Abstract: Provided is a charging device including a plurality of battery pack connection parts, the charging device capable of performing appropriate charging when charging is performed while switching a charging target battery pack. A microcomputer 90 can alternatively execute a first mode and a second mode as a control mode when the battery pack is connected to a plurality of the battery pack connection parts 6a to 6d. In the first mode, the charging target battery packs are switched before being fully charged and sequentially charged. In the second mode, the charging target battery packs are fully charged and then switched and charged. At each switching, the type or the state of the charging target battery pack is detected.

Abstract: In one aspect, a reception means receives, from a roadside device, first information transmitted from a mobile body by using a first wireless communication. An identification means identifies, based on information of a terminal apparatus to be managed by an information management means, the terminal apparatus being located in the vicinity of the mobile body that has transmitted the first information. A transmission means transmits second information generated based on the first information, to the terminal apparatus identified by the identification means via a second wireless communication.

Abstract: Provided is an electric device made more convenient by being configured such that the temperature of a wide area in each accommodation section can be individually adjustable. In an electric device, a first refrigerant pipe is provided to a right-side member constituting a side surface of a first accommodation chamber, and a second refrigerant pipe is provided to a left-side member constituting a side surface of a second accommodation chamber. The first refrigerant pipe and the second refrigerant pipe are independent of each other. A regulating valve includes: a first regulating valve provided to the first refrigerant pipe, and a second regulating valve provided to the second refrigerant pipe.

Abstract: Provided are a stator for a rotary electric machine and the rotary electric machine. The stator includes a stator core, and a stator winding formed in a plurality of phases, the stator winding including a slot conductor and a crossover conductor configured to connect ends of a pair of the slot conductors, the ends placed at a same side of the pair of slot conductors.

Abstract: Provided is an electrical device. In a setting unit, a right-room temperature display unit displays a set temperature or the current temperature of a first housing room. A left-room temperature display unit displays a set temperature or the current temperature of a second housing room. A right-room temperature setting button is an operation unit for a user to switch the set temperature of the first housing room. A left-room temperature setting button is an operation unit for a user switch the set temperature of the second housing room. The set temperature difference between the first and second housing rooms is controlled to be within a prescribed value. When the set temperature of one of the first and second housing rooms is changed so that the set temperature exceeds a prescribed value, a microcomputer automatically changes the other set temperature so that the set temperature difference is within a prescribed value.

Abstract: Methods and systems for training a model include distinguishing hidden states of a monitored system based on condition information. An encoder and decoder are generated for each respective hidden state using forward and backward autoencoder losses. A hybrid hidden state is determined for an input sequence based on the hidden states. The input sequence is reconstructed using the encoders and decoders and the hybrid hidden state. Parameters of the encoders and decoders are updated based on a reconstruction loss.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulating vehicle data and improving driving scenario detection is provided.

Abstract: This steel sheet for hot stamping includes a base material, an Al—Si alloy plating layer in which the Al content is 75 mass % or more, the Si content is 3 mass % or more and the total of the Al content and the Si content is 95 mass % or more and a Ni plating layer in which the Ni content is more than 90 mass % in this order, the chemical composition of the base material is, by mass %, C: 0.01% or more and less than 0.70%, Si: 0.005% to 1.000%, Mn: 0.40% to 3.00%, Nb: 0.010% to 0.200%, a solid solution of Nb: 0.010% to 0.150%, sol. Al: 0.00020% to 0.50000%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.1000% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Cu: 0% to 1.00%, Ni: 0% to 1.00%, V: 0% to 1.00%, Ti: 0% to 0.150%, Mo: 0% to 1.000%, Cr: 0% to 1.000%, B: 0% to 0.0100%, Ca: 0% to 0.010%, REM: 0% to 0.300%, and a remainder: Fe and an impurity, the Al—Si alloy plating layer has a thickness of 7 to 148 ?m, and the Ni plating layer has a thickness of more than 200 nm and 2500 nm or less.

Abstract: A variable capacity turbocharger includes a housing, a turbine impeller at least partially located in the housing, a scroll flow path located in the housing and encircling the turbine impeller, a first nozzle ring and a second nozzle ring facing each other in the housing, a nozzle flow path located between the first nozzle ring and the second nozzle ring and fluidly coupling the scroll flow path to the turbine impeller, a gap formed between the first nozzle ring and the housing, and a bearing hole located in the first nozzle ring and including an opening adjacent to the gap. The gap is located on an opposite side of the first nozzle ring to the nozzle flow path. Additionally, the gap is connected to the scroll flow path.

