Abstract: A single-sheet lifter includes a base frame arranged in a vicinity of a loading area and extending vertically, a separation unit configured to separate an uppermost workpiece from a plurality of the workpieces loaded in the loading area by means of at least one of an injection pressure of air and a suction force, and a counter balancer configured to reduce a weight acting on the separation unit. The separation unit is provided to the base frame so as to be able to move up and down. The separation unit includes a contact member that comes into contact with a surface of the uppermost workpiece. The separation unit is configured to go up following a lifting operation of a workpiece suction lifter and be retracted from above the loading area when the workpiece suction lifter sucks the surface of the uppermost workpiece to lift the workpiece.

Abstract: A workpiece supply robot configured to be able to transport an uppermost workpiece from a workpiece group stacked on a workpiece mounting table, and a robot control unit are provided. The workpiece supply robot includes a robotic hand for holding the uppermost workpiece, and the robot control unit carries out a holding position specifying process of specifying a holding position of the robotic hand with respect to the workpiece, a nearest neighbor portion specifying process of specifying a portion of the workpiece nearest to the holding position of the robotic hand specified by the holding position specifying process, a pivot center specifying process of specifying, as a pivot center, an opposed portion opposed to the nearest neighbor portion specified by the nearest neighbor portion specifying process, and a robotic hand control process of separating the uppermost workpiece from the workpiece group around the opposed portion specified by the pivot center specifying process.

Abstract: A single-sheet lifter includes a base frame arranged in a vicinity of a loading area and extending vertically, a separation unit configured to separate an uppermost workpiece from a plurality of the workpieces loaded in the loading area by means of at least one of an injection pressure of air and a suction force, and a counter balancer configured to reduce a weight acting on the separation unit. The separation unit is provided to the base frame so as to be able to move up and down. The separation unit includes a contact member that comes into contact with a surface of the uppermost workpiece. The separation unit is configured to go up following a lifting operation of a workpiece suction lifter and be retracted from above the loading area when the workpiece suction lifter sucks the surface of the uppermost workpiece to lift the workpiece.

Abstract: A plurality of first vacuum pads for suctioning a workpiece are directly or indirectly attached to a main body. A slider is configured to slide in an outward direction of the main body. When the slider slides to protrude in the outward direction of the main body while the first vacuum pads are suctioning the workpiece, a sensor detects an end portion of the workpiece. While the sensor detects the end portion of the workpiece and the slider is stopped, a second vacuum pad holds up the end portion of the workpiece by suctioning the workpiece at a position outside from positions at which the first vacuum pads suction the workpiece.

Abstract: A workpiece supply device for supplying a plate-shaped workpiece to a press brake, including: a slider movable along a Y-axis-direction guide member that is provided on a base frame movable in X-, Y-, and Z-axis directions relative to a press brake, the slider being capable of being positioned at an end of the guide member; and a workpiece holder provided on the slider and capable of holding a workpiece, wherein a part of the workpiece holder is capable of protruding from the end of the guide member.

Abstract: An image processor includes an image degradation measuring unit configured to compute a degradation level of block data with respect to each of blocks within an image, a degradation determining unit configured to select, with respect to each of the blocks within the image, the block data of a target block of one of a plurality of the images based on degradation levels of respective block data of the target blocks of the plurality of the images, and an image synthesis unit configured to generate a sheet of an image by synthesizing the block data selected with respect to the blocks within the image.

Abstract: At the time of marker attachment (at the time of encryption), for example, image conversion in which pixels to be overwritten by a marker are selected and pruned in a distributed manner and the pruning positions are moved to a marker attachment position is performed, and the marker is attached to the marker attachment position obtained as a result. At the time of marker elimination (at the time of decryption), for example, image reverse conversion in which each pixel of the marker is moved to the original position before the marker attachment is performed, each moved pixel of the marker is recovered, and the marker is eliminated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tissue construct-forming substrate for forming a three-dimensional tissue construct containing proliferating cells, the substrate including a porous film having through-holes, and the porous film having, on the surface of the film, a cell adhesive region capable of retaining cells and a cell non-adhesive region located at a peripheral region of the cell adhesive region, a tissue construct-forming kit comprising the above-mentioned tissue construct-forming substrate and a frame, and a method for forming the above-mentioned tissue construct.

Abstract: An image processor includes an image degradation measuring unit configured to compute a degradation level of block data with respect to each of blocks within an image, a degradation determining unit configured to select, with respect to each of the blocks within the image, the block data of a target block of one of a plurality of the images based on degradation levels of respective block data of the target blocks of the plurality of the images, and an image synthesis unit configured to generate a sheet of an image by synthesizing the block data selected with respect to the blocks within the image.

