Abstract: An installation for cooling an electronic device includes an air conditioner having an air outlet for blowing cooling air to a room; a first detector adjacent to the air outlet of the air conditioner, for detecting a temperature of the cooling air; a rack accommodating the electronic device, the rack having an air inlet for receiving the cooling air from the air conditioner and an air outlet for exhausting air to the room; a second detector adjacent to the air inlet of the rack, for detecting a temperature of air received through the air inlet of the rack; and a controller for acquiring the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors, and controlling a quantity of the cooling air blown from the air outlet of the air conditioner so as to decrease a difference between the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors.

Abstract: There are included a location-information management unit that manages location information of devices arranged in a spatial layout on a screen, a device-feature management unit that manages device features of the devices, a guide-information generation unit that reads the location information and the device features of the devices arranged in the spatial layout from the location-information management unit and the device-feature management unit respectively and generates device-layout guide information allowing for the device features of the devices based on the read location information and device features of the devices, and a monitor unit that guides and displays the device-layout guide information generated by the guide-information generation unit.

Abstract: A display apparatus, which makes one pixel displayable in four colors, that is, three primary colors and a white color, and inputs and displays chrominance signals corresponding to a mixing ratio of the four colors, includes a color correction instrument which performs first color correction of increasing the saturation of chrominance signals, and a second color correction of decreasing at least the saturation of the chrominance signals, when a predetermined color component exists in the chrominance signals corresponding to a pixel, selection instrument which switches temporally and selects either of first chrominance signals obtained by the first color correction, and second chrominance signals obtained by the second color correction, and a display instrument which displays the chrominance signals, which are selected, in the pixel.

Abstract: An installation for cooling an electronic device provided on a floor in a room includes an underfloor space below the floor; an air conditioner for sending air to the underfloor space; a first opening provided in the floor and adjacent to the electronic device, for sending air from the underfloor space to the room; and a second opening provided in the floor and adjacent to the air conditioner, the second opening being configured to cause the air pressure of the lower side of the second opening to be lower than the air pressure of the upper side of the second opening.

Abstract: An information handling apparatus includes a chassis installed a plurality of electric parts of the information handling apparatus, having a pair of openings on opposite sides for allowing an incoming and outgoing air flow for cooling down an inside of the information handling apparatus, a pair of temperature detectors for detecting temperature at each of the openings, a fan installed in the housing for generating airflow between the openings, the fan being capable of reversibly switching airflow direction, and a controller for performing switching of the air flow direction by the fan so that the fan generates the airflow from one of the openings at which a detected with lower temperature is detected as compared with the other of the openings.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an open amount of a plurality of air transfer grilles which are installed in a room, includes a determining unit for determining first target amounts of blowing to each of the racks, for determining second target amounts of blowing from each of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the first target amounts so that each of air of the first target amounts are blown to each of the racks, and for determining open amounts for each of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the plurality of second target amounts so that each of the amounts of blowing from each of the grilles becomes each of the second target amounts, and a controller for controlling each of the open amounts of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the each of the determined open amounts.

Abstract: An air conditioning control apparatus for controlling an air conditioner in a room which accommodates a computer, includes obtaining repetitively a detected value of a total power consumption of the computer and the air conditioner and a detected value of a air temperature at the air inlet, storing the obtained values into a memory, determining an approximate expression representing a relation between the total power consumption and the air temperature on the basis of the values stored into the memory, determining a value of the air temperature corresponding to the lowest value of the total power consumption, by using the calculated approximate expression, and controlling the air conditioner so that the air temperature become equal the calculated air temperature.

Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus for detecting abnormality of air conditioning in a room which accommodates a plurality of computers having an air inlet and having an outlet, includes, a plurality of temperature detectors for detecting temperatures at each of the air inlets, a memory for storing a plurality of reference patterns, each of the reference patterns representing a set of temperatures at each of the air inlets and corresponding to one of a plurality of abnormal categories, a determining unit for determining one of the abnormal categories by comparing the detected temperatures by the temperature detectors with the reference patterns stored in the memory, an output unit for outputting information corresponding to the category of the air condition abnormality determined.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a light diffuser plate and a process for production thereof, which light diffuser plate can diffuse light selectively in any desired direction even when the number of cold cathode fluorescent lamps as backlights is reduced and the gap between cold cathode fluorescent lamps is increased, so suppressing luminance unevenness and lamp image with good repeatability in stable way and maintaining high luminance. The present invention is also aimed at providing a backlight unit that possesses similar characteristics.

