Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080201120 | ANALYSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ANALYSIS SUPPORT PROGRAM, AND ANALYSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS - An analysis support system has an analysis purpose input section being able to input an analysis purpose, an analysis level designator designating an analysis level representing a range for analysis according to the inputted analysis purpose, a configuration information record section recording configuration information about other component to be combined with each component, in association with the analysis level, a purpose-specific component group generator generating a purpose-specific component group representing an analytic component that is to configure the purpose-specific analytic model on the basis of the analysis level and the configuration information, and an analytic model generator generating the purpose-specific analytic model on the basis of a basic analytic model having the analytic component corresponding to the analysis object and the purpose-specific component group. An analytic model according to an analysis purpose can be readily generated, which improves the serviceability. | 08-21-2008 |
20080300832 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIMULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF RECORDED ON COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A design/analysis linkage system performs the processing of recording, in a conversion information file, a conversion process in which design data is converted into a design information file suitable to making a model; of linking the aforementioned design information file with an analysis information file generated from the design information file for building up an analysis model; and of automatically reflecting in the design information file changes that have been made to the analysis information file during the analysis process. | 12-04-2008 |
20090192771 | Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program - An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects results of an analyzing process in the model data; and a verifying unit that verifies the progress of the operation and data consistency based on the model data. | 07-30-2009 |
20090192959 | Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program - An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product, and a advice-data generating unit that generates, based on a logic registered in advance, advice data from the model data to improve design with respect to the analysis target product. | 07-30-2009 |
20090192971 | Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program - An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects results of an analyzing process in the model data; and a simplified-model generating unit that generates, based on a rule registered in advance, simplified model data from the model data in which the results of the analyzing process have been reflected by the model-data updating unit. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193051 | Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program - An analysis supporting apparatus includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; and a data converting unit that converts the model data generated by the model-data generating unit to generate analysis data for use in an analyzing process. When requested to generate model data of a component at a hierarchical level, the model-data generating unit refers to the component hierarchy data to specify a component at a hierarchical level higher or lower than the hierarchical level of the component, and uses model data of the specified component at the higher or lower hierarchical level to generate the requested model data. | 07-30-2009 |
20100138799 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An analysis apparatus for a printed circuit board includes a converting portion that rewrites physical property data of a wiring layer in contact with a mounting surface having the part corresponding to an extracted electronic part data to a value based on the physical property data of an electronic part, and converts the physical property data of a region having the electronic part corresponding to the electronic part data extracted by the extracting portion to the physical property data of an insulating layer. | 06-03-2010 |
20100296915 | INFORMATION HANDLING APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND INSTALLATION - An information handling apparatus includes a chassis installed a plurality of electric parts of the information handling apparatus, having a pair of openings on opposite sides for allowing an incoming and outgoing air flow for cooling down an inside of the information handling apparatus, a pair of temperature detectors for detecting temperature at each of the openings, a fan installed in the housing for generating airflow between the openings, the fan being capable of reversibly switching airflow direction, and a controller for performing switching of the air flow direction by the fan so that the fan generates the airflow from one of the openings at which a detected with lower temperature is detected as compared with the other of the openings. | 11-25-2010 |
20100297927 | AIR CONDITIONING INSTALLATION - An installation for cooling an electronic device provided on a floor in a room includes an underfloor space below the floor; an air conditioner for sending air to the underfloor space; a first opening provided in the floor and adjacent to the electronic device, for sending air from the underfloor space to the room; and a second opening provided in the floor and adjacent to the air conditioner, the second opening being configured to cause the air pressure of the lower side of the second opening to be lower than the air pressure of the upper side of the second opening. | 11-25-2010 |
