Abstract: A microfluidic device includes a resistor that includes functions of heating a channel and measuring a temperature in the channel, and extends below the channel including a region of interest and over an area larger than the region of interest. The microfluidic device further includes a measuring unit that causes the resistor to measure a temperature distribution at two or more points, including the region of interest, directly above the resistor. The microfluidic device also includes a temperature correcting unit that corrects a temperature misread by an effect of ambient temperature on a resistor's resistance value.

Abstract: A method of measuring a position of a liquid surface in a light transmissive container, includes: irradiating a liquid surface with light obliquely so the light is transmitted through an inner wall that comes into contact with liquid and is totally reflected from an inner wall that comes into contact with air in the state in which a light-receiving surface is present on a bottom portion of the container; and detecting a position of a boundary between a dark portion and a bright portion generated by the total reflection on the light-receiving surface.

Abstract: A microfluidic device including: a substrate having a flow channel and an outlet port connected to the flow channel and configured to discharge liquid; and an inlet portion being present on a surface of the substrate and configured to allow injection of liquid into the flow channel, wherein the inlet portion includes a first tube and a second tube being present in an interior of the first tube and having a height smaller than that of the first tube, the outlet port includes a first outlet port and a second outlet port, the flow channel includes a first flow channel and a second flow channel, the second flow channel connects the second outlet port and a space between the first tube and the second tube, and the first flow channel and the second flow channel are not connected.

Abstract: Provided is a process for producing a composite device comprising a light shielding first member and a light transmissive second member, a first surface of the light shielding first member and a second surface of the light transmissive second member being bonded to each other through intermediation of an ultraviolet curing adhesive, the second surface being larger than the first surface, the process including irradiating a region of the second surface to which region the first surface is not bonded with an ultraviolet ray, wherein a reflective member having a reflective surface with an inclination with respect to the second surface onto the light transmissive second member so that the ultraviolet ray that has transmitted through the second surface is reflected toward the ultraviolet curing adhesive between the second surface and the first surface.

Abstract: To provide a light conversion element which has solved the problems of the reduced intensity of upconverted light, etc., due to the flammability, volatility or high viscosity of a medium used in the conventional photon upconversion elements. A light conversion element is provided which has solved the above problems by using a visually homogeneous and transparent light conversion element, wherein organic photosensitizing molecules and organic light-emitting molecules, which are a combination that exhibits a triplet-triplet annihilation process, are dissolved and/or dispersed in an ionic liquid.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a lanthanum boride film includes, in the state in which a lanthanum boride target having an oxygen content in a range of 0.4 to 1.2 percent by mass and a substrate are arranged to face each other, a step of forming a lanthanum boride film on the substrate by a sputtering technique, and when the mean free path of a sputtering gas molecule in film formation is represented by ? (mm) and the distance between the substrate and the target is represented by L (mm), L/? is set to 20 or more, and the value obtained by dividing a discharge electrical power by a target area is set in a range of 1 to 5 W/cm2.

Abstract: A field emission type electron emitting device includes a cathode including a mixture of a lanthanum oxide and a molybdenum oxide.

Abstract: The invention provides a composite comprising a substrate and a membrane of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes formed on the substrate which membrane is independent of the material of the substrate and a process for the production of the same. A process for producing the first composite comprising the first substrate and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes formed on the first substrate which comprises the step (a) of preparing the second composite comprising the second substrate made of quartz or silicon and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes formed on the second substrate, the step (b) of subjecting the second composite to water immersion wherein the temperature (Tw) of the water is higher than the temperature (Tc) of the second composite with a temperature difference ?T (=Tw?Tc) of at least 25° C.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing in which a recess having an opening on a rear face is provided, and a slider to be slid in the recess. A flexible substrate is inserted in the recess with the slider so that a contact on the flexible substrate is connected to a contact on the housing. On both sides of the slider, a pair of lock arms are provided for fixing the slider to the housing when the slider is fitted in the housing. Parts of the respective lock arms in the recess are exposed out of the housing at portions near both sides of the upper face of the housing when the slider is fitted in the housing, and either of the lock arms in the recess are not exposed out of the housing when the slider is not fitted in the housing. Each portion of the housing where each lock arm is exposed is provided near a corner portion where the upper face, a side face, and a front face of the housing are perpendicularly connected to each other.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing in which a recess having an opening on a rear face is provided, and a slider to be slid in the recess. A flexible substrate is inserted in the recess with the slider so that a contact on the flexible substrate is connected to a contact on the housing. On both sides of the slider, a pair of lock arms are provided for fixing the slider to the housing when the slider is fitted in the housing. Parts of the respective lock arms in the recess are exposed out of the housing at portions near both sides of the upper face of the housing when the slider is fitted in the housing, and either of the lock arms in the recess are not exposed out of the housing when the slider is not fitted in the housing. Each portion of the housing where each lock arm is exposed is provided near a corner portion where the upper face, a side face, and a front face of the housing are perpendicularly connected to each other.

