Abstract: A medical image diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires skill information regarding a skill of a user who sets the medical image diagnostic apparatus. The processing circuitry provides setting information for the medical image diagnostic apparatus according to the skill of the user based on the acquired skill information to the user.

Abstract: A medical information processing device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a call request for calling a user to a medical image diagnostic device, calculate a notification priority for each of a plurality of users on the basis of at least one of usage statuses of a plurality of terminals managed by the plurality of users or details of work of the plurality of users, and transmit notification information for causing the plurality of terminals to output a call notification according to the notification priority to the plurality of terminals.

Abstract: A medical information management device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire patient authentication data for identifying a patient from a terminal device managed by a user, to authenticate that the patient is a user of a medical image diagnostic device on the basis of the patient authentication data, and to give the terminal device an editing authority to edit setting information on the patient set to examine the patient by the medical image diagnostic device on the basis of a result of the authentication.

Abstract: Provided is an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, and a display device, which have a high contrast and excellent light fastness. The optically anisotropic film includes a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which the liquid crystal compound is vertically aligned, the dichroic substance forms an arrangement structure, and in a case where, in a cross section observed with a scanning transmission electron microscope, a length of a major axis of the arrangement structure is defined as L, and a length of a minor axis of the arrangement structure is defined as D, 16 or more arrangement structures satisfying L?30 nm are observed per 40 ?m2.

Abstract: [PROBLEM] To visually display the manufacturing statuses of products manufactured through a plurality of manufacturing processes in order and changes of process characteristic factors caused in the manufacturing processes. [SOLVING MEANS] A visualization system according to an embodiment stores manufacturing log information including start times and end times of manufacturing processes of products grouped in manufacturing units and manufactured through a plurality of manufacturing processes in order, and chronological history information of process characteristic factors corresponding to factors affecting quality characteristics in the manufacturing processes.

Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first metal layer and a first insulating layer. The first insulating layer surrounds the first metal layer. The second substrate includes a second metal layer, a second insulating layer, and a first conducive body. The second metal layer is in contact with the first metal layer. The second insulating layer surrounds the second metal layer and is in contact with the first insulating layer. A part of the first conductive body is in the second metal layer and extends in a first direction toward the first metal layer.

Abstract: A disc brake including: a piston; a cylinder including a bore portion, which movably accommodates the piston, and a step portion formed on an opening end side of the bore portion; and a piston boot arranged between a tip side of the piston and a small diameter step portion of the cylinder. The piston boot includes: a large diameter annular fitting portion containing an annular metal member so as to be fitted to the small diameter step portion; a bellows portion, which extends from the large diameter fitting portion, is increased in its diameter from the large diameter fitting portion to an outer peripheral side, and is also deformed and extended from the large diameter fitting portion toward an inner peripheral side; and a small diameter fitting portion formed at an end portion of the bellows portion so as to fit to an outer periphery of the piston.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer in this order from a viewing side, in which a first light absorption anisotropic layer is disposed on the viewing side of the liquid crystal cell, a second light absorption anisotropic layer is disposed on a non-viewing side of the liquid crystal cell, the first and second polarizers each have an absorption axis in a film surface, the absorption axis of the first polarizer is orthogonal to the absorption axis of the second polarizer, an angle ?1 between a transmittance central axis of the first anisotropic layer and a normal line of the film is in a range of 0° to 45°, and an angle ?2 between a transmittance central axis of the second anisotropic layer and a normal line of the film is in a range of 0° to 45°.

Abstract: The present invention provides a A light absorption anisotropic film that, in a case of being applied to an image display device, it is possible to suppress redness of an image originating from the image display device, which is reflected on surrounding members arranged around the image display device; and an optical film and an image display device. The light absorption anisotropic film of the present invention is a light absorption anisotropic film is formed of a composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which the light absorption anisotropic film has two main surfaces facing each other, an angle between a normal direction of the main surface of the light absorption anisotropic film and a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic film is 0° to 45°, and predetermined requirements are satisfied depending on the angle.

Abstract: A lighting device that can switch between intensity distributions of emitted light with a simple configuration. The lighting device includes a light source, a polarization controller, and a polarizing plate, in which the polarization controller switches light emitted from the light source between light components having two or more different polarization states to be incident into the polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate functions as a diffraction grating that has two or more regions having different polarization states of transmitted light in an in-plane direction and where one or more regions among the regions are periodically disposed.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer which has high contrast and can suppress hue change of an image reflected by surroundings relative to an original image when used in a viewing angle control system, an optical film using the light absorption anisotropic layer, a viewing angle control system, and an image display device. The light absorption anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystalline compound, a dichroic substance, and an alignment agent. The liquid crystalline compound is in a liquid crystal state of a smectic phase, a content of the dichroic substance is 5.0% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content mass of the liquid crystal composition, and an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer is between 0° and 45°.

