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20100254241 | Hierarchical storage system, library apparatus, magazine, and control method of the hierarchical storage system - A hierarchical storage system has a disc drive, a library apparatus, and a control apparatus. The library apparatus houses a magazine that houses a cartridge. The cartridge has a first tag and stores a storage medium configured to store the data. The magazine has a second tag. The library apparatus acquires through radio communications first information held by the first tag and configured to identify the cartridge and second information held by the second tag and configured to identify the magazine. The library apparatus transmits to the control apparatus the acquired first and second information. The control apparatus memorizes the first and second information, and manages a location of the data based on a data transfer status between the disc drive and the library apparatus and the first information and the second information stored in the first memory. | 10-07-2010 |
20110013314 | HOUSING APPARATUS, HOUSING METHOD, AND LIBRARY APPARATUS - A housing apparatus includes a plurality of housing units to have housed objects housed therein, a carrying unit to include the plurality of the housing units arranged in a ring shape, the carrying unit carrying the housing units to a carriage position, and a transferring unit to be disposed facing a carriage destination of the housed objects with the carrying unit existing therebetween to transfer the housed object in the housing unit carried and positioned at the carriage position from the housing unit to the carriage destination or to transfer the housed object in the carriage destination from the carriage destination to the housing unit. | 01-20-2011 |
20140146450 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEM - An electronic device includes a power supply line configured to supply power to a mechanical section within a case and a connection terminal coupled to the power supply line, wherein the connection terminal is disposed to be opposed to a power exchange terminal of another electronic device disposed on one side surface of the case and engaged with the power exchange terminal to perform a power exchange. | 05-29-2014 |
20140313662 | RACK MOUNT DEVICE - A rack mount device comprising: a housing; first and second drawer sections to be withdrawable from the housing; storage sections provided in the first and second drawer sections, each of storage sections including memory devices; a control module to control the memory devices; a connection cable to couple an external connection terminal of the housing and the control module and include an excess length portion corresponding to movement of the control module; a cable protective tube to be inserted by the excess length portion, one end of the cable protective tube fixed in a vicinity of a connection portion to the control module of the connection cable, another end of the cable protective tube fixed on a bottom plate side of the housing, the cable protective tube including a folded-up section which moves along with the drawing operation; and a cable protective tube deformation device to move the folded-up section. | 10-23-2014 |
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20100085561 | LASER SCATTERING DEFECT INSPECTION SYSTEM AND LASER SCATTERING DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD - A laser scattering defect inspection system includes: a stage unit that rotates a workpiece W and transports the workpiece W in one direction; a laser light source that emits a laser beam LB toward the workpiece W mounted on the stage unit; an optical deflector that scans the laser beam LB emitted from the laser light source on the workpiece W; an optical detector that detects the laser beam LB scattered from the surface of the workpiece W; a storage unit that stores defect inspection conditions for each inspection step of a manufacturing process of the workpiece W, where the conditions include the rotation speed and the moving speed of the workpiece W by the stage unit, the scan width on the workpiece W and the scan frequency by the optical deflector; and a control unit that reads the defect inspection conditions stored for each inspection step in the storage unit and controls the driving of the stage unit and the optical deflector under the conditions. | 04-08-2010 |
20110005143 | POLISHING OIL SLURRY FOR POLISHING HARD CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE - A hard crystal substrate such as a GaN substrate or a SiC substrate is polished by using polishing oil slurry having abrading particles of artificial diamond clusters dispersed in a dispersant. The artificial diamond clusters include approximately spherical agglomerate particles with average particle size D50 of 20 nm or more and 50 nm or less, having primary particles with particle diameters of 2 nm or more and 10 nm or less. A rough polishing process is carried out first such that an average surface roughness of 0.5 nm or more and 1 nm or less is obtained, followed by a finishing process such that the average surface roughness of said surface becomes 0.2 nm or less. | 01-13-2011 |
20110227786 | ABNORMAL VALUE DETECTION APPARATUS FOR SATELLITE POSITIONING SYSTEM, ABNORMAL VALUE DETECTION METHOD, AND ABNORMAL VALUE DETECTION PROGRAM - To detect an abnormal value in a satellite positioning system with high precision even when the observation environment changes or there is the time series correlation between data. An abnormal value index calculation unit | 09-22-2011 |
20120208439 | METHOD FOR POLISHING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - In a method for polishing a semiconductor wafer by rotating a work carrier and a table while pressing the semiconductor wafer retained by the work carrier against a polishing cloth mounted on the table, at a time when the table and the work carrier both having been at rest are rotated, each at a predetermined number of revolutions, in a condition that the polishing cloth and the semiconductor wafer are pressed against each other, to thereby start polishing, a table acceleration is maintained smaller than a work carrier acceleration. By such maintaining the table acceleration smaller than the work carrier acceleration, vibrations to be generated when the polishing is started can be prevented. In the method for polishing a semiconductor wafer according to the present invention, the diameter of the semiconductor wafer is preferably defined to be 30% or more of the diameter of the table. | 08-16-2012 |
