Abstract: A food processing apparatus in the present disclosure includes a reaction tank, a stirring body, and catalyst-attached members. The reaction tank stores a liquid reactant for food. The stirring body stirs the reactant stored in the reaction tank by rotating. The catalyst-attached members each have an outer surface at which a photocatalyst is present. The food processing apparatus satisfies the following condition (I), the following condition (II), or the following conditions (I) and (II). (I) A diameter of a circle that is a track formed by an outermost end of the stirring body in a direction perpendicular to a rotation axis when the stirring body rotates is greater than or equal to a maximum dimension. (II) The stirring body pushes the reactant toward a bottom of the reaction tank in a direction parallel to the rotation axis Ax when the stirring body rotates.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel peptide that has an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 18, and binds to an active protease but does not bind to a pro-protease.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a support unit, a supply unit, an annular member, a rotation unit, a cover member, and an annular flow regulation member disposed above the cover member. The annular member includes an inclined surface inclined downward toward a center of the annular member in a radial direction. The flow regulation member includes a base portion and a protrusion which faces a circumferential portion of the substrate supported on the support unit and protrudes from the base portion toward the circumferential portion of the substrate. The protrusion overlaps the support unit when viewed in a vertical direction. A lower surface of the protrusion is positioned above an upper surface of the substrate supported on the support unit and positioned below an upper surface of the annular member. An inner circumferential surface of the protrusion is inclined radially outward from an upper side to a lower side.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to: input characteristics extracted from an object region representing a target vehicle in an image obtained by a camera of a vehicle into a light-state classifier to identify a light state that is the state of a signal light of the target vehicle; determine a first control value, based on the result of identification of the light state and the positional relationship between the vehicle and the target vehicle, in accordance with a predetermined rule; input the result of identification of the light state into a control command classifier, which has been trained to output a second control value for controlling the vehicle to avoid a collision between the vehicle and the target vehicle, thereby determining the second control value; and determine an integrated control value to be used for controlling the vehicle, based on the first and second control values.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, from one or more server computers through a communication network, an edge model and collecting sensor data acquired by a sensor on a vehicle. The method also includes identifying a first data item from among the collected sensor data when the first data item is determined to satisfy a criterion. The method further includes applying a transformation to the identified first data item to generate a second data item to form a training dataset containing the first data item, the second data item, and a signal representing the transformation between the first data item and the second data item. The method further includes training with respect to the edge model on the training dataset and transmitting first data representing the trained edge model to the one or more server computers though the communication network.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, from one or more server computers through a communication network, a first model and collecting sensor data acquired by a sensor on a vehicle. The method also includes identifying a first data item from among the collected sensor data when the first data item is determined to satisfy a criterion. The method further include deriving an inference signal by running a trained second model using the first data item as input to the second model to provide a training dataset that contains the identified first data item and the derived inference signal as a supervision signal corresponding to the identified first data item. The method further includes training with respect to the first model on the training dataset and transmitting first data representing the trained first model to the one or more server computers though the communication network.

Abstract: A terminal block unit including: a terminal block; a case having the terminal block disposed thereinside, wherein: the terminal block includes a bus bar, a connection terminal that is separate from the bus bar, and a main body that holds the bus bar and the connection terminal, and the case has an access hole that enables access to the bus bar; and a cover that closes the access hole, wherein: the cover includes a connector disposed inside the cover, and the connector includes a conductive terminal configured to be electrically connected to the connection terminal.

Abstract: A method of identifying a hazard includes receiving control parameter data from a first sensor attached to a vehicle, wherein the control parameter data is associated with a behavior of an occupant of the vehicle. The method further includes comparing the control parameter data with a performance distribution of the occupant to determine whether the control parameter indicates abnormal behavior. The method further includes identifying, in response to a determination that the control parameter indicates abnormal behavior, sensor data to be collected from a second sensor attached to the vehicle. The method further includes generating log data based on the collected sensor data. The method further includes transmitting the log data to an external device.

Abstract: A storage system includes a host including a processor and a memory unit, and a storage device including a controller and a non-volatile memory unit. The processor is configured to output a write command, write data, and size information of the write data, to the storage device, the write command that is output not including a write address. The controller is configured to determine a physical write location of the non-volatile memory unit in which the write data are to be written, based on the write command and the size information, write the write data in the physical write location of the non-volatile memory unit, and output the physical write location to the host. The processor is further configured to generate, in the memory unit, mapping information between an identifier of the write data and the physical write location.

Abstract: A terminal block that includes: a main body made of resin; and a terminal partly molded into the main body, wherein the terminal includes: a first hole extending through a first portion that protrudes outward from one surface of the main body in an inclined direction intersecting both a vertical direction and a horizontal direction; and a second hole extending through a second portion that spans from an inside of the main body to the first hole in one of the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.