Abstract: Provided is a process for forming catalyst metal fine particles for synthesizing a single-walled carbon nanotube by a CCVD process on a substrate, wherein a solution is prepared by dispersing or dissolving a catalyst metal salt of an organic compound or an inorganic compound in a solvent; the solution is coated on the substrate and dried; then, the substrate is heated in an oxidative atmosphere to thereby remove the solvent component remaining on the substrate by oxidative decomposition, and fine particles of an oxide of the catalyst metal are formed on the substrate; and then, the oxide of the catalyst metal is reduced in an atmosphere of an inert gas or a gas having reducing action to fix the catalyst metal fine particles on the substrate.

Abstract: A housing made of an insulating synthetic resin has a connecting recess opened in the connecting direction. The side walls defining the connecting recess is provided with terminal retainer recesses arranged side by side in the lateral direction. The openings are formed in the portion of the outer side surface of each side wall which correspond to the partition walls separating adjacent terminal retainer recesses from each other. The openings have the terminal retainer holes, which are formed on both sides of the corresponding partition walls, opened to the exterior thereof. When the housing is molded, the pins for forming the openings are interposed among the ribs of the metal mold which are used to form the adjacent terminal retainer recesses, the deformation of the ribs being thereby held down.

Abstract: An array of aligned single-walled nanotubes and a process of fabricating an array of aligned single-walled nanotubes comprising chemical vapour deposition in the presence of a gas flow, preferably a reducing atmosphere provided by a continuous Ar/H2 gas flow. The SWNTs are preferably prepared on a quartz surface and are aligned normal to the surface.

Abstract: There is provided a device for manufacturing carbon nanotube. The devices has a chamber support part for supporting a chamber which contains a plurality of microstructures, each of which is separated from each other by an interval; a gas providing part, connected to the chamber, for flowing at least one reactant gas, including raw material gas for manufacturing carbon nanotubes, through the chamber; a measurement part for measuring a change in physical properties of at least one of the plurality of microstructures by using detecting part; and a control part for controlling the gas providing part based on the measured change in physical properties.

Abstract: An interference-signal removing apparatus is provided for removing narrow-band interference signals from input signals including wide-band desired signals and the narrow-band interference signals, which suppresses that even desired signals are removed. The interference-signal removing apparatus includes an extraction section for extracting interference signals from input signals, a removal circuit for removing extracted interference signals from input signals, an extraction control section for controlling extraction of interference signals by the extraction section in accordance with the removal result, and an extraction-amount suppression section for suppressing the interference signal amount to be extracted in accordance with input signals.

Abstract: The housing 3 made of an insulating synthetic resin has a connecting recess 13 opened in the connecting direction Y. The side walls 14 defining the connecting recess 13 is provided with terminal retainer recesses 18 arranged side by side in the lateral direction X. The openings 25 are formed in the portion of the outer side surface of each side wall 14 which correspond to the partition walls 26 separating adjacent terminal retainer recesses 18 from each other. The openings 25 have the terminal retainer holes 18, which are formed on both sides of the corresponding partition walls 26, opened to the exterior thereof. When the housing 3 is molded, the pins for forming the openings 25 are interposed among the ribs of the metal mold which are used to form the adjacent terminal retainer recesses 18, the deformation of the ribs being thereby held down.

Abstract: To provide an interference-signal removing apparatus for removing narrow-band interference signals from input signals including wide-band desired signals and the narrow-band interference signals, which suppresses that even desired signals are removed.

Abstract: An image output device includes an image memory for storing image data in correspondence to each of a plurality of image identification data; an image classification data memory for storing a plurality of image classification data for each image identification data; and a keyboard for inputting to the image output device a desired number of desired image classification data. A central processing unit is provided for retrieving, from the image classification data memory, image identification data indicative of all the respective image classification data input by the keyboard, for further limiting retrieval of the retrieved image identification data to image identification data which is common to a plurality of image classification data input by the keyboard, for extracting from the image memory image data corresponding to the image identification data further retrieved by the central processing unit, and for outputting the extracted image data.

Abstract: A process for producing a meso-compound-containing lactide, comprising thermally decomposing a hydroxycarboxylic acid oligomer in the presence of a salt of an alkali metal except sodium and in the presence or absence of a metal of the groups 4 to 15 of the periodic table and/or a salt thereof; and a process for purifying a crude lactide comprising recrystallizing a crude lactide using a poor solvent and a good solvent selected from aliphatic tertiary alcohols, ketones and esters are disclosed. The production ratio of a meso-lactide can be controlled by selection of the kind and the amount of a catalyst so as to obtain a lactide having an appropriate optical purity suitable for production of biodegradable polymers. The purification process achieves a high recovery.

Abstract: A magnetic disk apparatus has a circuit for detecting the recorded position of servo information, used for aligning a magnetic head, on a target track of a magnetic disk. The circuit discriminates the track's data area and the servo information area by determining an amplitude difference between detection signals equal or close to a discrimination frequency and the harmonic component of the discrimination frequency. If the amplitude difference exceeds a predetermined value, a servo area is discriminated. If the value is lower than the threshold, a data area is discriminated.