Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, an armature winding includes segmented conductors that include a coil side portion, housed in slots of the armature, and a coil end portion protruding from an armature core on both sides in an axial direction. The coil side portions are housed in the slots so as to form 2N+1 layers in a radial direction. The coil end portion connects two coil side portions respectively housed in the slots that are a predetermined pitch apart in a circumferential direction. The coil end portion includes a first coil end portion connecting the coil side portions of differing layers in the radial direction and a second coil end portion connecting the coil side portions of the same layer. On both ends in the axial direction, any of the plurality of coil side portions that are housed in the slots is connected to the second coil end portion.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a stator includes a first process and a second process. The first process includes: coating a first electrical insulation resin to windings of the stator; and curing the first electrical insulation resin at a temperature(s) higher than a glass transition temperature of the first electrical insulation resin. The second process includes: coating a second electrical insulation resin to the windings after the first process; and curing the second electrical insulation resin at a temperature(s) higher than a glass transition temperature of the second electrical insulation resin. The glass transition temperature of the first electrical insulation resin is higher than the glass transition temperature of the second electrical insulation resin.

Abstract: A rotor having a magnet-embedded structure includes a rotor core and a permanent magnet held in the rotor core. A permanent magnet is accommodated in an accommodation hole provided in the rotor core. The permanent magnet has a first surface and a second surface which extend in a direction intersecting with the magnetization direction, which is a direction of magnetic field lines inside the magnet and opposes each other. At least one of the first surface and the second surface is provided with a concave portion, which is provided with a curved surface in a concaved shape at a middle portion between both ends in a longitudinal cross-section.

Abstract: A housing apparatus of electrical components may include a housing and a membrane. The housing may define at least a portion of a watertight housing chamber in which a plurality of electrical components are accommodated. The membrane may seal an opening of the housing. The opening may be in communication with the housing chamber. The opening may be positioned such that the plurality of electrical components are not exposed to water even if a predetermined amount of water entered the housing through the opening.

Abstract: A memory stores management information where identification information of each of a plurality of devices used by an information processing apparatus, first positional information, and second positional information are associated with one another. The first positional information indicates a position of a device storage storing the plurality of devices. The second positional information indicates a storage position of each of the plurality of devices in the device storage. A processor receives failed device information including identification information of a failed device among the plurality of devices from the information processing apparatus. The processor identifies the position of the device storage storing the failed device and the storage position of the failed device in the device storage from the identification information of the failed device included in the failed device information on the basis of management information.

Abstract: A stator core includes a core body a having a cylindrical shape and a bolt fixing portion which includes a bolt insertion hole extending in an axial direction and into which a fixing bolt is inserted, and is capable of being fastened to a housing by a fixing bolt while the fixing bolt is inserted into the bolt insertion hole. The core body is a laminate in which core sheets made of steel plates having an insulating resin layer on a surface are laminated. The bolt fixing portion is provided as a separate member from the core body and is attached to an outside of an outer peripheral surface of the core body in a radial direction.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a resource management program for causing a computer that manages a virtualization system to execute a process, the process includes obtaining a first score according to a time-series number of unused resources for each resource type in the virtualization system, based on a use history of resources in the virtualization system by a user, obtaining, for each resource, a second score according to a use frequency and compatibility with another resource, and allocating each resource to the user in ascending order of a total value of the first score and the second score.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing megakaryocytes that have an increased capacity to produce platelets, the method comprising a step of culturing, under conditions that cause the death of cells that do not express a gene that is specifically expressed by megakaryocytes, cells that have the capacity to differentiate into megakaryocytes.

Abstract: An electric drive apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a transmission. The rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator and a first housing. The transmission includes a motive power transmitting unit, a second housing provided integrally with the first housing, and lubricating oil provided in the second housing to lubricate the motive power transmitting unit. The stator includes a stator coil that has first and second coil end parts respectively protruding from first and second axial end faces of a stator core. Each of phase windings of the stator coil has turn portions included in the first coil end part and joints included in the second coil end part. The second coil end part is located on the same axial side of the stator core as the transmission whereas the first coil end part is located on the opposite axial side of the stator core to the transmission.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a stem cell clone, which comprises the steps of: (i) introducing into stem cells an exogenous gene associated with induction of differentiation into somatic cells; (ii) inducing differentiation of the stem cells, introduced with an exogenous gene, into the somatic cells; (iii) dedifferentiating the differentiation-induced somatic cells; and (iv) isolating stem cells having the exogenous gene incorporated into a chromosome thereof from a colony of the stem cells formed in step (iii).

