Abstract: A development assistance device includes: multiple conversion units each for converting either an inputted signal value or inputted meta information into either a signal value or meta information, and for outputting either the signal value after conversion or the meta information after conversion as output information; a pipeline unit for causing, on the basis of pipeline information showing a relationship of mutual connections between the multiple conversion units, the multiple conversion units to sequentially perform the corresponding converting processes; an inference unit for making an inference by using the output information outputted by a final conversion unit which the pipeline unit causes, on the basis of the pipeline information, to finally perform the converting process, out of the multiple conversion units; and an image generation unit for generating image information for visualizing the connection relationship shown by the pipeline information, and a relationship of a connection between the final

Abstract: A binary arithmetic device includes an LPS/MPS determining unit that determines, using a context variable, a range length, and an offset, whether a code is an inferior probability code or a superior probability code, a renormalization processing unit that performs renormalization processing on the range length and the offset, and a context-variable calculating unit that derives the binary data of the code using a determination result and updates the context variable according to the determination result. The renormalization processing unit 15 includes a first renormalizing unit and a second renormalizing unit and a selecting unit that selects, according to the determination result, an output of the first renormalizing unit or an output of the second renormalizing unit.

Abstract: Provided is a system that includes circuitry that transmits first image data to a second communication terminal in response to a first request for image transmission from a first communication terminal; transmits second image data to the first communication terminal in response to a second request for image transmission from the second communication terminal; and transmits, in a case that the first request for image transmission and the second request for image transmission are a predetermined combination, third image data corresponding to the predetermined combination to the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.

Abstract: An antenna protector includes a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and an end wall. The top wall includes a center reinforcement that includes a plurality of lateral ribs and longitudinal ribs protruding from the top wall and arranged in a grid formation. Each of the first side wall, the second side wall, and the end wall include a perimeter reinforcement that includes a plurality of vertical ribs protruding from the wall. In an exemplary embodiment the antenna protector may include an open end portion, a closed end portion, and a center section, wherein the center section is narrower in width than each of the open end portion and the closed end portion.

Abstract: A graphene structure forming method for forming a graphene structure is provided. The method comprises preparing a target substrate, and forming the graphene structure on a surface of the target substrate by remote microwave plasma CVD using a carbon-containing gas as a film-forming raw material gas in a state in which the surface of the target substrate has no catalytic function.

Abstract: A control system has an air conditioner that communicates with a file server via a network. The file server includes a lifestyle log in which information associating lifestyle information indicating a lifestyle with a control method of the air conditioner is accumulated. A first control-operation functional unit operates the air conditioner based on a first control request acquired from a first device. A second control-operation functional unit selects a control method from the lifestyle log based on a second control request acquired from a second device with higher functionality than the first device, and operates the air conditioner using the selected control method.

Abstract: This position detecting system is provided with: a target object shape extracting part which extracts a target object as a target object shape from a three-dimensional shape in an indoor space, and acquires a position of the target object shape; an identification information acquisition part which acquires, on the basis of data reported from the target object, target object identification information for identifying the target object; and an identification information associating part which associates the target object shape with the target object identification information.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor, a stator core, coils, and insulating sheets. A discharge port that discharges coolant is provided on an outer circumferential face of the rotor. The stator core includes an annular or cylindrical yoke, and teeth disposed on an inner circumferential face of the yoke in a circumferential direction with spaces. The stator core is disposed encompassing an outer circumference of the rotor. A slot-wall-face channel is provided on a wall face of the stator core defining a slot, and configured to open as to the slot for the coolant to flow through. The coils are wound on the teeth. The insulating sheet is disposed in the slot and interposed between the stator core and the coil, and is configured with at least part of the slot-wall-face channel open as to the coil.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat exchange body including a plurality of flat tubes that extend in a vertical direction and that are arranged in a horizontal direction with gaps therebetween. A plurality of the heat exchange bodies are arranged in a direction of air flow to form a heat exchanger. A first header, into which hot gas refrigerant flows from a refrigerant circuit, is provided below one of the plurality of the heat exchange bodies that is at a most upwind position.

Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive element having more sufficient expandability, a relatively wide measurement range of pressure force, and a relatively simple structure, and an electronic device using the pressure-sensitive element. The pressure-sensitive element includes a plurality of first electrodes being elongated in first direction, arranged in a first plane, and including a conductive elastic body, a plurality of second electrodes being elongated in second direction intersecting the first direction, arranged in a second plane facing the first plane, and including a conductor wire, and a plurality of dielectrics covering a surface of the plurality of second electrodes. The plurality of second electrodes have bent parts K arranged periodically, and capacitance at intersections of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes changes in accordance with pressure force applied between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes.

Abstract: A rotor of the rotary electric machine includes a rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in an inner part or an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core in a circumferential direction. In the rotor core, one or more first flow passages through which a cooling liquid flows, the one or more first flow passages extending in an axial direction and communicating with the outside of the rotor, and one or more second flow passages extending radially outward from the first flow passage and having closed distal ends, are formed.

