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20100031656 | CONDENSER - A condenser comprises a high pressure side condenser, a high pressure side cooling tube bank, a high pressure side hot well, a low pressure side condenser, a low pressure side cooling tube bank, a pressure shroud provided inside the low pressure side condenser, a low pressure side hot well, high pressure steam introducing portion, low pressure side condensate introducing portion, a flash box which communicates with at least one of the high pressure side hot well and the low pressure side hot well, flashes a heater drain from a feed water heater, and urges at least one of the high pressure side hot well and the low pressure side hot well to recover the flashed heater drain, and a flash steam path which introduces flash steam generated inside the flash box into at least one of the high pressure side hot well and the low pressure side hot well. | 02-11-2010 |
20100115949 | CONDENSING EQUIPMENT - A condensing equipment including a plurality of condensers having shells different in longitudinal lengths are arranged in parallel, and the condensers are connected in series by circulation water pipes. The center positions in a shell length direction of the respective condensers are made to differ in the length direction. The lengths of an inlet side circulation water pipe and an outlet side circulation pipe of condensers adjacent to each other among the condensers are made coincident with each other. | 05-13-2010 |
20130118723 | CONDENSER - A condenser comprises a high pressure side condenser, a high pressure side cooling tube bank, a high pressure side hot well, a low pressure side condenser, a low pressure side cooling tube bank, a pressure shroud provided inside the low pressure side condenser, a low pressure side hot well, high pressure steam introducing portion, low pressure side condensate introducing portion, a flash box which communicates with at least one of the high pressure side hot well and the low pressure side hot well, flashes a heater drain from a feed water heater, and urges at least one of the high pressure side hot well and the low pressure side hot well to recover the flashed heater drain, and a flash steam path which introduces flash steam generated inside the flash box into at least one of the high pressure side hot well and the low pressure side hot well. | 05-16-2013 |
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20110096421 | Drive Device, Lens Barrel, Imaging Device, Lens Drive Method and Method of Producing Shape Memory Alloy - A lens barrel, an image pickup apparatus, a lens drive method and a method of producing a shape memory alloy used for the drive device are disclosed. A drive device includes: a lens group for guiding light from a subject; a shape memory alloy adopted to be deformed by an electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy, for moving the lens group in a direction of an optical axis; and electricity-supply controlling means for controlling an amount of the electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy; and a detecting means for detecting whether a movement of the lens group starts or not. In the drive device, a movement amount of the lens group in the direction of the optical axis is controlled based on the amount of electricity supplied when the detecting means detects the movement of the lens group. | 04-28-2011 |
20110226392 | Drive device, lens barrel, image pickup apparatus, lens drive method and method of producing shape memory alloy - A lens barrel, an image pickup apparatus, a lens drive method and a method of producing a shape memory alloy used for the drive device are disclosed. A drive device includes: a lens group for guiding light from a subject; a shape memory alloy adopted to be deformed by an electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy, for moving the lens group in a direction of an optical axis; and electricity-supply controlling means for controlling an amount of the electricity supplied to the shape memory alloy; and a detecting means for detecting whether a movement of the lens group starts or not. In the drive device, a movement amount of the lens group in the direction of the optical axis is controlled based on the amount of electricity supplied when the detecting means detects the movement of the lens group. | 09-22-2011 |
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20130110790 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND FILE RESTORATION METHOD USING SAME | 05-02-2013 |
20130110967 | INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA IN INFORMATION SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130144844 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a computer system capable of providing the latest statistics on a file system in real time. The computer system includes a memory having a program for executing statistics on a file system, and a controller for executing the program. When the file system is accessed, the controller compares first statistic information before access processing on the file system with second statistic information after the access processing; and if it is determined that any difference exists between the first statistic information and the second statistic information, the controller updates the statistic result of the file system based on the difference. | 06-06-2013 |
20140122661 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND FILE SERVER MIGRATION METHOD - A file server is replaced efficiently. A computer system includes a first file server, a second file server, and a third file server. The first file server retains file data storage information which indicates, for each file, whether data of the relevant file is stored in a first storage device or not; and after a data input/output request from a client terminal is switched from the first file server to the third file server, the third file server selects either the first file server or the second file server as a data transfer request destination of a target file of the data input/output request from the client terminal, based on the file data storage information sent from the first file server. | 05-01-2014 |
20140136491 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE - It is provided a storage system including a storage device for storing data, and a controller for controlling data read/write in the storage device. The controller includes a processor for executing a program, and a memory for storing the program that is executed by the processor. The processor executes deduplication processing for converting a duplicate part of data that is stored in the storage device into shared data, and calculates a distributed capacity consumption, which represents a capacity of a storage area that is used by a user in the storage device, by using a size of the data prior to the deduplication processing and a count of pieces of data referring to the shared data that is referred to by this data. | 05-15-2014 |
