Abstract: A storage apparatus is connected via a network to a host device which requests data writing. A file system is constructed on a virtual volume accessed by the host device. An assignment unit assigns a storage area of a plurality of storage devices to a data storage area of the file system; and an area management unit which, once the storage area of the plurality of storage devices has been assigned at least once to the data storage area of the file system, manages an area of the storage area from which data has been deleted and is no longer used by the file system as an assigned unused area. The assignment unit re-assigns the assigned unused area to the data storage area of the file system if the data writing to the data storage area of the file system from the host device has taken place.

Abstract: A motor stator (24) has a stator iron core (24a), a stator winding (24b), and a mold member (30) embedding them in an inner portion and having a high coefficient of thermal conductivity. The mold member (30) has a heat insulating layer (32) closely attached to an inner surface thereof surrounding a motor rotor (22) and to an outer surface thereof in an axial direction. Further, an outer sleeve (26) is provided so as to be closely attached to an outer peripheral surface of the mold member (30) and to an inner surface of a bearing housing (16). The outer sleeve (26) forms a liquid tight water cooling jacket (26b) between the outer sleeve and the bearing housing.

Abstract: In a high-speed rotating shaft (10) of a supercharger which is rotatably supported by two radial bearings (12a, 12b) spaced at a fixed distance (L), directly couples a turbine impeller fixed to one end and a compressor impeller fixed to the other end, and transmits a rotational driving force of the turbine impeller to the compressor impeller, a small shaft portion (14) having a smaller diameter than a bearing portion is provided between bearings. The small shaft portion (14) is offset to a compressor side.

Abstract: A motor-driven supercharger is provided with a stator assembly inserted and attached to a bearing housing, and a seal plate closely attached to a compressor side of the stator assembly and comparting between a compressor housing and a motor stator (24). The stator assembly has the motor stator and an outer sleeve having an inner peripheral surface closely attached to an outer peripheral surface of the motor stator and supporting the motor stator in such a manner as to constrain a rotation of the motor stator, wherein the motor stator and the outer sleeve form an integral part so as to construct the stator assembly, and the outer sleeve constructs a liquid tight water cooling jacket between the outer sleeve and the bearing housing. The outer sleeve and the seal plate are fastened together in an axial direction between the bearing housing and the compressor housing.

Abstract: A heat treating apparatus, which performs a specified heat treatment on a target object, includes a processing chamber accommodating therein the target object; a mounting table for mounting thereon the target object; a vacuum exhaust system for vacuum evacuating the processing chamber; an electromagnetic wave supply unit for irradiating an electromagnetic wave onto the target object to heat the target object; and a controller for controlling the heat treating apparatus such that the electromagnetic wave is irradiated onto the target object at a high vacuum level at which plasma is not generated. Further, a heat treating method performs a specified heat treatment on a target object, wherein the target object is accommodated in a processing chamber capable of being vacuum evacuated, and the target object is heated by irradiating an electromagnetic wave thereon at a high vacuum level at which plasma is not generated in the processing chamber.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic memory chip device comprises the steps of: writing information in each of a plurality of magnetic memory chips formed on a silicon wafer; adhering a high magnetic permeability plate on a back face of the silicon wafer after writing information, the high magnetic permeability plate having a higher magnetic permeability than silicon and having a thickness of 50 ?m or more; dicing the silicon wafer into respective magnetic memory chips after adhering the high magnetic permeability plate.

Abstract: Processing equipment for an object to be processed is provided with a process container, the internal of which can be evacuated, a gas introducing means for introducing a prescribed gas into the process container, a supporting table provided in the process container, a ring-shaped supporting part provided on the supporting table, a mounting plate for mounting the object to be processed and supported by the supporting part, a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements provided on an upper plane of the supporting table on an inner side of the supporting part, an element storing space evacuating means for evacuating inside the element storing space formed by a lower surface of the mounting plate, which is supported by the supporting part, an upper plane of the supporting table and the supporting part.

Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal layer having opposing principal faces; a plurality of electrodes; and an illuminator for emitting light toward one of the principal faces of the liquid crystal layer. When a predetermined voltage is applied, the liquid crystal layer forms an intermediate layer containing liquid crystal molecules which are oriented in a different direction from that of the liquid crystal molecules in an anchoring layer, and causes linearly-polarized light which has been transmitted through the anchoring layer to be refracted toward the one principal face in or near the intermediate layer. White is displayed while no voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer, and black displaying is conducted while a voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus for performing prescribed heat treatment to a subject (W) to be treated is provided with a processing chamber in which air can be exhausted; a mounting table arranged in the processing chamber, for placing on an upper plane the subject to be treated; a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements arranged on an upper part of the mounting table; a light transmitting window for covering a ceiling portion of the processing chamber airtight; and a gas introduction unit for introducing a required gas into the processing chamber. A heating unit which includes a plurality of heating light sources including a semiconductor light emitting element for emitting heating light to the subject to be treated, is provided above the light transmitting window. Thus, heating efficiency is improved and temperature can be increased and reduced at a higher speed for the subject to be treated.

Abstract: A motor-driven supercharger is provided with a turbine shaft (12) having a turbine impeller (11) in one end, a compressor impeller (14) rotationally driven by the turbine shaft, a housing surrounding the turbine impeller, the turbine shaft and the compressor impeller, a motor stator (24) fixed within the housing, and a motor rotor (22) rotationally driven by the motor stator. The motor rotor (22) is fixed to an inner diameter side of the compressor impeller (14) in accordance with a fitting.

