Abstract: The solid-state imaging element includes a photoelectric converter, a first separator, and a second separator. The photoelectric converter is configured to perform photoelectric conversion of incident light. The first separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a first trench formed from a first surface side. The second separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a second trench formed from a second surface side facing a first surface. The present technology is applicable to an individual imaging element mounted on, e.g., a camera and configured to acquire an image of an object.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes a light emitting apparatus and a host apparatus. The light emitting apparatus includes a housing extending in a first direction, a light emitting device mounted in the housing, an optical connector including a first optical connection part provided at one end of the housing, and an electrical connector including a first electrical connection part provided at one end of the housing and receiving a voltage to drive the light emitting device. The host apparatus includes a host optical connector including a second optical connection part which faces the first optical connection part and is optically coupled thereto, a host electrical connector including a second electrical connection part facing the first electrical connection part and being electrically connected to the first electrical connection part, and a host board mounting the host optical connector and the host electrical connector thereon.

Abstract: A surgical robot according to this disclosure includes the joint including an electric motor, a first speed reducer configured to reduce a speed of rotation of the electric motor, and to provide the speed-reduced rotation, a gear part configured to further reduce the speed of the rotation provided from the first speed reducer, and to provide the further-speed-reduced rotation, and a second speed reducer configured to reduce the further-speed-reduced rotation provided from the gear part.

Abstract: A surgical robot according to this disclosure includes a wiring-line set that is arranged in a robot arm so that the wiring-line set extends in a longitudinal direction of the robot arm, and passes through a rotation axis of a first joint, which is configured to rotate in a bending direction of the robot arm, and through a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the robot arm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a medical robot system including medical robots placed at different locations and a data analysis apparatus. Each of the medical robots includes a controller that transmits data on a state of operation of the medical robot to the data analysis apparatus. The data analysis apparatus includes a data analysis unit that generates a reference for determining whether or not the medical robots are normal, based on the data transmitted from the medical robots. The data analysis unit monitors the data transmitted from each of the medical robots in operation based on the reference.

Abstract: An optical fiber connection component is provided with: a glass plate that has a plurality of first through-holes; a resin ferule that has a plurality of second through-holes respectively coaxial to the first through-holes and that is fixed to the glass plate; and a plurality of optical fibers that is arranged on a surface of the resin ferrule. One or more glass fibers disposed within each of the plurality of optical fibers, a surface of each of the glass fibers being covered with a resin coating, and a portion of each of the glass fibers being exposed from a tip of each of the optical fibers. The exposed portion of each of the glass fibers is held in a corresponding one of the first through-holes and a corresponding one of the second through-holes.

Abstract: An MCF having a structure excellent in mass productivity and suppressing increases in splicing cost and loss are provided. The MCF includes 12 or 16 cores, a cladding, and a coating. The cores are arranged at positions of line symmetry while no adjacent relationship is established between the cores having an adjacent relationship with any core. A coating diameter is 235-265 ?m, a cladding diameter CD is from CDnominal?1 ?m to CDnominal+1 ?m with a nominal value CDnominal of 195 ?m or less, an MFD at 1310 nm is from MFD-reference-value ?0.4 ?m to the MCF-reference-value+0.4 ?m with the MFD-reference-value of 8.2-9.2 ?m, and a 22 m-cable-cutoff wavelength ?cc is 1260-1360 nm. A core's zero-dispersion wavelength is a wavelength-reference-value ?12 nm to the wavelength-reference-value+12 nm with the wavelength-reference-value of 1312-1340 nm, and a dispersion slope at the wavelength is 0.092 ps/(nm2·km) or less.

