Abstract: A reel body for a spinning reel includes a foot portion configured to attach to a fishing rod, a housing having a accommodating portion, a leg portion extending from the housing toward the foot portion, and an insert element disposed in the housing and the leg portion. The foot portion, the housing, and the leg portion are integrally formed by injection molding, and the insert element includes a first portion that is disposed in the accommodating portion such that at least a part thereof is exposed, and a second portion that is integrally formed with the first portion and at least a part of which is disposed in a proximal end part of the leg portion.

Abstract: The resin composition production method includes a step in which a cellulose fiber composition containing 5 to 45 parts by mass of water with respect to a total of 100 parts by mass of cellulose fibers (A) and an acrylic resin and/or a styrene acrylic resin (B) is kneaded with a thermoplastic resin (C), and water is removed until the water content after kneading falls to 1% or less. The resin composition production method is also characterized in that: 20 parts by mass or more and 200 parts by mass or less of the resin (B) is blended with respect to 100 parts by mass of the cellulose fibers (A), the dissolution amount of the resin (B) in 100 g of water at 25° C. is less than 1 g, and the glass transition temperature of the resin (B) is 40 to 150° C.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to manufacture a bright-hued modified cellulose fiber blended resin composition more easily than before while utilizing a method of defibrillating a cellulose fiber and uniformly dispersing a cellulose nanofiber in a resin. A method for manufacturing the modified cellulose fiber blended resin composition includes: (i) a step of adding 5 to 45 parts by mass of water with respect to 100 parts by mass of a modified cellulose fiber (A) modified with a hydrophobizing agent (a) to obtain a hydrous cellulose fiber (A?); and (ii) a step of defibrillating the modified cellulose fiber while kneading the hydrous cellulose fiber (A?) with a thermoplastic resin and/or a rubber (B), and removing the water to attain a water content ratio of 1% or less after kneading.

Abstract: A marker for use in a living body includes an indicator part to be placed in a living body for a predetermined period of time, and the indicator part is configured to indicate information on the living body or information on the indicator part by means of a difference in X-ray image. Thus, there are provided the marker for use in a living body and an instrument set for inserting the marker for use in a living body capable of identifying a predetermined site in a living body easily and accurately.

Abstract: Provided are an ultraviolet irradiation device, an ultraviolet irradiation method, an illumination device, and an ultraviolet irradiation system capable of efficiently and safely disinfecting an area to be disinfected and capable of preventing reduction in the operating rate of (equipment, etc., in) the area to be disinfected by maintaining the disinfected state. The ultraviolet irradiation device includes an ultraviolet irradiation unit capable of outputting ultraviolet having a predetermined dominant wavelength, and a drive control unit. The drive control unit performs time control of ultraviolet irradiation and non-irradiation by the ultraviolet irradiation unit on the basis of time necessary to disinfect the area S to be disinfected before or during operation and bacterial growth time after the disinfection.

Abstract: There is provided an implant that is safe for the living body. An angular plate as the implant includes a bone supporting plate part and a blade part. The blade part is integrally formed with the bone supporting plate part, and extends from one end of the bone supporting plate part at a predetermined angle ? (0°<?<180°) relative to the bone supporting plate part. The angular plate is formed from a titanium-tantalum-based alloy containing tin. The angular plate is preferably formed from a titanium-tantalum-based alloy containing tin in which a Young's modulus is decreased by increasing the reduction ratio thereof.

Abstract: There is provided a roller including: a shaft, and an elastic body portion that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft, in which the elastic body portion includes a plurality of first recessed portions which are provided on one side of the roller in a shaft mounting direction at intervals in a circumferential direction of the roller and each have a bottom portion, and a plurality of second recessed portions which are provided on the other side of the roller in the shaft mounting direction at intervals in the circumferential direction of the roller and each have a bottom portion, and in which each of the first recessed portions is positioned between the adjacent second recessed portions in the circumferential direction of the roller in the side view of the roller in the shaft mounting direction.

Abstract: A medical member of the present invention includes a knitted body knitted with a linear member formed in a linear shape, at least a part of the knitted body is constituted of an alloy containing titanium, tantalum, and tin, and the alloy is constituted of 15 at % to 27 at % of tantalum and 1 at % to 8 at % of tin, where the total is 100 at %, with remainder being titanium and unavoidable impurities. The knitted body is formed in a sheet shape by plain weaving, twilled weaving, plain dutch weaving, twilled dutch weaving, or stockinette stitch. Thus, there can be provided a medical member capable of dispersing a load applied to a treating site of a soft tissue.

Abstract: A roller includes a shaft, and an elastic body portion that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft, in which the elastic body portion includes an inner peripheral portion which becomes a shaft side, an outer peripheral portion which becomes an outer side with respect to the inner peripheral portion, a plurality of first connection portions which connect the inner peripheral portion and the outer peripheral portion, and a plurality of second connection portions which are provided in a space portion between the adjacent first connection portions and which partition the space portion into one side and the other side of the roller in the axial direction, and in which the first connection portion is inclined in the same direction in a peripheral direction with respect to a radial direction of the roller.

Abstract: A marker for use in a living body includes an indicator part to be placed in a living body for a predetermined period of time, and the indicator part is configured to indicate information on the living body or information on the indicator part by means of a difference in X-ray image. Thus, there are provided the marker for use in a living body and an instrument set for inserting the marker for use in a living body capable of identifying a predetermined site in a living body easily and accurately.

