Abstract: A fluid detection sensor includes: an optical sensor including a light emitting element array and a light receiving element array which are arranged on a substrate along a longitudinal direction thereof; a flow path member which includes a tubular body which is transparent and is arranged along the longitudinal direction facing the optical sensor, an inside of the tubular body constituting a flow path through which a plurality of substantially immiscible fluids flow as a slug flow; and a reflecting member placed on a side opposite to the optical sensor with respect to the flow path. The fluid detection sensor detects changes in light which occur in accordance with a movement of the plurality of fluids by the light receiving element array receiving light which is emitted by the light emitting element array toward the slug flow in the flow path and is reflected by the reflecting member.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a passenger restraint apparatus capable of suppressing the movement of an airbag away from a passenger without requiring a complex structure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound and a pharmaceutical composition which exhibit strong antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria and drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. According to the present invention, a compound represented by General Formula [1] (the reference signs in the formula have the same definitions as those described in the present specification) or a salt thereof has strong antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria including multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the pharmaceutical composition containing the compound or a salt thereof is useful as an antibacterial agent.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraining device, comprising: a pair of air bags; an inner bag housed in at least one of the pair of air bags, is in communication with the at least one of the air bags, and is inflated and deployed inside the at least one of the air bags, on the sides of the body of a vehicle occu-pant; and a pair of pieces of tension cloth housed so as to extend along the respective sides of a housed pair of air bags, which are located on the opposite sides of the vehicle occupant, and then through the inside of the seat back of a seat into a seat cushion, wherein the inner bag completes inflation and deployment before the at least one of the air bags does, and the pair of pieces of tension cloth is deployed on the sides of the seat.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant re-straining device, comprising, an air bag inflated and deployed on both sides of a vehicle occupant; tension cloth housed so as to extend from the inside of the seat back of a seat into a seat cushion; an angle detection means for detecting the reclining angle of the seat back; and an inner pressure control means for controlling, depending on the reclining angle, pressure in the air bag at the time of inflation and deployment thereof, wherein the tension cloth is deployed on the sides of the seat when the surface material of the seat is broken open by the inflation and deployment of the air bag, thereby holding the surfaces of the air bag, which are located on the opposite sides of the vehicle occupant, and wherein the inner pressure control means reduces pressure in the air bag.

Abstract: Pair of airbags, a left side tensile cloth and the right side tensile cloth stowed within the seat cushion of the seat, and a lower tensile cloth that connects both ends of the left side tensile cloth and the right side tensile cloth in the inner portion of the seat cushion, wherein the lower tensile cloth is disposed in the center in the left-right direction of the seat cushion and to the front side of center in the front-rear direction of the seat cushion, where the left side tensile cloth and the right side tensile cloth extend to the left and right rearwardly from both the left and right ends of the lower tensile cloth in the inner portion of the cushion, such that the left side tensile cloth and the right side tensile cloth are stretched between the seatback and the seat cushion when the airbag expands and deploys.

Abstract: An occupant restraint device including: right and left airbags stored inside right and left sides of a seat back of a vehicle seat, respectively; right and left tension cloths connected to outer surfaces of the right and left airbags, respectively; and a lower tension cloth disposed inside a seat cushion of a vehicle seat, the lower tension cloth being continuously connected between lower parts of the right and left tension cloths. The lower tension cloth is movable in right and left directions with respect to an occupant sitting in the vehicle seat. When the right and left airbags are expanded and deployed, the right tension cloth, the left tension cloth, and the lower tension cloth are configured to push the expanded and deployed right and left airbags toward the occupant.

Abstract: An error measurement method for a machine tool measures an error in a machine tool that includes two or more translational axes, a table, and a spindle head. The error measurement method includes installing a masterwork having a plurality of targets on the table and detecting a position of each of the targets using a sensor mounted to the spindle head to acquire a measured value regarding the position of each of the targets and to acquire an error value regarding the position of each of the targets using each of the acquired measured values and a preliminarily acquired calibration value regarding the position of each of the targets. The error measurement method further includes calculating at least one disturbance index value indicative of a degree of disturbance in the measurement for each of the targets, and determining whether the disturbance index value exceeds a preliminarily set threshold.

Abstract: An error compensation method includes outputting at least one of a plurality of calibration-master conditions including a type of a calibration master that includes targets, obtaining measurement values of positions of the targets by detecting the positions of the plurality of targets under the calibration-master condition using a sensor mounted to the main spindle, and calculating an error value using the measurement value and a calibration value of the position of the target. The error compensation method further includes approximating a relation between the measurement values and the error values by a curve and a straight line, calculating a compensation parameter of a positioning error of a translational axis based on an approximate curve in a partial range of a stroke of the translational axis, and calculating the compensation parameter of the positioning error based on an approximate straight line in another range of the stroke of the translational axis.

