Abstract: The storage control device of the present invention reduces the power consumption amount by stopping the transmission of power to enclosures that are not accessed. A plurality of additional enclosures is switch-connected via backend switches to a base enclosure. Drives that have not been accessed for a predetermined time or more undergo spin-down. When all of the drives in the enclosure enter a spin-down state, the supply of power from the power supply in the enclosure to the respective drives is stopped. The base enclosure that manages the system constitution of the storage control device turns OFF the switch connected to the enclosure when all of the drives in a certain enclosure have spun down. The transmission of power to this enclosure is accordingly stopped.

Abstract: An image pickup system includes a plurality of electron multiplication image pickup apparatuses; and a correction coefficient calculating device. The correction coefficient calculating device measures electron multiplication properties of image signals output from the electron multiplication image pickup apparatuses on a regular basis, calculates correction coefficients that are used to adjust the sensitivity of image signals from the electron multiplication apparatus, and sets the calculated correction coefficients in the electron multiplication image pickup apparatuses.

Abstract: Data written in the primary logical volume of the first storage device are transmitted to the third storage device via the second storage device, the data being written in the same location as the primary logical volume within the secondary logical volume in the third storage device; when transmission of the data stops among the first to the third storage devices, the respective second storage device and the third storage device manage locations in the secondary logical volume where the data held thereby are to be written; and, when transmission of the data resumes among the first to the third storage devices, the locations in the secondary logical volume managed by the respective second and the third storage devices are aggregated, the data to be written in the respective aggregated location in the secondary logical volume being transmitted from the first storage device to the third storage device via the second storage device.

Abstract: A mechanical-quantity measuring device capable of measuring a strain component in a specific direction with high precision is provided. At least two or more pairs of bridge circuits are formed inside a semiconductor monocrystal substrate and a semiconductor chip, and one of these bridge circuits forms a n-type diffusion resistor in which a direction of a current flow and measuring variation of a resistor value are in parallel with a <100> direction of the semiconductor monocryastal silicon substrate, and an another bridge circuit is composed of combination of p-type diffusion resistors in parallel with a <110> direction.

Abstract: A storage battery system includes: a secondary battery; a holding member comprising a flow channel of a cooling medium for cooling the secondary battery, which holds the secondary battery; a medium temperature measuring unit that measures temperatures T1 and T2 of the cooling medium at two locations in the flow channel; a battery temperature measuring unit that measures a temperature T3 of the secondary battery; and a judging unit that repetitively calculates a coefficient ? and that judges a cooling performance of the secondary battery based on a variation of the coefficient ?, the coefficient ? being defined as (T3?T1)/(T2?T1), (T3?T2)/(T2?T1), or (T3?T2)/(T3?T1).

Abstract: A photovoltaic power generation system includes a plurality of power generation panels and a power conditioner. The power generation panels and a radiation source are placed in a solar cell storage room buried typically in the ground. The radiation source includes radioactive waste generated in reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. Each power generation panel has a phosphor member and a moderator member, which are disposed in that order on solar cells placed on a board. Radiation (for example, a gamma ray) emitted from the radiation source is injected on the power generation panel and is moderated by the moderator member. When the gamma ray with the reduced energy (below 100 keV) is injected on the phosphor member, it emits visible light. When the visible light is injected on the solar cells, electric power is generated.

