Abstract: In an imaging element, a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion part is arranged in a two-dimensional matrix. Some of the plurality of pixels each have a polarizer placed therein on a side of a light beam incidence plane. At least some of pixels having no polarizer placed therein each have a material layer placed therein that prevents transmission of a light beam having a wavelength of a predetermined range, to reduce color mixture in the pixel having the polarizer placed therein.

Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method includes punching a center hole in a processing region, molding split stator piece portions adjacently in a circumferential direction, and pushing back and molding the split stator piece portions. In the molding the split stator piece portions, the split stator piece portion is extruded in parallel with the workpiece.

Abstract: An intake manifold including a surge tank having an inlet and a plurality of outlets extended along a first direction, and configured to form a space having a cross section larger than the inlet between the inlet and the plurality of outlets and a plurality of branch pipes. The space is formed by a bottom surface, an upper surface, a first surface extended from a first end of the bottom surface to a first end of the upper surface, and a second surface extended from a second end of the bottom surface to a second end of the upper surface. The inlet is provided at a substantially central portion in a first direction on the first surface, and the bottom surface includes a swelling portion swelled upwardly at a substantially central portion in the first direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a modified atrial natriuretic peptide that exhibits prolonged duration in blood and maintains cGMP elevating activity. The present invention provides a modified peptide in which at least one sugar substance is linked directly through a glycosidic bond or via a linker structure to at least one hANP peptide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a medicament comprising the modified peptide or the salt thereof as an active ingredient, etc.

Abstract: An operating terminal includes: a connected-device information transmitting unit transmitting first connected-device information to another operating terminal, the first connected-device information being information on a facility device connected to the operating terminal; a connected-device information obtaining unit obtaining second connected-device information from the another operating terminal, the second connected-device information being information on a facility device connected to the another operating terminal; an operation receiving unit receiving an operation for being performed on a facility device connected to the operating terminal and a facility device connected to the another operating terminal; and an air conditioning control command transmitting unit determining, from the first connected-device information and the second connected-device information, a destination of a control command and transmitting the control command to the destination, the control command representing content of an op

Abstract: A rotor core includes first and second laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The first laminate steel plate includes a first base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately positioned on a radially outer side of the first base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and disposed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The second laminated steel sheet includes a second base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and annular portions separately disposed on a radially outer side of the second base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and extending in a circumferential direction. The rotor core is defined by the first laminate steel plates and at least one of the second laminate steel plates laminated in an axial direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a modified atrial natriuretic peptide that exhibits prolonged duration in blood and maintains cGMP elevating activity. The present invention provides a modified peptide in which at least one sugar substance is linked directly through a glycosidic bond or via a linker structure to at least one hANP peptide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a medicament comprising the modified peptide or the salt thereof as an active ingredient, etc.

Abstract: An intake manifold 10 includes: a surge tank 11 that is connected on an upstream side thereof to a throttle valve 13; multiple branch pipes 12 that are arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the surge tank 11 and respectively connected to cylinders; and a PCV chamber 15 that is provided upstream of a central part in the longitudinal direction of the surge tank 11. The intake manifold includes: a blowby gas introduction port 16g that is designed to introduce blowby gas into the PCV chamber 15; and a blowby gas exhaust port 16f that is designed to discharge the blowby gas from the PCV chamber 15 into the surge tank 11, and the blowby gas exhaust port 16f is located at a position higher than the blowby gas introduction port 16g.

Abstract: A rotor core includes laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The laminate steel plates each include a base portion on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The laminate steel plates are laminated in an axial direction. The laminated steel plate at an upper end in the axial direction includes at least one of an outward projection extending radially outward from an outer edge portion of the base portion and an inward projection extending radially inward from an inner edge portion of the piece, and the laminated steel plate at a lower end in the axial direction includes an intervening portion between the base portion and the piece portion.

Abstract: An intake manifold 10 includes: a blowby gas introduction port 16g that is configured to introduce blowby gas into a PCV chamber 15; a blowby gas exhaust port 16f that is configured to discharge the blowby gas from the PCV chamber 15 into a surge tank 11; and a drain hole 17c that is configured to discharge water contained in the blowby gas, from the PCV chamber 15 into the surge tank 11. A bottom wall 17d of the surge tank 11 includes protruding parts 17e, 17f that protrude upward, the blowby gas exhaust port 16f is located upstream of the most upstream side protruding part 17e located on the most upstream side, and the drain hole 17c is located downstream of the most upstream side protruding part.

Abstract: A medical image processing device includes circuitry configured to: calculate relative information including relative positional relation of a pathologically diagnosed position in a subject with respect to an observation image of the subject captured by an imager, by using data on the observation image and pathological diagnosis information on the subject; and generate, based on the relative information, data on a displayed observation image resulting from addition of the pathological diagnosis information to the data on the observation image.

