Abstract: A memory includes: a magnet including a first and second portions adjacent in a first direction. The first portion has a first dimension in a second direction at a first position at which a dimension of the magnet in the second direction is maximum, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second portion has a second dimension in the second direction at a second position at which a dimension of the magnet in the second direction is minimum, the second dimension smaller than the first dimension, the first portion is continuous to the second portion via a third position between the first and second positions, a curve corresponding to an outer of the magnet extends between the first and third positions, and the curve passes through a side closer to the central axis of the magnet than a straight line connecting the first and second positions.

Abstract: A combustion-supporting gas line, a flammable gas line, and an inert gas line are connected to a chamber performing a heat treatment on a semiconductor wafer. Nitrogen is sent from the inert gas line to the combustion-supporting gas line before supplying flammable gas into the chamber to replace gas in the combustion-supporting gas line with nitrogen. Nitrogen is sent from the inert gas line to the flammable gas line before supplying combustion-supporting gas into the chamber to replace gas in the flammable gas line with nitrogen. Common one inert gas line is provided in the combustion-supporting gas line and the flammable gas line, thus a space for arranging components relating to gas supply can be reduced.

Abstract: A combustion-supporting gas line, a flammable gas line, and an inert gas line are connected to a chamber performing a heat treatment on a semiconductor wafer. Nitrogen is sent from the inert gas line to the combustion-supporting gas line before supplying flammable gas into the chamber to replace gas in the combustion-supporting gas line with nitrogen. Nitrogen is sent from the inert gas line to the flammable gas line before supplying combustion-supporting gas into the chamber to replace gas in the flammable gas line with nitrogen. Common one inert gas line is provided in the combustion-supporting gas line and the flammable gas line, thus a space for arranging components relating to gas supply can be reduced.

Abstract: Before supplying ammonia, which is a flammable gas, into a chamber, the chamber is evacuated to eliminate residual gas from the chamber, and then nitrogen is fed into a combustion-supporting gas line to cause oxygen, which is a combustion-supporting gas, remaining in the combustion-supporting gas line to flow out. After supplying ammonia into the chamber, the chamber is evacuated to eliminate the ammonia from the chamber, and then nitrogen is fed into a flammable gas line to cause the ammonia remaining in the flammable gas line to flow out. Oxygen or ammonia and nitrogen are alternately eliminated on the downstream side of an exhaust part, and it is therefore possible to prevent the flammable gas and the combustion-supporting gas from being mixed with each other.

Abstract: A vehicle charging system includes a non-contact charging apparatus that performs non-contact charging on a battery in a vehicle by facing a power receiving coil mounted on the vehicle; state-of-charge acquisition part configured to acquire a state-of-charge of batteries in a plurality of vehicles; and a charging control apparatus that selects at least one vehicle from the plurality of vehicles on the basis of the state-of-charge, moves the charging apparatus and/or the vehicle, and controls the charging operation of the charging apparatus.

Abstract: A recharging system according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes: battery chargers each capable of charging a battery of a vehicle; and recharging controllers each configured to control the battery chargers and capable of communicating with a server. Each of the recharging controllers includes a communication unit capable of wirelessly communicating with a user terminal, and the server acquires position information on the user terminal from the communication unit and transmits, to the recharging controllers corresponding to the position information, an instruction from the user terminal to start recharging.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus is provided with two cool chambers, that is, a first cool chamber and a second cool chamber. A semiconductor wafer before treatment is alternately carried into the first cool chamber or the second cool chamber and then transported to a heat treatment part by a transport robot after a nitrogen purge is performed. The semiconductor wafer after being heat-treated in the heat treatment part is alternately transported to the first cool chamber or the second cool chamber to be cooled. A sufficient cooling time is secured for the independent semiconductor wafer, and a reduction in throughput as the whole heat treatment apparatus can be suppressed.

Abstract: A recharging system according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of battery chargers each of which is capable of charging a battery of a vehicle and transmitting a control signal that instructs the vehicle to start recharging; and a recharging controller that controls the plurality of battery chargers. The recharging controller includes a communication unit capable of communicating with the vehicle, sequentially outputs identification signals indicating instruction other than start of recharging from the plurality of battery chargers, respectively, and when receiving a response signal from the vehicle responding to the identification signals via the communication unit, allows the vehicle which has transmitted the response signal to perform recharging.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a charger for charging a secondary battery, in order to solve the problem that when usage fees are settled before the start of charging to prevent the nonpayment of usage fees, the possibility arises that the usage fees will be refunded, the usage fees of the charger are settled before the charging is completed. The charger (200) has: a power supply unit (210) that supplies electric power to a secondary battery; and a settlement unit (220) that settles the usage fees for using the charger after the supply of electric power to the secondary battery has started but before the termination of charging.

Abstract: A vehicle charging system comprises: a non-contact type charging apparatus that charges a battery of a vehicle in a non-contact state by facing a power-receiving coil mounted on the vehicle; and a charging controller that sequentially perform charging of vehicles stopping aligned in a first direction by changing relative position between the vehicles and the charging apparatus along the first direction.

