Abstract: The present invention is directed to remote operation of an operation valve such as an air operated valve even at the time of power loss. A gas supply apparatus of the present invention includes: an operation valve mounted in some midpoint of a piping for passing at least gas in a plant and operating a valve body by the gas flowing in the piping; an solenoid valve mounted in some midpoint of the piping and allowing/stopping flow of the gas to the operation valve; and a gas supply source for supplying gas to the solenoid valve. A switching valve for switching between exhaust from the solenoid valve and gas supply to the solenoid valve is mounted in an exhaust line of the solenoid valve and, at the time of power loss, the switching valve is switched to connection to the gas supply source for supplying gas to the solenoid valve.

Abstract: This storage apparatus for providing a dynamically expandable virtual volume to a host system to access the virtual volume comprises an allocation unit for configuring a group with a plurality of disks for providing a storage area to be allocated to the virtual volume, and allocating the storage area respectively from a plurality of the groups to the virtual volume; and a storage area arrangement unit for rearranging the storage area in each of the groups being used by the virtual volume to become optimal among each of the groups based on external operation.

Abstract: A disc brake includes a pair of end-side connector parts that connect a pair of cylinder parts across over a disc rotor, and an intermediate connector part that is installed between the end-side connector parts and that connects the pair of cylinder parts across over the disc rotor and brake pads. The brake pads are provided with protrusion segments that are formed at positions that are outer end sides in a rotor radial direction and that protrude in directions separated from middle portions of the brake pads in a rotor rotational direction, and the end-side connector parts are provided with pad engaging faces on which inner regions in the rotor radial direction of the protrusion segments are oppositely disposed and which are formed of the same member as a caliper main body.

Abstract: There is provided an induction machine having a squirrel-cage rotor, the rotor including: a rotor core; a plurality of rotor slots formed on the rotor core and aligned circumferentially at a predetermined interval; a plurality of rotor bars inserted into one of the plurality of rotor slots; and a plurality of rotor slits formed adjacent to the plurality of rotor slots on an outer circumferential side of the rotor core. The each rotor slit is formed as a hollow such that a cross sectional shape thereof is distinguished into three parts of a slit outer circumferential part, a slit intermediate part, and a slit inner circumferential part. A circumferential width of the each rotor slit on an innermost circumferential side is larger than that on an outermost circumferential side. A circumferential width of the slit intermediate part increases from an outer circumferential side toward an inner circumferential side.

Abstract: A disc brake includes a caliper main body configured to have a pad assembling space that is disposed across over a disc rotor and opens toward an approximate middle thereof in a rotor radial direction and a connector part that crosses the pad assembling space in a rotor axial direction, and a pad spring that is engaged with the connector part of the caliper main body by a pair of claw portions facing each other, is installed on the caliper main body, and biases the brake pads in a rotor rotational outlet direction and inward in the rotor radial direction. The pad spring has a symmetrical shape with respect to the center in a longitudinal direction thereof, and the pair of claw portions are engaged with the connector part in a state in which the center in the longitudinal direction is offset in a rotor rotational direction with respect to the center in the rotor rotational direction of the brake pads.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve realizing improved circumferential uniformity of swirling fuel is provided. The fuel injection valve includes a swirling chamber having an inner peripheral wall whose curvature is gradually larger from upstream to downstream, a path for swirling which, having a fuel flow-in region formed along a valve axis direction, guides fuel to the swirling chamber, and a fuel injection orifice open into the swirling chamber. In the fuel injection valve, the path for swirling is inclined toward the fuel injection orifice formed on a downstream side of the swirling chamber.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a collet cleaning method and a die bonder using the same in which a collet can be cleaned without adding a new unit, and foreign substances with high adhesive power can be reliably removed without scattering the foreign substances. A die bonder includes a pickup device, a bonding head unit having a collet that absorbs dies from a wafer at the timing of lifting of the pickup device, and a control unit that controls the pickup device and the bonding head unit. The collet is moved to a position of a dicing tape at which no dies of the wafer held by a wafer ring exist to be brought into contact with the adhesive surface of the dicing tape, so that foreign substances attached to the tip end of the collet are removed.

Abstract: A content receiver comprises: an acceptance unit for accepting a designation of a recording medium to which contents are to be output; a license information acquiring unit for acquiring output license information describing the output requirements of the contents; and an output unit for outputting the contents to the designated recording medium. The output license information includes usage time limit information indicating the time limit of using the contents in an output destination. The output unit acquires the usage time limit information from the output license information for the contents, and sets the acquired usage time limit information to a management information storing area in the designated recording medium, thereby managing the time period of using the contents in the recording medium even if the copyright protection of the recording medium, which is an export destination, has a function to manage the time period of using the contents.

Abstract: A shadow region extraction portion compares the brightness of an image captured by a camera with a threshold value and extracts first and second shadows caused by first and second light sources for a user's finger. An approach degree detection portion detects an approach degree for the finger with reference to a manipulation surface from distance d between two feature points in the first and second shadows. A contact point detection portion detects contact point P for the finger with reference to the manipulation surface from positions of the two feature points. A direction detection portion detects a direction pointed by the finger from directions of contours corresponding to the first and second shadows. A display control portion generates display control data for a manipulation target apparatus based on detection result data.

