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A blood pressure monitor includes a main unit casing placed on a table, a living body insert portion casing of an approximately cylindrical shape, positioned on the main unit casing in a non-use state and having a cuff arranged on its inner peripheral surface, the cuff having a hollow portion to which an upper arm of a subject is inserted, and a connection mechanism for connecting the living body insert portion casing with the main unit casing in a movable manner such that, upon application of the cuff to the subject, the living body insert portion casing can move to come closer to the subject than the main unit casing. Thus, a blood pressure monitor provided with an automatic cuff winding mechanism enabling measurement of blood pressure with high accuracy, not giving unnecessary pain to the subject, and allowing measurement with an unconstrained posture can be provided.

The invention relates to a battery. The battery comprises a detection device and a conductive wire, wherein the detection device is positioned inside the battery and on the positive electrode side or the negative electrode side of the battery and is used for detecting the inner electric potential of the battery; and the conductive wire is electrically connected with the detection device, is insulated from the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the battery and is used for leading out the electric potential value detected by the detection device. The detection device is arranged inside the battery provided by the embodiment, and the detection device is led out together with the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the battery by using the conductive wire which is electrically connected with the detection device, so that the potential of a single electrode can be measured accurately and stably.

The present invention relates to a system and a method for measuring liquid level by image, and more particularly to a system and a method for measuring liquid level by image, which is capable of measuring a liquid level accurately and automatically by photographing a proximity of liquid surface where a staff gage contacts the liquid using an image capturing apparatus, such as a camera, being located apart from the liquid to be measured, and by analyzing the photographed footage. The system for measuring liquid level by image comprises: a staff gage installed in the liquid; an image capturing part provided with a distance from where the staff gage is installed and capturing an image by photographing a proximity of liquid surface where the staff gage is installed; and a level recognition part controlling a capture of the image, wherein the level recognition part receives the image captured by the image capturing part and determines the liquid level.

To propose an ultrasonic exploration method and an ultrasonic exploration apparatus that allow exploration of an exploration-target area such as a welded portion to provide a cross-sectional image of the exploration-target area accurately and stably.[Solution] An exploration operation, in which the transmission / reception position, at which ultrasonic waves are transmitted and received, is changed by a specified pitch distance, is performed for each of a plurality of incident angles. A nonlinear image in which echo signals acquired from harmonic waves of reflected waves are presented is generated for each incident angle. Each nonlinear image is converted into a frame conversion image in accordance with the cross-sectional shape of an exploration-target area. A signal intensity threshold for removing echo signals resulting from an orientation defect is determined in advance. Frame conversion images formed by only echo signals 41a whose signal intensity is the signal intensity threshold or more are overlapped to generate a nonlinear exploration image 35. Exploration of a welded portion 23 stably provides a nonlinear exploration image 35 in which the shape of an interface 25 of the welded portion 23 is shown accurately and clearly.

The present invention relates to a process for producing a chemically strengthened glass, which includes conducting a sampling inspection including a measurement of a refractive index distribution of a glass. According to the process of the invention, the surface compressive stress and the depth of the compressive stress layer of the chemically strengthened glass can be stably and accurately measured.

In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a sheet-like temperature monitor member of vanadium oxide is provided, whose one end is connected to one via while the other end is connected to another via. A sheet-like thermal conducting layer of aluminum is provided below the temperature monitor member. A region equal to or greater than a half of the entire temperature monitor member overlies the thermal conducting layer in a plan view.

An array-type capacitive pressure pulse wave sensor includes m rows of lower electrodes arranged in parallel with each other to extend substantially linearly in a direction approximately orthogonal to the extending direction of the artery at the time of measurement, n columns of upper electrodes arranged in parallel with each other at a prescribed distance from the m lower electrodes to extend in a direction crossing the extending direction of the m lower electrodes, and m×n capacitive elements formed at intersections of the m lower electrodes and the n upper electrodes. The m×n capacitive elements are arranged in a staggered manner when the pressure detecting portion is seen in two dimensions. Thus, it is possible to provide an array-type capacitive pressure pulse wave sensor that can be manufactured inexpensively and that ensures accurate and stable measurement of the pressure pulse wave.

A method and system for setting the optimal price for a hotel property are described. The method includes the steps of receiving electronic data having marketing information, including, for example, the customers won and lost by competitors. One or more price sensitivity coefficients are calculated based on the market data. The price sensitivity coefficients are used to calculate a predicted share value representing the probability that a next customer will book a property at the subject hotel at a particular price. The price sensitivity coefficients are also used to calculate a price elasticity value representing the responsiveness of demand for the hotel property to a change in the price of that property. The price of the hotel property is set at a point where the price elasticity value is substantially equal to −1.0.

