Abstract: A surface inspection device (1) according to the present invention comprises: a plate-shaped sample holding member (3) which can hold a sample (2); a spindle motor (4) for rotating the sample holding member (3); a turntable (5) which is fixed to the spindle motor (4) and rotated by the spindle motor (4); a frame (6) to which the spindle motor (4) is fixed; a plurality of support members (12) each having one end fixed to the sample holding member (3) and the other end fixed to the turntable (5), the support members supporting the sample holding member (3) such that the sample holding member is displaceable in a focus direction which is the height direction with respect to the turntable (5); and a sample drive unit (11) which displaces the sample holding member (3) in the focus direction with respect to the turntable (5). This surface inspection device (1) can accurately drive the sample (2) in the focus direction.

Abstract: A defect inspection device in which an optical axis of a detection optical system is inclined with respect to a surface of a sample, and an imaging sensor is inclined with respect to the optical axis, a height variation amount of an illumination spot in a normal direction of the surface of the sample is calculated based on an output of a height measuring unit, a deviation amount of the focusing position with respect to the light receiving surface in an optical axis direction of the detection optical system is calculated based on the height variation amount of the illumination spot, the deviation amount of the focusing position being generated accompanying a height variation of the illumination spot, and the focus actuator is controlled based on the deviation amount of the focusing position, and scattered light intensities at the same coordinates of the sample are added.

Abstract: An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.

Abstract: This illumination optical system comprises a laser light source 301, 401, 501, a light collection optical system 311, 411, 511, and a support structure 312, 412 that is able to secure the laser light source and the light collection optical system, wherein the light from the laser light source is focused onto an object to be inspected 307, 407, 507. The light collection optical system comprises a cylindrical mirror 306, 406, 506, and at least one cylindrical lens 304, 404a, 404b, 404c, 504a, 504b, 504c. The cylindrical mirror is an optical element that collects light in a first direction, and the cylindrical lens is an optical element that collects light in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The focal distance of the cylindrical lens to the object to be inspected is greater than the focal distance of the cylindrical mirror to the object to be inspected.

Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.

Abstract: An incentive granting system grants an incentive to CO2 reduction traveling by a user of the vehicle that directly or indirectly emits CO2. The incentive granting system includes one or more processors, and is configured to grant a reward point to the user, in the vehicle traveling from a current location to a destination, based on at least one of selection of a traveling route in which a CO2 emission amount is reduced with respect to a standard traveling route, selection of a traveling mode, and reduction of an actual CO2 emission amount with respect to a standard CO2 emission amount.

Abstract: An in-vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle includes an electronic control unit configured to determine that there is a possibility that damage to a bottom portion of the vehicle occurs when a vertical acceleration, which is an acceleration in a vertical direction of the vehicle, or a vertical acceleration increase rate, which is an amount of increase in the vertical acceleration per unit time, reaches a first threshold value or higher.

Abstract: A second busbar is provided that has a second electrode terminal and a second connection terminal. A first busbar is provided that has a first electrode terminal, a lateral side coupler, an overhang, and a first connection terminal. The first electrode terminal and/or the second electrode terminal has a protruding piece for connection (connecting protrusion). This protruding piece is elastically depressible in response to contact with an electrode surface of a capacitor element unit inserted from an opposite side of the lateral side coupler across a space between the first and second electrode terminals.

Abstract: A device management system includes: a server; base stations for long-distance wireless communication; and a device that communicatively connect to one of the base stations and that each sequentially transmit, to the server via the one base station, operation information indicating the current operation state of the device. Upon sequentially receiving the operation information, each of the base stations sequentially transmits, to the server, unique information unique to the base station together with the sequentially received operation information. The server sequentially receives, and sequentially stores in association with each other, the operation information and the unique information. When first and second unique information received at first and second times, respectively, are different, the server separately manages first operation information received in a first period ending at the first time and second operation information received in a second period starting at the second time.

Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.

