Abstract: A projector controlling method includes acquiring first imaging information obtained by capturing a first image projected from a projector at a first timing, acquiring second imaging information obtained by capturing a second image projected from the projector at a second timing, evaluating whether or not a change in the posture of the projector satisfies a certain criterion based on the first imaging information and the second imaging information, and outputting information based on the result of the evaluating.

Abstract: A substrate-floatation-type laser processing apparatus and a method for measuring a floating height, capable of improving performance of laser processing are provided. A substrate-floatation-type laser processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a stage configured to float and convey a substrate, and a floating-height measurement apparatus configured to measure a floating height H of the substrate. Note that a distance between the floating-height measurement apparatus and the substrate can be automatically adjusted according to the measured floating height H. The floating height H of the substrate is measured by applying laser light to the substrate and the stage. The distance between the floating-height measurement apparatus and the substrate is adjusted by using a feedback mechanism in which the measured floating height of the substrate is used as an input.

Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute: a pressure calculation process that calculates pressure of gas in a crank chamber based on a running state of the internal combustion engine; a first injection process that causes a water injection valve to inject a first injection amount of water when an intake valve is open; and a second injection process that causes the water injection valve to inject a second injection amount of water when the intake valve is closed. The controller is further configured to set a ratio of the first injection amount to a sum of the first injection amount and the second injection amount to a smaller value when the pressure is greater than or equal to a specified value than when the pressure is less than the specified value.

Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to calculate a water collection amount based on a temperature of intake air flowing through an intake passage, the water collection amount being an amount of water that collects on a wall surface of the intake passage, cause a water injection valve to inject water to the intake passage when an intake valve is open, and cause the water injection valve to inject water when the intake valve is closed in addition to when the intake valve is open in a case in which the water collection amount is less than a specified value that has been defined in advance.

Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a first injection process that causes a water injection valve to inject water when an intake valve is open and a second injection process that causes the water injection valve to inject water when the intake valve is closed. The controller is further configured to set a pressure of the water supplied to the water injection valve to be higher in the second injection process than in the first injection process.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a commodity registration device includes an optical reading unit with a reading range. The optical reading unit is configured to acquire an image of a commodity in the reading range. A wireless tag reading unit is configured to read a commodity code from a wireless tag of the commodity in the reading range. A processor determines whether the commodity is in the reading range of the optical reading unit and causes a notification unit to indicate the commodity has been registered if the wireless tag reading unit successfully reads the commodity code from the wireless tag while the commodity is determined to be in the reading range of the optical reading unit.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an asynchronous injection valve configured to inject water into an intake port when one or more intake valves are closed and a synchronous injection valve configured to inject water into the intake port when the one or more intake valves are open. The asynchronous injection valve and the synchronous injection valve are configured to have injection characteristics that are different between the asynchronous injection valve and the synchronous injection valve.

Abstract: An engine includes water injection valves that inject water to intake ports connected to a cylinder. A controller for the engine is configured to selectively execute, for each of the intake ports, a synchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water only during a valve opening period of the intake valve and an asynchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water during a valve closing period of the intake valve. The controller is configured to perform, when executing a synchronous/asynchronous concurrent injection in which the intake ports includes an intake port in which the synchronous injection is executed and an intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed, a switching process of switching the intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed.

Abstract: A substrate-floatation-type laser processing apparatus and a method for measuring a floating height, capable of improving performance of laser processing are provided. A substrate-floatation-type laser processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a stage configured to float and convey a substrate, and a floating-height measurement apparatus configured to measure a floating height H of the substrate. Note that a distance between the floating-height measurement apparatus and the substrate can be automatically adjusted according to the measured floating height H. The floating height H of the substrate is measured by applying laser light to the substrate and the stage. The distance between the floating-height measurement apparatus and the substrate is adjusted by using a feedback mechanism in which the measured floating height of the substrate is used as an input.

Abstract: In a laser irradiation apparatus 1 according to one embodiment, each of first and second flotation units 30a, 30b includes a base 31, and a porous plate 32 bonded to an upper surface of the base 31 by an adhesive layer 34, the base 31 includes a rising portion 312 protruding upward at an outer periphery facing at least the gap, and the porous plate 32 includes a cutout portion 321 configured to fit to the rising portion 312, and the adhesive layer 34 is formed along an inner wall of the rising portion 312 having fitted to the cutout portion 321.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a monitoring device for a terminal including a connection unit to which at least one device is able to be connected and mounted with a container file storing application software for controlling a business to be performed by using the device connected to the connection unit. The monitoring device includes a detection unit, an acquisition unit, and a processing unit. The detection unit detects an abnormality in the terminal. The acquisition unit acquires the container file mounted on the terminal in which the abnormality is detected. The processing unit installs the acquired container file on an alternative terminal.

