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The present invention relates to integrated micro-cantilevers, micro-bridges or micro-membranes in micro-liquid handling systems. Such micro-liquid handling systems provide novel detection mechanisms for monitoring the physical, chemical and biological properties of fluids in such systems. The present invention further relates to micro-cantilever, micro-bridge or micro-membrane type sensors having integrated readout. Such constructions allow laminated flows of different liquids to flow in a channel without mixing, which opens up for new type of experiments and which reduces noise related to the liquid movement. The present invention even further relates to sensors having adjacent or very closely spaced micro-cantilevers, micro-bridges or micro-membranes which can be exposed to different chemical environments at the same time.

A method for covering a set of open microchannel structures which are fabricated on a planar surface made of plastics and which comprise two or more part areas that have different surface characteristics. The method comprises the steps of: a) providing the surface comprising the set of microchannel structures; b) providing a lid-forming sheet having on one side an even layer of a thermoglue; c) applying the side of the sheet having the thermoglue against the surface carrying the microchannel structure; d) heating the assembly created in step (c) to selectively liquefy the hot-melt adhesive while at the same time pressing the sheet material and the planar surface of the substrate together; e) permitting the resulting laminate-covered microchannel structure to cool. An assembly comprising (a) a planar substrate, the surface of which has a set of one or more open microchannel structures each of which comprises part areas representing different functionalities, and (b) a lid-forming material covering said set of microchannel structures and having one or more openings going from a microchannel structure to ambient atmosphere. The assembly is characterized in that the joint between said surface and said sheet material is a thermoglue that possibly has been cured.

The object is to obtain undistorted images in high speed using a small amount of memory capacity, to realize high-quality characteristic information verification. The apparatus, which obtains information needed for user verification from partial images that are successively captured by a sweep-type fingerprint sensor from a fingertip, includes image obtaining means which captures successive partial images of biometric information; characteristic extracting means which obtains, from the captured partial images, characteristics and positions of the characteristics; detecting means which detects relative position information of partial images based on characteristics contained in a region in which the partial images overlap; and correcting means which calculates the amount of distortion of the characteristics based on the detected relative position information and on the positions of the characteristics in each partial image, and which corrects the positions of the characteristics in each individual partial image based on the calculated distortion amount.

A microstructured infrared sensor includes: a sensor chip having a diaphragm; a cavity formed underneath the diaphragm; a thermopile structure formed on the diaphragm and having bonded printed conductors; an absorber layer formed on the thermopile structure for absorbing infrared radiation; and a cap chip attached to the sensor chip. A sensor space is formed between the cap chip and the sensor chip, and the sensor space accommodates the thermopile structure. The infrared sensor also includes a convex lens area for focusing incident infrared radiation onto the absorber layer. The lens area may be formed on the top of the cap chip or on a lens chip attached to the cap chip. The lens area may be formed by drying a dispensed lacquer droplet, or by a softened, structured lacquer cylinder, or by subsequent etching of the dried lacquer droplet and the surrounding substrate material.

A toner excellent in temporal stability is provided which toner is capable of maintaining good cleaning property stably for a long period of time and whose surface is provided with a coating layer having an effect of preventing toner aggregation. There are also provided a method of manufacturing the toner, a two-component developer, a developing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The toner has a core particle containing a binder resin and a colorant and a coating layer which contains fine resin particles and are formed on surfaces of the core particles. The coating layers are formed by partially fusing the fine resin particles to at least either the core particle or adjacent fine resin particles.

Disclosed is a sputtering target for an oxide semiconductor, comprising In, Ga, and Zn. Also disclosed are a process for producing the sputtering target, a thin film of an oxide semiconductor using a sputtering target, and a method for thin-film transistor formation. The sputtering target comprises an oxide sintered compact containing a compound having a homologous crystal structure represented by InGaO3(ZnO) and exhibits such an X-ray diffraction pattern that the proportion of peaks at 2θ=62 to 63 degrees to the maximum peak of InGaO3(ZnO) is not more than 3%.

An information processing apparatus that detects a current location of the information processing apparatus; obtains a direction of a destination from the detected current location as a target direction; detects a facial orientation of a user wearing a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus via a wired or wireless connection in relation to a reference orientation based on outputs of a geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor connected to the headphone unit; obtains a relative target angle based on a difference between the target direction and the user's facial orientation; and generates sound to be output by the headphone unit based on the obtained relative target angle.

