Abstract: A database management system according to one embodiment includes at least one processor configured to control a hierarchical database including a plurality of end databases and a primary database directly or indirectly connected to the plurality of end databases. Each of the plurality of end databases stores sensor data. The primary database provides a virtual data table. The at least one processor transmits, to the end database, a search instruction for obtaining a result set containing a combination of an intermediate result based on the sensor data and a path ID for uniquely identifying a path connecting the primary database and the end database, receives a result set, and represents a search result based on the result set by the virtual data table and outputs the search result.

Abstract: To make an excessive power receiving request by a sink when a USB Type-C legacy cable is used. An electronic device includes a first and second terminals connected to a cable, a detection circuit for detecting the voltage of the first and second terminals, and a first or second terminal detected by the detection circuit. It is provided with a controller that determines the type of cable based on the terminal voltage and confirms the power supply capacity of the external electronic device connected via the cable according to the type of cable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning liquid for a water-based ink that contains a pigment and a water-insoluble polymer, said cleaning liquid containing (A) a surfactant, (B) a water-soluble organic solvent containing (b-1) diethylene glycol monoisopropyl ether, and water, in which the surfactant (A) contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (a-1) an acetylene glycol or an ethyleneoxide adduct of the acetylene glycol, and (a-2) a polyethylene glycol alkyl ether containing an alkyl group having not less than 8 carbon atoms or a polyethylene glycol aryl ether containing an aryl group having not less than 6 carbon atoms, and a content of the water-soluble organic solvent (B) in the cleaning liquid is from 5 to 30% by mass; and a method of cleaning a water-based ink using the cleaning liquid.

Abstract: A substrate transport device includes an arm, an end effector coupled to the arm, a driver configured to lift the arm so that the end effector receives a substrate, and a controller configured to control an output of the driver to set a lifting speed of the arm. A difference in height between the end effector and the arm is a position difference. A period from when the end effector contacts the substrate until the end effector completes reception of the substrate is a transition period. The controller sets an upper limit value of the lifting speed that decreases an amplitude of one of acceleration or jerk of the position difference in the transition period as compared to before the transition period to an upper limit value of the lifting speed for the transition period.

Abstract: A display device with a variant-shape display region other than the rectangular display region is configured to form a scanning line drive circuit along the variant-shape display region. The scanning line drive circuit includes bus wiring group with clock wiring for supplying clocks with three or more phases and the power supply wiring for supplying power, and the unit circuits for configuring the shift register including five or more transistors. The bus wiring and the unit circuits are formed on the different regions so as not to cross with one another.

Abstract: A substrate transport device includes an arm, an end effector coupled to the arm, a driver configured to lift the arm so that the end effector receives a substrate, and a controller configured to control an output of the driver to change a lifting speed of the arm. While lifting the arm at a first speed to lift the end effector toward the substrate, the controller changes the lifting speed to a second speed that is lower than the first speed when the end effector starts to raise a height position of the substrate.

Abstract: A display device includes: a connector unit including a plurality of receiving electrodes configured to receive an input signal from a plurality of transmission electrodes of an interface unit having a flat plate shape; a signal processor which determines an arrangement of an input data included in the input signal; and a display output portion which performs an image output processing according to the arrangement of the input data determined by the signal processor, wherein the plurality of receiving electrodes are disposed to face the plurality of transmission electrodes in each of a plurality of connection directions defined by in-plane rotation angles of the interface unit, in a predetermined region which the interface unit opposes, and wherein the signal processor determines the arrangement of the input data according to the connection direction of the interface unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having an outer shape of a display region formed other than a rectangle. A driver for supplying a video signal is disposed outside the display region. A selector with selector TFT is disposed between the display region and the driver. A video signal line is disposed between the driver and the selector, and a drain line is disposed between the selector and the display region. A scanning circuit for supplying a scanning signal to the scanning line is disposed outside the display region. The selector is disposed between the scanning line and the display region, and covered with ITO as the common electrode. The common bus wiring is disposed outside the selector.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion module includes a circuit board; a photoelectric conversion element mounted on a first main surface of the circuit board; and an optical lens provided in an optical path between an end surface of an optical fiber and the photoelectric conversion element, wherein a part of the optical lens is inserted in a recessed portion formed in the first main surface of the circuit board.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes, in a tread portion, a belt layer including a circumferential belt layer with a belt cord disposed along a circumferential direction; and belt plies having a larger lateral direction dimension than a lateral direction dimension of the circumferential belt layer. A gauge from a surface of the tread portion to the belt layer is equal on a vehicle outer side and a vehicle inner side where the circumferential belt layer is disposed. At positions located away from a tire equatorial plane toward the vehicle outer side and the vehicle inner side by 120% of half of the lateral direction dimension of the circumferential belt layer, a gauge H1out on the vehicle outer side and a gauge H1in on the vehicle inner side to a belt ply of the belt plies located outermost in a radial direction satisfy 1 mm?H1in?H1out?3 mm.

