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| 20080266441 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF IMAGE PICKUP UNIT - An image pickup unit according the present invention includes: a solid-state image pickup device which photoelectrically converts a photographic light and thereby outputs a video signal; and a lens barrel which, being approximately cylindrical in shape and being fastened to the solid-state image pickup device by a light-curing adhesive, holds a plurality of objective lenses, wherein a tapered surface is formed on a rear end face which opposes front part of the solid-state image pickup device of the lens barrel, with distance between the tapered surface and the front part of the solid-state image pickup device increasing toward outer circumference. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090082626 | ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope has an insertion portion, an abutment portion, an increasing device and an observation portion. The insertion portion is an insertion portion which can be inserted into a subject. The abutment portion is provided at a distal end portion of the insertion portion. The abutment portion provided at the distal end portion can contact with the subject. The increasing device increases the abutment area of the abutment portion. The observation portion performs observation of the subject on the abutment portion provided at the distal end portion and having been increased by the increasing device, or performs observation of the subject spaced by a predetermined distance by the increased abutment portion. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090088601 | ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPY METHOD - An endoscope has an insertion portion, a contact portion, an observation portion and a marking portion. The insertion portion can be inserted into a body cavity. The contact portion is provided at a distal end portion of the insertion portion. The contact portion provided at the distal end portion can be in contact with a subject. The observation portion is provided at the contact portion. The marking portion is provided at the contact portion. The marking portion applies a marker to the subject with which the contact portion is in contact. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090156898 | DISTAL END HOOD FOR ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE WITH HOOD - An elastically deformable elastic deformation portion is disposed at a distal end portion of a cylindrical hood main body attached on an outer peripheral surface of a distal end portion of an endoscope, and the elastic deformation portion is configured such that a distal end portion of the elastic deformation portion abuts on an analyte to position an observation position of a second imaging unit at a magnification observation time utilizing the second imaging unit while the elastic deformation portion is elastically deformable up to a position where a first imaging unit abuts on an analyte at a contact observation time utilizing the first imaging unit. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090173875 | IMAGE PICKUP UNIT AND ENDOSCOPE USING THE SAME - The image pickup unit is configured to include an objective lens unit composed of a plurality of optical members and a series-connecting portion which unitizes the plurality of optical members and a photoelectric conversion image pickup device and the series-connecting portion is configured to include a holding portion which holds one of the plurality of optical members, an extending portion which is provided to extend from one end of the holding portion in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the optical member held by the holding portion and is formed to be elastically deformable in a direction almost orthogonal to the optical axis, and an engaging portion which is provided at the extending portion and engages with, of the plurality of optical members, one different from the optical member held by the holding portion. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100137682 | ENDOSCOPE - There is provided an endoscope capable of observing cells at a desired position existing in the depth direction with a simple structure as compared to the conventional configuration. The endoscope includes an insert unit to be inserted into a biological body, a low-scaling observation system for observing an observation position in a biological body with a low scaling, and a high-scaling observation system for observing a target position of the aforementioned observation position as a local position with a high scaling. The high-scaling observation system includes a plurality of illumination units for applying illumination light for high-scaling observation of the target position. The illumination units are arranged at predetermined positions of the end face of the insert unit. | 06-03-2010 |
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| 20090147969 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PLAYBACK SYSTEM - A playback device includes: a playback portion that plays back content and outputs at least an audio signal; an acquisition portion that acquires an external audio signal; a generating portion that, based on noise collected by a sound collecting device, generates a noise cancellation signal to reduce the noise; a switching portion that, if the acquisition portion has acquired the external audio signal when the playback portion is playing back content, switches an output signal from the audio signal to the external audio signal; and a synthesizing portion that synthesizes the output signal from the switching portion with the noise cancellation signal. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100135517 | EARPIECE AND EARPHONE - There is provided an earpiece comprising: a main unit having a cylindrical shape having made therein a through hole that can allow sound to be transmitted therethrough; a cap portion that has a film-like shape which is formed to extend from all around a front-end surface, in a direction of making the through hole, of the main unit toward a rear-end surface side, and which covers at least a portion of the main unit on the front-end surface side, and in which space between the main unit and the cap portion expands as it goes toward the rear-end surface side; and at least one cutting portion formed in the cap portion so that the cap portion can deform in a direction of the main unit. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110096939 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, HEADPHONE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A reproducing device includes a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a contents sound, an output unit configured to output the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to a headphone, a talk detection unit configured to detect that a headphone fitter who fits the headphone talks with a person and an image normal position control unit configured to move the normal position of the image of the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to an arbitrary position when the talk detecting unit has detected that the headphone fitter has started talking with the person. | 04-28-2011 |
