Abstract: An exhaust gas processing device for an engine, capable of securely warming a combustion catalyst, is provided. A combustion catalyst burning gas is produced when a warming end condition for the combustion catalyst is established, which signifies the establishment of either one of a first condition or a second condition. In the first condition, an inlet temperature of a combustion catalyst is equal to or higher than an activation requirement temperature of the combustion catalyst, and further, an outlet temperature of the combustion catalyst is equal to or higher than an activation confirmation temperature of the combustion catalyst in excess of the inlet temperature of the combustion catalyst. In the second condition, the outlet temperature of the combustion catalyst exceeds a warming confirmation temperature of the combustion catalyst that is set to be higher as an engine speed is lower, for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A conversation-sentence generation device according to the invention of this application receives, as input information, a conversation sentence given from a user to an agent, first clue information based on which a physical and psychological state of the agent is estimated, and second clue information based on which a physical and psychological state of the user is estimated, stores the physical and psychological state of the agent as an agent state, stores the physical and psychological state of the user as a user state, estimates a new agent state based on the input information and the agent state, estimates a new user state based on the input information and the user state, generates, based on the input information, the agent state, and the user state, an utterance intention directed from the agent to the user, and generates and outputs, based on the input information, the agent state, the user state, and the utterance intention, a conversation sentence given from the agent to the user.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to generate a dictionary for monitoring text information such that it is possible to achieve high-precision detection compared to conventional art. A feature degree calculation unit 3 compares the statistics of a positive example group and a negative example group, and calculates the degree by which a phase of interest appears in the positive example group as the feature degree. A usefulness degree calculation unit 21 calculates a usefulness degree by using the length of the phrase, the frequency at which the phrase appears within the positive example group, and an index pertaining to an inclusion relationship between phrases for each phrase extracted by means of a phrase extraction unit 1.

Abstract: A text mining device (2) is used in which data composed of a set of records including an attribute value and text data is used as analysis target data. The text mining device (2) includes an analysis perspective candidate generation unit (20) that extracts an attribute value from the analysis target data and generates an analysis perspective candidate using the extracted attribute value, and a characteristic degree calculation unit (21) that compares text data in a record including the attribute value extracted as the analysis perspective candidate with text data in a record set that includes at least a record other than the record including the attribute value in the analysis target data, and calculates a characteristic degree indicating a relationship between the analysis perspective candidate and the analysis target data based on a result of the comparison.

Abstract: An instrument producing a charged particle beam according to the present invention is provided with: a charged particle source; a plurality of first electrodes disposed along a direction of irradiation of charged particles from the charged particle source; a plurality of insulation members disposed between the first electrodes; and a housing mounted around the plurality of first electrodes. The housing is formed from an insulating solid material, and includes a plurality of second electrodes disposed at positions in proximity to the plurality of first electrodes. At least one of the plurality of second electrodes is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of first electrodes, each of the plurality of second electrodes having the same potential as the potential of the proximate one of the first electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention is a text mining system comprising a synonym cluster acquiring section configured to acquire synonym clusters from texts in text data to be analyzed, the synonym clusters each being a collection of synonymous texts, an implication relationship acquiring section configured to acquire implication relationships among the synonym clusters, and an implication graph generating section configured to generate an implication graph including vertices of synonym clusters and directed edges each indicating a direction from an implied synonym cluster to an implying synonym cluster from the implication relationships among the synonym clusters.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an exhaust gas treatment device of an engine capable of preventing matching surfaces of catalyst portions configuring a combustible gas catalyst from being thermally damaged. In the exhaust gas treatment device, combustible gas is produced by combustible gas generating catalyst, exhaust gas heated by combustion of combustible gas is supplied to an exhaust gas treatment portion, the combustible gas generating catalyst comprises an aggregate of a plurality of catalyst portions, each of the catalyst portions includes a matching surface with respect to adjacent one of the catalyst portions, a fastening ring is fitted over the combustible gas generating catalyst in which the matching surfaces of the adjacent catalyst portions are abutted against each other, and the matching surfaces of the adjacent catalyst portions are brought into tight contact with each other by a fastening force of the fastening ring.

