Abstract: Each of the host transmitting/receiving blocks of a plurality of I/O units connected to a CNC reads the destination specification data and a diagnostic result bit each time the host transmitting/receiving block receives a signal packet from the CNC. When the diagnostic result bit indicates the execution of a diagnosis, the signal packet contains diagnostic DO data, and the relevant DO signal output terminal is short-circuited to the relevant DI signal input terminal to form a diagnostic loop. The diagnostic packet signal passes through the diagnostic loop, the external signal transmitting/receiving block, and the host transmitting/receiving block and returns to the CNC through the host transmitting/receiving block of an adjacent I/O unit closer to the CNC. The CNC analyzes the packet signal to determine whether each of the I/O units is operating normally or not.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having removably attached thereto a lens apparatus including a blur correction unit includes a selection unit configured to select a first mode in which a mechanical shutter is used to start exposure or a second mode in which an electronic shutter is used to start exposure; and a controller configured to output information indicating the start of exposure to the lens apparatus. The controller changes the information indicating the start of exposure depending on whether the first mode or the second mode is selected to control the lens apparatus to perform different blur correction operations.

Abstract: A humidity control apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit (50) which has a compressor (53), a main electric-operated expansion valve (55), and a first adsorption heat exchanger (51) and a second adsorption heat exchanger (52) on which adsorbent for adsorbing moisture in air is supported, and in which refrigerant reversibly circulates to perform a vapor compression refrigeration cycle. In the humidity control apparatus, refrigerant circulation in the refrigerant circuit (50) is reversibly switched to alternately perform an adsorption process and a recovery process with the adsorbent in the adsorption heat exchangers (51, 52), and the humidity of air passing through the adsorption heat exchangers (51, 52) is adjusted.

Abstract: A control method for an information storage apparatus has the steps of: providing redundancy of information stored in the information storage apparatus; a redundancy failure recording part recording a record of a redundancy failure in a state recording part, when the failure has occurred in keeping of the redundant state of the information; a redundancy monitoring part reading the record of the redundancy failure from the state recording part the record; and a reporting part reporting the redundancy failure when the record of the redundancy failure is read by the redundancy monitoring part.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of achieving excellent moving image shooting even when strobe popup is not successfully performed during moving image shooting. A camera implementing the image pickup apparatus has a strobe that shifts between a retracted position and a service position. When a motor for operating the camera performs reverse rotation, the strobe is driven to the service position. An MPU instructs the motor to drive the strobe to the service position, and determines, based on a signal from a popup position-detecting switch, whether or not the strobe has been normally driven to the service position. When the strobe has not been normally driven to the service position, the MPU performs error handling. The error handling is carried out differently between a case where moving image shooting is being performed and a case where the moving image shooting is not being performed.

Abstract: A performance adjustment apparatus connected to an information processing apparatus includes a performance adjustment unit that controls operation processing performance of an operation processing apparatus of the information processing apparatus based on a specified performance adjustment value, a performance type list information management unit that manages performance type list information comprising a plurality of pairs of a performance type and a performance adjustment value, a performance type specification unit that specifies a performance type in the performance type list information managed by the performance type list information management unit and changes the performance type, a performance adjustment value setting unit that obtains a performance adjustment value corresponding to the performance type specified by the performance type specification unit from the performance type list information management unit, and sets the obtained performance adjustment value in the performance adjustment unit.

Abstract: A humidity control system includes three dehumidifiers. Each of the dehumidifiers alternately switches between first batch operation in which air whose moisture has been adsorbed in a first adsorption component is supplied to a room and air heated in a heat exchanger is exhausted to outside the room through a second adsorption component, and second batch operation in which air whose moisture has been adsorbed in the second adsorption component is supplied to the room and air heated in the heat exchanger is exhausted to outside the room through the first adsorption component. The system further includes: a controller allowing the switchings of the dehumidifiers to be performed at different timings; and a chamber collecting air to be supplied from the dehumidifiers to the room.

Abstract: A numerical controller in which group IDs are automatically allocated to I/O units so that the group IDs and addresses can be set automatically even when a system configuration is changed in response to detection of a configuration error. When a power of the numerical controller is turned on, group IDs are successively allocated to I/O units with distance from the numerical controller, and types of the I/O units are stored. Initial values of the group IDs allocated when the power is turned on for the first time after a system of the numerical controller is constructed, and addresses for the allocated group IDs are stored. An alarm is issued if the types and number of units for the group IDs automatically allocated for the second or later time of starting the numerical controller are different from the initial values.

Abstract: A cylinder head cleaning method capable of cleaning a cylinder head with an enhanced foreign matter removing rate. The method is used to clean a cylinder head having therein a water jacket including a narrow space portion having a narrow flow path and a large space having a flow path wider than the narrow space portion, and the cylinder head further including holes communicating with the water jacket. Cleaning nozzles are inserted into the water jacket from the holes selected from the holes, clearing liquid is ejected from the cleaning nozzles toward the narrow space portion, and the cleaning liquid flowing from the narrow space portion to the large space is discharged to the outside of the cylinder head from the hole communicating with the space.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus is disclosed, wherein a time interval between a first ink drop and a second ink drop is set at 1.5×Tc, a time interval between the second ink drop and a third ink drop is set at 1.5×Tc, and a time interval between the third ink drop and a fourth ink drop is set at 2×Tc, where Tc represents the specific vibration cycle of a pressurized ink chamber.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of achieving excellent moving image shooting even when strobe popup is not successfully performed during moving image shooting. A camera implementing the image pickup apparatus has a strobe that shifts between a retracted position and a service position. When a motor for operating the camera performs reverse rotation, the strobe is driven to the service position. An MPU instructs the motor to drive the strobe to the service position, and determines, based on a signal from a popup position-detecting switch, whether or not the strobe has been normally driven to the service position. When the strobe has not been normally driven to the service position, the MPU performs error handling. The error handling is carried out differently between a case where moving image shooting is being performed and a case where the moving image shooting is not being performed.

