Abstract: The disclosure is an information processing device that manages an operation of an autonomous vehicle having a loading space in which a parcel is loaded. The information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring operation plan information including a route along which the autonomous vehicle travels when the autonomous vehicle delivers the parcel, and a delivery time for the parcel; and acquiring vacant space information based on the operation plan information, the vacant space information including a traveling section where a vacant space is generated in the loading space of the autonomous vehicle, a time when the vacant space is generated in the loading space of the autonomous vehicle, and the size of the vacant space that is generated in the loading space of the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an autonomous traveling vehicle having a loading space for loading a package and/or a user. The autonomous traveling vehicle includes: a partition apparatus for performing switching between a partitioned state where the loading space is partitioned into a plurality of spaces separated from each other and a communicating state where the loading space forms one continuous space; and a control unit that controls the partition apparatus such that the loading space is brought into the communicating state when only any one of the package and the user is loaded in the loading space and the loading space is brought into the partitioned state when both of the package and the user are loaded in the loading space.

Abstract: An information processing system that manages traveling of a plurality of autonomous vehicles when the autonomous vehicles travel in a platoon is provided. Each of the autonomous vehicles is equipped with a motor, and an operation source as a substance consumed for operating the motor. The information processing system includes a controller configured to obtain a parameter correlated with an operation source remaining amount as a remaining amount of the operation source installed on each of the autonomous vehicles, and determine a traveling order of the autonomous vehicles traveling in the platoon, based on the parameter of each of the autonomous vehicles.

Abstract: Provided is an optical coordinate measuring device with improved measurement efficiency. A holding part of a measurement head includes an installation part and a stand part. The installation part has a horizontal flat shape and is installed on an installation surface. The stand part is provided so as to extend upward from one end of the installation part, and a placement table is provided at the other end of the installation part. The main imaging unit is provided on an upper part of the stand part. The main imaging unit is configured detachably with respect to the stand part. The main imaging unit is fixed by the stand part in a constant attitude so as to capture an image of a previously set imaging region.

Abstract: Provided is an optical coordinate measuring device with improved measurement efficiency. A holding part of a measurement head includes an installation part and a stand part. The installation part has a horizontal flat shape and is installed on an installation surface. The stand part is provided so as to extend upward from one end of the installation part, and a placement table is provided at the other end of the installation part. The main imaging unit is provided on an upper part of the stand part. The main imaging unit is configured detachably with respect to the stand part. The main imaging unit is fixed by the stand part in a constant attitude so as to capture an image of a previously set imaging region.

Abstract: An object is to provide a sealant composition for electrical and electronic parts that has excellent light resistance, heat resistance, heat shock resistance, and gas barrier properties, and an LED device using the same, and the composition contains a polyvalent metal compound containing a metallic element capable of having an ionic valance of 2 or more and a fluororesin including a functional group capable of forming a metal crosslink with the metallic element contained in the polyvalent metal compound.

Abstract: Provided is an optical displacement meter capable of accurately detecting a displacement of an object. A light-projecting part selectively irradiates a workpiece with first and second light whose polarization directions are different from each other. Reflected light from the workpiece is incident on a light-receiving element through a light-receiving lens. A waveform creating part creates first and second waveform data showing light-receiving amount distributions of the first and second light obtained by the light-receiving element. A waveform processing part calculates a ratio between mutually corresponding peaks in the first and second waveform data, and selects one peak from each of the first and second waveform data based on the calculated ratios, to detect a position of the peak.

Abstract: Provided is an optical displacement meter capable of accurately detecting a displacement of an object. A light-projecting part selectively irradiates a workpiece with first and second light whose polarization directions are different from each other. Reflected light from the workpiece is incident on a light-receiving element through a light-receiving lens. A waveform creating part creates first and second waveform data showing light-receiving amount distributions of the first and second light obtained by the light-receiving element. A waveform processing part calculates a ratio between mutually corresponding peaks in the first and second waveform data, and selects one peak from each of the first and second waveform data based on the calculated ratios, to detect a position of the peak.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to configure redundant memory elements in a system on a chip (SoC) having discrete voltage domains (islands). A plurality of memories are provided for each voltage island, each containing redundancy elements or having the capability to access redundant memory elements in a neighboring voltage domain; a fuse cell stores configuration information for controlling the switching of memory elements of the plurality of memories; a shift register receives and retains configuration information on a memory array from the fuse cell corresponding to each memory; and a control circuit directs operation of the shift register. The shift register includes a shift portion for receiving the data of the configuration information and transferring the data to another shift register, and a latch portion for retaining the data inputted to the shift portion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to configure redundant memory elements in a system on a chip (SoC) having discrete voltage domains (islands). A plurality of memories are provided for each voltage island, each containing redundancy elements or having the capability to access redundant memory elements in a neighboring voltage domain; a fuse cell stores configuration information for controlling the switching of memory elements of the plurality of memories; a shift register receives and retains configuration information on a memory array from the fuse cell corresponding to each memory; and a control circuit directs operation of the shift register. The shift register includes a shift portion for receiving the data of the configuration information and transferring the data to another shift register, and a latch portion for retaining the data inputted to the shift portion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to configure redundant memory elements in a system on a chip (SoC) having discrete voltage domains (islands). A plurality of memories are provided for each voltage island, each containing redundancy elements or having the capability to access redundant memory elements in a neighboring voltage domain; a fuse cell stores configuration information for controlling the switching of memory elements of the plurality of memories; a shift register receives and retains configuration information on a memory array from the fuse cell corresponding to each memory; and a control circuit directs operation of the shift register. The shift register includes a shift portion for receiving the data of the configuration information and transferring the data to another shift register, and a latch portion for retaining the data inputted to the shift portion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to configure redundant memory elements in a system on a chip (SoC) having discrete voltage domains (islands). A plurality of memories are provided for each voltage island, each containing redundancy elements or having the capability to access redundant memory elements in a neighboring voltage domain; a fuse cell stores configuration information for controlling the switching of memory elements of the plurality of memories; a shift register receives and retains configuration information on a memory array from the fuse cell corresponding to each memory; and a control circuit directs operation of the shift register. The shift register includes a shift portion for receiving the data of the configuration information and transferring the data to another shift register, and a latch portion for retaining the data inputted to the shift portion.

