Sony Corporation

Tpo Hong Kong Holding Limited

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Sumitomo Metal Mining Company, Ltd.

Chimei Innolux Corporation

Sony Chemical & Information Device Corporation

Sony Disc & Digital Solutions Inc.

Hidetoshi Watanabe

Hirotsugu Suzuki

Masanobu Yamamoto

Tomotaka Ito

Yuji Segawa

Koji Sasaki

Koji Ashizaki

Shunichi Hashimoto

Takeshi Matsui

Yuichi Sabi

Sakuya Tamada

Michihiro Ohnishi

Toshio Ohoshi

Shuji Hagino

Yoshikazu Anezaki

Akihiro Iwatsu

Masahiro Matsumoto

Masaki Sato

Yoshiaki Kato

Horst Berneth

Friedrich-Karl Bruder

Hiroshi Komatsu

Steven Charles Deane

Toshio Watanabe

Keitaro Yamashita

Toshiaki Hasegawa

Wilfried Haese

Neil C Bird

Serguei Kostromine

Shoji Akiyama

Rainer Hagen

Noriyuki Kishii

Jason Roderick Hector

Rafael Oser

Josef-Walter Stawitz

Takuya Kishimoto

Takashi Iwamura

Thomas Bieringer

Junji Kajihara

Tasuku Yotoriyama

Yoichi Tomo

Kozaburo Hayashi

Mitsuaki Oyamada

Yasumasa Kan

Toshiya Inada

Thomas Sommermann

Peter Landenberger

Toshinori Nishimura

Kensuke Kojima

Naoki Okawa

Yasumasa Hattori

Tomoteru Abe

Toshiyuki Ishimaru

Karin Hassenrück

Takeo Kamiya

Kiichiro Oguni

Satoshi Yanagida

Naoyuki Sasaki

Yuko Furui

Yasuyuki Onda

Tauya Kishimoto

Takashi Ohmoto

Provided is a hydrometallurgical process of recovering Ni from nickel oxide ore using a high pressure acid leaching, in which abrasion of the facilities caused by an ore slurry is suppressed, the amount of a final neutralized residue is reduced, and impurity components are separated and recovered for recycling. The hydrometallurgical process includes, as steps of the high pressure acid leaching, at least one step selected from step (A): separating and recovering chromite particles in the ore slurry; step (B-1): through leaching step and a solid-liquid separation step, performing neutralization of a leachate obtained after the solid-liquid separation step using a Mg-based alkali such as Mg(OH); and step (B-2): through leaching step and a solid-liquid separation step, performing neutralization of a leachate obtained after the solid-liquid separation step using a Mg-based alkali such as Mg(OH), and then recovering hematite particles.

Hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore

Disclosed herein is a microchip that allows a sample to be introduced into a region easily and accurately, and which makes it possible to obtain high analysis accuracy. The microchip includes an airtight region into which a solution is externally introduced; and positioning means for positioning a channel for injecting the solution into the region by penetrating a substrate layer forming the region with respect to a puncture part of the region.

Microchip

A microchip is provided. The microchip includes a substrate structure including a fluid channel configured to contain a sample solution, wherein the fluid channel is maintained at a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure prior to injection of the sample solution into the fluid channel.

Microchip and method of producing microchip

Provided is a method for fabricating a microchip for nucleic acid amplification reaction that is capable of simple and highly accurate analysis. Provided is a method for fabricating a microchip for nucleic acid amplification reaction, the method including a solidification step of drying a reagent solution including at least a part of substances required for a nucleic acid amplification reaction, and a containment step of arranging the reagent solution including the solidified substance in wells that serve as a reaction site for a nucleic acid amplification reaction. In the microchip for nucleic acid amplification reaction fabricated by the fabrication method, since substances required for the nucleic acid amplification reaction are contained by being solidified, non-specific amplification is suppressed in a nucleic acid amplification reaction, which enables highly accurate analysis.

Method for fabricating microchip for nucleic acid amplification reaction

A microchip is provided. The microchip (A) includes a substrate structure including a fluid channel () configured to contain a sample solution, wherein the fluid channel is maintained at a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure prior to injection of the sample solution into the fluid channel.

A sample liquid supply device includes a container tip into which the sample liquid is introduced, a hollow needle provided at one end of the container tip such that a hollow part thereof communicates with inside of the container tip, and a sealing member that covers an opening from which the sample liquid is introduced, wherein the sealing member has a puncture-sealing property achieved by elastic deformation.

Sample liquid supply device, sample liquid supply device set, and microchip set

The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for separating nucleic acids. A carrier may include a porous microbead having cation-exchangeable groups attached to the surface of the porous microbead. Capturing chains modified with positively charged functional groups and having a base sequence complementary to a target nucleic acid chain sequence are immobilized on to the surface of the porous microbead. In various embodiments, capturing chains are immobilized on to the surface of the porous microbead through an ion exchange bond or a covalent bond with the cation-exchangeable groups of the porous microbead. In some cases, the porous microbead has a number of through pores adapted to permit a solution to pass rapidly through the through pores and a number of diffusive pores adapted to permit a solute of the solution to diffuse into the diffusive pores. A solution having a target nucleic acid chain corresponding to the target nucleic acid chain sequence of the capturing chains may be passed through a channel that is packed with porous microbeads so as to result in hybridization of the capturing chain and the target nucleic acid chain. The porous microbeads may be structured such that the pressure in the channel upon passing of the solution through the channel does not build significantly.

