Abstract: A hauling vehicle including a vehicle body, a distance meter that measures the distance to an obstacle, an in-vehicle controller that controls the vehicle body, and a communication device that communicates with a management controller that manages the vehicle body is provided.

Abstract: A magnetic particle operation device comprising a tubular container having a longitudinal shape and including a sample introduction space in which a sample including a target substance and magnetic particles for immobilizing the target substance thereon are received, and a sample movement space in which a gel-like medium layer and a liquid layer are alternately arranged in its longitudinal direction. The magnetic particle operation device further comprising a first magnet provided outside the tubular container to face the sample introduction space, the first magnet configured to hold the magnetic particles in the sample introduction space in the container when the device is not used; and a second magnet configured to move the magnetic particles with the target substance being immobilized thereon, from the sample introduction space to the sample movement space, passing through the gel-like medium layer and the liquid layer in the longitudinal direction, when the device is used.

Abstract: A field-flow fractionation device includes a separation channel, a carrier fluid supplier, a separation membrane, a waste liquid chamber, a cross-flow flow rate adjuster, and a carrier fluid adder. The carrier fluid adder is configured to add, to a flow of a carrier fluid having passed through the separation membrane, a flow of another carrier fluid at a carrier fluid adding position set on an upstream side of the cross-flow flow rate adjuster so that the flow rate of the carrier fluid flowing into the cross-flow flow rate adjuster is larger than the flow rate of the carrier fluid having passed through the separation membrane.

Abstract: Provided is a control system for hauling vehicle capable of suppressing slippage of a hauling vehicle while suppressing a decrease in travel speed of the hauling vehicle. A control system for hauling vehicle causes a hauling vehicle 100 to travel based on a control target including a target route. The control system generates a control target based on the map information, which includes information on the travel path WP along which the hauling vehicle 100 travels and information on a plurality of travel sections TS obtained by dividing the travel path WP; the loading quantity on the hauling vehicle 100 in each travel section TS; and a slippage index indicating the slipperiness of the travel path WP in each travel section TS.

Abstract: A vehicle management system 1 includes an unmanned vehicle 20 capable of autonomous traveling, a loading machine 10 performing a loading work for the unmanned vehicle 20, and a management station 30 performing dispatch management and traffic control of the unmanned vehicle 20. The loading machine 10 includes a bucket tip position calculator 111 that calculates a bucket tip position of a bucket based on information on a position, an orientation, and an angle of each joint of the loading machine. The management station 30 includes an unmanned vehicle instruction section 313 that calculates a loading zone of the unmanned vehicle 20 and issues a calling instruction or a departure instruction to the unmanned vehicle 20 based on the calculated loading zone and the bucket tip position of the loading machine 10.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle management system capable of securing safety of an escorted vehicle while suppressing a decrease in productivity by improving setting of an entry prohibited area of an unmanned vehicle at the time when an abnormal state of position information on the escorted vehicle has been detected. The vehicle management system is configured such that an unmanned vehicle, an escorted vehicle, an escorting vehicle, and a control station that controls the unmanned vehicle on the basis of position information on the escorting vehicle and position information on the escorted vehicle are capable of communicating with each other.

Abstract: An unmanned vehicle 20 is a vehicle that drives an electric motor by electric power generated in a power generator to travel by driving of the electric motor and includes a position sensor 240 that detects a position of the unmanned vehicle 20, a speed sensor 250 that detects a speed of the unmanned vehicle 20, and a vehicle control device 220 that controls the unmanned vehicle 20.

Abstract: Provided is a traffic control server, a traffic control system, and a display device capable of wirelessly communicating with the traffic control server that are capable of realizing both safety securement for a manned vehicle and an unmanned vehicle traveling in a mine and prevention of reduction in productivity by controlling interference between the manned vehicle and the unmanned vehicle. An interference control part of the traffic control server generates warning information for performing at least one of displaying a warning screen or making a warning sound to the manned vehicle in accordance with an overlap (interference) among a stop trigger region of the manned vehicle, a travel-permitted section set for the unmanned vehicle, a next travel-permitted section that is the travel-permitted section to be subsequently set for the unmanned vehicle, and a warning region set for the travel-permitted section, and a server-side communication control part transmits the warning information to the manned vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is an autonomous travel system capable of effectively suppressing generation of ruts. It is a further object to provide an autonomous travel system including unmanned vehicles that travel on a transportation path constituted of opposite lanes, which is capable of suppressing generation of ruts while preventing proximity to an on-corning vehicle. An in-vehicle control device 200 includes: an offset amount determination unit 202 adapted to, based on common offset information received via a wireless communication device 240, determine an offset amount of a travel path 60 based on map information 251 and generate a target track 62; and an autonomous travel control unit 201 adapted to output a travel instruction to control traveling of a body so as to track the target track 62 to which the offset amount has been added based on the target track 62 and an own-vehicle position.

Abstract: Field flow fractionation device includes a channel switching unit for switching the connection of a second carrier fluid supply unit to any one of the second inlet port of an upper separation cell, the first inlet port of a lower separation cell, or the second inlet port of a lower separation cell. Furthermore, the second carrier fluid supply unit is connected to the second inlet port of an upper separation cell during the process of focusing to generate flow of carrier fluid counter to the flow of carrier fluid from the first inlet port within the upper separation cell, whereas the second carrier fluid supply unit is connected to the first inlet port or the second inlet port of a lower separation cell after conclusion of focusing in the upper separation cell.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an operation pipe, which use a gel to perform operations such as separation, extraction, purification, elution, recovery, analysis and the like of target components that are biological components such as nucleic acids. More specifically, a manufacturing method of an operation pipe, with which it is possible to perform operations such as separation, extraction, purification, elution, recovery, analysis and the like of target components in a sealable pipe by operating magnetic particles in the pipe under a magnetic field from outside of the pipe.

