Abstract: According to one embodiment, an instruction device causes, in shipping processing, a plurality of transport devices transporting articles to move respectively to a first area and a second area. The first area and the second area faces each other with a work area interposed. A worker is in the work area. The instruction device further causes one of the plurality of transport devices to transfer the article with the worker in a first section adjacent to the first area. The instruction device further causes another one of the plurality of transport devices to transfer the article with the worker via a take-out device in a second section adjacent to the second area. The take-out device removes the article from the other one of the plurality of transport devices.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a recognition apparatus includes an image interface, an input interface, and a processor. The image interface acquires a character string image including a character string from an input apparatus. The input interface inputs an operation signal to the input apparatus. The processor extracts a region of the character string from the character string image, acquires a size of the region, inputs a transformation operation of transforming the character string image based on the size to the input apparatus through the input interface, acquires the transformed character string image through the image interface, performs character recognition processing on the transformed character string image, and inputs the character string to the input apparatus through the input interface based on a result of the character recognition processing.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing system includes a manipulator, a detection device, and a processing device. The detection device is mounted to the manipulator. The detection device includes a detector, a first propagating member, and a second propagating member. The detector is configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave toward an object and detect a reflected wave. The first propagating member is mounted to the detector, the ultrasonic wave propagating through the first propagating member. The second propagating member is mounted to the first propagating member, the ultrasonic wave propagating through the second propagating member, the second propagating member being softer than the first propagating member. The processing device is configured to receive intensity data from the detector and detect a surface position of the object in the intensity data, the intensity data being of an intensity of the reflected wave.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, comprises a processing circuitry configured to estimate, based on histories of charge and discharge of storage batteries of one or more consumers in a first period, remaining capacities of the storage batteries in a second period different from the first period, and calculate a power adjustable capacity that is a total of rechargeable capacities or dischargeable capacities of the storage batteries of the one or more consumers in the second period, based on estimates of the remaining capacities of the storage batteries.

Abstract: An information processing device is disclosed. In the information processing device, a derivation unit derives, for each of sensors, a constraint expression obtained by substituting an observation value for a term of an observation value variable in an error model. The observation value indicates the number of present objects observed by the sensors. The error model represents correspondence between: the number of present objects in an observation range represented by the observation value variable and an error term related to an assumed detection error range of the sensor, and the number of present objects in an observation range represented by a variable indicating the number of present objects in an observation unit space. A range calculation unit calculates a possible range of the number of present objects. A reliability calculation unit calculates reliability of an estimation value of the number of present objects for each of the areas.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stator includes a stator core and a stator coil configured by joining a plurality of coil segments mounted in slots of the stator core. Extending portions of the coil segments include a plurality of first extending portions, an inclined portion, and a joining end portion and a hook-shaped portion provided at an extending end of the inclined portion. The joining end portions are arranged side by side in a radial direction such that distal end surfaces are located at substantially the same height, the hook-shaped portions are meshed with each other, and a first engagement surface of one of the joining end portions faces and abuts on a first engagement surface of the other of the joining end portions.

Abstract: A solar cell of an embodiment includes a p-electrode, an n-electrode, a p-type light-absorbing layer located between the p-electrode and the n-electrode and comprising a cuprous oxide, and an n-type layer comprising a first n-type layer, which is located between the p-type light-absorbing layer and the n-electrode and comprising a defined compound aiding in conversion efficiency. The n-type layer further comprises a second n-type layer which is located between the first n-type layer and the n-electrode and mainly contains another compound aiding in conversion efficiency.

Abstract: The optical repeater system of an embodiment includes master units connectable to a base station to which a carrier band to be subjected to carrier aggregation is assigned and a remote unit capable of transmitting and receiving an uplink/downlink signal of the carrier band. The master unit includes memory, timing detector, information sharer, determinator and synchronization controller. The memory stores a weight assigned to the each master unit. The timing detector detects a UL/DL switching timing for each carrier band of a subordinate base station. The information sharer communicates with another master unit and shares information including at least the weight and a latest UL/DL switching timing among the detected UL/DL switching timings with the another master unit. The determinator determines the own UL/DL switching timing based on the shared information. The synchronization controller sets the own UL/DL switching timing to the determined UL/DL switching timing.

Abstract: An information processing system configured to create and debug a control program executed in a control device, the information processing system includes at least one server device and a plurality of client devices. The at least one server device is configured to operate in a cloud environment to which a plurality of client devices are connected via a network; configure a virtual machine in the cloud environment; virtually configure the control device as a virtual control device in the virtual machine; compile the control program; and execute the control program in the virtual control device. The plurality of client devices is configured to transmit a request for compiling the control program in the virtual machine to the server device; and transmit a request for executing content of the control program in the virtual control device to the server device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a laser welding method includes a process of irradiating the laser beam along a first movement path, a second movement path, a third movement path, and a fourth movement path at an end portion of a first wire-shaped member and a second wire-shaped member, the first movement path being loop-shaped; the second movement path being linear; the third movement path being loop-shaped; and the fourth movement path being linear.

