Abstract: In a conventional electronic device, it is difficult to passively diagnose disconnection of an external capacitor added to an output terminal of a regulator circuit. An electronic device in this embodiment includes a regulator circuit 2 that outputs a constant voltage while external power supplied from the outside is input thereto, an external capacitor 3 connected to an output terminal of the regulator circuit 2 as an external component, an oscillation detector 4 that detects an oscillating state of the output voltage of the regulator circuit 2, and a failure determination unit 5 that outputs a failure signal when the oscillation detector 4 detects the oscillating state of the regulator circuit.

Abstract: To provide a cell evaluation device capable of evaluating cells and a secretory substance emitted from the cells accurately and precisely. Provided is a cell evaluation device including a first capturing unit that captures a secretory substance secreted by cells, and an image acquisition unit that acquires an image obtained by imaging observation light of the cells and light emitted from a luminescent substance bonded to the secretory substance, in which the image acquisition unit and the first capturing unit are disposed in this order, and the image acquisition unit acquires position information for the cells and the secretory substance.

Abstract: An air flow rate meter includes a signal detector and a pulse generator. The signal detector is configured to detect that an output signal from the air flow rate detection element has passed a predetermined threshold. The pulse generator generates a pulse signal by using an output signal from the signal detector as a trigger. An output signal from the air flow rate detection element is corrected based on an output of the pulse generator.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for analyzing a bioparticle that is included in a bioparticle population and that is in a state in which an influence of the interparticle interaction is reflected. The present disclosure provides a bioparticle analysis method including: a preparation step of preparing a bioparticle population including a bioparticle to which a first capturing substance configured to capture a secreted substance is bound; a first capturing step of binding a secreted substance generated by placing the bioparticle population under a predetermined condition, to the first capturing substance; and a second capturing step of binding the secreted substance bound to the first capturing substance, to a second capturing substance configured to capture the secreted substance. The present disclosure also provides a reagent kit for bioparticle analysis used in the analysis method, and a bioparticle analysis system used for executing the analysis method.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an observation method for improving culturing efficiency of cells and obtaining desired cells without cost. The present technology provides a cell treatment system including a cell culture unit capable of culturing a cell group, a measurement unit capable of measuring the cell group, and an estimation unit, in which the estimation unit estimates, on the basis of information regarding a cell before treatment of the cell group and at least one of information regarding a predetermined cell to reach after treatment of the cell group or a predetermined treatment condition for the cell group before treatment, a treatment condition under which the cell group is derivable to the information regarding the predetermined cell or information regarding the cell after treatment of the cell group derived by the predetermined treatment condition.

Abstract: To provide a carbon fiber bundle capable of suppressing winding due to ring-shaped fuzzes, which occurs when the carbon fiber bundle is rolled out for advanced processing, and a production method for producing the same. Disclosed is a carbon fiber bundle wherein an average single-fiber diameter B is 6.9 to 11.0 ?m, a tensile modulus E of resin-impregnated strands is 230 to 310 GPa, the number of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle is 40 fuzzes/m or less, and a proportion of fuzzes with a structure having a difference between skin and core is 1 to 25% of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle. Such a carbon fiber bundle is preferably obtained by a method including, in a process of heat-treating a polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle with a single-fiber fineness of 0.9 to 2.2 dtex in an oxidizing atmosphere at 200 to 300° C.

Abstract: A thermal sensor device capable of maintaining measurement accuracy for a long period by suppressing plastic deformation due to thermal expansion of the heat generating resistor and reducing resistance change of the heat generating resistor, includes: a substrate having an opening; and a diaphragm having a structure in which a lower film, a heat generating resistor, and an upper film are stacked so as to bridge the opening, in which a film thickness of the lower film is larger than a film thickness of the upper film, an average thermal expansion coefficient of the lower film is larger than an average thermal expansion coefficient of the upper film, the lower film includes a plurality of films having different thermal expansion coefficients, and a film having a largest thermal expansion coefficient among the plurality of films is formed below a thickness center of the lower film.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a physical quantity detection device and a signal processing device capable of improving accuracy in detecting an air flow rate by a thermal flow sensor during pulsation of air including a reverse flow region. The signal processing device 200 includes a direction determination unit 210, an increase/decrease determination unit 220, a correction factor storage unit 230, a correction factor selection unit 240, and a signal correction unit 250. The direction determination unit 210 determines a forward flow or a reverse flow of the air based on a detection signal DS of the thermal flow sensor. The increase/decrease determination unit 220 determines an increase or decrease in flow rate of the air based on the detection signal DS. The correction factor storage unit 230 stores first to fourth factors used for correction of the detection signal DS.

Abstract: To provide a carbon fiber bundle capable of suppressing winding due to ring-shaped fuzzes, which occurs when the carbon fiber bundle is rolled out for advanced processing, and a production method for producing the same. Disclosed is a carbon fiber bundle wherein an average single-fiber diameter B is 6.9 to 11.0 ?m, a tensile modulus E of resin-impregnated strands is 230 to 310 GPa, the number of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle is 40 fuzzes/m or less, and a proportion of fuzzes with a structure having a difference between skin and core is 1 to 25% of fuzzes inherent in the carbon fiber bundle. Such a carbon fiber bundle is preferably obtained by a method including, in a process of heat-treating a polyacrylonitrile-based precursor fiber bundle with a single-fiber fineness of 0.9 to 2.2 dtex in an oxidizing atmosphere at 200 to 300° C.

