Abstract: A magnetic memory device includes a spin orbit torque (SOT) generator configured to generate a SOT, and a vertical magnetic recording layer connected to a main surface of the SOT generator at one end thereof, and is configured to record information using a SOT generated by the SOT generator and a current flowing in the vertical magnetic recording layer in combination. The magnetic memory device includes an insulating layer on one end of the vertical magnetic recording layer in an extension direction of the vertical magnetic recording layer, and a fixed layer on the insulating layer in the extension direction of the vertical magnetic recording layer.

Abstract: An object of the present technology is to provide a sample preparation system for increasing a content ratio of target cells. The present technology provides a sample preparation device including a container, and a channel in which a bioparticle-containing liquid flows, the channel accommodated in the container, in which the channel is formed such that a centrifugal force acts on the bioparticle-containing liquid, and an outer peripheral wall of the channel is formed such that at least part of components of the bioparticle-containing liquid may be transferred to an outside of the channel. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a sample preparation system including the sample preparation device, and an analysis device that executes analysis of the bioparticle-containing liquid that passes through the channel.

Abstract: An object of the present technology is to provide a sample preparation system for increasing the content percentage of target cells. The present technology provides a sample preparation system including a bioparticle-capturing module including a substrate to which a substance that captures bioparticles is fixed, a reservoir into which the bioparticles released from the substrate are recovered, and a hollow fiber membrane module through which the bioparticles in the reservoir are flowed. The present technology also provides a sample preparation method including a capturing step of capturing bioparticles with use of a substrate to which a substance that captures the bioparticles is fixed, a recovery step of recovering, into a reservoir, the bioparticles released from the substrate, and a hollow fiber membrane treatment step of causing the bioparticles recovered into the reservoir to flow through a hollow fiber membrane module.

Abstract: A measurement method of a surface shape and a surface shape measurement device uses an interferometer optical head that acquires an interference fringe image generated by a light path difference between the reference light and the measurement light, acquires N interference fringe images by scanning from a start point to an end point in the Z-axis direction, and measures the surface shape of the measurement target surface based on the interference fringe images. For a common position in the N interference fringe images, regarding an interference signal including values of N points that indicates a change in the interference light intensity along the Z-axis direction, a phase of an interference fringe produced by the light of a predetermined analysis wavelength is determined, and the relative position in the Z-axis direction of the measurement target surface within the range of the analysis wavelength is determined based on the phase.

Abstract: A measurement method of a surface shape includes combining N stacked images captured while scanning the measuring head. For a position in the N stacked images, from an integral curve including values of N points, which is obtained by integrating square values or absolute values of the interference signal including values at N points: a start-point-side noise part straight line that approximates a start-point-side noise part, which corresponds to a range where the slope is smaller than the slope in the vicinity of the measurement target surface at the start-point-side than the measurement target surface; an end-point-side noise part straight line that approximates an end-point-side noise part, which corresponds to a range where the slope is smaller than the slope in the vicinity of the measurement target surface at the end-point-side than the measurement target surface; and a surface proximity straight line that approximates surface proximity part.

Abstract: Described herein are alkali-free, boroalumino silicate glasses exhibiting desirable physical and chemical properties for use as substrates in flat panel display devices, such as, active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) and active matrix organic light emitting diode displays (AMOLEDs). In accordance with certain of its aspects, the glasses possess good dimensional stability as a function of temperature.

Abstract: An angle detector includes a rotary scale having a scale pattern in which a plurality of patterns are arrayed along a circumference direction of the rotary scale, and a plurality of detection heads, each of which detects the plurality of patterns from the scale pattern. The plurality of detection heads are shifted from each other in the circumference direction of the rotary scale and are shifted from each other in a radial direction of the rotary scale.