20140304226 | STORAGE SYSTEM - Regarding a method for migrating a file system by copying a file from a migration source to a migration destination and deleting the file at the migration source, a retention of a file in a page (allocation unit of a thin provisioning function) is either suppressed or solved, and two methods are proposed for solving the problems and for enabling migration of a file system in which the increase of utilization of storage capacity is suppressed, wherein one method changes the location of a file prior to performing copying so that the file to be copied next is located in the same page, and another method creates a reverse index table to recognize which block is used by files, thereby enabling to specify the file remaining within a page and copy the same by referring to this reverse index table. | 10-09-2014 |
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20090103124 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MOBILE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - This invention further improves the operability of a mobile device by changing the operation screen of the mobile device in accordance with the operation status of the mobile device or that of an image forming apparatus in a communicable state when the mobile device and image forming apparatus become communicable with each other. When it is detected that the mobile device exists within a range of a predetermined short distance, status information is acquired from the mobile device to determine whether a file is selected in the operation screen of the mobile device. Information which designates an operation screen to be displayed on the mobile device is transmitted on the basis of the determination result. | 04-23-2009 |
20090190171 | APPROVAL WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An approval workflow management system capable of preventing a mismatch from being caused between a document of which the contents have been confirmed for approval, and an electronic document stored in a file server, for approval, thereby enhancing the reliability of an approval workflow. The approval workflow system is formed by connecting client computers, MFPs, a file server, and an approval information management server to a network. When an MFP receives a request for printing a file, from the client computer, the MFP requests the file server to restrict editing the file, and the approval information management to approve the file. When the approval information management server notifies the MFP that approval of the file has been successful, the MFP requests the file server to cancel restriction of editing the file. | 07-30-2009 |
20090279702 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus, to which a portable storage medium can be electrically connected, includes a generation unit configured to generate a pair of a public key and a private key, a medium detection unit configured to detect that the portable storage medium is connected to the image processing apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine whether the public key generated by the generation unit is stored in the portable storage medium detected by the medium detection unit, and a storage unit configured to store the public key generated by the generation unit in the portable storage medium based on the determination by the determination unit that the public key generated by the generation unit is not stored in the portable storage medium. | 11-12-2009 |
20110157642 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A user can easily recognize a settable post-processing position when the user selects settings of post-processing to be performed on document information in a general-purpose file format. The present invention provides a control method for controlling a printing apparatus to which a post-processing apparatus for performing post-processing on a printed sheet is connectable. The control method includes storing, into a storage unit, document information of which file format is a predetermined file format, generating an image corresponding to the document information by analyzing the stored document information, determining a size of the sheet on which the image is printed, obtaining a capability of the post-processing apparatus, and displaying a settable post-processing position on a display unit according to the determined size of the sheet, and the obtained capability of the post-processing apparatus. | 06-30-2011 |
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20080310000 | Quantum Coherent Systems and Operations - Nonlinear elements can efficiently implement quantum information processing systems such as controlled phase shifters, non-absorbing detectors including parity detectors, quantum subspace projections, non-absorbing Bell state analyzers, non-absorbing encoders/entanglers, and fundamental quantum gates such as CNOT gates. The non-absorbing detectors permit improvements in the efficiency of a probabilistic quantum gate by permitting reuse of the same photonic resources during multiple passes through the probabilistic gate. | 12-18-2008 |
20090097862 | Quantum Repeater - A quantum repeater includes a transmitter portion including a source, a set of matter systems, and an optical system. The source produces a probe pulse in a probe state having components with different photon numbers, and each matter system has at least one state that interacts with photons in the probe pulse to introduce a change in a phase space location of the probe state. The optical system can direct the probe pulse for interaction with one of the matter systems and direct light from the matter system for transmission on a first channel. | 04-16-2009 |
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20140167556 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - Disclosed is an electric rotating machine that includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a housing and a cylindrical stator core secured to the housing by shrinkage fitting. The rotor is rotatably disposed inside the stator. The stator core is formed of two or more circumferentially split cores. Spilt surfaces of the split cores are shaped in such a manner that the amount of distortion caused on the split surfaces on the outside diameter side by the shrinkage fitting is greater than the amount of distortion caused on the split surfaces on the inside diameter side by the shrinkage fitting. | 06-19-2014 |
20150295455 | Rotating Electric Machine and Electrically Driven Vehicle - Provided is a rotating electric machine including a rotor and stator fitted with various numbers of poles and slots and adapted to reduce vibration/noise of the machine. The rotating electric machine in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes a stator having an S number of teeth, and a rotor disposed in the stator with a gap intervening between the stator and the rotor. The plurality of teeth in the stator are grouped in units of the number of teeth that is equal to a value “m” or a value “d”, the value “m” being obtained by dividing the number of stator slots, S, by the greatest common divisor N of the number of poles, P, and the number of stator slots, S, the value “d” being an aliquot of “m”. At least one tooth in each of the tooth groups has a distal end different in shape from distal ends of other teeth belonging to the same tooth group, and the plurality of tooth groups have the same configuration. | 10-15-2015 |
