Abstract: The disclosed battery includes a cylindrical side surface, a case including an opening and a bottom, an electrode group housed in the case together with an electrolytic solution and including a first electrode and a second electrode, and a first end part electrically connected to the first electrode, a first lead welded to the cylindrical side surface, a cap for sealing an opening, and a gasket provided between the opening and the cap. A part of the cylindrical side surface is provided with a groove for compressing a part of the gasket. The gasket includes a cylindrical part that is continuous with a compression part and that extends toward the bottom. The first lead is not placed between the cylindrical side surface and the compression part, and is in contact with the cylindrical part. The second end part of the first lead is positioned closer to the opening than the electrode group.

Abstract: Provided is a wavelength conversion module that can be downsized by reducing the width of the housing and can reduce the mounting space. The wavelength conversion module including a wavelength conversion element includes: a lens barrel that is provided on a side surface of a metal housing and accommodates a lens for optically coupling the wavelength conversion element to an optical fiber; and a ferrule collar that is provided on the lens barrel and fixes a metal ferrule accommodating the optical fiber, and an input port and an output port are different from each other in any of the length in the optical axis direction of a plurality of the lens barrels, the length of a plurality of the metal ferrules, or a sum length of the lens barrels and the metal ferrules.

Abstract: In a nonlinear optical element, wavelength conversion efficiency is degraded by the heat generation caused when high-intensity converted waves are generated. Therefore, the present invention provides a wavelength conversion optical element that includes a periodically poled waveguide. In the wavelength conversion optical element, the periodically poled waveguide includes: a core that performs wavelength conversion on a fundamental wave that has entered the entrance end, and emits a converted wave from the exit end; and a cladding that covers the periphery of the core, and the structure of the element gradually changes so as to achieve quasi phase matching from the entrance end toward the exit end in the periodically poled waveguide.

Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image from an image capturing unit installed in a movable object, a reception control unit configured to control reception of risk area information including location information from another movable object, a determination unit configured to determine whether a notification target is present in a region based on the location information included in the risk area information based on the image, and a transmission control unit configured to control transmission of a determination result of the determination unit to the other movable object.

Abstract: An adjustment support system includes a controller and a storage, in which the storage holds production line model data related to a model of one or more production facilities in a cyberspace of a production line and actual machine data obtained by actually measuring one or more production facilities disposed in an actual space of the production line, the controller calculates a difference between the production line model data and the actual machine data, upon determination that the difference exists on a basis of a result of calculating the difference, the controller creates one or more adjustment plans each targeting at least one of the model of the one or more production facilities in the cyberspace or the one or more production facilities disposed in the actual space, and the controller outputs the one or more adjustment plans having been created.

Abstract: A system for providing information to equipment which is movable, the system includes a first reception section which receives position information of the equipment from the equipment, a first transmission section which transmits, based on the position information of the equipment, assistance information related to a movement of the equipment to the equipment through a base station of a mobile communication, a predicting section which predicts, based on the position information of the equipment, equipment entering a communication available area of a mobile object having a function of communicating with the equipment, and a second transmission section which transmits, to the mobile object, information related to the equipment predicted to enter the communication available area by the predicting section.

Abstract: A system includes a first specifying unit which specifies, from among a plurality of areas, an area where a mobile communication terminal is present and a traffic risk is higher than a predetermined value, and an instruction unit which instructs, in order to cause a mobile object performing mobile communication with the mobile communication terminal to carry out the mobile communication of the mobile communication terminal, the mobile object to move to the area specified by the first specifying unit. A method includes specifying, from among a plurality of areas, an area where a mobile communication terminal is present and a traffic risk is higher than a predetermined value, and instructing, in order to cause a mobile object performing mobile communication with the mobile communication terminal to carry out the mobile communication of the mobile communication terminal, the mobile object to move to the area specified by the pacifying.

Abstract: An optical sensor includes a light-emitting element configured to project light that changes with time; a light-receiving element including a pn junction and configured to directly or indirectly receive the light projected by the light-emitting element; a measuring section configured to measure an electric current generated based on an amount of the light received by the light-receiving element; and a bias application section configured to apply a bias to the light-receiving element, wherein the bias application section, before measuring the electric current generated based on the amount of the light received, applies the bias to the light-receiving element to cause either a forward current that flows when the light-receiving element is turned ON or a breakdown current that flows when the pn junction breaks down to flow through the pn junction.

Abstract: A system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires position information of equipment that is movable, and precision information indicating a precision of the position information; a specification unit that specifies, based on the position information and the precision information, an area where the precision of the position information is lower than a predetermined value, among a plurality of areas where pieces of the equipment exist; and an instruction unit that instructs a moving object which has a function of acquiring the position information of the equipment, to move to the area specified by the specification unit, in order to cause the moving object to measure a position of the equipment.