Method of preparing carrier to separate nucleic acids, carrier and micro channel to separate nucleic acids, and method and apparatus for separating nucleic acids

The invention aims at providing a matrix addressing method and circuitry and display device, which enable power savings without as little degrading the legibility of content of an image as possible. A matrix addressing method for driving pixels arranged over a display area by signals supplied to row electrodes and column electrodes arranged to cross one another. Rich-gray-scale pixel information signals (#to #) are generated in a predetermined number of levels of gray scale according to original pixel information signals, while poor-gray-scale pixel information signals (#and #) are generated in a smaller number of levels of gray scale than the maximum number of levels of gray scale, according to original pixel information signals, and rich-gray-scale pixels driven by the rich-gray-scale pixel information signals (#to #) and poor-gray-scale pixels driven by the poor-gray-scale pixel information signals (#and #) are mixed and coexist discretely in at least a part of the display area in a predetermined mixing pattern to display the same image object in a predetermined mode.

Matrix addressing method and circuitry and display device using the same

A method for driving an active matrix liquid crystal display device of the invention is provided to drive a common voltage applied on a common electrode facing a pixel electrode by inversion for displaying a part of the display area, wherein the common voltage is controlled by synchronizing the polarity inversion timing of the common electrode with the scan timing of the pixel electrode in an initial position of the displayed area.

Method for driving an active matrix liquid crystal display device

A solvent-free photocurable resin composition is provided which can be applied to the surface of optical discs or the like to form a highly transparent protective film that can stably adhere to the surface and effectively protect the surface from scratches. The solvent-free photocurable resin composition contains a urethane(meth)acrylate oligomer, a trifunctional (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, and a dilution monomer. The dilution monomer contains a fluorine-based (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer having three or more fluorine atoms and a monofunctional or difunctional (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer in amounts of from 10 to 40 wt% and from 10 to 30 wt%, respectively.

Solvent-free photocurable resin composition for protective film

A method of measuring an enzymatic activity, includes measuring the quantity of a substrate metabolite produced upon metabolism of a substrate by an enzyme, through detecting a radiant wave generated from a multiple photon excitation process of the substrate or the substrate metabolite.

Method for measuring enzymatic activity in vivo by use of laser

A method for manufacturing an optical disk having a middle layer on a substrate includes the steps of coating an ultraviolet curing resin over the substrate, irradiating ultraviolet rays to the ultraviolet curing resin and prepolymerizing the ultraviolet curing resin, and forming the middle layer by pressing a stamper against the prepolymerized ultraviolet curing resin, irradiating ultraviolet rays to the ultraviolet curing resin and thus curing the ultraviolet curing resin.

Optical disk manufacturing method

The invention aims at preventing an occurrence of artefacts while reducing power consumption. A matrix addressing method for alternately driving pixels. The frame period of the images is formed by successively sequencing on a time series a plurality of block periods, the block periods each being composed of a first half block being a period for successively sequencing on a time series application timings of the pixel voltages for one or more row electrodes to be provided with one polarity, the second half block being a period for successively sequencing on a time series application timings of the pixel voltages for one or more row electrodes to be provided with the other polarity. Ones of even-numbered row electrodes and odd-numbered row electrodes in arrangement order on the display screen are selected in the first half block. The others spatially adjoining the ones are selected in the second half block. A row electrode selecting order in the first half block and a row electrode selecting order in the second half block during one frame period are made differed from orders in the corresponding half blocks during the other frame period, respectively, so as to mitigate block-period-base visual artefact.

Matrix addressing circuitry and liquid crystal display device using the same

An object of the invention is to provide electrostatic discharge damage protection during manufacturing and to suppress power consumption as low as possible during ordinary use of the electronic device having been manufactured, with avoidance of the problem of electric corrosion. An electronic devicecomprising an array of pixelswherein row and column address linesfor addressing each pixelare arranged. Each address line is connected to a discharge linethrough a discharge. The circuit allows the passage of charge between the address line and the first discharge linewhen the address line is at a potential below that of the first discharge line, and allows the passage of charge between the address line and the second discharge linewhen the address line is at a potential above that of the second discharge line. The discharge elements have a configuration in which the one is in an electrically floating state during ordinary operation of the electronic device, or a conductive path making conduction in order that leakage current of the discharge device occurring during ordinary operation of the electronic device can be used for the peripheral circuitry.

Display device with electrostatic discharge protection circuitry

A dielectric partcomprising a nitride layerand an oxide layer, laid one upon the other, is formed on a data-recording layer. A light-transmitting layeris boned with adhesive to the dielectric part. Since the dielectric partis interposed between the data-recording layerand the light-transmitting layer, the organic material of the data-recording layerdoes not diffuse into the adhesive that bonds the light-emitting layer to the dielectric layer. Additionally, the data-recording layeris not deteriorated due to the oxygen plasma generated during the process of forming the oxide layer, because the oxide layeris provided on the nitride layer. Since the nitride layerhas a thickness of 10 nm or less, it does not influence optical enhancement effect.

Optical storage medium having an organic recording layer attached to a dielectric layer

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Hidetoshi Watanabe