Abstract: Provided is a method for measuring a blood component amount that can sufficiently and properly correct the blood component amount by measuring an Hct value with high accuracy and high reliability, and a sensor and a measuring device that are used in the method. A method for measuring a blood component amount uses a biosensor to calculate a blood component amount in blood. The biosensor includes the following: a first electrode system having a first working electrode and a first counter electrode; a second electrode system having a second working electrode and a second counter electrode; and a reagent portion arranged in a form that covers at least a part of the first electrode system, but does not cover the second working electrode.

Abstract: A sealing material is provided, which maintains excellent sealing property for a long period of time. The sealing material of the invention is characterized by being prepared by vulcanizing and foaming a mixture containing a rubber component containing a copolymer rubber of ethylene, an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms, and a non-conjugated diene, a vulcanizing agent, and a blowing agent, wherein the mixture contains a thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 80° C. or less.

Abstract: A film (6) of a glass laminate (2) is an anti-fogging film obtained by performing a hydrophilic treatment on the surface of a polymer film in which a carbon is substituted in one or more side chains of a glucose ring. The retardation Ro in the planar direction of the film (6) is 40 nm or more and 200 nm or less. Three seconds after exposing the film (6) to 40° C. steam for 120 seconds under conditions of 55% RH at 23° C., the change in haze in comparison to before the exposure to steam is 3% or less, and the change in retardation Ro is 30% or less.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a mutant streptavidin with a reduced affinity for natural biotin, and also to provide a modified biotin having a high affinity for the mutant streptavidin with a reduced affinity for natural biotin. According to the present invention, there is provided a reagent kit for use in treatments or diagnoses, which comprises: (a) a mutant streptavidin with a reduced affinity for natural biotin or biocytin; and a modified biotin having a high affinity for the above-described mutant streptavidin.

Abstract: Provided are a blood component measurement device and the like capable of further suppressing the errors in measuring blood components. A first current value that is generated by oxidation-reduction when a first voltage is applied to a first electrode pair 21, 22 composing a biosensor 1 is measured, a second current value that is generated when a second voltage is applied to a second electrode pair 23, 24 composing the biosensor 1 is measured, and then the first current and the second current are converted to give a blood component amount. Within a predetermined period after the introduction of blood into the biosensor 1, the first current is measured multiple times and the second current is measured once. A CPU 72 converts a plurality of first current values and the second current value to obtain a plurality of blood component amounts and calculates the blood component amount for the blood introduced into the biosensor 1 from said plurality of blood component amounts.

Abstract: It is intended to provide, for example, a liquid sample measurement device capable of measuring the amounts of components of a liquid with a high accuracy. A first voltage is applied to an electrode pair 21, 22, which composes a biosensor 1, to obtain, a first response value, a second voltage is applied to an electrode pair 23, 24, which composes the biosensor 1, to obtain a second response value, and a current that is generated when a third voltage is applied to an electrode pair 23, 27, which composes the biosensor 1, is detected to obtain a third response value. A liquid sample measurement device 6 uses the first response value, the second response value, and the third response value to obtain the concentration of glucose and the amount of blood cells of blood as well as the value equivalent to the temperature of the biosensor 1.

Abstract: Provided is a blood component measuring device or the like that can further suppress the measurement error of a blood component. The device detects an oxidation-reduction current generated by oxidation-reduction when a first voltage is applied to a first electrode pair 21, 22 of a biosensor 1, and converts the oxidation-reduction current (glucose response value) into a glucose conversion value. The device detects a current generated when a second voltage is applied to a second electrode pair 23, 24 of the biosensor 1, and converts the detected current (blood cell amount response value) into a blood cell amount conversion value. The glucose response value is measured more than once and the blood cell amount response value is also measured more than once within a predetermined period after the introduction of the blood into the biosensor 1.

Abstract: Each of first and second types of swipe operation, different from each other, performed by a user on a touch panel associated with a display panel, can be detected. An area on a user interface screen displayed on the display panel, where the first type of swipe operation is valid, is predefined. When the first type of swipe operation is detected in the predefined area on a first user interface screen which is identified by a combination of a first operation target and a first group of operation elements, the user interface screen is changed to a second user interface screen which is identified by a combination of the first operation target and a second group of operation elements. When the second type of swipe operation is detected on the first or second user interface screen, the user interface screen is changed to a third user interface screen.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a plug for use in a piercing-rolling mill for producing a seamless steel tube/pipe, and the method for producing the plug for piercing-rolling comprises shotblasting a surface of the plug, and arc-spraying a spray wire so as to form a film on a surface of a base metal of the plug that is shotblasted. In the arc-spraying step, the arc spraying is carried out by using, as the spray wire, a cored wire whose iron sheath tube is charged with at least iron oxide particles among iron particles and the iron oxide particles (one or more of FeO particles, Fe3O4 particles, and Fe2O3 particles), so as to form the film containing iron oxide and Fe. Accordingly, it is possible to enhance the production efficiency of the plug, and to produce the plug for piercing-rolling capable of securing the steady enhancement of the durability life of the plug during the piercing-rolling.

