Abstract: A work transfer system includes a robot having a hand which holds a workpiece and a sensor which can detect external force acting on the hand, a balancer connected to the hand and can generate lifting force for lifting the hand in a vertically upward direction, a shape measuring device which conducts measuring of a shape of the workpiece, and a controller controlling the robot and the balancer based on the shape of the workpiece, and the controller adjusts a holding position of the workpiece by the hand based on the shape, and controls the lifting force so that an absolute value of the external force in the vertical direction detected by the sensor becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold when the workpiece is held at the adjusted holding position and lifted.

Abstract: A battery includes a negative electrode body wound to be flat. The negative electrode body has a plurality of negative electrode main bodies arranged in a line in a negative electrode connection direction in a developed state, and at least one negative electrode connection portion connecting a pair of negative electrode main bodies adjacent in the developed state among the plurality of negative electrode main bodies. The at least one negative electrode connection portion is folded back such that the plurality of negative electrode main bodies overlap each other. A dimension of each of the plurality of negative electrode main bodies in the negative electrode connection direction decreases with separation from an outer end side negative electrode main body. A dimension of the at least one negative electrode connection portions in the negative electrode connection direction increases with separation from an inner end side negative electrode connection portion.

Abstract: A powder conveying device includes: a conveying nozzle, provided with a powder receiving opening; an open/close member to open/close the powder receiving opening; a flange provided to the open/close member; a biasing member to bias the open/close member; and a container setting section to which a part of a powder container is to be fit. The powder container includes: a conveyor to convey the powder from a second end of the powder container to a first end; a container opening protruding from the first end; a nozzle receiving opening into which the conveying nozzle is to be inserted; and a butting portion provided in the container opening, to butt against the flange. When the powder container is attached to the powder conveying device, the container opening is fitted to the container setting section, and the flange and the biasing member are housed in an inner space of the container opening.

Abstract: A powder conveying device includes: a conveying nozzle, provided with a powder receiving opening; an open/close member to open/close the powder receiving opening; a flange provided to the open/close member; a biasing member to bias the open/close member; and a container setting section to which a part of a powder container is to be fit. The powder container includes: a conveyor to convey the powder from a second end of the powder container to a first end; a container opening protruding from the first end; a nozzle receiving opening into which the conveying nozzle is to be inserted; and a butting portion provided in the container opening, to butt against the flange. When the powder container is attached to the powder conveying device, the container opening is fitted to the container setting section, and the flange and the biasing member are housed in an inner space of the container opening.

Abstract: A biometric information detection device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is configured to be installed in a living body, and includes a sensor, a battery, a mechanical switch, a sealing member, and a holding member. The mechanical switch switches between a conduction state in which power is supplied from the battery to the sensor and a cutoff state in which supply of the power is blocked. The sealing member seals all of the sensor, the battery, and the mechanical switch. The holding member is attached to the living body and holds the sealing member.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes an all-solid-state electrode body in which a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer are laminated together through a solid electrolyte and an exterior body having a cavity in which the electrode body is stored. The exterior body has a first case and a second case which sandwich the electrode body and a sealing member that defines the cavity together with the first case and the second case by joining the first case and the second. The thermal expansion coefficients of the electrode body, the first case, the second case, and the sealing member are all 10×10?6/° C. or lower.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes an electrode body that has a plurality of electrodes stacked on each other in a direction of a battery axis O, and an exterior body that has a first laminate member and a second laminate member, and that internally accommodates the electrode body. The exterior body includes an accommodation portion that internally accommodates the electrode body, and a sealing portion in which the first laminate member and the second laminate member are joined to each other in a state where the first laminate member and the second laminate member overlap each other so as to seal an inside of the accommodation portion. The accommodation portion includes a top wall portion and a bottom wall portion which face each other with the electrode body interposed therebetween in the direction of the battery axis, and a cylindrical peripheral wall portion which surrounds the electrode body from an outer side in a radial direction.

Abstract: A battery includes: an electrode body; and an external body which is formed by overlapping a first sheet and a second sheet, and in which the electrode body is accommodated. The external body includes an accommodation portion which is formed in the first sheet, and which accommodates the electrode body therein, and a circumferential edge portion in which the first sheet and the second sheet overlap each other around the accommodation portion. The inside of the accommodation portion is sealed in a state where the first sheet and the second sheet are welded to each other in the circumferential edge portion.

Abstract: An optical member to be arranged in an optical path of a light, includes an optical medium made of an insulator or a semiconductor; a first element provided at a first position in the optical medium and made of a first electric conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than a wavelength of the light, the first position being a position in the optical path; and a second element provided at a second position, in the optical medium, different from the first position, and made of a second electric conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than the wavelength of the light, the second position being a position in the optical path.

