Abstract: An object is to provide a communication management system that prevents a surveying instrument from being used in an environment exceeding a guaranteed range of specifications. To achieve the above-described object, a communication management system includes a surveying instrument including a survey unit, a temperature sensor, a control unit, and a communication unit, a management server, and a remote terminal, wherein the remote terminal sets a usable temperature of the surveying instrument, sets a determination on the usable temperature and a temperature acquired by the temperature sensor, and an operation responsive to results of the determination, and makes the management server store these, the surveying instrument transmits its own temperature information to the management server, and the management server makes the determination by comparing the usable temperature and a temperature acquired by the temperature sensor, and executes the operation based on results of the determination.

Abstract: A wall surface suction-type travel device includes a main body, a cushion, a plurality of support wheels, a crawler, and a drive source. The main body includes a wall-surface facing section and a draw-in port. The cushion is disposed on the wall-surface facing section of the main body and surrounding an edge of the draw-in port. The cushion is elastically deformable and has a slide surface sliding on the wall surface when the wall surface suction-type travel device travels on the wall surface. The plurality of support wheels are disposed on the main body. The crawler is an endless belt suspended on the plurality of the support wheels. The crawler has a grip surface put into contact with the wall surface when the wall surface suction-type travel device travels on the wall surface. The drive source is to rotate the crawler.

Abstract: A connector holding mechanism includes a biasing member provided in a through hole formed in a bottom plate of a storage body, a cover having a connector insertion hole and an inclined surface which is fixed to the through hole, a connector, in which a terminal is loosely inserted into the connector insertion hole, and a flange portion protruding from an outer periphery of the housing biased by the biasing member. When the connector is waiting to be fitted to a stored object, the connector is held in a posture where the terminal is inclined due to abutment between the inclined surface and the flange with respect to a virtual line perpendicular to the bottom surface, and when the connector is fitted to the stored object, the connector is held in a posture where the terminal is vertical along the virtual line.

Abstract: A survey system includes: an eyewear device including a display, a communication unit, an acceleration sensor, an image pickup unit, a visual line sensor, and a control unit; and a surveying instrument including a communication unit, a distance-measuring unit , drive units, angle-measuring units, an image pickup unit, an image analyzing unit, and an arithmetic control unit, operates the drive units in response to tilts detected by the acceleration sensor, transmits an image captured by the eyewear device and a position of a visual line marker to the surveying instrument, identifies the image captured by the eyewear device in an image captured by the image pickup unit of the surveying instrument, and recognizes the position of the visual line marker as a position of a target and measures a distance and an angle to the target position.

Abstract: A crack measuring apparatus includes distance-measuring units, an image pickup unit having pixels the positions of which are identified on an imaging device, an infrared image pickup unit having pixels the positions of which are identified on an imaging device and having sensitivity to infrared rays, driving units, angle-measuring units, and an arithmetic control unit, the arithmetic control unit searches for a cracked portion from a temperature difference in an infrared image by turning the infrared image pickup unit, captures an image of the cracked portion by the image pickup unit and identifies a position of the cracked portion from a density difference in the captured image, measures the position of the cracked portion by the distance-measuring units and the angle-measuring units, and acquires three-dimensional absolute coordinates of the cracked portion.

Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument sharing system including a surveying instrument and a management server, capable of communicating with each other, the management server includes a personal identification information database having authentication information registered in advance and a use management table as a correspondence table between information on available surveying instruments and the required number of points, the surveying instrument includes a personal authentication execution unit that identifies a user from the personal identification information database based on authentication data acquired by a personal authentication sensor, the management server includes an availability determination unit that determines whether the surveying instrument is available to an identified user based on the use management table, and a point consumption unit that consumes the required number of points from points that the identified user purchased in advance based on the use management table, and the surveying i

Abstract: A connector holding mechanism includes a biasing member provided in a through hole formed in a bottom plate of a storage body, a cover having a connector insertion hole and an inclined surface which is fixed to the through hole, a connector, in which a terminal is loosely inserted into the connector insertion hole, and a flange portion protruding from an outer periphery of the housing biased by the biasing member. When the connector is waiting to be fitted to a stored object, the connector is held in a posture where the terminal is inclined due to abutment between the inclined surface and the flange with respect to a virtual line perpendicular to the bottom surface, and when the connector is fitted to the stored object, the connector is held in a posture where the terminal is vertical along the virtual line.

Abstract: Provided is a communication management system of a surveying instrument, which enables management by a management server through a communication network even when the surveying instrument has no communication function with the management server through the communication network.

Abstract: A wall surface suction travel device includes a first travel unit, a second travel unit, a joint mechanism, and an elastic mechanism. The travel units are aligned along a travel direction and are each configured to travel on a wall surface while being suctioned on the wall surface. The joint mechanism couples the travel units together such that the travel units can pivot relative to each other on a pivot axis extending in a direction that is perpendicular to both a wall surface facing direction and the travel direction. The elastic mechanism includes a first end fixed to the first travel unit, a second end fixed to the second travel unit, and an elastic member configured to be elastically deformed when one of the travel units pivots relative to the other travel unit and a distance between the first end and the second end is shortened.

Abstract: A DC power transmission system interconnects a plurality of AC systems via a DC line. A plurality of power conversion devices are connected between the plurality of AC systems and the DC line. One of the plurality of power conversion devices controls the voltage on the DC line, while the remaining power conversion device controls a current input and output to and from the DC line. In a restart which resumes power conversion from a stopped state for controlling a DC current on the DC line, the power conversion device performing current control monitors the voltage on the DC line and starts a restart operation without transmitting or receiving information to or from the other power conversion device.

