Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20130094150 | ELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - Semiconductor element groups constituting a unit are mounted on a cooler heat receiving part | 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 |
20130097451 | Computer and Data Saving Method - It is provided a computer comprising a nonvolatile memory for storing data, a control processor for controlling the saving of data into the nonvolatile memory, and a battery for supplying power to the computer in case of a failure of an external power supply, wherein the control processor checks a charge amount stored in the battery, calculates an amount of data which can be saved in the nonvolatile memory by the battery in case of a failure of the external power supply based on the checked charge amount, and saves data excluding the amount of data that can be saved, out of data which should be saved into the nonvolatile memory, into the nonvolatile memory in advance. | 04-18-2013 |
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 |
20130101251 | Optical Module and Multilayer Substrate - In first and second electrode pads adjacent to each other formed over a multilayer substrate, the first electrode pad is connected with a first conductive via and a first internal layer conductive line successively. The second electrode pad is connected with a surface layer conductive line, third electrode pad, second conductive via, and second internal layer conductive line of the multilayer substrate. A ground conductive via or a power source conductive via is disposed between the first internal layer conductive line and the surface layer conductive line. A ground conductive line layer or power source conductive line layer is disposed between a first formation layer where the first internal layer conductive line is formed and a second formation layer where the second internal layer conductive line is formed. The first and second electrode pads are connected with the electrode pads formed on the surface of first and second optical devices. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101425 | Turbine Blade, and Turbine Rotor and Steam Turbine Using the Turbine Blade - Disclosed is a turbine blade including a turbine blade substrate including an iron-base alloy; an erosion shield plate including a Co-base alloy; and a shim including a Ni—Fe alloy, in which the erosion shield plate is fixed to a leading edge of the turbine blade substrate with the shim therebetween by an electron beam welding. Thus, a turbine blade having a highly reliable, bonded portion of an erosion shield, and a turbine rotor and a steam turbine using the turbine blade are provided. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20130118146 | Twin-Shaft Gas Turbine - A twin-shaft gas turbine can be used for 50 and 60 Hz power generation without using a reducer. A gas generator includes a compressor that generates compressed air, a burner that burns a fuel mixed with the compressed air received from the compressor so as to generate combustion gas, and a high-pressure turbine that is rotationally driven by the combustion gas received from the burner and generates driving force for the compressor. An output turbine includes a low-pressure turbine that is driven by exhaust gas received from the high-pressure turbine and a power generator that is driven by the low-pressure turbine. A control device reduces opening degree of IGV of the compressor and thereby reduces power of the compressor, and the rotational frequency of the gas generator is increased in a full-speed no-load operating state of the power generator. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20130133936 | Bonded Board and Manufacturing Method Thereof - Provided is an integral thermal compression bonded board technology which is high in reliability and low in cost. In a process of bonding printed boards to each other, electrodes are connected with each other by solder connection using a Cu core solder plated ball and the boards are bonded by a three-layer bonding material constituted by a bonding material layer, a ball maintaining core layer, and the bonding layer, and solder of the Cu core solder plated ball inserted into holes of three layers is formed by integral thermal compression. They are connected with each other by flux or welcoming solder. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134443 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE - Disclosed is a high performance nitride semiconductor having a reverse leak current characteristic with two-dimensional electron gas as a conductive layer. A desired impurity is diffused into or a nitride semiconductor to which a desired impurity is added is re-grown on the bottom surface and the side face portion of a recessed portion formed by dry etching using chlorine gas on the upper surface of a nitride semiconductor stacked film to increase resistance of the side face portion of the nitride semiconductor stacked film contacting an anode electrode, reducing the reverse leak current. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135501 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MONITORING SYSTEM - Defective pixels are to be selected so as not to cause image degradation. A defective pixel correction unit | 05-30-2013 |
20130135824 | Power Semiconductor Device - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a power semiconductor device which has a light weight, high heat dissipation efficiency, and high rigidity. The power semiconductor device including a base | 05-30-2013 |
20130136110 | BASE STATION AND METHOD OF INTERFERENCE HANDLING - In a radio communication system where a base station provides blank time slots to avoid inter-cell interference, a decrease in throughput by an excess or shortage of blank time slots is prevented. This invention relates to a radio system that avoids interference in cooperation between base stations by providing blank time slots by a (first) base station. Other (second) base stations detect the number of served terminals affected by interference from the first base station that sets blank time slots, calculate required blank time slots so that the number of required blank time slots will increase with an increase in the number of terminals located in cell edges, and send a notification of the required blank time slots to the first base station. The first base station determines whether system throughput is anticipated to improve, based on the above notifications, and adjusts the length of blank time slots. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137442 | UE INITIATED FREQUENCY PARTITIONING BASED CoMP SCHEME FOR DOWNLINK CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS - In the embodiments of the present invention, proposed is a method in which a CoMP enabled UE chooses the BSs to be in its cooperating set and a BS partitions its bandwidth to serve its own UEs and UEs from other cells that have requested it to be in its cooperating set. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138899 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - The present invention provides a technique to efficiently rearrange data in actual regions. A management system acquires load lumped region variation information (access distribution variation amount) indicative of a variation in the position of a virtual region in a virtual volume in a storage subsystem which region corresponds to a hot spot. Then, based on the load lumped region variation information, the management system determines a load position unvaried hour(s) indicative of a hour(s) in which the position of the virtual region corresponding to the hot spot is almost or perfectly unvaried (the hour(s) in which the position of the hot spot is stable). The management system then displays the load position unvaried hour(s) on a display device. | 05-30-2013 |
