Hitachi High-Tech Corporation

Ihi Corporation

Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.

Sega Toys Co., Ltd.

Eneos Corporation

Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning Technology (Hong Kong) Limited

Kimmon Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Wataru Sato

Motohiro Yamazaki

Michiru Fujioka

Taro Nakazawa

Isao Morita

Nobuyuki Isoshima

Shigeki Makino

Hirofumi Takahashi

Kohshi Maeda

Ayaka Okuno

Hitoshi Nishimori

Daisuke Morishima

Masanari Oda

Shuhei Yamamoto

Toshiyuki Takahashi

Takashi Anazawa

Takahiro Ueno

Ryusuke Kimura

Fujio Nobata

Toshinari Sakurai

Terumi Tamura

Hajime Onoda

Shigeyuki Sasaki

Nobuhiro Arai

Manami Nammoku

Michitoshi Sugimoto

Harumi Sato

Hidetada Nagai

Kei Nakayama

Jin Matsumura

To introduce a reagent with a small amount of residual liquid and enable a fluidic manipulation by deformation of an elastic film, a sealed type of sample processing device is configured with a reagent storage including a joint portion which joins an upper film and a lower film at a periphery of a storage space which stores a reagent between both films, an analysis chip including a lower surface fluid channel through which a liquid flows on a lower surface side and an upper surface fluid channel through which the liquid flows on an upper surface side, and an elastic film which seals the lower surface side of the analysis chip. A portion of the lower film is joined to the upper surface side of the analysis chip, a removed portion, in which the lower film is partially removed, is in an upper part of the upper surface fluid channel.

Sample processing device and apparatus

Provided is an electrophoresis device for enhancing its analysis performance. In order to achieve the task, the electrophoresis device includes a capillary array constituted by a capillary, a capillary head for bundling an end of the capillary, an electrode holder for holding an electrode provided at the other end of the capillary and a detector provided for the capillary, a first heater for heating the capillary, and an irradiation detection unit for irradiating a light to the detector to detect a fluorescence generated from a fluorescence labelled sample in the capillary. The electrophoresis device further includes a second heater for heating the detector.

Electrophoresis device

Provided is a battery pack including: a first battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces face each other; a second battery group in which a plurality of storage batteries having a battery can side surface and a battery can bottom surface linked to the battery can side surface are laminated so that the battery can side surfaces are face each other; and a case housing the first battery group and the second battery group, wherein the facing surfaces of the first battery group and the second battery group are directly or indirectly thermally connected to each other.

Battery pack

A turbine includes: a turbine blade wheel housed in a housing unit; two turbine scroll flow paths wound radially outward with respect to the turbine blade wheel and connected at positions different from each other in a circumferential direction in an outer circumferential portion of the housing unit; and two scroll outlets each communicating one of the two turbine scroll flow paths with the housing unit, the two scroll outlets formed along the circumferential direction, at least one of the two scroll outlets having a height distribution in which a height in an axial direction is lower than a surrounding height at at least one of an upstream end or a downstream end.

Double scroll turbine flow path

The capillary electrophoresis apparatus according to the present invention can maintain the temperature in the longitudinal direction of each of a plurality of capillaries uniformly, such that the separation performance of the capillary electrophoresis apparatus can be stabilized, and the analysis performance can be improved. A capillary electrophoresis apparatus according to the present invention includes: a thermostat having a heat source, a first heat conduction member, and a detection window for detecting a sample, the thermostat being configured to maintain a capillary at a predetermined temperature; a capillary holder having a second heat conduction member for sandwiching the capillary between the second heat conduction member and the first heat conduction member, the capillary holder being configured to hold the capillary; and a detection unit configured to detect a sample to be electrophoresed in the capillary, wherein in the heat source, a heat generation amount of at least one of a periphery of the detection window and an end of the capillary is higher than a heat generation amount of another portion.

Capillary electrophoresis apparatus and thermostat

A turbine includes: an inner diameter side exhaust flow path; an outer diameter side exhaust flow path having a flow path cross-sectional area smaller than a flow path cross-sectional area of the inner diameter side exhaust flow path; an inner diameter side bypass flow path connecting the inner diameter side exhaust flow path and a discharge flow path; and an outer diameter side bypass flow path connecting the outer diameter side exhaust flow path and the discharge flow path, the outer diameter side bypass flow path having a flow path cross-sectional area larger than a flow path cross-sectional area of the inner diameter side bypass flow path.