Abstract: A gas analyzer includes a gas sensor, a drive section that pumps oxygen in first to third processing zones of the gas sensor, an operating section that operates a pumping current flowing in a third electro-chemical pump cell into a gas value to be measured, a display output section that displays a value operated by the operating section, or outputs the value as an electrical output to the external, and a heater drive section that heats the gas sensor to a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: Method of compensating an output signal (YA) of a sensor exposed to an exhaust gas produced from an air-fuel mixture, the sensor including an electrochemical sensing cell which produces an electromotive force (Vs) corresponding an oxygen partial pressure in an internal space into which the exhaust gas diffuses with a predetermined resistance, and an oxygen pumping cell to which a pump current (Ip) is applied so as to control the oxygen partial pressure in the internal space such that the electromotive force is held at a constant value. The output signal corresponds to the pump current. The method includes the steps of: converting the analog output signal (YA) into a digital signal (YD) by an analog/digital converter; compensating the analog signal to a first sensitivity compensation, by adjusting an input signal range (FSR) of the analog/digital converter according to a coefficient (KA) which corresponds to a coefficient (KO.sub.2) of sensitivity of the pump current of the sensor to the O.sub.

Abstract: A method of compensating an output of a sensor adapted to determine an air/fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture, depending upon an oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas produced as a result of combustion of the air-fuel mixture, wherein the sensor includes a sensing element which has at least one electrochemical cell each having an oxygen-conductive solid electrolyte body and at least one pair of electrodes The method includes the steps of detecting at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of a temperature Tc of the sensing element, a pressure Pg of the exhaust gas, and a temperature Tg of the exhaust gas, and adjusting the output y.sub.0 of the sensor, based on the at least one parameter detected, to obtain a compensating output of the sensor.

Abstract: A circuit is utilized for measuring a diffusion-limited current which flows through a diffusion-limited current element in proportion to an oxygen concentration which includes an output resistor connected in series with the element, a differential amplifier having a first input connected to a reference voltage supply source, a second input connected to ground, an output connected to the output resistor, and a feedback resistor connected between the first input of the differential amplifier and a point between the element and the output resistor, so that a bias voltage applied across the element is kept constant.

Abstract: A gas sensing element having a co-fired laminar structure including an electrochemical cell having a planar solid electrolyte body, and at least two electrodes disposed on the planar solid electrolyte body. The sensing element further includes two generally planar heaters which are formed on opposite sides of the electrochemical cell, respectively, and which are spaced apart from each other in a direction perpendicular to the planar solid electrolyte body, and a generally planar thermosensitive portion formed as an integral part of the laminar structure, for detecting a temperature of the laminar structure in the neighborhood of at least one of the electrodes of the electrochemical cell. The thermosensitive portion may partially define a diffusion chamber into which a measurement gas in an external space is introduced under a predetermined diffusion resistance, so that one of the electrodes is exposed to the introduced measurement gas.

Abstract: An oxygen analyzing method for determining a positive or negative oxygen concentration of a measurement gas which changes between oxidizing and reducing atmospheres. The method uses a sensing element having an oxygen sensing cell wherein an electromotive force is induced between its measuring and reference electrodes according to the principle of an oxygen concentration cell. The atmosphere adjacent to the measuring electrode is controlled by controlling a pumping current to be applied to an oxygen pumping cell such that the electromotive force induced in the sensing cell is maintained at a predetermined level. A heater is provided to heat the sensing and pumping cells, to maintain their operating temperature within a range of 700.degree.-960.degree. C. The pumping current, or a signal to control the pumping current, is converted into an oxygen concentration signal whose level is held within one of a positive range and a negative range.

Abstract: An oxygen concentration measuring device having a very small size detecting portion formed of unitary lamination of plate shaped members of an oxygen sensing element, a heater member and/or a temperature detecting member. The element comprises an oxygen concentration cell and a temperature compensation means for compensating a setting voltage to which an EMF generated by the concentration cell is compared. The detecting portion is provided with a printed contact terminal and housed in a probe equipped with a protecting tube. The printed contact terminal of the detecting portion is arranged to mate with a connecting element housed in a funnel-shaped contact member so as to allow easy mounting and detaching.

Abstract: An oxygen analyzer using an oxygen sensor by which the oxygen concentration of a measuring gas can be detected. The oxygen sensor includes an oxygen pump and an oxygen concentration cell. The detecting principle is to vary the reference voltage to be compared with an output electromotive force of the oxygen concentration cell by using a predetermined relationship between the electromotive force and the pumping current, thus eliminating the need of using a reference air of which oxygen concentration is compared as a reference.