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20100199768 | LASER-BASED MAINTENANCE APPARATUS - A laser maintenance apparatus including a laser system which includes an optical system for emitting, in a first irradiation condition, a generation laser beam for generating an ultrasonic wave in a portion of an object on which maintenance is to be performed, and including a laser source configured to generate and detect a detection laser beam which interacts with the ultrasonic wave generated by the laser light beam in the first condition. The laser maintenance apparatus also includes a light transmitting device for transmitting laser light emitted from the laser system, a laser irradiation device for irradiating laser light transmitted by the light transmitting device to the object portion, and a transporting/scanning mechanism for transporting the light transmitting device and the laser irradiation device to a portion near the object portion, and scanning over an arbitrary range at the object portion. | 08-12-2010 |
20100199769 | LASER-BASED MAINTENANCE APPARATUS - A laser maintenance apparatus including a laser system which includes an optical system for emitting, in a first irradiation condition, a generation laser beam for generating an ultrasonic wave in a portion of an object on which maintenance is to be performed, and including a laser source configured to generate and detect a detection laser beam which interacts with the ultrasonic wave generated by the laser light beam in the first condition. The laser maintenance apparatus also includes a light transmitting device for transmitting laser light emitted from the laser system, a laser irradiation device for irradiating laser light transmitted by the light transmitting device to the object portion, and a transporting/scanning mechanism for transporting the light transmitting device and the laser irradiation device to a portion near the object portion, and scanning over an arbitrary range at the object portion. | 08-12-2010 |
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20120085678 | PACKAGING BOX - A packaging box includes a box body having a bottom board, side boards, and bending flaps; and a cushioning material having a bottom surface section and side surface sections. A restrainer is formed at least one of the bending flaps, the restrainer having a portion that is separated from and opposes the bottom board when the portion of the restrainer is bent into an accommodation space of the box body. A restrain portion is formed at the side surface section of the cushioning material opposing the restrainer formed at the at least one of the bending flaps, the restrain portion having a portion that is positioned at a side of the bottom board so as to abut upon the portion of the restrainer and that opposes the portion of the restrainer when the cushioning material is fitted in the accommodation space of the box body. | 04-12-2012 |
20120305551 | PACKAGING CONTAINER - A packaging container includes an outer container, a packaging bag, and an inner packing member. The outer container has a box-like shape and has a containing space and a passage opening. The packaging bag is contained in the outer container in a state in which the packaging bag contains an object. The packaging bag includes a containing portion, an opening portion formed in the containing portion and allowing the object to pass therethrough, and a handle portion graspable by a user. The inner packing member is disposed between the object and the passage opening and contained in the containing space. At least part of the handle portion is disposed on the passage opening side of the inner packing member, and the handle portion moves toward the passage opening together with the inner packing member when the inner packing member is being removed from the outer container. | 12-06-2012 |
20120305552 | PACKAGING CONTAINER - A packaging container includes an outer container having a containing space and a passage opening, and a packaging bag for containing an object. The packaging bag includes a containing portion, an opening portion, and a handle portion. The handle portion includes strip-like members each connected to the containing portion at two connection portions. The handle portion has a length equal to or larger than half a length of the object along the passage opening when the handle portion is extended in a direction along the passage opening. When the handle portion is extended in a direction through the passage opening, the handle portion has a length with which the handle portion is allowed to protrude away from a surface of the object adjacent to the passage opening toward the passage opening and the connection portions are located at positions separated away from the surface toward the passage opening. | 12-06-2012 |
20130276677 | LOADING STRUCTURE - A loading structure includes a bottom plate on which an object is placed; a support stand that supports the bottom plate from below the bottom plate; a pair of first poles that stand on the support stand; a pair of second poles that stand on the support stand; a first beam located on a far side of the loading structure and extending in a left-right direction, the first beam being fixed to upper portions of the pair of second poles; a pair of second beams extending toward the far side, a distance between inner surfaces of the pair of second beams being larger than a distance between outer surfaces of the pair of second poles; and a supporting member that stands on the support stand on the far side, the supporting member supporting a far-side surface of the object placed on the bottom plate. | 10-24-2013 |
