Abstract: Provided is a method for more accurately correcting position coordinates of a point on an object to be imaged, the coordinates being identified based on values detected by linear scales. A visual field is moved to a measurement point defined on a recessed portion formed on a calibration plate, and an image is captured (step S13-1), edges are detected from an image of sides of the recessed portion (step 313-2), an intersection of the edges is calculated (step S13-3), values of the intersection as actually measured by the linear scales are saved (step S13-4), and position coordinates of the point on the object to be imaged as detected by the linear scales are corrected by using a true value and a difference.

Abstract: A control system includes a control apparatus functioning as a master, and plural slaves which are network-connected to the control apparatus. The slaves each have identification information. The control apparatus includes executes a first instruction to set specified identification information to each of one or more specified slaves. The control apparatus outputs first error information indicating which slave that the setting of the identification information to which is failed, among the one or more specified slaves.

Abstract: A control system includes a control device, one or more information processing devices, and an arithmetic unit. The control device executes a control program controlling a control target while managing process data of the control program, and includes a communication processor that periodically transmits one or more data sets, each data set including a value of one or more process data. The information processing devices executes one or more applications using the process data included in the data sets. The arithmetic unit determines a transmission setting of the data set, and includes an acquirer that acquires the process data for each application, and a determiner that determines a number of data sets transmitted by the communication processor and the process data to be included in each data set according to an evaluation criterion regarding a communication load based on the process data for each application.

Abstract: A control system includes an information processing device that communicates with a controller that controls a control target. The controller or the information processing device include a storage device that stores one or more SQL statements to be executed and an execution result the one or more SQL statements in association with each other as log data. The information processing device includes a display controller that displays on a display an SQL statement to be corrected that has an unsuccessful execution result; an operation unit that accepts a correction operation on the SQL statement and an execution operation; and a communication interface that sends an execution instruction to execute the corrected SQL statement to the controller upon receipt of the execution operation and to receive an execution result of the corrected SQL statement from the controller. The display controller displays an execution result of the corrected SQL statement.

Abstract: A control system includes a database configured to hold one or more tables, and a control apparatus configured to execute a control program and access the database. The control system acquires a number of columns of a table and a data type of each column, the table being selected from among the one or more tables. The control system defines a structure that includes a number of members corresponding to the acquired number of columns and that is available in the control program. The control system determines a data type of each member of the structure in correspondence with the acquired data type of each column.

Abstract: An electronic-component-equipped terminal block includes a terminal block including first and second through holes provided in a front wall; an electronic component including a component body first and second leads; and an electrically insulating attachment assistance tool. The attachment assistance tool includes a base portion arranged outside a housing such that a rear surface thereof abuts against the front wall; and first and second insertion portions protruding from the rear surface of the base portion to be thereby inserted into the first and second through hole, respectively. The attachment assistance tool is provided with a first passage portion through which the first lead is inserted, and a second passage portion through which the second lead is inserted, and a receiving portion that receives and accommodates a rear portion of the component body is provided at a front-side position.

Abstract: A control system includes a control apparatus functioning as a master, and plural slaves which are network-connected to the control apparatus. The slaves each have identification information. The control apparatus executes a first instruction to set specified identification information to each of one or more specified slaves.

Abstract: This controller system includes: a program acquisition unit that acquires, by turning on the controller system, a control program from a server in which the control program is stored; a main storage device that stores the control program acquired by the program acquisition unit while electric power is supplied to the controller system; and a program execution unit that executes the control program stored in the main storage device.

Abstract: There is provided an imager light receiving element type of range image sensor that acquires, from a plurality of pixels, information about light received by the various pixels, the range image sensor comprising a distance information calculation unit and a memory unit. The distance information calculation unit calculates the distance to an object for each of pixels of an imaging element. The memory unit stores the distance measured for each of the pixels and an angle information acquired for each of the pixels in association with the distance.

Abstract: A control system includes one or more control devices, and an information processing device. The information processing device and the one or more control devices are communicatively connected and time-synchronized with each other. The information processing device includes a processor configured to perform control calculation processing of calculating control data in accordance with control calculation based on data received from each of the one or more control devices. Each of the control devices includes a controller configured to perform input/output processing of transferring incoming data from a field device to the information processing device and outputting the control data received from the information processing device to the field device, and the control calculation processing and the input/output processing are performed within a period of time based on the time synchronization and shared between each of the control devices and the information processing device.