Abstract: A synonym relation determination device comprises: a synonym expression candidate storage unit which associates and stores a synonym candidate (EW) with the synonym source (OW); a text gathering unit which associates and gathers text with an issuing time; a synonym candidate search unit which calculates from the issuing time of the text a time interval (PD) in which the synonym candidate is searched in a text set (TX); a synonym source search unit which searches for a synonym source from the text set of a period which overlaps with the time interval in which the synonym candidate is searched for and calculates an occurrence of the synonym source; and synonym relation extraction unit which, when the occurrence of the synonym source is present in the time interval in which the synonym candidate is searched for, extracts a synonym relation between the synonym candidate and the synonym source.

Abstract: A term synonym acquisition apparatus includes: a first generating unit which generates a context vector of an input term in an original language and a context vector of each synonym candidate in the original language; a second generating unit which generates a context vector of an auxiliary term in an auxiliary language that is different from the original language, where the auxiliary term specifies a sense of the input term; a combining unit which generates a combined context vector based on the context vector of the input term and the context vector of the auxiliary term; and a ranking unit which compares the combined context vector with the context vector of each synonym candidate to generate ranked synonym candidates in the original language.

Abstract: A term translation acquisition apparatus includes: a creation unit which creates a statistical model based on a set of input terms' context vectors, wherein the set of terms including at least two terms, are in the same source language and describe the same concept; and a ranking unit which uses the created statistical model to score terms in a target language that are considered as translation candidates for the concept.

Abstract: To provide a game device that is capable, in a match in which a player character group including operating characters of a plurality of game players and one or more teammate character competes with an opponent character or an opponent character group opposing the player character group, of improving diversity of combination of the characters belonging to the player character group while suppressing increase of data amount. An operating character obtaining unit (30) obtains the player data on an operating player of each game player. A teammate character obtaining unit (32) obtains the player data on a teammate player of each game player. A game execution unit (36) carries out a game in which an operating team takes part in a soccer match with an opponent team, based on the player data on the respective operating players and that on the respective teammate players.

Abstract: In an accelerating tube which uses a conductive insulator, there is a possibility that the dopant concentration on a surface of the conductive insulator becomes non-uniform so that the surface resistance of the conductive insulator becomes non-uniform. Accordingly, a circumferential groove is formed on the inner surface of the conductive insulator accelerating tube in plural stages, and metal is metalized along inner portions of the grooves. When the resistance of a specific portion on the surface of the accelerating tube differs from the resistance of an area around the specific portion, the potential of the metalized region on the inner surface of the accelerating tube becomes a fixed value and hence, the potential distribution on the inner surface of the accelerating tube in the vertical direction can be maintained substantially equal without regard to the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A light emitting module is provided with a light emitting element and an optical wavelength converting member. The optical wavelength converting member includes a light incident plane, a light output plane, and an outer plane which is a plane except for said light incident plane and said light output plane. The optical wavelength converting member converts a wavelength of light emitted on the light emitting element and entered from the light incident plane into the optical wavelength converting member and outputs the wavelength-converted light from the light output plane. An average roughness “Ra” of at least a portion of the outer plane is lower than an average roughness of the light output plane.

Abstract: In a plate-shaped fluorescent member configured to convert the wavelength of the light emitted by a semiconductor light emitting element, the fluorescent member is formed of an inorganic material having a refractive index of 1.5 or more and a light transmittance at the emission peak wavelength of the semiconductor light emitting element of less than 20%. A concave portion is formed, of the surfaces of the fluorescent member, on the surface on the side where the light in the semiconductor light emitting element is mainly emitted. In the fluorescent member, the light transmittance of the light having a wavelength of 380 nm to 500 nm may be less than 20%. The concave portion may be a groove. The concave portion may be a plurality of holes that are scattered.

