Abstract: For a vehicle interior compartment defined by a vehicle floor, opposing sidewalls, a forward end and a rearward end, and a vehicle ceiling covering at least part of the compartment, an end zone overhead display structure includes bulkhead forming attachment elements coupled to a roof strut spanning from sidewall to sidewall of the vehicle roof. The display structure includes an open box-like upper bracket and an open box-like lower bracket coupled together with the roof strut interposed to provide an assembly that reduces unwanted motion, rotation or vibration of the display assembly.

Abstract: A management device includes: a section obtainer that obtains a section to which a load to be carried belongs; a unit obtainer that obtains a unit of handling which refers to a total number of loads to be collectively handled per unit, which belong to a same section; an unfilled subsection determiner that determines an unfilled subsection in which a total number of loads belonging to a same section in each of the automated storages is neither the unit of handling nor a multiple of the unit of handling; and a storage selector that, when there is an unfilled subsection corresponding to the section obtained by the section obtainer, selects, as a destination of the load, one of the automated storages which has the corresponding unfilled subsection.

Abstract: An autonomous travel route planning method includes creating a global map including obstacle information indicating an obstacle existing in a movement environment, setting an outer peripheral boundary corresponding to an outer periphery of a travel area by associating the outer peripheral boundary with the global map, creating a route creation map in which the obstacle information existing inside the outer peripheral boundary is deleted, and creating the filling travel route to fill in the travel area included in the route creation map.

Abstract: A rotary electric shaver includes an outer cutter which has an upper surface with annular shaving faces, in which many hair-entry apertures are formed, and an inner cutter having small blades, which rotate in sliding contact with the lower surface of the outer cutter from below the shaving faces. The outer cutter (10) has a plurality of concentric annular shaving faces (16, 18), which are integrally formed therewith. The density of the hair-entry apertures (65) is varied in the circumferential direction of the plurality of annular shaving faces (16, 18). The rotary electric shaver increases the shaving area of the outer cutter to improve shaving efficiency and also restrains excessively close shaving thereby to protect skin even when the contact pressure of an area near the center of the outer cutter against skin increases.

Abstract: This specimen treatment chip includes: a first fluid module having a first flow channel for performing a first treatment step on an object component in a specimen; a second fluid module having a second flow channel for performing a second treatment step on the object component subjected to the first treatment step; a substrate; and a connection flow channel for connecting the first fluid module and the second fluid module disposed on the substrate.

Abstract: This solid-liquid separator (100a) includes a screw type dehydration unit (2) including a screw (22) and that performs primary dehydration on an object to be processed, and a rotary-body type dehydration unit (3) including a plurality of rotary bodies (30), disposed subsequent to the screw type dehydration unit, and that performs secondary dehydration on the object to be processed on which the primary dehydration has been performed by the screw type dehydration unit. The screw rotates at a higher rotational speed than those of the rotary bodies.

Abstract: An autonomously traveling floor washer autonomously performs an appropriate cleaning operation so that a washing liquid does not remain on a floor surface. In accordance with a cleaning schedule, the autonomously traveling floor washer autonomously travels and performs cleaning of the floor surface using a squeegee and the washing liquid. If a washing liquid discharge position at a taught data obtaining time is not included in a squeegee movement track calculated based on a position and a width of the squeegee at the taught data obtaining time, the cleaning schedule is modified so that the washing liquid discharge position is included in the squeegee movement track.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of quality control of nucleic acid amplification using quality control oligonucleotide. The method comprises a nucleic acid detection step and a determination step. The nucleic acid detection step comprises the steps of: preparing a nucleic acid sample containing a target nucleic acid and a quality control polynucleotide; preparing a compartment containing one molecule of the target nucleic acid and a compartment containing one molecule of the quality control polynucleotide; and carrying out nucleic acid amplification of the target nucleic acid and the quality control polynucleotide, in the compartments, and carrying out signal detection using a detection probe to detect a signal originated from the detection probe. In the determination step, it is determined as to whether or not the nucleic acid detection step is proper on the basis of the result obtained in the signal detection step.

Abstract: This solid-liquid separator (100a) includes a screw type dehydration unit (2) including a screw (22) and that performs primary dehydration on an object to be processed, and a rotary-body type dehydration unit (3) including a plurality of rotary bodies (30), disposed subsequent to the screw type dehydration unit, and that performs secondary dehydration on the object to be processed on which the primary dehydration has been performed by the screw type dehydration unit. The screw rotates at a higher rotational speed than those of the rotary bodies.

