Abstract: A counterweight (7) is provided on the rear end side of an upper revolving structure (3). An electric motor (10) is a power source for a hydraulic excavator (1). An emergency stop switch (21) stops the electric motor (10). The counterweight (7) is provided with a recessed part (7D) recessed from a rear surface (7A) that is a surface of the counterweight (7). The emergency stop switch (21) is provided within the recessed part (7D) of the counterweight (7).

Abstract: A control unit that controls the motion of a continuum robot including a bendable unit having a plurality of bending sections, defines a predetermined position on a wire guide located most distal from a base in the second bending section, which is a follower bending section, as an origin, sets reference axes for a direction in which the wire guide is facing, and causes a drive unit in the base to drive a wire of the third bending section so that the third bending section, which is a distal bending section, is bent on the basis of a relative coordinate system in which the origin and the reference axes relating to the wire guide vary in accordance with the movement of the continuum robot.

Abstract: A similar image set creating apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of images. The processing circuitry extracts first features from the images by using a first model that executes an image classification task. The processing circuitry extracts second features from the images by using a second model that executes an image classification task. The second model is trained in such a manner that mutually similar images in a latent space are continuously distributed, compared to the first model. The processing circuitry selects, from the images, an image of interest serving as a reference of a similar image set, and an auxiliary image similar to the image of interest, based on the first features and the second features.

Abstract: A cell population comprises a large number of cell aggregations and a hydrogel encapsulating the large number of cell aggregations. A coefficient of variation obtained by dividing a standard deviation of sizes of the large number of cell aggregations by a mean value of the sizes of the large number of cell masses is 0.50 or less. Alternatively and/or in addition there to, a coefficient of variation obtained by dividing a standard deviation of aspect ratios of shapes of the large number of cell aggregations by a mean value of the aspect ratios of the shapes of the large number of cell aggregations is 0.30 or less.

Abstract: A transfer device includes a pressed unit, a rotatable roller, and a pressing member. The pressed unit is movably supported and includes a first non-rotatable shaft portion and a second non-rotatable shaft portion. The rotatable roller is rotatably supported by the first non-rotatable shaft portion of the pressed unit. The pressing member contacts the second non-rotatable shaft portion of the pressed unit and presses the pressed unit. The second non-rotatable shaft portion has an axial center aligned with an axial center of the first non-rotatable shaft portion.

Abstract: A continuum robot includes: a first wire; a second wire; a distal guide configured to hold the first wire and the second wire; a proximal guide slidable relative to the first wire and the second wire; a plurality of wire guides provided between the distal guide and the proximal guide; a driving unit configured to drive the first wire and the second wire; and a control unit configured to control the driving unit. The first wire is fixed to the plurality of wire guides, the second wire is slidable relative to the plurality of wire guides, and the control unit controls the driving unit so as to keep a distance between the proximal guide and a wire guide among the plurality of wire guides provided nearest to the proximal guide constant.

Abstract: In preset calculation, a plurality of cooling banks are set to be feedforward or feedback banks, and each of water injection amounts in these banks is calculated. In cooling history management, a recalculation position for re-executing the feedback calculation is set. In feedback calculation, a temperature correction value for compensating a delay due to a conveyance time period from a position of the feedback bank to a position of a delivery side pyrometer, and a response delay of the feedback bank is calculated, when a segment reaches the recalculation position. In the feedback calculation, each of water injection amounts in the feedback banks that is calculated in the preset calculation is changed for each of segments based on a delivery side temperature target value, a delivery side temperature actual value calculated for each of the segments, a delivery side temperature prediction value that is recalculated, and the temperature correction value.

Abstract: A capability determination method includes: acquiring an imaging capability from an image obtained by a radiation detector by irradiation of a model with radiation; and outputting the acquired imaging capability in such a manner as to indicate a relation with a required imaging capability for a predetermined dynamic analysis.

Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas purification device having a high warm-up performance and a high NOx conversion performance. The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate having an upstream end and a downstream end, a first catalyst layer disposed on the substrate in a first region extending between the downstream end and a first position and containing rhodium, a second catalyst layer disposed on the substrate in a second region extending between the upstream end and a second position and containing rhodium and an oxygen storage material, and a third catalyst layer disposed on the second catalyst layer in a third region extending between the upstream end and a third position and containing palladium. The oxygen storage material in the second catalyst layer contains a pyrochlore type Ce—Zr composite oxide and a fluorite type Ce—Zr composite oxide at a weight ratio of from 0.2:1 to 0.4:1.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus having a refrigerant circuit, in which a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, and an indoor heat exchanger are connected by a pipe and refrigerant circulates in the pipe, includes an indoor fan configured to supply an indoor air to the indoor heat exchanger, and a controller configured to control the compressor and the indoor fan. The controller is configured to run the compressor at a start of a cooling operation, start running the indoor fan at less than a set minimum wind velocity after a first set time has elapsed since the compressor started operating, run the indoor fan at the set minimum wind velocity after a second set time has elapsed since the indoor fan started operating at less than the set minimum wind velocity, and run the indoor fan at a set wind velocity after a third set time has elapsed since the indoor fan started operating at the set minimum wind velocity.

