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20100010509 | TISSUE FASTENING APPARATUS - A tissue fastening apparatus includes a tissue fastening tool, with fastens a first biological tissue and a second biological tissue so as to bring the tissues into close contact and an applicator for indwelling the tissue fastening tool. The tissue fastening tool is made of an elastic wire rod and is wound in a coil shape. The applicator includes a needle tube accommodated in an inner cavity with the tissue fastening tool stretched, a stylet inserted into the inner cavity of the needle tube nearer to the proximal side than the tissue fastening tool, and a rotating mechanism that rotates the stylet around an axis when the stylet is moved toward a distal end of the needle tube. The tissue fastening tool and the stylet are disengageably engaged with each other and integrally and rotatably connected with each other. The rotating mechanism rotates the stylet in a direction opposite to the winding direction of the tissue fastening tool as seen from the proximal side. | 01-14-2010 |
20100010514 | TISSUE FASTENING TOOL - A tissue fastening instrument that fastens a first biological tissue and a second biological tissue that is adjacent to the first biological tissue so as to come into close contact, provided with a first tissue fixing portion that consists of an elastic wire that is wound into a coil shape and engaged on the first biological tissue; a second tissue fixing portion that consists of an elastic wire that is wound into a coil shape, is connected to a first end portion of the first tissue fixing portion and engaged on the second biological tissue; and a peripheral spring portion that is connected to a second end portion of the first tissue fixing portion and extends toward the second tissue fixing portion while forming a loop on the outside of the first tissue fixing portion and the second tissue fixing portion, in which the peripheral spring portion has a spring portion that is connected to the second end portion of the first tissue fixing portion and extends toward the second tissue fixing portion, and an end turn portion that is connected to the spring portion and forms, on the outside of the spring portion, a loop that is approximately parallel with a base loop that the first tissue fixing portion and the second tissue fixing portion form; and the base loop, the loop that the spring portion forms, and the loop that the end turn portion forms are disposed so as not to mutually overlap in the diameter direction of the base loop. | 01-14-2010 |
20100056863 | MEDICAL MANIPULATOR, MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT - A medical manipulator which includes: a plurality of arms formed in a cylindrical shape a distal end portion of which is made of a rigid member having a bending portion capable of bending; an insertion portion made of a rigid member having a plurality of channels in which base ends of the plurality of arms are connected to a distal end of the insertion portion so as to connect lumens of the arms to the plurality of channels; a photographic device provided at the distal end of the insertion portion; an operation portion that operates the bending portion; and a transmission member that connects the bending portion and the operation portion, in which the bending portion has: a first bending portion that is capable of bending in a predetermined direction by an operation of the operation portion, and a second bending portion provided in a base end than the first bending portion that is capable of fixing the plurality of arms in a bent state so as to mutually separate, and the transmission portion has: a first region which is flexible, and a second region which is rigid and connected to a base end portion of the first region. | 03-04-2010 |
20100069710 | TREATMENT METHOD - A treatment method for a tissue in a body cavity of a patient includes the steps of endoscopically introducing treatment tools into the body cavity of the patient from a natural opening of the patient, and setting the posture of the patient to a prone position. | 03-18-2010 |
20100179383 | SELECTIVE CANNULATION METHOD AND ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT INSTRUMENT USED FOR LUMENAL TISSUE HAVING BRANCH SECTION - A selective cannulation method for a lumenal tissue's branch section includes: a first step for guiding an endoscope having a channel to an aperture section of the lumenal tissue; a second step for inserting a distal end of an endoscopic treatment instrument through the channel into the aperture section of the lumenal tissue; a third step for having the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument make contact with a pipe wall extending from the aperture section of the lumenal tissue to the branch section at two opposed points on the pipe wall by deforming the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument; a fourth step for sliding and moving the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument to the branch section while having the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument make contact with the pipe wall; and a fifth step for inserting the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument into a predetermined branch lumen divided from the branch section. | 07-15-2010 |
