Abstract: A sensor that includes a switch unit and that detects a pressure applied from the front side to the switch unit or a finger approaching the switch unit from the front side is located on the back side of upholstery. A base member has a protruding portion on its surface. The upholstery includes: a light-transmitting region that is located over a light guide portion of the base member and the switch unit of the sensor and that allows light from a light source to transmit therethrough to the front side; and a non-light-transmitting region that blocks the light from the light source. A raised portion that is raised on the front side of the upholstery is located near the light-transmitting region in the non-light-transmitting region of the upholstery. The protruding portion of the base member is placed in the raised portion from the back side of the upholstery.

Abstract: A distance sensor module includes a distance sensor and a housing. The distance sensor includes a sensor body and a transmission and reception section connected to the sensor body and configured to emit a detection signal toward a measurement target and receive the detection signal as reflected by the measurement target. The distance sensor is configured such that the sensor body is configured to measure the distance between the distance sensor and the measurement target as a result of the transmission and reception section receiving the detection signal. The housing includes a sensor container section containing the distance sensor, and an attachment section configured to attach the sensor container section to an external attachment target. The sensor container section is configured to keep the transmission and reception section so oriented due to gravity as to have a vertically downward detection direction with the attachment section attached to the attachment target.

Abstract: A sensor unit attachable to a hole of a housing, closed by an overlay on one side in the first direction, from the other side in the first direction. The sensor unit includes a body, a sensor, a vibration generator, a vibration damper, and a fixable part. The body includes a first portion and a second portion on the other side in the first direction relative to the first portion. The sensor provided at the body detects a contact of a detection target with the overlay. The vibration generator can vibrate the body and sensor. The fixable part is provided at the second portion of the body. With the first portion accommodated in the hole, the fixable part is fixed to the housing from the other side in the first direction via the vibration damper, and the vibration damper is at least partly interposed between the fixable part and housing.

Abstract: A sensor unit is attachable to an attachment target so as to be partly accommodated, from one side in a first direction, in a hole opening out at least in the one side in a first direction of the attachment target. The unit includes a detection sensor capable of detecting approach of a detection target from the other side in the first direction, and at least one cushion covering the detection sensor at least partly from the other side in the first direction and may be at least partly accommodated in the hole. The at least one cushion is at least partly accommodated in the hole of the attachment target in a state where the sensor unit is attached to the attachment target from the one side in the first direction.

Abstract: A touch sensing device including a sensor and a water shielding layer. The sensor is a capacitive, resistive, or optical touch sensor and is configured to detect a detection target approaching the sensor from one side in a first direction. The first direction is a thickness direction of the sensor. The water shielding layer is composed of waterproof elastic substance, is disposed on the one side in the first direction relative to the sensor, and covers at least part of the sensor.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an aminocoumarin compound having a structure represented by the following formula (1); and an aminocoumarin compound-containing resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound and a resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound. In formula (1), Rs each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Q represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, or N—R1, and R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. The aminocoumarin compound of the present invention is a fluorescent dye that has a longer excitation wavelength than a conventionally known sulfonated coumarin-based compound and is effectively excited at a wavelength of 475 nm or more, particularly at a wavelength around 500 nm.

Abstract: The present invention may provide phosphor-integrated nanoparticles whose precipitation and/or aggregation, particularly aggregation can be inhibited upon carrying out immunostaining therewith and which can thus be used for staining even after long-term storage without requiring a complicated operation, the phosphor-integrated nanoparticles preferrably maintaining excellent performance, such as staining properties, even after long-term storage. The phosphor-integrated nanoparticles of the present invention have an average sphericity (f) of 0.80 to 0.95 and preferably have an average circumference ratio (R) of 0.50 to 0.95.

Abstract: To provide phosphor-integrated nanoparticles for target substance detection, having improved staining performance for labeling and detecting a target protein at high accuracy. The phosphor-integrated nanoparticles for target substance detection are obtained by surface-modifying phosphor-integrated nanoparticles with a surface modification molecule. The surface modification molecule is at least one kind of surface modification molecule selected from the group consisting of a single-chain antibody containing a heavy chain variable region and an aptamer.

Abstract: A sensor that includes a switch unit and that detects a pressure applied from the front side to the switch unit or a finger approaching the switch unit from the front side is located on the back side of upholstery. A base member has a protruding portion on its surface. The upholstery includes: a light-transmitting region that is located over a light guide portion of the base member and the switch unit of the sensor and that allows light from a light source to transmit therethrough to the front side; and a non-light-transmitting region that blocks the light from the light source. A raised portion that is raised on the front side of the upholstery is located near the light-transmitting region in the non-light-transmitting region of the upholstery. The protruding portion of the base member is placed in the raised portion from the back side of the upholstery.

