Abstract: A processing method includes: a step of setting a workpiece having a workpiece surface made of a material containing metal, on a precision processing machine; and a forming step of forming multiple grooves having a V-shaped cross-section, at intervals of a constant pitch in a predetermined area on the workpiece surface, using a tool provided in the precision processing machine to thereby form a V-groove pattern made up of the multiple grooves, in the predetermined area. In the forming step, each time one groove is formed, the relative position between the tool and the workpiece is moved in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the groove and the angle of the groove face of the groove is gradually varied so that a uniform color can be visually recognized in every location in the predetermined area when the predetermined area is observed from a predetermined viewpoint.

Abstract: In a multi controller storage system, hardware and software are updated without interruption. The storage system including a node has storage control units each including a processor, a memory, and a port; and a storage drive, and the storage control units each request data access and transmit and receive data with respect to a host computer via the ports. The processors process input and output data from the host computer, the memories store the control information in order to access the data stored in the storage drive, and the storage system transmits the control information stored in the memories to another node, stores the control information in the memories of the storage control units, and sets ports of the other node in consideration of a relationship between the storage control units and the ports of the nodes, if the other node can access data relating to the control information.

Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of storage controllers and a drive box including one or more non-volatile storage devices. The drive box includes a memory on which reading and writing are performed in a unit different from a unit for reading and writing the one or more non-volatile storage devices, and which stores control information to be used by the plurality of storage controllers, and a memory controller that enables each storage controller of the plurality of storage controllers to exclusively read and write the control information of the memory by arbitrating accesses to the memory from the plurality of storage controllers.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a carrier for drug delivery that selectively accumulates in the kidney in the body, and shows high biodegradability and drug releasability in the kidney. The present invention relates to a compound in which a carbonyl group of serine is linked directly or via a linker to terminal amino group of linear polylysine, compound carrier for delivery, and a medicament for the diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment of a renal disease, containing the carrier for drug delivery, and a drug bound to the carrier directly or via a linker or encapsulated therein.

Abstract: In write processing of a data set group to be written to be one or more data sets to be written, a storage system performs encoding processing including processing for generating a data model showing regularity of the data set group to be written and having one or more input values as an input and the data set group as an output. In the write processing, the storage system writes the data model generated in the encoding processing and associated with a key of the data set group to be written.

Abstract: An on-machine measurement device that locates a tip position of a blade of a machining tool provided on a machining device includes: a measurement unit configured to measure, in a workpiece that has been machined by the machining tool, a height of a reference plane not machined by the machining tool and a height of a machined surface machined by the machining tool; and a locating unit configured to locate the tip position of the blade of the machining tool based on information on a machining depth specified at the time of machining of the workpiece, and the height of the reference plane and the height of the machined surface that are measured by the measurement unit.

Abstract: Provided is an ultra-fine bubble-containing liquid manufacturing apparatus that can suppress viable cell contamination inside a UFB generating unit. To this end, it is provided with an ultra-fine bubble generating unit that generates an ultra-fine bubble by making film boiling by a heating unit in a liquid in which a gas is dissolved, and a radiating unit that is capable of irradiating a wetted portion of the ultra-fine bubble generating unit with ultraviolet rays.

Abstract: One or a plurality of physical storage devices that provide a physical storage area are connected to first and second computers. The computer updates metadata indicating the address correspondence relationship between the logical address of the volume and the physical address of the physical storage area in the write processing performed based on a write request designating the volume. The first computer copies the metadata to the second computer while receiving the write request. When the address correspondence relationship indicated by the copied metadata portion is changed during copying of the metadata, the first computer updates the metadata portion and copies the metadata portion to the second computer.

Abstract: A storage system includes: a storage drive having a storage medium storing a data; and a plurality of storage control units having a processor, a memory, and a port to process the data input and output to and from the storage drive, in which information related to a list of the storage control units mounted on the storage system and a maximum number of the storage control units that can be mounted on the storage system is allowed to be stored, and in which, when the storage control unit is replaced, it is determined whether the configuration to be migrated from the storage control unit to be reduced to the storage control unit to be added is migrated directly or via another storage control unit based on the number of the mounted storage control units and the maximum number of the storage control units that can be mounted.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for a solidified matter of an ultra-fine bubble (UFB)-containing liquid includes: a UFB generating unit that generates the UFB-containing liquid; and a cooling unit that generates the solidified matter of the UFB-containing liquid by cooling the UFB-containing liquid. The cooling unit cools the ultra-fine bubble-containing liquid such that a first solidified portion and a second solidified portion at a lower ultra-fine bubble concentration than that of the first solidified portion are formed in the solidified matter.

Abstract: A storage system includes: a storage drive having a storage medium storing a data; and a plurality of storage control units having a processor, a memory, and a port to process the data input and output to and from the storage drive, in which information related to a list of the storage control units mounted on the storage system and a maximum number of the storage control units that can be mounted on the storage system is allowed to be stored, and in which, when the storage control unit is replaced, it is determined whether the configuration to be migrated from the storage control unit to be reduced to the storage control unit to be added is migrated directly or via another storage control unit based on the number of the mounted storage control units and the maximum number of the storage control units that can be mounted.

