Abstract: A system with a container including a protrusion, and a receiver to receive the container. The receiver includes a slide block that is movable relative to a body of the receiver, the slide block including two surfaces, a first surface, initially contacted by the protrusion of the container during insertion of the container into the receiver, having a first slope to resist movement of the container towards the receiver, and a second surface, subsequently contacted by the protrusion of the container during the insertion of the container into the receiver, having a second slope to interact with the protrusion of the container to assist movement of the container towards the receiver. This construction provides the user with a changing insertion force to indicate proper mounting of the container.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a housing, a rotor, a vane and a reed valve. A position at which the sliding direction of the vane with respect to the rotor is inverted from outward to inward is defined as a reference position, and a section of the pump chamber on the discharge hole side with respect to the reference position is defined as a discharge section. A pressure relief groove is disposed in a portion of the bottom wall portion corresponding to the discharge section with a clearance secured between the peripheral wall portion and the pressure relief groove. When the vane overlaps the pressure relief groove, a pair of the working chambers communicate with each other via the pressure relief groove.

Abstract: A vehicle display device is provided, the vehicle display device including a communication section configured to receive an image of a remote driver remotely operating a vehicle, an external vehicle display section provided to an outer shell of the vehicle and configured to display an image externally to the vehicle, and a display control section configured to cause the image of the remote driver received by the communication section to be displayed on the external vehicle display section.

Abstract: A driving control device includes a general user terminal that receives a request for a driving service for moving a vehicle to a destination by receiving, as inputs, a destination, a transit point, and a non-transit point at which the vehicle is not to be stopped, an occupant of the vehicle operation information acquisition device that receives an instruction from an occupant indicating a location where the vehicle is to be stopped, and a control device that, if the location input at the occupant operation information acquisition device of the vehicle running under the driving service corresponds to the non-transit point, causes the vehicle to pass without stopping at the location, and stops the vehicle at the location if the location does not correspond to the non-transit point.

Abstract: A sheet processing device sandwiches a sheet-shaped medium in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and partially bonded. The sheet processing device includes a separator, a conveyor, and a switching member. The separator separates the two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The conveyor is disposed downstream from the separator in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the two-ply sheet. The switching member is disposed downstream from the conveyor in the sheet conveyance direction. The switching member switches a conveyance path of the two-ply sheet to convey the two-ply sheet to a fixing path on which fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet or a non-fixing path on which no fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to reduce a load associated with transfer of parameters. A control system is equipped with first and second controllers connected to a network, and a drive apparatus for driving a motor in accordance with an instruction from the first controller. The drive apparatus includes a memory that stores a safety program for implementing a safety function, and a parameter group referenced by this program. The second controller transmits an instruction related to work of the safety function to the drive apparatus. A support apparatus capable of being connected to the network generates the parameter group, and reduces a size of the parameter group when this parameter group is transferred to the drive apparatus in order that the parameter group can be restored by the drive apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a charger, a charge remover, and control circuitry. The charger is configured to charge the photoconductor. The charge remover is configured to remove charge from a surface of the photoconductor by light and electric discharge. The control circuitry is configured to: estimate a surface potential that the photoconductor has after the photoconductor is charged by the charger, based on a characteristic value of the photoconductor and a value of a current flowing through the charger after the charge remover removes charge from the photoconductor; and control a charging bias applied to the charger, based on the surface potential estimated.

Abstract: A control system is provided with safety drivers having motion safety functions and with a standard controller that manages data exchanges among devices connected to a field network, wherein: when a connection in the field network is established, the standard controller transmits SRA parameters to the safety drivers via the field network, the SRA parameters including designation information to designate enabling or disabling for each of the motion safety functions; and the safety drivers disable particular motion safety functions that are designated to be disabled by the designation information.

Abstract: A sheet processing device sandwiches a sheet-shaped medium in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and partially bonded. The sheet processing device includes a separator, a conveyor, and a switching member. The separator separates the two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The conveyor is disposed downstream from the separator in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the two-ply sheet. The switching member is disposed downstream from the conveyor in the sheet conveyance direction. The switching member switches a conveyance path of the two-ply sheet to convey the two-ply sheet to a fixing path on which fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet or a non-fixing path on which no fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet.

Abstract: An optical connector includes a holder configured to hold at least three or more optical connector plugs. The optical connector plugs and the adapters are arranged in an intersecting direction intersecting with a connecting direction. The optical connector plugs include a first optical connector plug and a second optical connector plug. Any of the first optical connector plug and the adapter to which the first optical connector plug is connected has a latch mechanism configured to engage the first optical connector plug with the adapter. Any of the second optical connector plug and the adapter to which the second optical connector plug is connected does not have a latch mechanism configured to engage the second optical connector plug with the adapter.

