Abstract: An energy saving support system according to an embodiment is configured to provide a consumer, who has an electric load to which electric energy is supplied from an electric power supply system within a house, with energy consumption-related information through a photo frame or the like. The information providing apparatus is configured to acquire an acceptability level, which stepwise indicates a degree of interest of the consumer in the energy consumption-related information, and to determine the energy consumption-related information to be newly provided to the consumer based on the acceptability level.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer held by a holder within a chamber is irradiated and heated with halogen light emitted from multiple halogen lamps. Cylindrical outer and inner louvers made of opaque quartz are provided between the halogen lamps and the semiconductor wafer. A reflector is provided in an area of tube walls of the halogen lamps that faces the spacing between the inner wall surface of the outer louver and the outer wall surface of the inner louver. The spacing between the two louvers is located immediately below and faces the peripheral portion of the semiconductor wafer. Thus, the illuminance of light that reaches the peripheral portion of the semiconductor wafer where a temperature drop is likely to occur will be higher than the illuminance of light that travels toward the central portion from the halogen lamps. This configuration will help make uniform the in-plane temperature distribution of the semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: A power demand estimating apparatus includes a demand data memory, a demand estimator, and a display. The demand data memory stores plural power demand patterns and power demand amount data. The demand estimator selects, from the demand data memory, the demand pattern matching the environmental condition on an estimation day, obtains the maximum value of an power demand amount and the minimum value thereof at an expected temperature on the estimation day, calculates, using those pieces of information, the power demand amount per a unit time on the estimation day, and creates a demand estimating model. The display displays, together with the power demand pattern selected by the demand estimator, the demand estimating model.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide metal powder that can be used to form an external electrode, which is excellent in solder wettability and solder leach resistance while having a layer structure with fewer layers than in the related art and, furthermore, is excellent in electrical conductivity. This silver-coated alloy powder comprises a coating layer on a surface of an alloy core particle containing copper, nickel, zinc, and inevitable impurities, the coating layer containing silver.

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition according to the invention contains: a thermosetting resin component; and silica having an average particle diameter equal to or greater than 0.2 ?m and treated with isocyanate. It is preferable that the content of the silica is in a range of 50% by mass to 300% by mass with respect to the thermosetting resin component. It is also preferable that the thermosetting resin composition contains core shell rubber having content in a range of 20% by mass to 80% by mass with respect to the thermosetting resin component.

Abstract: A handrail friction checking device comprises a handrail gripper for gripping the handrail and movable together with the handrail, a spring with one end of the spring being fixed and the other end being connected to the handrail gripper so that the spring can apply a spring force which is opposed to the direction of handrail movement to the handrail gripper when the handrail gripper moves along with the handrail and a sensor which is disposed in a way that it is distanced from the handrail gripper and can be triggered by the handrail gripper when the handrail gripper moves along with the handrail.

Abstract: A template matching is performed on two fluoroscopic images by using a template image prepared in advance and a position corresponding to a high matching score is listed as a candidate for the position of a marker 29. From two lists of the candidates of the position of the marker 29, the lengths of common vertical lines for all combinations are calculated. Then, the position of the marker 29 is detected based on the matching score and the common vertical line. Then, based on the detected position of the marker 29, an amount of a proton beam to be irradiated to a target is controlled. Therefore, a tracking target can be accurately detected even when the conditions for X-ray fluoroscopy is severe, e.g., a thick object.

Abstract: A reactor includes a reactor main body that includes a core and a coil attached to the core, a casing that houses therein the reactor main body and has a portion where an opening is formed, a terminal stage that supports the portion of a conductor electrically connected to the coil, and a shielding member that is integrally formed with the terminal stage and suppresses the leakage of magnetic fluxes from the reactor main body while maintaining the opening opened.

Abstract: An information recording device including a controller records information in a write-once optical disk group including one or a plurality of write-once optical disks. When recording new data, the controller calculates a residual quantity of an alternate area. The calculation of the residual quantity of the alternate area corresponds to a subtraction of a first consumption size and a second consumption size from a size of the alternate area of the write-once optical disk group. The first consumption size is a size of the alternate area already consumed when the data recorded in the write-once optical disk group was erased. The second consumption size is an estimated size of the alternate area to be consumed when the data recorded in the write-once optical disk group is erased. The controller records the new data when the residual quantity is greater than or equal to a third consumption size.

Abstract: A tumor tracking control device (41) performs windowing process on a captured image A (61) and a captured image B (62), measures a position of a marker (29) using the captured image A (61) and the captured image B (62) after performing the windowing process, and generates a signal capable of controlling irradiation with radiation based on the position of the marker (29). Accordingly, it is possible to provide a tumor tracking apparatus and an irradiation system which are capable of tracking an object to be tracked without erroneous detection, even in a case where a structure similar to the object to be tracked is in the vicinity of the object to be tracked, in tumor tracking.

Abstract: A method for controlling an elevator system comprises obtaining images of the inside of an elevator car, detecting passengers in the images, creating graphic passenger models of the detected passengers from the images and determining the number of passengers who may additionally board the elevator car using the passenger models. The passenger models may reflect the actual size of the passengers.

