Abstract: A facial validation sensor includes an imaging element, a validating unit and a feedback unit. The validating unit performs validation of an individual to be validated based on facial image data of the individual, imaged by the imaging element, and facial image data registered in advance. The feedback unit guides a face of the individual to be within an imaging range that is imaged by the imaging element. The feedback unit is an indicator providing unit that provides an indicator that is viewable from a specific direction within the imaging range that is imaged by the imaging element.

Abstract: A graph displaying device includes a trend graph display that defines a time axis and a data value axis, and plots time series data in an orthogonal plane indicated by the axes to display a trend graph, a focus data pointer display that displays a pointer indicating a plot point relative to a selectively indicated plot point of the time series data when a desired plot point of the time series data has been selectively indicated on the trend graph, a focus data pointer moving/stopping unit that moves the pointer in a designated earlier or later direction on the time axis, and stops, at a plot point of the time series data, the pointer that has been moved, and a numeric value information display that displays a data value and a time mark at the plot point of the time series data.

Abstract: An air-conditioning controlling system includes a need identifying device, a control plan storage device that stores, respectively for a temporary need and a persistent need, control plans that establish rules for changing a control setting value for air-conditioning in response to a need relating to air-conditioning from an informant, a control plan determining device that determines a control plan corresponding to an identification result of the need identifying device, as a control plan to be applied to an air-conditioning equipment, and an equipment controlling device that controls the air-conditioning equipment based on the determined control plan. The need identifying device includes an inputting unit that receives the need from the informant, and a need identifying unit that identifies whether the need is the temporary need or the persistent need, based on information pertaining to an activity that changes a metabolic rate of the informant.

Abstract: A device manager displaying on a screen, in a tree format, icons corresponding to devices that are managed in a hierarchical structure, including a configuration information table storing, for each device, configuration information pertaining to the configuration of that device; a receiving portion receiving an alert event generated by any of the devices; an evaluating portion evaluating whether or not an address of a device matches any of the addresses stored in the configuration information table when a received alert event is an installation event; a configuration information registering portion generating, and registering into the configuration information table, configuration information based on the received alert event if the address of the device does not match any of the addresses in the configuration information table; and a displaying portion displaying the icons on the screen based on the configuration information stored in the configuration information table.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a microorganism detecting apparatus including drawing, into a microorganism detecting apparatus, polystyrene particles that, when exposed to light produce fluorescence of essentially the same intensity as the intensity of fluorescence produced by microorganisms; exposing the polystyrene particles to light from a light source of the microorganism detecting apparatus and detecting, using a fluorescence detector of the microorganism detecting apparatus, the fluorescence produced from the polystyrene particles; and calibrating the microorganism detecting apparatus based on the intensity of the detected fluorescence.

Abstract: An instrument status display displaying on a screen, in a tree format, respective indicators corresponding to instruments controlled in a hierarchical structure, having an installation time mark acquiring portion acquiring, as an applicable installation time mark, a time mark that is nearest to a reference time mark without being later than the reference time mark, where the time mark is a time mark for the connection of an instrument, from an installation/removal event history database; an alert event acquiring portion acquiring alert event information notified from an instrument over the interval from the applicable installation time mark, acquired by the installation time mark acquiring portion, up until the reference time mark; a display formatter determining a display format of an indicator based on alert event information; and a displaying portion displaying, on a screen, an indicator in a display format determined by the display formatter.

Abstract: A first state quantity and a second state quantity of a valve stem dislocation are calculated, and a ratio of the first state quantity and the second state quantity is calculated as a first stick-slip indicator SSpv in a first stick-slip indicator calculating portion. A third state quantity and a fourth state quantity of a control instruction value of a valve stem dislocation are calculated, and a ratio of the third state quantity and the fourth state quantity is calculated as a second stick-slip indicator SSsp in a second stick-slip indicator calculating portion. With a threshold value as Th, a first constant as ?, and a second constant as ?, a fault evaluating portion concludes that a stick-slip has occurred when the conditional expression “SSpv>Th AND SSpv>?·SSsp+?” is satisfied.

Abstract: A most recent electrostatic capacitance value for a backup capacitor is measured periodically. Each time the most recent electrostatic capacitance value is measured, a charging voltage (a required charging voltage) that is required in order to cause a return operation of a valve from the setting opening at that time to an emergency opening/closing position (for example, the fully closed position) is calculated based on the electrostatic capacitance value that has been measured, and the terminal voltage of the backup capacitor is adjusted so as to become equal to the calculated required charging voltage.

Abstract: A most recent electrostatic capacitance value for a backup capacitor is measured periodically. Each time the most recent electrostatic capacitance value is measured, a charging voltage (a required charging voltage) that is required in order to cause a return operation of a valve from the setting opening at that time to an emergency opening/closing position (for example, the fully closed position) is calculated based on the electrostatic capacitance value that has been measured. If the required charging voltage that has been calculated is higher than the terminal voltage that has been detected, then a value for a charging current value is determined based on the actual degree of opening and the setting opening of the valve, and the backup capacitor is charged until the terminal voltage reaches the required charging voltage.

Abstract: A variable impedance circuit is provided as an active load between an input line L1 and an output line L2. This circuit has low impedance with respect to a DC electric current signal and has high impedance with respect to an AC electric current signal, structured from a series circuit of resistors R1, R2, and R3 connected between lines L1 and L2; a transistor Q1 having the collector connected to the line L1 and the base connected between the resistors R2 and R3; a resistor R4 connected between the emitter of the transistor Q1 and the line L2; a capacitor C1 with one end connected between the resistors R2 and R3; a resistor R5 connected between the other end of the capacitor C1 and the line L2; a capacitor C2 having one end connected between the resistors R1 and R2; and a resistor R6 connected between the other end of the capacitor C2 and the line L2.

Abstract: An environment providing device having a test chamber; a spraying device for receiving the supply of a gas flow to spray, into the test chamber, a fluid that contains particles; a flow meter for measuring a measured value for the flow rate of the gas flow that is supplied to the spraying device; a flow rate controlling device for controlling to a prescribed value, based on the measured value, the flow rate of the gas flow that is supplied to the spraying device; a timer for measuring a time interval over which the fluid that includes the particles has been sprayed into the test chamber; and a spraying-device-controlling device for stopping the spraying of the fluid that contains the particles after spraying a prescribed quantity of particles into the test chamber.

Abstract: A particle detecting device evaluating system having a test chamber provided, in one face thereof, with a plurality of gas intake vents, where respective particle detecting devices are provided; an injecting device for injecting particles into the test chamber; a light sheet forming device for forming a light sheet within the test chamber; and an imaging device for imaging particles made visible by the light sheet.

Abstract: An environment providing device having a test chamber provided, in one face thereof, with a plurality of gas intake vents, where a respective plurality particle detecting devices is provided; and an injecting device for injecting particles into the test chamber.