Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver adapted to supply a drive current to a discharge lamp, a control section adapted to control the discharge lamp driver, and a storage section adapted to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive current. Each of the drive patterns has a plurality of drive parameters. The plurality of drive patterns includes a first drive pattern and a second drive pattern different from each other in a value of at least one of the plurality of drive parameters. The control section is configured to execute the first drive pattern and the second drive pattern in accordance with at least one of accumulated lighting time of the discharge lamp and an individual of the discharge lamp in a case in which an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp is at a predetermined voltage value.

Abstract: Management device 100 includes reservation receiver 103 that receives reservation conditions including an identifier for identifying network appliance 10 that can be electrically controlled through a communication network and reservation time information indicating a time of controlling network appliance 10, that generates reservation information based on the reservation conditions, and that outputs address information for accessing a user screen corresponding to the reservation information that is generated; usability determiner 104 that determines usability of network appliance 10 based on the reservation information, when an instruction to operate network appliance 10 is issued from the user screen that is accessed by using the address information; and appliance controller 105 that controls network appliance 10 based on the instruction, in a case where the usability determiner determines that network appliance 10 is usable.

Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver configured to supply drive electric current to a discharge lamp having a first electrode and a second electrode, a control unit configured to control the discharge lamp driver, and a storage unit configured to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive electric current. The control unit is configured to select one drive pattern from among the plurality of drive patterns based on machine learning, and implement the selected drive pattern. The control unit performs a first control that increases a drive electric power supplied to the discharge lamp according to an increase in an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp, in a case where the inter-electrode voltage is equal to or larger than a first voltage value and the inter-electrode voltage is equal to or lower than a second voltage value higher than the first voltage value.

Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver configured to supply drive electric current to a discharge lamp having a first electrode and a second electrode, a control unit configured to control the discharge lamp driver; and a storage unit configured to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive electric current. The control unit is configured to select one drive pattern from among the plurality of drive patterns based on machine learning, and implement the selected drive pattern. The control unit is configured to adjust a drive electric power supplied to the discharge lamp based on illumination level information relating to an illumination level of the discharge lamp, while performing switching among the drive patterns based on the machine learning, in a case where an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp is larger than a given voltage value.

Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver adapted to supply a drive current to a discharge lamp having a first electrode and a second electrode, a control section adapted to control the discharge lamp driver, and a storage section adapted to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive current. The control section is configured to select one drive pattern of the plurality of drive patterns based on machine learning, and execute the selected drive pattern. In a case in which a predetermined condition is fulfilled, the control section executes a predetermined drive pattern of the plurality of drive patterns without selecting and executing the drive pattern based on the machine learning.

Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver adapted to supply a drive current to a discharge lamp having a first electrode and a second electrode, a control section adapted to control the discharge lamp driver, and a storage section adapted to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive current. The control section is adapted to select one drive pattern of the plurality of drive patterns based on machine learning, and execute the selected drive pattern.

Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver adapted to supply a drive current to a discharge lamp, a control section adapted to control the discharge lamp driver, and a storage section adapted to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive current. Each of the drive patterns has a plurality of drive parameters. The plurality of drive patterns includes a first drive pattern and a second drive pattern different from each other in a value of at least one of the plurality of drive parameters. The control section is configured to execute the first drive pattern and the second drive pattern in accordance with at least one of accumulated lighting time of the discharge lamp and an individual of the discharge lamp in a case in which an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp is at a predetermined voltage value.

Abstract: A discharge lamp drive device includes a discharge lamp driver adapted to supply a drive current to a discharge lamp having a first electrode and a second electrode, a control section adapted to control the discharge lamp driver, and a storage section adapted to store a plurality of drive patterns of the drive current. Each of the plurality of drive patterns has a plurality of drive parameters. The control section executes at least three of the drive patterns in a case in which drive power to be supplied to the discharge lamp is in a predetermined power band, and in a case in which an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp is a predetermined voltage value. Any two of the at least three drive patterns are different from each other in a value of at least one of the plurality of drive parameters.

Abstract: A projector according to the invention includes a discharge lamp, a cooling section, and a control section. The control section is configured to execute a first cooling control in which a number of revolutions of the cooling section does not depend on an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp and a second cooling control for controlling the cooling section based on first control information indicating a relation between the inter-electrode voltage and the number of revolutions. The number of revolutions in the first cooling control is equal to or smaller than the number of revolutions in the second cooling control. When the inter-electrode voltage is larger than a first voltage value or when a cumulative lighting time of the discharge lamp is larger than a first time, the control section configured to switch the control of the cooling section from the first cooling control to the second cooling control.

Abstract: A discharge lamp includes a luminous tube and a pair of electrodes. At least one of the pair of electrodes includes a core material, a coil section in which a metal wire is wound on the core material in three or more layers, a distal end portion made of a conductor and provided, with respect to the coil section, at an end portion of the core material on a side where the other electrode is disposed, and a rear end portion made of a conductor and provided on the opposite side of the distal end portion with respect to the coil section. The rear end portion includes a first diameter section having a first diameter and a second diameter section having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter and present in a position farther from the coil section than the first diameter section.

Abstract: A projector according to the invention includes a discharge lamp, a cooling section, and a control section. The control section is configured to execute a first cooling control in which a number of revolutions of the cooling section does not depend on an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp and a second cooling control for controlling the cooling section based on first control information indicating a relation between the inter-electrode voltage and the number of revolutions. The number of revolutions in the first cooling control is equal to or smaller than the number of revolutions in the second cooling control. When the inter-electrode voltage is larger than a first voltage value or when a cumulative lighting time of the discharge lamp is larger than a first time, the control section configured to switch the control of the cooling section from the first cooling control to the second cooling control.

