Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus, which is applied to a cylinder-injection internal combustion engine directly injecting fuel into a cylinder from a fuel injection valve, includes an injection control unit which issues a command to perform injection control for the fuel injection valve by using an injection command signal, a drive circuit which drives the fuel injection valve based on the injection command signal outputted from the injection control unit, and a temperature information obtaining unit which obtains temperature information associated with temperature in the fuel injection control apparatus. The injection control unit issues a command to perform injection control for reducing heat generation of the drive circuit by using the injection command signal based on the temperature information obtained by the temperature information obtaining unit.

Abstract: A transceiver includes a transmitting/receiving electrode that comes into contact with or is capacitively coupled to a human body, serving as a transmission medium, a receiving mechanism connected to the transmitting/receiving electrode, and a transmitting mechanism connected to the transmitting/receiving electrode. Upon signal transmission, the receiving mechanism is open-circuited as viewed from the transmitting/receiving electrode to allow the impedance on the transmitting mechanism side as viewed from the transmitting/receiving electrode to match that of the human body. Upon signal reception, the transmitting mechanism is open-circuited as viewed from the transmitting/receiving electrode to allow the impedance on the receiving mechanism side as viewed from the transmitting/receiving electrode to match that of the human body.

Abstract: In an automatic transmission, a shift lever is operable to move to one of a plurality of shift positions corresponding to ranges established as selectable options. The plurality of shift positions are each configured as one of a momentary position allowing the shift lever to automatically return to a home position and a retention position allowing the shift lever to be held therein. A return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in the retention position to return to the home position is provided. The return mechanism is enabled on one of conditions that the parking switch be turned on and that an ignition switch be turned off. In a manual transmission, a return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in a gear stage to return to a home position is provided, and the return mechanism is enabled on condition that an ignition switch be turned off.

Abstract: A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode for performing a shift operation by determining a gear position or gear ratio to be set according to a vehicle running condition and a manual shift mode for performing a shift operation instructed by a manual operation by an operator. The shift control apparatus includes a region determining unit for determining whether the present running condition is in a first region where downshift is performed at the present gear position or gear ratio in the automatic shift mode or in a second region higher in vehicle speed than the first region, and an upshift allowing unit for allowing upshift instructed by the manual operation by the operator in the manual shift mode when the region determining unit has determined that the present running condition is in the second region.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a transmitter configured to supply an information signal as an electric field to a transmission medium; a receiver configured to detect the electric field through the transmission medium to acquire the information signal; an insulating casing that accommodates at least one of the transmitter and the receiver; and a filling member that is arranged at least one of between the casing and the transmitter and between the casing and the receiver.

Abstract: A communication system according to the present invention includes a transmitter for applying a transmission signal to a human body as an electric field, and a receiver for receiving the transmission signal by detecting the electric field via the human body. The receiver includes a reception electrode which faces the human body, a resonance circuit formed of a resonance inductor and a resonance capacitor, and a coupling capacitor for capacitively coupling the reception electrode and the resonance circuit.

Abstract: A microscope includes a laser light source, an optical system which changes a beam diameter, and a field stop disposed at a position conjugating with a sample plane, in this order beginning from the side of the laser light source. In this microscopes the following conditional equation is satisfied: A?D/2 where “A” is the diameter of the field stop, and “D” is the diameter of light incident to the field stop.

Abstract: A gearshift device includes a gearshift lever adapted to move a plurality of gear selection positions, and a gear selection position detecting unit which detects a gear selection position. The gear selection position detecting unit has a magnet plate disposed at a lower end portion of the gearshift lever and movable in accordance with a movement of the gearshift lever and primary magnetic sensors and at least one secondary magnetic sensor, which are disposed so as to oppose to the magnet plate in a non-contact fashion at predetermined positions based on the individual gear selection positions. The primary magnetic sensor detects magnetic flux density and outputs ON/OFF signals in accordance with intensity of the detected magnetic flux density The secondary magnetic sensor detects magnetic flux density and outputs an output value according to the detected magnitude of the magnetic flux density.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a cell culturing system that cultures predetermined cells collected from a patient and supplies cultured cells to the original patient, which together with enabling correlations between the cultured cells and the supplier of the cells to be managed accurately and easily at all times, allows cultured cells and patients to be collated rapidly.

Abstract: A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode and a manual shift mode. The shift control apparatus includes a shift characteristic changing unit for changing the first shift characteristic to a second shift characteristic such that a region for outputting an upshift signal is displaced toward higher vehicle speeds after performing a downshift by the manual operation, a delaying unit for delaying the output of the upshift signal by a predetermined time period according to the vehicle running condition when the vehicle running condition becomes a condition where the upshift signal is to be output according to the second shift characteristic, and an upshift allowing unit for once allowing the output of the upshift signal when the above condition continues after the elapse of the predetermined time period determined by the delaying unit.

