Abstract: Provided is an abnormal data generation device capable of generating highly accurate abnormal data. The abnormal data generation device includes an abnormal data generation unit for generating pseudo generated data of abnormal data that has, in the same latent space, a normal distribution as a normal data generation model and an abnormal distribution expressed as a complementary set of the normal distribution and that is optimized such that pseudo generated data cannot be discriminated from observed actual abnormal data by a latent variable sampled from the abnormal distribution.

Abstract: A battery pack may include battery cells, each of which may have a pair of first surface portions facing each other in a first direction and have a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate stacked so as to be arranged in the first direction, an outer shell portion that houses the stacked battery cells, elastic structures, each of which may be provided between the battery cells adjacent to each other in the first direction, and a plurality of frames that may fix the battery cells to the outer shell portion. The elastic structures may be disposed so as to cover the central portions of the first surface portions and the frames may be disposed so as to cover an outer circumference portions of the first surface portions.

Abstract: A substrate support includes an electrostatic chuck formed of ceramics and holding a substrate by electrostatic attraction, a base supporting the electrostatic chuck, and a flow path through which a heat exchange medium flows. An upper surface of the flow path is formed of ceramics.

Abstract: A sealing fin fixing apparatus can fix a sealing fin to a rotor in a shortened period of time to minimize variations of the pullout strength of the sealing fin. In the sealing fin fixing apparatus that fixes the sealing fin in a sealing groove defined in the outer circumference of the rotor of a rotary machine and includes a headstock for setting a rotor thereon, a Z-stage movable along a Z-axis, an X-stage movable along an X-axis, a tool rest supported on the X-stage, and a caulking tool mounted on the tool rest and including a shank and a pressing roller, while the pressing roller is being held against a caulking wire inserted, together with the sealing fin, in the sealing groove in the rotor that is set on the headstock, the headstock is actuated to rotate the rotor, thereby caulking the caulking wire to fix the sealing fin to the rotor.

Abstract: Provided is a sputtering target to be used for forming a granular magnetic thin film in which FePt magnetic grains are isolated by an oxide and which constitutes a heat-assisted magnetic recording medium having enhanced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, thermal stability, and SNR (signal-to-noise ratio). The sputtering target for a heat-assisted magnetic recording medium contains an FePt alloy and a nonmagnetic material as main components, where the nonmagnetic material is an oxide having a melting point of 800° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower.

Abstract: Smart contract code is verified by storing smart contract code, identifying a type system for verifying a determinism of the smart contract code based on a first set of security-level values and a second set of security level values, and verifying the determinism of the smart contract code by taking the first set of security-level values as deterministic values and the second set of security level values as non-deterministic values.

Abstract: Accuracy of unsupervised anomalous sound detection is improved using a small number of pieces of anomalous sound data. A threshold deciding part (13) calculates an anomaly score for each of a plurality of pieces of anomalous sound data, using a normal model learned with normal sound data and an anomaly model expressing the pieces of anomalous sound data, and decides a minimum value among the anomaly scores as a threshold. A weight updating part (14) updates, using a plurality of pieces of normal sound data, the pieces of anomalous sound data and the threshold, weights of the anomaly model so that all the pieces of anomalous sound data are judged as anomalous, and probability of the pieces of normal sound data being judged as anomalous is minimized.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a magnesium oxide underlayer including magnesium oxide, and a magnetic layer including an alloy having a L10 structure and includes Fe or Co and Pt. The magnesium oxide has a peak of an O1s spectrum detected in a range of 531 eV to 533 eV when measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

Abstract: A substrate cooling unit includes a substrate holding mechanism holding a substrate horizontally, a driver that raises and lowers the substrate holding mechanism, a cooling plate having a surface facing a surface of the substrate, a laser emitter disposed at one lateral end of a space in which the substrate is raised and lowered and that emits a laser beam distributed with a width in a direction in which the substrate holding mechanism is raised and lowered and parallel to the surface of the substrate. A laser receiver disposed at the other lateral end of the space and that acquires light receiving position specifying information indicating a position at which the laser beam is received in the direction in which the substrate holding mechanism is raised and lowered. A calculator that calculates a distance between the cooling plate and the substrate based on the light receiving position specifying information.

Abstract: Provided are an impeller and a centrifugal pump that can be simplified in structure and reduced in weight and cost, and that can be integrally molded by a mold or the like. In a centrifugal pump including a housing having an inlet, an outlet and an impeller chamber, an impeller is disposed in the impeller chamber and is rotationally driven by a driving shaft. The impeller includes: a shaft part connected to the driving shaft to rotate about an axis line extending toward the inlet; blades protruding radially outward from an outer periphery of the shaft part; and an annular shroud plate continuous with the blades so as to cover a tip side area of the blades in order to be disposed adjacent to an inner wall of the housing on the inlet side.

