Abstract: The vehicle management device includes a drive unit for driving, a power storage device that can supply power to the drive unit, and a solar cell system that can generate electricity from a solar cell and supply it to the power storage device, and also supplies power to the outside of the vehicle. Vehicles that can be used. While the vehicle is parked, the vehicle management device sets an allowable power supply amount for the outside of the vehicle within the range of the predicted power generation amount of the solar cell until the next scheduled start time of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle equipped with a driving unit for traveling, a power storage device capable of supplying power to the drive unit, and a solar cell system capable of supplying power generated by a solar cell to the power storage device. A vehicle management device that determines the cause, based on whether or not a decrease in the amount of power generation has occurred while the vehicle is running and whether or not a decrease in the amount of power generation has occurred while the vehicle is parked, determines whether the decrease in the amount of power generation is caused by the state abnormality of the solar cell or the external environment.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle management device used for a vehicle that includes a drive unit for traveling, a power storage device that is able to supply power to the drive unit, and a solar cell system that is able to generate power from a solar cell and supply the power to the power storage device, and that is able to perform external charging in which the power storage device is charged with power from an outside of the vehicle. When the vehicle is parked, a target external charging amount of the external charging is set to a value obtained by subtracting, from a target power storage amount of the power storage device at a next scheduled traveling start time, a predicted power generation amount of the solar cell up to the next scheduled traveling start time.

Abstract: Equipped with a solar power generation device that includes a light collecting member that collects and irradiates sunlight, a drive device that drives the light collecting member, and a control device that controls the drive device, and that has at least one solar cell panel. A light collecting device that irradiates light to a parked vehicle using a light concentrating member, the control device determining the power generation efficiency of solar power generation by the solar power generation device based on the position of the solar cell panel. The drive device is controlled so that the power generation efficiency is equal to or higher than the initial power generation efficiency that is the power generation efficiency at the initial position of the light collecting member.

Abstract: A charge and discharge management system for managing charging/discharging of a power storage device in a plurality of vehicles having a power storage device and capable of performing external charging for charging the power storage device using electric power from an external power supply and external power supply for supplying power from the power storage device to the outside of the vehicle. A system obtains the scheduled departure times of a plurality of parked vehicles, and determines, among the plurality of vehicles, vehicles whose outside air temperature is lower than the lowest temperature in a predetermined temperature range. To terminate external charging or external power supply at a time closer to a scheduled departure time than a vehicle under environmental conditions.

Abstract: A vehicle management device for managing parking positions in a parking lot of a plurality of vehicles equipped with a solar battery and a power storage device for storing electric power generated by the solar battery, wherein based on the conversion efficiency of the solar battery of each vehicle and the sunlight conditions of the parking lot, the parking position of each vehicle is set so that the amount of solar electric power generation by multiple vehicles per unit time or the sum total of the amount of power generated by the solar cells mounted on multiple vehicles is large. As a result, the amount of electric power generated per unit time and the sum of the amount of electric power generated of the vehicles as a whole can be improved.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry reads out diagram information indicating a schedule of at least one vehicle tripping along a trip path, wherein the diagram information includes a plurality of events and the events include stop places and departure times from and/or arrival times at the stop places, and calculates a delay probability distribution for a first event of the plurality of events included in the diagram information. The processing circuitry calculates the delay probability distribution for the first event based on: event-to-event delay time information between the first event and a second event preceding the first event; and a required time interval between the first event and the second event.

Abstract: To provide a geothermal heat exchanger with high thermal efficiency, which can reduce heat loss to a non-geothermal zone when high-temperature liquid heated in the deep underground is transported to the ground. The geothermal heat exchanger of the present invention includes a liquid transport pipe provided with a liquid lowering pipe to which a heat exchange liquid which is pressurized and supplied, a liquid raising pipe which is disposed on the inside or outside side of the liquid lowering pipe and raises the heat exchange liquid which is descended to the geothermal zone, moved from the lower part and composed of the high-temperature liquid generated by which heat from the geothermal zone is supplied, and an outer thermal insulation layer which is provided on a part or the whole of the outside of the liquid transport pipe at least from the ground surface to the geothermal zone.

Abstract: To provide a geothermal heat exchanger with high thermal efficiency, which can reduce heat loss to a non-geothermal zone when high-temperature liquid heated in the deep underground is transported to the ground. The geothermal heat exchanger of the present invention includes a liquid transport pipe provided with a liquid lowering pipe to which a heat exchange liquid which is pressurized and supplied, a liquid raising pipe which is disposed on the inside or outside side of the liquid lowering pipe and raises the heat exchange liquid which is descended to the geothermal zone, moved from the lower part and composed of the high-temperature liquid generated by which heat from the geothermal zone is supplied, and an outer thermal insulation layer which is provided on a part or the whole of the outside of the liquid transport pipe at least from the ground surface to the geothermal zone.

Abstract: A circuit simulation device includes a measurement unit, a calculation unit, and a processing unit. The measurement unit measures first spaces between adjacent contacts of a plurality of first contacts provided on a source diffusion layer in a line in a direction along which a gate electrode of a transistor extends and also a space between adjacent contacts of a plurality of second contacts provided on a drain diffusion layer in a line in the direction, based on layout design data, and second spaces between the first contacts and the gate electrode and spaces between the second contacts and the gate electrode. The calculation unit calculates a fringe capacitance between the gate electrode, the source diffusion layer, and the drain diffusion layer of the transistor, based on the first and second spaces. The processing unit executes layout simulation based on the fringe capacitance of the transistor.

