Abstract: The present invention provides a near-infrared transmitting black particle having high transmittance in the near-infrared region and low transmittance in the visible region. Provided is a near-infrared transmitting black particle, having a transmittance T600 (%) at a wavelength of 600 nm and a transmittance T900 (%) at a wavelength of 900 nm that satisfy the relation of the following formula (1) as measured using a spectrophotometer: T900?T600?60 (1).

Abstract: A gaming machine according to the first invention comprises a housing, an operation button for a gaming machine provided in a front position opposite a game player in the housing and a display device disposed at a position adjacent to the operation button for the gaming machine in the housing. The push button 20 includes a base 21, a key top 22, an LED 30, and a light guide plate 31. The key top 22 is supported by the base 21 in a state of being operable by a player, has a front surface 22a that is visible to the player and a back surface 22b on the opposite side thereof, and transmits light. The LED 30 is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and emits light in a desired direction. The light guide plate 31 has a lower surface 31a that is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and on which the light emitted from the LED 30 is incident, and an upper surface 31b that emits light toward the key top 22 side.

Abstract: There is provided a push button device with which a support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without providing the support plate with a latching mechanism, and which can be easily attached and detached. The invention comprises a push button device that is inserted into the opening of a transparent plate from the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. A snap-fit structure that is fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate is provided to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and to the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate.

Abstract: Provided is a fluid control valve capable of stabilizing fluid control characteristics. In a fluid control valve including: a valve housing and a valve seat member which include an inflow passage and a discharge passage, and a valve body that is configured to be brought into contact with and separated from the valve seat member and that forms an inner seal portion and an outer seal portion together with the valve seat member. At least one convex portion which projects into a space inside the valve housing formed between the inner seal portion and the outer seal portion.

Abstract: A support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without having to provide a latching mechanism to the support plate, a push button device can be easily attached and detached, and the fixing of the push button device can be carried out simultaneously with the locking of the flexible wiring. There are provided a push button device that is inserted into an opening in a transparent plate 50 from the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. The outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate have snap-fit structures that are fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method of controlling a manufacturing system using multivariate time series and includes storing recording data as a plurality of time series, each time series having a first recorded value and a final recorded value, interpolating, within a first time window, missing values in the plurality of time series using a Bayesian model, the missing values falling between a first and an end time of the respective time series, storing the interpolated values as prediction data, each interpolated value including an uncertainty, loading recorded data of a second time window, loading prediction data of the second time window, predicting, using the Bayesian model, values for each time series that is absent recorded data and prediction data, storing the predicted values, each prediction value including an uncertainty, and adjusting a device that generates the recorded data based on the prediction values within the second time window.

Abstract: An image sensor according to the present technology includes: a semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element is two-dimensionally arranged; and a magnetic detection unit configured to detect a magnetic change according to a change in a relative position with respect to an imaging lens that guides light from a subject to the pixels.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented method for detecting anomalies during lot production, wherein the products within a production lot are processed according to a sequence of steps that include manufacturing steps and one or more quality control steps interspersed among the manufacturing steps, the method comprising: obtaining process quality inspection data from each of the one or more quality control steps for a first production lot; obtaining product characteristics data for the products in the first production lot after the final step in the sequence; training a Gaussian process regression model using the process quality inspection data and the product characteristics data from the first production lot; generating a predictive distribution of the product characteristics data using the Gaussian process regression model that uses a bathtub kernel function; obtaining process quality inspection data from each of the quality control steps for a second production lot; identifying anomalies

Abstract: A presentation device is provided in a gaming machine. The presentation device includes: a small roulette wheel, a medium roulette wheel, and a large roulette wheel, having different diameters and rotatably held on the same rotation center line; a motor, rotating each roulette wheel; a communication part, transmitting and receiving a control signal to and from the gaming machine; and a control part, controlling the motor based on the control signal from the gaming machine.

Abstract: A pattern variably displaying device includes: sphere reels, in which patterns are described on a surface of a sphere; a sphere driving device, driving each of the sphere reels; and a reel control part, controlling the sphere driving device.

Abstract: A support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without having to provide a latching mechanism to the support plate, a push button device can be easily attached and detached, and the fixing of the push button device can be carried out simultaneously with the locking of the flexible wiring. There are provided a push button device that is inserted into an opening in a transparent plate 50 from the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. The outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate have snap-fit structures that are fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate.

Abstract: A gas purge unit including: a first purge nozzle in which a gas flow path is internally formed, which communicates with a first purge port at the bottom of a container, and which introduces gas into the container or discharges gas from the container; a first communication unit which has a first holding unit for holding the first purge nozzle at one end; and a first actuator to which the first communication unit is connected and which moves the first communication unit and the first purge nozzle vertically.

