Abstract: A bipolar battery is provided with improved productivity and reliability of bonding between a positive electrode and a substrate (bipolar plate) or a negative electrode and the substrate. The bipolar battery includes a bipolar electrode including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a substrate having a first surface on which the positive electrode is provided and a second surface on which the negative electrode is provided. A first adhesion layer is provided between the bipolar plate and the positive electrode and/or between the bipolar plate and the negative electrode. A second adhesion layer is provided at the outer periphery of the first adhesion layer of the positive electrode and/or the negative electrode on which the first adhesion layer is provided. The bipolar plate is formed from resin, the first adhesion layer is formed from an adhesion sheet, and the second adhesion layer is formed from an adhesive cured product.

Abstract: A cooling storage cabinet includes a freezing compartment, a refrigerating compartment, a compressor, a three-way valve, and a control circuit.

Abstract: When an internal temperature of a freezing compartment becomes lower than a lower limit temperature during R-compartment F-compartment alternate cooling, starting R-individual overcool preventing control is requested. Then, the rotational speed of a compressor is decreased by one stage and, subsequently, a three-way valve enters “R-side open state”, and individual cooling of the refrigerating compartment is executed. Thereafter, every 30 seconds, the rotational speed of the compressor is decreased by one stage. When the refrigerating compartment becomes lower than a lower limit temperature, stopping R-individual overcool preventing control is requested. Then, the process shifts to individual cooling of the freezing compartment and then, after the freezing compartment to again become lower than the lower limit temperature, the compressor is stopped. When shifted to the individual cooling of the refrigerating compartment, the rotational speed of the compressor is drastically decreased in a short time.

Abstract: When an internal temperature of a freezing compartment becomes lower than a lower limit temperature TF(OFF) during R-compartment F-compartment alternate cooling, a request for start of R-individual overcool preventing control is made. Then, the rotational speed of the compressor is decreased by one stage and, subsequently, a three-way valve comes to a “R-side open state”, and thus individual cooling of the refrigerating compartment is executed. Thereafter, after a set time, the rotational speed of the compressor is decreased by one stages. When the refrigerating compartment becomes lower than a lower limit temperature TR(OFF), a request for stop of the R-individual overcool preventing control is made. Then, the process shifts to individual cooling of the freezing compartment and then, after waiting for the freezing compartment to again become lower than the lower limit temperature, the compressor is stopped.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting or quantifying a target nucleic acid present in a specimen. The present invention provides a method of detecting or quantifying a target nucleic acid by using artificially-designed probes having a flag consisting of a plurality of units, thereby easily and accurately detecting the target nucleic acid.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a molecular computer comprising an electronic operation section and a molecular operation section, wherein, in addition to general computation processing, said electronic operation section controls a function of the molecular operation section substantially, and the molecular operation is performed under control thereof.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide an information processing method using autonomously workable nucleic acids, and a molecular computer to carry out operations with the method. Objectives above mentioned may be achieved with following method. The present invention provides an information processing method carrying out operations with functions receiving an argument and returning a return value through chemical reactions of molecules, comprising (a) inputting a first encoded nucleic acid defined in correspondence to a first degradable single stranded nucleic acid as an argument (b) carrying out an operation with functions defined in correspondence to chemical reactions of operator nucleic acids based on the argument (c) obtaining a second encoded nucleic acid defined in correspondence to a second single stranded nucleic acid as a return value. Furthermore, the invention provides a molecular computer designed on the basis of the method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting or quantifying a target nucleic acid present in a specimen. The present invention provides a method of detecting or quantifying a target nucleic acid by using artificially-designed probes having a flag consisting of a plurality of units, thereby easily and accurately detecting the target nucleic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for detecting nucleic acid molecules such as target DNA molecules and mRNA molecules by using a DNA probe, and provides a DNA capillary, comprising a fluid passageway formed of a cylindrical capillary made of glass, a plurality of independent probe regions formed in the inner wall of the fluid passageway, and DNA probes each immobilized in the probe region, the immobilized DNA probes differing from each other. For performing the measurement, a sample is introduced through an open portion into the capillary so as to perform reaction and, then, fluorimetry.

Abstract: An ice making machine in which upon starting of an ice making operation, a water level detecting switch starts measurement, and a water-supply-stop time T1 is compared with a reference time T2. When the water-supply-stop time T1 is not longer than the reference time T2, it is determined that the ice making machine is an excessive-ice-making state, and control is performed so as to reduce the RPM of a fan motor for cooling a condenser.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for detecting nucleic acid molecules such as target DNA molecules and mRNA molecules by using a DNA probe, and provides a DNA capillary, comprising a fluid passageway formed of a cylindrical capillary made of glass, a plurality of independent probe regions formed in the inner wall of the fluid passageway, and DNA probes each immobilized in the probe region, the immobilized DNA probes differing from each other. For performing the measurement, a sample is introduced through an open portion into the capillary so as to perform reaction and, then, fluorimetry.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a molecular computer comprising an electronic operation section and a molecular operation section, wherein, in addition to general computation processing, said electronic operation section controls a function of the molecular operation section substantially, and the molecular operation is performed under control thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ice making machine in which upon starting of ice making operation, a water level detecting switch starts measurement, a water-supply-stop time T1 being compared with a reference time T2. When the water-supply-stop time T1 is not longer than the reference time T2, it is determined that the ice making machine is in an excessive-ice-making state, and control is performed so as to reduce the RPM of a fan motor for cooling a condenser.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an information processing method using an operational nucleic acid, which comprises (a) converting arbitrary information into a nucleic acid molecule, (b) hybridizing the nucleic acid molecule obtained in (a) to an operational nucleic acid designed so as to express a logical equation indicating a condition to be detected, and extending the nucleic acid molecule hybridized, and (c) detecting a binding profile of the nucleic acid molecule included in the nucleic acid molecule extended in (b), thereby evaluating whether a solution of the logical equation is true or false. The present invention further provides an apparatus and a program for performing the information processing method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting or quantifying a target nucleic acid present in a specimen. The present invention provides a method of detecting or quantifying a target nucleic acid by using artificially-designed probes having a flag consisting of a plurality of units, thereby easily and accurately detecting the target nucleic acid.

Abstract: Method for determining a nucleotide sequence of an analytical oligo nucleic acid for use in analysis of a nucleic acid, comprising the steps of listing all unit nucleotide sequences present on a target nucleic acid having a predetermined length which is shorter than that of the analytical oligo nucleic acid to be designed, and extracting a nucleotide sequence containing a sequence occurring at a low frequency on the target nucleic acid from the candidate sequences of the analytical oligo nucleic acid on the basis of a frequency of each of the listed individual unit sequences.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for detecting nucleic acid molecules such as target DNA molecules and mRNA molecules by using a DNA probe, and provides a DNA capillary, comprising a fluid passageway formed of a cylindrical capillary made of glass, a plurality of independent probe regions formed in the inner wall of the fluid passageway, and DNA probes each immobilized in the probe region, the immobilized DNA probes differing from each other. For performing the measurement, a sample is introduced through an open portion into the capillary so as to perform reaction and, then, fluorimetry.