A blood pressure monitor includes a main unit casing placed on a table, a living body insert portion casing of an approximately cylindrical shape, positioned on the main unit casing in a non-use state and having a cuff arranged on its inner peripheral surface, the cuff having a hollow portion to which an upper arm of a subject is inserted, and a connection mechanism for connecting the living body insert portion casing with the main unit casing in a movable manner such that, upon application of the cuff to the subject, the living body insert portion casing can move to come closer to the subject than the main unit casing. Thus, a blood pressure monitor provided with an automatic cuff winding mechanism enabling measurement of blood pressure with high accuracy, not giving unnecessary pain to the subject, and allowing measurement with an unconstrained posture can be provided.

A depth measurement apparatus that calculates depth information of an object based on a first color image and a second color image, includes: a depth calculator adapted to calculate depth information of a target pixel in a color plane, using the two color images; and an evaluator adapted to calculate, for each color plane, an evaluation value to indicate a confidence coefficient of the depth information in the target pixel, wherein the depth calculator is further adapted to determine, based on the evaluation value, a color plane from which the depth information of the target pixel is calculated.

A driver state determination apparatus includes a far-infrared camera and a state determination section. The far-infrared camera takes facial images of a driver of a vehicle; the facial images are far-infrared images indicating a temperature distribution on a facial surface of the driver. The state determination section determines an abnormal state of the driver based on the far-infrared images sequentially taken by the far-infrared camera during a predetermined period.

Systems and methods for determining an attenuation sinogram for a time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) scan using only TOF PET data, and including use of the total amount of tracer provided to the subject of the TOF PET scan, are provided. The total amount of injected tracer can be used to determine the otherwise unknown constant shift present when an attenuation sinogram is estimated using the gradient of the attenuation sinogram. The attenuation sinogram can therefore be accurately and stably determined without any additional knowledge on the attenuation sinogram or map.

An array-type capacitive pressure pulse wave sensor includes m rows of lower electrodes arranged in parallel with each other to extend substantially linearly in a direction approximately orthogonal to the extending direction of the artery at the time of measurement, n columns of upper electrodes arranged in parallel with each other at a prescribed distance from the m lower electrodes to extend in a direction crossing the extending direction of the m lower electrodes, and m×n capacitive elements formed at intersections of the m lower electrodes and the n upper electrodes. The m×n capacitive elements are arranged in a staggered manner when the pressure detecting portion is seen in two dimensions. Thus, it is possible to provide an array-type capacitive pressure pulse wave sensor that can be manufactured inexpensively and that ensures accurate and stable measurement of the pressure pulse wave.

A cuff for a blood pressure monitor includes an air bag having an inflated / deflated space permitting a fluid to come in and out, and a sponge that is arranged inside the inflated / deflated space to extend substantially continuously from one end to the other end of the air bag in its winding direction. With this configuration, a cuff for a blood pressure monitor permitting the air bag to be inflated uniformly over the entire region when the air is introduced therein is achieved.

The invention provides a distance measuring device and method and a vehicle. The distance measuring device comprises an image acquisition module, a lane line identification module, a distance collection module and an intelligent decision module, wherein the image acquisition module is used for collecting a front image of the vehicle, and transmitting the front image of the vehicle to the lane line identification module; the lane line identification module is used for identifying a lane line in the front image of the vehicle, marking off a lane with the lane line as a boundary, and transmitting the lane marked off by the lane line identification module to the intelligent decision module; the distance collection module is used for collecting a distance between the front vehicle or an obstacle and the vehicle, and transmitting the distance to the intelligent decision module; and the intelligent decision module is used for determining the lane where the front vehicle or the obstacle is located and the distance between the front vehicle or the obstacle and the vehicle according to a mounting angle of the distance collection module and the lane and the distance which are marked off by the lane line identification module. By adoption of the technical scheme of the invention, the distance can be measured at divided lanes.

The invention relates to the field of geology detection equipment and discloses a soil humidity sensor based on an oscillation circuit and a working method of the soil humidity sensor. Two electrode plates and soil located between the two electrode plates are taken as a capacitor, a dielectric constant of the soil can be obtained through backstepping based on the obtained frequency value of the oscillation circuit by the use of the relation between the frequency and the capacitance of the oscillation circuit and the relation between the capacitance and the dielectric constant, the humidity value of the soil is further obtained, accordingly, the defect of low linearity of transmission FDR and TDR can be overcome, the soil moisture can be rapidly, accurately and stably measured. Besides, the soil humidity sensor further has the characteristics that the circuit structure is simple, the cost is low, the application is convenient and the like, is high in practicability and facilitates actual popularization and use.

