Abstract: According to the prior art virtual file backup method, backup is performed without saving a file configuration information, so that the backup file cannot be restored as a virtual file during restoration, and the usage capacity of the disk is increased. According to the present invention, an actual data managed by a virtual file, an actual data managed by one or more element files and a configuration information of the virtual file are respectively stored during backup, wherein during restoration, the virtual file is restored based on the configuration information of the virtual file.

Abstract: An example of the invention is a method of data migration from a source volume including storage areas of a plurality of source storage tiers different in performance capability to a destination volume including storage areas of a plurality of destination storage tiers different in performance capability, data relocation being performed among the plurality of source storage tiers in accordance with accesses to the source volume during the data migration. The method includes: starting the data migration between volumes from the source volume to the destination volume; acquiring information on a data arrangement in the source volume determined based on an access history to the source volume during the data migration between volumes from the source volume to the destination volume; and determining a data arrangement in the destination volume during the data migration between volumes based on the data arrangement indicated by the acquired information.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a wind turbine generator system is provided which can not only remove the influence of salt damage in case the system is established off-shore, but even if the facility becomes larger, which can also cool equipment and the generator provided in the tower and can reduce the possibility of decreasing power generation efficiency.

Abstract: A filter, the alignment of which does not need to be adjusted, and an ink jetrecording apparatus having such a filter are provided, the ink jetrecording apparatus capable of avoiding leakage of residual liquids in filter exchange operation. The filter of the present invention includes an upper capsule member, a lower capsule member, and a filter medium. The upper capsule member has a central connecting port and a peripheral connecting port, and also has a pipe section that extends, within the capsule, from the peripheral connecting port to the vicinity of the bottom surface (the deepest section) of the lower capsule member. A liquid supplied from the peripheral connecting port via the pipe section is filtered through the filter medium, and the filtered liquid is output from the central connecting port.

Abstract: A physical storage area that is allocated to an unused area of a virtual volume is removed. A management unit sends a request to a server computer to make every piece of data stored in a first logical volume migrate to a second logical volume. The server reads all the data out of the first logical volume and writes the data in the second logical volume. A storage system that includes the first logical volume and the second logical volume allocates a physical storage area to an area of the second logical volume where the data is to be written, and writes the data in the allocated physical storage area. The storage system then deletes the first logical volume.

Abstract: An example of the invention is a test support system for supporting testing of a function of a program that works depending on a position of a mobile object in map information. A storage device holds event generation requirements information defining requirements for generation of an event in the program. The requirements specify a position designated in the map information and requirements on movement of the mobile object with respect to the designated position. A processor creates a plurality of test cases to be referred to in creating test data to be input to the program for checking whether the event is generated in accordance with the requirements with reference to the map information and the requirements. Each of the plurality of test cases specifies the designated position in the map information and movement of the mobile object with respect to the designated position.

Abstract: Energy demand in an entire community including multiple demanders is properly predicted and energy consumption thereof is properly controlled. Every day, some demanders are selected from the community and a request to adjust energy consumption for the following day is sent to the selected demanders. To decide a content of the request, energy demand for the following day is predicted. In this case, demanders which did not receive a request on past days are specified, and demand in the community for the following day is predicted based on the actual energy consumption by those demanders on the past days.

Abstract: A disk motor includes a rotor, a stator, and an output shaft which is coaxially integrated with the rotor, a coil disk is provided in one of the rotor and the stator, a magnetic-flux generating part is provided in the other of the rotor and the stator, and the coil disk is configured by laminating a plurality of coil substrates each on which a coil pattern is printed. Among these coil substrates, in the coil substrates 40Aa and 40Af on both ends in the laminating direction having relatively good heat dissipation effect, the coils are electrically connected in series to each other, and, in the coil substrates 40Ab to 40Ae on an inner side in the laminating direction having relatively poor heat dissipation effect. at least a part of the coils is electrically connected in parallel to each other.

Abstract: In conventional electron microscopes, orthogonality has been defined for each electron microscope individually in such a manner that a lattice sample is observed, and correction is applied to a control circuit so that the sample is observed as being orthogonal on a screen. Further, the correction has been determined by visual observation on a screen, and manually performed by a human operator. However, in this method, due to manufacturing variation of a lattice sample, the orthogonality may vary between devices. Further, there has been a problem in that the accuracy of correction varies by manually performing the correction. In order to solve the above problems, a particulate sample is used instead of a lattice sample for defining orthogonality, and adjustment is performed so that an image that should be a circle is observed as a circle, thereby making it possible to define the orthogonality.

Abstract: According to the prior art load distribution method, there was a drawback in that the time required from discovery of increase of load to the completion of countermeasures was long. In particular, upon receiving migration of data from other file devices, it was necessary to equalize not only the load accompanying normal processes but also the load accompanying the data migration processes. In a file system receiving migration of data from a plurality of file devices, a plurality of virtual NAS (VNAS) is provided within the file storage subsystem, and an associated VNAS for executing data migration from file devices and accesses from clients is respectively associated with each file storage subsystem. Then, the state of each VNAS is defined based on the state of progress of data migration in the file storage subsystem. According to the defined state, load distribution among VNAS is performed.

