Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device for a ship 1 including: a main path 31 communicated with outside and a bypass path 32 branching off from a midway portion of the main path 31, each of the paths serving as an exhaust gas path 30 of an engine 25 to be mounted in the ship 1. A partition plate 40, by which the main and bypass paths 31, 32 are partitioned from the upstream side to the downstream side in an exhaust gas traveling direction, extends along the exhaust gas traveling direction. The partition plate 40 has a downstream end extended through between an exhaust gas outflow port 49 of the purification casing 33 and an exhaust gas outlet of the main path 31, and the downstream end is formed with an opening 401 to serve as a reverse-flow prevention plate 400.

Abstract: An exhaust purification system for a ship includes a main path in communication with the outside and a bypass path branched from an intermediate portion of the main path, each serving as a discharge path for an engine installed in the ship. The main path and the bypass path are provided with and opened and closed by respective fluid operated switching valves of a normally open type.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification device with which a decrease in reduction (denitrification) efficiency can be reduced. An exhaust gas purification device of this invention for a ship 1 includes: a reducing agent injector 61 of a reducing agent supply device supplying a reducing agent to an exhaust gas passing through an exhaust pipe of an engine 21 to be mounted in the ship; an exhaust mixer 62 mixing the exhaust gas and the reducing agent in a location downstream of the reducing agent injector 61 in an exhaust gas traveling direction; and selective catalytic reduction devices 34, 35 facilitating reduction of NOx in the exhaust gas of the engine 21 in a location downstream of the exhaust mixer 62 in the exhaust gas traveling direction. Multiple reducing agent injectors 61 are provided, and respectively have injection ports arranged at equal intervals along a circumferential direction of the exhaust pipe.

Abstract: A gas sensor including an adjustment unit having a conversion element for converting a gas component contained in exhaled breath introduced into a first chamber to a particular component, a sensor unit having a second chamber and including a detection element, a ceramic wiring board electrically connected to the detection element, and a single heater for heating the conversion element and the detection element. The ceramic wiring board has an opening, and a ceramic thin plate is stacked on the ceramic wiring board to cover the opening. The ceramic thin plate partially constitutes the adjustment unit and the sensor unit and separates the first chamber and the second chamber from each other. The adjustment unit, the sensor unit, and the heater are integrated in such a manner that the adjustment unit and the sensor unit are thermally coupled through the ceramic thin plate.

Abstract: A sensor device includes a plurality of electrode chambers, a measurement chamber, and an accommodation chamber which are connected in annular relationship permitting expansion and contraction. Each of the plurality of electrode chambers has a measurement electrode. The measurement chamber has a biological potential measurement circuit which is connected with each measurement electrode via electrically conductive wiring for measuring biological potential of the user by using the measurement electrode. The accommodation chamber has an internal protrusion. The wiring which connects at least one measurement electrode and the biological potential measurement circuit is provided around the protrusion, the wiring having a length which enables longitudinal feeding in accordance with an amount of elongation when the sensor device is elongated. A maximum clearance S between the accommodation chamber and an adjacent chamber is greater than a maximum clearance R between any two adjacent chambers.

Abstract: An embodiment of an exhaust gas purification device 50 has a function of removing soot adhered to an NOx catalyst 75 arranged inside a cylindrical casing part 74 by injecting pressurized air. The device includes a plurality of air injection nozzles 82 arranged on a side wall of the casing part 74 on an upstream side of the NOx catalyst 75, which are each configured to generate an impulse wave by injecting pressurized air into the casing part 74, wherein the air injection nozzles 82 successively inject one by one an equal flow quantity of pressurized air, for a period t1, at predetermined time intervals.

Abstract: This invention solves the problem that objects in the field of view of reading glasses using multifocal lenses for correcting ocular refractive errors such as presbyopia appear distorted. This image display device is provided with the following: a distance computation unit that computes the distance to a subject in a field-of-view image; a visual-acuity-information acquisition unit that stores visual-acuity information for the user in advance; a corrected-image generation unit that generates and outputs a corrected image on the basis of the field-of-view image and an eye image generated from the field-of-view image, the distance information, and the visual-acuity information; and a display unit that displays the corrected image by superimposing same onto the user's field of view. Since the corrected image is superimposed without the use of lenses, lenses being the cause of the abovementioned distortion, the user can see close objects clearly.

Abstract: A standing-up assistance apparatus includes a first sensor that measures a muscle potential of a lower leg of a user, a second sensor that measures a knee angle of the user, a processor that determines whether starting to assist the user in a standing-up motion from a seated state is possible, based on, at least, the measured muscle potential and the measured knee angle, and outputs an instruction signal if the processor determines that starting to assist the user in the standing-up motion is possible, and an assistance mechanism. The assistance mechanism starts assisting the user in the standing-up motion when the assistance mechanism receives the instruction signal from the processor.

Abstract: A standing motion assist device includes a support mechanism attached to a leg of a user to assist the user with motion, a sensor including first and/or second sensors that measure and output posture information and myoelectric potentials of the user, respectively, the sensor outputting measurement data including first measurement data measured after a sitting motion of the user sitting in a chair starts and second measurement data measured after the sitting motion ends, a memory that stores the measurement data, and a processor that controls the support mechanism. The processor detects the sitting motion and identifies the chair type based on the first measurement data, detects the start of a motion of the user standing from the chair based on the second measurement data, and outputs assist information corresponding to the identified chair type and used by the support mechanism to assist the user with standing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of treatment for anti-Alzheimer's disease based on an action mechanism associated with amyloid ? protein, which action mechanism is different from conventional action mechanisms. The treatment Alzheimer's disease uses a therapeutic agent for cognitive impairment induced by amyloid ? protein, which therapeutic agent comprises a peptide having the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 or a peptide similar to this peptide, especially a peptide containing the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2, which is a partial sequence of SEQ ID NO:1.

