Disco Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Hokkaido University

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Komatsu Corporation

Hitachi High-tech Corporation

Tokyo Women's Medical University

Jfc Steel Corporation

Yusuke Vincent Fujii

Minoru Matsuzawa

Shigenori Harada

Hayato Kiuchi

Yoshiaki Yodo

Masamitsu Agari

Makiko Ohmae

Emiko Kawamura

Taro Arakawa

Toshiki Miyai

Satoru Okagaki

Toru Umekawa

Yuji Yamasaki

Kuniko Kojima

Muneharu Kuwata

Haruka Yamazaki

Kikuo Umegaki

Toyohisa Shinmiya

Masumi Umezawa

Hiroki Shirato

Rintaro Fujimoto

Hiroshi Akiyama

Naoki Miyamoto

Yuki Nakayama

Kei Kosaka

Yoshihiko Nagamine

Taeko Matsuura

Shota Kageyama

Masahiro Yoshida

Shinichi Shimizu

Kazuo Hiramoto

Naoki Kikuchi

Taisuke Takayanagi

Masahiro Tadokoro

Kaoru Sawase

Yuichi Ushiroda

Atsushi Minoo

Masaki Urabe

Manabu Aoki

Kinya Nakagawa

Haruka Suzuki

Eiji Iizuka

Kazutoshi Ito

Kento Fujii

Katsuhiro Ochi

Rintarou Fujimoto

Tadasuke Ogawa

Yoshie Nakai

Osamu Futami

Takahiko Maeda

Yukio Takahashi

Makoto Abe

Shingo Sato

Hisataka Fujimaki

Yuji Miki

Hideaki Nishiuchi

Kazuhiko Higai

Masayuki Yamato

Ryuya Ando

Sang Jae Lee

Shota Amano

Keiji Kobashi

Shinichiro Fujitaka

Nobuhiko Oda

Shinji Koseki

Koichi Miyazaki

Masanori Maeda

Seishin Takao

Ryo Kawabata

Yasuhiro Kishigami

Goro Okuyama

Shunsuke Tobita

Shusuke Hirayama

Hideaki Nihongi

Shinichi Nagai

Yuichi Hirata

Yuta Kariyazaki

Yuuji Shibata

Naoya Shibuta

Nobuo Kanai

Toshiyuki Terunuma

Masahiro Mizuta

Hiroyuki Date

Mikihiro Mori

Noritaka Nishiguchi

Yuka Matsuzaki

Hidenori Koyano

Sodai Tanaka

Yumi Murakami

Atsuo Yuasa

Takeji Sakae

An article processing apparatus includes: a configuration determination unit configured to determine a configuration of at least one transport unit including articles and stacked article groups each including a pallet, and at least one of the articles placed on the pallet, wherein first article groups are article groups excluding uppermost one of the stacked article groups; a palletizing mechanism configured to place the at least one of the articles on the pallet so as to form each of the stacked article groups; and a stacking mechanism configured to stack the article groups formed by the palletizing mechanism so as to form the transport unit, wherein the configuration determination unit is configured to determine the configuration of the at least one transport unit such that a load applied to each of the first article groups is smaller than a load index set to each of the first article groups.

Article processing apparatus

An air conditioner includes a housing including an illumination opening at a position viewable by a user; a blower provided in an airflow path connecting an inlet and outlet; a light emitter provided in the housing viewable through the illumination opening and including a light incident portion to receive light emitted from a first light source and a first light emission portion to emit first light generated from the light and including light simulating natural light; and at least one light extractor emitting second light that is part of the light received by the light emitter that reaches an edge portion of the light emitter without being emitted as the first light or second light received from the first light source or a second light source different from the first light source without intervention of the light emitter. The at least one light extractor is provided in the airflow path.

Lighting device, air conditioner, and control system

The system includes a bed on which an irradiation target is mounted, an irradiation device that irradiates the irradiation target with a particle beam, and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus that captures an image of an irradiation object and includes a magnet that generates a static magnetic field in an image capturing space in which the irradiation target is disposed, and a yoke disposed outside the image capturing space and through which a magnetic flux of the generated magnetic field passes. The irradiation deviceis disposed on a back surface side of the yoke when viewed from the image capturing space, and irradiates the irradiation target with the particle beam from a through-hole or gap provided in the yoke. A direction in which the particle beam enters the image capturing space intersects with a direction of a static magnetic field applied to the image capturing space by the magnet.

Particle beam therapy system and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

A control system for a work machine includes a plurality of hydraulic pumps that discharge hydraulic oil, a hydraulic cylinder that moves a working equipment element, a plurality of flow rate control valves that are respectively connected to the hydraulic pumps and adjust a flow rate of the hydraulic oil supplied to the hydraulic cylinder, a plurality of supply flow paths respectively connected to the of flow rate control valves, a meter-in flow path that connects a collective part of the supply flow paths and an inlet of the hydraulic oil in the hydraulic cylinder, a plurality of discharge flow paths respectively connected to the flow rate control valves, a meter-out flow path that connects a collective part of the discharge flow paths and an outlet of the hydraulic oil in the hydraulic cylinder, and a throttle disposed in the meter-out flow path.