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core that has a plurality of slots that are arranged in a circumferential direction and a stator winding that has a plurality of phase coils that are wound in the slots. The rotor is arranged so as to oppose the stator in a radial direction and has a plurality of magnetic poles in the circumferential direction. In the rotating electric machine, each of the phase coils has a plurality of series-connection coil groups that each includes n unit coils that are arranged to be wound in the circumferential direction. In each of the series-connection coil groups, a first end thereof is connected to a phase terminal for a respective phase and a second end is connected to a neutral point, and the series-connection coil groups are connected in parallel.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of magnet-receiving holes formed along a circumferential direction, and a plurality of permanent magnets each of which is received in a corresponding one of the magnet-receiving holes of the rotor core. Each of the magnet-receiving holes has a pair of a radially-outer wall surface and a radially-inner wall surface that are radially opposite to each other. Each of the permanent magnets is fixed in the corresponding magnet-receiving hole of the rotor core by a fixing resin that includes a radially outer resin interposed between the permanent magnet and the radially-outer wall surface of the corresponding magnet-receiving hole and a radially inner resin interposed between the permanent magnet and the radially-inner wall surface of the corresponding magnet-receiving hole. An adhesive strength of the radially outer resin is higher than an adhesive strength of the radially inner resin.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process including estimating a usage period based on a user's usage status for each device in a system that provides a service at metered charge for the devices, calculating a first cost related to renewal of each device based on the estimated usage period, estimating a maintenance timing of each device from a failure history of each device, calculating a second cost related to maintenance of each device based on the maintenance timing of each device and the estimated usage period, generating a service cost of the service for each device, the service cost including the first cost and the second cost, and selecting a device to be used for the service based on the service cost generated for each device.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes receiving load arrangement of jobs in a case where a compute server mounted in a compute rack in a server room executes the jobs, the server room being a room where the compute rack in which the compute server is mounted and a storage rack in which a storage is mounted are arranged, and estimating a time at which a predetermined job of the compute server is to be offloaded to the storage that generates less heat than the compute server and estimating setting temperature and an air volume of an air conditioner, based on the load arrangement and time-series data of temperature and power of the server room, such that the power of the server room is reduced within limitation conditions of the compute server, the storage, and the air conditioner.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a multi-phase armature coil wound on an armature core. The armature coil is formed of electrical conductor groups each being a bundle of electrical conductor segments and having a pair of leg portions and a connecting portion that connects the leg portions. The connecting portion is bent radially with respect to a circumferential direction. The electrical conductor groups are paired such that each pair of the electrical conductor groups consists of a first electrical conductor group and a second electrical conductor group both belonging to a same phase of the armature coil. The circumferential pitch between the leg portions of the first electrical conductor group is greater than that between the leg portions of the second electrical conductor group. In each pair of the electrical conductor groups, the connecting portions of the first and second electrical conductor groups are arranged to axially overlap each other.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converting device includes: a main analog-to-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal output from a sensor to a digital signal; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor the digital signal converted by the main analog-to-digital converter. The main analog-to-digital converter is provided by a special purpose IC arranged separately from a microcomputer for controlling the main analog-to-digital converter. The monitoring unit includes multiple sub analog-to-digital converters each of which having a conversion accuracy lower than that of the main analog-to-digital converter and converting the analog signal output from the sensor to a digital signal. The monitoring unit sets a predetermined threshold based on conversion values of the digital signals converted by the multiple sub analog-to-digital converters, and compares a conversion value of the digital signal converted by the main analog-to-digital converter with the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An electric drive apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a transmission. The rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator and a first housing. The transmission includes a motive power transmitting unit, a second housing provided integrally with the first housing, and lubricating oil provided in the second housing to lubricate the motive power transmitting unit. The stator includes a stator coil that has first and second coil end parts respectively protruding from first and second axial end faces of a stator core. Each of phase windings of the stator coil has turn portions included in the first coil end part and joints included in the second coil end part. The second coil end part is located on the same axial side of the stator core as the transmission whereas the first coil end part is located on the opposite axial side of the stator core to the transmission.

Abstract: An electric drive apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a transmission. The transmission is provided, on one axial side of the rotating electric machine, integrally with the rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes a stator coil that is assembled to a stator core to have first and second coil end parts respectively protruding from first and second axial end faces of the stator core. The axial protruding height of the second coil end part from the second axial end face of the stator core is larger than the axial protruding height of the first coil end part from the first axial end face of the stator core. The first coil end part is located on the same axial side of the stator core as the transmission whereas the second coil end part is located on the opposite axial side of the stator core to the transmission.

Abstract: A battery case includes a housing configured to accommodate a battery stack, and an abutting wall portion that is cast integrally with the housing on an inner side of the housing. The abutting wall portion is configured to bear a load from the battery stack accommodated in the housing. The battery case further includes a reinforcing part that is made of a material more rigid than the abutting wall portion and that is cast into the abutting wall portion by enveloped casting.

Abstract: A first input unit receives an analog signal from a pair of input terminals, to which a sensor is connected, as a differential input via a pair of first input lines between which a first resistor is interposed. The analog signal input device converts the analog signals read via the first input unit and a second input unit having a similar configuration into a multi-bit digital signal and outputs the digital signal. When a prescribed instruction is received, a current is supplied from one of the pair of first input lines to a power supply line, and it is determined that there an open circuit when the output of the second input unit obtained when the output of the first input unit has increased in response to the current supply from the current supply unit is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.