Abstract: To further improve, even under OT bending with the use of a Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy plated steel sheet as a base sheet, corrosion resistance regarding corrosion under paint film at a OT bent portion and a periphery thereof, without causing occurrence of cracks and peeling in the paint film. A pre-coated plated steel sheet according to the present invention includes: a plating layer composed of Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy plating, the plating layer being positioned on one side or both sides of a steel sheet; a chemical treatment film layer positioned on the plating layer; and a paint film layer positioned on the chemical treatment film, in which the paint film layer includes a primer paint film layer, and an upper paint film layer positioned on the primer paint film layer, and at least any of the following is satisfied: both a condition (a-1) and a condition (a-2); a condition (b); and a condition (c).

Abstract: A traveling vehicle includes a mechanical brake link mechanism to transmit operation of a brake pedal to a brake device housed in a case and to control brakes of right and left rear wheels. The brake link mechanism includes a pair of brake rods extending in a front-back direction at sides of the case. A guard assembly includes a pair of guards extending in the front-back direction below the pair of brake rods. The pair of brake rods overlaps the pair of guards in a vertical direction. In a side view of the traveling vehicle, the pair of brake rods includes a higher portion positioned above a lower surface of the case to be distanced by a predetermined interval or more and positioned above the lower surface of the case, and a lower portion positioned below the higher portion. The pair of guards overlaps at least all of the lower portions in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a plurality of light receiving parts arrayed regularly, a first light blocking member including a plurality of first openings arrayed corresponding respectively to the plurality of light receiving parts, and a plurality of microlenses arrayed corresponding respectively to the plurality of first openings. Each light receiving part included in the plurality of light receiving parts includes a plurality of light receiving pixels arrayed in a first direction as a main scanning direction. Each microlens included in the plurality of microlenses is object side telecentric. The plurality of microlenses, the first light blocking member and the plurality of light receiving parts are arranged so that light reflected by an object and passing through the microlens and the first opening corresponding to the microlens enters the plurality of light receiving pixels included in the light receiving part corresponding to the first opening.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a machine learning program causing a computer to execute a process including: calculating an average of latent variables by inputting input data to an encoder; sampling a noise, based on a probability distribution of the noise, in which a probability is decreased as the probability approaches to a center of the probability distribution from a predetermined position in the probability distribution; calculating the latent variable by adding the noise to the average; calculating output data by inputting the calculated latent variable to a decoder; and training the encoder and the decoder in accordance with a loss function, the loss function including encoding information and an error between the input data and the output data, the encoding information being information of a probability distribution of the calculated latent variable and a prior distribution of the latent variable.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes preparing a wafer that includes a semiconductor structure body and a light-transmitting conductive film; forming a first mask on the light-transmitting conductive film; removing the light-transmitting conductive film exposed from the first mask to form an opening in the light-transmitting conductive film, the opening exposing the semiconductor structure body from under the light-transmitting conductive film; forming an n-side exposed part by removing the semiconductor structure body exposed from the first mask; removing the first mask; forming a second mask on the light-transmitting conductive film; removing the light-transmitting conductive film exposed from the second mask; forming an n-side electrode at the n-side exposed part; forming a third mask on the light-transmitting conductive film and on the semiconductor structure body; and removing the semiconductor structure body to form a groove dividing the semiconductor structure body into a plural

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a machine learning program causing a computer to execute a process including: calculating an average and a variance of a latent variable by inputting input data to an encoder; sampling a noise based on a normal distribution of the variance; calculating the latent variable by adding the noise to the average; calculating output data by inputting the calculated latent variable to a decoder; and training the encoder and the decoder in accordance with a loss function, the loss function including a value and an error between the input data and the output data, the value being obtained by multiplying encoding information by a correction coefficient based on the noise, the encoding information being information of a probability distribution of the latent variable and a prior distribution of the latent variable.

Abstract: A substrate etching method performed by using a plasma processing apparatus includes: providing a substrate including a silicon-containing film to a substrate support; periodically supplying, to the substrate support, bias RF power of 20 kW to 50 kW at a duty ratio of 5% to 50%; and etching the silicon-containing film by plasma generated from a processing gas containing a fluorocarbon gas and an oxygen-containing gas

Abstract: An Mg alloy is provided the degradation of which is promoted by forming and crystallizing an Al—Mn—Ni system intermetallic compound containing Ni together with the metals included in a magnesium alloy, and thereby dispersing Ni in the magnesium alloy.

Abstract: A fine bubble generator which is an ultrafine bubble generator includes a side wall whose inner face is cylindrical, and closing walls closing both ends of the side wall, respectively, with a gas-liquid discharge port in one of the closing walls, wherein a fluid inlet port is provided closer to the gas-liquid discharge port than is a midpoint between both closing walls, and the fluid inlet port penetrates the side wall in a tangential direction of the inner face of the side wall, wherein a spiral groove is formed in the inner face of side wall, and wherein the spiral groove has an angle of inclination of 1° to 10°.