Abstract: A cutting device is configured to cut, in an arc shape, an end of a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction. The cutting device includes an arc-shaped cutting blade; a switching mechanism; and a contact-and-separation mechanism. The switching mechanism is configured to switch a posture of the cutting blade in accordance with a position of the sheet facing the cutting blade. The contact-and-separation mechanism is configured to bring the cutting blade into contact with the sheet in a contact direction orthogonal to a surface of the sheet and away from the sheet in a separation direction opposite the contact direction, to cut the end of the sheet in the arc shape.

Abstract: Provided is a control system which can support a user with respect to the designation of a data group to be collected. The control system (1) includes: first and second controllers (100, 200); a drive device (300) which has a plurality of safety functions for a motor (400); a data tracing module (154) which traces a state value for indicating an operation state of the motor (400); and a support device (500) which receives a setting of the data group to be collected including the state value. The support device (500) includes: a storage (510) which stores collection candidate information in which a data group of collection candidates is associated with a type of a safety function; and an output section (508) which outputs, as the data group to be collected, the data group of collection candidates associated with one selected safety function.

Abstract: Included are a first cover base including an alkali glass layer, a first alkali-free glass layer provided on one face of the alkali glass layer, and a second alkali-free glass layer provided on another face of the alkali glass layer and a sensor that is provided on the first alkali-free glass layer of the first cover base and includes a plurality of first electrodes configured to detect the unevenness of a surface of an object to be detected that comes into contact with or close to the first cover base and a switching element. At least the first electrodes are formed above the first alkali-free glass layer and in a transmissive area that passes an image.

Abstract: There is provided a technology that can improve the convenience of users of vehicles. When receiving a vehicle dispatch request containing information designating kitchen equipment and food materials, an information processing apparatus disclosed determines a first unit provided with the kitchen equipment designated by the vehicle dispatch request and a second unit capable of storing the food materials designated by the vehicle dispatch request. The information processing apparatus sends a composition command to a specific composition site. The composition command is a command to compose a vehicle body unit including the first unit and the second unit. Moreover, the information processing apparatus sends an operation command to a chassis unit. The operation command is a command to cause the chassis unit to travel with the vehicle body unit composed at the specific composition site mounted thereon.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller equipped with at least one processor. The controller is configured to execute the processing of; when a vehicle body unit on which a cultivation field for cultivating a crop is mounted is laid at a first place, determining a time to remove defined as a time to remove the vehicle body unit from the first place to a second place other than the first place; and sending a transportation command to a chassis unit configured to be capable of travelling autonomously and being coupled to and decoupled from any vehicle body unit in accordance with the time to remove, the transportation command being a command to transport the vehicle body unit from the first place to the second place.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a second conveying roller pair that receives and conveys a sheet conveyed by a first conveying roller pair; a first folding roller pair that forms a first fold on the sheet; and a first rotation unit capable of rotating the second conveying roller pair and the first folding roller pair. One roller of the second conveying roller pair and one roller of the first folding roller pair are a common roller shared therebetween. The second conveying roller pair causes the sheet to be deflected and guided to the first folding roller pair, and the first folding roller pair forms the first fold on the deflected sheet by rotating the first rotation unit in a certain direction in a state in which the sheet is held by the first conveying roller pair and the second conveying roller pair.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller configured to execute the processing of accepting a request for retrieving a target vehicle body unit that is laid at a specific place, selecting a chassis unit for retrieval from among chassis units in the state separated from any vehicle body unit, the chassis unit for retrieval being a chassis unit to be used to retrieve the target vehicle body unit, and sending a retrieval command to the chassis unit for retrieval, the retrieval command being a command to retrieve the target vehicle body unit.

Abstract: A control system including a control device and a development supporting device for developing a plurality of programming languages executed in the control device, wherein the development supporting device includes an input unit that inputs source codes of the plurality of different programming languages, a mapping information producing unit that performs mapping of shared variables selected in the source codes, respectively, and that produces shared variable mapping information, and a transmit unit that transmits source codes and shared variable mapping information to the control device, wherein the control device includes a program executing unit that executes programs described by source codes, and a shared variable processing unit that processes each of mapped shared variables as common shared variables based on shared variable mapping information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed includes a controller configured to execute the processing of acquiring a remaining amount of energy source defined as the remaining amount of energy source stored in the storage unit of a first chassis unit coupled with a specific vehicle body unit, and when the remaining amount of energy source is smaller than a predetermined threshold, sending a decoupling command to the first chassis unit and sending a coupling command to a second chassis unit for which replenishment of energy source has been completed. The decoupling command is a command to decouple the first chassis unit from the vehicle body unit, and the coupling command is a command to couple the second chassis unit to the specific vehicle body unit.

Abstract: Provided is a control system that outputs determination information on whether or not safety function specifications are satisfied. The control system includes: first and second controllers (100, 200); a drive device (300); and a data tracing module (154) that traces a state value indicating an operation state of a motor (400). The drive device (300) includes: a storage for storing safety parameters related to safety functions; and a control device (311) that stops driving of the motor (400) on the basis of the safety parameters and the state value indicating the operation state of the motor (400). The control system further includes: a support device (500) that displays the safety parameters while overlapping a tracing result of the state value obtained by the data tracing module (154).