Abstract: Provided is a heat pipe which is installed in a cold region in a bottom heat posture in which a longitudinal direction of a container is substantially in parallel with a gravitational direction, is capable of preventing the container from deforming even when a working fluid has become frozen, and has excellent heat transport properties.

Abstract: Provided is a coating member having improved both in anti-reflection property and design property. The present invention provides a coating member comprising a substrate layer and an optical interference layer formed from an optical interference layer-forming composition, wherein the optical interference layer is disposed on at least a part of a viewing side surface of the substrate layer, the optical interference layer is in a range of more than 0 nm and less than or equal to 600 nm, the optical interference layer has a relationship of 0.08<(a refractive index of the substrate layer)?(a refractive index of the optical interference layer)<0.45, the optical interference layer-forming composition is a composition for inkjet coating, and the optical interference layer is an optical interference layer formed by an inkjet method.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for an electric vehicle, which is capable of suppressing simultaneous slip of front and rear wheels. The control apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a control portion configured to control a front electric motor and a rear electric motor so that an achievement rate of a torque command with respect to a target torque in one motor of the front and rear electric motors is lower than the achievement rate in the other motor of the front and rear electric motors.

Abstract: There is provided a microchip comprising: a main flow path through which a liquid containing microparticles flows; and a branch flow path that branches from the main flow path. A cross-sectional area of a portion of the main flow path is substantially constant up to a branch start position or decreases toward the branch start position, and a radius of curvature R of a side wall that connects a side wall of the main flow path and a side wall of the branch flow path is 0.5 mm or less and more than 0 mm.

Abstract: A protector includes a protector main body, a lid member, a locking mechanism, and a pair of guide mechanisms. The locking mechanism has a locking hole formed in the lid member and opens on opposite sides in a height direction and a locking lug portion positioned at an end portion of an opposed wall portion on a side of an opening and that is locked to the locking hole. The locking mechanism locks the protector main body and the lid member to each other in a correct position. The guide mechanisms have guide chips positioned at opposite end portions in a width direction of the lid member and extending along the height direction and guide holes positioned at the end portions of the opposed wall portions on the side of the opening and into which the guide chips are respectively inserted along the height direction.

Abstract: There is provided an analysis device including one or a plurality of analysis units each including a unit main body that is a primary subject of an analysis operation, a first power supply configured to supply power to the unit main body, a unit controller configured to operate the unit main body according to a control signal input from an outside, and switch a connected state/disconnected state between the first power supply and the unit main body, and a second power supply configured to supply lower-voltage power to the unit controller than the first power supply (63); and a central controller configured to send a control signal to the unit controller of each of the one or plurality of analysis units.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat pipe capable of preventing deformation of even a thin container and having excellent heat transfer characteristics by preventing freezing of a working fluid even if the longitudinal direction of the container is set substantially parallel to the direction of gravity in cold regions. A heat pipe includes a container having a tubular shape with both ends sealed, a wick structure stored in the container, and a working fluid sealed in the container, wherein, in at least one of cross sections perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the container, the wick structure is in contact with the inner surface of the container at two points but both side surfaces of the wick structure are not in contact with any inner surface of the container, and a sintered metal layer is formed on the container inner surface being not in contact with the wick structure.

Abstract: There is provided a microchip comprising: a main flow path through which a liquid containing microparticles flows; and a branch flow path that branches from the main flow path. A cross-sectional area of a portion of the main flow path is substantially constant up to a branch start position or decreases toward the branch start position, and a radius of curvature R of a side wall that connects a side wall of the main flow path and a side wall of the branch flow path is 0.5 mm or less and more than 0 mm.

Abstract: Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path. A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort processing; and a second extraction unit for subjecting the extraction sample to abort processing and extracting only the target particle.

Abstract: Provided is microparticle extraction technology capable of stably extracting only a target microparticle at high speed from a sheath flow flowing through a flow path. A particle extraction apparatus includes: a first extraction unit for extracting, from a whole sample containing a target particle, an extraction sample containing the target particle without performing abort processing; and a second extraction unit for subjecting the extraction sample to abort processing and extracting only the target particle.

