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20100198387 | QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM, QUALITY CONTROL APPARATUS, QUALITY CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A quality control method includes: extracting, from a time series distribution of troubles that have occurred in electronic equipments, a first characteristics of states of occurrence of the troubles; specifying one or more parts included in the electronic equipments, the parts being involved with the troubles; extracting, from another time series distribution of a rate of use corresponding to each of suppliers which supply the specified parts, a second characteristics of the parts; and specifying one or more of the suppliers supplying the parts correlated to the troubles based on a correlation between the extracted first characteristics and the extracted second characteristics. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198541 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A management apparatus includes: a managing unit that manages production information corresponding to each of a plurality of information processing devices; a specifying unit that specifies, based on a defect notice for at least one component and the production information on the managed information processing devices, at least one of the information processing devices using the component; a state judging unit that judges whether each information processing device is in an operable state where a processing function of each information processing device is operable in an environment in which the processing function of each information proceeding device is provided; and a operation restricting unit that performs operation restriction for the processing function of each information proceeding device according to the defect notice if the state judging unit judges that each information processing device is in the operable state. | 08-05-2010 |
20100202787 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONSUMABLE ITEM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a prediction unit, an inquiry unit and a request unit. The inquiry unit judges whether or not the prediction unit deals with a type of a consumable item used in image formation processing. The request unit transmits use history information to a consumable item management apparatus and requests the consumable item management apparatus to predict a remaining usable period of the consumable item when the inquiry unit judges the prediction unit does not deal with the type of the consumable item in the image formation processing. The use history information indicates a use history of the consumable item. The prediction unit predicts the remaining usable period of the consumable item using the use history information in the image formation processing when the inquiry unit judges the first prediction unit deals with the type of the consumable item used in image formation processing. | 08-12-2010 |
20100211814 | MONITORING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A monitoring apparatus includes: a reception section that receives information including first use mode information from an first information processing apparatus; a storage section that stores the first use mode information received by the reception section; and a transmission section, when the reception section receives fault information together with the first use mode information from the first information processing apparatus, that transmits information concerning countermeasures against a fault to the first information processing apparatus based on the first use mode information and pieces of second use mode information, stored in the storage section, of second information processing apparatuses which normally operate. | 08-19-2010 |
20100225961 | MONITORING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A monitoring device includes: a receiving unit that receives information including first use mode information transmitted from a first information processing device; a memory unit that stores the received first use mode information; a creating unit that creates, when the receiving unit receives trouble information together with the first use mode information, a trouble prediction formula corresponding to the trouble information using second use mode information of a second information processing device in which the same trouble as that indicated in the trouble information has occurred; a storing unit that stores the created trouble prediction formula; and a determining unit that determines, when the receiving unit receives third use mode information of a third information processing device, whether or not a trouble in the third information processing device occurs in a high probability based on the stored trouble prediction formula and the received third use mode information. | 09-09-2010 |
20110019245 | IMAGE DEFECT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DEFECT DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image defect diagnostic system includes: a memory that stores an image density threshold set for each of partial regions in a test target image being a test target for an image defect and set as a criteria for judging whether or not each of the partial regions has an image defect, and that stores a positional information piece indicating a position of corresponding one of the partial regions in the test target image, while associating the image density threshold and the positional information piece with each other; and a diagnostic unit that compares an image data piece of each of the partial regions generated by scanning the test target image with the image density threshold set for corresponding one of the partial regions stored in the memory, to diagnose whether or not an image defect occurs in the test target image. | 01-27-2011 |
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20100312992 | MULTITHREAD EXECUTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING MULTIPLE THREADS - A multithread execution device includes: a program memory in which a plurality of programs are stored; an instruction issue unit that issues an instruction retrieved from the program memory; an instruction execution unit that executes the instruction; a target execution speed information memory that stores target execution speed information of the instruction; an execution speed monitor that monitors an execution speed of the instruction; a feedback control unit that commands the instruction issue unit to issue the instruction such that the execution speed of the instruction approximately corresponds to the target execution speed information. | 12-09-2010 |
