Abstract: A detection device includes: a sensor region having a detection region; and a detector disposed on a back surface of a front plate that is a nonconductor. The detector is configured to detect an object to be detected on or above a surface of the front plate opposite to the sensor region and overlapping the detection region based on detection values of electrodes in the detection region. The detector includes: an initial setter configured to set a second distance not smaller than a first distance in a height direction of the front plate and register XY coordinates of an indicator in an XY plane where the object to be detected is detectable; a storage configured to store a parameter generated by the initial setter; and a gesture determination processor configured to determine a gesture corresponding to change in spatial coordinates of the object to be detected based on the parameter.

Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a circuit; an enclosure which stores the circuit; and an earth plate which is provided at the enclosure and exposes to an outside.

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining a raw material by heating and sublimating a solid raw material accommodated in a raw material container; supplying, as a raw material gas, the sublimated raw material together with a carrier gas to a consumption region; adjusting a heating temperature of the solid raw material based on a measurement result of an amount of the raw material in the raw material gas; converting a supply amount of the raw material per unit time into a reference temperature supply amount; and estimating a remaining amount of the solid raw material corresponding to the reference temperature supply amount based on a remaining amount-raw material supply amount curve, which indicates a relationship between the remaining amount of the solid raw material in the raw material container and the raw material supply amount when the solid raw material is heated at a reference temperature.

Abstract: Provided is a tool magazine apparatus capable of preventing a phase error in attaching a tool to a tool holding gripper. A tool magazine apparatus includes: a magazine body having both front and rear racks each provided with tool holding grippers; a tool transfer device to take out a tool from the both racks and attach a tool to the both racks; a tool standby pot to hold a tool; and an intra-magazine tool change device to deliver a tool between the tool standby pot and the tool transfer device. The tool transfer device includes: a moving body disposed between the both racks; a base disposed on the moving body and being rotatable around an axis extending in the Z-axis direction; a transfer gripper attached to the base and being movable in a plane orthogonal to the Z-axis direction; and an air cylinder causing the transfer gripper to move.

Abstract: A stethoscope system comprising: a plurality of sensors for collecting auscultatory sounds; and a controller which detects a first heart sound and a second heart sound of heart sounds based on a volume of the auscultatory sounds which are collected by the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: Provided is a tool magazine apparatus that has excellent workability and is capable of being downsized. A tool replacement device includes a fixed frame installed in an opening portion provided at a predetermined position of a tool magazine, a swivel frame disposed inside the fixed frame so as to be rotatable about a swivel axis extending in a vertical direction, and a tool replacement rack fixed to the swivel frame. The swivel frame is rotated to a deliverable position at which the tool replacement rack is parallel to a tool rack inside the tool magazine to enable a tool to be delivered between the tool replacement rack and a tool transfer device, and to a replaceable position at which the tool replacement rack is located outside the tool magazine to enable replacement of old and new tools.

Abstract: Provided is a soft X-ray static electricity removal apparatus that has achieved an increase in the amount of ionized air discharged, with a simple structure. A soft X-ray static electricity removal apparatus (1) includes a soft X-ray generation device (90), a container (10), a soft X-ray shielding sheet (20), and an insulating layer (50). The soft X-ray generation device generates soft X-rays (92). The container (10) has an outlet (12) from which ionized air (100) that has been ionized with the soft X-rays flows out. The soft X-ray shielding sheet (20) is used at the outlet of the container and includes a first outer sheet (30), an interlayer sheet (34), and a second outer sheet (40) which are formed of a material opaque to the soft X-rays.

Abstract: Provided is a tool pot overcoming a problem that dirt adhered to the tool pot is transferred to a contact face of a tool. A tool pot includes an inner-periphery holding part that holds an inner periphery of a tapered shank and prevents axial movement of a tool, an end-face holding part that prevents rotation of the tool, which is implemented by a key fitted into a keyway provided at an end surface of the tapered shank, and an outer-periphery holding part that is opposed to an outer periphery of the V-flange and prevents radial movement of tool. The inner-periphery holding part, the end-face holding part, and the outer-periphery holding part hold the tool in a state where there are clearances with respect to an outer peripheral surface of the tapered shank and an end face of the V-flange, respectively.

Abstract: A molded-material manufacturing apparatus includes a deposition section configured to deposit a material containing fibers in air to form a web, a first heating section of a noncontact type configured to heat the web, and a second heating section of a contact type configured to heat and pressurize the web heated in the first heating section to form a molded material.

Abstract: Provided is an automated pallet changer in machine tool which enable miniaturization and cost reduction. A drive unit in the automatic pallet changer includes a planetary reduction gear. The planetary reduction gear has a first output shaft and a second output shaft in which, by fixing one of the first and second output shaft, the other functions as an output shaft for driving. The first output shaft is used to pivot the pivoting frame, and the second output shaft is used to move the carry-in/out arm back and forth.

