Abstract: In a storage system having a first storage control apparatus and a second storage control apparatus, the first storage control apparatus has: a first memory; a second memory; an input/output control unit for data transfer information in the second memory; and a data transfer control unit having a data buffer and a data transfer register for controlling data transfer between the first memory and second storage control apparatus based on the data transfer information read from the second memory and written in the data transfer register. When a second data transfer is controlled while a first data transfer is controlled, the data transfer control unit writes the first data transfer information and data stored in the data buffer into the second memory, reads the second data transfer information from the second memory and writes the second data transfer information into the data transfer register to control the second data transfer.

Abstract: In a storage system having a first storage control apparatus and a second storage control apparatus, the first storage control apparatus has: a first memory; a second memory; an input/output control unit for data transfer information in the second memory; and a data transfer control unit having a data buffer and a data transfer register for controlling data transfer between the first memory and second storage control apparatus based on the data transfer information read from the second memory and written in the data transfer register. When a second data transfer is controlled while a first data transfer is controlled, the data transfer control unit writes the first data transfer information and data stored in the data buffer into the second memory, reads the second data transfer information from the second memory and writes the second data transfer information into the data transfer register to control the second data transfer.

Abstract: In a data input/output with other apparatus, a data transfer controller (DTC) of a storage controller multiprocesses a data transfer with the other apparatus by utilizing a saving/recovering operation and suppresses a load therefrom, thereby improving performance thereof. A first storage apparatus includes two DMA units in a data transfer LSI of the DTC, uses them to process one or more data transfer concurrently, uses the saving or recovering operation to a memory #3 also in one DMA unit to process the data transfer while the data transfers are switched, thereby multiprocessing a plurality of data transfers. Based on an instruction from the IOC, the DTC makes one of the DMA units recover the necessary data transfer information and data from the memory #3 and transfer the data to the memory, and concurrently the other of the DMA units, which is not processed presently, save in advance, to the memory #3, the data transfer information and the data stored in the memory.

Abstract: In a storage system having a first storage control apparatus and a second storage control apparatus, the first storage control apparatus has: a first memory; a second memory; an input/output control unit for data transfer information in the second memory; and a data transfer control unit having a data buffer and a data transfer register for controlling data transfer between the first memory and second storage control apparatus based on the data transfer information read from the second memory and written in the data transfer register. When a second data transfer is controlled while a first data transfer is controlled, the data transfer control unit writes the first data transfer information and data stored in the data buffer into the second memory, reads the second data transfer information from the second memory and writes the second data transfer information into the data transfer register to control the second data transfer.

Abstract: In a storage system having a first storage control apparatus and a second storage control apparatus, the first storage control apparatus has: a first memory; a second memory; an input/output control unit for data transfer information in the second memory; and a data transfer control unit having a data buffer and a data transfer register for controlling data transfer between the first memory and second storage control apparatus based on the data transfer information read from the second memory and written in the data transfer register. When a second data transfer is controlled while a first data transfer is controlled, the data transfer control unit writes the first data transfer information and data stored in the data buffer into the second memory, reads the second data transfer information from the second memory and writes the second data transfer information into the data transfer register to control the second data transfer.

Abstract: In a storage system having a first storage control apparatus and a second storage control apparatus, the first storage control apparatus has: a first memory; a second memory; an input/output control unit for data transfer information in the second memory; and a data transfer control unit having a data buffer and a data transfer register for controlling data transfer between the first memory and second storage control apparatus based on the data transfer information read from the second memory and written in the data transfer register. When a second data transfer is controlled while a first data transfer is controlled, the data transfer control unit writes the first data transfer information and data stored in the data buffer into the second memory, reads the second data transfer information from the second memory and writes the second data transfer information into the data transfer register to control the second data transfer.

Abstract: To provide a separator for a fuel cell made of graphite excellent in mechanical strength and gas impermeability as well as electric characteristic properties, a separator for a fuel cell is produced from a molded body produced by filling a graphite powder 21 whose surface is coated with resin 20 in a molding die and by pressure-molding the powder. Such a molded body is provided with excellent mechanical strength of 40 MPa of bending strength or higher, 10×10?8 cc·cm/cm2·sec·atm of gas permeability or lower, and electric property of 10×10?3 ?·cm of the volume resistance or lower even if the content of resin is decreased to as low as 10 to 24 wt. %.

Abstract: A radio device holder includes a holder main unit; a tray having a first side holding section and a second side holding section for holding a portable telephone; a device locking mechanism including a device locking member for engaging with and disengaging from a look recess section of a portable telephone; a stopper rib for restricting the device locking member to an immovable state when the tray is situated in an installation position; a spring for impelling the tray constantly in the direction from the installation position towards a halt/detachment position; a tray locking mechanism including a tray locking member for engaging with the tray when situated in the installation position to fix the position of the tray, and releasing the engagement between the tray locking member and the tray; and an opening edge section for causing a tray moving from the installation position towards the halt/detachment position to stop at the halt/detachment position.

Abstract: A software-selecting method is for use in an electronic device equipped with a plurality of software components and a selecting section which selects one of the software components. The method comprises selecting one of the software components if one of first and second electronic device housings is attached to the electronic device. The first electronic device housing has an operating portion which operates the selecting section. The second electronic device housing has no operating portion.

