Abstract: A vacuum processing apparatus of this invention having a stage on which is disposed the to-be-processed substrate further has a lifting/rotation mechanism capable of lifting the to-be-processed substrate lying on the stage off from an upper surface of the stage to a predetermined height position so that, at this lifted position, the to-be-processed substrate is capable of rotation about a substrate center by a predetermined rotational angle. The lifting/rotation mechanism has: a driving rod built into the stage so as to be moveable up and down and also be rotatable; and a substrate supporting body having a base end plate part capable of contacting a central region, including the substrate center, of the to-be-processed substrate. The substrate supporting body further has at least two arm plate parts elongated from the base end plate part outward thereof.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an identification unit that detects a hand region of a person who is in contact with an object included in an input image and identifies an object region that is a region of the object based on a result thereof, a specification unit that specifies an unknown object candidate region that is a candidate for a region of an unknown object from among the object regions identified by the identification unit, a determination unit that determines whether the object is an unknown object based on the unknown object candidate region, and a generation unit that generates, when the object is an unknown object, feedback information for changing an attitude of the unknown object with respect to the person.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a sensor unit that senses environmental information on a predetermined area; a storage unit that stores event information including event feature data on a predetermined event and meta information including space information on the predetermined event associated with the event feature data; and a control unit that retrieves the event information from the storage unit and acquires the space information included in the event information based on a sensing result from the sensor unit.

Abstract: A fuel cell unit includes: a fuel cell stack in which a plurality of fuel cells are stacked; an electrical device; and a bus bar electrically connecting between a terminal of the fuel cell stack and a terminal of the electrical device. The bus bar includes a non-joined portion in which a plurality of metal plates are stacked without being joined to each other. The plurality of metal plates include a first metal plate and a second metal plate thicker than the first metal plate.

Abstract: An information processing system (1) includes an operation amount data acquisition unit (109), an image data acquisition unit (101), a difference expression extraction unit (108), and a mirror surface region identification unit (111). The operation amount data acquisition unit (109) acquires operation amount data of an object. The image data acquisition unit (101) acquires image data captured by an imaging device mounted on the object. The difference expression extraction unit (108) extracts a difference expression representing feature information about a difference between two images based on two pieces of image data captured before and after the operation of the object. The mirror surface region identification unit (111) identifies a mirror surface region based on a correlation between the difference expression and the operation amount data.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an identification unit that detects a hand region of a person who is in contact with an object included in an input image and identifies an object region that is a region of the object based on a result thereof, a specification unit that specifies an unknown object candidate region that is a candidate for a region of an unknown object from among the object regions identified by the identification unit, a determination unit that determines whether the object is an unknown object based on the unknown object candidate region, and a generation unit that generates, when the object is an unknown object, feedback information for changing an attitude of the unknown object with respect to the person.

Abstract: A spunbonded nonwoven fabric includes thermoplastic fibers, wherein the thermoplastic fibers are conjugate fibers in which a low-melting polymer having a melting point lower by 10 to 140° C. than that of a high-melting polymer is provided around the high-melting polymer, the spunbonded nonwoven fabric has a non-pressure bonding portion having an apparent density of 0.20 to 0.60 g/cm3, when a long axis length of a fiber cross section of the non-pressure bonding portion is a and a short axis length thereof is b, a fiber flatness a/b is 1.5 to 5, and an air permeability satisfies formula (1): [air permeability (cc/cm2·sec)]?520×exp(?0.0236×[basis weight (g/m2)]?2.85×[apparent density (g/cm3)])??(1).

Abstract: The spunbond non-woven fabric for a filter includes a composite polyester fiber containing a low melting point polyester arranged in the vicinity of a high melting point polyester, the low melting point polyester having a melting point 10 to 140° C. lower than the melting point of the high melting point polyester, the spunbond non-woven fabric having a surface layer and a back layer, the composite polyester fiber having a single fiber fineness of not less than 1 dtex and less than 3 dtex at the surface layer and said composite polyester fiber having a single fiber fineness of not less than 3 dtex and not more than 5 dtex at the back layer, and the spunbond non-woven fabric having a basis weight of 130 to 300 g/m2. A spunbond non-woven fabric for a filter having high rigidity and air permeability as well as excellent dust brush-off performance is provided.