Abstract: At the time of marker attachment (at the time of encryption), for example, image conversion in which pixels to be overwritten by a marker are selected and pruned in a distributed manner and the pruning positions are moved to a marker attachment position is performed, and the marker is attached to the marker attachment position obtained as a result. At the time of marker elimination (at the time of decryption), for example, image reverse conversion in which each pixel of the marker is moved to the original position before the marker attachment is performed, each moved pixel of the marker is recovered, and the marker is eliminated.

Abstract: An object to be solved by the present invention is to provide a highly reliable hazardous substance removing material capable of efficiently capturing and quickly inactivating hazardous substances of microbe origin such as viruses and bacteria, so as to minimize influences on the human body, such material being unlikely to be influenced by, for example, dimensional changes derived from dynamical and physical properties or a use environment (particularly humidity). The present invention provides a hazardous substance removing material which comprises a support having antibodies supported thereon, wherein a support is composed of a fiber which comprises at least one polymer having a carbonyl group and/or an ether group and has a volume swelling degree of not less than 1.1% to less than 10% in a water at 20° C.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a hazardous substance removing material, which efficiently captures hazardous substances derived from microorganisms such as bacteria or viruses and rapidly inactivates them, so as to minimize the their influences on human bodies, and which is able to allow an antibody to be supported on a carrier by a simple method, and which has an improved antibody use efficiency. The present invention provides a hazardous substance removing material consisting of a carrier on which an antibody and a sugar chain affinity substance having an affinity for a sugar chain in the Fc region of the antibody are supported.

Abstract: A back sheet for a solar cell module excellent in barrier property and adhesiveness is provided. The back sheet for a solar cell module comprises two gas barrier films, wherein the gas barrier films each have a substrate film and a barrier layer comprising an inorganic layer comprising an inorganic oxide, an inorganic nitride or a mixture thereof on the substrate film, the outermost barrier layers each have an outermost surface having a surface roughness (Ra) of 0.1 to 3 nm, the barrier layers face to each other through the adhesive layer, and the adhesive layer is obtained by curing a two-liquid type polyurethane adhesive.

Abstract: A gas barrier film comprising a gas barrier laminate on a substrate film, in which the gas barrier laminate comprises at least one three-layer unit consisting of a silicon oxynitride layer, a silicon oxide layer, and a silicon oxynitride layer disposed in this order.

Abstract: A gas-barrier film comprising a gas-barrier laminate on a substrate film, wherein the gas-barrier laminate comprises at least one three-layer unit consisting of a silicon oxinitride layer, an organic interlayer and a silicon oxinitride layer disposed in this order being adjacent with each other. The film has excellent transparency, gas-barrier performance and bending resistance.

Abstract: A gas barrier film comprising a gas barrier laminate on a substrate film, wherein the gas barrier laminate comprises at least one three-layer unit consisting of a silicon nitride layer, a silicon oxynitride layer adjacent to the silicon nitride layer, and a silicon nitride layer adjacent to the silicon oxynitride layer. The gas barrier film has excellent transparency and gas barrier property.

Abstract: A gas barrier film comprising a gas barrier laminate on a substrate film, in which the gas barrier laminate comprises at least one three-layer unit consisting of a silicon nitride layer, a silicon carbide compound layer, and a silicon nitride layer disposed in this order being adjacent with each other.

Abstract: A solution (11) containing an organic solvent, a polymer and a plasticizer (TPP, BDP or the like) which is not less than 0.01 wt. % and not more than 50 wt. % of the polymer is cast onto an endless belt (51) to be a casting film (22). Water vapor is condensed from ambient gas on a surface of the casting film (22) passing through a first area (46) to form water drops. The water drops on the casting film (22) passing through a second area (47) are grown and the organic solvent thereof is evaporated. The water drops on the casting film (22) passing through a third area (48) are evaporated. The casting film (22) after passing through the third area (48) is peeled from the endless belt (51) as a flexible porous film (17) by a peel roller (57).

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a hazardous substance removing material, which efficiently captures hazardous substances derived from microorganisms such as bacteria or viruses and rapidly inactivates them, so as to minimize the their influences on human bodies, and which is able to allow an antibody to be supported on a carrier by a simple method, and which has an improved antibody use efficiency. The present invention provides a hazardous substance removing material consisting of a carrier on which an antibody and a polymer material having an affinity for Fc region of the antibody are supported.

Abstract: There are provided plastic optical components which, in addition to their superior characteristics such as lightweightness, low cost and suitability for mass production, exhibit superior moisture barrier properties while experiencing extremely small changes in refractive index or other optical performance even if they are subjected to the effect of water in the environment; and an optical unit using such plastic optical components. The plastic optical component includes an optical component's body and an inorganic moisture-proof coating which is directly or indirectly formed by a plasma CVD process at least on surfaces of the optical component's body that contact outside air, and the plastic optical component is kept at a temperature of 80° C. or lower when the inorganic moisture-proof coating is formed by the plasma CVD process.