Abstract: An apparatus/system for generating a high-purity nitrogen gas using a fuel cell includes; a fuel cell that operates by taking in air or a gas containing nitrogen and oxygen, and a fuel gas; a dehumidification mechanism that reduces moisture or water vapor content in an exhaust gas that is extracted from the fuel cell and has a lower oxygen concentration than air; and a filtering mechanism which includes a filter using fibers having different degrees of permeation for nitrogen and oxygen and converts the exhaust gas having a reduced moisture or water vapor content into a gas having an increased nitrogen concentration. The filter recovery ratio is higher when an oxygen concentration of a gas to be filtered is lower. The dehumidification mechanism is a pump unit including a water seal pump to provide an adiabatic expansion chamber in which the exhaust gas extracted from the fuel cell expands adiabatically.

Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires specification information about a robot that is a component of a robot cell system, member information including shape information about a member, other than the robot, which is also a component of the robot cell system, and work information relating to work to be performed by the robot. A layout planning unit calculates, based on the specification information, the member information, and the work information, one or more layout candidates for the robot and the member in the robot cell system. A pose planning unit calculates, for each layout candidate, a set of combinations of a start pose at a start point and an end pose at an end point of each operation of the robot. A route planning unit calculates, for each layout candidate, a set of routes from the start pose to the end pose of each combination of the start pose and the end pose.

Abstract: A phase difference film composed of a resin containing a copolymer including polymerization units A and B, the phase difference film including a cylindrical phase separation structure that generates a structural birefringence, the phase separation structure including a phase (A) having the polymerization unit A as a main component and a phase (B) having the polymerization unit B as a main component, and the phase difference film satisfying the following condition (1) or (2). Condition (1): D(A)>D(B) and f(B)>0.5, and a direction giving a maximum refractive index among in-plane directions and an orientation direction of a cylinder in the phase separation structure are parallel to each other. Condition (2): D(A)>D(B) and f(A)>0.5, and a direction giving a maximum refractive index among in-plane directions and an orientation direction of a cylinder in the phase separation structure are orthogonal to each other.

Abstract: An acquisition unit (32) acquires work information related to work to be performed by a robot having a hand part, grasping information indicating a plurality of candidates for the relative positional relationship between the hand part and a workpiece, workpiece posture information indicating a plurality of candidates for a posture adoptable by the workpiece, and kinematics information regarding the robot. A generation unit (34) generates, for a plurality of target points on a path of the robot for performing the work, a graph (38) which includes a node corresponding to each combination of the workpiece posture information, the posture of the hand part grasping the workpiece, and the posture of the robot, and an edge connecting nodes corresponding to combinations that are transitionable between target points, and in which an estimated operation time corresponding to the transition between the nodes connected by the edge is given to the edge as a weight.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a first input-output terminal and a second input-output terminal through which differential signals are input and output; a transceiver integrated circuit (IC) that transmits and receives the differential signals; a first line that connects the first input-output terminal and the transceiver IC; and a second line that connects the second input-output terminal and the transceiver IC. A first capacitance that is a capacitance between the first line and a ground is at least 80 pF and at most 220 pF, and a second capacitance that is a capacitance between the second line and the ground is at least 80 pF and at most 220 pF.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: generating image data for an application to be displayed on an output device; recording the image data generated by the image generating unit; and receiving operation information from an input device, where the recording includes storing the image data for an application for a predetermined period of time up to the point in time at which operation information is received during the receiving operation information from a specific input unit provided in the input device while displaying an application image.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an additively-manufactured object in which deposition is performed by melting and solidifying a metal depending on three-dimensional shape data of a target shape, includes: acquiring the three-dimensional shape data; creating a deposition plan in which a formation track and a heating condition of the metal are determined; determining a difference between a shape of the additively-manufactured object that thermally contracts by cooling after deposition and a shape of the three-dimensional shape data by an operation; modifying the deposition plan until the difference falls within a predetermined allowable range; and additively manufacturing the additively-manufactured object based on the deposition plan in which the difference falls within the allowable range.

Abstract: Provided are an ink set which is used for recording an image on a surface having a surface energy of 40 mN/m or greater and included in an impermeable base material, the ink set including an ink containing water, a colorant, and resin particles, and a pretreatment liquid containing water and resin particles, in which the resin particles contained in the pretreatment liquid include at least one of a mixture of acrylic resin particles and polyester resin particles or composite particles including an acrylic resin and a polyester resin, and the resin particles contained in the ink include at least one of acrylic resin particles or polyurethane resin particles; an image recording method; a method of producing a laminate; an image recorded material; and a laminate.

Abstract: In an MMC-based power conversion device, a control device generates, for each leg circuit, a first voltage command value not based on circulating current circulating between a plurality of leg circuits and a second voltage command value based on the circulating current. A plurality of individual controllers are provided respectively corresponding to a plurality of converter cells and generate a gate control signal for controlling turning on and off of a switching element of the corresponding converter cell, based on the first voltage command value and the second voltage command value. When generating the gate control signal using pulse width modulation, each individual controller modulates a carrier signal in accordance with the second voltage command value such that the pulse width of the gate control signal changes in accordance with the second voltage command value.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a coil part embedded in a magnetic element body. The coil part has a structure in which plural interlayer insulating films and plural conductor layers having a coil pattern are alternately stacked. At least one of the conductor layers has a clearance area having no coil pattern and extending radially outward from a center axis of the coil part. The magnetic element body includes a first magnetic resin layer provided in an inner diameter area of the coil part, a second magnetic resin layer provided in a radially outside area of the coil part, and a fifth magnetic resin layer filled in the clearance area and contacting the first and second magnetic resin layers.