20100298990 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OPEN AMOUNT OF A PLURALITY OF AIR TRANSFER GRILLES - An apparatus for controlling an open amount of a plurality of air transfer grilles which are installed in a room, includes a determining unit for determining first target amounts of blowing to each of the racks, for determining second target amounts of blowing from each of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the first target amounts so that each of air of the first target amounts are blown to each of the racks, and for determining open amounts for each of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the plurality of second target amounts so that each of the amounts of blowing from each of the grilles becomes each of the second target amounts, and a controller for controlling each of the open amounts of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the each of the determined open amounts. | 11-25-2010 |
20100298997 | AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL APPARATUS AND AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL METHOD - An air conditioning control apparatus for controlling an air conditioner in a room which accommodates a computer, includes obtaining repetitively a detected value of a total power consumption of the computer and the air conditioner and a detected value of a air temperature at the air inlet, storing the obtained values into a memory, determining an approximate expression representing a relation between the total power consumption and the air temperature on the basis of the values stored into the memory, determining a value of the air temperature corresponding to the lowest value of the total power consumption, by using the calculated approximate expression, and controlling the air conditioner so that the air temperature become equal the calculated air temperature. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299099 | AIR CONDITIONING ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An abnormality detection apparatus for detecting abnormality of air conditioning in a room which accommodates a plurality of computers having an air inlet and having an outlet, includes, a plurality of temperature detectors for detecting temperatures at each of the air inlets, a memory for storing a plurality of reference patterns, each of the reference patterns representing a set of temperatures at each of the air inlets and corresponding to one of a plurality of abnormal categories, a determining unit for determining one of the abnormal categories by comparing the detected temperatures by the temperature detectors with the reference patterns stored in the memory, an output unit for outputting information corresponding to the category of the air condition abnormality determined. | 11-25-2010 |
20100318329 | DEVICE-LAYOUT GUIDING APPARATUS AND DEVICE-LAYOUT GUIDING METHOD - There are included a location-information management unit that manages location information of devices arranged in a spatial layout on a screen, a device-feature management unit that manages device features of the devices, a guide-information generation unit that reads the location information and the device features of the devices arranged in the spatial layout from the location-information management unit and the device-feature management unit respectively and generates device-layout guide information allowing for the device features of the devices based on the read location information and device features of the devices, and a monitor unit that guides and displays the device-layout guide information generated by the guide-information generation unit. | 12-16-2010 |
20100330896 | AIR CONDITIONING INSTALLATION AND CONTROL METHOD - An installation for cooling an electronic device includes an air conditioner having an air outlet for blowing cooling air to a room; a first detector adjacent to the air outlet of the air conditioner, for detecting a temperature of the cooling air; a rack accommodating the electronic device, the rack having an air inlet for receiving the cooling air from the air conditioner and an air outlet for exhausting air to the room; a second detector adjacent to the air inlet of the rack, for detecting a temperature of air received through the air inlet of the rack; and a controller for acquiring the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors, and controlling a quantity of the cooling air blown from the air outlet of the air conditioner so as to decrease a difference between the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors. | 12-30-2010 |
20110010717 | JOB ASSIGNING APPARATUS AND JOB ASSIGNMENT METHOD - A job assigning apparatus connected to a plurality of arithmetic units for assigning a job to each of the arithmetic units, the job assigning apparatus includes a power consumption acquiring processor for acquiring power consumptions with respect to each of the arithmetic units, a selector for selecting one of the arithmetic units as a submission destination in increasing order of the power consumptions acquired by the power consumption acquiring processor, and a job submitting processor for submitting a job to the submission destination. | 01-13-2011 |
20110047909 | FREE ACCESS FLOOR AND PARTITIONING METHOD - A free access floor formed by free access panels arranged above a base floor. The free access floor includes a specific panel that is one of the free access panels and has a slit, and a partitioning plate inserted into the slit, so as to hang down from a surface of the specific panel and orient airflow in a space between the base floor and the free access panels. | 03-03-2011 |
