Abstract: An optical device includes a lens mirror array, in which transparent optical elements are connected to each other along a first direction, and a case, in which the lens mirror array is contained and fixed. The case includes at least three holes through which a manufacturing jig can pass. The jig can be used to press the lens mirror array in a direction intersecting the first direction at three or more positions on the lens mirror array to deform the lens mirror array to correct for possible distortions in the optical device prior to the fixing of the lens mirror array to the case.

Abstract: According to at least one embodiment, a lens mirror array includes a plurality of optical elements. An optical element of the plurality of optical elements includes an incident surface on which light is incident, an emitting surface configured to emit the light incident through the incident surface, at least one reflecting surface reflecting the light incident through the incident surface toward the emitting surface, and a light shielding portion configured to block the light. The incident surface includes an effective surface configured to pass effective light emitted from the emitting surface and a directional surface configured to direct unnecessary light to the light shielding portion.

Abstract: A transistor in which shape defects are unlikely to occur is provided. A transistor with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a metal oxide layer, a functional layer, and a conductive layer. The first insulating layer is positioned over the semiconductor layer. The metal oxide layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The functional layer is positioned over the metal oxide layer. The conductive layer is positioned over the functional layer. The semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer, the metal oxide layer, the functional layer, and the conductive layer have regions overlapping with each other.

Abstract: A drive apparatus includes: a motor having a shaft; a bearing rotatably supporting the shaft; a housing for the motor and holding the bearing in a bearing holding portion; an insulating member between the bearing and the bearing holding portion; and an oil passage. The bearing holding portion includes a holding tubular portion holding the bearing from radially outside, and a holding bottom portion extending radially inward from an end on one side in the axial direction of the holding tubular portion. The insulating member includes an insulating tubular portion extending in the axial direction along the holding tubular portion, and an insulating bottom portion extending in the radial direction along the holding bottom portion. The holding tubular portion has a penetrating portion penetrating radially inside and outside. The oil passage includes a first channel inside the penetrating portion and a second channel connecting the first channel and the bearing.

Abstract: A drive device includes a first bearing lubricated by a fluid and a second bearing lubricated by a lubricant having a higher electrical conductivity than the fluid. The first bearing rotatably supports a shaft extending in the axial direction along the rotation axis. A housing of the drive device has a first bearing holder that holds the first bearing. The second bearing is arranged between the shaft and the housing and rotatably supports the shaft. The second bearing is arranged in a space isolated from the first bearing holder.

Abstract: A drive device includes a neutralizing device electrically connecting a shaft and a housing. The shaft extending in the axial direction along a rotation axis has a shaft wall. The shaft wall is arranged inside a shaft tubular portion that has a tubular shape surrounding the rotation axis and expands in the radial direction. The housing has a columnar portion extending to one axial side. Portions of the neutralizing device and the columnar portion on the one axial side are arranged on the other axial side of the shaft wall in the shaft tubular portion. The neutralizing device contacts the columnar portion and at least one of an inner peripheral surface of the shaft tubular portion and the other axial end surface of the shaft wall.

Abstract: A scheduler includes circuitry configured to, based on similarity between execution time and power consumption information of jobs executed in a system, classifies jobs into groups, construct respective time series prediction models for the groups using a power waveform included in each of the groups as teacher data, predict a power waveform at an interval including a first time from each of the constructed time series prediction models, compare a power waveform at an interval including a first time of a job in execution for which power is to be predicted with the predicted power waveform of each of the groups to identify a similar time series prediction model, based on the identified time series prediction model, predict power consumption at a predetermined interval including a second time for the job for which power is to be predicted, and control job execution based on the predicted power consumption.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a reading device that reads an object to be read in an image forming apparatus includes a lens array and a light guide. The lens array is provided in a posture in which an optical axis follows a height direction intersecting a reading surface. The light guide is adjacent to the lens array in a sub-scanning direction intersecting both the height direction and a main scanning direction, and locates maximum illuminance of illumination light illuminating the object to be read on a side opposite to the lens array with respect to a deepest position of a depth of field of the lens array in the height direction.

Abstract: A power estimation method includes acquiring first consumed power information indicating a change in power consumed for a first time period from a first time to a second time within a time period elapsed from the start of the execution of a first job, and second consumed power information indicating a change in power consumed for a second time period from a third time to a fourth time within the time period elapsed from the start of the execution of the first job, the third time being after the second time, generating, from the first consumed power information, a first estimation model for estimating power to be consumed by the job for the first time period, and generating, from the second consumed power information, a second estimation model for estimating power to be consumed by the job for the second time period.

Abstract: A service specifying method for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes acquiring a parameter indicating a load of a resource used by a plurality of services for each of the plurality of services, estimating a performance of each service for each of a plurality of the services by using an estimation model that estimates the performance of the each service from the parameter related to the each service, the estimation model being provided for each of the plurality of services, and specifying, among the plurality of services, a service whose performance is deteriorated due to a failure of the resource based on the estimated performance.

