Abstract: A network of a new configuration is flexibly constructed while maintaining a stable operation in the network. A management device includes: a detection unit that detects addition of a function unit to a network including one or a plurality of on-vehicle function units; an acquisition unit that acquires function unit information of a new function unit that is the function unit the addition of which has been detected by the detection unit and function unit information of each on-vehicle function unit, each piece of function unit information including information regarding network configuration of a layer lower than an application layer; and a generation unit that, based on the pieces of function unit information acquired by the acquisition unit, generates configuration information of a new network that is the network further including the new function unit.

Abstract: A method includes: associating one or more data managers with mutually different models of a plurality of home appliances the one or more data managers managing data items generated by the plurality of home appliances; recording provision record information in which data identification information and manager identification information are associated with each other, the data identification information identifying each of one or more data items generated by the plurality of home appliances, the manager identification information identifying each of the one or more data managers; and determining, when the one or more data items include a used data item used by a data user, an amount to be transferred to a data manager that manages the used data item, based on the provision record information.

Abstract: Each time clogging of a filter (5) of an air cleaner is determined on the basis of intake negative pressure of an engine (2), and the air filter (5) is cleaned, an accumulated value of operating time of the engine (2) from previous cleaning until clogging is determined is taken as a cleaning interval (S), and sequentially measured. A plurality of stages are previously set by classifying a minimum value and a maximum value of the cleaning interval (S), and the measured cleaning interval (S) is added to the stage to which the measured cleaning interval (S) is to belong, among the stages. A histogram in which an axis of abscissas is taken as the stage, an axis of ordinates is taken as frequency of the cleaning interval (S) is constructed, and an approximate straight line (L2) illustrated by a solid line is obtained by approximating a characteristic line (L1) of the histogram illustrated by a dotted line to a straight line.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus including: a first acquisition unit acquiring an operation plan of a piece of equipment, and at least identification information of a parameter among target setting data used for learning of an operation model operating the piece of equipment, the target setting data including identification information of a parameter for which a target range is to be set among parameters relating to the piece of equipment and a target range set for the parameter; and a first learning processing unit performing, by using learning data including the identification information of the parameter and the operation plan acquired by the first acquisition unit, learning processing of a target setting model outputting at least one of the identification information or the target range of the parameter among the target setting data that should be used for learning of the operation model, in response to the operation plan being input.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus including a supply unit suppling a value of a state parameter to an operation model outputting a recommendation value of a control parameter of a piece of equipment in response to a value of a state parameter relating to the piece of equipment being input; a control parameter acquisition unit acquiring a recommendation value of a control parameter output from the operation model in response to the supply unit supplying a value of a state parameter to the operation model; an acquisition unit acquiring a model evaluation value corresponding to a result of having operated the piece of equipment according to the recommendation value acquired by the control parameter acquisition unit; and an evaluation unit evaluating the operation model, based on the model evaluation value and a reference evaluation value corresponding to a result of having operated the piece of equipment through manipulation by a human.

Abstract: An object is to provide a base paper for paper tubes that has lower environmental impact and is used for manufacturing of paper tubes offering excellent water resistance. As a solution, a base paper for paper tubes is provided, wherein: it has two or more but no more than five paper layers; the paper layers are bonded by a water-soluble or water-dispersible adhesive; and its elution rate is 2.0 percent or lower.

Abstract: There is provided a construction machine that is capable of measuring a minute leakage flow rate of a one-sided tilting variable displacement hydraulic pump. The construction machine includes a pressure sensor that detects a pressure of a hydraulic pump, a bleed-off adjusting device that is enabled to adjust a bleed-off flow rate of the hydraulic pump, and an input device that gives an instruction for measurement of a leakage flow rate of the hydraulic pump.

Abstract: Each time clogging of a filter (5) of an air cleaner is determined on the basis of intake negative pressure of an engine (2), and the air filter (5) is cleaned, an accumulated value of operating time of the engine (2) from previous cleaning until clogging is determined is taken as a cleaning interval (S), and sequentially measured. A plurality of stages are previously set by classifying a minimum value and a maximum value of the cleaning interval (S), and the measured cleaning interval (S) is added to the stage to which the measured cleaning interval (S) is to belong, among the stages. A histogram in which an axis of abscissas is taken as the stage, an axis of ordinates is taken as frequency of the cleaning interval (S) is constructed, and an approximate straight line (L2) illustrated by a solid line is obtained by approximating a characteristic line (L1) of the histogram illustrated by a dotted line to a straight line.

Abstract: An object is to provide a base paper for paper tubes that has lower environmental impact and is used for manufacturing of paper tubes offering excellent water resistance. As a solution, a base paper for paper tubes is provided, wherein: it has two or more but no more than five paper layers; the paper layers are bonded by a water-soluble or water-dispersible adhesive; and its elution rate is 2.0 percent or lower.

Abstract: An object is to provide a paper tube offering excellent rigidity, as well as a base paper for paper tubes used for manufacturing such paper tube. As a solution, a paper tube is provided which has two or more but no more than five paper layers, whose outermost layer or innermost layer, or both, among the paper layers, has a density of 0.90 g/cm3 or higher, and whose modulus of elasticity as measured by the 3-point bending test is 2.0 GPa or higher, along with a base paper for paper tubes which has two or more but no more than five paper layers and whose outermost layer or innermost layer, or both, among the paper layers, has a density of 0.90 g/cm3 or higher.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method for analyzing a fiber structure comprising a fiber and inorganic particles. An analysis method according to the present invention is a method for evaluating a structure comprising a fiber and inorganic particles, said method comprising the steps of: (A) capturing a two-dimensional image of the surface of the fiber structure using a scanning electron microscope; (B) denoising the captured image by adjusting each contrast value; and (C) calculating the standard deviation of the contrast value after denoising.

