Abstract: A reporting method includes: obtaining an address that is assigned to a target device and that is included in a control signal used for a communication with an access point in a plurality of access points; storing identification information in a storage in association with the address of the target device; storing, when receiving report destination information, the report destination information in the storage in association with the address of the target device if identification information reported in association with the report destination information is stored in the storage; referring to the storage when obtaining information of a control signal received by one of the plurality of access points; and reporting, when a source address of the control signal exists in the storage, to a report destination stored in association with the source address that there is an access from the target device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus configured to correct at least part of a face image has an image acquisition unit that acquires an input image, a region extraction unit that extracts a pupil region, which is a region corresponding to an eye of a person, from the input image, a pixel extraction unit that extracts a pixel from the pupil region whose brightness value is higher than a threshold value, a determination unit that determines, based on the result of extraction performed by the pixel extraction unit, whether or not halation has occurred in the pupil region, and a correction unit that performs, based on the result of determination performed by the determination unit, processing for correcting halation on the pupil region. The pixel extraction unit sets the threshold value based on a bias of a brightness distribution of the pixels included in the pupil region.

Abstract: A control system of a hybrid construction machine includes fluid pressure pumps, a regeneration motor, a rotating electric motor coupled to the regeneration motor, a storage battery configured to store electric power generated by the rotating electric motor, an assist pump provided coaxially to the regeneration motor to be driven by the rotating electric motor, the assist pump being configured to supply a working fluid to a fluid pressure actuator, and load adjusting units configured to change a load of the assist pump in accordance with a state of the storage battery.

Abstract: A control system of a hybrid construction machine includes fluid pressure pumps configured to supply a working fluid to a fluid pressure actuator, a regeneration unit having a regeneration motor for regeneration to be rotated by the working fluid discharged from a load side pressure chamber of the fluid pressure actuator, a rotating electric motor coupled to the regeneration motor, and a storage battery configured to store electric power generated by the rotating electric motor, and a variable throttle configured to bleed a portion of the working fluid obtained by excluding a flow rate of the working fluid guided to the regeneration motor from the working fluid discharged from the load side pressure chamber.

Abstract: Provided is a polyamide resin composition capable of achieving high toughness and high breaking strain at the same time. Also provided is a molded article produced by molding the polyamide resin composition, and a method for manufacturing the molded article using the polyamide resin composition. A polyamide resin composition comprising: 100 parts by weight of polyamide resin (A) that is composed of a structural unit derived from diamine and a structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid, and 0.05 to 0.

Abstract: The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film. The interlayer insulating film is provided to cover the gate electrode. The interlayer insulating film includes a first insulating film which is in contact with the gate electrode, contains silicon atoms, and contains neither phosphorus atoms nor boron atoms, a second insulating film which is provided on the first insulating film and contains silicon atoms and at least one of phosphorus atoms and boron atoms, and a third insulating film which contains silicon atoms and contains neither phosphorus atoms nor boron atoms. The second insulating film has a first surface which is in contact with the first insulating film, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a third surface which connects the first surface and the second surface. The third insulating film is in contact with at least one of the second surface and the third surface.

Abstract: A power transmission device, which is used for a contactless power transmission to a movable body moving on a travelling surface in a power transmission direction parallel to the travelling surface, including a power transmission coil and a shielding plate, wherein, the power transmission coil is installed so that a coil surface is approximately vertical to the travelling surface, and at least a part of the shielding plate is disposed inside the region on the travelling surface sandwiched between a plane surface defined by a coil surface of the power transmission coil and a plane surface defined by a coil surface of a power receiving coil mounted on the movable body.

Abstract: A coil unit provided on a ground side, including a coil, at least one sensor for detecting an object existing above or around the coil unit, a housing for accommodating the coil and the at least one sensor, wherein, the housing is provided with a dividing plate and at least one pillar for maintaining the internal space of the space for sensor, the dividing plate divides the space into a space for coil and a space for sensor located vertically above the space for coil, the space for coil is for accommodating the coil and the space for sensor is for accommodating the at least one sensor, and the at least one sensor is disposed on the dividing plate without contacting with an upper inner surface portion of the housing in the space for sensor.

Abstract: A power feeding coil unit for wireless power transmission including a base portion with bottom having an opening on an upper end, a magnetic body having a plurality of magnetic plates disposed on a bottom surface of the base portion, a power feeding coil formed by winding a conductive wire on the magnetic body, a cover portion covering the opening of the base portion, and a rib extending from the base portion toward the cover portion between the plurality of magnetic plates and between the wires of the conductive wires, wherein, a distance between the rib and the cover portion is smaller than a distance between the power feeding coil and the cover portion.

Abstract: A sheet binding device includes a pressurizing unit that pressurizes a sheet bundle to bind the sheet bundle, a pressurizing section that is disposed in the pressurizing unit and configured to be moved from a waiting position separated from the sheet bundle to a pressurizing position at which the pressurizing section pressurizes the sheet bundle, a drive motor that actuates the pressurizing unit, and a controller that controls the drive motor such that the pressurizing section is engaged with the sheet bundle at a predetermined setting velocity.

