Abstract: An enclosure includes a furnace 1 and plates 7A to 7D arranged in the furnace 1 and used for placement of articles 5. Each of the plates 7A to 7D is movable vertically in the furnace 1. The enclosure further includes guide members 60A and 60B, each of which is disposed adjacent to a side of one plate of the plates 7A to 7D that is disposed at a loading/unloading position where the articles 5 are allowed to be loaded into or unloaded from the furnace 1. The guide members 60A and 60B guide the articles 5 and are rotatable with vertical movement of the plate.

Abstract: A transport device having a plate; a conveyor to transport articles; a pusher to push and move a row of articles on the conveyor onto the plate; and a stopper to prevent the articles from being moved by the conveyor and to define the start of a row of articles being moved onto the plate by the pusher. The conveyor causes the positions of rows of articles stopped by the stopper to move alternately so that the positions of rows of articles moved onto the plate are shifted alternately.

Abstract: To detect a malfunction of a combustion device caused by the presence or absence of the flames of burners, a flame monitor includes a monitoring circuit configured to obtain first time series data about the flames at the time of ignition of burners in a combustion device, a first storage device configured to store the first time series data obtained by the monitoring circuit, and an output circuit configured to obtain second time series data with which the first time series data stored in the first storage device is to be compared and display the first time series data and the second time series data in a comparable manner in a display device.

Abstract: A device of measuring an amount of lipid accumulation in microalgae includes a flow cell through which a fluid containing the microalgae is supplied to flow, an excitation light source irradiating the flow cell with excitation light, a fluorescence detector detecting autofluorescence generated from a chloroplast of each of the microalgae that have been irradiated with the excitation light, a scattered light detector detecting scattered light caused by each of the microalgae that have been irradiated with the excitation light, and an arithmetic unit calculating a size of the microalga from intensity of the scattered light, calculating a fluorescence density corresponding to intensity of the autofluorescence generated from the chloroplast per unit size of the microalga based on both the intensity of the autofluorescence generated from the chloroplast and the size of the microalga, and calculating an amount of lipid accumulation per microalga from the fluorescence density.

Abstract: A flame detection system includes: a UV sensor that serves as a flame sensor detecting a UV ray generated by a flame; an application voltage generation unit that applies a driving voltage to the UV sensor; a discharge detection unit that detects a discharge in the UV sensor; a discharge count unit that counts the number of detected discharges; a discharge probability calculation unit that calculates a discharge probability on the basis of the number of discharges counted by the discharge count unit and the number of times the driving voltage is applied; a UV intensity determination unit that determines an intensity of the UV ray on the basis of the discharge probability; and a determination result output unit that outputs the intensity of the UV ray determined by the UV intensity determination unit via display or communication.

Abstract: A conveyed article sorting device is provided, which has: a conveyor which conveys articles; a track configured such that the articles conveyed by the conveyor can be transferred onto the track from the conveyor; and a rotary gate which can come into contact with the articles on the conveyor; wherein, when an article to be sampled is conveyed by the conveyor, the rotary gate moves the article to be sampled from the conveyor onto the track.

Abstract: To provide a pressure sensor element and a pressure sensor that have stable pressure sensitivity without the need for improving the accuracy of alignment between a diaphragm and a holding member, a pressure sensor element includes a thin plate diaphragm, a holding member that holds the diaphragm, and one or more strain resistance gauges that are provided on a first surface of the diaphragm and which change in resistance values according to deformation of the diaphragm, in which the holding member has recesses that, formed on an annular first end surface facing the first surface of the diaphragm, cut out parts of an inner circumference of the first end surface, and the strain resistance gauges are disposed near the regions corresponding to the recesses on the first surface of the diaphragm.

Abstract: A curved recess in a stopper includes a groove-pattern region and a groove-free region. When a sensor diaphragm reaches a bottom of the curved recess in the stopper, a groove-free region is divided into a ring-shaped first region with which a sensor diaphragm is in close contact and a ring-shaped second region disposed between an inner wall surface of a ring-shaped wall and the ring-shaped first region. The first region serves as a sealing region and the second region serves as a confinement region so that a pressure transmitting medium that remains in a space adjacent to the inner wall surface of the ring-shaped wall is confined in the confinement region, and abnormal deformation of the sensor diaphragm is prevented.

Abstract: To provide a pressure sensor housing that is less likely to cause temperature distribution inside a pressure sensor when the pressure sensor is disposed inside a heater block, a pressure sensor housing includes a hollow cylindrical member extending along a predetermined axis core. A pressure sensor element that detects the pressure of a fluid is accommodated inside the cylindrical member. The entire circumference of a side surface thereof is surrounded by an air layer in the first posture in which an axis core of a space is aligned with the predetermined axis core with the hollow member disposed in the space. The side surface is in contact with a wall surface defining the space at a plurality of points at the same time in a second posture, which is at least one of postures in which the predetermined axis core is eccentric with the axis core of the space.

Abstract: A sensor chip (24) is joined to an inner wall surface (20a) of a base body (21-1), with a lower surface (24a) of a first retaining member (24-2) serving as a joint surface, in such a manner as to allow an enclosing chamber (23) (including a pressure receiving chamber (23-1) and a pressure guiding passage (23-2)) between a pressure receiving diaphragm (22) and the joint surface (24a) of the sensor chip (24) to communicate with a pressure guiding hole (24-2b) in the first retaining member (24-2). In this state, a narrow tube (31) made of stainless steel is passed through the pressure guiding passage (23-2) in the base body (21-1) and inserted and secured in the pressure guiding hole (24-2b) in the first retaining member (24-2).

