Abstract: A cargo handling system includes: a first detection unit configured to detect a cargo on a pallet held by a fork of a forklift as a loaded state together with the pallet using at least one type of sensor before cargo handling work is started; a first abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the loaded state detected by the first detection unit is abnormal; a second detection unit configured to detect a work situation using a plurality of types of sensors after the cargo handling work is started; and a second abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the work situation detected by the second detection unit is abnormal.

Abstract: A resonance circuit includes: an inductor formed along a surface of a first cylindrical form having a central axis; and a capacitor formed along a surface of a second cylindrical form having the central axis, wherein the inductor and the capacitor are electrically connected to each other to form a closed loop.

Abstract: A wire-grid polarizer includes metal reflectors which are embedded in a large number of grooves formed in a one-dimensional grid pattern in the same direction and with the same period in the front surface of a transparent sheet, wherein the average width (a) of the metal reflectors is 200 nm or less, the ratio (b/a) of the average thickness (b) of the metal reflectors from the front side of the sheet to the tip in the backward direction to the above average width (a) is 4 to 25, in any cross-section perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, the shape of each of the metal reflectors in the vicinity of the tip in the thickness direction is such that it gradually becomes thinner in a linear or smoothly curved shape toward the tip, and the ratio of the average length (c) toward the tip of portions that gradually become thinner toward the tip to the above average width (a) is 1.2 or more.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a superconducting induction rotating machine 1 that has a stator for which a plurality of superconducting armature coils are placed along the circumferential direction, and a rotor provided rotatably around a central axis line in a state opposing the stator with a predetermined gap interposed, wherein the rotor is configured of a complex consisting of a cylindrical electrically conductive material layer disposed on a side opposing the stator, and a magnetic material layer disposed on an opposite side to the side opposing the stator of the electrically conductive material layer, and wherein the superconducting induction rotating machine 1 rotationally drives the rotor by generating a rotational torque in the rotor with a rotating magnetic field created by the armature coils while the superconducting armature coils disposed on the stator being cooled to a superconducting state.

Abstract: A medical instrument in which an inorganic salt solid such as apatite into which a peptide hormone or the like is embedded is placed so that a metal or the like is coated therewith, in which the inorganic salt solid is provided by controlled delay co-precipitation or the like in an unstable supersaturated calcium phosphate solution, and the medical instrument is exposed to ionizing radiation at a dose sufficient for sterilization.

Abstract: A method may produce a perovskite-type ceramic compact including a perovskite-type ceramic having an alkaline earth metal element, at least one element selected from Ti, Zr, and Hf, and O. Such a method may include a contact reaction process in which a precursor compact including singly a gel including water and an oxide of at least one element selected from Ti, Zr, and Hf, and a liquid containing a hydroxide of the alkaline earth metal element are brought into contact with each other.

Abstract: In order to perform data transfer efficiently in an electro-optical hybrid switch network, monitor data that is a blocking rate in an optical line switching network, an amount concerning flows transferred by a connection apparatus to an electric packet network, a buffer utilization state in telecommunication devices within the electric packet network, or packet transfer latency or the like in telecommunication devices is obtained, and based on the monitor data, a threshold for distinguishing a first flow to be transferred by the connection apparatus through the optical line switching network from a second flow to be transferred by the connection apparatus through the electric packet network is changed, wherein the threshold is to identify, as the first flow, a flow that has a size exceeding the threshold and identify, as the second flow, a flow that has a size that is equal to or less than the threshold.

Abstract: A modified pigment having excellent color tone selectivity is provided by laking dye by an environmentally friendly method without using metal. A modified pigment according to the present invention is obtained by laking a dye containing at least one of an acidic group and a basic group with at least one of an amino acid and protein.

Abstract: Provided is a joint assembly that selectively isolates an isolation target layer in an open hole drilled in the strata including a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir and the isolation target layer, and is a production well manufacturing method and gas production method using the joint assembly. The joint assembly includes a tubular body to be inserted into the open hole to be positioned to penetrate the isolation target layer; and a light source disposed over entire circumference of an outer periphery of the body and configured to emit light to cure uncured photo-curable resin that is introduced between the body and a borehole wall of the open hole.

Abstract: A structure 10 comprising microchannels 14, wherein: the structure 10 includes a base material 11, a partition material 12 and a cover material 13, at least portions of the base material 11 and partition material 12 have a resin region obtained from an alkali-soluble resin 21, in the infrared absorption spectrum by infrared spectroscopy of the resin region 21, the ratio (Aa/Ac) between: the maximum peak intensity (Aa) in a first range of 1555 to 1575 cm?1 and the maximum peak intensity (Ac) in a second range of 1715 to 1735 cm?1 is greater than 0 and 0.200 or lower, and the water contact angle on the flow channel-forming surface 11a of the base material 11 is 40 to 150 degrees.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a quantum bit cell and a quantum bit integrated circuit having an easy-to-integrate structure. The quantum bit cell of the present invention including a spin torque oscillator capable of emitting a microwave with a propagation distance of 1 ?m or less and having a maximum diameter of 1 ?m or less, and a solid-state element quantum bit arranged near the spin torque oscillator at an interval of the propagation distance or less, where a quantum two-level system is controlled by the microwave.

