Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent, as much as possible, a braid from having inductance. A tubular conductive braid includes first conductive wires that describe a helix and second conductive wires that describe a helix in a direction opposite to the first conductive wires about a helix axis that is the same as a helix axis (X) of the first conductive wire, the first conductive wires and the second conductive wires being combined so as to form a tubular shape. The first conductive wires and the second conductive wires are electrically and mechanically connected at multiple locations on a line that extends along the helix axis.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus performs wireless communications with a display apparatus, the display apparatus displaying a measurement result of a specified substance in a body fluid. The measuring apparatus includes a sensor, a transmitting unit and a touch sensor. The sensor is configured to be indwelled in vivo. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit data relating to the specified substance obtained by using the sensor. The touch sensor is configured to detect a touch operation of a user. The transmitting unit transmits a connection request to the display apparatus when the touch sensor detects the touch operation.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes: a sensor configured to be indwelled in vivo; an identifying unit configured to identify a setting position of the sensor; a calculation unit configured to calculate a concentration of a specified substance contained in a sample, based on a signal given from the sensor; and a storage unit configured to store plural pieces of arithmetic information, wherein the calculation unit selects one of the plural pieces of arithmetic information from the storage unit, based on the sensor setting position identified by the identifying unit and calculates the concentration of the specified substance contained in the sample by using the selected arithmetic information.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes: a measuring unit to measure a signal value corresponding to a concentration of a specified substance of a first sample; an acquiring unit to acquire a reference value pertaining to the specified substance of a second sample; a calculating unit to calculate a concentration value of the specified substance of the first sample, based on the signal value and the reference value; a timing determination unit to determine timing for calibrating the reference value when satisfying at least one of a first condition that an activity status of a user is a predetermined status and a second condition that a variation in the concentration value of the specified substance of the first sample is equal to or smaller than a threshold value; and an input request unit to request the user to input the reference value at the determined timing.

Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles from which liquid is discharged; a channel member including a plurality of individual liquid chambers that lead to the plurality of nozzles, respectively, and including a plurality of circulation channels that lead to the plurality of individual liquid chambers, respectively; and a common liquid chamber member for forming a common liquid chamber that supplies liquid to the plurality of individual liquid chambers and for forming a circulation common liquid chamber that leads to the plurality of circulation channels.

Abstract: The invention aims to prevent and/or treat malaria using an antimalarial drug comprising, as an active ingredient, a metal chelator represented by the following formula (I), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), or (VII), such as tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding member including a first shielding member and a second shielding member where an oxide film on the surface of a connection portion between the first and second shielding members is removed. The electromagnetic shielding member includes the first shielding member that is a flexible tubular metal member, the second shielding member that is harder than the first shielding member and that includes a recess formed in a connecting surface that is connected to the first shielding member, and a connecting member that connects the first shielding member and the second shielding member to each other by pressing the first shielding member against the connecting surface of the second shielding member.

Abstract: A vehicular high-voltage wire that can suppress short-circuiting between a positive wire and a negative wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. A wire harness includes a positive high-voltage wire and a negative high-voltage wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. The positive high-voltage wire includes a core wire that is made of a conductor and is for electrical connection to the high-voltage battery, and a protection member that is constituted by woven reinforced fibers that have an insulation property, and is shaped as a tube that surrounds the outer circumference of the core wire.

Abstract: An information display controller is capable of switching a plurality of screens and allowing a display to display the plurality of screens thereon, and includes a screen constructor, a texture atlas storage unit and a texture atlas creator. The texture atlas creator creates a texture atlas, in which elemental images as constituents of the plurality of screens are arranged, in accordance with an algorithm that takes sizes of the elemental images as references. The texture atlas storage unit stores the texture atlas created by the texture atlas creator. The screen constructor constructs the plurality of screens by using the elemental images extracted from the texture atlas stored in the texture atlas storage unit. In an event of creating the texture atlas, the texture atlas creator preferentially incorporates, into the texture atlas, an elemental image for composing the screen including more elemental images already arranged in the texture atlas.

Abstract: The image display apparatus includes a light attenuation section that reflects a portion of light emitted from a light source and a scanning section that scans the light reflected by the light attenuation section. The light attenuation section transmits a portion of light emitted from the light source. The light attenuation section has reflectance and transmittance and the reflectance is smaller than the transmittance. The image display apparatus further includes a light receiving element on which the light transmitted through the light attenuation section is incident. The image display apparatus also includes a control section that controls activation of the light source in accordance with detection results of the light receiving element.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head is provided. The liquid ejection head includes at least two nozzle lines configured to have a plurality of nozzles for ejecting liquid disposed in respective lines, a plurality of individual liquid chambers configured to be in communication with corresponding nozzles of the nozzle lines, and at least two circulation channels corresponding to the nozzle lines, configured to be in communication with the individual liquid chambers. The at least two circulation channels are in communication with each other through a bridging channel disposed in a direction intersecting with the nozzle line direction, and the bridging channel and the circulation channels are disposed at different positions in a thickness direction of a member which forms the bridging channel and the circulation channels.