Abstract: In a storage-battery control system, an insulating communication unit couples a controller to a battery module constituting a storage battery unit that outputs a predetermined high voltage value. A power supply line is further provided for supplying electric power output from a controller DC/DC, i.e., a controller-side voltage converter for the controller, to the battery module, so that electric power is collectively supplied via the power supply line to a module CPU and a module-side insulating circuit both consuming electric power in the battery module. A secondary battery in the battery module supplies electric power to only a cell-voltage detector.

Abstract: An automatic analysis device provided with: a sample disk mechanism; a reaction disk for accommodating the reaction cells; reagent disk mechanisms; a sample-supplying dispensation mechanism which supplies samples to the reaction cells; a reagent-supplying dispensation mechanism which supplies prescribed amounts of reagents to the reaction cells; a detection unit which irradiates, with light, the reaction cells having, formed therein, mixed solutions of the samples and the reagents, and detects the light transmitted through the reaction cells to detect the optical characteristics of the mixed solutions; a pollution prevention film formation mechanism which supplies a pollution preventing solution to the reaction cells to form pollution prevention films on the inner wall surfaces of the reaction cells; and a pollution prevention film removal mechanism which supplies a removal solution to the reaction cells to remove the pollution prevention films from the inner wall surfaces of the reaction cells.

Abstract: A construction machine having an actuator that is driven by a working fluid includes a state value detection unit that detects a state value indicating an operating condition of the actuator, a mode determination unit that determines an operating mode by comparing the state value with a determination condition value, and a condition value setting unit that modifies the determination condition value on the basis of a comparison result of the mode determination unit. The condition value setting unit sets the determination condition value such that the determination condition value is increased when the state value falls below the determination condition value and decreased when the state value rises above the determination condition value.

Abstract: An access port is fixed to a biological membrane, such as the pericardium, in a state in which it penetrates the biological membrane. Provided is an access port including an inner tube and an outer tube fitted together so as to be movable relative to each other in an axial direction, wherein at least one of the inner tube and the outer tube has holding surfaces having substantially complementary shapes that are brought close to or away from each other by relative movement of the inner tube and the outer tube.

Abstract: In an electronic control unit, an important process includes several instructions that are successively executed and contain no branch instruction. Each of the instructions is stored in each of storage areas of memory according to an execution sequence. The storage areas are respectively assigned addresses that vary in increments of a specified value according to the execution sequence. The important process stores, in an expected value counter, a value of a program counter when control transitions to the important process. If a comparison result indicates a difference between the value of the program counter and a value of the expected value counter, an occurrence of an error is determined.

Abstract: An in-vehicle controller includes: a first control element for outputting a first output, which corresponds to functional safety standards, in response to a input; a first platform element for controlling a first software in the first control element; a second control element for outputting a second output, which does not correspond to the functional safety standards, in response to the input; a second platform element for controlling a second software in the second control element; and a comparison coupling element for comparing and coupling the first output and the second output, and for outputting a coupled output to an external control object device. The first platform element controls the first software in the first control element independently from the second platform element, which controls the second software in the second control element.

Abstract: A molded article comprising a fuel-barrier layer formed of a resin composition comprising a polyamide resin (A) as a continuous phase and a resin (B) as a disperse phase, wherein (A) is a polyamide resin (A1) comprising at least one of a constituent unit derived from a lactam having 10 to 12 carbon atoms and a constituent unit derived from an aminocarboxylic acid having 10 to 12 carbon atoms, or a polyamide resin (A2) comprising a constituent unit derived from an aliphatic diamine having 6 to 12 carbon atoms and a constituent unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 10 to 12 carbon atoms, the (B) is a resin selected from a semi-aromatic polyamide resin, the ratio by volume of (A)/(B) is 95/5 to 51/49, and the mean disperse particle diameter of (B) is 150 nm or more.

Abstract: An image processing device for correcting at least a portion of a face image containing a person's face, includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a face image, a region extractor that extracts a pupil region containing a pupil from the face image, a determination unit that determines a presence or absence of halation in the pupil region, a first template acquisition unit that acquires a first template image which is a correction template image, a reference color acquisition unit that acquires a reference color corresponding to the person from the face image, a second template acquisition unit that generates a second template image using the first template image and the reference color, and a correction unit that composites the second template image with at least the region in the pupil region where the halation occurred to correct the halation.

Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The gate insulating film is provided as being in contact with the first main surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film such that the gate insulating film lies between the gate electrode and the silicon carbide substrate. In a first stress test in which a gate voltage of ?5 V is applied to the gate electrode for 100 hours at a temperature of 175° C., an absolute value of a difference between a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage is not more than 0.5 V, with a threshold voltage before the first stress test being defined as the first threshold voltage and a threshold voltage after the first stress test being defined as the second threshold voltage.

Abstract: A server control unit controls data library devices each having cartridges which can be attached and detached, by using a first information table in which fault information concerning abnormal operations of the data library devices is registered and a second information table in which position information of the recording media is registered. In a case where the server control unit has identified a first one of the data library devices that cannot be controlled on the basis of the first information table, the server control unit determines whether a recording media storage unit can be detached from the first data library device.