Hitachi, Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Nec Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

The University of Tokyo

Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Ando Electric Company

Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.

Maruha Nichiro Corporation

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Muneaki Aminaka

Hiroshige Okamoto

Hiroshi Matsumoto

Yoichi Nakamura

Shunsuke Nogita

Seiitsu Nigawara

Atsushi Morihara

Hajime Nagahara

Masahide Nomura

Tadayoshi Saito

Akira Kaji

Ken Someya

Makoto Shimoda

Yoshio Naganuma

Shinichi Ebata

Katsunori Ouchi

Toshio Kuge

Ercan Mehmet Dede

Yuichi Yamamoto

Akira Tanaka

Kenji Baba

Koji Sato

Ayumu Morita

Kazuji Yamada

Toru Tanimizu

Kunio Miyazaki

Yasunori Katayama

Hirokazu Inoue

Junzo Kawakami

Harumi Watanabe

Hideo Arakawa

Katsuhiro Fujimoto

Tsutomu Katsumata

Osamu Miura

Katsumi Muroi

Hisanori Miyagaki

Hiroshi Hanaoka

Kazuo Narita

Koichi Murata

Hideyuki Ariyasu

Takanori Fujieda

Ryotaro Hanabuchi

Yuichi Tomita

Takuya Miyo

Toshiyuki Izutani

Kouji Takeuchi

Katunori Kojima

Yukitoki Fujita

Hironobu Yamauchi

Yukihiro Ban

Junichi Sugimoto

Atsushi Nigorikawa

Toshiyuki Yamagata

Hiroki Ogawa

Syuuichi Kikukawa

The present disclosure relates to driver interaction with a user interface of a vehicle. In particular, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus for performing an action associated with a driver input indicated via an input modality of an HMI of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to receive initial data corresponding to an initial driver input via a first input modality of the HMI of the vehicle, compare a confidence level of the initial data to a confidence level threshold associated with the first input modality of the HMI of the vehicle, request, based on the comparison, a subsequent driver input via a second input modality of the HMI of the vehicle, determine a presence of an adverse condition within a vehicle environment, and perform an action associated with the subsequent driver input based on the presence of the adverse condition within the vehicle environment.

Apparatus and method for performing an action associated with a driver input indicated via an input modality of a human machine interface of a vehicle

A composition for controlling or preventing microsporidia in a fish or a seafood is prepared by using, as an active ingredient, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following chemical formula (I): (wherein, R, R, R, Rand Reach independently represent a specific substituent), pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and compounds generating the compounds represented by the chemical formula (I) by metabolism in the body of the fish or the seafood. By using this composition for controlling or preventing microsporidia in a fish to or a seafood, a method for controlling or preventing microsporidia in a fish or a seafood is provided, which prevents microsporidian infection in the muscle or organs of the fish or the seafood, and/or suppresses the growth of microsporidia in the muscle or organs of the fish or the seafood, and/or highly effective in eliminating microsporidia from the body of the fish or the seafood and also excellent in safety.

Composition for controlling microsporidia in fishes and method for controlling microsporidia in fishes using same

The present invention is a filler metal installation position checking method and a filler metal installation position checking system for confirming difference between installation position and designed position of a filler metal embedded in a wall surface. A standard surface targethaving known actual dimension and position to a wall surfaceis provided to the wall surfacewhere a filler metalis installed. The wall surfaceis photographed together with the standard surface targetto create image data. Using actual position and dimension of the standard surface targetand position and dimension of the standard surface targeton an image displayed by the image data, the image datais converted into corrected image datadisplaying an image corrected in a manner that the image is photographed from front of the wall surface. Design CAD datashowing actual designed position of the filler metal is read out and the images shown by the corrected image dataand the design CAD dataare outputted as images on one same display.

Filler metal installation position checking method and filler metal installation position checking system

A pipe installation support apparatus includes: a display control device for displaying images of pipes already installed and a pipe to be attached on a display device; an input device for inputting a movement instruction to move or rotate at least one of the image of the pipes; and a moving device for translating or rotating at least one of three-dimensional data of the pipes already installed and the three-dimensional data of the pipe to be attached based on the movement instruction when the movement instruction is input from the input device, wherein when the moving device translates or rotates the three-dimensional data, the display control device moves the images of the pipes already installed and the pipe to be attached displayed on the display device.

Pipe installation support apparatus

A method for producing a molded product consisting of a resin polymerized by a melt polycondensation reaction, comprising continuous feeding of a prepolymer in molten state from a prepolymer feeding port to a polymerization reactor, discharging from holes of a porous plate, followed by polymerization while dropping along a supporting substrate under reduced pressure, and molding by transferring to at least one molding machine in molten state without solidification, wherein transfer pressure to said molding machine is controlled so as to maintain at an arbitrary pressure from 0.1 to 100 MPa (absolute pressure).