Abstract: A circuit information acquisition and conversion device, a method, and a program therefor for acquiring a layer configuration, wire traces and shapes of via holes from circuit board design information; optimizing, before conversion into an analysis model, the output target range of the via holes on the basis of a package area, heat density distribution, and power consumption; and creating an analysis model that is suitable for a purpose of the analysis are provided.

Abstract: The polarity of a voltage applied to the electrode pair is inverted by a changing signal generated at every boundary area of each filter color of the color wheel, and also in the blue color region (B) (a, b. c). Herewith, time during which the lamp electrode is positive and that negative is equal to each other every time the color wheel makes two rotations (T), thereby maintaining the heat load to be evenly distributed between both of the electrodes.

Abstract: An analysis apparatus for a printed circuit board includes a converting portion that rewrites physical property data of a wiring layer in contact with a mounting surface having the part corresponding to an extracted electronic part data to a value based on the physical property data of an electronic part, and converts the physical property data of a region having the electronic part corresponding to the electronic part data extracted by the extracting portion to the physical property data of an insulating layer.

Abstract: To realize a integrally constructed cooler of the heat pipe type which ensures the achievement of sufficient cooling capacity and the realization of a simple, compact and inexpensive cooler, that is especially low in height, employing and incorporating ingeniously a heat pipe, there is provided a heat pipe type cooler comprising: a heat receiving plate; a heat radiator having a configuration of a plurality of horizontally oriented vertically spaced heat radiation plates; and a heat pipe H having a generally U-shaped or V-shaped profile, the middle portion of which is secured to the heat receiving plate; and wherein each end of the heat pipe H passes through the heat radiation plates.

Abstract: There is disclosed a network print system which aims at printing high-quality image data of, e.g., a form or the like generated using a Web browser. When a form image is displayed on a Web browser of a client, and its print process is instructed, the instruction is sent to a server. The server searches a form template storage unit for an appropriate template, merges it with data by an image generation unit, converts the merged data into PDL data by a print output unit, and prints the converted data as a high-quality image from a printer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device capable of easily and reliably selecting and determining parameters such as the optimum maximum number of cuboids and the like corresponding to an analytical target model. For this purpose, in the present invention, two or more kinds of parameter kits each including a maximum number of cuboids and parameters for division control for producing cuboids are previously stored in a library, at least one of the two or more kinds of parameter kits stored in the library is selected, and the analytical target model is divided, based on the selected parameter kit and the three-dimensional CAD data, into cuboids of less than or equal to a maximum number of cuboids included in the selected parameter kit. Such present invention is preferably applied to automatic conversion software for converting three-dimensional CAD data obtained by Pro/E, I-DES, Parasalid, AutoCAD, VPS, or the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum processing apparatus which is small-sized and requires a small installation area. The vacuum processing apparatus includes a vacuum container which has a processing chamber inside thereof, wherein the pressure inside the processing chamber is reduced and plasma used for processing a sample is formed inside the processing chamber, a bed portion which is arranged below the vacuum container and stores a device for supplying electricity and electric signals used for processing inside the vacuum container, and a transport chamber which is connected with the vacuum container and includes a transport device for transporting the sample inside thereof.

Abstract: It is intended to prevent ink from leaking through the ink outlet of the ink rail while the printing press is at halt. To achieve this object, a motor control section 40 shown in FIG. 4 controls the rotation of a stepping motor 15 driving a plunger 13 and, every time the stepping motor 15 is stopped, the outer circumference 13c of the plunger 13 except a cut portion 13a blocks at least a discharge port 18, thereby enabling the pressure ink invading from an intake port 17 into the main hole 11 of a cylinder 12 to press the plunger 13 against the discharge port 18 opening into the inner circumferential face of the main hole 11.

Abstract: An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects results of an analyzing process in the model data; and a verifying unit that verifies the progress of the operation and data consistency based on the model data.

Abstract: An analysis supporting apparatus includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; and a data converting unit that converts the model data generated by the model-data generating unit to generate analysis data for use in an analyzing process. When requested to generate model data of a component at a hierarchical level, the model-data generating unit refers to the component hierarchy data to specify a component at a hierarchical level higher or lower than the hierarchical level of the component, and uses model data of the specified component at the higher or lower hierarchical level to generate the requested model data.

Abstract: An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects results of an analyzing process in the model data; and a calorific-value summing unit that sums analysis information regarding the analysis target product based on the model data stored in associated with the component hierarchy data.