Yokogawa Electric Patente

A cell puncture device 10 according to the present disclosure includes a needle 17a that punctures a cell S along a puncture direction, a driver 16 that drives the needle 17a, and a kinetic unit 65 that is coupled to the driver 16 and operates in the opposite direction to a change in momentum caused by movement of the driver 16 in the puncture direction, to change the momentum in the opposite direction.

A measurement apparatus that measures a parameter of a sheet-like subject, the measurement apparatus includes a pair of sensor heads; a support; an electric unit (30) that is mounted on the support and is changeable in position to either a first position or a second position; an opposed unit (35) that is mounted in the second position when the electric unit is mounted in the first position and that is mounted in the first position when the electric unit is mounted in the second position; a first operation unit that is mounted on the opposed unit (35) and that stops supplying power to the sensor heads; and a second operation unit (37) that is mounted on the opposed unit (35) and that switches between supplying power to the sensor heads and stopping the supply according to an operation on an insertable key (38).

A cell puncture device 10 according to the present disclosure includes a needle 17a that punctures a cell S along a puncture direction, a driver 16 that drives the needle 17a, and a controller 51 that controls operations of the driver 16. The controller 51 performs a first operation in which the driver 16 is moved in the puncture direction to puncture the cell S with the needle 17a, and a second operation in which the driver 16 is moved in the puncture direction or in a withdrawal direction opposite the puncture direction to reduce vibration occurring within the cell puncture device 10 due to the first operation.

An optical fiber characteristic measuring device includes a light source configured to emit laser light modulated at a predetermined modulation frequency, a photodetector configured to detect Brillouin scattered light obtained by causing the laser light to be incident on a measurement target optical fiber, and a control unit configured to perform control to change a position of a correlation peak by adjusting an amount of delay of the laser light used for detecting the laser light incident on the measurement target optical fiber or the Brillouin scattered light without changing the modulation frequency.

An aspiration system (1) for aspirating internal components of a cell from a sample (62) in a container includes a processor (11) that punctures a target position of the cell a plurality of times with a puncture tool, then after puncturing the target position of the cell a plurality of times, controls an aspiration unit (32) having a tip (33) for aspiration attached thereto to aspirate internal components of the cell with the tip (33), and stores the internal components aspirated by the tip (33) in a storage (351).

The communication conversion adapter (4) is a conversion apparatus that performs interconversion between wired communication and wireless communication, and includes a selector (11), and a large capacity memory (10) that is connected to the selector (11). The selector (11) switches between the path (106) through which internal data that is input to the large capacity memory (10) passes, and a path (107) through which external data that is output from the large capacity memory (10) passes. The large capacity memory (10) receives an internal process to be performed on the internal data by way of the path (106), and receives an external process to be performed on the external data by way of the path (107).

Provided is an apparatus including a processor, the apparatus performing, by the processor, first calculation processing of calculating, for each of at least one parameter representing a characteristic of a target object, a degree of achievement with respect to a predetermined target value, second calculation processing of calculating a characteristic indicator value of the target object from the at least one parameter, and display processing of displaying a graph representing a transition of the characteristic indicator value and a degree of achievement of any parameter among the at least one parameter.

Provided is an apparatus comprising a processor, wherein the processor performs: performing an acquisition process by acquiring a first data group including a plurality of first feature vectors; a dimensionality reduction process of generating a plurality of second data groups each including a plurality of second feature vectors obtained by performing a dimensionality reduction on at least a part of the plurality of first feature vectors, the plurality of second data groups differing in a number of dimensions reduced; a first calculation process by calculating an evaluation value resulting from performing clustering on each of the plurality of second data groups; and a first determination process by determining a dimension number after a dimensionality reduction that should be applied to a first feature vector based on an evaluation value calculated for each of the plurality of second data groups.

Provided is an apparatus including a processor, in which the processor executes acquisition processing of acquiring a plurality of pieces of data each including a feature value, splitting processing of splitting the plurality of pieces of data acquired, into a training data group for performing training processing of a learning model and a test data group for testing the learning model, calculation processing of calculating an effect size corresponding to a difference in a feature value between the training data group and the test data group, and determination processing of determining appropriateness or inappropriateness of the test data group based on the effect size calculated.