Abstract: A workpiece transport apparatus for transporting a workpiece includes: a hand device; a moving device that includes a movable part mounted with the hand device and that includes at least one drive axis configured to operate the movable part; a current measurement section configured to measure a current value of a motor that drives the drive axis; and a workpiece number detection section configured to detect that a number of workpieces held by the hand device is different from an expected number based on a comparison result between the current value measured by the current measurement section when the hand device holds the workpiece, and a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A walking state measurement system includes: an endless belt that defines a walking surface on which a subject walks and that travels along a walking front-rear direction; a marker provided on at least the walking surface along a circumferential direction of the belt; a first camera for taking an image of the subject from front, the first camera taking an image of the marker on the walking surface from above to generate a first image; a second camera for taking an image of the subject from front, the second camera taking an image of the marker on the walking surface from above to generate a second image; and a correction processing unit that corrects an image generated by at least either the first camera or the second camera based on a position of an image area of the marker included in each of the first image and the second image.

Abstract: The photoelectric rotary encoder includes: a generally disk-shaped scale with a grating-like pattern formed with a predetermined period along a measurement direction, the measurement direction being a direction of rotation of a measurement target that rotates on a predetermined axis, the scale being plate-like and centered on an axis of rotation; and a head that detect, from the scale, the amount of displacement caused by the rotation of the measurement target. The head includes a light source, a diffraction unit with grating parts, and a light-receiving unit with light-receiving elements. The grating parts of the diffraction unit are formed as deformed grating parts that spread cut wide, from the center on the axis of rotation, along the grating-like pattern of the scale. The light-receiving elements are formed as linear grating parts.

Abstract: A walking training system according to an embodiment includes: a treadmill; a foot sole load detection unit configured to detect load received from foot soles of a trainee aboard a belt of the treadmill; a first photographing device configured to photograph the trainee from a lateral side; a skeletal information acquisition unit configured to acquire first skeletal information that is skeletal information on the trainee in a sagittal plane from an image photographed by the first photographing device; and a specification unit configured to specify respective pieces of skeletal information on a right leg and a left leg included in the first skeletal information acquired by the skeletal information acquisition unit, based on the load received from the foot soles of the trainee detected by the foot sole load detection unit.

Abstract: The photoelectric rotary encoder includes: a generally disk-shaped scale with a grating-like pattern formed with a predetermined period along a measurement direction, the measurement direction being a direction of rotation of a measurement target that rotates on a predetermined axis, the scale being plate-like and centered on an axis of rotation; and a head that detect, from the scale, the amount of displacement caused by the rotation of the measurement target. The head includes a light source, a diffraction unit with grating parts, and a light-receiving unit with light-receiving elements. The grating parts of the diffraction unit are formed as deformed grating parts that spread cut wide, from the center on the axis of rotation, along the grating-like pattern of the scale. The light-receiving elements are formed as linear grating parts.

Abstract: A scale capable of maintaining measurement accuracy even if the pattern of the scale pattern is scratched is provided. The scale 2 comprises a scale pattern 4 having a plurality of unit patterns provided at a predetermined pitch along the measurement direction on a surface thereof. At least one of the plurality of unit patterns comprises a plurality of loop portions 8 formed with conductors in a loop shape. The plurality of loop portions 8 included in the unit pattern are arranged so as to be spaced from each other such that the centers of gravity of the loop portions 8 are at the same position in the measurement direction on the surface of the scale 2. Thereby, the plurality of loop portions 8 included in the unit pattern can prevent deviation of the center of gravity of the magnetic flux distribution in the measurement direction, even if any of the plurality of the loop portions 8 is scratched. Therefore, the scale 2 can maintain the measurement accuracy.

Abstract: An optical encoder includes a scale, a calculator, and a head having a light source, an image capturer, and a lens array having first and second lenses. The calculator includes a signal generator, an extractor, a signal combiner, and a displacement calculator. The signal generator generates a sine wave signal. The extractor extracts first and second regions. The signal combiner, based on an inter-regional distance, uses a sine wave signal of the second region to generate a sine wave signal that extends to a first end of the first region such that the generated sine wave signal overlaps with a sine wave signal of the first region. The signal combiner also combines the sine wave signal of the first region with the generated sine wave signal. The displacement calculator calculates an amount of relative displacement based on the sine wave signal that is combined by the signal combiner.

