Abstract: A motor includes a motor unit, a speed reduction mechanism, a motion conversion mechanism, and a housing. The motion conversion mechanism converts rotary motion of the speed reduction. mechanism into reciprocating rotary motion and transmits the motion to an output shaft. The speed reduction mechanism includes a worm, a first gear, and a second gear. The worm is disposed on a rotation shaft of the motor unit. The first gear transmits rotation of the worm and rotates about a first shaft. The second gear receives rotation of the first gear and rotates about a second shaft. The motion conversion mechanism includes a rotary member and a rod. The rotary member includes a sector gear and rotates about an axis of the first shaft. The rod couples the second gear and the rotary member. The output shaft includes an output gear that engages the sector gear.

Abstract: Provided are: an image diagnosis assistance apparatus capable of assisting diagnosis of an endoscopic image captured by an endoscopist; a data collection method; an image diagnosis assistance method; and an image diagnosis assistance program. The image diagnosis assistance apparatus is provided with: a lesion assessment unit that assesses, by a convolutional neural network, the denomination and the position of a lesion which is present in a digestive system endoscopic image of a patient captured by a digestive system endoscopic imaging device and information about accuracies thereof; and a display control unit that performs control for generating an analysis result image in which the denomination and the position of the lesion and the accuracies thereof are displayed and for displaying the image on the digestive system endoscopic image.

Abstract: The disclosed image processing apparatus (10) includes a communication interface (12) and a processor (13). The processor (13) detects an image of an object from a surrounding image capturing the surroundings of a moveable body (1) and determines an action of the moveable body (1) based on the state of the detected object. The communication interface (12) outputs, to the moveable body (1), an instruction to perform the determined action. The processor (14) determines a first action of the moveable body (1) based on the state of the object detected from the surrounding image and outputs an instruction to perform the determined first action to the moveable body (1) via the communication interface (12). The processor (14) determines a second action of the moveable body (1) based on the state of the object detected from the surrounding image after the first action by the moveable body (1).

Abstract: Provided is a disease diagnosis support method employing endoscopic images of a digestive organ using a neural network, and the like. The disease diagnosis support method employing endoscopic images of a digestive organ using a neural network trains the neural network by using first endoscopic images of the digestive organ, and corresponding to the first endoscopic images, at least one of definitive diagnosis result of being positive or negative for the disease of the digestive organ, a past disease, a severity level, and information corresponding to an imaged region. The trained neural network outputs, based on second endoscopic images of the digestive organ, at least one of a probability of being positive and/or negative for the disease of the digestive organ, a probability of a past disease, a severity level of the disease, and the information corresponding to the imaged region.

Abstract: An ink composition contains dyes A and B. Dye A has a width at a half height of the largest peak in the absorption spectrum between 380 nm and 780 nm that is 50 nm or less. Dye B has a corresponding width at the half height that is 70 nm or more. Dye A is present in an amount of 40% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of the total mass of the dyes.

Abstract: A carrier containing a plurality of semiconductor wafers in a lot is transported into a heat treatment apparatus. Thereafter, a recipe specifying treatment procedures and treatment conditions is set for each of the semiconductor wafers. Next, a reflectance of each of the semiconductor wafers stored in the carrier is measured. Based on the set recipe and the measured reflectance of each semiconductor wafer, a predicted attainable temperature of each semiconductor wafer at the time of flash heating treatment is calculated, and the calculated predicted attainable temperature is displayed. This allows the setting of the treatment conditions with reference to the displayed predicted attainable temperature, to thereby easily achieve the setting of the heat treatment conditions.

Abstract: A vehicular wiper device includes a first wiper arm, a first drive source, a rocking mechanism, a second drive source, an extension and retraction mechanism, and a control unit. A first wiper blade for wiping a surface to be wiped of a vehicle is connected to the front end of the first wiper arm. The first drive source is directly or indirectly affixed to the vehicle body. The rocking mechanism is driven by the drive force of the first drive source and reciprocates and rocks the first wiper arm. The second drive source is directly or indirectly affixed to the vehicle body separately from the first drive source. The extension and retraction mechanism is driven by the drive force of the second drive source and extends and retracts the first wiper arm in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A diagnostic device includes a storage unit that stores first information including a first abnormal event which occurred in the past in a plant, a first attribution event that is a cause of the first abnormal event, and a first occurrence probability of the first attribution event, in which a causal relationship between the first abnormal and attribution events is indicated by a tree structure, and second information including a second abnormal event which is supposed to occur in the plant but does not occur yet, a second attribution event that is a cause of the second abnormal event, and a second occurrence probability of the second attribution event, in which a causal relationship between the second abnormal and attribution events is indicated by a tree structure; and an estimation unit that estimates the cause of the sign of the abnormality, based on the first and second information.

Abstract: An ink composition of the invention is an ink composition to be charged in an ink storage container which includes an ink composition-replenishable ink chamber and an ink inlet, and the ink chamber is able to communicate with outside air. The ink composition includes a pigment; an organic compound; and water, and a resolubility index is 0.5 to 10 minutes, the resolubility index indicating a time required for that after the mass of the ink composition is decreased by 50%, the viscosity thereof is returned to an ink viscosity before the mass is decreased by addition of water in an amount equivalent to the decreased mass.

