Abstract: Reliability in a storage system can be easily and appropriately improved. In a computer system including a storage system configured to provide a plurality of instances in any one of a plurality of subzones divided by risk boundaries, a processor of the computer system is configured to make a storage controller that controls I/O processing for a volume based on a capacity pool provided by a plurality of storages redundant to the plurality of instances provided in the plurality of subzones.

Abstract: A vehicular electronic control device installed in a vehicle capable of switching between a chargeable state and an unchargeable state performs activation acceptance for inquiring of a user whether to accept activation processing of activating updated software after completion of installation processing of writing update data in an update target node to generate the updated software, transmits during the chargeable state a switching instruction that executes the activation processing during the chargeable state to the update target node, and transmits during the chargeable state a switching setting instruction that executes the activation processing during the unchargeable state to the update target node.

Abstract: A method of forming a crystalline structure film containing strontium, titanium, and oxygen on a substrate, includes: forming an amorphous structure film on a surface of a titanium nitride film formed on a surface of the substrate, the amorphous structure film containing strontium and oxygen and having a titanium content adjusted so that a content ratio of titanium to strontium based on the number of atoms becomes a value in a range of 0 or more and less than 1.0; and obtaining a crystalline structure film containing strontium, titanium and oxygen and containing titanium diffused from the titanium nitride film by heating the substrate, on which the amorphous structure film is formed, at a temperature of 500 degrees C. or higher.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a surgical microscope system and a microscope camera adapter that enable various types of adjustment in a camera adapter connecting the cameras that capture a three-dimensional image, with right and left cameras simultaneously. Of respective right and left lens groups that constitute respective focus lenses, right and left lenses between lenses closest to a side of an objective lens and lenses closest to sides of eye lenses are simultaneously moved by the same distance according to a setting value, by which focus is adjusted. The present invention can be applied to a surgical microscope system.

Abstract: A fuel cell comprising a membrane electrode gas diffusion layer assembly, a resin frame, a first separator and a second separator, wherein the resin frame comprises an opening in which the membrane electrode gas diffusion layer assembly can be disposed, and a skeleton surrounding the opening, and wherein the second separator comprises a convexity at four corners of a region which is a part abutting the resin frame and which faces an inner peripheral edge of the skeleton, and the second separator abuts the resin frame in a state that the convexities are engaged with the resin frame, or wherein the second separator comprises an adhesive at the four corners of the region which is the part abutting the resin frame and which faces the inner peripheral edge of the skeleton, and the second separator is attached to the resin frame via the adhesive.

Abstract: A welding device includes a laser irradiation unit that irradiates a workpiece with a laser light while scanning along an intended weld line of the workpiece, an upper jig arranged on a side of the laser irradiation unit with respect to the workpiece, and a lower jig arranged on an opposite side of the laser irradiation unit side. The upper jig includes an exposed portion that exposes the intended weld line of the workpiece to the laser irradiation unit side, an introduction path that is disposed in a downstream side in a scanning direction of the laser light and introduces an inert gas to the exposed portion, and a discharge path that is disposed in an upstream side in the scanning direction of the laser light and suctions the inert gas introduced to the exposed portion to discharge the inert gas to an outside.

Abstract: A film forming method includes: repeatedly performing a source gas adsorption process including supplying a source gas containing a metal element to form a nitride film on a substrate in a chamber and purging a residual gas, and a nitriding process including supplying a nitriding gas onto the substrate and purging a residual gas; and supplying a hydrazine-based compound gas as a part or all of the nitriding gas.

Abstract: A method of forming a group V metal nitride film on a substrate includes: providing the substrate within a processing container; and forming the group V metal nitride film on the substrate by alternately supplying, into the processing container, a raw material gas including a group V metal and a reducing gas including a nitrogen-containing gas.

Abstract: An information transmission system includes a ground system provided to a track and an onboard system installed in a train. The ground system includes two (M=2) track antennae selected from N types of track antennae with different resonance frequencies. The two track antennae are arranged side by side in a left and right direction relative to a traveling direction of the train. When the train passes through a position where the ground system is provided, the onboard system detects the two track antennae at once and can determine the resonance frequencies of the track antennae.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a fuel cell includes a welding step in which a plurality of protrusions of each of a pair of separators is welded with the protrusions overlapping each other such that laser welding is intermittently performed on a plurality of welding positions by repeating one laser irradiation operation by a predetermined length. Each of the separators has, on a surface facing a membrane-electrode-gas diffusion layer assembly, the protrusions such that the surface is corrugated in a surface direction.