Abstract: A problem of heat dissipation in motors, converters, high-luminance LEDs, power devices, power supplies, and the like becomes significant. Provided is a means for capable of providing a product, which has favorable workability, segregation stability, storage stability, and the like, penetrates into a gap in a coil portion, an interface in casing, and the like without any gaps, enhances thermal conductivity/heat dissipation properties of a molded product thus obtained, and is excellent in electrical characteristics, toughness/elastic modulus, thermal resistance, thermal cycle properties, and the like, in the case of using the product for a cast molding resin, a potting material (sealing material), an adhesive, grease, and the like.

Abstract: An object is to improve the reliability of output information by simplifying a wiring route. A radiation image sensor includes a radiation detector in which a plurality of pixels of a charge generator for generating a charge corresponding to energy or the number of particles of incident radiation and a plurality of read circuits for outputting a digital value based on the charge generated by each pixel of the charge generator are mutually stacked and two-dimensionally disposed, and a circuit board on which a plurality of radiation detectors is disposed, in which the plurality of read circuits of one radiation detector is configured to transfer data indicating a digital value in the plurality of read circuits and then output the data to another adjacent radiation detector in response to a control signal from the outside.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a retainer that forms a vent passage for air-conditioning air, multiple movable members that are attached to the retainer and movable in different directions, an actuator that rotates to actuate the movable members, and multiple conversion mechanisms that convert rotation of the actuator into motion in directions in which the movable members move, thereby actuating the movable members.

Abstract: A connector structure includes a first connector, a second connector configured to be fitted with the first connector, and a fitting position guarantee lock attached to the second connector in a manner of being slidable in a fitting direction of the first connector and the second connector. The fitting position guarantee lock includes a second arm whose distal end is flexible in a protrusion direction, a fourth locking portion provided at the distal end of the second arm and configured to ride over a third locking portion and to be engaged with the third locking portion, a third arm whose distal end is flexible in the protrusion direction, and a fifth locking portion provided at the distal end of the third arm and configured to ride over the second locking portion and to be engaged with the second locking portion at a final locking position.

Abstract: An acoustic device includes a rotary operator and a base supporting the rotary operator so that the rotary operator is rotatable. The rotary operator includes a rotary body provided on the base, a pressed portion provided on the rotary body and on which a pressing operation is performed, a press detecting unit provided on the rotary body along an outer circumference of the rotary operator and configured to detect the pressing operation performed on the pressed portion, and elastic members interposed between the pressed portion and the press detecting unit.

Abstract: A magnetic bead includes: a magnetic metal particle; and a coating layer that covers a surface of the magnetic metal particle, contains an inorganic oxide, and has an average thickness of 15 nm or more, in which, when the magnetic bead is subjected to an operation of mixing 0.1 g of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), 5 mL of pure water, and 100 mg of the magnetic bead to prepare a first mixture, an operation of mixing the first mixture with 5 mL of hydrochloric acid having a concentration of 10 mM to obtain a second mixture, and then stirring the second mixture with a vortex mixer for 30 minutes, and an operation of allowing the stirred second mixture to stand for one day, then collecting a supernatant, and measuring a metal ion concentration of the supernatant by high-frequency inductively coupled plasma (ICP) emission spectroscopy, the metal ion concentration of the supernatant is 0.01 ppm or more and 5.00 ppm or less.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a recording medium, and an in-vehicle system capable of suitably recognizing an object using a captured image. An information processing device according to the present technology includes: a first detection unit that detects an adhering substance on a lens of a camera provided in a vehicle from a captured image captured by the camera using a first discriminator using a neural network; a second detection unit that detects the adhering substance from the captured image using a second discriminator using an optical flow; and a region identification unit that identifies a region of the adhering substance in the captured image on the basis of a first detection result by the first detection unit and a second detection result by the second detection unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a vehicle that performs automated driving.

Abstract: Provided is a printhead that performs printing by supplying a drive signal inputted to a second terminal to a drive element according to print data inputted to a first terminal, the printhead including: the first terminal; the second terminal; a determination circuit configured to perform based on different criteria, first determination to determine, in response to a first signal inputted to the first terminal, whether a potential of the second terminal is normal and second determination to determine, in response to a second signal inputted to the first terminal, whether the potential of the second terminal is normal; and a permission circuit configured to permit printing when the potential of the second terminal is determined to be normal in the first determination and second determination and does not permit printing when the potential of the second terminal is determined to be not normal in the first determination or second determination.

Abstract: A shield structure includes a twisted pair cable formed by twisting two wires and including a parallel portion, the two wires being arranged side by side in the parallel portion, and a shield member including two conductive side wall portions disposed around the parallel portion and two connecting portions configured to connect the two side wall portions. The two connecting portions are respectively disposed on front end parts and rear end parts in an extending direction of the parallel portion, out of the two side wall portions.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon compound from carbon dioxide, said method including: (a) a step of preparing an absorption-conversion catalyst that includes an oxide carrier, a first component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, and a second component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Fe, Co, Cu, and Ru; (b) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst and a carbon dioxide-including gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and causing the carbon dioxide to be stored in the absorption-conversion catalyst; and (c) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst that has the carbon dioxide stored therein and a reducing gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and obtaining the hydrocarbon compound.