Hitachi, Ltd.

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Konami Co., Ltd.

Other

Hitachi-Kokusai Electric Inc.

Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Kaneka Corporation

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Konami Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Kazuya Takahashi

Ryoichi Kajiwara

Masahiro Koizumi

Toshiaki Morita

Yasushi Takahashi

Toshiyuki Hata

Toshinori Hirashima

Munehisa Kishimoto

Hiroshi Sato

Keiichi Ookawa

Shigeru Ishii

Tatsumi Ito

Yoichi Katsumoto

Shinichi Ito

Yoshikatsu Inagaki

Masahiko Kami

Shuta Hikichi

Wataru Ito

Asao Nishimura

Masahiro Matsumoto

Hirofumi Aoki

Hirotaka Ishikawa

Gakuji Hashimoto

Takao Funamoto

Katsunori Okita

Junji Kajihara

Toru Takeda

Motoo Takada

Yasumi Takase

Akinori Tamura

Mitsue Ito

Yoshiko Wada

Toshifumi Suzuki

Tomohiko Shida

Takashi Nishibori

Hiroshi Wachi

Kei Nagaoka

Yumi Yoshida

Hiroki Honda

Tokiyuki Seto

Ryoichi Koseki

Yoshimitsu Iizuka

Masayoshi Shinoda

Takeshi Matsuzaka

Satoshi Suzuki

Kunihiro Tsubosaki

Osamu Ikeda

Eriko Matsui

Hiroshi Watanabe

Isao Fukushima

Yasunobu Kato

Akihiro Asada

Jun Iwasaki

Akira Yamashita

Hirokazu Tatsuta

Marcaurele Brun

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi

Yukiharu Akiyama

Koji Okamoto

Masatoshi Watanabe

Kyohei Yamamoto

Katuo Sugawara

Minoru Yamada

Tatsuo Shimizu

Masanori Miyoshi

Tomohiro Hayakawa

Yuuji Suzuki

Tadaaki Kitamura

Keiichirou Nakanishi

Yu Hirono

Norito Watanabe

Kazunori Kitamura

Yoshiaki Usami

Katsuo Arai

Takashi Inubushi

Yoshihiko Narita

Daisuke Sogabe

Tetsuji Tanimoto

Mituo Katou

Kazutoshi Itou

Takahiro Ohashi

Yoshiyuki Satoh

Yoshiaki Matsuoka

Jun Hayashi

Takashi Taniguchi

Hideki Fujii

Naoichi Kitakami

Morimasa Tanimoto

Sumio Okada

Akihiko Narisawa

Junichi Fujita

Naotaka Suzuki

Yukihiro Usui

Mituo Kato

Toyofumi Kitano

Hiroyuki Hosoyama

Eiji Miyagawa

John Kirkland

Andrew Klinzing

Masaya Aihara

A technology capable of preventing a sample from being retained is to be provided. Provided are a microchip that includes at least a sample inlet into which a sample is introduced, a sample flow path through which the sample introduced from the sample inlet flows, and a sorting flow path in which a target sample is sorted out from the sample, in which a first tube is inserted into and fixed to the sample inlet, and a sample sorting kit that includes at least the microchip.

Microchip and sample sorting kit

A power supply that supplies power to a capacitive load comprises: a converter; an inverter; a resonant transformer; a detector configured to detect output frequency or output current and output voltage; and a controller configured to control the inverter, wherein the controller is configured to: calculate output power; adjust the output frequency within a predetermined frequency search range, adjust the output voltage within a predetermined voltage search range, and specify, as a frequency target value, a minimum value of the output frequency with which the output power reaches predetermined output power; and control the inverter so that the output frequency will be the frequency target value, adjust the output voltage within the predetermined voltage search range, and specify, as a voltage target value, a value of the output voltage with which the output power is target output power.

Power supply, control program, and control method

Provided is a heat pipe which is installed in a cold region in a bottom heat posture in which a longitudinal direction of a container is substantially in parallel with a gravitational direction, is capable of preventing the container from deforming even when a working fluid has become frozen, and has excellent heat transport properties.

Heat pipe

To provide a technology of efficiently and effectively sorting microparticles to be sorted from a sample solution. The present technology provides a control device being a device that controls a processing condition when sorting microparticles from a sample liquid flowing through a flow path, the control device provided with a control unit that controls a sorting processing condition on the basis of a content of microparticles to be sorted in the sample liquid. In the control device according to the present technology, the control unit may control the sorting processing condition on the basis of a surviving rate and/or an activation rate of biological particles to be sorted with respect to the sorting processing condition.