An information processing apparatus (2,3,4) includes a processor (17,46). The processor (17,46) is configured to detect an incident that has occurred, generate history information on the incident, and record the generated history information in a blockchain (50).

Logging event messages from a large number of devices that are of different types, have different manufacturers, and different reporting methodologies, is often challenging. Systems and methods are provided to parse event messages into a plurality of storage locations, such as specific files and/or files within a particular directory structure based on the type of event message. The type of message may be determined, in whole or in part, by the device's manufacturer, reporting format, and/or other descriptor. As a result, event messages may be segregated and corrupted messages may be identified by the file and/or directory. Additionally, when a particular file reaches a threshold, the file is "rotated," comprising closing the file and writing to a new file with an incremented file name while other files remain unaffected.

Provided is an apparatus including a processor, in which the processor performs acquisition processing of acquiring a feature of each subject detected from an image of a subject that is a cell or a microorganism, first determination processing of determining whether or not distributions of a plurality of features, including the feature, follow a reference distribution, and correction processing of correcting the plurality of features so as to follow the reference distribution, when the distributions of the plurality of features do not follow the reference distribution, the reference distribution is a normal distribution, and in the first determination processing, a determination is made using at least one of a Shapiro-Wilk test, a Kolmogorov-Smimov test, an Anderson-Darling test, a D'Agostino's K-squared test, a Jarque-Bera test, or a Lillifors test.

A setting program is configured to cause a processor (11) to perform operations including a step of acquiring retrieval conditions used to set a time period with low water usage as an analysis time period for presence or absence of water leakage in a water purification management area (80), and at least one of a step of retrieving and displaying a candidate date that can be set as a special day with high water usage in the water purification management area (80) based on the retrieval conditions, and a step of retrieving and displaying a candidate time period that can be set as the analysis time period on a day other than the special day based on the retrieval conditions.

A determination apparatus (74) acquires a first quantity that is a quantity of viruses in membrane filtration supplied water that is supplied to a membrane filtration apparatus and a second quantity that is a quantity of viruses in membrane filtration permeated water after membrane filtration performed by the membrane filtration apparatus. The determination apparatus (74) determines whether or not to perform maintenance of the membrane filtration apparatus based on the first quantity and the second quantity.

A measurement device (70) includes a detector (72) and a processor. The detector (72) has a configuration that reduces effect of contact with water, and performs detection related to the water. The processor performs an arithmetic operation on the water in a water treatment process based on a detection result obtained by the detector (72).

A sampling apparatus (70) includes a first pipe (71) into which supplied water flows, a first valve (718) between an analysis apparatus (74) that performs analysis of the water, a second pipe (72) into which treated water flows, and a second valve (728) between the analysis apparatus (74) and the second pipe (72).The apparatus enables alternating sampling of supplied and treated water without requiring two separate analysis devices.

A cell housing device that enables manipulation of the posture of a target cell accommodated in a well is provided. A cell housing device includes a well and a posture manipulation device. The well has inner wall surfaces that accommodate a target cell immersed in a liquid. The target cell is a cell or a cell aggregate. The posture manipulation device has a retention channel. The retention channel drains a fluid from the well via the inner wall surface of the well, to bring the target cell into a retained state in which the target cell is rotatably retained at a tip end of the retention channel. The posture manipulation device manipulates the posture of the target cell by rotating the target cell in the retained state.

An optical fiber characteristic measurement device includes a light detection unit, a superimposing unit, and a processing unit. The light detection unit is configured to detect Brillouin scattered light obtained by injecting light into an optical fiber under test and configured to output a detection signal. The superimposing unit is configured to superimpose a measurement signal modulated at a predetermined frequency and swept over a predetermined frequency range on light that enters the optical fiber under test, light used to detect the Brillouin scattered light, or the detection signal. The processing unit is configured to obtain a spectrum indicating an intensity or amplitude distribution of a frequency component that is n times (n is an integer of 1 or more) the predetermined frequency contained in the detection signal.

