Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire position information indicating first and second installation positions of a plurality of pieces of equipment receive characteristic information of a first piece of equipment obtained from a first propagation characteristic and a second propagation characteristic, and characteristic information of a second piece of equipment obtained from a third propagation characteristic and a fourth propagation characteristic. The processor is configured to estimate a position where each of the first and second pieces of equipment is installed, based on the position information, and the characteristic information of the first and the second piece of equipment.

Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly according to an embodiment includes a first diffusion layer; a second diffusion layer; an electrolyte membrane provided between the first diffusion layer and the second diffusion layer; a first catalyst layer provided between the first diffusion layer and the electrolyte membrane; and a second catalyst layer provided between the second diffusion layer and the electrolyte membrane, wherein the first diffusion layer includes a first surface facing the first catalyst layer, and the first surface includes a chamfered portion, and a second surface provided on an opposing side of the first surface, and the second surface includes a protrusion protruding from the side of the first surface toward the side of the second surface.

Abstract: An electrode according to an embodiment includes a support, and a catalyst layer including a sheet layer and a gap layer stacked, alternately on the support. The catalyst layer includes noble oxide and non-noble oxide. 4 [wt %] or more and 8 [wt %] or less of metal elements included in the catalyst layer is non-noble metal. An average thickness of the gap layer is 6 [nm] or more and 50 [nm] or less.

Abstract: An electrode for an electrochemical reaction device, includes: a substrate; and a stack provided on the substrate. The stack includes catalyst layers and gap layers, and each catalyst layer and each gap layer are alternately stacked. One of the gap layers has a first region and a second region, the first region having a first thickness, the second region having a first gap, and the first gap having a second thickness, and the second thickness is 3 times or more and 10 times or less the first thickness.

Abstract: A power generation facility in an embodiment includes: a boiler; a high-pressure turbine to which steam generated in the boiler is introduced; a low-pressure turbine provided downstream of the high-pressure turbine; and a condenser that condenses steam discharged from the low-pressure turbine. The power generation facility further includes: a feed pipe that leads feedwater in the condenser to the boiler; a heat storage and steam generation device that has a heat storage function that uses surplus energy generated in an own system to store heat, and a steam generation function that has part of feedwater led by the feed pipe introduced thereinto and turns the feedwater into steam by the stored heat; and a steam supply pipe that supplies steam generated in the heat storage and steam generation device to an own system.

Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly of an embodiment includes: a first electrode including a first diffusion layer, and a first catalyst layer; a second electrode for generating hydrogen, the second electrode including a second diffusion layer, a second catalyst layer including a porous catalyst layer including a porous precious metal or sheet-like precious metal, and a hydrophobic moisture management layer provided between the second catalyst layer and the second diffusion layer, the hydrophobic moisture management layer including carbon particles and carbon fibers, a weight of the carbon fibers being between 1 wt % and 20 wt % of a weight of the second diffusion layer; and an electrolyte membrane provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first catalyst layer being provided between the first diffusion layer and the electrolyte membrane, and the second catalyst layer being provided between the second diffusion layer and the electrolyte membrane.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to calculate a first index based on a plurality of pieces of first prediction data on an amount of electric power generated by a first electric power generation resource and a penalty imposed when an amount of electric power supplied to an electric power system is insufficient or excessive for a first amount of electric power which corresponds to a planned value of electric power generation amount, the first index being an index related to a yield obtained in a case that the first amount of electric power is tentatively bid in a first market; and determine a second amount of electric power to be bid in the first market based on the first index.

Abstract: A water electrolysis device includes: an anode; a cathode; an electrolyte membrane between the anode and the cathode; a first circulation flow path connecting a anode supply flow path and a anode discharge flow path; a second circulation flow path connected in parallel with the first circulation flow path; an ion filter in a middle of the second circulation flow path and to remove metal ions in the anode solution; a metal supply source to supply metal ions into the anode solution; a first valve in a middle of the first circulation flow path; a second valve in a middle of the second circulation flow path; a third valve in a middle of the metal supply flow path; a sensor to measure concentration of metal ions in the anode solution; and a controller to control opening and closing of each valve, according to the measured concentration of the metal ions.

Abstract: A support according to an embodiment includes fibers. A first arithmetic mean roughness of the fibers observed from in-plane direction of the support is 7 [?m] or more and 40 [?m] or less. A first sampling length of the first arithmetic mean roughness is one fifth of an average diameter of the fibers observed from the in-plane direction of the support.

Abstract: An electrode for electrochemical reaction device of an embodiment includes: a substrate; and a catalyst lamination provided on the substrate, and having a plurality of catalyst layers, and void layers respectively arranged between the plurality of catalyst layers adjacent to each other. The plurality of catalyst layers include a first catalyst layer arranged at a position close to the substrate and having a first thickness, and a second catalyst layer arranged at a position separated from the substrate and having a second thickness that is smaller than the first thickness.

