Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method to increase movement patterns of an autonomous mobile body more easily, the information processing apparatus including an operation control unit configured to control an operation of a driving unit. The operation control unit generates, on the basis of a teaching movement, control sequence data for causing a driving unit of an autonomous mobile body to execute an autonomous movement corresponding to the teaching movement, and causes the driving unit to execute the autonomous movement according to the control sequence data, on the basis of an action plan determined by situation estimation. The information processing method includes controlling, by a processor, an operation of a driving unit, and the controlling further includes generating control sequence data, and causing the driving unit to execute an autonomous movement according to the control sequence data.

Abstract: A cadmium negative electrode for a nickel cadmium storage battery, the electrode comprising an electrode plate and a resin layer coating at least one surface of the electrode plate, the electrode plate comprising a cadmium compound as an active material, the resin layer comprising polyvinyl pyrrolidone and a product of an addition reaction of a styrylpyridinium salt to polyvinyl alcohol.

Abstract: A cadmium negative electrode for a nickel cadmium storage battery, the electrode comprising an electrode plate and a resin layer coating at least one surface of the electrode plate, the electrode plate comprising a cadmium compound as an active material, the resin layer comprising polyvinyl pyrrolidone and a product of an addition reaction of a styrylpyridinium salt to polyvinyl alcohol.

Abstract: The present invention provides a combined formulation for disinfecting, neutralizing and cleaning a soft contact lens and a method using the same easily, efficiently and safely. The formulation is a one-solution type of combined formulation for disinfecting, neutralizing and cleaning a soft contact lens, which includes a first formulation that contains an iodine-based disinfectant and a proteolytic enzyme and a second formulation that contains a reducing and a foaming agent treated with a delayed release coating, and which contains a nonionic surfactant in at least one of the first and second formulations. A stained soft contact lens can be disinfected, neutralized and cleaned easily by holding it in an aqueous solution colored yellow or brown by iodine molecules and removing it from the aqueous solution after the solution becomes almost colorless.

Abstract: A heating apparatus such as a microwave oven includes a magnetron supplying microwaves into a heating chamber so that food accommodated in it is heated and a microcomputer-based control circuit. The control circuit discriminates the food among three conditions, that is, a first condition in which the food is not wrapped in a wrap film, a second condition in which the food is wrapped in a wrap film, and a third condition belonging neither to the first nor to the second condition. Based on the results of discrimination, the control circuit calculates a remaining heating time.

Abstract: A microwave oven includes a control section storing a long period pattern in which each period of on and off times is relatively long and a short period pattern in which each period is shorter than that in the long period pattern. A magnetron is controlled to be turned on and off in accordance with either period pattern. The short period pattern is selected when frozen food is thawed. Since the on time in each period of the short period pattern is short, the frozen food is exposed to microwave for a shortened period of time. As a result, unevenness in the thawing is prevented.

Abstract: A microwave oven includes a control circuit provided for properly heating food on the basis of detection by an alcohol sensor. Upon depression of a beverage key of an operation panel, the control circuit detects change rates of signals generated by the alcohol sensor before the heating operation and during the heating operation. When the change rates exceed respective reference values, beverage to be heated is determined to be Japanese sake. When the determination before the heating operation does not coincide with that during the heating operation, the control circuit determines which the beverage is, the sake or the milk or the other type of beverage, on the basis of the determination both before and during the heating operation, setting a driving period of time of a magnetron accordingly.