Abstract: A vehicular wiper device includes a first wiper arm, a first drive source, a rocking mechanism, a second drive source, an extension and retraction mechanism, and a control unit. A first wiper blade for wiping a surface to be wiped of a vehicle is connected to the front end of the first wiper arm. The first drive source is directly or indirectly affixed to the vehicle body. The rocking mechanism is driven by the drive force of the first drive source and reciprocates and rocks the first wiper arm. The second drive source is directly or indirectly affixed to the vehicle body separately from the first drive source. The extension and retraction mechanism is driven by the drive force of the second drive source and extends and retracts the first wiper arm in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes an annular stator core and a plurality of winding groups mounted on teeth of the stator core. Each of the winding groups is either a short-pitch winding group which consists of windings wound at a pitch shorter than 180° in electrical angle or a full-pitch winding group which consists of windings wound at a pitch equal to 180° in electrical angle. The winding groups include at least one short-pitch winding group pair which consists of two short-pitch winding groups that respectively belong to two different phases and are circumferentially adjacent to each other. The two short-pitch winding groups are arranged so as not to overlap each other in a radial direction of the stator core. There are no other winding groups interposed between the two short-pitch winding groups in the circumferential direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A shape optimization method of a plate-like member which has a concavo-convex shape and includes: identifying a bend stress point where a bend stress is higher in a mode where a specific load is applied to the plate-like member; identifying a bend axis from a distribution of stress vectors around the bend stress point; identifying, in an orthogonal surface to the bend axis, a pair of membrane stress points where a ratio of a membrane stress to a sum of the bend stress and the membrane stress is higher; calculating an offset variable which is a distance between a line segment connecting the pair of the membrane stress points and the bend stress point; and identifying a shape of the plate-like member so as to minimize the offset variable.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor including magnetic poles whose number of pole pairs is P, P being a natural number, and a stator including windings. The stator includes (3/2)×P large teeth with a first pole pitch and (3/2)×P small teeth with a second pole pitch smaller than the first pole pitch. The large teeth and the small teeth are disposed so as to circumferentially alternate. The windings are wound concentratedly only on the large teeth. When the first pole pitch in electrical angle is X and the second pole pitch in electrical angle is Y, X is in a range from 144 to 180 degrees, and Y is equal to (240?X) degrees. The circumferentially adjacent windings are supplied with currents having a phase difference of 120 degrees in electrical angle therebetween, respectively.

Abstract: A motor has a plurality of permanent magnet pieces aligned is such a manner as to surround an armature core and a magnetic-flux guide ring disposed between the permanent magnet pieces and the armature core for introducing a magnetic flux from the permanent magnet pieces to the armature core. The magnetic-flux guide ring has a confronting portion confronting each of the magnet pieces, an aperture formed in the confronting portion, and a connecting portion connecting adjacent two confronting portions. The aperture is formed in such a manner as to confront a boundary of adjacent magnet pieces.

Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes an annular stator core and a plurality of winding groups mounted on teeth of the stator core. Each of the winding groups is either a short-pitch winding group which consists of windings wound at a pitch shorter than 180° in electrical angle or a full-pitch winding group which consists of windings wound at a pitch equal to 180° in electrical angle. The winding groups include at least one short-pitch winding group pair which consists of two short-pitch winding groups that respectively belong to two different phases and are circumferentially adjacent to each other. The two short-pitch winding groups are arranged so as not to overlap each other in a radial direction of the stator core. There are no other winding groups interposed between the two short-pitch winding groups in the circumferential direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A motor has a plurality of permanent magnet pieces aligned is such a manner as to surround an armature core and a magnetic-flux guide ring disposed between the permanent magnet pieces and the armature core for introducing a magnetic flux from the permanent magnet pieces to the armature core. The magnetic-flux guide ring has a confronting portion confronting each of the magnet pieces, an aperture formed in the confronting portion, and a connecting portion connecting adjacent two confronting portions. The aperture is formed in such a manner as to confront a boundary of adjacent magnet pieces.

Abstract: A shape optimization method of a plate-like member which has a concavo-convex shape and includes: identifying a bend stress point where a bend stress is higher in a mode where a specific load is applied to the plate-like member; identifying a bend axis from a distribution of stress vectors around the bend stress point; identifying, in an orthogonal surface to the bend axis, a pair of membrane stress points where a ratio of a membrane stress to a sum of the bend stress and the membrane stress is higher; calculating an offset variable which is a distance between a line segment connecting the pair of the membrane stress points and the bend stress point; and identifying a shape of the plate-like member so as to minimize the offset variable.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a polyamideimide resin containing a structure represented by formula (1):

Abstract: A stator has four or more magnetic poles. A commutator has a plurality of segments arranged in the circumferential direction and a short-circuit conductor for short-circuiting predetermined segments from among these segments. Each segment has an angular width WS, and there is a gap of an angular width WU between the segments. A substantial angular width WB of each of an anode brush and a cathode brush satisfies (n?1)(WS+WU)+WU<WB<n(WS+WU)+WU, where n is an integer no less than two. A plurality of coils are each connected to the corresponding one of the segments in order to form n closed loops. The closed loops each pass through the corresponding segments and are electrically independent of each other.

Abstract: A direct current motor is provided that includes an armature core, a commutator, coils, positive brushes, and negative brushes. The armature core includes a stator. The stator has magnets the number of which is represented by P (where P is an even number greater than or equal to six). The coils are wound about the teeth by duplex wave winding. Alternatively, the coils are wound about the teeth such that each pair of coils that are spaced apart by 180° are connected common ones of the segments. Each of the positive brushes and the negative brushes has an angular width WB, at which it slides on the segments. When the angular width of the arrangement pitch of the segments is represented by WP (WP=360°/the number of the segments), and the angular width of the clearance between each pair of circumferentially adjacent segments is represented by WU, the angular width WB is set to satisfy the expression: WB?(4/P)×WP+WU.