Abstract: An apparatus calculates, based on attribute information of a new job and jobs that have been executed, a first similarity level of the attribute information between the new job and the jobs by using a calculation expression, identifies a job whose attribute information is most similar to that of the new job as a first candidate job, and estimates power consumption to be consumed by the new job at power consumption of the first candidate job. The apparatus calculates, for at least one of the jobs, a second similarity level of power consumption between the at least one of the jobs and the new job, identifies a job whose power consumption is most similar to that of the new job as a second candidate job, and adjusts the calculation expression to increase the first similarity level to be calculated between the new job and the second candidate job.

Abstract: According to at least one embodiment, a lens mirror array includes a plurality of optical elements. An optical element of the plurality of optical elements includes an incident surface on which light is incident, an emitting surface configured to emit the light incident through the incident surface, at least one reflecting surface reflecting the light incident through the incident surface toward the emitting surface, and a light shielding portion configured to block the light. The incident surface includes an effective surface configured to pass effective light emitted from the emitting surface and a directional surface configured to direct unnecessary light to the light shielding portion.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core disposed about a central axis and covered by an insulator, coils installed on the stator core through the insulator, and an intermediate bus bar electrically connected to a portion of a conducting wire constituting the coils. A method of manufacturing a stator includes a mounting process, a winding process, and a connecting process. An intermediate bus bar is supported at a first position spaced apart from a coil in an axial direction in a mounting portion before the start of the winding process. The intermediate bus bar is fixed at a second position between the first position and the coils in the axial direction after the completion of the winding process.

Abstract: First clustering is performed on a plurality of samples each including time-series measurement values of power consumption to thereby generate a plurality of first clusters. The plurality of first clusters are each classified as a second cluster satisfying a determination condition or a third cluster that does not satisfy the determination condition. The determination condition includes at least one of a first criterion in which the variance of correlation values between samples is less than a first threshold and a second criterion in which the average of the correlation values exceeds a second threshold. Second clustering is performed on samples included in the third cluster to divide the third cluster into a plurality of fourth clusters. Training data for use in generation of a model for predicting power consumption is generated based on the second cluster and at least one of the fourth clusters.

Abstract: A container deployment control method executed by a system that includes a global master device and a plurality of master devices, the method includes transmitting, by the global master device, a resource condition needed for deployment of a container to be deployed to each of the plurality of master devices; identifying, by each of the plurality of master devices, a result which indicates whether a resource in a cluster in which each of the plurality of master devices is deployed satisfies the resource condition; transmitting, by each of the plurality of master devices, the result to the global master device; and specifying, by the global master device, a cluster to be a deployment destination of the container to be deployed by using the result.

Abstract: An optical array includes one or more optical elements each including an incident surface at which light is incident into the optical element, a first reflection surface at which the light passing through the incident surface is reflected, a second reflection surface at which the light reflected by the first reflection surface is reflected again, an emission surface at which the light from the second reflection surface exits the optical element, and a refractive surface at which light that passes through the first reflection surface is refracted away from the emission surface.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a metal oxide layer, and a conductive layer; the first insulating layer, the metal oxide layer, and the conductive layer are stacked in this order over the semiconductor layer; an end portion of the first insulating layer is located inward from an end portion of the semiconductor layer; an end portion of the metal oxide layer is located inward from the end portion of the first insulating layer; and an end portion of the conductive layer is located inward from the end portion of the metal oxide layer. The second insulating layer is preferably provided to cover the semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer, the metal oxide layer, and the conductive layer.

Abstract: A rotor includes magnets, and a rotor core including thin film cores laminated in an axial direction and magnet holes in which the magnets are located. The rotor core includes first thin plate cores and second thin plate cores. The first thin plate cores include an annular first inner plate, first outer plates on a radially outer side of the inner plate and arrayed side by side in the circumferential direction, first inner connecting portions connecting the inner plate and the outer plate, and a first outer connecting portion that is on a radially outer side of the first outer plate and connects the adjacent outer plates in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An optical device includes a lens mirror array, in which transparent optical elements are connected to each other along a first direction, and a case, in which the lens mirror array is contained and fixed. The case includes at least three holes through which a manufacturing jig can pass. The jig can be used to press the lens mirror array in a direction intersecting the first direction at three or more positions on the lens mirror array to deform the lens mirror array to correct for possible distortions in the optical device prior to the fixing of the lens mirror array to the case.

Abstract: A rotor includes magnets, and magnet holes each of which includes an opening extending in a radial direction in plan view, penetrates a rotor core in the axial direction, and includes the magnet located therein. A magnetic pole surface of the magnet opposes a circumferential direction. The rotor core includes first thin plate cores and second thin plate cores. The first thin plate cores include an annular first inner plate, first outer plates on a radially outer side of the first inner plate and arrayed side by side in the circumferential direction, first inner connecting portions connecting the first inner plate and the first outer plate, and a first outer connecting portion that is on a radially outer side of the first outer plate and connects the adjacent first outer plates in the circumferential direction.