Abstract: When a ferroelectric thin film-forming sol-gel solution contains a PZT-based compound, a viscosity-adjusting macromolecular compound including polyvinylpyrrolidone, and an organic dopant including a formamide-based solvent, the PZT-based compound is included at 17 mass % or more in terms of an oxide, the molar ratio of the polyvinylpyrrolidone to the PZT-based compound is PZT-based compound:polyvinylpyrrolidone=1:0.1 to 0.5 in terms of a monomer, and the formamide-based solvent is included at 3 mass % to 13 mass % of the sol-gel solution, it is possible to form a thick layer by coating the sol-gel solution once, the production efficiency improves, and crack-free and dense film formation even after calcination and firing becomes possible.

Abstract: A PZT-based ferroelectric thin film formed on a lower electrode of a substrate having the lower electrode in which the crystal plane is oriented in a (111) axis direction, having an orientation controlling layer which is formed on the lower electrode and has a layer thickness in which a crystal orientation is controlled in a (111) plane preferentially in a range of 45 nm to 270 nm, and a film thickness adjusting layer which is formed on the orientation controlling layer and has the same crystal orientation as the crystal orientation of the orientation controlling layer, in which an interface is formed between the orientation controlling layer and the film thickness adjusting layer.

Abstract: A liquid jet head has a nozzle plate with nozzle holes for ejecting a liquid. A wall portion surrounding the nozzle plate has an opening opposed to the nozzle holes. An opening and closing mechanism is configured in an open state to open the opening of the wall portion to expose the nozzle holes to an exterior of the head, and in a closed state to close the opening of the wall portion to form a closed space between the wall portion and the nozzle plate. A suction flow path has on one end side a suction port opening below the nozzle holes, and another end side is connected to a suction portion that evacuates the closed space to convert the closed space to a negative pressure chamber, thereby supplying the liquid to the nozzle holes. An atmosphere release portion switches between the open and closed states of the mechanism.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a magneto-optical material containing as a main component an oxide that includes a terbium oxide and having a large Verdet constant at a wavelength in the 1.06 ?m region (0.9 to 1.1 ?m) and high transparency, and to provide a small-sized optical isolator suitably used in a fiber laser for a processing machine. The magneto-optical material of the present invention contains an oxide represented by Formula (I) below at a content of at least 99 wt %. (TbxR1-x)2O3??(I) (In Formula (I), x satisfies 0.4?x?1.0 and R includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, and lanthanoid elements other than terbium.

Abstract: A lesion extracting device includes a light source for emitting an excitation light toward a subject body, a control unit for changing an amount of the excitation light, a light irradiating and receiving portion for irradiating the excitation light to the subject body and receiving fluorescence generated from the subject body, a distance holding member for holding a distance between the subject body and the light irradiating and receiving portion at a predetermined value, a measuring unit for measuring the intensity of the fluorescence received by the light irradiating and receiving portion, and an extracting unit for extracting a lesion part of the subject body based on relationships between measured values of changes in the fluorescence intensity with respect to changes in the amount of the excitation light and information regarding the changes in the amount of the excitation light, the information being obtained from the control unit.

Abstract: A thin film capacitor is characterized by forming a lower electrode, coating a composition onto the lower electrode without applying an annealing process having a temperature of greater than 300° C., drying at a predetermined temperature within a range from ambient temperature to 500° C., and calcining at a predetermined temperature within a range of 500 to 800° C. and higher than a drying temperature. The process from coating to calcining is performed the process from coating to calcining once or at least twice, or the process from coating to drying is performed at least twice, and then calcining is performed once. The thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the first calcining is 20 to 600 nm. The ratio of the thickness of the lower electrode and the thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the initial calcining step (thickness of lower electrode/thickness of the dielectric thin film) is preferably in the range 0.10 to 15.0.

