Abstract: A surface-treated titanium material for a fuel cell separator, including a titanium substrate having a passive film on a surface of the titanium substrate and a surface layer formed on the titanium substrate. The surface layer includes a titanium oxide layer and carbon particles, the carbon particles are dispersed in an inside of the titanium oxide layer, and a total film thickness of the titanium oxide layer and the passive film is 25 nm or more.

Abstract: Disclosed is a natural language processing technique according to a neural network of high interpretive ability. One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an apparatus including a trained neural network into which first natural language text is input and that is trained to output second natural language text and alignment information, the second natural language text being in accordance with a predetermined purpose corresponding to the first natural language text, and the alignment information indicating, for each part of the second natural language text, which part of the first natural language text is a basis of information for generation; and an analyzing unit configured to output, upon input text being input into the trained neural network, a predicted result of output text in accordance with a predetermined purpose, and alignment information indicating, for each part of the predicted result of the output text, which part of the input text is a basis of information for generation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for a keratin substance, such as skin, comprising: (a) at least one plate type filler having a particle size of 10 ?m or less, preferably 5 ?m or less, and more preferably 3 ?m or less; (b) at least one pearlescent pigment having a particle size of 15 ?m or less, preferably 12 ?m or less, and more preferably 10 ?m or less; and (c) at least one hollow or porous particle, wherein the (a) plate type filler has a refractive index of 2.0 or less, preferably 1.9 or less, and more preferably 1.8 or less, and the (b) pearlescent pigment has a colored reflection. The composition according to the present invention can provide a keratin substance with sufficient coverage of imperfections on the keratin substance, while providing the keratin substance with brightness and natural finish.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (a) polydatin; (b) at least one caffeoyl quinic acid compound; (c) at least one Vitamin B3 compound; and (d) water, wherein the amount of the (b) caffeoyl quinic acid compound is 0.5% by weight or more, preferably 1.0% by weight or more, and more preferably 1.5% by weight or more, relative to the total weight of the composition. The composition according to the present invention is stable against, in particular, light.

Abstract: A robot control device includes a generation unit that generates control information for controlling a robot to be controlled for each of a plurality of control cycles for the robot, an acquisition unit that acquires control environment information relevant to the control cycles, a selection unit that selects any one of a plurality of the control information based on the acquired control environment information and a relevance between the control environment information and the control cycles, and a control unit that controls the robot using the selected control information, thereby suitably controlling the robot according to the control environment of the robot in a case where the control cycles of the robot depends on the varying control environment of the robot.

Abstract: In a transmission-equipped motor, a spline portion is formed at an end portion of a drive shaft of a transmission, and a spline hole with which the spline portion is engaged is formed on an end surface of a motor shaft of a hydraulic motor. A snap ring which contacts an end surface of the motor shaft having the spline hole is provided on an outer periphery of the drive shaft having the spline portion so that the snap ring positions the motor shaft and the drive shaft.

Abstract: It could be helpful to provide a thermoplastic elastomer excellent in transparency, etc., while having mechanical properties such as high heat resistance, strength, and flexibility. The thermoplastic elastomer of this disclosure primarily comprises a copolymer including a block structural unit derived from a polymer (A) that contains a polyphenylene ether and has a glass transition temperature of 120° C. or more, and a block structural unit derived from a polymer (B) that primarily contains a diene rubber and has a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or less.

Abstract: A battery monitoring apparatus includes: battery state detection devices configured to detect states of battery modules: a control device wirelessly connected to a plurality of the battery state detection devices to manage the states of the battery modules; and a processing unit configured to give, to the battery state detection devices to which identification information is to be given, an identification information indicating arrangement positions of the battery state detection devices based on a plurality of wireless communication strengths among wireless communication strengths between the battery state detection devices to which the identification information is to be given and other battery state detection devices, and wireless communication strengths between the battery state detection devices to which the identification information is to be given and the control device.

Abstract: A rule storing unit stores a set of rules each defining facts and a relation between the facts, and weights representing importance levels of the rules. An input data storing unit stores input data. A query storing unit stores a query. An importance level calculating unit calculates an importance level of each fact type of the facts defined by the rules. A fact data generating unit generates, for each fact type, fact data in which true/false is observed as a fact by a number corresponding to the importance level of the fact type, from the input data. A fact data storing unit stores the fact data. An inference performing unit performs probabilistic inference of a result of the query by using the fact data, the rules, and the weights. An output unit outputs a result of the inference.

Abstract: An electronic part includes: a chip part having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, a wiring portion being derived from the chip part; and a substrate having a pad forming surface, pads to which the wiring portion can be connected being formed on the pad forming surface, in which a gap is formed between the second main surface and the pad forming surface while the wiring portion is connected to a predetermined pad of the pads.

