Abstract: A ship monitoring system makes it easier to grasp a heading of another ship, and includes a first data generating part, a second data generating part, and processing circuitry. The first data generating part generates first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship. The second data generating part generates second ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a second ship. The processing circuitry calculates a risk value indicative of a risk of the first ship and the second ship colliding each other, for each point on an estimated course of the second ship, based on the first ship data and the second ship data, when assuming that the first ship changes the course and reaches the point. The processing circuitry displays a risk area indicative of a heading of the second ship at the point where the risk value is more than a threshold.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a plurality of transistors. The transistors are coupled through serial coupling. The transistors include a first transistor and a second transistor. The semiconductor device further includes a third transistor and a first diode. The second transistor includes a first sub-transistor and a second sub-transistor that are coupled in parallel with each other. The first transistor, the first sub-transistor, the second sub-transistor, the third transistor, and the first diode are arranged on a substrate, with the third transistor interposed between the first sub-transistor and the second sub-transistor in a first direction.

Abstract: A ship monitoring device includes processing circuitry that accepts a specification of a position in an image displayed on a display unit, acquires first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship, acquires a plurality of second ship data indicative of positions and velocities of a plurality of second ships, calculates a collision risk area where a risk of the first ship colliding each of the second ships becomes more than a given value, based on the first ship data and the plurality of second ship data, and displays a plurality of ship objects indicative of the plurality of second ships, and the collision risk area disposed at corresponding positions in the image, and when a specification of the collision risk area is accepted, displays the ship object corresponding to the specified collision risk area so as to be discriminated from other ship objects.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a ship monitoring system capable of improving legibility of an OZT. The ship monitoring system includes a first data generator, a second data generator, and processing circuitry. The first data generator generates first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship. The second data generator generates second ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a second ship. The processing circuitry calculates a risk value indicative of a risk of a collision between the first ship and the second ship based on the first ship data and the second ship data, for each point on an estimated course of the second ship, when the first ship is assumed to change a course and reach the point. The processing circuitry specifies a range where two or more continuous points have the risk values above a threshold. The processing circuitry displays a risk range including the range where the two or more continuous points have the risk values above the threshold.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a ship monitoring system which makes it easy for a user to grasp a change in a risk situation. The ship monitoring system includes a first data generator, a second data generator, processing circuitry, and an alarm sounding part. The first data generator generates first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship. The second data generator generates second ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a second ship. The processing circuitry calculates a risk value indicative of a risk of a collision between the first ship and the second ship based on the first ship data and the second ship data. The processing circuitry generates a discontinuous sound pattern with an interval according to the risk value. The alarm sounding part sounds an alarm according to the discontinuous sound pattern.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a ship monitoring system capable of visualizing a risk of a collision or an approach in a width direction perpendicular to a heading of another ship. The ship monitoring system includes a first data generator, a second data generator, and processing circuitry. The first data generator generates first ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a first ship. The second data generator generates second ship data indicative of a position and a velocity of a second ship. The processing circuitry specifies a risk range where a risk value indicative of a risk of a collision between the first ship and the second ship is above a threshold among an estimated course of the second ship, based on a position of the first ship and a position of the second ship at each timing, that are estimated from the first ship data and the second ship data, when assuming that the first ship changes a course to an arbitrary direction and crosses the estimated course of the second ship.

Abstract: A control unit configured to perform multi-pass printing provided that a region of a printing medium including a first region, a region downstream of the first region is a second region, and a region downstream of the second region is a third region, in a first period in which the first region is a target of printing, causes a velocity of paper feed to be slower than in a third period in which the third region is a target of printing; in the first period, causes a standby time of the printing head to be longer than in the third period; and in a second period in which the second region is a target of printing, changes the standby time so that the standby time approaches the standby time in the first period from the standby time in the third period as the first region approaches the printing head.