Abstract: A self-position estimating apparatus includes a storage, a local map generator, a self-position estimator, and an adjuster. The storage stores an environmental map representing a position of an obstacle present in a mobile environment. The local map generator generates a local map representing a relative position of an obstacle present around the mobile body, with respect to the mobile body. The self-position estimator estimates, among a plurality of disposing positions on a local map disposing region set in the environmental map, one of the disposing positions where most exact matching is obtained between the local map and the environmental map, as a first self-position. The self-position estimator estimates a rotation angle of the local map at the disposing position as a first posture. The adjuster adjusts a size of the local map disposing region according to a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An autonomously traveling floor washer autonomously performs an appropriate cleaning operation so that a washing liquid does not remain on a floor surface. In accordance with a cleaning schedule, the autonomously traveling floor washer autonomously travels and performs cleaning of the floor surface using a squeegee and the washing liquid. If a washing liquid discharge position at a taught data obtaining time is not included in a squeegee movement track calculated based on a position and a width of the squeegee at the taught data obtaining time, the cleaning schedule is modified so that the washing liquid discharge position is included in the squeegee movement track.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sample processing method for processing a target component in a sample by use of a sample processing chip having a storage portion and a droplet forming flow path, the sample processing method including: storing, in the storage portion, a mixture of the target component and a predetermined amount of a diluent for causing the target component to be encapsulated by one molecule or by one particle into a droplet; heating the mixture in the storage portion to cause thermal convection in the storage portion thereby to mix the target component and the diluent together; and in the droplet forming flow path, forming droplets in a dispersion medium, each droplet containing the diluted target component and a reagent that reacts with the target component.

Abstract: A rotary electric shaver includes an outer cutter which has an upper surface with annular shaving faces, in which many hair-entry apertures are formed, and an inner cutter having small blades, which rotate in sliding contact with the lower surface of the outer cutter from below the shaving faces. The outer cutter (10) has a plurality of concentric annular shaving faces (16, 18), which are integrally formed therewith. The density of the hair-entry apertures (65) is varied in the circumferential direction of the plurality of annular shaving faces (16, 18). The rotary electric shaver increases the shaving area of the outer cutter to improve shaving efficiency and also restrains excessively close shaving thereby to protect skin even when the contact pressure of an area near the center of the outer cutter against skin increases.

Abstract: This specimen treatment chip includes: a first fluid module having a first flow channel for performing a first treatment step on an object component in a specimen; a second fluid module having a second flow channel for performing a second treatment step on the object component subjected to the first treatment step; a substrate; and a connection flow channel for connecting the first fluid module and the second fluid module disposed on the substrate.

Abstract: The present specimen treatment chip includes: a first flow channel for forming a droplet containing a mixed liquid of a nucleic acid, a reagent for an amplification reaction of the nucleic acid, and a carrier to which a primer for binding to the nucleic acid is added, in a dispersion medium; a second flow channel for amplifying the nucleic acid in the droplet; and a third flow channel for mixing the droplet containing the carrier with the primer having bound to an amplification product of the nucleic acid, and a reagent for breaking down the droplet, to break down the droplet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a specimen treatment apparatus that treats a specimen by using a specimen treatment chip including a flow channel and a connecting port communicating with the flow channel, the specimen treatment apparatus including: a placement part in which the specimen treatment chip is placed; a connector provided to be engaged with the connecting port to allow a sample containing a specimen to be injected into the flow channel through the connector; and a heating unit that is pressed on the specimen treatment chip and heats the specimen treatment chip while the connector is connected to the connecting port of the specimen treatment chip placed in the placement part.

Abstract: In an autonomously traveling floor washer, a position estimating unit estimates position data. When a manual operation teaching mode is being executed, a taught data obtaining unit obtains taught position data and a taught cleaning condition at a taught data obtaining time. A cleaning schedule generation unit generates a cleaning schedule. When an autonomous cleaning mode is executed, a cleaning reproduction unit calculates and outputs a reproduced travel control command and a reproduced cleaning condition in an elapsed time based on the cleaning schedule. An elapsed time determining unit determines the taught data obtaining time and the elapsed time.

Abstract: A self-position estimating apparatus includes a storage, a local map generator, a self-position estimator, and an adjuster. The storage stores an environmental map representing a position of an obstacle present in a mobile environment. The local map generator generates a local map representing a relative position of an obstacle present around the mobile body, with respect to the mobile body. The self-position estimator estimates, among a plurality of disposing positions on a local map disposing region set in the environmental map, one of the disposing positions where most exact matching is obtained between the local map and the environmental map, as a first self-position. The self-position estimator estimates a rotation angle of the local map at the disposing position as a first posture. The adjuster adjusts a size of the local map disposing region according to a predetermined condition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sample processing method for processing a target component in a sample by use of a sample processing chip having a storage portion and a droplet forming flow path, the sample processing method including: storing, in the storage portion, a mixture of the target component and a predetermined amount of a diluent for causing the target component to be encapsulated by one molecule or by one particle into a droplet; heating the mixture in the storage portion to cause thermal convection in the storage portion thereby to mix the target component and the diluent together; and in the droplet forming flow path, forming droplets in a dispersion medium, each droplet containing the diluted target component and a reagent that reacts with the target component.

Abstract: Techniques are provided that can impart sufficient electrical conductivity to a semiconductor crystal exhibiting low doping efficiency for silicon atoms, such as InGaAs, by implanting only a small amount of silicon atoms. Such a semiconductor wafer may include a first semiconductor crystal layer, a second semiconductor crystal layer exhibiting a conductivity type that is different from the first layer, a third semiconductor crystal layer exhibiting the conductivity type of the first layer and having a larger band gap than the second semiconductor crystal layer, and a fourth semiconductor crystal layer exhibiting the conductivity type of the first layer and having a smaller band gap than the third semiconductor crystal layer. The fourth semiconductor crystal layer contains a first element that generates a first carrier of a corresponding conductivity type and a second element that generates a second carrier of a corresponding conductivity type.