Abstract: The invention provides a lactate dehydrogenase inhibitor that makes it possible to suppress refractory epilepsy in which conventional antiepileptic drugs are ineffective, and an antiepileptic drug containing said inhibitor. The lactate dehydrogenase inhibitor of the invention contains a compound represented by formula (III); i.e., isosafrole or a compound having isosafrole as a scaffold, and the antiepileptic drug of the invention has these compounds as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A viewer includes a varifocal lens and a lens controller that adjusts a focal length of the varifocal lens, and can adjust a focal point in accordance with eye movement of the user. When a 3D image viewing detector detects 3D image viewing by the user, a focal length fixing section instructs a lens controller to fix a focal length of the varifocal lens irrespective of eye movement of the user.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display device for displaying a three-dimensional image, including: a gaze point obtaining unit which obtains a position of a gaze point of a viewer; a fusional area determination unit which determines a fusional area where binocular fusion is allowed, based on the obtained position of the gaze point; a correction unit which corrects the three-dimensional image so as to suppress display of an object that is included in the three-dimensional image outside the fusional area; and a display unit which displays the corrected three-dimensional image.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus that diagnoses a cutter tool or a rotating machine based on electric power supplied to the rotating machine, includes: an electric power measurement unit that measures the electric power; and a filtering unit that filters noises input from an input side and an output side of the electric power measurement unit, the electric power measurement unit including a Hall element, and applied voltage of an electric power supply line, that supplies the electric power to the rotating machine from an inverter or a servo amplifier, is input in the Hall element, wherein the electric power is calculated based on Hall voltage that is generated, when Hall current flows through the Hall element and magnetic flux is applied to a sensor surface of the Hall element, the Hall voltage being proportional to a product of the magnetic flux and the Hall current.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus that diagnoses a cutter tool or a rotating machine based on electric power supplied to the rotating machine, includes: an electric power measurement unit that measures the electric power; and a filtering unit that filters noises input from an input side and an output side of the electric power measurement unit, the electric power measurement unit including a Hall element, and applied voltage of an electric power supply line, that supplies the electric power to the rotating machine from an inverter or a servo amplifier, is input in the Hall element, wherein the electric power is calculated based on Hall voltage that is generated, when Hall current flows through the Hall element and magnetic flux is applied to a sensor surface of the Hall element, the Hall voltage being proportional to a product of the magnetic flux and the Hall current.

Abstract: A rise action assistance device according to an aspect of the present disclosure is provided with: a myoelectric potential acquirer that acquires a myoelectric value of a sitting user's tibialis anterior muscle, and a myoelectric value of the sitting user's vastus lateralis muscle or a myoelectric value of the sitting user's vastus medialis muscle; an angle acquirer that acquires a bend angle of the sitting user's upper body; a detector circuit that detects a start of a rise action by the user, based on the myoelectric value of the user's tibialis anterior muscle, the myoelectric value of the user's vastus lateralis muscle or the myoelectric value of the user's vastus medialis muscle, and the bend angle of the user's upper body; and an assistor that starts assistance of the rise action after the start of the rise action is detected.

Abstract: An input apparatus for controlling an information terminal includes a gesture detecting unit that detects a rotational movement of a wrist of a user about a lower arm of the user and an output unit that outputs a control command for controlling a device to be controlled to the device to be controlled on the basis of a rotational direction of the detected rotational movement. If the gesture detecting unit detects a first rotational movement in a first rotational direction and thereafter detects a second rotational movement in a second rotational direction that is opposite to the first rotational direction, the output unit outputs a second control command corresponding to the second rotational direction without outputting a first control command corresponding to the first rotational direction.

Abstract: A wrist-worn input device measuring a biopotential for use in gesture inputting, includes a band that forms at least part of a tubular structure having a first opening and a second opening at the two ends thereof in an axial direction thereof, an electrode open to an internal surface of the band, a position determination unit disposed close to the first opening and having a shape to be engaged with at least part of a periphery of the styloid process of ulna of a user, a biopotential measurement unit that measures the biopotential of the user using the electrode, and a measured potential transmitter that outputs the biopotential of the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides a target substance transfer method, a crystal production method, a composition production method, and a target substance transfer device, which allow the concentration of a target substance to be increased easily and effectively. The target substance transfer method is a method for transferring a target substance 103 from a first phase 101 that is a liquid or solid phase containing the target substance 103 to a second phase 102 including: a phase approximation step of bringing the first phase 101 and the second phase 102 into close proximity; and a bubble collapse step of forming bubbles in the vicinity of a boundary between the first phase 101 and the second phase 102 and then causing the bubbles to collapse.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification apparatus provided in an exhaust as path of an engine, it is an object of the present invention to shorten a pipe length of a bypass path bypassing a purification catalyst as short as possible, thereby reducing initial costs. The exhaust gas purification apparatus includes a purification casing in which at least the purification catalyst is accommodated. The purification catalyst purifies exhaust gas from the engine. The purification casing is integrally provided with the bypass path separately from the purification path in which the purification catalyst exists. The bypass path makes the exhaust gas bypasses the purification catalyst without passing through the purification catalyst.