20130140445 | Multi-Point Measuring Method of FBG Sensor and Multi-Point Measuring Apparatus - A multi-point measuring apparatus of FBG sensor has an optical fiber, a wide-band wavelength light source, a light-source side light modulator for controlling time of a light entering into the optical fiber, among lights from this light source, a detector side light modulator for controlling time, during which a reflection light from a diffraction grating of the optical fiber penetrates through, a wavelength shift amount calculator for processing a signal obtained through detection of the reflection light from this light modulator, a temperature/distortion calculator for calculating an amount of deformation of a target to be measured from a result of this calculator, and a display portion for displaying information relating to the amount of deformation of this target to be measured. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142025 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and an optical information recording/reproducing method that record information using holography, wherein the optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a signal generation unit that generates two-dimensional data by a two-dimensional encoding method in which a lower-limit value of a number of continuous ON/OFF pixels in an array in one direction of pixels in a two-dimensional spatial light modulator is K(K≧2, K: natural number); and a pickup that records the two-dimensional data, generated by the signal generation unit, on a hologram disc. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142198 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND INTERFACE DEVICE - A transmission device for receiving a user signal and transmitting to another device a transmission signal, the transmission device comprising: a plurality of interface units each capable of accommodating a communication line; and a cross-connect unit for branching the user signal and coupling the communication line accommodated by each of the plurality of interface units to a client device, wherein the transmission device is configured to provide redundancy to the communication line by using the plurality of interface units, wherein the each of the plurality of interface units having a switching control module for performing switching control of an interface unit that accommodates a communication line for transmitting a main signal to the client device. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142507 | PDL COMPENSATOR OPTICAL DEVICE, AND PDL COMPENSATION METHOD - A PDL compensation technique is provided that reduces the number of and the number of types of the PDL compensators even if it is uncertain to determine which of the two polarization principal axes of an optical device has a larger loss. The PDL compensator according to the present invention is configured to, before an optical signal input from a first or a second input/output terminal enters a PDL compensation device, switch between the first polarization principal axis and the second polarization principal axis of the optical signal depending on which of the first and the second polarization principal axes has a larger loss or gain. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143616 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND BASE STATION - When a mobile station registered at a closed-type femtocell base station is in a connection state in a cell area covered by the femtocell base station, the transfer power of the femtocell base station for a cell identification signal is adjusted according to one scale estimating the receiving quality of the cell identification signal at the mobile station. When no mobile station is located in the cell area covered by the femtocell base station, the cell identification signal is sent with the minimum transmission power necessary for a mobile station to make a call in the cell area to reduce the power consumption of the femtocell base station and also to reduce interference with other macrocell base stations and other femtocell base stations. | 06-06-2013 |
20130146897 | 4h-SiC SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A trench groove is formed and a silicon oxide film is buried in the periphery of a channel region of (0001) surface 4h-SiC semiconductor element. The oxide film in the trench groove is defined in such a planar layout that a tensile strain is applied along the direction of the c-axis and a compressive strain is applied along two or more of axes on a plane perpendicular to the c-axis. For example, trench grooves buried with an oxide film may be configured to such a layout that they are in a trigonal shape surrounding the channel, or are arranged symmetrically with respect to the channel as a center when arranged discretely. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147307 | Dry Mica Tape, Electrically insulated Coil Using the Same, and Electrical Rotating Machine Using the Same - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a dry mica tape, and an electrically insulated coil using the same, and a electrical rotating machine using the same, with reduced amount of VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) generated during manufacturing thereof, while both of excellent impregnation property and excellent heat resistance are achieved. The dry mica tape, and the electrically insulated coil using the same, and the electrical rotating machine using the same, the dry mica tape including mica, a substrate, an adhesive which glues the mica and the substrate together, in which the adhesive includes unsaturated polyester compound which has a reactive double bond. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147579 | SPIN-WAVE WAVEGUIDE AND SPIN WAVE OPERATION CIRCUIT - A spin-wave waveguide includes a ferromagnetic thin film resembling a wire in shape. A part of the ferromagnetic thin film, large in film thickness, is formed at one end of the ferromagnetic thin film, and a part of the ferromagnetic thin film, small in film thickness, and a part of the ferromagnetic thin film, large in film thickness, are alternately formed on the same plane, for at least not less than one cycle. A part of the ferromagnetic thin film, large in film thickness, is formed at the other end of the ferromagnetic thin film, wherein an insulating film, and an electrode film are stacked in this order on the ferromagnetic thin film in the part of the ferromagnetic thin film, large in film thickness. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148392 | Power Conversion Device - A power conversion device includes at least two legs connected in parallel each of which includes at least two unit converters connected in series, wherein at least one of the legs is formed using at least two kinds of unit converters including a first type unit converter capable of outputting a unipolar voltage and a second type unit converter capable of outputting a bipolar voltage. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148865 | PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148972 | PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM, OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL, AND OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT - An optical line terminal includes the transmission rate control table for storing a minimum bandwidth for an emergency status for each of optical network units in addition to a maximum assigned bandwidth in a normal status. When a decrease in a supply power is detected, the optical line terminal calculates a transmission clock rate providing a minimum bandwidth required by each optical network unit with reference to the transmission rate control table. The optical line terminal determines change timing of downstream and upstream transmission clock rates, and change timing of upstream data for time-division multiplexing to instruct each of the optical network units. Both the optical line terminal and the optical network unit change the transmission clock rates with substantial synchronization therebetween. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149177 | Mechanism for Restraining Fuel Pressure Pulsation and High Pressure Fuel Supply Pump of Internal Combustion Engine with Such Mechanism - A mechanism for reducing pressure pulsation includes a pair of metal dampers formed by joining two disk-shaped metal diaphragms over an entire circumference and forming a hermetically sealed space inside a joined portion, with gas being sealed in the aforementioned hermetically sealed space of the damper, has a pair of pressing members which give pressing forces to both outer surfaces of the aforementioned metal dampers at a position at an inner diameter side from the joined portion, and is unitized with the pair of pressing members being connected in a state in which they sandwich the metal damper. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149864 | Semiconductor Device and Manufacturing Method Thereof - Wirings mainly containing copper are formed on an insulating film on a substrate. Then, after forming insulating films for reservoir pattern and a barrier insulating film, an insulating film for suppressing or preventing diffusion of copper is formed on upper and side surfaces of the wirings, the insulating film on the substrate, and the barrier insulating film. Here, thickness of the insulating film for suppressing or preventing diffusion of copper at the bottom of a narrow inter-wiring space is made smaller than that on the wirings, thereby efficiently reducing wiring capacitance of narrow-line pitches. Then, first and second low dielectric constant insulating films are formed. Here, a deposition rate of the first insulating film at an upper portion of the side surfaces of facing wirings is made higher than that at a lower portion thereof, thereby forming air gaps. Finally, the second insulating film is planarized by interlayer CMP. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151171 | Ultrasonic Inspection Method, Ultrasonic Test Method and Ultrasonic Inspection Apparatus - The invention is directed to an ultrasonic inspection method, an ultrasonic test method, and an ultrasonic inspection apparatus that enable sizing to be executed even for a minute defect using an ultrasonic wave. A holder holds a transmitting probe for executing an angle beam method and a receiving probe for executing a vertical beam method. A motor and a guide rail form a movement mechanism for the transmitting probe and the receiving probe. In an ultrasonic test mode, the transmitting probe executes the angle beam method and transmits and receives an ultrasonic wave. In a sizing mode, the transmitting probe transmits an ultrasonic wave and the receiving probe receives this wave. A tip echo of a wave diffracted from a tip of a defect on a sample and a corner echo reflected from a corner of the defect are measured from a waveform received by the receiving probe. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151587 | FILTERING SYSTEM AND FILTERING METHOD - In a system without a TCP termination process at normal times, and in the case where a URL within an HTTP access is extracted from reception packets, a passage/access refusal determination of the URL is performed, and a determination result is an access refusal, the TCP termination process is performed, a filtering device has the possibility that when an UTTP access as a disconnect case is frequently performed, it is erroneously recognized as a DoS attack on the side of the Web server device. A network system has a detection unit of frequent accesses to access control object data in the same Web server device from the same client device and a disconnect unit of a TCP connection to the Web server device after detection through the detection unit. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151738 | APPARATUS AND MANAGING METHOD USING A PRESET POLICY BASED ON AN INVALIDATED I/O PATH BY USING CONFIGURATION INFORMATION ACQUIRED FROM STORAGE SYSTEM - To appropriately manage configuration information acquired from a storage system for the purpose of performance management, etc., an information processing apparatus managing the configuration information, i.e., information indicative of a configuration of resources making up the storage system in a database, detects a change in setting of an I/O path to extract resources making up an invalidated I/O path, which is the I/O path subject to the change, as monitoring object resources, acquires performance information that is information indicative of operation statuses of the monitoring object resources from the storage system, judges whether the performance information of the monitoring object resource matches a preset policy, determines a timing to make invalidated configuration information, which is the configuration information related to the invalidated I/O path, deletable from the storage device based on the result of the judgement, and deletes the invalidated configuration information from the database when the determined timing comes. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151762 | STORAGE DEVICE - The present invention aims to improve the performance of accessing flash memory used as a storage medium in a storage device. In the storage device in accordance with the present invention, a storage controller, before accessing the flash memory, queries a flash controller as to whether the flash memory is accessible. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152083 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF MIGRATING VIRTUAL COMPUTER - A live migration in a virtual computer system. On a source physical computer, the control information area of the source logical FC-HBA (managed by an OS) is copied to the control information area of a dummy logical FC-HBA managed by a hypervisor. After an FC login to the dummy FC-HBA, an address conversion table is rewritten so that a host physical address for referring to the control information area of a logical HBA | 06-13-2013 |
20130152586 | Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Generation System and Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Generation Method - An integrated solar combined cycle power generation system includes a solar heat collector for collecting solar heat and generating solar heat steam; a gas turbine; a gas turbine exhaust heat recovery boiler; and a steam turbine; wherein the solar heat steam is decreased in temperature by a solar heat steam desuperheater under a normal condition, and the temperature decrease is stopped or a temperature decrease rate is reduced when the solar heat steam temperature falls due to a cause such as a sudden weather change, wherein the solar heat steam is joined to generated steam by a high-pressure drum or exit steam of a primary superheater, and wherein a main steam temperature control by a main steam temperature control valve is combined so that the main steam, the temperature of which is controlled to a predetermined temperature, is supplied to the steam turbine. | 06-20-2013 |