Abstract: A circuit simulation device includes a measurement unit, a calculation unit, and a processing unit. The measurement unit measures first spaces between adjacent contacts of a plurality of first contacts provided on a source diffusion layer in a line in a direction along which a gate electrode of a transistor extends and also a space between adjacent contacts of a plurality of second contacts provided on a drain diffusion layer in a line in the direction, based on layout design data, and second spaces between the first contacts and the gate electrode and spaces between the second contacts and the gate electrode. The calculation unit calculates a fringe capacitance between the gate electrode, the source diffusion layer, and the drain diffusion layer of the transistor, based on the first and second spaces. The processing unit executes layout simulation based on the fringe capacitance of the transistor.

Abstract: This invention provides a transfer method of transferring, from a carrier including a placing portion on which a substrate is placed, and a cover that is superposed on the upper surface of the placing portion in close contact, the substrate held between the placing portion and the cover. The transfer method includes a holding step of holding the substrate and the cover on the placing portion by a holding apparatus, and a moving step of moving the holding apparatus to move the substrate and the cover from the placing portion to a transfer destination. In the holding step, the cover is held by the cover holding unit of the holding apparatus, and the substrate is held by the substrate holding unit of the holding apparatus in parallel postures of the cover and substrate.

Abstract: A surgical simulation model generating method which includes a first process in which a computing unit acquires geometrical information of an organ from a medical image stored in a storage unit, including an image of the organ, and generates volume data for the organ; a second process in which, after the first process, the computing unit forms nodal points by meshing the organ represented by the generated volume data; a third process in which the computing unit generates a simulated membrane that covers the organ represented by the volume data meshed in the second process; and a fourth process in which the computing unit generates a simulated organ by drawing an imaginary line so as to extend from each nodal point formed on a surface of the organ represented by the volume data meshed in the second process in a direction that intersects the simulated membrane.

Abstract: A surgical simulation model generating method includes: a first process in which a computing unit acquires geometrical information of an organ from a medical image stored in a storage unit, including an image of the organ, and generates volume data for the organ; a second process in which, after the first process, the computing unit forms nodal points by meshing the organ represented by the generated volume data; a third process in which the computing unit generates a simulated membrane that covers the organ represented by the volume data meshed in the second process; and a fourth process in which the computing unit generates a simulated organ by drawing an imaginary line so as to extend from each nodal point formed on a surface of the organ represented by the volume data meshed in the second process in a direction that intersects the simulated membrane and thereby forming a membrane nodal point at a point where the imaginary line intersects the simulated membrane generated in the third process, and by arrang

Abstract: This invention provides a transfer method of transferring, from a carrier including a placing portion on which a substrate is placed, and a cover that is superposed on the upper surface of the placing portion in close contact, the substrate held between the placing portion and the cover. The transfer method includes a holding step of holding the substrate and the cover on the placing portion by a holding apparatus, and a moving step of moving the holding apparatus to move the substrate and the cover from the placing portion to a transfer destination. In the holding step, the cover is held by the cover holding unit of the holding apparatus, and the substrate is held by the substrate holding unit of the holding apparatus in parallel postures of the cover and substrate.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a behavior estimation apparatus includes a storage unit, a first calculation unit, a second calculation unit, and an estimation unit. The storage unit stores first data collecting power values consumed by a consumer in a period. The first calculation unit calculates second data representing a frequency of each power value by using the first data. The second calculation unit calculates a first threshold to divide a first power value from a second power value which is larger than and next to the first power value, among power values corresponding to maximal values of frequencies included in the second data. The estimation unit obtains a power value consumed by the consumer in an estimating period, and estimates the consumer's behavior status in the estimating period by using the power value and the first threshold.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a behavior estimation apparatus includes a storage unit, a first calculation unit, a second calculation unit, and an estimation unit. The storage unit stores first data collecting power values consumed by a consumer in a period. The first calculation unit calculates second data representing a frequency of each power value by using the first data. The second calculation unit calculates a first threshold to divide a first power value from a second power value which is larger than and next to the first power value, among power values corresponding to maximal values of frequencies included in the second data. The estimation unit obtains a power value consumed by the consumer in an estimating period, and estimates the consumer's behavior status in the estimating period by using the power value and the first threshold.

Abstract: Medical image data is utilized, physical values are assigned to body parts based on image information, and the target organs are separated from the image data to prepare a 3D biodata model to thereby realize a data model unique to a patient, having an internal structure, and enabling dynamic simulation of a live body. The same target part of a body is captured by CT and MRI to obtain medical images. Sets of pairs of CT images and MRI images are set, a plurality of features showing the same locations are selected and set from the sets of CT images and MRI images, a conversion coefficient between the CT images and MRI images is obtained, and this conversion coefficient is used to rearrange the MRI images by projection transforms and linear interpolation, combine them with the contours of the CT images, and correct their positions in the contours. Further, the images are used to prepare a 3D data model.

Abstract: A circuit simulation apparatus is provided with a parameter calculating tool and a circuit simulator. The parameter calculating tool is configured to extract gate spacings between gates of a target MOS transistor and adjacent MOS transistors integrated in an integrated circuit from layout data of the integrated circuit, and to calculate a transistor model parameter corresponding to a threshold voltage of the target MOS transistor based on the extracted gate spacings. The circuit simulator is configured to perform circuit simulation of the integrated circuit by using the calculated transistor model parameter.

Abstract: An antenna ratio calculation section extracts components from which two or more independent metal wires are coupled to one of diffusion layer regions based on layout data read from a layout data accumulation section, determines, for each of the components, the area of each of the two or more independent metal wires and electrodes coupled to the respective metal wires, determines an antenna ratio between the area of each of the metal wires and the area of the electrode coupled to the metal wire, and determines a moderation value for moderating a design standard associated with plasma charge damage related to one of the metal wires based on the ratio of the total area of all the metal wires coupled to the one of the diffusion layer regions to the area of the one of the metal wires.