Abstract: An object is to provide a cathode that maintains high energy conversion efficiency over a long period of time without increase in overvoltage even when hydrogen generation is repeatedly started and stopped. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present disclosure is a cathode for generating hydrogen including a conductive substrate and a catalyst layer including, on a surface of the conductive substrate: at least one of Pt, a Pt oxide, and a Pt hydroxide; and at least one of a metal, an oxide, and a hydroxide of a lanthanoid element that becomes electrochemically stable as trivalent ions within the potential window of water of pH 7 or higher and pH 16 or lower. The molar ratio of the Pt element to the lanthanoid element (Pt:lanthanoid) in the catalyst layer is 95:5 to 65:35.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head and circuitry. The liquid discharge head discharges liquid droplets. The circuitry causes the liquid discharge head to selectively discharge two or more types of liquid droplets having a first droplet having a first discharge volume and a second droplet having a second discharge volume larger than the first discharge volume to form an image of dots of the first droplet and the second droplet on a medium with gradations according to a gradation value of the image on a portion of the medium. Further, the circuitry monotonically decreases a number of white pixels without discharging the liquid droplets on the medium with an increase in the gradation value.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating a type of a power source configured to identify electrical power allowed as electrical power to be used by the distributed computing device, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the type of the power source.

Abstract: A tactile sensation presenting device includes a tactile sensation presenting section and a control section. The tactile sensation presenting section includes anodic and cathodic electrodes. The control section can switch each anodic electrode between a first state (anodic potential) and a second state (floating potential) and can switch each cathodic electrode between a third state (cathodic potential) and a fourth state (floating potential). The control section controls the tactile sensation presenting section such that at least any one of the anodic electrodes is in the first state, with the others in the second state, at least one of the cathodic electrodes at least within a distance of 1.0 mm or less from the first-state anodic electrode is in the fourth state, with the others in the third state, and a total area of the first-state anodic electrode and the third-state cathodic electrodes is equal to or greater than 0.7 cm2.

Abstract: A top sheet (210), two walls (221, 222), and two ridge portions (231, 232) are provided, tensile strengths of the top sheet (210) and the walls (221, 222) are 1470 MPa or more, each of the two ridge portions (231, 232) extend between the top sheet (210) and the walls (221, 222), in a longitudinal direction of the top sheet (210), and a cross section of a center portion in the longitudinal direction is an open cross section having a groove shape.

Abstract: Provided is an image inspection device which can prevent a degradation in the accuracy of an estimation value of a probability distribution caused by position displacement between design data and a captured image in image processing in which a model that estimates a pixel value probability distribution of a captured image is trained by using design data and the captured image of a sample.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating executability of computation processing by the distributed computing device, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing configured to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the executability of the computation processing.

Abstract: Provided is a training data creation assistance device which, for an image on which a plurality of defects in an image are reflected, enables the efficient collection/selection of a training image by specifying a feature amount corresponding to each of the defects in a way that a peripheral area of the defect is also considered and by mapping the specified feature amount to a low dimensional space.

Abstract: A road boundary detection device is a road boundary detection device that acquires a set of lines corresponding to a road boundary from point cloud data as road boundary information. The road boundary detection device includes: a candidate point detection unit that detects each point of road boundary candidates corresponding to candidates of a road boundary from the point cloud data; a candidate point clustering unit that clusters each point of the road boundary candidates; an adjacent cluster reduction unit that reduces a cluster from a distribution of points in clusters in an adjacency relationship by using a predetermined cluster reduction method; a line fitting unit that fits one or more straight lines or curved lines to one or more of the clusters and output fitted lines as road boundary candidates; a line connecting unit that connects some of the fitted lines by using a predetermined analysis method; and an information output unit that outputs a calculated line as the road boundary information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a signal generating device is connected to a radar. The signal generating device includes a high-frequency signal generator configured to generate a high-frequency signal, a control signal generator configured to generate a first control signal for controlling the first radar, and a signal synthesizer configured to generate a first synthesized signal including the high-frequency signal and the first control signal.

Abstract: A tool for cleaning inside of a water tank utilizing a siphon action is provided in which a scraping tool (S) is pivotably provided at an upstream end of a suction pipe (P), a deposit (b) such as moss caked on a bottom face or a side face within the water tank is scraped off by a scraping blade (62) formed at an extremity of the scraping tool (S), and is removed by sucking up together with dirt (a).