Abstract: The optical connection structure includes: optical fibers disposed such that end faces are arranged in a first direction; an optical functional component having a first surface facing the end faces of the optical fibers; a holding member having a second surface facing the first surface and directly or indirectly fixed to the first surface, a third surface facing away from the second surface, and a fiber holding holes extending from the third surface toward the second surface and respectively accommodating the optical fibers; and a distortion suppression member having a fourth surface facing the third surface and directly or indirectly fixed to the third surface and sandwiching the holding member with the optical functional component. Thermal expansion coefficients of the optical functional component and the distortion suppression member are higher or lower than a thermal expansion coefficient of the holding member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a medical robot system including medical robots placed at different locations and a data analysis apparatus. Each of the medical robots includes a controller that transmits data on a state of operation of the medical robot to the data analysis apparatus. The data analysis apparatus includes a data analysis unit that generates a reference for determining whether or not the medical robots are normal, based on the data transmitted from the medical robots. The data analysis unit monitors the data transmitted from each of the medical robots in operation based on the reference.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes a package, a board, a plurality of first optical cables, and a first optical connector. The package includes an integrated circuit and an optical device that converts an electrical signal from the integrated circuit into an optical signal. The board includes a main surface, and the package is disposed on the main surface. Each of the plurality of first optical cables includes a plurality of optical fibers. Each of the plurality of first optical cables includes a first end portion and a second end portion on a side opposite thereto. Each of a plurality of the first end portions is optically coupled to the optical device, and each of a plurality of the second end portions is attached to the first optical connector. The first optical connector is disposed on the main surface of the board to be entirely located inside an edge of the board.

Abstract: Provided is a polyurethane-modified epoxy resin having favorable processing operability in casting, impregnation, or the like in a composition state, a method for producing the same, and a composition of the same. Provided is a low-concentration polyurethane-modified epoxy resin including: a polyurethane having a secondary hydroxyl group-containing bisphenol-based epoxy resin that has an epoxy equivalent of 150 to 200 g/eq and a hydroxyl equivalent of 2,000 to 2,600 g/eq, added to both terminals and/or a single terminal thereof, in which the polyurethane is a modified product of the epoxy resin that is modified with a middle- and high-molecular-weight polyol compound having an Mn of 200 or larger, a polyisocyanate compound, and a low-molecular-weight polyol compound as a chain extender having an Mn of less than 200, and the epoxy resin is used in an amount of 68 to 92 weight % based on a total amount of the components.

Abstract: A surgical system includes: a tool manipulator having a tool manipulator arm and a surgical tool; a console having a handling tool configured to receive a tool movement input of a surgeon for the surgical tool, the console being configured to transmit a tool movement command generated based on the tool movement input, the tool movement input including a translation amount and a rotation amount for the surgical tool; and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate an actual translation amount by multiplying the translation amount by a predetermined translation scale factor and move the surgical tool in accordance with the actual translation amount, and to calculate an actual rotation amount by multiplying the rotation amount by a predetermined rotation scale factor and move the surgical tool in accordance with the actual rotation amount. The translation scale factor and the rotation scale factor are different values.

Abstract: An optical connector jig for connecting a second optical connector to a first optical connector, or disconnecting the second optical connector from the first optical connector, includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing includes a positioning portion to determine a position of the jig with respect to the first optical connector in cooperation with a member indicating a position of the first optical connector. The second housing grips the second optical connector such that, when the jig is positioned with respect to the first optical connector, a connection surface of the second optical connector faces a connection surface of the first optical connector. The second housing moves with respect to the first housing such that the connection surface of the gripped second optical connector is close to or away from the connection surface of the first optical connector.

Abstract: An optical fiber connecting component includes a glass plate having a plurality of first through holes, a resin ferrule fixed to the glass plate and having a plurality of second through holes that are each coaxial with corresponding one of the plurality of first through holes, and a plurality of optical fibers including a glass fiber and a resin coating that covers the glass fiber. The glass fiber exposed from a tip of each of the optical fibers is held in corresponding one of the first through holes and corresponding one of the second through holes, and a material for the resin ferrule has a flexural modulus of 5 GPa or more at 200° C.