Abstract: A method of the present invention, for driving a liquid crystal display device includes the step of applying, when spray-bend transition of liquid crystal molecules is completed, a constant voltage to a storage capacitor electrode so that an electric potential difference between a pixel electrode and a common electrode becomes greater than an electric potential difference between the pixel electrode and another pixel electrode adjacent to said pixel electrode when application of a voltage for the spray-bend transition of the liquid crystal molecules is stopped.

Abstract: A rotation is corrected by rotationally driving a supercharger rotor (a turbine impeller (2), a compressor impeller (6) and a shaft (12)) by an electric motor (18) in a state of detaching a turbine housing (4) and a compressor housing (8), and detecting data necessary for correcting the rotation inbalance of a motor-driven supercharger (10). Further, the electric motor (18) is driven by using a dedicated motor driver (27) supplying a larger electric power than a power supply of an acceleration assisting motor driver.

Abstract: A power unit for a motorcycle includes an internal combustion engine provided with a crankcase rotatably supporting a crankshaft with an axial line extending in a vehicle-width direction. An oil pump is mounted on the crankcase with a balancer rotatably supported by the crankcase. Rotational power from the crankshaft is transmitted to a pump driven member provided on a pump shall of the oil pump and to a balancer driven member coaxially interlinked with and connected to the balancer so as to transmit power to the balancer. The power unit is downsized by bringing a balancer and an oil pump into a close arrangement. The pump driven member and the balancer driven member are offset from each other in a vehicle-width direction and are located at such a position so as to at least partially overlap each other as viewed from the side of the vehicle-width direction.

Abstract: A processing apparatus using an electromagnetic wave is provided to perform a heat treatment on a target object. The processing apparatus includes a metallic processing chamber; a loading/unloading opening provided in one end of the processing chamber; a closing body capable of closing and opening the loading/unloading opening; a holding unit loaded and unloaded into and from the inside of the processing chamber through the loading/unloading opening, holding target objects at a predetermined interval, the holding unit being made of a material allowing the electromagnetic wave to transmit therethrough; an electromagnetic wave supply unit for introducing the electromagnetic wave into the processing chamber; a gas introducing unit for introducing a gas into the processing chamber; and a gas exhaust unit for exhausting an atmosphere in the processing chamber.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a continuously variable transmission chamber formed of a crank case and a cover member connected to the crank case to permit the use of oil different between the internal combustion engine and the continuously variable transmission. Thereafter, a sufficient amount of each oil is ensured to not reduce the lowest road clearance. A division wall divides an interior of an oil pan into an internal combustion engine side oil reservoir and a continuously variable transmission side oil reservoir that reserves oil for lubrication of a continuously variable transmission and for speed control thereof, and which is connected to a lower portion of a crank case. The continuously variable transmission side oil reservoir is formed in a width direction of the motorcycle wherein part of continuously variable transmission side oil reservoir expands more outwardly than a continuously variable transmission chamber.

Abstract: A motor-driven supercharger is provided with a thrust bearing (30) rotatably supporting a thrust force applied to a turbine shaft (12). The thrust bearing (30) is constituted by a small-diameter disc-shaped thrust collar (32) rotating together with a turbine shaft, and a turbine side thrust bearing (34) and a compressor side thrust bearing (36) which block a movement in an axial direction of the thrust collar. The compressor side thrust bearing (36) has a small-diameter ring portion (37) including a thrust surface which is in contact with the thrust collar and has approximately an equal diameter, and a flange portion (38a) fixed to a housing (16) in the turbine side, and the small-diameter ring portion and the flange portion are arranged at different positions in an axial direction.

Abstract: In a method of driving a liquid crystal display device in accordance with the present invention, a transition voltage (+25 VDC) for causing liquid crystal molecules to be in a bend orientation state is applied, and after an entire surface is changed into the bend orientation state, the voltage applied to a liquid crystal layer is continuously reduced from a transition voltage to a reverse tilt eliminating voltage.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate is provided to be opposed to a counter substrate with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, the liquid crystal layer being in an OCB mode in which orientation is spray orientation when no voltage is applied and the orientation is changed to bend orientation when a voltage is applied. A storage capacitor bus line is provided on a pixel electrode so as to be opposite to the counter substrate and an opening is provided at a part of the pixel electrode at a region where the pixel electrode and the storage capacitor bus line intersect. A liquid crystal control circuit and a relay circuit are provided for applying a transition voltage to the storage capacitor bus line so as to apply an electric field between the pixel electrode and the storage capacitor bus line, and after a certain period in which liquid crystal molecules have responded, applying a transition voltage to the counter electrode so as to apply an electric field between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention help to efficiently determine the appropriate setting of the write current of a magnetic head relative to temperature. According to one embodiment, a test computer determines the set value of a write current as a function of temperature for each head device portion from the relationship between a write current and an error rate. A test execution controller sets a selected head device portion and a write current to an AE, and writes data on a magnetic disk using the components in a HDD. The test execution controller reads the written data, and the error rate of the data from an error correcting section. The test execution controller repeats the same process with the write current varied. Upon completion of the measurement at the preset write currents, the test execution controller transfers the measurement data to the test computer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal processing apparatus that conducts a thermal process such as an annealing process at a temperature of 400° C. or more to an object to be processed. The apparatus is provided with a processing vessel (4) having a transmitting window (8) in a top part thereof. A table (10) is disposed in the vessel, that supports thereon the object (W) opposed to the transmitting window. A plurality of heating lamps (42A, 42B) are disposed above the processing vessel, that heat the object by irradiating heat rays to the object through the transmitting window. A thermoelectric converter (24) is disposed on the table and configured to at least cool the object. When a temperature of the object is increased, the object is mainly heated by the heat rays from the heating lamps. When the temperature of the object is decreased, the object is forcibly cooled by means of the thermoelectric converter.