Abstract: An information processing device configured to communicate with an external service provider includes a reception unit configured to receive a request regarding communication quality necessary for executing an external service from the external service provider, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a predetermined database, information on the communication quality necessary for executing the external service based on the request received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the acquisition unit to the external service provider.

Abstract: A system includes a vehicle and a control device. The vehicle includes a reception unit for receiving an instruction related to remote control from the control device, a vehicle control unit for executing any one of first vehicle control and second vehicle control, the first vehicle control being control based on the instruction related to the remote control, and the second vehicle control being control determined by the vehicle itself in accordance with a traveling environment, and a transmission unit for notifying a predetermined control result to the control device when the second vehicle control is executed by the vehicle control unit. The control device includes a remote control unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. When the control result is notified from the vehicle, the remote control unit of the control device executes the remote control based on a content of the control result.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate including silicon crystal, a first layer including AlN crystal, and an intermediate region provided between the silicon crystal and the AlN crystal. The intermediate region includes Al and nitrogen. A direction from the silicon crystal to the AlN crystal is along a first direction. A third lattice plane spacing in the first direction of a lattice of Al atoms in the intermediate region is longer than a first lattice plane spacing in the first direction of the silicon crystal and longer than a second lattice plane spacing in the first direction of the AlN crystal.

Abstract: An apparatus controller includes a first communication module, a storage module, a data processing module, and a controller. The first communication module receives from each of one or more apparatuses, operation information indicating the operation state of the apparatus. The storage module stores the operation information in a cumulative manner. The data processing module combines, when values indicated by a plurality of operation information pieces successively received from the apparatus by the first communication module are equal to each other, the plurality of operation information pieces, thereby producing combined operation information. The controller causes, when the data processing module produces the combined operation information, the storage module to store the combined operation information instead of the plurality of operation information pieces.

Abstract: A communication control device for performing communication with a plurality of vehicles, comprising: a communication unit that performs communication including acquisition of vehicle data with a plurality of vehicles; a database that stores data for forming a digital twin that is time-synchronized with a real space on a virtual space based on vehicle data acquired by the communication unit; and a control unit that controls a frequency of communication performed by the communication unit, wherein when there is a first vehicle in which a distance from a surrounding object is less than a first threshold value on the digital twin, the control unit increases a frequency of communication performed between the first vehicle and the surrounding object than when the distance between the first vehicle and the surrounding object is equal to or greater than the first threshold value.

Abstract: A system includes: a server; and a moving body wherein, the server is configured to communicate with the moving body, predict occurrence of a loss of communication with the moving body, and send information necessary to execute a first process to the moving body when the loss of communication with the moving body is predicted to occur; and the moving body is configured to receive the information from the server, and execute the first process based on the received information.

Abstract: An apparatus controller includes a first communication module, a storage module, a data processing module, and a controller. The first communication module receives from each of one or more apparatuses, operation information indicating the operation state of the apparatus. The storage module stores the operation information in a cumulative manner. The data processing module combines, when values indicated by a plurality of operation information pieces successively received from the apparatus by the first communication module are equal to each other, the plurality of operation information pieces, thereby producing combined operation information. The controller causes, when the data processing module produces the combined operation information, the storage module to store the combined operation information instead of the plurality of operation information pieces.

Abstract: The photo processing apparatus of the present invention, connected to a terminal via a network, includes: a data storage section for storing data; an order storage section for storing an order specifying data to be printed among data stored in the data storage section; a printing section for printing data specified in an order stored in the order storage section on printing paper; and a control section for receiving a printing instruction specifying data to be printed from the terminal via the network and controlling storing of the received printing instruction in the order storage section as an order.

Abstract: An additive for use in producing spheroidal graphite cast iron of the present invention contains a fine particle of magnesium oxide having a purity of 90 weight % or more and at least one selected from the group consisting of a graphite-spheroidizing material, an inoculant and a graphite-spheroidizing inoculant. The fine particle of highly pure magnesium oxide increases the number of nuclei in a melt, and as a result thereof, increases the graphite spheroid count of a spheroidal graphite cast iron being produced. Another additive for use in producing spheroidal graphite cast iron of the present invention contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a graphite-spheroidizing material, an inoculant and a graphite-spheroidizing inoculant, and an oxide of a metal which has, at a temperature of a melt at a time when subjected to a graphite-spheroidizing treatment, an affinity for oxygen smaller than that of a graphite-spheroidizing element being used in the graphite-spheroidizing treatment.

Abstract: A compressor comprising a roller made of a cast iron which has a hardness of HRC 50 or more after heat treatment, and contains not less than 5 area % of graphite, and not less than 2 area % of crystallized eutectic structure including iron phosphide, and either a vane made of a material which has a hardness of HRC 70 or more after heat treatment and contains not less than 25 area % of undissolved carbides and nitride particles in total, the undissolved carbides including not less than 10 area % of MC type carbides, the nitride particles including at least one of TiN and NbN of not less than 5 area %, the undissolved carbides and the nitride particles having a mean grain size of not more than 5 .mu.m, or a vane made of a material including at least one of TiN and NbN particles of not less than 5 area %, the TiN and NbN particles having a mean grain size of not more than 5 .mu.m, the material essentially consisting of, by weight, 2.0 to 4.0 % of C, not more than 2.0 % of Si, not more than 1.5 % of Mn, 2.5 to 8.

