Abstract: An information processing apparatus for a string instrument including a string and a peg for tuning the string, the information processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor that implements the instructions to receive performance sound of the string instrument, estimate position information of the peg based on the received performance sound, and output guidance information for changing a position of the peg based on the estimated position information.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a damage degree management system for a steam turbine high temperature component, comprising a display information generator that generates display information for displaying: past damage degree related information indicating information regarding a damage degree of the steam turbine high temperature component from the past to the present calculated based on measured information; and future damage degree related information indicating information regarding a future damage degree of the steam turbine high temperature component in the future calculated based on a future operation plan input through an input screen of a user interface and the past damage degree related information.

Abstract: A semiconductor device which has favorable electrical characteristics and can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator; an oxide over the first insulator; a second insulator over the oxide; a first conductor over the second insulator; a third insulator in contact with a top surface of the first insulator, a side surface of the oxide, a top surface of the oxide, a side surface of the second insulator, and a side surface of the first conductor; and a fourth insulator over the third insulator. The third insulator includes an opening exposing the first insulator, and the fourth insulator is in contact with the first insulator through the opening.

Abstract: An electrode member includes a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern. In each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern, first end portion wires of the first thin metal wires form a pair across the insulation gap, and first end surfaces of the paired first end portion wires are located so as to include portions that face each other with a predetermined distance therebetween in a direction that intersects a first direction. In each of the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern, second end portion wires of the second thin metal wires form a pair across the insulation gap, and second end surfaces of the paired second end portion wires are located so as to include portions that face each other with a predetermined distance therebetween in a direction that intersects a second direction.

Abstract: A thinning amount managing apparatus in an embodiment for managing an amount of thinning of a first-stage rotor blade of a steam turbine caused by solid particles contained in working steam for working the steam turbine. The thinning amount managing apparatus includes a display information generation section configured to generate display information for displaying: past thinning amount related information indicating information on a past thinning amount of the first-stage rotor blade from the past to the present calculated based on measured information; and future thinning amount related information indicating information on a future thinning amount of the first-stage rotor blade calculated based on a future operating condition input via a user interface screen and the past thinning amount related information.

Abstract: A window glass for a vehicle including a glass plate, a light shielding layer on the glass plate and a planar antenna including a planar conductor with a hollowed-out portion with at least one hole, wherein, when a region including the light shielding layer is assumed as a light shielding region; and a region including no light shielding layer is assumed as a transmission region, the planar antenna is arranged to lie across a boundary between the light shielding region and the transmission region, and has a first conductor part overlapping the light shielding region and a second conductor part overlapping the transmission region, and, wherein, when an area of overlap of the planar antenna with the light shielding region is assumed as a first overlap area; an area of overlap of the planar antenna with the transmission region is assumed as a second overlap area.

Abstract: An EBG structure-attached glass plate includes a vehicle roof glass for attachment to a metal frame of a vehicle body, an EBG structure that is disposed on a first main face of the roof glass, that has a predetermined conductor pattern periodically disposed thereon, and that is formed in a frame shape, and a radio wave transmitting and receiving region surrounded by the EBG structure.

Abstract: A fastening tool includes: a bit holding portion which detachably holds a driver bit and is configured to rotate in a circumferential direction of the driver bit and move in an axial direction of the driver bit; a first motor configured to rotate the bit holding portion; a second motor configured to move the bit holding portion along the axial direction; and a control unit configured to control a position of the bit holding portion along the axial direction by the number of rotations of the second motor. The control unit is configured to control a moving speed of a screw moved by rotation of the first motor or a rotation speed of the first motor.

Abstract: A steam turbine nozzle deformation amount managing apparatus in an embodiment includes a display information generation section configured to generate display information for displaying: past deformation amount related information indicating information on a past deformation amount of a nozzle of a steam turbine from the past to the present calculated based on measured information; and future deformation amount related information indicating information on a future deformation amount of the nozzle calculated based on a future operating condition input via a user interface screen and the past deformation amount related information.

Abstract: In a two-component developer, external additive particles of toner particles include resin particles. The resin particles contain a crosslinked resin including a repeating unit derived from a crosslinking agent. Carrier particles each include a carrier core and a coat layer covering a surface of the carrier core. The coat layers contain a coating resin and barium titanate particles. The coating resin includes a silicone resin. The barium titanate particles have a number average primary particle diameter within a range of 100 nm to 500 nm. The barium titanate particles have a content within a range of 5 parts by mass to 45 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the coating resin. A rate of a mass of the coat layers to a mass of the carrier cores is greater than 0.0% by mass and no greater than 4.9% by mass. The carrier cores have a shape factor within a range of 34.0% to 85.0%.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.