Abstract: A vehicular air-conditioning system includes: a vehicle interior air-conditioning apparatus which includes a device cooling circuit of a heat generating device mounted in a vehicle, and a refrigeration cycle circuit; and an intermediate heat exchanger for heat exchange between a device cooling medium of the device cooling circuit and an air-conditioning cooling medium of the refrigeration cycle circuit. When a temperature of the cooling medium of the device cooling circuit becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, a control cycle of the vehicular air-conditioning system is set to a short time, and the predetermined temperature is less than an upper limit temperature of the device cooling medium and is determined from a heat capacity of the device cooling circuit and an amount of heat generated by the heat generating device.

Abstract: A congestion control target call is selected so as to be capable of reducing inequality or the like between services or users in consideration of characteristics such as the urgency of the service or the user. A communication system includes a server device, a terminal device which transmits and receives a packet to and from the server device, and a communication device which relays communication of a packet with the terminal device and a control method thereof. The communication device selects a call which is a congestion control target on the basis of a value indicating a priority selected as a congestion control target and/or a bandwidth or a packet communication traffic volume occupied by a service or user when congestion occurs in consideration of characteristics such as the urgency of the service or the user when the congestion of the communication system is detected or foreseen.

Abstract: The automatic analysis system is equipped with a mechanism to transport a sample container having a stopper body, the system comprising: a sample dispensing mechanism that dispenses a predetermined amount of sample accommodated in the sample container; a stopper body removing/mounting mechanism that removes the stopper body from the sample container; a control unit that stores therein association between the sample container and the stopper body of the sample container; the stopper body removing/mounting mechanism that in accordance with the association stored into the control unit, mounts the stopper body back on the sample container containing the sample dispensed by the sample dispensing mechanism; and a stopper body transport mechanism that transports the sample that the stopper body removing/mounting mechanism has removed at a stopper removing position to a stopper mounting position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a producing method of R-T-B-based sintered magnets in which, the recovery chamber 40 includes inert gas introducing means 42, evacuating means 43, a carry-in port, a discharge port 40a, and a recovery container 60. The recovery step includes a carrying-in step of conveying a processing container 50 into the recovery chamber 40, a discharging step of discharging coarsely pulverized powder in the processing container 50 into the recovery chamber 40, a gas introducing step of introducing inert gas into the recovery chamber 40, and an alloy accommodating step of recovering the coarsely pulverized powder into the recovery container 60. Addition of pulverization aid is carried out in the alloy accommodating step. A remaining amount of coarsely pulverized powder in the recovery chamber 40, an oxygen-containing amount of the R-T-B-based sintered magnet is reduced, and magnetic properties are enhanced.

Abstract: In an exemplary storage system, a processor assigns an unused process to a read request designating an area of a logical volume. The processor determines whether the data designated by the read request is in a cache memory, based on a first identifier for identifying the area designated by the read request. When the designated data is not in the cache memory and a part of physical volumes providing the logical volume is a first kind of physical volume, the processor stores the first identifier associated with an identifier for identifying an area allocated in the cache memory. When the designated data is not in the cache memory and a part of the physical volumes is a second kind of physical volume, the processor stores a second identifier for identifying the process assigned to the read request associated with an identifier for identifying an area allocated in the cache memory.

Abstract: In the non-contrast 3D angiography, degradation of image quality caused by change of the cardiac cycle and degradation of image quality depending on the blood flow direction are prevented to provide an MRA image of favorable image quality, which is useful for diagnosis. A pulse sequence of the multi echo type for performing sampling of three-dimensional k-space data in a circular or elliptical shape is employed as the imaging sequence, and gated imaging based on body motion information is performed. Heart rate is monitored during the imaging, delay time DT from a gating signal and data acquisition time AT determined according to the cardiac cycle are calculated, and according to these imaging parameters, sampling trajectory and echo train number of the circular sampling are controlled.

Abstract: A computer system having a plurality of host computers and a storage system is provided which allows any one host computer to perform a global copy operation on any arbitrary or all storage areas in the storage system. To this end, storage areas provided by the disk devices are grouped into groups by allocating group numbers to a plurality of specified storage areas. The copy operation can be performed by specifying desired groups. Each of the groups is made up of sub-groups and the sub-groups are defined for each computer to assure a consistency of copy order of the sub-groups.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a production process for a phenols novolac resin obtained by reacting phenols with formaldehydes, wherein they are reacted in the presence of a metal compound used as a catalyst for the reaction described above, and a chelating agent is further added in order to deactivate a catalytic action of the metal compound and a resin-coated sand prepared by using the above phenols novolac resin. It is possible to provide a process for producing a phenols novolac resin having an ortho rate of 30 to 60%, suitably 40 to 55% at a good yield (70% or more) and a resin-coated sand having a high curing property prepared by using the above phenols novolac resin.

Abstract: To carry out a track control by compensating for an offset caused by a radial tilt when a track control of a main beam is carried out by detecting tracking information provided at a reference layer of a spatial recording medium by a guide beam, there are formed a first mark pair row aligned with the first mark pairs in a radius direction by a track pitch, and other mark pair row aligned with the second mark pairs in the radius direction by the track pitch. The other mark pair row is arranged in the radius direction by being shifted from the first mark pair row by a prescribed distance. The track control is made to be able to carry out by dispensing with an uncontrollable region by selecting one of plural track error signals generated from the plural mark pairs.