When manufacturing a write-once recording medium which contains an oxide having a lower oxygen content as a main component, if film formation of a recording layer is performed by introducing a large amount of oxygen into the film forming gas and the sputtering target does not contain oxygen, each medium produced has different properties, because a variation of oxygen flow in the gas easily occurs and the composition ratio of oxygen which is contained in the recording layer easily varies. To solve the problems above, an information recording medium, having at least a recording layer on a substrate and being able to record and reproduce information, contains an oxide A-O or A-O-M (A is a material which contains at least any one of Te, Sb, Ge, Sn, In, Zn, Mo and W, and M is a material which contains at least any one of a metal element, a semi-metal element, and a semiconductor-metal element), and a sputtering target used in the process of producing the layer contains at least A-O and, A and / or M. In this way, a recording layer having high reproducibility and stable properties can be produced, even in a mass production line.

A manufacturing method of a liquid ejection head including an ejection outlet forming member provided with an ejection outlet for ejecting liquid and a flow passage communicating with the ejection outlet is constituted by the steps of: preparing a substrate on which a flow passage wall forming member for forming a part of a wall of the flow passage and a solid layer having a shape of a part of the flow passage contact each other, wherein the flow passage wall forming member has a height, from a surface of the substrate, substantially equal to that of the solid layer; providing a first layer, on the solid layer and the flow passage wall forming member, formed of a negative photosensitive resin material for forming another part of the wall of the flow passage; exposing to light a portion of the first layer correspondingly to the another part of the wall of the flow passage; providing a second layer, on the exposed first layer, formed of a negative photosensitive resin material to constitute the ejection outlet forming member; exposing to light a portion of the second layer correspondingly to the ejection outlet forming member; and forming the ejection outlet and another part of the flow passage by removing unexposed portions of the first layer and the second layer.

The invention discloses a low back pressure saturation method for loess liquidation experiment. The method comprises the following steps: preparing an original or remolded loess test sample; mounting an experiment device; checking the experiment device; preheating the experiment device for more than 20 minutes; mounting the test sample; charging water into a pressure chamber, subsequently adjusting the confining pressure and the back pressure to be zero, zeroing the pore water pressure and the volume change, and finally adjusting the initial shaft pressure to be zero; initializing the confining pressure and the back pressure, and after the confining pressure and the back pressure are stabilized, gradually exerting the confining pressure and the back pressure in sequence step by step. The method adopts the loess test sample which is saturated by using a low back pressure saturation method, the saturability is greater than about 95%, the reproducibility of the experiment is remarkably improved when being compared with that of water head saturation, the analysis on the original loess micro structure before and after the back pressure saturation shows that the horizontal and vertical structure of the test sample is generally complete when the low back pressure saturation method is adopted, the result shows that under the low back pressure condition, the saturability can be improved by using the method, the structure of the test sample is not damaged, and the method has the characteristics of high saturability, relatively high control precision and the like.

A photo-sensor circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a photo-detecting element (PD) for detecting a light signal and converting the same signal into an electric signal, a first MOS transistor (QT) for charging and discharging parasitic capacitance (C1), a capacitor (C2) for accumulating a terminal voltage of the photo-detecting element as a pixel signal, a second MOS transistor (Q2) for transferring a parasitic capacitance charge from the photo-detecting element to the capacitor (C2), a third MOS transistor (Q3) for amplifying the terminal voltage of the capacitor and a fourth MOS transistor (Q4) for selectively outputting an amplified pixel signal. In the above structure, the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor are turned ON for a certain period of time before accumulation of a pixel signal to equalize terminal voltages of the photo-detecting element and the capacitor by charging and discharging the parasitic capacitance of the photo-detecting element and the capacitor, the second MOS transistor is turned OFF and the capacitor is open after a certain period of time of accumulation of the pixel signal and then the fourth MOS transistor is switched ON. This photo-sensor circuit offers an advantageous feature of producing a pixel signal having high reproducibility.

