Abstract: A trigger switch includes: a trigger that receives a pushing operation; a shaft member that supports the trigger on one end side thereof; and a housing in which a through hole is opened through which the other end side of the shaft member passes. The shaft member moves inside the housing due to the pushing operation on the trigger. The trigger switch includes a covering member that covers the shaft member in a circumferential direction, has its inside sealed, and is expandable and contractible in an axial direction. The covering member has one end side attached to an outer periphery of the shaft member and has the other end side attached to a periphery of the through hole of the housing.

Abstract: A technique allows efficient processing of workpieces to be transported (transportation objects). A transportation system includes a holder device transportable on a predetermined transportation path while holding a transportation object and a transportation device including the predetermined transportation path to transport the holder device on the predetermined transportation path. The holder device includes a processing device that performs a predetermined processing operation of the transportation object and a receiver that receives driving power for driving the processing device from the transportation device while the holder device is being transported by the transportation device. The transportation device includes a transmitter that transmits the driving power to the receiver.

Abstract: The support device acquires locus information in which a position of a machine tool corresponding to an instruction value generated by execution of an NC program is associated with time information indicating a control time using the instruction value, and variable history information in which a value of a variable updated by execution of the sequence program is associated with time information indicating an update time The support device selects a target period in an execution period of a program, displays a portion corresponding to the target period in transition indicated by the locus information on a display device, and displays the value of the variable in the target period on the display device based on the variable history information.

Abstract: Parallel light traveling in a direction perpendicular to an outgoing surface having a curved surface is emitted. A light guide member according to one or more embodiments may include: an incident surface where light from a light source enters; at least one reflective surface that reflects the light having entered from the incident surface; and an outgoing surface that is formed of a curved surface and emits the light reflected by the reflective surface. The reflective surface reflects the light having entered from the light source in a direction in which the incident angle of the light incident on the outgoing surface is constant.

Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter, a first shutoff device, and a second shutoff device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups. The first shutoff device cuts off connections between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to a first electric path in response to a first control signal. The second shutoff device is driven by power supplied from the first shutoff device and cuts off connections between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to a second electric path in response to a second control signal. The first shutoff device includes a first switching unit which includes a first open and close unit and a first semiconductor switching device connected in parallel with the first open and close unit. The first semiconductor switching device is turned ON before the first open and close unit is operated.

Abstract: A first yoke is arranged in a contact direction with respect to a movable contact piece. A second yoke is arranged in an opening direction with respect to the movable contact piece. The first yoke and the second yoke are configured to generate a magnetic force that attracts the first yoke and the second yoke to each other when the movable contact contacts the fixed contact and is energized. The first yoke and the second yoke are arranged not to contact each other so that the movable contact piece can contact the fixed terminal in a state where the movable contact and the fixed contact are lost.

Abstract: A master device manages a plurality of slave devices constituting a network including a ring topology. The plurality of slave devices includes: a first slave device serving as a starting point and a terminal point of the ring topology; and a plurality of second slave devices connected between a first output port of the first slave device and a second output port thereof and constituting the ring topology. On the basis of a network configuration detected when the second output port and the output port of a second slave device paired with the second output port are available and of a network configuration detected when the second output port and the output port paired therewith have been made unavailable, the master device determines an incorrect wiring path between the first output port and the second output port and outputs information indicating the incorrect wiring path to an information processing device.

Abstract: A power receiver device of a non-contact power feeding device includes a plurality of resonance circuits that receive power from a power transmitter device, a voltage detection circuit that detects an output voltage from the plurality of resonance circuits, and a control circuit. Receiver coils of the plurality of resonance circuits are arranged so as to be electromagnetically coupled to each other. At least one of resonance circuits includes a variable capacitance circuit that is connected to the receiver coil of the resonance circuit and is regulatable in capacitance. The control circuit regulates the capacitance of the variable capacitance circuit in accordance with the output voltage.

Abstract: A system includes control devices, an integrated control device, and an operation terminal. The control devices respectively control movement mechanisms. The integrated control device outputs a command for each of the movement mechanisms to a control device that controls the movement mechanism. The operation terminal outputs a first command for a specific movement mechanism to the integrated control device, the specific movement mechanism being any of the movement mechanisms. The integrated control device generates a second command corresponding to the specific movement mechanism based on the first command and outputs the second command to a specific control device that controls the specific movement mechanism. The integrated control device or the specific control device generates, based on the second command, an operation profile that defines a temporal change in an operation of the specific movement mechanism.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a relationship identifier that identifies a first causal relationship based on data of a connection state and an order relationship of machineries that constitute a manufacturing line, the first causal relationship being between the machineries in a process performed on the manufacturing line, a relationship acquirer that acquires a second causal relationship between events related to the machineries in a process performed on the manufacturing line according to user setting, and a relationship synthesizer that generates a third causal relationship obtained by integrating the first causal relationship and the second causal relationship.