Abstract: A power supply that supplies power to a capacitive load comprises: a converter; an inverter; a resonant transformer; a detector configured to detect output frequency or output current and output voltage; and a controller configured to control the inverter, wherein the controller is configured to: calculate output power; adjust the output frequency within a predetermined frequency search range, adjust the output voltage within a predetermined voltage search range, and specify, as a frequency target value, a minimum value of the output frequency with which the output power reaches predetermined output power; and control the inverter so that the output frequency will be the frequency target value, adjust the output voltage within the predetermined voltage search range, and specify, as a voltage target value, a value of the output voltage with which the output power is target output power.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a connector, a grommet assembled to the connector and being in close contact with one opening edge portion of an attachment hole of a panel, and a plurality of electric wires that are inserted into the grommet. The connector includes terminal fittings provided at end portions of the plurality of electric wires, a connector housing that accommodates the terminal fittings, and an inner member having an annular plate-shaped flange disposed outside the connector housing. The grommet includes a flange assembly portion that is assembled to the flange, and an electric wire accommodating dome portion that accommodates drawn-out portions of the plurality of electric wires being drawn out from the connector housing. The inner member includes two deformation preventing walls that prevent the electric wire accommodating dome portion from being deformed inward.

Abstract: In a steering control device, method, and system, a command is calculated for generating a periodical yaw moment having a phase opposite to oscillating motion based on information on oscillating motion which occurs in a vehicle combination composed of a vehicle and a trailer, and based on the calculated command, a first steering angle command for controlling a steering angle of the front wheels of the vehicle is output to a front wheel steering control unit and a second steering angle command for controlling a steering angle of the rear wheels of the vehicle is output to a rear wheel steering control unit, so that the oscillating motion can be suppressed.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for an electric vehicle that can set a final torque instruction value without necessitating a repetition of a calculation. A control apparatus calculates a power limit value of each motor that is used when power is supplied to a plurality of motors, based on a power limit value of a power source, and calculates a torque instruction value of each motor based on the power limit value of each motor.

Abstract: Provided is control apparatus for an electric vehicle, which is capable of suppressing simultaneous slip of front and rear wheels. The control apparatus for an electric vehicle controls a front electric motor and a rear electric motor so that a difference between a torque command value of the front electric motor and a torque command value of the rear electric motor is larger than a predetermined value.

Abstract: When a pressure accumulator tank A3a is used as a low-pressure bank, a controller sends an open control signal to an electromagnetic open/close valve A10a to open the electromagnetic open/close valve A10a so that hydrogen in the pressure accumulator tank A3a can be supplied to a tank to be filled (not shown) of an FCV. In parallel with this, the controller sends an open control signal to a first electromagnetic open/close valve 6a and a second electromagnetic open/close valve 6b to open the first and second electromagnetic open/close valves 6a and 6b so that hydrogen can be supplied also from a compressor 2 to the tank to be filled of the FCV.

Abstract: A steering control apparatus, a steering control method, and a steering control system according to the present invention output an instruction for generating a periodic yaw moment opposite in phase from an rolling motion occurring on a hitch vehicle including a vehicle and a trailer to a rear-wheel steering apparatus configured to control a steering angle of a rear wheel of the vehicle.

Abstract: To provide a technology of efficiently and effectively sorting microparticles to be sorted from a sample solution. The present technology provides a control device being a device that controls a processing condition when sorting microparticles from a sample liquid flowing through a flow path, the control device provided with a control unit that controls a sorting processing condition on the basis of a content of microparticles to be sorted in the sample liquid. In the control device according to the present technology, the control unit may control the sorting processing condition on the basis of a surviving rate and/or an activation rate of biological particles to be sorted with respect to the sorting processing condition.

Abstract: In the present technology, the timing at which suction is performed is optimized in order to enhance the microparticle separation performance in a technology for separating target microparticles in a microchip. For this purpose, the present technology provides a method of optimizing a microparticle suction condition, and the like, using a microchip having a main flow channel through which a liquid containing a microparticle flows, a microparticle suction flow channel arranged coaxially with the main flow channel, and a branch flow channel branching from the main flow channel. The method includes: a branch point specifying process of specifying a branch point at which the branch flow channel branches from the main flow channel; and a time assignment process of assigning a time T1 to be applied to suction of the microparticle.