Abstract: An electrical product including: an electrical component; a first power supply member and a second power supply member; and an insulating plate provided between the first power supply member and the second power supply member. The first power supply member is formed with a fixing hole which penetrates the first power supply member. The insulating plate is formed with a protrusion inserted into the fixing hole. The product is manufactured by preparing a jig with a recessed hole; placing the first power supply member on the jig; placing the insulating plate on the first power supply member so that the protrusion penetrates the fixing hole and the recessed hole.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sizing agent composition that gives a carbon fiber from which a carbon fiber-reinforced composite material having excellent adhesion between a resin and the carbon fiber and having excellent mechanical properties can be formed. The sizing agent composition of the invention is a sizing agent composition comprising (A) a blocked isocyanate, and (B) a compound containing at least one polar group and at least one unsaturated group per molecule. In the invention, the mixing ratio (mass ratio) of the blocked isocyanate (A) and the compound (B) containing at least one polar group and at least one unsaturated group per molecule (A/B) is preferably 95/5 to 5/95. In the invention, the blocked isocyanate (A) is preferably a compound having an aliphatic skeleton.

Abstract: In a laser irradiation apparatus 1 according to one embodiment, each of first and second flotation units 30a, 30b includes a base 31, and a porous plate 32 bonded to an upper surface of the base 31 by an adhesive layer 34, the base 31 includes a rising portion 312 protruding upward at an outer periphery facing at least the gap, and the porous plate 32 includes a cutout portion 321 configured to fit to the rising portion 312, and the adhesive layer 34 is formed along an inner wall of the rising portion 312 having fitted to the cutout portion 321.

Abstract: A resource recovery system for recovering articles to be recycled as a resource includes a plurality of resource recovery apparatuses that recovers the discarded articles by a person discarding waste and a server apparatus that manages the plurality of resource recovery apparatuses. The server apparatus generates suggestion information including information indicating a suggestion for a location of a target resource recovery apparatus, based on a utilization result and a location of each of the plurality of resource recovery apparatuses. The target resource recovery apparatus is the resource recovery apparatus to be newly placed and/or the resource recovery apparatus that has been located and of which location is to be changed.

Abstract: This manufacturing method of a hot press-formed article includes a heating step of heating an Al-plated steel sheet and a forming step of obtaining a hot press-formed article using a die after the heating step, the Al-plated steel sheet has a base steel sheet, an Al plating layer, and a coating layer, the coating layer is a metal layer containing at least one metal of Mg, Ca, V, Ti, and Zn, a metal oxide layer containing an oxide of one or more of Mg, Ca, V, Ti, and Zn, or a mixed layer including the metal layer and the metal oxide layer, the die has a hard layer on a surface, HVDie that is a surface hardness of the die at a position of the hard layer is HV1500 or more and HV3800 or less, and a temperature Tm of the Al-plated steel sheet at a start of forming and an average movement velocity V of the die in the forming step satisfy 800?(HVDie/40)?Tm?850?(V/4)?(HVDie/100).

Abstract: An energy management method comprises a step A of outputting, by a fuel cell apparatus provided in each of a plurality of facilities, power using fuel, a step B of managing a storage amount of the fuel stored in a storage tank shared by the plurality of facilities, and a step C of allocating the storage amount of the fuel to each of the plurality of facilities.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an agent for protection of vascular endothelial cells, an agent for protection of blood brain spinal cord barrier, and an agent for protection of central nervous system, containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of muvritinib, brexpiprazole, papaverine, bismuth-containing compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of diseases associated with blood brain spinal cord barrier disruption, containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of muvritinib, brexpiprazole, papaverine, bismuth-containing compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: A resource collection apparatus is an apparatus for collecting waste reusable as a resource. The resource collection apparatus includes an opening associated with a predetermined sorting type, an opening/closing unit configured to open and close the opening, a first detector configured to perform an operation to detect a target waste belonging to a user, and a controller configured to specify a sorting type into which the target waste is to be sorted, by using a result of the detection by the first detector. The controller switches the opening/closing unit from a closed state to an open state when the specified sorting type matches the sorting type associated with the opening.

Abstract: A wireless tag communication device includes an antenna configured to transmit a carrier wave and receive a response wave output from a wireless tag with respect to the carrier wave and to specify a position of the wireless tag to be searched based on a radio wave intensity of the response wave received by the antenna. The device includes: a radio wave controller configured to switch the carrier wave between a first and second carrier wave to be transmitted in a first and second polarization direction respectively; and a comparator configured to compare a first and second radio wave intensity of a first and second response wave respectively output from the wireless tag with respect to the first and second carrier waves respectively, and the radio wave controller switches the carrier wave between the first carrier wave and the second carrier wave based on a comparison result of the comparator.