Abstract: A vehicle data collection system includes a vehicle-mounted sensor; a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions; and a processor connected to the non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for generating an invariant feature map, using a first neural network; and comparing the invariant feature map to template data to determine a similarity between the invariant feature map and the template data, wherein the template data is received from a server. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions for determining whether the determined similarity is exceeds a predetermined threshold; and instructing a transmitter to send the sensor data to the server in response to a determination that the determined similarity exceeds the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to associate one or more physical blocks to each of a plurality of stream IDs, execute a first command containing a first stream ID received from a host, by storing write data included in the write IO in the one or more physical blocks associated with the first stream ID, and execute a second command containing a second stream ID received from the host, by selecting a first physical block that includes valid data and invalid data, transfer the valid data stored in the first physical block to a second physical block, and associate the first physical block from which the valid data has been transferred, with the second stream ID.

Abstract: Provided are a varistor forming paste, a cured product thereof, and a varistor, that can increase the degree of freedom in designing an electronic device, and can exhibit appropriate varistor characteristics. The varistor forming paste contains an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B), and a carbon aerogel (C).

Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a plurality of physical blocks and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to associate one or more physical blocks to each of a plurality of stream IDs, execute a first command containing a first stream ID received from a host, by storing write data included in the write IO in the one or more physical blocks associated with the first stream ID, and execute a second command containing a second stream ID received from the host, by selecting a first physical block that includes valid data and invalid data, transfer the valid data stored in the first physical block to a second physical block, and associate the first physical block from which the valid data has been transferred, with the second stream ID.

Abstract: A brake light activation determining device has a processor configured to detect decrease in the speed of a vehicle ahead, which is located ahead of one's own vehicle, based on output information from a sensor that acquires information relating to the vehicle ahead, to discriminate whether the brake light of the vehicle ahead is activated based on an image representing the vehicle ahead, and to determine that the vehicle ahead is braking, when it has been discriminated that the brake light of the vehicle ahead has been activated, when the speed decrease timing at which reduction in the speed of the vehicle ahead has been detected and the activation timing at which brake light activation by the vehicle ahead was discriminated are synchronized for the vehicle ahead.

Abstract: A bucket management system 1 comprises: chutes 2 and 3 that have loading areas I1 and I4 and take-out areas O1 and O4 facing each other along a conveying direction F and convey buckets loaded to the loading area along the conveying direction F in storage areas S1 and S4 between the loading areas and the take-out areas; and a loading position indicating device 5 that indicates a loading position P for a bucket to be loaded along the width direction in the loading area. A plurality of bucket rows configured by stacking a plurality of buckets along the conveying direction F can be arranged in the storage areas. The loading position indicating device 5 indicates a loading position P on the basis of the lot number allocated to a bucket to be loaded and the arrangement information of the buckets in the storage areas.

Abstract: An apparatus for identifying the state of a signal light includes a processor configured to input time series images into a first classifier to detect object regions each including a vehicle equipped with a signal light in the respective images, the first classifier having been trained to detect the vehicle; chronologically input characteristics obtained from pixel values of the object regions detected in the respective images into a second classifier to calculate confidence scores of possible candidate states of the signal light of the vehicle, the second classifier having a recursive structure or performing a convolution operation in a temporal direction; and identify the state of the signal light, based on the preceding state of the signal light, information indicating whether transitions between the candidate states of the signal light are allowed, and the confidence scores of the respective candidate states.

Abstract: A holding apparatus for applying an electrolytic plating treatment to a planar workpiece, and the holding apparatus can reduce an amount of plating that is deposited on an edge part of the planar workpiece. The holding apparatus for applying the electrolytic plating treatment to the planar workpiece has a rear member and a front member facing the rear member and having an opening part. The planar workpiece is disposed between the rear member and the front member. The front member has a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of first insulating parts. The plurality of electrodes and the plurality of first insulating parts cover the edge part of the planar workpiece in a width direction of the planar workpiece.

Abstract: A surface treatment device includes at least one paddle in a plate shape, in a surface treatment tank, for stirring a surface treatment solution near a substrate by reciprocally moving the paddle with respect to the substrate. The paddle is configured by integrally forming multiple square bars provided in a depth direction or a horizontal direction of the surface treatment solution at regular intervals along the substrate. A liquid draining member for draining a liquid is arranged in at least one side of an end of the paddle.

Abstract: Provided is a calibration method for a detector including a plurality of detecting elements each of which generates an electrical pulse signal with a peak value corresponding to an energy value of incident X-ray photons and counts a photon count for each peak value, including: applying a predetermined tube voltage to an X-ray tube for irradiating the detector with X-rays; acquiring the photon count for each peak value from each of the detecting elements; estimating a maximum peak value H within a range in which X-ray photons are detected and at which the peak value is maximum; and calculating, for each of the detecting elements, a calibration value that associates the tube voltage with the maximum peak value H.