Abstract: A migration management method includes referring to a performance deterioration rate of a specific virtual server when utilization of a virtual server other than the specific virtual server in virtual servers that work on a physical server is changed in a stepwise manner, and calculating a first index value relating to a load state of the physical server before the performance deterioration rate exceeds a threshold based on a number of virtual CPUs allocated to each of the virtual servers and utilization of the virtual CPUs; calculating a second index value relating to the load state based on the number of virtual CPUs and the utilization while the specific virtual server is activated on the physical server; and conducting migration to another physical server for a virtual server other than the specific virtual server in the virtual servers when the calculated second index value exceeds the calculated first index value.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a dust collector including a pulse jet type dust removal mechanism capable of uniformly removing dust over the entire length of a cylindrical filter without increasing the pressure loss of the cylindrical filter; and a dust removal method for such a dust collector.

Abstract: The object is to effectively improve treatment efficiency or finish quality of polishing treatment on a polishing subject face. To achieve this object, a three-dimensional shape measuring instrument is provided for measuring a three-dimensional shape of the polishing subject face. A polishing controller is provided for controlling a polishing robot alone or with a polishing tool held thereby, based on three-dimensional shape data of the polishing subject face obtained by the shape measurement by the three-dimensional shape measuring instrument. The polishing tool provides a polishing action on the respective part of the polishing subject face through controlling of the polishing robot alone or with the polishing tool by the polishing controller.

Abstract: The present technology is to provide a medical operation system, a surgical system, a surgical instrument, and an external force sensing system that detect a force acting on an end effector in a preferred manner. The medical operation system includes: an inner slave having an end effector; an outer slave into which the inner slave is inserted, the outer slave supporting the inner slave at a position that allows the end effector to protrude outward from an end of the outer slave; a strain detection unit that detects strain generated in the outer slave; and a processing unit that calculates a force acting on the end effector in a living subject, on the basis of a result of detection performed by the strain detection unit. The outer slave is a structure decoupled from the inner slave.

Abstract: Provided is an automated analysis device with which sufficient reaction process data can be acquired irrespective of the scale of the device, and with which it is possible to ensure freedom of the device configuration. An automated analysis device 100 is provided with: a reaction disk 1 which circumferentially accommodates a plurality of reaction vessels 2; a specimen dispensing mechanism 11 which dispenses a specimen into the reaction vessels 2; a reagent dispensing mechanism 7 which dispenses a reagent into the reaction vessels 2; a measuring unit 4 which measures a reaction process of a mixture of the specimen and the reagent in the reaction vessels 2; and a cleaning mechanism 3 which cleans the reaction vessels 2 after measurement.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermal transfer sheet which can prevent a kick and a scumming, and can form a photographic tone color image of high quality with a continuous tone image by sublimation transfer, while expanding the range of choices for colorants to be included in a colorant layer; a coating liquid for colorant layer to be used for forming the colorant layer of this thermal transfer sheet; a method for manufacturing this thermal transfer sheet; and image forming method employing this thermal transfer sheet.

Abstract: A gas sensing element includes a gas detection layer including a pigment, the gas detection layer including a first surface; and a backing material disposed on the first surface of the gas detection layer. When reducing gas causes the gas sensing element to change in color, a color change ?L* of the gas sensing element is greater than or equal to 5.

Abstract: A seat frame including: a cushion frame including: a pair of side frames having a cross section that is a closed section; a front frame; a rear frame; and a plate-shaped panel member disposed between the front frame and the rear frame; and a back frame; wherein the panel member is formed of a material having at least one of a higher specific strength and a higher specific modulus than those of the pair of side frames, the front frame, and the rear frame, a rear end side of the panel member is attached to a lower side of the rear frame and lower sides of the pair of side frames, and a front end side of the panel member is attached to an upper side of the front frame and upper sides of the pair of side frames.

Abstract: A tapered roller bearing includes an inner ring including, on its outer circumferential surface, an inner raceway surface and including, on an end portion on a second axial side, a cone back face rib portion protruding radially outward, an outer ring including, on its inner circumferential surface, an outer raceway surface, a plurality of tapered rollers disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and an annular cage that retains the plurality of tapered rollers spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The cage includes a small-diameter annular portion, a large-diameter annular portion located on the second axial side relative to the tapered rollers and the outer ring, and a plurality of cage bar portions. The large-diameter annular portion has an oil pocket having a first aperture that is open radially inward and a second aperture that is open toward the outer raceway surface.

Abstract: An operation system, a surgical system, a control device, a distortion generating body, a surgical instrument and the like for detecting a force acting on an end effector are provided. The surgical system includes an arm including one or more links, an end effector arranged at a tip end of the arm, a first distortion detecting unit that detects distortion generated in the end effector, a second distortion detecting unit that detects distortion generated in the link, and a processing unit that calculates a force acting on the end effector in a living body on the basis of detection results of the first distortion detecting unit and the second distortion detecting unit.

Abstract: Provided is a resin including a copolymer having a first structural unit and/or second structural unit and a structural unit having a polar group. R1, R2, R5, and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, A1 is a saturated carbon chain having 3 to 7 carbon atoms or a structure resulting from substitution of a heteroatom for a part of the carbon atoms of the saturated carbon chain, m and n are each independently 0 or 1, and X1 and X2 are each independently a halide ion, a hydroxide ion, or an anion of an organic or inorganic acid.