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| 20090176780 | NITROGENOUS HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS - The present invention relates to nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which have inhibitory activity on the phosphorylation of kinases, which inhibits the activity of such kinases. The invention is also related to a method of inhibiting kinases and treating disease states in a mammal by inhibiting the phosphorylation of kinases. In a particular aspect the present invention provides nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which inhibit phosphorylation of a PDGF receptor to hinder abnormal cell growth and cell wandering, and a method for preventing or treating cell-proliferative diseases such as arteriosclerosis, vascular reobstruction, cancer and glomerulosclerosis. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100016250 | TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9 AGONISTS - The present invention provides TLR9 agonists comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by formula (I): | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100113468 | QUINAZOLINE DERIVATIVES AS KINASE INHIBITORS - The present invention relates to nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which have inhibitory activity on the phosphorylation of kinases, which inhibits the activity of such kinases. The invention is also related to a method of inhibiting kinases and treating disease states in a mammal by inhibiting the phosphorylation of kinases. In a particular aspect the present invention provides nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which inhibit phosphorylation of a PDGF receptor to hinder abnormal cell growth and cell wandering, and a method for preventing or treating cell-proliferative diseases such as arteriosclerosis, vascular reobstruction, cancer and glomerulosclerosis. | 05-06-2010 |
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| 20080286571 | Surface Protective Sheet - The present invention relates to a surface protective sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on at least one side of a substrate; wherein, the pressure-sensitive adhesive contains 100 parts by weight of a styrene-isobutylene block copolymer, and 0 to 300 parts by weight of a softening agent and 0 to less than 20 parts by weight of a tackifying resin, both based on 100 parts by weight of the styrene-isobutylene block copolymer. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100167049 | Chip-Resistant Film - A chip-resistant film includes a composite substrate having an ionomer layer and a polyolefin-based polymer layer, with a strength at upper yield point of 10 to 40 N/10 mm, wherein a pressure-sensitive adhesive is placed over the polyolefin-based polymer layer. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110008599 | ANTI-CHIPPING SHEET - An anti-chipping sheet includes at least a substrate layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the substrate layer comprises laminated multiple ionomer layers, each of which comprises an ionomer produced by neutralizing carboxyl groups of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer with metal ions, one of the multiple ionomer layers is a high-rigidity ionomer layer, located at the outermost layer and not in contact with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the substrate layer, and having stiffness of 200 N/mm | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110020643 | SURFACE PROTECTIVE SHEET - The present invention is directed to a surface protective sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive comprised a thermoplastic elastomer as a main component on at least one surface of a substrate, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises a hydrogenation product of styrene random copolymer, an amorphous polypropylene elastomer, a tackifier resin, and a softener, wherein hydrogenation product of styrene random copolymer:amorphous polypropylene elastomer is more than 0:less than 100 to less than 80:more than 20, when the total of the hydrogenation product of styrene random copolymer and the amorphous polypropylene elastomer is taken as 100. | 01-27-2011 |
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| 20080218172 | POTENTIAL MEASURING APPARATUS - A potential measuring apparatus has a detection electrode on which an electric charge is induced according to a potential of a detection object, and a modulator for altering the generated quantity of the electric charge. The detection electrode has at least one depressed portion on a surface opposite to the detection object. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20100246764 | SOURCE GRATING FOR X-RAYS, IMAGING APPARATUS FOR X-RAY PHASE CONTRAST IMAGE AND X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM - A source grating for X-rays and the like which can enhance spatial coherence and is used for X-ray phase contrast imaging is provided. The source grating for X-rays is disposed between an X-ray source and a test object and is used for X-ray phase contrast imaging. The source grating for X-rays includes a plurality of sub-gratings formed by periodically arranging projection parts each having a thickness shielding an X-ray at constant intervals. The plurality of sub-gratings are stacked in layers by being shifted. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110295103 | VISUAL STIMULATION PRESENTING APPARATUS, FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPH APPARATUS, AND BRAIN FUNCTION MEASUREMENT METHOD - A visual stimulation presentation apparatus including: a specimen holding unit, made of a non-magnetic material, configured to hold multiple specimens of actual objects serving as specimens for presenting a subject with visual stimulation when running an apparatus to measure brain functions of the subject by detecting change in magnetic field; an actuator, made of a non-magnetic material, configured to selectively present multiple specimens of actual objects set in the specimen holding unit, by driving the specimen holding unit; and a control unit configured to control driving of the actuator; is used, whereby presenting time and presenting position can be precisely controlled and the delicate surface state of the objects with a high degree of sense of texture. | 12-01-2011 |