Abstract: A device management system includes a database and a request acceptance portion which accepts a connection request from a device. The connection request is a request for causing the request acceptance portion to execute access to the database. When the connection request is accepted from the device, the request acceptance portion sets a restriction rate according to a load amount of the database and selectively executes, by a ratio corresponding to the restriction rate, processing of permitting access to the database and processing of not permitting access to the database and notifying the device of an error.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel production method which makes it possible to obtain a molded product containing a P3HB-based resin through an injection blow molding method and a technique for using such a method. The object is achieved by providing a method for producing a molded product containing a P3HB-based resin, the method including the steps of: (A) plasticizing a resin composition containing a P3HB-based resin; (B) subjecting the plasticized resin composition obtained in the step (A) to injection molding to obtain a preform; and (C) subjecting the preform obtained in the step (B) to blow molding to obtain a molded product.

Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains utterance data indicating a voice of an evaluatee uttering a sentence as instructed; a calculation unit that calculates, from the utterance data obtained by the obtainment unit, a feature based on the utterance data; an evaluation unit that compares the feature calculated by the calculation unit to reference data indicating a relationship between voice data indicating a voice of a person and a cognitive function of the person to evaluate the cognitive function of the evaluatee; and an output unit that outputs the sentence to be uttered by the evaluatee and outputs a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.

Abstract: In order to improve the efficiency of solidification and melting of a heat storage material in a heat storage material unit, a heat storage material covered with a coating material is accommodated in a metal accommodating container having a high thermal conductivity, and the heat storage material unit is embedded in a thermal insulation panel in such a way that the accommodating container is exposed inside a merchandise accommodating compartment, thereby enabling a surface of the heat storage material that is embedded in the thermal insulation panel also to exhibit an action equivalent to that if the accommodating container is exposed in the merchandise accommodating compartment as a heat transfer element, thereby improving the efficiency of solidification (heat storage) and melting (heat dissipation) of the heat storage material.

Abstract: Cognitive function evaluation device includes: storing unit storing reference data on the relationship between the periodicity of a body movement of a person walking and the cognitive function level of the person; acquiring unit that acquires body movement data on the detected body movement from body movement sensor that detects the body movement of subject walking; and calculating unit that calculates the periodicity of the body movement while walking from the acquired body movement data and checks the calculated periodicity against reference data stored in storing unit so as to identify the cognitive function level corresponding to the calculated periodicity.

Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an instruction unit that instructs quick pronunciation of pseudoword in which a predetermined syllable is repeated; an obtainment unit that obtains voice data indicating a voice of an evaluatee who has received an instruction; a calculation unit that calculates a feature from the voice data obtained by the obtainment unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates a cognitive function of the evaluatee from the feature calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit that outputs a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit.

Abstract: There is provided a straddle-type vehicle including: an accommodation space configured to accommodate an accommodation object; a seat disposed behind the accommodation space in a front-rear direction and on which a rider straddles; a hinge shaft disposed above and in front of a front end portion of the seat and extending in a left-right direction; and a cover body pivotable about the hinge shaft between an open position where the accommodation space is opened upward and a closed position where the accommodation space is covered from above.

Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit configured to obtain speech data indicating speech uttered by a subject; a calculation unit configured to extract a plurality of vowels from the speech data obtained by the obtainment unit, and calculate, for each of the plurality of vowels, a feature value based on a frequency and an amplitude of at least one formant obtained from a spectrum of the vowel; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a cognitive function of the subject from the feature value calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output an evaluation result of the evaluation unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for purifying an organic compound, by which an organic compound having a reduced lead content is obtained from an organic compound that contains a lead component as an impurity. In this method for purifying an organic compound, the organic compound that contains a lead component is irradiated with ultraviolet light, and the lead component is subsequently removed from the organic compound. The present invention also provides a method for producing an organic compound, said method comprising purification of the organic compound by means of the above-described method for purifying an organic compound.

Abstract: An estimation system includes: a first sensor that detects a first amount of activity that is an amount of activity of a subject in a room; a second sensor that detects a second amount of activity that is an amount of activity of the subject on a bed in the room; and an estimation device that estimates at least one of a position and an action of the subject in association with a position in the room based on the first amount of activity detected by the first sensor and the second amount of activity detected by the second sensor, and outputs an estimation result obtained from the estimation. The first sensor and the second sensor are sensors other than two-dimensional image sensors.

