Abstract: One code (a compressed redundant code) is created based on a plurality of first redundant codes, each created on the basis of a plurality of data units, and this compressed redundant code is written to a nonvolatile storage area. This compressed redundant code is used to restore either a data element constituting a multiple-failure data, or a first redundant code corresponding to the multiple-failure data, which is stored in an unreadable sub-storage area of a partially failed storage device, and to restore the data element constituting the multiple-failure data which is stored in a sub-storage area of a completely failed storage device, based on the restored either data element or first redundant code, and either another data element constituting the multiple-failure data or the first redundant code corresponding to the multiple-failure data.

Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal apparatus including a touch display section mounted with a touch panel. The apparatus includes: a touch pad assignment section configured to assign a touch pad region to a specific region in the touch display section; a pointer display section configured to display a touch pad pointer at a specific position on the touch display section when the touch pad region is assigned by the touch pad assignment section; a processor configured to execute a specific processing according to a touch operation in the touch pad region; and a touch controller configured to disable a touch operation, when the touch operation is performed in the touch display section other than the touch pad region assigned by the touch pad assignment section.

Abstract: Electrode foil includes an aluminum alloy having a composition in a region at least 10 ?m deep from a surface of the foil. The composition includes aluminum as a main component and zirconium of at least 0.03 at % and at most 0.5 at %.

Abstract: On a first light transmissive substrate, a first scale mark portion is formed inside an opening portion, and on a second light transmissive substrate, a second scale mark portion is formed. On the second light transmissive substrate, a first metal layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second metal layer are laminated. A thin film transistor is formed so as to include a part of the first metal layer, a part of the semiconductor layer, and a part of the second metal layer. The second scale mark portion is formed of another part of the second metal layer. Under the second scale mark portion, another part of the semiconductor layer is formed so as to extend off from the second scale mark portion. Below the second scale mark portion and the semiconductor layer, another part of the first metal layer is formed in a size capable of shielding the opening portion.

Abstract: A first storage system stores information relating to the updating of data stored in that system as a journal. More specifically, the journal is composed of a copy of data that was used for updating and update information such as a write command used during updating. Furthermore, the second storage system acquires the journal via a communication line between the first storage system and the second storage system. The second storage system holds a duplicate of the data held by the first storage system and updates the data corresponding to the data of the first storage system in the data update order of the first storage system by using the journal.

Abstract: A remote copy system includes: a first storage system having a first logical volume accompanied with a first plurality of disk drives in the first storage system; a second storage system having a second logical volume, which is a virtual volume not accompanied with a second plurality of disk drives in the second storage system, the virtual volume configuring a first remote copy pair with the first logical volume; and a third storage system having a third logical volume accompanied with a third plurality of disk drives in the third storage system, the third logical volume configuring a second remote copy pair with the virtual volume and storing a copied data of data stored in the first logical volume. If the second storage system receives write data sent from the first storage system to the virtual volume, the second storage system transfers the write data to the third logical volume in the third storage system.

Abstract: A display device substrate includes a transparent substrate arranged in parallel with a face on which an image is displayed and a light-shielding film partially formed on the transparent substrate for shielding light. The light-shielding film has, at a portion of the transparent substrate along an edge thereof on at least one side, a low light-shielding portion having a lower light-shielding capability. The low light-shielding portion is formed with a smaller thickness than that of the other portion in the light-shielding film. With this configuration, even when, in a gang printing display panel in which a plurality of display panels each having the display device substrate are arranged, the light-shielding films of the display panels adjacent to each other are formed continuously, cutting can be performed more easily at a position to be cut.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided which can enhance a numerical aperture. The display has a pixel transparent conductive film electrode and a transparent conductive film counter electrode formed on an insulation film, which in turn is formed on a first substrate to cover the pixel electrode. A plurality of linear portions of the counter electrode are arranged on the pixel electrode. A gate-signal-line side of the pixel electrode of the first pixel is formed on a first-pixel side of the gate signal line and a gate-signal-line side of the pixel electrode of the second pixel is formed on a second-pixel side of the gate signal line. The gate-signal-line-side frame portion of the counter electrode of the first pixel and the gate-signal-line-side frame portion of the counter electrode of the second pixel are formed in common on the gate signal line in a striding manner.

Abstract: A host I/F unit has a management table for managing an MPPK which is in-charge of the control of input/output processing for a storage area of an LDEV, and if a host computer transmits an input/output request for the LDEV, the host I/F unit transfers the input/output request to the MPPK which is in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV based on the management table, an MP of the MPPK performs the input/output processing based on the input/output request, and the MP of the MPPK also judges whether the MPPK that is in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV is to be changed, and sets the management table so that an MPPK which is different from the MPPK that is in-charge is to be in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device, in which: the insulating film includes an extension portion, which extends from an end surface of the insulating film at a position which overlaps a portion of the sealing member forming the liquid crystal injecting port, up to the vicinity of the end surface of the at least one substrate; and the extension portion is formed so that a cross section of the extension portion, which is orthogonal to a thickness direction thereof, is symmetric with respect to a line passing a center of the sealing member in a width direction thereof, and further, a width of the extension portion in the width direction of the sealing member is formed smaller than a width of the sealing member obtained after adhering the pair of substrates to each other.

