Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform appropriate communication quality control even when a terminal out of management of a controller is connected to an access point. The present disclosure is a control system for controlling traffic of a wireless network, the control system including: a terminal and an access point that mutually transmit a packet via the wireless network; and a controller that performs transmission control with respect to the terminal and the access point, in which the controller notifies the access point of information of a terminal under management of the own device, and the access point collates information of the terminal a notification of which has been given with information of a terminal connected to the own device, and suppresses notification of transmission permission to an unmanaged terminal different from a terminal under management of the controller.

Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system in which there are no restrictions on a communicable area and it is not necessary to install communication software on a wireless device. A communication system according to the present invention is configured so that the functions of a wireless access point are separated into a front-end unit on a wireless terminal side and a back-end side on the Internet side, radio signal processing functions supporting a wireless scheme of the wireless terminal are deployed only on the back end, and only relatively simple processing functions such as E/O conversion are deployed on the front end near the wireless terminal 311.

Abstract: Provided is a film-packaged tissue product collective pack containing a plurality of film-packaged tissue products gusset-packaged with an exterior film into a collective pack having a handle on its top face side, wherein the exterior film is a biomass film containing 10 mass % or less biomass raw material, has a degree of blocking of 120 mN or lower, and has a tensile elastic modulus in a TD direction of 380 to 460 MPa. The collective pack may be handled and manufactured in the same way as conventional collective packs, while reduction of environmental burden may be aimed through the use of biomass raw materials.

Abstract: A cell culture apparatus includes: a supply unit that supplies a culture medium to a culture tank accommodating the culture medium and cells; a discharge unit that discharges the culture medium and the cells from the culture tank; and one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to determine whether or not cell density in the culture medium in the culture tank has exceeded a preliminarily set predetermined threshold, wherein in response to determining that the cell density has exceeded the predetermined threshold, the one or more processors are configured to cause the discharge unit to discharge a portion of the culture medium and the cells from the culture tank and cause the supply unit to supply a new culture medium to the culture tank to reduce the cell density to the predetermined threshold or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides an erythrocyte-culture monitoring device including a light source that radiates monochromatic light onto a culture solution culturing erythrocytes accommodated in a culture container, a first photodetector that detects a light intensity of the monochromatic light transmitted through the culture solution, and a controller that evaluates an amount of hemoglobin in the culture solution based on a temporal change in the light intensity detected by the photodetector.

Abstract: A heat storage material composition, at least containing at least one organic compound selected from ethanol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, and acetic acid, sodium acetate, and water, wherein a content of the water is 72.4 to 100 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the sodium acetate; an auxiliary heat source and a heat supply method, using the heat storage material composition.

Abstract: A cell culture apparatus includes a culture tank having an inlet and an outlet, a culture-medium supplying unit that supplies a culture medium to the culture tank through the inlet, and a culture-medium discharging unit that discharges the culture medium through the outlet. The culture tank includes a division wall that can divide the internal space in a direction of gravity into an upper space and a lower space. The outlet opens into the upper space, and the division wall enables switching between a state where the internal space of the culture tank is divided into the upper space and the lower space and a state where the upper space and the lower space are in communication with each other.

Abstract: A cell culture container includes, in sequence from above in the gravity direction: a culture-medium holding container; a cell holding container that holds cells and a culture medium supplied from the culture-medium holding container through a supply port provided in the top surface thereof; a waste-liquid holding container that holds the culture medium discharged from the cell holding container; and a discharge mechanism for discharging the culture medium that has exceeded a predetermined level from the cell holding container to the waste-liquid holding container.

Abstract: Provided is a cell-culturing apparatus including: an incubator that can maintain an interior thereof in an environment that is appropriate for growth of cells; a cell-culturing vessel that is accommodated inside the incubator; an optical-data acquisition unit that acquires optical data of a medium in the cell-culturing vessel; a medium changing unit that changes the medium in the cell-culturing vessel; and a controller, wherein a timing at which the medium is changed is determined on the basis of a change over time in the optical data acquired by the optical-data acquisition unit.

Abstract: A vehicle braking force control device includes a braking force control unit. The braking force control unit is configured to shift to a drive state so as to use an auxiliary power source when a main power source fails, and to limit current outputted to an electric actuator of a braking device for producing braking hydraulic pressure when a transition is made to the drive state using the auxiliary power source. The braking force control unit has two current limit values used during actuation of the electric actuator by the auxiliary power source, the current limit values being a first current limit value for ensuring increased-braking-hydraulic-pressure characteristics, and a second current limit value for ensuring a necessary minimum braking hydraulic pressure, the second current limit value being less than the first current limit value.