Abstract: In an imaging device having a driving device using a stepping motor, improvement in recovery speed after a step out of the motor is realized. An imaging device having a driving device which carries out lens driving, diaphragm driving or pan-tilt-zoom driving with a stepping motor, includes: a motor driving unit which controls a current or voltage supplied to an exciting coil of the stepping motor; a system control unit which outputs a motor driving stop instruction to the motor driving unit; and a detection unit which detects a current or voltage flowing through the exciting coil after the stop instruction is outputted. The system control unit finds a direction of correction and an amount of correction to recover from a movement of a rotor due to a step out of the stepping motor, based on the current or voltage detected by the detection unit, and moves the stepping motor based on the direction of correction and the amount of correction.

Abstract: A virtual machine deployment determination unit that manages a plurality of physical machines as machines in which a virtual machine is to be deployed acquires setting information including a type of software that is running on the virtual machine and an operating policy of the software, refers to deployment condition determination information which prescribes a deployment condition for selecting the physical machine to become the deployment destination of the virtual machine is associated with the operating policy of the software and stored therein based on the acquired setting information, and determines the physical machine to become the deployment destination of the virtual machine by selecting the physical machine among the plurality of physical machines based on the referral result.

Abstract: A light source device includes an excitation light source that generates excitation light, a phosphor wheel including a phosphor segment that generates fluorescent light by excitation of the excitation light, and a mirror that guides the excitation light from the excitation light source to the phosphor wheel and emits the fluorescent light from the phosphor wheel as illumination light. The phosphor wheel further includes an anisotropic diffusion and reflection unit that diffuses and reflects incident excitation light such that an optical path for the incident excitation light and an optical path for the diffused excitation light after incidence of the excitation light are not overlapped. The mirror includes a first region that reflects the excitation light and transmits the fluorescent light and a second region that transmits the fluorescent light and the diffused excitation light which the anisotropic diffusion and reflection unit has diffused and reflected.

Abstract: A communication system and server includes a first memory for storing terminal information of a first terminal and a second terminal, a second memory for storing outgoing call history information of at least either the first terminal or the second terminal, a third memory for storing incoming call history information of at least either the first terminal or the second terminal; and a processing unit for reading out the information from the first memory to control at least either information of the second memory or the third memory in accordance with information contained in a notification from the communication device when setting the connection between at least either the first terminal or the second terminal and the communication device, therefore, two parties to be communicated with each other specify a connection terminal of a call source.

Abstract: A motor drive device and a motor drive method for a vehicle electric pump. The device and the method set a target value according to an instruction value of a motor control amount and control the motor of the vehicle electric pump based on the target value. When the instruction value is greater than an actual control amount, the instruction value is set to the target value. Meanwhile, when the instruction value is less than the actual control amount, the actual control amount is set to the target value when the actual control amount is less than a value less than a previous target value by a predetermined value, and the value less than previous target value by predetermined value is set to the target value of this time when the actual control amount is greater than the value less than previous target value by predetermined value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a reflow film containing a thermoplastic resin which is dissolvable in a solvent, and solder particles, wherein the solder particles are dispersed in the film, and also relates to a solder bump formation method which comprises: (A) a step of mounting the reflow film on the electrode surface side of a substrate, (B) a step of mounting and fixing a flat plate, (C) a step of heating, and (D) a step of dissolving and removing the reflow film, and herewith, a reflow film is provided which, by causing localization of the solder component on the electrodes of the substrate by self-assembly, exhibits excellent storage properties, transportability and handling properties during use, and can form solder bumps or solder joints selectively on only the electrodes.

Abstract: An optical information recording/reproduction device includes a detection unit which detects a focus-direction height of a recording medium, a focus adjustment unit which adjusts a focus-direction distance between the recording medium and a signal light optical system and a reference light system, and a control unit which controls the focus adjustment unit so that a relative distance between the object lens of the signal light optical system and the recording medium is adjusted according to the focus-direction height of the recording medium detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: In a magnetic head of a high-frequency magnetic field assisted recording system, a width of a high-frequency magnetic field from an oscillator is decreased to enhance an oscillation frequency, in order to realize a high-density recording. An oscillator provided near a main pole, which generates a recording magnetic field, for generating a high-frequency magnetic field is patterned by a conventional photolithography, and then, an oxidation, nitridation, or oxynitridation is performed on the side face in a track width direction. With this process, an oxide layer, a nitride layer, or an oxynitride layer, which is made of a material of the oscillator, is formed on the side face of the oscillator in the track width direction, and the shape of the oscillator is formed to be semi-circular.

Abstract: In a wireless communications system operating according to CDMA or the like, when one terminal simultaneously performs communication using multiple wireless resources (e.g., multiple carriers), there was a problem that when it was attempted to guarantee network mobility by the same soft handoff system as in the case where communication was performed using only one wireless resource, efficiency suffered from the viewpoint of network forwarding load, processing load and wireless resource occupancy time. Soft handoff termination is judged and soft handoff is forcibly terminated according to whether or not the data rate obtained for all resources on the network side satisfies a requested rate, based on a reception state notification from a terminal concerning wireless resources.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve a rewriting transmission rate and reliability of a phase change memory. To attain the purpose, a plurality of phase change memory cells (SMC or USMC) which are provided in series between a word line (2) and a bit line (3) and have a selection element and a storage element that are parallel connected with each other are entirely set, and after that, a part of the cells corresponding to a data pattern is reset. Alternatively, the reverse of the operation is carried out.