20110057803 | TEMPERATURE PREDICTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A temperature predicting apparatus for predicting possible abnormal temperature of air for cooling at least one of electronic devices mounted on a rack, the temperature predicting apparatus includes a storing section for storing temperature information related to at least one temperature measured by a temperature sensor provided on an intake side of the electronic device, and a controller for estimating a change tendency in the temperature on the intake side of the electronic device on the basis of the temperature information stored in the storing section, and predicting the possible abnormal temperature on the basis of the estimated change tendency. | 03-10-2011 |
20110059687 | DATA CENTER, COOLING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF COOLING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVICE - A data center includes a housing room that houses an information technology device; an air conditioning machine that cools air in the housing room and supplies the air under a floor of the housing room; a grille that allows the air supplied under the floor to circulate in the housing room; and a rack device that houses the information technology device. In the housing room in the data center, the rack device is arranged in such a way as to surround the grille. The information technology device is housed in the rack device in such a way as to take in air from a space surrounded by the rack device via the grille and discharge air to the housing room. The air conditioning machine is arranged at a side from which the information technology device discharges air. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060571 | Thermal-fluid-simulation analyzing apparatus - A thermal-fluid-simulation analyzing apparatus includes an execution unit that generates an analysis model using analysis conditions to conduct a first thermal fluid simulation analysis based on the generated analysis model, an analysis-condition collecting unit that collects analysis conditions when a predetermined period passes after the first thermal fluid simulation analysis, a condition extracting unit that extracts a boundary condition from the analysis conditions collected by the analysis-condition collecting unit, and a re-execution unit that selects a region corresponding to the boundary condition extracted by the condition extracting unit from regions of the analysis model generated by the execution unit, updates the selected region with the boundary condition, and conducts a second thermal fluid simulation analysis for the updated analysis model. | 03-10-2011 |
20110071687 | AIR CONDITION CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD - An air condition control device for controlling a plurality of air conditioners which cool a plurality of electronic apparatuses respectively, the air condition control device includes a storage section for storing a heating value information related to respective heating values of the electronic apparatuses, and a controller for detecting that a fault has occurred in one of the air conditioners, specifying any of the electronic apparatuses which has been cooled by the one of the air conditioners having occurred the fault when the fault in the one of the air conditioners is detected, determining a heating value of each of the specified electronic apparatuses on the basis of the heating value information, and setting the air flow rate for at least one of the other air conditioners in accordance with the heating values of the specified electronic apparatuses. | 03-24-2011 |
20110082592 | AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL SYSTEM AND AIR-CONDITIONING CONTROL METHOD - Air that is cooled with ground temperature is circulated in a room, by delivering air in the room outward to an exhaust pipe with a predetermined exhaust pressure; sucking the air discharged from the exhaust pipe with a predetermined suction pressure via an underground path that is formed in ground by the air discharged from the exhaust pipe into the ground; and delivering the sucked air into the room. | 04-07-2011 |
20110155675 | VENTILATION SYSTEM AND RACK APPARATUS - A ventilation system includes a plurality of fan units. Each of the fan units includes a fan to generate an air stream, and a duct disposed on an upstream of the air stream with respect to the fan and defining a flow channel having a square-shaped section to guide an air into the fan, the flow channel being coaxial with a rotating shaft of the fan. The fan units are arranged in a direction crossing the shaft so that the rotating shafts are disposed in parallel to each other. | 06-30-2011 |
20120066170 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, SOUND-VOLUME PREDICTION APPARATUS, AND SOUND-VOLUME PREDICTION METHOD - A sound-volume prediction apparatus acquires model information on an electronic device and positional information on an air intake section and/or an air-exhaust section of the electronic device. Furthermore, by using the model information and the positional information, the sound-volume prediction apparatus extends a sound ray that indicates a transmission route of sound generated by a sound source inside the electronic device toward the air-intake section and/or the air-exhaust section from the position of the sound source until the sound ray reaches the outside of the electronic device. The sound-volume prediction apparatus predicts sound transmission characteristics inside the electronic device by using geometric information on the flow path of the extended sound ray. | 03-15-2012 |
20120243985 | AXIAL BLOWER - An axial blower includes a moving vane generating air flow by rotation, a casing accommodating said moving vane, and an adapter detachably attached to the casing. The adapter includes a fitting part to be fit to an inner surface of the casing. The adapter forms a protrusion or a step on the inner surface of the casing. | 09-27-2012 |