Abstract: A ballpoint pen is disclosed. In the ballpoint pen, an oil-based ballpoint pen ink composition has an ink viscosity with a range of 500 mPa·s to 15000 mPa·s inclusive at 20° C. and a shear rate of 500 sec-1. A ball has a ball diameter of 0.5 mm or less. A tip distal end portion includes a first swaged portion and a second swaged portion. The first swaged portion has an inclination angle with a range of 90 degrees to 100 degrees inclusive. The second swaged portion is provided closer to a distal end side of a ballpoint pen tip than the first swaged portion and has an inclination angle with a range of 110 degrees to 130 degrees inclusive. An angle of a bottom wall of a ball holding chamber is the same as the inclination angle of the second swaged portion.

Abstract: Between a source electrode (25) of a main device (24) and a current sensing electrode (22) of a current detection device (21), a resistor for detecting current is connected. Dielectric withstand voltage of gate insulator (36) is larger than a product of the resistor and maximal current flowing through the current detection device (21) with reverse bias. A diffusion length of a p-body region (32) of the main device (24) is shorter than that of a p-body (31) of the current detection device (21). A curvature radius at an end portion of the p-body region (32) of the main device (24) is smaller than that of the p-body (31) of the current detection device (21). As a result, at the inverse bias, electric field at the end portion of the p-body region (32) of the main device (24) becomes stronger than that of the p-body region (31) of the current detection device (21). Consequently, avalanche breakdown tends to occur earlier in the main device 24 than the current detection device (21).

Abstract: A multilayer varistor has a stack structure including a plurality of layers stacked in a third direction. The multilayer varistor includes a first internal electrode electrically connected to a first external electrode, a second internal electrode electrically connected to the second external electrode, and a third internal electrode electrically connected to the third external electrode. The first internal electrode is disposed between the second internal electrode and the third internal electrode in the third direction.

Abstract: An object is to provide an acid-type carboxymethylated cellulose nanofiber in which the viscosity is not excessively high at the time of preparing a dispersion liquid and the introduced carboxymethyl group is desalted to convert the acid type, and the acid-type carboxymethylated cellulose nanofiber has 0.01 to 0.50 of the degree of substitution with carboxymethyl group per glucose unit, wherein the B-type viscosity in an aqueous dispersion with a concentration of 0.95 to 1.05% by mass is 1000 mPa·s or more under the condition of 60 rpm and 20° C., and 7000 mPa·s or more under the condition of 6 rpm and 20° C.

Abstract: Carboxymethylated cellulose nanofibers in which the cellulose type I crystallinity is 60% or higher, the aspect ratio is 350 or lower, and the transmittance of light having a wavelength of 660 nm when the carboxymethylated cellulose nanofibers are made into an aqueous dispersion having a solids fraction of 1% (w/v) is 60% or higher.

Abstract: The present invention intends to provide an acid type carboxylated cellulose nanofiber having a high viscosity in a low shear region, or to provide an acid type carboxylated cellulose nanofiber having a very short fiber length, and the acid type carboxylated cellulose nanofiber has a carboxy group at least in part of a constituent unit constituting a cellulose molecular chain, wherein a viscosity of water dispersion with a content from 0.95 to 1.05% by mass is 400 Pa·s or higher at a shear velocity from 0.003 to 0.01 s?1 at 30° C., or an average fiber length is from 50 to 500 nm and a ratio of fibers having a fiber length of 300 nm or shorter is 50% or higher.

Abstract: A reactor device includes a coil, a magnetic core having the coil thereon, a case accommodating the coil and the magnetic core, a cooling plate fixed to the case, an insulating sheet disposed between the coil and the cooling plate, a compressible graphite sheet disposed between the coil and the cooling plate, and a screw to fix the cooling plate to the case. The case has a screw hole and an opening provided therein. The screw passes through the screw hole to fix the cooling plate to the case. The coil contacts the insulating sheet through the opening of the case. The graphite sheet contacts the cooling plate. The reactor has high cooling performance and reliability.

Abstract: Provided is method for evaluating a cellulose nanofiber (CNF) dispersion, the method including: (1) a step of preparing 1.0 mass % of a CNF aqueous dispersion; (2) a step of adding a coloring material into the CNF aqueous solution and stirring with a vortex mixer; (3) a step of sandwiching a film of the coloring material-containing CNF aqueous dispersion between two glass plates such that said film has a thickness of 0.15 mm; (4) a step of observing, with a microscope, the film of the coloring material-containing CNF aqueous dispersion sandwiched between the two glass plates; (5) a step of sorting observed aggregates by size (diameter along major axis) thereof; and (6) a step of calculating a CNF dispersion index from the number of sorted aggregates and evaluating the dispersibility of the CNF aqueous dispersion.