| Hitachi, Ltd. Patent applications |
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| 20130132693 | ASYNCHRONOUS REMOTE COPY SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - In a previous storage apparatus, differential JNLs are reflected in order of the sequential numbers, to the data volumes thereof. If a first storage apparatus is suspended, it is determined which is newer: the sequential number which the journal recently reflected in a second storage apparatus or the sequential number reflected in a third storage apparatus. In the newer storage apparatus having the newer sequential number, it is determined whether one or more JNLs from the journal having the sequential number next to the sequential number which is not determined to be the newer to the journal having the sequential number determined to be the newer exist, or not. If the result of the determination is positive, from the newer storage apparatus to the previous storage apparatus which is not the newer of the second and the third storage apparatuses, one or more differential JNLs are copied. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132679 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL PROGRAM AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a storage system including one or more LDEVs, one or more processors, a local memory or memories corresponding to the processor or processors, and a shared memory, which is shared by the processors, wherein control information on I/O processing or application processing is stored in the shared memory, and the processor caches a part of the control information in different storage areas on a type-by-type basis in the local memory or memories corresponding to the processor or processors in referring to the control information stored in the shared memory. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132673 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system enables a core storage apparatus to execute processing requiring securing of data consistency, while providing high write performance to a host computer. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132666 | DISK ARRAY SYSTEM AND HARD DISK DRIVE EXPANSION METHOD THEREOF - Even if an arbitrary hard disk drive is added, the hard disk drive is operated in a specific operation mode suited for that hard disk drive. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132656 | STORAGE SUBSYSTEM AND ITS DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The amount of data to be stored in a semiconductor nonvolatile memory can be reduced and overhead associated with data processing can be reduced. When a microprocessor receives a write request from a host computer and data D | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132617 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A host I/F unit has a management table for managing an MPPK which is in-charge of the control of input/output processing for a storage area of an LDEV, and if a host computer transmits an input/output request for the LDEV, the host I/F unit transfers the input/output request to the MPPK which is in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV based on the management table, an MP of the MPPK performs the input/output processing based on the input/output request, and the MP of the MPPK also judges whether the MPPK that is in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV is to be changed, and sets the management table so that an MPPK which is different from the MPPK that is in-charge is to be in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132480 | Event Data Processing Apparatus - An event data processing apparatus calculates a meeting person number difference which is a difference in the number of meeting persons between a first number of meeting persons at a first time and a second number of meeting persons at a second time, determines that a continuous communication is conducted between the first time and the second time if the meeting person number difference is equal to or smaller than a meeting person number threshold value which is a predetermined threshold value, and records persons included in the first number of meeting persons and the second number of meeting persons, the first time, and the second time in association with event identifiers for identifying events in a recording module. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132090 | Voice Data Retrieval System and Program Product Therefor - A voice data retrieval system including an inputting device of inputting a keyword, a phoneme converting unit of converting the inputted keyword in a phoneme expression, a voice data retrieving unit of retrieving a portion of a voice data at which the keyword is spoken based on the keyword in the phoneme expression, a comparison keyword creating unit of creating a set of comparison keywords having a possibility of a confusion of a user in listening to the keyword based on a phoneme confusion matrix for each user, and a retrieval result presenting unit of presenting a retrieval result from the voice data retrieving unit and the comparison keyword from the comparison keyword creating unit to a user. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130131248 | ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS CONTAINING TRIAZINE RINGS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICES USING THE SAME - The present invention provides an organic-inorganic composite material having excellent thermal stability, electrical insulation and adhesiveness. The organic-inorganic composite material includes a resin composed of a triazine ring and obtained by thermally curing a varnish containing a mixture of a layered clay mineral (clay) subjected to interlayer modification with a curing catalyst for a cyanate ester compound and a cyanate ester compound, wherein the amount of the clay is from 0.1 to 12 wt % of the amount of the cyanate ester compound. The invention also provides a varnish which gives the organic-inorganic composite material, and an electrical device and a semiconductor device, each of which includes the organic-inorganic composite material. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130130087 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY MODULE - A non-aqueous electrolyte battery module of the invention includes: a plurality of non-aqueous electrolyte batteries, a plurality of heat dissipating members, a plurality of heat insulating members, and an exterior casing housing the non-aqueous electrolyte batteries, the heat dissipating members and the heat insulating members, the non-aqueous electrolyte batteries each includes a battery element and a flexible exterior member housing the battery element, the non-aqueous electrolyte batteries are laminated with the heat dissipating members interposed therebetween to form a battery laminate, ends of the heat dissipating members are in tight pressing contact with an inner face of the exterior casing, and the heat insulating members are disposed between the exterior casing and opposite ends of the battery laminate in a laminating direction thereof. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130128645 | Power Conversion Apparatus and Electric Vehicle - The metallic case of a power conversion apparatus includes a casing having a side wall, as well as an upper case and a lower case, a first area being formed between a cooling jacket provided at the inner periphery of the side wall and the lower case, the metal base plate dividing the first area between the cooling jacket and the upper case into a lower side second area and an upper side third area, first and second power modules being fastened to a top surface and a capacitor module being provided in the first area, driving circuits that drive inverter circuits of the power modules respectively being provided in the second area, and a control circuit that controls the driver circuits being provided in the third area. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130127977 | TELEVISION RECEIVER WITH A TV PHONE FUNCTION - A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130127172 | Electrical Rotating Machine System or Wind Turbine System - An electrical rotating machine system that can be easily maintained and can provide improved power generation efficiency. The electrical rotating machine system includes:a first electrical rotating machine having a first stator that has first stator windings, and a first rotor that has first rotor windings and is disposed on the internal diameter side of the first stator so as to have a gap between the internal diameter side of the first stator and the first rotor itself; a second electrical rotating machine having a second stator that has second stator windings, and a second rotor that has second rotor windings and is disposed on the internal diameter side of the second stator so as to have a gap between the internal diameter side of the second stator and the second rotor itself; and at least one power converter that is electrically connected to the first rotor windings and the second rotor windings, and configured to rotate when the first rotor rotates. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130126864 | SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTION ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING IT, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTION ELEMENT - In order to provide a semiconductor junction element consisted of an oxide semiconductor glass, which does not contain a toxic element and rare metal element, and various semiconductor devices using it, semiconductor glasses which contain vanadium oxide and have different polarities are connected each other in a semiconductor junction element of the present invention. Moreover, a semiconductor glass containing vanadium oxide is connected to an element semiconductor or a compound semiconductor which have different polarity from the semiconductor glass. Furthermore, a semiconductor glass containing vanadium oxide is connected to a metal. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130125091 | AUTOMATIC PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD - A device and method automatically generate a program for buffering differences based on characteristics of a component. A buffer program for buffering differences of the way to use a component during different software environments is automatically generated. The device includes a controller for executing automatic generation of the buffer program, a memory including control information and a processing program, an input device for inputting the processing content of the component, and an output device for outputting the automatically generated buffer program. The memory records a plurality of forms for buffering the component as the control information and the controller extracts characteristic information based on the processing content of the component and records the extracted characteristic information as control information in the memory, selects a specified form based on the characteristic information, and generates the buffer program based on the selected form and the characteristic information. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124924 | PROGRAM ANALYZING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Main functional units of a program analyzing system that analyzes a program while adjusting a time passage speed of a program performance circumstance includes four functional units, that is, an analysis management unit, a sample performing unit, an activity recording unit, and an activity analyzing unit. The analysis management unit sets analysis conditions such as a time passage speed, a program performance starting time, and a performance ending time. The sample performing unit adjusts the time passage speed and the program performance starting time in accordance with determination of the analysis management unit and performs the program until performance ending time. The activity recording unit monitors the performance circumstance and obtains an activity record of the program. The activity analyzing unit analyzes the activity record and clarifies a behavior of the program. Further, the analysis management unit resets the analysis condition based on an analysis result to perform a reanalysis. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124873 | STORAGE DEVICE AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - A storage device partitions data from a host into multiple partitioned data and distributes, encrypts and stores them together with a parity in multiple memory mediums. This storage device executes processing of restoring the partitioned data or the parity stored in a memory medium subjectable to encryption re-key based on decrypted data of the partitioned data or the parity stored in each memory medium other than the memory medium subjectable to encryption re-key among the multiple memory mediums, storing the restored partitioned data or the parity in a backup memory medium while encrypting the restored partitioned data or the parity with a new encryption key, and thereafter interchanging the backup memory medium and the memory medium subjectable to encryption re-key so that the backup memory medium will be a memory medium configuring the parity group and the memory medium subjectable to encryption re-key will be the backup memory medium. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124775 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND BUS ASSIGNMENT METHOD - To make it possible to take over an IO configuration that is assigned to logical partitions in reallocation of the logical partitions, and to make an IO access work normally. A computer system has a server having an IO bridge, a switch that has a first IO bridge for connecting with the IO bridge of the server through a bus and plural second IO bridges for connecting to plural IO devices through a bus, and bus number assignment management means for fixedly assigning mutually different PCI bus numbers to the plural second IO bridges. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124614 | THIN CLIENT SYSTEM AND SERVER APPARATUS - In a thin client system including client terminals and a server apparatus, when a user input operation that requires high-speed reactivity of screen display to the user operation is performed at one of the client terminals, the server can change the amount of data to be transmitted to the client terminal in accordance with the communication quality of the connection network. The client terminal transmits the user input operation in the form of input operation information to the server apparatus, and the server apparatus analyzes the received input operation information, and judges whether the input operation is one that requires high-speed reactivity of screen display to the input operation. If the input operation is one that requires high-speed reactivity of screen display, the server performs the reduction of screen information to be displayed at the client terminal. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121879 | Magnetic-Field Measurement Device - The disclosed magnetic immunoassay device, which performs magnetic immunoassays using antigen-antibody reactions, can perform speedy immunoassays without bound/free separation in the test samples. The device is also practical, being capable of stable magnetism measurement without magnetic shielding. The disclosed magnetic immunoassay device is provided with: an excitation coil that uses an AC magnetic field to magnetize a test sample containing a magnetic marker; a magnetism sensor that measures magnetism in the test sample and outputs a magnetism signal; and a displacement sensor for detecting changes in the distance between the test sample and the magnetism sensor. By optimally setting the bandwidth of a lock-in amplifier, which detects changes in the phase of the magnetism signal outputted by the magnetism sensor, and the rotational speed produced by a drive system, which moves the test sample at low speeds, the impact of environment magnetic noise is reduced, and correcting the magnetism signal using distance information obtained from the displacement sensor allows stable magnetism measurement. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121659 | Recording and Reproducing Apparatus - To provide a recording and reproducing apparatus capable of storing AV data reliably during recording and capable of reading the AV data reliably during reproducing even when the communication state between the video camera and a network is bad, the recording and reproducing apparatus neither failing to record nor reproduce AV data, the recording and reproducing apparatus improving the recording reliability and reproduction reliability of AV data. With a unit for determining whether the communication state is good or bad, the recording and reproducing reliability is improved by carrying out recording and reproducing of AV data to a hard disk of the recording and reproducing apparatus by utilizing a built-in hard disk when the communication state is bad. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121338 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM, PATH CALCULATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PATH ESTABLISHMENT CONTROL METHOD - In an MPLS or GMPLS network, links for hops of a communication path and adaptation to be implemented on the border of management domains or layers are automatically appropriately selected based on a service type or a requirement for maintenance without the necessity of complicating a control sequence. First, a unit that appends an identifier of a service to be provided and an attribute of the service to a communication path establishment control message, and requests path establishment is installed in a source node. Secondly, a unit that determines a requirement for maintenance of the communication path and adaptation on the basis of the service identifier and/or service attribute is installed in each node. Thirdly, maintenance attributes of network resources are compared with the requirement for maintenance in order to determine links and nodes through which the communication path passes. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121238 | RELAY COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND MULTISTAGE RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A multistage relay communication system | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121162 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR POWER DISTRIBUTION, COMMUNICATION ROUTE SETTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Measurement apparatuses have the function of communicating with other measurement apparatuses within a predetermined range by radio. A simulated communication management part of a relay apparatus manages simulated communication of the measurement apparatuses and collects communication results to be managed. A statistical processing part of a communication route setting apparatus statistically processes the results of the simulated communication. An estimation part sets communication routes among the measurement apparatuses on the basis of results of the statistical processing and information from a route information database. The communication routes prepared by a communication route preparation part are notified from a communication route notification part through the relay apparatus to the measurement apparatuses. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119947 | STORAGE BATTERY CONTROL DEVICE, CHARGING STATION, AND STORAGE BATTERY CONTROL METHOD - The battery charging of electric vehicles, etc. is controlled so that the impact on the electric power system is lightened even when a lot of electric vehicles, etc. start the charging all at once. A device for controlling an electricity storage device installed in an electric vehicle or the like calculates a voltage drop by applying a load current at the time of performing the charging of the electricity storage device, and limits the charging quantity of the storage battery (installed in the electric vehicle or the like) based on the calculated voltage drop so that the voltage drop of the electric power system remains less than a prescribed level. Consequently, it becomes possible to reduce the voltage fluctuation around each of the electric vehicles, etc. that is about to execute the charging in cases where a lot of electric vehicles, etc. start the charging all at once. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119912 | Power Conversion Device and Temperature Rise Calculation Method Thereof - A temperature rise of a semiconductor switching element, which is part of a power conversion device such as an inverter, is estimated by an extremely simple method to assess the degradation and remaining lifetime of the semiconductor switching element. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130119322 | CONDUCTIVE SINTERED LAYER FORMING COMPOSITION - There is provided a conductive sintered layer forming composition and a conductive sintered layer forming method that can lower heating temperature and shorten heating time for a process of accelerating sintering or bonding by sintering of metal nano-particles coated with an organic substance. The conductive sintered layer forming composition may be obtained by utilizing a phenomenon that particles may be sintered at low temperature by mixing silver oxide with metal particles coated with the organic substance and having a grain size of 1 nm to 5 μm as compared to sintering each simple substance. The conductive sintered layer forming composition of the invention is characterized in that it contains the metal particles whose surface is coated with the organic substance and whose grain size is 1 nm to 5 μm and the silver oxide particles. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130118820 | ELECTRIC DRIVE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - An electric drive system for a vehicle includes: an electric drive unit that electrically drives the vehicle; and a cooling unit that cools the electric drive unit, wherein: the electric drive unit and the cooling unit are mounted at a body frame of the vehicle via an elastic support member, the electric drive unit and the cooling unit being configured as an integrated unit. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130118268 | Mechanical-Quantity Measuring Device - A mechanical-quantity measuring device capable of measuring a strain component in a specific direction with high precision is provided. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130117523 | DATA COPYING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A THIN PROVISIONED SYSTEM - Data migration includes copying between normal volumes and thin provisioned volumes. Data in a normal volume can be copied to a thin provisioned volume. Alternatively, data structures can be provided to facilitate converting a normal volume into a thin provisioned volume without actual copying of data. Copying from a thin provisioned volume to a normal volume is also disclosed. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117427 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCE POOL INFORMATION - A computer system is provided that is capable of reducing an administrator's operational errors by connecting a new server to a SAN and automating a SAN boot setting, and capable of lightening the administrator's task of checking for a wrong connection by detecting a wrong connection made when a new server is connected to an SNW connection device. Once a new server connected to a PnP SAN starts with a boot program obtained from a boot management server, the new server transmits configuration information on the new server to a resource management server. In response to a request from the resource management server, a storage device refers to PnP SAN information to transmit SAN information on a storage network connection device to which the new server is connected. The resource management server determines to add the new server to a resource group on the basis of the SAN information and requirement information. The resource management server sets the storage device and the new server for SAN-booting the new server. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117223 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In an information processing system | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130115690 | Cell Culture Vessel and Cell Culture Device - Disclosed is a cell culture vessel that can prevent liquid leakage from the cell culture space and entry of particles containing microorganisms from outside the cell culture space, and that can prepare regenerated tissue in a manner that is safe and results in peace of mind. The cell culture vessel is mounted to a cell culture device, holds/cultures cells, and is characterized by being provided with: a culture solution holding section that holds a culture solution, a protruding structure section that is for supplying and discharging the aforementioned culture solution; and a culture solution duct that passes from the aforementioned protruding structure section to the aforementioned culture solution holding section. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114622 | BLOCK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHODS, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for reducing overhead by using block acknowledgment with an all polling technique while attempting to meet latency and QoS requirements. Each node transmits a number of packets upon receiving a polling message. The Access Point (AP) then replies with a Block Acknowledgement (BlockAck), which is combined with a subsequent polling message and contains a bitmap that indicates 1 for a successfully received packet and 0 for a failed reception. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113644 | Measurement Device - Disclosed is a measurement device that can accurately measure size, position, the presence of an object, and the like by means of a simple and low-cost method. Specifically, disclosed is a measurement device that is provided with: a transmitter that transmits radio waves; a vibrating surface that vibrates mechanically; a receiver that receives radio waves; and a controller that transmits radio waves from the transmitter, and on the basis of the signal of the radio waves reflected by the vibrating surface and received by the receiver, outputs information about a measured object on the pathway between the transmitter and the receiver with the vibrating surface therebetween. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113212 | Wind Power Generator System, and Control Method for the Same - This invention is intended to provide a wind power generator system or method for controlling a wind power generator system, designed to implement switching-initiated smooth energy changeover without leading to a complex system configuration. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112953 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an organic light-emitting device, wherein light trapped in a substrate due to total reflection at the interface between air and a substrate is efficiently extracted to the air side. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130103976 | FAILURE RECORVERY METHOD - The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality of virtual servers run, a single standby server, a module for detecting an active virtual server, and a module for switching the correspondence of boot disks of virtualization modules for controlling virtual servers to the physical servers. When a physical server fails, the boot disk of the associated virtualization module is connected to a spare server to automatically activate on the spare server those virtual servers which have been active upon occurrence of the failure. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103934 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAKING OVER MODULE THEREIN - In a computer system comprising an active computer and a standby computer, when an active computer stopped due to occurrence of a failure is switched over to a standby computer, the standby computer cannot access to a TPM in the stopped active computer if the TPM is mounted therein, and therefore, the standby computer cannot take over the TPM in use from the active computer. The present invention provides a computer system comprising a TPM provided outside an active computer, to enable takeover of a TPM in use from an active computer to a standby computer when performing a switchover therebetween. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103921 | MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR A VIRTUAL VOLUME ACROSS A PLURALITY OF STORAGES - A first storage system includes a plurality of first storage devices and is coupled to a computer. A second storage system includes a plurality of second storage devices and is coupled to the first storage system. A first controller provides a thin provisioning logical volume (LU) to the computer. A second controller provides an external thin provisioning LU to the first storage system. The first controller provides pool areas associated with the thin provisioning LU, including a first pool area mapped to the external thin provisioning LU, and allocates the first pool area to a first region in the thin provisioning LU to store a write data to the first region in the thin provisioning LU. The second controller allocates at least one of a plurality of pool areas to store the write data to the first region in the thin provisioning LU. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103895 | FLASH MEMORY STORAGE SYSTEM - A flash memory storage system has a plurality of flash memory devices comprising a plurality of flash memories, and a controller having an I/O processing control unit for accessing a flash memory device specified by a designated access destination in an I/O request received from an external device from among the plurality of flash memory devices. A parity group can be configured of flash memory devices having identical internal configuration. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103835 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - Requested processing time of each batch job is complied with. A resource-correction control server calculating an amount of a resource required for setup of a batch application includes an intermediate-process-unit-data acquiring unit that compiles data of completed batch processes as a single data set at a predetermined time point, a resource-correction determining unit that, using the intermediate process unit, determines a process progress rate that is a progress rate of a process at the current time point and whether the process progress rate has reached a required progress rate that is a progress rate required to terminate the batch process within the requested processing time, and an allocation-resource calculating unit that, as a result of the determination, if the required progress rate has not been reached, calculates the amount of the resource required for recovery of the delay based on a delay-recovery-object progress rate and resource information. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CHANGE TIERS - Systems and methods directed to changing tiers for a storage area that utilizes thin provisioning. Systems and methods check the area subject to a tier change command and change the tier based on the tier specified in the tier change command, and the tier presently associated with the targeted storage area. The pages of the systems and methods may be further restricted to one file per page. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103657 | TIME-SERIES DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is a time-series management device capable of filtering time-series data having a possibility of matching a specified search pattern and reading in the data from a storage device when performing a time-series analysis. A data accumulation unit ( | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103417 | Medical Care Support System and Method Of Supporting Medical Care - Provided is a medical care support system for the sharing and reusing of medical information on the basis of a workflow which is a flow of medical-related services. A workflow step that was executed prior to an ongoing workflow step is selected by using a medical information database which has registered a workflow and information of each workflow step in association with medical information; and information is inputted by medical staff in the ongoing workflow step while the medical information registered in the selected workflow step being referred to; and the medical information being referred to and the inputted information are registered in the medical information database in association with the ongoing workflow step. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130102473 | SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME - A superconducting magnet includes a superconducting wire including magnesium diboride; a superconducting coil where a part of the superconducting wire is wound; and a joint where an end of the superconducting wire and an end of another superconducting wire are connected and united. The joint includes a sintered body including magnesium diboride, an averaged particle diameter of magnesium diboride at the joint of the superconducting wire is greater than an averaged particle diameter of the magnesium diboride at the part where the superconducting wire is wound. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130101907 | METAL AIR SECONDARY BATTERY - An object of the invention is to reduce the charging overvoltage by using a positive electrode member which does not contain a carbon material that causes the generation of lithium carbonate (Li | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130100707 | DC-DC Converter - Provided is a vehicle which enables a highly-efficient DC-DC converter and a highly-efficient power supply to a load, regardless of a power supply amount of to the load. When the power supply amount to a load R | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130099229 | Semiconductor Device, RFID Tag Using the Same and Display Device - Disclosed is an oxide semiconductor layer ( | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130098597 | AIR-SIDE FREE COOLING SYSTEM AND DATA CENTER - From a plurality of preset operation modes, an optimal mode is selected to let the supply air | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130098556 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a plasma processing apparatus that can generate uniform plasma without increasing costs per unit electric power even though the discharge area is increased to adapt to samples in given sizes by arranging a plurality of plasma discharge units. A plasma processing apparatus includes an RF power supply having an RF signal circuit and an RF power circuit, a case, and a discharge electrode. A plasma module is configured of the discharge electrode and the RF power circuit provided in the case. A frequency signal from the RF signal circuit is inputted to a plurality of the plasma modules connected in parallel with each other. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130097458 | STORAGE SYSTEM, AND DATA BACKUP METHOD AND SYSTEM RESTARTING METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM - In a storage system for performing data backup using a battery during blackout, when the blackout continues for a long time, problems such as the loss of volatile memory data due to the consumption of battery capacity and the difference in recovery time between controller units after power recovery occur during restarting of the system. The present invention solves the problems by selecting (a1) battery backup or (a2) saving of data in a nonvolatile device based on the battery capacity or setting of modes, and selecting (b1) inhibiting restart of the system or (b2) storing of data in the volatile memory to a nonvolatile memory means and performing access via write-through based on the remaining capacity of the battery when restarting the system after power recovery. Further, the system enables to increase and decrease the volatile memory capacity of the write area and mutually confirms synchronization of controller units and contents of volatile memories. Thereby, the system enables to prevent data loss and inconsistency of data. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097400 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHODS FOR THE SAME - For the purpose of optimizing the performance separation according to the usage status of the protocol and the storage system performance, in a storage system | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097379 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - It is provided a storage system for storing data requested by a host computer to be written, the storage system comprising: at least one processor, a cache memory and a cache controller. The cache memory includes a first memory which can be accessed by way of either access that can specify an access range by a line or access that continuously performs a read and a write. The cache controller includes a second memory which has a higher flexibility than the first memory in specifying an access range. The cache controller determines an address of an access destination upon reception of a request for an access to the cache memory from the at least one processor, and switches a request for an access to a specific address into an access to a corresponding address in the second memory. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097378 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AS WELL AS PROGRAM - In a storage system in which computers are connected via a network, in order to avoid a state where communication quality is degraded due to poor performance of an apparatus constituting the network, for a transfer data amount, an amount of data sent out from a storage apparatus is suppressed. Moreover, the storage apparatus inhibits a read-ahead process, in accordance with the suppression of the sending out of the data. Furthermore, proper load allocation is realized by migrating a logical storage unit provided by the storage, to another network interface or a second storage apparatus, without changing a configuration of the network. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130096725 | Electric Power Control Method, Program, and Electric Power Control Apparatus - There is provided an electric power control apparatus in an electric power system ( | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130094150 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - Semiconductor element groups constituting a unit are mounted on a cooler heat receiving part | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093933 | ELECTRIC CAMERA - An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093457 | METHOD FOR TESTING AN INVERTER DRIVE ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE - With a rotating electric machine testing method for applying a test voltage to an armature winding of the rotating electric machine to thereby test insulation performance of the armature winding, in the case where a rated voltage of the armature winding of the rotating electric machine is E, and an insulation test voltage of an armature winding of a sine wave voltage drive rotating electric machine at the rated voltage E is E/√{square root over (3)} or E, a test voltage V | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093409 | OPTICAL CURRENT TRANSFORMER FOR GAS-INSULATED APPARATUS - At least one conductor is disposed in sealed vessel, which is filled with insulating gas, an hand hole is provided to a part of sealed vessel and is closed by a sealed cover, and optical fibers are disposed that form a closed loop surrounding conductor in sealed vessel. Optical fibers are hermetically led out of sealed vessel from sealed cover and are provided with at least a light source unit and an optical signal processor unit at the lead-out end. An airtight hollow tube disposed looping around leaving a predefined distance of separation is provided to conductor in sealed vessel, the end of tube is hermetically connected to sealed cover by sealing/bonding means, and optical fibers can be inserted in sealing/bonding means. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130093264 | Linear Motor and Positioning Apparatus - The present invention provides a linear motor where a load onto a supporting mechanism and the ripple of force are lessened and the ripple can be adjusted. As a leakage flux between the magnetic poles can be reduced by being configured by plural magnetic poles arranged with a magnet arranged on a mover held between them, a core that continuously connects the magnetic poles that holds the magnet of the mover between them, windings are integrally wound onto the plural magnetic poles and the mover formed by a row of magnets the magnetic poles of which are alternately arranged or a row of magnets the polarity of which is alternately arranged and magnetic materials, by arranging the plural magnetic poles arranged with the magnet held between and the plural magnetic poles provided with the core that continuously connects the magnetic poles. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130091320 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE METHOD - A storage system comprises a storage comprising a nonvolatile storage medium, and a storage control apparatus for inputting/outputting data to/from the storage. The storage control apparatus comprises a memory for storing management information, which is information used in inputting/outputting data to/from the storage, and a control part for controlling access to the storage. The control part stores the management information, which is stored in the memory, in the storage as a base image, and when the management information is updated subsequent to the base image being stored in the storage, creates a journal comprising information related to this update, and stores the journal in the storage as a journal group which is configured from multiple journals. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091135 | FILE AGGREGATION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - The performance of the analysis system is deteriorated because file content extraction processing is performed in the file aggregation server and in the analysis server and further because annotation data creation is performed in the file aggregation server. Therefore, the present invention solves the problem by providing a file aggregation server classifying files into analysis target contents, non analysis target contents, and content matched data, and providing only the analysis target contents to the analysis server. Since this method enables the analysis server to acquire the analysis target contents directly from the file aggregation server, the processing of extracting contents from the files becomes unnecessary, and the throughput of the entire analysis system is improved. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130089891 | APPARATUS FOR CHEMILUMINESCENT ASSAY AND DETECTION - An apparatus includes a system for guiding chemiluminescence and a system for preventing a variation in dark currents. The apparatus includes a first light shielding BOX having a sample container holder and a shutter unit therein, the shutter unit including a top plate which is partly formed by a movement of a plate member, and a second light shielding BOX having a photodetector therein. While a measurement is not implemented, the shutter unit is closed to block entrance of stray light to the photodetector, and while a measurement is implemented, the plate member is moved to open the shutter unit, and the tip of the photodetector is inserted into a through hole formed in the top plate, so that the distance between the bottom of the sample container and a sensitive area of the photodetector is reduced to several millimeters or less. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130089182 | Evaluation System and Evaluation Method of Plastic Strain - An evaluation system for plastic strain includes an X-ray diffraction device for irradiating the surface of a measurement object; and an image analyzing device that generates diffraction intensity curves from X-ray diffraction angle and intensity with an implanted database, which can be obtained in advance from test specimens made of the same material of the measurement object, establishing at least one of the relations between the full width at half maximum of the diffraction intensity curve and plastic strain, and between the integral intensity angular breadth of diffraction intensity curve and plastic strain. The image analyzing device obtains plastic strain of the measurement object based on at least one of the diffraction parameters of the full width at half maximum and the integral intensity angular breadth of a diffraction intensity curve corresponding to the implanted database indicative of the relation between the diffraction parameter and plastic strain. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130089034 | SEPARATE ASSOCIATIONS OF A MOBILE TO DIFFERENT BASE STATIONS IN UPLINK AND DOWNLINK - In a cellular system a user equipment (UE) can associate with different base stations (BS) for its uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) communications. To achieve this, the two BS have to communicate with each other. Systems and methods described herein provide a signaling methodology within a cellular standards framework (such as LTE), by which a UE can associate with different BS for UL and DL communications and further facilitate communication between a BS handling UL and a BS handling DL. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130088327 | TEMPLATE DELIVERY TYPE CANCELABLE BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - In a biometric authentication system, a delivery server includes a parameter conversion unit which generates, by converting the parameter, a parameter for delivery, a template conversion unit which generates, by converting the template, a template for delivery, and a delivery unit which delivers the template for delivery and the parameter for delivery to one of the client terminal and an authentication device; the authentication device includes a sensor which obtains biometric information on a registered user, a feature quantity obtaining unit which obtains a feature quantity from the biometric information, and a feature quantity conversion unit which generates, by converting the feature quantity using the parameter for delivery, a converted feature quantity; and the client terminal includes a match determination unit which determines, by comparing the converted feature quantity with the template for delivery, whether or not the converted feature quantity and the template for delivery match. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130088201 | BATTERY PACK AND BATTERY PACK CONTROLLER - A battery pack includes a plurality of battery units mutually connected in parallel, each including a cell group in which one or two or more secondary cells are connected in series, and a first current control element that is connected in series with this cell group, a first control means that controls the charging/discharging current for each battery unit by controlling the operation of the first current control element included in each of the battery unit; a voltage measurement means that measures the voltage of the cell group or cells included in each of the battery unit, and a diagnosis means that diagnoses a deterioration level or a fault of each battery unit on the basis of the voltage of the cell group or cells measured by the voltage measurement means. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130088099 | Generator and Electricity-Generating System - To provide a linear generator according to the present invention where a load onto a supporting mechanism and the ripple of force are reduced, the pitch of a magnetic pole is narrowed and a high frequency is acquired, the linear generator according to the present invention is provided with plural magnetic poles arranged with the magnets arranged on a mover held between the plural magnetic poles, a core that continuously connects the magnetic poles which hold the magnets of the mover between them, winding integrally wound onto the plural magnetic poles and the mover configured by a row of magnets in which the magnetic poles of the magnets are alternately arranged or a row of magnets in which the polarity of magnets is alternately arranged and magnetic materials, the magnetic pole arranged with the magnets held between the magnetic poles and the magnetic pole provided with the core that continuously connects the magnetic poles which hold the magnets are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the mover by plural pieces, and common winding is arranged on the plural magnetic poles. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130087451 | Membrane Electrode Assembly and Organic Hydride Manufacturing Device - There is provided a membrane electrode assembly and an organic hydride manufacturing device capable of obtaining higher energy efficiency even if manufacturing organic hydride in one step with a single device. A membrane electrode assembly in which a cathode catalyst layer and an anode catalyst layer are placed to sandwich a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein the cathode catalyst layer includes catalytic metal which causes hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons to organic hydrides, and a carrier of the catalytic metal, and the carrier provides on its surface a functional group which decreases wettability of the unsaturated hydrocarbons. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130086583 | Method and Computer for Controlling Virtual Machine - A virtual machine booting method for booting a virtual machine, the virtual machine comprising: a physical computer which includes a processor, a memory, and storage; and a virtualization module which assigns computer resources of the physical computer to the virtual machine, the method comprising: setting, by the virtualization module, before the virtual machine is booted, states of a first access path and a second access path which couple the virtual machine and the storage; booting the virtual machine by the virtualization module; determining, by the virtualization module, when to switch between the first access path and the second access path; and switching the first access path to the second access path when the virtualization module determines that it is time to switch between the first access path and the second access path. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086418 | DATA PROCESSING FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - When reproducing the running state after a failure has occurred in stream data processing, all window operations are used while minimizing the storage amount necessary for obtaining backup data. While an operator is performing stream data processing in response to a query, a query analysis unit analyzes the operator, which holds the running state of the window, etc., and the recovery points of said operator. When obtaining backup data, a backup data management unit manages the capacity necessary to obtain snapshots of the analyzed recovery points, calculates the storage area capacity needed for backing up input data up to each recovery point and the storage area capacity needed to obtain a snapshot for a window that cannot be reproduced in that way, and records the execution state by selecting a recovery point which minimizes the total value of necessary storage capacity. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086349 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system includes: a first storage apparatus; a second storage apparatus; a first volume of the first storage apparatus; and a second volume of the second storage apparatus; wherein the first volume and the second volume have a copy pair relationship and a host system recognizes the second volume as the same volume as the first volume; and wherein the first storage apparatus sends reservation information of the first volume to the second storage apparatus; and the second storage apparatus controls access from the host system on the basis of the received reservation information. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086317 | PASSING HINT OF PAGE ALLOCATION OF THIN PROVISIONING WITH MULTIPLE VIRTUAL VOLUMES FIT TO PARALLEL DATA ACCESS - An information system comprises: a storage system including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of virtual volumes to be allocated pages from a storage pool of volumes; and a metadata server which, upon receiving from a client a write request containing file data to be written to a virtual volume in the storage system, returns the write request to the client with parallel information which is added to a data layout of the file data to be written in the virtual volume. The storage system, upon receiving the write request with the parallel information, allocates, based on the parallel information, pages from the storage pool to the virtual volume for writing the file data, so that the data layout is striped and the allocated pages fit striped data access according to the striped data layout. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086314 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A storage system including a storage device which includes media for storing data from a host computer, a medium controller for controlling the media, a plurality of channel controllers for connecting to the host computer through a channel and a cache memory for temporarily storing data from the host computer, wherein the media have a restriction on a number of writing times. The storage device includes a bus for directly transferring data from the medium controller to the channel controller. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086312 | Semiconductor Device - An object of the present invention is to realize a highly reliable long-life information processor capable of high-speed operation and easy to handle. The processor includes a semiconductor device comprising a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of overwritable memory cells, and a control circuit device for controlling access to the nonvolatile memory device. The control circuit device sets assignments of second addresses to the nonvolatile memory device independently of first addresses externally supplied, such that the physical disposition of part of the memory cells used for writing of first data to be written externally supplied is one of the first to (N+1)th of every (N+1) memory cells (N: a natural number) at least in one direction. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086270 | MULTI-CLIENT STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - An aspect of the invention is a multi-client storage system comprising a management computer including a processor and a memory, for allocating resources of a plurality of storage apparatus to a plurality of clients, the management computer comprising: a receiving unit for receiving conditions for a client to which a new resource is to be allocated; a determining unit for determining whether the new resource is securable under the received conditions without changing resources allocated to existing clients and conditions for the volumes for each of the existing clients; and an allocation unit for securing, when it is determined that the new resource is securable under the received conditions, the new resource under the received conditions for the client in the plurality of storage apparatus and allocating the new resource to the client. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130084512 | FUEL BATTERY SYSTEM - A fuel battery system of the present invention includes: an alkaline fuel battery; a fuel supply device for supplying a fuel to an anode of the fuel battery; an oxidizing agent supply device for supplying an oxidizing agent to a cathode of the fuel battery; a liquid supply device which supplies a liquid to the cathode; a valve which switches between fluids to be supplied to the cathode; and a control device which controls the switching of the valve. The fuel battery system suppresses the neutralization of an anion-exchange electrolyte due to carbon dioxide in the air, by supplying the liquid from the liquid supply device to the cathode and making the cathode in the state of being immersed in the liquid when the fuel battery stops power generation. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130084188 | Blade - Disclosed herein is a blade that avoids fretting damage, while reducing stress occurring at the neck portion as caused by the stress relief groove. The blade disposed on an outer periphery of a rotor is provided. The blade includes: a blade portion; a dovetail portion for holding the blade on the rotor; a platform portion that connects the dovetail portion and the blade portion; and a stress relief groove that connects a side surface of the platform portion and a blade load bearing surface of the dovetail portion, wherein the dovetail portion has a width that increases toward a bottom side thereof within a range from a connection point between the side surface of the platform portion and the stress relief groove to a connection point between the dovetail portion and the stress relief groove. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130084162 | Gas Turbine - A gas turbine is provided that can suppress an increase in the supplied amount of cooling air in clearance adjustment through casing cooling. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083929 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING SOUND TRANSMISSION PATHS IN A SYSTEM - A method for analyzing sound transmission paths in a system from a sound source to a receiver in which the all sound paths are first identified from the sound source to the receiver. These sound paths include both structure-borne sound paths and air-borne sound paths. The transfer function from each path to the receiver is measured in terms of particle velocity vector by using a particle velocity sensor or a set of sound pressures by using a microphone array. The load at each path is directly measured or indirectly estimated in the actual source operation. The load at each path is multiplied by the transfer function from the path to the receiver, which represents the contribution of the path to the response at the receiver. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083895 | REAL-TIME TRACKING RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM - A real-time tracking radiotherapy system includes, therapeutic radiation irradiation device, at least two X-ray imaging devices, a target position recognizing section, a therapeutic radiation irradiation control section, each X-ray imaging device including an X-ray, an X-ray detector, and X-ray variable diaphragms, a transit region calculation section, a radiography range setting section, and a diaphragm control section. The real-time tracking radiotherapy system is capable of appropriately setting a radiography range using a computed transit region of a target or an surrogate marker and achieving a reduction in the amount of X-ray exposure. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083693 | CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD OF LOGICAL TOPOLOGY IN VIRTUAL NETWORK AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - (1) A configuration management in a management server is carried out such that setting patterns regarding creation of plural types of virtual resources and setting patterns regarding connection between the plural types of virtual resources are extracted from setting information of network devices configuring a virtual network by using plural types of virtualization technologies, (2) an ID required for creating a virtual resource and a connection relation between virtual resources are extracted from the extracted setting pattern, (3) an element corresponding to a virtual resource or a connection between a pair of virtual resources is created by using information including the extracted ID, and (4) the elements created from setting information of individual devices are aggregated to thereby create logical topology information representing a topology of the virtual network. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083481 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The cooling system includes: a frame; a plurality of electronic devices disposed in the frame and operating or functioning independently from each other; fans disposed in the frame and supplying cooling air to the electronic devices; a temperature acquiring portion for acquiring the temperature of the cooling air; an air-flow resistance adjusting portion for adjusting the air-flow resistance to the cooling air; and a controller for controlling the fans and the each air-flow resistance adjusting portion. The controller determines each target cooling air volume required for cooling each electronic device to a predetermined temperature based on temperature information acquired by the temperature acquiring portion and heat generation information on each electronic device, controls each air-flow resistance adjusting portion to set the volume of cooling air to each target cooling air volume, and performs the drive control of the fans to set the volume of cooling air to the minimum necessary. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130082564 | ALTERNATOR FOR VEHICLE - An alternator for a vehicle includes: a rundel-type rotor including a cylindrical portion around which a field coil is wound, a pair of plate-shaped end plate portions which are arranged such that the end plate portions face both end surfaces of the cylindrical portion in the axial direction in an opposed manner, first claw portions which extend parallel to a rotary axis from one end plate portion, and second claw portions which extend parallel to the rotary axis from the other end plate portion, and a stator which is arranged on an outer peripheral side of the rotor with a rotary gap therebetween so as to face the rotor in an opposed manner, and has a laminated core on which an armature coil is wound. The between claw magnetic poles of the first and second claw portions is set to a optimum gap range to maximize output current. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130082522 | SYSTEM FOR POWER TRANSMISSION - A system for reducing electromagnetic noise generated by common mode currents in electrical connections of a power inverter and battery in an electric or hybrid electric vehicle. A pair of spaced apart electrical conductors extends along the vehicle chassis and electrically connects the power inverter to the battery. An electrically conductive metal plate is positioned in between the spaced apart electrical conductors. This metal plate is electrically connected to the chassis adjacent at least both of the power inverter and the battery/motor. Besides this, more connecting points are required to keep the distance between two points less than half wavelength of the maximum frequency of EMI requirements, and most preferably this metal plate is electrically connected to the chassis all the way with infinite connecting points. The metal plate is positioned so that the metal plate is closer to the electrical conductors than the space in between the electrical conductors and the vehicle chassis. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130081034 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ASSIGNMENT OF LOADS OF DATA CENTER AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A load management system for a data center determines assignment of task loads to information processing devices. The data center includes a plurality of servers cooled by heat radiation, in a room isolated from an outdoor space, that allows air to be taken into and discharged from the room. The plurality of processes are assigned to the plurality of servers in order from a process applied with the proportionality coefficient that is smallest among the maximum proportionality coefficients (Ai-max). The proportionality coefficient (Aij) indicates the ratio of temperature of air taken in the servers (j) arranged in the room to a load on the server (i) arranged in the room, and when the server (i) is compared with the respective servers (j) for the proportionality coefficient (Aij) to obtain the maximum proportionality coefficients (Ai-max). | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080722 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND VOLUME PAIR SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - To inhibit the occurrence of communication failures in the system in which a secondary storage control apparatus acquires journal data from a primary storage control apparatus and writes the data to a secondary volume. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080624 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS - In analyzing an elaborate computer system which requires large-scale or numerous event propagation models, a law-of-causality matrix gains size, so that significant amount of storage resources has been used in a management computer. To solve such a problem, the management computer to manage the computer system stores topologies, event propagation models, and causality information including one or more causal relations in the storage resources, determines, when the management computer analyzes or detects an event, whether a causal relation has already been created for the event to be analyzed, and creates the causal relation based on a topology and event propagation models, if not yet. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080610 | I/O DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND I/O DEVICE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM PRODUCT - An I/O device management method of a computer system including a computer, an I/O device, an I/O switch assigning the I/O device to the computer, and a management computer of managing the I/O device, in which a process of the management processor includes a step of acquiring a piece of configuration information of the I/O device assigned to the computer, and a piece of configuration information of a network connected with I/O device, a step of acquiring a flow amount indicating an amount of a data transmitted and received via the I/O device for each I/O type, a step of determining the I/O device of changing an assignment to the computer based on the pieces of acquired information, and a step of issuing an assignment change instruction to the I/O switch. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080604 | SYSTEM MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - The present invention is for efficiently managing large numbers of apparatuses using multiple management protocols. A management information acquisition part | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130079905 | Human-Operated Working Machine System - In a human-operated working machine system made up of a working machine including an actuator and an operating device, various operations for target objects having various hardnesses and shapes are achieved at a speed not giving stress to an operator. To this end, the working machine has a control structure in which a control program corresponding to an action content is executed with both of displacement information with respect to the working machine inputted from the operating device and information from a sensor of the working machine being taken as inputs. Furthermore, the operating device has a simulator that predicts an action of the working machine so as to quickly provide image information and tactile information regarding the action of the working machine to the operator. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077633 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ITS DEVICE - A transmission device uses transmission delay time of reciprocation with the terminal and time information of the transmission device to create a correction value of time information of the terminal and transmits it to the terminal. The terminal includes expected arrival time information based on the time information of the terminal and the correction value received from the transmission device in a frame transmitted to the transmission device. The transmission device compares reception time of the frame with the expected arrival time information in the frame. If they match, the time information of the terminal synchronizes with the time information of the transmission device. If they do not match, the transmission device transmits a new correction value to the terminal. The terminal transmits a frame including expected arrival time information using the new correction value to the transmission device. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130074804 | FUEL DELIVERY SYSTEM - A fuel delivery system for a direct injection internal combustion engine having two fuel rails and a plurality of fuel injectors attached to and fluidly connected with each fuel rail. A first fuel pump has its output connected with the first fuel rail while a second fuel pump has its output connected with the second fuel rail. A crossover pipe fluidly connects the outlets of both the first and second pumps. Both the first pump and the second pump each have an intake stroke and a pumping stroke. Furthermore, the intake stroke of the first pump coincides with the pumping stroke of the second pump and vice versa. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130073925 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING ERROR CORRECTION CODING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING ERROR CORRECTION DECODING DEVICE - An electronic device comprises an error correction coding device. The error correction coding device comprises a parity code generator. This generator is a circuit for computing a remainder polynomial by dividing a user data polynomial by a generator polynomial and generating a parity code from this remainder polynomial. This generator computes the remainder polynomial by dividing and inputting either a bit string comprising coefficients of the generator polynomial, or a bit string comprising coefficients of the generator polynomial and a bit string comprising coefficients of the generator polynomial, and dividing a minimal unit multiple times based on either a division width of the user polynomial or a division width of the user polynomial and the generator polynomial, and outputs a bit string comprising the coefficient of this remainder polynomial. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073825 | STORAGE APPARATUS, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD - Provided is a method of using a dynamic chunk allocation function to efficiently carry out data volume migration. A storage apparatus according to the present invention includes first and second storage units and divides a storage extent in the second storage unit into chunks to add the chunks to a chunk pool to dynamically allocate the chunks in the chunk pool to a newly created logical data volume (see FIG. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073820 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD - The present invention appropriately processes a write command issued during data migration processing, and completes the data migration processing promptly. A copy control part | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073805 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING STATUS THEREOF - There is disclosed a data storage system used in a computer environment where there are plural host computers and plural storage array controllers. When a remote copy is made while assuring the order of writing across plural storage array controllers, one of the host computers gains copy information about all the storage array controllers associated with the remote copy as a representative. The representative one of the storage array controllers collects and stores copy statuses which are individually managed by the storage array controllers for which a remote copy is made. The host computer gains the copy statuses from the representative controller using an instruction to gain the copy statuses. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073780 | VOLUME SHARING METHOD AND STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Since only one golden image (GI) of a snapshot can exist and is shared among a plurality of storage apparatuses, there was a problem that migration or copy thereof deteriorates the capacity efficiency and increases the cost for managing consistency. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by either (1) a direct sharing method of generating a parent-child relationship of snapshots among different storage apparatuses at the time of creating differential LUs from the GI or (2) a virtual sharing method of creating virtual LUs of the GI in the respective storage apparatuses and creating differential LUs of the snapshots from the created virtual LUs, using a storage virtualization function among a plurality of storage apparatuses. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130071759 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY - A lithium ion battery includes: a cathode that includes a cathode mix, which contains a cathode active material stably exhibiting a potential of 4.5 V or greater on the metallic lithium basis, a conducting material, and a binder, on a cathode collector; an anode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte that is obtained by dissolving a lithium salt in a nonaqueous solvent, in which a lithium fluoride is provided on at least a surface layer of the cathode collector. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130071722 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM ION BATTERY, RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM ION BATTERY, AND BATTERY MODULE - A positive electrode for a rechargeable lithium ion battery includes a mixture layer including a positive-electrode active material, a conducting agent, and a binder and a collector having the mixture layer formed on the surface thereof. The positive-electrode active material is a composite oxide having an olivine structure expressed by a formula Li | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069746 | Sintered Magnet - Disclosed is a sintered magnet which is a rare-earth magnet using a less amount of a rare-earth element but having a higher maximum energy product and a higher coercivity. The sintered magnet includes a NdFeB crystal; and an FeCo crystal adjacent to the NdFeB crystal through the medium of a grain boundary. The FeCo crystal includes a core and a periphery and has a cobalt concentration decreasing from the core to the periphery. The FeCo crystal has a difference in cobalt concentration of 2 atomic percent or more between the core and the periphery. In the NdFeB crystal, cobalt and a heavy rare-earth element are unevenly distributed and enriched in the vicinity of the grain boundary. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069598 | Lithium Ion Battery Control System and Assembled Battery Control System - A lithium ion battery control system includes a degradation rate calculating unit, a degradation rate storage unit, a degradation rate comparing unit, a charging and discharging control circuit, and a rechargeable battery. The degradation rate calculating unit calculates a degradation rate when receiving a trigger for starting the check of the degradation rate of the battery. The degradation rate comparing unit receives a present degradation rate from the degradation rate calculating unit and a previous degradation rate from the degradation rate storage unit and compares both degradation rates. As a result, when the present degradation rate is greater than the previous degradation rate by a predetermined value, a charging and discharging condition is limited. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069588 | QUICK CHARGER AND QUICK CHARGING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An object of the present invention is to provide a quick charger for an electric vehicle in which a quick charging cable can be compactly stored, which is excellent in safety, and in which the burden on a user in operations is lightened. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069473 | Electric Rotating Machine - An alternator comprising a rotor having plural magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a stator whose teeth are disposed opposite to the periphery of the rotor, with an air gap interposed between the rotor and the stator, wherein the coil conductors are wound on the stator so that two stator magnetic poles may be formed by two coil units of a phase wound around stator teeth within the range of 360 electrical degrees subtended by the magnetic poles of the rotor; each of the two coil units forming the stator magnetic poles spans an electrical angle less than 180 electrical degrees; the two coil turns forming the two stator magnetic poles are laid out so that they may not overlap each other; and the coil conductors are so wound that the adjacent stator magnetic poles exhibit opposite magnetic polarities. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069447 | POWER MONITOR AND CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL APPARATUS OF DISTRIBUTED POWERING SYSTEM - If a failure has occurred on the backbone-power-transmission-network side, i.e., the electric-power system, and if the power supply to a power-distributing/transforming substation is stopped, a power-distributing feeder is cut off from the electric-power system. Moreover, a monitor/control apparatus transmits a single-operation-permitting permission signal to a distributed power-source system which is connected to the cut-off power-distributing feeder. Here, the distributed power-source system supplies its power to the power-distributing feeder only during a time-interval in which the system is receiving the permission signal. A general load and an important load, which are connected to the power-distributing feeder, find it possible to continue their activities by taking advantage of this power. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130068026 | Ultrasonic Inspection Method and Ultrasonic Inspection Apparatus - An ultrasonic inspection method and an ultrasonic inspection apparatus are provided, in which bending of a propagation path of an inspection object in three dimensions is considered. The ultrasonic inspection method includes calculating the ultrasonic propagation path by using three-dimensional shape data of the inspection object and information relating to a position and a direction of an ultrasonic sensor, giving spatial coordinates along the calculated ultrasonic propagation path to each point of sound field intensity data of an ultrasonic wave received in time series by the ultrasonic sensor, and displaying ultrasonic inspection data obtained by using the sound field intensity data and the spatial coordinates. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130067183 | Logical Volume Transfer Method and Storage Network System - The present invention transfers replication logical volumes between and among storage control units in a storage system comprising a plurality of storage control units. To transfer replication logical volumes from a storage control unit to a storage control unit, a virtualization device sets a path to the storage control unit. The storage control unit then prepares a differential bitmap in order to receive access requests. When the preparation is completed, the virtualization device makes access requests to the storage control unit. The storage control unit then hands over the access requests to the storage control unit. Subsequently, the storage control unit performs a process so that the access requests are reflected in a disk device and performs an emergency destage of storing data in a cache memory into disk device. When the emergency destage is ended, the storage control unit connects to an external storage control unit and hands over access requests to the external storage control unit. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067152 | STORAGE SYSTEM - The temporary area capacity required to be secured with respect to the whole permanent area is calculated in accordance with the capacity and access frequency of a host computer data permanent area of a disk device contained in the storage system and a disk device of an external storage device that is managed by a storage virtualization function of this storage system. The nonvolatile memory is defined as the temporary area and is used to temporarily store host computer data when a data I/O from the host computer is processed. The required capacity of the temporary area is re-calculated in accordance with an event such as a configuration change in the external storage system. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067139 | STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING FLASH MEMORY, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A storage system comprises a plurality of flash packages comprising a plurality of flash chips, and a storage controller for receiving a first write request from a higher-level apparatus and sending a second write request of write data based on data conforming to this first write request to a write-destination flash package, and demonstrates a capacity virtualization function for causing a storage capacity to appear larger than an actual storage capacity for the higher-level apparatus, and for configuring a storage space using page units. The storage system generates a second VOL (logical volume) based on a first VOL, manages a plurality of VOLs comprising the first VOL and one or more second VOLs generated based on the first VOL as a VOL group, and allocates the same page to areas of the same address of the plurality of VOLs configuring the VOL group. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067045 | INTERSYSTEM COORDINATION APPARATUS IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The intersystem coordination apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store a pattern of a communication protocol between the system and the other system, a protocol definition in which system configurations of these systems and network configurations, a non-functioning requirement which is a unique requirement of a predetermined application for the system to access the other system by using the predetermined application, and a plurality of modules configured to execute the application in accordance with the protocol definition and the non-functioning requirement; an application processing unit configured to execute the predetermined application; and a combination processing unit configured to select a module required to execute processing by the application from the plurality of modules based on the non-functioning requirement and a requirement value required to perform processing between these systems determined based on the communication protocol pattern, the system configuration, and the network configuration included in the protocol definition. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066930 | METHOD FOR CREATING CLONE FILE, AND FILE SYSTEM ADOPTING THE SAME - In the prior art clone creating technique of a file, a management table of a snapshot and the file was created when creating the clone file, so that a considerable amount of creation time for creating the clone file and storage capacity was required. In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention provides a system wherein if a request to create a clone of a file is received, a differential file is created while inhibiting update of the file, and update data is written to the differential file. Further, when a first update request is received to the differential file after creating the differential file, a management table is created. According to the invention, a large amount of clone files can be created speedily. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066501 | Vehicle - It is desirable to enhance efficiency of a power conversion device in both of a case where a motor generator which is an electric rotating machine is operated as a motor and a case where the motor generator is operated as a generator by performing regeneration braking. At the time of performing regeneration braking, strength of regeneration braking can be controlled by making an inverter circuit conductive in response to a predetermined phase of an AC output which the inverter circuit generates and by controlling a conduction width. Due to such a control, the number of times of switching a semiconductor element which constitutes the inverter circuit can be reduced thus suppressing heat generation of the semiconductor element and also the efficiency of the power conversion device can be enhanced. Further, the enhancement of efficiency of the power conversion device can be realized also in a motor operation and hence, it is also possible to enhance efficiency with respect to the traveling of a vehicle. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064746 | CO2 Sorbent | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064720 | Carbon Dioxide Recovery System - A carbon dioxide recovery system is provided, in which, a filling rate of the carbon dioxide sorbent in the container indicated by f [%] is positive and larger than or equal to the value obtained by the following expression of 100×(p/(RT))×(x−C)/(a×(100+x/r−100×x/(rC)−x)+(p/(RT))×(x−C)), with respect to the effective molar quantity of the captured carbon dioxide per 1 L of the carbon dioxide sorbent (=a) of the carbon dioxide sorbent to be used, wherein a demanded concentration of recovered carbon dioxide is indicated by x [%], and an amount of the captured gases other than carbon dioxide is indicated by r, and a concentration of dried carbon dioxide in a carbon dioxide-containing gas is indicated by C [%], and a total pressure of the carbon dioxide sorbent occurring when carbon dioxide is captured is indicated by p [Pa]. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064077 | NODE APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND PACKET PROCESSING METHOD - A node apparatus capable of performing flexible load distribution and performing a high speed processing of packets, has an interface connecting to multiple packet processors through a switch, stores association information for associating each packet with information of the packet processor, and forwards a packet associated with information of a first packet processor in the association information to the first packet processor. The node apparatus has a control unit that when the first packet processor is determined to be in high load more than or equal to a threshold, updates the association information so that a packet being processable by the first packet processor may also be associated with information of a second packet processor in the association information. The interface forwards a packet associated with the information of the second packet processor in the updated association information to the second packet processor unit. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130062883 | Heat Recovery System of the Boiler with CO2 Capture System - A boiler system including an electric power generation system having a boiler, a steam turbine for generating electric power by steams which received heat at a boiler, a condenser provided at the downstream thereof for condensing the steams, and a heater for heating condensed water by steams extracted from the steam turbine and, further, a CO | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130061073 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER - Disclosed herein is a computer system including multiple worker nodes, each being equipped with an electric power generation unit and an electric power storage unit storing electric power generated by the electric power generation unit, and a master node responsible for management of tasks that are assigned to the worker nodes. Each worker node determines an operating cycle time of the worker node to execute a task assigned by the master node or communicate with any other worker node, based on information indicating a change in electric power stored in the electric power storage unit of the worker node. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130061043 | METHOD OF VALIDATION PUBLIC KEY CERTIFICATE AND VALIDATION SERVER - In response to a validation request that includes second information identifying the certificate authority, key information of the certificate authority at issuance of the public key certificate, and information identifying the public key certificate, if the second information identifying the certificate authority included in the validation request corresponds to the first information identifying the certificate authority included in the authority certificate, and the information identifying the public key certificate included in the validation request does not exist in the revocation information, the validation server creates a validation result indicating that the public key certificate corresponding to the information identifying the public key certificate included in the validation request is valid. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130059229 | ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, AND PROTON CONDUCTIVE POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY AND POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL USING THE SAME - Disclosed is an electrolyte material containing a copolymer including a polyvinyl as a main chain, the copolymer including a functional group with proton conductivity; and an alkoxide of Si or Ti as a side chain. By using the electrolyte material, a proton conductive polymer electrolyte membrane with flexibility, high ion conductivity, excellent water resistance, and a small change in size can be obtained. And a polymer electrolyte fuel cell can be provided which has high output and durability by using the electrolyte membrane. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130059202 | POLYMER-COATED ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME - Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery including a cathode that is capable of occluding and emitting lithium ions, and an anode that is capable of occluding and emitting the lithium ions. A polymer compound containing a polyether portion and a carboxylic acid bonding portion is bonded to an active material as shown with a structure I, a structure II, a structure III, and a structure IV. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130058829 | CELLS FOR BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS, KIT FOR BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS, AND BIOCHEMICAL ANALYZER - The invention makes it possible to measure binding of a biochemical substance with a high throughput and with high sensitivity using a small cell capable of being filled with a small amount of chemical solution. A space between a first substrate and a second substrate such that probes are immobilized on their mutually facing planes is used as a cell that houses a specimen solution. Light is irradiated from a first substrate side, and reflected light is subjected to spectroscopy. Binding of the target with the probe is detected by a wavelength shift in the refection spectrum. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130058034 | DISK UNIT AND DISK ARRAY APPARATUS - To reduce vibration in the rotation direction acting on the hard disk drive with a part of the hard disk drive as the rotation center. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130056717 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS USING SAME - An organic light-emitting device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a light drawing-out layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a transparent electrode disposed between the light drawing-out layer and the first substrate, a reflection electrode disposed between the transparent electrode and the first substrate, and a first light-emitting unit disposed between the transparent electrode and the reflection electrode. The first light-emitting unit includes a first light-emitting layer that emits a first light-emitting color. In the organic light-emitting device, relations of the equation L | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130055013 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - The present invention reduces the amount of rebuild processing and executes a rebuild process efficiently. Multiple storage devices configure a parity group. Of the multiple storage devices, a prescribed storage device in which a failure has occurred is blocked. Each storage device stores management information. The management information manages from among the storage areas of the storage device a prescribed area having data from a higher-level apparatus. A controller determines whether a storage area of the prescribed storage device is the prescribed area based on the management information, and executes a rebuild process with respect to the area determined to be the prescribed area. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054894 | INCREASE IN DEDUPLICATION EFFICIENCY FOR HIERARCHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM - Exemplary embodiments provide improvement of deduplication efficiency for hierarchical storage systems. In one embodiment, a storage system comprises a storage controller; and a plurality of first volumes and a plurality of external volumes which are configured to be mounted to external devices. The storage controller controls to store related data which are derived from one of the plurality of first volumes in a first external volume of the plurality of external volumes. In another embodiment, the storage controller receives object data from a server and allocates the object data to the plurality of pool volumes. The plurality of pool volumes include a plurality of external volumes which are configured to be mounted to external devices. The storage controller controls to store the object data to the plurality of pool volumes based on object allocation information received from a backup server. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054891 | DISTRIBUTION DESIGN FOR FAST RAID REBUILD ARCHITECTURE - Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a distribution design for fast RAID rebuild architecture that avoids the deterioration of the availability/reliability in the distribution architecture. According to one aspect of the invention, a storage system comprises: a data storage unit including a plurality of storage devices; a storage controller including a processor, a memory, and a controller for controlling data transfer between the memory and corresponding storage devices in the data storage unit; and an internal network coupled between the storage controller and the storage devices. Based on loads of the processor of the storage controller and the internal network, the storage controller controls to limit a number of redundant storage devices over which to distribute a write data. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054534 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD IMPLEMENTING ONLINE VOLUME AND SNAPSHOT WITH PERFORMANCE/FAILURE INDEPENDENCE AND HIGH CAPACITY EFFICIENCY - A storage system for storage of data written from a computer, and when a write request of data to a first logical volume is received, the data on request is stored into the first logical volume. When a first-generation snapshot creation request is received, the data stored in the first logical volume at the time of receiving the first-generation snapshot creation request is written into a pool region as data corresponding to a first-generation snapshot, and when a second-generation snapshot creation request is received, any portion of the data updated after the first-generation snapshot creation request is received but before the second-generation snapshot creation request is issued is read from the first logical volume for writing into the pool region. Such a storage system favorably implements snapshot backup with no dependency with a positive volume in terms of performance and failure, and with high capacity efficiency. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054040 | Load Leveling System of Power System - It is an object of the present invention to provide a load leveling system of a power system capable of attaining load leveling in a distribution substation unit and a method thereof. Disclosed is a load leveling system of a power system with a controller having a major customer and lower transforming apparatus, and with a customer connected to the lower transforming apparatus via a low-voltage line. The system also has a communication unit between the customer and its own system, and control use time zones of devices within the customer; an electric demand prediction unit, and a first load leveling processing unit. By employing such an arranged system, it becomes possible to provide a load leveling system of a power system capable of realizing load leveling of both a distribution substation unit and a pole transformer unit. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130052560 | MEMBRANE-ELECTRODE-ASSEMBLY AND FUEL CELL - A membrane-electrode-assembly contains two or more types of solid polymer electrolytes having different acid dissociation constants in an electrode catalyst layer, a solid polymer electrolyte of small acid strength covers the surface of a catalyst, and a solid polymer electrolyte of large acid strength is disposed to the periphery thereof, which makes the resistance to dissolving of the catalyst metal and the ion conductivity in the catalyst electrode layer compatible. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130051144 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE COMPRISING ELECTRICALLY REWRITABLE NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY - A semiconductor storage apparatus stores management information comprising, for each block of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, information denoting at least one of a recent programming time, which is a time at which data is recently programmed to a block, and a recent erase time, which is a time at which an erase process is recently carried out with respect to a block. The semiconductor storage apparatus (b1) controls a timing at which data is programmed to a block based on at least one of the recent programming time and the recent erase time of this block, and/or (b2) controls a timing at which an erase process is carried out with respect to a block based on the recent programming time of this block. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130047153 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY IN THE USE OF RESOURCES IN DATA CENTER - A method of managing use of resources in data center comprises: determining whether first storage subsystem includes a virtual volume or a storage pool that uses a physical volume of second storage subsystem and, if yes, migrating the physical volume to first storage subsystem; determining whether any storage subsystem includes a virtual volume created directly from a physical volume and, if yes, migrating the virtual volume to another virtual volume provisioned from the storage pool of the storage subsystem; and determining whether all virtual volumes satisfy a preset service level objective and, if no, then selecting a virtual machine which has a smallest virtual machine disk file and selecting a storage pool having a largest free space, and then selecting a virtual volume of the storage subsystem which has the selected storage pool and migrating the virtual machine disk file of the selected virtual machine to the selected virtual volume. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130047027 | FAILOVER METHOD THROUGH DISK TAKE OVER AND COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING FAILOVER FUNCTION - When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the primary server to a server that is not executing a task in accordance with the following method. The method for taking over a task includes the steps of detecting that the primary server fails; searching the computer system for a server that has the same hardware configuration as that of the primary server and that is not running a task; enabling the server, searched for as a result of the search, to access the external disk device; and booting the server from the external disk device. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046944 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND ADDITIONAL DATA WRITING METHOD - Deduplicated backup data of a plurality of generations are aggregated and stored. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046911 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS - An aspect of the invention is a storage control apparatus, comprising a plurality of processors, a memory, an I/O device coupled to a storage device, a virtualization module that allocates a first processor to a first guest and a second processor to a second guest from among the plurality of processors, and an interrupt control module that receives an interrupt from the I/O device and transmits the interrupt to any one of the plurality of processors, wherein the virtualization module comprises, a state detection module that detects at least one of a state of the first guest and a state of the first processor, and an interrupt delivery destination control module that switches the interrupt with respect to the first processor to the second processor when at least one of the state of the first guest and the state of the first processor becomes a predetermined state. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CLUSTER SYSTEM PROVISIONING FOR VIRTUAL MACHING ENVIRONMENT - A method relates to provisioning a cluster system in a virtual machine environment in a storage system. The storage system has a plurality of hosts, a fabric network, a storage array, and a management server. The method includes inputting information on a first cluster system to be defined, the information including selecting a scale unit wherein the first cluster system is to be defined. An inventory database including resource information for the scale unit selected is provided. A virtual I/O (“vIO”) information is provided. The vIO information assigns each of hosts selected for the first cluster system with a vIO device, at least one virtual computer network address, and at least one virtual storage network address. A first cluster definition for the first cluster system in the selected scale unit is created using the vIO information. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046802 | DATA MIGRATION SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD - When performing migration of data from a migration source file server which is not endowed with any HSM interface, to a migration destination file server which is endowed with HSM, a volume of high capacity is needed for the migration destination file server, and moreover the performance deteriorates directly after the migration. However, with this system, the manager is enabled to set a migration policy using attribute information which can be acquired through a standard file access interface possessed by a file server program, and, when setting the attribute information of the migration destination file, the tier of the file which is to be created is determined, and the migration destination file is created, on the basis of this attribute information and migration policy. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046733 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DUPLICATE DATA DETECTION METHOD - An optimum chunk cutout method is selected according to the type of content. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044864 | X-Ray Diffraction Instrument - There is provided an X-ray diffraction instrument including: a two-dimensional plate-like X-ray detector; an X-ray emitter integrated with the X-ray detector so as to penetrate the plate of the X-ray detector; a cylinder-like shield to define an orientation of the X-ray emitter and to prevent X-ray leakage, the X-ray detector being attached to one open end of the cylinder-like shield; and a standard powder attachment device to attach a standard powder for X-ray diffraction measurement to a surface of an object to be measured. The X-ray diffraction instrument can perform an X-ray diffraction measurement to an object larger than the X-ray detector thereof. The invented X-ray diffraction instrument is small in size, and can perform accurate X-ray diffraction measurement of stationary immovable objects without limitation on an orientation of the measurement surface. In addition, X-ray leakage is prevented for operator safety. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130044730 | Optimized Home Evolved NodeB (eNB) Handover in an LTE Network - A method to provide an optimized intra-HeNB GW handover operation that reduces signaling to and from an LTE MME (Mobility Management Entity) function of the 3GPP E-UTRAN Evolved Packet core (EPC). In operation, an HeNB Gateway (GW) intercepts handover requests from a source HeNB to a target HeNB and processes these requests locally, with minimal interaction from the MME. Where possible, messaging to and from the MME is minimized and/or reduced, irrespective of the 3GPP requirement that the GW relay all handover-related messages to the MME. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130041511 | Solar Power System and Control System - In a case in which a local solution to current-voltage characteristics is generated by way of a partial shade, it has been difficult to perform control for causing a solar cell to operate at a maximum power point efficiently in terms of power and at a low cost. During steady state operation, an MPPT control unit | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130040851 | Evaluation Method for Arteriosclerosis - Arteriosclerosis induces cerebral infarction and myocardial infarction. A multi-marker (a group of protein markers) that assesses the accurate pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis and enables the selection of an adequate treatment method for arteriosclerosis and prediction of the progression of arteriosclerosis, and an evaluation method for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of arteriosclerosis that uses said marker group as an indicator have been sought. The present invention relates to A method for evaluation of arteriosclerosis comprising the steps of (a) measuring the expression of von Willebrand factor and/or complement factor D in a sample derived from a subject, (b) measuring the expression of complement component C8 and/or vitamin K-dependent protein Z in the sample derived from the subject, and (c) evaluating arteriosclerosis in the subject on the basis of the results from (a) and (b). | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130039159 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS AND ITS REPRODUCING METHOD - Amplitude and frequency of a high-frequency signal superposed on a reproduction laser beam are changed in accordance with a reproduction spot diameter on the surface of the recording layer upon discrimination of an optical disk in initial adjustment after insertion of the optical disk and change of a layer of a multi-layer optical disk. Further, the high-frequency signal is not superposed on the reproduction laser beam until end of the discrimination and change to a target layer upon discrimination of the optical disk and change of a layer of a multi-layer optical disk. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130038182 | INVERTER-DRIVEN DYNAMO ELECTRIC MACHINE AND SYSTEM, BEARING, AND END BRACKET FOR SAME - The purpose of the invention is to provide an inverter-driven dynamo electric machine and system for the same having high reliability and high efficiency such that even in the case of inverter pulse voltages having high dv/dt, generation of shaft voltages and generation of shaft currents causing electric corrosion of a bearing with the generation of the shaft voltages are suppressed, thereby keeping the bearing free of electric corrosion. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130036286 | FIRST STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND FIRST STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - The present invention creates a pool comprising tiers corresponding to the performance of logical volumes. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036280 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A first storage system copies data of a virtual area of a first virtual volume to a virtual area of a second virtual volume of a second storage system, monitors accesses with respect to multiple virtual areas of the first virtual volume, updates access information related to the accesses of the multiple virtual areas, and, based on the access information, reallocates data inside an actual area of a first pool allocated to the virtual area of the first virtual volume. The first storage system sends the access information to the second storage system. The second storage system receives the access information, and, based on the access information, reallocates data inside the actual area allocated to a virtual area of the second virtual volume. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036256 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SANITIZING STORAGE DEVICE - Systems and methods directed to erasing data and/or the sanitization of storage systems. In storage systems that utilize storage devices such as Flash Memory Devices or Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), systems and methods utilize the initializing function of the storage device to erase the data. Storage devices within the storage systems may have an initializing function that erases all blocks of the storage device. Systems and methods further check for the initializing function and the media type to determine if the initializing function is available to determine the optimal sanitizing process for the device. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036250 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MOVE PAGE BETWEEN TIERS - The thin provisioning storage system maintains migration history between the first and the second group which the unallocated pages of virtual volume would be allocated from, and updates on writes against storage areas of virtual volume having migration history. Before the storage controller determines to migrate data allocated in the first group to the second group, the storage controller checks the migration history and if the data stored in the first group has been previously migrated from the second group and is still maintained in the second group, the storage controller would change the allocation between the virtual volume and the first group to the second group for the data subject to migration and not perform the data migration. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033793 | Battery System - A battery system is disclosed which includes: first and second battery blocks connected in parallel, each including a plurality of batteries connected in series; a battery state detector detecting voltages of the batteries in either of the second battery blocks. The number of the batteries in the second battery block is smaller than that of the first battery block. The battery state detector is installed integral with the second battery block. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033600 | Image Processing Device - An image processing device which performs a tracking control with respect to a moving object which is travelling forward, based on the controlled variable of the own vehicle includes, an image processing unit which specifies an area of a moving object from an input image, sets the specified area of the moving object as a reference image area after starting tracking control, and sets an area of the moving object after a predetermined time as a comparison image area; a comparison unit which compares the set reference image area and the comparison image area with each other, and calculates travelling information relating to the moving object; and a controlled variable calculation unit which calculates a controlled variable of the own vehicle from travelling information which is calculated in the comparison unit. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033205 | Power Conversion Device - A control circuit of a power conversion device calculates voltage command signals for determining timings for making switching elements of a power switching circuit continuous by performing feed forward control on the basis of input information, and feedback control on the basis of the input information and current values of AC output, for each of the d axis and the q axis of a motor. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130031229 | TRAFFIC REDUCTION METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED KEY-VALUE STORE - In a system of local DHT overlays, each has KVS nodes, including one super node. The super nodes organize a global DHT overlay. Each super node maintains Bloom filters of keys in its local DHT overlay for all key ranges. To obtain data corresponding to a key from other local DHT overlays, a super node sends a request to a node which is responsible for the key range hashed from the specified key. The responsible node determines local DHT overlays which may have data corresponding to the key according to Bloom filters registered in the super nodes of the local DHT overlays, updated and converted from counting filters. Requests are sent to the super nodes of the local DHT overlays identified by the responsible node. Thus, requests are not needlessly sent to super nodes of local DHT overlays which do not have data corresponding to the key, thereby reducing traffic. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130029655 | REFERENCE SIGNAL DESIGN FOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS - In a distributed antenna system (DAS), the number of physical antennas is usually larger than that of the antenna ports supported by LTE/LTE-A RS pattern in each cell. Systems and methods are directed to a RS transmission scheme in which the RRHs (or RRH groups) are dynamically scheduled and mapped to the antenna ports for RS transmission based on user density distribution such that the accuracy of the channel state information (CSI) estimation in the DAS is optimized. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130029277 | Combustor, Burner, and Gas Turbine - A combustor is provided that can ensure combustion stability even when operated on low BTU gas without needing any equipment for preventing back-flow of fuel gas during operation on pilot fuel. The combustor includes a first perforated plate disposed upstream of a combustion chamber, the first plate having a plurality of nozzle holes and air holes; a second perforated plate disposed on the upstream side of the first plate; and a plurality of gas nozzles each of which is inserted into corresponding nozzle holes. The gas nozzle has a leading end located inside the corresponding one of the nozzle holes. Each of the gas nozzles includes a jet hole portion having a diameter smaller than that of a gas jet hole of the gas nozzle; and a passage portion designed to form an air passage on the outer circumference of the leading end portion of the gas nozzle. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130028570 | Video Recording Apparatus, Video Recording System and Video Recording Method - The present invention enables an effective use of a ring buffer. A video recording apparatus includes a first thinning process unit which reduces a data size of camera videos transmitted from a camera to a frame rate number of the camera videos, and which stores the camera videos having undergone a thinning process in a ring buffer, and a second thinning process unit which further reduces the data size of the videos stored in the ring buffer at a frame rate number in accordance with a condition among a plurality of conditions. The first thinning process unit stores the camera videos in the ring buffer at a frame rate that is the lowest common multiple of the frame rate numbers of the plurality of conditions. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130028112 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - For a user signal (signal requesting for provision of services) input to a signal transport network, header information for transmission in the signal transport network is given at a portal edge of the signal transport network on the user side. The information given at this time includes a time stamp indicating the time of receiving the user signal by the edge. In a server on the service provider side, the time stamp is referred to, and services are provided for each user. Specifically, a response process schedule for each user is produced from the time stamp, and waiting time is reduced and a priority process is performed in accordance with the time of issuing the request by the user. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130027511 | Onboard Environment Recognition System - To provide an onboard environment recognition system capable of preventing, with a reduced processing load, erroneous recognition caused by light from a headlight of a vehicle in the surroundings. An onboard environment recognition system | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130025933 | Insulating Spacer with Built-In Optical Fiber - Insulating spacer | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130024734 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS - [This invention] inhibits the response time of the storage control apparatus from being longer even if the response time of the storage apparatus is long. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024635 | First Storage Apparatus and First Storage Apparatus Control Method - The object is to achieve a disaster recovery configuration in a short period of time. In a first storage apparatus | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024616 | Storage System and Its Logical Unit Management Method - The size of management information pages for storing format management information is minimized and a management size of the management information pages is reduced. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024148 | Electromagnetic Wave Source Survey Method, Electromagnetic Wave Source Survey Program, and Electromagnetic Wave Source Survey Device - There is provided a technique in which a direction of current to be an electromagnetic wave source is precisely measured in a short time. An electromagnetic wave source survey method according to the present invention measures an absolute value of induced voltages by using three or more odd number of antennas whose arrangement angles seen from the reference position on a same plane are different from one another, and a vectorial angle of the current is calculated by using the arrangement angle of each antenna and the induced voltages (see FIG. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130022052 | Data Transport System and Control Method of Data Transport System - An example of a data transport system includes transport nodes of a transport network, communication devices which communicate via the transport network, and a transport network logical path management server for setting logical paths between the transport nodes within the transport network, and a logical path control server. In a case where a first communication device is newly connected with a first transport node, the first communication device transmits control data to a logical path control server via the first transport node. The logical path control server obtains information about a connection relation between the newly connected first communication device and the first transport node from the control data, and establishes a logical path between the first communication device and a second communication device based on the obtained information about the connection relation and on information about logical paths between transport nodes in a logical path database. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130020997 | Battery System - A battery system having a battery string configured by connecting in series a plurality of battery units includes: an SOC detection unit for individually detecting states of charge of the plurality of battery units; and a charge-and-discharge control unit for individually charging and discharging the battery units, based on a full charge capacity of each battery unit and each state of charge of the battery units individually detected by the detection unit, upon the battery system being in no load state, the control unit individually charges and discharges the battery units so that the states of charge of the battery units are approximately equal with each other when the battery units are in a discharge end state and so that a difference between the states of charge of the battery units is relatively large when the battery units are approximately in a full charge state. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130020880 | Energy Storage Circuit - An energy storage circuit includes a first capacitor connected with a power generating element via a first diode and a second capacitor connected with the power generating element via a second diode and a switch. The conduction state of the switch is controlled using the potential difference between its second and third electrodes (driving voltage V). The driving voltage when the switch enters its conductive state is higher than the driving voltage when the switch enters its non-conductive state. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130020634 | Semiconductor Device and Electric Power Conversion System Using The Same - A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type on the first semiconductor layer; trenches in the first semiconductor layer; a semiconductor protruding part on the first semiconductor layer; a third semiconductor layer on the semiconductor protruding part; a fourth semiconductor layer on the third semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer disposed along the trench; a first interlayer insulating layer disposed along the trench; a first conductive layer facing to the fourth semiconductor layer; a second conductive layer on the first interlayer insulating layer; a second interlayer insulating layer covering the second conductive layer; a third conductive layer on the third semiconductor layer and fourth semiconductor layer; a contacting part connecting the third conductive layer and third semiconductor layer; and a fourth conductive layer formed on the second semiconductor layer. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130019584 | BURNER, GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR, BURNER COOLING METHOD, AND BURNER MODIFYING METHOD - In a burner for injecting mixed gas fuel containing at least one of hydrogen and carbon monoxide into a combustion chamber of a gas turbine combustor, the burner includes a fuel nozzle for startup from which liquid fuel is injected into the combustion chamber, and a mixed fuel nozzle disposed around the fuel nozzle for injecting the mixed gas fuel. An air swirler is disposed at a downstream end of the mixed fuel nozzle and has a plurality of flow passages from which compressed air is injected into the combustion chamber, and the mixed fuel nozzle has injection ports disposed in the inner peripheral side of the flow passages of the air swirler. Cooling holes formed in the nozzle surface and positioned to face the combustion chamber introduce a part of the mixed gas fuel injected from the mixed fuel nozzle into the combustion chamber. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130019075 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND REMOTE COPY RECOVERY METHOD - Data written in the primary logical volume of the first storage device are transmitted to the third storage device via the second storage device, the data being written in the same location as the primary logical volume within the secondary logical volume in the third storage device; when transmission of the data stops among the first to the third storage devices, the respective second storage device and the third storage device manage locations in the secondary logical volume where the data held thereby are to be written; and, when transmission of the data resumes among the first to the third storage devices, the locations in the secondary logical volume managed by the respective second and the third storage devices are aggregated, the data to be written in the respective aggregated location in the secondary logical volume being transmitted from the first storage device to the third storage device via the second storage device. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018691 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHODAANM YUMBE; YoshikiAACI KokubunjiAACO JPAAGP YUMBE; Yoshiki Kokubunji JPAANM HASEGAWA; TakashiAACI KokubunjiAACO JPAAGP HASEGAWA; Takashi Kokubunji JP - A management system for creating an inspection schedule of objects to be tested within a plurality of management areas, includes a calculation unit that calculates the costs for inspecting the objects to be tested based on the positional information; and a schedule creation unit that creates a schedule for inspecting the objects to be tested based on calculation results. The calculation unit calculates a first cost required when the objects to be tested within the management areas are inspected at the same timing within a first time limit, and a second cost required when a part of the objects to be tested within the management areas is inspected within the first time limit, individually, and the other objects to be tested within the management areas are inspected at the same timing within a second time limit longer than the first time limit. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130017444 | ELECTRODES FOR SECONDARY BATTERIES AND SECONDARY BATTERIES USING THE SAMEAANM Honkura; KoheiAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Honkura; Kohei Hitachi JP - Disclosed is an electrode for a secondary battery having an electrode compound layer including an electrode active material formed on a current collector, in which the electrode compound layer is provided with a plurality of voids disposed along the thickness direction of the electrode compound layer, the depth of the void is 50% or more of the thickness of the electrode compound layer, the projection area of the voids is 20% or less of the entire projection area of the electrode for a secondary battery, and the length of the cross section of the void is 5 μm to 100 μm. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130017434 | SECONDARY BATTERY NEGATIVE ELECTRODE, NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAMEAANM Shimizu; MasaoAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Shimizu; Masao Hitachi JPAANM Nishimura; KatsunoriAACI HitachiotaAACO JPAAGP Nishimura; Katsunori Hitachiota JP - A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode having a negative electrode compound layer formed on a current collector, in which the negative electrode compound layer is constituted by a lower negative electrode compound layer and an upper negative electrode compound layer, the lower negative electrode compound layer is formed on the current collector, the upper negative electrode compound layer is formed on the lower negative electrode compound layer, the lower negative electrode compound layer includes a negative electrode active material, the upper negative electrode compound layer includes a conducting material and a binder, and a conducting aid and the binder are locally present on the surface side of the upper negative electrode compound layer. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130017425 | Storage Battery Cell, Assembled Battery, Assembled Battery Setup Method, Electrode Group, and Production Method of Electrode GroupAANM WATANABE; ErikaAACI Mito-shiAACO JPAAGP WATANABE; Erika Mito-shi JPAANM Togashi; ShigenoriAACI Abiko-shiAACO JPAAGP Togashi; Shigenori Abiko-shi JP - A storage battery cell includes: an electrode group in which a positive electrode including positive electrode current collector foil provided with a positive electrode layer containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode including negative electrode current collector foil provided with a negative electrode layer containing a negative electrode active material, and a separator that intervenes between the positive electrode and the negative electrode are laminated; a battery cell container; and an electrolyte, wherein: the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material respectively are substantially uniformly distributed, and the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer are provided respectively with regions in which respective quotients of the positive active material and the negative active material in the electrolyte are varied. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130015799 | Power ConverterAANM Ayano; HidekiAACI HachiojiAACO JPAAGP Ayano; Hideki Hachioji JPAANM Ishikawa; KatsumiAACI HitachinakaAACO JPAAGP Ishikawa; Katsumi Hitachinaka JPAANM Ogawa; KazutoshiAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Ogawa; Kazutoshi Hitachi JPAANM Kominami; TsutomuAACI HitachinakaAACO JPAAGP Kominami; Tsutomu Hitachinaka JPAANM Kunihiro; MamiAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Kunihiro; Mami Hitachi JP - The present invention provides a power converter which, while ensuring safety, implements control for the flow of a constant current in a specified switching element, more accurately determines the lifetime of a switching element, and reduces the number of temperature detectors. The power converter is provided with a mechanism which causes a brake device to operate or which confirms that a brake mechanism is operating. The power converter supplies current to the d-axis and the q-axis of a rotational coordinate system, within the range of the braking torque of the brake mechanism, and passes the desired current to the desired element. Furthermore, temperature detectors are attached only in chips in sections where a crack readily develops in the upper solder layer or peeling is readily generated in the wire bonding, and in chips where a crack readily develops in the lower solder layer. An accurate lifetime evaluation of a semiconductor module is therefore possible even with a smaller number of temperature detectors. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130015496 | Power Semiconductor DeviceAANM Konno; AkitoyoAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Konno; Akitoyo Hitachi JPAANM Azuma; KatsunoriAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Azuma; Katsunori Hitachi JPAANM Ando; TakashiAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Ando; Takashi Hitachi JP - A power semiconductor device is provided in which reliability can be improved when the parallel number of semiconductor devices increases. When a bonding face on collector electrode is on an upper side, and a bonding face on emitter electrode is on a lower side, a collector electrode joint region as a joint region between a collector trace and a collector electrode on a chip mounted substrate and an emitter electrode joint region as a joint region between an emitter trace and an emitter electrode are located at a same position in an up-and-down direction and are adjacent in a right-and-left direction at an interval of 2 mm or more and 4 mm or less. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130014109 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When a failure occurs in an LPAR on a physical computer under an SAN environment, a destination LPAR is set in another physical computer to enable migrating of the LPAR and setting change of a security function on the RAID apparatus side is not necessary. When a failure occurs in an LPAR generated on a physical computer under an SAN environment, configuration information including a unique ID (WWN) of the LPAR where the failure occurs is read, a destination LPAR is generated on another physical computer, and the read configuration information of the LPAR is set to the destination LPAR, thereby enabling migrating of the LPAR when the failure occurs, under the control of a management server. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013880 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND ITS DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The de-duplication effect is enhanced even when managing data blocks by dividing them into fixed-length data. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013604 | Method and System for Making Document Module - It can automatically be extracted a document module from a plurality of documents and be made a document module database. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013527 | IMMIGRATION CONTROL SYSTEM - The present invention provides a system and a method for speeding up immigration. In first immigration, first biometric information is stored in a immigration biometric information DB. A normal immigration client terminal displays a first result of comparing an ID information watch list with a biometric information watch list. In subsequent second immigration, the first biometric information in the immigration biometric information DB is compared with second biometric information obtained by a simplified immigration client terminal. Then, the simplified immigration client terminal displays a second result of comparing the first biometric information with the watch list information that is added after the first comparison is done. Thus even if the number of registrations in a watch list database is large, a small amount of similar watch list information is displayed, reducing the time for checking the results by the operator. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013223 | Fracture Surface Analysis System and Method of Fracture Surface Analysis - Provided is a fracture surface analysis system and method featuring excellent accuracy and reproducibility and designed to estimate fracture mechanics data in a simplified manner. A surface irregularities waveform that includes fracture surface irregularities forming a steplike shape of a fracture surface is acquired, and after an overall gradient of the surface irregularities waveform has been corrected and noise eliminated from this waveform, positions of uneven portions present on any measuring line are identified from the surface irregularities waveform and the number of uneven portions on the measuring line is counted, whereby an average distance between the uneven portions on the measuring line is then calculated, and next the fracture mechanics data relating to a stress intensity factor, crack growth rate, or stress exerted during formation of the fracture surface, is estimated from the average distance between the uneven portions. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130012395 | SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE AND THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE - A superconducting wire which is obtained by a heat treatment at a lower temperature than related art and has a high critical current density, and the process of manufacture can be provided by causing a compound expressed by the following formula (1) to be contained: | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130012392 | SUPERCONDUCTING SWITCH, SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET AND MRI - A superconducting switch is provided in which the structural strength of the superconducting switch is kept, and thermal efficiency between a superconducting film and a heater is high when an ON state (superconducting state) and an OFF state (normal conducting state) of the superconducting switch are switched. The superconducting switch includes a substrate, a heater for generating heat by energization, a conductive film, and a MgB | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130011740 | Lithium Secondary Battery - The positive-electrode material of the lithium secondary battery according to the present invention includes a first positive-electrode active material, and a second positive-electrode active material, the first positive-electrode active material denoted by a composition formula Li | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130010621 | Control Apparatus and Control Method - The control apparatus is provided with a channel quality test module for collecting power consumption between adjacent gateways of the data transmission routes, a communication interface for collecting data delay of the respective gateways of the data transmission routes by performing data communication with the gateways, a memory for storing a gateway routing table containing the multiple data transmission routes, the power consumption collected by the channel quality test module, and the data delay collected by the communication interface, and a processor for adding priority to the multiple data transmission routes in the gateway routing table stored in the memory on the basis of the power consumption and data delay stored in the memory. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130009488 | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND NEAR-FIELD ANTENNA FOR SAME - Disclosed is a structure for raising the Q-value of a near-field antenna used by a non-contact power transmission device that utilizes magnetic field coupling in the near field in a manner improving the efficiency of power transmission. The near-field antenna used by the non-contact power transmission device galvanically isolates a resonant circuit including a resonant first inductor | 01-10-2013 |
| 20120331333 | Stream Data Processing Failure Recovery Method and Device - In a duplex configuration of stream data processing, all window operations can be used without stopping the process when adding a standby system. The time when the standby system server is added is stored as the reproduction time, and data copied from the data generated at or after the reproduction time is transmitted to the standby system. While the data processing in the in-use system is continued, changes in the execution state which occur in operators holding execution state at or after the reproduction time are recorded. The execution states are copied to the standby system for each operator in parallel with the data processing. At this time, the execution states of the operators at the reproduction time are reproduced from the execution states of the operators when the copy is performed and the record of the changes of the execution states, and the reproduced execution states are copied. When the execution states of all the operators have been copied, the standby system starts processing of the copied data which are generated at or after the reproduction time. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331254 | STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A storage system having a plurality of storage devices including a first type storage device and a second type storage device, a reliability attribute and/or a performance attribute of the first type storage device being different from a reliability attribute and/or a performance attribute of the second type storage device. The storage system also has a control unit and managing a plurality of virtual volumes. If necessary, a storage area allocated to a first portion of a virtual volume of the plurality of virtual volumes is changed from a first type storage area of the plurality of first type storage areas to a second type storage area of the plurality of second type storage areas while another first type storage area of the plurality of first type storage areas is allocated to a second portion of the virtual volume. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331203 | I/O CONVERSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system comprises a storage apparatus which includes a processor, storage disks, and a memory storing a page mapping table, a page mapping program, and a page-filename mapping program. A file system manages a file tree of files with filenames. The page mapping table specifies a relationship between data volumes in the storage apparatus and the storage disks and the file system, the data volumes each including pages, each page including segments, each segment including sectors. The file tree has for each storage apparatus a hierarchy of directories and files based on relationships among the data volumes, the pages, and the segments. The page mapping program and the page-filename mapping program are executable by the processor to specify, by page, a location of data contained in the I/O request by referring to the page mapping table and the file tree. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330914 | SERVER, INTER-BUSINESS ENTERPRISE INFORMATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A Web server includes a storage unit that stores transaction relation information, transaction data requirement information that determines whether a reference authority is appended to a user for transaction data, and information that identifies the user, associated with each other; and a control unit that controls to receive the transaction data containing the transaction relation information, refer to the storage unit, extract user identification information for appending information indicating the transaction relation and the reference authority from the storage unit, when the storage unit stores the received transaction relation information and the received transaction data satisfies the transaction data requirement, and register the extracted information and information for identifying the transaction data in the database, from the user terminal, therefore, separate third parties can refer to every transaction data, even to the transaction data transmitted and received between the same transaction relations. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330907 | STORAGE SYSTEM FOR ELIMINATING DUPLICATED DATA - A storage system | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120328229 | Optical Module - There is provided an optical module including photonic devices set in array, prepared by integrating a plurality of photonic devices with each other in such a state as arranged in such a array as to enable light beams to output in the common direction. The plural photonic devices each include a first electrode, and a second electrode, arranged in the same direction as the plural photonic devices are arranged, and the first and second electrodes of the photonic devices adjacent to each other are disposed such that respective electrode layouts are a mirror image of each other. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120326045 | RADIATION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - The purpose of the present invention is to improve energy resolving power and prevent energy resolving power from deteriorating when a thick semiconductor detection element with a wide energy range is used, in a radiation measuring device using a semiconductor detector and a nuclear medicine diagnostic device. With the present invention, the purpose is achieved by pulsed wave value correction employing the difference of (Hs−Hf) between the pulsed wave height value Hs obtained from the slow speed shaping circuit, and the pulsed wave height value Hf obtained from the fast speed shaping circuit and normalized with respect to Hs. An even more desirable result may be obtained by employing either (Hs−Hf)/Hf or exp(k(Hs−Hf)/Hf), wherein k is a coefficient to be optimized, said optimization being dependent on the measurement assembly. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120325380 | HEAT RESISTANT ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR REPAIRING THE SAME - A heat resistant alloy member that maintains the creep strength and improves the fatigue characteristics is provided. The heat resistant alloy member according to the present invention includes a recrystallized structure layer including finer grains on the surface of the member than those inside of the member. The recrystallized structure layer is formed by forming a stirred layer by giving processing strain to the surface of the member using a friction stir processing, and applying recrystallization heat treatment to the stirred layer for recrystallization. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120325297 | GLASS COMPOSITION AND CONDUCTIVE PASTE FOR ALUMINUM ELECTRODE WIRING, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PROVIDED WITH THAT ALUMINUM ELECTRODE WIRING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THIS ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - Disclosed is a constitution formed from an oxide of an element having a smaller work function than aluminum. This oxide is comprises an oxide of vanadium (V), an oxide of an alkaline earth metal and an oxide of an alkali metal. The elements for the alkaline earth metal are comprise one or more elements out of the elements calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr) and barium (Ba) and at least contain barium. The elements for the alkali metal include at least one or more of sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb) and cesium (Cs). When the element vanadium is included as vanadium pentoxide (V | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120325146 | Plasma Processing Apparatus - Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus which performs plasma processing under substantially atmospheric pressure to a non-planar subject to be processed. In the plasma processing apparatus, a pair of conductive wires are disposed at an interval of 1 mm or less on a dielectric board that conforms with the shape of the subject, the conductive wires are covered with a dielectric thin film having a thickness of 1 mm or less by, for instance, thermally spraying a dielectric material over the conductive wires, and plasma is generated along the shape of subject by applying high-frequency power to the pair of conductive wires. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120324893 | Coal-Fired Power Plant, and Method for Operating Coal-Fired Power Plant - A coal-fired power plant having a control unit including a first flow rate control valve for regulating a water flow rate of a water feed bypass system, a second flow rate control valve installed in an extraction pipe for extracting steam from a steam turbine, a first temperature sensor on a downstream side of a heat recovery device, and a second temperature sensor on a downstream side of a heat exchanger and the control unit regulates opening of the first and second flow rate control valves on the basis of an exhaust gas temperature detected by the first temperature sensor and a feed water temperature detected by the second temperature sensor. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120324450 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER ACTIVATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND VIRTUAL COMPUTER ACTIVATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A virtualization mechanism in a first computer of the plurality of computers generates at least one virtual computer on the first computer. The virtualization mechanism in the first computer executes at least one of a first judgment and a second judgment when a request for activating a first virtual computer of the at least one virtual computer is received, the first judgment being for judging whether or not the activation of the first virtual computer is prohibited based on first information stored in a memory of the virtualization mechanism, and the second judgment being for judging whether or not an identifier included in a logic I/O adapter device assigned to the first virtual computer is invalid based on second information stored in the memory of the virtualization mechanism. The activation of the first virtual computer is permitted or prohibited based on the executed judgment. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324274 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR A STORAGE SYSTEM - It is provided a storage system for storing write data requested by a host computer, comprising: a data storage device, first and second cache memories, first and second non-volatile memories and at least one power storage device, wherein the storage system stores the requested write data in the data storage device, without storing the requested write data in neither the first cache memory nor the second cache memory in a case where the amount of charge of the at least one power storage device is smaller than the predetermined amount of power, and stores the requested write data in at least one of the first and second cache memories, and then store the requested write data in the data storage device in a case where the amount of charge of the at least one power storage device is equal to or larger than the predetermined amount of power. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324202 | STORAGE SYSTEM COMPRISING MULTIPLE STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS - A pool, which is configured by multiple actual areas, is formed on the basis of two or more storage devices. A second storage control apparatus (DKC) determines, for each storage device, an unused capacity to be given to a first DKC with respect to each first DKC based on an unused capacity of each storage device and a request value of each storage device for each first DKC, and gives, for each first DKC, the unused capacity for each storage device determined with respect to the first DKC, to this first DKC. The request value of the storage device is based on a performance value, which is a value related to the performance of this storage device. The total capacity of multiple actual areas allocated to the virtual volumes by the first DKC is equal to or less than the unused capacity given with respect to each storage device. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324199 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is a computer system for reliably running a plurality of programs performing garbage collection with less physical memory than in the past. For this purpose, there is disclosed a memory management method that releases unneeded areas in a plurality of memory areas that have been used by each of a plurality of programs stored in memory and executed on a processing unit, the processing unit acquires an index for determining the start of releasing a memory area, compares the index with a predetermined threshold, and when the index exceeds the threshold, selects one of the plurality of programs, collects unneeded areas of the memory areas used by the selected program, and releases the collected areas. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324185 | Storage system and control method for the same - When updating the data in each generation's logical units, the snapshot processing unit writes the update data in accordance with the update as forward differential data | 12-20-2012 |