Abstract: A controller system is provided with a control unit, a security unit, and a presentation means (HMI). The security unit stores countermeasure scenarios corresponding to threat analyses concerning the device configuration and protected assets of the controller system, and sets security functions in accordance with the countermeasure scenarios. The presentation means presents a user with points requiring security countermeasures in the controller system in accordance with the countermeasure scenarios.

Abstract: A switch device includes a plurality of lead frames that is conductive and configured to electrically connectable to an external device, a contact-separation mechanism configured to allow the plurality of lead frames to be electrically connected to and separated from each other, and an electric element configured to connect the plurality of lead frames to each other. The electric element is surface-mounted on the lead frames and sealed with resin. In each of the lead frame, the boundary, such as a groove or a notch, is formed along the outer edge of the arrangement position of the electric element.

Abstract: This monitoring system, which monitors communication related to an FA network, comprises: data collection units (253, 282, 260, 624) that collect data indicating a communication status on the FA network; a data analysis unit (622) that analyzes the collected data according to pre-registered information related to settings for communication on the FA network, and generates monitoring setting information for monitoring the communication; and monitoring units (251, 252, 1012, 1010) that monitor, according to the monitoring setting information, a communication to be monitored.

Abstract: A counter unit, a counter unit control method, a control device, and a control system are provided. A counter unit (10) executes an output to an actuator (40) at a time point when a waiting time indicated by a timing adjustment value (Ta) received from PLC (20) has elapsed since it was determined that an actual measurement value obtained by using a pulse signal has matched with a target value.

Abstract: A control system includes a control apparatus functioning as a master, and plural slaves which are network-connected to the control apparatus. The control apparatus executes a first instruction to set specified identification information to a specified slave. In response to whether the specified identification information is successfully written, the control apparatus outputs information indicating whether a reboot of the specified slave is required.

Abstract: The display device includes, on a back surface of a light guide plate, a first optical path alteration part group that forms a first image and a second optical path alteration part group that forms a second image, and a difference between an inclination angle of the first optical path alteration part group and an inclination angle of the second optical path alteration part group is equal to or greater than 10°.

Abstract: A contactless power transmission apparatus includes a transmitter that includes a transmitter coil that supplies electric power to a receiver and a power supply circuit that supplies alternating current power to the transmitter coil. The receiver includes a resonant circuit including a receiver coil that receives electric power from the transmitter and a resonant capacitor connected in series to the receiver coil, a rectifier circuit that rectifies electric power output from the resonant circuit, and a coil connected in parallel to the resonant circuit between the resonant circuit and the rectifier circuit.

Abstract: A wireless communication device comprising: a case having a substantially cylindrical shape and including a first opening at a front surface and a second opening at a back surface, respectively; a first cover member that blocks at least a portion of the first opening; a second cover member that blocks at least a portion of the second opening; an insulating member that fills a gap between the first cover member and the case; a display; a substrate housed by the case; an antenna circuit installed on the substrate; and a communication circuit installed on the substrate and electrically connected to the antenna circuit, wherein the case includes a metal material; and the first cover member includes a light-transmitting material that allows light from the display to pass through.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of detecting deformation based on an abnormality such as heat generation in an article by a simpler, smaller, or lower-cost configuration, to suppress occurrence of an accident due to the abnormality of the article. An abnormality detector for measuring deformation of a battery B, such as a lithium-ion battery, to detect an abnormality of the battery, the abnormality detector includes: a sealed container disposed in close contact with at least a part of an outer surface of the battery, while containing and sealing a fluid such as water, the sealed container having flexibility; and a pressure sensor configured to measure a change inside the sealed container, accompanying deformation of the battery.

Abstract: A display device according to one or more embodiments may include a lightguide plate comprising a transparent part, and an incident surface, the lightguide plate configured to display at least one pattern; and a light source facing the incident surface. The lightguide plate may include a plurality of prisms on a surface of the lightguide plate, the plurality of prisms being arranged along the at least one pattern to reflect light emitted from the light source and entering the lightguide plate through the incident surface out of the lightguide plate through an emission surface of the lightguide plate, and a transparent protective layer covering at least a part of the emission surface, the protective layer having a smaller refractive index than the lightguide plate.