Abstract: A method for controlling a switch apparatus connectable to a host and a storage device including first and second areas, the method includes: establishing schedule of copying data stored in the first area of the storage device into the second area of the storage device; monitoring a state of access by the host to the storage device; carrying out copying the data stored in the first area into the second area while the monitored state of the access by the host allows copying of the data from the first area into the second area; and enhancing copying, if any portion of the data remains when a time set by the schedule is expired, the remaining portion of the data from the first area into the second area.

Abstract: At power-on again, a restore processing unit restores block information tables from a primary storage to a volatile memory. After classifying the block information tables into group-specific links of a plurality of time zones, a first sort processing unit connects the group-specific links to form a group classification link. Then, a second sort processing unit sequentially retrieves the block information tables of the group classification link from the earliest time stamp side for insertion in a position so as to achieve a time-stamp ascending order, thereby reconfiguring the links.

Abstract: A method for controlling a storage system having first and second switches and a storage device connected to the switches via a network in response to a request from a host, the storage device having first and second areas, each of the first and second switch accessing to the first and second area, the method includes, receiving a request for copying data stored in the first area to the second area from the host, transmitting initiation notification of the copying to the second switch, executing the copying by the first switch, maintaining progress status of the copying, controlling the second switch to refer to the progress upon receiving a request for access to the first or second area by the host before completion of the copying, and determining whether to permit access to the first or second area by the second switch.

Abstract: A method for controlling a switch apparatus connectable to a host and a storage device including first and second areas, the method includes: establishing schedule of copying data stored in the first area of the storage device into the second area of the storage device; monitoring a state of access by the host to the storage device; carrying out copying the data stored in the first area into the second area while the monitored state of the access by the host allows copying of the data from the first area into the second area; and enhancing copying, if any portion of the data remains when a time set by the schedule is expired, the remaining portion of the data from the first area into the second area.

Abstract: Disclosed is a booster circuit comprising a voltage detection circuit for outputting a decision output signal for detecting a boosted voltage and controlling a voltage boosting operation, an oscillation circuit, and a plurality of charge pump circuits. The oscillation circuit includes an odd number of stages of control-type inverters. When the decision output signal from the voltage detection circuit indicates the voltage boosting operation (oscillation), the odd number of stages of inverters constitute a closed path. Oscillation outputs from outputs of the control-type inverters are thereby extracted, respectively. When the decision output signal indicates a stop of the voltage boosting operation (stop of the oscillation), output values of the control-type inverters are not inverted and held, and the oscillation is thereby stopped. The charge pump circuits receive output signals from the control-type inverters as clock signals, respectively, and operate.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a polymer represented by the general formula, Rp?Q?Z . . . Mk+)n]m, wherein Rp is a residue of a polymer of a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond, Q is an organic residue of n+1 valences and connected directly or through another group to Rp by means of a single bond, Mk+ is a cation of k valence, Z is an organic function group capable of forming an ionic bond with cation Mk+ or an organic function group having a coordination capability with Mk+, and m, n and k are integers of one or more. The disclosure also discloses an intermediate of the polymer mentioned above.

Abstract: A plurality of magnet rings for correcting a convergence are arranged in a tube axis direction with spacers interposed therebetween, on an outer circumferential surface of a neck. A velocity modulation coil for modulating a scanning velocity in a horizontal direction of an electron beam is placed so that a position of the velocity modulation coil in the tube axis direction is overlapped with those of the magnet rings. At least one of the spacers is made of only a magnetic substance. Alternatively, at least one of the spacers is made of a magnetic substance, and the outermost surface in a radius direction of the spacer made of a magnetic substance is covered with a non-metallic material. Because of this, the magnetic field formed by the velocity modulation coil can be intensified without disturbing the magnetic field of the magnet rings of a CPU.

Abstract: A hierarchical storage apparatus includes primary hierarchical storage connected to a host and storing information, a secondary hierarchical storage storing information, a hierarchical control unit controlling the primary hierarchical storage and the secondary hierarchical storage, and a management table for managing information on a logical volume as a recording space on the hierarchical storage apparatus. When a storage medium of the secondary hierarchical storage is replaced with a storage medium in an identical or different secondary hierarchical storage, the hierarchical control unit records identification information of a replacing storage medium of the secondary hierarchical storage on the management table.

Abstract: In a data recording apparatus, a monitoring unit detects a VLU including an MRB that manages an area that has not been accessed for a specified time period based on a current time, a time management table, and a parameter table. From MRBs of the detected VLU, the monitoring unit selects a plurality of MRBs with an unaccessed time period equal to or more than the specified time period and equal to or less than a total time. The monitoring unit performs synchronization process for data in a primary storage managed by the selected MRBs at a time. During the synchronization process, a correction value is adjusted when there is a data conflict with another device.

Abstract: A data recording apparatus includes a determining unit that determines whether a storable area is present in the first storage device. The storable area is a combination of a plurality of empty areas having contiguous physical addresses with a total data volume larger than that of a volume of the data. When the determining unit determines that the storable area is present, a first storage unit stores the data in the storable area, and a second storage unit stores the data that has been stored by the first storage unit in the storable area as a lump into the second storage device.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a polymer represented by the general formula, wherein Rp is a residue of a polymer of a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond, Q is an organic residue of n+1 valences and connected directly or through another group to Rp by means of a single bond, Mk+ is a cation of k valence, Z is an organic function group capable of forming an ionic bond with cation Mk+ or an organic function group having a coordination capability with Mk+, and m, n and k are integers of one or more. The disclosure also discloses an intermediate of the polymer mentioned above.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cationic conductor comprising a block copolymer comprising: a polymer moiety having a structural unit represented by formula (1): wherein R represents an organic group obtained via polymerization of monomer compounds having polymerizable unsaturated linkages; Q represents an n+1-valence organic group bonded to R through a single bond; Z represents a functional group capable of forming an ionic bond to or having coordination ability to a cation; Mk+ represents a k-valence cation; and n and m are each independently an integer of 1 or larger, provided that Z forms an ionic or coordination bond to a cation; and a polymer moiety having addition polymerizable monomers.