Abstract: A melt-blown nonwoven fabric includes a fiber containing a thermoplastic resin, wherein apparent density is 0.1 to 0.4 g/cm3 and KES surface roughness of at least one surface of the fabric sheet is up to 1.2 ?m; and a method of producing the fabric includes conveying a web of the nonwoven fabric by sandwiching the web between two belt conveyers each including a belt having a smooth surface, providing a heat treatment zone where a surface of one or both of the belt conveyers has been heated to a temperature not lower than cold crystallization temperature of the thermoplastic resin and not higher than the temperature ?3° C. lower than melting temperature of the thermoplastic resin in at least a part of a course between the belts, and heating the nonwoven fabric web in the heat treatment zone by contacting both surfaces of the nonwoven fabric web with the belt.

Abstract: A spunbonded nonwoven fabric has a smooth surface, is highly unlikely to cause a widthwise curl due to a difference between the states of front and back surfaces, has a superior membrane formability of not allowing, at the time of casting of a resin solution, a bleed-through of the resin solution due to excessive permeation, a peel-off of a membrane substance, or any other defect such as nonuniform membrane or pin hole due to fluffing of the support, and further exhibits membrane bondability that is strong enough to prevent the membrane substance from peeling off after membrane formation.

Abstract: A spunbond non-woven fabric for a filter has high rigidity and air permeability as well as excellent dust brush-off performance. The spunbond non-woven fabric for a filter includes a composite polyester fiber containing a low melting point polyester arranged in the vicinity of a high melting point polyester, the low melting point polyester having a melting point 10 to 140° C. lower than the melting point of the high melting point polyester, the composite polyester fiber having a single fiber fineness of not less than 1.5 dtex and less than 5.0 dtex, the spunbond non-woven fabric having a basis weight of 150 to 300 g/m2, an apparent density of 0.25 to 0.40 g/cm3, an air permeability per basis weight of 0.05 to 0.45 (cm3/cm2·sec)/(g/m2), and a bending resistance per basis weight, in at least one of the machine direction (MD) and the transverse direction (TD), of 0.09 to 0.32 (mN)/(g/m2).

Abstract: A process for producing a spunbonded nonwoven fabric includes ejecting a continuous fiber group from a spinneret, thinning and stretching the continuous fiber group with a rectangular ejector, and collecting the continuous fiber group in a nonwoven fabric form. The rectangular ejector has a jetting hole part having a slit width regulation member. A plurality of minute-deformation unit is disposed along a long-side direction of the slit width regulation member. A nonwoven fabric which has been collected is examined to determine a basis-weight distribution thereof in a width direction and the slit width regulation member is partly and minutely deformed by the minute-deformation unit on the basis of a determined value thereof to partly change a slit width of the jetting hole by its minute deformation, thereby regulating a basis-weight distribution thereof.

Abstract: A melt-blown nonwoven fabric includes a fiber containing a thermoplastic resin, wherein apparent density is 0.1 to 0.4 g/cm3 and KES surface roughness of at least one surface of the fabric sheet is up to 1.2 ?m; and a method of producing the fabric includes conveying a web of the nonwoven fabric by sandwiching the web between two belt conveyers each including a belt having a smooth surface, providing a heat treatment zone where a surface of one or both of the belt conveyers has been heated to a temperature not lower than cold crystallization temperature of the thermoplastic resin and not higher than the temperature ?3° C. lower than melting temperature of the thermoplastic resin in at least a part of a course between the belts, and heating the nonwoven fabric web in the heat treatment zone by contacting both surfaces of the nonwoven fabric web with the belt.