Abstract: An alert control apparatus includes: an alert control unit to issue a first alert to an occupant in a moving body if an object in a particular category is present within a region to which the moving body is headed, and issue a second alert to the occupant if an object in a category other than the particular category is present within the region; a reception control unit to perform, when the moving body enters a new movement section on a movement route, control for receiving a category of an object present within the new movement section from an external apparatus. If there is an object for which an alert is to be issued during movement within the new section, the alert control unit, based on the category received from the external apparatus, controls as to which of the first and second alerts is to be issued.

Abstract: A compact press apparatus is provided that is capable of assuring the acceptability of a pressing, and in which the pressing location tends not to be restricted. Such a press apparatus includes a frame (1, 77) and a servopress (31, 50, 60, 101). A servomotor (33, 52, 62, 103) is provided within a first frame part (11, 17, 19, 79) or within a connecting-frame part (15, 83). At least a portion of a power-transmission mechanism (40, 56, 66, 90, 110) is provided within the first frame part (15, 83).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores an identifier for identifying a defective page and an identifier for identifying a print job that includes the defective page. The processing circuitry determines whether print job data is data of a print job to be reprinted and determines whether a page included in a conveyance medium conveyed is a defective page, based on the identifier for identifying the defective page. The processing circuitry also performs control to eject a first conveyance medium including a page not determined to be defective to a first ejection destination, eject a second conveyance medium including a defective page to a second ejection destination, print an image of the defective page on a third conveyance medium, and eject the third conveyance medium on which the image is printed to the first ejection destination.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes the following: a light measuring instrument disposed opposite the display surface of a display panel provided with a self-emission element, and disposed for measuring the ambient-light illuminance of the display panel; a storage device configured to store a plurality of first measurements measured by the light measuring instrument in synchronization with a synchronizing signal of the display panel during a plurality of first measurement periods that are shorter than an ON/OFF period of the self-emission element; and a calculation unit configured to calculate the light emission illuminance of the self-emission element in accordance with the plurality of first measurements stored in the storage device, and configured to calculate the ambient-light illuminance by subtracting a value based on the light emission illuminance from a second measurement measured by the light measuring instrument during a second measurement period that is longer than the plurality of first measurement pe

Abstract: A self-traveling transport device (1) is provided with a traveling robot (3) and a robot arm (4) and performs a control so as to stop the robot arm (4) when the movement of the robot arm (4) is about to deviate from an allowable movement range set on the basis of a movement range file (21) in which is registered the movement range of the robot arm (4) in which the self-traveling transport device (1) is capable of standing.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel patch for alleviating or treating the symptoms of neurodegenerative disease. According to the present invention, provided is a patch for alleviating or treating the symptoms of neurodegenerative disease, comprising a scopolamine salt and/or a hydrate thereof, wherein the application time of the patch per application is within 48 hours.

Abstract: A mobile robot (1) for providing a mobile robot that prevents the output current of a battery from exceeding the rated current due to inrush current of an electric load comprises a voltage acquisition unit (11) for acquiring the voltage of a battery (21) for supplying electric power to a manipulator (31), a condition determination unit (12) for determining whether the voltage is in a specific range, and a starting control unit (13) for disabling starting of the manipulator (31) when the voltage is determined to be in the specific range. The specific range is a voltage range that is a portion of the voltage range in which the manipulator (31) can be operated.

Abstract: A conveyance method includes: acquiring type identification information identifying a type of a conveyance target article; acquiring instrument identification information identifying the type of an instrument installed in each of a plurality of devices; specifying the type of the instrument associated with the type identified by the type identification information; selecting a target device in which the instrument of the specified type is installed among the plurality of devices; and outputting, to a conveyance robot, a conveyance instruction to convey the conveyance target article to the target device.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical heating device and method of heating treatment capable of adjusting the illuminance distribution on the main surface of a substrate to be treated more precisely. An optical heating device that heats a substrate to be treated by irradiating light, the optical heating device includes; a support member supporting the substrate to be treated; and a light source unit including a plurality of LED substrates each having a first main surface on which a plurality of LED elements are mounted; in which at least one of the plurality of LED substrates is arranged such that the first main surface is inclined to the second main surface of the substrate to be treated when the substrate to be treated is supported by the support member.

Abstract: An optical heating method includes a process (a) in which an object to be treated containing a wide band gap semiconductor is irradiated with ultraviolet light having a peak wavelength in a range of 175 nm to 370 nm emitted from a UV-LED light source through a window member to heat the object to be treated.