20120331024 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device can obtain an accurate result of regression analysis even if a mean and a variance of a response variable depends on an explanatory variable taking continuous variable. | 12-27-2012 |
20130339278 | DATA DISCRIMINATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data discrimination device is provided with: an estimating means that estimates the population structure of inputted learning data; a degree-of-fit calculating means that calculates the degree of fit, of each of the inputted addition candidate data, to the population of learning data, using results of the estimation by the estimating means; and a determining means for determining, on the basis of the calculated degree of fit, whether or not to add each of the addition candidate data to the learning data. | 12-19-2013 |
20140122393 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NETWORK STRUCTURE LEARNING DEVICE, LINK STRENGTH PREDICTION DEVICE, LINK STRENGTH PREDICTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing system separately generates sample sequences from a posterior distribution of each random variable in a probability model representing the structure of a template network that serves as a template for a plurality of networks whose network structures are to be learned, and from a posterior distribution of each random variable in a probability model representing the structures of the plurality of networks, using learning data and hyperparameters relating to the plurality of networks. Next, the information processing system derives a predictive value of the strength of a link specified by an external variable based on the external variable and on the sample sequences. | 05-01-2014 |
20140244551 | INFORMATION SPREAD SCALE PREDICTION DEVICE, INFORMATION SPREAD SCALE PREDICTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION SPREAD SCALE PREDICTION PROGRAM - To provide an information spread scale prediction device capable of accurately predicting the number of future contributions for a specific topic in SNS and the like. The information spread scale prediction device includes: a learning text data input unit which acquires learning text data from a specific website; a node influence learning unit which calculates the influence for the number of statements by each group to which a node specifying a single specific user belongs for the topic from the number of statements by each classified topic, and stores it as learning data; a prediction text data input unit which acquires prediction text data from the specific website after storing the learning data; and a future contribution number prediction unit which predicts and outputs the number of contributions at a specific future time of the topic based on the number of statements of each topic and the learning data. | 08-28-2014 |
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20100150604 | SEALING MEMBER AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - Provided is a sealing member for preventing leakage of a developer from a developer containing portion of a process cartridge detachable from a main body of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus to an outside of the developer containing portion. The sealing member is made of a thermoplastic elastomer that contains at least a copolymer and a plasticizer. In a molecular weight distribution of a tetrahydrofuran soluble matter of the thermoplastic elastomer measured by gel permeation chromatography, at least one peak is present in each of a region of a molecular weight of 4,000 or less and a region of a molecular weight of 30,000 to 200,000, and a percentage of a component of a molecular weight of 800 or less in a region of a molecular weight of 5,000 or less is 30% or less. | 06-17-2010 |
20110136054 | TONER - A toner having toner base particles each of which contains at least a binder resin and a colorant, and silica titania composite particles. The silica titania composite particles contain silica in an amount of from 55.0% by mass to 85.0% by mass; and, in a chart obtained by the measurement by Xray diffraction of the silica titania composite particles and where, in respect of a peak having the highest diffraction intensity and a peak having the next-highest diffraction intensity among peaks present in the range of 2θ=24.0 to 29.0, the value of area of the peak on the lower-angle side is represented by Xa and the value of area of the peak on the higher-angle side is represented by Xb, the ratio of Xa/Xb is from 95/5 to 75/25. | 06-09-2011 |
20120021348 | TONER - In a toner formed of toner particles which include a colorant, a wax, and a binder resin containing a crystalline resin (a) primarily composed of a polyester, the crystalline resin has an endothermic peak temperature (Tp) in a range of 50° C. to 80° C., and in a viscoelasticity measurement of the toner, G″(Tp−10) is in a range of 5.0×10 | 01-26-2012 |
20120021349 | TONER - In differential scanning calorimetry of a toner, regarding a binder resin in the toner, (i) the peak temperature T | 01-26-2012 |
20130122414 | TONER - Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle having a core-shell structure in which a shell phase containing a resin A is formed on a core that contains a binder resin, a colorant and a wax, wherein the resin A is a vinyl resin prepared by copolymerizing a vinyl monomer X that has an organopolysiloxane structure and a vinyl monomer Y that has a polyester segment capable of forming a crystalline structure; the content of the vinyl monomer X in a total monomer used for the copolymerization is in a particular range; the toner particle contains resin A in a particular proportion; and the binder resin contains a crystalline resin. | 05-16-2013 |
