Abstract: A winding of a transmission coil included in a power transmission device of a contactless power feed apparatus and serving to transmit AC power to a power reception device contactlessly is formed of a wiring pattern provided on a substrate. The transmission coil is divided into partial coils arranged coaxially. Each of the partial coils is formed such that, among the partial coils, a number of turns of a winding included in a partial coil is larger as the partial coil is located more outwardly.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including circuitry that acquires information indicating a spatial relationship between a real object and a virtual object, and initiate generation of a user feedback based on the acquired information, the user feedback being displayed to be augmented to a generated image obtained based on capturing by an imaging device, or augmented to a perceived view of the real world, and wherein a characteristic of the user feedback is changed when the spatial relationship between the real object and the virtual object changes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polypeptide comprising an antigen binding domain and a carrying moiety having an inhibiting domain that inhibits the antigen binding activity of the antigen binding domain, and having a longer half-life than that of the antigen binding domain existing alone, methods for producing and screening for the polypeptide, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the polypeptide, methods for producing and screening for a single-domain antibody whose antigen binding activity is inhibited by associating with particular VL, VH or VHH, and a fusion polypeptide library including a single-domain antibody whose antigen binding activity is inhibited by associating with particular VL, VH or VHH.

Abstract: A wire harness includes: an electric wire; a first tape wrapping body in which a first adhesive tape is wrapped around a first electric wire portion of a first wrapping section directed to one side from a base point in an axial direction of the electric wire; and a second tape wrapping body in which a second adhesive tape is wrapped around a second electric wire portion of a second wrapping section directed to another side from the base point in the axial direction of the electric wire.

Abstract: A pillar delivery method is a method for delivering a plurality of pillars onto a substrate, including a glass panel, to manufacture a glass panel unit. The pillar delivery method includes an irradiation step, a holding step, and a mounting step. The irradiation step includes setting, over a holder, a sheet for use to form pillars and irradiating the sheet with a laser beam to punch out the plurality of pillars. The holding step includes having the plurality of pillars, which have been punched out of the sheet, held by the holder. The mounting step includes picking up some or all of the plurality of pillars from the holder and mounting the pillars onto the substrate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit includes an assembling step, a bonding step, a gas exhausting step, a sealing step, and an activating step. The bonding step includes melting a peripheral wall in a baking furnace at a first predetermined temperature to hermetically bond a first glass pane and a second glass pane together with the peripheral wall thus melted. The gas exhausting step includes exhausting a gas from an internal space through an exhaust port in the baking furnace to turn the internal space into a vacuum space. The sealing step includes locally heating to a temperature higher than a second predetermined temperature, and thereby melting, either a port sealing material or an exhaust pipe to seal the exhaust port and thereby obtain a work in progress. The activating step includes activating a gas adsorbent after the sealing step to obtain a glass panel unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst with increased exhaust gas purification performance. The exhaust gas purification catalyst has a porous support, catalyst metal particles supported in the pores of the porous support, and zirconium dioxide particles supported in the pores of the porous support. The zirconium dioxide particles are supported in a uniformly dispersed manner in the pores, as monoclinic crystals or a mixture of monoclinic crystals and tetragonal crystals, the phrase “supported in a uniformly dispersed manner” meaning that when the exhaust gas purification catalyst is measured with an electron beam microanalyzer, the proportion of the abundance ratio of zirconium in a surface region up to a depth of 1.5 ?m from the exhaust gas purification catalyst surface with respect to the abundance ratio of zirconium in the region inward from that surface region of the exhaust gas purification catalyst, is 95 to 105 mol %.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless tag reading device has an antenna to receive a radio wave transmitted from a wireless tag, a drive unit to move the antenna through different positions along a fixed path, a detection unit configured to determine a received signal strength and a phase of the radio wave received by the antenna, and a processor. The processor receives position data indicating a position of the antenna in conjunction with the received signal strength and the phase of the radio signal at the position, calculates in-phase and quadrature data for the wireless tag at a plurality of positions of the antenna, then inputs the in-phase and the quadrature data to a learned model correlating in-phase data and quadrature data to positions of wireless tags to estimate a position of the wireless tag.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus communicates with a wireless tag using one or more antennas. The communication apparatus determines a position of the wireless tag on the basis of tag data of the wireless tag acquired on the basis of movement of the antenna along the first direction and tag data of the wireless tag acquired on the basis of movement of the antenna or a different antenna along the second direction.

Abstract: A server in a team activity evaluation system includes, as its functions, a scoring module for specifying a team score (parameter) indicating an activity situation of an engineer team, based on various parameters indicating the activity situation of the engineer team, and a presentation module for presenting, to a user, the team score indicating the activity situation of the engineer team that has been specified, in association with time-series information.

