Abstract: A cell isolation method includes: a cell trapping step of allowing a test liquid to pass through a cell trapping filter which has a plurality of through-holes in the thickness direction, thereby trapping isolation target cells contained in the test liquid on one surface of the cell trapping filter; a gel embedding step of introducing a stimulus-responsive hydrogel onto the one surface of the cell trapping filter on which the cells have been trapped in the cell trapping step, thereby embedding the cells in the stimulus-responsive hydrogel; a gel hardening step of applying a stimulus to the stimulus-responsive hydrogel in which the cells are embedded, thereby hardening the stimulus-responsive hydrogel; and a detachment step of detaching the stimulus-responsive hydrogel that was hardened in the gel hardening step from the cell trapping filter.

Abstract: An optical component assembly includes a light-guiding member; a cylindrical member which retains the light-guiding member in a through hole thereof; and a projection which is provided at one end of the cylindrical member so as to extend beyond an outer periphery of the cylindrical member, and is engageable in a groove which is formed in a cylindrical shell so as to extend in an axial direction of the cylindrical shell and then turn at a distal end thereof in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical shell. By fixing the cylindrical shell to the projection, the cylindrical shell becomes attachable and detachable. It is possible to provide an optical receptacle and a transceiver module for optical communications having easy removal of foreign matters.

Abstract: An azine compound represented by the formula (1), a method for its production and an organic electroluminescent device containing it as a constituent component. wherein Ad each independently represents a 1-adamantyl group, etc., p and q are each independently 0 or 1, Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently a single bond (but only when p is 1, or q is 1), or a pyridyl group which may be substituted by a phenyl group, etc., incidentally, Ad groups on Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently bonded to said pyridyl group, etc., Ar2 is each independently a C3-13 heteroaromatic group which may be substituted by a fluorine atom, etc., X1, X2, X3 and X4 are each independently a single bond, etc., m and n are each independently 0, 1 or 2, Z is a nitrogen atom, etc., n+p+q is 1, 2 or 3.

Abstract: A socket includes a first base member that includes a module mount unit allowing a module including an imaging device and an object to be placed thereon and an electric connector that electrically connects the imaging device to an external apparatus, a second base member having an opening, and an engagement unit that causes the first base member to be engaged with the second base member under a condition that the module placed on the module mount unit is sandwiched by the first and second base members. When the first base member is engaged with the second base member by the engagement unit under a condition that the module placed on the module mount unit is sandwiched by the first base member and the second base member, the electric connector is electrically connected to the imaging device, and the object receives illumination light from a light source through the opening.

Abstract: An operation state management system for a construction machine includes a management apparatus configured to manage an operation state of the construction machine by communicating with the construction machine and a construction machine including a cumulative value storage device configured to store a cumulative value in which an amount of operation of the construction machine is accumulated and have an adjustment function to the stored cumulative value, an adjustment existence determining unit configured to determine whether the cumulative value stored in the cumulative value storage device has been adjusted, and a communication terminal apparatus configured to communicate with the management apparatus and transmit adjustment information indicating that at least the cumulative value has been adjusted to the management apparatus when the adjustment existence determining unit has determined that the adjustment has been performed.

Abstract: A preparation element set including an image sensor including a sensor surface, a sensor back surface, and a board; a package including a front surface, a back surface, and terminals on the back surface, the front surface touching or facing the sensor back surface; and a transparent plate facing the sensor surface with a subject placed therebetween, wherein the board includes a board surface and a board back surface, a distance between the board surface and the sensor surface is less than a distance between the board back surface and the sensor surface, a distance between the board surface and the sensor back surface is more than a distance between the board back surface and the sensor back surface, conductive holes pierce the board from the board surface to the board back surface, and conductors on the board surface are electrically connected to terminals by using the conductive holes.

Abstract: A novel heterocyclic compound for an organic electroluminescent device excellent in long service life and light-emitting characteristics is provided. A cyclic azine compound has at least one substituent (substituent B) selected from a specific group.

Abstract: An input operation device according to the present disclosure includes first to third light-emitting sections, a first light guide body, and a second light guide body. A lower end of the first light guide body faces the first light-emitting section and the second light-emitting section. The first mark emits light on the first light guide body when light is incident on the first light guide body from the first light-emitting section, and the second mark emits light on the first light guide body when light is incident on the first light guide body from the second light-emitting section. The upper surface section of the second light guide body emits light when light is incident on the second light guide body from the third light-emitting section. At least one of the first light-emitting section, the second light-emitting section, and the third light-emitting section can change light emission luminance.

Abstract: An electronic prepared slide includes: an image sensor that has a light receiving surface and receives, on the light receiving surface, light that has passed through a specimen disposed above the light receiving surface; and a removable nonvolatile transparent film that is disposed on the light receiving surface and seals the light receiving surface.

Abstract: An operating panel device includes an operating ring, and a display device which is disposed to face a back surface of the operating ring. The display device includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion is located inside the operating ring, and the second portion is located outside the operating ring. The third portion connects the first portion and the second portion. A display of the first portion changes in conjunction with a rotational operation applied to the operating ring.