Abstract: An optical film that, when being used in an image display device, it is possible to suppress a change in redness with respect to an original image in images reflected in surroundings, a manufacturing method of a light absorption anisotropic layer, and an image display device. The optical film includes a light absorption anisotropic layer which contains a liquid crystalline compound and a dichroic substance, in which an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer is 0° or more and 45° or less, and a haze value of the optical film is more than 1% and 20% or less.

Abstract: An image projection system in which a projection image is easier to see. An image projection system includes an image projection device which emits projection light that is linearly polarized light; a screen which is irradiated with the projection light emitted from the image projection device; and a light absorption anisotropic layer which is disposed between the image projection device and the screen and through which the projection light passes, the light absorption anisotropic layer contains a dichroic substance, and a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer is in a direction toward the screen.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film that, when being applied to an image display device, it is easy to control a region where visibility is high and a region where visibility is low and viewing angle controllability is more excellent, an optical film, and an image display device. The light absorption anisotropic film contains a dichroic substance and a liquid crystal compound, in which the light absorption anisotropic film has a plurality of regions having different directions of transmittance central axes in an in-plane direction of the light absorption anisotropic film, in the plurality of regions, all angles ? between the transmittance central axes and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic film are in a range of 0° to 70°, and any of a specific requirement 1, a specific requirement 2, or a specific requirement 3 is satisfied.

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material layer and a positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode layer including a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector; a solid electrolyte layer; and an insulating film, in which the insulating film has therein a through-hole in which a laminate in which the positive electrode active material layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode active material layer are sequentially stacked is housed, the laminate and the insulating film are arranged between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector, and an external shape of the insulating film is larger than external shapes of the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector when viewed in a plan view in a laminating direction of the laminate.

Abstract: Provided is a laminate capable of reducing a change in hue of a reflected image in the surroundings (for example, window glass) from an original image, suppressing a hue shift of particularly the reflected image to redness, and suppressing the reflected image from being conspicuous, a reflection prevention system including this laminate, and an image display device including this laminate. The laminate includes a polarizer having an absorption axis in an in-plane direction, a light absorption anisotropic layer containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, and a linear polarization conversion layer, in which an angle between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal line of a layer plane of the light absorption anisotropic layer is 0° or greater and 45° or less.

Abstract: A switch includes: a first stationary contact having a first stationary contact point; a second stationary contact having a second stationary contact point; a movable contact having a first movable contact, and a second movable contact point; a first magnet pair defined by magnets having surfaces facing each other, the magnets of the first magnet pair being disposed with the first stationary contact point and the first movable contact point therebetween in such a manner that the magnets of the first magnet pair become farther from each other outwardly; and a second magnet pair defined by magnets having surfaces facing each other, the magnets of the second magnet pair being disposed with the second stationary contact point and the second movable contact point therebetween in such a manner that the magnets of the second magnet pair become farther from each other outwardly.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film that displays a bright, clear image in a desired direction and makes the image invisible from other than the desired direction using an image display device, a viewing angle control system formed of the light absorption anisotropic film, and an image display device formed of the light absorption anisotropic film. The light absorption anisotropic film includes a light absorption anisotropic layer that contains a liquid crystal compound and an organic dichroic substance, where an angle between an alignment direction of a light absorption axis of the organic dichroic substance on one surface and on the other surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal line of the light absorption anisotropic layer is defined as ?A and ?B, a difference between the angle ?A and the angle ?B is 15° or less, and the angle ?A is 5° or greater and less than 45°.

Abstract: Provided is a spot welding method by which welding can be performed successfully while inhibiting occurrence of expulsion. First to third metal plates W1 to W3 were welded in which a ratio of a total thickness to a thickness of the first metal plate W1 is 7. In Example 1, a peak current value A1 is 14.6 kA, an effective current value A2 is 7.8 kA, a peak duration T1 is 0.1 ms, and a no-peak duration T2 is 5.9 ms. As a result, a lower limit current value A3 is 6.9 kA, an upper limit current value A4 is 8.42 kA, a difference A5 between A4 and A3 is 1.52 kA, T2/T1 is 59.0, A2/A1 is 0.53, and rising time T3/falling time T4 is 0.53, furthermore, no expulsion occurs, and a welding result was determined to be OK.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet folding apparatus including: a stacking unit configured to be stacked with a paper stack; a feeding roller configured to come into contact with a surface of the uppermost sheet of the paper stack and feed sheets in a feeding direction; and a sheet separating mechanism configured to separate the uppermost sheet of the paper stack from the remaining sheets. The sheet separating mechanism has a suction unit that sucks and pulls the uppermost sheet of the paper stack upward in upstream in a feeding direction and an injection mechanism that separates the uppermost sheet from the remaining sheets by injecting air toward a predetermined region including an end face in upstream in the feeding direction of the paper stack including the uppermost sheet. The injection mechanism has a rotary injection unit configured to inject air to change a first injection direction oriented to the predetermined region.