Work machine control system, work machine, and work machine control method

A press forming method for controlling a shape change of a press formed part over time after the press formed part springs back at a moment of a release from a press-forming die includes: a press forming step of press forming a metal sheet into the press formed part by using the press-forming die; a die releasing step of releasing the press formed part, which is press-formed, from the press-forming die; and a post-release die holding step of holding the released press formed part in a forming bottom dead center shape for 30 minutes or more by using the press-forming die.

Press forming method and shape evaluation method for press formed part

A treatment planning system that generates treatment planning for irradiating a target with a particle beam, includes an arithmetic processing device that sets at least two or more irradiation patterns for one treatment planning, calculates a plurality of predicted dose distributions for each irradiation pattern based on a target dose set for each region for at least one region including a region of the target, and calculates an index for evaluating validity of the irradiation pattern based on the plurality of predicted dose distributions.

Treatment planning system, treatment planning generation method, and recording medium

A gas sensor includes a sensor element and one or more hollow columnar dense bodies. The sensor element includes an element main body having a side surface, a porous layer and a water-penetration reduction portion that cover at least a front end-side part of the side surface. The water-penetration reduction portion disposed on the side surface so as to divide the porous layer or to be located closer to the rear end than the porous layer, an overlap length W that is the length of a continuous overlap between a range in which the water-penetration reduction portion is present in a longitudinal direction and a range in which inner peripheral surfaces of the one or more dense bodies are present in the longitudinal direction being 0.5 mm or more, and having a dense layer covers the side surface, the water-penetration reduction portion reduces the capillarity of water.

Gas sensor

An automotive-structural-part joint structure is formed by bending one metal sheet, includes a groove portion including a top portion and a pair of side wall portions, is provided at an end part of one automotive structural part in a longitudinal direction, and is configured to join the one automotive structural part to another automotive structural part in an intersecting direction. The automotive-structural-part joint structure includes: a pair of vertical rib portions configured to stand upward from both side ends of the top portion; and an outward-directed flange portion configured to extend outward from three side edges of the groove portion on an end part side where the other automotive structural part is joined, the flange portion being continuously formed along the three side edges.

Automotive-structural-part joint structure, automotive structural part, and automotive-structural-part manufacturing method

A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Lance nozzle

A particle therapy system includes an acceleratorwhich generates a particle beam for extraction, an irradiation apparatuswhich irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation target, a gantrywhich rotates together with the irradiation apparatus, and an MRI apparatuswhich rotates together with the gantry. The MRI apparatusincludes a magnetic circuit composed of an iron coreand a plurality of coilsserving as a magnetic flux source. The iron coreincludes two oppositely disposed magnetic polesA andB, and a return yokefor connecting the magnetic polesA andB. The magnetic polesA,B have cavitiesA,B. The particle beam passing through the cavityA is irradiated to the irradiation target

Particle therapy system

An illumination device includes a frame forming part that is provided at at least one position on an end part of a light-emitting panel having a light emission surface or in a vicinity of the light-emitting panel and includes a bright part region and a dark part region, a light source that emits light to be incident upon the frame forming part, and a light amount regulation part that makes intensity of light heading for a space facing the light emission surface from the dark part region weaker than intensity of light heading for the space from the bright part region in the light entering the frame forming part from the light source, or makes the intensity of the light from the bright part region stronger than the intensity of the light from the dark part region in the light entering the frame forming part from the light source.

Illumination device

A diffuser generates scattered light and satisfiesMFP=1/(π×)=α,0.4≤α≤5where N denotes a number of nanoparticles included in a unit volume of a light guiding and diffusing portion, A denotes an average particle radius of the nanoparticles, Qdenotes a scattering efficiency determined by a combination of the nanoparticles and a medium of the light guiding and diffusing portion, MFP denotes a mean free path for light of a design wavelength set in a range of 450 nm to 650 nm, Zdenotes a length of the light guiding and diffusing portion in a light guiding direction of incident light, and a denotes a coefficient.

Diffuser and lighting device

An illumination device that simulates the sky, includes a light source that emits first light; a light-emitting part that allows the first light to enter, guides the entered first light by means of total reflection while scattering the first light, and emits the scattered light from a light emission surface; a back surface reflective part that is provided to face a back surface as a surface of the light-emitting part on a side opposite to the light emission surface and reflects light emitted from the back surface of the light-emitting part; a frame that includes a part situated at least in front of the light emission surface of the light-emitting part; and an optical member that is provided between the light emission surface of the light-emitting part and the part of the frame and reflects a part of the light emitted from the light emission surface of the light-emitting part.

An object to provide a press-forming method that can efficiently suppress springback and easily specify a position where a springback reduction effect by rigidity improvement is large, and the press-forming method used in producing a press-formed product having a predetermined shape by press-forming a sheet material, the method including: a first process that repeatedly performs a springback analysis, while changing a position to be restricted, to specify a position where a springback reduction effect by rigidity improvement is large; a second process that performs a rigidity improvement measure on a position of the sheet material corresponding to the position of the formed-product model specified in the first process; and a third process that produces the press-formed product by press-forming the sheet material on which the rigidity improvement measure has been performed.

Press forming method, rigidity-improvement-position specifying method, press forming system, and press-formed product

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