Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Other

Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.

Renesas Technology Corp.

Sony Group Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Automobile Systems, Ltd.

Masahiro Matsumoto

Hiroshi Nakano

Keiji Hanzawa

Masamichi Yamada

Masayuki Miki

Izumi Watanabe

Akira Kotabe

Seiko Suzuki

Satoshi Shimada

Keiichi Nakada

Atsushi Miyazaki

Fumio Murabayashi

Kazuyoshi Maekawa

Ryo Sato

Tatsumi Yamauchi

Atsushi Ishii

Hiromichi Yamada

Shinobu Tashiro

Kohei Sakurai

Tomoko Katsuhara

Hiroshi Miyazaki

Takanori Shibata

Toshiaki Nakamura

Junichi Horie

Ryosuke Doi

Akira Uenodan

Kenji Tanaka

Masaki Sato

Yoshiaki Kato

Shinya Igarashi

Daisuke Kodama

Noboru Sugiura

Kazuya Takahashi

Hiroaki Hoshika

Masahide Hayashi

Atsushi Kanke

Kazuo Sato

Kazuo Kato

Toshio Watanabe

Takao Sasayama

Tatsumi Ito

Masataka Shinoda

Sadayasu Ueno

Akira Yajima

Yoichi Katsumoto

Shunichi Suwa

Norio Ishitsuka

Satoshi Asano

Seikou Suzuki

Yasuo Onose

Shigeki Tsuchitani

Yoshimitsu Yanagawa

Yuuki Watanabe

Shigeru Oho

Kazuhiro Nakagawa

Yuji Segawa

Norio Ichikawa

Akira Koide

Naoki Izumi

Hiroyuki Chibahara

Yoshihiro Yokota

Akio Yasukawa

Takeshi Furusawa

Takeshi Hirayama

Masayoshi Suzuki

Akira Hasegawa

Takafumi Matsumura

Fumio Hamano

Masahiro Komachiya

Kei Ueyama

Masahiko Fujisawa

Hisao Sonobe

Tomohiko Nakamura

Hiroshi Iwasawa

Hidetoshi Watanabe

Tatsuo Nakagawa

Shotaro Naito

Hiroshi Moriya

Kazuo Ono

Yoshio Goto

Kinya Goto

Shinichi Kai

Kanemasa Sato

Susumu Murakami

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Kuniaki Matsumoto

Shiori Oshima

Terumi Nakazawa

Michihiro Ohnishi

Noboru Morimoto

Junji Kajihara

Kunihiko Nagamine

Daisuke Yamaguchi

Masanori Kubota

Tomoyuki Umetsu

Setsuo Tsuruta

Shigeyuki Kobori

Kensuke Kojima

To provide a method of efficiently performing priming on a microparticle sorting microchip. The present technology provides a priming method of a microparticle sorting microchip provided with a sample liquid flow path, a sheath liquid flow path that joins the sample liquid flow path at a junction, a joined flow path including the junction at one end, a microparticle recovery flow path connected to the joined flow path via a connection flow path at the other end of the joined flow path, a branching flow path connected to the joined flow path at the other end of the joined flow path, and an introduction flow path configured to introduce a liquid into the connection flow path, the method provided with a first priming step of supplying a first liquid from the introduction flow path to the connection flow path, and performing priming on the microparticle recovery flow path by the first liquid, and a second priming step of allowing a second liquid to flow from the sheath liquid flow path to the joined flow path, and performing priming on the branching flow path by the second liquid.

Priming method of microparticle sorting microchip, microparticle sorting method, microparticle sorting device, and program

In a conventional electronic device, it is difficult to passively diagnose disconnection of an external capacitor added to an output terminal of a regulator circuit. An electronic device in this embodiment includes a regulator circuitthat outputs a constant voltage while external power supplied from the outside is input thereto, an external capacitorconnected to an output terminal of the regulator circuitas an external component, an oscillation detectorthat detects an oscillating state of the output voltage of the regulator circuit, and a failure determination unitthat outputs a failure signal when the oscillation detectordetects the oscillating state of the regulator circuit.

Electronic device

To provide a cell evaluation device capable of evaluating cells and a secretory substance emitted from the cells accurately and precisely. Provided is a cell evaluation device including a first capturing unit that captures a secretory substance secreted by cells, and an image acquisition unit that acquires an image obtained by imaging observation light of the cells and light emitted from a luminescent substance bonded to the secretory substance, in which the image acquisition unit and the first capturing unit are disposed in this order, and the image acquisition unit acquires position information for the cells and the secretory substance.

Cell evaluation device and cell evaluation system

An air flow rate meter includes a signal detector and a pulse generator. The signal detector is configured to detect that an output signal from the air flow rate detection element has passed a predetermined threshold. The pulse generator generates a pulse signal by using an output signal from the signal detector as a trigger. An output signal from the air flow rate detection element is corrected based on an output of the pulse generator.

Air flow rate meter

A thermal sensor device capable of maintaining measurement accuracy for a long period by suppressing plastic deformation due to thermal expansion of the heat generating resistor and reducing resistance change of the heat generating resistor, includes: a substrate having an opening; and a diaphragm having a structure in which a lower film, a heat generating resistor, and an upper film are stacked so as to bridge the opening, in which a film thickness of the lower film is larger than a film thickness of the upper film, an average thermal expansion coefficient of the lower film is larger than an average thermal expansion coefficient of the upper film, the lower film includes a plurality of films having different thermal expansion coefficients, and a film having a largest thermal expansion coefficient among the plurality of films is formed below a thickness center of the lower film.