Abstract: A vehicle charging system includes: a non-contact charging apparatus that performs non-contact charging on a battery of a vehicle by facing a power receiving coil mounted on the vehicle; an information acquisition part configured to acquire, from the vehicle, information for determining whether to allow charging on the vehicle; and a charging control part configured to control a charging operation of the charging apparatus based on information acquired by the information acquisition part.

Abstract: Provided is a storage battery management device (10) including a price information acquisition unit (11) that acquires power purchasing price information indicating a power purchasing price for each time period of power supplied from an electric power system, a remaining discharge capacity information acquisition unit (12) that acquires remaining discharge capacity information indicating the amount of power that can be discharged to a load from a storage battery, and a discharging schedule generation unit (13) that generates a discharging schedule in which an upper limit of the amount of power discharged from the storage battery is determined for each of a plurality of discharging time periods divided for each unit time, using the power purchasing price information and the remaining discharge capacity information.

Abstract: The present invention is applied to a charger that charges a rechargeable battery mounted on an electric vehicle. The charger according to the present invention includes an electric power supply unit that supplies electric power to said rechargeable battery; a payment unit that makes payment with electronic money to use said charger; and a control unit, when said control unit is instructed by said electric vehicle to start charging, that instructs said electric power supply unit to start supplying electric power to said rechargeable battery and that instructs said payment unit to make payment with said electronic money.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus is provided with two cool chambers, that is, a first cool chamber and a second cool chamber. A semiconductor wafer before treatment is alternately carried into the first cool chamber or the second cool chamber and then transported to a heat treatment part by a transport robot after a nitrogen purge is performed. The semiconductor wafer after being heat-treated in the heat treatment part is alternately transported to the first cool chamber or the second cool chamber to be cooled. A sufficient cooling time is secured for the independent semiconductor wafer, and a reduction in throughput as the whole heat treatment apparatus can be suppressed.

Abstract: The touch panel is provided with: a touch panel substrate; and a flexible printed circuit board, wherein the touch panel substrate has an electrode for detection and a rear surface electrode, the flexible printed circuit board has a terminal portion, the terminals in the terminal portion are electrically and mechanically connected to connection terminals formed along a side of the touch panel substrate, the terminal portion has a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion, a terminal in the second terminal portion is shorter than a terminal in the first terminal portion, the flexible printed circuit board has a rear surface electrode connection portion and has a terminal for shielding, and the rear surface electrode connection portion is folded on a rear surface side of the touch panel substrate so that the terminal for shielding is mechanically and electrically connected to the rear surface electrode.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a remaining-discharge-capacity information acquiring unit configured to acquire remaining-discharge-capacity information indicating a power amount which is dischargeable by an electricity storage device connected to a plurality of customer facilities; a requested discharge power information acquiring unit configured to requested discharge power information indicating a requested power amount for discharge requested as power supply to each of the plurality of customer facilities from the electricity storage device; and a discharge amount determination unit configured to determine a storage battery discharge amount indicating an amount of power, which is discharged from the electricity storage device, based on the remaining-discharge-capacity information and the requested discharge power information.

Abstract: In order to provide a resident presence-absence state determination device which determines an resident presence-absence state with a high degree of accuracy, a delivery system, a method for determining an resident presence-absence state, a recording medium recording a program for determining an resident presence-absence state, and a terminal for delivery, the present invention provides the resident presence-absence state determination device including charge/discharge information acquisition means for acquiring charge/discharge information indicating a discharging status of an electricity storage device for supplying an electric power to a load placed in a house and resident presence-absence state determination means for determining a resident presence-absence state of the house based on the charge/discharge information.

Abstract: This charger is provided with: a power supply unit that charges a secondary battery; an acquisition unit that acquires individual identification information for identifying the secondary battery; a comparison unit that compares the individual identification information acquired when starting the charging of the secondary battery with individual identification information acquired at the termination time of a past charging cycle. The power supply unit terminates the charging of the secondary battery on the basis of the results of comparison.

Abstract: Provided is a storage battery management device (10) including a price information acquisition unit (11) that acquires power purchasing price information indicating a power purchasing price for each time period of power supplied from an electric power system, a remaining discharge capacity information acquisition unit (12) that acquires remaining discharge capacity information indicating the amount of power that can be discharged to a load from a storage battery, and a discharging schedule generation unit (13) that generates a discharging schedule in which an upper limit of the amount of power discharged from the storage battery is determined for each of a plurality of discharging time periods divided for each unit time, using the power purchasing price information and the remaining discharge capacity information.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a charger for charging a secondary battery, in order to solve the problem that when usage fees are settled before the start of charging to prevent the nonpayment of usage fees, the possibility arises that the usage fees will be refunded, the usage fees of the charger are settled before the charging is completed. The charger (200) has: a power supply unit (210) that supplies electric power to a secondary battery; and a settlement unit (220) that settles the usage fees for using the charger after the supply of electric power to the secondary battery has started but before the termination of charging.