20130152682 | ANGULAR VELOCITY DETECTING DEVICE - A high-performance angular rate detecting device is provided. A driving part including a drive frame and a Coriolis frame is levitated by at least two fixing beams which share a fixed end and are extending in a direction orthogonal to a driving direction, thereby vibrating the driving part. Even when a substrate is deformed by mounting or heat fluctuation, internal stress generated to the fixed beam and a supporting beam is small, thereby maintaining a vibrating state such as resonance frequency and vibration amplitude constant. Therefore, a high-performance angular rate detecting device which is robust to changes in mounting environment can be obtained. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159513 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - An object is to prevent overload on a shared resource. In an information processing system including a resource possibly shared between a plurality of work loads, an additional load is applied to the resource while operating the work loads, and the performances of the work loads are monitored. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159651 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE MIGRATION METHOD - A storage system and storage migration method where migration may be carried out to an access destination of a host apparatus without stopping the exchange of data between the host apparatus and the storage apparatus. This system is provided with a host apparatus inputting and outputting requests for data, a migration source storage apparatus having logical unit(s) correlated to storage regions of physical devices for storing the data, a migration destination storage apparatus having logical unit(s). The system also has an editing unit for editing configuration control information relating to the logical unit(s) for the migration source so as to match with settings for the migration destination storage apparatus, an importing unit for importing edited configuration control information to the migration destination storage apparatus, and a mapping unit for mapping the logical unit(s) of the migration source to the logical unit(s) of the migration destination. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159806 | PACKET COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PACKET COMMUNICATION METHOD - Packet communication apparatus connects plural LANs to each other, in termination of a WAN that conducts data communication using handshake communication protocol. Apparatus buffers data packets between the LANs, and transfers, as a proxy, response packets and data packets to a terminal device. The apparatus stops transmission of data packets belonging to an arbitrary packet flow when the reception of the response packets belonging to the packet flow from the WAN is ceased for a network outage detection time or more set, while transmitting data packets belonging to the arbitrary packet flow. The apparatus retransmits a first data packet whose corresponding response packet is not received, belonging to the packet flow immediately after the data packet transmission stops, and retransmits all data packets whose corresponding response packets are not received, belonging to the packet flow, when receiving the response packets from the WAN. | 06-20-2013 |
20130160065 | VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, AND VIDEO INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - It is provided a video distribution system including a video distribution module, a control module, and a bookmark management module. The bookmark management module manages a first type bookmark whose status is not changed by viewing of the video and a second type bookmark whose status is changeable after the viewing of the video. The control module generates screen data that enables one of the first type bookmark and the second type bookmark to be selected with regard to the video stored in the library, transmits the generated screen data to the one of the receiving terminals, and sets one of the first type bookmark and the second type bookmark, which is selected by a user using the one of the receiving terminals, for the video and record the one of the first type bookmark and the second type bookmark in the bookmark management module. | 06-20-2013 |
20130160466 | Nickel Based Forged Alloy, Gas Turbine Member Using Said Alloy and Gas Turbine Using Said Member - It is an objective of the invention to provide an Ni-based forged alloy having good large ingot formability and good hot formability as well as high mechanical strength at high temperature. There is provided an Ni-based forged alloy comprising: 0.001 to 0.1 mass % of C; 0.001 to 0.01 mass % of B; 16 to 22 mass % of Cr; 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of Al; 0.1 to 6.0 mass % of W; 3.5 to 5.5 mass % of Nb; 0.8 to 3.0 mass % of Ti; 16 to 20 mass % of Fe; 2.0 mass % or less of Mo; and the balance including Ni and unavoidable impurities, in which: a segregation parameter Ps defined by a formula of “Ps (mass %)=1.05[Al concentration (mass %)]+0.6[Ti concentration (mass %)]−0.8[Nb concentration (mass %)]−0.3[Mo concentration (mass %)]” satisfies a relationship of “Ps≧−3.0 mass %”; and total amount of W and Mo is 1.75 atomic % or less. | 06-27-2013 |
20130160583 | Roller Screw - Disclosed is a roller screw including a screw shaft and a nut cage with the screw shaft inserted therein, the roller screw being adapted to convert a rotary motion of either the screw shaft or the cage into a rectilinear or linear motion of the other; the roller screw further including: a plurality of rollers, each formed to roll along a flank surface la of the screw shaft; and plurality of roller bearings, each formed to support one of the rollers so as to allow the roller to rotate. At least one of the roller bearings is retained in the case so as to move forward and backward in an axial direction of rotation of the corresponding roller supported by the roller bearing. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161290 | GAS CIRCUIT BREAKER - A gas circuit breaker comprising: a sealed tank; two breaking sections disposed in the sealed tank; a bracket to support movable parts of the breaking sections while enabling switching operation of the movable parts; an insulation cylinder to support the bracket through an electric field relaxation shield; an insulated operating rod disposed in the insulation cylinder movably in the axial direction and an end thereof is connected to an actuator; and a link mechanism connected to other end of the insulated rod and transmits drive force from the actuator to the movable parts of the breaking sections, wherein the electric field relaxation shield is provided with out-side groove and in-side groove on the insulation cylinder respectively, and the out-side groove and in-side groove are formed openings at the link mechanism side respectively, and end of the in-side groove is extended to near the outer surrounding of the insulated operating rod. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161807 | METHOD FOR JOINTING METAL MEMBER AND RESIN AND JOINTED BODY THEREOF - Reliability is improved by improving adhesiveness, crack resistance, and moisture resistance of a metal member-resin jointed body by enhancing adhesiveness between the metal member and the resin. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162089 | Sintered Magnet Motor - A sintered magnet motor includes a rotor, a stator, and coils. Sintered magnets are disposed on the rotor. In the sintered magnet motor, a residual magnetic flux density of each of the sintered magnets is controlled by a magnetic field generated by a coil current. | 06-27-2013 |
