Abstract: A long-term predictor circuit predicts a long-term predicted power indicating temporal variations in consumed power of a customer, using a long-term prediction model indicating the variations for each moment of clock times. A short-term predictor circuit predicts a short-term predicted power using a short-term prediction model indicating the variations over a time interval before and after a change in a consumed power of each load apparatus, based on the variations over a time interval immediately before a current time, the short-term predicted power indicating the variations over a time interval immediately after the current time. A controller circuit controls charging and discharging of a battery apparatus by setting a charging power or a discharging power based on the long-term predicted power, and controls discharging of the battery apparatus by setting a discharging power based on the short-term predicted power.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to cause a first recognizer to execute a first recognition process that takes sensor information as input, and a second recognizer to execute a second recognition process that takes the sensor information as input, the second recognizer being configured to operate under different capability conditions from the first recognizer; determine one of a transmission necessity and a transmission priority of the sensor information depending on a difference between a first recognition result of the first recognition process and a second recognition result of the second recognition process; and transmit the sensor information to a server apparatus according to the determined one of the transmission necessity and the transmission priority.

Abstract: A highly reliable joined structure and joining method by suppressing peeling at joined portions in the joined structure formed by joining metals together is provided. A joined structure includes a plurality of metals laminated and joined together. The plurality of metals are shaped to include a plurality of convex portions arranged on a surface positioned in a lamination direction, and flat portions arranged between the plural convex portions. Tip ends of the plurality of convex portions are formed as curved surfaces.

Abstract: A light source system includes an excitation light source, a fluorescent plate that emits fluorescence when exposed to the excitation light from the excitation light source, and a compartment storing the fluorescent plate. The compartment has a heat-receiving section and a heat-dissipation section thermally connected to each other. The heat-receiving section is located opposite a fluorescence light output side of the fluorescent plate, in the compartment. The heat-dissipation section is outside the compartment.

Abstract: A glass panel unit assembly includes: glass substrates; a peripheral wall having a frame shape and disposed between the glass substrates; a partition; an evacuation port; and a plurality of air passages. The partition partitions an internal space into an evacuation space, a ventilation space, and a coupling space. The evacuation port connects the ventilation space to an external environment. The plurality of air passages includes: a first air passage connecting the evacuation space to the coupling space; and a second air passage connecting the coupling space to the ventilation space. The second air passage includes a particular air passage having a larger dimension than any of the first air passage.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a polymer electrolyte fuel cell that generates electric power using fuel gas and oxidant gas, a fuel gas supply path through which the fuel gas is supplied to an anode inlet of the fuel cell, a recycle gas path through which anode off-gas discharged from an anode outlet of the fuel cell returns to the fuel gas supply path, a pressure booster that is arranged in the fuel gas supply path between a confluence portion and the anode inlet, the fuel gas supply path and the recycle gas path meeting each other in the confluence portion, and a discharge path through which an impurity mixed into the anode off-gas is discharged outside.

Abstract: A multilayer body includes a piezoelectric body and a first acoustic matching layer in direct or indirect contact with the piezoelectric body. The first acoustic matching layer includes a plastic foam containing a plurality of closed pores. An average pore size of the closed pores is not smaller than 1 ?m and not larger than 100 ?m. The first acoustic matching layer has a density of not less than 10 kg/m3 and not more than 100 kg/m3.

Abstract: Three-way divider includes first transmission line, second transmission line, and third transmission line. First transmission line includes first input-side line and first output-side line, which are connected at first connection point. Second transmission line includes second input-side line and second output-side line, which are connected at second connection point. Third transmission line includes third input-side line and third output-side line, which are connected at third connection point. Each of first transmission line, second transmission line, and third transmission line has an electrical length that is ¼ a wavelength of a second frequency. The first connection point and the second connection point, the third connection point and the second connection point, the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and the third output terminal and the second output terminal are respectively connected via corresponding resistors.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; pixels arranged two-dimensionally along row and column directions on the substrate; and one or more interconnection layers located on the semiconductor substrate, including a first signal line extending along the column direction and a second signal line to which a multi-level signal is applied. A first pixel includes: a photoelectric converter; a charge storage region; a first interconnection electrically connected to the charge storage region; and a first transistor that includes a first diffusion layer electrically connected to the first signal line and a second diffusion layer electrically connected to the second signal line and that outputs a signal to the first signal line. The first and second signal lines and the first interconnection are arranged in a first interconnection layer. The second signal line is located between the first interconnection and the first signal line, viewed perpendicularly to the substrate.