20130184528 | ENDOSCOPE, AND TREATMENT INSTRUMENT FOR ENDOSCOPE - A medical instrument system includes an elongated member having an inner space in a direction of a longitudinal axis, an insertion section installed at the inner space and having a bending section capable of being bent, a manipulation section configured to manipulate the bending section, a first manipulation member transmitting a driving force of the bending section in accordance with the manipulation by the manipulation section, a second manipulation member arranged in the direction of a longitudinal axis, a connecting section having a first connecting section and a second connecting section and capable of connecting the first manipulation member and the second manipulation member, and a switching mechanism having a first acting section and a second acting section and switching between a connection state and a release state in accordance with a relative movement between the elongated member and the insertion section. | 07-18-2013 |
20140296632 | ENDOSCOPE, AND TREATMENT INSTRUMENT FOR ENDOSCOPE - A medical instrument system includes an elongated member having an inner space in a direction of a longitudinal axis, an insertion section installed at the inner space and having a bending section capable of being bent, a manipulation section configured to manipulate the bending section, a first manipulation member transmitting a driving force of the bending section in accordance with the manipulation by the manipulation section, a second manipulation member arranged in the direction of a longitudinal axis, a connecting section having a first connecting section and a second connecting section and capable of connecting the first manipulation member and the second manipulation member, and a switching mechanism having a first acting section and a second acting section and switching between a connection state and a release state in accordance with a relative movement between the elongated member and the insertion section. | 10-02-2014 |
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20120045099 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An information processing device, method, program, and electronic apparatus are provided for operating an information processing device without a sense of discomfort regardless of a distance between the information processing device and a user. The information processing device, method, program, and electronic apparatus detect a subject from an image and extract a feature point from the subject. The feature point is converted into a coordinate point based on a movement distance of the subject and an image distance. The image distance being a distance between the subject and where the image is captured. | 02-23-2012 |
20140163708 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND PLAYBACK METHOD - Provided is a portable electronic device including a signal processing unit, a controller that supplies a control signal to the signal processing unit, and a power generation unit that generates an electrical signal as power and supplies the generated electrical signal to the signal processing unit. | 06-12-2014 |
20140340376 | DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device including a display unit, a power generation unit configured to have one or more power generation mechanisms and to generate electric power necessary for re-writing information displayed on the display unit, and a housing configured to have a substantial flat plate shape as a whole and to accommodate the display unit and the power generation unit. Generation of electric power by at least one power generation mechanism among the one or more power generation mechanisms is associated with an input operation performed by a user. | 11-20-2014 |
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20090239017 | ANTIFOGGING GLASS FOR A VEHICLE WINDOW, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND FIXING STRUCTURE FOR THE SAME - An antifogging glass is provided which has not only an excellent antifogging property but also an excellent appearance and provides an excellent visual effect to an observer. | 09-24-2009 |
20130260145 | ANTI-FOGGING ARTICLE AND ITS PRODUCTION PROCESS - An anti-fogging article having a substrate and an anti-fogging film on at least part of the surface of the substrate, wherein the anti-fogging film comprises a resin underlayer and a water-absorptive resin layer laminated in order on the substrate surface, the water-absorptive resin layer is composed mainly of a first cured epoxy resin obtained by reacting a water-absorptive resin layer-forming composition containing a first polyepoxide component consisting of a low molecular weight polyepoxide having molecular weight of from 200 to 800 and a high molecular weight polyepoxide having molecular weight of from 900 to 2,000 combined in mass ratio of from 30:70 to 70:30, and a first curing agent, and the resin underlayer is composed mainly of a second cured epoxy resin obtained by reacting a resin underlayer-forming composition containing a second polyepoxide component and a second curing agent, and has water absorption property lower than the water-absorptive resin layer. | 10-03-2013 |
20150210144 | VEHICLE WINDSHIELD - There is provided a vehicle windshield which can decrease chances of a fogging to occur by having an antifogging property, and under a situation that a fogging occurs, it is able to allow a driver to easily and surely recognize an occurrence state of the fogging in its initial state without adversely affecting visibility. The vehicle windshield has a window glass, a strip-shaped black ceramic layer, and a water absorbing antifogging film, wherein the water absorbing antifogging film has a thin-film area located outside a visual field area where a visual field of a driver is ensured in the vehicle windshield and inside an area where the black ceramic layer is formed, the thin-film area having a maximum film thickness in a range of 30% to 70% of a minimum film thickness in the visual field area and having a size recognizable by the driver when a fogging occurs. | 07-30-2015 |