20130164852 | ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION TEST PROCEDURE AND ITS APPARATUS - Provided are an atmospheric corrosion test procedure and an apparatus used for the test. The procedure involves a salt spray step for supplying salt content containing chloride ions on the surfaces of test pieces placed in a thermo-humidistat chamber and a subsequent dry-wet cyclic step including a dry sub-step for drying the surface of the test pieces in the thermo-humidistat chamber at a low relative humidity and a subsequent wet sub-step at a higher relative humidity than that in the dry sub-step, which are cycled. The salt content is supplied by spraying the salt water in the salt spray step. An exhaust step for removing the salt mist sprayed inside thermo-humidistat chamber is further inserted between the salt deposition step and the dry sub-step. The quantity of the salt content deposited on the surfaces of the test pieces is controlled by adjusting the quantity of the sprayed salt water. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166041 | PLANT MONITORING CONTROLLER - A plant monitoring controller, provided with a monitor, that obtains process information from a plant and provides an operation signal to the plant, comprising: a process information database in which process information about the plant is recorded and accumulated; an operation video information database in which operation video information, which is video information displayed on a screen on the monitor, is recorded and accumulated as history information; and a history information database in which manipulation histories of the manipulable devices displayed on a screen on the monitor are accumulated as manipulation history information; wherein the process information, the operation video information, and the manipulation history information are recorded along with time information; and an operation video screen is provided as a screen displayed on the monitor, the operation video screen displaying a change from previous operation video information, read from the operation video information database, along with the time information. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166247 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A process of the invention analyzes a moving speed using acceleration data by an acceleration sensor and calculates a moving distance of the object. The process removes each of given candidate values of drift components from angular velocity data by a gyro sensor and generates relative azimuths data pieces. Based on the respective relative azimuths data pieces, the process calculates moving directions of the object. Using the moving distance and moving directions calculated, the process creates plural moving loci corresponding to the candidate values of drift components. By comparing the positions of actual starting and end points of moving in a building with the positions of starting and end points of each moving locus, the process evaluates the moving loci and determines an optimal moving locus out of the moving loci, based on the evaluation result. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166841 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A storage system and data management method is provided that improves the reliability and fault tolerance of the hard disks saving data utilizing an AOU function. A storage system comprises a first correlating section for correlating a plurality of RAID groups composed of a plurality of physical disks, and the pool region, a second correlating section for correlating the pool region and the storage regions of the virtual volumes, a first allocation section for allocating first data from the host apparatus to the first storage region of the first RAID group based on write requests from the host apparatus, and a second allocation section for distributing second data from the host apparatus at and allocating the second data to any storage regions of the RAID group, with the exception of the first storage region of the first RAID group allocated by the first allocation section, based on write requests. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167494 | Filter and Method of the Same - the present invention is characterized in that a filter made of resin comprises a through-hole film portion ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130168357 | PUFFER-TYPE GAS CIRCUIT-BREAKER - A puffer-type gas circuit-breaker having improved interruption performance and dielectric performance, comprising: a partition wall provided in a stationary cylinder on the moving side of the circuit-breaker to form an intra-stationary cylinder space, a mechanical puffer chamber provided adjacent to one flange of the partition wall and a hot gas exhaust chamber provided on the same side as another flange of the partition wall, wherein the stationary cylinder has gas inlet holes communicated with the intra-stationary cylinder space and formed on one side relative to a virtual plane that bisects the stationary cylinder in a radial direction, gas outlet holes communicated with the intra-stationary cylinder space, and hot gas exhaust openings communicated with the hot gas exhaust chamber, further communicated with the puffer shaft flow hole after an arc is generated and formed in radial directions of the stationary cylinder and on the other side relative to the virtual plane. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171485 | BATTERY MODULE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - A battery module including a plurality of thin plate batteries that have a substantially rectangular shape as viewed from above and that are placed one on top of the other is disclosed. The thin plate batteries each have a positive electrode tab and a negative electrode tab extending from a front side. The positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab of adjacent thin plate batteries face each other. The positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab that face each other are electrically connected such that the thin plate batteries are connected in series. An electrically conducting path that electrically connects the positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab is folded along a folding line that is parallel to a lateral side adjacent to the front side. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174571 | Fuel Flow Control Method and Fuel Flow Control System of Gas Turbine Combustor for Humid Air Gas Turbine - Provided is a fuel flow control method of a gas turbine combustor provided in a humid air gas turbine, by which method NOx generation in the gas turbine combustor is restricted before and after the starting of humidification and combustion stability is made excellent. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEAMLESS MANAGEMENT FOR DISASTER RECOVERY - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system are presented for establishing redundant computer resources. According to one embodiment, in a system including a plurality of processor devices and a plurality of storage devices, the processor devices, the storage devices and the management server being connected via a network, the method comprises storing device information relating to the processor devices and the storage devices and topology information relating to topology of the network, identifying at least one primary computer resource, selecting at least one secondary computer resource suitable to serve as a redundant resource corresponding to the at least one primary computer resource based on the device information and the topology information, and assigning the at least one secondary computer resource as a redundant resource corresponding to the at least one primary computer resource. | 07-11-2013 |