There is provided a planar lipid bilayer array formed by microfluidic technique and a method of analysis using the planar lipid bilayers, providing the advantages such as portability, decreased analysis time, a smaller amount of required reagents, and parallel automation with high reproducibility. The planar lipid bilayer array formed by microfluidic technique is a planar lipid bilayer array formed by microfluidic technique (PDMS device) 1 saturated with water by preliminarily immersing in water, comprising microchannels 2 connected to an inlet of a microfluidic channel and arranged in parallel, and microchambers 3 having apertures on both sides of the microchannel 2.

The invention discloses a method and a system for remotely testing an electronic device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: transmitting a test instruction to a computer by a remote controller when the test instruction edited by the remote controller is transmitted to an electronic device to be tested in an infrared way; recording the test instruction and a test timing sequence by the computer and forming a test file; resolving the test file when a user selects test playback, transmitting a corresponding test instruction to the remote controller according to the test timing sequence, modulating the test instruction into infrared ray and transmitting the infrared ray into the electronic device by the remote controller, and executing the test instruction by the electronic device for testing. The invention can help test personnel improve the recurrent efficiency of test problems in the processes of developing and manufacturing electronic products and carry out automatic test instead of manpower to a certain degree, and saves the labor cost.

The invention relates to a niobium-doped anode material for a lithium ion battery and a method for preparing the same, belonging to the technical filed of the anode material for the lithium ion battery. The niobium-doped anode material for the lithium ion battery has the chemical formula of Li4Ti5-xNbxO12, wherein the x is equal to 0.05-0.1. The method for preparing the niobium-doped anode material for the lithium ion battery comprises the following steps: mixing niobium source, TiO2 source and lithium source, grinding the mixture by a ball grinder for 6-10h, putting the ground mixture in a muffle furnace, making the ground mixture react at 800-900 DEG C for 16-24h, and naturally cooling the product of reaction to room temperature to obtain the niobium-doped anode material for the lithium ion battery, which has the chemical formula of Li4Ti5-xNbxO12. The method for preparing the niobium-doped anode material for the lithium ion battery uses the raw materials of wide source and no organic chelating agent, is convenient to operate, is controllable and repeatable and ensures that the particles of the niobium-doped anode material for the lithium ion battery are small and are uniform in size and have high crystallinity and the niobium-doped anode material for the lithium ion battery has higher electrochemical performance and is prepared with low cost.

The invention relates to an electrochemical detection method for measuring the concentration of trivalent arsenic in a water system without electricity enrichment, which comprises utilizing a three-electrode system which is formed by a gold electrode, a reference electrode and a counter electrode to oxygenize the surface of the gold electrode to be gold trioxide in a detection pool, immersing gold trioxide into beta-D-glucose solution, deacidizing gold trioxide to be a nano-gold film, immersing gold electrode into 0.1M phosphate buffer solution (the concentration detecting range is 10.0nM-5.0muM) which is contained with trivalent arsenic under test, adsorbing trivalent arsenic through the nano-gold film, leading arsenic to be enriched on the surface of the nano-gold film, inserting the gold electrode and the reference electrode which are enriched with arsenic into the electrochemical detection tank, starting an electrochemical working station to scan, leading arsenic which is enrichedin the process of scanning to do redox reaction on the surface of the gold electrode, getting the oxidation peak current value which has corresponding relationship with trivalent arsenic, thereby measuring the concentration of arsenic solution, achieving the detection of trivalent arsenic in high sensitivity, and solving the problem of applying high-concentration acid medium.

This invention provides a thin film deposition process making it possible to form a thin film having a desired composition with good reproducibility and high efficiency; a thin film deposition device therefore; a FTIR gas analyzer used in the thin film deposition process; and a mixed gas supplying device used in the thin film deposition process. The thin film deposition process comprises the steps of mixing a plurality of organic metal gases in a gas mixing chamber and supplying the mixed gas into a reaction chamber to deposit a thin film on a substrate positioned in the reaction chamber, wherein the mixture ratio between / among the organic metal gases supplied into the gas mixing chamber is measured with a FTIR gas analyzer fitted to either the gas mixing chamber or the reaction chamber and then on the basis of results of the measurement, the flow rates of the organic metal gases are individually adjusted.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a multiple composite anode material of a lithium ion battery. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: (1) treating silicon, silicon monoxide and cane sugar by methods such as ball milling and carbonization to obtain a primary sample with a silicon / silicon monoxide / carbon multiple composite structure; (2) dispersing the primary sample obtained in the step (1) in the mixed solution of ethyl orthosilicate and ethanol and adding excessive distilled water so that the ethyl orthosilicate is completely hydrolyzed into silicon dioxide, and drying; performing treatments such as ball milling and carbonization on the sample obtained after drying and polyvinyl chloride to obtain the silicon / silicon monoxide / carbon / silicon dioxide / carbon multiple composite anode material. The composite cathode material prepared by the method provided by the invention is spherically granular, even in particle size distribution and high in electronic conductivity; and the cathode material with such a composite structure is capable of improving the electrochemical properties of a silicon-based material.

