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An acoustic lens contains silicone rubber and metal oxide particles.

An ultrasonic probe includes: a piezoelectric element that transmits and receives an ultrasonic wave; one or a plurality of acoustic matching layers disposed on a subject side of the piezoelectric element; and a conductor layer that applies a voltage to the piezoelectric element, wherein the conductor layer is disposed between the piezoelectric element and the acoustic matching layer, or between the plurality of acoustic matching layers, a magnitude of an acoustic impedance of the conductor layer is between a magnitude of an acoustic impedance of a layer disposed on one surface side of the conductor layer and a magnitude of an acoustic impedance of a layer disposed on the other surface side of the conductor layer, and the conductor layer has a Vickers hardness (Hv) of 50 or more and 600 or less.

An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided.

An intermediate server acting as a relay between an information processing apparatus and an external server includes a first registration control unit that transmits registration information regarding an application software service of the external server to the information processing apparatus, and causes the information processing apparatus to execute a registration operation of pre-registering information for receiving the application software service; a storage unit that stores a template for re-registration information for re-registering the application software service; a detection unit that detects a change in network identification information regarding the intermediate server; and a second registration control unit that, when the change is detected, generates re-registration information that includes changed new network identification information regarding the intermediate server on the basis of the template, transmits the re-registration information to the information processing apparatus, and causes the information processing apparatus to execute a re-registration operation of re-registering the application software service.

An electronic apparatus includes a processor that performs: obtaining first information related to ambient electromagnetic radiation of the electronic apparatus in an environment having at least one other electronic apparatus; and controlling operation of either one or both of the electronic apparatus and the at least one other electronic apparatus with reference to the result of the comparison of a level of ambient electromagnetic radiation of the electronic apparatus to an allowable limit of electromagnetic radiation exposure of the electronic apparatus, the level of ambient electromagnetic radiation being included in the first information obtained by the processor.

An image reading apparatus includes a reader, a transmitter, an opposing part that is placed opposite to the transmitter, and a hardware processor that controls a position of the opposing part such that a gap between the transmitter and the opposing part becomes a first gap when images are read by the reader, and a gap between the transmitter and the opposing part becomes a second gap, which is wider than the first gap, when no image is read by the reader.

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part that forms a toner image on a recording medium; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming part, wherein the image forming part includes an image carrier, the hardware processor executes: a first adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a first image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at a plurality of points in a first direction on the image carrier; and a second adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a second image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at one point in a first direction on the image carrier, the image carrier rotates as a recording medium is conveyed, the first direction is a direction intersecting with a rotational direction of the image carrier.

An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a measurer that measures the number of rotations of the photoreceptor, and a hardware processor.

An image processing system includes: an image forming apparatus; a terminal capable of transmitting a print job; a server that sends a push notification to the terminal based on identification information; a memory that stores the identification and terminal information in association with each other when the identification information is generated upon reception of permission of the push notification; and a CPU that: upon reception of the print job, extracts the terminal information from received data of the print job; designates the identification information associated with the extracted terminal information from stored information; generates information about a print setting screen based on the print job; and causes the push notification of the information about the print setting screen to be sent from the server to the terminal associated with the identification information based on the generated information about the print setting screen and the designated identification information.

A dynamic analysis system includes a diagnostic console which calculates at least one index value representing variation in a target portion of a human body from at least one dynamic image acquired by performing radiographic imaging to a subject containing the target portion, and evaluates flexibility of the target portion based on the calculated index value.

If a job is accepted in the middle of cardiac potential measurement in a state where acquisition of data for stress measurement corresponding to cycles necessary for stress measurement has not been completed, the state of progress of stress measurement is compared with the acceptance timing of the job, and with respect to acceptance of a job for which a time from the acceptance timing of the job to completion of stress measurement on a current measurement object cycle does not exceed a pre-set first setting value, the job is executed after completion of stress measurement in the current measurement cycle, and with respect to acceptance of a job for which a time from the acceptance timing of the job to completion of stress measurement exceeds the first setting value, stress measurement is interrupted and the job is preferentially executed and stress measurement is restarted.

An ultrasound probe includes: a plurality of ultrasound transducers each including a diaphragm, a lower electrode laminated on a surface of the diaphragm, a piezoelectric film laminated on a surface of the lower electrode, and including an effective area in which larger vibration is caused upon piezoelectric conversion, and a reference area in which smaller vibration than that in the effective area is caused upon piezoelectric conversion, and an upper electrode laminated on a surface of the piezoelectric film; and hardware processors that correct variation in performance between the ultrasound transducers, wherein one or both of the lower electrode and the upper electrode include an effective area electrode portion, and a reference area electrode portion, and each of the hardware processors is a device that corrects one or both of an output value from the effective area electrode portion and an input value to the effective area electrode portion.

A radiographic image capturing system includes: a radiation irradiating apparatus which emits radiation and provides notification of radiation emission while emitting the radiation; a radiographic image capturing apparatus which includes two-dimensional matrix radiation detecting elements and reads electric charges accumulated in the radiation detecting elements as image data; an exposure switch capable of two-step manipulations, the exposure switch transmitting an activation signal in response to a first-step manipulation and transmitting a radiation start signal in response to a second-step manipulation; a signal transceiver which receives the activation signal and transfers the received activation signal to the radiation irradiating apparatus; and a delay time calculating device which calculates, as a delay time, a difference between a time of reception of the activation signal at the signal transceiver and a time of start of the notification of radiation emission at the radiation irradiating apparatus.

Provided is an object detection device which unlikely causes vignetting of a beam reflected from a mirror surface during rotation, and fully ensures object detection performance A light projecting system and a light receiving system are disposed so that a larger one of the area of a region on a mirror surface occupied by a beam emitted from a semiconductor laser and the area of a region on the mirror surface occupied by a beam incident on a photodiode has a longer movement length on the mirror surface during rotation than a smaller one.

Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including toner mother particles having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles and aliphatic acid metal salt particles; the inorganic particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 10 to 50 nm, and have a Mohs hardness of 8 or more; and the aliphatic acid metal salt particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 to 2.0 μm.

An image forming apparatus calculates a post exposure potential after exposure by an exposure device based on a first charge voltage, a second charge voltage, a charge current in a first change characteristic when a transfer voltage is the first charge voltage, a charge current in a second change characteristic when the charge voltage is the first charge voltage, a charge current in the first change characteristic when the charge voltage is the second charge voltage, and a charge current in the second change characteristic when the charge voltage is the second charge voltage, and makes a determination as to life of an image carrier based on the post exposure potential.

An endless belt includes a base layer having an endless belt shape, an elastic layer provided on the base layer, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer.

An image processing device capable of executing a plurality of jobs that differ in kind, the image processing device includes: a controller that controls execution of an input job; and a detection part that, on the basis of a voice detected by a voice detector, detects that any of a plurality of predetermined target voices has been emitted, wherein in a case where it is detected that the target voice has been emitted during a target setting period corresponding to a job that is being executed, among setting periods that are defined beforehand according to kinds of jobs respectively, the controller stops the execution of the job.