Abstract: It in an object to acquire a high-precision polarization image.

Abstract: An external skeletal fixation device reduces load on the patient, is capable of freely moving and deformity correction of a bone and bone fragments, is simple in construction and can be attached to the patient by an operator who has not a very high skill and long experience. An external skeletal fixation device 1 includes a pair of pin clamp units 2 and 3 fixedly holding rodlike members 61 and 62 inserted, respectively, into a first part 9B2 and a second part 9B3 of a bone 9B on the opposite sides, respectively, of a virtual hinge point 9B1 in the bone 9B. The virtual hinge point corresponds to a center of rotational angulation of the bone, a center on which the first and the second part of the bone respectively on the opposite sides of a fracture site of the bone or a part of the osteotomy site for deformity correction are turned, or a center about which a joint turns.

Abstract: It is possible to easily and accurately confirm the position of an optical axis of an objective lens relative to an examination site on a specimen, and positioning of the objective relative to the specimen can be carried out rapidly in a preparation stage.

Abstract: While carrying out microscope examination, it is possible to specify a position to be irradiated with optical stimulus light and to accurately apply an optical stimulus to the specified irradiation position. A microscope examination method includes a step of introducing into a specimen a substance in which a structural change is caused by irradiation with light of a first wavelength; a step of specifying an optical stimulation site in the specimen by irradiating the specimen with visible light of a second wavelength that does not cause a structural change in the substance, while examining the specimen in which the substance is introduced using a microscope examination apparatus; and a step of irradiating the specified optical stimulus site with the light of the first wavelength.

Abstract: A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode for performing a shift operation by using a first shift characteristic such that a gear ratio to be set is set according to a vehicle running condition and a manual shift mode for performing a shift operation instructed by a manual operation by an operator.

Abstract: A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode for performing a shift operation by determining a gear position or gear ratio to be set according to a vehicle running condition and a manual shift mode for performing a shift operation instructed by a manual operation by an operator. The shift control apparatus includes a region determining unit for determining whether the present running condition is in a first region where downshift is performed at the present gear position or gear ratio in the automatic shift mode or in a second region higher in vehicle speed than the first region, and an upshift allowing unit for allowing upshift instructed by the manual operation by the operator in the manual shift mode when the region determining unit has determined that the present running condition is in the second region.

Abstract: A gearshift device includes a gearshift lever adapted to move a plurality of gear selection positions, and a gear selection position detecting unit which detects a gear selection position. The gear selection position detecting unit has a magnet plate disposed at a lower end portion of the gearshift lever and movable in accordance with a movement of the gearshift lever and primary magnetic sensors and at least one secondary magnetic sensor, which are disposed so as to oppose to the magnet plate in a non-contact fashion at predetermined positions based on the individual gear selection positions. The primary magnetic sensor detects magnetic flux density and outputs ON/OFF signals in accordance with intensity of the detected magnetic flux density The secondary magnetic sensor detects magnetic flux density and outputs an output value according to the detected magnitude of the magnetic flux density.

Abstract: It is possible to easily and accurately confirm the position of an optical axis of an objective lens relative to an examination site on a specimen, and positioning of the objective relative to the specimen can be carried out rapidly in a preparation stage.

Abstract: In an automatic transmission, a shift lever is operable to move to one of a plurality of shift positions corresponding to ranges established as selectable options. The plurality of shift positions are each configured as one of a momentary position allowing the shift lever to automatically return to a home position and a retention position allowing the shift lever to be held therein. A return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in the retention position to return to the home position is provided. The return mechanism is enabled on one of conditions that the parking switch be turned on and that an ignition switch be turned off. In a manual transmission, a return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in a gear stage to return to a home position is provided, and the return mechanism is enabled on condition that an ignition switch be turned off.

Abstract: While carrying out microscope examination, it is possible to specify a position to be irradiated with optical stimulus light and to accurately apply an optical stimulus to the specified irradiation position. A microscope examination method includes a step of introducing into a specimen a substance in which a structural change is caused by irradiation with light of a first wavelength; a step of specifying an optical stimulation site in the specimen by irradiating the specimen with visible light of a second wavelength that does not cause a structural change in the substance, while examining the specimen in which the substance is introduced using a microscope examination apparatus; and a step of irradiating the specified optical stimulus site with the light of the first wavelength.