Abstract: To provide a technology of optimizing a suction condition of a microparticle. The present technology provides an optimizing method of a suction condition of a microparticle including: a particle number counting step of detecting a time point when a microparticle passes through a predetermined position on a main flow path through which liquid containing the microparticle flows, sucking the microparticle from the main flow path to a microparticle suction flow path by the microparticle suction flow path with a predetermined suction force, and counting the number of microparticles sucked into the microparticle suction flow path; and a step of determining an elapsed time from passage through the predetermined position with which the suction by the microparticle suction flow path should be performed on the basis of a time from the time point when the microparticle passes through the predetermined position on the main flow path until the suction is performed and the number of counted microparticles.

Abstract: A robot system includes: a robotic arm; a passive arm which is coupled to and uncoupled from the robotic arm and is operated by the robotic arm; and a controller which controls first and second operations of the robotic arm. The first operation of the robotic arm is an operation that acts on a target object. The second operation of the robotic arm is an operation of causing the passive arm to act on the target object. In the second operation, the controller executes: coupling the robotic arm and the passive arm; causing the robotic arm to operate the passive arm to engage the passive arm with the target object; and causing the robotic arm to operate the passive arm, which has engaged with the target object, to operate the target object.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a first link that includes a first connecting part, a second connecting part, and a first holder part located opposite the second connecting part with respect to the first connecting part, a second link that includes a third connecting part rotatably connected with the first connecting part, and operates to rotate the third connecting part about a first reference point, a third link that includes a fourth connecting part rotatably connected with the second connecting part and operates to rotate the fourth connecting part about a second reference point, and a first drive that operates the links. The links move the first holder part between a first point and a second point opposite each other with respect to the first reference point so that the first holder part approaches the first reference point in association with operation of the second link.

Abstract: A beacon network includes a plurality of beacons arranged at predetermined positions to periodically or intermittently emit a signal wave including identification information, and a radio wave absorber to adjust an emission angle of the signal wave emitted from at least one of the plurality of beacons.

Abstract: This invention is intended to improve the ethanol fermentation ability of a yeast strain having xylose-metabolizing ability with the use of a mutant gene encoding a mutant protein comprising a consensus sequence comprising a substitution of amino acid in the 30th position in SEQ ID NO: 1, amino acid in the 43rd position in SEQ ID NO: 4, and amino acid in the 31st position in SEQ ID NO: 7 with other amino acid residues.

Abstract: This invention is intended to improve the ethanol fermentation ability of a yeast strain having xylose-metabolizing ability with the use of a mutant gene encoding a mutant protein comprising a consensus sequence comprising a substitution of amino acid in the 30th position in SEQ ID NO: 1, amino acid in the 43rd position in SEQ ID NO: 4, and amino acid in the 31st position in SEQ ID NO: 7 with other amino acid residues.

Abstract: An imaging device is configured to include a finder and an eyecup unit. An eyecup is provided so as to surround an eyepiece window formed on a cover member. A base member holds the eyecup and the cover member. The eyecup is configured to include a curved and hollow eyepiece region, a first holding region comprising a first hole group, and a second holding region comprising a second hole group. The base member is configured to include a first protrusion group corresponding to the first hole group and a second protrusion group corresponding to the second hole group. The first hole group fits with the first projection group, and the second hole group fits with the second projection group.

Abstract: An electronic device comprising a control unit performs control such that despite a predetermined trigger issued before a duration of a gaze state according to a line-of-sight input relative to a first region, in which the display item is displayed, reaches a first time, neither a first function nor a second function is performed, in response to the predetermined trigger issued in a state where the duration of the gaze state relative to the first region is at least the first time and less than a second time, a part of a display object based on an input position of the line-of-sight input is selected and the first function is performed, and in response to the predetermined trigger issued in a state where the duration is at least the second time, the display item is selected and the second function is performed.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid developer containing a carrier liquid with an SP value of not more than 8.20, a toner particle that is insoluble in the carrier liquid, and a toner particle dispersing agent, wherein the toner particle contains a polyester resin with an acid value of from 5 mg KOH/g to 50 mg KOH/g, a number-average molecular weight of the polyester resin is from 3,500 to 20,000, the toner particle dispersing agent is a polymer having a primary amino group, an amine value of the polymer having the primary amino group is from 30 mg KOH/g to 200 mg KOH/g, and a ratio of a total number of acid groups in the polyester resin relative to a total number of amino groups in the polymer having the primary amino group is from 1.0 to 10.0.