A method for detecting microorganisms is provided in which when target microorganisms are detected in a microorganism-containing sample, ease of handling like liquid culture media is maintained, and even when multiple bacterial species are present in the sample, each bacterial species is allowed to grow sufficiently by suppressing growth inhibition by the influence of other bacterial species, thereby improving the detection accuracy of the target microorganisms. The method includes: a) inoculating a microorganism-containing sample into a culture medium for microorganisms that contains an environment-responsive polymer that can cause the solution to thermoreversibly transition between fluidized and non-fluidized states depending on a solution environment; b) culturing microorganisms while maintaining the culture medium in a non-fluidizing environment; c) adjusting the culture medium to a fluidizing environment after the culturing of the microorganisms; d) recovering the cultured microorganisms from the culture medium; and e) detecting target microorganisms in the recovered microorganisms.

A measurement apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a generator (121) that irradiates electromagnetic waves on a measurement target (M), a receiver (122) that receives the electromagnetic waves including information on a spectroscopic spectrum of the measurement target (M), the spectroscopic spectrum changing as a result of a structural transition of a substance contained in the measurement target (M) from a first substance with an unstable structure to a second substance with a stable structure due to an external factor applied to the measurement target (M), and a controller (116) configured to acquire a measurement of the spectroscopic spectrum based on the electromagnetic waves received by the receiver (122), calculate ratio information between the first substance and the second substance based on the acquired measurement of the spectroscopic spectrum, and generate diagnostic information regarding the external factor based on the ratio information. The substance includes calcium carbonate, the first substance includes amorphous calcium carbonate or calcium carbonate hydrate, and wherein the second substance includes calcium carbonate having a calcite crystal structure.

A providing server (10) stores therein product information indicating each of specification items indicating each of products, acquires request information indicating each of specification items of a product requested by a customer, extracts candidate products to be proposed to the customer from all of the products included in the product information based on the acquired request information, calculates a conformity degree with the request information for each of the extracted candidate products, and provides proposal information indicating the candidate products based on the calculated conformity degree.

A measurement device is the measurement device that measures a thickness of a covering layer included in a measurement target object with respect to a measurement axis direction, and that includes a first measurer which electromagnetically measures a first distance between the first end surface and a top surface of a base material with respect to the measurement axis direction, a second measurer which electromagnetically measures a second distance between the second end surface and the top surface of the base material with respect to the measurement axis direction, and a third measurer which optically measures a third distance between the third end surface and a top surface of the covering layer with respect to the measurement axis direction, wherein, in a direction perpendicular to the measurement axis direction, the first end portion, the second end portion, and the third end portion are arranged adjacent to each other.

A processing unit is disclosed for managing and coordinating multiple robots in an environment. The processing unit receives parameters from sensors describing at least one of an activity and a capability of a first robot and a second robot and uses the parameters to determine that an unexpected event has occurred within an environment. The processing unit then sends an assignment command to one or both of the first robot and the second robot, wherein the assignment command causes the second robot to automatically perform at least one task in the first set of tasks or causes the first robot to automatically perform at least one task in the second set of tasks.

A radiation source unit 2 includes a radiation source section 4 that emits radiation and that has a first surface 41a, a detection section 5 that is arranged together with the radiation source section 4 with a space between the detection section 5 and the radiation source section 4 and that has a second surface 52a that faces the first surface 41a in which the radiation is detected, and a shielding plate 6 that is provided between the first surface 41a and the second surface 52a. On the first surface 41a, an opening 41b that is formed in a shape in which a first direction is a longitudinal direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is a transverse direction. The shielding plate 6 is formed in a shape that includes at least a part of a diamond shape when viewed in a third direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and is arranged such that a center line of the opening 41b in the second direction overlaps with a shorter diagonal line of the diamond shape.

[Solution] Provided is an apparatus comprising a processor, wherein the processor executes: a generation process for generating an execution plan by allowing at least one task not to be executed, as an execution plan for performing a plurality of tasks by a plurality of robots; and a decision process for deciding a first execution plan in which a value of an objective function satisfies a reference condition among generated execution plans by using an objective function that imposes a penalty when the execution plan includes a task not to be executed, and wherein the penalty imposed on the objective function is a value corresponding to a parameter of the task not to be executed among parameters which are set for respective tasks.