The invention discloses a two-phase flow interface parameter measuring method adopting a two-phase flow interface parameter measuring system for measurement. The two-phase flow interface parameter measuring system comprises three layers of electrode wires used as exciting electrode wires and receiving electrode wires. The method comprises the steps as follows: S1, an exciting signal control unit generates an exciting signal and sends the exciting signal to all exciting electrode wires; S2, the exciting electrode wires receive and transfer the exciting signal to the receiving electrode wires; S3, all detection points on the receiving electrode wires acquire a current signal and send the current signal to a received signal processing unit; S4, the received signal processing unit receives thecurrent signal sent by a phase state detection device and calculates interface parameters according to the received current signal, wherein the interface parameters comprise void fraction, interfacearea concentration, bubble size and bubble speed. The whole interface parameters on sections can be measured in real time, accurately and stably under an instantaneous condition, and data support is provided for conducting deep study of two-phase flow under the instantaneous condition.

A living-body component measuring apparatus measures a component of an inner tissue of a living body serving as an object to be measured by emitting laser light having two or more wavelengths from a light source and measuring reflected light of the laser light from the inner tissue of the living body. The living-body component measuring apparatus includes a beam splitter that changes optical paths of a part of the laser light and the reflected light, a reference-light measuring unit that measures, as reference light, the part of the laser light having the optical path changed by the beam splitter, a reflected-light measuring unit that measures the reflected light having the optical path changed by the beam splitter, and an analysis unit that analyzes the inner tissue by measuring a spectrum of the reflected light or the reference light.

An axial force measurement method includes: a step of calculating an average value of the height of pixels positioned inside a minimum circle, which is centered on a gravity center position of a head, as a minimum point; a step of extracting pixels with a relatively large height from the pixels on the basis of a pixel value of the pixels and calculating an average value of the height of the extracted pixels as a maximum point; a step of calculating a displacement amount of the head on the basis of a difference between the minimum point and the maximum point; and a step of calculating an axial force by substituting the displacement amount of the head into a relational expression of an axial force and the displacement amount of the head.

A cuff for a blood pressure monitor is wound around a measurement site of the living body, and includes an air bag having an inflated / deflated space formed therein by melting and bonding rims of an outer wall portion and an inner wall portion together. The air bag contains a band-shaped connecting portion, which has ends respectively attached to one end and the other end of the air bag in its winding direction around the living body, so as to extend substantially continuously from the one end to the other end of the air bag. The band-shaped connecting portion is arranged inside the inflated / deflated space of the air bag. With this configuration, a cuff for a blood pressure monitor permitting uniform inflation of the air bag over the entire region when the pressurized air is introduced therein is obtained.

The invention relates to an arm type heart pulse detecting device and a detecting method, and the device mainly comprises an electrocardio-sensor, a physiological signal processing circuit, a microprocessor, a motion sensor, a wireless communication module and an RFID (radio frequency identification) identity identification circuit, wherein the electrocardio-sensor is connected with the physiological signal processing circuit, the physiological signal processing circuit is connected with the microprocessor, the microprocessor is further connected with the motion sensor, the microprocessor is connected with the wireless communication module, and the RFID identity identification circuit constitutes an identification system alone; the detecting method comprises the following steps: wearing the arm type heart pulse detecting device on an arm, leading the electrocardio-sensor to be in contact with skin for acquiring electrocardiosignals, carrying out amplification, filtration and A / D (analog / digital) conversion on the electrocardiosignals through the physiological signal processing circuit to obtain digital signals, leading the microprocessor to carry out calculation and analysis after obtaining the digital signals, and finally obtaining an electrocardiogram and a heart rate value after treatment; utilizing the motor sensor to acquire motion signals of a human body, and calculating and analyzing the signals by the processor, thereby obtaining the motion state of the human body; and further calculating the one-day quantity of motion of a carrier. The arm type heart pulse detecting device does not need a lead wire, carries out active measurement of heart pulse, is simple and convenient for wearing, and can accurately stably measure the electrocardiosignals under the motion state, judge the motion state of the carrier, further calculate the one-day quantity of motion of the carrier and the like.

