Abstract:
An electromechanical transducer includes: a structural portion configured such that two pairs of magnets magnetized in opposite directions, a yoke configured to guide magnetic fluxes from the magnets, and a coil configured to receive a supplied electric signal are located integrally; an armature having an inner portion penetrating an internal space of the structural portion and outer portions protruding from the inner portion toward both sides in a first direction, forming, together with the structural portion, a magnetic circuit through regions of the inner portion facing the two pairs of magnets, and configured to displace in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction by magnetic force of the magnetic circuit; and a pair of elastic members each located on both sides of the armature in the second direction, and configured to provide, to the armature, restoring force according to relative displacement of the armature corresponding to the structural portion.
Abstract:
Provided is a particle counter including: a light source; a light superimposition unit configured to superimpose light beams; an irradiation optical system configured to irradiate a fluid in a flow passage with one of a plurality of light beams from the light source; a detection optical system configured to make a part of scattered light beams by a particle in the fluid enter the light superimposition unit; a reference optical system configured to split another one of the plurality of light beams into a plurality of reference light beams and makes the reference light beams enter the light superimposition unit; and a counting unit configured to count the particles on the basis of detection signals corresponding to an interference light beam received by a light receiver. The interference light beam is generated by interference between the scattered light beam and one of the reference light beams at the light superimposition unit, and is received by the light receiver corresponding to the reference light beam.
Abstract:
A microviable particle counting system includes: a microviable particle counting instrument configured to detect autofluorescence of a microviable particle in a sample as fluid, thereby counting the microviable particle in the sample; and a former-stage irradiator provided at a former stage of the microviable particle counting instrument to irradiate the sample with ultraviolet light. The ultraviolet light contains first ultraviolet light having such a wavelength that a carbon-carbon covalent bond is disconnected, and the first ultraviolet light has a wavelength shorter than 200 nm.
Abstract:
An electromechanical transducer of the invention comprises a structural unit, an armature, and the first and second elastic units. The structural unit includes magnets, a yoke and a coil. The armature includes an inner portion disposed to pass through inside the structural unit and two outer portions protruding from the inner portion in a first direction, and the armature constitutes a magnetic circuit with the structural unit via two regions through which components of the magnetic flux flow in reverse directions in the inner region. The elastic units give restoring forces to the outer portions in response to displacement of the armature due to magnetic forces of the magnetic circuit. In the armature, a cross-sectional area at a predetermined position between the two regions is smaller than that at the two regions, and magnetic flux flowing in the first direction within a range of displacement of the armature.
Abstract:
A hearing aid according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a microphone configured to convert sound into an electric signal and output a first signal; a receiver configured to convert the third signal that is generated by performing predetermined hearing aid processing on a second signal, into sound; a first feedback removal unit having an adaptive filter configured to adaptively estimate a first transfer function of a sound feedback path from the receiver to the microphone; and a second feedback removal unit having a fixed filter configured to receive the third signal and use a fixed filter coefficient based on a second transfer function of a vibration feedback path from the receiver to the microphone. The second signal is generated by removing from the first signal, output signals from the adaptive filter and the fixed filter.
Abstract:
An electromechanical transducer of the invention comprises a structural unit, an armature, and two elastic units. The structural unit includes magnets, a yoke and a coil. The armature has an inner portion disposed to pass through inside the structural unit and two outer portions protruding from the inner portion, and the armature constitutes a magnetic circuit with the structural unit via two regions through which components of the magnetic flux flow in reverse directions in the inner region. The elastic units give restoring forces to the outer portions in response to displacement of the armature due to magnetic forces of the magnetic circuit. Each of the elastic units includes a pair of elastic members symmetrically arranged via the armature in a direction of the displacement. Each of the elastic members has one end engaging one of the outer portions and another end engaging one of the elastic member attaching portions.
Abstract:
A light scattering particle counter that improves the signal-to-noise ratio by attenuating the high frequency noise component while suppressing the attenuation of the signal component by irradiating a sample fluid with a laser beam La to form a particle detection area, detecting a particle with a multi-channel light detecting element that receives scattered light Ls from a particle passing through the particle detection area, and with low pass filters having time constants τc, τm, τe that are set to depend on beam diameter of the laser beam La and flow velocity of the fluid which flows through each divided area, to count particles in the sample fluid.
Abstract:
[Subject]To offer a light scattering particle counter that improves the SN ratio by sufficiently attenuating the high frequency noise component while suppressing the attenuation of the signal component.[Means for Solving the Problems]A light scattering particle counter which irradiates a laser beam La to a sample fluid and forms a particle detection area 13, a multi-channel light detecting element receives scattered light Ls from a particle passing through the particle detection area and detects the particle, the time constants τc, τm, τe of the low pass filters F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 are set depending on the beam diameter of the laser beam La and the flow velocity of the fluid which flows through each divided area.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, there is provided a light scattering type particle detector, using a semiconductor laser as a light source, for detecting particles contained in sample fluid which defines a flow path, wherein laser light generated from the semiconductor laser is irradiated to irradiate a region of the flow path with a concave mirror and thereby a particle detecting region is defined. According to the present invention, there is also provided a laser oscillator wherein the optical axis of a semiconductor laser for generating pumping laser light has a predetermined angle with respect to the optical axis of a laser medium for irradiating laser light by pumping. Using such a laser oscillator, laser light irradiated from the laser oscillator is condensed to irradiate a region of a flow path defined by sample fluid, and thereby a particle detecting region is defined. Particles contained in the particle detecting region are detected by receiving scattered light with a light receiving portion.
Abstract:
This electromechanical transducer includes a pair of magnets, a pair of yokes that each comprise a plurality of yoke components superposed over each other in a flat-plate-form region and that guide magnetic fluxes generated by the magnets, a hollow-core coil to which an electric signal is supplied, an armature passed through a space inside a structural section formed by integrally arranging the magnets and the coil on the inner sides of the pair of yokes, and a pair of elastic members that each engage the structural section and the armature.