Abstract: Provided is a cell-culturing apparatus including a culturing unit in which a culturing vessel is placed and an incubator in which a plurality of culturing units are placed in an interior thereof, and that can maintain the interior thereof at an environment that is appropriate for cell culturing, wherein the incubator includes openings that are provided for each of the plurality of culturing units and through which the culturing units can separately be moved into and out of the incubator, and closing means that are provided at the openings and that seals off the internal environment of the incubator from outside when the culturing unit is taken out of the incubator.

Abstract: A cell culture system of the present invention includes: a culture-medium storage part that holds a culture medium for culturing cells; a temporary holding part that is coupled to the culture-medium storage part and that is provided with a holding space for temporarily holding the culture medium supplied from the culture-medium storage part and a discharge port for discharging the culture medium; a culture-medium supply part that is coupled to the discharge port of the temporary holding part and that supplies the culture medium discharged from the temporary holding part, to a cell culture vessel; and a discharge part that discharges the culture medium from the cell culture vessel, wherein the culture-medium supply part is provided with a culture-medium intermittent supply mechanism that intermittently supplies the culture medium discharged from the temporary holding part, to the cell culture vessel in a predetermined cycle.

Abstract: A cell culture apparatus according to the present invention includes a cell culture bag and a culture tank. The cell culture bag is composed of a bag-shaped film material capable of accommodating cells and a culture medium therein. At least a part of the bag-shaped film material is formed of a porous membrane that selectively allows a substance contained in the culture medium to pass through but does not allow the cells to pass through. The culture tank retains the cell culture bag in an immersed state in a solution.

Abstract: A cell culture apparatus of the present invention includes: a body including a space for accommodating a culture container, and an opening through which the culture container is taken in and out; a door that opens and closes the opening; an optical detection unit that includes optical sensors that optically detects an instruction to open and close the opening from a user, and converts the detection by the optical sensors to a signal and sends the signal; and a door open/close unit that receives the signal from the optical detection unit and controls open/close of the opening by the door.

Abstract: A cell-culturing system includes: a solution-holding means holding a medium; and a solution-supplying means supplying the solution supplied thereto from the solution-holding means to a cell-culturing container. The solution-supplying means may supply a solution to the container via a solution dripping step. The container may be connected to the solution-supplying means at a position that is lower than the solution-supplying means in a direction in which gravity acts; the solution-supplying means may have a space in which the solution supplied thereto from the solution-holding means is made to drip; the system may be provided with a discharging port discharging the solution at a position in a container side surface at a desired height; and the solution may be discharged outside when the height of a top surface of the solution in the container reaches the port as a result of supplying the solution to the container from the solution-supplying means.

Abstract: A cell culture apparatus includes a culture tank having an inlet and an outlet, a culture-medium supplying unit that supplies a culture medium to the culture tank through the inlet, and a culture-medium discharging unit that discharges the culture medium through the outlet. The culture tank includes a division wall that can divide the internal space in a direction of gravity into an upper space and a lower space. The outlet opens into the upper space, and the division wall enables switching between a state where the internal space of the culture tank is divided into the upper space and the lower space and a state where the upper space and the lower space are in communication with each other.

Abstract: A cell culturing apparatus according to the present invention includes a culture-medium retaining unit that retains a culture medium for culturing a cell, a culture bag provided with a feed port and a discharge port, a culture-medium feeding unit that connects the culture-medium retaining unit and the feed port and that feeds the culture medium from the culture-medium retaining unit to the culture bag, a negative-pressure supplying unit that supplies negative pressure to the discharge port, and a waste retaining unit that retains the culture medium from the discharge port.

Abstract: Supply and discharge of a solution, such as a medium, in a cell culture bag are easily controlled. Provided is a system including a sac-like cell culture bag having a supply port for supplying a solution, such as a medium, to the inside and having a discharge port for discharging the solution, such as a medium, from the inside, wherein gate opening and closing means for opening and closing inner holes of the supply port and the discharge port are attached to the supply port and the discharge port, and the gate opening and closing means are controlled to easily exchange the medium or the like in the cell culture bag.

Abstract: A heat storage material composition, at least containing at least one organic compound selected from ethanol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, and acetic acid, sodium acetate, and water, wherein a content of the water is 72.4 to 100 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the sodium acetate; an auxiliary heat source and a heat supply method, using the heat storage material composition.

Abstract: A vehicle braking force control device includes a braking force control unit. The braking force control unit is configured to shift to a drive state so as to use an auxiliary power source when a main power source fails, and to limit current outputted to an electric actuator of a braking device for producing braking hydraulic pressure when a transition is made to the drive state using the auxiliary power source. The braking force control unit has two current limit values used during actuation of the electric actuator by the auxiliary power source, the current limit values being a first current limit value for ensuring increased-braking-hydraulic-pressure characteristics, and a second current limit value for ensuring a necessary minimum braking hydraulic pressure, the second current limit value being less than the first current limit value.