Abstract: A measurement pad includes a pattern part including a plurality of groove portions arranged at pitch intervals corresponding to pitch intervals of a plurality of head nozzles, and a wall portion formed between the groove portions, a first electrode part extending in the longitudinal direction of the groove portions at the center of the groove portions, a second electrode part spaced apart from the first electrode part in the width direction and extending in the longitudinal direction of the groove portions. The length of the groove portions is formed to have a size that can include all heads existing on the same extension line which are measurement targets, and is uniformly formed in the same cross-sectional shape throughout the longitudinal direction of the groove portions.

Abstract: To provide a deterioration prediction device with which it is possible to easily and precisely predict deterioration of an edible oil and fat. The deterioration prediction device 1 of the present invention comprises an acoustic data acquisition unit 2 that acquires acoustic data from when a fried food article is cooked using a fry oil, an indicator extraction unit 11 within a processing unit 3 (control unit 10) that extracts an indicator pertaining to deterioration of the fry oil from the acquired acoustic data, and a comparative assessment unit 13 that assesses the extent of deterioration of an oil and fat, based on the indicator extracted by the indicator extraction unit 11.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for leakage detection on an object flown through by a medium, in particular a pipe or a pipeline. According to the invention, a pattern is identified in the determined values for the change of the flow rate and the pressure of the medium and for a temperature change, and a probability for the presence of a leak is determined based on the identified pattern and due to self-learning systems.

Abstract: A range of pH of a mobile phase that is usable for an analysis with use of each column is registered by a pH range registrar in association with identification information of each column. A pH of each mobile phase is registered by a pH registrar. A column to be used for an analysis is selected by a column selector. A chromatograph is controlled by an analysis controller such that a mobile phase having a registered pH that is out of a range of pH that is registered in association with a selected column is not supplied to the selected column. The chromatograph is controlled by the analysis controller such that an analysis is performed while a mobile phase having a registered pH that is in a range of pH that is registered in association with a selected column is supplied to the selected column.

Abstract: A gas chromatograph includes an oven that has a first heater device and a second heater device. The first heater device and the second heater device are connected in series when a voltage of a power supply is a first voltage, and are connected in parallel when the voltage of the power supply is a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage. A power controller includes a first control device that controls ON/OFF of supply of power to the series-connected first heater device and second heater device or ON/OFF of supply of power to the parallel-connected first heater device, and a second control device that controls ON/OFF of supply of power to the parallel-connected second heater device. A controller adjusts a duty ratio of supply of power to the parallel-connected first heater device and second heater device by controlling the first control device and the second control device when the voltage of the power supply is the second voltage.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a plurality of hands; a plurality of detection units that detect external light, arranged corresponding to the plurality of hands; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to perform external light detection operations that respectively determine whether or not external light of a threshold value or more is detected at the plurality of detection units while moving the plurality of hands by a predetermined distance, respectively, and when there is a hand among the plurality of hands for which the external light detection operation detected external light and there is another hand among the plurality of hands for which the external light detection operation did not detect external light, perform the external light detection operation for said another hand again.

Abstract: An equipment inspection system performs compressed air leakage inspection on a plurality of pieces of pneumatic equipment that are connected to pipes, or pipe joints that connect the respective pipes and the plurality of pieces of pneumatic equipment, has a first branched pipe and a second branched pipe. A flow rate measurement device is provided in the second branched pipe. The flow rate measurement device measures the flow rate of the compressed air flowing in the second branched pipe. A fluorescent solvent providing part is provided in the first branched pipe. A fluorescent solvent is supplied to the pipe from the fluorescent solvent providing part.

Abstract: A shoe includes a shoe body, a power supply unit, a sensing unit and a control unit. The power supply unit is disposed in the shoe body and is configured to provide electric power. The sensing unit and the control unit are electrically connected to the power supply unit for receiving the electric power therefrom. The sensing unit is disposed in the shoe body and is configured to continuously measure a distance to a ground. The control unit is configured to communicate with the sensing unit, to calculate a statistical value of a plurality of measured distances that are measured by the sensing unit within a predetermined period, to obtain a comparison result by comparing the statistical value with a predetermined standard, and to determine that the ground is uneven in response to determining that the comparison result is greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A hot wire anemometer including a substrate defining an opening through the substrate, configured to allow a fluid to flow through the opening, and multiple substantially parallel conductive wires, connected in series across the opening, in a direction parallel to a first surface of the substrate, where each wire is separated from adjacent wires by a distance that is 0.1 to 25 times the dimension of the wire in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A system for determining vessel fill percentages using sensor technologies. The system receives a sensor type selection through a graphical user interface at a client device, displays a request for vessel configuration information based on the selection, and configures a lookup table using the received configuration data. When measurement data is received from the sensor device, the system determines the vessel's fill percentage by applying the lookup table to transform raw sensor readings into accurate fill levels, then displays the fill percentage with a vessel identifier. The system accommodates various vessel shapes, dimensions, and configuration parameters including strapping charts, while supporting multiple measurement data types such as distance, pressure, temperature, voltage, current, and magnetic flux. This unified framework enables standardized monitoring across vessel types through a single interface.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, algorithm and/or device (collectively, “system”) for non-contact or contactless ultrasound viscoelastic spectroscopy measures the viscoelastic properties of soft matter through exerting modulated ultrasound pressure waves, so called stress signals and measuring the material deformation, so called strain imaging, over a wide range of frequencies, and may be applied to various fields including but not limited to material science, polymer designing, tissue engineering, cancer drug development and/or biological tissue assessment for disease diagnosis and prognosis. By measuring the elastic and viscous moduli, the phase difference between them, and Poisson's ratio over a wide range of frequencies, this allows for non-destructive tests on soft matter such as biological tissue, by ultrasound probes.

