Rohm Co., Ltd.

Tsinghua University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daisuke Niwa

Dai Ohnishi

Yoshikatsu Miura

Atsushi Tazuke

Koji Terumoto

Kazuhiro Oguchi

Wei Zhang

Masahide Tanaka

Fang Liu

Ken Nakahara

Shuguang Zhang

Andreas Mershin

Xue Feng

Liu Fang

Zhang Wei

Brian Cook

Liselotte Kaiser

Johanna F Bikker

Rui-Yuan Wan

Yi-Dong Huang

Jiang De Peng

Huang Yi Dong

Rao Yi

Peng Jiang De

Tsuyoshi Satomi

Among the technical characteristics disclosed in this specification, the pulse wave sensor with one of the technical characteristic includes a construction to detect the pulse wave at a wrist (i.e., a construction to measure the pulse wave to be worn at the wrist). To be more concrete, the pulse wave sensor includes a measurement unit to measure the pulse wave, a power source unit to supply power to the measurement unit, a cable to connect between the measurement unit and the power source unit electrically, and a armlet type housing to contain the measurement unit, the power source unit, and the cable.

Pulse wave sensor

A wireless plethysmogram sensor unit is capable of obtaining a plethysmogram from a living tissue of a measuring object and of transmitting the plethysmogram to a processing unit outside the wireless plethysmogram sensor unit. The sensor unit includes a light source to emit measuring light into the living tissue and a light receiving element to receive light emerging from the tissue, which is accompanied by pulsation caused by absorption by arteries in the tissue. A memory stores a plethysmogram obtained in accordance with the light received by the light receiving element. A short range wireless communicator transmits the plethysmogram to the processing unit. A power source provides power to other elements in the sensor unit, and a controller controls the elements of the sensor unit.

Wireless plethysmogram sensor unit, a processing unit for plethysmogram and a plethysmogram system

The invention provides a bio-sensing nanodevice comprising: a stabilized G-protein coupled receptor on a support, a real time receptor-ligand binding detection method, a test composition delivery system and a test composition recognition program. The G-protein coupled receptor can be stabilized using surfactant peptide. The nanodevice provides a greater surface area for better precision and sensitivity to odorant detection. The invention further provides a microfluidic chip containing a stabilized G-protein coupled receptor immobilized on a support, and arranged in at least two dimensional microarray system. The invention also provides a method of delivering odorant comprising the step of manipulating the bubbles in complex microfluidic networks wherein the bubbles travel in a microfluidic channel carrying a variety of gas samples to a precise location on a chip. The invention further provides method of fabricating hOR17-4 olfactory receptor.

Multiplexed olfactory receptor-based microsurface plasmon polariton detector

The present invention provides a hybrid coupling structure of a short range surface plasmon polariton and a conventional dielectric waveguide, including a dielectric substrate layer, a dielectric waveguide layer positioned on the said dielectric substrate layer, a coupling matching layer positioned on the said dielectric waveguide layer and a short range surface plasmon waveguide portion, formed on the said coupling matching layer, for conducting the short range surface plasmon polariton. The present invention also provides a coupling structure of a long range surface plasmon polariton and a dielectric waveguide, including a dielectric substrate layer, a dielectric waveguide layer, a coupling matching layer and a long range surface plasmon waveguide portion upward from below respectively.

Hybrid coupling structure of the short range plasmon polariton and conventional dielectric waveguide, a coupling structure of the long range plasmon polariton and conventional dielectric waveguide, and applications thereof

There is provided a sensing chip capable of measuring a refractive index by utilizing a long-range surface plasmon polariton, accurately measuring an accumulative refractive index in a wide range, and more easily enabling sealing for measurement. The present invention relates to the sensing chip which has a thin metal film or a strip-like metal grown on an underlayer, and has a dielectric that limits a refractive index and a dielectric buffer layer on an upper surface and a lower surface of the thin metal film or the strip-like metal. The dielectric buffer layer is attached onto the thin metal film or the strip-like metal. The thin metal film or the strip-like metal and the buffer layer are sandwiched between two dielectric layers. A hole is made in a surface of the upper dielectric layer to serve as a measurement groove.

Sensing chip

A surface plasmon resonance sensor chip includes: a first dielectric layer; a metal layer disposed on the first dielectric layer; and a second dielectric layer covering the metal layer, the chip being provided with an opening that makes a part of a surface on the side of the second dielectric layer of the metal layer be exposed, and allows a measurement sample and the surface on the side of the second dielectric layer to contact each other, wherein an organic molecule film is provided at least one of between the first dielectric layer and the metal layer, and between the metal layer and the second dielectric layer.

Surface plasmon resonance sensor chip

The present invention relates to a surface plasmon resonance sensor which has a first dielectric layer, a metal layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer covering the metal layer. The surface plasmon resonance sensor includes: a sensor main body provided with an opening for exposing a part of a surface of the metal layer on a side facing the second dielectric layer, and for allowing a measurement sample to be brought into contact with this surface; a light source for introducing a beam into the metal layer from one end of the metal layer in a longitudinal direction of the metal layer; and a detection unit detecting a beam emitted from the other end of the metal layer, has high sensitivity in measurement, is downsized, and is usable in a simple manner.

Surface plasmon resonance sensor and biochip

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Kyoto, Japan

Daisuke Niwa