Thermal sensor device

In a flow rate sensor, a resistance bridgedetects a change in a gas flow rate. A differential A/D converterconverts an analog signal output from the resistance bridgeinto a digital signal. A disconnection detection circuitdetects disconnection of bonding wiresthat connect the differential A/D converterand the resistance bridge. The disconnection detection unitincludes a detection capacitanceand a comparator. One connection portion of the detection capacitanceis connected to an input node of the A/D converter. The comparatordetects the disconnection of the bonding wiresbased on a potential based on a ratio of an electrostatic capacitance of a P-side input capacitanceor a N-side input capacitanceto an electrostatic capacitance of the detection capacitance. The P-side input capacitanceand the N-side input capacitancerespectively are connected to operation input units of the differential A/D converter

Flow rate sensor

Provided are a semiconductor device and a sensor system capable of achieving improvement of noise resistance. Thus, an output circuitin the semiconductor device includes: input terminals; and an output terminal; an output amplifierconnecting the input terminalsto the output terminal; a feedback elementreturning the output terminalto the input terminal; a switching transistor; and a resistance element. A drain of the switching transistoris connected to the input terminal. The resistance elementis provided between a back gate of the switching transistorand a power source Vdd and has impedance of a predetermined value or more for suppressing noise of a predetermined frequency generated at the input terminal

Semiconductor device and sensor system

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

Provided is a thermal flow rate meter capable of individually correcting different pulsation errors generated in an upstream side temperature sensor and a downstream side temperature sensor. A thermal flow rate meterwhich measures a flow rate of a gas based on a temperature difference between an upstream side temperature sensorand a downstream side temperature sensor, which are arranged on the upstream side and the downstream side of a heating element. The thermal flow rate meter includes: a detection elementthat individually outputs an output signal of the upstream side temperature sensorand an output signal of the downstream side temperature sensor; and compensatorthat individually performs response compensation of the output signal of the upstream side temperature sensorand the output signal of the downstream side temperature sensor

Thermal flow rate meter

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

A sensor output circuit is limited with high accuracy, and reduces radio wave radiation by signal transmission using a single-line signal. The sensor output includes a pulse signal Vin that changes according to a physical quantity to be measured, MOS transistors that perform on/off operations according to the pulse signal Vin, a constant current source that generates a constant current, a MOS transistor which generates a gate voltage of a MOS transistor, MOS transistors which form a current mirror circuit, and the MOS transistor which works to maintain a drain voltage of the MOS transistor at a constant voltage, and the output terminal which is driven by the MOS transistors connected in series. In addition, an output signal from the sensor output circuit is transmitted to a control circuit via an output signal line. The control circuit includes a pull-up resistor, a capacitor, and an input gate circuit.

Sensor output circuit

Provided is a material-fixing substrate that does not have to use copper as a catalyst because the substrate-bonding site includes a cyclic alkyne to form a covalent bond with a surface of the substrate, and therefore that can reduce damage to a cell, for example, in a case where a to-be-fixed material is the cell. The material-fixing substrate has a to-be-fixed material fixed thereon via a material-fixing agent. The material-fixing agent includes: a substrate-bonding site that forms a covalent bond with a surface of the substrate and includes at least a cyclic alkyne; a hydrophilic site that is bonded to the substrate-bonding site; a light-responsive site that is bonded to the hydrophilic site and changes the skeleton thereof by irradiation with light; and an attachment site to which the to-be-fixed material is attached.

Material-fixing substrate and method for producing same, and material-fixing agent used for material-fixing substrate

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a highly accurate and highly reliable physical quantity sensor wherein an error due to stress applied to a sensor element of the physical quantity sensor is reduced. This physical quantity sensor device is provided with: a hollow section formed in a Si substrate; an insulating film covering the hollow section; and a heating section formed in the insulating film. The sensor device is also provided with a detection element that detects the temperature of the insulating film above the hollow section, the detection element is provided with a first silicon element and a second silicon element, and the first silicon element and the second silicon element are doped with different impurities, respectively.

Sensor device

According to some aspects, a method for analyzing a cell is provided. The method includes trapping the cell by binding a first molecule to the cell. The method further includes binding a second molecule to the cell. The second molecule includes a binding portion capable of specific binding to a cell-surface molecule of the cell. The second molecule further includes an identifying portion, a labeling portion coupled to the identifying portion, and a stimulus-degradable linker between the binding portion and the identification portion. The method further includes detaching the identifying portion from the binding portion by stimulating the stimulus-degradable linker where the detached identifying portion is coupled to the labeling portion. The method further includes binding the detached identifying portion through specific binding to an identifying portion recognizing molecule and detecting the labeling portion.

Method for analyzing cell, chip for cell analysis, reagent for cell analysis, kit for cell analysis, and apparatus for cell analysis

An object of the present invention is to provide a gas sensor device capable of detecting a temporal change with high accuracy and maintaining measurement accuracy over a long period under a temperature environment susceptible to a complicated and wide range of change. The gas sensor device includes: heat insulating filmsandformed on a substrate; a first heaterprovided on the heat insulating filmsandand configured to measure physical quantity of gas; and a reference resistorformed in a resistive layer same as the first heater and formed on the heat insulating filmsand. The gas sensor device further includes a second heaterthat simultaneously heats the first heaterand the reference resistor

Gas sensor device

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Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Matsumoto