Abstract: A humidifier includes a housing, a humidifying rotor, and an irradiator. The housing is formed with an air passage through which air passes and a water storage tank configured to store water. The humidifying rotor extends over the air passage and the water storage tank. The humidifying rotor rotates so that a portion of the humidifying rotor having absorbed moisture from the water storage tank moves to the air passage and releases the moisture. The irradiator irradiates part of the humidifying rotor with ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An ultraviolet ray radiation apparatus includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a protector. The light emitter emits ultraviolet light. The light receiver outputs a signal varying with an amount of light received. The protector protects the light receiver from ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes an irradiation device including an LED configured to emit an ultraviolet ray; and includes a heat-dissipating unit configured to dissipate heat of the irradiation device into air.

Abstract: The imaging method is used in an imaging apparatus including an imaging element that captures a subject image and a moving mechanism configured to change a relative position between the subject image and the imaging element, the imaging method including: a changing step of changing the relative position a plurality of times; an imaging step of acquiring a plurality of first images by capturing the subject image using the imaging element at a plurality of the relative positions; a combining step of generating a second image by combining the plurality of first images; and a display step of performing a temporal display relating to the imaging step or the combining step.

Abstract: An ultraviolet light emitting device includes: an irradiator configured to emit ultraviolet light into a target space (S) where a subject is present; and a recognizer configured to notify the subject of a state of the ultraviolet light emitted from the irradiator.

Abstract: A UV emission device includes an irradiator, a control unit, a determiner, and an exposure amount output unit. The irradiator irradiates a predetermined irradiation area in a predetermined space with ultraviolet rays. The control unit controls the irradiator based on a total exposure amount of a target person to ultraviolet rays. The determiner performs a determination process of determining whether or not the target person is present in the irradiation area. The exposure amount output unit outputs an amount of exposure of the target person to ultraviolet rays based on a determination result of the determiner and operation information on the irradiator. The control unit adds the amount of exposure of ultraviolet rays to the total exposure amount of ultraviolet rays in order to update the total exposure amount.

Abstract: Contamination in a region around a person who can be a contamination source is reduced. An ultraviolet ray radiation apparatus is provided with a light source that emits ultraviolet rays. This light source emits ultraviolet rays in the range of wavelength from 190 nm to 230 nm. In the ultraviolet ray radiation apparatus, the light source emits the ultraviolet rays. This forms an ultraviolet ray region, which is a region for receiving the ultraviolet rays, between a first region R1 and a second region R2 adjacent to the first region R1.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a liquid oral composition and a liquid food composition in which calcium phosphate such as hydroxyapatite or tricalcium phosphate can be stably dispersed and prevented from being precipitated or separated out even in long-term storage. Calcium phosphate mixed with xanthan gum and polyglycerin fatty acid ester can be stably dispersed even in long-term storage and prevented from being precipitated or separated out even when used in liquid oral compositions such as mouthwashes, liquid dentifrices, and oral detergents or in liquid food compositions such as milk, soy milk, yoghurt, and refreshing beverages. In addition, calcium phosphate mixed with xanthan gum and polyglycerin fatty acid ester further supplemented with an amphoteric surfactant can be more effectively prevented from being precipitated or separated out in liquid oral compositions such as mouthwashes, liquid dentifrices, and oral detergents.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oral composition comprising hydroxyapatite, potassium nitrate, and calcium monohydrogen phosphate, wherein the composition has an increased ability to occlude dentinal tubules of a tooth and has an excellent inhibitory effect on hypersensitivity.

Abstract: A prediction device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a prediction unit. The acquisition unit acquires sensor information related to a first user, the sensor information having been detected with a sensor. The prediction unit predicts an interest of the first user, based on an action pattern obtained from a history of the sensor information of the first user obtained by the acquisition unit, and interest information of user classification into which a second user is classified according to an action pattern obtained from a history of sensor information related to the second user.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oral composition comprising hydroxyapatite, potassium nitrate, and calcium monohydrogen phosphate, wherein the composition has an increased ability to occlude dentinal tubules of a tooth and has an excellent inhibitory effect on hypersensitivity.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a liquid oral composition and a liquid food composition in which calcium phosphate such as hydroxyapatite or tricalcium phosphate can be stably dispersed and prevented from being precipitated or separated out even in long-term storage. Calcium phosphate mixed with xanthan gum and polyglycerin fatty acid ester can be stably dispersed even in long-term storage and prevented from being precipitated or separated out even when used in liquid oral compositions such as mouthwashes, liquid dentifrices, and oral detergents or in liquid food compositions such as milk, soy milk, yoghurt, and refreshing beverages. In addition, calcium phosphate mixed with xanthan gum and polyglycerin fatty acid ester further supplemented with an amphoteric surfactant can be more effectively prevented from being precipitated or separated out in liquid oral compositions such as mouthwashes, liquid dentifrices, and oral detergents.