Abstract: A stator includes core pieces in which at least first and second laminate members are laminated, the first laminate member includes a first tooth portion and a first core back portion, the second laminate member includes a second tooth portion and a second core back portion, the first core back portion includes a first protrusion on one side thereof in a circumferential direction and a first recess on the other side thereof in the circumferential direction, the second core back portion includes a second recess on one side thereof in a circumferential direction and a second protrusion on the other side thereof in the circumferential direction, and an area of a region in which the first and second core back portions of the core piece adjacent thereto overlap in a lamination direction is greater than a circumferential cross-sectional area of the first core back portion circumferentially inward from the first protrusion.

Abstract: A power control device and an image forming apparatus capable of reducing a current at the time of power shutdown in an apparatus such as the image forming apparatus are provided. The image forming apparatus comprises a power source, an electrical driving load which is driven by the power source, a shutdown circuit for shutting down the power source from the electrical driving load, and a power shutdown circuit for controlling drive and stop operations of the electrical driving load and shutdown operation by the shutdown circuit. In a case where a signal giving an instruction to shut down the electrical driving load from the power source is input, the control circuit outputs a signal for stopping the electrical driving load and outputs a signal giving an instruction to shut down the electrical driving load from the power source to the shutdown circuit by delaying the signal.

Abstract: A sensor control apparatus includes a control unit, a plurality of sensors connected in series to the control unit. Each of the plurality of sensors includes a detector configured to perform a detection operation based on a first voltage applied from the control unit, a first switch provided on an application path for applying a voltage, a second switch provided on a supply path for supplying the voltage applied from the control unit to a sensor connected in a subsequent stage, and a conduction control unit. The control unit brings the first switch into conduction and cut off the second switch in a case where the voltage on the application path is the first voltage, and cuts off the first switch and bring the second switch into conduction in a case where the voltage on the application path is a second voltage.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that rotates centered on a central axis extending in an axial direction, and a stator. The stator includes a stator iron core in which a plurality of laminated iron cores each including a tooth portion extending in a radial direction are arranged in a circumferential direction, and coils wound around the tooth portion. The laminated iron core includes a plurality of flat plate-shaped iron core pieces laminated in a plate thickness direction. The iron core piece is made of a non-oriented electromagnetic steel plate. A rolling direction of the iron core piece is inclined with respect to the radial direction. The laminated iron core is preferably formed by laminating the iron core pieces to be arranged with a same inclination. At least a pair of the laminated iron cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction has inclinations opposite to each other.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor core, the method including laminating first laminated steel plates in an axial direction. The first laminated steel plates each include a plurality of flake portions arranged in a circumferential direction with gaps between each other and a plurality of protrusions protruding radially outward from an outer side surface of a base portion and each having at least a portion located in the gap between the flake portions. The method further includes fixing the base portions to each other and fixing the flake portions to each other. The method further includes removing the protrusions of the laminated steel plates radially outward.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator core, the stator core that includes core pieces arranged in a circumferential direction about a central axis that extends in an up-down direction, the core pieces formed by stacking plate members, the plate members each including a core back portion extending in the circumferential direction, a tooth portion extending from the core back portion towards a first side in a radial direction, and a groove portion recessed from a surface on a second side of the core back portion in the radial direction towards the first side in the radial direction, the method of manufacturing the stator core including stamping out an individual piece including the core back portion and the tooth portion stamped out from an electromagnetic steel sheet, and forming the groove portion formed by punching a portion of the electromagnetic steel sheet.

Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core in which magnetic steel plates widening in a radial direction with respect to a central axis of the rotor core are laminated in an axial direction, and magnets provided to the rotor core. Each of the magnetic steel plates includes a base portion positioned outside the central axis in the radial direction and piece-shaped portions each spaced by a gap from an outer side in the radial direction of the base portion and arranged in a circumferential direction of the base portion at predetermined intervals.

Abstract: An intake manifold 10 includes: a surge tank 11 that is connected on an upstream side thereof to a throttle valve 13; multiple branch pipes 12 that are arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the surge tank 11 and respectively connected to cylinders; and a PCV chamber 15 that is provided upstream of a central part in the longitudinal direction of the surge tank 11. The intake manifold includes: a blowby gas introduction port 16g that is designed to introduce blowby gas into the PCV chamber 15; and a blowby gas exhaust port 16f that is designed to discharge the blowby gas from the PCV chamber 15 into the surge tank 11, and the blowby gas exhaust port 16f is located at a position higher than the blowby gas introduction port 16g.

Abstract: An intake manifold 10 includes: a blowby gas introduction port 16g that is configured to introduce blowby gas into a PCV chamber 15; a blowby gas exhaust port 16f that is configured to discharge the blowby gas from the PCV chamber 15 into a surge tank 11; and a drain hole 17c that is configured to discharge water contained in the blowby gas, from the PCV chamber 15 into the surge tank 11. A bottom wall 17d of the surge tank 11 includes protruding parts 17e, 17f that protrude upward, the blowby gas exhaust port 16f is located upstream of the most upstream side protruding part 17e located on the most upstream side, and the drain hole 17c is located downstream of the most upstream side protruding part.