Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling a substrate transfer system transferring substrates by controlling a first transfer device and a second transfer device comprising: a process of acquiring process module-specific substrate transfer positions for each of the plurality of process modules, wherein the process module-specific substrate transfer positions are substrate transfer positions of the mounting parts of the first transfer device for allowing the second transfer device to place substrates at centers of the stages, the second transfer device transferring substrates from the mounting parts of the load lock module to the stages of the process modules.

Abstract: An image identifying apparatus includes: an obtainer that obtains image data; an image processor that generates test image data by performing resizing to reduce the image data with predetermined aspect ratio distortion; a storage unit that stores a machine learning model used to identify attribute information of the test image data; and an identifier that identifies the attribute information of the test image data, using the machine learning model. The machine learning model includes trained parameters that have been adjusted through machine learning using a training data set including items of second training image data obtained through application of one or more types of aspect ratio distortion including the predetermined aspect ratio distortion to each of items of first training image data, and items of attribute information associated with the items of second training image data.

Abstract: A method of producing a positive electrode active material, the method includes: contacting first particles that contain a lithium transition metal composite oxide with a solution containing sodium ions to obtain second particles containing the lithium transition metal composite oxide and sodium element, wherein the lithium transition metal composite oxide has a layered structure and a composition ratio of a number of moles of nickel to a total number of moles of metals other than lithium in a range of from 0.7 to less than 1; mixing the second particles and a boron compound to obtain a mixture; and heat-treating the mixture at a temperature in a range of from 100° C. to 450° C.

Abstract: A diamond coated tool includes a base material and a diamond layer provided on the base material. The diamond layer has a boron content of 1×103 ppma or more and 1×106 ppma or less and an oxygen content of 1×102 ppma or more and 1×105 ppma or less in a first region surrounded by a surface of the diamond layer and a first imaginary plane located at a distance of 1 ?m from the surface in a thickness direction.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a support unit that supports a wafer including a plurality of functional elements disposed adjacent to each other via a street, an irradiation unit that irradiates the street with laser light, and a control unit that controls the irradiation unit based on information about the streets so that a first region and a second region of the street are simultaneously irradiated with the laser light, and a power of the laser light for removing a surface layer of the street in the first region is higher than a power for removing the surface layer of the street in the first region. The information about the street includes information that a processing threshold value indicating a difficulty of laser processing in the first region is lower than a processing threshold value in the second region.

Abstract: Provided is a positive-electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including a lithium transition metal composite oxide particle having a layered structure and containing nickel, and an oxide containing lithium and aluminum and an oxide containing lithium and boron adhering to a surface of the lithium transition metal composite oxide particle. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particle includes a secondary particle formed by aggregation of primary particles containing a solid solution of aluminum in a surface layer. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particles have a composition with a difference of more than 0.22 mol % and less than 0.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted seat device includes an SB main frame, a back rest which the back of a seated person leans on, a relay disc fixed to the back rest, a first engagement member fixed with respect to the SB main frame at a position higher than the relay disc, an upper wire for suspending and holding the back rest from the first engagement member so as to be able to swing with respect to the SB main frame with the relay disc being the center, and a height adjustment mechanism constructed to be capable of pulling in part of the upper wire, so that an amount by which the upper wire is pulled in is changed to cause a change in disposed height of the back rest with respect to the SB main frame.

Abstract: There is a control device for controlling a vacuum valve device which includes a valve body configured to open and close a transfer path through which a first chamber and a second chamber communicate with each other, a seal member provided in the valve body, and a valve body driver having a motor and configured to drive the valve body, wherein the control device is configured to be switchable between a first operation pattern for controlling the motor at a first separation speed and a second operation pattern for controlling the motor at a second separation speed lower than the first separation speed.

Abstract: An information management device for managing commodity information of commodities sold at stores, includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a user terminal in which a scheduled event can be registered, a memory that stores setting information in which one or more commodity types are associated with an event that can be registered by the user terminal and commodity information of commodities that are of the one or more commodity types, and a processor configured to: acquire event information indicating a first event registered by the user terminal via the communication interface, based on the event information, search the memory for one or more of the commodity types associated with the first event, acquire commodity information of each of the commodities of the one or more commodity types, and control the communication interface to transmit the commodity information to the user terminal.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an accounting apparatus includes a change machine, a detection device, and a controller. The controller determines whether or not the change machine is capable of paying change in cash on the basis of a result of a detection by the detection device. The controller accepts, when determining that the change machine fails to pay the change in cash, a payment method selected by a customer from a plurality of change payment methods other than paying in cash.

