Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.030% or more and less than 0.075%, Si+Al: 0.08% to 0.40%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.0%, and Ti: 0.020% to 0.150%, and includes a microstructure having a ferrite and a martensite. The hot-rolled steel sheet includes a microstructure having, by area %, 90% to 98% of the ferrite, 2% to 10% of the martensite, 0% to 3% of a bainite, and 0% to 3% of a pearlite. In the martensite, the number proportion of martensite grains having a hardness of 10.0 GPa or more is 10% or less, and a ratio N1/N2 of the number N1 of martensite grains having a hardness of 8.0 GPa or more and less than 10.0 GPa to the number N2 of martensite grains having a hardness of less than 8.0 GPa is 0.8 to 1.2.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed to minimizing the resource requirements for edge and network while keeping the accuracy of machine learning classifier by utilizing simulated test data. Once sufficient measured test data is collected by the server, the server instructs the edge computer to reduce the transmission of data received from the corresponding sensors.

Abstract: This coated steel member includes: a steel sheet substrate having a predetermined chemical composition; and a coating formed on a surface of the steel sheet substrate and containing Al and Fe, in which the coating has a low Al content region having an Al content of 3 mass % or more and less than 30 mass % and a high Al content region formed on a side closer to a surface than the low Al content region and having an Al content of 30 mass % or more, a maximum C content of the high Al content region is 25% or less of a C content of the steel sheet substrate, a maximum C content of the low Al content region is 40% or less of the C content of the steel sheet substrate, and a maximum C content in a range from an interface between the steel sheet substrate and the coating to a depth of 10 ?m on a side of the steel sheet substrate is 80% or less of the C content of the steel sheet substrate.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for extracting signal in the presence of noise for industrial IoT systems. Through the example implementations described herein, the high-frequency band signal of the sensor output can be maintained despite data compression, while also retaining information regarding the condition of the machine. Example implementations can also generate compressed data pairs to synchronized downsampled envelopes and spectrum data.

Abstract: A nonlinear optically active copolymer having satisfactory orientation characteristics and able to allow for reduction in heat-induced orientation relaxation of a nonlinear optical material, and a nonlinear optical material obtained using the copolymer. The copolymer including at least a repeating unit A having adamantyl group and a repeating unit B having a nonlinear optically active moiety in one molecule, and an organic nonlinear optical material including the copolymer as a component.

Abstract: A refrigerant-transporting hose including an inner tube, an outer tube, and a reinforcing layer between the inner tube and the outer tube, the outer tube being formed of an outer tube rubber composition, the outer tube rubber composition containing a brominated copolymer rubber obtained by brominating a copolymer rubber of isomonoolefin and p-alkylstyrene, the content of the repeating units having bromine constituting the brominated copolymer rubber being from 0.8 to 1.5 mol % with respect to the total amount of the repeating units constituting the brominated copolymer rubber, a carbon black A having a dibutyl phthalate absorption amount of 40 cm3/100 g or less, a brominated alkylphenol resin, and zinc oxide, the content of the carbon black A being 35 parts by mass or greater with respect to 100 parts by mass of the brominated copolymer rubber. Such refrigerant-transporting hose achieves both workability and sealing property at an excellent level.

Abstract: To provide a physical quantity sensor having excellent reliability by reducing the influence of a force applied from the outside. Disclosed is a physical quantity sensor, which has a weight or a movable electrode formed on a device substrate, and an outer peripheral section that is disposed to surround the weight or the movable electrode, said weight or movable electrode being displaceable in the rotation direction in a plane. When the weight or the movable electrode is displaced in the rotation direction in the plane, the physical quantity sensor is provided with a rotation space at the outer peripheral section of an end portion of the weight or the movable electrode, said end portion being in the direction viewed from the center position of the weight or the movable electrode.

Abstract: In an inertial sensor that includes an angular rate detection circuit having a structure synchronized with a resonant frequency of an angular rate detection element, an object thereof is to realize an angle output having high accuracy with less integration error in an integration circuit for detecting an angle. The inertial sensor includes an angular rate detection element chip C1 that has a mechanical structure for angular rate detection; and a signal processing LSI chip C2 that is angular rate detection circuit for detecting an angular rate from the angular rate detection element chip C1. The signal processing LSI chip C2 calculates an angle by sampling a signal obtained from the angular rate detection element chip C1 at a discrete time synchronized with a drive frequency of the angular rate detection element chip C1.

Abstract: In a frame member, the hardness of a sheet-thickness-direction central section in a portion where a softening layer is provided is greater than or equal to 400 Hv, the softening layer has hardness smaller by at least 10 Hv than the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section in the portion where the softening layer is provided, the thickness of the softening layer is greater than or equal to 2% of the sheet thickness but smaller than 20% of the sheet thickness, the hardness of the softening layer at the surface is greater than or equal to 0.5 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section but smaller than 0.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for extracting signal in presence of strong noise for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) system especially for monitoring systems of consumable items such as lathe machines, coolers and so on. Example implementations can utilize a sawtooth mother Wavelet instead of usual wavelet analysis to cleanse the incoming sensor data, thereby allowing for the converting sensor data to feature values despite having heavy noise interference.