Abstract: A touch sensing device including a sensor and a water shielding layer. The sensor is a capacitive, resistive, or optical touch sensor and is configured to detect a detection target approaching the sensor from one side in a first direction. The first direction is a thickness direction of the sensor. The water shielding layer is composed of waterproof elastic substance, is disposed on the one side in the first direction relative to the sensor, and covers at least part of the sensor.

Abstract: Provided is at least one method of suppressing, in an immunoassay using surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy (SPFS), nonspecific signals generated by nonspecific adsorption of contaminants contained in a sample to an SPFS sensor section (e.g., a primary antibody, a solid-phase layer and a metal thin film). At least one method relates to a method of suppressing nonspecific signals originating from contaminants in an immunoassay using surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy (SPFS) (including cases where a receptor for a compound to be measured is used in place of a primary antibody), the method comprising performing at least one pretreatment.

Abstract: A sensor unit attachable to a hole of a housing, closed by an overlay on one side in the first direction, from the other side in the first direction. The sensor unit includes a body, a sensor, a vibration generator, a vibration damper, and a fixable part. The body includes a first portion and a second portion on the other side in the first direction relative to the first portion. The sensor provided at the body detects a contact of a detection target with the overlay. The vibration generator can vibrate the body and sensor. The fixable part is provided at the second portion of the body. With the first portion accommodated in the hole, the fixable part is fixed to the housing from the other side in the first direction via the vibration damper, and the vibration damper is at least partly interposed between the fixable part and housing.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a non-clinical test method which allows for the quality control of experimental animals having a transplanted tumor site, such as tumor-bearing mice, or experimental animals having a lesion site other than a transplanted a tumor site, and which is characterized by including the step of identifying, using a specimen collected from such an experimental animal, the profile of a lesion site, for example, a transplanted tumor site, of the experimental animal, by a quantitative technique.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method relating the evaluation of tumor tissue from an experimental animal, the method including the step of measuring an amount of a substance, except for human-derived tumor cells, contained in a sample collected from a region in an experimental animal into which a human-derived tumor tissue or tumor cells have been transplanted, wherein the region contains the tumor tissue or the tumor cells.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an aminocoumarin compound having a structure represented by the following formula (1); and an aminocoumarin compound-containing resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound and a resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound. In formula (1), Rs each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Q represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, or N—R1, and R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. The aminocoumarin compound of the present invention is a fluorescent dye that has a longer excitation wavelength than a conventionally known sulfonated coumarin-based compound and is effectively excited at a wavelength of 475 nm or more, particularly at a wavelength around 500 nm.

Abstract: A plastic laminate structure including layers laminated together, a functional element being an electrode, a display element, an antenna, or a sensor on a second layer of the layers, conductive lines on the second layer, and a dummy conductor on one of the layers. The layers include a first layer of a plastic material and the second layer fixed to the first layer. The first conductive lines are connected to the functional element. The dummy conductor surrounds the functional element and the conductive lines. Each conductive line includes a parallel portion forming at least part of each conductive line. First and second distances are each 500 ?m or less. The first distance is a distance in the array direction between the parallel portions. The second distance is a distance between the endmost conductive line and the dummy conductor in a plane direction extending along a face of the second layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fluorescent premix particles, a fluorescent stain containing the same, and a fluorescent staining method in which these are used, and the fluorescent premix particles are particles including: phosphor integrated particles that are modified with a first reactive substance; and at least one target protein-binding substance that is modified with a second reactive substance and is selected from the group consisting of an antibody and an aptamer, wherein the phosphor integrated particles and the at least one target protein-binding substance are linked by interaction between the first reactive substance and the second reactive substance.

Abstract: There is provided a biological substance quantitation method of quantitating a biological substance in a sample stained with a staining reagent including a fluorescent particle encapsulating a fluorescent substance, based on a fluorescence of the fluorescent substance. The method includes inputting a fluorescent image representing expression of the biological substance in the sample by a fluorescent bright spot; and quantitating an expression amount of the biological substance based on a fluorescence of the fluorescent bright spot. The biological substance is a nucleoprotein expressed at a cell nucleus. The fluorescent particle binds to the biological substance through a primary antibody which is directed against the biological substance as an antigen.

Abstract: A plastic laminate structure including a plurality of, or a plurality of kinds of, plastic layers and an adhesive layer. The plastic layers are laminated together in a first direction. All the plastic layers are comprised exclusively of extruded plastic layers. The adhesive layer affixes together two of the plastic layers that are adjacent to each other in the first direction.