Abstract: A method using an electronic circuit component mounter including a circuit substrate conveying and holding device, and a bulk feeder that is a head-side feeder which can be moved to any position on a plane inside the mounter. An electronic circuit component mounting system including a control device that performs control such that that the component holding tool positioned at a component pickup position for a component supplied from the head-side feeder and an electronic component contact each other, and the electronic circuit component and the head-side feeder contact each other during contact between the component holding tool positioned at a component mounting position and an electronic circuit component and during contact between the electronic circuit component and the circuit substrate.

Abstract: An optical demultiplexer that separates, for each signal wavelength, signal light a plurality of wavelengths of which is multiplexed, the optical demultiplexer including: an antireflection film disposed at on an incident surface of a glass block; filters disposed on an emission surface of the glass block, the filters transmit light of a wavelength predetermined for each signal wavelength included in the signal light and reflect light of a wavelength other than the transmitting wavelength toward the incident surface; and a reflection film disposed on the incident surface of the glass block, wherein processing to reduce reflection of the reflection light into the glass block is applied on an optical path of the reflection light reflected by the filter disposed at an end away from the antireflection film.

Abstract: An optical demultiplexer that separates, for each signal wavelength, signal light a plurality of wavelengths of which is multiplexed, the optical demultiplexer including: an antireflection film disposed at on an incident surface of a glass block; filters disposed on an emission surface of the glass block, the filters transmit light of a wavelength predetermined for each signal wavelength included in the signal light and reflect light of a wavelength other than the transmitting wavelength toward the incident surface; and a reflection film disposed on the incident surface of the glass block, wherein processing to reduce reflection of the reflection light into the glass block is applied on an optical path of the reflection light reflected by the filter disposed at an end away from the antireflection film.

Abstract: A discharge lamp driving device includes: a discharge lamp driving unit which supplies drive power to a discharge lamp; and a control unit which controls the discharge lamp driving unit according to a waveform of the drive power. The waveform has n launching periods and a low-power mode lighting period. The n launching periods include a first launching period in which the drive power increases toward refresh power that is equal to or above drive power in a low-power mode and equal to or below rated power, and (n?1) launching periods in which the drive power is maintained at the refresh power. The control unit, in an x-th launching period, supplies the discharge lamp with a drive current having a drive frequency equal to or below a drive frequency of a drive current supplied to the discharge lamp in an (x?1)th launching period.

Abstract: A discharge lamp driving device according to one aspect of the invention includes a discharge lamp driving section configured to supply a driving current to a discharge lamp including electrodes and a control section configured to control the discharge lamp driving section. The control section controls the discharge lamp driving section such that a mixed period is provided in which a first period in which an alternating current having a first frequency is supplied to the discharge lamp and a second period in which a direct current is supplied to the discharge lamp are alternately repeated. The first frequency includes a plurality of frequencies different from one another. The control section temporally changes the length of the first period.

Abstract: A discharge lamp driving device includes a discharge lamp driving unit configured to supply a driving current to a discharge lamp including electrodes, a controller configured to control the discharge lamp driving unit, and a voltage detection unit configured to detect an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp, in which the controller controls the discharge lamp driving unit so that the driving current includes a hybrid period in which a first period for supplying an AC current with a first frequency to the discharge lamp and a second period for supplying a DC current to the discharge lamp are alternately repeated, in which the first frequency includes a plurality of different frequencies, and in which the controller changes the first frequency on the basis of at least one of the detected inter-electrode voltage and driving power supplied to the discharge lamp.

Abstract: A discharge lamp driver includes a discharge lamp drive unit that supplies a drive current to the discharge lamp, and a control unit that controls the discharge lamp drive unit according to a drive current waveform, wherein the drive current waveform has a mixed frequency drive period including a unit drive period containing a first drive period in which a first drive current is supplied to the discharge lamp and a second drive period provided immediately after the first drive period, in which a second drive current is supplied to the discharge lamp, the first drive current is a half-period alternating current having a frequency higher than 10 Hz and not higher than 300 Hz, the second drive current is an alternating current having a frequency higher than 1000 Hz, and a length of the second drive period is equal to or longer than a length of the first drive period.

Abstract: In a projector, a reflection mirror configured to reflect light emitted from a discharge lamp is disposed on a first end of a discharge lamp main body, a first electrode is disposed on the first end side, each of a first AC period and a second AC period alternately includes a first polarity period in which the first electrode serves as an anode and a second polarity period in which a second electrode serves as an anode, a controller causes a period to transition from the first AC period to the second AC period in a case where an input reception unit receives a stop operation on the projector, and an absolute value of a driving current of the second polarity period in the second AC period is greater than an absolute value of the driving current of the second polarity period in the first AC period.

Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a light source apparatus includes a discharge lamp with a pair of electrodes and a driving unit that supplies a driving current to the pair of electrodes. The driving unit includes an AC supplier that supplies an alternating current to the pair of electrodes and a DC supplier that supplies a direct current to the pair of electrodes. The AC supplier is configured to alternately repeat an AC supply section in which the alternating current is supplied and an AC stop section in which the supply of the alternating current is stopped. The DC supplier is configured to supply the direct current during a period corresponding to the AC stop section. A frequency of the direct current is not lower than 10 Hz and not higher than 1 kHz.