Abstract: A fine section setting unit of a laser radar device sets, for a beat signal waveform indicating time change of a beat signal amplitude of an up beat signal, a plurality of fine sections within time ranges of the beat signal waveform. A fine section extraction unit extracts at least one fine section satisfying a preset extraction condition indicating that the beat signal amplitude in the fine section is high, from among the set plurality of fine sections. A peak detection unit subjects the beat signal in the extracted fine section to frequency analysis to calculate a fine section frequency spectrum and detect a peak frequency, which is a peak in the fine section frequency spectrum.

Abstract: An energy management system is configured to calculate a percentage of satisfied based on the report data for each of the plurality of buildings; create, for each of the plurality of buildings, a plan for operating each of the air-conditioning facilities based on the percentage of satisfied and a predetermined target percentage of satisfied; calculate a first energy consumption amount based on the first piece of data; calculate a second energy consumption amount based on the second piece of data, the third piece of data, and the fourth piece of data, the second energy consumption amount being obtained when the each of the air-conditioning facilities is operated after a lapse of a predetermined time period; and control, when the first energy consumption amount is larger than the second energy consumption amount, the operation of the each of the air-conditioning facilities so as to achieve the second energy consumption amount.

Abstract: A combined radar and lighting unit includes a laser radar apparatus, a lighting device, and a controller. The laser radar apparatus is mounted to a vehicle, emits laser light toward an outside of the vehicle, and detects reflected light. The lighting device is mounted to the vehicle and emits visible light toward the outside of the vehicle. The controller controls the lighting device to cause the lighting device to alternately operate in a first emission mode to perform emission of the visible light, and in a second emission mode to stop emission of the visible light or reduce a quantity of the visible light. The controller controls the laser radar apparatus to interrupt the measurement of the distance while the lighting device is operating in the first emission mode, and executes the measurement of the distance while the lighting device is operating in the second emission mode.

Abstract: Cooperation in supply and demand balance of renewable energy in a region is implemented by operation of infrastructures of an infrastructure service such as water supply. In an energy management system including: a processor; and a storage device, the processor predicts an electric power supply amount utilizing renewable energy in a predetermined region, predicts an electric power demand amount in the region, predicts a demand amount of an infrastructure service different from an electric power service in the region, predicts an electric power demand amount corresponding to the infrastructure service on the basis of the predicted demand amount of the infrastructure service in the region, and determines use time of electric power corresponding to the infrastructure service such that the electric power demand amount in the region approaches the electric power supply amount.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting an appearance of capsule 40 in which cap 42 is fitted to body 41 includes a carrying body that carries capsule 40 housed in housing part 33, contact body 34 that rotates capsule 40 carried inside housing part 33 due to a contact friction, imaging device 17 that takes an image of the capsule rotating, and a determination device that determines if the capsule is good or poor based on an imaging data taken by imaging device 17. Wherein contact body 34 moves an inside of housing part 33 to a side of body 41 by rotating the capsule, which is housed in housing part 33 being separated from other capsules, around an axis direction, and the determination device determines an orientation of capsule 40 based on a position of capsule 40 in housing part 33.

Abstract: In a ranging device, a background light calculation unit calculates, for each of a plurality of bearing regions, a background light level parameter related to a level of background light arriving from the bearing region. A coefficient calculation unit calculates multiplier coefficients for the bearing regions such that the multiplier coefficient for each peripheral bearing region around a subject bearing region is negatively correlated with a difference in the background light level parameter between the subject bearing region and the peripheral bearing region. A coefficient-multiplied waveform generation unit generates, for each of the subject bearing region and the peripheral bearing regions, coefficient-multiplied waveform data acquired by multiplying ranging waveform data by the corresponding multiplier coefficient.