Abstract: To provide a single particle capture technique that can shorten cell capture time without damaging a cell. The present technology provides a particle capture device including: a particle capture unit having a particle capture region including a plurality of wells that captures particles, and dividing a space into a first space and a second space; a particle supply channel which is connected to the first space and through which a fluid containing the particles is supplied; a first discharge channel which is connected to the first space and through which a fluid is discharged from the first space; and a second discharge channel which is connected to the second space and through which a fluid is discharged from the second space, in which the particles are captured in the wells by simultaneous discharge of fluids from the first discharge channel and the second discharge channel.

Abstract: To provide a technology for obtaining a desired particle. The present technology provides a particle obtaining method including a particle capturing step of capturing a particle in a well, a sealing step of sealing the well with a sheet, and a particle obtaining step of obtaining the particle from a selected well after the sealing step. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a particle capturing chamber provided with a particle capturing unit including at least one well for capturing a particle therein, and a sealing unit including a sheet for sealing the well, in which a distance between the well and the sheet is adjustable.

Abstract: A facility that includes machines, includes a camera generating facility operation data, which includes an image of any given space. A computer system comprises: a data obtaining module obtaining the facility operation data; a work identification module identifying work that is performed in the facility, based on the image included in the facility operation data; and an output module outputting time-series information indicating a flow of the work. The work identification module identifies an object included in the image; identifies the work based on information about the identified object; and generates work analysis data, which associates the identified work, a period in which the identified work has been performed, and machines that is related to the identified work with one another. The output module outputs the time-series information or statistical information by using the work analysis data.

Abstract: Scale pattern in a scale of an optical encoder includes a first scale mark that blocks a first light from being guided to an image capturer and guides a second light to the image capturer, and a second scale mark that guides the first light and the second light to the image capturer. Second scale mark is arranged in an ABS pattern and the first scale mark is arranged in an INC pattern by incorporating the second scale mark. Image capturer includes a first image capturing section that captures an image of the ABS pattern from the first light that arrives via the second scale mark, and a second image capturing section that captures an image of the INC pattern from the second light that arrives via the first scale mark and the second scale mark. Calculator calculates a position of a head relative to the scale.

Abstract: There is provided a signal processing method, for a photoelectric encoder, capable of correctly determining a bright part and a dark part of a bright/dark pattern having distorted light intensity distribution by setting an appropriate threshold. A detector unit includes a light source, a light-receiving detector that receives transmitted light from a scale to acquire a bright/dark image, and a lens arranged between the light source and the light-receiving detector. The detector unit classifies the bright/dark image acquired by the light-receiving detector into an image-forming region corresponding to a center region of the lens and a non-image-forming region corresponding to a region except for the center region of the lens, calculates a representative value reflecting a light intensity of the image-forming region, and obtains a pre-processed bright/dark image in which the light intensity of the non-image-forming region is replaced with the representative value.

Abstract: A scale capable of maintaining measurement accuracy even if the pattern of the scale pattern is scratched is provided. The scale 2 comprises a scale pattern 4 having a plurality of unit patterns provided at a predetermined pitch along the measurement direction on a surface thereof. At least one of the plurality of unit patterns comprises a plurality of loop portions 8 formed with conductors in a loop shape. The plurality of loop portions 8 included in the unit pattern are arranged so as to be spaced from each other such that the centers of gravity of the loop portions 8 are at the same position in the measurement direction on the surface of the scale 2. Thereby, the plurality of loop portions 8 included in the unit pattern can prevent deviation of the center of gravity of the magnetic flux distribution in the measurement direction, even if any of the plurality of the loop portions 8 is scratched. Therefore, the scale 2 can maintain the measurement accuracy.