Abstract: A data generation device according to the above-described aspect of the present invention: uses a trained encoder to acquire, in a feature space, two or more sample points corresponding to two or more training samples from among a plurality of training samples, and to derive the linear sum at which the total distance becomes the maximum, said distance being calculated from respective sample points that have been acquired in accordance with a prescribed index; and uses a trained decoder to generate, as a new training sample, a decoding sample corresponding to a feature amount of the derived linear sum.

Abstract: Disclosed are: an operated device 2 comprising a spherical body 21 that moves upon receiving an operation from an external source, and a holding member 22 for movably holding the spherical body 21 from the outside; and a device for operating that comprises the operated device 2. The holding member 22 provided to the operated device 2 and the device for operating has a sliding member 23 for contacting an outer surface of the spherical body 21 and is provided with a pressing member 26 that presses the spherical body 21 and brings the spherical body 21 into contact with the sliding member 23, the spherical body 21 moving while being in contact with the sliding member 23.

Abstract: A winding of a transmission coil included in a power transmission device of a contactless power feed apparatus and serving to transmit AC power to a power reception device contactlessly is formed of a wiring pattern provided on a substrate. The transmission coil is divided into partial coils arranged coaxially. Each of the partial coils is formed such that, among the partial coils, a number of turns of a winding included in a partial coil is larger as the partial coil is located more outwardly.

Abstract: A vibration device includes vibration elements arranged side by side in a plane direction of a thin film, and the vibration elements are capable of being controlled in different vibrations respectively. The vibration device includes vibration elements having different frequencies of vibration. Further, the vibration device includes vibration elements having different phases. A vibration unit includes the vibration device and a control part controlling vibration of the vibration elements included in the vibration device. A vibration apparatus includes the vibration device, the control part, and a housing accommodating the vibration device and the control part, and includes a vibration part arranged on an outer surface of the housing and generating vibration caused by the vibration elements included in the vibration device.

Abstract: A power reception device 3 includes: an estimation circuit 28 estimating a load resistance of an entire contactless power feed apparatus 1; and a reception-side communicator 27 transmitting an estimated value of the load resistance of the entire contactless power feed apparatus 1 to a power transmission device 2. The power transmission device 2 has a power supply circuit 11 supplying AC power to a transmission coil 12 supplying power to the power reception device 3. The power transmission device 2 further includes a control circuit 18 decreasing an input/output gain of a transmission-side DC-DC converter 31 included in the power supply circuit 11 by a predetermined amount when the estimated value of the load resistance is less than a predetermined allowed lower limit, and maintaining or increasing the input/output gain when the estimated value of the load resistance is equal to or greater than the predetermined allowed lower limit.

Abstract: A contactless power feed apparatus 1 has a relay circuit 4 relaying power transmitted from a power transmission device 2 to a power reception device 3 in a contactless manner. The power transmission device 2 has: a transmission coil 12 transmitting AC power to the relay circuit 4. The relay circuit 4 has: a first coil 31, electromagnetically coupled with the transmission coil 12 and receiving the AC power from the transmission coil 12; a second coil 32, transmitting the AC power to the power reception device 3; and a resonant capacitor 33, resonating with the AC power supplied to the transmission coil 12 together with the first and second coils 31, 32. The power reception device 3 has: a resonant circuit 20, having a reception coil 21 receiving AC power from the second coil 32 by being electromagnetically coupled with the second coil 32 of the relay circuit 4.

Abstract: A transport possibility determination device comprises a distance measurement unit and a control unit. The distance measurement unit acquires information about the distance to an object. The control unit determines the state of a load when the object is a transport platform on which the load has been placed, on the basis of the information about the distance to the object acquired by the distance measurement unit. The control unit determines whether or not a transportable condition, which is a condition for permitting a forklift to transport the load, is met on the basis of the determined state of the load.

Abstract: A control device includes a program in a first execution format in which an overall program is executed per execution and a program in a second execution format in which parts of the program are sequentially executed. The device includes a processor that calculates, based on execution of the program in the second execution format, a second command value for controlling a control target in accordance with an intermediate code generated by an interpreter and calculates the second command value for controlling the same control target in response to the execution of the program in the first execution format, and a permitter that permits, in response to overlap between the execution times of the two programs, execution of one of the two programs accessing a second processor earlier than the other.