Abstract: A computer system, comprising a plurality of computers; and a management computer, wherein a plurality of data stores which store data obtained from a data source and having differing attributes, wherein the management computer has a request allocation unit and holds metadata management information. The request allocation unit is configured to: refer to the metadata management information to select a candidate data store based on analysis results of the data obtaining request including the time attribute of the requested data; determine whether the requested data can be obtained from the candidate data store; determine a data store to which to issue a request for obtaining the requested data; and issue the request to the determined data store.

Abstract: A lane change system that ensures safety is provided. This lane change system changes lanes by controlling steering in accordance with a path moving from a first lane in which the host vehicle is traveling to a second lane different from the lane in which the host vehicle is traveling, wherein the lane changing is stopped when there are any peripheral vehicles at high risk for collision in the second lane during a lane change from the first lane to the second lane.

Abstract: To protect a switching element to be used in a boost circuit for an in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine or the like from damage caused by overheating without using a temperature detection element. In a control circuit that switches a switching element between a conductive state and a non-conductive state, the switching element is controlled or a temperature of the switching element is estimated based on a potential difference between an input terminal and an output terminal of the switching element and a voltage applied to a control terminal of the switching element in the conductive state.

Abstract: In a power supply circuit in which a power supply sequence is variable, a malfunction of a device to which power is supplied caused by a wrong power-on order is prevented. In a power supply circuit according to the present invention, an operation state of a previous voltage regulator is detected, and based on a detection result, an order of activation or stop of respective voltage regulators is controlled.

Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus includes an inverter with a switching circuit. Furthermore, a first circuit has a first circuit ground and a second circuit has a second circuit ground. For example, the second circuit may be electrically connected to the switching circuit, and the second circuit ground may be electrically connected to the first circuit ground. A first capacitor may be electrically connected between the first circuit ground and a main ground. In addition, a second capacitor may be electrically connected between the second circuit ground and the main ground. Additionally, a first impedance of a first conductive path to the main ground may be greater than a second impedance of a second conductive path to the main ground. The first conductive path may include the first circuit ground and the first capacitor, and the second conductive path may include the second circuit ground and the second capacitor.

Abstract: An electric compressor is provided which has: in a sealed container, a compression mechanism to compress a refrigerant and an electric motor to drive the compression mechanism, wherein the refrigerant contains 20% by mass or more of hydrofluoroolefin, and a refrigerator oil stored in the sealed container contains; polyvinyl ether as a base oil; an alicyclic epoxy compound in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 2.0% by mass or less relative to the base oil; an aliphatic epoxy compound in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 2.0% by mass or less relative to the base oil; and tertiary phosphate in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 2.0% by mass or less relative to the base oil.

Abstract: A controller is configured to receive a write request from a host, and send an intermediate parity generation command corresponding to a specified address indicated by the write request to a first storage device in storage devices. The intermediate parity generation command instructs generation of an intermediate parity from new data at the specified address and old data that is updated to the new data. The intermediate parity generation command includes a first address in the memory area at which the new data is stored and a second address in the memory area for storing the intermediate parity. The first storage device is configured to receive the intermediate parity generation command, acquire the new data from the first address, generate the intermediate parity from the new data and the old data stored in the first storage device, and store the intermediate parity at the second address.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an etching method including a reaction layer forming step of forming a reaction layer by adsorption of a gas on a surface of an etching target material, a desorption step of desorbing the reaction layer after the reaction layer forming step, and a removal step of removing the reaction layer or a deposited film, characterized in that the surface of the etching target material is etched by the reaction layer forming step and the desorption step.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a treatment liquid which contains an ionic compound and a solvent, and is used for adhering the ionic compound to at least one surface selected from the group consisting of a surface on which a layer having hole transport properties is to be formed, and a surface of a layer having hole transport properties.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to easily remove last-stage turbine blades. Provided is an exhaust chamber inlet-side member that has an annular shape around a rotor so as to form a part of an inner diffuser at a position facing, from the axially downstream side, base ends of last-stage turbine blades disposed on the most downstream side in the axial direction, and that is divided in the circumferential direction and provided so as to be detachable from the inner diffuser. When the exhaust chamber inlet-side member is dismounted from the inner diffuser, a space on the axially downstream side from the last-stage turbine blades is cleared.

Abstract: In some examples, a first system may store a data object according to a first data protection level and may send the data object to a geographically remote second system for storing as a replicated data object. Based on determining that a condition for transitioning the data object to a different data protection level has been met, the first system may check a local data structure to determine that the data object was sent to the second system. Based on determining that the data object was sent for replication to the second system, the first system may send a request to the second system to verify storage of the replicated data object at the second system. Based on receiving a reply indicating storage of the replicated data object at the second system, the first system may transition the data object to the different data protection level.