Abstract: A roller includes a shaft, and an elastic body portion that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft, in which the elastic body portion includes an inner peripheral portion which becomes a shaft side, an outer peripheral portion which becomes an outer side with respect to the inner peripheral portion, a plurality of first connection portions which connect the inner peripheral portion and the outer peripheral portion, and a plurality of second connection portions which are provided in a space portion between the adjacent first connection portions and which partition the space portion into one side and the other side of the roller in the axial direction, and in which the first connection portion is inclined in the same direction in a peripheral direction with respect to a radial direction of the roller.

Abstract: There is provided a roller including: a shaft, and an elastic body portion that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft, in which the elastic body portion includes a plurality of first recessed portions which are provided on one side of the roller in a shaft mounting direction at intervals in a circumferential direction of the roller and each have a bottom portion, and a plurality of second recessed portions which are provided on the other side of the roller in the shaft mounting direction at intervals in the circumferential direction of the roller and each have a bottom portion, and in which each of the first recessed portions is positioned between the adjacent second recessed portions in the circumferential direction of the roller in the side view of the roller in the shaft mounting direction.

Abstract: There is provided an implant that is safe for the living body. An angular plate as the implant includes a bone supporting plate part and a blade part. The blade part is integrally formed with the bone supporting plate part, and extends from one end of the bone supporting plate part at a predetermined angle ? (0°<?<180°) relative to the bone supporting plate part. The angular plate is formed from a titanium-tantalum-based alloy containing tin. The angular plate is preferably formed from a titanium-tantalum-based alloy containing tin in which a Young's modulus is decreased by increasing the reduction ratio thereof.

Abstract: A stent that is extremely useful in practice, with excellent proof stress (elastic limit stress). The stent (1) is in a tubular shape that is expandable in a radial direction, the stent being placed in a tubular vessel of a living body. The stent (1) is formed of a main stent element (2) that is formed at an imaginary cylinder surface. The main stent element (2) is fabricated of an alloy with a proof stress of from 500 to 2700 MPa, or is fabricated of an electroformed alloy with a repetition fatigue strength at least 1.5 times the strength of a nickel member or a nickel/cobalt alloy member, which is an alloy containing any of gold, silver, copper, nickel, cobalt and palladium. Therefore, the stent (1) may be easily and uniformly expanded in the radial direction, and is not easily crushed in the radial direction after being expanded.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a brush that has numerous bristles rotating and contacting to the surface of an image carrier, a removing member disposed so as to contact to the numerous bristles and removes a developer adhering to the numerous bristles by elastically deforming the numerous bristles and further returning the numerous deformed bristles back to normal, and a transport member disposed lower than the removing member in the gravitational direction and transports the developer removed with the removing member by rotating on an axis, wherein at least a part of the developer removed from the numerous bristles falls to a farther position than the axis of the transport member from the brush in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: A warpage leveling unit includes a surface roughening member that is provided to oppose to a side end portion of an image carrier which has an endless-belt-shape, is entrained around a plurality of rollers, and carries an image on a surface of the image carrier, wherein the surface roughening member comes into contact with a surface of the side end portion which is warped.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier having an endless circumferential surface on which a latent image is formed due to an electrostatic potential difference; a developing device that attaches a toner to the image carrier to form a toner image; an endless intermediate transfer belt that is entrained around a plurality of roll members and moves circumferentially, and contacts the image carrier to transfer the toner image to the intermediate transfer belt; a transferring device that further transfers the toner image that has been transferred to the intermediate transfer belt, to a recording sheet; and a load applying member that cooperates with one of the roll members placed inside the intermediate transfer belt, to nip the intermediate transfer belt to apply a load to the intermediate transfer belt, the load applying member contacting a non-image region of the intermediate transfer belt.

Abstract: A balloon catheter including a connecting member, a catheter shaft, a balloon and a heat-generating member. The heat-generating member is in contact with a fluid in a distal portion of the catheter shaft. A method for treating a patient including introducing a low temperature fluid which flows through the balloon, introducing energy into a catheter shaft, and converting the energy into heat by a heat-generating member to heat the fluid, whereby an organ of the patient is heated and cooled. In the method, a portion of a diseased tissue of the organ is (i) heated from 35 to 40° C. to 60 to 80° C. within 30 seconds, (ii) expanded by applying a pressure of 500 kPa or smaller to the balloon, and (iii) cooled to 45° C. or lower within 40 seconds.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a brush that has numerous bristles rotating and contacting to the surface of an image carrier, a removing member disposed so as to contact to the numerous bristles and removes a developer adhering to the numerous bristles by elastically deforming the numerous bristles and further returning the numerous deformed bristles back to normal, and a transport member disposed lower than the removing member in the gravitational direction and transports the developer removed with the removing member by rotating on an axis, wherein at least a part of the developer removed from the numerous bristles falls to a farther position than the axis of the transport member from the brush in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that forms a plurality of images including an image of a low-gloss toner lower in glossiness than any other color toner and an image of a transparent toner; an intermediate transferer to which the plurality of images formed by the image forming section are transferred; and a control section that controls a position for forming the image of the transparent toner, so as to prevent the image of the transparent toner from being transferred under the image of the low-gloss toner on the intermediate transferer.