Abstract: In an outboard motor, a damper includes a bushing fixed to a periphery of a propeller shaft. The damper includes a second pressing surface that presses a first pressing surface of an inner surface of a cylinder in a circumferential direction, an elastic member disposed around a portion of the bushing different from the second pressing surface of the bushing, and a reinforcer disposed between the first pressing surface and the second pressing surface.

Abstract: A monitoring control system including: at least one transmission monitoring control subsystem that performs monitoring control of a power transmission system; at least one distribution monitoring control subsystem that performs monitoring control of a power distribution system; a calculation server that stores outage plan names related to outages of the power transmission system and outages of the power distribution system; and a network that connects the transmission monitoring control subsystem, the distribution monitoring control subsystem, and the calculation server. The monitoring control system performs monitoring control of the power transmission system and the power distribution system based on the outage plan name.

Abstract: A medical X-ray image processing apparatus (1) includes a controller (12) configured to acquire positional information of an imaging system (7) based on positional information of positional references (60) and evaluate symmetry of imaging positions of a plurality of X-ray captured images (15) with respect to a reference position (18) on a movement path of the imaging system (7) based on the acquired positional information of the imaging system (7).

Abstract: A device management system includes: a server; base stations for long-distance wireless communication; and a device that communicatively connect to one of the base stations and that each sequentially transmit, to the server via the one base station, operation information indicating the current operation state of the device. Upon sequentially receiving the operation information, each of the base stations sequentially transmits, to the server, unique information unique to the base station together with the sequentially received operation information. The server sequentially receives, and sequentially stores in association with each other, the operation information and the unique information. When first and second unique information received at first and second times, respectively, are different, the server separately manages first operation information received in a first period ending at the first time and second operation information received in a second period starting at the second time.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus capable of assuredly finding a lung field that appears in an image even if a subject image appears in a radiation image in a rotated manner and assuredly performing a contrast adjustment with excellent visibility for the lung field. The image processing apparatus is provided with a sideways determination means 13 configured to determine that the subject image is turned sideways in the original image P0 when a minimum point P of a profile generated by summing or averaging pixel values belonging to each pixel column of the original image P0 for each pixel column is away from the center position of the subject image. The original image P0 determined as being turned sideways by the sideways determination portion 13 is rotated by the image rotation portion 16 and used for searching of the lung field.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting unit includes: a liquid ejecting head; and a coupling member coupled to the liquid ejecting head, in which the liquid ejecting head has a first-coupling portion and a second-coupling portion, the liquid ejecting unit further includes: a first-attachment portion provided in a first-position of the coupling member; a second-attachment portion provided in a second-position of the coupling member, the second position being different from the first position; a first-elastic body; and a second-elastic body, and the first-elastic body biases the first-attachment portion or the first-coupling portion in a state in which the first-attachment portion is in contact with the first-coupling portion and the second-elastic body biases the second-attachment portion or the second-coupling portion in a state in which the second-attachment portion is in contact with the second-coupling portion, so that the coupling member is coupled to the liquid ejecting head.

Abstract: A shifting operation detecting apparatus includes a gearbox and a shift change apparatus. The shift change apparatus includes a shifting operation unit, a shifting operation receiving section, a swing lever and a connecting member. A shift operation detector is disposed between the swing lever in an outer shaft section of the shifting operation receiving section and a gearbox case to directly detect a pivoted state of the shifting operation receiving section, and the connecting member is connected to the swing lever from the gearbox case side.

Abstract: A medical X-ray image processing apparatus (1) includes a controller (12) configured to acquire positional information of an imaging system (7) based on positional information of positional references (60) and evaluate symmetry of imaging positions of a plurality of X-ray captured images (15) with respect to a reference position (18) on a movement path of the imaging system (7) based on the acquired positional information of the imaging system (7).

Abstract: A steel material excellent in rolling fatigue property, the steel material including, in mass %: C: 0.10% to 1.50%, Si: 0.01% to 0.80%, Mn: 0.10% to 1.50%, Cr: 0.02% to 2.50%, Al: 0.002% to less than 0.010%, Ce+La+Nd: 0.0001% to 0.0025%, Mg: 0.0005% to 0.0050%, O: 0.0001% to 0.0020%, Ti: 0.000% to less than 0.005%, N: 0.0180% or less, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Ca: 0.0000% to 0.0010%, V: 0.00 to 0.40%, Mo: 0.00 to 0.60%, Cu: 0.00 to 0.50%, Nb: 0.000 to less than 0.050%, Ni: 0.00 to 2.50%, Pb: 0.00 to 0.10%, Bi: 0.00 to 0.10%, B: 0.0000 to 0.0050%, and the balance being Fe and an impurity, wherein a fatigue-initiating inclusion detected by an ultrasonic fatigue test contains one or more of Ce, La, and Nd, and Mg, Al, and O, and a composition ratio in the fatigue-initiating inclusion satisfies Formula (1).

Abstract: According to the present invention, a total value profile to be used for searching a lung field end is generated based on a radiation image. A pacemaker and an annotation reflected in a radiation image are merely reflected darkly in the image, and the existence is not particularly emphasized by edge enhancement. Therefore, the total value profile according to the present invention is not significantly affected by a pacemaker and/or an annotation. Therefore, according to the present invention, there occurs no false recognition regarding the end of the lung field due to a pacemaker and/or an annotation.

