Abstract: A marine vessel maneuvering system includes a controller configured or programmed to perform a water entry determination control to determine whether or not water behind a hull that rises above a water surface due to deceleration of the hull may enter the hull when the hull is decelerating.

Abstract: Provided is a vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle which is capable of efficiently exhibiting high adhesion between an electrode and a separator. The vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle of the present invention comprises vinylidene fluoride; and a compound having an oxygen atom-containing functional group; wherein a ratio of oxygen atom in a surface of the vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle is higher than a ratio of oxygen atom in the vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle other than the surface thereof.

Abstract: A rotary connector apparatus includes a stator, a rotator, and an adjustment structure. The stator is configured to be attached to a vehicle body. The rotator is provided rotatably about a rotation axis with respect to the stator. The stator and the rotator define a cable housing space provided to surround the rotation axis. The adjustment structure is configured to allow the rotation axis to move with respect to the vehicle body in a state where the stator is attached to the vehicle body. The adjustment structure includes a coupling structure configured to couple the stator to the vehicle body. The coupling structure supports the stator movably with respect to the vehicle body to change an angle of the rotation axis with respect to the vehicle body in a state where the coupling structure couples the stator to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A control device analyzes a control program and controls a plurality of controlled objects to operate in parallel based on the analysis results. This control device has functions of: detecting an adjustable interval in the control program; detecting wasted time that occurs in execution of commands related to waiting between the plurality of controlled objects in the control program; and adjusting speed and/or acceleration of a command related to the movement of an axis of the controlled object in the adjustable interval of the control program such as to reduce the detected wasted time.

Abstract: A numerical controller includes an extraction unit configured to extract at least one non-machining section from a tool path based on sensor information indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor, a tool moving along the tool path, and the tool and a workpiece not coming into contact with each other in the non-machining section, a setting unit configured to set an end position of reverse movement in one non-machining section among the at least one non-machining section extracted by the extraction unit, the tool reversing along the tool path in the reverse movement, and a control unit configured to control the reverse movement.

Abstract: Provided is a rotating connector device with which it is possible to suppress an increase in the size of the device, and to reliably suppress a decrease in electromagnetic compatibility due to electromagnetic noise and to stabilize characteristic impedance. A rotating connector device 1 is provided with a fixed-side housing 10, a rotating-side housing 20 which is free to rotate relative to the fixed-side housing 10, and a plurality of flat cables 30 which are formed by covering conductors with an insulating material and which are accommodated in a stacked state in an annular accommodating space S formed between the fixed-side housing 10 and the rotating-side housing 20, wherein a shield film 35 is disposed at least between a first flat cable 31 including first and second communication circuit conductors 31a5, 31a6 and a second flat cable 32 adjacent to the first flat cable 31, among the plurality of flat cables 30.

Abstract: A numerical control device includes a main control unit, a processing program reading unit, and a tool moving path setting unit that sets moving paths of a processing tool between a plurality of recessed parts. The tool moving path setting unit includes: a tool retreat position setting unit that sets a retreat position to be assumed by the processing tool upon completion of internal surface processing; a cutting edge stop angle setting unit that sets a stop angle of a cutting edge, on the basis of a moving direction toward a next recessed part; and a tool retreat path setting unit that sets a retreat path of the processing tool. The stop angle is set in such a manner that a pointing direction of the cutting edge does not have a moving vector component oriented in a same direction as the moving direction.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a light emitter including a substrate and a light emission unit that emits light in an inclined direction inclined with respect to the substrate and a normal line of the substrate, and a light receiver that receives, on a light reception surface, reflected light emitted from the light emitter and reflected by an object to be measured, in which in a case where an angle formed by the light emitted from the light emitter and the substrate of the light emitter is an angle ?1 (0°<?l<90°), an angle ?2 formed by the substrate and the light reception surface of the light receiver satisfies 0°<?2<180°?2?1.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface provided with a plurality of light sensitive regions and an insulating film provided on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of uneven portions are formed on a surface (main surface) on the side opposite to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate in the insulating film and a plurality of height differences of the uneven portions exist in the light sensitive region.