Abstract: A battery includes a negative electrode body wound to be flat. The negative electrode body has a plurality of negative electrode main bodies arranged in a line in a negative electrode connection direction in a developed state, and at least one negative electrode connection portion connecting a pair of negative electrode main bodies adjacent in the developed state among the plurality of negative electrode main bodies. The at leak one negative electrode connection portion is folded back such that the plurality of negative electrode main bodies overlap each other. A dimension of each of the plurality of negative electrode main bodies in the negative electrode connection direction decreases with separation from an outer end side negative electrode main body. A dimension of the at least one negative electrode connection portions in the negative electrode connection direction increases with separation from an inner end side negative electrode connection portion.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes an electrode body which includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode and an outer package which is formed by overlapping a first member and a second member. The outer package includes: a housing portion which houses the electrode body; and a sealing portion which is formed along an outer circumference of the housing portion, by fusing and bending the first member and the second member, at a portion corresponding to the outer circumference of the housing portion.

Abstract: A biometric information detection device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is configured to be installed in a living body, and includes a sensor, a battery, a mechanical switch, a sealing member, and a holding member. The mechanical switch switches between a conduction state in which power is supplied from the battery to the sensor and a cutoff state in which supply of the power is blocked. The sealing member seals all of the sensor, the battery, and the mechanical switch. The holding member is attached to the living body and holds the sealing member.

Abstract: A culturing assistance device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of cells during culturing at determined times, a storage control unit configured to store the captured image acquired by the image acquisition unit and event information indicating an event related to culturing of the cells, and a learning unit configured to learn a relationship between the stored captured image and the stored event information.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode body including a positive electrode body and a negative electrode body and an exterior body in which the electrode body is housed. The exterior body includes a first container formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape and including a first circumferential wall section, a second container formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape and including a second circumferential wall section surrounding the first circumferential wall section, the second container housing the electrode body between the second container and the first container, and a fusing member interposed between the first circumferential wall section and the second circumferential wall section and fused to the first circumferential wall section and the second circumferential wall section.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrochemical cell including: an electrode body; an exterior packaging body in which a plurality of substrates including a first substrate formed from a ceramic material are stacked in the first direction, and a cavity in which the electrode body is accommodated is formed; a first electrode connection wiring that is formed in the exterior packaging body and connects a first electrode layer and an external substrate to each other; and a second electrode connection wiring that is forming in the exterior packaging body and connects a second electrode layer and the external substrate to each other. At least the first electrode connection wiring is formed in the first substrate, and an attachment portion, to which a fastening member configured to mount at least the first electrode connection wiring to the external substrate is attached, is formed in the first substrate.

Abstract: In an imaging using fluorescence, for example, it is difficult to perform a surgery while a tumor part is directly confirmed in a bright operating room. A light irradiation system according to an embodiment performs an open/close control of a first eyesight of a first eyesight restrictor and a second eyesight of a second eyesight restrictor at every predetermined time interval. The light irradiation system controls a light-on of a light such that opening and closing timings of the first eyesight match a timing of a light amount control of a surgery lamp and opening and closing timings of the second eyesight match a timing of a light amount control of a fluorescence excitation light source (see FIG. 1).

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a surgical system that includes, for example, a patient-side cart (also referred to as a surgical robot) and a console apparatus. The patient-side cart includes an endoscope apparatus that includes three or more endoscope arms. The console apparatus manipulates the patient-side cart. In the endoscope apparatus, for example, feature points of respective images obtained by respective imaging devices of the three or more endoscopes are used to join the respective images together to generate a composite image, and the composite image is displayed on a display screen. The composite image generated from the images in three visual fields to be provided to an operator ensures providing an image in a wide range, and allows the operator to confirm various sites by a visual check during surgery (ensuring an endoscopic surgery while having a large visual field as in a laparotomy) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: An optical member to be arranged in an optical path of a light, includes an optical medium made of an insulator or a semiconductor; a first element provided at a first position in the optical medium and made of a first electric conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than a wavelength of the light, the first position being a position in the optical path; and a second element provided at a second position, in the optical medium, different from the first position, and made of a second electric conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than the wavelength of the light, the second position being a position in the optical path.

Abstract: An optical material which has a relative permeability different from 1 to light having a wavelength in, for example, the infrared region or shorter than the infrared region and which is stable in structure, and a liquid and a solid (optical element) using the optical material. The optical material is a powder used as a component of a liquid or solid to which an illuminating light is irradiated, and includes a large number of resonating elements which constitute the powder and each of which is formed of a conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than a wavelength of the illumination light, and a protective film which is formed of a disc-shaped insulator, wherein an entire surface of each of the split-rind resonators is covered by the protective film.

Abstract: Provided is a determination device including a determining section that determines a state of a cell, using information relating to uniformity of a detection target generated based on an optical intensity of radiation light from the detection target included in a biological cell irradiated with excitation light. In the determination device, the detection target may be proteins. The determination device may include an information generating section that generated information, and the information generating section may generate information that excludes information corresponding to a non-resonant background signal.