Abstract: A chiller system for supplying chilled water to a building is provided. Embodiments of the presented disclosure relate to chiller systems using a plurality of ergonomic control boxes. In some embodiments, the ergonomic control boxes are in wireless data communication with each other and/or with one or more sensors located outside of the control boxes. Embodiments of the present disclosure allow an operator to access the control panels without the use of a ladder or stairs. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a chiller system that does not require an operator to reach overhead in order to adjust the operations of the chiller system.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a microcomputer unit that controls a utilization-side unit and a heat source-side unit of an air conditioner and a thermostat connected to the air conditioner. The thermostat switches between an ON state in which the thermostat inputs a control signal to the microcomputer unit and an OFF state in which the thermostat does not input the control signal to the microcomputer unit. The system further includes a relay that switches to a feed state in which power is fed to the microcomputer unit or a non-feed state in which power is not fed to the microcomputer unit, and a power-on circuit within or externally attached to the air conditioner. The power-on circuit switches the relay from the power non-feed state to the power feed state using a voltage of the control signal inputted to the microcomputer unit.

Abstract: A nozzle cleaner device attached to a tip end of a nozzle used in arc welding is provided. The nozzle cleaner device is for removing spatter attached to a tip end of a nozzle of an electrode for arc welding, including a main body provided within an operation area of a robot arm which operates the electrode, the main body of the cleaner device includes a tub-shaped box body and a polishing part erected at a center part of the bottom surface of the box body; the polishing part is made of a material softer than a metal which constitutes the nozzle, and formed in a cylinder shape that can be inserted into the nozzle; and the nozzle onto which spatter is attached is carried to the main body of the cleaner device to remove the spatter by means of the polishing part inserted into the nozzle.

Abstract: A device for controlling an air conditioner has a remote controller which receives an alternating current voltage from a secondary side of a first transformer, a full-wave rectifier connected to a secondary side of a second transformer, and a processor which receives a current rectified by the full-wave rectifier. One of output nodes of the full-wave rectifier is connected to one terminal of the secondary side of the first transformer. The remote controller has a switch connected to the secondary side of the first transformer, and transmits information that indicates a state of the switch to the processor as the amplitude of an AC voltage on a signal line connecting the remote controller and the processor together.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a microcomputer unit that controls a utilization-side unit and a heat source-side unit of an air conditioner and a thermostat connected to the air conditioner. The thermostat switches between an ON state in which the thermostat inputs a control signal to the microcomputer unit and an OFF state in which the thermostat does not input the control signal to the microcomputer unit. The system further includes a relay that switches to a feed state in which power is fed to the microcomputer unit or a non-feed state in which power is not fed to the microcomputer unit, and a power-on circuit within or externally attached to the air conditioner. The power-on circuit switches the relay from the power non-feed state to the power feed state using a voltage of the control signal inputted to the microcomputer unit.

Abstract: A device for controlling an air conditioner has a remote controller which receives an alternating current voltage from a secondary side of a first transformer, a full-wave rectifier connected to a secondary side of a second transformer, and a processor which receives a current rectified by the full-wave rectifier. One of output nodes of the full-wave rectifier is connected to one terminal of the secondary side of the first transformer. The remote controller has a switch connected to the secondary side of the first transformer, and transmits information that indicates a state of the switch to the processor as the amplitude of an AC voltage on a signal line connecting the remote controller and the processor together.

Abstract: An air conditioner selectively executes a first control which carries out an air conditioning by driving a compressor by a frequency which is controlled based on a set value and a space temperature, and a second control which carries out an air conditioning with a predetermined air conditioning capacity. The operating apparatus switches an activeness and an inactiveness of a signal based on a scale relationship between the space temperature and the set temperature. An instructing part instructs the air conditioner to start the second control with an input to a inputting part as a trigger, and instructs the air conditioner to finish the second control with a switch of the signal as a trigger. An estimated value of the set temperature is calculated based on the space temperature with the switch of the signal as a trigger, and is transmitted as the set value to the air conditioner.

Abstract: In the case of recording information in a DVD-R 1R as complying with a DVD video standard, which is configured with including at least of a VTS including a VOBS to be reproduced and VTSI and VMGI for controlling the reproduction of one or plural VTSs, the VTS is recorded in the DVD-R 1R. After the VTS is recorded, the tentative VMGI as the tentative control information corresponding to the recorded VTS to form the VMGI after that and to record this VMGI in the DVD-R 1R. Then, the generated tentative VMGI is recorded in the DVD-R 1R every when the VTS is recorded in the DVD-R 1R.

Abstract: A recording medium has a first recording area on which recording information is recorded, and a second recording area on which management information for managing the recording information is recorded. The second recording area includes a bit rate recording area for recording a bit rate.

