Abstract: An entry management system SYS includes: a user terminal 1 that is possessed by a user U and is capable of notifying information to the user; and an entry control apparatus 3. The entry control apparatus includes: an acquisition unit 311 configured to acquire biological information on the user; a determination unit 312 configured to determine, based on the biological information, whether or not to permit entry of the user into a management target area MTA; and a control unit 313 configured to output determination result information to the user terminal in a case where it is determined that entry of the user into the management target area is not permitted.

Abstract: A medical image-processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a first medical image captured at first timing, and a second medical image in which an identical position to the first medical image is captured at second timing, which is different from the first timing, identifies a change region to be a logical OR of a first region included in the first medical image and a second region that corresponds to the first region and is included in the second medical image when the first medical image and the second medical image are overlaid on each other in an aligned manner, and calculates a degree of change of the change region between the first timing and the second timing based on the first region and the second region that form the change region.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes sequence controlling circuitry configured: to obtain, during a time period after excitation of a first nuclide in a hyperpolarized state but no later than before obtainment of a first magnetic resonance signal from the first nuclide, a second magnetic resonance signal from a second nuclide that is different from the first nuclide and is in a non-hyperpolarized state, by exciting the second nuclide; and to control each of gradient magnetic field waveforms so as to cause both a first sum indicating a sum of application amounts of a gradient magnetic field related to the excitation of the second nuclide and a second sum indicating a sum of application amounts of a gradient magnetic field related to the obtainment of the second magnetic resonance signal to be close to zero, no later than before the obtainment of the first magnetic resonance signal.

Abstract: The present invention is one which prevents the occurrence of cracks in piezo elements and reduces the thermal effects on the control board, and comprises a fluid control valve driven by a piezo actuator, a fluid sensor which measures the pressure or flow rate of the fluid, a control board which controls the fluid control valve based on the measured value measured by the fluid sensor, and a discharge resistor provided on a component different from the control board.

Abstract: A vaporization system includes: a vaporization device that is configured to vaporize a liquid material and that includes an inlet port through which the liquid material is introduced and an outlet port through which vaporized gas generated by vaporizing the liquid material is discharged; at least one first fixing screw with which at least one of the inlet port or the outlet port is screwed and fixed onto a base; at least one pipe member that is configured to communicate with the fixed port and through which the vaporized gas or the liquid material flows; and at least one second fixing screw with which the at least one pipe member is screwed and fixed onto the fixed port with a seal member interposed between the at least one pipe member and the fixed port.

Abstract: A protection structure for the fuel pump connection part includes a top plate 20 that has fuel pump connection parts 23, 25, and a cover member 30 that covers the top plate 20 and the fuel pump connection parts 23, 25. The cover member 30 includes a top plate cover part 31, hole parts 39, 41, and connection-part cover parts 45, 55. The top plate cover part 31 and the connection-part cover parts 45, 55 are integrally formed. The connection-part cover parts 45, 55 includes movable parts 47, 57 that move with respect to the top plate cover part 31, and the fuel pump connection parts 23, 25 are exposed in a state where the movable parts 47, 57 have moved in a separating direction from a front surface side of the top plate cover part 31.

Abstract: A rapid rise in the temperature of a liquid level sensor is prevented even at close to a vacuum atmosphere. In a material supply system that is equipped with a tank containing a liquid material and with the liquid level sensor that is provided inside the tank, and in which the liquid level sensor is a self-heating type of sensor that, when the liquid level sensor is generating heat as a result of being supplied with a predetermined normal energy, detects a liquid surface, there are provided a monitoring portion that monitors a detection value from an output signal from the liquid level sensor, and an energy control portion that, when the monitored detection value reaches a predetermined upper limit value, performs control in such a way that the energy supplied to the liquid level sensor is low-level energy that is lower than the normal energy.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means capable of selectively introducing a disulfide bond with respect to two free thiol groups located in a molecule of an organic compound such as a peptide, or the like, in a short time by a simple treatment and also by a chemically stable method. A nitrogen-containing compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 below or a salt thereof: The symbols shown in Chemical Formula 1 are the same as defined in the specification.

Abstract: Provided is a fluid control device including: a body member that is a block-shaped one having inside a flow path through which fluid flows and has an installation surface on which respective equipment for controlling the fluid flowing through the flow path is installed and a side surface adjacent to the installation surface; a heater that heats the body member; a heater holding member that has a facing surface facing the installation surface of the body member and holds the heater along the side surface with the facing surface made to face the installation surface; and a pressing mechanism that presses the facing surface toward the installation surface.

Abstract: The present invention is a fluid heater that can easily be reduced in size, that can be manufactured inexpensively, and that provides a stable heating performance. This fluid heater heats a fluid using a heater, and is provided with a heating block in which an internal flow path having an intake port through which the fluid is introduced, and a discharge port through which the fluid is discharged is formed, and in which a heater insertion portion that extends in a predetermined axial direction is formed, wherein the internal flow path has a plurality of main flow path portions that extend in the predetermined axial direction, and one or a plurality of connecting path flow portions that connect the plurality of main flow path portions together.

