Abstract: An image capturing device includes an image capturing unit, a moving unit, a detector, and a determiner. The image capturing unit includes an optical transmission member; and a sensor capturing an image of the subject via the optical transmission member. The moving unit moves the image capturing unit in an optical axis direction of the sensor. The detector detects a contamination from first and second images. The first and second images are captured by the sensor when the image capturing unit is located at first and second positions in the optical axis direction, respectively. The second position is spaced away from the subject than the first position in the optical axis direction. The determiner determines that a contamination is deposited on the optical transmission member when a difference in the number of pixels in which a contamination is detected between the first and second images is less than a threshold.

Abstract: A chemical heat storage device that heats a heating target provided in an exhaust pipe 3 from an outer periphery of the heating target, comprising a reactor 9A that contains reaction materials 9a that generate heat by chemical reaction with a reaction medium, an adsorber that adsorbs the reaction medium with an adsorbent to store the reaction medium, and branch pipes 11a and 11b that connect the adsorber and the reactor 9A. The reactor 9A is provided around an outer peripheral surface of a portion at which the heating target is provided in the piping, and includes a plurality of inlet-outlets 9c and 9d through which the reaction medium is fed. The plurality of inlet-outlets 9c and 9d are arranged so as to be at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the reactor 9A without being positioned in a lower portion of the reactor 9A.

Abstract: [Problem] Provided are a polyamide resin composition which is not only excellent in flame retardancy and heat resistance but also excellent in strength, exhibits a high brightness before and after a reflow step, and even after going through the reflow step, is small in yellowing, and a molded article including the same. [Solution] A polyamide resin composition including, based on 100 parts by mass of (A) a polyamide having a melting point of 280 to 330° C., 0.5 to 80 parts by mass of (B) at least one phosphinic acid salt represented by the following formula (1) or (2) and 0.001 to 7 parts by mass of (C) at least one phosphorous acid ester represented by the following formula (3) or (4). In the formulae, R1 to R17, M, m, n, and x are defined in the description.

Abstract: A condition monitoring system includes a terminal system unit and a condition monitoring system unit connected together via radiocommunication channels. The terminal system unit is mounted on a self-propelled machine, while the monitoring system unit is arranged at a control center. The monitoring system unit is provided with a unit for setting an alarm delivery condition, another unit for setting an aggregation condition, a further unit for transmitting the alarm delivery condition and aggregation condition so set, and a screen display unit for displaying various information. The terminal system unit is provided with an alarm creation unit for creating alarm information according to the alarm delivery condition so transmitted, an aggregate data creation unit for creating aggregate data according to the transmitted aggregation condition, and a data transmitting unit for transmitting the alarm information and aggregate data so created.

Abstract: A supplying apparatus includes a supply container including an accommodating portion configured to accommodate a developer, a discharge opening configured to discharge the developer out of the accommodating portion, and an expansion-and-contraction portion having a variable inside volume. The developer is supplied from the supply container through the discharge opening using an inside pressure variation of the supply container caused by expansion and contraction of the expansion-and-contraction portion. In addition, a receiving portion receives the developer supplied from the supply container and forms a feeding path along which the developer is fed, and a decomposing member is non-rotatably fixed at a position opposing, in a vertical direction, the discharge opening in the receiving portion and collides with free falling developer through the discharge opening to decompose the developer.

Abstract: An adhesive composition includes an acrylic polymer (A), a heat curable resin (B) having a reactive double bond group, and a filler (C) having a reactive double bond group on a surface thereof. The acrylic polymer (A) has a weight average molecular weight of 500,000 or more, and the heat curable resin (B) comprises an epoxy resin and a heat curing agent, in which at least one of the epoxy resin and the heat curing agent has the reactive double bond group.

Abstract: Provided is an operation data collection device for construction machines that is capable of efficiently collecting operation data indicative of impending failure of a construction machine by reducing the amount of information to be collected and stored without degrading the quality of information used for maintenance. The device receives operation data containing values measured by a plurality of sensors, a value indicating the operating status and an operation data storage section. The device includes a normal reference value storage section that stores a normal reference value for each of the sensors generating the operation data, a deviation calculation section that calculates the deviation of each of the sensors from the normal reference value, and a stored sensor item extraction section that extracts sensor items of operation data to be stored in the operation data storage section in accordance with the calculated deviation of each sensor.

Abstract: A hydraulic shovel includes: a storage unit which stores an operation history of a target component of the shovel targeted for life span estimation, a discrimination threshold value used for classifying usage of the target component into a plurality of usage modes based on the operation history, and a usage mode-specific estimated life span indicative of an estimated life span of the target component in each of the usage modes; and an arithmetic and control unit which calculates an operating time of the target component in each of the usage modes in accordance with the operation history and the discrimination threshold value, and estimates the life span of the target component based on the operating time calculated for each of the usage modes and on the usage mode-specific estimated life span.

Abstract: An image capturing unit includes a sensor section that images a predetermined range including a subject; a reference chart section that is imaged by the sensor section with the subject; and an illumination light source that illuminates the subject and the reference chart section. The illumination light source is arranged at a position where a mirror reflection region that mirror reflects light entering from the illumination light source to the sensor section is outside a region of the subject and the reference chart section.

Abstract: A glossiness determining device includes: a light source; a two-dimensional sensor that receives reflected light containing a specular reflection component of a subject illuminated by the light source, and outputs an image of the subject; and a determining unit that determines glossiness of the subject by using a saturated image, which is the image of the subject output by the two-dimensional sensor and in which pixel values of a partial area are saturated.