Turbine

A biological sample analyzer using a nanopore, said analyzer comprising: a first chamber that storing a solvent; a baseboard provided with a nanopore through which a biological sample passes; a second chamber which is positioned adjacently to the first chamber via the baseboard and stores the solvent; a first electrode formed in the first chamber; a second electrode formed in the second chamber; a detector detecting the biological sample which has passed through the nanopore; and a stirrer stirring the solvent in the first chamber.

Biological sample analyzer and biological sample analysis method

A mutant carotenoidogenic bacterium, comprising any of genes (a)-(c) below: (a) a gene encoding a protein comprising a mutant amino acid sequence in which at least the 225th amino acid residue in the amino acid sequence of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase of a carotenoidogenic bacterium has been substituted with other amino acid residue; (b) a gene encoding a protein comprising a mutant amino acid sequence in which at least the 305th amino acid residue in the amino acid sequence of decaprenyl diphosphate synthase of a carotenoidogenic bacterium has been substituted with other amino acid residue; and (c) both of the genes (a) and (b) above.

Carotenoid production method

Provided is a highly reliable temperature adjustment apparatus which uses a temperature adjustment element and quantitatively evaluates the temperature adjustment performance of the temperature adjustment element. The temperature adjustment apparatus is provided with: a temperature adjustment element; one or more temperature detection elements provided near the temperature adjustment element; a calculation unit for calculating the output of the temperature detection element; and a display unit for displaying at least one of a time calculated by the calculation unit as a time at which the temperature adjustment performance of the temperature adjustment is predicted to be below a desired level, the number of operations and the time of current conduction or a warning based on the result of calculation.

Temperature adjustment apparatus

A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor and a scroll which is disposed around the impeller and in which a flow passage including a scroll flow passage is formed in a rotation direction of the impeller, in which the scroll includes a discharge portion connected to a winding end portion of the scroll flow passage&#x2014;and a winding start portion connected to the discharge portion and the winding start portion on a fluid suction side in a direction along a rotation axis of the impeller is connected to the discharge portion at an obtuse angle.

Centrifugal compressor

A turbocharger includes a turbine impeller, a turbine housing which includes a scroll portion and a discharge port, a bypassing passage portion which guides a working fluid from the scroll portion to the discharge port, and a valve portion which controls the inflow of the working fluid to the bypassing passage portion. The hub side scroll is formed so that a cross-sectional area of a passage is larger than that of a shroud side scroll. The valve portion includes a hub side valve which controls the inflow of the working fluid from the hub side scroll to the bypassing passage portion and a shroud side valve which controls the inflow of the working fluid from the shroud side scroll to the bypassing passage portion. An operation of opening and closing the hub side valve is independent from an operation of opening and closing the shroud side valve.

Turbocharger

The purpose of the invention is to provide a nucleic acid analyzer that sets and executes temperature regulation, said temperature regulation matching the characteristics of analyzing items and the configuration of the analyzer, by a simple operation while preventing deterioration in analytical performance caused by partial overheating of a liquid reaction mixture to thereby improve temperature change speed and shorten analysis time. To achieve the above purpose, provided is a method wherein, in the case of performing overshooting: as a first processing, the temperature is continuously elevated until reaching a target overshoot temperature; as a second processing, after reaching the aforesaid temperature, the overshoot target temperature is maintained for a preset period of time; and, as a third processing, the temperature is continuously lowered until reaching a target temperature of the liquid reaction mixture. By executing the first to third processings, regulation is conducted so that temperature measurement values are in a trapezoidal form.

Nucleic acid analyzer

Provided is an air heat exchanger capable of preventing an increase in ventilation resistance and a decrease in heat exchange efficiency due to condensation water generated on surfaces of heat transfer fins, without increasing thermal resistance of flat tubes and the heat transfer fins, and preventing scattering of water droplets downwind from the heat transfer fins. In the air heat exchanger including a plurality of flat tubesand heat transfer finsprovided between the flat tubesand on which air is blown, the flat tubesinclude water draining grooveson side surfaces on which the heat transfer finsare provided and the heat transfer finsinclude water guiding groovescommunicating with the water draining grooves. At least a groove wallon the upwind side of an air blowing directionamong groove walls forming the water guiding groovesis provided from a position of the upwind side from the water draining groovesto the water draining grooves. The water guiding groovesextend toward the water draining groovesalong the groove wallon the upwind side and an area of a cross section perpendicular to an extension direction decreases toward the water draining grooves

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Tokyo, Japan

Wataru Sato