Abstract: A deterioration prediction system for a semiconductor manufacturing equipment or a semiconductor inspection equipment, including: an input device receiving, as an input, time series data indicating a state of the equipment; a deterioration prediction device having an estimation unit discriminating fluctuation in the time series data into fluctuation caused by changing setting of the equipment and fluctuation caused by deterioration of the equipment and estimating a time point when the setting is changed, a division unit dividing the time series data into the plurality of periods bounded by the time points, a discrimination unit discriminating at least a trend component from the fluctuation in the time series data in the period, and a prediction unit predicting the deterioration of the equipment based on at least the trend component; and an output device outputting a result of the prediction.

Abstract: A memory chip unit includes a pad electrode including first and second portions, and a memory cell array. A prober includes a probe card and a movement mechanism. The probe card includes a probe electrode to be in contact with the pad electrode, and a memory controller electrically coupled to the probe electrode and executes reading and writing on the memory cell array. The movement mechanism executes a first operation that brings the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the second portion, and a second operation that does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and brings the probe electrode into contact with the second portion.

Abstract: A detection method includes applying a magnetic field to a sample including a composite particle, an unbound particle, and a first solvent, thereby retaining the composite particle and the unbound particle, each of the composite particle and the unbound particle including a magnetic dielectric particle modified by a substance capable of specifically binding to a target substance, the composite particle being bound to the target substance, the unbound particle being not bound to the target substance; replacing, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, at least part of the first solvent with a second solvent with lower electrical conductivity than the first solvent in a state in which the composite particle and the unbound particle are retained; stopping the application of the magnetic field and applying an electric field, thereby separating the composite particle and the unbound particle by dielectrophoresis; and detecting the separated composite particle, thereby detecting the target substance.

Abstract: In a detection method, first dielectric particles each capable of being bound to a first target substance and second dielectric particles each capable of being bound to a second target substance are caused to react with a sample that contains a first target substance and a second target substance, the second dielectric particles having a different dielectrophoretic property from the first dielectric particles, a first composite particle to which the first target substance is bound is separated from the other first dielectric particle, and a second composite particle to which the second target substance is bound is separated from the other second dielectric particle by causing dielectrophoresis in the sample after the reaction, and the first target substance contained in the separated first composite particle and the second target substance contained in the second composite particle are each detected.

Abstract: Provided is a bipolar plate including a first surface and a second surface facing each other, in which each of the first surface and the second surface includes a first edge, a second edge, and a middle region, the middle region includes a plurality of groove portions through which the electrolyte flows, the middle region includes a specific cross section obtained by cutting the bipolar plate in a specific direction, the specific direction is a direction orthogonal to a direction from the first edge toward the second edge, the specific cross section is a cross section having a cross-sectional area ratio B/(A+B) greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 0.60, A is a cross-sectional area of the bipolar plate, and B is a total cross-sectional area of the plurality of groove portions.

Abstract: A bipolar plate faces an electrode of a redox flow battery and includes an introduction channel and a discharge channel of an electrolyte. One of the introduction channel and the discharge channel is a groove-like flow channel that is formed in a surface of the bipolar plate, and the other of the introduction channel and the discharge channel is a pipe-like flow channel that is formed in an inside of the bipolar plate. The bipolar plate includes a communication hole that communicates with the pipe-like flow channel from the surface.

Abstract: One non-limiting and exemplary embodiment provides a metal microscopic structure capable of detecting a low-concentration analyte with high sensitivity. The metal microscopic structure includes a base member including multiple protrusions arrayed at predetermined intervals, and multiple projections made of a metal film covering the base member and configured to generate surface plasmons upon irradiation with light. A film thickness of the metal film positioned in a bottom portion of a gap between every adjacent two of the multiple projections is greater than a height of the multiple protrusions and is more than or equal to 90% and less than or equal to 100% of a film thickness of the metal film deposited on top portions of the multiple protrusions.

Abstract: A detection method includes forming a complex by binding a target substance and a dielectric particle modified by a single-domain antibody that is bindable to the target substance, separating the complex and an unbound particle in a fluid with dielectrophoresis, the unbound particle being the dielectric particle not forming the complex, and detecting the target substance contained in the separated complex with an imaging element.

Abstract: A cell stack including; a stacked body including a plurality of cell frames each having a bipolar plate whose outer periphery is supported by a frame member; and a pair of end plates that tighten the stacked body from both sides of a stacking direction thereof, wherein an area S [cm2] of each cell frame as viewed from the stacking direction of the stacked body and a length W [mm] in the stacking direction of the stacked body satisfies a relationship 0.05?W/S?0.9.

Abstract: A redox flow battery includes: a membrane; and electrodes that are disposed in a compressed state on both sides of the membrane and sandwich the membrane. The thickness x (?m) of the membrane and the compression ratio y (%) of the electrodes satisfy the following relation A or B: (A) when the electrodes are formed from carbon felt, y<x+60, 30?y?85, and 5?x?60 hold; (B) when the electrodes are formed from carbon cloth or carbon paper, y<1.2x+42, 10?y?85, and 5?x?60 hold, where y={1?(the thickness during compression/the thickness before compression)}×100.