Abstract: A robot system includes a fixed camera that obtains first measurement data by detecting a plurality of features positioned within a detection range, the detection range including at least part of a range in which a robot arm is movable, a hand camera movable with the robot arm, and a control apparatus that controls the robot arm. A calibration function that relates a value obtained as part of the first measurement data to a command value provided to the robot arm at each of a plurality of positions and orientations at which the hand camera obtains second measurement data by detecting each mark.

Abstract: A color measuring device includes a housing; a sensor unit configured to capture an image of a region, the sensor unit being held to the housing; an illumination light source configured to illuminate the region, the illumination light source being held to the housing; a detecting unit configured to detect a distance between predetermined two points from image data of the region obtained by the sensor unit; a correcting unit configured to correct the image data including a subject whose color is to be measured according to a ratio of the detected distance to a reference distance; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a colorimetric value of the subject based on the corrected image data.

Abstract: A robot system which requires no manual teaching operation in acquiring calibration values for coordinate transformation, and improves the calibration accuracy includes a robot body, a camera, and a control apparatus. The control apparatus measures, via the camera, a calibration plate at each position and orientation of a first position and orientation group including a reference measurement position and orientation and a position and orientation within a first offset range, calculates a first calibration value based on the measurement value, measures, via the camera, the calibration plate at each position and orientation of a second position and orientation group including a reference operation position and orientation different from the reference measurement position and orientation, and a position and orientation within a second offset range, calculates a second calibration value based on the measurement value, and activates the robot body by using the first and second calibration values.

Abstract: A predicted-failure-evidence diagnosing section for equipment that does not depend on the equipment and does not require knowledge of the equipment is provided. On the basis of a result of a predicted-abnormality-evidence diagnosis carried out by this section on time-series data gathered from the equipment, an allowable error used for compressing the gathered data can be set and managed in order to compress the data if the result of the diagnosis is normal or to restrict the compression of the data during a period in which an evidence of a predicted abnormality is detected. Thus, the amount of data stored in a memory can be reduced.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a refrigeration cycle apparatus, a fusible plug is attached to a low-pressure-side pipe between an evaporator and a compressor. The refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a heat quantity reduction member. The fusible plug fuses when a temperature of heat transmitted from the low-pressure-side pipe to the fusible plug reaches a predetermined value or more, and then opens the inside of the low-pressure-side pipe to atmosphere. The heat quantity reduction member reduces the quantity of heat to be transmitted to the fusible plug.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a image; a developing container for accommodating a developer comprising toner and carrier; a rotatable developer carrying member, provided in an opening of the developing container, for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; a feeding device for feeding the developer in the developing container toward the developer carrying member; detecting device for detecting information relating to a consumption amount of the developer; and a controller for executing, when a image formation is continuously effected for a plurality of recording materials, a operation in a mode in which on the basis of a result of detection of the detecting device, the image forming operation is interrupted, and a operating condition of at least one of the feeding device and the developer carrying member is changed.

Abstract: Selection of sensors requires the knowledge of individual sensors mounted on a target machine and the knowledge of mechanical features of the machine. In the past, experts having mechanical knowledge selected the sensors. The present invention involves analyzing sensor data at e of machine failure, extracting features from the sensor data regarding each failure cause, and comparing the extracted features so as to clarify the difference between the sensor data about the failure causes and present an operator with the clarified difference thereby to support sensor selection. The invention makes it possible to select more simply than before the sensors considered effective for classifying failure causes. For example, the sensors deemed effective for classifying failure causes without mechanical knowledge can be selected.

Abstract: An exhaust purifying apparatus of an internal combustion engine is provided. The exhaust purifying apparatus includes a CO oxidation catalyst disposed in the exhaust flow passage of an internal combustion engine and capable of oxidizing and thereby purifying CO in the exhaust, and an HC adsorbent material loaded with a noble metal, for adsorbing HC in the exhaust. The exhaust purifying apparatus further includes an NOx adsorbent material for adsorbing NOx in the exhaust. These adsorbent materials are located on the upstream side in the exhaust flow direction with respect to the CO oxidation catalyst and disposed in order from the upstream. The CO oxidation catalyst contains Pd and CeO2 and is obtained by an oxidation treatment at a temperature of 850 to 950° C. The amount of Pd supported in the CO oxidation catalyst is from 0.1 to 2.5 mass % based on CeO2.

Abstract: A demand area power system building system includes at least one power transmission/reception unit that comprises a power storage unit and power transmitting and receiving units capable of transmitting and receiving power to/from another power transmission/reception unit via an electrical grid and that is configured to be able to provide power accumulated in the power storage unit to the outside or to be able to accumulate power supplied from the outside; and a virtual electrical grid building apparatus, connected to the power transmission/reception unit via a communication network, that controls the power transmission/reception unit so as to provide power to a demand area. The power transmission/reception unit is adapted to announce participation to a demand area power system via the communication network, and the virtual electrical grid building apparatus builds a demand area power system using the power transmission/reception unit that has announced participation to the demand area power system.

Abstract: The invention is related to a system and a method to determine whether a target equipment deviates from a normal state. If it is determined that the target equipment to be diagnosed deviates from the normal state, the degree of deviation of each parameter from the normal state as the reference is calculated as an abnormal contribution ratio. A failure cause is estimated from a similarity ratio between the calculated abnormal contribution ratio and the abnormal contribution ratio of each of the failure causes collected in the past and including failure phenomena and failure parts.