Abstract: At power-on again, a restore processing unit restores block information tables from a primary storage to a volatile memory. After classifying the block information tables into group-specific links of a plurality of time zones, a first sort processing unit connects the group-specific links to form a group classification link. Then, a second sort processing unit sequentially retrieves the block information tables of the group classification link from the earliest time stamp side for insertion in a position so as to achieve a time-stamp ascending order, thereby reconfiguring the links.

Abstract: This invention provides electrochemical devices that facilitate formation of an electric double layer, i.e., a reaction field at the electrode interface, for the purpose of reducing interface resistance. Such electrochemical devices each independently have a positive electrode and a negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode and the negative electrode are each in contact with a polymer, and wherein the Lewis acid properties of a polymer that is in contact with the positive electrode are different from those of a polymer that is in contact with the negative electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed is a booster circuit comprising a voltage detection circuit for outputting a decision output signal for detecting a boosted voltage and controlling a voltage boosting operation, an oscillation circuit, and a plurality of charge pump circuits. The oscillation circuit includes an odd number of stages of control-type inverters. When the decision output signal from the voltage detection circuit indicates the voltage boosting operation (oscillation), the odd number of stages of inverters constitute a closed path. Oscillation outputs from outputs of the control-type inverters are thereby extracted, respectively. When the decision output signal indicates a stop of the voltage boosting operation (stop of the oscillation), output values of the control-type inverters are not inverted and held, and the oscillation is thereby stopped. The charge pump circuits receive output signals from the control-type inverters as clock signals, respectively, and operate.

Abstract: This invention provides a side-chain-type polymer electrolyte exhibiting high ionic conductivity and a lithium secondary battery using the same. Such side-chain-type polymer electrolyte comprises a polymer structural unit represented by formula (1): wherein Rp represents an organic group obtained via polymerization of monomer compounds containing polymerizable unsaturated linkages or a polymerized organic group containing C, H, N, and O; m represents a value smaller than the polymerization degree of Rp; Y represents an organic group that binds to Rp; R1 represents a C1-10 alkylene group that allows Y to bind to Z; and Z represents a functional group having coordination ability with respect to a cation, provided that Z forms a coordination bond with a cation, wherein the polymer electrolyte has composition wherein a cation is added to a polymer having a side chain consisting of R1 and Z binding through Y to a polymer main chain consisting of Rp.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cationic conductor comprising a block copolymer comprising: a polymer moiety having a structural unit represented by formula (1): wherein R represents an organic group obtained via polymerization of monomer compounds having polymerizable unsaturated linkages; Q represents an n+1-valence organic group bonded to R through a single bond; Z represents a functional group capable of forming an ionic bond to or having coordination ability to a cation; Mk+ represents a k-valence cation; and n and m are each independently an integer of 1 or larger, provided that Z forms an ionic or coordination bond to a cation; and a polymer moiety having addition polymerizable monomers.

Abstract: A pair of velocity modulation coils are placed with a horizontal plane including a tube axis interposed therebetween, and a pair of magnetic substances are placed with a vertical plane including a tube axis interposed therebetween. A straight line portion of the velocity modulation coil extending substantially in parallel to the tube axis is placed between the magnetic substance and the tube axis. An interval D between the magnetic substance and the straight line portion is 1 to 3 mm. Assuming that the tube axis is a Z-axis, a size of the velocity modulation coil in a tube axis direction is L, and a position of an end of the velocity modulation coil on a side opposite to a phosphor screen in the tube axis direction is Z=0, a center point of the pair of magnetic substances in the tube axis direction is present in a range of Z=0.2×L to 0.9×L. Consequently, the sensitivity of velocity modulation can be enhanced while suppressing an increase in a driving power with a simple configuration.

Abstract: A deflection coil for deflecting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun is provided outside a cathode-ray tube in which the electron gun is housed, and a phosphor screen is formed. The cathode-ray tube further includes a velocity modulation coil for modulating a horizontal scanning velocity of an electron beam, a first magnetic substance surrounding an outer circumference of the cathode-ray tube from outside the velocity modulation coil, and a second magnetic substance surrounding the outer circumference of the cathode-ray tube between the deflection coil and the first magnetic substance. Because of this, the sensitivity of velocity modulation can be enhanced effectively with a simple configuration while deflection distortion is prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cationic conductor comprising a block copolymer comprising: a polymer moiety having a structural unit represented by formula (1): wherein R represents an organic group obtained via polymerization of monomer compounds having polymerizable unsaturated linkages; Q represents an n+1-valence organic group bonded to R through a single bond; Z represents a functional group capable of forming an ionic bond to or having coordination ability to a cation; Mk+ represents a k-valence cation; and n and m are each independently an integer of 1 or larger, provided that Z forms an ionic or coordination bond to a cation; and a polymer moiety having addition polymerizable monomers.