Control device, microparticle sorting device and microparticle sorting system using control device, and control method

To provide a technology of optimizing a suction condition of a microparticle. The present technology provides

Optimizing method of suction condition of microparticle and microparticle fractionating device

A microparticle sorting microchip for a flow cytometer is provided to enable sorting of microparticles at higher speed, higher purity, and higher acquisition rate. The microparticle sorting microchip includes a main channel through which a microparticle-containing fluid flows, a trap channel coaxially communicating with the main channel, a trap chamber communicating with the trap channel, and a gate channel intersecting the trap channel. The trap channel has an opening intersecting the gate channel. The trap channel has a smaller cross-sectional area upstream of the opening than downstream of the opening along a direction in which the microparticle-containing fluid flows.

Microparticle sorting microchip and microparticle sorting apparatus

According to some aspects, a sample isolation kit is provided. The sample isolation kit includes a housing configured to detachably couple to a sample fluid channel of a microchip and provide a sample to the microchip. The housing and the microchip are coupled using a hermetic seal. The sample isolation kit further includes a storage housing configured to detachably couple to an isolation channel of the microchip and receive a target biological sample isolated from the sample by the microchip. The storage housing and the microchip are coupled using a hermetic seal.

Sample isolation kit, sample isolation device

The present disclosure provides a heat pipe capable of preventing deformation of even a thin container and having excellent heat transfer characteristics by preventing freezing of a working fluid even if the longitudinal direction of the container is set substantially parallel to the direction of gravity in cold regions. A heat pipe includes a container having a tubular shape with both ends sealed, a wick structure stored in the container, and a working fluid sealed in the container, wherein, in at least one of cross sections perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the container, the wick structure is in contact with the inner surface of the container at two points but both side surfaces of the wick structure are not in contact with any inner surface of the container, and a sintered metal layer is formed on the container inner surface being not in contact with the wick structure.

There is provided a microchip comprising: a main flow path through which a liquid containing microparticles flows; and a branch flow path that branches from the main flow path. A cross-sectional area of a portion of the main flow path is substantially constant up to a branch start position or decreases toward the branch start position, and a radius of curvature R of a side wall that connects a side wall of the main flow path and a side wall of the branch flow path is 0.5 mm or less and more than 0 mm.

Microchip and microparticle fractionating device

Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path. A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort processing; and a second extraction unit for subjecting the extraction sample to abort processing and extracting only the target particle.

Particle extraction apparatus and particle extraction method

In the present technology, the timing at which suction is performed is optimized in order to enhance the microparticle separation performance in a technology for separating target microparticles in a microchip. For this purpose, the present technology provides a method of optimizing a microparticle suction condition, and the like, using a microchip having a main flow channel through which a liquid containing a microparticle flows, a microparticle suction flow channel arranged coaxially with the main flow channel, and a branch flow channel branching from the main flow channel. The method includes: a branch point specifying process of specifying a branch point at which the branch flow channel branches from the main flow channel; and a time assignment process of assigning a time Tto be applied to suction of the microparticle.

Method of optimizing microparticle suction condition and microparticle separation device

A touch panel-equipped display device includes a front-side case that accommodates a display panel and a touch panel overlap each other, a support plate fixed at a side opposite with respect to a display surface of the front-side case, a back-side case disposed at a side opposite of the display panel with respect to the support plate, a vibration element fixed between the back-side case and the support plate and that vibrates the front-side case and the support plate in an in-plane direction of the display panel according to an operation on the touch panel, and a damper mechanism that supports the front-side case or the support plate so that the front-side case or the support plate is capable of being freely vibrated in the in-plane direction of the touch panel, wherein the damper mechanism has an elastic displacement section elastically displaced in the in-plane direction of the back-side case.

Touch panel-equipped display device

An ion exchange membrane includes: a membrane main body including a fluorine-containing polymer having an ion exchange group; and a coating layer arranged on at least one face of the membrane main body; wherein the coating layer includes inorganic particles and a binder, a mass ratio of the binder to the total mass of the inorganic particles and the binder in the coating layer is more than 0.3 and 0.9 or less, and a surface roughness of the coating layer is 1.20 &#x3bc;m or more.

Ion exchange membrane, method for producing ion exchange membrane, and electrolyzer

The server apparatus is applied to a game system which has a storage unit storing gaming dynamic images different from each other in association with a stream ID for identifying each gaming dynamic image. The game system acquires a playing dynamic image photographed by a portable phone and a stream ID of the playing dynamic image via a network. Base on the acquisition result, the game system determines the gaming dynamic image whose stream ID corresponds to the stream ID of the playing dynamic image acquired as a target gaming dynamic image, and provides a dynamic-image delivery service so that a delivery screen is displayed at each personal computer, the delivery screen including a composite dynamic image where the playing dynamic image and the target gaming dynamic image are synthesized.

Server apparatus, dynamic-image delivery system, and control method and computer readable storage medium used therein

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuya Takahashi