Abstract: In a microanalytical chip made up of a first porous substrate and a second porous substrate laminated on each other, a first channel chamber, a second channel chamber, and a first channel connecting the first channel chamber with the second channel chamber are formed by a channel wall in the first porous substrate, a reference electrode is disposed in the first channel chamber, a working electrode is disposed in the second channel chamber, the second porous substrate is disposed so as to overlap at least part of a region, where the working electrode is formed, on a surface of the first porous substrate.

Abstract: A thin microchannel device capable of performing stable measurement is provided. The microchannel device uses a porous substrate having a channel region using a porous body, the channel region partially has a region A where a component having ion selectivity is present in a pore in the porous substrate, and, in region A, the component having ion selectivity is present in the pore at one plane X side of the porous substrate and an other plane Y side of the porous substrate is a channel in which an empty pore is present, a working electrode is provided on a surface at the plane X side of region A to at least partially overlap a component having ion selectivity, and a reference electrode is provided in region B other than region A of the channel region, and region A and region B are formed in the same porous substrate.

Abstract: A micro flow passage device in which a flow passage wall has high hydrophobicity and high cracking resistance is provided. In the micro flow passage device, a flow passage interposed between a flow passage wall is formed in the interior of a porous substrate, a flow-passage-wall-forming material constituting the flow passage wall contains a thermoplastic resin and a wax, X<Y where an abundance ratio of the wax in the flow passage wall on the surface side of the porous substrate is denoted by X, and an abundance ratio of the wax present in a pore in the interior of the porous substrate is denoted by Y, a content of the wax is 13.1% to 70.0% by mass, and SP(B)?SP(W)?0.6 where an SP value of the wax is denoted by SP(W), and an SP value of the thermoplastic resin is denoted by SP(B).

Abstract: A rotary freezing device for freezing granules according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a circulation passage; a blowing means for circulating cold air through the circulation passage; a cooler disposed in the circulation passage and configured to cool the cold air; and a cooling drum disposed in the circulation passage and configured to freeze granules by the cold air flowing into an interior of the cooling drum while conveying the granules from an inlet to an outlet

Abstract: A micro analysis chip capable of performing stable analysis is provided. The micro analysis chip includes a flow passage region surrounded by a flow passage wall disposed in the interior of a porous substrate, wherein the flow passage region includes a first flow passage chamber, a second flow passage chamber, and a flow passage to connect the first flow passage chamber to the second flow passage chamber, a reference electrode is disposed in the first flow passage chamber, a working electrode is disposed in the second flow passage chamber, and an electrolyte is arranged upstream of the reference electrode with reference to a forward direction of a specimen in the flow passage region.

Abstract: A load lock device includes a load lock chamber, and a substrate holding structure configured to hold a substrate in the load lock chamber, wherein the substrate holding structure includes a facing surface facing the substrate, and is configured to allow a gas to flow through a space between the substrate and the facing surface, and in a state in which the substrate is held by the substrate holding structure, a distance between the substrate and a portion located inside an outer edge of the facing surface is larger than a distance between the substrate and the outer edge of the facing surface.

Abstract: Due to a relationship between a channel wall and an electrode with respect to a porous substrate, it has been difficult to achieve both adhesiveness between the electrode and the substrate and suppression of electrode cracks caused by deformation of the substrate in a high-humidity environment or the like, and an inability to achieve both may inhibit ion concentration measurement from being correctly performed in some cases. Provided is a configuration in which the electrode has at least a part formed inside the porous substrate in an electrode portion that achieves contact with an external measuring instrument and the channel wall is always present on a straight line on which the electrode is present.

Abstract: A cooling drum for freezing granules has an inlet for receiving the granules and an outlet located opposite to the inlet for discharging the granules. The cooling drum for freezing granules includes: a first cylinder part having a first inner surface formed of a first material; and a second cylinder part located closer to the outlet than the first cylinder part and having a second inner surface formed of a second material. The first material has a lower thermal conductivity than that of the second material.

Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a microanalysis chip in which: a first channel chamber has a reference electrode arranged therein, the reference electrode having a surface on which an ion crystal having specimen solubility is arranged; a second channel chamber has a working electrode arranged therein; and a first channel and a second channel are configured so that, when a time period required for a specimen to reach the ion crystal after the specimen is dispensed to a dispensing section is represented by T1 and a time period required for the specimen to reach the working electrode after the specimen is dispensed to the dispensing section is represented by T2, the time period T1 and the time period T2 satisfy a relationship of T1>T2.