Abstract: A machine learning device for performing machine learning with respect to a numerical control device which causes a machine tool to operate, and is provided with: a state information acquisition unit that causes the machine tool to perform cutting work, in which a cutting amount and a cutting rate are set, and acquires state information including the cutting amount and cutting rate; an action information output unit that outputs action information; a reward calculation unit that acquires determination information that is information about the strength of pressure applied to a tool at least during cutting work, the shape of the waveform of the pressure applied to the tool, and time it has taken to perform work, and outputs a reward value in reinforcement learning; and a value function update unit that updates a value function on the basis of the reward value, the state information, and the action information.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a back-illuminated solid-state imaging device includes a first step of preparing a first conduction-type semiconductor layer having a front surface and a back surface, a second step of forming a first asperity region on the front surface of the semiconductor layer by selectively etching the front surface of the semiconductor layer, a third step of forming a second asperity region on the front surface of the semiconductor layer by smoothening asperities of the first asperity region, and a fourth step of forming an insulating layer along the second asperity region and forming a plurality of charge transfer electrodes on the insulating layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitter includes a substrate, a semiconductor multilayer structure including a light emission unit that emits light in an oblique direction with respect to the substrate in an emission region in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and a shaping optical system that shapes a luminous flux emitted from the light emission unit, in which a lens closest to the light emission unit in the shaping optical system is a cylindrical lens having positive power in the lateral direction, a front major plane of the cylindrical lens is parallel to the light emission unit and a generatrix direction of the cylindrical lens is parallel to the longitudinal direction, and the following conditional equation (1) is satisfied in a case where a distance from the light emission unit to a light incident surface of the cylindrical lens is D, a distance from the light incident surface to the front major plane of the cylindrical lens is HA, and a focal length of th

Abstract: A controller that allows reteaching of a machine made up of a plurality of mechanisms to be easily performed is provided. The controller includes a machine position acquiring section that acquires the current positions of mechanisms, a reteach block search section that assigns rank order numbers to linkage information that indicates linkage between blocks of a plurality of machine control programs on the basis of relation between the current positions of the mechanisms and taught positions in blocks in the machine control programs that are indicated as being linked to one another by the linkage information, a search result output section that outputs blocks relating to the linkage information on the basis of the rank order numbers assigned by the reteach block search section, and a reteach result reflecting section that reflects, in blocks of the plurality of machine control programs that are selected as blocks to be retaught, the current positions of the mechanisms as positions to be retaught.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder having a combustion chamber formed at an upper side thereof and accommodating a piston to be reciprocally movable; a crankcase provided below the cylinder and accommodates a crankshaft; and a blow-by gas passageway recirculating blow-by gas, which leaks into the crankcase from the combustion chamber, to the combustion chamber through an intake system, in which an inner surface portion of the crankcase is provided with a blow-by gas intake part, and the blow-by gas intake part includes a protruding portion protruding in a direction in which the crankshaft extends, and the intake port opened in the protruding direction is formed at a tip end portion of the protruding portion.

Abstract: A machine learning device included in a control device includes: a state observation section for observing control command data representing a control command for a servo press and control feedback data representing feedback for control as a state variable representing a current environmental state; a determination data acquisition section for acquiring workpiece quality determination data for determining the quality of a workpiece machined based on the control command for the servo press and cycle time determination data for determining the time taken to machine the workpiece as determination data representing a result of determination regarding the machining of the workpiece; and a learning section for learning the control command for the servo press in relation to the feedback for controlling the servo press.

Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a light source having plural light emitting portions, a deflection unit that deflects and scans plural light beams emitted from the light source in a main scanning direction, and plural optical element groups disposed between the light source and the deflection unit and including an optical element having a negative refractive power along a sub-scanning direction intersecting the main scanning direction. An interval in the sub-scanning direction of the plural light beams is adjusted by tilting the optical element having the negative refractive power on an axis along the main scanning direction.

Abstract: A focusing device comprises: an image capturing unit that captures a subject image formed via an optical system including a lens for executing focus adjustment and outputs an output signal; an edge detection unit that detects an edge signal among the output signal in correspondence to each color component among a plurality of color components contained in an image based upon the output signal; a calculation unit that calculates edge differential values each of which is a differential value of the edge signal in correspondence to the each color component; and a control unit that controls a moving direction along which the lens is to move based upon a comparison of the edge differential values.

Abstract: An ultraviolet-curable composition is discharged with an ink jet method and includes a polymerizable compound; a metal powder; and a thixotropy suppressing agent, in which a relationship of ?2??1?3 is satisfied between a viscosity ?1 [mPa·s] at a shearing speed of 1000 sec?1 and a viscosity ?2 [mPa·s] which is determined by measuring in a state where the shearing speed is 10 sec?1 after continuing to add shearing stress for 10 minutes at the shearing speed of 1000 sec?1.

Abstract: An ultraviolet-curable composition is discharged with an ink jet method and includes a polymerizable compound; a metal powder; and a thixotropy suppressing agent, in which a relationship of ?2??1?3 is satisfied between a viscosity ?1 [mPa s] at a shearing speed of 1000 sec?1 and a viscosity ?2 [mPa s] which is determined by measuring in a state where the shearing speed is 10 sec?1 after continuing to add shearing stress for 10 minutes at the shearing speed of 1000 sec?1.

Abstract: An oil separator includes: a collecting member that collects an oil mist included in blow-by gas of an internal combustion engine; and an oil separator portion inside which the collecting member is disposed, in which the collecting member includes a plurality of wire net members stacked along a flow direction of the blow-by gas.