Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus in which microwaves from a single microwave generator is branched to a plurality of reaction tubes, a heating target material is irradiated with the microwaves while being continuously supplied into respective reaction fields, the reaction fields is heated and controlled simultaneously, parallelly and independently while eliminating the influence of reflected waves generated in the other reaction fields, and a very high throughput is obtained. In the apparatus, branch waveguides for branching microwaves generated from a microwave generator into N branch waves, N being an natural number, are provided, isolators for absorbing reflected waves generated in the reaction fields are provided between the branch waveguides and applicators, power monitors for measuring magnitudes of incident and reflected waves are provided between the isolators and the applicators, and tuners for adjusting impedances in waveguides are provided between the power monitors and the applicators.

Abstract: To improve operability from collection through to gene analysis, and enable the detection of microorganisms in a short time with good accuracy. Provided is an analysis device 400 which conducts germination of microorganism spores and cell membrane lysis with a collecting chip 200 placed in the analysis device 400, and an analysis chip 300 which has a sample reservoir 315, a gene extraction area 320 filled with a gene binding carrier, a waste solution chamber 330 filled with absorbent, washing solution storage chambers 340, 350 which store a washing solution, an eluting solution storage chamber 360 which stores a gene eluting solution, gene-amplification reagent storage chambers 370, 380 which store a gene-amplification reagent, and a reaction chamber 390 which amplifies and detects the gene, each of which is formed by a channel, and a sample injection port 310 and a chip port 241, wherein the treatments from gene extraction to detection are conducted on the analysis chip 300.

Abstract: In a heating device having a microwave generator for generating microwaves, a waveguide for propagating the microwaves, a matching element for adjusting the impedance inside the waveguide and a flow pipe for passing a substance to be heated, an outer pipe of low dielectric constant is arranged to circulate a heat transfer medium for heat exchange around the flow pipe adapted to pass the heated substance and a circulation constant temperature bath is provided for adjusting the temperature of the heat transfer medium for heat exchange and for circulating it, so that microwaves are irradiated while adjusting the temperature of the heat transfer medium for heat exchange to a desired value by means of the circulation constant bath and circulating the heat transfer medium around the flow pipe.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to shorten the operation time from sampling through to genetic test, and enable the detection of a minute creature with good accuracy. Provided is minute creature detection system in which treatments from gene extraction to detection of are conducted on an analytic chip, in which the analytic chip 300 contains a sample reservoir 315, a gene extraction area 320 filled with a gene binding carrier, a waste solution chamber 330 filled with absorbent, a washing solution storage chamber 340 which stores washing solution, an eluenting solution storage chamber 370 which stores a gene eluenting solution, a gene-amplification reagent storage chamber 380 which stores a gene-amplification reagent, and a reaction chamber 395 which amplifies and detects the gene, each of which is formed by a channel, and a weir having a channel in at least either the sample reservoir 315 or the reagent storage chamber 380 which contracts and expands.