Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Noriko Shimba

Sachio Nagamitsu

Tatsurou Kawamura

Yasuaki Okumura

Kazuaki Nishio

Masaru Matsui

Norihisa Matsumoto

Provided is a concentration device suitable for dielectrophoresis. The concentration device comprises a first substrate, a second substrate provided so as to face the first substrate, a flow path formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first pillar electrode line disposed in the flow path and including a left-side first pillar electrode L (L), a right-side first pillar electrode R (R), and one second pillar electrode B (B), and a second pillar electrode line disposed in the flow path and including one second pillar electrode A (A). The value of Lis not less than 5 micrometers, where Lis equal to (A&#x2212;A), Arepresents a distance between a second vertex Qof the second pillar electrode A and a center point O; and Arepresents a distance between the first vertex Qof the second pillar electrode B and the center point O.

Concentration device suitable for dielectrophoresis and method for concentrating particles with the same

The present invention provides a method for detecting an analyte with high sensitivity. In the present method, a solution is supplied onto a substrate comprising a first electrode and a second electrode. Then, an alternating voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode to aggregate, onto the surface between the first electrode and the second electrode by dielectrophoresis, bioparticles and dielectric particles contained in the solution. The aggregated bioparticles are broken to release the analyte contained in the bioparticles. The released analyte is bound to a first antibody and a second antibody to cause the dielectric particles to be immobilized onto the substrate through formation of a sandwich structure composed of the first antibody, the analyte, and the second antibody. Finally, the analyte is detected through the fluorescent substance contained in the immobilized dielectric particles.

Analyte detection by dielectrophoresis

A device communication portion receives operational status data, and an operational status accumulation portion accumulates the operational status data. A link information management portion manages operational status link information containing trigger device information to specify the operational status of a single home appliance among plural home appliances and linked device information to specify another home appliance that activates in association with the operational status of the single home appliance. An operational status read portion extracts operational status data corresponding to the operational status in the trigger device information and extracts operational status data corresponding to the linked device information. An associated control information setting portion generates associated control information containing the operational status of the single home appliance and used as the condition to start the associated control of a single electronic device and another electronic device and the content of control on the another home appliance.

Electronic device control apparatus, method for controlling electronic device, electronic device control program, and computer-readable recording medium having recorded electronic device control program

A data communication function table relating to communication functions is shared between devices. Whether a communication device can operate in an autonomous communication mode or request/response communication mode can be therefore determined, the data type can be determined, the data size and data identification information can be acquired, and a file can be divided to an optimum size for transmission. Network traffic is therefore reduced and the effective communication speed is improved for data communication between devices over a network.

Data communication method

The present invention provides a control device that controls home electrical appliances via a communication line by using function codes which are set without being specialized for specific home electrical appliances. In particular, the present invention provides a home electrical appliance control device that controls a home electrical appliance connected via a communication line, where the device includes: a memory section for storing a function table for mapping function identifiers, which identify function types allocated with the focus on the function itself to functions with which the home electrical appliance is equipped, with attributes of the functions, and a control section for controlling the home electrical appliance via the communication line based on the function table.

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Nara, Japan

Noriko Shimba