The invention belongs to the biochemical analysis field and relates to a method which makes use of the block polymer coating with a micro-phase separation structure to carry out on-target elution-free in-situ desalting and synchronous enrichment on the peptide and protein samples to avoid samples loss and can directly carry out matrix-assisted laser analysis ionization mass spectrometry analysis and identification on the enriched samples. The invention can realize desalting dispensing with extra eluted desalting step and excessive matrix solution and can directly make MALDI MS analysis; the invention successfully achieves the characteristics of sample on-target in-situ elution-free desalting and enrichment at the first time and has the advantages of high sensitivity, high reproducibility, high flux and strong salt-tolerant ability, which is economical and time-saving; the invention can be widely used in the field of proteomics and also greatly expands the application scope of the polymer coating technology.

The invention relates to the quality control of Staphylococcus aureus testing using nucleic acid amplification-based detection assays. A Staphylococcus aureus control containing a quantified amount of the microorganism with high reproducibility across vials and which is used to calibrate, validate, or verify the performance of an MRSA detection assay and methods to test patient samples together with a control. Disclosed are specific Staphylococcus aureus strains that have a phenotype demonstrating reduced aggregation and increased consistency by Real-Time PCR compared to current Staphylococcus aureus strains used as external controls. Also disclosed is a process for increasing the reproducibility of Staphylococcus aureus strains that do not exhibit a non-aggregating phenotype.

A process for designing the primer for the complex amplification of STR includes respectively adding a non-human genom sequence to the terminal 5' of the oligonucleotide primer P1 and P2 able to specifically bind with human genom sequence to obtain long primers YPA-P1 and YPB-P2, using them as the primer pair for the first stage of polymerase chain reaction, and directly using said non-human genom sequence as the primer pair for the second stage of PCR.

There is provided a secondary battery tester for testing a state of a secondary battery based on an impedance characteristic of the secondary battery. The tester includes: an impedance acquiring section configured to acquire an impedance value of the secondary battery; and a determining section configured to determine a state of a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer of the secondary battery based on the impedance value acquired by the impedance acquiring section.

The invention relates to a device for the low-deformation replaceable mounting of an optical element, in particular a closure plate of an objective of a projection exposure system for microlithography for the production of semiconductor components, in a mount (12). The optical element is connected to the mount (12) at least partly via an adhesive connection. This is located between the adjacent circumferential walls of mount (12) and optical element. The mount (12) is provided with at least three support feet (14) distributed over the circumference, by means of which the optical element is mounted laterally and axially. The mount (12) is connected to the housing of the objective in an at least approximately deformation-decoupled manner via three mount bearing points (15).

The invention discloses a detection method for narcotics in human body fluid based on a gold nanorods SERS substrate. The method comprises the steps that gold nanorod sols with different draw ratios and SERS activity are synthesized; the gold nanorod sols and a cleaning agent are mixed, ultrasonically oscillated, centrifugally cleaned and then dispersed into a stabilizing agent, the mixture is dropped on a clean silicon wafer after being centrifugally cleaned, and the SERS substrate is obtained after drying is performed; human urine is taken, an organic solution is added into the human urine to be mixed to be uniform, then, centrifuging is performed, an alkali solution is added into a supernatant, an organic extraction agent is added after uniform shaking, vibration extraction and centrifuging are performed, and then an organic layer solution is taken; the organic layer solution is dropped on the SERS substrate, a raman spectrometer is used for performing SERS detection. After the gold nanorod sols are cleaned with the cleaning agent, the influence of background signals is lowered, and both the detection sensitivity and the reproducibility are improved.

