Abstract: To provide an immunochromatographic test device capable of accurate diagnosis even when an excess sample is introduced. Provided is the immunochromatographic test device consisting: a test strip; a lower housing including a plurality of support bases that support the test strip; and an upper housing including a dropping hole for dropping a sample into the test strip and a detection window in a direction in which the sample introduced from the dropping hole develops on the test strip, wherein a width of the support base that supports portion of the test strip exposed from the detection window is smaller than a width of the test strip, or wherein among the plurality of support bases, the width of the support base arranged on the lower housing between a position corresponding to the detection window and a position corresponding to the dropping hole is larger than the width of the test strip.

Abstract: There is provided a technique capable of capable of preventing a substrate from being metal-contaminated by a component constituting a furnace opening. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided a furnace opening structure including: an upper inlet structure connected to a first protrusion provided at a lower portion of a reaction tube via a first seal, and configured to support the reaction tube; a lower inlet structure connected to the upper inlet structure via a second seal; and a fixing structure connected to the upper inlet structure and configured to fix the first protrusion, wherein the upper inlet structure is provided below an exhaust pipe provided at the lower portion of the reaction tube, and wherein the first protrusion is configured to be capable of being cooled by circulating a cooling medium through flow paths provided inside the upper inlet structure and the fixing structure, respectively.

Abstract: A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Abstract: A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Abstract: A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A container apparatus includes a first container unit that is movable from a first position at which a recording medium having a first size is to be supplied into an apparatus body to a second position at which a user is to supply the recording medium and that includes an upstream end portion and a downstream end portion in a direction in which the recording medium is to be supplied into the apparatus body with the first container unit positioned at the first position. The upstream end portion and the downstream end portion of the first container unit are located at different heights with the first container unit positioned at the second position.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading member that reads an image of a document that is transported, a discharge portion onto which the document that is read by the reading member is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the discharge portion, an object being placed on the placement portion such that at least a part of an upper surface of the reading member is covered, and an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium and a medium storage part in which a recording medium to be supplied to the image forming part is stored; and a front opening/closing covering that is an openable and closable covering that covers at least a part of the image forming part and a part of the medium storage part on a front face of the apparatus body, wherein the front opening/closing covering is constituted by a single opening/closing covering that covers at least a range from one end to the other end in a left-right direction of the part of the medium storage part in a left-right direction of the apparatus body.

Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a medium discharge portion onto which a medium to be taken out by a person with the person standing is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the medium discharge portion, an object in color that is represented by using a Y-value closer than a value that represents black color to a value that represents white color where the color is represented by using a Y-value that represents luminance in a YCbCr method being placed on the placement portion, an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a vacuum-evacuable processing chamber, a lower electrode for mounting thereon a target substrate, an upper electrode disposed to face the lower electrode, a gas supply unit, a voltage application unit and a switching unit. The gas supply unit supplies a film forming source gas to be formed into plasma to a processing space between the upper and the lower electrode. The voltage application unit applies to the upper electrode a voltage outputted from at least one of a high frequency power supply and a DC power supply included therein. The switching unit selectively switches the voltage to be applied to the upper electrode among a high frequency voltage outputted from the high frequency power supply, a DC voltage outputted from the DC power supply, and a superimposed voltage in which the DC voltage is superimposed with the high frequency voltage.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor material layer forming a channel layer; a pair of source/drain electrodes formed on the semiconductor material layer; and a gate electrode arranged between the pair of source/drain electrodes and formed on the semiconductor material layer via a gate insulating film, wherein a connection path using a capacitor in which an insulating film formed in the same layer as the gate insulating film is sandwiched by a pair of electrodes and that undergoes dielectric breakdown at a voltage lower than a dielectric breakdown voltage of the gate insulating film is formed between at least one of the pair of source/drain electrodes and the gate electrode.

Abstract: An AFE chip for a smoke detector includes a DC/DC boost converter having a boost input, a boost output, and a boost upper power supply input. The boost input is coupled to a first pin that is adapted for coupling to a battery through an inductor and the boost output is coupled to a second pin. The DC/DC boost converter is configured to not switch when a voltage on the second pin is greater than a programmed boost voltage. A set of power regulator circuits have a power input, which is coupled to a third pin, and a power output. The third pin is adapted for receiving an input voltage, the power output is coupled to provide an internal voltage, and the set of power regulator circuits are further coupled to the boost upper power supply input.

Abstract: Provided is an antenna device capable of efficiently transmitting millimeter wave band signals. The antenna device includes plural antennas, a first Butler matrix circuit, and a second Butler matrix circuit. The plural antennas are disposed apart from each other. The first Butler matrix circuit is connected to each of the plural antennas. The second Butler matrix circuit is connected to each of the plural antennas. In each of the plural antennas, a first feed point connected to the first Butler matrix circuit and a second feed point connected to the second Butler matrix circuit are disposed apart from each other.

Abstract: There is provided a technique capable of reducing a tilt of a nozzle. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a process vessel constituted by a reaction tube and a manifold supporting the reaction tube from thereunder and in which a substrate is processed; a nozzle through which a process gas is supplied to the substrate; a metal adapter configured to hold the nozzle vertically in the process vessel; a support base arranged below the metal adapter and fixed to the manifold; and a fixing bolt engaging with the support base and screwed into the metal adapter.

Abstract: A transistor array substrate includes a scan line formed on a support substrate, a capacitive section formed above the scan line, and a thin film transistor formed above the capacitive section, in which a perimeter of the thin film transistor is surrounded by a wall-shaped horizontal light-blocking film that extends in a normal direction with respect to the support substrate and is in contact with a surface of an electrode that is an uppermost layer of the capacitive section, and an upper light-blocking film is formed above the thin film transistor.

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a capacitance element to be tested and a test circuit in the same semiconductor substrate, the test circuit includes a capacitance element for testing, and a comparison circuit for comparing a voltage of a node with a voltage of a signal, electrically connects another end of the capacitance element to be tested to the node, applies the voltage of the signal to the node in a first period, changes the voltage of the node based on a capacitance ratio of the capacitance element to be tested and the capacitance element for testing, and tests a capacity size of the capacitance element to be tested based on a comparison result of the comparison circuit in a second period after the first period.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of suppressing the occurrence of by-products by suppressing adhesion of the by-products. A substrate processing apparatus includes: a reaction tube where a substrate is processed; a furnace opening unit disposed at a lower end of the reaction tube and having an upper surface and an inner circumferential surface, the furnace opening unit including: a concave portion disposed on the upper surface; and a convex portion having at least one notch connecting the concave portion to the inner circumferential surface; a cover covering at least the inner circumferential surface with a predetermined gap therebetween; and a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas to the concave portion.

Abstract: [Object] There is provided a Butler matrix circuit that makes it possible to further reduce volume and power consumption and to obtain symmetrical radiation characteristics. [Solution] There is provided a Butler matrix circuit including: four processing-circuit-side terminals; four antenna-side terminals; a first 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a first processing-circuit-side terminal and a second processing-circuit-side terminal; a second 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a third processing-circuit-side terminal and a fourth processing-circuit-side terminal; a third 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a first antenna-side terminal and a third antenna-side terminal; a fourth 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a second antenna-side terminal and a fourth antenna-side terminal; a first 90° delay circuit provided between the first 90° hybrid coupler and the third 90° hybrid coupler; and a second 90° delay circuit provided between the first 90° hybrid coupler and the fourth 90° hybrid coupler.