Abstract: The photoelectric sensor includes a light projecting part emitting light, a light receiving part receiving light, a housing housing the light projecting part and the light receiving part, a setting part receiving an input operation from outside to set a threshold value, and an adjustment part receiving an input operation from outside to finely adjust the set threshold value. The housing includes a front surface having a light projecting/receiving surface allowing light from the light projecting part and light to the light receiving part to pass, a rear surface located on a side opposite to the front surface, a top surface adjacent to the front surface and extending in a direction orthogonal to the front surface and the rear surface, and an inclined surface inclined with respect to and connecting the top surface and the rear surface. The adjustment part is provided on the inclined surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a contact determination device, control device, contact determination system, contact determination method, and contact determination program. This contact determination device acquires position information and/or posture information for a target person. Further, the state of movement of a part to be calculated in the body of the target person is calculated on the basis of acquired movement information and a body model relating to the shape of the body of the target person, said body model having been recorded in advance. Meanwhile, an electrical change is detected. Then, the contact determination device determines the state of contact between the target person and the object to be controlled on the basis of the detected electrical change and the state of movement of the part to be calculated in the body of the target person.

Abstract: An image processing system comprises: a projector for projecting pattern light whose coordinate component at least in one direction is determinable; an imaging apparatus for imaging an object illuminated with the pattern light to acquire a pattern image; and a controller including a calculator for calculating the 3D coordinates of a point on the object based on the pattern light and the pattern image. The calculator determines a first point on the pattern image; calculates a second point corresponding to the first point in a pattern-light projection plane; calculates a third point based on the second point in the projection plane, a nonlinear line in the projection plane calculated by analyzing the pattern image, and an epipolar line in the projection plane calculated based on the first point; and calculates the three-dimensional coordinates of the point on the object based on the first point and the third point.

Abstract: An operation switch unit attached to a game machine includes a spin button that receives an input operation of an operator, an input detector that detects that the input operation of the operator is performed, and a controller that controls a directional speaker such that the directional speaker emits a directional sound, which does not spread uniformly but has directionality, to the operator as a notification that an operation input is performed based on a detection signal from the input detector.

Abstract: A trigger switch has a switch housing fixed inside a tool housing of an electric power tool and internally having a holder, an operation unit provided outside the switch housing and connected to the switch housing so as to be approachable to and separable from the switch housing, a fixed contact provided in the holder, and a movable contact provided so as to face the fixed contact in the holder and configured to come into contact with and separate from the fixed contact in conjunction with an approaching motion and a separating motion of the operation unit with respect to the switch housing. A vibration damping elastic body is provided integrally on an outer surface of the switch housing.

Abstract: A power supply circuit includes: a coil having a first end that receives an input voltage and a second end; a transistor connected to the second end of the coil; a first capacitor connected to the second end of the coil; and a surge protection circuit connected to the second end of the coil in parallel with the first capacitor. The surge protection circuit includes a diode, a second capacitor, and a resistance. The diode, the second capacitor, and the resistance are connected in series to the second end of the coil.

Abstract: The indication of an input or output level of an analog signal is given at low production cost and without the need for a wide space to install a configuration for indicating the input or output level. An analog signal input device (1) includes: a voltage detecting section (130) configured to detect an input or output level of an analog signal; and an LED lighting control section (132) configured to control a pattern of light emission of an LED (15) in accordance with the input or output level of the analog signal.

Abstract: The present invention is a control device which includes a filter unit for performing an attenuation process at a predetermined frequency on a control input based on a predetermined target command, generates the control input through model predictive control executed by a model predictive control unit and causes an output of a predetermined control object to follow the predetermined target command. A prediction model defines a correlation between the control input and predetermined extended state variables including a state variable related to a predetermined control object and a predetermined filter state variable related to the filter unit, and a predetermined evaluation function for model predictive controls configured to calculate a state quantity cost that is a stage cost with respect to state variables except the predetermined filter state variable among the predetermined extended state variables, and a control input cost that is a stage cost related to the control input.

Abstract: Measurement data is managed such that the measurement data can be visualized and recorded in association with a condition set during servo control adjustment. The adjustment device obtains the parameter setting condition and measurement data in association with each other, and saves drawing information based on the measurement data and the setting condition as the same file content.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of more accurately measuring and outputting a flow rate according to an intended purpose, in a flow rate measurement device. A flow rate measurement device (1) for detecting a flow rate of measurement target fluid flowing through a main flow path (2) includes: a heater (113) configured to heat measurement target fluid; a plurality of temperature detectors (111, 112) that are arranged with the heater interposed in between in a flow direction of the measurement target fluid, and are configured to detect a temperature of the measurement target fluid; and a converter (133) configured to convert a difference in outputs of the plurality of temperature detectors into a heat flow rate or a heat quantity of measurement target fluid flowing through the main flow path.