With respect to a scanning plane of a subject having been injected with a contrast agent, an ultrasound transmission section 6 transmits for a plurality of times an ultrasonic pulse of such an intensity capable of collapsing the contrast agent. An ultrasound reception section 5 receives an echo signal cluster from the subject based on the ultrasonic pulses, and generates a plurality of RF data items through addition of the echo signal cluster using an adder 5C. Based on the plurality of RF data items, a TIC / MTT measurement section 25 measures a time intensity curve (TIC), and then measures a mean transit time (MTT) of the blood flow based on the time intensity curve for display on a display section 21.

A method of preparing a ring-formed body comprises the steps of: forming, on a substrate, a column in a columnar form which serves as a core of a ring-formed body; depositing, on both the substrate and the column, a ring-formed body forming film for forming the ring-formed body so that the ring-formed body forming film formed on the substrate and that formed on the column are separated from each other; forming a mask film for covering the ring-formed body forming film; and subjecting the mask film and ring-formed body forming film to anisotropic dry etching so that the films remain on a sidewall of the column, forming a ring-formed body comprised of the ring-formed body forming film having the mask film.

In a semiconductor laser device, a plurality of light-emitting elements emitting light with different wavelengths are integrated on a substrate. Each of the light-emitting elements includes, on the substrate, an active layer and cladding layers respectively provided on top and bottom of the active layer. One of the cladding layers provided on top of the active layer is an upper cladding layer having a mesa ridge portion. An etching stopper layer for forming the ridge portion is interposed between the ridge portion and the other portion of the upper cladding layer. The thickness of the etching stopper layer varies among the light-emitting elements.

The present invention relates to a preparation method for a biomass anti-lyolysis desiccant, and belongs to the field of desiccant preparation. The method comprises the steps of taking corn husk residues as a raw material; obtaining a crude desiccant product through a series of modification; and preparing the crude desiccant product with polyacrylamide into the biomass anti-lyolysis desiccant through an aqueous solution polymerization method. The polyacrylamide contains a strongly hydrophilic amide group in a macromolecular chain, and is a three-dimensional network structure, so that a large amount of moisture can be absorbed and locked. Thus, the polyacrylamide can be compounded with the biomass desiccant for absorbing the moisture absorbed by the biomass desiccant, thereby effectively preventing lyolysis of the biomass desiccant and enabling the moisture absorption ratio of the compound desiccant to be significantly increased. The desiccant disclosed by the present invention not only keeps the characteristics of low price, high reproducibility and good moisture absorption property of a corn husk residue desiccant, but also effectively alleviates the lyolysis problem common to the desiccant.

The invention relates to a boot for a binding, which is suited for alpine skiing, ski touring, cross-country skiing, telemark skiing and also for other snow sliding sports, the boot having greater comfort in wearing and moving. Moreover multifunctional components make it possible for the overall equipment with which the snow sportsman is burdened to have low weight. The boot comprises an outer shell for holding the foot and a coupling part for fastening the boot in the binding, the boot being held in the boot tip region and in the heel region of the binding on the coupling part. The outer shell is movably connected to the coupling part, the connection of the outer shell to the coupling part being made such that in the state of the boot fastened in the binding the foot held in the outer shell together with the outer shell can be lifted in the heel region and lowered again in a walking motion. Furthermore the outer shell can be locked relative to the coupling part and there can be a climbing aid and a damping device for damping of the walking motion on the boot.

The invention discloses a method for biological functionalization of a silicon-based material surface and a functionalized silicon-based material prepared by the method. The method is a method for connecting a hydroxylated silicon-based material subjected to surface modification through a sulfydryl / aminosilane coupling agent and biomolecules by divinyl sulphone. The method takes the commercialized sulfydryl / aminosilane coupling agent and the divinyl sulphone as coupling reagents, and is free from pretreatment, high in operability, high in reproducibility and wide in applicability; the divinyl sulphone can react with sulfydryl, azyl and hydroxyl, is suitable for the biomolecules and has broad spectrum property; related reactions are performed in an aqueous solution; the method is mild in condition and environment-friendly, and is a broad-spectrum method with large potential for biological functionalization of the silicon-based material surface.