Abstract: In a large-scale storage system configured by combining a plurality of storage modules, it is possible to improve a read performance for deduplicated data. A large-scale storage system includes a first storage module and a second storage module each connected to a computing machine, the first storage module and the second storage module being connected to each other by a network, the first controller determines whether second data that is same as first data requested to be written is already stored in the second storage module when the first storage module receives a write request from the computing machine, and the first controller determines whether to store the first data in the first storage medium or to refer to the second data in the second storage module in a case in which the second data is already stored in the second storage module.

Abstract: Fail operational that can guarantee stability of control while suppressing cost increase is difficult. A control controller according to the present invention stores information necessary for recovery in a normal travel mode in time series in a backup, and thus control software can be recovered from the backup in real time if a failure occurs in the system.

Abstract: A plasma processing method in which a stable process region can be ensured in a wide range, from low microwave power to high microwave power. The plasma processing method includes making production of plasma easy in a region in which production of plasma by continuous discharge is difficult, and plasma-processing an object to be processed, with the generated plasma, wherein the plasma is produced by pulsed discharge in which ON and OFF are repeated, radio-frequency power for producing the pulsed discharge, during an ON period, is a power to facilitate production of plasma by continuous discharge, and a duty ratio of the pulsed discharge is controlled so that an average power of the radio-frequency power per cycle is power in the region in which production of plasma by continuous discharge is difficult.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an alloy article that exhibits even better mechanical properties than conventional high entropy alloy articles without sacrificing high corrosion resistance thereof. An alloy article according to the invention comprises matrix phase crystal grains being equiaxed crystals with an average crystal grain size of 150 ?m or less, the alloy article having a metallic composition including: Co, Cr, Fe, Ni and Ti, each within a range of 5 atomic % or more and 35 atomic % or less; Mo within a range of more than 0 atomic % and less than 8 atomic %; and a balance comprising inevitable impurities, wherein in the matrix phase crystal grains, ultrafine particles with an average particle size of 100 nm or less and oxide particles with an average particle size of 100 nm or less are dispersedly precipitated.

Abstract: The temperature evaluation system is provided with: a read-in device that acquires image data pertaining to the indicator; a storage device that stores the relationship between color density and temperature for each thermosensitive material; and a processing device provided with a color density estimation unit that estimates the color density of the thermosensitive material from the image data, a material identification unit that specifies the thermosensitive material used in the indicator, and a temperature estimation unit that selects, from among the relationships between color density and temperature for each thermosensitive material, the relationship between color density and temperature of the thermosensitive material specified by the material identification unit, and that estimates the highest temperature reached or the lowest temperature reached from the relationship between color density and temperature of the specified thermosensitive material and the color density estimated by the color density esti

Abstract: It is detected whether write data has been correctly transmitted to a storage device under a protocol for directly connecting the storage device to a processor. An information processing system including: a processor; a memory; and a storage device, the processor first transmitting to the storage device, a command to invalidate data in a data area and which is designated by a write command, the storage device invalidating the data, the processor second transmitting to the storage device, the write command to write the data into the data area, and the storage device writing the data into the data area in accordance with the write command, validating the data in a data area into which the storage device has been successful in writing the data, and maintaining the data invalidated in a data area into which the storage device has failed in writing the data.

Abstract: An axial flow rotating machine includes: a rotor; a plurality of vanes; and a medium flow modification member. Each of the vanes has an inner shroud and one or more seal fins. An annular groove, which is recessed toward a radially inner side, in which the inner shroud and the seal fins are placed in a non-contact manner, is formed at a rotor shaft. A distance from an end of the inner shroud on a furthest axially downstream side to a downstream-side groove side surface is a distance (L). A distance (Lf) from a most-downstream seal fin to a medium flow modification surface is equal to or less than the distance (L) in the axially downstream side.

Abstract: A driving support device is provided which performs a simple determination of a parking route to a target parking position in the driving support device while a vehicle is running and can improve the convenience of a driver of the vehicle. Based on an arc having a turning radius greater than or equal to the minimum rotation radius of the own vehicle from the estimated stop position and an arc having a turning radius greater than or equal to the minimum rotation radius of the own vehicle from the available parking position, the parking route to the available parking position is evaluated.

Abstract: A parking control device and a parking control method capable of improving convenience are proposed. A parking candidate space that is a candidate of a parking destination of a vehicle is searched for based on information acquired by a surrounding environment recognition sensor, and a driver is notified of certainty of the parking candidate space detected being available for parking the vehicle in multiple stages and predetermined control processing for causing the vehicle to be parked in the parking candidate space is executed when an instruction to park the vehicle in the parking candidate space is issued from the driver.