Abstract: An information learning apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to perform encoding first data in training data in which the first data related to a first series and second data which is correct data for the first data in a second series are associated with each other; decoding data generated in the encoding to generate third data related to the second series; fourth data related to the first series for data generated in the decoding; and learning, based on an error between the second data and the third data and an error between the first data and the fourth data, parameters used by the encoding, the decoding, and the generating, wherein the generating and the encoding share parameters.

Abstract: A floating bush bearing configured to support a rotational shaft rotatably includes: a floating bush body part formed to have a cylindrical shape having an insertion hole through which the rotational shaft is inserted. The floating bush body part includes: an inner peripheral surface; an outer peripheral surface having a greater width dimension than the inner peripheral surface in an axial direction of the floating bush body part; and an axial end surface which connects an end of the inner peripheral surface and an end of the outer peripheral surface, the axial end surface including a vertical surface extending along a direction orthogonal to the axial direction from the end of the outer peripheral surface toward a radially inner side and an oblique surface extending from a radially inner end of the vertical surface toward the end of the inner peripheral surface.

Abstract: Provided are a positive electrode active material with which a secondary battery having high charging and discharging capacities and an excellent cycle characteristic can be obtained, and a method for producing the same. A positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a lithium-metal composite oxide represented by a general formula: LiaNixCoyMnzMtO2+? and containing a secondary particle formed of a plurality of flocculated primary particles. A void ratio obtained from an image analysis result of a cross section of the secondary particle, the image thereof being obtained by a scanning electron microscope, is at least 5% and up to 50% in a first area that is from a central part of the secondary particle to one half of a radius of the secondary particle, and is up to 1.5% in a second area that is outside the first area.

Abstract: A processing machine line including multiple processing modules arranged in a width direction and loaded on a base where a machine body is movable in a front-rear direction; an automatic workpiece transfer machine to perform transferring of a workpiece by moving a conveyance robot in front of the base; an external cover to cover the processing module; a front cover to form a conveyance space of the conveyance robot, the front cover being provided with, for each processing module, an upper section cover that is open-and-closable in a lifting up manner, and a lower section cover configuring a cover front surface with the upper section cover; and a chip receiving box to be removable and attachable by being attached between the lower section cover and the base via an installation bracket that is attachable and removable with respect to a top section of the lower section cover.

Abstract: Provided are a connection management mechanism and a connection management method with which computer bus connections can be managed such that failures and freezes do not occur in a computer system when delays and packet losses occur. A connection management unit, which is used in computer bus communication in which packets are transmitted between a request source and a request destination, has a dummy return packet generation/transmission function wherein a dummy return packet is generated and is transmitted to the request source when a delay or loss occurs in a return packet transmitted from the request destination, and/or a filter function wherein, after transmission of the dummy return packet, a legitimate return packet arriving from the request destination is discarded.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure can include a computer-implemented method. The method can include obtaining a machine-learned model comprising one or more layers. At least a first layer of the one or more layers can be configured to receive a set of query vectors respectively associated with layer inputs, determine similarity measures the key vectors and the query vectors, apply a normalization operation to the plurality of respective similarity measures, and determine an output based on the normalized respective similarity measures and a plurality of class labels respectively associated with the plurality of key vectors.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to perform generating subword units of a plurality of layers for each of processing units constituting an input sequence and generating an embedded vector based on the subword units of the plurality of layers for each of the processing units; and executing a process based on a learned parameter, with the embedded vector generated for each of the processing units as an input.

Abstract: An information learning apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to perform generating, for each of processing units constituting an input sequence included in training data, a third embedded vector based on a first embedded vector for the processing unit and a second embedded vector corresponding to an unknown word; executing a process based on a learning target parameter, with the third embedded vector generated for each of the processing units as an input; and learning, for a processing result by the executing, the parameter based on an error of an output corresponding to the input sequence in the training data.

Abstract: A configuration management device provided with: a configuration storage means for storing a bridge that includes a virtual bridge and the configuration information of input/output devices; a bus recognition means for reading the configuration information of input/output devices connected to the bridge from the input/output devices and storing the read information in the configuration storage means; a virtual resource definition storage means for defining a virtual connection between the input/output devices connected to a connection means that is not the bridge and the virtual bridge; and a device access transfer means for receiving a configuration information read request for input/output devices connected to the virtual bridge that is transmitted by the bus recognition means, reading the configuration information from the input/output devices the virtual connection of which is defined, and transmitting the read configuration information to the bus recognition means.

Abstract: A wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a transmission control device and a reception control device configured to communicate with each other via at least one wireless link established in a wireless network, the transmission control device including a composite signal generation unit configured to select at least one signal from a predetermined number of signals to generate a composite signal and a multipath control unit configured to transmit the composite signal via the at least one wireless link, the reception control device including a multipath control unit configured to receive the composite signal from the at least one wireless link and a signal recovery unit configured to accumulate the received composite signal and to recover the predetermined number of signals from the predetermined number or more of the composite signals, the predetermined number being 1 or more.