Abstract: To provide a radar device capable of tracking a target accurately and stably, taking into account the possibility that a plurality of echoes may merge. A radar device is provided with a tracking processing unit, a merging possibility calculating unit and a preliminary handling processing unit. The merging possibility calculating unit calculates an echo merging possibility, which is the possibility that echo merging, whereby a plurality of echoes become integrated, will occur in the future, based on movement information including the position and speed of a target. The preliminary handling processing unit performs an advance handling process, which is a process for handling future occurrences of echo merging, based on the echo merging possibility.

Abstract: A ship maneuver supporting device capable of displaying a collision risk zone which matches navigation feel of a ship operator with reduced calculation load, is provided. The ship maneuver supporting device 1 includes processing circuitry (11, 21, 31, 41). The processing circuitry calculates a collision risk value for determining whether a collision risk zone that is a zone where a possibility of a collision between a first ship and a second ship will occur in the future is high is to be displayed, based on a separating distance between the position of the second ship estimated at a plurality of future time points and the position of the first ship estimated corresponding thereto, in consideration of a physical size of at least one of the first ship and the second ship. Further, the processing circuitry generate display data for displaying the collision risk zone at the estimated position of the second ship, based on the determination using the collision risk value.

Abstract: A multiple-reflection apparatus and a multiple-reflection cell includes: a pair of parallel plane mirrors that multiply reflects a laser light, in zigzag, which enters at a specific angle of incidence; a right-angle double mirror having two perpendicular reflection surfaces for returning the multiple-reflection light that traveled to one end between the parallel plane mirrors; and a right-angle double mirror having two perpendicular reflection surfaces for returning the multiple-reflection light that traveled from the right-angle double mirror on one end side to the other end between the parallel plane mirrors. When the two parallel mirror surfaces configuring the parallel plane mirrors are disposed to be parallel to the z-x plane of the x-y-z axial coordinate system, the two reflection surfaces configuring the right-angle double mirror are perpendicular to the x-y plane, and the laser light entering at the angle ? of incidence crosses the x-y plane at a specific angle [[?z]].

Abstract: A control unit configured to perform multi-pass printing provided that a region of a printing medium including a first region, a region downstream of the first region is a second region, and a region downstream of the second region is a third region, in a first period in which the first region is a target of printing, causes a velocity of paper feed to be slower than in a third period in which the third region is a target of printing; in the first period, causes a standby time of the printing head to be longer than in the third period; and in a second period in which the second region is a target of printing, changes the standby time so that the standby time approaches the standby time in the first period from the standby time in the third period as the first region approaches the printing head.

Abstract: In order to provide a biological sample analysis apparatus capable of preventing a container storing a sample from being charged and of measuring only a luminescence intensity of light emitted from the sample accurately, a biological sample analysis apparatus for rapid microbiological test analyzes light generated from a biological origin substance contained in a sample, and includes a holder that holds a plurality of containers storing the sample, a photodetector fixed at a predetermined position, a holder drive mechanism that drives the holder and sequentially positions each of the containers held by the holder at a detection position detected by the photodetector, and a neutralizer that neutralizes the containers held by the holder.

Abstract: The present invention is one that intends to achieve improvements in both analysis efficiency and analysis accuracy without difficulty, and a biological substance analysis device that analyzes light derived from a biological substance in a sample, and the biological substance analysis device includes: a holder that holds multiple containers containing the sample; a photodetector that is fixed at a predetermined position; a holder driving mechanism that moves the holder to position each of the containers held in the holder at a detection position by the photodetector in sequence; and a light shielding mechanism that, while guiding light emitted from the sample in a container at the detection position to the photodetector, prevents light emitted from the sample in the other containers from being guided to the photodetector.

