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An apparatus for diagnosing an angiopathy of a living subject, including a first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains a first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a first velocity at which a first pulse wave propagates through a first interval of the subject, a second pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains, at a substantially same time as a time when the first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device obtains the first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, a second pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a second velocity at which a second pulse wave propagates through a second interval of the subject that is different from the first interval, and a comparison-value calculating device for calculating a comparison value based on the first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information and the second pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information.

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a region of interest setting unit for setting a region of interest containing at least part of a liver and at least part of a kidney in a B mode image, a controller for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic beams to obtain reception data for measuring a sound speed, a sound speed map producer for producing a sound speed map of a liver region based on the reception data for measuring a sound speed, and a hepatorenal contrast calculator for calculating an average luminance in the liver region and an average luminance in a kidney region of the region of interest and calculating a hepatorenal contrast based on the calculated average luminances.

A control apparatus is capable of separately detecting an unexpected fluctuation in the amount of NOx discharged from an engine (combustion chamber), separately from deterioration of lean NOx catalyst performance, thereby avoiding incorrect diagnosis of deterioration of the lean NOx catalyst, and ensuring the optimum control of the catalyst.

An object of the invention is to diagnose a failure of an addition valve provided in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. To achieve the object, post injection through a fuel injection valve of the internal combustion engine and reducing agent addition through the reducing agent addition valve are performed at different timings, the quantity of fuel injected through the fuel injection valve when the post injection is performed and the quantity of reducing agent added through the reducing agent addition valve when the reducing agent addition is performed are estimated based on a same parameter, and it is diagnosed that the reducing agent addition valve has a failure on condition that the difference between the estimated fuel quantity and the estimated reducing agent quantity exceeds a predetermined quantity.

In a passenger conveyer abnormality diagnosis system, sound data of escalator operating sound of a plurality of revolutions is collected by a moving sound collector provided for an inspection step and then processed into a data set for diagnosis with an accidental external noise component removed. The data set for diagnosis sent from a data transceiver through a communication network to a remote monitoring apparatus installed at a remote-located monitoring center. The remote monitoring apparatus diagnose the presence of abnormalities of the escalator based on the data set for diagnosis.

An abnormal sound detection device includes a first learning unit that inputs a normal operating sound of the machine equipment, and registers a normal sound base spectrum from an amplitude spectrogram, a new sound / new vibration extraction unit that executes supervised nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) using the normal sound base spectrum as teacher data on an acoustic signal input during diagnosis, and outputs a nonnegative matrix not allowed to be approximated with a low rank in the normal sound base spectrum, a second learning unit that extracts a new sound / new vibration component from the normal operating sound of the machine equipment, learns a normal sound model from the new sound / new vibration component, and registers the normal sound model, and an abnormality detection unit that computes a probability that the new sound / new vibration component extracted from the acoustic signal of the machine equipment during diagnosis is generated from the normal sound model.

An arteriosclerosis inspecting apparatus including an information obtaining device which obtains information that is related to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates in a living subject, a blood-pressure measuring device which measures a blood pressure of the subject, a heart-rate measuring device which measures a heart rate of the subject, a pre-ejection-period measuring device which measures a pre-ejection period from a time of starting of contraction of the heart of the subject to a time of starting of ejection of blood from the heart, an ejection-time measuring device which measures an ejection time from the time of starting of ejection of blood from the heart to a time of ending of ejection of blood from the heart, and an arteriosclerosis-inspection-related-augmentation-index determining means for determining an arteriosclerosis-inspection-related augmentation index of the subject, based on the obtained pulse-wave-velocity-related information, the measured blood pressure, the measured heart rate, the measured pre-ejection period, and the measured ejection time, according to a predetermined relationship between (A) (a1) pulse-wave-velocity-related information, (a2) blood pressure, (a3) heart rate, (a4) pre-ejection period and (a5) ejection time, and (B) arteriosclerosis-inspection-related augmentation index.