Abstract: There has been desired a technique for creating a table on a database without formulating an SQL statement. A control program for a controller includes a generation module configured to output an SQL statement for creating, on a database, a table in which collection target variables included in the control program are stored. The generation module determines an identification name, on the database, of each collection target variable, identifies, based on a correspondence between a data type usable in the control program and a data type usable in the database, a data type on the database corresponding to the data type of the collection target variable in the control program, and generates the SQL statement based on the determined identification name and the identified data type.

Abstract: Compatibility of a callable unit program configuring a user program is provided. A code generator that generates a code having a format executable by a control device from the user program generates an instruction code creating a structure storing association information associating a name of an argument with a value set to the argument with respect to a call expression, and converts the call expression into an instruction code calling the unit program using an identifier of the structure. A value of association information is set to the argument when the association information corresponding to the name of the argument is stored in the structure with respect to each argument of the unit program, an instruction code setting a predetermined value to the argument is generated when the association information is not stored.

Abstract: A technique capable of preventing the loss of packet data for any appropriate one of controllers connected to the same network is provided. An FA system includes a plurality of controllers. Each of the controllers includes: a buffer; a communication module for performing packet communication with one or more other controllers; a packet monitor module for buffering packet data generated in its own controller and packet data received by its own controller in the buffer; and a stop module for stopping, in response to a predetermined stop condition being satisfied, a buffering function of the packet monitor module for a controller specified from the plurality of controllers.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an environment where the functions of communicating with an external device are multiplexed in a controller. A controller executes a plurality of communication programs, and executes a user program for controlling an object to be controlled, the user program including an instruction for communicating with an external device. The controller includes a communication interface that is connectable to any of the plurality of communication programs and controls communication between the plurality of communication programs and the external device. The controller receives data to be communicated to the external device when the instruction is executed, and based on a destination of the data, determines a communication program for transmitting the data to the external device, from among the plurality of communication programs.

Abstract: There has been desired a technique for creating a table on a database without formulating an SQL statement. A control system includes a development support device and a controller. The development support device includes a development tool configured to accept, as setting information, a setting that designates collection target variables from among variables included in a control program, and a setting that designates an identification name, on a database, of each collection target variable. The controller includes a generation module-configured to output an SQL statement for creating a table on the database, based on a data type and an identification name on the database, the identification name being specified in the setting information.

Abstract: A control system which controls a control target includes a controller connected to one or more devices through a network, and an information processing apparatus connected to the controller. The controller includes an event log containing an event having occurred during a control operation, and network statistical information containing statistical information associated with data transmission on the network. The information processing apparatus includes a factor estimation unit that provides an interactive user interface in accordance with selection of an anomaly phenomenon registered in the event log.

Abstract: A resistance leakage current calculating part calculates an insulation resistance-to-ground leakage current corresponding to a system frequency of a commercial power system, which flows through an insulation resistance-to-ground of a three-phase motor between the three-phase motor and the ground on the basis of a center of a circle which is described by specific points which are specified by a leakage current component and a phase difference which are extracted and calculated at three or more different time points. Accordingly, when the system frequency of the commercial power system and an operating frequency of an inverter device are the same, it is possible to accurately calculate an insulation resistance-to-ground leakage current corresponding to the system frequency.

Abstract: A light guide guides incident light rays and emits some of the incident light rays from a light exit surface. The light guide includes a plurality of light exit areas arranged adjacent to one another and configured to change directions of the incident light rays and emit the incident light rays from the light exit surface. Each of the light exit areas includes a plurality of light exit parts in which directions of light rays with maximum intensities out of light rays to be emitted are substantially the same. The light exit parts in each of the light exit areas are configured so that the directions of the light rays with the maximum intensities out of the light rays to be emitted from each of the light exit areas are random. Each of the light exit areas has a strip shape, and lengths of the light exit areas are random.

Abstract: A process design device, a procedure generation device, a method of controlling a process design device, and a recording medium are provided, such that during an assembly procedure of a product, even when a special task process unique to the product, which is difficult to define in advance, is included, the process of assembling the product is designed. The process design device determines whether or not each task process in procedure data is a special process, displays the task process that has been determined to be the special process in an emphasized manner, and allows a user to decide a facility that is caused to execute the task process.