20130332717 | MULTI-THREAD PROCESSOR - A multi-thread processor includes a plurality of hardware threads each of which generates an independent instruction flow, a first thread scheduler that continuously outputs a thread selection signal uniformly in a first period of a cycle of the first schedule pattern in accordance with a first schedule pattern or continuously outputs the thread selection signal uniformly in a second period of a cycle of the second schedule pattern in accordance with a second schedule pattern, the thread selection signal designating a hardware thread to be executed in a next execution cycle from among the plurality of hardware threads, a first selector that selects one of the plurality of hardware threads according to the thread selection signal and outputs an instruction generated by the selected hardware thread from among the plurality of hardware threads, and an execution pipeline that executes an instruction output from the first selector. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332925 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - There is a need to provide a computer system capable of preventing a failure from propagating and recovering from the failure. | 12-12-2013 |
20140089938 | MULTI-THREAD PROCESSOR AND ITS HARDWARE THREAD SCHEDULING METHOD - A multi-thread processor including a plurality of hardware threads each of which generates an independent instruction flow, a thread scheduler that outputs a thread selection signal in accordance with a schedule, the thread selection signal designating a hardware thread to be executed in a next execution cycle among the plurality of hardware threads, and a first selector that selects one of the plurality of hardware threads according to the thread selection signal and outputs an instruction generated by the selected hardware thread. The thread scheduler specifies execution of at least one hardware thread pre-selected among the plurality of hardware threads in a predetermined first execution period, and specifies execution of a variably selected hardware thread in a second execution period other than the first execution period. A time ratio between the predetermined first execution period and the second execution period is set according to processing requests. | 03-27-2014 |
20140109098 | MULTI-THREAD PROCESSOR - The scheduler performs thread scheduling of repeating processings of specifying each hardware thread included in a first group among the multiple hardware threads for the number of times set up in advance for the hardware thread, and of specifying any one of the hardware threads in a second group for the number of times set up in advance for the second group that includes other hardware threads. Moreover, when the hardware thread in the first group specified by the thread scheduling is nondispatchable, the scheduler performs rescheduling of respecifying the hardware thread in the second group instead of the hardware thread in the first group. | 04-17-2014 |
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20100180508 | DOOR OPENING-AND-CLOSING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A door opening-and-closing apparatus for a vehicle, includes a driving unit fixed at a vehicle door for opening and closing a door opening of a vehicle body and having a driving source, a drum and a cable, a rotating shaft fixed at the vehicle door and extending in a vehicle width direction, a first pulley rotatably supported by the rotating shaft and having a first guide groove, within which one of the first and second end portions of the cable Is engaged so as to be guided to the vehicle body, and a second pulley rotatably supported by the rotating shaft so as to be arranged in parallel with the first pulley in the vehicle width direction, and having a second guide groove, within which the other one of the first and second end portions of the cable is engaged so as to be guided to the vehicle body. | 07-22-2010 |
20110126466 | DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A door opening and closing apparatus for a vehicle includes a support member adapted to be fixed at a door for the vehicle and including first and second door support wall portions, an arm member including first and second arm support wall portions positioned to overlap relative to the first and second door support wall portions respectively in the vertical direction, the arm member being rotatably connected to the support member by a hinge pin, a roller support wall portion formed at the first arm support wall portion and extending upwardly, a roller rotatably connected to the roller support wall portion, a cable, a drive member opening and closing the door by reeling in or out the cable, and a pulley mechanism provided at a lower side of the first arm support wall portion and guiding an arrangement of the cable. | 06-02-2011 |
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20140340790 | ENLARGED SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - An enlarged substrate for a magnetic recording medium used in a data storage device such as a hard disc drive (HDD). In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 3½ inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 96.9 mm to 100.4 mm. In other embodiments, an apparatus comprises a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 2½ inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 66.9 mm to 71.8 mm. In other embodiments, a data storage device has a magnetic recording medium that uses an enlarged substrate as set forth above. | 11-20-2014 |
20150077877 | ENLARGED SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - An enlarged substrate for a magnetic recording medium used in a data storage device such as a hard disc drive (HDD). In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 3½ inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 96.9 mm to 100.4 mm. In other embodiments, an apparatus comprises a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 2½ inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 66.9 mm to 71.8 mm. In other embodiments, a data storage device has a magnetic recording medium that uses an enlarged substrate as set forth above. | 03-19-2015 |
20150364149 | ENLARGED SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - An enlarged substrate for a magnetic recording medium used in a data storage device such as a hard disc drive (HDD). In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 3- 1/2 inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 96.9 mm to 100.4 mm. In other embodiments, an apparatus comprises a substrate for a magnetic recording disc for installation in a 2- 1/2 inch form factor hard disc drive, the substrate having an overall diameter of nominally from 66.9 mm to 71.8 mm. In other embodiments, a data storage device has a magnetic recording medium that uses an enlarged substrate as set forth above. | 12-17-2015 |