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20130271587 | Endoscoope System - An endoscope system includes an endoscope objective optical system that acquires two optical images with different focus positions, an image pickup device that picks up the two optical images to acquire two image signals, an image synthesis processing section that makes a comparison in contrast between the two image signals for each spatially identical pixel region and selects a pixel region having relatively higher contrast to thereby synthesize the two image signals into one image, and a focus switchover mechanism that moves a position of a focus switchover lens provided for the endoscope objective optical system and selectively switches a focus of the endoscope objective optical system to one of two observation regions of proximity observation and remote observation, in which the image synthesis processing section synthesizes two images in each of the respective observation regions of the proximity observation and the remote observation. | 10-17-2013 |
20140176692 | Endoscope System - An image with an expanded depth of field is more effectively acquired while reducing the manufacturing cost, without enlarging the apparatus. | 06-26-2014 |
20140198194 | Endoscope - An endoscope includes an objective optical system at a distal end of an inserted portion to acquire a subject image; a part that splits the subject image into two optical images focused differently; an imaging device that acquires two images by simultaneously capturing the optical images arranged on an imaging surface; and a part for cutting out at least abutting portions of the optical images on the imaging device, wherein A+B>C+D, where A is half the maximum length of light-receiving regions for the optical images at the imaging surface; where TW is an entry angle at the imaging surface when A is at the maximum image height and d is an optical-path-length difference between the optical images, B=d×tanTW; C is half the length of the light-receiving regions in a direction of the optical images arranged on the imaging surface; and D is a distance between the two light-receiving regions. | 07-17-2014 |
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20090028289 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS - A CT value of an image within a region of interest is calculated with time. While the calculated CT value does not exceed a predetermined threshold value, a reconstruction mode used when an image is reconstructed from projection data is set to half reconstruction. On the other hand, while the calculated CT value exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the reconstruction mode is set to segment reconstruction. | 01-29-2009 |
20100074394 | X-RAY COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS, BREATHING INDICATION APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray computed tomographic apparatus includes a gantry | 03-25-2010 |
20110158380 | X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - In one embodiment, an X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a rotating mechanism, a high voltage generating unit, a reconstruction processing unit, a projection image generating unit configured to generate a projection image based on output from the X-ray detector, an image display unit, and a fluoroscopy control unit configured to control the rotating mechanism, the high voltage generating unit, the X-ray detector, the projection image generating unit and the image display unit to implement stereo fluoroscopy. | 06-30-2011 |
20120320167 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a display unit capable of displaying stereoscopic images by displaying a group of parallax images and a display control unit. The display control unit displays an operation screen for receiving operations on medical image data on the display unit, displays selection information for selecting medical image data on the operation screen, and controls whether the selection information will be displayed as a stereoscopic image or a planar image depending on the content of medical image data selected by the selection information. | 12-20-2012 |
20130010922 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An X-ray CT apparatus has a scanner, a pre-scan control unit, an image generating unit, a region setting unit and a timing sensing unit. The pre-scan control unit controls an operation of the scanner to perform a pre-scan. The image generating unit generates image data of the object based upon the pre-scan. The region setting unit sets, on the basis of the image data, a region of interest, and a larger region encompassing the region of interest and a region around the region of interest and being used to determine whether or not a high pixel value region exists. The timing sensing unit senses, if the larger region does not include a pixel value higher than a first threshold, a timing to start a main scan, at which a pixel value of the region of interest exceeds a second threshold after injection of the contrast medium agent is started. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012814 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes a density change acquisition unit, a trigger generating unit and a control unit. The density change acquisition unit is configured to acquire data corresponding to a temporal change in density of a contact agent injected into an object. The trigger generating unit is configured to generate a trigger when abnormal data has been detected by a first threshold processing of the data. The trigger is generated by a second threshold processing of data other than the abnormal data. The control unit is configured to perform a control of contrast imaging for the object based on the trigger. | 01-10-2013 |
20130182821 | X-RAY CT (COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY) DEVICE - As one embodiment, the X-ray CT device comprises an X-ray tube, a tube voltage generator, an X-ray detector, a data accumulating unit, and an image processing unit. The tube voltage generator applies said tube voltage to the X-ray tube. The tube voltage controlling unit controls the tube voltage generator means so as to periodically alternate the tube voltage. The X-ray detector is arranged across a subject from the X-ray tube, and detects the X-rays penetrating the subject. The data accumulating unit accumulates first sampling data when a high voltage is applied to said X-ray tube in one cycle by synchronizing with the change in said tube voltage from the data detected by said X-ray detector, and after a predetermined amount of time has passed from said accumulation, accumulates second sampling data when a low voltage is applied to said X-ray tube. The image processing unit creates images based on the accumulated first sampling data and second sampling data. | 07-18-2013 |