Abstract: An energy management system is configured to calculate a percentage of satisfied based on the report data for each of the plurality of buildings; create, for each of the plurality of buildings, a plan for operating each of the air-conditioning facilities based on the percentage of satisfied and a predetermined target percentage of satisfied; calculate a first energy consumption amount based on the first piece of data; calculate a second energy consumption amount based on the second piece of data, the third piece of data, and the fourth piece of data, the second energy consumption amount being obtained when the each of the air-conditioning facilities is operated after a lapse of a predetermined time period; and control, when the first energy consumption amount is larger than the second energy consumption amount, the operation of the each of the air-conditioning facilities so as to achieve the second energy consumption amount.

Abstract: A combined radar and lighting unit includes a laser radar apparatus, a lighting device, and a controller. The laser radar apparatus is mounted to a vehicle, emits laser light toward an outside of the vehicle, and detects reflected light. The lighting device is mounted to the vehicle and emits visible light toward the outside of the vehicle. The controller controls the lighting device to cause the lighting device to alternately operate in a first emission mode to perform emission of the visible light, and in a second emission mode to stop emission of the visible light or reduce a quantity of the visible light. The controller controls the laser radar apparatus to interrupt the measurement of the distance while the lighting device is operating in the first emission mode, and executes the measurement of the distance while the lighting device is operating in the second emission mode.

Abstract: Cooperation in supply and demand balance of renewable energy in a region is implemented by operation of infrastructures of an infrastructure service such as water supply. In an energy management system including: a processor; and a storage device, the processor predicts an electric power supply amount utilizing renewable energy in a predetermined region, predicts an electric power demand amount in the region, predicts a demand amount of an infrastructure service different from an electric power service in the region, predicts an electric power demand amount corresponding to the infrastructure service on the basis of the predicted demand amount of the infrastructure service in the region, and determines use time of electric power corresponding to the infrastructure service such that the electric power demand amount in the region approaches the electric power supply amount.

Abstract: Provided is an energy management system that appropriately grasps electric power demand prediction of the electric power in a business department, and implements electric power cooperation maintaining a business state. The energy management system includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores, in association with each other, past position information indicating a past position of a person in a target space and electric power demand information indicating an electric power demand in the target space when the past position information is acquired, and the processor searches for the past position information similar to new position information indicating a newly acquired position of the person in the target space, and outputs control information for controlling the electric power demand in the target space based on the electric power demand information stored in the storage device corresponding to the past position information obtained by the search.

Abstract: To provide an energy management system that effectively uses a solar power generation system and a solar heat collection system to thereby make it possible to maximize a cost merit of a user. An energy management system related to the present invention includes: a solar power generation system that includes a solar panel to generate electric power on the basis of a solar light; a solar heat collection system that collects solar heat based on the solar light; and a control part that determines whether or not heat can be stored by the solar heat collection system from output characteristics of the solar power generation system and that drives the solar heat collection system in a case where the heat can be stored.

Abstract: An energy management system has a prediction unit that determines an effective management pattern and predicts a DR demand amount and a reception unit that prepares a control plan and determines a DR response amount from a power consumption amount, and the reception unit prepares individual control plans for (1) minimizing the sum of power consumption amounts of a cooling tower and refrigerators without changing an amount of heat, (2) improving efficiency of the refrigerators by increasing a cold water temperature at an outlet of one refrigerator, (3) stopping an operation of one refrigerator, (4) reducing motive power of the pump and (5) operating an alternative facility and stopping the operation of one refrigerator, combines together the prepared individual control plans and prepares a control plan that satisfies the predicted DR demand amount.

