Abstract: A proximity sensor that outputs presence or absence of a detection object or a position of the detection object as a detection result includes: a detection part configured to include a detection coil and a capacitor; an oscillation circuit configured to excite the detection part; an analog/digital conversion circuit configured to detect a signal change occurring in the detection part and output a digital signal indicating the detected signal change; a temperature detection part configured to detect a temperature inside a casing of the proximity sensor; a storage part configured to store a characteristic parameter unique to the proximity sensor in advance; a control calculation part configured to process a digital signal from the analog/digital conversion circuit to calculate a signal indicating a distance to the detection object, compensate the calculated signal using the characteristics parameter stored in the storage part, and output the compensated signal as the detection result.

Abstract: The control system includes: a master device control part (20) controlling a master device (101) with a certain number of control axes (m) by using master information (Mm) composed of elements equal in number to the number of control axes; and a slave device control part (40) controlling a slave device (102) with a certain number of control axes (n) by using slave information (Sn) composed of elements equal in number to the number of control axes. A central control device (30) of the disclosure includes an abstracted master information creating part (31) for creating abstracted master information (AM6) having a fixed number of elements based on a predetermined manner for allocation and according to the number of elements of the received master information (Mm), and provides the abstracted master information (AM6) to the slave device control part (40) for creating the slave information (Sn).

Abstract: Provided is a management system for performing quality management on production equipment. A management system that includes: an acquisition component that acquires status information for production equipment that is subject to management; a detection component that, on the basis of the acquired status information, detects the occurrence of some event; and a display component that displays, separated according to inclusion in the four perspectives Machine, Man, Material, and Method, a plurality of factors that could be presumed to have caused the detected event in a manner in which the contents thereof and a probability of having caused the event can be compared.

Abstract: A controller includes a specifying part and a reception part. The specifying part specifies positions where the illumination units are connected. The reception part presents a lightable area and an unlightable area in different modes based on the positions where the illumination units are connected, the positions being specified by the specifying part. The reception part receives settings of the lighting conditions for the lightable area.

Abstract: An ultrasonic nebulizer includes: a working tank in which an ultrasonic vibrator is incorporated and in which a working liquid is stored facing the ultrasonic vibrator; a medicine tank that stores a medicinal liquid, at least a bottom portion thereof being dipped in the working liquid; and a main body that includes an oscillation circuit that is to drive the ultrasonic vibrator. The medicine tank is configured to be detachable with respect to the working tank. The working tank is configured to be detachable with respect to the main body.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a situation specifying unit configured to specify a part of a situation of the measurement subject on the basis of the number of measurements of the biological information in each situation of the measurement subject at the time of measuring biological information of the measurement subject by a biological information measuring unit, a current situation detecting unit configured to detect a current situation of the measurement subject, and a support information output unit configured to output support information relating to measurement of the biological information if the current situation corresponds to the measurement promoting situation.

Abstract: A biological information measurement apparatus includes a set time information acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a set time point being set to determine whether or not a subject is wearing the biological information measurement apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the subject is wearing the biological information measurement apparatus at the set time point, and an instruction signal output unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that the subject is not wearing the biological information measurement apparatus at the set time point, output an instruction signal instructing provision of assistance to the subject in wearing the biological information measurement apparatus.

Abstract: A control device includes a program execution module, a communication unit, and a collection module connected to the communication unit. The program execution module generates control instructions for a control target in accordance with a user program that is freely created. The communication unit transmits and/or receives communication data to and/or from an external device through a network. The collection module collects data satisfying a filtering condition from among the communication data that is transferred on the network. The collection module changes the filtering condition in accordance with an instruction included in the user program.

Abstract: The disclosure prevents a string-shaped elastic member from being sandwiched and held between a light transmitting plate and a frame body or the like in a twisted state. At least a part of a side wall on an outer side of a storage groove (21) is provided with a projection part (22) preventing an elastic member (4) from being twisted.