Abstract: A resin composition for an insulating layer includes: an olefinic resin as a main component; and a metal deactivator, wherein the olefinic resin consists of block polypropylene and polyethylene, and wherein a content of the polyethylene in the olefinic resin is greater than or equal to 1% by mass and less than or equal to 10% by mass.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which is capable of suppressing a deterioration in accuracy of detecting an anomaly and accuracy of analyzing the anomaly, while suppressing an increase in an amount of data to be stored. The information processing system includes anomaly detection unit that collects event data indicating a predetermined event detected in a process of a device to be monitored, determines whether a predetermined index value related to the event exceeds a preset first threshold, and instructs enhanced monitoring of the device to be monitored and the process related to the event when the index value exceeds the first threshold, and collection instruction unit that determines an additional event being an event to be additionally monitored when the enhanced monitoring is instructed, and instructs the device to be monitored, which is subjected to the enhanced monitoring, to monitor the determined additional event.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrode layers. A difference of about 3 ?m or less exists between a maximum thickness of a center portion of the external electrode and a thickness of a peripheral portion of the external electrode, and in a range of a field of view of about 50 ?m square centered at a point located farther inward by about 15% than a peripheral end portion of the external electrode, an angle ? of about 4 degrees or less is defined by a straight line connecting two points of intersection of a surface of the external electrode and a sectional line defining the range of the field of view of about 50 ?m square and a perpendicular line to a vertical line passing through one of the two points of intersection.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a drive source that drives an object; and a hardware processor that detects a fluctuation range of a load applied to the drive source by driving the object, and determines a state of the object on a basis of a detection result.

Abstract: A learning model is trained so that a signal state can be estimated with high accuracy even in a case where a constellation on a complex plane is rotated. A learning apparatus (1) includes: an acquisition section (11) that acquires a constellation of a known state optical signal transmitted through optical fiber; a generation section (12) that generates a corrected constellation obtained by rotating the constellation on a complex plane; and a learning section (13) that uses the constellation and the corrected constellation to train a learning model.

Abstract: At least one processor included in an optical signal state estimation apparatus carries out: an acquisition process for acquiring a constellation of an optical signal; a generation process for generating time series data in which pieces of histogram information are arranged in time series, the histogram information being obtained by counting the number of signal points of the constellation, the signal points being included in each of grids obtained by dividing an in-phase component direction and a quadrature component direction into a specific number of rows and the specific number of columns, respectively; and an estimation process for estimating a state of the optical signal by inputting the time series data to a learned model.

Abstract: To extract data-for-machine-leaning so as to enable accurate detection of an abnormality while reducing normal state patterns in a mobile network. A learning data extracting apparatus includes: an issuing section that issues a network service use request which is to be processed by cooperation of a plurality of communication apparatuses constituting C-plane; an obtaining section that obtains, as pieces of candidate learning data, time series data of information relating to the plurality of communication apparatuses; and an extracting section that extracts, as data-for-machine-leaning, a piece of candidate learning data with which the process in response to the network service use request has been successfully ended, from among the pieces of candidate learning data.

Abstract: A method for machining a tool includes applying compressive residual stress to the tool by laser peening using a pulsed laser. The tool includes a base material and a coating layer that covers at least a portion of a surface of the base material. In the applying, the compressive residual stress is applied to the tool such that a difference in compressive residual stress at an interface between the base material and the coating layer is at most 100 MPa.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrode layers. A difference of about 3 ?m or less exists between a maximum thickness of a center portion of the external electrode and a thickness of a peripheral portion of the external electrode, and in a range of a field of view of about 50 ?m square centered at a point located farther inward by about 15% than a peripheral end portion of the external electrode, an angle ? of about 4 degrees or less is defined by a straight line connecting two points of intersection of a surface of the external electrode and a sectional line defining the range of the field of view of about 50 ?m square and a perpendicular line to a vertical line passing through one of the two points of intersection.

Abstract: A structure deterioration detection system according to the present disclosure includes: a sensing optical fiber (10) laid on a structure; a reception unit (201) that receives vibration information detected by the sensing optical fiber (10); an identification unit (202) that identifies a change pattern of a vibration characteristic of each of a plurality of points on the structure, based on the vibration information; and an analysis unit (203) that analyzes a deterioration state of at least one point among the plurality of points, based on a change pattern of a vibration characteristic of each of the plurality of points.

Abstract: A shot peening method is disclosed. One method includes performing a first shot peening for applying residual stress to a surface of an object formed of a metal material at a first depth, and performing a second shot peening for applying residual stress to the surface of the object at a second depth deeper than the first depth after the first shot peening. The first shot peening is performed before the object is used at a high temperature and the second shot peening is performed after the object is used at the high temperature, and after a cracking caused by stress due to thermal expansion and contraction of crystal grains occurs in the object. The cracking being deeper than the first depth and shallower than the second depth.