Abstract: A vehicle guidance system includes vehicles, a positioning device to measure a location of each of the vehicles and output location information of the vehicles; a guidance device to generate, for each vehicle, a guidance command to guide the vehicle; and a storage device to store a guide command for each vehicle. The guidance device generates a guidance command including location information of points of passage defining a traveling path for each vehicle, stores the guidance command to the storage device, and, when at least some of the points of passage are to be altered, stores altered location information of points of passage to the storage device. Each vehicle accesses the storage device to acquire, from the storage device, the altered location information of points of passage.

Abstract: A distance measurement system includes: a signal generator which generates a light emission signal that instructs light emission and an exposure signal that instructs exposure of reflected light; a first illumination and distance measurement light source which receives the light emission signal and, according to the signal received, performs the light emission for illumination without a purpose of distance measurement and the light emission with the purpose of distance measurement using the reflected light; an imaging device which receives the exposure signal, performs the exposure according to the signal received, and obtains an amount of light exposure of the reflected light; and a calculator which calculates distance information using the amount of light exposure and outputs the distance information, wherein the distance measurement system has operation modes including an illumination mode and a first distance measurement mode.

Abstract: Provided is a sensing system that performs set control with high sensing accuracy. The sensing system that outputs an object signal includes a solid-state imaging device that senses a first physical target from an object and a second physical target different from the first physical target, and an arithmetic operation unit that calculates an object signal using a first signal from the first physical target and a second signal from the second physical target. The arithmetic operation unit calculates an object signal using a reference signal from a device mounted with the sensing system.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium having a thermosensitive coloring layer containing an electron-donating dye precursor, a radical photopolymerization initiator, and an electron-accepting compound with a radical polymerizable group, wherein the electron-accepting compound with a radical polymerizable group includes a compound A represented by the formula (1):

Abstract: This invention is intended to improve the ethanol fermentation ability of a yeast strain having xylose-metabolizing ability with the use of a mutant gene encoding a mutant protein comprising a consensus sequence comprising a substitution of amino acid in the 30th position in SEQ ID NO: 1, amino acid in the 43rd position in SEQ ID NO: 4, and amino acid in the 31st position in SEQ ID NO: 7 with other amino acid residues.

Abstract: A rotation operation device that can be operated with a constant force, with high durability, low manufacturing costs, and less variation in operability between individual products thereof. The rotation operation device includes a rotation operation dial having a bottomed-cylindrical shape, a supporting member that rotatably supports the rotation operation dial, and an elastic member that is latched on the supporting member, to generate a click feeling. The inner peripheral surface of the rotation operation dial has a friction sliding portion circumferentially continuously formed with concave portions and convex portions. The supporting member has two protruding portions for latching the elastic member. The elastic member applies an urging force to the friction sliding portion, and is slid in a state in line contact with each of the two protruding portions at two symmetric locations, when the rotation operation member is rotated.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium 100 includes a support 50, and a first thermosensitive coloring layer 10, a first intermediate layer 15, and a second thermosensitive coloring layer 20 disposed on the support 50 in descending order of distance from the support 50. The first thermosensitive coloring layer 10 and the second thermosensitive coloring layer 20 each contain an electron-donating dye precursor, an electron-accepting compound, a radical-polymerizable compound, and a photoradical polymerization initiator, and the first intermediate layer 15 contains a UV absorber.

Abstract: Provided is a thermosensitive recording medium including a thermosensitive coloring layer containing an electron-donating dye precursor, an electron-accepting compound, a radical polymerizable compound and a photoradical polymerization initiator, in which the radical polymerizable compound is a compound that is solid at 25° C., and the radical polymerizable compound is contained in the thermosensitive coloring layer in a state of encapsulating at least one of the electron-donating dye precursor and the electron-accepting compound.

Abstract: This invention is intended to improve the ethanol fermentation ability of a yeast strain having xylose-metabolizing ability with the use of a mutant gene encoding a mutant protein comprising a consensus sequence comprising a substitution of amino acid in the 30th position in SEQ ID NO: 1, amino acid in the 43rd position in SEQ ID NO: 4, and amino acid in the 31st position in SEQ ID NO: 7 with other amino acid residues.

Abstract: This invention is intended to improve the ethanol fermentation ability of a yeast strain having xylose-metabolizing ability with the use of a mutant gene encoding a mutant protein comprising a consensus sequence comprising a substitution of amino acid in the 30th position in SEQ ID NO: 1, amino acid in the 43rd position in SEQ ID NO: 4, and amino acid in the 31st position in SEQ ID NO: 7 with other amino acid residues.

Abstract: A range imaging system includes a light source unit configured to emit an irradiation light beam to an object, an imaging unit including a solid-state imaging device, and a calculation unit. The solid-state imaging device outputs an image capture signal for forming an image and an imaging signal of a light beam which is obtained when the irradiation light beam emitted is reflected by the object. The calculation unit is configured to calculate range information from the imaging signal, the range information being stored in association with the image.