Abstract: An assay cartridge is an assay cartridge used for immunochromatographic assay, including a carrier to which a sample and a reagent are supplied, an enclosing body in which a reagent to be supplied to the carrier is enclosed, and which has a sealing portion that opens earlier than other portions in a case where an internal pressure is increased due to an application of a pressing force, and a case accommodating the carrier and the enclosing body and having a pressing operation part for applying the pressing force to the enclosing body.

Abstract: An assay cartridge is an assay cartridge that is attachably and detachably loaded into an immunochromatographic assay apparatus, including a carrier having an assay region in which a color development state changes depending on whether a sample is positive or negative, a case in which the carrier is accommodated, and an opening portion that is provided in the case, is used for observing an observation region LA including the assay region, and is illuminated by a light source in the immunochromatographic assay apparatus, in which at least a part of an inner peripheral wall 18A of the opening portion is a processed surface having an angle of 50° or more with respect to a surface of the observation region LA and having been subjected to a roughening treatment.

Abstract: The assay apparatus includes a loading part into which a cartridge including a carrier and a case is attachably and detachably to be loaded, the carrier having an assay region in which a color development state changes depending on whether the sample is positive or negative, and an index region which is optically distinguishable from other regions regardless of whether a sample is positive or negative, the case accommodating the carrier; a light source that illuminates the observation region on the carrier including the assay region and the index region; an imaging unit that images the observation region; and a processor configured to acquire an image including the observation region from the imaging unit, detect a position of the index region from the acquired image, and specify a position of the assay region with reference to the detected position of the index region.

Abstract: The cartridge includes a carrier having a spotting region and an assay region, a first reagent holding part that holds a first reagent and that starts a supply of the first reagent to the carrier by directly or indirectly receiving an external force, a second reagent holding part that starts a supply of the second reagent to the carrier by directly or indirectly receiving an external force exerted by an internal mechanism provided in the immunochromatographic assay apparatus, and a suppression structure that suppresses transmission of an external force exerted by a user directly or indirectly to the second reagent holding part or application of an external force by the user to the second reagent holding part, while allowing the external force exerted by the internal mechanism to be transmitted to the second reagent holding part.

Abstract: An assay cartridge includes a reagent container in which a reagent to be supplied to the carrier is sealed and from which the reagent is discharged to the outside by being crushed, a case having a pressing operation part that is operated to apply a pressing force to the reagent container, a first displacement part and a second displacement part, the first displacement part has a first pressing surface for pushing the second displacement part to the reagent container by pressing the second displacement part, and the second displacement part is disposed between the first displacement part and the reagent container and has a second pressing surface that crushes the reagent container in a case where the second displacement part is pressed from the first pressing surface and in which a projected area is larger than a projected area of the first pressing surface.

Abstract: An immunochromatographic assay apparatus includes a loading part in which a cartridge that includes a carrier having a spotting region and an assay region, and in which a reagent is supplied to the carrier, is attachably and detachably loaded, a first detection unit that detects a color development state in the assay region, a second detection unit that detects a generation state of bubbles generated in the assay region due to the supply of the reagent, and a processor configured to discriminate presence or absence of a change in the color development state based on the color development state detected by the first detection unit, and discriminate the presence or absence of the change in the color development state in a case where the bubbles are discriminated to be absent based on the generation state of the bubbles detected by the second detection unit.

Abstract: A photoacoustic apparatus includes a laser light irradiating unit that irradiates an inside of a subject with pulsed light; a photoacoustic signal acquiring unit that acquires a photoacoustic signal from a photoacoustic wave from the subject; a light amount detecting unit that detects a light amount of the pulsed light; a correlation data memory that stores first correlation data and second correlation data; an energy estimating unit that estimates an energy on the basis of the amount of the pulsed light and the first correlation data; a pulse width estimating unit that estimates a pulse width on the basis of the estimated energy and the second correlation data; and a photoacoustic signal correcting unit that corrects the photoacoustic signal on the basis of a first difference between the estimated energy and a reference energy and a second difference between the estimated pulse width and a reference pulse width.

Abstract: There are provided a concentration device that makes it possible to concentrate a sample solution in a short time, a sample solution concentration method using the concentration device to concentrate a sample solution, a sample solution concentration method using the sample solution examination method, and an examination kit including the concentration device and the detection device. The concentration device for concentrating a sample solution which is an aqueous solution containing a high-molecular-weight molecule contained in a biological fluid is a concentration device including a first container containing a super absorbent polymer and a second container, in which a part of the first container is constituted of a discharge unit consisting of a porous membrane having a hole diameter of 0.

Abstract: There are provided a sample solution concentration method that makes it possible to obtain a sample solution concentrated solution having a desired concentration fold ratio and a sample solution examination method using the sample solution concentration method.