Abstract: A vaporization system without a pressure sensor including: a vaporizer that vaporizes the liquid material; a supply amount controller that controls the supply amount of the liquid material to the vaporizer; a flow rate regulation valve that regulates the flow rate of vaporized gas produced by the vaporizer; a flow rate sensor that measures the flow rate of the vaporized gas; and a valve control part that outputs a drive signal to the flow rate regulation valve to control a valve opening level so that a measured flow rate measured by the flow rate sensor becomes equal to a predetermined set flow rate, is adapted to acquire a drive signal value that is a value indicated by the drive signal; and output a control signal to the supply amount controller on the basis of the drive signal value and control the supply of the liquid material.

Abstract: In order to make it possible to accurately detect the liquid level of a liquid material in a container, a vaporization device is adapted to include: a container 10 that contains a liquid material X; a heater 30 that heats the liquid material X in the container 10; and a liquid level sensor 20 that detects the liquid level of the liquid material in the container 10, in which when viewing the inside of the container 10 from above, a vaporization region S1 in which the liquid material X is vaporized, and a liquid level stable region S2 different from the vaporization region S1 are configured to be formed, and the liquid level sensor 20 detects the liquid level of the liquid material X in the liquid level stable region S2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means capable of selectively introducing a disulfide bond with respect to two free thiol groups located in a molecule of an organic compound such as a peptide, or the like, in a short time by a simple treatment and also by a chemically stable method. A nitrogen-containing compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 below or a salt thereof: The symbols shown in Chemical Formula 1 are the same as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A vaporization system without a pressure sensor including: a vaporizer that vaporizes the liquid material; a supply amount controller that controls the supply amount of the liquid material to the vaporizer; a flow rate regulation valve that regulates the flow rate of vaporized gas produced by the vaporizer; a flow rate sensor that measures the flow rate of the vaporized gas; and a valve control part that outputs a drive signal to the flow rate regulation valve to control a valve opening level so that a measured flow rate measured by the flow rate sensor becomes equal to a predetermined set flow rate, is adapted to acquire a drive signal value that is a value indicated by the drive signal; and output a control signal to the supply amount controller on the basis of the drive signal value and control the supply of the liquid material.

Abstract: A fluid storage apparatus includes a guiding mechanism that linearly guides a flexible container in accordance with expansion and contraction of the flexible container. The guiding mechanism includes a guiding column that is disposed adjacent to the flexible container and that extends linearly and a slider that has a guiding hole, in which the guiding column is inserted, and that is formed on an upper edge portion of the flexible container.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to reduce the size of a vaporization system by eliminating the need for conduits in the vaporization system, without it being necessary to form a flow path in order for a supply rate controller to be mounted inside a vaporizer, and is formed by a vaporizer that vaporizes a liquid material; a supply rate controller that controls a supply rate of the liquid material to the vaporizer; and a manifold block inside which an internal flow path is formed, and that has a device mounting surface on which both the vaporizer and the supply rate controller are mounted, wherein, as a result of the vaporizer and the supply rate controller being mounted on the device mounting surface, they are connected together via the flow path.

Abstract: A fuel-level measuring apparatus measures the level of fuel in a vehicle fuel tank. The apparatus can ensure a sufficient capacity of the fuel tank and sense the fuel level even when the fuel tank has a thin or complicated shape. A fuel-level measuring apparatus that senses the level of fuel in a vehicle fuel tank disposed below a floor panel of a vehicle includes a tank band that secures the fuel tank to a body of the vehicle, and a strain gauge attached to the tank band. The fuel level can be obtained from strain in the tank band detected by the strain gauge.

Abstract: A fuel-level measuring apparatus measures the level of fuel in a vehicle fuel tank. The apparatus can ensure a sufficient capacity of the fuel tank and sense the fuel level even when the fuel tank has a thin or complicated shape. A fuel-level measuring apparatus that senses the level of fuel in a vehicle fuel tank disposed below a floor panel of a vehicle includes a tank band that secures the fuel tank to a body of the vehicle, and a strain gauge attached to the tank band. The fuel level can be obtained from strain in the tank band detected by the strain gauge.

Abstract: [Problems] To provide a novel peptide synthesis technique that is completely different than heretofore, and to provide a novel compound that enables the synthesis/creation of a novel artificial functional protein and the synthesis/creation of a novel functional peptide, as well as a method for producing the same. [Solution] A compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to reduce the size of a vaporization system by eliminating the need for conduits in the vaporization system, without it being necessary to form a flow path in order for a supply rate controller to be mounted inside a vaporizer, and is formed by a vaporizer that vaporizes a liquid material; a supply rate controller that controls a supply rate of the liquid material to the vaporizer; and a manifold block inside which an internal flow path is formed, and that has a device mounting surface on which both the vaporizer and the supply rate controller are mounted, wherein, as a result of the vaporizer and the supply rate controller being mounted on the device mounting surface, they are connected together via the flow path.