Abstract: A display device with a variant-shape display region other than the rectangular display region is configured to form a scanning line drive circuit along the variant-shape display region. The scanning line drive circuit includes bus wiring group with clock wiring for supplying clocks with three or more phases and the power supply wiring for supplying power, and the unit circuits for configuring the shift register including five or more transistors. The bus wiring and the unit circuits are formed on the different regions so as not to cross with one another.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a confirmation unit and an application unit. If a changeable flag is attached to a process flow, the confirmation unit confirms whether or not a change exists in a master of the process flow. If the confirmation unit confirms that a change exists in the master, the application unit applies the change to the process flow that is to be executed.

Abstract: A submergence detection device includes: a housing in which an opening is formed; and a detection electrode disposed inside the housing and configured to detect a submergence. A through hole is formed in the housing. When seen from the opening, a wall surface that is located in the housing farther than a position of the through hole is watertight. When seen from the opening, the detection electrode is disposed closer to the opening than the through hole.

Abstract: A separator assembly for a fuel cell includes a first separator, a second separator, and a joined portion. In the joined portion, the first separator and the second separator are joined to each other through laser welding. The first separator includes a first surface that is intended to be opposed to the membrane electrode assembly. The first surface of the first separator includes an exposed portion where the base of the first separator is exposed. The second separator includes a second surface that is intended to be opposed to the membrane electrode assembly. A film including conductive particles is arranged on the entire second surface of the second separator. The joined portion is formed by irradiating the exposed portion of the first separator with laser.

Abstract: There is provided a water jacket spacer set in a groove-like coolant passage of a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine including cylinder bores and set in an entire circumferential direction or a part in a circumferential direction of the groove-like coolant passage when viewed in the circumferential direction, wherein a coolant passage opening through which coolant flowing on the rear surface side of the water jacket spacer passes to flow to an inner side of the water jacket spacer is formed on at least one place of upper portions of inter-bore portions, a guide wall for guiding the coolant is formed in a vicinity of the coolant passage opening, such that the coolant flows into the coolant passage opening; and an inclined wall is formed on the rear surface side of bore portions of a position where the coolant is supplied into the groove-like coolant passage, the inclined wall extending with an upward inclination to create a flow of the coolant toward the coolant passage opening.

Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus capable of selection of a first shot image taken in focus bracketing as a shot image at a user's desired focus position. A focus step is an amount of change in focus position between adjacent shot images. A focus lens is driven so as to achieve a focus change speed such that the amount of change in focus per unit time is constant. A vertical synchronization signal is issued to an image pickup device on the basis of a start focus position. A reference position at which a focus position comes to the start focus position in a first shot image generated in the focus bracketing is set. A focus position at the start of exposure is determined based on a time period required for one readout by the image pickup device, an exposure time period, the focus change speed, and the reference position.

Abstract: The wire harness protector includes: electrical wiring insertion parts in which electrical wirings constituting a wire harness are divided and housed, wherein electrical wiring insertion parts are arranged in parallel, at least one side of an arrangement direction of electrical wiring insertion parts is a branch direction of the electrical wirings, at least one branch electrical wiring window is provided in each of the electrical wiring insertion parts except for one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction to extending in a longitudinal direction and be opened in both side surfaces, into which branch electrical wirings made up of a part of the electrical wirings can be inserted, and the branch electrical wiring insertion window is provided in at least a side surface on a side of the branch direction of one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction.

Abstract: The flux according to the present invention includes a fatty acid amide; a first solvent having a temperature, at which its mass measured by thermogravimetry at a nitrogen flow rate of 0.2 to 0.3 L per minute and a temperature increase rate of 10° C. per minute becomes zero, of from 180° C. to lower than 260° C.; and a second solvent having a temperature, at which its mass measured by thermogravimetry at a nitrogen flow rate of 0.2 to 0.3 L per minute and a temperature increase rate of 10° C. per minute becomes zero, of from 100° C. to lower than 220° C. The flux has a content of the first solvent that is lower than a content of the second solvent. The flux does not include reducing agents for reduction removal of surface oxide films of solder, and does not include activators for improving reducibility.

Abstract: A plasma processing method includes: plasma-processing a substrate placed on a surface of a placement table while causing a coolant of 0° C. or lower to flow through a coolant flow path formed inside the table; placing a dummy substrate on the surface of the placement table in place of the substrate; and removing a reaction product generated due to the plasma processing of the substrate by the plasma of the processing gas from a peripheral edge portion of the surface of the placement table while heating the surface of placement table by the plasma of the processing gas via the dummy substrate in a state where the dummy substrate is placed on the surface of the placement table.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coated object and a coating substance spreading apparatus, which coat, as uniformly as possible, a coating substance on a curved coating target surface are provided. A method for manufacturing a coated object, the coated object being an object coated with a coating substance on a coating target surface Tf of the object T, the coating target surface Tf having a curved surface, includes dispensing the coating substance onto the coating target surface Tf; and revolving the object T, having the coating substance dispensed onto the coating target surface Tf, about a revolution axis 13a located remotely from the object T. A coating substance spreading apparatus 1 includes a revolution section 10 configured to revolve an object T about a revolution axis 13a located remotely from the object T.