Abstract: A method for producing a hot-dip aluminum-coated steel wire, including dipping a steel wire in molten aluminum, and drawing up the steel wire from the molten aluminum, wherein at the time of drawing up the steel wire from the molten aluminum, a stabilization member is contacted with a surface of the molten aluminum and the steel wire at the boundary between the steel wire and the surface of the molten aluminum, a nozzle having a tip end of which inside diameter is 1 to 15 mm is disposed so that the tip end is positioned at a place away from the steel wire by a distance of 1 to 50 mm, and an inert gas having a temperature of 200 to 800° C. is blown out from the tip end to the boundary at a volume flow rate of 2 to 200 L/min.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head is provided. The liquid ejection head includes at least two nozzle lines configured to have a plurality of nozzles for ejecting liquid disposed in respective lines, a plurality of individual liquid chambers configured to be in communication with corresponding nozzles of the nozzle lines, and at least two circulation channels corresponding to the nozzle lines, configured to be in communication with the individual liquid chambers. The at least two circulation channels are in communication with each other through a bridging channel disposed in a direction intersecting with the nozzle line direction, and the bridging channel and the circulation channels are disposed at different positions in a thickness direction of a member which forms the bridging channel and the circulation channels.

Abstract: In a user interface (UI) device, an exclusion part extraction unit excludes an indeterminate part or a dynamically changing part as an exclusion part from a to-be-cached part group among a plurality of UI parts that constitute a screen. A cache information generation unit generates drawing information about the to-be-cached part group excluding the exclusion part, and registers the generated drawing information in a drawing information cache unit. When a screen is drawn using the drawing information about the to-be-cached part group excluding the exclusion part, the drawing information being registered in the drawing information cache unit, the exclusion part combining unit combines drawing information that corresponds to the exclusion part with the drawing information about the to-be-cached part group excluding the exclusion part.

Abstract: The invention aims to prevent and/or treat malaria using an antimalarial drug comprising, as an active ingredient, a metal chelator represented by the following formula (I), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), or (VII), such as tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine.

Abstract: A time synchronization system includes master nodes and slave nodes configured to correct a local slave clock by synchronizing time with time in a local master clock. A first master node corrects a first local master clock at predetermined periodic intervals by synchronizing with a timing synchronization signal from a source clock node having a source clock. If a second local master clock has a greater error from the source clock than the error in the first local master clock, the second master node performs first correction by synchronizing time with time in the first local master clock and performs second correction by synchronizing with the timing synchronization signal from the source clock node on condition that an error in the second local master clock is within a predetermined range after the first correction has been performed.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding member including a first shielding member and a second shielding member where an oxide film on the surface of a connection portion between the first and second shielding members is removed. The electromagnetic shielding member includes the first shielding member that is a flexible tubular metal member, the second shielding member that is harder than the first shielding member and that includes a recess formed in a connecting surface that is connected to the first shielding member, and a connecting member that connects the first shielding member and the second shielding member to each other by pressing the first shielding member against the connecting surface of the second shielding member.

Abstract: A vehicular high-voltage wire that can suppress short-circuiting between a positive wire and a negative wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. A wire harness includes a positive high-voltage wire and a negative high-voltage wire that are connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. The positive high-voltage wire includes a core wire that is made of a conductor and is for electrical connection to the high-voltage battery, and a protection member that is constituted by woven reinforced fibers that have an insulation property, and is shaped as a tube that surrounds the outer circumference of the core wire.

Abstract: A switch device includes a retaining unit, a switching processing unit, an identifying unit, and a rewriting unit. The retaining unit retains a flow table that maps each flow to a flag indicating whether the amount of transmitted data is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold. The switching processing unit stores a data packet received by a receiving buffer in one of a plurality of output queues provided for respective transmission ports based on the destination. The identifying unit identifies data packets included in a flow in which the amount of data is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold, from the data packets received by the receiving buffer. The rewriting unit refers to congestion notification information included in each of the identified data packets, and rewrites information indicating congestion to information indicating no congestion when the congestion notification information includes the information indicating congestion.

Abstract: A method for producing a hot-dip aluminum-coated steel wire, including dipping a steel wire in molten aluminum, and drawing up the steel wire from the molten aluminum, wherein at the time of drawing up the steel wire from the molten aluminum, a stabilization member is contacted with a surface of the molten aluminum and the steel wire at the boundary between the steel wire and the surface of the molten aluminum, a nozzle having a tip end of which inside diameter is 1 to 15 mm is disposed so that the tip end is positioned at a place away from the steel wire by a distance of 1 to 50 mm, and an inert gas having a temperature of 200 to 800° C. is blown out from the tip end to the boundary at a volume flow rate of 2 to 200 L/min.