Abstract: A storage system has a storage controller and a RAID group. The storage controller has policy management information such that one failure recovery process among a plurality of differing failure recovery processes is associated with each RAID group, and when an error in a command issued to a RAID group is detected, the failure recovery process associated with the RAID group to which the command was issued is specified on the basis of the policy management information, and the specified failure recovery process is executed.

Abstract: A storage system has a storage controller and a RAID group. The storage controller has policy management information such that one failure recovery process among a plurality of differing failure recovery processes is associated with each RAID group, and when an error in a command issued to a RAID group is detected, the failure recovery process associated with the RAID group to which the command was issued is specified on the basis of the policy management information, and the specified failure recovery process is executed.

Abstract: A tray moving mechanism includes: a unit base having an internal space formed as a containing space; and a tray movable between a retracted position in which the unit base is contained in the containing space and a projected position in which a music player formed in a substantially rectangular shape can be placed on the tray and in which a part of the tray is projected from the base unit, wherein the tray is moved with respect to the unit base such that the orientations of the tray with respect to the unit base in the retracted and projected positions are substantially 90 deg different from each other.

Abstract: A storage apparatus and tier control method capable of executing hierarchical control based on variable performance of SSDs are suggested. With a storage apparatus equipped with a plurality of drives composed of flash memories, the storage apparatus includes a controller for hierarchically controlling storage areas provided by the plurality of drives by classifying the storage areas into a plurality of tiers with different performances and managing them, wherein the controller: decides a first tier, to which each of the drives should belong, based on performance of the drive; decides to change the tier, to which the drive should belong, from the first tier to a second tier different from the first tier based on the drive's performance, which varies depending on property of the drive; and changes the tier, to which the drive determined to change its tier should belong, from the first tier to the second tier.

Abstract: A storage apparatus and tier control method capable of executing hierarchical control based on variable performance of SSDs are suggested. With a storage apparatus equipped with a plurality of drives composed of flash memories, the storage apparatus includes a controller for hierarchically controlling storage areas provided by the plurality of drives by classifying the storage areas into a plurality of tiers with different performances and managing them, wherein the controller: decides a first tier, to which each of the drives should belong, based on performance of the drive; decides to change the tier, to which the drive should belong, from the first tier to a second tier different from the first tier based on the drive's performance, which varies depending on property of the drive; and changes the tier, to which the drive determined to change its tier should belong, from the first tier to the second tier.

Abstract: A tray moving mechanism includes: a unit base having an internal space formed as a containing space; and a tray movable between a retracted position in which the unit base is contained in the containing space and a projected position in which a music player formed in a substantially rectangular shape can be placed on the tray and in which a part of the tray is projected from the base unit, wherein the tray is moved with respect to the unit base such that the orientations of the tray with respect to the unit base in the retracted and projected positions are substantially 90 deg different from each other.

Abstract: The present invention is provided for maintaining and replacing storage devices systematically in accordance with schedule. A storage control apparatus 1 has multiple storage devices 1A equipped with flash memory or the like. The storage control apparatus 1 monitors and records the utilization state of each storage device. When a storage device utilization state reaches a first threshold, the storage control apparatus starts an access control process to control the length of a maintenance period. When the storage device utilization state reaches a second threshold, the storage control apparatus executes blockage control, thereby causing this storage device to be replaced. The timing, at which a storage device with little lifetime remaining is replaced, is controlled to enhance maintenance work efficiency.

Abstract: A tray moving mechanism includes: a unit base having an internal space formed as a containing space; and a tray movable between a retracted position in which the unit base is contained in the containing space and a projected position in which a music player formed in a substantially rectangular shape can be placed on the tray and in which a part of the tray is projected from the base unit, wherein the tray is moved with respect to the unit base such that the orientations of the tray with respect to the unit base in the retracted and projected positions are substantially 90 deg different from each other.

Abstract: A reproducing apparatus, in which a disc insertion slot of car audio equipment can be opened and closed by a shutter member to prevent foreign substances, dust and the like from entering the disc insertion slot and in which a liquid crystal display portion is covered with the shutter member to turn off the illumination when driving at night. The reproducing apparatus includes a disc insertion slot in a front panel and a liquid crystal display portion below the disc insertion slot, in which a shutter board for opening and closing the disc insertion slot is provided on the front surface of the front panel and when the disc insertion slot is open, the liquid crystal display portion is covered with the shutter board to turn off the illumination of the liquid crystal display portion.