Abstract: In this sample stage that adsorbs and holds a sample, the configuration includes: an outer circumference stage that has a first adsorption surface and a pressure receiving chamber that is a recess formed in the center thereof; an inner circumference stage that has a second adsorption surface, and that is housed in the pressure receiving chamber and can project upward from the outer circumference stage; a first flow channel for a sample desorption operation that is formed on the outer circumference stage and is opened on the first adsorption surface; a second flow channel for the sample desorption operation that is formed on the outer circumference stage and the inner circumference stage and is opened on the second adsorption surface; and a third flow channel for inner circumference stage elevating driving that is formed on the outer circumference stage and is opened in the pressure receiving chamber.

Abstract: This defect inspection device for emitting illumination light onto a moving and rotating sample and inspecting for sample defects by scanning the sample in a spiral shape or concentric circle shapes comprises: an illumination and detection unit comprising an emission optical system and a detection optical system; a rotary stage for rotating the sample; a rectilinear stage for rectilinearly moving the rotary stage; and a controller for controlling the illumination and detection unit, rotary stage, and rectilinear stage. On the linear path of the rectilinear stage are a scanning start position where illumination light is emitted onto the sample and scanning is started and a sample delivery position where movement of the sample to the scanning start position starts.

Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.

Abstract: A device management method executed in a server communicatively connected, via a network, to a plurality of devices and a first operation device associated with a first user identifier identifying a first user, includes: receiving, from the first operation device, a request to associate the first user identifier and a first device identifier identifying a first device among the plurality of devices; and when, in correspondence information stored in a storage device and including device identifiers identifying devices associated with user identifiers identifying users, (i) the first device identifier is associated with a second user identifier different from the first user identifier and (ii) the first user identifier is associated with a second device identifier identifying a second device different from the first device among the plurality of devices, storing the second device identifier and the second user identifier in association with each other.

Abstract: A cable connection work support system comprises a terminal that takes an image of an end of a cable to be connected and an image of a target apparatus, and a management server that performs individual product identification on the basis of the surface pattern of the cable end photographed by the terminal and transmits work support information based on the result of the individual product identification to the terminal on the basis of predesigned cable connection design information and the image captured by the apparatus.

Abstract: An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining, from each of one or more reproduction devices that have reproduced a content contained in a broadcast program, first information indicating a reproduction history of the content reproduced; obtaining second information indicating a display history of a web page displayed by each of one or more display devices; calculating an index indicating a relation between reproduction of the content by a first reproduction device among the one or more reproduction devices and display of the web page by a first display device that has a relation to the first reproduction device among the one or more display devices, based on the first information and the second information which are obtained; and outputting the index calculated in the calculating.

Abstract: An information management system includes: an attribute information DB that stores attribute information of a user as user information; a data obtainer that obtains, from at least one home appliance used by the user, first device data including an operating status of the at least one home appliance; and an updater that updates the user information stored in the attribute information DB, using first attribute information that is based on the first device data obtained. The updater compares the first attribute information and second attribute information stored in the attribute information DB as the user information to determine whether a difference is present between the first attribute information and the second attribute information, and updates the user information with the first attribute information when determining that the difference is present, and does not update the user information when determining that no difference is present.

Abstract: An ultrasonic surgical instrument assembly including an irrigation sleeve assembly defining a lumen and an ultrasonic tip at least partially disposed within the lumen of the irrigation sleeve. The irrigation sleeve assembly may comprise a hub and an irrigation sleeve coupled to the hub. The irrigation sleeve may comprise an inner sheath and an outer sheath, both extending distally from the hub. The outer sheath may surround at least a portion of the inner sheath to define an irrigation passageway between the outer sheath and the inner sheath configured to deliver irrigation fluid to the surgical site. The distal end of the inner sheath may extend beyond the distal end of the outer sheath. Each of the inner and the outer sheath may be coupled to the hub by an annular sealing member configured to create fluid-tight seal between the hub and the respective inner and outer sheath.

Abstract: A device management system includes: a server; base stations for long-distance wireless communication; and a device that communicatively connect to one of the base stations and that each sequentially transmit, to the server via the one base station, operation information indicating the current operation state of the device. Upon sequentially receiving the operation information, each of the base stations sequentially transmits, to the server, unique information unique to the base station together with the sequentially received operation information. The server sequentially receives, and sequentially stores in association with each other, the operation information and the unique information. When first and second unique information received at first and second times, respectively, are different, the server separately manages first operation information received in a first period ending at the first time and second operation information received in a second period starting at the second time.