Abstract: Atmospheric Triphasic Chromatography (ATC) method comprising the steps introducing a raw plant material containing cannabinoids into a non-polar solvent, dissolving the cannabinoids extracted from the raw plant material in the non-polar solvent and removing the raw plant material to obtain a target solution, performing potency analysis and cannabinoid extract profile analysis of the target solution. The method further includes the steps of preparing an aqueous caustic solution and mixing the target solution with the aqueous caustic solution to obtain a mixture followed by separating the mixture into a first phase solution and a second phase solution, and removing the first phase solution to obtain a caustic target solution and acidifying the caustic target solution to produce precipitation of an undesirable compound in the caustic target solution.

Abstract: All interface position determining apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits an acoustic wave from a plurality of positions in an accumulating direction in which impurities contained in a liquid accumulate, from an outside of a wall surrounding the liquid; a receiver that receives the acoustic wave transmitted from the transmitter at a plurality of positions; and a determining unit that determines a position of an interface between a liquid layer and a sludge layer in the accumulating direction based on a condition of the acoustic wave received by the receiver.

Abstract: Gas quantity in a pixel may be estimated based on spectral matched filtering. Image data associated with a scene may be received. The scene may comprise a plurality of pixels. Next, a spectral matched filter may be constructed for a predetermined gas and based on the image data. A quantity of the predetermined gas may then be estimated in at least one of the plurality of pixels by applying the spectral matched filter to the image data.

Abstract: A temperature control chamber includes a heat impact unit configured for heat impacting a sensor unit in accordance with a heat profile, the sensor unit configured for sensing heat impact response data over time in response to being heat impacted with the heat profile, and a determining unit configured for determining information indicative of a heat transfer characteristic in the temperature control chamber based on the sensed heat impact response data.

Abstract: A method of testing semiconductor surface bonds includes centering a torsional shear tool with respect to a first die having a surface bond to a wafer, clamping the first die using the torsional shear tool, applying a torsional load to the first die with respect to the wafer using the torsional shear tool, and measuring a torque value associated with the torsional load.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for a sensing deformation in a surface are disclosed herein. An example device may include a support unit including a first frame and a second frame. A first end of the first frame and a first end of the second frame are mechanically coupled to the surface. The sensing device includes a pin joint that mechanically couples the first frame to the second frame, such that a first relative movement between the first end of the first frame and the first end of the second frame is amplified to a second relative movement between a second end of the first frame and a second end of the second frame. The sensing device includes a sensor that senses the second relative movement between the second end of the first frame and the second end of the second frame.

Abstract: A vibration-type angular rate sensor (100) according to this invention is configured to switch between one set of electrodes (50) and another set of electrodes (50) as electrodes that induce the primary vibration in the vibrator (1), and to switch between the another set of electrodes and the one set of electrodes as electrodes that detect the secondary vibration in the vibrator (1), and the offset value after the switching and the offset value before the switching are symmetrical values with respect to a predetermined reference value.

Abstract: A water level measurement system according to an embodiment includes a support pipe installed in a water tank filled with a fluid to measure a water level and extending in a depth direction of the water tank, a support rod disposed on one side of the support pipe based on a central axis of the support pipe and extending in the depth direction of the water tank, a plurality of ultrasonic probes attached to the support rod and generating ultrasonic waves, and a water level calculator connected to the plurality of ultrasonic probes and calculating the water level of the water tank.

Abstract: A MEMS gyroscope may include a drive system configured to impart a drive motion on a plurality of proof masses within a device plane of the MEMS gyroscope, including first and second in-plane proof masses that are driven in anti-phase and first second out-of-plane proof masses that are driven in anti-phase via the movement of the in-plane proof masses. The out-of-plane proof masses include a separate driven mass and sense mass such that the sense mass does not move in the device plane in response to the drive motion but does move in the device plane in response to an angular velocity about the out-of-plane axis based on a Coriolis force imparted on the drive mass. A coupling link connects the sense masses, thereby synchronizing an anti-phase translation of the sense masses due to the sensed Coriolis force.