Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately puncture a blood vessel of a subject.

Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a posture sensor detects whether an orientation of a monitor is a vertically long posture or a laterally long posture, and a display control unit displays an ultrasound image on a display screen on the basis of the orientation of the monitor. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a hidden region that is not displayed on the display screen is present in the ultrasound image, and a blood vessel detection unit detects a blood vessel in the ultrasound image. Then, in a case where it is detected that the hidden region is present and it is detected that the blood vessel is present in the hidden region, an orientation suggestion unit suggests to change the orientation of the monitor. Accordingly, in a case where blood vessel puncture is performed, an appropriate orientation of the monitor for observing the blood vessel in the ultrasound image is suggested to the user.

Abstract: Provided are a low-viscosity ultraviolet curable silicone composition capable of being used even in a surface exposure method and a lift-up method etc.; and a cured product superior in tensile strength and elongation at break.

Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately puncture a blood vessel of a subject.

Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to smoothly and appropriately perform an examination. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that acquires an ultrasound image of a blood vessel using the ultrasound probe; a blood vessel detection unit that detects the blood vessel from the ultrasound image; an examination site discrimination unit that discriminates an examination site; an examination mode setting unit that sets an examination mode corresponding to the discriminated examination site; a compression detection unit that detects a compression motion on a body surface of a subject by the ultrasound probe; a compression motion determination unit that determines whether or not the detected compression motion is proper for the set examination mode; and a notification unit that notifies a user of a determination result by the compression motion determination unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated ultrasound credentialing are described. In some embodiments, a credentialing system for issuing a sonographer credential to a sonography candidate includes an ultrasound probe coupled to a computing device and configured to generate ultrasound data. The computing device is configured to generate, based on the ultrasound data and as part of an automated review, an ultrasound examination score. The computing device is configured to transfer, based on the ultrasound examination score, the sonography candidate from the automated review to a manual review by a reviewer.

Abstract: The ultrasonography apparatus includes at least one processor, in which the processor acquires, from a detector that detects a posture of a palm of a subject in capturing an ultrasound image, information representing a posture of the palm at a first time point as a first detection result, acquires information representing a posture of the palm at a second time point, which is after the first time point and is a time point during capturing of the ultrasound image, as a second detection result, derives a difference between the posture of the palm at the first time point and the posture of the palm at the second time point based on the first detection result and the second detection result, and performs notification in a case in which the derived difference is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes forming a lid, forming a lid assembly, closing, and welding. In forming a lid, there is included forming, by forging, a protruding portion between a peripheral portion and an insertion-hole surrounding portion of the lid to block scattered light of a laser beam from being irradiated to a resin member, with a distance D from an end surface of the peripheral portion to a side surface of the protruding portion falling within 0.5t (D?0.5t) relative to a thickness t of the lid.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes placing a lid assembly that includes a lid and a terminal member integrated therewith via a resin member to close an opening portion of a case body with the lid, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid over an entire circumference. In placing the lid assembly, a peripheral high-level region, in which a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion of the lid is located on the outer side relative to an opening end surface of the opening portion of the case body is provided in proximate long-side opening portions, close of the opening portion and proximate long-side peripheral portions of the peripheral portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes closing an opening portion of a case body with a lid of a lid assembly, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and a peripheral portion of the lid over their entire circumference. A resin member has an outer surface including a scattered light-reached surface to which scattered light of a laser beam directly reaches, at least a part of the scattered light-reached surface including a smoothed region having a surface roughness of 0.6 ?m or less.

Abstract: The awareness of users regarding uses of reused products are raised, and their awareness regarding the environment is thereby increased. An information processing system includes information acquisition means for acquiring reuse information, the reuse information being information about an operating status of a reused product; storage means for storing association information associating the reused product with information about a terminal of a previous owner of the product before the product is reused as the reused product; and transmission processing means for transmitting, based on the association information stored in the storage means, the reuse information of the reused product acquired by the information acquisition means to a terminal associated with the reused product.