A combustor monitoring system (1000) includes a gas turbine combustor (10) and an operator terminal (20) that is connected to the gas turbine combustor (10). The gas turbine combustor (10) includes a burner (110). The burner (110) includes a swirler (112a) that is installed in an inner tube portion of a channel in which a mixture gas (MG) including a fuel (FG) and air (AG) flows, and a temperature sensor (111) that output temperature data indicating temperature of the channel. The operator terminal (20) acquires the temperature data, detects occurrence of flashback (FB) in the channel based on the temperature data, and adjusts the angles of the swirler (112a) when detecting the occurrence of the flashback (FB).

[Solution] Provided is an analytical apparatus with a processor, which estimates an end point of a chemical reaction, in which a concentration of at least one raw material is unknown, the processor performs operations including: a spectrum acquisition unit that acquires spectroscopic spectra at a plurality of time points for a chemical reaction system; a calculation unit that calculates a spectroscopic spectrum feature quantity for each time point from the spectroscopic spectra at the plurality of time points; and an estimation unit that estimates an end point of a chemical reaction based on variation of the feature quantity that is calculated by the calculation unit. Further provided is an analytical method using the analytical apparatus, and a program that causes a computer to function the analytical apparatus.

Brillouin gain spectra are measured at low cost. An optical fiber characteristic measurement apparatus 10 according to the present disclosure measures the characteristics of an optical fiber 1 by the Brillouin optical correlation domain reflectometry method. The optical fiber characteristic measurement apparatus 10 includes a local oscillator 122 that generates a sinusoidal electrical signal, a mixer 121 that receives Brillouin gain spectra resulting from Brillouin scattering in the optical fiber 1 and the sinusoidal electrical signal generated by the local oscillator 122 and outputs down-converted Brillouin gain spectra, and a frequency analyzer 123 that measures the down-converted Brillouin gain spectra.

In a management system (1), a first nameplate with writing of which content is not updated and a second nameplate that is replaceable, that is with writing of which content is updatable, and that is in a pair with the first nameplate are fixed to a housing of a pressure transmitter (10) and a management apparatus (20) manages a history of updating the content of writing on the second nameplate. For example, serial numbers that are identical are written on the first nameplate and the second nameplate. For example, information on the pressure transmitter (10) that is the latest and that is changeable is written on the second nameplate. For example, the management apparatus (20) adds a photograph of the first nameplate and the second nameplate that are subjects to the history of the updating. For example, the history of the updating is updated by a mobile terminal device (30) that is able to communicate with the management apparatus (20).

A light measurement device includes a control device capable of switching between a measurement mode and a calibration mode, an optical system including a light irradiator that is capable of moving and irradiates an object to be measured with irradiation light, and a light blocking device including a shutter capable of blocking the irradiation light and calibrating the light measurement device. In the measurement mode, the positions of the shutter and the optical system are adjusted so that the shutter does not block the irradiation light and a focusing position of the irradiation light coincides with the position of the object to be measured. In the calibration mode, the positions of the shutter and the optical system are adjusted so that the shutter blocks the irradiation light and the focusing position of the irradiation light coincides with the position of the reference material.

Provided is a receptor comprising a base and a molecular imprinted polymeric film formed on the base and having a space that captures at least a part of a compound having an asymmetric carbon atom. The above-described receptor may comprise a metal layer formed between the base and the molecular imprinted polymeric film and having a nanostructure on a plane in contact with the molecular imprinted polymeric film. In any of the above-described receptor, the molecular imprinted polymeric film may have a noncovalently bonded functional group on a surface in which the space is formed.

A control device (1) includes a ROM (2) that stores therein programs, a processor (3), and an output circuit (4). The processor includes a plurality of cores (10) that load the respective programs from the ROM (2) and execute the respective loaded programs. The output circuit outputs (4), in a case where one program out of the plurality of programs stored in the ROM (2) has been updated, an interrupt signal to the core (10) that executes the one program. The core (10) reloads the updated program stored in the ROM (2) in a case where the core (10) has detected the interrupt signal.