Abstract: An intraoral three-dimensional measuring method, comprising: acquiring, with a handy scanner, wide range three-dimensional measurement information on a three-dimensional shape measured on a wide range in a desirable measurement range in an intraoral space; acquiring, with the handy scanner, a plurality of pieces of narrow range three-dimensional measurement information each on a three-dimensional shape measured on a narrow range narrower than the wide range in the measurement range; and locating, with a controller, the plurality of pieces of narrow range three-dimensional measurement information based on the wide range three-dimensional measurement information by use of, as a synthesis reference, intra-measurement range position information common to the wide range three-dimensional measurement information and each of the plurality of pieces of narrow range three-dimensional measurement information, and creating synthetic three-dimensional information on the measurement range.

Abstract: The present invention provides a terminal modified polyamide resin having a relative viscosity (?r), as measured at 25° C. in a 98% sulfuric acid solution at a resin concentration of 0.01 g/ml, of 2.1 to 10, the resin comprising 0.05 to 4.5% by mass of a terminal structure represented by general formula (I): —X—(R1—O)n—R2??(I) wherein n ranges from 2 to 100; R1 represents a hydrocarbon group of 2 to 10 carbon atoms; R2 represents a hydrocarbon group of 1 to 30 carbon atoms; —X— represents —NH— or —N(CH3)—; and n R1s in the general formula (I) may be the same or different.

Abstract: A terminal modified polyethylene terephthalate resin has an intrinsic viscosity of 0.5 to 1.8 dl/g, a melting point of 245° C. to 270° C., and a melt viscosity ?(Pa·s) at 300° C. and satisfies inequality (A): ??4×e(0.000085×Mw) (A) wherein Mw represents a weight average molecular weight relative to a molecular weight of standard polymethyl methacrylate, as determined by gel permeation chromatography using hexafluoroisopropanol (with 0.

Abstract: A cyclic azine compound represented by general formula (1): wherein each Ar1 represents an aromatic group, which is unsubstituted or substituted by a C1-4 alkyl group, a phenyl group or a pyridyl group; and A represents a group selected from those which are represented by general formulae (2) to (5), described in the description. The cyclic azine compound is useful for an organic compound layer of fluorescent or phosphorescent EL device.

Abstract: A display control device of the present invention is a device that controls an indication status of a display device disposed in front of a driver's seat of a vehicle, and includes a traveling status obtaining unit that obtains a traveling status of the vehicle, which includes at least a speed of the vehicle; a traveling status determining unit that determines, based on the traveling status, whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition corresponding to at least a condition that both of a first region to be displayed on the display device and a second region other than the first region are present on an analog speed meter that presents the speed; and a display control unit that displays the first region of the analog speed meter on the display device, and does not display the second region of the analog speed meter on the display device when the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An object is to provide a medical instrument element, a medical instrument, a medical instrument component, and a medical handpiece processed in a complicated manner so as to provide a desired level of performance, and a method for producing the medical instrument element. A head housing (31) including a cooling path (50) permitting cooling water to flow therein and including a bent portion at which a flow direction of the cooling water is changed is formed by stack molding.

Abstract: A computer for executing processing through use of a database, the computer comprising: a processor including a cache memory; and a non-volatile memory coupled to the processor, the non-volatile memory having the database constructed thereon. The computer comprises: a database management module configured to execute processing on the database; and a write processing module configured to write data stored in the cache memory into the database. The write processing module writes data that is operated in the transaction processing into the database among data stored in the cache memory, in a case of receiving a commit request for transaction processing that uses the database.

Abstract: A sample separator (1) comprising an accommodation part (10) that accommodates a separation medium for electrophoresis, and a support (20) formed from a porous material. The accommodation part (10) includes an internal space (10c) filled with the separation medium, and is provided with a supply port (10a) and discharge port (10b) that are in communication with the internal space (10c). The support (20) is provided so as to block the discharge port (10b).

Abstract: An automatic electrophoresis apparatus includes: a transfer film supply unit configured to supply a transfer film; a sample transfer unit configured to transfer a sample separated by electrophoresis to the transfer film; a post-processing unit configured to perform processing of the transfer film, to which the sample has been transferred, to obtain a transfer image thereof; and a transporting unit configured to transfer the transfer film along a transporting direction between each of units. The transfer film is provided with guide members that are configured to guide and support along the transporting direction.

Abstract: A battery unit is provided which includes a control board, a storage case, a water detector, and an electrical conductor. The storage case is made of an assembly of a first and a second casing member. The first casing member has an upright wall which extends from the bottom thereof and surrounds the battery. The second casing member also has an extension which extends toward the bottom of the first casing member. The water detector is located close to the lower end of the extension of the second casing member. The electric conductor extends upward from the upper end of the extension and are electrically joined to the water detector. The electric conductor is also mechanically and electrically joined to the control board. This structure facilitates the ease with which the water detector is installed electrically and mechanically in the battery unit.