Abstract: The information processing system includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires component data of a reusable product related to environmental contribution of the reusable product including at least the number of times of reuse of the reusable product; a selection unit that selects a candidate of the reusable product that is a replacement component candidate when the user replaces the component; a calculation unit that calculates an environmental contribution degree of the candidate of the reusable product selected by the selection unit based on the component data of the reusable product acquired by the data acquisition unit; and a presentation unit that presents, to the user, the environmental contribution degree of the candidate of the reusable product calculated by the calculation unit together with the candidate of the reusable product selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: An acoustic wave measurement apparatus includes: an image display unit that displays an acoustic wave image; a measurement target designation receiving unit that receives designation of a measurement target; a position designation receiving unit that receives designation of a position of a measurement target on the acoustic wave image displayed on the image display unit; a measurement method information receiving unit that receives measurement method information indicating a measurement method; a detection measurement algorithm setting unit that sets a detection measurement algorithm based on the measurement target received by the measurement target designation receiving unit and the measurement method information received by the measurement method information receiving unit; and a measurement unit that detects the measurement target based on the received position and the detection measurement algorithm and performs measurement for the detected measurement target.

Abstract: A battery terminal has a two-piece configuration of different types of conductive materials. A first piece placed outside and a second piece placed inside with including a current collecting portion are fixed in two portions of a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion. The first fixing portion is positioned between the current collecting portion and the second fixing portion in a longitudinal direction in a shape of the terminal. Leaning of the current collecting portion with respect to a center in a short-side direction and leaning of the first fixing portion with respect to a center are opposite to each other.

Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a mode setting unit that sets association between each of a landscape posture and a portrait posture, and each of a search mode and an analysis mode. A posture sensor detects whether a posture of the apparatus main body is the landscape posture or the portrait posture, a mode switching unit switches a display mode between the search mode and the analysis mode on the basis of the posture of the apparatus main body and the association, and an information generation unit generates information for the search mode or information for the analysis mode, as information for the display mode. A display control unit displays the ultrasound image and the information for the display mode on the monitor. As a result, in a case where blood vessel puncture is performed, information necessary for blood vessel puncture is switched and displayed according to the posture of the apparatus main body.

Abstract: An acoustic wave measurement apparatus includes: an image display unit that displays an acoustic wave image; a measurement target designation receiving unit that receives designation of a measurement target; a position designation receiving unit that receives designation of a position of a measurement target on the acoustic wave image displayed on the image display unit; a measurement method information receiving unit that receives measurement method information indicating a measurement method; a detection measurement algorithm setting unit that sets a detection measurement algorithm based on the measurement target received by the measurement target designation receiving unit and the measurement method information received by the measurement method information receiving unit; and a measurement unit that detects the measurement target based on the received position and the detection measurement algorithm and performs measurement for the detected measurement target.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an image memory that stores ultrasound images of a plurality of frames a display unit that displays an ultrasound image of the selected frame selected by a user from the plurality of frames, a measurement unit that performs measurement for a measurement target part from the ultrasound image, a determination unit that determines whether the measurement has succeeded or failed, and a display switching unit that displays a measurement result in the selected frame on the display unit in a case in which measurement for the selected frame has succeeded and displays an ultrasound image of at least one peripheral frame different from the selected frame among the plurality of frames and a measurement result in the peripheral frame on the display unit in a case in which the measurement for the selected frame has failed.

Abstract: There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which allows an examiner to easily understand a depth reached by an insertion object in a case of inserting the insertion object into a blood vessel while capturing an ultrasound image representing a cross section of the blood vessel of the subject.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires an ultrasound image of a tissue including a blood vessel of a subject; a detection unit that detects the blood vessel from the acquired ultrasound image; and a degree-of-difficulty information output unit that outputs degree-of-difficulty information related to a degree of difficulty of a puncture in the detected blood vessel according to a skill level of a user who performs the puncture.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes a transmission and reception circuit (5) that causes a transducer array (2) to transmit an ultrasound beam toward the subject, and processes a reception signal output from the transducer array that has received an ultrasound echo from the subject to generate a sound ray signal; an image generation unit (6) that generates an ultrasound image on the basis of the generated sound ray signal; an image analysis unit (9) that detects the blood vessel and the insertion object by analyzing the generated ultrasound image; and a device control unit (13) that controls the transmission and reception circuit (5) such that a frame rate at which the ultrasound image is generated is adjusted, on the basis of a relative positional relationship between the detected blood vessel and the detected insertion object.