20160056684 | Rotating Electric Machine and Electrically Driven Vehicle - A rotating electric machine allowing a rotor and a stator thereof to assume any of various numbers of poles and any of various numbers of slots and enabling a reduction in vibration and noise is provided. The rotating electric machine according to the present invention includes a stator having a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots, which is configured so that the shape of the front ends of the teeth and the opening width of the slots are made to change cyclically F times along the circumferential direction (F is a natural number equal to or greater than 2). | 02-25-2016 |
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20150201036 | GATEWAY DEVICE, FILE SERVER SYSTEM, AND FILE DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A system high in availability which includes plural file servers and local disks is realized. A distributed file system has plural file server clusters that perform any one of file storage, file read, and file deletion according to a request. A gateway device mediates requests between a client device that transmits a request including any one of file storage, file read, and file deletion, and the distributed file system. The gateway device includes a health check function unit that monitors an operating status of the file server cluster, and a data control function unit that receives the request for the distributed file system from the client device, and selects one or more of the file server clusters that are normally in operation, and distributes the request to the selected file server clusters. | 07-16-2015 |
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20090069864 | LOW FREQUENCY MEDICAL DEVICE, METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Quantity and time for medical operation are measured after starting the medical operation (step S | 03-12-2009 |
20090258523 | CONNECTOR - A connector which makes it possible to positively maintain a locked state of an actuator, even if a flat cable is pulled. The actuator is mounted on a housing in a manner pivotally movable between an open position for accommodating a front end of an FPC in an accommodating space and a closed position for pressing the front end of the FPC against contact portions of contacts. Locking members are mounted on the housing in a manner slidable between a locked position for inhibiting the actuator in the closed position from opening and an unlocked position for allowing the actuator to open, along a direction of arrangement of the contacts. | 10-15-2009 |
20090269968 | CONNECTOR - A connector which is improved in electrical characteristics thereof. A plurality of contacts which are held in a housing of the connector where an FPC is inserted include at least three supporting contacts each having a supporting portion that pivotally supports an operating member. The operating member is provide with conduction portions for electrically connecting the supporting portions of the supporting contacts and a ground pattern formed on an upper surface of the FPC. | 10-29-2009 |
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20100247924 | CURABLE SHEET COMPOSITION - A curable sheet composition able to follow up a mold shape under the application of heat and pressure, able to polymerize and cure upon being irradiated with light, permitting an optical element molding pattern to be fixed, and comprising 50% to 94% of a polycarbonate diol-modified urethane acrylate oligomer, 5% to 40% of a (meth)acrylate containing at least one carboxyl group in each molecule thereof, and 0.5% to 5% of a photopolymerization initiator. | 09-30-2010 |
20110206869 | PHOTOCURABLE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION - Provided is a photocurable adhesive composition which causes no damage to adherends during bonding and which, when used in bonding rugged adherends, can bond the adherends without forming a gap therebetween. The photocurable adhesive composition of the present invention comprises (A) 100 parts by mass of a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 to 100,000, (B) 5 parts to 70 parts by mass of a phenoxy resin, and (C) 0.1 parts to 10 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator. The uncured composition has a loss tangent (loss modulus/storage modulus) of less than 1 at 25° C. and the temperature at which the loss tangent of the uncured composition reaches 1 or more is 80° C. or less. | 08-25-2011 |
20120000500 | THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT AND THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE - Provided is a thermoelectric conversion element which enables improvement in yield and durability, is easy to secure a temperature difference between the both ends and is easy to be bonded to an electrode without tilting, resulting in improvement of mass productivity. Also provided is a thermoelectric conversion module using the thermoelectric conversion element. | 01-05-2012 |
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20100272989 | ELASTOMER POROUS MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - In the elastomer porous material of the invention, when cells in a first observation region of a first cross section are observed at a certain magnification, cells having a shape factor SF1, which indicates the roundness of a circle and is represented by the following formula: | 10-28-2010 |
20100305225 | ELASTOMER POROUS MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - In the elastomer porous material of the invention, when cells in a first observation region of a first cross section are observed at a certain magnification, cells having a shape factor SF | 12-02-2010 |
20100311851 | ELASTOMER POROUS MATERIAL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - In the elastomer porous material of the invention, when cells in a first observation region of a first cross section are observed at a certain magnification, cells having an aspect ratio a/b, wherein a represents the maximum diameter of each cell and b represents the length of the minor axis of that cell as measured in a direction orthogonal thereto, of 1.3 or less account for 70% or more of all cells in the first observation region, and, when cells in a second observation region of a second cross section orthogonal to the first cross section are observed at a certain magnification, cells having an aspect ratio a/b, wherein a represents the maximum diameter of each cell and b represents the length of the minor axis of that cell as measured in a direction orthogonal thereto, of 1.3 or less account for 70% or more of all cells in the second observation region. | 12-09-2010 |