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20130224897 | LIGHT TRANSMISSION MEMBER, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A method of forming a light transmission member includes a plurality of processes to form a plurality of sections of the light transmission member. Notably, after a first class process to form light transmission portions having narrow-band light transmission properties in a first class section group, a second class process is performed to form light transmission portions in a second class section group, and a fourth class process is performed to form light transmission portions having wide-band light transmission properties in a first section. | 08-29-2013 |
20150364510 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a passivation film on a substrate including a first element region, a second element region adjacent to the first element region in a first direction, a third element region adjacent to the first region in a second direction, and a first scribe region extending to the first direction between the first element region and the third element region, forming a first trench in the passivation film between the first scribe region and the first element region, forming a second trench in the passivation film between the third element region and the first scribe region, and forming a film on the passivation film where the trenches have been formed by coating. The each of trenches is formed continuously along the first and the second element region. | 12-17-2015 |
20150364514 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a passivation film on a substrate including a plurality of element regions and a scribe region, forming a trench in the passivation film in a region of the scribe region along an outer edge of each of the element regions, and forming a film on the passivation film in which the trench has been formed by coating. A depth of a first section in a first position of the trench is shallower than a depth of a second section in a second position of the trench. A width of the first section is wider than a width of the second section. | 12-17-2015 |
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20090089631 | MEMORY DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - A memory diagnosis apparatus include an intra-word testing unit that tests for a coupling fault in each bit in each word in a memory, an inter-word testing unit that tests for a coupling fault between words in each sub-array each being plural words in the memory, and an inter-block testing unit that tests for a coupling fault between sub-arrays in the memory. | 04-02-2009 |
20090284531 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Program - An information processing apparatus includes a network structure generation unit that generates a network structure showing relations formed between registered users at a predetermined time based on user information containing attribute information showing attributes of the registered user registered with a social networking service (SNS) and registration time information showing a registration time of the registered user, and relation information containing relation formation information showing a relation formed between the registered users on the SNS, and relation formation time information showing a relation formation time, a network image generation unit that generates a network image representing the generated network structure with the registered user as a node and a relation formed between the registered users as an edge, and a network image display unit that chronologically displays the generated network images at a plurality of the predetermined times. Accordingly, a change of SNS operation conditions can efficiently be grasped. | 11-19-2009 |
20110087773 | CONTENTS' RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZING APPARATUS, CONTENTS' RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZING METHOD AND ITS PROGRAM - There is provided a contents' relationship visualizing apparatus including a usage history acquiring unit for acquiring usage histories of multiple contents, a users' set specifying unit for specifying a content's users' set indicating users utilizing each content by use of the contents' usage histories, a similarity calculating unit for calculating a similarity between the specified users' sets by use of a similarity index, and a network creating unit for creating a network indicating a relationship between the contents by use of the calculated similarity between the users' sets. | 04-14-2011 |
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20120292136 | ELEVATOR SAFETY CONTROL DEVICE - An elevator safety control device realizing suppression in increase in cost and labor hour of installation and maintenance without deteriorating safety of normal safety control functions even when a plurality of safety control functions are provided. The elevator safety control device includes an independence assurance unit assuring independence of a safety control function. The independence assurance unit assures independence of each of the safety control functions by monitoring whether or not the safety control function accesses a memory other than a permitted region. When the independence assurance unit detects an access to the memory other than the permitted region by a predetermined safety control function, the elevator safety control device stops a car. | 11-22-2012 |
20130138523 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a condition acquisition unit that acquires a task condition of a shopping task, a cost calculation unit that calculates a cost of a candidate of a purchase behavior for executing the shopping task by a participating member participating in the shopping task based on a characteristic of an item purchased through the purchase behavior, and a determination unit that determines the purchase behavior of the participating member based on the cost. | 05-30-2013 |