Abstract: A test container includes an inlet, a first storage portion, a second storage portion, a first flow channel that connects the first storage portion to the second storage portion, a first cylinder of which one end is connected to the first storage portion via a second flow channel and the other end is open to an outside, a second cylinder of which one end is connected to the second storage portion via a third flow channel and the other end is open to an outside, a first plug provided in the first cylinder, and a second plug provided in the second cylinder. An internal space including the first storage portion, the second storage portion, the first flow channel, the second flow channel, and the third flow channel is capable of being pressurized in a case where the first plug and the second plug are pressed and moved from the outside.

Abstract: There are provided a concentration device for concentrating a sample solution, which makes it possible to obtain a sample solution concentrated solution having a desired concentration fold ratio, a sample solution concentration method using the concentration device, a sample solution concentration method using the sample solution examination method, and an examination kit including the concentration device.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) sheet including a PSA layer that exhibits improved water resistance. The PSA sheet provided by the present invention includes a PSA layer formed from a water-dispersed PSA composition containing an acrylic polymer as a base polymer, a water-dispersed tackifier resin, and at least any one type of Na ions and K ions. The total amount of Na ions and K ions in the PSA sheet is 0.3 part by weight or more to 0.8 part by weight or less per 100 parts by weight of the PSA sheet.

Abstract: An imaging device comprising a control unit configured to cancel a voltage dependent phase error of the imaging device caused by a power supply voltage dependency of a phase angle measured by the imaging device.

Abstract: A Q switch is vibrated by applying a first voltage, and pulsed laser light is emitted by applying a second voltage to the Q switch at a point in time at which a preset delay time has passed from the start of emission of excitation light. Then, in this case, a time which is within a period, for which the vibration of the Q switch continues, and at which the intensity of the pulsed laser light periodically changing due to the vibration of the Q switch is maximized in a case where a point in time of application of the second voltage to the Q switch is changed is set as the delay time.

Abstract: In a laser device that emits pulsed laser light by emitting excitation light to a laser medium in a state in which a first voltage is applied to a Q switch and changing the voltage applied to the Q switch from a first voltage to a second voltage after the emission of the excitation light, the application start timing of the first voltage during a normal operation is set to a timing at which the intensity of the pulsed laser light periodically changing due to the vibration of the Q switch is maximized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a titanosilicate separation membrane which can also be used for separating a mixed gas containing a molecule having a relatively small size, has high durability in a high temperature environment, and has a high permeation rate and a high selectivity for a mixed gas containing water vapor. A titanosilicate separation membrane has a CHA-type titanosilicate crystal structure formed on a porous support, wherein aluminum is not substantially contained in the backbone of the titanosilicate crystal structure, and the titanosilicate crystal structure is constituted by silicon, oxygen, and titanium.

Abstract: The laser device includes a laser crystal, a resonator including a pair of mirrors between which the laser crystal is interposed, a Q switch that is disposed on an optical path of the resonator and controls a Q value of the resonator, and a Brewster thin-film polarizer that is disposed on the optical path of the resonator and transmits selectively p-polarized light. The thin-film polarizer has wavelength selectivity in which a p-polarized light transmittance at a first wavelength exhibiting a maximum gain of the laser crystal is 5% or more to 25% or less, the p-polarized light transmittance monotonically increases as a wavelength becomes longer than the first wavelength, and a maximum transmittance is exhibited at a third wavelength. The laser device oscillates laser light at a second wavelength that is a wavelength longer than the first wavelength and shorter than or equal to the third wavelength.

Abstract: A photoacoustic apparatus includes a laser light irradiating unit that irradiates an inside of a subject with pulsed light; a photoacoustic signal acquiring unit that acquires a photoacoustic signal from a photoacoustic wave from the subject; a light amount detecting unit that detects a light amount of the pulsed light; a correlation data memory that stores first correlation data and second correlation data; an energy estimating unit that estimates an energy on the basis of the amount of the pulsed light and the first correlation data; a pulse width estimating unit that estimates a pulse width on the basis of the estimated energy and the second correlation data; and a photoacoustic signal correcting unit that corrects the photoacoustic signal on the basis of a first difference between the estimated energy and a reference energy and a second difference between the estimated pulse width and a reference pulse width.

Abstract: A solid-state laser device includes a resonator composed of a pair of mirrors, a laser rod disposed in the resonator, and a laser chamber. The resonator and the laser rod are disposed in a housing. The laser rod is inserted through a hole of the laser chamber and is supported in a state in which two end portions are exposed. An O-ring is disposed at an exposed root of at least one rod end portion exposed from the laser chamber. The solid-state laser device includes a cover member that is disposed on a rod side surface of the rod end portion between the O-ring and a rod end surface and that blocks incidence of stray light, which is generated in the housing, on the O-ring.

Abstract: A solid-state laser device includes a laser rod made of an alexandrite crystal; a flash lamp that outputs excitation light for exciting the laser rod, a glass tube for a lamp being made of quartz glass that at least blocks deep ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 200 nm to 300 nm, and transmits visible light having a wavelength of 400 nm or more; and a laser chamber that contains a tubular reflector that includes a hole part containing at least a portion of the laser rod or a portion of the flash lamp and is made of a porous material of polytetrafluoroethylene, an inner wall surface of the hole part being as a reflecting surface that reflects the excitation light.