Abstract: A method of controlling printing by print control script embedded in a web page acquired by a client terminal from a web application server includes, after the acquired web page is displayed, accepting an input operation on the displayed web page and drawing a result of the input operation in a specific drawing area, the accepting and drawing operations being performed by the client terminal. The method further includes generating print data by converting image data written in the specific drawing area to a form enabling processing by a printer as a result of a print operation performed on the displayed web page, and commanding the printer to print the print data.

Abstract: A step of constantly supplying first and second carrier gases into a processing container having a substrate therein through first and second carrier gas flow paths, respectively, and supplying a source gas into the processing container through a source gas flow path, a step of purging the source gas by supplying a purge gas into the processing container through a purge gas flow path provided separately from the carrier gas, a step of supplying a reactant gas into the processing container through a reactant gas flow path, and a step of purging the reactant gas by supplying a purge gas into the processing container through the purge gas flow path are performed in a predetermined cycle. An additive gas having a predetermined function is supplied as at least a part of the purge gas in at least one of the purging steps.

Abstract: Provided is a laser welding method for flat wires in which side surfaces at ends of first and second flat wires coated with insulating films, the side surfaces being stripped of the insulating films, are butted together, and a laser beam is applied to end surfaces of the first and second flat wires to weld together the side surfaces. This method includes: applying the laser beam in a loop shape inside the end surface of the first flat wire to form a molten pool; and gradually increasing the diameter of a loop-shaped application trajectory of the laser beam inside the end surface of the first flat wire to allow the molten pool to reach the side surfaces.

Abstract: A welding device includes a laser irradiation unit that irradiates a workpiece with a laser light while scanning along an intended weld line of the workpiece, an upper jig arranged on a side of the laser irradiation unit with respect to the workpiece, and a lower jig arranged on an opposite side of the laser irradiation unit side. The upper jig includes an exposed portion that exposes the intended weld line of the workpiece to the laser irradiation unit side, an introduction path that is disposed in a downstream side in a scanning direction of the laser light and introduces an inert gas to the exposed portion, and a discharge path that is disposed in an upstream side in the scanning direction of the laser light and suctions the inert gas introduced to the exposed portion to discharge the inert gas to an outside.

Abstract: A heater is provided with a heating element that generates heat by electrical connection, anode and cathode plates each formed in a plate shape and are installed such that the heating element is sandwiched between the anode and cathode plates from both sides thereof, and a discharging unit installed in a heating element non-provided region and that discharges a surge current. The heating element non-provided region is included in a facing portion where the anode plate faces the cathode plate and differs from a heating element provided region where the heating element is provided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a separator for fuel cell including a seal part of thermosetting resin can have improved productivity. The method includes a placing step to place uncured thermosetting resin on a substrate, a pre-curing step to pre-cure the uncured thermosetting resin on the substrate, and a curing step to cure the pre-cured thermosetting resin on the collected plurality of substrates to collectively form the seal parts on the plurality of substrates.

Abstract: A method of controlling printing by print control script embedded in a web page acquired by a client terminal from a web application server includes, after the acquired web page is displayed, accepting an input operation on the displayed web page and drawing a result of the input operation in a specific drawing area, the accepting and drawing operations being performed by the client terminal. The method further includes generating print data by converting image data written in the specific drawing area to a form enabling processing by a printer as a result of a print operation performed on the displayed web page, and commanding the printer to print the print data.

Abstract: A film-forming method for forming a metal nitride film on a substrate includes: forming the metal nitride film on the substrate by repeating a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: a first process of supplying a metal-containing gas into a process container configured to accommodate the substrate therein; a second process of supplying a purge gas into the process container; a third process of supplying a nitrogen-containing gas into the process container; and a fourth process of supplying the purge gas into the process container, wherein the fourth process includes: a first step of supplying a first purge gas having a first flow rate equal to or larger than a flow rate of the metal-containing gas of the first process; and a second step of supplying the first purge gas having a second flow rate smaller than the first flow rate.

Abstract: A film forming method includes: repeatedly performing a source gas adsorption process including supplying a source gas containing a metal element to form a nitride film on a substrate in a chamber and purging a residual gas, and a nitriding process including supplying a nitriding gas onto the substrate and purging a residual gas; and supplying a hydrazine-based compound gas as a part or all of the nitriding gas.

Abstract: A method of controlling printing by print control script embedded in a web page acquired by a client terminal from a web application server includes, after the acquired web page is displayed, accepting an input operation on the displayed web page and drawing a result of the input operation in a specific drawing area, the accepting and drawing operations being performed by the client terminal. The method further includes generating print data by converting image data written in the specific drawing area to a form enabling processing by a printer as a result of a print operation performed on the displayed web page, and commanding the printer to print the print data.