Abstract: An object of the present invention to realize a step of producing an environmentally friendly textile product using a solvent in place of conventionally used water or an organic solvent in a textile product scouring step. A method according to one aspect of the present invention includes a step (a) of bringing a fluid containing supercritical carbon dioxide into contact with the textile product to remove part or all substances adhered to a surface of the textile product.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize an environment-friendly manufacturing process for textile products that solves the problem of wastewater by using a solvent instead of conventionally used water in a sizing process and/or desizing process of textile products. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for applying a sizing agent to a textile product, the method including: a step of sizing the textile product by bringing the textile product into contact with a fluid containing the sizing agent and supercritical carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition can give a cured film exhibiting high heat resistance and self-repairing properties by light irradiation and low-temperature heating. The photosensitive composition contains a double-decker silsesquioxane (A) having two or more polymerizable double bonds, and a polythiol (B).

Abstract: A wafer processing apparatus is configured to process a wafer by supplying mist to a surface of the wafer. The wafer processing apparatus includes a furnace in which the wafer is disposed, a gas supplying device configured to supply gas into the furnace, a mist supplying device configured to supply the mist into the furnace, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a processing step by controlling the gas supplying device and the mist supplying device to supply the gas and the mist into the furnace, respectively. The controller is further configured to control the mist supplying device to stop supplying the mist into the furnace while controlling the gas supplying device to keep supplying the gas into the furnace when the processing step ends.

Abstract: The present invention provides an actuator-equipped knee ankle foot orthosis in which a control device calculates a thigh phase angle based on an angle-related signal detected by a thigh orientation detecting means at one sampling point, applies the thigh phase angle at that sampling point to an assisting force control data, which is stored in the control device in advance and indicates the relationship between the thigh phase angle and a size of the assisting force to be imparted to a lower leg-side brace, to obtain the size of the assisting force to be imparted to the lower leg-side brace at that sampling point, and executes operational control for an actuator unit such that the assisting force having the size is output.

Abstract: A gait motion assisting apparatus of the present invention includes an actuator unit controlling driver so that assisting force calculated by applying gait motion timing based on detected thigh phase angle to output pattern saved data is imparted to lower leg, and a terminal device capable of wireless-communicating with control device of the actuator unit. The terminal device can receive assisting force setting value including assisting force imparting period during gait cycle and create, based on the assisting force setting value, output pattern setting data indicating a relationship between the gait motion timing and a size of assisting force to be imparted to the lower leg. The control device is configured to overwrite-save the output pattern setting data received from the terminal device as the output pattern saved data.

Abstract: A D-type flip-flop circuit 1 has a structure in which a pMOS transistor p8 and an nMOS transistor n8 are added to a general D-type flip-flop circuit comprising pMOS transistors p1 to p7, p11 to p15 and nMOS transistors n1 to n7, n11 to n15.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground plate, a patch portion disposed parallel to the ground plate with a particular spacing, a plurality of short circuit portions that electrically connect the patch portion to the ground plate, and a loop portion which is a loop shaped conductor member at a particular spacing from an outer edge portion of the patch portion. The patch portion has an area which forms an electrostatic capacitance that causes parallel resonance with an inductance provided by the short circuit portions at a particular target frequency. The loop portion is formed with a perimeter length which is an integral multiple of the wavelength of radio waves at the target frequency. A feed point is disposed on the loop portion, and current is supplied to the patch portion through the loop portion.

Abstract: Provided is a highly sensitive and less expensive lectin-immobilized base material (for example, a lectin plate), such as lectin-immobilized base material having stable qualities and being able to be sufficiently washed after a target sugar chain-containing antigen binds thereto. Further provided is a method for immobilizing lectin to a base material therefor. Particularly provided are: a method whereby a lectin-peptide fusion, in which a peptide capable of adsorbing to a base material surface such as a polystyrene (PS) tag is fused with the N-terminal side or C-terminal side of lectin capable of recognizing a target sugar chain, is immobilized on the peptide side to a base material; and a lectin-immobilized base material produced by this method. By using the lectin-immobilized base material, a target sugar chain-containing antigen can be highly sensitively and evenly measured and, moreover, target sugar chain-containing cells, etc. can be separated (concentrated and harvested).

Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground plate, a patch section parallel to, and spaced apart from, the ground plate, a first short circuit section having a plurality of first conductive elements that electrically connect the patch section and the ground plate, and a second short circuit section having a plurality of second conductive elements electrically connected at one end to the ground plate. The plurality of first conductive elements are arranged in a circle with a first radius from a patch center point and provide a preset inductance. The plurality of second conductive elements are arranged in a circle with a second radius from the patch center point and provide a preset inductance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel target analysis chip and analysis method for directly detecting a target such as a microRNA without performing PCR.