Abstract: The objective of the present application is to suppress the occurrence of flares and to reduce the amount of secondary electrons arising at an aperture provided to the lead-out electrode of an electron gun. By coating a thin film having a low rate of secondary electron emission such as carbon onto the aperture of a lead-out electrode closest to an electron source in an electron gun, it is possible to reduce the amount of secondary electrons arising. Secondary electrons arising at the lead-out electrode, are reduced, and so as a result, flare is reduced. By incorporating two apertures to the lead-out electrode, and applying to the two apertures a potential that is equipotential to the lead-out electrode, it is possible to eliminate an electric field from seeping from under to over the lead-out electrode. Secondary electrons arising when an electron beam impacts the lead-out electrode cease to incur force in the direction of passage from the lead-out electrode, and consequently there is a reduction in flares.

Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device for a diesel engine capable of starting the generation of a combustible gas is provided. The device includes a combustible gas generator. A core member is fitted in the center portion of an annular wall to form an air-fuel mixing chamber between the inner peripheral surface of the annular wall and the outer peripheral surface of the core member. An air-fuel mixture gas in the air-fuel mixing chamber is adapted to be supplied from the end of the air-fuel mixing chamber to a combustible gas generating catalyst to a portion near the center thereof. A heater is used as the core member. The heat dissipating outer peripheral surface of the heater is exposed to the air-fuel mixing chamber. Heat is dissipated directly from the heat dissipating outer peripheral surface of the heater to the air-fuel mixing chamber when starting the generation of the combustible gas.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment apparatus for an engine including a combustible gas supplying passage; a heat releasing port opened in an upstream side in the exhaust passage from the oxidation catalyst and in a downstream side in the combustible gas supplying passage, the exhaust passage and the combustible gas supplying passage communicating with each other through the heat releasing port; an ignition apparatus beneath the heat releasing port, the heat of flaming combustion of combustible gas ignited by the ignition apparatus being supplied to the exhaust passage to raise the temperature of exhaust in the exhaust passage; a flame holding plate in a downstream side in the combustible gas supplying passage from the ignition apparatus, an exhaust guiding plate at the top portion of the flame holding plate, the exhaust guiding plate having an upward slope toward a downstream side in the exhaust passage.

Abstract: A textual entailment recognition apparatus (2) includes a vector generation unit (21) that generates, for each of first and second texts, a vector for each predicate-argument structure by using a word other than a word indicating a type of argument of a predicate in the predicate-argument structure; a combination identification (22) unit that compares the vector generated for each predicate-argument structure for the first text and the vector generated for each predicate-argument structure for the second text, and identifies combinations of the predicate-argument structures of the first text and the predicate-argument structure of the second text based on a result of the comparison; and an entailment determination unit (23) that obtains a feature amount for each of the identified combinations, and determines whether the first text entails the second text based on the obtained feature amounts.

Abstract: In a plate-shaped fluorescent member configured to convert the wavelength of the light emitted by a semiconductor light emitting element, the fluorescent member is formed of an inorganic material having a refractive index of 1.5 or more and a light transmittance at the emission peak wavelength of the semiconductor light emitting element of less than 20%. A concave portion is formed, of the surfaces of the fluorescent member, on the surface on the side where the light in the semiconductor light emitting element is mainly emitted. In the fluorescent member, the light transmittance of the light having a wavelength of 380 nm to 500 nm may be less than 20%. The concave portion may be a groove. The concave portion may be a plurality of holes that are scattered.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment device of a diesel engine is provided in which combustible gas is burned with oxygen in exhaust, combustion heat increases a temperature of the exhaust, and heat of the exhaust can burn and remove PM accumulating in a DPF. In order to cause a heater for radiating heat at a start of generation of the combustible gas to enter a catalyst inlet portion, and fit a liquid fuel retaining member over a periphery of the heater, a guide plate is provided to a lower face of the liquid fuel retaining member so that the air-fuel mixture moving down in the liquid fuel retaining member flows along an upper face of the guide plate out to a periphery of the guide plate.