Abstract: When interruption of electric service occurs, each of a number of electric actuators forcibly drives a motor using electric energy stored in an electricity storing portion and returns a valve to a predetermined opening position. When receiving a charge start command from a host device, each of the electric actuators starts the charging of the electricity storing portion. The host device divides the electric actuators into groups according to predetermined priority of charging and transmits charge start commands to the electric actuators for each of the groups in order of the priority.

Abstract: To calculate a regular-discharge probability of an optical sensor, a light detection system includes an optical sensor, an application voltage generating circuit that applies a drive pulse voltage to the optical sensor, a discharge determining portion that detects the optical sensor's discharge, a discharge probability calculating portion that calculates a discharge probability in a first state in which light from an additional light source having a known light quantity is incident on the optical sensor or the additional light source is turned off, and in a second state in which the additional light source's turning-on/turning-off state is different from the first state with a pulse width of the drive pulse voltage the same as the first state, a sensitivity parameter storing portion that stores sensitivity parameters of the optical sensor, and another discharge probability calculating portion that calculates a discharge probability of the optical sensor's regular discharge.

Abstract: To calculate received light quantity even when part of noise component's discharge probability is unknown, a light detection system includes a discharge probability calculating portion that calculates discharge probabilities for a first state in which a source's light with known light quantity impinges on an optical sensor, a second state in which the source's turning-on/turning-off state is the same as the first state with a drive pulse width applied to the optical sensor different from the first state, a third state in which the source's turning-on/turning-off state is different from the first and second states with the same pulse width as the first state, and a fourth state in which the source's turning-on/turning-off state is the same as the third state with the same pulse width as the second state, another discharge probability calculating portion that calculates regular and irregular discharges' probabilities, and a received light quantity calculating portion.

Abstract: A transport device including a support body having an upper part on which a plurality of articles can be arranged; an unloading device which pushes the plurality of articles arranged on the support body; a belt conveyor which transports the articles pushed out from the support body; a slider which moves the articles arranged on the support body and also moves the articles arranged on the conveyor belt, thereby separating the articles; and a lift which is disposed between the support body and the conveyor belt and which rises to a higher position than the upper surfaces of both the support body and the conveyor belt when the articles arranged on the support body and the articles arranged on the conveyor belt have been separated.

Abstract: To provide a pressure sensor that has high pressure resistance performance, small measurement error by suppressing hysteresis with respect to pressure, and high sensitivity and high productivity, a pressure sensor includes a diaphragm unit with a first main surface that receives a measurement target fluid's pressure and a second main surface located on the opposite side of this first main surface, a housing, and a sensing unit that outputs the diaphragm unit's deformation as an electric signal, in which at least part of the diaphragm unit has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of thin plate members are stacked, and the plurality of thin plate members are deformed independently of each other while at least part of the plurality of thin plate members is in press-contact to each other in a pressure receiving state in which the measurement target fluid's pressure is applied to the first main surface.

Abstract: To calculate a probability of an optical sensor's irregular discharge, a light detection system includes an optical sensor, an application voltage generating circuit that applies a drive pulse voltage to the optical sensor, a discharge determining portion that detects the optical sensor's discharge, a discharge probability calculating portion that calculates a discharge probability for each of first and second states in which the optical sensor is shielded from light and the drive pulse voltage's width in the second state is different from the first state, a sensitivity parameter storing portion storing the drive pulse voltage's reference pulse width as the optical sensor's sensitivity parameter, and another discharge probability calculating portion that calculates an irregular discharge's probability that occurs without depending on the optical sensor's received light quantity, based on the sensitivity parameter, and the discharge probabilities calculated and the drive pulse voltage's widths in the first and

Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a diaphragm of a thin plate shape, the diaphragm forming part of a wall surface of a pressure chamber into and out from which a measurement target fluid flows. Multiple recesses are formed in the diaphragm on a side in contact with the measurement target fluid, and an interval between adjacent two of the multiple recesses is 10 ?m or less.

Abstract: To calculate a probability of an optical sensor's irregular discharge, a light detection system includes an optical sensor, an application voltage generating circuit that applies a drive pulse voltage to the optical sensor, a discharge determining portion that detects the optical sensor's discharge, a discharge probability calculating portion that calculates a discharge probability in a first state in which light from an additional light source having a known light quantity is incident on the optical sensor or the additional light source is turned off, and in a second state in which the additional light source's turning-on/turning-off state is different from the first state and the drive pulse voltage's pulse width is the same as the first state, a sensitivity parameter storing portion that stores the optical sensor's sensitivity parameters, and another discharge probability calculating portion that calculates a discharge probability of the optical sensor's irregular discharge.

Abstract: A liquid-contact portion exposed into a measurement tube is provided, and a main body portion formed by covering a base material with a conductor and a terminal portion electrically connected to the conductor are provided. The base material includes first to fifth end surfaces extending in a direction crossing a radial direction of the measurement tube and first to fourth side surfaces extending in the radial direction from end edges of the end surfaces. Grooves each connected at one end thereof to the end surface and at the other end thereof to the side surface are formed on an outer boundary portion, which is a boundary portion between the end surface and the side surface and projects outward of the main body portion.

Abstract: To manage the effect of disturbance on the reliability of a pressure measurement value, a pressure sensor includes a cylindrical housing in which a through-hole is formed, a diaphragm that has a peripheral edge portion fixed to the housing to block the through-hole and has a first surface in contact with a fluid to be measured, a strain sensor, provided on a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface of the diaphragm, that detects the deformation of the diaphragm, a dummy diaphragm that has a peripheral edge portion fixed to the housing and does not make contact with the fluid, and another strain sensor, provided on a first surface or a second surface of the dummy diaphragm, that detects the deformation of the dummy diaphragm.