Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control method controls a hybrid vehicle having an electric power source, a vehicle electrical equipment and drive motor to which electric power is supplied from the electric power source. The vehicle electrical equipment and the drive motor are electrically connected to the electric power source via at least a shared harness. When a temperature of the harness is equal to or greater than a predetermined temperature, upper limit values of electric power supplied from the electric power source to the vehicle electrical equipment and the drive motor are both reduced, and a degree of reduction in the upper limit value for the vehicle equipment is greater than a degree of reduction in the upper limit value for the drive motor.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic analyzer capable of detecting a specimen vessel even when a barcode label is not attached to the specimen vessel. Included are a reagent specimen disk including a mounting unit for mounting a specimen vessel that stores a specimen to be analyzed on an outer peripheral portion thereof, a two-dimensional code arranged on the reagent specimen disk at a back position of the mounting unit, a barcode arranged on a side surface of the specimen vessel, a sensor arranged at a front position of the mounting unit and capable of reading the two-dimensional code and the barcode, and a control unit for determining whether the specimen vessel is mounted on the mounting unit based on whether a contrast value of the light reflected from the two-dimensional code is equal to or greater than a threshold set in advance, by using an output signal of the sensor.

Abstract: A specimen processing system 100 which performs preprocessing and analysis of a specimen includes sensors 5a, 5b, . . . each detecting a driving state of a driving device installed in the system, an abnormality detecting part 3a determining from signal waveforms detected by the sensors 5a, 5b, . . . whether an abnormality occurs in the driving device, and a recording device sequentially recording the signal waveforms detected by the sensors 5a, 5b, . . . and storing a sensor signal waveform before or after the occurrence of an operation abnormality into an unerasable area when the abnormality is determined to have occurred in the abnormality detection part 3a. Consequently, there is provided a specimen processing system capable of realizing restoration from the time of the occurrence of an abnormality faster than in the past.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control method controls a hybrid vehicle having an electric power source, a vehicle electrical equipment and drive motor to which electric power is supplied from the electric power source. The vehicle electrical equipment and the drive motor are electrically connected to the electric power source via at least a shared harness. When a temperature of the harness is equal to or greater than a predetermined temperature, upper limit values of electric power supplied from the electric power source to the vehicle electrical equipment and the drive motor are both reduced, and a degree of reduction in the upper limit value for the vehicle equipment is greater than a degree of reduction in the upper limit value for the drive motor.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electric device including: a step of comparing the rotation speed of an internal combustion engine at the time when it has been determined that the internal combustion engine is to transition to a rotation stop state with a specified threshold; and a step of performing rotation-speed increasing control, in a case where the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine at the time of the determination is higher than the threshold, in which in a case where the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine at the time of the determination is not higher than the threshold, the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is not made higher than the rotation speed at the time of the determination but is let to decrease to stop the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A fuel-empty-state recovery determination method including: when driving of the hybrid vehicle is started, performing rotation speed control of an electric power generator for a specified time, and then stopping the rotation speed control; in a case where it is detected that a state in which the rotation speed of an engine after stopping the rotation speed control is higher than a threshold continues for more than a first determination time, determining that recovery has been made from a fuel-empty state; in a case where the measured time does not exceed the first determination time, starting measurement of the time during which the rotation speed of the engine is lower than the threshold; and in a case where the measured time exceeds a second determination time, maintaining determination that the vehicle is in a fuel-empty state.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electric device including: a step of comparing the rotation speed of an internal combustion engine at the time when it has been determined that the internal combustion engine is to transition to a rotation stop state with a specified threshold; and a step of performing rotation-speed increasing control, in a case where the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine at the time of the determination is higher than the threshold, in which in a case where the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine at the time of the determination is not higher than the threshold, the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is not made higher than the rotation speed at the time of the determination but is let to decrease to stop the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A specimen processing system 100 which performs preprocessing and analysis of a specimen includes sensors 5a, 5b, . . . each detecting a driving state of a driving device installed in the system, an abnormality detecting part 3a determining from signal waveforms detected by the sensors 5a, 5b, . . . whether an abnormality occurs in the driving device, and a recording device sequentially recording the signal waveforms detected by the sensors 5a, 5b, . . . and storing a sensor signal waveform before or after the occurrence of an operation abnormality into an unerasable area when the abnormality is determined to have occurred in the abnormality detection part 3a. Consequently, there is provided a specimen processing system capable of realizing restoration from the time of the occurrence of an abnormality faster than in the past.

Abstract: A fuel-empty-state recovery determination method including: when driving of the hybrid vehicle is started, performing rotation speed control of an electric power generator for a specified time, and then stopping the rotation speed control; in a case where it is detected that a state in which the rotation speed of an engine after stopping the rotation speed control is higher than a threshold continues for more than a first determination time, determining that recovery has been made from a fuel-empty state; in a case where the measured time does not exceed the first determination time, starting measurement of the time during which the rotation speed of the engine is lower than the threshold; and in a case where the measured time exceeds a second determination time, maintaining determination that the vehicle is in a fuel-empty state.