Abstract: Provided is a novel method of suppressing non-specific protein adsorption. The above-mentioned object can be achieved by treating a solid phase with a solid phase-treating liquid containing a phosphorylcholine group-containing polymer as a main component, and treating a specimen with a specimen-treating liquid containing, as a main component, a polymer having a phosphorylcholine group, a hydroxy group, and a hydrophobic group, followed by addition of the treated specimen to the treated solid phase.

Abstract: A target analysis method and target analyzing chip are provided to directly detect a target, such as microRNA, without performing PCR. The target analysis method of the present embodiment includes: a process in which a target in a sample, a labeled probe that binds to the target, and a carrier-binding probe that binds to the target and to a carrier, contact each other, and the target, the labeled probe, and the carrier-binding probe react to bind to each other to form a first bound body; a process in which the first bound body and the carrier contact each other, and the first bound body and the carrier react to bind to each other to form a second bound body; a process to concentrate the carrier; and a process in which the target in the sample is analyzed by detecting a label of the labeled probe bound to the concentrated carrier.

Abstract: A complex amplitude information measurement apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes pixel sensor groups for generating a difference from one pixel sensor group to another in the optical distance of object light traveling from a measurement object (100); a camera (15) provided with an image sensor for recording, with a single-shot exposure, the object light that has passed through or been reflected from the pixel sensor groups to obtain intensity information of the measurement object; and a computer (16) for computing, on the basis of the intensity information, phase information of the measurement object (100).

Abstract: An ultrasonic particle size measurement device includes: a transducer for (i) receiving an ultrasonic pulse scattered after being emitted to a fine particle and (ii) generating a first scattering amplitude ?; and a particle size calculating section for calculating a particle size of the fine particle by calculating an amplitude r and a phase ? in accordance with a real part and an imaginary part, respectively, of a second scattering amplitude ? obtained by subjecting the first scattering amplitude ? to a Fourier transform.

Abstract: A method for refolding an antibody, a process for producing a refolded antibody, a refolded antibody, and uses thereof are provided. A method for refolding an antibody in a liquid phase comprises the steps of denaturing an inactive antibody binding directly or through a linker to a peptide, the peptide having an isoelectric point lower than the isoelectric point of the inactive antibody, and dispersing in a liquid phase the peptide-binding inactive antibody denatured in the step above. Also provided is a process for producing a refolded antibody.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a peptide having an affinity for silicon nitride; a polynucleotide encoding the peptide; an expression vector for expressing the peptide having an affinity for silicon nitride; an expression vector for expressing a peptide fusion protein that comprises the peptide having an affinity for silicon nitride and a target protein; a transformant obtained by introducing the expression vector into a host cell; a peptide fusion protein obtained from the transformant; a silicon nitride substrate to which a peptide having an affinity for silicon nitride has been bonded; a method for immobilizing a target protein to a silicon nitride substrate; a composition for immobilizing a target protein to a silicon nitride substrate, the composition comprising a peptide having an affinity for silicon nitride; and a linker for immobilizing a target protein to a silicon nitride substrate, the linker comprising a peptide having an affinity for silicon nitride.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fast-response photorefractive polymer element (1) including two insulating substrates (2, 2) arranged substantially in parallel with each other, ITO electrodes (3, 3) provided on inner surfaces (2a, 2a) of two insulating substrates (2, 2), dark current control layers (4, 4) provided on inner surfaces (3a, 3a) of ITO electrodes (3, 3), and a photorefractive composite material (5) provided between two insulating substrates (2, 2) with ITO electrodes (3, 3) and dark current control layers (4, 4). The photorefractive composite material (5) contains polytriarylamine (PTAA) which is a photorefractive polymer, and a dark current control layer (4) is a single-layered monomolecular film or multi-layered monomolecular films. With these configurations, a fast-response photorefractive polymer element achieves significantly improved responsiveness.

Abstract: A digital holography device (1) which is capable of measuring a subject with high accuracy by correcting intensity unevenness by accurately removing zeroth-order diffracted light, includes: a hologram generating section (26) for generating a first hologram and a second hologram each obtained by extracting components identical in phase shift amount from a polarizer array hologram which is recorded in an image capturing device (7) mounted with a polarizer array (6); a dividing section (3) for dividing the first hologram into a plurality of first regions, and dividing the second hologram into a plurality of second regions; a comparing section (4) for comparing a first average value of an intensity in a first region of the first hologram and a second average value of an intensity in a second region of the second hologram which region corresponds to the first region; and a correcting section (5) for, in a case where the first average value and the second average value differ, correcting at least one of the first a

Abstract: A digital holography device of an embodiment of the present invention includes: an image sensing device which records, in an image sensor and on the basis of an object, a plurality of holograms that correspond to respective different photographic exposure values; and a computer which (i) generates a high dynamic range hologram, which includes pieces of information ranging from low luminance information to high luminance information, by synthesizing the plurality of holograms recorded and (ii) generates a reconstructed image of the object by performing arithmetic processing of phase-shift interferometry, diffraction calculation, and/or the like on the basis of the high dynamic range hologram.