Abstract: A control device is provided with: a posture information storage unit that stores posture associated information associated with workability being an evaluation criterion at a time of a posture for each piece of posture information of an operator; a posture information detection unit that acquires posture information of the operator during work as current posture information; a posture information calculation unit that obtains, from the posture associated information, ideal posture information for making improvement on workability of the current posture information, obtained by referring to the posture associated information in the storage unit from the current posture information; and a posture information notification unit that notifies the ideal posture information obtained by the calculation unit as an improvement proposal.

Abstract: A control device is provided with: a posture information storage unit that stores posture associated information associated with workability being an evaluation criterion at a time of a posture for each piece of posture information of an operator; a posture information detection unit that acquires posture information of the operator during work as current posture information; a posture information calculation unit that obtains, from the posture associated information, ideal posture information for making improvement on workability of the current posture information, obtained by referring to the posture associated information in the storage unit from the current posture information; and a posture information notification unit that notifies the ideal posture information obtained by the calculation unit as an improvement proposal.

Abstract: A soft gripper that surrounds and grips an outer peripheral surface of an object, the soft gripper includes an elongated first actuator and an elongated second actuator, which are deformed in response to supply of a fluid. The first actuator and the second actuator extend from bases of the first and second actuators toward opposite sides each other. When receiving the supply of the fluid, each of the first and second actuators sequentially surrounds the object from the base toward a side of a leading end of the each of the first and second actuators.

Abstract: It is configured to include: a light irradiation unit that emits light; a three-dimensional coordinate measurement unit that measures light reflected from a marker attached to a work and a torch and calculates three-dimensional coordinate data of the work and the torch, the work or the marker reflecting the emitted light; and an arithmetic unit that converts a shape of the work into coordinates based on input three-dimensional graphic data and the three-dimensional coordinate data of the work and generates coordinate data of a shape of the work.

Abstract: Coated particulate filters and methods for their manufacture disclosed. The particulate filters comprise a honeycomb body having a plurality of porous channel walls defining channels extending from an inlet end to an outlet end. The honeycomb body has an upstream zone having an upstream zone gas permeability and a downstream zone disposed closer to the outlet end than the upstream zone and having a downstream zone gas permeability. SCR catalyst is present in a loading in the downstream zone at localized loading in a range of from about 50 g/L to about 200 g/L such that the upstream zone gas permeability is in a range of about 5 to about 90 times the downstream zone gas permeability.

Abstract: A force detector includes a support, fluid bags, a contact portion, a detector, and a computer. The contact portion is opposite to a side on which the fluid bags are in contact with the support and is adjacent to the fluid bags. The computer obtains information regarding the internal pressures of the fluid bags from the detector. Upon application of an external force to the contact portion from an object, the computer calculates a force acting in a tangential direction on a contact surface between the object and the contact portion based on a difference between the internal pressures of the fluid bags.

Abstract: A distance-measuring device includes first and second stereoscopic cameras each to be used to measure the distance to an object included in an imaging range. The first stereoscopic camera includes two imaging elements arranged side by side in a first direction, and the second stereoscopic camera includes two imaging elements arranged side by side in a second direction. The second direction is defined as a direction which intersects a plane containing the first direction and an imaging direction of the first stereoscopic camera.

Abstract: An internal temperature measuring apparatus includes: a sensor package in which a MEMS chip and a temperature sensor are disposed in a bottomed tubular package, the MEMS chip including one or a plurality of thermopiles each of which measures a heat flux passing through a region of a bottom of the bottomed tubular package, the temperature sensor measuring a reference temperature used as temperature of a predetermined portion of the MEMS chip; and a printed circuit board configured to calculate the internal temperature of the measurement object based on output of the sensor package. An outer bottom face of the sensor package projects from a plate face of the printed circuit board through a through-hole made in the printed circuit board.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor package that measures an internal temperature of a measurement object. A sensor package includes: a package including a bottomed tubular casing and plural leads substantially parallel to each other, each of the leads piercing the bottomed tubular casing; and a MEMS chip including at least one thermopile that measures a temperature difference in an identical direction. The MEMS chip is disposed in an inner bottom surface of the bottomed tubular casing of the package in a posture in which a measurement direction of the temperature difference measured with the thermopile is substantially orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of each lead.

Abstract: A force detector includes a support, fluid bags, a contact portion, a detector, and a computer. The contact portion is opposite to a side on which the fluid bags are in contact with the support and is adjacent to the fluid bags. The computer obtains information regarding the internal pressures of the fluid bags from the detector. Upon application of an external force to the contact portion from an object, the computer calculates a force acting in a tangential direction on a contact surface between the object and the contact portion based on a difference between the internal pressures of the fluid bags.

