Abstract: A power supply system includes a vehicle equipped with a battery, a power supply device, and a control device that controls power supply from the power supply device to the vehicle. The vehicle includes an engine and a motor that receives the power supplied from the battery to generate traveling drive force. When the power supply by the power supply device is requested from the vehicle, the control device (a) acquires a remaining amount of fuel for the engine from the vehicle, (b) outputs an instruction to urge the vehicle to shorten a charging time when the remaining amount of fuel is larger than a reference value, and (c) sets at least one of a unit price for charging power or a unit price for fuel lower when a response to accept the instruction is received from the vehicle compared with when the instruction is not accepted.

Abstract: A matching unit includes an inquiry unit that receives a suppliable electric power amount of renewable energy predicted for each period from a power generation unit, and inquires of each consumption unit, whether or not to consume the suppliable electric power amount, a feasibility confirmation unit that receives electric power of each time desired to be consumed within a range of the suppliable electric power amount from the consumption unit as proposal electric power consumption, and causes the power generation unit to confirm whether or not the proposal electric power consumption can be supplied, and an output unit that receives and sets a period in which the proposal electric power consumption can be supplied from the power generation unit as a matching establishment period, and notifies the power generation unit and the consumption unit of the proposal electric power consumption in the establishment period.

Abstract: A composite material including a composite film formed on a base material, the composite film including a silver layer containing carbon particles, wherein a content of Sb in the composite film is 1 mass % or less, and a crystallite size of silver in the composite film is 40 nm or less.

Abstract: Included are an energy management apparatus that manages at least one or more management target that consumes energy; and a user terminal that transmits and receives information to and from the energy management apparatus via a network. The energy management apparatus includes an energy management controller that prepares a question regarding a behavior of a user who uses the at least one or more management target, and transmits it to the user terminal. The user terminal includes a user terminal controller that transmits a question answer regarding the received question to the energy management controller when receiving the question transmitted from the energy management controller. The energy management controller predicts an energy consumption amount of the at least one or more management target based on the received question answer when receiving the question answer transmitted from the user terminal controller.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.

Abstract: A system and method for recommending content to a user. In embodiments of the system and method, one or more content groups is generated, at least one of the content groups including more than one type of content, and a display indicative of the one or more content groups is presented to the user.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to minimize impact on the comfort of people in a room and to achieve energy conservation in heat-source functions in an energy network comprising a plurality of heat-source functions that generate cold water and/or warm water, and a plurality of air-conditioning functions that obtain an air-conditioning effect by consuming the cold water and/or warm water generated by the heat-source functions. Disclosed is an energy network comprising a plurality of heat-source functions that generate thermal energy, and a plurality of air-conditioning functions that obtain an air-conditioning effect by consuming the thermal energy generated by the heat-source functions, wherein the energy network comprises: a first control function that selectively starts or stops the heat-source functions; and a second control function that controls the output of the air-conditioning functions.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a wiring structural body provided with a wiring pattern, the method including a first step of forming an insulating layer on a surface of a silicon substrate along at least a region for forming the wiring pattern, a second step of forming a boron layer on the insulating layer along the region, and a third step of forming a metal layer on the boron layer by plating.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts and having a trench formed to separate the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts from each other, an insulating layer formed on at least an inner surface of the trench, a boron layer formed on the insulating layer, and a metal layer formed on the boron layer.

Abstract: Included are an energy management apparatus that manages at least one or more management target that consumes energy; and a user terminal that transmits and receives information to and from the energy management apparatus via a network. The energy management apparatus includes an energy management controller that prepares a question regarding a behavior of a user who uses the at least one or more management target, and transmits it to the user terminal. The user terminal includes a user terminal controller that transmits a question answer regarding the received question to the energy management controller when receiving the question transmitted from the energy management controller. The energy management controller predicts an energy consumption amount of the at least one or more management target based on the received question answer when receiving the question answer transmitted from the user terminal controller.

