Abstract: Imaging devices and ranging devices are disclosed. In one example, an imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first pixel array, a second pixel array, and a control unit. In the first pixel array, a first light receiving pixel on the semiconductor substrate has a stacked structure of a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode (80). It photoelectrically converts light in a first wavelength region including the visible light region. In the second pixel array, a second light receiving pixel is provided at a position overlapping the first light receiving pixel in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. It photoelectrically converts light in a second wavelength region including the infrared light region. The control unit drives and controls the second pixel array based on a signal photoelectrically converted by the first pixel array.

Abstract: A sample support is a sample support for sample ionization, including: a substrate formed with a plurality of through holes opening to a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface; a conductive layer provided not to block the through hole in the first surface; and a reinforcement member disposed inside a part of the plurality of through holes.

Abstract: Provided is a cell treatment apparatus that includes: an isolator; a disposal box that includes a storage part; and a decontamination unit, wherein the disposal box includes: a first opening and closing device that is configured to allow the isolator and the storage part to be communicated with each other at the time of disposal of the waste product and allow them to be shut off from each other after the putting-in of the waste product and before the disposal of the same; and a second opening and closing device that is configured to allow the storage part and the outside to be communicated with each other at the time of disposal of the waste product, which has been put into the storage part, and allow them to be shut off from each other after the disposal of the waste product.

Abstract: Provided is a cell treatment apparatus including a treatment chamber that is configured to secure a space for arranging therein a plurality of containers for use in treatment of cells in an inner space maintained in aseptic conditions, a gripping mechanism that is arranged in the treatment chamber and is configured to grip the plurality of containers arranged in the space, wherein the plurality of containers are capable of being arranged in the space so as to have their positions matched with predetermined positions of the plurality of containers so that the gripping mechanism can grip a container to be selected based on a command from among the plurality of containers.

Abstract: Provided is a cell treatment apparatus that includes: an isolator; a disposal box that includes a storage part; and a decontamination unit, wherein the disposal box includes: a first opening and closing device that is configured to allow the isolator and the storage part to be communicated with each other at the time of disposal of the waste product and allow them to be shut off from each other after the putting-in of the waste product and before the disposal of the same; and a second opening and closing device that is configured to allow the storage part and the outside to be communicated with each other at the time of disposal of the waste product, which has been put into the storage part, and allow them to be shut off from each other after the disposal of the waste product.

Abstract: A cell treatment apparatus includes: a treatment chamber that is configured to treat cells; trays that are each configured to house containers for use in the treatment of cells in the treatment chamber, while positioning them; a gripping mechanism that is configured to grip and move at least one kind of the containers housed in each of the trays within the treatment chamber; and a container correct/incorrect determining apparatus that includes a storage device that is configured to prestore given postures of the containers relative to the each corresponding tray, an imaging device that is configured to image the containers arranged in the tray, and a determining device that is configured to determine whether the postures of the containers relative to the tray that are stored in the storage device are matched with postures of the containers relative to the tray that have been imaged by the imaging device.

Abstract: Provided is a cell treatment apparatus including an isolator that is configured to treat cells in the inner space maintained in aseptic conditions, and a pass box that is configured to carry an article for use in treatment of cells in the inside of the isolator or a reagent container with a reagent therein into the inside of the isolator. The pass box includes a clean bench chamber that includes an opening and closing door to enable the article to be carried thereinto and decontaminate the article, and a decontamination chamber that has a decontamination capability and is configured to be able to carry the article from the clean bench chamber into the inner space of the decontamination chamber and carry the article from the inner space of the decontamination chamber into the inside of the isolator.

