Abstract: This laser processing device is provided with a laser radiating unit which forms a processed groove extending in a scanning direction on a workpiece, by subjecting the workpiece to laser processing while scanning the surface of the workpiece, and a nozzle portion which has a plurality of ejection holes arranged side by side in the scanning direction, and which ejects a gas toward the processed groove from each of the ejection holes. With this laser processing device, since a plume is eliminated by ejecting gas into the processed groove by means of the nozzle portion, the formation of a heat affected layer by the plume can be suppressed to an even greater extent.

Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal described herein includes a shielded electric wire 11 and an inner conductive member 20. The shielded electric wire 11 includes a covered wire 12 including a core wire 13 through which a signal for communication is transmitted and an insulation cover 14 that has insulation property and covers the core wire 13, a shielding portion 15 having electric conductive property and covering an outer periphery of the covered wire 12, and a sheath 16 covering an outer periphery of the shielding portion 15. The inner conductive member 20 is connected to the covered wire 12. The covered wire 12 has an end portion close to the inner conductive member 20 and the end portion is an uncovered portion 17 that is not covered with the sheath 16 and the shielding portion 15. The uncovered portion 17 is covered with an impedance adjustment member 80 that has electric conductive property.

Abstract: Provided is a catalyst with a more satisfactory denitration efficiency at low temperatures during a selective catalytic reduction reaction having ammonia as the reductant, compared to prior art techniques. This denitration catalyst contains vanadium oxide. The denitration catalyst has a carbon content of 0.05% by weight or more, and has a deficiency site wherein oxygen deficiency occurs within the crystal structure.

Abstract: Provided is a catalyst having better denitration efficiency at low temperatures compared to the prior art, during a selective catalytic reduction reaction in which ammonia is used as a reducing agent. This denitration catalyst contains vanadium oxide including vanadium pentoxide and has a defect site in which oxygen deficiency occurs in a crystal structure of the vanadium pentoxide.

Abstract: Provided is a combustion system using a catalyst having better denitration efficiency at low temperatures, during a selective catalytic reduction reaction in which ammonia is used as a reducing agent. This combustion system comprises: a combustion device that combusts fuel; an exhaust path through which flows exhaust gas generated from the combustion of fuel in the combustion device; a dust collection device that is arranged on the exhaust path and collects soot/dust in the exhaust gas; and a denitration device that is arranged on the exhaust path and removes nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas by means of a denitration catalyst, wherein the denitration device is arranged downstream of the dust collection device on the exhaust path, and the denitration catalyst contains vanadium oxide, has a carbon content of 0.05 wt % or more, and has a defect site in which oxygen deficiency occurs in a crystal structure.

Abstract: Provided is a combustion system in which a catalyst having superior denitration efficiency at a low temperature compared with those used in the conventional techniques is used in a selective catalytic reduction reaction using ammonia as a reducing agent. A combustion system equipped with: a denitration device which is arranged in the exhaust passage and can remove a nitrogen oxide from the exhaust gas with a denitration catalyst. In the combustion system, the denitration device is arranged on the downstream side of the dust collection device in the exhaust passage, and the denitration catalyst is one which contains vanadium oxide as the main component and in which the content of a second metal in terms of oxide content is 1 to 40 wt % inclusive, wherein the second metal comprises at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Co, W, Mo, Nb, Ce, Sn, Ni, Fe, Cu, Zn and Mn.

Abstract: Provided is a catalyst which, when used in a selective catalytic reduction reaction in which ammonia serves as the reducing agent, further improves denitration efficiency at low temperatures compared to the prior art. The denitration catalyst comprises vanadium oxide as a main component, and has a content of a second metal, in teams of oxide, of 1-40 wt %. The second metal is at least one type of metal element selected from the group consisting of Co, W, Mo, Nb, Ce, Sn, Ni, Fe, Cu, Zn, and Mn.

Abstract: A laser machining device includes: a laser irradiation unit that forms a machining groove that has one end opening to an end section of a workpiece and the other end thereof closed, as a result of scanning a workpiece surface from an end section of the workpiece and laser machining the workpiece; and a nozzle unit that sprays a gas across an irradiation zone of the workpiece surface created by the laser irradiation unit. The nozzle unit is configured so as to increase the flowrate of the gas supplied to the irradiation zone, from one end to the other end of the machining groove.

Abstract: A nuclear power generation system includes a nuclear reactor that includes a reactor core fuel and a nuclear reactor vessel, the nuclear reactor vessel covering a surrounding of the reactor core fuel, shielding a space in which the reactor core fuel is present, and shielding radioactive rays; a heat conductive portion that is disposed in at least a part of the nuclear reactor vessel to transfer heat inside the nuclear reactor vessel to an outside by solid heat conduction; a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between the heat conductive portion and a refrigerant; a refrigerant circulation unit that circulates the refrigerant passing through the heat exchanger; a turbine that is rotated by the refrigerant circulated by the refrigerant circulation unit; and a generator that rotates integrally with the turbine.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus disposed in an endoscope includes an optical unit in which a plurality of optical members are stacked, an image pickup unit including an image pickup device and a plurality of semiconductor devices, mold resin covering the optical unit and the image pickup unit, and a wiring board bonded to the image pickup unit, in which a recess is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the mold resin.