Abstract: Provided are a construction information integration system, a construction information integration method, and a construction information integration program that properly support the automated operation of a crane. The construction information integration system 100 manages the automated operation of a crane and includes an architectural information acquiring unit 110 that acquires architectural information including information related to a design, a construction member, and a construction plan of a building to be constructed, a plan information generation unit 120 that generates, on the basis of the architectural information, first plan information including at least installation coordinates and order of installation for the construction member, and a transmission unit 130 that transmits the first plan information to a machine body control system 20 provided as a separate system from the construction information integration system 100 to control the operation of the crane.

Abstract: Provided is a positive-electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including a lithium transition metal composite oxide particle having a layered structure and containing nickel, and an oxide containing lithium and aluminum and an oxide containing lithium and boron adhering to a surface of the lithium transition metal composite oxide particle. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particle includes a secondary particle formed by aggregation of primary particles containing a solid solution of aluminum in a surface layer. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particles have a composition with a difference of more than 0.22 mol % and less than 0.

Abstract: A method for producing an easily polymerizable compound, comprising a step of introducing an easily polymerizable compound-containing liquid into a vaporization separation column (1) selected from a distillation column and a stripping column to purify, wherein: the vaporization separation column (1) is provided with a circulation path (2) for returning a drawn liquid, obtained by withdrawing at least a part of a bottom liquid (3) of the column, to the vaporization separation column (1); the circulation path (2) is provided with a reboiler (4) having a heating part (5) and a supply port (7) for supplying an oxygen-containing gas on an upstream side of the reboiler (4); the supply port (7) is located below an inlet of the heating part (5) with a height difference of 0.5 m or more; and an oxygen-containing gas is supplied to the drawn liquid from the supply port (7).

Abstract: A method for producing an easily polymerizable compound, comprising a polymerization prevention step of supplying an oxygen-containing gas to an easily polymerizable compound-containing liquid through a gas supply means having one or more supply ports, wherein an area S (mm2) per one supply port is 0.1 or more and 20 or less, and a ratio V/S of a linear velocity V (m/s) of the gas at the supply port to the area S in the polymerization preventing step is 6.0 or more.

Abstract: A method of producing a positive electrode active material, the method includes: contacting first particles that contain a lithium transition metal composite oxide with a solution containing sodium ions to obtain second particles containing the lithium transition metal composite oxide and sodium element, wherein the lithium transition metal composite oxide has a layered structure and a composition ratio of a number of moles of nickel to a total number of moles of metals other than lithium in a range of from 0.7 to less than 1; mixing the second particles and a boron compound to obtain a mixture; and heat-treating the mixture at a temperature in a range of from 100° C. to 450° C.

Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode composition with which a lithium sulfur battery may achieve a high cycle capacity retention. The positive electrode composition for lithium sulfur batteries includes a sulfur-carbon composite including a carbon material having void spaces and an elemental sulfur containing material disposed in the void spaces of the carbon material, and a lithium transition metal composite oxide.

Abstract: A method of producing a positive electrode active material, the method includes: contacting first particles that contain a lithium transition metal composite oxide with a solution containing sodium ions to obtain second particles containing the lithium transition metal composite oxide and sodium element, wherein the lithium transition metal composite oxide has a layered structure and a composition ratio of a number of moles of nickel to a total number of moles of metals other than lithium in a range of from 0.7 to less than 1; mixing the second particles and a boron compound to obtain a mixture; and heat-treating the mixture at a temperature in a range of from 100° C. to 450° C.

Abstract: An estimation device includes: an obtainer that obtains first content associated with a first time and second content associated with a second time, the second time preceding the first time by a predetermined amount of time; a determiner that, by applying first processing for determining a type of content to each of the first content and the second content, obtains first type information indicating a type of the first content and second type information indicating a type of the second content; a calculator that, using the first type information and the second type information, calculates confidence level information indicating a confidence level of the first type information; and an outputter that, using the confidence level information calculated by the calculator, outputs specifying information specifying the type of the first content derived from the first type information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data, a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each unit region of the image data, a confidence that the unit region is an extraction subject, the confidence as the extraction subject being calculated for each unit region of the image data by inputting the image data into a trained model of a neural network that has been trained using images of an existing extraction subject or a region of interest as training data, a modification unit configured to modify a reference value of the confidence, which is used to extract a region of interest, an extraction unit configured to extract the region of interest on the basis of the calculated confidence of each unit region and the modified reference value, and a display unit configured to display the extracted region of interest.