Abstract: An electrode according to an embodiment includes a support and a catalyst layer including a sheet layer and a gap layer stacked alternately. Cracks or/and holes exist in the catalyst layer.

Abstract: An electrode according to an embodiment includes a support, an intermediate layer including carbon particles and resin on the support, and a catalyst layer on the intermediate layer. A thickness of the intermediate layer is 70 [?m] or more and 300 [?m] or less.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus of an embodiment includes a rotor image-pickup unit for picking up an image of a rotor using a rotor image-pickup device in the air gap between the rotor and a stator. The rotor image-pickup device includes: a carriage casing; a camera; an image-pickup position changing part; and an image-pickup direction changing part. The camera is installed in the carriage casing, and picks up an image of a ventilation hole of the rotor in the air gap. The image-pickup position changing part is installed in the carriage casing, and changes an image-pickup position of the camera by moving the carriage casing in a circumferential direction of the rotor in the air gap. The image-pickup direction changing part is installed in the carriage casing, and changes an image-pickup direction of the camera to an inclined angle to a radial direction of the rotor in the air gap.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a electrolyte membrane including noble metal particles according to an embodiment includes a step of impregnating cationic noble metal complex ions with a first region of a surface of a cation exchange membrane by spraying solution containing the cationic noble metal complex ions on the cation exchange membrane and drying the sprayed member, and a step of applying a reducing treatment to the cation exchange membrane impregnated with the cationic noble metal complex ions.

Abstract: A communication relay system of an embodiment includes a master unit capable of transmitting/receiving a signal to/from a base station of a mobile communication system, and a plurality of remote units transmitting/receiving a signal to/from the master unit and performing radio communication with a mobile station of the mobile communication system. The master unit includes a detector, a determiner, and an allocator. The detector detects that the mobile station is located at a position where wireless communication with the plurality of remote units is possible. The determiner determines to which of the plurality of remote units a communication resource for performing radio communication with the mobile station located at a position where radio communication is possible is to be allocated. The allocator allocates a communication resource to the remote unit according to the determination result of the determiner.

Abstract: A thermal medium and a laser recording device are provided in which medium parameters can be acquired efficiently. According to one embodiment, the thermal medium includes a photothermal conversion layer, a color development layer, a storage mechanism. The photothermal conversion layer converts an applied laser beam into heat. The color development layer develops a color by the heat converted by the photothermal conversion layer. The storage mechanism stores information related to a medium parameter including a photothermal conversion efficiency of the photothermal conversion layer.

Abstract: The embodiment provides a transparent electrode having low resistance and high stability against impurities such as halogen and sulfur, a method of producing the transparent electrode, and an electronic device using the transparent electrode. A transparent electrode according to an embodiment includes a transparent substrate and a plurality of conductive regions disposed on a surface of the transparent substrate and separated from each other by a separation region, wherein the conductive region has a structure in which a first transparent conductive metal oxide layer, a metal layer, and a second transparent conductive metal oxide layer are laminated in this order from the substrate side, and in the separation region, there is disposed a trapping material. This transparent electrode can be produced by scribing the conductive region to form a separation region, and then using a halide or a sulfur compound.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stator includes a stator core and coils having a rectangular cross-section. In one or more slots, a first rectangular conductor, which is positioned innermost in a radial direction and in which a pair of short sides in a cross section face in the radial direction, and a second rectangular conductor, which is positioned outer side of the radial direction than is the first rectangular conductor and in which a pair of long sides in the cross-section face in the radial direction, are disposed. The first rectangular conductor includes a bending part bent toward a circumferential direction. The second rectangular conductor includes a bending part bent toward the circumferential direction and a twisted part twisted about the circumferential direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire first and second weather data in a first time zone and ground rainfall amount data, acquire, based on the first and second weather data, first feature values, generate learning data based on the ground rainfall amount data and the first feature values, generate, based on the learning data, a learned model, acquire first and second weather data in a second time zone, acquire, based on the first and second weather data, second feature values, acquire a parameter output from the learned model by inputting the plurality of second feature values, and generate, based on the parameter, composite rainfall amount data.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor apparatus according to an embodiment includes forming an electrode on a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate made from a compound semiconductor; forming, at a location where the electrode is formed, a via hole that penetrates the first main surface and a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein a ratio of a thickness of the semiconductor substrate to a maximum value of a width of an opening in the second main surface is greater than 1; forming a rear-side electrode on a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate in such a manner that the rear-side electrode is electrically coupled to the electrode in the via hole; forming an insulating layer arranged at least a layer above the opening; and forming a solder layer in a layer above the rear-side electrode and the insulating layer.