Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a composite having high strength and high thermal conductivity. The method includes: an alloy preparation step including preparing an alloy which is a solid solution containing ?-Fe as a solvent and at least one type of ?-phase stabilizing element as a solute; a first mixing step including mixing at least one type of ?-phase stabilizing element in powder form and SiC to prepare a first mixture; a second mixing step including mixing the alloy and the first mixture to prepare a second mixture; and a sintering step including sintering the second mixture.

Abstract: An article supply device capable of detecting the presence or absence of articles and supplying the articles, includes a main body, an accommodation unit for accommodating the articles, a supply unit for supplying the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, an up and down moving pin (detection unit) for detecting the presence or absence of the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, a transmission unit for transmitting a signal indicating the absence of articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, and a sold-out display unit for displaying the absence of the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit. The transmission unit and the sold-out display unit are configured to operate integrally based on a detection operation of the detection unit.

Abstract: An article supply device capable of supplying first and second type articles comprises a main body, an accommodation unit for accommodating articles, a supply unit for supplying articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, a lock unit which prevents articles from being supplied from the supply unit; and a detection unit capable of detecting the presence or absence of first type articles and the presence or absence of the second type articles accommodated in the accommodation unit, wherein the lock unit is turned into a lock state, on condition that the absence of the articles is detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: An article supply device comprises a main body, a first type article accommodation unit or a second type article accommodation unit, an attachment unit capable of replacing the first type article accommodation unit and the second type article accommodation unit with each other, a first supply unit which supplies a first type article in the first type article accommodation unit, a first supply port formed in the main body, and, a second supply unit which includes a second supply port and supplies a second type article in the second type article accommodation unit, wherein the first supply unit supplies the first type article to the first supply port when the first type article accommodation unit is attached to the attachment unit, and the second supply unit supplies the second type article to the second supply port when the second type article accommodation unit is attached to the attachment unit.

Abstract: According to the present invention, article provision device information which relates to an article provision device satisfying a search condition of an administrator who administers an article provision device from which an article is provided and which includes stock information of the article to be provided from the article provision device is acquired; the article provision device information, in which the stock information in the article provision device information is shown as detailed information is presenting to an administrator terminal; the article provision device information which relates to the article provision device satisfying the search condition of the user and which includes the stock information of articles to be supplied from the article provision device is acquired, and the article provision device information in which the stock information of the article provision device is shown by the simple information different from the detailed information is presented to the user terminal.

Abstract: In an article supply device managing method, arrangement information in a sales area and article information of each article supply device in the sales area is acquired from an article supply device database, which stores the arrangement information relating to a layout of the respective article supply devices arranged in the sales area and the article information relating to an article which can be supplied from each article supply device arranged in the sales area, and a layout image where an object image of each article supply device corresponding to the arrangement of the article supply devices in the predetermined sales area is arranged is displayed on a terminal a user operates, by using the article information and the arrangement information of each article supply devices in the predetermined sales area. The object image includes article information of the article supply device corresponding to the object image.

Abstract: A management apparatus comprises a processor and a non-volatile computer readable memory in which a computer code is stored, wherein, based on the computer code stored in the non-volatile memory, the processor manages an inventory status information of items, displays, on a terminal, a purchase screen for purchasing at least one of the items, performs a lottery for the at least one of the items to be provided, by using the inventory status information of the items when an item purchase procedure is completed, determines the at least one of the items to be provided based on a lottery result, and presents an item image of the determined at least one of the items on the terminal.

Abstract: A coin holding device includes a mechanism for treating coins fed in a plurality of feeding ports thereby supplying an article. The coin holding device capable of holding the fed coins, comprises a first opening in which some coins are fed, a second opening in which other coins are fed, a first path part through which coins fed in the first opening pass, a second path part through which coins fed in the second opening pass, a first holding unit capable of holding coins which pass through the first path part and a second holding unit capable of holding coins which pass through the path part, wherein the first path part and the second path port are arranged so as to face each other.

Abstract: An article supply apparatus capable of supplying an article, comprises an accommodation unit in which articles are accommodated; a supply unit which supplies at least one of the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit; an operation unit capable of performing an operation in order to supply the at least one of the articles from the supply unit; a lock unit which locks the operation unit so as to make the operation to the operation unit unavailable; a control unit which releases a lock of the lock unit; and a notification control unit, capable of notifying a first state where the lock of the lock unit and a second state where the operation of the operation unit is completed, wherein a way of notification of the first state is different from that of the second state.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an article supply device capable of substantially eliminating inconveniences caused by a sold-out state. [Solution] An article supply device 100 comprises: an article supply means (an article supply unit 108, etc.) capable of supplying articles AR in an article storage unit 102 by applying a supply operation to a supply operation unit 103; and a sold-out state signal transmission means (a sold-out state detection unit 152, etc.) capable of transmitting a sold-out state signal once the article storage unit 102 has run out of the articles AR.

