Abstract: A settlement system includes code display section and mobile terminal. A first information and remittance destination information are displayed as specific information code on code display section. Code display section has memory for storing second information for authenticating first information, and antenna coil for receiving radio waves, generating electromotive force, supplying electromotive force to memory, and transmitting second information recorded memory. Mobile terminal has imaging unit for imaging information code, transceiver for transmitting and receiving response to radio waves, imaging control unit for imaging information code, transmitter control unit for transmitting radio waves to transceiver, and processing control unit performs settlement processing using remittance destination information read from specific information code when authentication using first information read from specific information code and second information received by transceiver as response to radio wave is successful.

Abstract: Provided is a programmable logic controller comprising: a CPU module; and an input module that generates internal data corresponding to an input signal input from the outside, wherein the input module includes a first control unit and a second control unit, the second control unit generates the second control data by encoding second input data into data that cannot be decoded by the first control unit, the first control unit outputs the first control data including first input data and the second control data, the input module generates the internal data based on the first control data and transmit the internal data to the CPU module and the CPU module extracts the first input data and the second input data to determine whether the input data is correct.

Abstract: Provided is a power conversion apparatus including: an isolated converter that is connected to the first converter, the second converter, and the rechargeable battery, and that is configured to bidirectionally convert voltage of direct-current power supplied from a connection destination; and a control unit that is configured to cause the isolated converter to vary voltage at a direct-current input-output terminal of the first converter in accordance with power generated by a photovoltaic power generator, the direct-current input-output terminal being connected to the isolated converter, wherein the first converter is configured to convert alternating-current power supplied from a grid power line to direct-current power, the second converter is configured to convert voltage of direct-current power supplied from the photovoltaic power generator, and to supply the voltage-converted direct-current power to the direct-current input-output terminal of the first converter.

Abstract: A wireless network system is incorporated in an air conditioning system. A user is accessible to the wireless network system for controlling the air conditioner. The wireless network system includes an AP (access point) equipment, an air conditioning controller and a user-operable terminal. The terminal and the air conditioning controller are connected communicably and wirelessly when a dedicated application is actuated in the terminal. AP information (such as a password) is transmitted from the terminal to the air conditioning controller to establish coordination (i.e., pairing) between the terminal and the air conditioning controller in a state where the terminal and the air conditioning controller are connected mutually and wirelessly. The AP information identifies the AP equipment. In this coordinated state, the access to the AP equipment is executed based on the AP information. Authentication is performed when the terminal and the air conditioning controller are mutually and directly connected.

Abstract: A power supply system charging a battery of an electric car through a grid power line and supplying electric power stored in the battery to electrical equipment through an in-home wiring, including: an isolated converter connected to the grid power line, the in-home wiring and the battery; and a controller controlling the isolated converter. The isolated converter includes a plurality of isolated converter circuits each including two full-bridge circuits. One of the plurality of isolated converter circuits further includes two booster circuits. The controller receives load amount information depending on the operation state of the electrical equipment from a monitor device and switches, on the basis of the load amount information, an operating mode of the isolated converter to one of first mode to fourth mode. The controller causes the two booster circuits to perform a boosting operation in the first mode and third mode.

Abstract: An interference suppression apparatus suppresses electromagnetic field interference produced by an RFID tag. The interference suppression apparatus includes a power supply circuit, an antenna that is connected to the power supply circuit, a clock that is connected to the power supply circuit, and a load adjuster that is connected to the power supply circuit. The clock generates an output in which a time constant is adjusted to be longer than a communication time of the RFID tag. The load adjuster changes a characteristic of the antenna based on the output from the clock.

Abstract: A system for controlling a robot arm, a fluid contained in a container is poured into another container. A learning model is generated by a machine learning with teaching data. Practically, a plurality of sets of learning data are acquired, each set including i) time-series information showing a posture of a robot arm which holds a first container holding therein a target fluid and pouring the target fluid from the first container to a second container and ii) a weight of the second container which changes time serially. This learning model is used such that only two types of information consisting of the information showing the posture of the robot arm and the weight of the second container at a first time are inputted to the learning model and information showing the posture of the robot arm at a second time is outputted from the learning model.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor-device attachment structure including: a thin portion that is thinner than other parts of a member; a flexible board; an at least one sensor device installed to the flexible board; a spacer that is formed into a shape of a film having a uniform thickness, that is sandwiched between the thin portion and the flexible board, and that includes a through portion which is formed through the spacer in a thickness direction of the spacer at a position corresponding to the at least one sensor device; and an adhesive that is charged in the through portion, and that bonds the thin portion and the flexible board to each other.

Abstract: Provided is a cover for an industrial robot, in which the cover does not interfere with robot movements, and ensures a fragment broken from the cover to be detected as a foreign substance, even if the fragment is mixed into a workpiece. Further provided is a detection system for detecting a fragment of the broken cover. In the robot, as an exemplary embodiment, an upper bellows cover and a lower bellows cover, which are members for enclosing a movable part of the robot, are configured to be wearable on the robot which is, for example, an industrial four-axis robot. A portion of the cover, enclosing such movable part as a shaft of the robot, is configured to be expandable, and made of a material in which a metal powder is kneaded into a substrate, which is a sheet made of rubber, resin, or elastomer.