Abstract: An occupant monitoring apparatus includes: an imaging unit; an illumination unit; a casing in which the imaging unit and the illumination unit are installed; optical films provided on driver's sides of the imaging unit and the illumination unit and optically adjusting incident light; a cover covering the imaging unit, the illumination unit, the casing, and the optical films; windows provided in the cover so as to face the optical films; supports provided on window frame portions; and supports provided in the casing so as to face the window frame portions. The supports provided in the casing support end portions of the optical films from the windows side. The supports provided on the window frame portions support the end portions from an imaging unit side or an illumination unit side. The optical films are sandwiched in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction and an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in the one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body, a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in a radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that are detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing surface is pressed against the living body by the air bag, and a rotational drive unit for performing driving to rotate the pressing surface about each of axes that are perpendicular to a pressing direction of the air bag.

Abstract: A seismic sensor that suppresses power consumption operates in a power-saving mode and a measurement mode in which the power consumption is larger than that in the power-saving mode. The seismic sensor includes a measurement unit that measures an acceleration, a filtering unit that, if the acceleration measured by the measurement unit exceeds a predetermined threshold, causes a shift from the power-saving mode to the measurement mode to be performed, and performs filtering on the measured acceleration, an earthquake determination unit that determines whether or not an earthquake has occurred based on the filtered acceleration, and an index calculation unit that, if where the earthquake determination unit determined that an earthquake has occurred, calculates an index value indicating the scale of the earthquake. A shift from the measurement mode to the power-saving mode is performed if the earthquake determination unit determined that no earthquake has occurred.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus that can correctly obtain the execution status information of the instruction whose sender is the control apparatus itself. The controller (3) controls operations of the IO-Link device (2) via the IO-Link master (1), and includes the writing part (300) transmitting an instruction for the IO-Link device (2) and an identification of the instruction to the IO-Link master (1) and the reading part (301) retrieving an execution status information (status) indicating the execution status of the instruction by using the identification information.

Abstract: An air purge unit which blows out air to a lens surface of an optical sensor includes: a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other; a third surface which is located along a direction intersecting with the first surface and the second surface; a first connection part, a second connection part and a third connection part which are respectively arranged on the first surface, the second surface and the third surface, and to which an air injector for injecting air to the inside of the air purge unit is selectively connected; and an air blowout part which blows out the air injected to the inside of the air purge unit to the lens surface of the optical sensor.

Abstract: An optical device has a light guide plate that guides light in a plane parallel to an emission surface thereof, an optical deflection surface that deflects light entering the light guide plate from a light source that faces a plane parallel to at least the emission surface or the surface opposite the emission surface, so that the light travels along the light guide direction of the light guide plate, and a plurality of light focusing portions. Each of the light focusing portions includes an optical surface whereon the light deflected by the optical deflection surface and guided by the light guide plate is incident, and which causes the emission surface to output emission light that converges substantially on a convergence point or convergence line in a space, or that radiates substantially from a convergence point or convergence line in a space.

Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a first detector (A) which detects, as an application result, whether a user could implement, as instructed, teaching content according to a program selected from a training menu; a second detector (B) which detects, as a compatibility result, whether effects of the teaching content were exhibited; a recording part (14) which cumulatively records the application result and the compatibility result as an execution result together with program identifying information; and a calculation part (13) which, on the basis of one or more than one execution results recorded in the recording part, calculates for each program, as a compatibility ratio, the ratio of the number of execution results having positive compatibility results to the number of execution results having positive application results.

Abstract: A person and machine matching device (1), for each machine that operates according to operation of an operator, stores a machine type classified on a basis of operability of the machine, in a machine type DB (15). The person and machine matching device (1) determines matching between an operator type obtained by classifying an operator on the basis of a machine operation handling ability and the machine type classified on the basis of the operability of the machine. In addition, the person and machine matching device (1) generates and outputs matching determination result information with the machine of which the machine type is stored in the machine type DB (15), on the basis of a determination result obtained by determining the matching between the operator type of a specified operator and the machine type.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a box-shaped insulating housing in which a closed space is formed, a pair of fixed terminals fixed to the housing electrically independently of each other and each having a fixed contact placement surface in the closed space, a plate-shaped conductive movable contactor that is provided in the closed space, has a first surface facing the fixed contact placement surfaces of the pair of fixed terminals, and is movably disposed such that the first surface approaches and separates from the fixed contact placement surfaces of the pair of fixed terminals, a pair of fixed contacts respectively provided on the fixed contact placement surfaces of the pair of fixed terminals, and a pair of movable contacts that is respectively provided on the first surface of the movable contactor and respectively face the pair of fixed contacts.