Abstract: Instability of an internal state in a current-input-type delta-sigma modulator is reduced in a case where input changes sharply. A signal current is input to a first integration node. A difference current between a fixed current and the signal current is input to a second integration node. A voltage-to-current converter that converts a difference voltage between the voltage of the first integration node and a first reference voltage into a current and outputs it is connected between the first integration node and the second integration node. The voltage of the second integration node is compared with a second reference voltage, and a 1-bit digital signal is output. Current is draws from the first integration node or the second integration node according to the 1-bit digital signal. A short-circuit switch is provided between the first integration node and the second integration node for short-circuiting them.

Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a refrigerant passage. An axial direction of the rotor is along the horizontal direction. The stator is placed around the rotor and includes a tubular stator core. The stator core includes: a communication passage via which an inner peripheral surface of the stator core communicates with an outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the communication passage guides the refrigerant from the inner peripheral surface of the stator core to the outer peripheral surface of the stator core; and a projection portion provided on the outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the projection portion extends in the axial direction of the tubular stator core. The projection portion is placed downward in the gravitational direction from an opening of the communication passage on the outer peripheral surface.

Abstract: A refrigerant distributor has a double-pipe structure including an inner pipe and an outer pipe. A plurality of outer pipes are disposed, each of the plurality of outer pipes being the outer pipe. A space is formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of outer pipes. The inner pipe is disposed to be continuous through the plurality of outer pipes. A plurality of heat-transfer tubes are arrayed in a direction in which the outer pipe extends and connected to the outer pipe. The refrigerant distributor distributes refrigerant flowing into between the inner pipe and the outer pipe to the plurality of heat-transfer tubes.

Abstract: An information processing device is installed in a vehicle and comprises an action history DB which stores a plurality of action histories including a combination of a content that was played based on an instruction of a user and a situation in which the content was played, and an automatic playing unit which, when a current elapsed time as an elapsed time from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON or a current travel distance as a travel distance from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON matches any one of the action histories of the action history DB, plays a content included in the matching action history.

Abstract: There is provided a film forming method of forming a carbon-containing film by a microwave plasma from a microwave source, the film forming method including: a dummy step of performing a dummy process by generating plasma of a first carbon-containing gas within a processing container; a placement step of placing a substrate on a stage within the processing container; and a film forming step of forming the carbon-containing film on the substrate using plasma of a second carbon-containing gas.

Abstract: A production equipment line for a hot-rolled steel strip comprises a rough rolling mill comprising rough rolling mills for hot rolling a material, which is heated to a predetermined temperature to a finish rolling start sheet thickness and a finish rolling mill comprising finish rolling mills for controlled-rolling the material to a final sheet thickness. At least one of the rough rolling mills is a reversible rolling mill. The production equipment line is provided on an upstream side of the reversible rolling mill with one of a slow cooling apparatus for slowly cooling at a water volume density of less than 1000 L/min·m2 and a rapid cooling apparatus for rapidly cooling after the slow-cooling at a water volume density of not less than 1000 L/min·m2 and the other of the slow cooling apparatus and rapid cooling apparatus on a downstream side of the reversible rolling mill.

Abstract: A production equipment line for a hot-rolled steel strip comprises a rough rolling mill group comprised of plural rough rolling mills for hot rolling a material which is heated up to a predetermined temperature to a finish rolling start sheet thickness and a finish rolling mill group comprised of plural finish rolling mills for controlled-rolling the material to a final sheet thickness, wherein at least one of the plural rough rolling mills is a reversible rolling mill. The production equipment line for a hot-rolled steel strip is provided with a slow cooling apparatus for slowly cooling the material at a water volume density of less than 1000 L/min·m2 and a rapid cooling apparatus which is arranged next to the slow cooling apparatus and rapidly cools the material after the slow-cooling at a water volume density of not less than 1000 L/min·m2.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes flat cross-sectional shaped heat transfer tubes arranged with gaps between flat surfaces of the flat heat transfer tubes facing each other, and each having a flow passage in a vertical direction, and corrugated fins disposed between the flat surfaces facing each other. The corrugated fins each include an end portion in a direction in which air flows, and protruding from end portions of the flat surfaces, a drain hole provided adjacent to central regions of the flat surfaces in the direction in which the air flows, first louvers located upstream of the drain hole, and each including a slit and a slat that is inclined in the vertical direction, and second louvers located downstream of the drain hole, and each including a slit and a slat that is inclined in the vertical direction.

Abstract: The vehicle assistance system includes an infrastructure sensor installed in a predetermined place to detect an obstacle, an onboard apparatus connected to an onboard sensor which is mounted on the vehicle and which detects an obstacle, and a server installed in a place different from that of the infrastructure sensor. In the infrastructure sensor, the abnormality determination unit compares the first obstacle information related to the obstacle detected by the sensor unit and the second obstacle information related to the obstacle detected by the onboard sensor existing in a location different from that of the sensor unit, and determines whether or not the sensor unit or the onboard sensor is abnormal based on the result of this comparison.