Abstract: A sensor registration method according to one aspect of the present invention includes generating association information associating port information with sensor information, the port information identifying a connection port of a first communication device to which a sensor is connected, the sensor information including a type of the sensor, converting the association information to have a predetermined format, transmitting the converted association information to an information processing device configured to process data obtained from the sensor, and registering the sensor in the information processing device by storing the converted association information into the information processing device.

Abstract: A service providing system includes a cloud platform including: a security database that stores a device ID and a pair of a public key and a private key corresponding to the device ID; and a communication server that communicates with the security database, the communication server: communicating with a client device; receiving a request from the client device to issue a security token, the request including a device ID of the client device and data encrypted with a public key; determining whether the encrypted data is decrypted with the private key corresponding to the client device by referring to the security database; and in response to the encrypted data being decrypted with the private key, issuing and transmitting the security token to the client device.

Abstract: A peptide that enables surface treatment of a scaffold for tissue repair that makes it possible to accelerate the repair of living tissue without using a material that negatively affects the repair of living tissue, a complex containing this peptide, a scaffold for tissue repair surface treated using this peptide or this complex, a surface treatment method for a scaffold for tissue repair using this peptide or this complex, and a treatment solution or set of treatment solutions to be used in this surface treatment method. Surface treatment of a scaffold for tissue repair is conducted by combining glycosaminoglycan and a peptide containing adhesive sites and basic sites each comprising predetermined amino acid residues.

Abstract: A sensor registration method according to one aspect of the present invention includes generating association information associating port information with sensor information, the port information identifying a connection port of a first communication device to which a sensor is connected, the sensor information including a type of the sensor, converting the association information to have a predetermined format, transmitting the converted association information to an information processing device configured to process data obtained from the sensor, and registering the sensor in the information processing device by storing the converted association information into the information processing device.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining routing path of a packet in a communication network. The method includes steps, but is not limited to, (i) receiving, by a data collection module, a packet from each of at least two sensors (ii) generating, by a digest information generator, a footprint for each packet received from each of the at least two sensors (iii) comparing, by an analysis module, whether each of the at least one footprint generated matches a last generated footprint.

Abstract: A peptide that enables surface treatment of a scaffold for tissue repair that makes it possible to accelerate the repair of living tissue without using a material that negatively affects the repair of living tissue, a complex containing this peptide, a scaffold for tissue repair surface treated using this peptide or this complex, a surface treatment method for a scaffold for tissue repair using this peptide or this complex, and a treatment solution or set of treatment solutions to be used in this surface treatment method. Surface treatment of a scaffold for tissue repair is conducted by combining glycosaminoglycan and a peptide containing adhesive sites and basic sites each comprising predetermined amino acid residues.

Abstract: Provided is a novel lactic acid bacterium strain which is capable of suppressing production of volatile sulfur compounds by oral bacteria, has no cariogenicity and no causative role in infective endocarditis, and is safe in an oral cavity, and provided is an agent for preventing, improving and/or treating oral diseases and discomforts by use of the bacterial strain.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining routing path of a packet in a communication network. The method includes steps, but is not limited to, (i) receiving, by a data collection module, a packet from each of at least two sensors (ii) generating, by a digest information generator, a footprint for each packet received from each of the at least two sensors (iii) comparing, by an analysis module, whether each of the at least one footprint generated matches a last generated footprint.

Abstract: Provided are a peptide that enables surface treatment of a scaffold for tissue repair that makes it possible to accelerate the repair of living tissue without using a material that negatively affects the repair of living tissue, a complex containing this peptide, a scaffold for tissue repair surface treated using this peptide or this complex, a surface treatment method for a scaffold for tissue repair using this peptide or this complex, and a treatment solution or set of treatment solutions to be used in this surface treatment method. Surface treatment of a scaffold for tissue repair is conducted by combining glycosaminoglycan and a peptide containing adhesive sites and basic sites each comprising predetermined amino acid residues.

Abstract: Provided is a novel lactic acid bacterium strain which is capable of suppressing production of volatile sulfur compounds by oral bacteria, has no cariogenicity and no causative role in infective endocarditis, and is safe in an oral cavity, and provided is an agent for preventing, improving and/or treating oral diseases and discomforts by use of the bacterial strain.

Abstract: An improper communication detection system that acquires packets that are circulated through a plant network by mirroring and detects improper communication includes a storage unit configured to prestore a session whitelist, which is a list of sessions that can be generated in the plant network; a session determination/separation unit configured to make a determination as to a success or failure of session approval on the basis of the acquired packet and configured to generate session information indicating an approved session; and a first improper communication detection unit configured to compare the session information generated by the session determination/separation unit with the session whitelist, and configured to detect communication related to the relevant session as improper communication when the session information does not match any session in the session whitelist.