Abstract: There is provided an item detection device that detects an item to be loaded and unloaded and includes an image acquisition unit acquiring a surrounding image obtained by capturing surroundings of the item detection device, an information image creation unit creating an information image, in which information related to a part to be loaded and unloaded in the item has been converted into an easily recognizable state, on the basis of the surrounding image, and a computing unit computing at least one of a position and a posture of the part to be loaded and unloaded on the basis of the information image.

Abstract: A carbon electrode includes a substrate, and a conductive carbon layer disposed at an upper side of the substrate and having an sp2 bond and an sp3 bond. On an upper surface of the conductive carbon layer, the concentration ratio of oxygen to carbon is 0.07 or more. The ratio of a number of sp3 bonded carbon atoms to the sum of a number of sp2 bonded carbon atoms and the number of sp3 bonded carbon atoms is 0.35 or more.

Abstract: An organically modified metal oxide nanoparticles that can be produced by a simple method and can increase the sensitivity and resolution of a resist material. The EUV photoresist material contains organically modified metal oxide nanoparticles and a solvent. The organically modified metal oxide nanoparticles include a core, a first modification group, and a second modification group. The core includes a plurality of metal atoms and a plurality of oxygen atoms bonded to the plurality of metal atoms. The first modification group is a carboxylic acid carboxylate ligand coordinated to the core. The second modification group is a carboxylic acid carboxylate ligand coordinated to the core and having a smaller molecular weight than the first modification group and/or an inorganic anion smaller in size than the first modification group.

Abstract: A hydrogen production system includes a hydrogen production facility and a management server. The management server includes an operation plan creation unit and an operation plan output unit. The operation plan creation unit creates an operation plan for the hydrogen production facility. The operation plan output unit outputs data including the operation plan created by the operation plan creation unit. The operation plan creation unit creates an operation plan for the hydrogen production facility including a demand response possible amount for each unit time based on a demand response consideration for each unit time determined in advance.

Abstract: A flexible sensor includes a main substrate having flexibility, a transistor over the main substrate, a support substrate over the transistor, wherein the support substrate has flexibility and at least an outer surface of the support substrate comprises a material having electric insulation, and a variable resistance part over a first surface which is an upper surface of the support substrate, in which a resistance value of the variable resistance part changes according to strain of the variable resistance part.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon compound from carbon dioxide, said method including: (a) a step of preparing an absorption-conversion catalyst that includes an oxide carrier, a first component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, and a second component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Fe, Co, Cu, and Ru; (b) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst and a carbon dioxide-including gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and causing the carbon dioxide to be stored in the absorption-conversion catalyst; and (c) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst that has the carbon dioxide stored therein and a reducing gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and obtaining the hydrocarbon compound.

Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a pumpless high-pressure hydrogen supply system capable of supplying high-pressure hydrogen to a fuel cell vehicle, etc., when needed without using a compressor or the like, and a method for the system. The present invention relates to a high-pressure hydrogen supply system that obtains a mixed gas of hydrogen and carbon dioxide by dehydrogenation of formic acid using a complex catalyst, separates the hydrogen therefrom, and supplies the hydrogen at a pressure of 5 MPa or more. By obtaining the mixed gas at a pressure of 5 MPa or more by dehydrogenation and cooling the mixed gas by a separator while maintaining this pressure at 0.4 MPa or more, gas components other than hydrogen are phase separated as liquids or solids and removed. The separated hydrogen is raised in purity by pressure fluctuation adsorption, continuously sent to a pressure accumulator, and stored at a pressure of 70 MPa or more.

Abstract: A method of mounting electronic devices, including the steps of: irradiating with microwaves a board for mounting electronic devices including a base, a plurality of solder parts on the base, and a plurality of electronic devices corresponding to the plurality of solder parts placed in contact with the plurality of solder parts, the microwave irradiation is performed in a state in which electromagnetic shielding is performed for some of the plurality of solder parts; and heating and melting at least the solder parts for which the electromagnetic shielding is not performed by an action of a magnetic field of a standing wave formed by the microwave irradiation.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic metal complex catalyst for an olefin metathesis reaction, which enables the achievement of a higher yield of a desired substance in an olefin metathesis reaction than the conventional catalysts. The organic metal complex catalyst according to the present invention has a structure represented by formula (1) and is used for an olefin metathesis reaction. In formula (1), M represents a coordination center and is an Ru atom or an ion thereof; R1, R2 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other and independently represent a substituent such as a hydrogen atom; R4, R5, R6 and R7 may be the same as or different from one another and independently represent a substituent such as a hydrogen atom; X represents a halogen atom; and R8 represents a substituent having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and having a ? bond.