Abstract: [Solution] A driver abnormality determination system includes circuitry configured to detect a driving operation of a driver, detect behavior of the driver's head and motion of eyeballs and/or movement of a sightline of the driver, recognize a driving scene in which the vehicle is driven; a memory that stores a sensor table of a relationship between the driving scene and detected values to be used to determine a driver abnormality; and determine the driver abnormality based on the sensor table, the driving scene, the driving operation and the behavior.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED To improve controllability of a motor including a stator with two-split structure. SOLUTION A motor 400 includes a stator 460 disposed to surround an outer circumference of a rotor 440 which rotates integrally with a drive shaft 420. The stator 460 includes an inner core 462 having multiple protrusions 462B radially outwardly extending from an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical portion 462A, and a cylindrical outer core 464 having its inner circumferential surface side attached to a top of the protrusion 462B. A connection portion (first connection portion 462F) as a part for connecting a side surface (first side surface 462D) of the protrusion 462B at an upstream side in a rotating direction of the rotor 440 and an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion 462A has a rounded shape.

Abstract: A MEMS package includes a MEMS chip, a package substrate which the MEMS chip is adhered and a thin-film filter which is adhered to the package substrate or the MEMS chip. The thin-film filter includes a thin-film part having a film surface and a rear film surface arranged a rear side of the film surface, and a plurality of through holes being formed to penetrate the thin-film part from the film surface to the rear film surface. The through holes are formed in an adhesive region of the thin-film part. The adhesive region is adhered to the package substrate or the MEMS chip.

Abstract: Provided is a tool pot overcoming a problem that dirt adhered to the tool pot is transferred to a contact face of a tool. A pull stud holder includes a pusher that moves in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the tool whereby a tapered face provided at a distal end of the pusher pushes a tapered face of a pull stud in an axial direction of the tool. A base member includes a pull stud receiver that receives an end face of the pull stud. The pusher and the pull stud receiver prevent rotation of the pull stud and movement thereof in the axial direction of the tool. A flange holder includes a key that fits into a keyway of a flange, thereby preventing rotation of the flange.

Abstract: A thin-film filter includes thin-film part having a film surface and a rear film surface arranged at the rear side of the film surface, a plurality of through holes, being formed to penetrate the thin-film part from the film surface to the rear film surface, the through holes are formed along by a slanting direction being made an acute angle or an obtuse angle with the film surface, and stripes-formed inner wall surfaces. The stripes-formed inner wall surfaces include stripe-like parts formed along by the slanting direction. The stripes-formed inner wall surfaces are formed inside the respective through holes.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes a figure data generation program to cause a computer to execute a first process of displaying a drawing screen to make/edit an intended figure, a second process of commanding a processor to draw the intended figure on a surface of a workpiece to project a visible light onto a predetermined position on the surface, the processor including a visible-light source, the predetermined position having been designated by a user, and a third process of presenting a position corresponding to the predetermined position in the drawing screen.

Abstract: Provided is a soft X-ray static electricity removal apparatus that has achieved an increase in the amount of ionized air discharged, with a simple structure. A soft X-ray static electricity removal apparatus (1) includes a soft X-ray generation device (90), a container (10), a soft X-ray shielding sheet (20), and an insulating layer (50). The soft X-ray generation device generates soft X-rays (92). The container (10) has an outlet (12) from which ionized air (100) that has been ionized with the soft X-rays flows out. The soft X-ray shielding sheet (20) is used at the outlet of the container and includes a first outer sheet (30), an interlayer sheet (34), and a second outer sheet (40) which are formed of a material opaque to the soft X-rays.

Abstract: A sensor having an acceptor to which a substance to be detected adheres, wherein log domain area ratio A is ?4.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for manufacturing a fuel cell that ensures developing a high adhesive strength to a separator. One aspect of an embodiment is a method for manufacturing a fuel cell where a pair of separators are mutually bonded with a sealing member. The sealing member includes a thermoplastic resin containing a crystalline polymer as an adhesive layer. The method for manufacturing the fuel cell includes: preparing a stack structure in which the sealing member is disposed between the pair of separators; heating the stack structure at a melting point or higher of the thermoplastic resin; after the heating, holding the stack structure in a temperature range of ±10° C. of a crystallization temperature of the thermoplastic resin to promote a crystallization of the thermoplastic resin; and after the holding, further cooling the stack structure.

Abstract: An on-demand predefined route automated driving vehicle comprising a vehicle-mounted controller configured to cause the vehicle to run toward a planned riding location such that the vehicle automatically runs along a predefined route which is determined in advance and in a runnable area. The vehicle-mounted controller communicates with an on-demand predefined route automated driving vehicle fleet controller. Based on route information and an in-advance vehicle dispatch command signal received from the vehicle fleet controller, the vehicle-mounted controller controls the vehicle so that the vehicle runs toward an anticipated riding location based on the in-advance vehicle dispatch command signal.