20130287260 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS, SUBSTANCE IDENTIFYING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An X-ray CT apparatus of an embodiment displays an image of the inside of an object based on projection data obtained by scanning the object, and comprises a generator, a converter, an image forming part and an identifier. The generator scans the object with each of X-rays of different energy levels and generates multiple projection data. The converter converts the multiple projection data into multiple new projection data corresponding to multiple reference substances. The image forming part reconstructs each of the multiple new projection data converted by the converter, thereby forming multiple reference substance images corresponding to the multiple reference substances. The identifier identifies a target substance based on a correlation of pixel values in the multiple reference substance images. | 10-31-2013 |
20140161222 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS - An X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray tube, X-ray detector detecting the X-rays transmitted through an object, data acquisition unit acquiring projection data of the object based on an output from the X-ray detector, bed driving control unit moving a top to place the object along a long-axis direction of the top, image processing unit generating a reconstructed image based on the projection data, positional shift amount detection unit detecting a shift amount of a relative position between the top and the object, and positional shift processing unit performing processing based on a detection result obtained by the positional shift amount detection unit, in accordance with movement of the top by the bed driving control unit. | 06-12-2014 |
20140334597 | MEDICAL SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD - A medical apparatus includes an apparatus main body ( | 11-13-2014 |
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20120154540 | THREE DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND THREE DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT METHOD - A three dimensional measurement apparatus includes a projection unit that projects, to a measurement target object, a first pattern light including alternately arranged bright parts and dark parts and a second pattern light in which a phase of the first pattern light is shifted, and an imaging unit that images the measurement target object on which the first or second pattern light is projected. When a period of repetitions of the bright parts and the dark parts of the pattern light is one period, a range of imaging on the measurement target object by one pixel included in the imaging unit is an image distance, and the length of one period of the projected pattern light on the measurement target object surface is M times the image distance, the projection unit and the imaging unit are arranged to satisfy “2×N−0.2≦M≦2×N+0.2 (where N is not less than 2)”. | 06-21-2012 |
20120287442 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A three-dimensional measurement apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of intersection positions between first pattern light in which a bright part and a dark part are alternately arranged and second pattern light in which a phase of the first pattern light is shifted, by using tone values of a first image obtained by capturing a target object onto which the first pattern light is projected and tone values of a second image obtained by capturing the target object onto which the second pattern light is projected; and a measurement unit configured to calculate a third position based on a first intersection position included in the plurality of intersection positions and a second intersection position that is adjacent to the first intersection position and measure a three-dimensional position of the target object based on an interval between the third positions. | 11-15-2012 |
20130141544 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to output a maximum tone value for each tone point at which exposure exceeds a saturation light amount; a calculation unit configured to calculate individual tone intersections by interpolating tone distributions of a first and second luminance pattern lights that were output by the image capturing unit; and a light quantity adjustment unit configured to adjust the quantity of light that enters the image sensor such that the tone values of tone points that are adjacent to the tone intersections and are used in calculation of the individual tone intersections are lower than the maximum tone value, and the tone value of at least one tone point other than the adjacent tone points is equal to the maximum tone value. | 06-06-2013 |
20140160243 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE MEASURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An exposure amount of at least one or more first patterns used to determine positions at the time of triangulation is set to be larger than that of other patterns, so as to reduce the influence of shot noise in the first patterns, to improve precision, and to reduce power consumption as a whole. To this end, a three-dimensional shape measuring apparatus, which measures a three-dimensional shape of an object to be measured by projecting pattern light of a plurality of types of patterns onto the object to be measured, and capturing images of the object to be measured, controls a projector unit and image capture unit to set an exposure amount of the first patterns to be larger than that of patterns other than the first patterns. | 06-12-2014 |
