Abstract: A rule generation device according to an embodiment includes: a database in which, for each fault, fault factor information including a fault factor part and a fault factor, fault events that occur due to this fault, a rule ID associated with a rule including a condition part and a result part are registered in association with one another; an importance degree determination unit determining, when fault events of a new fault that is a newly occurred fault are registered with the database, degrees of importance of the fault events of the new fault based on at least one of values calculated through statistical processing or analytical processing for information other than the fault events or overall information about the fault events, which are registered with the database; and a rule generation unit generating a rule for the new fault based on the degrees of importance.

Abstract: A travel plan generation device according to an aspect of the present invention is provided with a generation unit that generates a travel plan for traveling a plurality of points by a plurality of mobile bodies by performing, at each output step, processing of selecting any one point out of the plurality of points and any one mobile body out of the plurality of mobile bodies by using a recurrent neural network configured to output visiting probabilities at the plurality of points and use probabilities of the plurality of mobile bodies when point information regarding the plurality of points and mobile body information regarding the plurality of mobile bodies are input, and an output unit that outputs the travel plan.

Abstract: A Li ion conductor having a composition different from a conventional composition is provided. The Li ion conductor contains at least one selected from a group Q consisting of Ga, V, and Al, Li, La and O. A part of an Li site is optionally substituted with a metal element D, a part of an La site is optionally substituted with a metal element E, and parts of Ga, V and Al sites are optionally substituted with a metal element J. A mole ratio of an amount of Li to a total amount of La, the element E, Ga, V, Al, and the element J is not lower than 8.1/5 and not higher than 9.5/5. A mole ratio of a total amount of Ga, V, and Al to a total amount of La and the element E is not lower than 1.1/3 and not higher than 2/3.

Abstract: An oxide-based solid electrolyte with a high lithium ion conductance is provided. A lithium ion-conducting garnet type oxide includes Li, La, Ga, Zr, a halogen element, and oxygen. A lithium ion conductivity at room temperature is not lower than 1.0×10?3 S/cm. A proportion of Ga with respect to 1 mole of the oxide may be not larger than 0.5 moles. The halogen element may be at least one type selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I, and a proportion of Li with respect to 1 mole of the oxide may be not smaller than 6.1 moles and smaller than 6.5 moles.

Abstract: A Li ion conductor having a composition different from a conventional composition is provided. The Li ion conductor contains at least one selected from a group Q consisting of Ga, V, and Al, Li, La and O. A part of an Li site is optionally substituted with a metal element D, a part of an La site is optionally substituted with a metal element E, and parts of Ga, V and Al sites are optionally substituted with a metal element J. A mole ratio of an amount of Li to a total amount of La, the element E, Ga, V, Al, and the element J is not lower than 8.1/5 and not higher than 9.5/5. A mole ratio of a total amount of Ga, V, and Al to a total amount of La and the element E is not lower than 1.1/3 and not higher than 2/3.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte which contains a garnet-type composite metal oxide phase (L) and shows an excellent lithium ion conductivity is provided. The solid electrolyte contains a garnet-type composite metal oxide phase (L) and a phase (D) different from the phase (L). The phase (L) contains Li, La, Zr, O, and Ga, and an Li site in the phase (L) is substituted with the Ga. A lattice constant of the solid electrolyte is not smaller than 12.96 ?. The phase (D) contains at least one of LiF, BaZrO3, YF3, SrF2, and ScF3.

Abstract: A Li ion conductor includes a garnet-type composite metal oxide phase (L) containing Li, La, Zr, and O. The Li ion conductor has a diffraction peak at least one of at 2?=13.8° ±1° and at 2?=15.2° ±1° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuKa rays. The Li ion conductor may have a metal-containing phase (K) different from the garnet-type composite metal oxide phase (L), and the metal-containing phase (K) contains a halogen element and Li.

Abstract: An LLZ oxide may be a garnet-type oxide that contains Li, La, Zr and O as main constituent elements, and further contains substituent elements such as Zn in addition to the main constituent elements. The substituent elements may contain Bi, Nb, Hf and the like in addition to Zn. The LLZ-type oxide may be used, for example, as a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery. The all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer that is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.

Abstract: A method for producing a positive electrode active material is provided. The method can prevent a gas generation due to an oxidative degradation of a non-aqueous electrolyte in a lithium-ion secondary battery using a positive electrode active material which operates at a high potential. A method for producing a coated positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes coating a surface of a positive electrode active material with an oxide-based solid electrolyte by a mechanical coating method and then conducting heat treatment at 300° C. or higher, and the positive electrode active material has an average potential of extraction and insertion of lithium of 4.5V or more and 5.0V or less based on Li+/Li.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a composite metal oxide particle, and method of producing the same, having an excellent lithium ion conductivity that may be produced at low cost. The present disclosure relates to a garnet-type composite metal oxide particle, containing Li, La, Zr and O; Ga and/or Al; and a halogen element, where a part of a Li site is substituted with the Ga and/or the Al, and at least a part of a particle surface is covered with a melt-solidified material. A ratio of an area covered with the melt-solidified material to a total area of the particle is preferably 10% or more, and the halogen element is preferably Cl.