Abstract: To provide a sample preprocessor that can make the amount of a sample liquid after filtering accurate and raise the accuracy of subsequent measurement or the like, the sample preprocessor, where a sample liquid is filtered to capture a predetermined component on a filter, includes a connection mechanism that connects a sample container and a suction source. The sample container includes a bottle that stores a sample liquid and a cartridge that has a tubular shape, has a proximal end side attached to the bottle and, has the filter provided therein. The connection mechanism includes a suction terminal that connects a distal end side of the cartridge and the suction source and sucks the sample liquid in the sample container, and an attachment surface that the bottle is attached to and arranges the cartridge in a predetermined position relative to the suction terminal.

Abstract: A single crystal pulling apparatus including a dopant supplying means which includes: a charging device provided outside a chamber for storing a dopant and charging the dopant into the chamber; a sublimation room provided inside the chamber for holding and sublimating the dopant charged from the charging device; a carrier gas-introducing device for introducing a carrier gas into the sublimation room; and a blowing device for blowing the dopant sublimated in the sublimation room together with the carrier gas onto a surface of a raw-material melt. The blowing device includes a tube connected to the sublimation room and blowing ports such that the sublimated dopant is scattered from the blowing ports via the tube and blown onto the surface of the raw-material melt. This provides a single crystal pulling apparatus capable of efficient doping with a sublimable dopant within the shortest possible time.

Abstract: The present invention is one for achieving an improvement in analysis accuracy, and a sample analyzing device that measures light emitted by introducing a reagent to a sample contained in a container to analyze the sample, and the sample analyzing device includes: a holder that holds the container; a casing that has a door for taking in/out the holder; a nozzle to/from which a pipette tip for injecting the reagent into the container can be attached/detached; a photodetector that measures the light emitted from the sample in the container supported by the holder; and a disposal box into which the pipette tip after injection is disposed of, in which the disposal box is configured to be arranged in the casing and to be taken in/out via the door.

Abstract: To provide a radar device capable of tracking a target accurately and stably, taking into account the possibility that a plurality of echoes may merge. A radar device is provided with a tracking processing unit, a merging possibility calculating unit and a preliminary handling processing unit. The merging possibility calculating unit calculates an echo merging possibility, which is the possibility that echo merging, whereby a plurality of echoes become integrated, will occur in the future, based on movement information including the position and speed of a target. The preliminary handling processing unit performs an advance handling process, which is a process for handling future occurrences of echo merging, based on the echo merging possibility.

Abstract: The present invention is one that intends to achieve improvements in both analysis efficiency and analysis accuracy without difficulty, and a biological substance analysis device that analyzes light derived from a biological substance in a sample, and the biological substance analysis device includes: a holder that holds multiple containers containing the sample; a photodetector that is fixed at a predetermined position; a holder driving mechanism that moves the holder to position each of the containers held in the holder at a detection position by the photodetector in sequence; and a light shielding mechanism that, while guiding light emitted from the sample in a container at the detection position to the photodetector, prevents light emitted from the sample in the other containers from being guided to the photodetector.

Abstract: This disclosure aims to accurately track a tracking target regardless of a surrounding environment. A tracking processor may be provided, which includes a tracking processing module configured to perform processing of tracking a tracking target, and a congestion degree calculating submodule configured to calculate a degree of congestion of objects located within an area including an estimated position of the tracking target. The tracking processing module may perform the processing of tracking the tracking target based on a value of the congestion degree calculated by the congestion degree calculating submodule.

Abstract: A single crystal pulling apparatus including a dopant supplying means which includes: a charging device provided outside a chamber for storing a dopant and charging the dopant into the chamber; a sublimation room provided inside the chamber for holding and sublimating the dopant charged from the charging device; a carrier gas-introducing device for introducing a carrier gas into the sublimation room; and a blowing device for blowing the dopant sublimated in the sublimation room together with the carrier gas onto a surface of a raw-material melt. The blowing device includes a tube connected to the sublimation room and blowing ports such that the sublimated dopant is scattered from the blowing ports via the tube and blown onto the surface of the raw-material melt. This provides a single crystal pulling apparatus capable of efficient doping with a sublimable dopant within the shortest possible time.