Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen secondary battery includes an electrode group comprising a separator, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode, and the positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material including a base particle comprising a nickel hydroxide particle containing Mn in solid solution and a conductive layer comprising a Co compound and covering the surface of the base particle, wherein the X-ray absorption edge energy of Mn detected within 6500 to 6600 eV by measurement with an XAFS method is 6548 eV or higher.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a diesel engine includes a neighboring temperature estimating section which estimates a temperature of a neighborhood of a glow plug that heats an interior of a cylinder upon startup, and a supercharging pressure control section which controls a supercharging pressure in such a way that a rotation fluctuation of the engine does not increase, on the basis of the estimated temperature of the neighborhood of the glow plug.

Abstract: A machine tool control system according to the present invention includes: a three-dimensional coordinate computing unit which calculates three-dimensional coordinates of a workpiece based on a plurality of images of the workpiece, the images being taken by the imaging apparatus from a plurality of different directions, and which calculates, from the three-dimensional coordinates, three-dimensional coordinates of a specified machining start point on the workpiece; and a coordinate converting unit which converts three-dimensional coordinates that includes the machining start point on the workpiece calculated by the three-dimensional coordinate computing unit into coordinates in the machine coordinate system for the machine tool, and which sets the converted three-dimensional coordinates of the machining start point on the workpiece, as a workpiece origin, into the machining program for the machine tool.

Abstract: A vibrator device includes: a base; a vibrator disposed in the base; and a lid including a substrate having a light transmitting property and a silicon substrate joined to the substrate and a part of the base surrounding the vibrator.

Abstract: An oxygen generation electrode includes: a conductive substrate; and an oxide film formed on a first surface of the conductive substrate and containing Ba, Sn, and La or Sb, wherein the oxide film has a first absorption edge in a visible light region and a second absorption edge in an infrared light region.

Abstract: A seal structure of an optical fiber drawing furnace for sealing a gap between an upper end opening of the optical fiber drawing furnace and an optical fiber glass preform inserted from the upper end opening, includes a plurality of blade members, a support mechanism for supporting the plurality of blade members, and a pressing operation mechanism for individually pressing the plurality of blade members in a radial direction of the optical fiber glass preform so as to bring distal ends of the plurality of blade members into contact with a side surface of the optical fiber glass preform, wherein a pressing force at the time of bringing the plurality of blade members into contact with the optical fiber glass preform is set at 0.1 to 10 N per blade member.

Abstract: In an alloy for an R-T-B-based rare earth sintered magnet of the present invention formed of a rare earth element R, a transition metal T containing Fe as a main component, a metal element M containing one or more types of metals selected from Al, Ga, and Cu, and B and inevitable impurities, 13 at % to 16 at % of R is contained, 4.5 at % to 6.2 at % of B is contained, 0.1 at % to 2.4 at % of M is contained, the balance is T and the inevitable impurities, a proportion of Dy in the entire rare earth element is 0 at % to 65 at %, Formula 1 described below is satisfied, a main phase containing R2Fe14B and an alloy grain boundary phase containing more R than the main phase are included, and a distance between the alloy grain boundary phases is greater than or equal to 3 ?m and less than or equal to 11 ?m. 0.30?B/TRE?0.

Abstract: A valve device includes a body, a joint, a check valve, a valve seat fixation member having an outer peripheral surface on which an external thread is provided, and a sealing member. The body has an attachment hole that attaches the joint and the valve seat fixation member from an outside of the body in a sequence of the joint and the valve seat fixation member, and that has an inner peripheral surface in which an internal thread screwed to the external thread of the valve seat fixation member is provided. The sealing member is provided between the joint and the valve seat fixation member. An outer peripheral edge of the sealing member is located radially inward of a screwed region of the internal thread and the external thread.

Abstract: An R-T-B-based rare earth sintered magnet, comprising a rare earth element R, B, a metallic element M which includes one or more metals selected from Al, Ga and Cu, a transition metal T which includes Fe as a main component, and inevitable impurities, wherein the sintered magnet includes 13 atom % to 15.5 atom % of R, 5.0 atom % to 6.0 atom % of B, 0.1 atom % to 2.4 atom % of M, and T and the inevitable impurities as a balance, and wherein the sintered magnet includes 0.015 atom % to 0.10 atom % of Zr as the transition metal T.

Abstract: An electronic component transport apparatus includes: an openable and closable first opening and closing portion; a first rotation support portion which supports the first opening and closing portion to be rotatable; a second opening and closing portion provided to be openable and closable in the first opening and closing portion; and a second rotation support portion which supports the second opening and closing portion to be rotatable. An area of the first opening and closing portion is greater than an area of the second opening and closing portion.