Abstract: In a case that a change instruction to instruct to change a work area A1 to a requested work area A2 is input, whether or not change of the work area A1 to the requested work area A2 is possible is judged on the basis of the work area A1, location information of a machine main body configured by an upper swing structure 10 and a lower track structure 9, and posture information of a work device 15, and the work area A1 is overwritten with the requested work area A2 to change the work area in an only case that it is judged that change is possible. This can suppress interference between plural work machines.

Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to suppress reduction in recovery rate of a target component due to a gel adhering to an inner wall surface of a treatment liquid layer. After passing magnetic particles through a gel layer, when moving the magnetic particles in the treatment liquid layer adjacent to the gel layer, the magnetic force source is automatically operated in a longitudinal direction of a tubular container so that the magnetic particles do not enter a range of a certain distance from the gel layer through which the magnetic particles have passed.

Abstract: Field flow fractionation device includes a channel switching unit for switching the connection of a second carrier fluid supply unit to any one of the second inlet port of an upper separation cell, the first inlet port of a lower separation cell, or the second inlet port of a lower separation cell. Furthermore, the second carrier fluid supply unit is connected to the second inlet port of an upper separation cell during the process of focusing to generate flow of carrier fluid counter to the flow of carrier fluid from the first inlet port within the upper separation cell, whereas the second carrier fluid supply unit is connected to the first inlet port or the second inlet port of a lower separation cell after conclusion of focusing in the upper separation cell.

Abstract: A cell culture container includes a storage container, a cell culture area, a culture solution supply unit, and a discharge unit. The cell culture area is a region for culturing cells, and is provided in the storage container. The culture solution supply unit supplies the culture solution into the cell culture area at a flow rate equal to or less than a predetermined flow rate. The discharge unit discharges the liquid in the cell culture area to the outside of the storage container. A rectification unit is a structure in which a plurality of outflow ports are uniformly arranged in a direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the culture solution from the culture solution supply unit to the discharge unit.

Abstract: A field flow fractionation apparatus includes a separation channel provided with an inlet port and an outlet port at both ends and forming a space through which a carrier fluid flows between the inlet port and the outlet port, a separation membrane which is a wall surface that defines the separation channel and is parallel to a channel flow in which a carrier fluid flows in the separation channel from the inlet port toward the outlet port, and has a property of permeating the carrier fluid and not permeating particles to be separated, and a discharge port that discharges the carrier fluid having permeated through the separation membrane to outside. At least a part of the surface of the separation membrane is an ion exchangeable region in which a functional group having ion exchangeability is modified.

Abstract: To provide a cell treatment container, including: a first member having a flow path in which a cell suspension including a liquid and cells dispersed in the liquid flows through, the flow path formed on a surface of the first member; a second member arranged to face the surface of the first member; and a damming formed in one or both of the first member and the second member, in which the damming is provided with a protrusion part protruding from the first member into the flow path to form a gap for allowing the liquid in the cell suspension to pass through the gap and for damming up the cells in the cell suspension, and a pillar extending from the protrusion part at a first end and being joined to the second member at a second end.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating magnetic particles in a device in which gel-like medium layer and liquid layer are alternately arranged inside the hollow tube and, first liquid layer and second liquid layer are separated by gel-like medium layer, and magnetic solid with large particle size exists in the first liquid layer rather than magnetic particles and the said magnetic particles. The method of the present invention comprises the first step of moving the magnetic particles and the magnetic solid in the first liquid layer to the gel-like medium layer, the second step of moving the magnetic particles and the magnetic solid moved into the gel-like medium layer into the second liquid layer, and the third step of inverting the movement of the magnetic particles and the magnetic solid moved into the second liquid layer into the gel-like medium layer, by operating a magnetic field.

Abstract: A co-culture device includes: a first body including a first membrane having a first main surface for culturing cells and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, a first flow path partially defined by the first main surface, the first flow path configured for a first culture medium to flow therethrough, and a second flow path partially defined by the second main surface, the second flow path configured for a second culture medium having a higher dissolved oxygen concentration than that of the first culture medium to flow therethrough; and an oxygen concentration adjuster for adjusting the dissolved oxygen concentration in the first culture medium to be supplied to the first flow path.

Abstract: A pretreatment kit includes a container (10) for particle manipulation, nucleic acid capture particles (70) capable of selectively binding to nucleic acid, aqueous-phase separation medium (21, 22, 23), a plurality of kinds of aqueous liquids (35, 31, 32, 38), and a nucleic acid for individual identification. The nucleic acid for individual identification is contained in at least one of the plurality of kinds of aqueous liquids or is bound onto the surfaces of the nucleic acid capture particles. The base sequence of the nucleic acid for individual identification contains an identification sequence including a base sequence noncomplementary to the nucleic acids contained in the biological sample. The pretreatment kit is used for separating nucleic acids from biological samples that contains nucleic acids and contaminants.