Abstract: In a robot having a first rotary shaft and a second rotary shaft driven by respective motors and extending in the same direction, the second rotary shaft is rotated while vibrating the first rotary shaft that is holding a load directly or indirectly, thereby rotating the first rotary shaft relative to a load. This enables calculating the gravitational torque of the load applied to the first rotary shaft.

Abstract: An estimation device includes: a living body information extraction unit that extracts living body information which is a component corresponding to one or more living bodies in a space; an eigenvector calculation unit that calculates one or more eigenvectors of a living body correlation matrix obtained from the living body information; a first position estimation unit that estimates, using the living body correlation matrix, positions of the one or more living bodies and at least one false image, according to a predetermined position estimation method; a second steering vector output unit that extracts, from first steering vectors stored in a storage, and outputs as second steering vectors, first steering vectors corresponding to the positions estimated; and a second position estimation unit that estimates at least one of the position and the number of the one or more living bodies, using the one or more eigenvectors and the second steering vectors.

Abstract: A power conversion system includes a converter circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit controls, through use of PWM signals, high potential-side switches for a U-phase circuit, a V-phase circuit, and a W-phase circuit, respectively. The control circuit alternately switches between a first modulation method and a second modulation method at each half carrier period of each of the PWM signals. In the first modulation method, the control circuit determines, as a first value, a duty ratio of the PWM signal for one of a U phase, a V phase, and a W phase that has a maximum phase voltage. In the second modulation method, the control circuit determines, as a second value, the duty ratio of the PWM signal for one of the U phase, the V phase, and the W phase that has a minimum phase voltage.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a regenerator, an oxidant feed path, a gas discharge path, and a heat exchanger. The fuel cell includes an anode and a cathode and reduces a mediator with the cathode. The regenerator oxidizes, with an oxidant, the mediator reduced by the cathode. Through the oxidant feed path, the oxidant is guided to the regenerator. Through the gas discharge path, the gas present inside the regenerator is guided out of the regenerator. The heat exchanger heats the oxidant by exchanging heat between the oxidant flowing in the oxidant feed path and the gas flowing in the gas discharge path.

Abstract: This slurry for secondary batteries includes inorganic particles, a binding material, and a dispersion medium. The inorganic particles are formed from a metal compound, including as main components, an alkali metal and a metal other than alkaline earth metals, the contained amount of the alkali metal being 0.001-2 mass %. A positive electrode according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a collector, an intermediate layer formed on at least one surface of the collector, and a mixture layer formed on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes the inorganic particles, a binding material, and a conductive material.

Abstract: A controller obtains a first horizontal distance and a first vertical distance which are respectively a component in a horizontal direction and a component in a vertical direction among distances from an unmanned aerial vehicle to a surface of a particular place where elevation gradually increases or decreases along the horizontal direction, decides, based on a ratio of the first horizontal distance to the first vertical distance, a movement amount by which the unmanned aerial vehicle is to be moved simultaneously in both the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, and moves the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the movement amount.

Abstract: A stretchable circuit board includes a stretchable base material, a stretchable wiring, and a land part that is in contact with the stretchable base material. The land part is formed of a patterned metal foil, or a printed product of an electroconductive ink containing metal particles. The stretchable base material has a tensile modulus at 25° C. room temperature of 0.5 MPa to 0.5 GPa.

Abstract: A wireless power transmission system includes a power transmitting device and a power receiving device. The power transmitting device includes: a first inverter circuit to output charging power to be directed to power transmission; a power transmitting antenna; and a first control circuit to control the first inverter circuit. The power receiving device includes: a power receiving antenna; and a trigger application circuit to apply, to detecting power to be supplied to the power receiving antenna, a trigger signal for informing of the power transmitting device of the presence of the power receiving device. Upon detecting the trigger signal, the first control circuit causes the first inverter circuit to begin outputting the charging power.

Abstract: A component mounting system includes a component mounting apparatus, a data creating apparatus and a component arranging operation supporting apparatus. The component mounting apparatus mounts components on a substrate. The data creating apparatus creates component data for each component. The component arranging operation supporting apparatus includes an identification information acquiring unit that acquires component identification information given to the component supplying member, and a control unit which checks a component to be disposed in a position based on the component identification information. The control unit of the component arranging operation supporting apparatus performs a request for a creation of component data regarding an alternative component, and the data creating apparatus receives the request and creates the component data regarding the alternative component.

Abstract: A management device manages a plurality of power storage devices interconnected in parallel. In the management device, a halt controller halts an operation of at least one of the plurality of power storage devices during a period in which charged/discharged power between the plurality of power storage devices and a load is less than a set value. During the period in which the charged/discharged power is less than the set value, for example, the halt controller, by turns, halts an operation of one of the plurality of power storage devices at a set time interval.