Abstract: The robot system includes a first robot, a first robot controller, a loading information storage device, a second robot, and a second robot controller. The first robot holds and loads one or more target objects to form a loaded body. The first robot controller controls a movement of the first robot. The loading information storage device stores loading information of each target object loaded by the first robot. The second robot holds and unloads the one or more target objects from the loaded body. The second robot controller controls a movement of the second robot. The second robot controller comprises a first movement mode determining part. The first movement mode determining part determines a movement mode of the second robot based on the loading information of each target object. The second robot controller controls the movement of the second robot based on the movement mode.

Abstract: The robot system includes work facilities and a central computer device. The work facilities comprise a robot, a robot controller. The robot controller includes a storage part which stores teaching information. The central computer device comprises a teaching information database, an information accepting part, a correlation determining part. The teaching information database stores a plurality of the teaching information in association with detection information of the sensor or processed information. The information accepting part accepts the detection information of a sensor of each work facility. The correlation determining part determines whether or not the plurality of teaching information stored includes teaching information comprising a predetermined correlation with respect to the detection information or the processed information corresponding thereto. The robot system further comprises a first transferring part.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a robot system including one or more work facilities, and a central information processor. The work facilities comprise a robot, a robot controller, and a sensor. The robot performs predetermined work. The central information processor includes an information accepting part, an algorithm storage part, an information analysing part, and an analytical information output part. The information accepting part accepts detection information of the sensor of each work facility. The algorithm storage part stores a processing algorithm for the detection information. The information analysing part analyses the detection information accepted based on the processing algorithm stored in the algorithm storage part. Then analytical information output part outputs analytical information of the detection information to the robot controller of a corresponding the work facility. The robot controller controls a movement of the robot based on the analytical information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel glycopeptide antibiotic derivative.

Abstract: There is provided a ratchet-type tensioner whose spring stopping washer for seating a ratchet biasing spring is rigidly and readily assembled to a ratchet-receiving hole so as not to fall out of the ratchet-receiving hole and which reduces flapping noise and prevents seizure of the plunger by securely and stably operating a ratchet mechanism in operating an engine. The ratchet-type tensioner 100 is arranged so that the spring stopping washer has a C-ring anchored in the rear-end area of the ratchet-receiving hole by fitting in a diameter-reduced state and by enlarging its diameter within an anchoring circumferential groove of the ratchet-receiving hole and a spring stopping piece extended from the C-ring to a ring center area to seat the ratchet biasing spring.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve a pump-dispensing container structured to prevent leakage of liquid caused by slight vertical movements of the nozzle head, to make it easier to push out the liquid when the nozzle head is pressed down first from its highest position. If a primary check valve is configured to open the connection between the inside of the liquid chamber and the inside of the container body in a state in which the liquid chamber is filled with a liquid and the nozzle head is raised to its highest position, when the nozzle head is pressed down from its highest position to push out the liquid, resistance met during the pressing down of the nozzle head is significantly reduced because of the open connection between the inside of the liquid chamber and the inside of the container body, and the liquid can be pushed out easily by applying a small force.

Abstract: An animal breeding system according to an embodiment includes a rack, a carrier robot, a thermo camera, and an instruction unit. The rack contains therein a cage for breeding an animal. The carrier robot includes a hand having a retention mechanism for the cage. The thermo camera is provided near the hand. The instruction unit instructs the carrier robot to perform an operation of taking the cage in and out from the rack while retaining the cage with the hand to carry the cage between the rack and a certain carrying position and an operation of bringing the thermo camera close to the cage in the rack to cause the thermo camera to capture the inside of the cage.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of hot rolled steel sheet (hot coil) for line pipe use in which API5L-X80 standard or better high strength and low temperature toughness and ductile fracture arrest performance are achieved and a method of production of the same. For this purpose, the hot rolled steel sheet of the present invention comprises C, Si, Mn, Al, N, Nb, Ti, Ca, V, Mo, Cr, Cu, and Ni in predetermined ranges and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which the microstructure is a continuously cooled transformed structure, in which continuously cooled transformed structure, precipitates containing Nb have an average size of 1 to 3 nm and are included dispersed at an average density of 3 to 30×1022/m3, granular bainitic ferrite and/or quasi-polygonal ferrite are included in 50% or more in terms of fraction, furthermore, precipitates containing Ti nitrides are included, and they have an average circle equivalent diameter of 0.

Abstract: In a ratchet-type tensioner having a plunger with rack teeth formed thereon and a piston with ratchet teeth that engage the rack teeth, the ratchet teeth can be disengaged from the rack teeth by insertion of a tool through a tool insertion hole in the tensioner housing and exerting a prying action on the toothed end of the piston to move the piston away from the plunger. Alternatively if an oblique camming surface is formed on the toothed end of the piston, the ratchet teeth can be disengaged from the rack teeth by pushing the tool inward against the oblique camming surface. The piston and the hole in which it slides are shaped to prevent rotation of the piston. The ratchet teeth on the piston and the rack teeth on the plunger can be oblique to allow setback of the plunger when excessive force is exerted on the plunger.