Abstract: Provided is a cell treatment apparatus that includes: an isolator that has an inner space maintained in aseptic conditions and is configured to treat cells in the inner space; trays and that are each configured to house plural kinds of articles, which include reagent containers with articles and reagents therein for use in treatment of cells in the inner space of the isolator, while positioning them; and pass boxes that are configured to respectively carry the trays with the plural kinds of articles housed therein into the isolator.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus to produce cultured cell products including: an isolator configured to maintain its inside in aseptic conditions and process cell culture vessels therein; and at least one robot arm located within the isolator, wherein a taking-out step of taking out cells cultured in the cell culture vessels, a cell density-adjusting step of adjusting density of the cells in a cell-containing liquid containing the taken-out cells, and a subdividing step of subdividing and placing the cell-containing liquid with its density adjusted into a plurality of product containers are performed within the isolator by the at least one robot arm.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus to produce cultured cell products including: an incubator configured to house cell culture vessels; an isolator configured to process the cell culture vessels conveyed from the incubator; and a pass box capable of carrying, into the isolator, articles and reagents, wherein the isolator includes: an observation section including first robot arms configured to move the cell culture vessels to an observation position so as to check the degree of growth of the cells in the cell culture vessels taken out of the incubator; a processing section including second robot arms configured to perform various processes to transfer the cells in the cell culture vessels that have a specified number of cells into product containers; and an outlet configured to allow a large number of product containers into which the cells have been transferred to be taken out therethrough.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device (M1), an airbag (26) folded and housed below a steering column (3) is expanded and inflated while rising from the lower side of the steering column (3) along a column cover lower surface (9a) during an inflation process. The shape of the airbag having completed the inflation is in a generally plate shape capable of covering at least the lower surface of the column cover. Even if the knee of the driver comes close to the column cover when the driver depressing a brake pedal, therefore, the airbag being expanded and inflated goes smoothly into the clearance between the knee of the driver and the column cover lower surface. The airbag having completed the expansion and inflation protects the knee of the driver properly so that the knee may not interfere with the column cover.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device (M1), an airbag (26) folded and housed below a steering column (3) is expanded and inflated while rising from the lower side of the steering column (3) along a column cover lower surface (9a) during an inflation process. The shape of the airbag having completed the inflation is in a generally plate shape capable of covering at least the lower surface of the column cover. Even if the knee of the driver comes close to the column cover when the driver depressing a brake pedal, therefore, the airbag being expanded and inflated goes smoothly into the clearance between the knee of the driver and the column cover lower surface. The airbag having completed the expansion and inflation protects the knee of the driver properly so that the knee may not interfere with the column cover.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device (M1), an airbag (26) folded and housed below a steering column (3) is expanded and inflated while rising from the lower side of the steering column (3) along a column cover lower surface (9a) during an inflation process. The shape of the airbag having completed the inflation is in a generally plate shape capable of covering at least the lower surface of the column cover. Even if the knee of the driver comes close to the column cover when the driver depressing a brake pedal, therefore, the airbag being expanded and inflated goes smoothly into the clearance between the knee of the driver and the column cover lower surface. The airbag having completed the expansion and inflation protects the knee of the driver properly so that the knee may not interfere with the column cover.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device of the present invention, an airbag is folded and housed on the front side of the knees of a seated passenger. The airbag is protruded rearward of a vehicle from a protruding opening and expanded and inflated upward, when an inflating gas flows in. And, the airbag is arranged on the front side of the knees of the passenger between a member on the body side and the knees of the passenger thereby to protect the knees of the passenger. The protruding opening has a transverse width size set within a range of ? to ? of the transverse width size of the airbag having completed its expansion and inflation.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device of the present invention, an airbag is folded and housed on the front side of the knees of a seated passenger. The airbag is protruded rearward of a vehicle from a protruding opening and expanded and inflated upward, when an inflating gas flows in. And, the airbag is arranged on the front side of the knees of the passenger between a member on the body side and the knees of the passenger thereby to protect the knees of the passenger. The protruding opening has a transverse width size set within a range of ? to ? of the transverse width size of the airbag having completed its expansion and inflation.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device (M1), an airbag (26) folded and housed below a steering column (3) is expanded and inflated while rising from the lower side of the steering column (3) along a column cover lower surface (9a) during an inflation process. The shape of the airbag having completed the inflation is in a generally plate shape capable of covering at least the lower surface of the column cover. Even if the knee of the driver comes close to the column cover when the driver depressing a brake pedal, therefore, the airbag being expanded and inflated goes smoothly into the clearance between the knee of the driver and the column cover lower surface. The airbag having completed the expansion and inflation protects the knee of the driver properly so that the knee may not interfere with the column cover.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device of the present invention, an airbag is folded and housed on the front side of the knees of a seated passenger. The airbag is protruded rearward of a vehicle from a protruding opening and expanded and inflated upward, when an inflating gas flows in. And, the airbag is arranged on the front side of the knees of the passenger between a member on the body side and the knees of the passenger thereby to protect the knees of the passenger. The protruding opening has a transverse width size set within a range of ? to ? of the transverse width size of the airbag having completed its expansion and inflation.

Abstract: The knee protection airbag device (S1) includes an airbag (40) which protrudes rearward from a deployment opening of a housing upon inflow of inflation gas, and deploys upward to be located in front of knees of an occupant between a vehicular body and the occupant. The airbag (40) includes an occupant's side wall (41) and a vehicular body side wall (42). Lower end (48) side of the airbag (40) as flatly expanded with the walls (41 and 42) overlaid on each other constitutes an upstream side of inflation gas. The airbag (40) is firstly folded to bring its upper end (47) close to its lower end (48), from flat expanded state in which the occupant's side wall (41) and the vehicular body side wall (42) are overlaid on each other. Thereafter, the airbag (40) is folded to reduce its transverse width, and then is housed in the housing. The airbag (40) of the knee protection airbag device (S1) is able to deploy effectively from the start to completion of deployment for protecting the knees of the occupant.

Abstract: The knee protecting airbag device is assembled such that a retainer and an attachment bracket clamp the peripheral portion of a gas inlet opening of an airbag, bag holding wall parts of a case, and a gas providing inflator. This inflator is provided with a diffuser for covering the gas discharge port of a body. The retainer and the attachment bracket are connected by inserting bolts and connecting members through the airbag and the case, by retaining retaining portions on the retaining portions of the connecting members, and by inserting the bolts into through holes and fastening them with nuts. At this connecting time, guide portions of the retainer and the diffuser are fitted on each other to form a guide passage for guiding the gas into the airbag.

Abstract: In a knee protecting airbag device (M1), an airbag (26) folded and housed below a steering column (3) is expanded and inflated while rising from the lower side of the steering column (3) along a column cover lower surface (9a) during an inflation process. The shape of the airbag having completed the inflation is in a generally plate shape capable of covering at least the lower surface of the column cover. Even if the knee of the driver comes close to the column cover when the driver depressing a brake pedal, therefore, the airbag being expanded and inflated goes smoothly into the clearance between the knee of the driver and the column cover lower surface. The airbag having completed the expansion and inflation protects the knee of the driver properly so that the knee may not interfere with the column cover.