Abstract: A proximity alarm device includes a microcomputer, a speaker, an electric board, and a board temperature sensor housed in a housing of the proximity alarm device. The board temperature sensor is mounted on a sensor mounting surface of the electric board, and outputs board temperature information indicating the detected board temperature to the microcomputer. An arithmetic unit of the microcomputer estimates and calculates the speaker temperature based on the board temperature information, and a correcting unit corrects the approach notification sound based on the estimated and calculated speaker temperature.

Abstract: Provided is an antibody or fragment thereof that recognizes a colorectal cancer-specific or oral cancer-specific antigen. Specifically, provided is an antibody or fragment thereof that recognizes an N-linked glycan that annexin A2 has.

Abstract: A planar antenna comprising a slot formed in a flat conductor, wherein the slot includes a first slot extending in a first direction between a first feeding point and a second feeding point, a second slot extending in a second direction different from the first direction from an end portion of the first slot, a third slot extending in a fourth direction opposite to the second direction from an end portion of the first slot in a third direction opposite to the first direction, reaching an open end in the fourth direction, and a J-shaped slot extending from an end portion of the second slot in the second direction to an open end open in the first direction, and wherein a slot width at an open end of the J-shaped slot is wider than a slot width at the end portion of the second slot in the second direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element having a substrate, a drift layer, a base region, a source region, trench gate structures, an interlayer insulating film, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The substrate is made of silicon carbide. The drift layer is disposed on the substrate and has an impurity concentration lower than the substrate. The base region is made of silicon carbide and disposed on the drift layer. The source region is made of silicon carbide having an impurity concentration higher than the drift layer. Each trench gate structure has a gate trench, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The interlayer insulating film covers the gate electrode and the gate insulating film. The source electrode is in ohmic-contact with the source region. The drain electrode is disposed on a rear surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle antenna system that is able to efficiently receive circularly polarized signals from the zenith direction. A vehicle antenna system (100) is provided with window glass (30) for a vehicle (20) and an antenna element (40) that is able to receive signals of a predetermined frequency band. The antenna element (40) is provided on a first principal plane of a dielectric substrate (43), and includes a radiating conductor (41) that is able to receive circularly polarized signals of a first frequency, and a grounding conductor (44) positioned opposite the radiating conductor (41) via the dielectric substrate (43). The normal direction of the first principal plane is less than or equal to 45° relative to the vertical direction, and the radiating conductor (41) is positioned away from the inner surface of the window glass (30) via the dielectric layer (60) in the direction of the vehicle interior.

Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary machine which can detect current of the normal phase certainly when the short circuit failure of one phase occurs, in an apparatus that a current sensor is connected in series to the positive electrode side switching device or the negative electrode side switching device of an inverter. A controller for AC rotary machine, when determining that the short circuit failure of any one phase occurred, calculates voltage command values of normal n?1 phases, and changes the voltage command values of the normal n?1 phases so that on period of the detection object device of each phase of the normal n?1 phases become longer than or equal to a length necessary for current detection at least at a current detection timing.

Abstract: A multiplexer includes first, second, and third filters with first, second, and third frequency bands different from each other, a first connection point connected to a common terminal, a second connection point connected to one end of the first filter and one end of the second filter, a first switch that switches connection and disconnection between the first and second connection points, a reactance element whose one end is connected to a signal path connecting the second connection point and the first switch, a second switch that switches connection and disconnection between the other end of the reactance element and the first connection point, and a third switch that switches connection and disconnection between one end of the third filter and the first connection point. The first and second frequency bands are adjacent to each other among the first, second, and third frequency bands.

Abstract: A reactor includes first heat transfer bodies including reaction flow channels through which a reaction fluid flows, second heat transfer bodies stacked on the first heat transfer bodies and including heat medium flow channels through which a heat medium flows and product flow channels through which a product flows that is produced in the reaction flow channels by a heat exchange between the reaction fluid and the heat medium, and product communication parts including communication spaces through which the product flows from the reaction flow channels to the product flow channels.

Abstract: The information processing device includes a processor, and the processor inputs information on a course on which the vehicle travels, setup information on a setup of the vehicle, and feedback information from a driver driving the vehicle into a learned model, and proposes an optimal setup when the vehicle travels on the course based on an output from the learned model.