Abstract: A fluoroscopy apparatus that includes an illumination section including a light source for radiating illumination light and excitation light onto a subject; a fluoroscopic image acquisition section acquiring a fluoroscopic image of fluorescence generated in the subject; a return-light image acquisition section acquiring a reference image of return light returning from the subject; a distance-information acquisition section acquiring information about a distance between the return-light image acquisition section and the subject; and an image correction section correcting the fluoroscopic image by using the reference image.

Abstract: An optical element includes at least with a Faraday rotator of which both light-transmission surfaces are bonded through a bonding layer to light-transmission surfaces of polarization glasses which are orientationally dispersed with anisotropically-shaped particles at their surfaces. Each of the polarization glasses includes the orientationally dispersed anisotropically-shaped particles only at one surface opposite to the bonding surface. A relation t?30 ?m is satisfied, wherein t denotes a distance between one of the bonding surfaces of the Faraday rotator and that surface of the polarization glass on the one of the bonding surfaces of the Faraday rotator which is disposed with the particles. As a result, high isolation (25 dB or higher) can be maintained, even if a polarization glass which includes a thin layer with orientationally dispersed anisotropically-shaped particles is used.

Abstract: Observation is performed with a fluorescence image having high quantitativeness by satisfactorily eliminating dependency on distance.

Abstract: A liquid injection head has a nozzle body having a row of nozzle holes and a nozzle guard that covers the row of nozzle holes. The nozzle guard has a top portion having formed therein a slit opposed to the row of nozzle holes, a sealing portion that seals an area between a peripheral edge of the top portion and the nozzle body, and a suction flow path having a suction port opening below the row of nozzle holes and communicating with a space on an inner side of the nozzle guard. A suction section connected to the suction flow path of the nozzle guard causes the space on the inner side of the nozzle guard to form a negative pressure chamber such that a liquid overflowing into the negative pressure chamber is sucked from the suction port of the suction flow path.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid jet head in which a region of the liquid jet head on a side opposite to a liquid ejection side thereof is thinned to enhance efficiency of use of the region. A liquid jet head (1) includes an ejecting portion (3) for ejecting liquid in which first and second head chips (2a and 2b) are stacked, a circuit board (4) for supplying a drive signal for driving the ejecting portion (3), a first flexible printed circuit board (5a) for electrically connecting the first head chip (2a) and the circuit board (4) to each other, and a second flexible printed circuit board (5b) for electrically connecting the second head chip (2b) and the circuit board (4) to each other. The circuit board (4) and each of the first and second flexible printed circuit boards (5a and 5b) are electrically connected to each other on one surface (S) of the circuit board (4).

Abstract: A moving picture coding apparatus includes: a coding unit which codes pictures with reference to decoded pictures of previously coded pictures to generate coded data of the pictures; a transmission unit which transmits the coded data to a moving picture decoding apparatus; and a control unit. When an acknowledgement signal indicating successful receiving of coded data of all of a predetermined number of consecutive pictures is received from a receiver apparatus, the control unit stores, as a key picture in a memory, a decoded picture of a current picture being coded when the acknowledgement signal is received. When a negative-acknowledgement signal indicating unsuccessful receiving of coded data of any of the consecutive pictures is received, the control unit causes the coding unit to code the current picture with reference to a key picture stored in the memory.

Abstract: A quantitative fluorescence image and appropriate brightness is acquired and observed.

Abstract: Provided is a fluoroscopy apparatus that includes an illumination section including a light source for radiating illumination light and excitation light onto a subject; a fluoroscopic image acquisition section acquiring a fluoroscopic image of fluorescence generated in the subject; a return-light image acquisition section acquiring a reference image of return light returning from the subject; a distance-information acquisition section acquiring information about a distance between the return-light image acquisition section and the subject; and an image correction section correcting the fluoroscopic image by using the reference image.