Abstract: A redox flow battery cell includes: an electrode to which an electrolyte solution is supplied; and a bipolar plate with which the electrode is arranged, wherein the bipolar plate has at least one groove portion through which the electrolyte solution flows, on a face on the electrode side, the electrode is made of a carbon fiber aggregate containing carbon fibers, and has a buried portion that is pressed toward the bipolar plate side and buried into the groove portion, and an amount of burial of the buried portion is not less than 0.2 mm and not more than 1.4 mm.

Abstract: A bipolar plate faces an electrode of a redox flow battery and includes an introduction channel and a discharge channel of an electrolyte. One of the introduction channel and the discharge channel is a groove-like flow channel that is formed in a surface of the bipolar plate, and the other of the introduction channel and the discharge channel is a pipe-like flow channel that is formed in an inside of the bipolar plate. The bipolar plate includes a communication hole that communicates with the pipe-like flow channel from the surface.

Abstract: A redox flow battery cell includes: an electrode to which an electrolyte solution is supplied; and a bipolar plate with which the electrode is arranged, wherein the bipolar plate has at least one groove portion through which the electrolyte solution flows, on a face on the electrode side, the electrode is made of a carbon fiber aggregate containing carbon fibers, and has a buried portion that is pressed toward the bipolar plate side and buried into the groove portion, and an amount of burial of the buried portion is not less than 0.2 mm and not more than 1.4 mm.

Abstract: A power supply control device includes a switch to output a switch depression signal, which is in a first logic level during a period in which the switch is not depressed, and is in a second logic level during a period in which the switch is depressed, a first power supply to generate a first DC voltage based on AC power, which is supplied from an outside, and to apply the first DC voltage to a predetermined load, and a second power supply configured to generate a second DC voltage based on the AC power irrespective of a state of the switch, and a controller to operate on the second DC voltage, to switch an operation state of the first power supply when the switch depression signal has switched from a first logic level to a second logic level and remains at the second logic level.

Abstract: A redox flow battery includes: a membrane; and electrodes that are disposed in a compressed state on both sides of the membrane and sandwich the membrane. The thickness x (?m) of the membrane and the compression ratio y (%) of the electrodes satisfy the following relation A or B: (A) when the electrodes are formed from carbon felt, y<x+60, 30?y?85, and 5?x?60 hold; (B) when the electrodes are formed from carbon cloth or carbon paper, y<1.2x+42, 10?y?85, and 5?x?60 hold, where y={1?(the thickness during compression/the thickness before compression)}×100.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a modified particle in which deterioration of a specific binding substance fixed to the surface of the particle is reduced. The modified particle according to the present disclosure contains a particle, a specific binding substance that has a property of specifically binding to an analyte and that has been fixed to the surface of the particle, and an amino sugar molecule fixed to the surface of the particle with an amide bond.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a main body including a rear face cover; a photosensitive member on which an image is formed; a transfer unit configured to transfer the image onto a sheet; a motor supported by a rear plate of the main body and configured to rotate the photosensitive member; a box made of metal fixed to a fixing portion of the main body with a screw and located between the rear face cover and the motor; a first circuit board provided in the box; a second circuit board provided outside the box; and a flexible flat cable configured to connect the first circuit board and the second circuit board, wherein, with the flexible flat cable connecting the first circuit board and the second circuit board, a position of the screw overlaps with the flexible flat cable in a direction orthogonal to the first circuit board.

Abstract: One non-limiting and exemplary embodiment provides a metal microscopic structure capable of detecting a low-concentration analyte with high sensitivity. The metal microscopic structure includes a base member including multiple protrusions arrayed at predetermined intervals, and multiple projections made of a metal film covering the base member and configured to generate surface plasmons upon irradiation with light. A film thickness of the metal film positioned in a bottom portion of a gap between every adjacent two of the multiple projections is greater than a height of the multiple protrusions and is more than or equal to 90% and less than or equal to 100% of a film thickness of the metal film deposited on top portions of the multiple protrusions.

Abstract: A cell stack including; a stacked body including a plurality of cell frames each having a bipolar plate whose outer periphery is supported by a frame member; and a pair of end plates that tighten the stacked body from both sides of a stacking direction thereof, wherein an area S [cm2] of each cell frame as viewed from the stacking direction of the stacked body and a length W [mm] in the stacking direction of the stacked body satisfies a relationship 0.05?W/S?0.9.

Abstract: Provided is a redox flow battery in which damage is unlikely to occur in a membrane. A redox flow battery includes a pair of adjacent cell frames, each cell frame including a frame body in which a flow channel for an electrolyte is formed, and a bipolar plate disposed inside the frame body; a positive electrode and a negative electrode disposed so as to face each other between the bipolar plates of the pair of cell frames; a membrane interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a protection plate which covers the flow channel and presses edge portions of the positive electrode or the negative electrode toward the bipolar plate; and a membrane protection structure which prevents the membrane from being broken by contact between the protection plate and the membrane.