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20120304640 | EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust gas recirculation device for an internal combustion engine having a supercharger has an intake air passage that intakes intake air for the internal combustion engine, an exhaust passage that carries away exhaust air from the internal combustion engine, an exhaust gas recirculation passage connected to the intake air passage, and an exhaust gas recirculation valve interposed within the exhaust gas recirculation passage. The exhaust gas recirculation passage recirculates a part of the exhaust gas based on an openness of the exhaust gas recirculation valve to control an amount of exhaust recirculation introduced into the intake air passage. A first end of the exhaust gas recirculation passage is connected to the intake air passage upstream of a compressor of the supercharger. A second end of the exhaust gas recirculation passage is connected to the exhaust passage downstream of a turbine of the supercharger. | 12-06-2012 |
20120316756 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control system for a direct-injection four-stroke internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder, an intake passage supplying air to the cylinder, and an exhaust passage removing exhaust gas from the cylinder, the control system including a mass air flow meter configured to detect a mass air flow upstream of the cylinder and a control unit. The control unit is configured to detect an intake air density in the cylinder, calculate an in-cylinder trapped intake air amount based on a cylinder volume and the detected intake air density, and estimate a difference between the intake air amount detected by the mass air flow meter and the in-cylinder trapped intake air amount, the estimated difference being an estimated scavenging amount representing a fresh air blowby amount passing from the intake passage into the exhaust passage. | 12-13-2012 |
20130305713 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH TURBO-SUPERCHARGER - A control device for an internal combustion engine with a turbo-supercharger including a variable valve mechanism at least at either one of an intake side and an exhaust side includes a scavenging amount setting means for determining an upper limit value of a scavenging amount moving from an intake passage to an exhaust passage across the interior of a cylinder during a valve overlap period to satisfy a performance requirement for the internal combustion engine, and a variable valve control means for controlling the duration of the valve overlap period according to the scavenging amount. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311069 | CONTROL DEVICE OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - There is provided a control device of an engine that includes a turbo-supercharger and a variable valve mechanism, the control device including: a valve timing change means; an ignition timing change means; a fuel injection amount change means; an acceleration request detection means; a supercharging pressure detection means; and an acceleration control means that corrects, when the acceleration request is detected, retarding of ignition timing in a low supercharging region where the supercharging pressure is lower than a predetermined value, that completes the correction of the retarding of the ignition timing in a high supercharging region where the supercharging pressure is equal to or higher than the predetermined value to provide a valve overlap and that changes the fuel injection amount such that an air-fuel ratio at which a mixture air of a scavenging gas and an exhaust gas is easily burned within an exhaust passage is provided. | 11-21-2013 |
20130312714 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE EQUIPPED WITH SUPERCHARGER - Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine equipped with a supercharger, including: operation state detection means for detecting an operation state of the internal combustion engine; overlap read means for reading a valve overlap period; collector pressure detection means for detecting a collector pressure; exhaust gas pressure estimation means for estimating an exhaust gas pressure on an upstream side of the supercharger; and scavenging amount estimation means for estimating a scavenging amount based on the operation state, the valve overlap period, the collector pressure, and the exhaust gas pressure. | 11-28-2013 |
20140000554 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR MULTI-CYLINDER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | 01-02-2014 |
20150233326 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An upper-limit threshold value and a lower-limit threshold value of a fore-and-aft differential pressure of an EGR control valve is calculated based on an intake-air quantity detected by an airflow meter. An actual fore-and-aft differential pressure of the EGR control valve is calculated from detected values of an upstream-side pressure sensor and a downstream-side pressure sensor. Then, these threshold values are compared with the actual fore-and-aft differential pressure, and when the actual fore-and-aft differential pressure exceeds the upper-limit threshold value or when the actual fore-and-aft differential pressure is less than the lower-limit threshold value, it is determined that the pressure loss of an intake and exhaust system has changed. If it is determined that the pressure loss of an intake and exhaust system has changed, EGR is inhibited, and if not so, EGR is permitted to be performed. These threshold values are varied depending on a target EGR rate. | 08-20-2015 |
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20100026262 | Power Supplying Apparatus - A first-order feedback control power supply apparatus being arranged in such a manner that when the apparatus is driven under light load condition, a current flowing through an inductor is detected by employing a second CR smoothing filter; when the present load condition is judged as a light load condition based upon the detected inductor current, both upper-sided/lower-sided power MOSFETs and a PWM oscillator are turned OFF so as to be brought into sleep states; when an output voltage of the power supply apparatus is lowered and the lowered output voltage reaches a lower limit threshold of a transient variation detecting circuit, the upper-sided power MOSFET is turned ON to recover the output voltage; and when the output voltage of the power supply voltage reaches a predetermined voltage, the upper-sided power MOSFET is turned OFF so as to be again brought into the sleep state. | 02-04-2010 |