Abstract: The invention provides a production method for a glass particulate deposit M which includes a deposition step where a starting rod 111 and a burner 222 for production of glass particles 130 are installed in a reactor 102, a glass source material is introduced into the burner 222, the glass source material is subjected to flame thermal decomposition in the flame formed by the burner 222 to thereby form glass particles 130, and the formed glass particles 130 are deposited on the starting rod 111 to produce a glass particulate deposit M. In the deposition step of the production method, at least two ejecting ports 231 are provided per one burner 222 for ejecting the glass source material from the burner 222, and a flow rate of the glass source material jetting out through one glass source material ejecting port 231 is from 4 m/s to 60 m/s.

Abstract: A vibration element includes a base and a vibrating arm extending from the base. The vibrating arm includes an arm positioned between the base and a weight. A weight film is disposed on the weight. The weight has a first principal surface and a second principal surface in a front and back relationship with respect to a center plane of the arm. A center of gravity of the weight is located between the first principal surface and the center plane of the arm. A center of gravity of the weight film is located between the second principal surface and the center plane of the arm.

Abstract: An optical fiber drawing method where a glass base material passes through an opening provided in a drawing furnace from the material side and drawing is performed by suspending and descending the material into the drawing furnace while being sealed by a sealing mechanism provided in the vicinity of the opening, in which a first portion of the sealing mechanism seals a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the material and an inner surface of the opening when drawing starts and a tapered portion of the material starts passing through the first portion, and a second portion is disposed above the first portion before sealing by the first portion becomes ineffective, and then conduction between inside and outside of the drawing furnace is carried out to prevent fluctuation of pressure inside the furnace immediately after disposing the second portion and the conduction is interrupted when the material further descends.

Abstract: To select a picking position of a workpiece in a simpler method. A robot system includes a three-dimensional measuring device for generating a range image of a plurality of workpieces, a robot having a hand for picking up at least one of the plurality of workpieces, a display part for displaying the range image generated by the three-dimensional measuring device, and a reception part for receiving a teaching of a picking position for picking-up by the hand on the displayed range image. The robot picks up at least one of the plurality of workpieces by the hand on the basis of the taught picking position.

Abstract: A product-input-plan developing device for developing product input plans including an input order of products to a manufacture line that includes a branch and a merge, and paths along which the products individually flow in the manufacture line, includes a processor configured to optimize product input plans for k number of products for which a product input plan is developable without causing information explosion from among the products to be input to the manufacture line; and determine adoption of product input plans for first n (n<k) number of products from among the product input plans optimized by the processor, wherein the processor repeatedly executes the process for optimizing the product input plan and the processor repeatedly executes the process for determination for a product for which adoption of the product input plan is not determined by the processor.

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen secondary battery includes an electrode group including a separator, a positive electrode and a negative electrode, the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material, the positive electrode active material includes a composite particle including a compound of Co and a compound of Ni, and the ratio R represented by A/B satisfies a relationship of R?0.3, when the amount of jumping in the X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum of the Co in 7600 to 7800 eV and the amount of jumping in the X-ray absorption fine structure spectrum of the Ni in 8300 to 8500 eV obtained by measurement according to a conversion electron yield method are defined as A and B, respectively.

Abstract: A communication path control system includes a communication performance evaluation unit configured to evaluate communication performance of a network based on a number of SYN packets transmitted to a second communication device by a first communication device, and a path control unit configured to change a communication path of the first communication device to a third communication device from the second communication device in the case where a deterioration of communication performance of the second communication device is detected.

Abstract: An image sensor driving apparatus extracts an image signal from an image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements two-dimensionally arrayed, and includes a conversion unit which converts the image signal into digital data by performing offset correction for the image signal. The apparatus obtains digital data corresponding to a first sampling count by causing the conversion unit to process a reference voltage signal in accordance with a synchronization signal which determines an imaging frame rate, and obtains digital data corresponding to a second sampling count by causing the conversion unit to process a reference voltage signal every time extracting an image signal from a photoelectric conversion element group obtained by dividing a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The apparatus generates a correction value used for offset correction based on the obtained digital data corresponding to the first and second sampling counts.

Abstract: A MEMS element includes a surface silicon layer on which an element is formed and on which a first electrode and a second electrode as element electrodes and an electrode pad connected to the first electrode and the second electrode are disposed, and in which a first wiring through-hole is disposed at a position overlapping with the electrode pad of the surface silicon layer and a wiring electrode electrically connected to the electrode pad is disposed in the first wiring through-hole, in plan view.

Abstract: A fluid structure interaction simulation method includes a graph information forming process to form graph information of nodes obtained by discretizing a computing region for each of a fluid and a structure that are represented by meshes, and a main time development loop process to simulate a physical phenomenon. The loop process includes arranging IMEs (Interaction Mediating Elements) that move with a displacement of the structure, on a boundary of the structure, defining, within the IME, correcting functions of a pressure and a velocity of the fluid that interact with the pressure and the velocity of the fluid and the displacement of the structure, and executing a simulation based on the correcting functions, in a state in which the meshes of the fluid are mismatched to the meshes of the structure.