Abstract: An optical wiring includes a plurality of first set groups each including a plurality of first connecting components, a plurality of second set groups each including a plurality of second connecting components, and a receptacle which has a first end face and a second end face on an opposite side of the first end face. The first set groups are connected to the first end face side and the second set groups are connected to the second end face side. The first set groups faces the second set groups through the receptacle such that a direction in which the first connecting components are arranged and a direction in which the second connecting components are arranged are perpendicular to each other, and each of the first connecting components is optically connected to a corresponding one of the second connecting components in the receptacle.

Abstract: An optical connection component includes a plurality of optical fibers and a capillary. Each of the optical fibers includes a glass fiber and a resin coating covering the glass fiber. Each of the optical fibers is provided with a coated portion where the glass fiber is covered with the resin coating, and a coating removed portion where the glass fiber is exposed from the resin coating. The coating removed portion is located closer to an end face of the optical fiber than the coated portion. The glass fiber has an outer diameter of less than 124 ?m. The capillary has a first end face and a second end face opposing to each other, and a plurality of holes having an opening at the first end face and extending towards the second end face. The holes respectively receive the coating removed portions of the optical fibers.

Abstract: An adaptor for detachably connecting a surgical instrument to a robot arm of a robotic surgical system according to an embodiment may include: a base body including a first surface to be attached to the robot arm and a second surface to which an attachment surface of the surgical instrument is mounted; and drive transmission members rotatably provided on the base body. The second surface of the base body includes first and second guide rails respectively corresponding to first and second guide grooves provided on the attachment surface of the surgical instrument. The first and second guide rails of the second surface are configured to be inserted respectively into the first and second guide grooves of the attachment surface, and guide the surgical instrument to be slid to a position where the drive transmission members respectively correspond to rotation members provided on the attachment surface of the surgical instrument.

Abstract: An MCF having a structure excellent in mass productivity and suppressing increases in splicing cost and loss are provided. The MCF includes 12 or 16 cores, a cladding, and a coating. The cores are arranged at positions of line symmetry while no adjacent relationship is established between the cores having an adjacent relationship with any core. A coating diameter is 235-265 µm, a cladding diameter CD is from CDnominal -1 µm to CDnominal +1 µm with a nominal value CDnominal of 195 µm or less, an MFD at 1310 nm is from MFD-reference-value -0.4 µm to the MCF-reference-value+0.4 µm with the MFD-reference-value of 8.2-9.2 µm, and a 22m-cable-cutoff wavelength ?cc is 1260-1360 nm. A core’s zero-dispersion wavelength is a wavelength-reference-value - 12 nm to the wavelength-reference-value+12 nm with the wavelength-reference-value of 1312-1340 nm, and a dispersion slope at the wavelength is 0.092 ps/(nm2·km) or less.

Abstract: An MCF having a structure excellent in mass productivity and suppressing increases in splicing cost and loss are provided. The MCF includes 12 or 16 cores, a cladding, and a coating. The cores are arranged at positions of line symmetry while no adjacent relationship is established between the cores having an adjacent relationship with any core. A coating diameter is 235-265 ?m, a cladding diameter CD is from CDnominal?1 ?m to CDnominal+1 ?m with a nominal value CDnominal of 195 ?m or less, an MFD at 1310 nm is from MFD-reference-value?0.4 ?m to the MCF-reference-value+0.4 ?m with the MFD-reference-value of 8.2-9.2 ?m, and a 22 m-cable-cutoff wavelength ?cc is 1260-1360 nm. A core's zero-dispersion wavelength is a wavelength-reference-value?12 nm to the wavelength-reference-value+12 nm with the wavelength-reference-value of 1312-1340 nm, and a dispersion slope at the wavelength is 0.092 ps/(nm2·km) or less.

Abstract: A stopper according to one or more embodiments may include: a stopper body; and a rotation restriction portion provided at the stopper body and configured to restrict rotations of the drive transmission member. The stopper may be configured such that the rotation restriction portion restricts the rotations of the drive transmission member in a state where the stopper body is attached to the adaptor main body and the rotation restriction portion releases the restriction of the rotations of the drive transmission member in a state where the stopper body is detached from the adaptor main body.