Abstract: A method of simulating codes that form a program configured to control a control target includes causing a processor to execute the following: first-setting a first process of executing a simulation of an operation of a code group excluding a specific code among the codes; second-setting a second process of executing a simulation of an operation of a specific model obtained by modeling the specific code; first-simulating, in the first process, a first simulation of a code preceding the specific code in the code group; second-simulating, in the second process, a second simulation of the specific model through use of an execution result of the first simulation by inter-process communication between the first process and the second process; and third-simulating, in the first process, a third simulation of a code succeeding the specific code through use of an execution result of the second simulation by the inter-process communication.

Abstract: A conversion apparatus includes a storage unit storing definition information in which position information and a type of the signal are associated with each other; a decoder referring to, when first reception data is input, the definition information of the first control target to determine a type of a first signal at a first position in the first reception data, and output first input data in which the determined type of the first signal and a value of the first signal in the first reception data are associated with each other; and an encoder referring to the definition information of a second control target to output second input data in which identification information of second computing units that corresponds to the type of the first signal, position information indicating a second position of the first signal, and a value of the first signal are associated with one another.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of reading first and second output values of an entity from first and second memory addresses, respectively, storing the first and second output values in a blockchain data structure, executing the blockchain data structure, where the executing comprises selecting one of the first and second output values based on an operation to perform with a third output value, and modifying the selected output value based on the third output value, and storing the modified selected output value at an output memory address.

Abstract: Provided is a perpendicular magnetic recording medium that exhibits improved thermal stability and achieves reduction in switching magnetic field by providing a cap layer having characteristics (characteristics contributing to reducing switching magnetic field of the perpendicular magnetic recording medium as well as to improving thermal stability thereof) superior to existing cap layers. A perpendicular magnetic recording layer (24) has a granular structure which comprises Co- Pt-alloy magnetic crystal grains (24A) and a non-magnetic grain boundary oxide (24B). A cap layer (26) has a granular structure which comprises Co-Pt-alloy magnetic crystal grains (26A) and a magnetic grain boundary oxide (26B). The Co- Pt -alloy magnetic crystal grains (26A) in the cap layer (26) contain 65-90 at % of Co and 10-35 at % of Pt. The magnetic grain boundary oxide (26B) is included in a volume fraction of 5-40 vol % with respect to the total volume of the cap layer (26).

Abstract: Provided is a sputtering target with which it is possible to form a magnetic thin film having a high coercive force Hc. The sputtering target is a sputtering target that contains metallic Co, metallic Pt, and an oxide, wherein the sputtering target contains no metallic Cr except inevitable impurities, the oxide is B2O3 and the sputtering target comprises 10 to 50 vol % of the oxide.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of reading first and second output values of an entity from first and second memory addresses, respectively, storing the first and second output values in a blockchain data structure, executing the blockchain data structure, where the executing comprises selecting one of the first and second output values based on an operation to perform with a third output value, and modifying the selected output value based on the third output value, and storing the modified selected output value at an output memory address.

Abstract: For a further high capacity, provided is a sputtering target for a magnetic recording medium that can form a magnetic thin film having enhanced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, reduced intergranular exchange coupling, and improved thermal stability and SNR (signal-to-noise ratio). The sputtering target for a magnetic recording medium, comprises: a metal phase containing Pt and at least one or more selected from Cu and Ni, with the balance being Co and incidental impurities; and an oxide phase containing at least B2O3.

Abstract: Provided is a sputtering target with which it is possible to form a magnetic thin film having a high coercive force Hc. The sputtering target is a sputtering target that contains metallic Co, metallic Pt, and an oxide, wherein the sputtering target contains no metallic Cr except inevitable impurities, the oxide has B2O3, and the sputtering target comprises 10 to 50 vol % of the oxide.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an assisted magnetic recording medium including a substrate; an underlayer disposed on the substrate; a magnetic layer disposed on the underlayer and including an alloy having an L10-type crystal structure; and a pinning layer disposed in contact with the magnetic layer, wherein the pinning layer includes a granular structure, the granular structure containing magnetic particles and grain boundaries, wherein the magnetic particles contain Co, and wherein the grain boundaries contain Y2O3 and/or an oxide of lanthanoid.

Abstract: A sputtering target for magnetic recording media capable of producing a magnetic thin film in which the magnetic crystal grains are micronized and the distance between the centers of the grains is reduced while good magnetic properties are maintained. The target including metallic Pt and an oxide, with the balance being metallic Co and inevitable impurities, wherein the Co is contained in a range of 70 at % to 90 at % and the Pt is contained in a range of 10 at % to 30 at % relative to a total of metallic components in the sputtering target for magnetic recording media, the oxide is contained in a range of 26 vol % to 40 vol % relative to a total volume of the sputtering target for magnetic recording media, and the oxide is composed of B2O3 and one or more high-melting-point oxides having a melting point of 1470° C. or higher and 2800° C. or lower.