Abstract: Provided is a production method which can produce, with a high yield, a fat or oil composition containing a diacylglycerol at a high content and having a favorable external appearance at room temperature. Specifically, provided is a production method for a refined fat or oil composition, comprising the following steps (1) and (2): (1) a step of adding a polyglycerin fatty acid ester having an average polymerization degree of glycerin being 20 or more to a fat or oil composition containing 50 mass % or more of diacylglycerol, followed by cooling; and (2) a step of separating a crystal precipitated in the step (1) from a liquid portion.

Abstract: Provided is an internal temperature measurement device capable of measuring an internal temperature of a measuring object for which the thermal resistance value of a non-heating body present on the surface side of the object is unknown, more accurately with better responsiveness than hitherto. The internal temperature measurement device 10 includes a MEMS chip 12 including: two cells 20a, 20b for measuring two heat fluxes for calculating an internal temperature of a measuring object for which the thermal resistance value of a non-heating body is unknown; and a cell 20c for increasing a difference between the heat fluxes.

Abstract: A method includes measuring a first temperature difference between first heat entry and discharge parts on a first heat transfer path extending from a portion of a surface of the object to the first heat discharge part using a first thermopile, and measuring a second temperature difference between a second heat entry and discharge parts on a second heat transfer path extending from another portion of the surface of the object to the second heat discharge part using a second thermopile, and measuring a reference temperature at a predetermined position on the first or second heat transfer path using a temperature sensor, and calculating the internal temperature of the object using the measured first and second temperature differences, and the reference temperature, and at least one predetermined value excluding a physical property value of a non-heating part of the object located at a surface side of the object.

Abstract: A distance-measuring device includes first and second stereoscopic cameras each to be used to measure the distance to an object included in an imaging range. The first stereoscopic camera includes two imaging elements arranged side by side in a first direction, and the second stereoscopic camera includes two imaging elements arranged side by side in a second direction. The second direction is defined as a direction which intersects a plane containing the first direction and an imaging direction of the first stereoscopic camera.

Abstract: A soft gripper that surrounds and grips an outer peripheral surface of an object, the soft gripper includes an elongated first actuator and an elongated second actuator, which are deformed in response to supply of a fluid. The first actuator and the second actuator extend from bases of the first and second actuators toward opposite sides each other. When receiving the supply of the fluid, each of the first and second actuators sequentially surrounds the object from the base toward a side of a leading end of the each of the first and second actuators.

Abstract: An internal temperature sensor includes substrates with one surface to be placed in contact with a measurement surface of an object to measure an internal temperature of the object, a heat flux sensor on another surface of the substrates, and a temperature sensor. The heat flux sensor is fabricated through a MEMS process and includes first and second temperature measurement parts, and a thin film including a thermopile to detect a temperature difference between the first and second temperature measurement parts. The thin film is supported by a thermally conductive member to form a space between the first temperature measurement part and the substrates and to extend parallel to the substrates. The thermally conductive member conducts heat traveling from the object through the substrates to the second temperature measurement part. The temperature sensor measures the temperature of a part of the substrates that is in contact with the thermally conductive member.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor package that measures an internal temperature of a measurement object. A sensor package includes: a package including a bottomed tubular casing and plural leads substantially parallel to each other, each of the leads piercing the bottomed tubular casing; and a MEMS chip including at least one thermopile that measures a temperature difference in an identical direction. The MEMS chip is disposed in an inner bottom surface of the bottomed tubular casing of the package in a posture in which a measurement direction of the temperature difference measured with the thermopile is substantially orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of each lead.

Abstract: An internal temperature measuring apparatus includes: a sensor package in which a MEMS chip and a temperature sensor are disposed in a bottomed tubular package, the MEMS chip including one or a plurality of thermopiles each of which measures a heat flux passing through a region of a bottom of the bottomed tubular package, the temperature sensor measuring a reference temperature used as temperature of a predetermined portion of the MEMS chip; and a printed circuit board configured to calculate the internal temperature of the measurement object based on output of the sensor package. An outer bottom face of the sensor package projects from a plate face of the printed circuit board through a through-hole made in the printed circuit board.

Abstract: Provided is an internal temperature measurement device capable of measuring an internal temperature of a measuring object for which the thermal resistance value of a non-heating body present on the surface side of the object is unknown, more accurately with better responsiveness than hitherto. The internal temperature measurement device 10 includes a MEMS chip 12 including: two cells 20a, 20b for measuring two heat fluxes for calculating an internal temperature of a measuring object for which the thermal resistance value of a non-heating body is unknown; and a cell 20c for increasing a difference between the heat fluxes.

Abstract: A method includes measuring a first temperature difference between first heat entry and discharge parts on a first heat transfer path extending from a portion of a surface of the object to the first heat discharge part using a first thermopile, and measuring a second temperature difference between a second heat entry and discharge parts on a second heat transfer path extending from another portion of the surface of the object to the second heat discharge part using a second thermopile, and measuring a reference temperature at a predetermined position on the first or second heat transfer path using a temperature sensor, and calculating the internal temperature of the object using the measured first and second temperature differences, and the reference temperature, and at least one predetermined value excluding a physical property value of a non-heating part of the object located at a surface side of the object.