Abstract: Items are provided while improving usability for users. A terminal and a physical item provision management device are communicably connected. The physical item provision management device includes: a provision control unit capable of providing a user's terminal with an item image corresponding to a physical item and a container image corresponding to a container virtually accommodating the physical item and concealing the physical item; and a provision procedure control unit enabling, when the item image and the container image are displayed on the terminal, a provision procedure of providing the user with the physical item corresponding to the item image displayed.

Abstract: Provided is a method capable of efficiently producing a modified diene-based rubber, and a rubber composition and a tire with excellent low hysteresis loss property, durability, etc. The method for producing a modified diene-based rubber of this disclosure comprises: performing modification by adding a modifier into a solution of a diene-based rubber as raw material obtained by dissolving a diene-based rubber as raw material in a solvent, and removing the solvent and reacting the modifier with the diene-based rubber as raw material while exerting a mechanical shear force, to thereby generate a modified diene-based rubber. The rubber composition of this disclosure uses a modified diene-based rubber produced with the method for producing a modified diene-based rubber of this disclosure. The tire of this disclosure uses the rubber composition of this disclosure.

Abstract: A determining unit determines, when a failover occurs, whether the storage device is a master device. If the determining unit determines that the storage device is not the master device, a converting unit converts the virtual LUNs of the copy source and the copy destination to the real LUNs. Then, a copying unit performs a copy process by using the real LUNs converted by the converting unit.

Abstract: While in active state, a first storage apparatus including first and second storage areas copies data stored in the first storage area to the second storage area, copies data stored in the first storage area to a third storage area so that data is synchronized between the first and third storage areas, and copies data stored in the second storage area to a fourth storage area so that data is synchronized between the second and fourth storage areas. When a second storage apparatus including the third and fourth storage areas has transitioned from standby to active state and thereby gets to receive access to the third storage area, instead of to the first storage area, from an external information processing apparatus, the second storage apparatus copies data stored in the third storage area to the fourth storage area, based on setting information stored in a storage unit.

Abstract: When a failure occurs in a storage device, a backup unit specifies LUNs of a copy source and a copy destination to an operation volume for which a process is not taken over to another storage device and instructs to perform a copy. When a copy processing unit in the storage device receives a copy process to be performed in the operation volume, the copy processing unit performs the copy process by using the specified LUNs of the copy source and the copy destination. If an error occurs without the copy process being taken over to another storage device due to the occurrence of a failover, the backup unit acquires the LUNs of two volumes of a copy pair and the volumes each constituting each of cluster pairs. Then, the backup unit again performs the copy process by using the acquired LUNs.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit. The control unit adds type information indicating a first type in a first operation request in which operation target storage devices are specified by unique identifiers, respectively, used in a first storage apparatus and outputs the first operation request to the first storage apparatus through the network. When the control unit transmits the first operation request to a second storage apparatus and receives an error response indicating a type error from the second storage apparatus after transparent failover is executed, the control unit adds type information indicating the second type in a second operation request in which operation target storage devices are specified by unique identifiers, respectively, used in the second storage apparatus and outputs the second operation request to the second storage apparatus through the network.

Abstract: This invention relates to an oil-extended natural rubber capable of improving a tensile strength and a wear resistance of a rubber composition, and more particularly to an oil-extended natural rubber formed by adding an emulsified extension oil to a natural rubber latex and further coagulating and drying them. An amount of the extension oil added is preferable to be within a range of 5-80% by mass based on a rubber component in the natural rubber latex and the oil-extended natural rubber is preferable to have a weight average molecular weight as converted to polystyrene of a rubber component of not less than 1,500,000.

Abstract: While in active state, a first storage apparatus including first and second storage areas copies data stored in the first storage area to the second storage area, copies data stored in the first storage area to a third storage area so that data is synchronized between the first and third storage areas, and copies data stored in the second storage area to a fourth storage area so that data is synchronized between the second and fourth storage areas. When a second storage apparatus including the third and fourth storage areas has transitioned from standby to active state and thereby gets to receive access to the third storage area, instead of to the first storage area, from an external information processing apparatus, the second storage apparatus copies data stored in the third storage area to the fourth storage area, based on setting information stored in a storage unit.

Abstract: A determining unit determines, when a failover occurs, whether the storage device is a master device. If the determining unit determines that the storage device is not the master device, a converting unit converts the virtual LUNs of the copy source and the copy destination to the real LUNs. Then, a copying unit performs a copy process by using the real LUNs converted by the converting unit.

Abstract: When a failure occurs in a storage device, a backup unit specifies LUNs of a copy source and a copy destination to an operation volume for which a process is not taken over to another storage device and instructs to perform a copy. When a copy processing unit in the storage device receives a copy process to be performed in the operation volume, the copy processing unit performs the copy process by using the specified LUNs of the copy source and the copy destination. If an error occurs without the copy process being taken over to another storage device due to the occurrence of a failover, the backup unit acquires the LUNs of two volumes of a copy pair and the volumes each constituting each of cluster pairs. Then, the backup unit again performs the copy process by using the acquired LUNs.