Abstract: A bonding apparatus for bonding a second member to a first member, includes a first holder configured to hold the first member, a second holder configured to hold the second member, a positioning mechanism configured to adjust a relative position between the first holder and the second holder, a first camera configured to capture the first member, a second camera held by the first holder and configured to capture the second member, and a controller configured to control, based on an output of the first camera, an output of the second camera, and an operation history of the bonding apparatus, the positioning mechanism so as to position the second member to a bonding target location of the first member.

Abstract: A rotary viscometer device including a rotor and a sample cup includes: a viscometer including the rotor and a closure portion having a larger diameter than the rotor; and a temperature control portion separate from the viscometer, wherein the sample cup is provided at the temperature control portion, and the sample cup is positioned with respect to the closure portion by inserting a vertically movable guide pin of the viscometer into a positioning portion of the temperature control portion that is capable of in-plane movement while lowering the guide pin.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object includes: a modeling step of modeling an intermediate object by applying a binding fluid to a metal powder containing titanium; and a sintering step of sintering the intermediate object to produce a three-dimensional object. The modeling step is performed in a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere. When the modeling step is performed in a modeling area and the method includes a curing step of curing the binding fluid included in the intermediate object in a curing area different from the modeling area after the modeling step and before the sintering step, the curing step is performed in a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere. A moving path for moving the intermediate object having gone through the modeling step from the modeling area to the curing area is in a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object includes: a modeling step of modeling an intermediate object by applying a binding fluid to a metal powder containing titanium; and a sintering step of sintering the intermediate object to produce a three-dimensional object. The modeling step is performed in a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere. When the modeling step is performed in a modeling area and the method includes a curing step of curing the binding fluid included in the intermediate object in a curing area different from the modeling area after the modeling step and before the sintering step, the curing step is performed in a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere. A moving path for moving the intermediate object having gone through the modeling step from the modeling area to the curing area is in a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere.

Abstract: A bonding apparatus that executes a bonding process of bonding a second member to a plurality of regions of a first member, comprising a scope, a bonding mechanism configured to bond each of a plurality of second members to one of the plurality of regions, and a controller configured to execute a decision process of deciding positions of the plurality of regions by measuring, using the scope, a position of a selected region among the plurality of regions and control the bonding process based on the positions of the plurality of regions. The controller decides to re-execute the decision process in accordance with a situation of the bonding process.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a tubular-shaped housing, a cylindrical document setting section that is arranged in the housing and on which a document wound in a cylindrical shape is set, an document leading edge inlet into which a leading edge of the document in a rotation direction enters when the document set in the document setting section receives rotational forces RL and RR and rotates, a transport path that is arranged in the housing and along which the document that has entered the document leading edge inlet is transported in a transport direction F by receiving a transport force Cf, a reading section configured to read the image of the document transported along the transport path, and a discharge section to which the document read by the reading section is discharged.

Abstract: A welding control device configured to control a position control object which includes at least one of a welding wire used to weld a welding object or an electrode for melting the welding wire includes a first decision unit for deciding an actual position of the position control object based on a welding feature amount detected from an image which is shot to include at least the position control object, a second decision unit for deciding a target position which is a target of the actual position according to an input condition based on the input condition which includes at least one of attitude information of the electrode when the welding object is welded or shape information of the welding object, and a control unit for performing position control of the position control object so that the actual position becomes the target position.

Abstract: A driver support system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires biometric data of a driver of a moving object; an evaluation unit that evaluates a health condition of the driver; and an interactive response unit that executes an interaction operation for interactive response with the driver using an HMI device mounted on the moving object, the evaluation unit being configured to; when estimating based on the biometric data for the driver that the health condition of the driver is poor, instruct the interactive response unit to execute the interaction operation, thereby acquiring a response input, which is a response of the driver to a response facilitating output that facilitates the driver to respond in the interaction operation; and determine the health condition of the driver based on a degree of suitability of the response input to the response facilitating output.

Abstract: An apparatus for bonding a die and a bonded object is provided that includes a holding unit configured to hold the die, and a determination unit configured to determine replacement of the holding unit based on history information about bonding the die to the bonded object using the holding unit. The history information is an accumulated value of a use record when a plurality of dies is bonded to at least one of a plurality of bonded objects.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a method for producing a substrate having through-silicon vias, the method including a preparation step of preparing a silicon substrate provided with through-holes, in which the through-holes communicate with both principal surfaces; a copper sintered body formation step of forming a copper sintered body having a porous structure such that the copper sintered body fills at least the through-holes; a resin impregnation step of impregnating the copper sintered body with a curable resin composition; and a resin curing step of curing the curable resin composition impregnated into the copper sintered body to form an electric conductor that includes the copper sintered body having pores filled with a resin cured product, and providing through-silicon vias in the through-holes.

