Abstract: An image processing apparatus is connected to an external device and includes a first receiving unit that receives information indicating a first volume of unprinted print data out of print data capable of being subject to distributed printing from the external device; a deciding unit that decides a second volume of the unprinted print data to undertake in the image processing apparatus for distributed printing on the basis of a predetermined condition upon reception of the information indicating the first volume of the unprinted print data; a first transmitting unit that transmits information indicating the second volume to the external device; and a second receiving unit that receives a piece of the unprinted print data corresponding to the second volume from the external device.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus for performing an operation by use of an application, which can communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, includes an application registering unit to register one or more applications selected as available applications from applications installed in the plurality of external apparatuses, an application selecting unit to select an application to be utilized from the one or more applications registered by the application registering unit, and a control unit to communicate with an external apparatus having the selected application installed therein to perform the operation by utilizing the selected application installed in the external apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus for performing an operation by use of an application, which can communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, includes an application registering unit to register one or more applications selected as available applications from applications installed in the plurality of external apparatuses, an application selecting unit to select an application to be utilized from the one or more applications registered by the application registering unit, and a control unit to communicate with an external apparatus having the selected application installed therein to perform the operation by utilizing the selected application installed in the external apparatus.

Abstract: A prescaler that operates in a broad band. The prescaler includes a buffer and a counter. The buffer includes a first amplification circuit, which has three inverter circuits of different drive capacities, a second amplification circuit, which has four series-connected inverter circuits, and a feedback circuit. One of the inverter circuits is connected between a capacitor and an inverter circuit via a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit. This varies the drive capacity of the first amplification circuit. The feedback circuit functions as a variable resistor having two transistors.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor in which cylinder bores are formed and a muffler device is provided. The internal space of the muffler device is divided into at least two compartments by a partition wall. A cylindrical body, which allows the two compartments to communicate with each other and has the length of 16 to 50% of the overall length of the internal space, is provided in the partition wall. In particular, the overall length of the internal space of the muffler device is set to be within the range of 100 to 120 mm and the length of the cylindrical body is set to be within the range of 20 to 50 mm. Consequently, the muffler device can effectively attenuate and reduce the pulsation generated from the compressor and can be manufactured at a low cost.

Abstract: A compressor comprises a plurality of pairs of a cylinder bore and a piston moving reciprocally in the cylinder bore, a valve plate provided with a plurality of outlet holes for leading pressurized gas in the cylinder bores to the outside, a plurality of strap-shaped outlet valves, each whereof is free at one longitudinal end opposing a corresponding one of the outlet holes to open and close it, and a plurality of retainers, each whereof extends in the same direction as a corresponding one of the outlet valves and is provided with a divergence restricting surface opposing the valve plate with the corresponding outlet valve extending between the surface and the valve plate to restrict the divergence of the corresponding outlet valve. The divergences of the outlet valves restricted by the retainers are different from each other.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus to which a plug-in can be added is disclosed. The plug-in has at least one filter corresponding to a process constituting a job for conducting an image processing operation. The image processing apparatus includes a plug-in managing part for managing the plug-in and a plug-in registration requesting part for requesting the plug-in management part to register the plug-in in a case where the image processing apparatus is activated or where the plug-in is added to the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A prescaler that operates in a broad band. The prescaler includes a buffer and a counter. The buffer includes a first amplification circuit, which has three inverter circuits of different drive capacities, a second amplification circuit, which has four series-connected inverter circuits, and a feedback circuit. One of the inverter circuits is connected between a capacitor and an inverter circuit via a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit. This varies the drive capacity of the first amplification circuit. The feedback circuit functions as a variable resistor having two transistors.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus is adapted to execute an operation using an application, and is provided with an communicating part for communicating with an external apparatus via a communication line, and a controlling part for executing an operation using an application within the external apparatus by communicating with the external apparatus by the communicating part.

Abstract: A power saving operation control method and device for a phase comparator unit are provided.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus for performing an operation by use of an application, which can communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, includes an application registering unit to register one or more applications selected as available applications from applications installed in the plurality of external apparatuses, an application selecting unit to select an application to be utilized from the one or more applications registered by the application registering unit, and a control unit to communicate with an external apparatus having the selected application installed therein to perform the operation by utilizing the selected application installed in the external apparatus.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder reciprocating compressor for an air conditioning system mounted in a vehicle includes a columnar cylinder block with cylinder bores, a front head provided at one side of the cylinder block to form a crank chamber, a rear head provided at the other side of the cylinder block, a valve plate interposed between the cylinder block and the rear head, a discharge chamber formed in the rear head, and a suction chamber formed in the rear head having an annular shape and positioned radially outside of the discharge chamber. The suction chamber is divided into first and second, annular chambers by a partition wall extending in a circumferential direction. As a result of this configuration, the pulsation of refrigerant generated in the annular suction chamber may be reduced, and the vibration and noise of the air conditioning system may be reduced.