Abstract: Provided is a method for prediabetes screening by means of methylglyoxal-modified arginine derivative assay, with which it is possible to treat many samples as simply and as safely as with blood sugar assay, and to collect a blood sample taken during a primary health screening in one procedure without imposing any time restraints, complications or risks on the subject. The method for prediabetes screening by means of methylglyoxal-modified arginine derivative assay comprises assaying the methylglyoxal-modified arginine derivative in blood using an assay system which employs an antibody that specifically recognizes methylglyoxal-modified arginine derivative.

Abstract: A fluoroscopy apparatus includes an illumination portion irradiating an observation target with illumination light; a fluorescence image acquisition device acquires fluorescence emitted from an observation target to acquire a fluorescence image; a fluorescence image-acquisition optical system forms an image of the observation target using the fluorescence; a reference-light image acquisition device acquires returning light from the observation region to acquire a reference image; a reference-light image-acquisition optical system forms an image using the returning light; and an image correction section corrects the fluorescence image by the reference image, wherein the product of an pixel density of the reference-light image acquisition device and the image-forming magnification of the reference-light image-acquisition optical system is less than the product of the pixel density of the fluorescence image acquisition device and the image-forming magnification of the fluorescence image-acquisition optical syste

Abstract: A fluoroscopy apparatus includes a light-source device that generates illumination light and excitation light; a fluorescence-image generating unit that generates a fluorescence image based on irradiation with the excitation light; a white-light-image generating unit that generates a white-light image based on irradiation with the illumination light; a fluorescence-image correcting unit that generates a corrected fluorescence image by dividing the signal strengths of pixels in the fluorescence image by the signal strengths of pixels in the white-light image; a characteristic-value acquiring unit that extracts the characteristic value of the corrected fluorescence image; a threshold setting unit that sets a threshold for determining a region of interest in the corrected fluorescence image using a history of characteristic values extracted by the characteristic-value acquiring unit; and a pseudo-color-image generating unit that discriminates between a region of interest and another region in the corrected fluor

Abstract: A fluoroscopy apparatus is adopted which includes a fluorescence-image generating section that generates a fluorescence image of a subject, a white-light-image generating section that generates a white-light image of the subject, a fluorescence-image correcting section that generates a corrected fluorescence image in which luminance values of pixels are normalized by dividing the luminance values of the pixels of the fluorescence image by the luminance values of the pixels of the white-light image, an error-image identifying section that standardizes white-light-image acquisition conditions and identifies an error region, which is a region in which the luminance values of the corrected fluorescence image exceed a preset allowable error range, on the basis of a gray level of the normalized white-light image, and a monitor that displays the error region.

Abstract: A fiscal printer reliably stores and holds, using a simple configuration, the date and time that a fiscal control circuit board is removed from the printer, and provides excellent security so that improper activities can be reliably discovered. The fiscal printer 1 has a removable fiscal control circuit board 4, and mounted thereon are fiscal memory 8, a backup battery power supply 11, a real-time clock 10, and a detection circuit 15 for detecting removal of the fiscal control circuit board 4. The real-time clock 10 includes an input terminal 10b(1) to which detection signals from the detection circuit 15 are input, and a storage unit 10c that, when a detection signal indicating that the fiscal control circuit board 4 was removed is input, stores data indicating that the fiscal control circuit board 4 was removed correlated to and associated with the time when the detection signal was input.

Abstract: A method for producing a ferroelectric thin film comprising: coating a composition for forming a ferroelectric thin film on a base electrode of a substrate having a substrate body and the base electrode that has crystal faces oriented in the (111) direction, calcining the coated composition, and subsequently performing firing the coated composition to crystallize the coated composition, and thereby forming a ferroelectric thin film on the base electrode, wherein the method includes formation of a orientation controlling layer b coating the composition on the base electrode, calcining the coated composition, and firing the coated composition, where an amount of the composition coated on the base electrode is controlled such that a thickness of the orientation controlling layer after crystallization is in a range of 35 nm to 150 nm, and thereby controlling the preferential crystal orientation of the orientation controlling layer in the (100) plane.