Abstract: An induction heating apparatus heats content efficiently while measuring a temperature of the heated content accurately. The induction heating apparatus includes a can holder, a heating coil disposed around the can holder, and a temperature measuring unit. A resealable metal beverage can having a thread formed on a neck portion and a cap screwed onto the neck portion is held by the can holder. The can holder holds the metal beverage can in a manner such that the cap of the can inserted thereto is exposed on an axially upper side. The temperature measuring unit measures a surface temperature of the cap of the metal beverage can held in the can holder.

Abstract: Novel glycopeptide antibiotic derivatives. These derivatives are represented by the formula (aglycon part of glycopeptide antibiotic derivative)-(Sac-NH)—RA [wherein (aglycon part of glycopeptide antibiotic derivative) is the part formed by removing the sugar part from a known glycopeptide antibiotic derivative; (Sac-NH) part is an amino sugar part or a sugar chain part containing an amino sugar; and RA represents, e.g., the formula —X1—Ar1—X2—Y—X3—Ar2 (wherein X1, X2, and X3 each represents 1) a single bond or 2) a heteroatom or heteroatom-containing group selected from the group consisting of —N?, ?N—, —NR1—, —O—, etc.; Y represents —NR2CO— or —CONR2— (wherein R2 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl), etc.)]. These derivatives have antibacterial activity against vancomycin-resistant bacteria.

Abstract: An automatic preparation system according to an embodiment includes a case, a pressure regulator, and a plurality of robots. The case has a workspace inside thereof. The pressure regulator keeps a negative pressure inside the case relative to the outside. The robots are installed on a ceiling surface of the case and have respective arms. The robots bring the arms into cooperation to perform a preparation operation.

Abstract: In a ring-type tensioner, an expansible elastic ring disposed in a groove formed in the wall of a plunger-accommodating hole cooperates with teeth formed on the plunger to restrict axial movement of the plunger. The ring and the groove in the wall of the plunger-accommodating hole have flat radial surfaces for mutual engagement. However the ring also has oblique plunger-tooth engaging surfaces. The ring has manipulable end parts that can be locked in fixed relation to each other by a tool to secure the plunger against axial movement. The tool can also be inserted into a gap between the manipulable end parts to expand the ring and thereby release the plunger.

Abstract: To provide a sunroof apparatus including a front panel and a rear panel closing a roof opening formed in a roof of a vehicle, capable of keeping a large distance in a back-and-forth direction between the supporting portions supporting the front and rear portions of the rear panel in a fully closed state of closing the roof opening by the front panel and the rear panel. In a fully closed state of panels, a rear forward supporting portion supporting the front portion of the rear panel is provided in a rear portion of a front slider and a rear backward supporting portion supporting the rear portion of the rear panel is provided in a rear slider.

Abstract: A ratchet-type tensioner capable of restricting setback of a plunger includes a ratchet mechanism that allows setback of the plunger by sliding a ratchet element in a disengaging direction to disengage ratchet teeth from rack teeth when a reaction force acts on the plunger as a result of excessive chain tension. The ratchet element is slidable in a ratchet-receiving hole, and an inclination suppressing structure that prevents the ratchet element from becoming skewed in the ratchet receiving hole to an extent such that its forward end contacts one side of the hole while its rearward end contacts the opposite sides of the hole.

Abstract: A sunroof apparatus including a front panel and a rear panel closing a roof opening, having a slider coupling mechanism interlocking between a front slider actuating the front panel and a rear slider actuating the rear panel while achieving a simplified structure and compacted size thereof with its number of parts reduced. The coupling arm is swingably pivotally supported by the rear slider, and the coupling arm is provided with a stopper for regulating the back-and-forth movement of the rear slider by fitting to a locking hole formed in the guide rail, and the front slider is provided with a coupling pin and the coupling arm is provided with a coupling cam groove, and the front slider is moved backward so that the coupling pin and the coupling cam groove are engaged with each other to thereby swing the coupling arm so that the stopper is disengaged from the locking hole and the rear slider being interlocked with the front slider is rendered to be moved back and forth.

Abstract: To improve layout performance of components for driving a panel in a sunroof apparatus adapted to retractably open/close a roof opening with two sheets of panels of front and rear panels. A front timing member is located in the front side of the front panel and a rear timing member is located in a rear end side of the rear panel so that the timing members are moved back and forth within the same timing guide groove formed in the guide rail.

Abstract: An information recording device includes a recording medium in which renewal data, which is a target of a data refresh operation, is recorded, a reading module that reads the renewal data recorded in the recording medium, a renewal module that performs updating of a value indicating a state of the data refresh operation, a generation module that generates parity data based on the value and the read renewal data, and a recording module that records the renewal data after recording the generated parity data.

Abstract: A robot system according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a robot and a work bench. The robot has a plurality of joints including a first joint that is provided so as to be rotatable relative to an installation surface. On the work bench, a fixing part, by which a work member used in operations of the robot is fixed, is provided on a plate surface of a top plate with a rotation axis of the first joint serving as a normal line thereof, along a circular arc having a center at an intersection between the plate surface and the rotation axis.

Abstract: To improve layout performance of components for driving a panel in a sunroof apparatus adapted to retractably open/close a roof opening with two sheets of panels of front and rear panels. A front timing member is located in the front side of the front panel and a rear timing member is located in a rear end side of the rear panel so that the timing members are moved back and forth within the same timing guide groove formed in the guide rail.