Abstract: A conference system includes: a computer processing unit (CPU) that: acquires, for each of information processing devices used by participants of a conference, information specific to a first area in which the conference is held; extracts features from the information specific to the first area; compares the features of each of the information processing devices with one another; groups the information processing devices with similar features together; assigns, for each group of the information processing devices, a work space that can be accessed by the information processing devices of each group; and notifies the information processing devices of each group of information related to the work space that allows the information processing devices of each group to access the work space assigned to each group. The information processing devices access the work space using the information related to the work space.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention are to provide a method for producing a composite metal oxide having an excellent crystallinity by a mechanochemical method. One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for producing a garnet-type composite metal oxide containing Li, La, Zr and O. The method includes a step of treating a mixture containing raw material powders and a flux by a mechanochemical method to react the raw material powders, and the raw material powders contain a Li source powder, a La source powder and a Zr source powder. The raw material powders may further contain at least one selected from an Al source powder and a Ga source powder.

Abstract: A conference support device includes: a voice input part to which voice of a speaker among conference participants is input; a storage part that stores a voice recognition model corresponding to human emotions; a hardware processor that recognizes an emotion of the speaker and converts the voice of the speaker into a text using the voice recognition model corresponding to the recognized emotion; and an output part that outputs the converted text.

Abstract: Provided are a document processing device and a non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program in which it is possible to search for a part similar to a part selected by a user in one document from another document mutually related to the above document. The document processing device comprising: a storage unit that stores plurality of documents related to each other; a hardware processor that: causes a user to select a part of a content of a first document among the plurality of documents stored in the storage unit; searches for a part similar to the selected part of the content of the first document, from documents other than the first document among the plurality of documents; and notifies of a first part which has been found and is similar to the selected part of the content of the first document.

Abstract: A first hardware processor included in a server determines one or more candidate apparatuses, which are candidates for being information processing apparatuses that execute a distribution process, based on performance of hardware resources, determines that an apparatus, which responds to an inquiry about whether the distribution process is executable, among the one or more candidate apparatuses is a proxy apparatus, and requests the proxy apparatus to execute the distribution process, and a second hardware processor included in each of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, in response to an inquiry about whether the distribution process is executable from the server, determines whether the distribution process is executable based on a margin of the hardware resources, and in the case where it is determined that the distribution process is executable, responds to the inquiry about whether the distribution process is executable.

Abstract: A conference system includes: a computer processing unit (CPU) that: acquires, for each of information processing devices used by participants of a conference, information specific to a first area in which the conference is held; extracts features from the information specific to the first area; compares the features of each of the information processing devices with one another; groups the information processing devices with similar features together; assigns, for each group of the information processing devices, a work space that can be accessed by the information processing devices of each group; and notifies the information processing devices of each group of information related to the work space that allows the information processing devices of each group to access the work space assigned to each group. The information processing devices access the work space using the information related to the work space.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a function to communicate with a terminal is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the terminal, a print command to print a rasterized image having been stored; a user interface configured to receive, from a user, an execution command to print the rasterized image after the receiver receives the print command; and a printer configured to print the rasterized image after the user interface receives the execution command.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects a pinch operation that is an operation of increasing or decreasing a distance between two touch positions on a touch panel; an adjustment unit that, upon reception of setting of a size of a non-standard size sheet, adjusts the set size in accordance with the pinch operation; an angle specification unit that specifies, as a pinch operation angle resulting from the pinch operation, an angle formed by a straight line connecting the two touch positions and one of two orthogonal coordinate axes of a coordinate system of the touch pad; and an adjustment amount change unit that changes an adjustment amount for the set size per operation in accordance with whether the pinch operation angle falls within a first angular range or a second angular range that does not overlap the first angular range.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input portion for a user to enter information, the input portion including a first input portion, and a second input portion with which information being entered is hard to be seen by a person around the user as compared with the first input portion. The information processing apparatus also includes a determination portion configured to determine whether or not entry target information to be entered by the user is sensitive. The information processing apparatus further includes a call portion configured to, prior to entry of the entry target information, call the first input portion when the determination portion determines that the entry target information is not sensitive, and call the second input portion when the determination portion determines that the entry target information is sensitive.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input portion for a user to enter information, the input portion including a first input portion, and a second input portion with which information being entered is hard to be seen by a person around the user as compared with the first input portion. The information processing apparatus also includes a determination portion configured to determine whether or not entry target information to be entered by the user is sensitive. The information processing apparatus further includes a call portion configured to, prior to entry of the entry target information, call the first input portion when the determination portion determines that the entry target information is not sensitive, and call the second input portion when the determination portion determines that the entry target information is sensitive.