Abstract: Provided is a remote operation system for surveying instruments, capable of making surveying instruments execute a necessary operation even when communication with a management server fails.

Abstract: A charging device includes: a connector that protrudes from a placement surface; a protective plate; a wall surface intersecting with the placement surface; a support member capable of moving to be in a first orientation in which the protective plate is supported and a second orientation in which the protective plate is not supported; and a lock mechanism that locks the support member in the first orientation. The lock mechanism includes a first protruding part that, when the support member is locked, releases the locking of the support member by being pushed. The support member (i) includes a second protruding part, and (ii) moves from the first orientation to the second orientation by the second protruding part being pushed toward the wall surface in a state where the locking is released. When the support member has moved, the protective plate is capable of moving to the placement stand.

Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a data buffer in which data read out from the nonvolatile memory are stored prior to transmission to an initiator that is requesting the data, a port through which the initiator sends a request for the data and through which the data in the data buffer are transmitted to the initiator. When the port is connected to a first initiator at a time both first data requested by the first initiator and second data requested by a second initiator are stored in the data buffer and the second data become ready for transmission prior to the first data, the second data are transmitted through the port prior to the first data.

Abstract: A loaded body housing device includes: an upper table which rotates about a rotation axis extending along the Z-axis and supports a plurality of batteries in a plurality of storage spaces around the rotation axis; a lower table which rotates about a rotation axis extending along the Z-axis and supports a plurality of batteries in a plurality of storage spaces around the rotation axis; and a casing having openings each of which exposes one storage space when viewed in the negative direction of the Z-axis. The upper table is positioned to have overlapping between a part of the plurality of storage spaces and the plurality of storage spaces and no overlapping between the plurality of storage spaces and a storage space when viewed in the negative direction of the Z-axis. A direction in which the rotation axes are arranged intersects with a direction in which the storage spaces are arranged.

Abstract: A storage device includes a storage body, which includes a bottom surface, wall surfaces surrounding a storage space, a front opening portion and an upper opening portion such that a package body is enabled to be inserted into the storage space from a plurality of directions, a front guide, which is provided on the bottom surface in proximity to the front opening portion, and includes an inclined surface descending toward a surface on a back side of the storage space among the wall surfaces, and a rear guide, which is provided on the surface on the back side in proximity to the upper opening portion, and restricts upward movement of the package body stored in the storage space along the surface on the back side.

Abstract: A storage device includes a shutter having a vertically divided dome shape formed by cutting a one-end-closed cylindrical shape at two planes, the one-end-closed cylindrical shape being formed by closing an upper end of a cylindrical portion whose axis line is along an up-down direction, an arc-shaped lower portion reinforcing member which has a higher rigidity than the cylindrical portion, a housing, which includes an opening portion, the opening portion being opened and closed by the shutter rotating around the axis line, a bearing portion provided in the housing, which suspends and supports the ceiling surface portion, a lower end support portion, which supports a lower surface of the lower portion reinforcing member at a plurality of locations; and an inner side support portion, which supports an inner peripheral surface of the lower portion reinforcing member at a plurality of locations.

Abstract: A power conversion system includes a first power converter and a second power converter which are capable of converting an alternating-current power into a direct-current power or converting a DC power into an AC power. The first power converter is interconnectable to a first AC system via a first AC circuit breaker. The second power converter is interconnectable to a second AC system via a second AC circuit breaker. A first DC terminal of the first power converter and a second DC terminal of the second power converter are connectable. The first power converter begins operation prior to the second power converter. A first control device controls a voltage of the first DC terminal, based on a status of the second power converter sent from a second control device.

Abstract: In order to achieve the object, a communication management system includes: a surveying instrument including a survey unit, a system timer, a control unit, and a communication unit; a management server capable of communicating with the surveying instrument; and a remote terminal capable of communicating with the management server, wherein the remote terminal sets a usable time of the surveying instrument, sets determination on an operating time of the surveying instrument and the usable time, and an operation responding to results of the determination, and makes the management server store these, the surveying instrument transmits an operation start time and an operation end time to the management server, and the management server acquires the operation start time and the operation end time, and compares the usable time and an operating time of the surveying instrument and executes the determination, and executes the operation based on results of the determination.

Abstract: A wall surface suction-type travel device is configured to travel on a wall surface while being suctioned on the wall surface. An intermediate chamber communicates with decompression chambers facing the wall surface. A suction device sucks in air from the intermediate chamber to decompress the intermediate chamber. Principal communicating parts allow the decompression chambers to communicate with the intermediate chamber. Secondary communicating parts allow the respective decompression chambers to communicate with the intermediate chamber. Valves face openings of the respective principal communicating parts. An area of an opening of each of the secondary communicating parts is smaller than an area of the opening of a corresponding one of the principal communicating parts.

Abstract: Provided is a communication management system for a surveying instrument. The system includes: a surveying instrument including a survey unit configured to survey a target, a control unit configured to control the survey unit, and a communication unit connected to a communication network; a management server capable of communicating with the surveying instrument; and a remote terminal capable of communicating with the management server, wherein the remote terminal makes maintenance settings for the surveying instrument and cancels the maintenance settings, and stores the maintenance settings and cancellation of the settings in the management server, the management server gives a notification to at least one of a user and an administrator that the surveying instrument is in a state requiring predetermined maintenance work according to the maintenance settings, and when the maintenance settings are canceled, stops the notification.