Abstract: In a flow rate sensor 10, a resistance bridge 100 detects a change in a gas flow rate. A differential A/D converter 122 converts an analog signal output from the resistance bridge 100 into a digital signal. A disconnection detection circuit 130 detects disconnection of bonding wires 164, 165 that connect the differential A/D converter 122 and the resistance bridge 100. The disconnection detection unit 130 includes a detection capacitance 141 and a comparator 145. One connection portion of the detection capacitance 141 is connected to an input node of the A/D converter 122. The comparator 145 detects the disconnection of the bonding wires 164, 165 based on a potential based on a ratio of an electrostatic capacitance of a P-side input capacitance 116 or a N-side input capacitance 117 to an electrostatic capacitance of the detection capacitance 141. The P-side input capacitance 116 and the N-side input capacitance 117 respectively are connected to operation input units of the differential A/D converter 122.

Abstract: To provide a method of efficiently performing priming on a microparticle sorting microchip.

Abstract: Provided is a compound, a polymer, a composition, a composition for film formation, a pattern formation method, an insulating film formation method, and a method for producing a compound, by which a resist having excellent exposure sensitivity can be obtained. A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein RA is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or a trifluoromethyl group; RX is ORB or a hydrogen atom; RB is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; and P is a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an ester group, an acetal group, a carboxyalkoxy group, a carbonate ester group, a nitro group, an amino group, a carboxyl group, a thiol group, an ether group, a thioether group, a phosphine group, a phosphone group, a urethane group, a urea group, an amide group, an imide group, or a phosphate group.

Abstract: There is provided a fine-particle sorting apparatus, including: a determination unit that performs sorting determination of a particle, the determination unit performing the determination using rule data defining, in accordance with a particle population to which a particle that is a sorting-determination target belongs and a particle population to which a different particle within a predetermined range around the particle belongs, a relationship between the particles, particle populations to which the particle that is a sorting-determination target and the different particle within the predetermined range may belong including the following particle populations of (a) a particle population of particles to be sorted, (b) a particle population of particles that are not to be sorted but are ignorable in the determination, and (c) a particle population of particles that are neither the particles to be sorted nor the ignorable particles, the ignorable particles including red blood cells.

Abstract: An object of the present technology is to improve analysis efficiency in single cell analysis using a barcoding technique. The present technology provides a bioparticle analysis method including: a capture step of capturing a bioparticle on a surface, on which a molecule including a bioparticle capturing part, a barcode sequence, and a cleavable linker is immobilized via the linker, via the bioparticle capturing part; a cleavage step of cleaving the linker to release the bioparticle from the surface; and an isolation step of isolating the bioparticle into a microspace. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a bioparticle analysis system that performs the bioparticle analysis method.

Abstract: A preferred aim of the invention is to provide technique for improving reliability of semiconductor devices when using a low-dielectric-constant film having a lower dielectric constant than a silicon oxide film to a part of an interlayer insulating film. More specifically, to achieve the preferred aim, an interlayer insulating film IL1 forming a first fine layer is formed of a middle-Young's-modulus film, and thus it is possible to separate an integrated high-Young's-modulus layer (a semiconductor substrate 1S and a contact interlayer insulating film CIL) and an interlayer insulating film (a low-Young's-modulus film; a low-dielectric-constant film) IL2 forming a second fine layer not to let them directly contact with each other, and stress can be diverged. As a result, film exfoliation of the interlayer insulating film IL2 formed of a low-Young's-modulus film can be prevented and thus reliability of semiconductor devices can be improved.

Abstract: An iodine-containing (meth)acrylate compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, methyl, or halogen; each R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a linear organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a branched organic group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or a cyclic organic group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms; A represents an organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; A contains at least one acyl group; n1 represents 0 or 1; and n2 represents an integer of 1 to 20.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition for lithography capable of obtaining a film in contact with a resist layer or an underlayer film capable of forming a pattern excellent in exposure sensitivity the like. The object can be achieved by a composition for lithography containing a compound having at least one element selected from the group consisting of iodine, tellurium, and fluorine, or a resin having a constituent unit derived from the compound, wherein a total mass of the atoms in the compound is 15% by mass or more and 75% by mass or less.

Abstract: There is a possibility that unauthorized writing of adjustment information occurs in a sensor device in which the adjustment information of the sensor device can be written from outside.

Abstract: An object is to provide a method capable of associating position information of a cell with a cell constituent at a single-cell resolution. That is, the present technology provides an analysis method including: an imaging step of imaging a specimen in a state in which the specimen is being overlapped with a surface to which a molecule having a linker cleavable by stimulation, a barcode sequence, and a target capture portion is immobilized via the linker; an association step of associating a position of a cell with the barcode sequence of the molecule at the position by using a specimen image obtained by the imaging; a cleavage step of selectively stimulating the position of the cell to cleave the linker of the molecule at the position; and a binding step of binding the molecule released from the surface by the cleavage with a constituent of the cell via the target capture portion of the molecule.

Abstract: Provided is a new method for more efficiently generating emulsion particles each containing one fine particle.