Abstract: Problem: To more effectively restrict movement of the airbag in an expanded and deployed state in the event of a vehicle collision, and improve the performance of restraining a passenger using an airbag. Resolution Means: A passenger restraining device of the present invention is provided with an airbag and tensile cloth. The tensile cloth is deployed to the outside of a seat by expansion and deployment of the airbag, and pulled from an upper surface of a seat back portion to a seat cushion portion.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a passenger restraint apparatus capable of suppressing the movement of an airbag away from a passenger without requiring a complex structure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound and a pharmaceutical composition which exhibit strong antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria and drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. According to the present invention, a compound represented by General Formula [1] (the reference signs in the formula have the same definitions as those described in the present specification) or a salt thereof has strong antibacterial activity against Gram-negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria including multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the pharmaceutical composition containing the compound or a salt thereof is useful as an antibacterial agent.

Abstract: An occupant restraint device including: right and left airbags stored inside right and left sides of a seat back of a vehicle seat, respectively; right and left tension cloths connected to outer surfaces of the right and left airbags, respectively; and a lower tension cloth disposed inside a seat cushion of a vehicle seat, the lower tension cloth being continuously connected between lower parts of the right and left tension cloths. The lower tension cloth is movable in right and left directions with respect to an occupant sitting in the vehicle seat. When the right and left airbags are expanded and deployed, the right tension cloth, the left tension cloth, and the lower tension cloth are configured to push the expanded and deployed right and left airbags toward the occupant.

Abstract: A position measurement method to measure a position of an object in a machine tool includes a tool sensor position acquisition stage, a reference block position acquisition stage, a relative position calculation stage, a reference tool position acquisition stage, a position measurement sensor measurement stage, a length compensation value calculation stage, and a position measurement stage. In the position measurement stage, the measurement position of the object is compensated using a length direction compensation value of a position measurement sensor calculated in the length compensation value calculation stage. The object is measured by the position measurement sensor installed to a main spindle.

Abstract: An error identification method includes a tool sensor position acquisition stage, a reference block position acquisition stage, a relative position calculation stage, a reference tool position acquisition stage, a position measurement sensor measurement stage, a length compensation value calculation stage, a diameter compensation value acquisition stage, a position measurement stage, a position compensation stage, and a geometric error identification stage. The diameter compensation value acquisition stage acquires a radial direction compensation value of the position measurement sensor with the measured jig. The position measurement stage indexes the rotation axis to a plurality of any given angles and measures respective positions of the measured jig. The position compensation stage compensates the position measurement value at the position measurement stage using the length direction compensation value and the radial direction compensation value.

Abstract: A numerical control device for a machine tool controls a machine tool having a main spindle for attaching a tool, a table holding a workpiece and a jig, three translational axes, and one or more rotation axis. The numerical control device includes an axis-dependent deformation error estimation unit, an input unit, a gravitational deformation estimation unit, a correction value calculation unit, and an addition unit. The correction value calculation unit calculates a correction value of the translational axes and/or the rotation axis with respect to an error of a position and/or a posture of the tool with respect to the workpiece, based on an estimated value of an axis-dependent deformation error, an estimated value of a gravitational deformation error, and command values. The addition unit adds the correction values to the command values.

Abstract: An occupant restraining device capable of coping with a plurality of collision directions without additional airbags is provided. An occupant restraining device (100) is adapted to restrain an occupant P sitting in a vehicle seat (110), and the device includes a seatbelt (120) fixed to left and right sides of a seat cushion (116) of the seat to restrain the occupant's hips (P2), airbags (130a) and (130b) stored inside a seat back of the seat on the left and right sides thereof and inflated and deployed on the left and right sides of the occupant. Tensile fabric (140) is connected to each of the airbags and the seat cushion and applied with tension, when the airbags are inflated and deployed, so as to be extended between the airbags inflated and deployed and both side surfaces of the seat cushion.

Abstract: A method for controlling a machine tool in which a main spindle on which a tool is mounted and a table holding a workpiece are moved relative to each other by two or more translation axes that are not perpendicular to each other and at least one rotation axis. In the method, an error in a position of the tool with respect to the workpiece due to a geometric error is corrected to calculate a command value for controlling the translation axis. The method includes a conversion step of converting the error and a correction value for correcting the error by performing a homogeneous coordinate transformation from a workpiece coordinate system to the imaginary Cartesian coordinate system, and a correction value calculation step of calculating a correction value in a command value coordinate system of the translation axis by performing a homogeneous coordinate transformation of the correction value.

Abstract: An error identification method of a machine tool includes an initial position measurement step of indexing a main spindle head rotation axis to an initial angle to measure an initial position of a measured jig, a table reference angle calculation step of calculating a reference angle of the table, a reference position measurement step of indexing the table rotation axis to the reference angle and indexing the main spindle head rotation axis to the initial angle, a relative position measurement step of respectively indexing the table rotation axis and the main spindle head rotation axis to a plurality of predetermined angles, an arc approximation step of approximating the plurality of measured position values into an arc, and an error calculation step of calculating an error of a center position of the rotation axis, a tilt error of the rotation axis, or a tilt error of the translational axis.

Abstract: A method of packaging an air-bag includes providing an air-bag having a base. A first part of the air-bag is folded at least partly towards the base of the air-bag and additionally folded such that the first part of the air-bag incorporates at least one Z-fold. The first part of the air-bag and a second part of the air-bag are at least partly rolled towards the base of the air-bag to package the air-bag.