Abstract: In the method of manufacturing the fuel cell stack and the method of manufacturing the joint separator, a joint separator is formed by joining a first metal separator and a second metal separator to each other in a state of being stacked together in a thickness direction in a manner so that bead structures of the first separator and the second separator protrude outward, and then a preliminary load is applied to the passage bead portions and the outer peripheral bead portions while suppressing deformation of a portion in a gap of a double bead portion of each of the first and second separators, the double bead portions being formed by the passage bead portion and the outer peripheral bead portion extending in parallel to each other at a narrow interval.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an antenna, a driving unit, a reading control unit, an acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The driving unit is configured to move a relative position of the antenna relative to one or more wireless tags. The measurement control unit is configured to control measurement of tag data of the one or more wireless tags based on reception of radio waves from the one or more wireless tags by the antenna. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire the number of the one or more wireless tags based on the measurement of the tag data of the one or more wireless tags that is accompanied by the movement of the relative position at a first moving speed. The setting unit is configured to set a second moving speed of the relative position based on the acquired number of the one or more wireless tags. The measurement control unit controls measurement of the tag data of the one or more wireless tags that is accompanied by movement of the relative position at the set second moving speed.

Abstract: A self-service checkout device in an embodiment includes a first antenna capable of moving in a predetermined distance and configured to read tag information from a wireless tag attached to a commodity, a first processing unit configured to, if receiving a trigger signal, move the first antenna and perform commodity registration processing for the commodity based on the read tag information, and a second processing unit configured to perform other processing relating to operation in parallel to the commodity registration processing performed by the first processing unit.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance device has a sheet conveyance path with a first path and a second path. A wireless tag communication device can write information to a wireless tag on a sheet on the first and second paths and receive responses from the wireless tag. A controller controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while on the first path, then determines whether information has been written to the wireless tag on the first path according to a response received from the wireless tag. The controller switches a conveyance destination for the sheet to the second path if the information has not been written or to a discharge location if the information has been written. The controller then controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while the sheet is on the second path.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus acquires tag data of each wireless tag at a plurality of positions of a moved antenna via an antenna. The communication apparatus inputs the tag data of each wireless tag into a learned model selected from a plurality of learned models in a manner that depends on an environment of the apparatus. In addition, the communication apparatus acquires, on the basis of input of the tag data of each wireless tag into the learned model, data indicating a range in which each wireless tag is present from the learned model.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus acquires tag data of each wireless tag at a plurality of positions of a moved antenna via an antenna and inputs the tag data into a learned model. The communication apparatus acquires, on the basis of the input of the tag data of each wireless tag into the learned model, data indicating a level regarding the range in which each wireless tag is present from the learned model. In addition, the communication apparatus controls, in a case where the levels of the plurality of wireless tags acquired on the basis of one or more measurement processes for a plurality of wireless tags do not satisfy a condition, a measurement process involving a change of a measurement aspect with respect to the plurality of wireless tags.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a selection apparatus acquires tag data of a reference wireless tag at a plurality of positions of the antenna, which has been measured by a communication apparatus. In addition, the selection apparatus selects a learned model from a plurality of learned models on the basis of the tag data of the reference wireless tag. The plurality of learned models is models depending on an environment of the communication apparatus and is models generated by machine learning based on a plurality of pieces of learning data. The plurality of pieces of learning data includes tag data of wireless tags that are a plurality of learning targets and data indicating a range in which each of the wireless tags that are the plurality of learning targets is present.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance device has a sheet conveyance path with a first path and a second path. A wireless tag communication device can write information to a wireless tag on a sheet on the first and second paths and receive responses from the wireless tag. A controller controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while on the first path, then determines whether information has been written to the wireless tag on the first path according to a response received from the wireless tag. The controller switches a conveyance destination for the sheet to the second path if the information has not been written or to a discharge location if the information has been written. The controller then controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while the sheet is on the second path.

Abstract: A wireless tag that is not guaranteed to be located within a predetermined area is prevented from being read as a valid wireless tag. A communication device includes: an antenna; a reference tag; a reception unit; and a determination unit. The reception unit uses the antenna to sequentially receive signals wirelessly transmitted from a reference tag whose relative position to the antenna is known and a reading target tag different from the reference tag. The determination unit determines that the signal transmitted from the reading target tag and received by the reception unit is invalid based on a phase of the signal transmitted from the reference tag and received by the reception unit.

Abstract: A communication device includes an antenna, a driving unit, a first acquisition unit, an input unit, and a second acquisition unit. The driving unit moves a position of the antenna. The first acquisition unit acquires tag data of each radio tag based on a radio wave of each radio tag received by the antenna at a plurality of positions of the antenna. The input unit inputs the tag data of each radio tag at the plurality of positions of the antenna into a learned model. The second acquisition unit acquires, from the learned model, data indicating whether each radio tag is included in a first range or a second range based on the input of the tag data of each radio tag into the learned model by the input unit.