Abstract: A management system for a storage system including a storage control device that provides a plurality of file sharing environments, includes: an average maintenance interval calculating part to calculate an average maintenance interval that is an average value of time intervals at which an operation command is given to each of the file sharing environments; a management difficulty calculating part, for each of the file sharing environments, to calculate a management difficulty that is an index quantitatively showing a difficulty to manage the file sharing environment and is determined based on a type and a quantity of resources included in the file sharing environment; a file sharing environment usage degree calculating part to calculate a file sharing environment usage degree that is an index showing a degree of usage of each of the file sharing environments and is determined based on an access frequency that is an index showing a frequency at which the users access the file sharing environment and the numbe

Abstract: First, an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet body including, as a main phase, crystal grains of an R2Fe14B type compound that includes a light rare-earth element RL, which is at least one of Nd and Pr, as a major rare-earth element R is provided. Next, an M layer, including a metallic element M that is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, Sn, Pb, Bi, Zn and Ag, is deposited on the surface of the sintered magnet body and then an RH layer, including a heavy rare-earth element RH that is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Dy, Ho and Tb, is deposited on the M layer. Thereafter, the sintered magnet body is heated, thereby diffusing the metallic element M and the heavy rare-earth element RH from the surface of the magnet body deeper inside the magnet.

Abstract: In order to enable high accuracy positioning and strong pressing of a substrate, the present invention provides a substrate holding apparatus including: a rotating bed having an inclined surface supporting a lower side of an outer circumferential side surface of the substrate, which bed rotates on a normal line of the substrate as the rotation axis together with the substrate; a position restriction unit rotating together with the rotating bed and restricting the substrate in a predetermined position on the rotating bed by pressing a plurality of points on the circumference on an upper side of the outer circumferential side surface of the substrate prior to the rotation; and a pressing unit rotating together with the rotating bed and pressing the substrate against the inclined surface by pressing a plurality of points on the upper side of the outer circumferential side surface of the substrate during the rotation.

Abstract: A storage system 1 includes a first storage apparatus 100 and a second storage apparatus 100 communicatively coupled to an external apparatus 300. The first and second storage apparatuses respectively have first and second storage areas VDEVs selectively accessible from the external apparatus, first and second temporary storage areas 113, and remote copy controllers 1122 configured to control data copy process. The storage system includes a data I/O process authority information storage unit LDK storing data I/O process authority information. Either of the remote copy controllers reads the data I/O process authority information and copies according to the data I/O process authority information, to the other storage apparatus, data stored either in the first storage area and the first temporary storage area, or in the second storage area and the second temporary storage area that are included in the storage apparatus to which the remote copy controller belongs.

Abstract: In an imaging apparatus which subjects signal electric charges of photodiodes of IT-CCD for interlaced scanning of 1080 effective scanning lines to vertical pixel addition to be read out as image signals, at least one of vertical transfer at the last horizontal period and horizontal transfer at half period in reading of pixels is stopped while fixing pairs of vertical pixels to be subjected to vertical pixel addition to be read out as image signals of progressive scanning of 540 effective scanning lines from the CCD and the read-out image signals of 540 effective scanning lines are subjected to scanning line conversion of 3 to 4 to be converted into image signals of progressive scanning of 720 effective scanning lines, the image signals of progressive scanning of 720 effective scanning lines being outputted.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photoelectric conversion device including a transparent conductor layer formed on a light transmissive substrate, an electron blocking layer covering the surface of the transparent conductor layer, a bulk heterojunction type photoelectric conversion layer in contact with the electron blocking layer, a hole blocking layer covering the surface of the photoelectric conversion layer, and a counter electrode covering the hole blocking layer, wherein the hole blocking layer is made of a material having a band gap of 3.0 eV or more, thereby the migration of holes from the photoelectric conversion layer is prevented and recombination or leakage current is suppressed.

Abstract: Provided is a near-infrared spectroscopy apparatus using a phosphor. [Object]: Information in a specimen is observed by using light without contacting an optical fiber and an electronic circuit with the specimen. [Means for Solution]: A small and lightweight phosphor is contacted with the specimen to measure the fluorescence intensity at a separate position.