Abstract: An observation supporting apparatus includes a position specifying section which specifies a coordinate point of a moving object detected in a viewing field through once observation. An orbit estimating section calculates an estimate orbit of the moving object in the viewing field based on the specified coordinate points. Data necessary to estimate the position of the moving object out of the viewing field is acquired using the estimate orbit by the orbit estimating section.

Abstract: A lockup control device for a vehicle includes: a torque converter; a lockup control section configured to increase a lockup pressure difference command to an initial pressure difference when a lockup engagement condition is satisfied in a disengagement state of the lockup clutch, and then to increase the lockup pressure difference command by a ramp pressure difference by a predetermined gradient, the lockup control section being configured to determine a ramp start condition by which the lockup pressure difference command is switched from the initial pressure difference to the ramp pressure difference, based on a speed ratio which is a ratio of input and output rotation speeds of the torque converter.

Abstract: A lockup control device for a vehicle includes: a torque converter, and a lockup control configured to increase a lockup pressure difference command to an initial pressure difference, when a turbine rotation speed variation amount of the torque converter becomes smaller than a predetermined value during a ramp control in which the lockup pressure difference command is increased by a ramp pressure difference, the lockup control section being configured to switch to a second increase gradient having an increase gradient lower than a first increase gradient of the ramp pressure difference when the turbine rotation speed variation amount is equal to or greater than the predetermined value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to braking torque detection for an elevator brake and belongs to the technical field of elevators. A braking torque detection method for an elevator brake according to the present invention comprises the following steps: a drive motor outputting a first detection torque for a first brake torque inspection; the drive motor stopping output of the detection torque in intermittent time periods when it is determined that a second brake torque inspection is required according to a result of the first brake torque inspection; and the drive motor outputting a second detection torque for the second brake torque inspection. The present invention can avoid overheating of a frequency converter in a continuous braking torque detection process and achieves good braking torque detection accuracy.

Abstract: A bid-price determination apparatus includes an acquirer, an extractor, a predictor, a determiner, and an output device. The acquirer acquires a price history of a product before a current time in an electric power continuous session. The extractor extracts, from the acquired price history, a first feature quantity which is a feature quantity of the price history of the product. The predictor predicts, based on the extracted first feature quantity, a second feature quantity which is a feature quantity of price changes of the product after the current time. The determiner determines, based on the predicted second feature quantity, a transaction standard value which is a standard for a transaction of the product after the current time. The output device outputs the determined transaction standard value.

Abstract: There is provided a silver powder which has a small average particle diameter and a small thermal shrinkage percentage, and a method for producing the same. While a molten metal of silver heated to a temperature (1292 to 1692° C.), which is higher than the melting point (962° C.) of silver by 330 to 730° C., is allowed to drop, a high-pressure water is sprayed onto the molten metal of silver (preferably at a water pressure of 90 to 160 MPa) to rapidly cool and solidify the molten metal of silver to powderize silver to produce a silver powder which has an average particle diameter of 1 to 6 ?m and a shrinkage percentage of not greater than 8% (preferably not greater than 7%) at 500° C., the product of the average particle diameter by the shrinkage percentage at 500° C. being 1 to 11 ?m·% (preferably 1.5 to 10.5 ?m·%).

Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) includes a base layer (10), an interface layer (20), and a deposition layer (30). The base layer (10) includes a nitride semiconductor that contains gallium. The interface layer (20) is adjacent to the base layer (10). The interface layer (20) contains gallium oxide. The deposition layer (30) is adjacent to the interface layer (20). The deposition layer (30) has a wider band gap than the interface layer (20). The interface layer (20) preferably has crystallinity. The interface layer (20) preferably contains ?-phase Ga2O3.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a phosphorus-containing copper powder with good volume resistivity and a small carbon content by suppressing an oxygen content to a relatively low value even if a particle size is made small, and a method for producing the same. In the phosphorus-containing copper powder containing phosphorus, a ratio of an oxygen content (wt. %) to a BET specific surface area (m2/g) (oxygen content/BET specific surface area) is 0.90 wt. %·g/m2 or less, a divalent copper compound is present on a surface of particles constituting the phosphorus-containing copper powder, a carbon content is 0.10 wt. % or less, and D50 is 7.11 ?m or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a single facer which comprises: a cartridge pivotally supporting a pair of corrugating rolls by a side plate; two cartridges pivotally supporting a pair of corrugating rolls by a side plate, respectively; a single facer body housing the two cartridges in a movable manner so as to exchange respective setup positions of the two cartridges between the in-use position and the rest position; and a hydraulic jack disposed just below the stacked cartridges in a vertical direction and configured to push the stacked cartridges upwardly, wherein, by pushing the stacked cartridges upwardly by the hydraulic jack, the single facer is operable to press an upper end of the side plate of the upper cartridge against a lower end of a ceiling member of the single facer body, so as to clamp the stacked cartridges by the hydraulic jack and the ceiling member of the single facer body.