Abstract: An arrangement detector for plate-shaped objects and a lord port including the same are provided. The arrangement detector for plate-shaped objects includes a judgement window setting means, a shape determination means for determining a shape matching rate by superimposing the judgement window on the image captured by the imaging means, and an object judgement means for judging the plate-shaped objects do not exist in the judgement window overlaid on the image captured by the imaging means, in case that the shape matching rate determined by the shape determination means is equal to or less than a predetermined value. A first reference line is a continuous straight line in the judgement window, and a second reference line is a collection of discontinuous line segments linearly arranged in the judgement window.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method of controlling a manufacturing system using multivariate time series, the method comprising: recording data from one or more devices in the manufacturing system; storing the recorded data in a data storage as a plurality of time series, wherein each time series has a first recorded value corresponding to a first time and a final recorded value corresponding to an end of the time series; interpolating, within a first time window, missing values in the plurality of time series using a Bayesian model, wherein the missing values fall between the first and end time of the respective time series; storing the interpolated values as prediction data in a prediction storage, wherein the interpolated values include the uncertainty of each interpolated value; loading the recorded data that fall within a second time window from the data storage; loading prediction data from the prediction storage that fall within the second time window and for which no recorded data are available;

Abstract: A control deck 10 is provided to a gaming machine 1, and comprises a top plate 11, a non-contact power supply unit 26, an LED board 24, a decorative plate 21, and a control unit 25. The non-contact power supply unit 26 is provided directly below a specific charging position P1 on the upper surface of the top plate 11, and performs non-contact charging of a device placed in the charging position P1. The LED board 24 is provided to the lower part of the charging position, and emits light toward the charging position P1. The decorative plate 21 displays a pattern indicating the charging position P1 in a state of being visible from the front side of the top plate 11, using light emitted from the LED board 24. The control unit 25 performs lighting control for turning on or off the light emitted from the LED board 24.

Abstract: An operation switch 30 is a gaming machine operation button that receives operation inputs to a gaming machine 1, and comprises a base plate 50, an operation button unit 36, and a touch switch 31. The operation button unit 36 is supported by the base plate 50, and is used by a player to input a first operation. The touch switch 31 is provided around the outer periphery of the operation button unit 36, and is used by the player to input a second operation that is different from the first operation.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method of controlling a manufacturing system using multivariate time series, the method comprising: recording data from one or more devices in the manufacturing system; storing the recorded data in a data storage as a plurality of time series, wherein each time series has a first recorded value corresponding to a first time and a final recorded value corresponding to an end of the time series; interpolating, within a first time window, missing values in the plurality of time series using a Bayesian model, wherein the missing values fall between the first and end time of the respective time series; storing the interpolated values as prediction data in a prediction storage, wherein the interpolated values include the uncertainty of each interpolated value; loading the recorded data that fall within a second time window from the data storage; loading prediction data from the prediction storage that fall within the second time window and for which no recorded data are available;

Abstract: A gaming machine according to the first invention comprises a housing, an operation button for a gaming machine provided in a front position opposite a game player in the housing and a display device disposed at a position adjacent to the operation button for the gaming machine in the housing. The push button 20 includes a base 21, a key top 22, an LED 30, and a light guide plate 31. The key top 22 is supported by the base 21 in a state of being operable by a player, has a front surface 22a that is visible to the player and a back surface 22b on the opposite side thereof, and transmits light. The LED 30 is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and emits light in a desired direction. The light guide plate 31 has a lower surface 31a that is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and on which the light emitted from the LED 30 is incident, and an upper surface 31b that emits light toward the key top 22 side.

Abstract: A push button 20 includes a base 21, a key top 22, an LED 30, and a light guide plate 31. The key top 22 is supported by the base 21 in a state of being operable by a player, has a front surface 22a that is visible to the player and a back surface 22b on the opposite side thereof, and transmits light. The LED 30 is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and emits light in a desired direction. The light guide plate 31 has a lower surface 31a that is provided on the back surface 22b side of the key top 22 and on which the light emitted from the LED 30 is incident, and an upper surface 31b that emits light toward the key top 22 side.

Abstract: Implementations include receiving two or more time-series data sequences representative of a target process executed within a physical environment, executing automated time-series process segmentation to provide a plurality of subsequence segments for each of the two or more time-series data sequences, each subsequence segment corresponding to a phase of the target process, processing the two or more subsequence segments using at least one time-series transformation to provide a feature data set for each subsequence segment, applying each feature data set to provide time-series models for anomaly detection and forecasting, respectively, each time-series model being provided as one of a recurrent neural network (RNN), a convolution neural network (CNN), and a generative adversarial network (GAN), determining anomaly scores based on the time-series models, and selectively providing an alert to one or more users, each alert indicating at least one anomaly and a respective probability.