Method and apparatus for producing molded product

A polyethylene terephthalate resin which is obtained by melt polymerization at a reduced pressure or in an inert gas atmosphere and has the following properties (A) to (F): (A) the intrinsic viscosity [&#x3b7;] is 0.4-2.5 Dl/g; (B) the content of carboxy groups present at polymer ends is 30 meq/kg or lower; (C) the acetaldehyde content is 10 ppm or lower; (D) a hexafluoroisopropanol solution of the resin, when analyzed by the transmission method, has a hue which has an L value of 99 or larger and a b value of 0.4 or smaller; (E) the Mw/Mn is 1.8-2.3; and (F) the cyclic trimer content is 5 wt. % or lower.

Polyester resin, molded object thereof, and processes for producing these

The present invention provides a method of producing polyalkylene terephthalate, which comprises: introducing a prepolymer of polyalkylene terephthalate that is in a molten state comprising 70 mol % or more of ethylene terephthalate or 1,4-butylene terephthalate repeating units and having an intrinsic viscosity [&#x3b7;] between 0.2 and 2 dl/g through a feed opening to a polymerization reactor; discharging the introduced prepolymer from holes of a perforated plate; and polymerizing the prepolymer under reduced pressure, while allowing the prepolymer to fall along the surface of a support that is open towards the outside at a temperature between the [crystalline melting point&#x2212;10&#xb0; C.] of the prepolymer or higher and the [crystalline melting point+30&#xb0; C.] of the prepolymer or lower under the conditions represented by a formula S/S&#x3e;1, wherein Sis the surface area of falling polyalkylene terephthalate, and Sis the area where the support is in contact with polyalkylene terephthalate.

Process for producing polyalkylene terephthalate, process for producing polyalkylene terephthalate molding and polyalkylene terephthalate molding

Disclosed is a method for recycling a recovered polycondensation polymer which comprises a process wherein a recovered polycondensation polymer is supplied in a molten state to a polymerizer having a porous plate, and then after ejecting the polycondensation polymer through pores of the porous plate, the polymerization degree of the polycondensation polymer is increased under a reduced pressure or in a reduced inert gas atmosphere while dropping the polycondensation polymer along a supporting body.

Method for recycling recovered polycondensation polymer

A polytrimethylene terephthalate resin comprising 60 to 100 mole % of (a) trimethylene terephthalate recurring units, and 0 to 40 mole % of (b) at least one monomer unit obtained from a comonomer copolymerizable with at least one of the monomers used for forming the recurring units, the total molar amount of (a) monomer units and (b) monomer units being 100 mole %, and the resin having the following characteristics (A) to (D):

Polytrimethylene terephthalate resin and method for producing the same

A vacuum switch comprises a first vacuum container containing therein a circuit breaker, a second vacuum container containing therein the first vacuum container and grounded, and a third vacuum container connected to the second vacuum container, containing therein a disconnecting switch and an earth device and grounded. The second and third vacuum containers are isolated in vacuum from the first vacuum container, and the second vacuum container is electrically insulated from the first vacuum container. The second vacuum container contains an insulator fixed to a conductor connected to the circuit breaker and a movable rod partially disposed out of the vacuum containers and operating the circuit breaker to open and close. The disconnecting switch, circuit breaker and the insulator are arranged in a line. A vacuum switchgear comprises the above-mentioned vacuum switches of the number corresponding to three phases and necessary components, each being contained in a metal box.

Vacuum switch and vacuum switchgear using the same

A low-molecular-weight oxymethylene polymer characterized by having a straight-chain molecular structure, a number-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 8,000 and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1.0 to 3.0, and containing 0 to 30 mol % of a co-monomer.

Low-molecular weight oxymethylene polymer and composition thereof

High-rigidity oxymethylene polymer resin molding

Polyacetal resin composition exhibiting high retentivity of mechanical

A state diagnostic system for equipment is disclosed. The system is constructed of a neural network model for learning in advance one or more samples of information on vibrations, which are produced in a specific operation state of the equipment, in association with the corresponding operation state and obtaining an output signal corresponding to results of the learning when information on vibrations produced upon operation of the equipment is inputted; an input unit for inputting to the neural network model the information on the vibrations produced upon operation of the equipment; and an output unit for outputting the output signal from the neural network model as diagnostic results to a user. State diagnostic methods, learning system, preview/predict system, diagnosis training system, service life estimation assisting system, service life estimation assisting system, and maintenance assisting system are also disclosed.

Neural network state diagnostic system for equipment

A process control system controls a large scale plant such as thermal power plant. This process control system includes a target setting unit for setting an operation target, a control unit for receiving a signal indicating the operation target and for outputting a controlled variable to operate the process, an evaluation unit for quantitatively evaluating operation characteristics corresponding to the operation target of the process operated on the basis of a signal indicating the controlled variable supplied from the control unit, a modification unit for extracting an optimum operation process qualitatively squaring or conforming with the evaluated value derived by the evaluation unit out of a modification rule predetermining operation unit in qualitative relation between the operation characteristics and the operation target of the process and for determining the modification rate of the control unit, a storage unit having a model of a neural network for storing a relation between the operation target and the modification rate derived by the modification unit as a connection state within a circuit, and a learning unit for making the model of the neural network learn the relation between the operation target and the modification rate.

Process control system and power plant process control system

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Hiroshi Yokoyama