Abstract: A control method for an information storage apparatus has the steps of: providing redundancy of information stored in the information storage apparatus; a redundancy failure recording part recording a record of a redundancy failure in a state recording part, when the failure has occurred in keeping of the redundant state of the information; a redundancy monitoring part reading the record of the redundancy failure from the state recording part the record; and a reporting part reporting the redundancy failure when the record of the redundancy failure is read by the redundancy monitoring part.

Abstract: A flow controlling method for an auxiliary intake flow passage for use in a power unit which includes a starter clutch which is automatically engaged and disengaged in response to the engine speed. An intake air control valve (IACV) carries out changeover from water temperature dependent control (open loop control of adjusting the flow rate of the auxiliary intake flow passage in response to the warming up state of an engine) to target engine speed feedback control when the actual engine speed NE [rpm] drops to a clutch disengagement engine speed NEout (engine speed at which the centrifugal clutch is disengaged) (S3: Yes) and the opening ?1 [degree] of the throttle valve becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value (throttle valve opening threshold value TH—?1 (S4: Yes).

Abstract: The testing device is provided with the first element having one end coupled to an input terminal, and the other end coupled to an output terminal, and attenuating a direct-current component, and the second element having one end coupled to the input terminal, and attenuating an alternating current component. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the step which connects an external output terminal of the semiconductor device, and the input terminal of the testing device, and connects an external input terminal of the semiconductor device, and the output terminal of the testing device, the step which tests the voltage of the other end of the second element, and the step which outputs an alternating current signal to the testing device from the external output terminal of the semiconductor device, and tests the signal which the semiconductor device received in the external input terminal from the testing device.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having removably attached thereto a lens apparatus including a blur correction unit includes a selection unit configured to select a first mode in which a mechanical shutter is used to start exposure or a second mode in which an electronic shutter is used to start exposure; and a controller configured to output information indicating the start of exposure to the lens apparatus. The controller changes the information indicating the start of exposure depending on whether the first mode or the second mode is selected to control the lens apparatus to perform different blur correction operations.

Abstract: A numerical controller in which group IDs are automatically allocated to I/O units so that the group IDs and addresses can be set automatically even when a system configuration is changed in response to detection of a configuration error. When a power of the numerical controller is turned on, group IDs are successively allocated to I/O units with distance from the numerical controller, and types of the I/O units are stored. Initial values of the group IDs allocated when the power is turned on for the first time after a system of the numerical controller is constructed, and addresses for the allocated group IDs are stored. An alarm is issued if the types and number of units for the group IDs automatically allocated for the second or later time of starting the numerical controller are different from the initial values.

Abstract: Each of the host transmitting/receiving blocks of a plurality of I/O units connected to a CNC reads the destination specification data and a diagnostic result bit each time the host transmitting/receiving block receives a signal packet from the CNC. When the diagnostic result bit indicates the execution of a diagnosis, the signal packet contains diagnostic DO data, and the relevant DO signal output terminal is short-circuited to the relevant DI signal input terminal to form a diagnostic loop. The diagnostic packet signal passes through the diagnostic loop, the external signal transmitting/receiving block, and the host transmitting/receiving block and returns to the CNC through the host transmitting/receiving block of an adjacent I/O unit closer to the CNC. The CNC analyzes the packet signal to determine whether each of the I/O units is operating normally or not.

Abstract: The testing device is provided with the first element having one end coupled to an input terminal, and the other end coupled to an output terminal, and attenuating a direct-current component, and the second element having one end coupled to the input terminal, and attenuating an alternating current component. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the step which connects an external output terminal of the semiconductor device, and the input terminal of the testing device, and connects an external input terminal of the semiconductor device, and the output terminal of the testing device, the step which tests the voltage of the other end of the second element, and the step which outputs an alternating current signal to the testing device from the external output terminal of the semiconductor device, and tests the signal which the semiconductor device received in the external input terminal from the testing device.

Abstract: In order to eliminate noises contained in signals output from a photoelectric conversion unit, an image processing apparatus is provided with a photoelectric conversion unit including a pixel and a noise correction unit for correcting noises in a signal output from a pixel in accordance with noise information obtained from the pixel during two or more arbitrary different accumulation times.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus is disclosed, wherein a time interval between a first ink drop and a second ink drop is set at 1.5×Tc, a time interval between the second ink drop and a third ink drop is set at 1.5×Tc, and a time interval between the third ink drop and a fourth ink drop is set at 2×Tc, where Tc represents the specific vibration cycle of a pressurized ink chamber.