Abstract: Disclosed are: a charge transporting varnish containing an oligoaniline compound, a specific sulfonic acid ester compound, metal oxide nanoparticles, and an organic solvent; a charge transporting thin film produced from the charge transporting varnish; an electronic device and an organic electroluminescent device having the charge transporting thin film; a method for producing the charge transporting thin film using the charge transporting varnish; a method for producing the charge transporting varnish; and a method for improving the storage stability of the charge transporting varnish.

Abstract: A transport apparatus includes a body; a fork having one portion supported by the body and another portion protruded from the body; a lifting unit; a control unit; a primary rotatable member mounted at a front end portion of the fork; an auxiliary rotatable member mounted at a rotatable-member-attaching position of the fork closer to a front end portion or a rear end portion of the fork compared to the primary rotatable member; and a step detection unit, disposed at a detection-unit-attaching position of the fork closer to the front end portion or closer to the rear end portion of the fork compared to the auxiliary rotatable member, and the step detection unit configured to detect a step member of a carriage base. The control unit lowers the fork using the lifting unit in response to a detection of the step member by the step detection unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel powdery mildew resistance marker for melon plants, a powdery mildew resistant melon plant including a powdery mildew resistance locus; and a method for producing a powdery mildew resistant melon plant using the same.

Abstract: A solar cell module is disclosed including, in sequence from a light-receiving surface side, a surface glass layer having thickness of 0.8 mm or more and 1.6 mm or less, a first sealing layer, cells, a second sealing layer, and a back protective layer, (1) the back protective layer includes, in sequence from a side closer to the second sealing layer, a first thermoplastic resin layer in foam state and having flexural modulus of 200 MPa or more and 1000 MPa or less, and a second thermoplastic resin layer containing glass fiber and having flexural modulus of 10000 MPa or more and 25000 MPa or less; and (2) the sum of flexural rigidity of each of the surface glass layer, the first sealing layer, the second sealing layer, and the back protective layer is 4000 MPa or more, the flexural rigidity being defined by: {(flexural modulus (MPa)×thickness (mm)3)/12}.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for installing a solar cell module, which enables easy installation of a solar cell module on a rack, and also enables a worker to install a solar cell module without climbing on the roof. A solar cell module is installed on a rack mounted on a roof. The solar cell module includes a frame formed of a material containing a resin. The rack includes multiple rails each having a groove, and the grooves of a pair of the rails are disposed to be opposed to each other. The method of this invention comprises the steps of fitting the frame of the solar cell module into the groove such that the solar cell module is retained by the pair of the rails, and fixing the solar cell module to the pair of the rails to prevent the solar cell module from falling out of the grooves.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hot stamped body excellent in bendability, ductility, impact resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance and small in scattering in hardness. The hot stamped body according to the present invention is provided with a middle part in sheet thickness and a softened layer arranged at both sides or one side of the middle part in sheet thickness.

Abstract: The present invention, in consideration of the problems in the prior art, provides a hot stamped body simultaneously achieving the high bendability and high ductility for realizing impact resistance and also hydrogen embrittlement resistance and kept down in scattering in hardness. The hot stamped body according to the present invention is provided with a middle part in sheet thickness and a softened layer arranged at both sides or one side of the middle part in sheet thickness.

Abstract: It is possible to obtain a thin film that can form a minute pattern and that has a high index of refraction by using a polymer containing a triazine ring and containing a repeating unit structure represented for example by formula (22) or (26).

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet including predetermined components, in which the amounts of Cr and Al added satisfy Expression (1) below, a metallographic structure has, by % by volume, a ferrite fraction of more than 90% and 98% or less, a martensite fraction of 2% to less than 10%, and, a fraction of a residual structure made of one or more of pearlite, bainite, and residual austenite being less than 1%, the ferrite has an average circle-equivalent diameter of 4 ?m or more and a maximum circle-equivalent diameter of 30 ?m or less, and the martensite has an average circle-equivalent diameter of 10 ?m or less and a maximum circle-equivalent diameter of 20 ?m or less. [Cr]×5+[Al]?0.50??Expression (1) Here, in Expression (1), [Cr] represents an amount of Cr (mass %), and [Al] represents an amount of Al (mass %).

Abstract: A solvent-free light-curable adhesive composition includes: for example, a triazine ring-containing polymer including a repeating unit structure represented by formula [3] and having a weight-average molecular weight of 500-5000; and a reactive diluent such as N-vinylformamide, the composition not including a solvent. The solvent-free light-curable adhesive composition has good compatibility with acrylic materials and the like, which are adhesive components, even without including a solvent.