Abstract: A monetary risk prediction apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a predictive model recording unit that records a predictive model to predict time-series data showing a future asset amount of a user; and prediction means for receiving evaluation data that is time-series data including an asset amount and a numeric value showing a health condition of the user, inputting the evaluation data to the predictive model recorded on the predictive model recording unit, and outputting the time-series data showing the future asset amount of the user predicted by the predictive model according to the input.

Abstract: Provided is a combustion system using a catalyst having better denitration efficiency at low temperatures, during a selective catalytic reduction reaction in which ammonia is used as a reducing agent. This combustion system comprises: a combustion device that combusts fuel; an exhaust path through which flows exhaust gas generated from the combustion of fuel in the combustion device; a dust collection device that is arranged on the exhaust path and collects ash dust/dust in the exhaust gas; and a denitration device that is arranged on the exhaust path and removes nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas by means of a denitration catalyst, wherein the denitration device is arranged downstream of the dust collection device on the exhaust path, and the denitration catalyst contains vanadium oxide including vanadium pentoxide and has a defect site in which an oxygen atom is deficient in a crystal structure of the vanadium pentoxide.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit to obtain a plurality of images that have been captured under different exposure conditions; an acceptance unit to receive designation of an area in a first image, the first image being one of the plurality of images; a brightness characteristics acquisition unit to obtain a brightness characteristic value of the designated area in the first image; and a combining unit to: determine a combining condition used for combining the first image and a second image according to the brightness characteristic value, the second image being any one of the plurality of images other than the first image, and combine the first image and the second image based on the combining condition to correct brightness of the designated area for display.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes an interconnect substrate having a first major surface, a first semiconductor device having a second major surface and mounted to the interconnect substrate, the second major surface opposing the first major surface, a second semiconductor device having a third major surface and a fourth major surface and mounted to the first semiconductor device, the third major surface opposing the first major surface, the fourth major surface opposing the second major surface, a through hole formed through the interconnect substrate at a position overlapping the second semiconductor device in a plan view taken in a thickness direction of the interconnect substrate, and a heatsink member disposed in contact with part of the third major surface, at least a part of the first major surface, and at least a part of a sidewall surface of the through hole.

Abstract: A data processing device that makes effective use of a data group containing missing data is provided. A series of learning data containing missing data is acquired, and a representative value of data and a validity ratio representing a proportion of valid data being present are calculated from the series of learning data according to a predefined unit of aggregation. Then, learning of an estimation model is performed so as to minimize an error which is based on a difference between an output resulting from inputting the representative value and the validity ratio to the estimation model, and the representative value. Also, a series of estimation data containing missing data is acquired, and a representative value of data and a validity ratio representing a proportion of valid data being present are calculated from the series of estimation data according to a predefined unit of aggregation.

Abstract: Devices are disclosed. A device may include an interface region including two or more input circuits operably coupled to the number of input signals, wherein one of the two or more input circuits for each input signal is adjacent at least two other input circuits coupled to different input. Associated systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: A shield terminal is provided with a pair of female inner conductors including box-shaped connecting portions into which tabs of male inner conductors are inserted, a female dielectric configured by uniting a first member and a second member made of a material having a lower dielectric constant than the first member, the pair of female inner conductors being accommodated in the female dielectric while being arranged in parallel, and a front separation wall portion formed in the second member and disposed to partition between a pair of the box-shaped connecting portions. Since the female dielectric is divided into the first member and the second member and the front separation wall portion is formed in the second member having a lower dielectric constant, a material cost can be reduced as compared to the case where the both members are made of a material having a low dielectric constant.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention includes: a first generation section that generates first input data in which first data related to a first phenomenon and second data related to a second phenomenon that is relevant to the first phenomenon are combined with first auxiliary data that is based on a missing data status in at least one of the first data and the second data; and a learning section that learns a model parameter of a prediction model, based on an error according to the first auxiliary data between output data outputted from the prediction model when the first input data is inputted into the prediction model, and each of the first data and the second data.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine; a continuously variable transmission; an output clutch disposed between the continuously variable transmission and the drive wheel; a drive motor coupled between the output clutch and the drive wheel; a traveling mode controller; and a speed ratio controller. In a case where required driving power based on an accelerator position is less than a first threshold, the traveling mode controller switches a traveling mode to a first traveling mode. In a case where the required driving power is equal to or greater than the first threshold, the traveling mode controller switches the traveling mode to a second traveling mode. In a case where the required driving power is less than the first threshold and equal to or greater than a second threshold, the speed ratio controller causes a speed ratio of the continuously variable transmission to change depending on a vehicle speed.

Abstract: An object of an aspect of the present invention is to enable estimation of more effective intervention content in order to make a person's health state approximate to an ideal health state, and in a learning phase, measurement values and target values of a health state for a plurality of days in the past are sequentially input to a learning machine configured by a multilayer neural network, and the learning machine is caused to perform learning such that a target achievement expectation value obtained by using a success rate that allows the user's health state to approximate to an ideal health state, continuity that allows the health state approximate to the ideal health state to be maintained, and a target value of the health state to be subsequently recommended and the target achievement expectation value thereof that reflect a temporal change in the health state and a history of interventions until a present time are output.