Abstract: The PLC is provided that outputs assistance information for assisting elimination of a target abnormality by using abnormality history data having written thereto an abnormality log element containing type information, occurrence time, and elimination time of an abnormality and operation history data having written thereto an operation log element containing content information and execution time of an operation. The output unit extracts, from the abnormality history data, an abnormality log element containing the type information showing a type identical to a type of the target abnormality. The output unit extracts, from the operation history data, an operation log element containing the execution time falling within a period from the occurrence time to the elimination time contained in the abnormality log element thus extracted, and generates the assistance information based on the extracted operation log element.

Abstract: Provided is a unit that causes transmission of smallest payload data to a communication interface to be in standby during a time period from a time, at which it is determined that a transmission time of smallest payload data exceeds a reference value during a control cycle, to a time at which the communication interface transmits the smallest payload data to be transmitted next after the most recent smallest payload data transmitted at the time.

Abstract: The risk analysis system according to the present invention includes: a storage apparatus which stores subject data including information related to health of a subject; an analyzer which analyzes a risk related to the health of the subject based on the subject data acquired from the storage apparatus; and an output apparatus which outputs an analysis result by the analyzer. The analyzer has: a risk estimating unit which estimates an event onset risk of the subject based on the subject data; and a medical expense predicting unit which predicts future medical expenses, which are medical expenses to be incurred in the future by the subject, based on the event onset risk estimated by the risk estimating unit and the subject data.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a first movable contact piece, a first movable contact, a second movable contact, a moving member, a coil, and a movable iron core. The moving member holds the first movable contact piece. The moving member is made of a resin having electrical insulation. The moving member includes a first member and a second member. The first member is connected to a movable iron core. The second member is a separate body from the first member. The second member is connected to the first member by snap fitting. The first member includes a convex portion. The convex portion projects toward the second member in a moving direction of the moving member. The second member includes an inspection hole. The inspection hole faces the convex portion in the moving direction and extends in the moving direction.

Abstract: Generation of a wrinkle is prevented in a sticker when the sticker is peeled off from a release paper. A sticker affixing system includes an articulated robot, a controller that controls the articulated robot, a suction tool attached to a distal end of the articulated robot, and a sticker feeder that conveys a release paper. The suction tool is sucked to the sticker on the release paper. The controller causes the articulated robot to execute an operation of moving the suction tool in parallel with the release paper at a constant speed of the release paper in synchronization with the sticker feeder, an operation of peeling off the sticker at an edge A of a peeling base of the release paper, and an operation of affixing the sticker to the object to which the sticker is affixed.

Abstract: In the present invention, contact between an operator and a robot that moves a workpiece is avoided, and an effect on an article is reduced. This robot controller (1), which controls the operation speed of a robot (2) that moves a workpiece (3), comprises: a prediction unit (11) that predicts contact from the position of a robot and the position of a person or object; and an acceleration change unit (12) that, when contact is predicted by the prediction unit, changes the acceleration at which the speed of the robot is reduced to perform an emergency stop in accordance with the presence of the workpiece.

Abstract: Provided is an evaluation system including: an analog-to-digital converting section comprised of a programmable circuit and configured to convert an analog signal, the analog signal being acquired by a physical quantity acquiring section and indicative of a time-series change of at least one of (i) welding current, welding voltage, or load applied to pieces to be welded and (ii) a displacement, during welding, of a welding head; and an evaluating section configured to determine, based on a digital signal, whether or not the time-series change satisfies a predetermined condition, wherein configuration data for configuring the programmable circuit is arranged to be changeable by a user.

Abstract: An inspection system includes: a light emitting device configured to illuminate a target object; a collimator lens arranged between the light emitting device and the target object; and an imaging device configured to image the target object. The light emitting device is capable of changing a light emission position. The inspection system further includes an image analysis unit configured to generate an analysis image in which a value of each pixel corresponds to a normal direction of a surface of the target object appearing in the pixel, by analyzing a plurality of captured images obtained individually from a plurality of times of imaging where the light emission positions are different from each other. As a result, time and effort in adjustment for inspection can be reduced, and defect detection accuracy is improved.

Abstract: A character input device may include a character input unit, an operation detector, an input trajectory measuring unit, and a character switching unit. The character input unit receives a character input operation performed using flick input. The operation detector detects the character input operation received by the character input unit. The input trajectory measuring unit measures a length of an input trajectory from a start position to an end position of the character input operation detected by the operation detector. The character switching unit switches characters regularly from a first character corresponding to the start position of the character input operation in accordance with the length of the input trajectory to obtain a second character.

Abstract: A housing includes a first space, a second space, a first hole, a second hole, and an arc extinguishing member. A fixed contact and a movable contact are arranged in the first space. The second space is partitioned from the first space. The first hole communicates the first space and the second space. The second hole communicates the second space with a space outside the second space. The arc extinguishing member releases an arc extinguishing gas into the first space. The second hole has a smaller opening area than the first hole.

Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes a spool including a cylindrical body portion in which a through hole extending to a first direction is provided, a coil wound around the body portion, an iron core disposed in a through hole of the body portion, a yoke including a first member and a second member, the first member being connected to the iron core and the second member extending from the first member along an outer peripheral surface of the coil, and a movable iron piece, which has a plate shape, including a bent portion in a middle thereof. The yoke includes at least one positioning projection provided in a middle of the free end in the second direction. The movable iron piece includes a positioning recessed portion that accommodates and positions the positioning projection, the positioning recessed portion being provided in a middle between the pair of rotation supporting points.

Abstract: A route planning system according to one or more embodiments may include an obtaining unit configured to obtain an environmental map indicating, for any obstacle, a location and a degree of certainty that the obstacle is present at that location, a planning unit configured to plan a movement route along which a mobile robot moves, excluding any obstacles in the environmental map, that have a degree of certainty that does not satisfy a predetermined standard, and an output unit configured to output route information, which is information on the planned movement route, to the mobile robot.

Abstract: A model generation apparatus trains, through machine learning, a neural network module that includes an extraction operation to extract an element satisfying a predetermined condition from a set of targets. In the machine learning, the model generation apparatus performs the extraction operation in a phase of forward propagation with the neural network module, and replaces, in a phase of backpropagation, the extraction operation with a differentiable alternative operation and differentiates the alternative operation to compute an approximate gradient corresponding to differentiation for the extraction operation.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of generating a discriminator having high inference precision at low cost. An inspection system according to one aspect of the present invention generates, from first image data, plural pieces of second image data of a product; determines, by a first discriminator, whether to adopt each piece of the second image data as learning data; generates a learning data set by the second image data that is determined to be adopted as learning data; constructs, by applying machine learning using the generated learning data set, a second discriminator that determines the acceptability of a product; and uses the constructed second discriminator to determine the acceptability of a product in target image data.

Abstract: A sphygmomanometer includes: a first fluid bag that is to be worn around a measurement site; first and second pulse wave sensors that are mounted on first fluid bag, and detect pulse waves of respective opposing areas of an artery running along measurement site; pressing parts that locally presses areas corresponding to first and second pulse wave sensors from an outer circumference side, opposite of an inner circumference side of first fluid bag where first and second pulse wave sensors are mounted. Blood pressure is calculated based on pulse transit time obtained from outputs from first and second pulse wave sensors, with first fluid bag in an unpressurized state and first and second pulse wave sensors being pressed by a pressing force of the pressing part. Blood pressure is calculated, for oscillometric blood pressure measurement, based on pressure within first fluid bag with first fluid bag in a pressurized state.

Abstract: Generation of a wrinkle is prevented when a sticker is affixed to an object. A sticker affixing system includes an articulated robot, a controller configured to control the articulated robot, and a suction tool attached to a distal end of the articulated robot. The suction tool includes a suction portion configured to hold a sticker and a pressing portion configured to affix the sticker to an object to which the sticker is affixed. The controller causes the articulated robot to execute an operation of inclining a suction surface of the suction portion with respect to a surface of the object and an operation of moving the suction tool along the surface of the object. The pressing portion presses the sticker against the surface of the object while the suction tool moves along the surface of object.

Abstract: Generation of a wrinkle is prevented when a sticker is affixed to an object. A sticker affixing system includes an articulated robot, a controller configured to control the articulated robot, a suction tool attached to a distal end of the articulated robot, and a force sensor configured to detect force applied to the suction tool. The controller causes the articulated robot to execute: an operation of moving the suction tool holding a sticker along a surface of an object to which the sticker is affixed; and an operation of adjusting an inclination of the suction tool with respect to a traveling direction (roll axis) of the suction tool and the traveling direction of the suction tool based on a signal from the force sensor.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an axial force of a screw which is generated by screw driving is estimated. A control part applies a predetermined torque generated by a rotation axis servomotor to a screw in a rotation direction where a screw is driven, and thereafter releases the torque. The control part then estimates an axial force of the driven screw based on fluctuation of a rotation position of the rotation axis servomotor which occurs due to the release of the torque.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a camera interface and a processor, the camera interface acquiring a moving image from a first camera that is installed at a production site and that images a worker and surroundings of the worker and from a second camera that is installed at the production site and that images a face of the worker. The processor detects an operation section of work performed by the worker from a predetermined number of consecutive frames included in the moving image acquired from the first camera using an inference model. The processor detects the emotion and the line-of-sight direction of the worker included in each frame of the moving image acquired from the second camera. Further, the processor provides a detection result.

Abstract: A multi-hole absorption tool includes an absorption surface including a plurality of absorption holes to which a seal is absorbed. Each of the plurality of absorption holes is classified so as to belong to at least one of a first region and a second region, and absorption holes belonging to the first region and absorption holes belonging to the second region are connected to different suction devices. The multi-hole absorption tool having this configuration can peel off the seal from a mount with no wrinkle in the seal, prevent positional displacement of the seal with respect to an object to which the seal is affixed, and affix the seal to the object.