20100232180 | POWER SUPPLY UNIT, HARD DISK DRIVE AND METHOD OF SWITCHING THE POWER SUPPLY UNIT - Zero volt switching during a light load is performed in such a manner that through an ON/OFF control of switches provided for a full bridge circuit and the synchronous rectifier switches in a rectifier and smoothing circuit, a resonant peak voltage necessary for the zero voltage switching determined by the output current flowing to output terminals, a resonant inductor and a resonant capacitor capacitance is ensured so that an energy accumulated in the rectifier and smoothing circuit is returned to the full bridge circuit so as to act as equivalent as when the output current is increased and to increase the current flowing through the full bridge circuit. | 09-16-2010 |
20110191601 | Storage System - A storage system includes one or more first power supplies which receive power from the first input and supplies power to each of multiple load groups through multiple first paths and multiple second power supplies which receive power from the second input and supplies power to each of the multiple load groups through multiple second paths. Each load group is comprised of at least one load, and each load is a storage device. Power is supplied from different second power supplies respectively to two or more load groups to which power is supplied from the first power supply through two or more first paths. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191604 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system comprises multiple physical storage devices, and a power supply for the multiple physical storage devices. Each physical storage device requires an input of a first voltage and an input of a second voltage that is a lower voltage than the first voltage. The power supply comprises a first power supply circuit that is made redundant and a second power supply circuit that is made redundant. Each first power supply circuit outputs a first voltage, which is input to the respective physical storage devices. Each second power supply circuit outputs a second voltage to a storage device group (two or more physical storage devices of the multiple physical storage devices) corresponding to this second power supply circuit. Each second power supply circuit is isolated from a circuit board comprising the first power supply circuit. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194206 | Power-Supply Unit, Hard-Disk Drive, and Switching Method of the Power-Supply Unit - A power-supply unit which comprises a transformer, a full bridge circuit consisting of four arm switches provided on a primary side of the transformer, a rectifier and smoothing circuit including two synchronous rectifier switches provided on a secondary side of the transformer, a choke coil, and a capacitor, an output terminal provided in the rectifier and smoothing circuit, a control circuit controlling ON/OFF of the four arm switches of the full bridge circuit and the two synchronous rectifier switches of the rectifier and smoothing circuit, a resonant inductor consisting of a leakage inductor component of the transformer and a parasitic inductor component of wirings on the primary side of the transformer, and a resonant capacitor consisting of a parasitic capacitor component of the arm switches of the full bridge circuit, and in which the control circuit comprises timing variable means which varies switching timings of the two synchronous rectifier switches of the rectifier and smoothing circuit based on an output current flowing in the output terminal provided in the rectifier and smoothing circuit. | 08-11-2011 |
20120137143 | Storage System - A storage system includes one or more first power supplies which receive power from the first input and supplies power to each of multiple load groups through multiple first paths and multiple second power supplies which receive power from the second input and supplies power to each of the multiple load groups through multiple second paths. Each load group is comprised of at least one load, and each load is a storage device. Power is supplied from different second power supplies respectively to two or more load groups to which power is supplied from the first power supply through two or more first paths. | 05-31-2012 |
20120147494 | POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE, AND LED LIGHTING EQUIPMENT AND HARD DISK DRIVE USING THE SAME - A power supply device includes two buck converters, having a coupling inductor Lo composed of two mutually-coupled inductors L | 06-14-2012 |
20130194698 | POWER CONVERTER, CONTROL METHOD OF POWER CONVERTER, AND HARD DISK DRIVE - A power converter includes a first inductor, a rectifier arm, a first switch arm including a first and second switch circuits, a second switch arm including a third switch circuit and a first capacitor, a LC serial circuit, a Transformer, a rectification and smoothing circuit connected to secondary winding of the transformer, and a control circuit to perform on-off control of the three switch circuits. The rectifier arm, the first and second switch arms and the LC serial circuit are connected in parallel with each other. The LC serial circuit and primary winding of the transformer are connected. AC power supply is connected to the rectifier arm via the first inductor. The control circuit includes an output voltage control circuit to control output voltage at specific setting value, an intermediate voltage control circuit to control intermediate voltage at specific setting value, and a power factor correction control circuit. | 08-01-2013 |