Abstract: An object is to provide a micro-analysis chip with which stable ion concentration measurement can be performed without increasing a chip size or prolonging a measurement time. In order to achieve this object, the following micro-analysis chip is provided. That is, provided is a micro-analysis chip when an average areal velocity which is an area of a region that a specimen has permeated during a period until a dispensed specimen reaches a reference electrode is represented by V1, and when an average areal velocity which is an area of a region that the specimen has permeated during a period until the dispensed specimen fills an inside of a first channel chamber after the dispensed specimen has reached the reference electrode is represented by V2, the average areal velocity V1 and the average areal velocity V2 satisfy a relationship of V1>V2.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.

Abstract: A laser apparatus includes: a laser unit including a light source unit configured to change a frequency of laser light to be output; and a monitor unit configured to acquire a monitor value corresponding to a frequency equivalent amount corresponding to the frequency of the laser light; and a control unit configured to control the frequency of the laser light by supplying a control amount to the laser unit. The monitor unit at least includes: a first frequency filter and a second frequency filter; a first detection unit; and a second detection unit. The control unit is configured to acquire a target frequency, acquire a first ratio and a second ratio, set, as a monitor value corresponding to the frequency of the laser light, one of the first ratio, the second ratio, a third ratio, acquire a target value, and control the control amount.

Abstract: It is possible to provide a microchannel device with excellent resistance to bending and suppressed deterioration in inspection accuracy. A microchannel device has a channel sandwiched between channel walls formed in an inside a porous substrate, the channel wall contains a thermoplastic resin and a wax, and a proportion of the wax in an area of a surface side of the channel wall facing the channel is higher than a proportion of the wax inside the channel wall.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a microchannel device that has a channel sandwiched between channel walls formed in an inside of a porous substrate, wherein the channel wall contains a thermoplastic resin and a colorant, and wherein an abundance ratio of the colorant is higher in the porous substrate surface area of the channel wall than in an internal area of the channel wall. In the configuration of the present disclosure, since more of the colorant exist on the surface side of the porous substrate in the channel wall, the visibility of the channel is increased, and in addition, since the amount of the colorant in the internal portion of the channel wall is small, the elution of the ions contained in the colorant into the specimen is suppressed, and the measurement accuracy is increased.

Abstract: A driving support system uses information related to objects acquired by a sensor disposed external to a subject vehicle and position information of the subject vehicle to calculate information related to objects in a periphery of the subject vehicle, and provides a warning, position information or distance information to an autonomous driving control unit or a driver of the subject vehicle. A road side information processing unit or a vehicle control unit calculates vehicle periphery information related to objects in the periphery of the subject vehicle, using the information related to objects acquired from the sensor and the position of the subject vehicle detected by the first position detection unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a microchannel device, which has high hydrophobicity, high mechanical strength, and safety and also has high solvent resistance, and thus has wider applicability. The microchannel device includes a porous substrate having formed therein channel walls each containing a cyclic olefin copolymer that is a copolymer of an alkene and a cyclic olefin.

Abstract: A load lock device includes a load lock chamber including a first conveyance port connected to a transfer chamber connected to a reduced-pressure processing device, and a second conveyance port connected to a loader chamber; a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate in the load lock chamber; a driving mechanism arranged below the load lock chamber to move the substrate holder up and down and connected to the substrate holder via a connecting member; an extension chamber extended from a lower portion of the load lock chamber to a side; and a pump arranged below the extension chamber and configured to discharge a gas in the load lock chamber via the extension chamber. The extension chamber includes a bottom surface with an opening at a position deviated from a vertically lower position of the substrate holder, and the pump is connected to the opening.

Abstract: A load lock device includes a load lock chamber, and a substrate holding structure configured to hold a substrate in the load lock chamber, wherein the substrate holding structure includes a facing surface facing the substrate, and is configured to allow a gas to flow through a space between the substrate and the facing surface, and in a state in which the substrate is held by the substrate holding structure, a distance between the substrate and a portion located inside an outer edge of the facing surface is larger than a distance between the substrate and the outer edge of the facing surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member. A charging member charges a surface of the photosensitive member. A developing roller carries developer. The developing roller supplies the developer in normal polarity to the surface of the photosensitive member. A regulating member regulates the developer on the developing roller. A common voltage applying unit applies charging voltage and regulating voltage. The regulating voltage is applied with the developing roller rotating such that a potential difference in a direction in which electrostatic force from the regulating member to the developing roller acts on the developer charged in the normal polarity, is formed between the regulating member and the developing roller, and in which the charging voltage to be applied in a non-image-forming period is controlled so as to be smaller in absolute value than in an image-forming period.