20130130165 | TONER - Provided is a toner comprising toner particles, wherein each of the toner particles has a core-shell structure composed of a core and a shell phase formed on the core, the shell phase contains a resin (B), and the core contains a binder resin (A), a colorant and a wax, wherein the toner particles contain the resin (B) in a specific amount with respect to the core, and wherein the solubility parameter (SP value) of the binder resin (A) is denoted by SP(A), the SP value of the resin (B) is denoted by SP(B), the SP value of a repeating unit with the smallest SP value from among repeating units constituting the resin (B) is denoted by SP(C), and the SP value of the wax is denoted by SP(W), each of the SP(A), SP(B), SP(C) and SP(W) satisfy specific relationships. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130168 | TONER - Provided is a toner containing toner particles, each of which includes a binder resin containing a polyester as a main component, a colorant, and a wax, in which the binder resin includes a block polymer in which a segment capable of forming a crystalline structure and a segment incapable of forming a crystalline structure are bonded, the toner has a maximum endothermic peak from the binder resin, as determined by differential scanning calorimetry measurement, with a peak temperature in a specific range and with an endothermic quantity in a specific range, and the wax is an ester wax having a functionality of 3 or more. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130169 | TONER - In the measurement of an endothermic amount of a toner, (1) an endothermic peak temperature (Tp) derived from the binder resin is 50° C. or higher and 80° C. or lower; (2) a total endothermic amount (ΔH) derived from the binder resin is 30 [J/g] or more and 125 [J/g] or less based on mass of the binder resin; (3) when an endothermic amount derived from the binder resin from an initiation temperature of an endothermic process to Tp is represented by ΔH | 05-23-2013 |
20130130170 | TONER - Provided is a toner having an excellent low-temperature fixability and hot offset resistance, a broad fixing temperature latitude in low-temperature areas to high-temperature areas, and a high heat-resistant storage stability. The toner includes toner particles having a core-shell structure in which a shell phase containing a resin A is formed on a core containing a binder resin, a colorant and a wax. In measurement of resin A by a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the peak temperature TpA (° C.) of a maximum endothermic peak in the first temperature rise is at least 55° C. but not more than 80° C. In measurement of a viscoelasticity of resin A, the loss elastic modulus at TpA−10 (° C.) is at least 1×10 | 05-23-2013 |
20130266897 | METHOD OF PRODUCING TONER - The present invention provides a toner excellent in low-temperature fixability and also excellent in heat-resistant storage property, offset resistance, and durability. In a process for producing a toner containing toner particles by emulsion aggregation, each toner particle includes a binder resin of which a main component is a block polymer having a crystal structure, a colorant, and a release agent; the binder resin includes polyester as a main component; the rate of a portion capable of forming a crystal structure to the binder resin is 50 to 80 mass %; a peak temperature Tp of a maximum endothermic peak attributed to the binder resin is 50 to 80° C. in endothermic amount measurement of the toner with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC); and fused particles are heated at a heating temperature t (° C.) satisfying Tp′−15.0≦t≦Tp′−5.0 for at least 0.5 hr. | 10-10-2013 |
20130323637 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER - Provided is a toner that is excellent in terms of low-temperature fixability and hot offset resistance, has a wide fixing temperature range from a low-temperature region to a high-temperature region, and has high thermal storability. | 12-05-2013 |
20140220486 | TONER - Provided is a toner containing toner particles, each of which includes a binder resin containing a polyester as a main component, a colorant, and a wax, in which the binder resin includes a block polymer in which a segment capable of forming a crystalline structure and a segment incapable of forming a crystalline structure are bonded, the toner has a maximum endothermic peak from the binder resin, as determined by differential scanning calorimetry measurement, with a peak temperature in a specific range and with an endothermic quantity in a specific range, and the wax is an ester wax having a functionality of 3 or more. | 08-07-2014 |
20140349232 | TONER PRODUCTION METHOD - A method for producing a toner that comprises toner particles, each of which comprises a binder resin, which comprises a resin (A) capable of forming a crystalline structure, and a colorant, the method including: a pressure holding step of, after preparing toner particles, holding the toner particles for 5 minutes or more at a pressure of 2.0 MPa or more under conditions of a temperature T1 (° C.) represented by formula (1): | 11-27-2014 |
20140356777 | TONER - A toner having good low-temperature fixability, charge stability, environmental stability, and durability and capable of stably producing high-quality images for a long time is provided. The toner includes a toner particle having a core-shell structure constituted of a core and a shell phase. The core contains a binder resin, a colorant, and wax, and the shell phase contains a resin A. The resin A is a comb polymer including a main chain portion (X), a side chain portion (Y), and a side chain portion (Z). The main chain portion (X) is a vinyl polymer, the side chain portion (Y) has an aliphatic polyester structure and has an ester group concentration of a polyester segment of 6.5 mmol/g or less, and the side chain portion (Z) has an organic polysiloxane structure and has an average number of Si—O bond repeating units of a siloxane segment of 2 or more and 100 or less. | 12-04-2014 |