Abstract: Provided is a primary-and-secondary robot system including: a primary robot whose posture is changed by external force applied by a user; a secondary robot whose posture is controlled to be the same as the posture of the primary robot; and a control unit that is configured to control the primary robot and the secondary robot, the control unit causing the posture of the primary robot to be the same as the posture of the secondary robot, and limiting an acceleration rate of a movement of the primary robot to a limited acceleration rate or lower in causing the posture of the primary robot to be the same as the posture of the secondary robot.

Abstract: A controller according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a controller for an air conditioner that performs air-conditioning according to room temperature, the controller comprises: a housing; a heat source temperature sensor disposed inside the housing, the heat source temperature sensor being configured to measure a temperature of a heat source that generates heat during operation as a heat source temperature; an internal temperature sensor disposed inside the housing at a position away from the heat source, the internal temperature sensor being configured to measure a temperature inside the housing as an internal temperature; and a control unit that determines the room temperature using a temperature difference between the measured heat source temperature and the measured internal temperature.

Abstract: A control device for industrial machines includes a plurality of signal input-output circuits configured such that pulse widths of pulse signals output from the signal input-output circuits are different from each other. The control device detects a fault when a pulse signal output from one of the signal input-output circuits has a pulse width different from the pulse width set to the one of the signal input-output circuits.

Abstract: A system contributing to prevention of unauthorized use of an information code displayed on a screen. In the system, an information code display device cyclically displays a plurality of partial code images on a display screen of a display unit based on a first rule when the first rule is received from a server in response to a first request to the server. Accordingly, an information code reading device captures images of the display screen at imaging intervals according to a second rule which is received from the server by in response to a second request to the server to decode an information code composed of the plurality of images thus captured, according to the second rule.

Abstract: A robot operation terminal includes multiple application programs. The robot operation terminal is connected to a controller that controls a robot, and the robot operation terminal receives an input operation carried out by an operator to operate or set the robot. In each of application programs, a necessity of an inbuilt login is set to confirm an operation authority of the operator.

Abstract: There is provided an information code in which first cells have lightness that is intermediate between lightness of second cells and lightness of a predetermined marginal area. The first cells and the second cells are configured to have a difference in lightness therebetween sufficiently smaller than a difference in lightness between the first cells and the predetermined marginal area, in a predetermined area occupying at least a part of the code area. There is also provided an information code reader in which colors of an image of the information code captured by an imaging unit are corrected such that the difference in lightness between the first and second cells increases. Using the corrected image, decoding processing is performed to decode the information code.

Abstract: An air conditioning controller according to an embodiment includes: a mechanical relay including a movable terminal, a stationary terminal, and a drive coil; a memory; and a processor. The air conditioning controller sends a control signal through the mechanical relay to an air conditioner. The processor performs boot processing for the air conditioning controller and energizes the drive coil to move the movable terminal to a predetermined position. The predetermined position is a position corresponding to transmission of a shutoff control signal for shutting off the air conditioner. At the boot processing, the processor does not move the movable terminal to the predetermined position if a switch avoidance condition is satisfied; otherwise, the processor moves the movable terminal to the predetermined position.

Abstract: A robot is provided, for example, as an industrial robot having a plurality of arms every mutually adjacent two of which are rotatably connected by an axis. The arms include a leading arm having a cylindrical outer surface. An anti-slip structure is formed on and around the cylindrical outer surface in a circumferential direction thereof. The anti-slip structure serves as a slip-resistance structure, that is, a surface structure for preventing or reducing a user's hand from slipping off therefrom.

Abstract: In a power supply apparatus, a first relay unit relays power inputted from an outside of the apparatus, wherein the power having only one type of power specification. A second relay unit relays power inputted from the outside of the apparatus, wherein the power having a plurality of types of power specification is selectively inputted to the second relay unit. A module, connected to the apparatus, is activated responsively to the power supplied from the first relay unit. Information is acquired from the activated module, information showing a predetermined specification of the power supplied to the first relay unit. The second relay unit supplies the module with the power outputted from the second relay unit when a specification of the power inputted to the second relay unit corresponds to the predetermined specification, thereby enabling the second relay unit to relay the power to an electric load.

Abstract: A laser radar device includes a laser radar optical system that emits laser light and receives reflected light of the laser light reflected from a reflector disposed outside the laser radar device. A controller determines that it is rainy weather when a measurement width of the reflector in a scanning direction of the laser light measured by use of the laser light and the reflected light is larger than a predetermined reference measurement width of the reflector.

Abstract: A controller samples, after determination of a start of a user's press on a pressable input surface of a pressure sensing member, a value of an output voltage of the pressure sensing member, and determines whether one of a first condition and a second condition is satisfied to accordingly determine whether the user's press on the pressable input surface is terminated. The first condition represents that the sampled value of the output voltage is lower than a predetermined second voltage threshold. The second condition represents that the output voltage has converged to a base voltage. The base voltage is a value of the output voltage of the pressure sensing member with no user's press on the pressable input surface of the pressure sensing member.