Abstract: A cost required to perform the diagnosis of the degradation such as a reduction in output power of an engine while engine degradation diagnosis accuracy is improved. To this end, a controller 37 (engine diagnosing device) determines whether a hydraulic pump 12 is in a preset loaded state (an operation scene where a load torque of the hydraulic pump 12 is in a stable state) for acquiring diagnosis data of an engine 10, and validates a controlled variable related to a torque command value Ta of speed sensing control as the diagnosis data of the engine 10 when it is determined that the hydraulic pump 12 is in the present loaded state, generates time history data using this validated controlled variable as a current feature variable, and enables this time history data to be displayed as trend data for engine diagnosis on a display device 38.

Abstract: An example of a thermal inkjet fluid composition includes a water soluble photoacid generator having substantially no absorbance at a radiation wavelength ranging from about 360 nm to about 410 nm, a water soluble polymeric sensitizer having absorption at the radiation wavelength ranging from about 360 nm to about 410 nm, a polymeric binder, and a balance of water. The water soluble polymeric sensitizer includes a functionalized aromatic chromophore moiety, a polyether chain, and an amide linkage or an ether linkage attaching one end of the polyether chain to the functionalized aromatic chromophore moiety.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided, which includes a setting unit for setting an operation content for a manufacturing system configured to manufacture an object to be manufactured, a first acquisition unit for acquiring a posterior state parameter set indicating a state of at least one of the manufacturing system or the object to be manufactured after the operation content is set, and a learning processing unit for executing, by using learning data including the operation content and the posterior state parameter set, a learning process of a control model of the manufacturing system configured to output the operation content that increases a reward value determined by a preset reward function in response to input of a state parameter set indicating a state of at least one of the manufacturing system or the object to be manufactured.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for reducing the calculation load in navigation management of a moving body within a freely navigable space. The system has a storage unit 21 for storing movement locus data showing a plurality of movement loci in which a moving body is moved in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional space in which free movement is possible; a network model management unit 11 for integrating sections approximated by the plurality of movement loci on the basis of the movement locus data, and generating a network model showing a route within the space; a navigation schedule calculation unit 13 for calculating a navigation schedule when a plurality of moving bodies planning to pass within the space navigate within that space according to the network model route; and a display processing unit 15 for outputting the calculated navigation schedule to a display apparatus.

Abstract: A communication apparatus has a communication control function, which enables the apparatus to operate as a control apparatus that forms a wireless network and controls the wireless network, and has an apparatus function other than the communication control function. The communication apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in the case that an instruction to implement the apparatus function is received while the apparatus is implementing the communication control function and operating as the control apparatus, and a control unit configured to control operation of the apparatus such that priority is given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in a case that the determination unit determines that priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for reducing the calculation load in navigation management of a moving body within a freely navigable space. The system has a storage unit 21 for storing movement locus data showing a plurality of movement loci in which a moving body is moved in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional space in which free movement is possible; a network model management unit 11 for integrating sections approximated by the plurality of movement loci on the basis of the movement locus data, and generating a network model showing a route within the space; a navigation schedule calculation unit 13 for calculating a navigation schedule when a plurality of moving bodies planning to pass within the space navigate within that space according to the network model route; and a display processing unit 15 for outputting the calculated navigation schedule to a display apparatus.

Abstract: A traffic control assisting system (“assisting system”) stores action data on an action of a moving object, geographic data in which geographic attribute information, which is information on a reference of movement of the moving object, is imparted to individual segments that are meshes into which a map is divided, and responsiveness data on the moving object's responsiveness to an instruction. The assisting system estimates an ideal action of the moving object based on the responsiveness data; calculates a difference between the estimated action and an action in the action data; updates the responsiveness data based on a result of the calculation; estimates probability of presence of the moving object at certain coordinates at each time point based on the action data, the geographic data, and the responsiveness data and generates a geographic E map; and predicts future coordinates of the moving object based on the geographic E map.

Abstract: A programmable controller according to an embodiment includes: a bus for data transmission and reception; a synchronous-control signal line that transmits a synchronous control signal; a synchronous-control-signal generating unit that is connected to the synchronous-control signal line and generates the synchronous control signal on a basis of an external signal; a data holding unit that is connected to the bus and the synchronous-control signal line and latches a signal from an external device in an internal memory in synchronization with the synchronous control signal; and a CPU unit that is connected to the bus and the synchronous-control signal line and reads a value in the internal memory via the bus in synchronization with the synchronous control signal.

Abstract: A communication apparatus has a communication control function, which enables the apparatus to operate as a control apparatus that forms a wireless network and controls the wireless network, and has an apparatus function other than the communication control function. The communication apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in the case that an instruction to implement the apparatus function is received while the apparatus is implementing the communication control function and operating as the control apparatus, and a control unit configured to control operation of the apparatus such that priority is given to the apparatus function over the communication control function in a case that the determination unit determines that priority is to be given to the apparatus function over the communication control function.