Abstract: The radio device holder according to the embodiment comprises: a holder main unit having a holder-side connector; a tray having a first side holding section and a second side holding section for holding a portable telephone, provided movably between an installation position and a halt/detachment position; device locking mechanism comprising a device locking member for engaging with and disengaging from a lock recess section of a portable telephone, for holding the portable telephone in such a manner that it is detachable by means of a manual action by an operator when the tray is situated in the halt/detachment position; a stopper rib for restricting the device locking member to an immovable state when the tray is situated in an installation position, thereby holding the portable telephone in such a manner that it can be detached from the tray by the device locking mechanism; a spring for impelling the tray constantly in the direction from the installation position towards the halt/detachment position, by mea

Abstract: A software-selecting method is for use in an electronic device equipped with a plurality of software components and a selecting section which selects one of the software components. The method comprises selecting one of the software components if one of first and second electronic device housings is attached to the electronic device. The first electronic device housing has an operating portion which operates the selecting section. The second electronic device housing has no operating portion.

Abstract: A separator for a fuel cell made of graphite may be excellent in mechanical strength and gas impermeability as well as electrical properties. A separator for a fuel cell is produced from a molded body that is produced by filling a graphite powder whose surface is coated with resin in a molding die and by pressure-molding the powder. Such a molded body provides excellent mechanical strength, gas permeability, and electrical properties even if the content of resin is decreased to as low as 10 to 24 wt. %.

Abstract: A method of producing a spiral wound gasket for sealing fluid such as a liquid including water and oil, and a gaseous body including vapor and gas and a device for producing the spiral wound gasket. The tip portion of a hoop material is cut and raised thereby forming a checking stepped-portion. The checking stepped-portion is caught by a checking pawl, so as to wind the hoop material around a core drum. After winding the hoop material around the outer periphery of the core drum, at least once, the checking pawl is retracted from the outer periphery of the core drum, thereby separating the checking pawl from the checking stepped-portion. The spiral wound gasket produced by the present invention exhibits an excellent sealing property. Moreover, it also has an excellent durability.

Abstract: As a method by which failed products of hard-coated plastic lenses, especially hard-coated high-refractive-index plastic lenses can be regenerated to be in a re-usable condition, plastic lenses coated with a hard coat consisting essentially of an organopolysiloxane compound and an inorganic oxide, are contacted with an aqueous solution of a silicate and/or a phosphate. For example, an aqueous solution of 30% trisodium phosphate heated at 50° C. is sprayed over hard-coated plastic lenses for 5 minutes. The hard coat is removed from the lenses, while the surface of the coat-removed lenses is not roughed. The coat-removed lenses are re-usable.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing plastic lenses of urethane type resin having no or very little optical strain by the casting polymerization method. In the casting polymerization process, polymerization is effected while a suitable motion, for example, a particular rotative motion, or a motion based on rotation with the rotatable shaft disposedhorizontal is imparted to the shell to change the direction of the gravity acting on any minute portion of a monomer injected into the shell.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for generating an electron beam in an electron microscope comprising an electron gun, a second anode located under the gun, an aperture plate having an aperture for limiting the electron beam, and a scattered electron-blocking member for limiting passage of the beam. The aperture plate is mounted in the beam passage formed in the second anode. The scattered electron-blocking member is located under the aperture plate. Electrons scattered at the edges of the aperture are blocked by the scattered electron-blocking member from colliding against the accelerator tube.

Abstract: In a conventional electron beam-producing apparatus, a field emission gun is combined with an accelerating tube. An electrostatic lens focuses the electron beam diverging from the emitter. This conventional apparatus needs a large power supply for applying potentials to the electrodes of the lens and to the accelerating electrodes. Also, it is difficult to make stationary the position at which the crossover point of the electron beam is imaged. The present invention makes use of voltage-dividing resistors to produce fractions of the accelerating voltage. These fractions of the voltage are applied to the electrodes of the electrostatic lens and to various electrodes. This permits the use of a power supply that is smaller in size than conventional. The number of the used voltage-dividing resistors is increased or decreased, depending on the accelerating voltage. This makes it possible to fix the position of the crossover point imaged by the electrostatic lens.

Abstract: A power transmission system for a four-wheel drive vehicle has, for the front and rear wheels, a driving power transmitting system for transmitting the output of a transmission with a forward overrunning clutch and a reverse overrunning clutch. Either or both of the overrunning clutches are engaged with a sleeve of a selecting device. An outer race of each overrunning clutch has outer toothings on the periphery thereof and the sleeve has inner toothings. Each inner toothing of the selecting device has chamfers on both axial ends thereof, and each outer toothing has a chamfer on an end opposing the inner toothing. Opposed chamfers of the inner and outer toothings have an angle so that a component in a free rotational direction of the outer toothing is produced by the engagement of the chamfer of the inner toothing.

Abstract: With an accelerator for accelerating an electron beam by a voltage of about 400 KV having a stability of 10.sup.-6, it is difficult to use a flexible, insulated cable to feed the output from a power supply to an electron beam and an accelerating tube. Accordingly, the present invention employs a rodlike connector instead of such an insulated cable. A guide means is provided to permit the movement of a power supply column in the direction of the axis of the connector. This facilitates cleaning or otherwise maintaining the power supply column, the electron gun, and the accelerating tube.

Abstract: When a cassette is attached to or detached from a memory sewing machine, a switch provided on the sewing machine is actuated in association with the attaching or detaching so as to stop the operation of the circuit of the computer. During the actuation of said switch, an opening or closing is made between the connecting pin of the memory cassette and the circuit of the computer, and in the position where the attaching or detaching of the cassette is completed, the switch is returned to its initial position so as to position the circuit of the computer at the initial resetting condition so that a new stitching control is started.