Abstract: Silicon-clathrate electrode active material particles of this disclosure meet the following relational expression: 0<surface oxygen ratio (wt %)/specific surface area (m2/g)<0.3. An electrode composite material of this disclosure includes the electrode active material particles of this disclosure. Further, a lithium-ion battery of this disclosure has an electrode active material layer, and the electrode active material layer contains the electrode composite material of this disclosure.

Abstract: An electrode composite material in the present disclosure includes a silicon clathrate particle and an amorphous silicon particle, and satisfies the following relational expression: 0 atom %<the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon particle/(the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon particle+the number of silicon atoms in the silicon clathrate particle)<50 atom %. A lithium-ion battery in the present disclosure includes an electrode active material layer, and the electrode active material layer contains the electrode composite material in the present disclosure. Further, a production method for a lithium-ion battery in the present disclosure includes forming an electrode active material layer, and the electrode active material layer contains the electrode composite material in the present disclosure.

Abstract: An electrode active material particle in the present disclosure includes a silicon clathrate portion and an amorphous silicon portion, and satisfies the following relational expression: 0 atom %<the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon portion/(the number of silicon atoms in the amorphous silicon portion+the number of silicon atoms in the silicon clathrate portion)<50 atom %. An electrode composite material in the present disclosure includes the electrode active material particle in the present disclosure. Further, a lithium-ion battery in the present disclosure includes an electrode active material layer, and the electrode active material layer contains the electrode composite material in the present disclosure.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a system which can infer the cause of a recipe error and present a correction candidate for the recipe error. A recipe information presentation system or recipe error inference system according to the present invention: causes a learner to learn a correspondence between a recipe and an error originating from the recipe; and acquires from the learner an inference result as to whether the error occurs when a new recipe is used (refer to FIG. 1).

Abstract: This error factor estimation device 100 is a device for estimating the error factor of errors that occur, and comprises: a feature-quantity-group-generating unit A2a that processes data including inspection results collected from an inspection device and generates a plurality of feature quantities; a model-generating unit 4 that generates a model A5a for learning the relationship between the plurality of feature quantities generated by the feature-quantity-group-generating unit A2a and errors; a contribution-degree-calculating unit 11 that calculates a contribution degree indicating the degree of contribution to the output of the model A5a for at least one of the plurality of feature quantities used for the model A5a learning; and an error factor acquisition unit 15 that acquires error factors labeled with feature quantities selected on the basis of the usefulness calculated from the contribution degree calculated by the contribution-degree-calculating unit 11.

Abstract: A positive active material for a lithium ion battery has a layered structure and contains nickel atoms and cobalt atoms. The positive active material has a ratio of a number of moles of the nickel atom to a total number of moles of metal atoms other than lithium that is 0.7 or more and less than 1. The positive active material has a disorder of lithium element determined by an X-ray diffraction method that is 6.2% or less.

Abstract: An error cause estimation device comprising: a data pre-processing unit that uses data to be processed and generates training data that has an appropriate format for input to a machine learning model; and a model tree generation unit that generates error detection models that are training models for detecting errors and uses the training data as inputs therefor, and generates a model tree that expresses the relationship between error detection models by using a tree structure that has the error detection models as node therefor. Thus, it is possible to generate a training model that detects errors for each of a plurality of types of errors that occur, even when there has been no prior annotation of error causes.

Abstract: Provided is a coating composition that can more readily eliminate clouding of a substrate caused by the fogging phenomenon and can maintain higher transparency of a coating film than some coating compositions. The coating composition includes: silica fine particles having an average particle size of 3 nm or larger and 25 nm or smaller; metal oxide fine particles; a solvent having a boiling point of 150 degrees C. or higher and 300 degrees C. or lower, and water. The amount of the silica fine particles is 0.1 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less. The amount of the solvent is 20 mass % or more and 70 mass % or less.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes an image distortion estimation unit that estimates a distortion amount between a reference image and an inspection image, an image distortion correction unit that corrects the inspection image and/or the reference image using an estimated distortion amount, and an inspection unit that performs inspection using a corrected inspection image and the reference image or the inspection image and a corrected reference image. The image distortion estimation unit estimates a distortion amount in which only distortion occurring in an entire image can be corrected by adjustment of a correction condition.