Abstract: A straddle vehicle includes a vehicle body, a headlamp main body, and a driver circuit. The driver circuit drives the headlamp main body. The headlamp main body includes a housing that accommodates a light emission member. The driver circuit is disposed outside the housing.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine is provided with a storage compartment or the like having a thermally insulating construction in which a number of product columns for accommodating products aligned side-by-side in one column are provided in different levels in such a way that the most downstream products in each product column are aligned side-by-side in a vertical direction, and an in-compartment fan for cooling an internal atmosphere of the storage compartment or the like by blowing air that has been cooled by means of an evaporator disposed in the storage compartment or the like, wherein the automatic vending machine is also provided with a control unit which drives the in-compartment fan for a predefined time if the internal temperature of the storage compartment or the like reaches to or above a predefined reference temperature in a state in which driving of a freezer and of the in-compartment fan are stopped.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes: a product housing rack including product housing shelves each including a product housing path, and a product discharger; a first stopper configured to be movable between a protrusion position and a retract position, and to tilt such that a free end side of a holding portion is positioned at a product discharge port; a second stopper configured to be movable between a retract position and a protrusion position, and to press a vending product when protruding; a link configured to move each of the first and the second stopper to the protrusion and the retract position; and a driver configured to drive the link, wherein the second stopper includes ribs formed on a surface facing the product housing path, the ribs being configured to extend from a base end part toward a holding portion of the second stopper.

Abstract: A dementia information output system according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of body motion of a user; a determining unit configured to determine a likelihood that the user is developing a mild dementia or the like on the basis of a variability degree that is a degree by which an amount of body motion varies over a plurality of days in each of a plurality of time periods; and an outputting unit configured to output dementia information indicating the likelihood determined by the determining unit.

Abstract: A straddle vehicle includes a vehicle body, a headlamp main body, and a driver circuit. The driver circuit drives the headlamp main body. The headlamp main body includes a housing that accommodates a light emission member. The driver circuit is disposed outside the housing.

Abstract: A vending machine includes a storage to store product management data in which an on-sale product management numbers is associated with product management content; an input and output unit to input and output the product management data; and an update control unit configured to update the product management data. Further, the update control unit collectively receives all the product management data including a part to be updated, stores all the product management data as update target product management data, displays the update target product management data including confirmation target information and stores the update target product management data as updated product management data.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dry reagent and a method that enable fibrinogen determination without dilution of the sample. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a fibrinogen measurement dry reagent of an undiluted sample comprising: (i) thrombin or a protein having thrombin activity; (ii) magnetic particles; (iii) a fibrin monomer polymerization inhibitor; (iv) a calcium salt; (v) a dry reagent layer solubility improving agent; (vi) a dry reagent layer reinforcing material; and (vii) a buffer and a method for fibrinogen determination.

Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires body motion data representing a body motion of a person to be evaluated during walking; a calculation unit that calculates a displacement of a body of the person to be evaluated during walking based on the acquired body motion data; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a cognitive function of the person to be evaluated based on a frequency peak representing a cycle of walking of person-to-be-evaluated obtained by performing a frequency analysis on the calculated displacement, and to output the evaluation result.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine includes a product housing rack including a plurality of product housing shelves that are disposed in an up-down direction, a plurality of product housing paths corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves, each product housing path being defined in the corresponding product housing shelf and configured to house products, a plurality of product discharge devices corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves and the plurality of product housing paths, each product discharge device being configured to separate and discharge, one by one, the products that are housed in the corresponding product housing path. The product housing shelf includes a front side shelf member and a back side shelf member that are divided in the front-back direction, supported by support members, and detachably coupled with each other so that the front side shelf member is sandwiched by the back side shelf member.

Abstract: Cognitive decline detection system includes obtainment unit and determination unit. Obtainment unit obtains the amount of movement during a sleep period and the amount of movement during a non-sleep period of a user for each day, the non-sleep period being the period other than the sleep period. Determination unit determines that the cognitive function of the user is lower during a determination period than during a comparison period set before the determination period when the frequency of days when a movement amount ratio falls below a predetermined ratio among days constituting the determination period is higher than that among days constituting the comparison period, the movement amount ratio representing the ratio of the amount of movement during the non-sleep period to the amount of movement during the sleep period.