Abstract: A storage apparatus 10 implements Thin Provisioning functions by allocating a storage area of a physical drive 171 to a logical page in units of a physical page, the physical drive 171 being managed as a storage pool 93, the logical page being a management unit of a storage area of a virtual volume 52; performs tier arrangement processing to replicate data stored in a migration source physical page to a migration destination physical page; and performs replacement processing for the physical drive 171 upon receipt of a request to replace the physical drive 171 in units of a physical device (PDEV). In performing the replacement processing for the physical drive 171, when a first processing mode is designated as tier arrangement processing mode, the storage apparatus 10 cancels start of the tier arrangement processing, and then starts the replacement processing.

Abstract: For providing a permanent magnet type rotary electric machine that can reduce magnetic fluxes concentrated to one side in rotating direction on a magnetic pole circumferential face that causes torque ripple as well as ensure the mechanical strength, in the present invention, an outer circumference of respective magnetic poles is formed in a circular arc having a same curvature as well as the magnetic pole center axes of the respective magnetic poles are displaced with respect to the rotation center of a rotor so that an air gap between a stator and the respective magnetic pole outer circumferences at one side in the rotating direction is widened in comparison with the air gap at the other side.

Abstract: To maintain reliability even when the repetition of the power saving control for storage systems occurs frequently due to the access from the host computer. During the course of controlling the operation mode of the drives, the controller measures the start/stop cycle count and the load/unload cycle count, calculates the S/S wear-out rate showing the ratio of the measured value of the start/stop cycle count to the first upper limit value and the L/U wear-out rate showing the ratio of the measured value of the load/unload cycle count to the second upper limit value, and for the drives in the idle operation mode, selects the low-speed rotation operation mode if the S/S wear-out rate is greater than the L/U wear-out rate, or selects the standby operation mode if the S/S wear-out rate is less than the L/U wear-out rate.

Abstract: When a dry cleaning process is performed in a processing chamber by adding nitrogen monoxide (NO) gas to a cleaning gas, the handling is facilitated, and cleaning performance is improved. A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing vessel configured to process a substrate, a first cleaning gas supply system configured to pre-mix a gas containing fluorine atoms with the NO gas and supply the pre-mixed gas into the processing vessel, and a second cleaning gas supply system installed apart from the first cleaning gas supply system and configured to supply the fluorine-containing gas into the processing vessel.

Abstract: Provided is a brake controller which can be made smaller. The brake controller (100) has a hydraulic control mechanism (150), which comprises a master cylinder (250) which generates a hydraulic fluid pressure on the basis of an input piston (182) and a control piston (190) that move when a braking operation is performed, motors (290, 296), and a moving mechanism (200) which moves the aforementioned control piston as the aforementioned motors turn, and a motor control unit (300) for regulating the turning of the aforementioned motors.

Abstract: A surface-discharge type PDP includes plural electrode pairs formed of first and second sustain electrodes arranged on a first substrate. Each pair extends along a line direction, and the first and second sustain electrodes are in parallel and adjacent to each other. Plural address electrodes arranged on a second substrate opposing the first substrate via a discharge space, each extending along a row direction, a matrix corresponding to a screen to be displayed is formed with the main electrodes and address electrodes, the address electrodes are orthogonal to the main electrodes, each of the address electrode is divided into, for example two partial address electrodes separated from each other by a border line located between adjacent main electrode pairs, whereby the screen is divided into two partial screens, wherein a first clearance between the partial address electrodes is substantially larger than a second clearance between main electrode pair adjacent across the border line.

Abstract: In the multi-tone demodulation (MTD) technique, even if an input bandwidth is widened to obtain a larger SNR gain, an increase in the signal to noise ration (SNR) gain cannot always be obtained due to clock jitter that increases clock noise. Also, noise is sometimes superimposed on the clock supplied to an analog to digital converter circuit (ADS) and the noise lowers the performance. Accordingly, the optical disc apparatus loosely regulates the bandwidth of a pulsed read signal; boosts the high-frequency components of a waveform of a driving signal of a laser diode; and synchronizes autonomously a driving clock of the ADC and a digital to analog converter circuit (DAC) with a clock of the pulsed read signal.