Abstract: A compressor comprises a plurality of pairs of a cylinder bore and a piston moving reciprocally in the cylinder bore, a valve plate provided with a plurality of outlet holes for leading pressurized gas in the cylinder bores to the outside, a plurality of strap-shaped outlet valves, each whereof is free at one longitudinal end opposing a corresponding one of the outlet holes to open and close it, and a plurality of retainers, each whereof extends in the same direction as a corresponding one of the outlet valves and is provided with a divergence restricting surface opposing the valve plate with the corresponding outlet valve extending between the surface and the valve plate to restrict the divergence of the corresponding outlet valve. The divergences of the outlet valves restricted by the retainers are different from each other.

Abstract: A PLL circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a phase comparator detecting phase difference between a reference signal and a feedback signal provided from the VCO, an input voltage control unit controlling input voltage to be provided to the VCO according to the phase difference detected by the phase comparator, a switching unit switching a value of the input voltage to be provided to the VCO, and a switching timing control unit controlling a switching timing of the switching unit based on the given reference signal, wherein the VCO controls a frequency of the feedback signal according to the input voltage provided from the input voltage control unit. As a result, the VCO can rapidly make the feedback signal in phase with the reference signal and therefore it is possible to effectively reduce the required lock-up time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the treatment of arsenic-containing sludge obtained by adjusting arsenic-containing waste water to a PH of 12 or greater by the addition of a calcium compound and subjecting the waste water to solid-liquid separation, the process comprising the steps of adding a calcium compound to the arsenic-containing sludge slurry obtained by the solid-liquid separation, dewatering the resulting sludge, drying the dewatered sludge, and calcining the dried sludge. According to the present invention, arsenic-containing sludge obtained by treating waste water to precipitate arsenic present therein can be calcined to yield a calcined product which involves no risk of arsenic redissolution when it is dumped. Moreover, there is no possibility that arsenic compounds may be volatilized during calcination.

Abstract: For the high-speed data access machine, data is distributed in a plurality of hard disk drives coupled to slave processors to achieve ever-higher data reliability and maintenance. One master processor is provided with a plurality of slave processors, each of which is coupled to two hard disk drives containing the same data. A synchronous signal permits two hard disk drives to operate in synchronous rotation in half-a-turn phase difference from each other. The hard disk controller writes the same data in both hard disk drives but reads data from whichever hard disk drive requires less access time to obtain the data. A plurality of hard disk drives holding exactly the same data improves data reliability. Also, by rotating a plurality of hard disk drives in different phase, the rotational delay in data access is cut by half.

Abstract: A data storage managing system and method in which a HOST system obtains operation information of a storage device from a system connected to a network without the need for a specific device driver are disclosed. When disks shared between systems connected to the network are managed by a disk manager, monitoring and control information for the shared disks may be accessed by a file access command of the operating system on the HOST system. An operation information storage device is formed in a file format which can be accessed by a file access command of the operating system on the HOST system and the HOST system reads the operation information of the storage devices stored in the operation information file according to the file access command. The information to control the operation of the storage devices is written in the operation information file according to the file access command.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrayed recording apparatus having spare devices for replacing faulty disk drives. Each of the SCSI controllers in the arrayed recording apparatus connects to a driver/receiver and further connects to spare disk drives. Each of the SCSI controllers accesses the spare disk drive by setting a receive/enable signal effective to the driver/receiver. Unused ID numbers are assigned to the spare disks. If a disk drive develops a fault, the RAID controller RC requests the SCSI controller to replace the faulty disk drive with the spare disk drive.It is possible to attain the function of the hot stand-by system without comprising a specific spare controller.

Abstract: A transmission monitoring and controlling apparatus is provided between a first system and a second system. The transmission monitoring and controlling apparatus monitors information transmitted through a Fibre Channel. Then, a back controller analyzes the monitored information and stores the information in a controlling memory based on the analysis. For example, when the first system writes data on the second system, the back controller stores the data in the controlling memory. Therefore, even if a failure has occurred in the second system, the transmission monitoring and controlling apparatus is able to read the data from the controlling memory and send the data to the first system instead of to the second system.

Abstract: A recording device which improves a response time to write data by reporting to a host computer the completion of writing operation prior to the completion of writing redundancy data. Data writing command information from the host computer is stored in a command/status memory backed up by a power source in an array controller, and the completion of writing operation is reported to the host computer at the time of the completion of writing updated data prior to the completion of writing redundancy data. Redundancy data is written as a background process. If redundancy data could not be written due to any abnormality of the power source or the like, such redundancy data may be generated from the data in other disk units of the same redundancy group in accordance with writing command information stored in the command/status memory, thereby completing the writing of redundancy data.