Abstract:
The invention relates to an endoscope having an endoscope head with a working channel for guiding microtools, and an Albarran lever that is insertable on and detachable from the endoscope head, and having a tool guide surface with which a tool that is guidable through the working channel may come into contact in order to be deflected in the lateral direction of the endoscope head. An Albarran lever arrangement space is delimited by two flank sections of the endoscope head that extend in the distal direction. An Albarran lever pivot shaft, from which a shaft section protrudes with respect to the Albarran lever arrangement space with a length, is supported in one of the flank sections. The Albarran lever has a shaft insertion hole for inserting the shaft section, and has a width in a direction that is parallel to the shaft insertion hole.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes the steps of (a) forming a perpendicular magnetic recording layer and (b) applying an ion beam to regions between tracks of the perpendicular magnetic recording layer so as to form separation regions for magnetically separating the tracks from each other. In the step (a), a continuous film layer composed of a multilayer film is formed, and CoB layers and Pd layers are laminated in the multilayer film. In the step (b), the CoB layers and the Pd layers are melted by the ion beam so as to form an alloy of metals contained in the CoB layers and the Pd layers to thereby form the separation regions.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium for perpendicular magnetic recording includes a substrate, a granular layer having magnetic crystal grains exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and nonmagnetic substances for magnetically separating the magnetic crystal grains from each other at grain boundaries of the magnetic crystal grains, and a continuous film layer having magnetic grains to be exchange-coupled to the magnetic crystal grains, the grain boundary width of the magnetic grains being smaller than that of the magnetic crystal grains, wherein separation regions for magnetically separating tracks from each other are disposed in regions between the tracks of the magnetic recording medium in at least the continuous film layer.
Abstract:
X-ray CT apparatus including an X-ray generation device and an X-ray detector that detects an X-ray emitted from the X-ray generation device and passing through an inspection object, and collecting X-ray projection data of at least two types of X-ray energies to reconstruct a dual energy image, the X-ray CT apparatus further includes: an acquisition unit that acquires inspection object information including a physical quantity and physical property information of the inspection object, and X-ray characteristic information of an X-ray spectrum, an X-ray filter, and the X-ray detector; and an X-ray imaging condition determination unit that determines X-ray imaging conditions for collecting X-ray projection data of the at least two types of X-ray energies emitted from the X-ray generation device, on the basis of the inspection object information and the X-ray characteristic information of the X-ray spectrum, the X-ray filter, and the X-ray detector acquired by the acquisition unit.
Abstract:
An electronic endoscope system includes: an electronic endoscope including, at a distal end portion, an image sensor that captures an image of a living tissue, and an ultrasound probe that applies ultrasonic waves to the living tissue to obtain an echo signal; a captured image processor including an image processing unit that processes an imaging signal output from the image sensor and generates a captured image; and an ultrasonic image processor including an ultrasonic image processing unit that processes the echo signal output from the ultrasound probe and generates an ultrasonic image, a noise detection unit that detects a periodic noise component included in the echo signal and generated at a level equal to or higher than a preset threshold level, and a noise suppression unit that performs processing of suppressing the detected noise component.
Abstract:
A processor for an endoscope, includes: an imaging signal acquisition unit that acquires an imaging signal from an image sensor; and a dimming unit that controls a light source that illuminates an observation visual field based on the imaging signal, in which the dimming unit includes: a luminance index acquisition unit that acquires, based on the imaging signal, a first index related to a luminance of a first color and a second index related to a luminance of a second color; a generation unit that generates a photometric signal based on the first index and the second index; and a dimming output unit that outputs a dimming signal to the light source based on the photometric signal.
Abstract:
An endoscope with an insertion tube having a proximal passive flexible section and a distal bending section. Cuts are provided in the proximal passive flexible section. Adjacent cuts are unequally spaced in the proximal passive flexible section. The proximal passive flexible section has secondary cuts adjacent to main cuts, wherein the secondary cuts are arranged closer in the longitudinal direction of the proximal passive flexible section to the adjacent main cuts on one side of the secondary cuts than to the adjacent main cuts on the other side of the secondary cuts. The main cuts extend along the circumference of the proximal passive flexible section in an interrupted manner. The proximal passive flexible section includes the main cuts, wherein at least within a subzone in the proximal passive flexible section, the main cuts are unequally spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the proximal passive flexible section.
Abstract:
Letting a particle diameter be Dx (μm) when a cumulative particle volume cumulated from the small particle diameter side reaches x (%) of the total particle volume in a particle size distribution obtained regarding cerium oxide included in a polishing liquid using a laser diffraction/scattering method, D5 is 1 μm or less, D100 is 3 μm or more, D50 is 0.8 to 2.4 μm, and Dpeak−D5 is less than D95−Dpeak.
Abstract:
Provided is a medical-device hook to be attached to a medical device including a tubular portion to be inserted into a body lumen, the medical-device hook including: an inset opening allowing the tubular portion to be inset into the inset opening; and a surrounding portion around the inset opening, the surrounding portion being configured to deform elastically to come in close contact with the tubular portion inset in the inset opening such that the tubular portion is held due to frictional resistance on a closely contacted portion between the surrounding portion around the inset opening and the tubular portion.
Abstract:
A ring-shaped glass spacer is to be arranged in contact with a magnetic disk in a hard disk drive device. A film that contains at least one of tin oxide, zinc oxide, and titanium oxide is formed on each surface of a main surface, and an outer circumferential edge surface, and an inner circumferential edge surface of the glass spacer. The thickness of the film on a center portion of the outer circumferential edge surface of the glass spacer is larger than the thickness of the film on a center portion of the inner circumferential edge surface of the glass spacer.