Abstract: To provide an energy management system that effectively uses a solar power generation system and a solar heat collection system to thereby make it possible to maximize a cost merit of a user. An energy management system related to the present invention includes: a solar power generation system that includes a solar panel to generate electric power on the basis of a solar light; a solar heat collection system that collects solar heat based on the solar light; and a control part that determines whether or not heat can be stored by the solar heat collection system from output characteristics of the solar power generation system and that drives the solar heat collection system in a case where the heat can be stored.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an estimating system of heat load in a perimeter zone which can detect heat load in a perimeter zone with high accuracy without providing an exclusive detecting device for detecting heat load, such as a radiation thermometer. The estimating system of heat load in a perimeter zone in the invention includes a light-transmitting solar cell which is provided on a window face; and heat load estimating means for estimating heat load in a perimeter zone based on output characteristics of the solar cell, in which the heat load estimating means obtains an intensity of solar radiation from a window face and a temperature of the solar cell, from a short circuit current value and an open voltage value due to power generation of the solar cell, and calculates a mean radiant temperature in the perimeter zone using the intensity of solar radiation and the temperature of the solar cell.

Abstract: A beltline molding for a vehicle door includes a molding main body that extends from a window raising and lowering area to a surface of a door frame, and a step cross-section section including a seal lip that comes in sliding contact with a window, a vertical flange that extends downward from the upper part of the molding main body, and a clinch flange that extends downward from the vertical flange through a step that extends inward, the beltline molding being fitted to an upper edge of an outer panel of the vehicle door in the window raising and lowering area in a state in which the upper edge is held between the molding main body and the clinch flange, and the seal lip and the clinch flange having been removed in an area situated on the surface of the door frame while allowing the vertical flange to remain.

Abstract: A beltline molding for a vehicle door includes a molding main body that extends from a window raising/lowering area to a surface of a door frame, and a step cross-section section including a seal lip that comes in sliding contact with a window, a vertical flange that extends downward from the upper part of the molding main body, and a clinch flange that extends downward from the vertical flange through a step that extends inward, the beltline molding being fitted to an upper edge of an outer panel of the vehicle door in the window raising/lowering area in a state in which the upper edge is held between the molding main body and the clinch flange, and the seal lip and the clinch flange having been removed in an area situated on the surface of the door frame while allowing the vertical flange to remain.

Abstract: An organic thin film solar cell comprises: positive and negative electrode layers; and an organic thin film layer disposed between the positive and negative electrode layers, the organic thin film layer including: a mixture of at least a first organic compound having a light-absorbing dye moiety and an electron-accepting second organic compound, in which the organic thin film layer further includes inorganic nanoparticles.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to prevent breakage such as cracking in a light-weight solar cell module. It is achieved by using a resin substrate solar cell module including a plurality of solar cells, a plurality of support posts disposed between the adjacent solar cells, and two transparent resin substrates, in which the plural solar cells and support posts are disposed between the two transparent resin substrates, a void section between the two transparent resin substrates is filled with a transparent filled resin, and peripheries of the two transparent resin substrates are welded with a resin having a repeating unit identical to the transparent resin substrates.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an enlarged dye sensitized solar cell which has a short-circuit preventing structure while a distance between a transparent conductive oxide and a counter electrode, that is, a cell gap is shortened. The dye sensitized solar cell includes a transparent conductive oxide which includes a transparent substrate and a conductive metal oxide having a light transmission property; a metal grid which is formed on the transparent conductive oxide; a protective film with which the metal grid is coated; a dye-adsorbed semiconductor thin film which is formed on the transparent conductive oxide in which the metal grid is not formed; and a counter electrode substrate, wherein a short-circuit preventing layer is provided in the counter electrode substrate facing the metal grid, and a width formed by a short side of the short-circuit preventing layer is larger than a width formed by the metal grid and protective layer.

Abstract: After source lines have been grouped into a plurality of blocks including adjacent ones of the source lines, in a region outside a display region, at least one inspection bus line for inputting an inspection signal to pixels is formed in association with each of the blocks, and the source lines in each of the blocks are connected to the associated inspection bus line, thereby forming an inspection circuit including the inspection bus lines. Then, an inspection signal is supplied to the pixels from the inspection bus line through the source lines in each of the blocks in the inspection circuit, and a target pixel is compared with a plurality of comparative pixels arranged along one of the source lines along which the target pixel is located, with a gray-level display provided on the display region, thereby detecting a presence of a black point defect in the target pixel.