Abstract: An ultra-fine bubble-containing liquid generating apparatus (UFB-containing liquid generating apparatus) includes a dissolving unit that generates a gas dissolving liquid and an ultra-fine bubble generating unit that generates ultra-fine bubbles in the gas dissolving liquid. Additionally, the UFB-containing liquid generating apparatus includes a temperature controlling unit that controls at least one of temperatures of the dissolving unit and the ultra-fine bubble generating unit such that the temperature of the ultra-fine bubble generating unit is equal to or lower than the temperature of the dissolving unit.

Abstract: This invention provides a storage system enabling it to properly rebuild a storage device involved in failure. In the storage system, a controller repairs data for which an access request has been issued, returns a reply to the source of the access request, and stores the repaired data. As regards data for which access is not requested, the controller executes rebuilding of storage regions corresponding to rebuild management units in priority-based order and changes priority for executing the rebuilding, based on access frequencies for a first period and access frequencies for a second period that is shorter than the first period.

Abstract: A storage system monitors the first access frequency of occurrence which is the access frequency of occurrence from a host device during a first period, and the second access frequency of occurrence which is the access frequency of occurrence from a host device during a second period shorter than the first period. Along with performing data relocation among the tiers (levels) in the first period cycle based on the first access frequency of occurrence, the storage system performs a decision whether or not to perform a second relocation based on the first access frequency of occurrence and the second access frequency of occurrence, synchronously with access from a host device. Here the threshold value utilized in a decision on whether or not to perform the first relocation is different from the threshold value utilized in a decision on whether or not to perform the second relocation.

Abstract: A compound storage system includes a plurality of storage boxes each having a plurality of storage units, and a plurality of real storage systems that process data inputted/outputted to/from the storage units. When a failure occurs at a storage unit 160, the real storage system 100 having the control right executes the recovery process of recovering data stored in a storage area allocated to a logical volume, and the real storage system 100 having the allocation authority executes the recovery process of recovering data stored in a storage area not allocated to the logical volume.

Abstract: A storage system includes: a storage drive having a storage medium storing a data; and a plurality of storage control units having a processor, a memory, and a port to process the data input and output to and from the storage drive, in which information related to a list of the storage control units mounted on the storage system and a maximum number of the storage control units that can be mounted on the storage system is allowed to be stored, and in which, when the storage control unit is replaced, it is determined whether the configuration to be migrated from the storage control unit to be reduced to the storage control unit to be added is migrated directly or via another storage control unit based on the number of the mounted storage control units and the maximum number of the storage control units that can be mounted.

Abstract: Each controller moves authority for access processing to data in a logical area allocated to the controller between the controllers, for a first storage area in which there is data related to the logical areas of the plurality of controllers by moving the authority for the access processing from a first controller to a second controller. Each of the first controller and the second controller writes data after update related to a write request to the storage area allocated to the own controller and deletes data before update in the first storage area, and moves data for which the own controller has the authority for the access processing in the first storage area to another storage area allocated to the own controller while taking over the allocation of the first storage area in relocation processing of relocating data.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a manufacturing apparatus of an ultra fine bubble-contained liquid that can be utilized effectively because high concentration ultra fine bubbles are maintained for a long time at the time of manufacturing of the ultra fine bubble-contained liquid. One embodiment of the present invention is a manufacturing apparatus of an ultra fine bubble-contained liquid, which includes: a container having a gas supply port through which gas is introduced and a liquid supply port through which a liquid is introduced; and a generation unit inside the container, which is configured to cause an ultra fine bubble to occur in the liquid in which the gas is dissolved.

Abstract: In a multi controller storage system, hardware and software are updated without interruption. The storage system including a node has storage control units each including a processor, a memory, and a port; and a storage drive, and the storage control units each request data access and transmit and receive data with respect to a host computer via the ports. The processors process input and output data from the host computer, the memories store the control information in order to access the data stored in the storage drive, and the storage system transmits the control information stored in the memories to another node, stores the control information in the memories of the storage control units, and sets ports of the other node in consideration of a relationship between the storage control units and the ports of the nodes, if the other node can access data relating to the control information.

Abstract: A scale-out storage system includes a plurality of computer nodes each of which has a memory and a processor, and a storage apparatus. The computer nodes have one or more redundancy groups each of which is a group for metadata protection. Each of the one or more redundancy groups includes two or more of the computer nodes including a primary node being a primary computer node and a secondary node being a secondary computer node, and a failover is performed from the primary node to the secondary node. The memory of the primary node has stored therein metadata related to the redundancy group and to be accessed for control. The metadata is redundantly stored in the memory of the primary node and the memory of the secondary node.