Abstract: In a first recording process, an end position of a kth cell (62) is aligned with an end position (P6) of a first layer recording area (43) by adjusting a recording start position (P5) of contents data (61) in an unused area (R1) in the first layer recording area (43). In a second recording process, an mth cell over the layers is divided into two cells, and the cells are recorded in an end area of the first layer recording area (43) and the head area of the second layer recording area (46), respectively.

Abstract: An information storage medium includes: a video zone for recording audio/video information including video information and audio information associated with the video information; an audio zone for recording audio information; first navigation information for a video player which can reproduce the audio/video information; second navigation information for an audio player which can reproduce the audio information in the video zone and the audio information in the audio zone; and third navigation information for a compatible player which can reproduce both the audio/video information and the audio information. The first navigation information, the second navigation information and the third navigation information are recorded separately from each other.

Abstract: When a size (AO) of contents data (20) is larger than an unrecorded capacity (BO) of a second recording medium (3), the contents data (20) is divided into an unchanged data section (21) and a changed data section (22), and a process of reducing video resolution or a recording bit rate is performed only to the changed data section (22). Thus, the unchanged data section (21) can be dubbed at a high speed, and a time required for dubbing can be shortened.

Abstract: Information recording is conducted in the form of the simple format. When the simple format is indicated, the recording control data is not recorded in a lead-in area LIA, and after the information to be recorded is recorded in a data recording area DRA, the recording control data is recorded in a recording manager area RMA and a lead-out area LOA, in the data recording area DRA, recording manager area RMA, lead-in area LIA, and lead-out area LOA, which are predetermined according to the standard format. Further, when the finalizing processing is indicated, by recording again the recording control data according to the standard format to the information recording medium in which the information recording is conducted according to the simple format, the information recording medium which can be applied to the common information recording and reproducing apparatus, is easily realized.

Abstract: A digital data recording/reproducing apparatus which divides each of information data pieces into a plurality of cells, further divides each of the cells into a series of a plurality of units, and records the units. The digital data recording/reproducing apparatus has means for recording a required time for reproduction until the head position of a unit is reached, with reference to the head position of an information data cell to which a cell belongs, as a unit start time, in addition to each of the units, and means for recording a cell start time (Ts) equal to a required time for reproduction until the head position of each of the cells is reached, and a required time for reproduction (Ps) of each of the cells in a management data region.

Abstract: A recording medium has a first recording area on which recording information is recorded as a set of recording units, and a second recording area on which control information for controlling the recording information to be recorded on the first recording area is recorded. Identifying information for identifying a management condition of the recording information recorded on the first recording area is also recorded on the second recording area at every recording unit.

Abstract: When VOB recording has reached the vicinity of the end position P6 of a first layer recording area (43), a cell close instruction is issued to stop encode processing for forming the next VOB to be stored. At this moment, for forming the next VOB to be recorded, content data stored in a buffer memory (18A) is used to form a VOB having, for example, a shorter length than a normal VOB. The VOB is recorded in the end position of the first layer recording area. After this, a dummy cell, having dummy data is recorded in an unrecorded area (122) of the end portion of the first recording area.

Abstract: An information editing apparatus for editing a reproduction manner of record information which is recorded on an information storage medium and includes at least one picture information, includes: a selecting unit for selecting a partial record information from the record information, the partial record information being part of the record information and including at least one picture information; a designating unit for designating a reproduction timing of the selected partial record information; an extracting unit for extracting the picture information included in the partial record information as a representative picture information indicative of the partial record information; and a recording unit for recording one of the extracted representative picture information and a designation information indicative of a recorded position on the information storage medium of the representative picture information and the designated reproduction timing on the information storage medium as a reproduction control info

Abstract: A recording medium has a first recording area on which multiplexed audio informations are recorded as sets of one or more information units, a second recording area on which control information for controlling recording of the multiplexed audio informations are recorded. The control informations include first information representing the number of sets of information composing the multiplexed audio informations, and second information instructing to record the multiplexed audio informations as a stream.

Abstract: An information record medium (1: DVD) has a record track recorded with record information to be reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus (S2). The information reproducing apparatus is provided with a read device (80), and performs a reproduction while moving the read device along the record track at a predetermined reading linear velocity. The record information is divided into a plurality of first data groups (30: VOBU), each of which is a unit able to be accessed by the information reproducing apparatus, recorded on the record track. Lowest reading rate information (212) indicates a minimum requirement of a reading rate for the information reproducing apparatus to reproduce a reproduction unit, which comprises at least one of the first data groups and which is to be reproduced by the information reproducing apparatus such that a sequential logical meaning of the reproduction unit is continuous.

Abstract: An information storage medium includes: a plurality of unit audio information to be reproduced independently of each other; aggregate audio information each including one or more of the unit audio information; unit attribute information indicating attributes of the unit audio information included in the aggregate audio information; and aggregate attribute information including the unit attribute information corresponding to the aggregate audio information recorded on the storage medium. By referring to the aggregate attribute information, the attributes of all the unit audio information may be readily and quickly obtained.