Abstract: A determination control device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes estimating, as a probability distribution, a low-dimensional feature value obtained by encrypting input data, the low-dimensional feature value having a lower dimensionality than the input data, generating output data by decrypting a feature value resulting from adding noise to the low-dimensional feature value, and adjusting respective parameters of the encrypting, the estimating, and the decrypting, based on a cost including an error between the input data and the output data and including an entropy of the probability distribution, wherein, in a determination as to whether or not target input data is normal, a determination standard for the determination is controlled based on information obtained from another probability distribution estimated by encrypting the target input data with the parameters after adjusting.

Abstract: A recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute processing including: estimating a low-dimensional feature quantity with a lower dimensionality than input data obtained by encoding the input data as a conditional probability distribution using a condition based on data in a peripheral area of data of interest in the input data; and adjusting parameters of each of the encoding and the estimating and decoding of a feature quantity obtained by adding a noise to the low-dimensional feature quantity, based on a cost that includes output data obtained by the decoding, an error between the output data and the input data, and entropy of the conditional probability distribution. In determining whether input data to be determined is normal using the adjusted parameters, the determination is performed based on the conditional probability distribution based on data of a peripheral area of the input data to be determined.

Abstract: The information processing device inputs data into a machine learning model, acquires a first value output from the machine learning model in response to the inputting, a second value output from the machine learning model based on a variable obtained by modifying a latent variable that is calculated by the machine learning model in response to the inputting, and information entropy of the latent variable, and trains the machine learning model based on the first value, the second value and the information entropy of the latent variable.

Abstract: An inverter is provided for driving a motor. A first capacitor, and a second capacitor including capacitors connected in series, are connected in parallel to a DC power supply. A switch circuit having switching elements is connected between the inverter and the second capacitor. A control circuit is provided for controlling the inverter and the switch circuit. The control circuit performs control to switch the switch circuit so as to supply current from the second capacitor to the inverter during 3-level operation, and supply current from both of the first capacitor and the second capacitor to the inverter during 2-level operation.

Abstract: An environment control system includes: a control unit; a serial communication bus including a main communication line having a first end connected to the control unit and first to Nth (N: an integer of 2 or more) sub communication lines branched off from a second end of the main communication line; devices connected to the first to Nth sub communication lines; and switching units disposed on all the first to Nth sub communication lines and configured to connect and disconnect the devices to and from the control unit. Each of the first to Nth sub communication lines is connected to one or more of the devices.

Abstract: The number of conversational tests needed for the evaluation of acoustic quality of the ICC system is reduced. An evaluation value conversion device 3 evaluates the quality of communication between a near-end acoustic region 100 and a far-end acoustic region 200 inside a vehicle for which a plurality of acoustic regions are predetermined. A voice signal picked up by a microphone M2 disposed in the far-end acoustic region 200 is emitted from a speaker S1 disposed in the near-end acoustic region 100.

Abstract: A fine bubble generator which is an ultrafine bubble generator includes a side wall whose inner face is cylindrical, and closing walls closing both ends of the side wall, respectively, with a gas-liquid discharge port in one of the closing walls, wherein a fluid inlet port is provided closer to the gas-liquid discharge port than is a midpoint between both closing walls, and the fluid inlet port penetrates the side wall in a tangential direction of the inner face of the side wall, wherein a spiral groove is formed in the inner face of side wall, and wherein the spiral groove has an angle of inclination of 1° to 10°.

Abstract: DC arc welding is performed by alternating a short-circuit period and an arc period. The arc period includes first to fourth periods. A welding current is raised to a first current value in the first period, lowered to a second current value with a time slope in the second period, kept at the second current value in the third period, and raised to a third current value then kept at the value in the fourth period. A wire feeding speed is constant throughout the short-circuit period and the arc period. In the second period, a welding output is under constant voltage control. In the third period and the fourth period, the welding output is under constant current control of the welding output.

Abstract: A power conversion device and a motor system according to the present disclosure comprises an inverter circuit which is connected to a motor, a switch circuit, and a control circuit. The power conversion device and the motor system are characterized in that the inverter circuit and the switch circuit are capable of two-level operation and three-level operation, and the control circuit switches between the two-level operation and the three-level operation on the basis of the motor torque command and the rotational speed command. As a result, it is possible to reduce the total loss in the power conversion device and the motor.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an estimation program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes inputting an input data into a trained variational autoencoder that includes an encoder and a decoder; converting, into a first probability distribution, a probability distribution of a latent variable that is generated by the trained variational autoencoder according to the input based on a magnitude of a standard deviation output from the encoder; converting the first probability distribution into a second probability distribution based on an output error of the decoder regarding the input data; and outputting the second probability distribution as an estimated value of a probability distribution of the input data.

Abstract: An inverter is provided for driving a motor. A first capacitor, and a second capacitor including capacitors connected in series, are connected in parallel to a DC power supply. A switch circuit having switching elements is connected between the inverter and the second capacitor. A control circuit is provided for controlling the inverter and the switch circuit. The control circuit performs control to switch the switch circuit so as to supply current from the second capacitor to the inverter during 3-level operation, and supply current from both of the first capacitor and the second capacitor to the inverter during 2-level operation.