Abstract: An operation plan generation device in an energy system that supplies energy to a consumer is provided with: a data generation unit that generates, on the basis of a plurality of operation conditions for the energy system, a plurality of operation plans with respect to the respective operation conditions, and calculates KPIs corresponding to the respective operation plans; a machine learning unit that learns characteristics of the energy system on the basis of the operation plans and the KPIs; and an operation plan generation unit that generates an operation plan on the basis of the learned characteristics of the energy system.

Abstract: A motor apparatus includes a motor body, a circuit board, a driver, and a voice detector. The circuit board, which is connected to the motor body, supplies driving electric power to the motor body. The driver, which is mounted on the circuit board, converts power source electric power to the driving electric power. The voice detector, which is mounted on the circuit board, detects a voice.

Abstract: A distributed-generator power-generation-amount estimation apparatus and method capable of more accurately and easily estimating output by reflecting a power factor are disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is a wiring structural body provided with a wiring pattern including a through-wiring pattern, the wiring structural body including: a silicon substrate having a through hole in which the through-wiring pattern is disposed; an insulating layer provided on a surface of the silicon substrate including an inner surface of the through hole along at least the wiring pattern; a boron layer provided on the insulating layer along the wiring pattern; and a metal layer provided on the boron layer.

Abstract: A battery control apparatus includes a reduced electricity cost analysis unit that obtains a discharge electric power cost at a discharge time and a charge electric power cost at a charge time of a battery, based on a basic cost and a unit cost of an electricity bill, and obtains a reduced electricity cost in which the charge electric power cost is subtracted from the discharge electric power cost for every discharge depth of the battery; an introduction cost analysis unit that calculates an introduction cost of the battery for every discharge depth of the battery; and a charge and discharge depth optimization unit that obtains a difference of the reduced electricity cost and the introduction cost for every discharge depth of the battery, and determines a charge and discharge depth of the battery based on the difference. The discharge of the battery is performed at the determined charge and discharge depth.

Abstract: A mobile body is driven by power that is wirelessly transferred from a non-contact power supply device including a power transmission resonator that transmits power in accordance with a non-contact power supply method. The mobile body includes a power reception resonator, a power storage, a motor, a controller, and at least two wheels driven independently of each other by the motor, the at least two wheels including a first movement axis and a second movement axis with an axial orientation different from that of the first movement axis, and moving the mobile body along the first movement axis and the second movement axis. When the mobile body moves to a power supply target range, the controller controls the motor based on power reception status information indicating a status of power reception by the power reception resonator, and moves in a flat plane direction.

Abstract: A motor drive system includes motor units to operate in accordance with a unified operation command transmitted from an outside to cause an operation to be accomplished by the motor drive system as a whole. Each motor unit includes a communication circuit to receive the unified operation command, a motor, a storage device to store data representing a rotation direction of the motor associated with the unified operation command, a control circuit, and a drive circuit to cause an electric current to pass through the motor based on a control signal. The control circuit is configured to refer to the data, and generate a control signal to cause the motor to rotate in the rotation direction associated with the unified operation command.

Abstract: A mobile body is driven by power that is wirelessly transferred from a non-contact power supply device including a power transmission resonator that transmits power in accordance with a non-contact power supply method. The mobile body includes; a power reception resonator, a power storage, a motor, a controller, and at least two wheels driven independently of each other by the motor, the at least two wheels including a first movement axis and a second movement axis with an axial orientation different from that of the first movement axis, and moving the mobile body along the first movement axis and the second movement axis. When the mobile body moves to a power supply target range, the controller controls the motor based on power reception status information indicating a status of power reception by the power reception resonator, and moves in a flat plane direction.

Abstract: A motor apparatus includes a motor body, a circuit board, a driver, and a voice detector. The circuit board, which is connected to the motor body, supplies driving electric power to the motor body. The driver, which is mounted on the circuit board, converts power source electric power to the driving electric power. The voice detector, which is mounted on the circuit board, detects a voice.