Abstract: A display device having a multi-view display panel (45) for displaying, on the common screen, individual images for more than one viewing direction and having image quality adjustment circuits (41, 42) for individually adjusting the quality of an image corresponding to each of the individual images.

Abstract: The invention provides a display device wherein provisions are made to be able to properly adjust the image viewing direction, viewing angle, or viewing range on the display device. The display device includes a display section capable of displaying independent images intended for a plurality of different viewing directions on the same screen, an information acquiring section for acquiring orientation information concerning the orientation of the images, and an image direction varying section for varying the orientation of the images based on the orientation information acquired by the information acquiring section.

Abstract: A display device having a multi-view display panel (45) for displaying, on the common screen, individual images for more than one viewing direction and having image quality adjustment circuits (41, 42) for individually adjusting the quality of an image corresponding to each of the individual images.

Abstract: Anti-bacterial composite particles which comprise a polymer base material comprising a thermal melting polymer, such as a polyolefine, exhibiting good dispersibility in a basic material resin and having a lower molecular weight or a lower softening point than that of the basic material resin, and inorganic fine particles comprising a metal having anti-bacterial activity carried thereon. An antibacterial resin composition can be prepared by melting and kneading a synthetic resin composition as the basic material resin together with the anti-bacterial composite particles and forming by known molding methods such as extrusion molding and injection molding, and can be used for producing various synthetic resin moldings which have an inorganic anti-bacterial agent uniformly dispersed in a synthetic resin composition and thus exhibits good anti-bacterial effect.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inorganic antibacterial agent comprising a thermoplastic resin and inorganic antibacterial particles dispersed in the resin, and a shape factor SF2 defined by the following formula: SF2=100?L2/(4A) (Wherein L represents a perimeter of a plane image of a particle which is obtained from observation of a slice for inorganic antibacterial agent using a transmission electron microscope, and A represents the area of the plane image.) is not more than 200, and the existing ratio defined by the following formula: Existing ratio (%)=100×(number of inorganic antibacterial particles having SF2 of not more than 200)/(number of particles used for calculation of SF2) is not less than 80%. According to the present invention, when the inorganic antibacterial agent is dispersed in the antibacterial molded resin product, the dispersion of inorganic antibacterial agent is improved since inorganic antibacterial particles are dispersed in the thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: Anti-bacterial composite particles which comprise a polymer base material comprising a thermal melting polymer, such as a polyolefine, exhibiting good dispersibility in a basic material resin and having a lower molecular weight or a lower softening point than that of the basic material resin, and inorganic fine particles comprising a metal having anti-bacterial activity carried thereon. An antibacterial resin composition can be prepared by melting and kneading a synthetic resin composition as the basic material resin together with the anti-bacterial composite particles and forming by known molding methods such as extrusion molding and injection molding, and can be used for producing various synthetic resin moldings which have an inorganic anti-bacterial agent uniformly dispersed in a synthetic resin composition and thus exhibits good anti-bacterial effect.

Abstract: A connection recovery unit is connected onto a bus, which is capable of serial and bi-directional packet communication and connecting a plurality of equipment together. The connection recovery unit includes: a connection information storage member (24) for storing a logical connection status of the equipment connected to the bus; and a determination member (26) for determining a priority order for a logical connection status of the equipment connected to the bus based on the logical connection status stored in the connection information storage member and a logical connection status stored in the other equipment connected to the bus, when the bus communicates initializing information thereto.

Abstract: An antibacterial resin is allowed to contain an inorganic antibacterial agent so as to retain the quality of cosmetics and improve the applicability, where the antibacterial rein is of a mean particle size of 0.1 to 1,000 &mgr;m and is produced preferably by methods such as emulsion polymerization and suspension polymerization of a calcium phosphate-series antibacterial agent added to a monomer component of a resin.