Abstract: A reproducing apparatus, in which a disc insertion slot of car audio equipment can be opened and closed by a shutter member to prevent foreign substances, dust and the like from entering the disc insertion slot and in which a liquid crystal display portion is covered with the shutter member to turn off the illumination when driving at night. The reproducing apparatus includes a disc insertion slot in a front panel and a liquid crystal display portion below the disc insertion slot, in which a shutter board for opening and closing the disc insertion slot is provided on the front surface of the front panel and when the disc insertion slot is open, the liquid crystal display portion is covered with the shutter board to turn off the illumination of the liquid crystal display portion.

Abstract: An information processing system including an arithmetic unit in which one unit of data is processed according to a corresponding one instruction, and another arithmetic unit in which a great amount of data are processed according to a corresponding instruction. Also included is an instruction controller which distributes instructions selectively to respective arithmetic units (12) and a main storage (12) which achieves two-way data communication with the arithmetic units. In the system synchronization is performed with respect to instructions, among the aforesaid instructions, which, above all, must be executed in respective fixed execution sequences, by utilizing a newly employed synchronization instruction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gate apparatus for injection molding, that enables injection-molding moldings having a relatively small height and forming a plurality of cavities in an associated injection-molding die, the number of the cavities being greater than that of the cavities of the conventional injection-molding die of the same size. The gate assembly comprises an injection-molding die having a female die provided with a cavity, a down gate having an upper cylindrical portion, a middle taper portion and a lower small cylindrical hole formed in the lower end of the middle taper portion, and a cross gate formed through a wall separating the cavity and the lower small cylindrical hole; and a nozzle chip having a lower taper portion of a shape conforming to the middle taper portion of the down gate.

Abstract: In an information processing unit, in particular, in a data flow type information processing unit, an instruction indicates whether operand data for use by this instruction is available. Operand data, both from external storage units and from previously executed instructions, are stored in a data memory while instructions are stored in an instruction memory. An instruction execution unit is started by a control signal when all operands necessary for executing an instruction are available. Instructions and data can be routed independently, thereby permitting more rapid execution of instructions.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a data processing system where a plurality of vector registers consisting of plurality of elements are provided between a main memory unit and an operational processing unit, the desired data is transferred to the vector registers from the main memory unit and is held therein, and various processings such as a logical operation are carried out by sequentially accessing the elements within said vector registers. The present invention also includes a plurality of memory banks which can be independently accessed and are provided for the vector registers. A series of elements of each vector register are interleaved in the plurality of memory banks and the elements having the same numbering in each vector register are arranged in the same memory bank. Timing necessary for starting access to a series of elements of said vector registers are specified for each class of processing, so that the vector operation processings can be done very effectively and without operand collision.

Abstract: A memory access control system in a vector processing system comprises a memory unit, a memory device, address holding registers, a shift register and data buffer registers. The memory access control system distinguishes each vector data read out from the memory unit based upon the address holding registers by the output of the shift register. The shift register stores vector element numbers indicated by the memory device and transfers same to the data buffer registers. Each number from 0 to n-1, of a vector A composed of n elements a.sub.0, a.sub.1, a.sub.2, . . . a.sub.n-1, is a vector element number and each data, from a.sub.0 to a.sub.n-1, is vector element data.

Abstract: A data processing system having a pipeline processing architecture for performing a sequence of operations upon each group of data, one of which is a conditional group, comprising a main pipeline for performing the sequence of operations upon the data other than the conditional data and a sub-pipeline for processing the conditional data, wherein the two pipelines are synchronized on the same time base so that executing time is determined only by the main pipeline.

Abstract: A system for controlling the addition of signed binary numbers represented with N bits, of the 2's complement notation, is disclosed which includes addend and augend sign control circuits, and an adder circuit comprising a carry save adder and a carry proper gate adder. The addend sign control circuit receives an operation command sign signal (B, --B, .vertline.B.vertline. or --.vertline.B.vertline.) for the addend, which designates the addend of the certain type (B, .vertline.B.vertline. or --.vertline.--B.vertline.) to be applied directly to the carry save adder and designates the addend of another type (--B, .vertline.--B.vertline. or --.vertline.B.vertline.) to be applied to the carry save adder through a 1's complementer. The augend sign control circuit functions similarly for the augend being applied to the carry save adder.