format data is input through a broadcast wave or the like, a packet length of an MMT protocol (MMTP) packet including the MMT format data is acquired, and recording data in which an additional header storing the acquired packet length is set before the MMTP packet, is generated, and is recorded in an information recording medium. A reproducing device is capable of discriminating a delimiter of each MMTP packet, according to the packet length of the MMTP packet, read from the additional header, is capable of acquiring reproducing data, for example, image data, from the selected packet, and is capable of decoding and reproducing the acquired data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a replacement unit (developing unit) that is provided to be freely inserted into and extracted from an apparatus body, and the replacement unit is provided with a separation duct wall that constitutes a collection path through which powder scattering in the apparatus body is collected.

Abstract: A waste toner collecting device includes a waste toner container having an opening at an upper portion, and a shutter mechanism that opens or closes the opening. The shutter mechanism includes a receiving portion including an insertion port through which the waste toner discharging unit is inserted, the receiving portion having an inner space connected with an inner space of the waste toner container through the opening, a shutter member disposed in the receiving portion to be movable between an open position and a closing position, and an urging member that urges the shutter member to the closing position. The shutter member includes a ridge on an upper portion of an outer circumferential surface. The ridge has a protrusion height corresponding to a gap between the outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the receiving portion.

Abstract: A ceramic body for dental prosthesis can suppress a variation in quality in the sole ceramic body for dental prosthesis due to expansion of its diameter. The ceramic body for dental prosthesis is made of a ceramic material, is shaped to have a circular planar shape and a disk-like external shape, and has a diameter of 50 mm or more. The method for manufacturing this ceramic body for dental prosthesis includes: preparing a ceramic material; shaping the ceramic material by press shaping or by a machine tool; temporarily sintering the ceramic material at a temperature from a sintering temperature that provides theoretical density ?700° C. or more to the sintering temperature ?100° C. or less; and shaping the ceramic material to have a circular planar shape and a disk-like external shape so as to prepare the ceramic body for dental prosthesis having a diameter of 50 mm or more.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a radiation imaging apparatus, comprising a first imaging panel including a first sensor substrate including a center region and a peripheral region, and a first scintillator arranged in the center region, a second imaging panel including a second sensor substrate including a center region and a peripheral region, and a second scintillator arranged at the center region, the second imaging panel being arranged above the first imaging panel, a supporting base configured to support the first imaging panel upward, and a supporting member arranged below the peripheral region of the second sensor substrate so that a load acting on the peripheral region of the second sensor substrate downward is received by the supporting base.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a duct through which air taken in from outside a housing is sent into the housing, a blower fan provided at an upstream end of the duct, a toner bottle provided facing a wall surface of the duct, and a fixing section provided on a downstream side of the toner bottle. A component-facing section facing the toner bottle is formed to be smaller in cross-sectional area than a fan placement section. Therefore, by absorbing heat of air around the toner bottle via a wall of the component-facing section, the component-facing section prevents the toner bottle from becoming hot.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a scintillator configured to convert radiation into light, a sensor panel in which a plurality of pixels each comprising a light detector configured to detect the light is arranged, and a processing unit. The processing unit comprises a conversion unit configured to output a detection signal in accordance with a signal generated in the light detector by the incident light and radiation that has transmitted through the scintillator without being converted into light, and a reset control unit configured to determine that the light detector detects the transmitted radiation based on a magnitude of the detection signal and reset the conversion unit if the light detector is determined to detect the transmitted radiation.