In a measurement system (1), a setting device (10) transmits, to a gateway (20-1, 20-2), a scan instruction that causes the gateway to perform a device scan for acquiring device identification information on a sensor device (30-1, 30-2, 30-3, 30-4) being connected to the gateway (20-1, 20-2) from the sensor device, sets a measurement item of the sensor device based on the device identification information that is received from the gateway, and transmits, to a cloud server (40), item information that is information in which the device identification information and the measurement item are associated with each other and the cloud server registers the item information received from the setting device in the cloud server and transmits the item information to the gateway, and the gateway acquires a measured value of the sensor device from the sensor device based on the item information received from the cloud server.

A chemical sensor 1 includes a silicon substrate 2 on which a diaphragm 21 is formed, a strain sensor 3 that is provided on the silicon substrate 2, an adsorption membrane 4 that is provided at the diaphragm 21 and whose volume changes by adsorbing a specific substance. The strain sensor 3 includes a vacuum chamber that is formed in the diaphragm 21, and a resonator that is formed in an interior of the vacuum chamber.

A current measurement device (1) includes a magnetic shield (13) having a notch portion (20) for taking a magnetic field generated by a current flowing through a conductor (MC) to be measured into an internal space; a sensor (14) that is disposed in the internal space of the magnetic shield and outputs a voltage corresponding to a magnetic field at a position where the sensor (14) is disposed; and a circuit unit (12) that detects the current flowing through the conductor (MC) to be measured based on the voltage output from the sensor (14), and the magnetic shield (13) includes a first correction unit (A) that corrects the magnetic field measured by the sensor (14) to reduce influence of magnetic flux density saturation of the magnetic shield, and/or magnetic shield (13) or the circuit unit (12) includes a second correction unit (B) that corrects the voltage output from the sensor to reduce the influence of the magnetic flux density saturation of the magnetic shield (13).

A management apparatus (10) acquires an information model that is obtained by structuring pieces of equipment data related to one or more pieces of subsea equipment (40) installed on the seabed, converts the acquired information model to an information model generated in a predetermined file format in which a controller (30) that controls one or more pieces of the subsea equipment (40) is able to read and write, and releases the converted information model to the controller (30).

An operator terminal (10) acquires measurement data representing a characteristic of an optical fiber in a cable (C) connecting plural wind turbines (W), the cable (C) including a power transmission line and the optical fiber, and monitors, on the basis of the measurement data and section information indicating plural cable sections corresponding to locations, the cable (C) for each of the plural cable sections, the locations each being a location where a state of the cable (C) is common.

Various examples of the present disclosure relate to a computer-implemented method, a system, and a computer program or non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining an action. The method comprises obtaining (110) a sequence of 3D skeletal model representations of an entity, generating (140), using the sequence of 3D skeletal model representations of the entity, at least one sequence of 2D skeletal model representations of the entity showing the skeletal model of the entity from at least one perspective relative to the entity, providing (160) the at least one sequence of 2D skeletal model representations of the entity to a 2D action recognition model, and providing (190) information on an action being performed by the entity based on an output of the 2D action recognition model.

Provided is a fertilizer feeding device (100, 300, 400) including: a feeding conduit (120, 310, 420, 510) with apertures (125) for feeding fertilizer to marine products (110) to be cultivated underwater; and a fertilizer feeder (130) connected to the feeding conduit, which feeds fertilizer to the feeding conduit. In the above-described fertilizer feeding device, the feeding conduit may have at least one aperture of the apertures provided with respect to each of a plurality of depths underwater; and lock the marine product near the at least one aperture provided with respect to each of the plurality of depths.

(Solution) There is provides an apparatus including a processor, wherein the processor receives a plurality of captured images capturing a flow channel through which a microbe flows, and extracts a plurality of microbial images capturing a same individual of the microbe from the plurality of captured images. In the above-described apparatus, the flow channel may include a vortex generator which generates a vortex in an image-capturing area in the flow channel, in which the plurality of captured images are captured. In any of the above-described apparatus, the processor may receive the plurality of captured images which capture the flow channel at different timings.