A living-body component measuring apparatus measures a component of an inner tissue of a living body serving as an object to be measured by emitting laser light having two or more wavelengths from a light source and measuring reflected light of the laser light from the inner tissue of the living body. The living-body component measuring apparatus includes a beam splitter that changes optical paths of a part of the laser light and the reflected light, a reference-light measuring unit that measures, as reference light, the part of the laser light having the optical path changed by the beam splitter, a reflected-light measuring unit that measures the reflected light having the optical path changed by the beam splitter, and an analysis unit that analyzes the inner tissue by measuring a spectrum of the reflected light or the reference light.

A linear elastic modulus measurement method and a linear elastic modulus measurement device can reduce external disturbances such as oscillation and electrical noise, and accurately and stably measure the linear elastic modulus of a linear elastic body even in the case where damping due to viscous stress is large. The measurement device computes the oscillation velocity (dx / dt) of an oscillator from the displacement of the oscillator brought into contact with the linear elastic body, and multiplies dx / dt by a linear velocity feedback gain to generate a feedback control signal. The measurement device applies, to the oscillator, a force proportional to the oscillation velocity of the oscillator by the feedback control signal, to cause the oscillator to self-oscillate. The measurement device computes the linear elastic modulus of the linear elastic body from the frequency when the self-oscillation of the oscillator is detected and the mass of the oscillator.

Disclosed herein is a cutting apparatus having a cutting blade for cutting a workpiece held on a chuck table. The cutting apparatus includes an elastic wave detecting sensor for detecting an elastic wave due to the rotation of the cutting blade, a reference data storing section configured to store reference data as a set of reference processing elastic wave data detected in previously processing the workpiece and reference idling elastic wave data detected in the condition where the cutting blade is idling before processing, a threshold value storing section configured to store a threshold value set on the basis of the reference processing elastic wave data, a ratio calculating section configured to calculate the ratio of idling elastic wave data detected at the time just before actually processing the workpiece to the reference idling elastic wave data, and a determining section configured to divide processing elastic wave data detected during the actual processing by the ratio calculated by the ratio calculating section to thereby obtain a corrected value and then determine that the actual processing is abnormal when the corrected value is greater than the threshold value.

An electric conductometer comprising at least two electric conductivity measuring electrodes each body of which is made from a conductive metal and each surface of which is formed by a titanium oxide layer as an electrode surface, a space for storing a substance to be measured formed between the electrode surfaces of the electrodes, and means for irradiating light to the electrode surfaces. Since the electrode surfaces are formed from the titanium oxide layers, organic substances contained in a measuring system are decomposed and prevented automatically from adhering or being adsorbed to the electrode surfaces. Consequently, electric conductivity can be measured stably and accurately at all times without substantially requiring any cleaning.

The invention relates to a radar device for measuring a relative distance to a target. It is an object of the invention to precisely determine the relative distance to the target in a wide range. The radar device according to the invention generates a second pulse by demodulating a signal arriving from a target as a response to a wave signal modulated with a first pulse. The radar device evaluates, as the relative distance to the target, such two different instances that an absolute value of a deviation of a ratio of two instantaneous values of the second pulse from a reference value as a ratio of two instantaneous values of the first pulse is to be minimum. The respective two instantaneous values are with a predetermined interval therebetween on a time axis.

The invention relates to a distance measurement method based on waveform matching in the TOF technology. The method comprises steps that, A, the TOF technology is employed for repeated measurement, and multiple TOF period numbers are acquired; B, processing on the acquired TOF period numbers is carried out to acquire a measurement distance, specifically comprising B1), the TOF period numbers are taken as abscissas, frequency of a certain TOF period number during measurement is taken as an ordinate, and an oscillogram is acquired; B2), curve waveform parameter values and Boolean type parameter values of the oscillogram are acquired; B3), a pre-stored curve waveform parameter distance corresponding table is searched, prediction distances corresponding to the curve waveform parameter values in the B2) step are acquired, the optimal weight ratio is introduced, weight sum of all the prediction distances is carried out to acquire a preliminary measurement distance; and B4), error correction on the preliminary measurement distance is carried out according to the Boolean type parameter values of the B2) step, and the final measurement distance is acquired. Compared with the prior art, the method has advantages of high precision, storage space saving and low data processing complexity.

Disclosed are a method for immunologically measuring cardiac troponin in a biological sample, in which the formation of an immunological complex of cardiac troponin with an antibody specifically binding thereto is performed in the presence of a divalent cation at 4 mmol / L or more; and a kit for measuring cardiac troponin, comprising an antibody specifically binding to cardiac troponin, and a buffer containing a divalent cation at a high concentration. According to the method or the kit, a stable and highly-accurate measured value can be obtained without being affected by interfering substances in a specimen regardless of the type of specimen.