Abstract: A spent fuel storage rack that accommodates and stores spent fuels in a large number of cells formed in a grid pattern includes a flat rectangular plate-shaped base forming the bottom of the rack, columnar members extending upward from the four corners of the base, and at least a pair of upper and lower grid-shaped frame plates disposed above the base and fixed to and supported by the columnar members. Each of the cells is formed by assembling metal plates to which boron is added to a density greater than 1% into a polygonal tube, and the cells are arranged contiguously at fixed intervals in the grid-shaped frame plates.

Abstract: A host I/F unit has a management table for managing an MPPK which is in-charge of the control of input/output processing for a storage area of an LDEV, and if a host computer transmits an input/output request for the LDEV, the host I/F unit transfers the input/output request to the MPPK which is in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV based on the management table, an MP of the MPPK performs the input/output processing based on the input/output request, and the MP of the MPPK also judges whether the MPPK that is in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV is to be changed, and sets the management table so that an MPPK which is different from the MPPK that is in-charge is to be in-charge of the input/output processing for the LDEV.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrogel contact lens which has improved and long-lasting wettability in the surface and inner structures, while exhibiting excellent contamination resistance, shape stability and mechanical strength. Also disclosed is a method for producing the hydrogel contact lens. The wettable hydrogel contact lens is characterized by containing an ionic hydrophilic polymer which is a compound having a hydroxy group and an anionic group. The method for producing a hydrogel contact lens is characterized in that a constituent component of the hydrogel contact lens is a copolymer containing at least a cationic monomer and an anionic monomer, and in that the method comprises a step wherein counter ions of the monomers form ionic bonds and a step wherein an ionic hydrophilic polymer, which is a compound having a hydroxy group and an anionic group, is contained.

Abstract: The drain lines are such that one drain line is formed for every two pixels adjacent to each other within the same pixel row, the gate lines are formed of a first gate line connected to one of the two pixels connected to the same drain line within the same pixel row and a second gate line connected to the other pixel, the pixel electrode is formed of a first linear electrode inclined in a plus direction from the first direction, and a second linear electrode inclined in a minus direction from the first direction, in a region in which the pixel electrode is superimposed over the common electrode, and each pixel has the first and second gate lines and thin film transistor formed in a region between the region of the first linear electrode and the region of the second linear electrode.

Abstract: A first storage system stores information relating to the updating of data stored in that system as a journal. More specifically, the journal is composed of a copy of data that was used for updating and update information such as a write command used during updating. Furthermore, the second storage system acquires the journal via a communication line between the first storage system and the second storage system. The second storage system holds a duplicate of the data held by the first storage system and updates the data corresponding to the data of the first storage system in the data update order of the first storage system by using the journal.

Abstract: Provided is a display device (1), including: two pixels in a region (A) surrounded by two video signal lines (DL) and two scanning signal lines (GL); a first dummy wiring, which is connected to one video signal line of the two video signal lines; and a second dummy wiring, which is connected to a different one of the two video signal lines (DL) from the one video signal line to which the first dummy wiring is connected, in which the first dummy wiring and the second dummy wiring each extend along a contour of the region (A) to a position between the two pixels, and further extend so that respective end portions are opposed to each other between the two pixels.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a separation layer and a wiring layer are formed in order on a supporting substrate. A plurality of semiconductor chips are mounted on the wiring layer. The plural semiconductor chips are collectively sealed by a sealing resin layer. A resin-sealed body is evenly held by a holder. The resin-sealed body is separated from the supporting substrate by shearing the separation layer while being heated. The separated resin-sealed body is cooled while a state of the resin-sealed body being held evenly by the holder is maintained, and then a holding state of the resin-sealed body by the holder is released. The resin-sealed body is cut to singulate a circuit structure body.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a ring-shaped device superior in the wearing comfort and intraocular stability while being worn on the eye. Provided is a ring-shaped device to be worn on the scleral surface, which is characterized in that it has an opening to expose the cornea and an intermediate portion between an inner edge portion and an outer edge portion has a maximum thickness.

Abstract: One code (a compressed redundant code) is created based on a plurality of first redundant codes, each created on the basis of a plurality of data units, and this compressed redundant code is written to a nonvolatile storage area. This compressed redundant code is used to restore either a data element constituting a multiple-failure data, or a first redundant code corresponding to the multiple-failure data, which is stored in an unreadable sub-storage area of a partially failed storage device, and to restore the data element constituting the multiple-failure data which is stored in a sub-storage area of a completely failed storage device, based on the restored either data element or first redundant code, and either another data element constituting the multiple-failure data or the first redundant code corresponding to the multiple-failure data.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sustainedly drug-releasing hydrogel contact lens which can sustainedly release an anionic medicament such as an allergy-treating agent in a mildly irritating and effective manner while achieving vision correction. Specifically disclosed is a hydrogel comprising ionic monomers composed of at least a cationic monomer and an anionic monomer, wherein the component ratio of the ionic monomers is 5 to 20 mol % inclusive relative to the total amount of monomers that constitute the gel, and the content of the anionic monomer is 15 to 25 mol % inclusive relative to the content of the cationic monomer.