An exhaust gas sensor is diagnosed with high accuracy as much as possible while maintaining the function of an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. In a diagnostic apparatus for an exhaust gas sensor which is applied to an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas sensor, a fuel supplier, a controller configured to carry out predetermined fuel supply processing and predetermined oxygen concentration processing, and which diagnoses the exhaust gas sensor based on an output value thereof, provision is made for the controller that sets as a diagnostic output value a first output value, which is an output value at the side of the highest oxygen concentration in the output value of the exhaust gas sensor in a measurement period, and performs the diagnosis of the exhaust gas sensor based on the diagnostic output value, when predetermined fuel supply processing is carried out in the measurement period.

A power conversion device provided with a DC power source, a voltage boost converter, an inverter, a primary smoothing capacitor, a secondary smoothing capacitor, an intermediate capacitor provided in the voltage boost converter and three voltage sensors which measure the voltages of the capacitors, further including an abnormality diagnosis controller which makes a diagnosis of the presence / absence of an abnormality in the detection characteristics of the voltage sensors, on the basis of the state of transition of the detection results of the voltage sensors which are monitored during a discharge operation by the respective capacitors.

The present invention provides a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to acid-fast bacillary lipoarabinomannan, particularly tubercle bacillary lipoarabinomannan, the antibody being set forth below:(A) a monoclonal antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region joined via a linker, the heavy chain variable region comprising heavy chains CDR1 to CDR3 shown in (a) to (c) below, and the light chain variable region comprising light chains CDR1 to CDR3 shown in (d) to (f) below:(a) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1,(b) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2,(c) heavy chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 3,(d) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4,(e) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5, and(f) light chain CDR1 consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 6.The present invention further provides the use of the antibody.

A power conversion device provided with a DC power source, a voltage boost converter, an inverter, a primary smoothing capacitor, a secondary smoothing capacitor, an intermediate capacitor provided in the voltage boost converter and three voltage sensors which measure the voltages of the capacitors, further including an abnormality diagnosis controller which makes a diagnosis of the presence / absence of an abnormality in the detection characteristics of the voltage sensors, on the basis of the state of transition of the detection results of the voltage sensors which are monitored during a discharge operation by the respective capacitors.

The present invention relates to a technique in which a target exosome subpopulation, a sub-subpopulation, or a lower population in human fluid, which is associated with a specific disease, is isolated and recovered in its intact form at high yield to prepare a liquid biopsy sample and analyzed.

A power supply unit for an aerosol suction device includes: a power supply capable of discharging to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a controller capable of controlling charging and discharging of the power supply. The controller is capable of operating in a charging mode for controlling charging of the power supply, a first mode different from the charging mode, and a second mode different from the charging mode and the first mode, and is capable of executing diagnosis processes of the power supply in each of the first mode and the second mode.

Provided is a novel heart failure diagnostic device capable of performing high-precision diagnosis of heart failure based on respiratory stability on the basis of the detection results of a flexible piezoelectric sensor sheet that does not need to be worn on a user. A heart failure diagnostic device (10) diagnoses heart failure using an index generated on the basis of the standard deviation of the respiratory rate of a user (P), the heart failure diagnostic device (10) comprising: a flexible piezoelectric sensor sheet (12) that outputs a detection signal in accordance with input vibration; a respiration signal acquisition unit (40) that extracts, as a respiration signal, a signal of a vibration frequency caused by respiration from a detection signal of the piezoelectric sensor sheet (12); and a power spectrum calculation unit (44) that calculates the power spectrum of the respiratory band on the basis of the respiratory signal, the heart failure diagnosis device (10) being provided with a signal correction unit (12). And a signal correction unit (12) that corrects the detection signal so that the maximum value of the primary frequency component of the respiratory waveform in the power spectrum is 1.5 times or more of the maximum value of the secondary frequency component of the respiratory waveform, thereby forming the respiratory signal.