Abstract: A cooling system for cooling a fuel cell on a vehicle includes a radiator, a branch portion connected to an outlet side of the radiator, a confluence portion connected to an inlet side of the radiator, a first passage and a second passage connected in parallel between the confluence portion and the branch portion, a fuel cell and a first pump provided in the first passage, a resistor and a second pump provided in the second passage, and a backflow preventer provided in the second passage. The first passage has no backflow preventer.

Abstract: A bonding apparatus that bonds a first object and a second object is provided. The apparatus includes a first holder configured to suck and hold the first object, a second holder configured to hold the second object, a driving mechanism configured to perform an approximating operation of moving the first holder and the second holder close to each other to bring the first object and the second object into contact with each other, and a separating operation of moving the first holder and the second holder away from each other after the approximating operation, and a controller configured to control an operation of the driving mechanism and a holding force of the first object by the first holder. The controller controls the driving mechanism to perform the separating operation while applying the holding force to the first object by the first holder.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a method for producing a substrate having through-silicon vias, the method including a preparation step of preparing a silicon substrate provided with through-holes, in which the through-holes communicate with both principal surfaces; a copper sintered body formation step of forming a copper sintered body having a porous structure such that the copper sintered body fills at least the through-holes; a resin impregnation step of impregnating the copper sintered body with a curable resin composition; and a resin curing step of curing the curable resin composition impregnated into the copper sintered body to form an electric conductor that includes the copper sintered body having pores filled with a resin cured product, and providing through-silicon vias in the through-holes.

Abstract: A replacing and holding device includes an electrode tip puller including two stacked pick plates inserted between an end face of an electrode tip fitted into a shank fixed to a gun arm of a welding gun and an end face of a larger diameter portion of the shank, a guide rod that guides motions of the pick plates in a stacked direction thereof, a pick plate interspace increasing mechanism that increases a space between the pick plates according to positions of the pick plates along the guide rod, an electrode tip holder in one of the pick plates to hold the electrode tip pulled out from the shank, and an electrode tip contact portion in front of the shank in an insert direction of the shank, wherein the electrode tip comes into contact by a motion of the welding gun to insert the shank into the electrode tip.

Abstract: An additive manufactured object production method includes: a core portion forming step of additively forming a core portion as an inner portion of an additive manufactured object by stacking first weld beads each size of which is corresponding to a first resolution; and a shell portion forming step of additively forming a shell portion as an outer portion of the additive manufactured object on a surface of the core portion by stacking second weld beads each size of which is corresponding to a second resolution higher than the first resolution after the core portion forming step.

Abstract: An information collection and display system is provided, in which a data generation device that generates site data and a transaction data accumulation unit that stores the site data are connected. The system includes an association data accumulation unit storing association data which defines an association of each of multiple pieces of information included in the site data; an association data search unit which searches for second information associated with first information included in the pieces of information, on the basis of the association data; and a user interface that displays a connection relation of the pieces of information associated by the association data. The association data search unit searches for the second information associated with the first information displayed on the user interface and displays the first information and the second information on the user interface with the connection relation of the pieces of information.

Abstract: An addictive manufactured object manufacturing method includes: a shell portion forming step of additively forming a shell portion corresponding to an outer portion of an addictive manufactured object by a shell portion beads formed by weaving welding; and a core portion forming step of additively forming a core portion corresponding to an inner portion of the addictive manufactured object by a core portion bead formed by welding.

Abstract: A seat reservation device (100) includes: a pattern extraction unit (103) to extract, from a consecutive-seating pattern candidate group (240A), a consecutive-seating pattern group, based on train reservation information (210) and train vehicle information (220); a reservation totaling unit (104) to total counts of suites per suite type having a same boarding section and a same same-time reservation people count, from the reservation information (210), and to generate total information (250); a problem generation unit (105) to generate an optimization problem (260) on seating layout of reservation passengers, which involves a decision variable not dependent on a reservation people count, a constraint condition, and an objective function, based on the vehicle information (220), an evaluation index, the consecutive-seating pattern group (240B), and the total information (250); a solution unit (106) to solve the optimization problem (260) and to decide the seating layout (270) of the reservation passengers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bonding method of bonding each of a plurality of first objects to a first substrate, comprising: determining, as an offset amount, an amount to offset a bonding position on the first substrate from a design position for each of the plurality of first objects; and bonding each of the plurality of first objects to the first substrate based on the offset amount determined in the determining, wherein after the bonding, a process of bonding a plurality of second objects which are bonded to a second substrate, to the plurality of first objects bonded to the first substrate is performed, and wherein in the determining, the offset amount is determined to satisfy a predetermined condition based on arrangement information representing an arrangement of the plurality of second objects on the second substrate.

Abstract: A welding control device includes an actual position determination part configured to determine an actual position of the position control target on the basis of a weld characteristic amount detected from a captured image captured so as to include at least the position control target, the welding characteristic amount including at least one of a wire position of the weld wire or an electrode position of the electrode; a target position determination part configured to determine a target position being a target of the actual position corresponding to a weld condition for welding the weld target; and a position control part configured to execute a position control of the position control target to bring the actual position to the target position.