Abstract: According to embodiments, a two-layer magnet-embedded rotor includes: a rotor shaft; a rotor core including first and second outer side accommodation holes and first and second inner side accommodation holes; first and second outer side magnets; and first and second inner side magnets. The first inner side accommodation hole and the second inner side accommodation hole communicate with the outer side of the outer circumference. A value of an inner-side open angle ?b1 at which radially outer side walls and of the inner side accommodation holes open toward a radially outer side is from a prescribed value to a value of an outer-side open angle ?a at which radially outer side walls of the outer side accommodation holes open toward the radially outer side.

Abstract: A tightening device includes a mobile part, a bolt tensioner, a bolt tensioner operation part, a positioning part, and a controller. The mobile part can be moved by driving control. The bolt tensioner performs a tightening operation for a bolt by operation of the operation part. The positioning part is mounted on the mobile part and is mounted with the bolt tensioner and the operation part, and positions a three-dimensional position of the bolt tensioner. The controller causes the mobile part to move so that a distance to the bolt falls within a certain value, causes the positioning part to operate so that the three-dimensional position becomes a position where the bolt is tightened after the mobile part is moved, and drives the operation part so that the bolt tensioner performs the tightening operation after the three-dimensional position is determined to be the position where the bolt is tightened.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a resolver rotor includes: a resolver rotor core; and a resolver rotor core holder that constrains the resolver rotor core to a rotor shaft in a circumferential direction and an axial direction. The resolver rotor core holder includes: an annular flat plate portion; a first constraining portion that holds a relative position of the resolver rotor core holder to the rotor shaft, and holds an angle of the resolver rotor core in the circumferential direction relative to the rotor shaft; a second constraining portion that holds a relative position of the resolver rotor core holder to the rotor shaft; and a third constraining portion that holds a relative position of the resolver rotor core in the axial direction to the rotor shaft. The resolver rotor core includes a radially inside recessed portion for engagement with the first constraining portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermionic power generation element includes a cathode, an anode, and an insulating member. The cathode includes an electrically-conductive material. The anode includes an electrically-conductive material. The insulating member is located between the cathode and the anode. The cathode and the anode have a gap between the cathode and the anode. A first through-hole is provided in the anode. The first through-hole extends through the anode in a first direction and communicates with the gap. The first direction is from the cathode toward the anode.

Abstract: A controlling system includes a network line that communicably connects two controllers to each other. A controlling unit of a first controller executes a packet generating process in which a single packet that begins to be repeatedly transmitted at a first cycle is generated from first data and second data is divided to generate a plurality of packets that begin to be transmitted at a second cycle, and a packet transmitting process in which the single packet and the plurality of packets are transmitted to a second controller via the network line. In the packet transmitting process, the single packet is transmitted in preference to the plurality of packets, and a size of each of the plurality of packets is determined based on the first cycle and a transfer rate of the network line.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, provided are a coating device, a meniscus head, and a coating method capable of obtaining a uniform coating film with a large area. A coating device according to an embodiment forms a coating film by a meniscus method, the coating device comprising: a member that conveys a base material; a coating bar; a slot die that supplies a coating liquid to a surface of the coating bar; and a member that supplies the coating liquid to the slot die, in which each of the members is disposed such that the coating liquid supplied from the slot die is supplied to a space between the coating bar and the base material via the surface of the coating bar to form a meniscus.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an interior permanent-magnet rotor includes: a rotor shaft; permanent magnets at least one of which is provided at each magnetic pole; and a rotor core attached to a radially outer side of the rotor shaft and formed with permanent magnet housing holes for storing the permanent magnets, respectively. Each of the permanent magnet housing holes has an opening part in communication with a radially outer side of the rotor core and sandwiched between an opening-part circumferentially inner-side tip and an opening-part circumferentially outer-side tip of the rotor core. The rotor core has a relaxing part formed with shapes of the opening-part circumferentially inner-side tip and the opening-part circumferentially outer-side tip.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a thermal energy storage power plant includes a thermal accumulator to accumulate thermal energy and heat a thermal medium with the thermal energy, and a steam generator to generate steam using the thermal medium. The plant further includes a first path to convey the thermal medium from the accumulator to the generator, and a second path to convey the thermal medium from the generator to the accumulator. The plant further includes an auxiliary module provided on the first path, and a bypass path to convey the thermal medium flowing through the second path to the auxiliary module by bypassing the accumulator, wherein the auxiliary module is supplied with a first thermal medium from the accumulator via the first path, supplied with a second thermal medium from the second path via the bypass path, and supplies a third thermal medium to the generator via the first path.

Abstract: An object is to provide an information processing apparatus and a communication system that are capable of observing communication settings. According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus is connected between a terminal device and a server apparatus that communicates with the terminal device via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a control unit. The first communication unit is connected to a server apparatus via the network. The second communication unit is connected to the terminal device. The control unit is linked up to a communication management apparatus by the first communication unit, and is linked up to a terminal device by the second communication unit, after communication settings based on communication setting information, which indicates whether or not the terminal device can communicate with another terminal device, are completed.

Abstract: An optical module according to the present embodiment includes a photoelectric element and a gain adjusting unit. The photoelectric element performs at least one of conversion from an electrical signal to an optical signal or conversion from an optical signal to an electrical signal. The gain adjusting unit adjusts a gain of a signal level of at least one of an electrical signal or an optical signal that are output from the photoelectric element in a test of the optical module.