Abstract: An image capturing unit captures an image including an embedded image that is printed on the basis of image data in which at least a color component has been modulated according to additional information. An adjustment unit adjusts a white balance of the image captured by the image capturing unit on the basis of an adjustment value associated with the embedded image. A processing unit processes image data of the image captured by the image capturing unit whose white balance has been adjusted by the adjustment unit to read the additional information in the image captured by the image capturing unit.

Abstract: A driving force distribution apparatus distributes and outputs, to a first clutch hub and a second clutch hub, a driving force input from a driving source. The driving force distribution apparatus includes a clutch housing to which a driving force is input, a first multi-disc clutch disposed between the clutch housing and the first clutch hub, and a second multi-disc clutch disposed between the clutch housing and the second clutch hub. A first pressing mechanism that presses the first multi-disc clutch includes an annular pressing portion disposed between a bottom wall portion of the clutch housing and the first multi-disc clutch, legs inserted in insertion holes formed in the bottom wall portion, and a lubricating oil introduction portion that guides lubricating oil supplied from the clearance between the first clutch hub and the bottom wall portion toward the first multi-disc clutch.

Abstract: A drive force distribution apparatus includes a clutch housing, first and second multi-plate clutches, and a center plate located between the first and second multi-plate clutches. The clutch housing includes a body member having a cylindrical portion and a bottom portion, and a tubular fixation member fixed to part of the cylindrical portion close to an open end. The cylindrical portion of the body member includes a first fit portion to which the first multi-plate clutch is fitted, a second fit portion to which the center plate is fitted, and a third fit portion to which the fixation member is fitted. The center plate is interposed between the fixation member and a step surface between the first fit portion and the second fit portion so as not to allow axial movement of the center plate relative to the body member.

Abstract: An antenna device incorporated in an electronic apparatus to communicate with an external apparatus via an electromagnetic field signal includes a first conductor provided inside a housing of the electronic apparatus and opposing the external apparatus, a loop antenna having an antenna coil conductively coupled to the external apparatus and coiling thereon, a sheet-like second conductor provided as being spaced with a predetermined space from the first conductor and partially overlapping or making contact with a surface of the loop antenna opposite to a surface opposing the external apparatus, and a sheet-like third conductor provided between the first conductor and the second conductor and having one end overlapping or making contact with the first conductor and other end partially overlapping or making contact with the second conductor.

Abstract: A control device of a permanent magnet synchronous motor that is a control device of a sensorless-type permanent magnet synchronous motor in which a rotor using a permanent magnet rotates by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing in an armature includes: a driver that applies a voltage to the armature and drives the rotor; an initial position estimator that estimates an initial position which is a magnetic pole position of the rotor that is stopped; and a controller that controls the driver so as to apply a pulse train including a voltage pulse for searching the initial position for each of n angle positions dividing a search range of an electrical angle of 360 degrees to the armature, wherein the pulse train includes a first pulse and a second pulse.

Abstract: In a rotary electric machine in which a controller and a heat sink are arranged in an extending direction of an output shaft of a motor, in order to provide a rotary electric machine which secures a heat rejection performance and an insulation performance of a semiconductor device to be mounted to the controller and is downsized as a whole, the controller includes a semiconductor device having a drive circuit provided so as to correspond to a stator winding of the motor, and the semiconductor device has a main face held in close contact with the heat sink. On a close contact face between the semiconductor device and the heat sink, a drive circuit is formed so as to extend along an outer edge portion of the heat sink to increase a cooling area.

Abstract: A back frame structure of a vehicle seat including: first and second side frames; and an upper frame that connects the first and second side frames, wherein the first side frame has a constant cross section and the second side frame has a constant cross section, wherein an outline shape of the cross section of the first side frame and an outline shape of the cross section of the second side frame are in line symmetry with respect to a centerline of the back frame in a left and right direction, and wherein a geometrical moment of inertia of the cross section of the first side frame is larger than a geometrical moment of inertia of the cross section of the second side frame.

Abstract: An organic magnesium phosphide expressed by Formula (1) below and an organic magnesium phosphide complex expressed by Formula (9) below are provided, and a manufacturing method of organic phosphorus compound is characterized in that the above compounds used as a reagent is reacted with an electrophile: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently an aliphatic group, heteroaliphatic group, alicyclic group, or heterocyclic group, and X is chlorine, bromine, or iodine, wherein R3 and R4 are each independently an aliphatic group, heteroaliphatic group, aromatic group, alicyclic group, or heterocyclic group, and X and Y are each independently chlorine, bromine, or iodine.

Abstract: A ferrite composition main component includes between 44.0 to 50.0 mol % of an Fe compound in terms of Fe2O3, between 5.5 to 14.0 mol % of a Cu compound in terms of CuO, between 4.0 to 39.0 mol % of a Zn compound in terms of ZnO, and a balance less than 40.0 mol % of a Ni compound in terms of NiO, The subcomponent includes, with respect to 100 parts by weight of the main component, between 3.0 parts to 13.0 parts by weight of an Si compound in terms of SiO2, between 2.0 to 10.0 parts by weight of a Co compound in terms of Co3O4, and between 0.25 to 5.00 parts by weight of a Bi compound in terms of Bi2O3. (The content of the Co compound in terms of Co3O4)/(the content of the Si compound in terms of SiO2) in weight ratio is 0.4 to 2.9.