Abstract: A device management method executed in a server communicatively connected, via a network, to a plurality of devices and a first operation device associated with a first user identifier identifying a first user, includes: receiving, from the first operation device, a request to associate the first user identifier and a first device identifier identifying a first device among the plurality of devices; and when, in correspondence information stored in a storage device and including device identifiers identifying devices associated with user identifiers identifying users, (i) the first device identifier is associated with a second user identifier different from the first user identifier and (ii) the first user identifier is associated with a second device identifier identifying a second device different from the first device among the plurality of devices, storing the second device identifier and the second user identifier in association with each other.

Abstract: A device management system includes: a server communicatively connected to a network; a base station for long-distance wireless communication that is communicatively connected to the network; and a device that is communicatively connected to the base station and transmits, to the server via the base station, state information indicating a state of the device. The server receives the state information from the device, generates notification information in accordance with the received state information, and transmits the generated notification information to the device.

Abstract: A monitoring control system includes: at least one transmission monitoring control subsystem; and at least one distribution monitoring control subsystem. The transmission monitoring control subsystem and the distribution monitoring control subsystem respectively include an operation procedure creation unit that creates an operation procedure that defines a procedure of an operation for a facility installed in an electric power system, and an operation unit that, in a case an on-site operation that cannot be remotely performed on the facility is included in the operation procedure, transmits, to an on-site terminal associated with the on-site operation, a start confirmation instruction to confirm whether or not the on-site operation can be started and the operation procedure for the on-site operation. The monitoring control system performs monitoring control of the power transmission system and the power distribution system based on the operation procedure.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recoding medium having stored therein a communication management program that causes a communication management device to execute a process. The process includes authenticating a terminal in response to an authentication request from the terminal, receiving a communication content destined to a communication target system, the communication target system sharing access-authentication information with the communication management device, adding a first information with the communication content, the first information corresponding to a result of the authentication request, detecting whether the communication content includes a second information that is identified by the communication target system as information added by the communication management device, deleting the second information when the second information is detected in the communication content; and transmitting the communication content to the communication target system.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an article posture changing device includes: a first end effector configured to grasp a projected tag of an article by adsorption; an arm unit configured to support the first end effector and move the first end effector along at least a vertical direction; and a controller configured to control the arm unit and the first end effector to grasp the tag, lift the article upward, separate the article from a placement surface, change an angle of the article by weight thereof, move the article downward, place the article on the placement surface, and release the grasp of the tag.

Abstract: A radiation image processing apparatus includes: a group processing unit classifying a plurality of metal markers into a first group relatively far from a detector and a second group relatively close to the detector based on the area of each image of the plurality of metal markers in a captured image; a marker classification unit classifying the plurality of metal markers based on the relative positions of the plurality of metal markers to on the image plane of the captured image for each of the classified groups; and a pair processing unit selecting the metal markers of the first group and the metal markers of the second group, of which the relative positions match each other, as a pair.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus capable of assuredly finding a lung field that appears in an image even if a subject image appears in a radiation image in a rotated manner and assuredly performing a contrast adjustment with excellent visibility for the lung field. The image processing apparatus is provided with a sideways determination means 13 configured to determine that the subject image is turned sideways in the original image P0 when a minimum point P of a profile generated by summing or averaging pixel values belonging to each pixel column of the original image P0 for each pixel column is away from the center position of the subject image. The original image P0 determined as being turned sideways by the sideways determination portion 13 is rotated by the image rotation portion 16 and used for searching of the lung field.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an interposer substrate including a substrate body that includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface, a first surface terminal electrode that is provided on the first principal surface and includes a terminal electrode for heat dissipation and a terminal electrode for external connection, a second surface terminal electrode that is provided on the second principal surface, a conductor for signal transmission that is provided on the substrate body and connects the terminal electrode for external connection and the second surface terminal electrode, and a conductor for heat conduction that is provided on the substrate body and connects the terminal electrode for external connection or the second surface terminal electrode to the terminal electrode for heat dissipation.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes a monitoring control device, an image information providing device, and a client control device. The monitoring control device monitors infrastructure facilities and transmits statuses of the infrastructure facilities acquired on the basis of information input from a sensor to the image information providing device. The image information providing device generates original image information on the basis of the infrastructure facility statuses received from the monitoring control device. The client control device is connected to a display device and an operation device, receives information for designating a partial area of an entire image capable of being generated from the original image information from the operation device, transmits the received information to the image information providing device, and displays an image based on information received from the image information providing device on the display device.

Abstract: To wear and remove an assist instrument has been difficult because a user has to wear or remove the assist instrument on or from her/his body in a state that an elastic member is contracted. An assist instrument includes a wearing-removal member that is placed wearably and removably on a body of a user; an assist unit that is provided to the wearing-removal member, and assists muscular strength of the user by an action of at least one of extension and contraction by power supply; a control unit that controls an action of the assist unit; and something that adjusts constriction of the body by the wearing-removal member at a time of at least one of wearing and detachment of the wearing-removal member.