Abstract: An LED (light emitting diode) array of the present invention has a plurality of light emitting diodes aligned in row on a substrate crystal. Each of the light emitting diodes has a double hetero-structure formed by causing a light emitting layer to be interposed between p-type and n-type semi-conductive layers and is isolated with isolating mesa grooves. A reflecting layer is provided between the substrate crystal and one of the p-type and n-type semi-conductive layers. The reflecting layer comprises a plurality of semi-conductive layers having at least different refractive indexes of 2 or more than 2-kinds, each of the semi-conductive layers made of semiconductor having the same polarity as that of the substrate crystal and having a wider forbidden band width than that of the light emitting layer. Further, the isolating mesa grooves are provided by a wet etching using an etching liquid of H.sub.3 PO.sub.4 .multidot.H.sub.2 O.sub.2 having volume ratio of H.sub.3 PO.sub.4 : H.sub.2 O.sub.2 =1.about.

Abstract: The spheroidal graphite cast iron member having a surface layer portion mostly composed of a ferrite phase and having a thickness of at least 1 mm, and an inner portion composed of a pearlite phase and a ferrite phase, the surface layer portion having a ferritization ratio of 70% or more which is larger than that of the inner portion by at least about 15% is produced by (a) pouring a spheroidal graphite cast melt into a casting mold; (b) removing the casting mold by shake-out after the completion of solidification of the melt, while substantially the entire portion of the resulting cast iron product is still at a temperature of its A.sub.1 transformation point or higher; (c) when the temperature difference between the surface layer portion and the inner portion has become 40.degree.-60.degree. C., introducing the cast iron product into a uniform-temperature furnace kept at 750.degree.-900.degree. C.

Abstract: A method of preventing the interconnecting fine wires of a bonded semiconductor devices from moving from their preferred loop position after being bonded in an automatic wire bonder includes the step of automatically transferring the bonded semiconductor device to an insulating station prior to other operations. The interconnecting fine wires are coated in a manner which does not disturb or short the interconnecting wire which are pre-cured or cured before being transferred to a storage rack, or directly to a follow-on process step of a continuous production line.

Abstract: In a field effect transistor (JFET) having a compound semiconducting substrate, a buffer layer having a guard-ring, an active layer, source regions, drain regions, and gate regions, the guard-ring is separated from the active layer whereby gate junction capacitance and gate leakage current are lowered without raising a gate resistance value. As a result, noise characteristics and high frequency characteristics can be improved.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a substrate for supporting the semiconductor chip, a plurality of terminals provided on the substrate for external connections, a plurality of lead wires provided on the semiconductor chip for connections to the terminals, and a multilevel interconnection structure for connecting the plurality of terminals to the plurality of lead wires on the semiconductor chip. The multilevel interconnection structure includes at least a lower conductor layer provided on the substrate and patterned into a plurality of pattern portions connected electrically to the terminals, an insulator layer provided on the lower conductor layer, and an upper conductor layer provided above the insulator layer.

Abstract: A fluid-communicating device with valve function comprising a tubular body having an inlet and an outlet, and a blocking body inserted in the tubular body is disclosed. The blocking body comprises a plug portion, and a supporting portion on which a diameter-enlarging portion for enlarging an inner wall of the tubular body is provided. The plug portion of the blocking body is placed in a seal portion of the tubular body to close the tubular body and to prevent the passage of fluid. In use, a tip of a syringe and the like is inserted into the tubular body, so that there is formed a clearance between the outer wall of the plug portion and the inner wall of the seal portion. Fluid passes through the clearance and a fluid passage formed longitudinally on the supporting portion or on an inner wall of the tubular body.

Abstract: A liquid infusion device comprises a bladder assembly and a flow-regulating portion. The bladder assembly comprises a tubular outer shaft, an inner shaft slidably received within the outer shaft and a bladder covering the outer and inner shafts. The bladder can inflate in both its radial and axial directions whereby reducing the residual amounts of a liquid drug in the bladder on dispensation of the liquid drug. The flow-regulating portion comprises a pipe having at least one small hole or a pipe having a very small diameter, so that the accurate regulation of the liquid drug can be performed.

Abstract: A device for detaching an injection needle from a syringe comprising: a plate-like member, a first opening provided in the plate-like member for inserting an injection needle attached to a syringe, a first needle-detaching means for detaching a slip type needle, said first means comprising a second opening extending laterally from said first opening, and a sliding portion provided on each of both sides of said second opening, each sliding portion having a wedge-like shape, and a second needle-detaching means for a screw type needle, said second means comprising a third opening extending laterally from said first opening, said third opening having a portion having such a size that the hub of said needle is capable of being inserted thereinto, said portion being provided with a projection for preventing the hub of said needle from turning when the syringe is turned.