20130184968 | Electric Power Supply System and Controller of Vehicle that can Supply Electric Power to Outside - Provided is an electric power supply system which includes a plurality of electric power sources and supplies electric power corresponding to demanded electric power. In supplying electric power to the outside from a vehicle which constitutes one of the electric power sources, the electric power supply system realizes generation of power by an engine at high efficiency while maintaining a balance between power income and expenditure. In supplying electric power from the vehicle, an amount of electric power generated by an engine mounted on the vehicle is decided based on information supplied from an external device such as transition over time in an amount of electric power demand including future prediction and transition over time in an amount of electric power which is suppliable from other electric power sources including future prediction. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185490 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING A SNAPSHOT FUNCTION - In a semiconductor memory computer equipped with a flash memory, use of backed-up data is enabled. The semiconductor memory computer includes an address conversion table for detecting physical addresses of at least two pages storing data by designating a logical address from one of logical addresses to be designated by a reading request. The semiconductor memory computer includes a page status register for detecting one page status allocated to each page, and page statuses to be detected include the at least following four statuses: (1) a latest data storage status, (2) a not latest data storage status, (3) an invalid data storage status, and (4) an unwritten status. By using the address conversion table and the page status register, at least two data s (latest data and past data) can be read for one designated logical address from a host computer. | 07-18-2013 |
20130186082 | ELECTRIC BOOSTER - An electric booster in which a rotation of an electric motor is converted into linear motion and transmitted to an output member by a rotation-linear motion mechanism. The output member pushes a piston of a master cylinder to generate brake fluid pressure in a pressure chamber in the master cylinder. An ECU casing containing boards is coupled to the top of a motor casing constituting the electric motor. The ECU casing is offset in one direction in a plane perpendicular to a plane containing an axis of the master cylinder. A male connector is provided at a side surface of the ECU casing on the opposite side from the offset direction side, and a space between the male connector and an interference area of the ECU casing is utilized as a space for attachment/detachment of the male connector. | 07-25-2013 |
20130186106 | PRECIPITATION HARDENING MARTENSITIC STAINLESS STEEL, AND STEAM TURBINE LONG BLADE, STEAM TURBINE, AND POWER PLANT USING THE SAME - The problem to be solved of the present invention is to provide a precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel having excellent tissue stability, strength, toughness, and corrosion-resistance, requiring no sub-zero treatment, and having excellent productivity; and also a steam turbine long blade using the same. The problem is solved by providing a precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel containing, by mass, 0.1% or less of C; 0.1% or less of N; 9.0% or more and 14.0% or less of Cr; 9.0% or more and 14.0% or less of Ni; 0.5% or more and 2.5% or less of Mo; 0.5% or less of Si; 1.0% or less of Mn; 0.25% or more and 1.75% or less of Ti; 0.25% or more and 1.75% or less of Al, and the rest is Fe and inevitable impurities; and a steam turbine long blade using the precipitation hardening martensitic stainless steel. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187659 | BATTERY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE, ON-VEHICLE BATTERY MODULE, AND CELL CONTROLLER - A battery system for vehicle comprises a battery unit that is constituted with a plurality of serially connected cell groups each include a plurality of serially connected battery cells, integrated circuits that are each disposed in correspondence to one of the cell groups of the battery unit and each measure terminal voltages at the battery cells in the corresponding cell group, and a signal transmission path through which one of the integrated circuits is connected to another one of the integrated circuits or to a circuit other than that of the integrated circuits. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188011 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIA - An apparatus for recording information in an optical-information recording media by holography includes a signal-light irradiation unit, a reference-light irradiation unit, a reference light angle adjustment unit, and a positioning unit for positioning irradiation positions of the signal light and the reference light. The optical-information recording media is divided into N (N≧2) recording regions, M multiplexed information can be recorded in the respective recording regions by the reference light angle adjustment unit which changes the angle of the reference light at M angles (θ | 07-25-2013 |
20130188315 | COOLER OF POWER CONVERTING DEVICE FOR RAILROAD VEHICLE - A cooler of a power converting device for a railroad vehicle has heat exchanger tubes or heat radiator fins disposed to enhance the cooling performance of semiconductor devices arranged on an upper level of the multiple semiconductor devices arranged in multiple rows. Temperature detecting elements are arranged to detect temperature of the semiconductor devices arranged on a lower level on a windward side and a leeward side with respect to a traveling wind performing heat exchange with the heat radiator fins, and are arranged to detect temperature of the semiconductor devices arranged on the upper level at a center area thereof. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190024 | BASE STATION, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF UPLINK INTERFERENCE COORDINATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNCIATION - A macro base station includes a communication prohibited period setting unit of setting an uplink communication prohibited period to a user equipment belonging to the base station, and prohibits an uplink communication from the user equipment to a wireless communication base station per se during the uplink communication prohibited period. The user equipments belonging to the wireless communication base station per se and the second base station are divided into plural groups, and the uplink communication prohibited period is set to different time periods for the respective groups. Thereby, a communication characteristic is prohibited from being deteriorated at the second base station by an interference affected with the second base station separately from the first base station by the user equipment communicating with the first base station in the uplink communication. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191447 | FILE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - For improving operability by reducing time for backup of video/audio files through a network, and also for achieving to shorten processing time, as well as, to lower a capacity of a recording medium, by inhibiting unnecessary backup, a file transmission system includes a file list obtaining portion for obtaining a list of files, which are stored in a server, a file transmission controller portion for controlling file transmission, a file transmission requesting portion for requesting a file transmission to the server, a file receiver portion for receiving the file transmitted form the server, and a client file storage portion for storing the files therein, wherein control is made on the file transmission requesting portion, so that it requests a transmission of file(s), excepting the file(s), which is/are stored in the client file storage portion, to the server, upon basis of the list. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191593 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE APPARATUS, AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD OF STORAGE AREAS OF STORAGE SYSTEM - This invention is intended for the purpose of providing the storage system, the storage apparatus, and the storage system by which, even if the storage areas allocated to the virtual volume are managed in management units set by the RAID group, overhead for parity calculation does not become excessive. This invention, by releasing a specific management unit not fully utilized for page allocation from allocation to the virtual volume and migrating the allocated pages belonging to this specific management unit to the other management unit, makes the storage areas of the specific management unit available for the write accesses for the other virtual volumes from the host computer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191676 | OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Power saving of a data center is realized by learning a correlation between a state of cooling efficiency of the entire IT equipment units and a workload of each IT equipment unit from an operation history and placing a workload on an IT equipment unit by using the correlation. An IT workload placement optimization function samples data from an operation history of various IT equipment units in a server room by using three criteria of temperature, workload, and time, classifies the data into cooling efficiency conditions of the entire IT equipment units, and outputs a workload placement directive for determining placement of workload on each IT equipment unit from the correlation between the cooling efficiency condition and the workload to a workload management server, so that the workload management server can effectively extract influence on the cooling efficiency from the operation history and use the influence to place the workload. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191829 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, VIRTUAL SERVER ALIGNMENT METHOD, AND ALIGNMENT CONTROL APPARATUS - A computer system comprising a plurality of clients, a plurality of servers, a plurality of routers, an analysis device for monitoring communication statuses of the plurality of routers, and a management computer for controlling alignment of a virtual machine operating on each of the plurality of servers, the each of the plurality of routers including an information obtaining module for obtaining communication information for each flow, the analysis device including: an analysis module for analyzing the communication information; and a probability calculation module for calculating a occurrence probability of packet drop, the management computer including: a load estimation module for estimating a load for each of communication routes for moving the virtual machine; and an alignment determination module for determining, based on the occurrence probability of packet drop, the communication route of the movement destination. | 07-25-2013 |
20130192245 | Gas Turbine Combustor and Operating Method Thereof - A gas turbine combustor has a chamber supplied with fuel and air and a multi-burner having a plurality of burners provided with an air hole plate having a plurality of air holes, and fuel nozzles for supplying fuel to the air holes in the air hole plate; the multi-burner is made up of a center burner disposed in the center and a plurality of outer burners around the center burner, the outer burners are divided into inner fuel nozzles and outer fuel nozzles to separately supply fuel through fuel systems, and the fuel is supplied to the fuel nozzles in the center burner or to the fuel nozzles in the center burner and the inner fuel nozzles in the outer burners disposed around the center burner in a partial load condition in which the load is lower than that of when all the fuel systems are used to supply fuel. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194390 | DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE - A distance measuring device with a patterned-infrared-light irradiator, a near-infrared-light camera, a visible-light camera, a first imaging section having spectral response characteristics in a wavelength band of visible light and a predetermined wavelength band of invisible light a second imaging section having spectral response characteristics in the wavelength band of the visible light, an invisible-light projector for projecting the invisible light of the predetermined wavelength band in an angle-of-view range of the first imaging section; an invisible-light-aided distance computing section adapted to conduct image processing of an image formed by and output from the first imaging section, a stereo distance computing section adapted to conduct stereo image processing of both the image formed by and output from the first imaging section, and an image formed by and output from the second imaging section, and a distance computation controller adapted to control computation conditions used for the invisible-light-aided distance computing section. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194853 | Electric Power Conversion Apparatus - An electric power conversion apparatus includes a channel case in which a cooling water channel is formed; a double side cooling semiconductor module that has an upper and lower arms series circuit of an inverter circuit; a capacitor module; a direct current connector; and an alternate current connector. The semiconductor module includes first and second heat dissipation metals whose outer surfaces are heat dissipation surfaces, the upper and lower arms series circuit is disposed tightly between the first heat dissipation metal and the second heat dissipation metal, and the semiconductor module further includes a direct current positive terminal, a direct current negative terminal, and an alternate current terminal which protrude to outside. The channel case is provided with the cooling water channel which extends from a cooling water inlet to a cooling water outlet, and a first opening which opens into the cooling water channel. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194902 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information storage device has small compartments for storing information in a solid body and can be used as a memory medium. The solid body can have at least one pair of parallel planar portions on its surface. The information is divided into bits and stored in discrete minute areas that are distributed three-dimensionally inside the memory medium. The data can be converted into a digital format for storage to regulate the number of ‘1s’ recorded in a direction of the memory medium. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197824 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC TESTING - An apparatus and a method for ultrasonic testing obtains high-resolution and high-S/N ratio testing results by driving a number of piezoelectric elements using fewer pulsers and receivers in comparison with the number of elements composing an array transducer. A sensor information setter sets a plurality of piezoelectric element groups used for transmission and a plurality of piezoelectric element groups used for reception among the plurality of piezoelectric elements composing an ultrasonic array transducer. A computer transmits an ultrasonic wave from the element cluster set for transmission, and stores an ultrasonic wave received by the element cluster set for reception. The procedure is repeated including different element cluster sets for transmission and reception to obtain first receive signals. The first receive signals are summed to obtain a second receive signal; and the second receive signal is displayed with reference to the sensor center position on a display unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197952 | PRODUCT PRODUCIBLE NUMBER CALCULATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus having a processing unit for using information stored in a storage unit to calculate a producible number of each item is disclosed. The processing unit sets up a steady mode or a non-steady mode based on input information or the information stored in the storage. The processor unit operates, in the steady mode, to calculate a producible number by using a supply path stored in a supply path storage unit. In the nonsteady mode, the processor sets up a time taken for an item to be moved between hubs not being stored in the supply path storage unit, and repeatedly computes, from end-piece parts of an item configuration up to the product, a quantity of a parent item having the item as its component when this item is transferred between the hubs by use of an inventory or work-in-process quantity, thereby calculating the product producible number. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198302 | MAIL GATEWAY, MAIL DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In a mail gateway, a collection part collects, for each specific information contained in a mail entered into a resending queue, statistical information of the specific information. A provisional queue creation part creates a provisional queue based on the collected number of the statistical information. The provisional queue handles a mail which has a possibility of causing congestion. This can prevent a normal queue from entering into a congestion state. Also in the mail gateway, if the congestion state is brought about in the provisional queue which performs a send of a mail containing the specific information, a mail sort part restricts an entry of a mail into the provisional queue. This can limit an influence of the congestion state only to the provisional queue. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198439 | NON-VOLATILE STORAGE - The non-volatile storage SSD has non-volatile NVM, RAM capable of being accessed at a higher speed than this NVM, and a control unit for controlling accesses to the NVM and to the RAM. The control unit stores in the NVM an address translation table (LPT) that translates a logical address given to access this NVM to a physical address after dividing it into multiple tables, and stores in the RAM the multiple address translation tables-sub on RAM (LPT-SRs) that have been divided into multiple tables. | 08-01-2013 |
20130200446 | SPIN-BASED DEVICE - A spin-based device comprises a channel, first and second electrodes configured, in response to a bias configuration, to generate an electric field along the channel, and a spin injector arranged to inject spin into the channel at a point between the first and second electrodes. The device may further comprise a spin current detector and/or a spin accumulation detector arranged at different points(s) along the channel. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200990 | PLANT MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND PLANT MONITORING AND CONTROL METHOD - A monitoring apparatus has: an abnormality detecting unit which can detect an abnormality of a self apparatus; a second communication unit for receiving state information through a second communication network; a plant information forming unit for forming plant information as information regarding the whole plant equipment based on a plurality of state information; a first communication unit for transmitting the plant information to a maintenance tool through a first communication network; and an abnormal-case control unit constructed in such a manner that when the abnormality detecting unit detects the abnormality, a substituting request is transmitted to the other control unit, when a response to the substituting request is affirmative, an operation of the self apparatus is stopped, and when the response to the substituting request is negative or when the response to the substituting request is not received, the state information is transferred to the maintenance tool. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201386 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An image signal processing apparatus is disclosed. This device includes a divided area setup unit which sets rows and columns of divided areas in an area defined by a focal evaluation value calculation area setup unit, a high-brightness pixel presence/absence check unit which determines whether a high-brightness pixel exists in each divided area defined by the divided area setup unit, a high-brightness pixel judgment threshold setup unit which sets a threshold for use in the high-brightness pixel presence/absence checker, and an area-selective focal point evaluation value calculation unit which selects a divided area that was determined by the high-brightness pixel checker to contain no high-brightness pixels as a focal evaluation value calculation target and then calculates a focal evaluation value. Variable control of the high-brightness pixel judgment threshold that is set by the high-brightness pixel judgment threshold setup unit is started and stopped at specified timings. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201401 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image signal processing apparatus includes an image signal input unit for inputting an image signal, a noise correcting unit for executing noise correction processing for the input image signal to output a noise-corrected image signal; an image signal correcting unit for executing signal level correction processing for the noise-corrected image signal to output a signal level-corrected image signal; an image signal correction intensity control unit for determining correction intensity of the signal level correction processing in the image signal correcting unit; a signal extension estimating unit for estimating a signal extension degree of signal extension based on the determined correction intensity; and a noise correction intensity control unit for calculating and controlling correction intensity of the noise correction processing in the noise correcting unit. | 08-08-2013 |