Abstract: A composition for a sealing material which comprise a rubber component comprising copolymer rubbers of ethylene, ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms and unconjugated diene, a vulcanizing agent and a blowing agent, wherein the copolymer rubber consists of copolymer rubber A and copolymer rubber B, the copolymer rubber A being derived from ethylene, ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms and 3 to 5% by mass of unconjugated diene, and the copolymer rubber B being derived from ethylene, ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms and 9 to 15% by mass unconjugated diene, and a mass ratio (copolymer rubber B/copolymer rubber A) of the copolymer rubber B to the copolymer A is in the range of 1/99 to 50/50, and a sealing material composed of a vulcanized foam of the composition.

Abstract: Provided is a sealing material having low hardness, low density, and excellent sealing properties. A sealing material, made by vulcanizing and foaming a blend containing: a thermoplastic resin; a foaming agent; a vulcanizing agent; and a rubber component containing a rubber copolymer of ethylene, a non-conjugate diene, and an ?-olefin with 3 or more carbon atoms; wherein the blend contains 2 to 4 mass parts of stearic acid and 5 to 7 mass parts of CaO in 100 mass parts of the rubber component, and the 50% compressive stress of the sealing material is 100 kPa or less.

Abstract: Provided is an equipment system for producing a piercing-rolling plug to be used for producing a seamless steel tube/pipe, which includes a shotblasting device for applying shotblasting on a surface of the plug, and an arc-spraying device for performing arc-spraying of iron wires on a surface of a base metal of the plug to which the shotblasting is applied, so as to form a film containing oxide and Fe thereon. The arc-spraying device includes plural spraying booths each of which separately forms part of the film in turn in each of sections into which the surface of the base metal of the plug is divided along an axial direction of the plug. The production efficiency of the plug can therefore be maintained at a high level, and steady enhancement of the durability life of the plug can be realized during the piercing-rolling.

Abstract: A sealing material is provided, which has excellent sealing property, with cracks, fracture, and deformation being minimized. The sealing material of the invention is prepared by vulcanizing and foaming a mixture containing a rubber component containing a copolymer rubber of ethylene, an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms, and a non-conjugated diene, a vulcanizing agent, and a blowing agent, and then subjecting the mixture to a cell breakage treatment, characterized in that the mixture further includes a fatty acid calcium salt and a fatty acid zinc salt.

Abstract: The rendering device defines, based on the width of the line to be rendered on a screen comprising multiple pixels and defined by two points on the screen, an interpolation range for a line segment having its ends at the two points. The rendering device further determines whether a pixel is contained in the interpolation range. Then, the rendering device renders a line formed by the pixels on the line segment and the pixels determined to be contained in the interpolation range. Then, the rendering device can specify the pixels for rendering the line based only on information regarding the line width. Consequently, the amount of information to handle in rendering is reduced and the rendering can be expedited. Furthermore, the amount of information prepared in advance for rendering is reduced and thus the rendering device can be downsized.

Abstract: A television set includes a television set main body that includes a display portion on its front surface and that is disposed such that its rear surface faces a wall, as well as a speaker unit for left-side audio and a speaker unit for right-side audio for the television set main body. Furthermore, the speaker unit for left-side audio and the speaker unit for right-side audio are each disposed in a space between the television set main body and the wall so as to output audio in a direction parallel or substantially parallel to the display portion of the television set main body.

Abstract: This measurement apparatus having a weight measurement function outputs a weight measurement result before calibration after measuring the weight of a user before calibration, measures reference weight for calibration in a state where the user does not get on a measurement apparatus body, and outputs a weight measurement result of the user after calibration.

Abstract: An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and a management apparatus. The management apparatus includes: a software component retention part configured to retain one or more software components in a storage unit, the software components each being configured to generate output format data in a data format interpretable by a printer engine of a corresponding one or more of the image forming apparatuses from application data; a determination part configured to determine, based on the specified image forming apparatus, one of the software components to be used to generate the output format data corresponding to the specified image forming apparatus; and a transmission part configured to transmit the generated output format data to the specified image forming apparatus. The specified image forming apparatus includes an image forming part to form a predetermined image on an image forming medium based on the transmitted output format data.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a management apparatus configured to manage and operate the image forming system, and a plurality of communication control apparatuses each configured to control data communication between the management apparatus and a corresponding image forming apparatus, wherein the management apparatus includes a software component storing unit configured to store one or more software components in a predetermined storage area of a storage device of the management apparatus, the one or more software components being each configured to generate print data recognizable by a corresponding image forming apparatus and a selecting unit configured to select a software component from the one or more software components in response to the print request, the selected software component being used to generate print data corresponding to the image forming apparatus selected as a printing apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is a measuring chip, which can spot a specimen liquid of a minute quantity for an immune agglutination easily and precisely to the measuring chip and which can prevent the flow of the specimen liquid and the contamination of the specimen. The measuring chip comprises at least two substrates, a spacer arranged between the substrates, at least one passage made of the substrates and the spacer into a hollow shape and having two open ends, counter electrodes for applying an electric field, and a specimen-spotted portion to be spotted with the specimen. The specimen-spotted portion has a structure made of a square, circular, elliptical or sector shape by that spacer. Moreover, the specimen-spotted portion has two open ends, one of which is connected to one open end of that passage.

Abstract: A sealing material is provided, which maintains excellent sealing property for a long period of time. The sealing material of the invention is characterized by being prepared by vulcanizing and foaming a mixture containing a rubber component containing a copolymer rubber of ethylene, an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms, and a conjugated diene, a vulcanizing agent, and a blowing agent, wherein the mixture contains a thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 80° C. or less.