Abstract: A desiccant air conditioner has a high energy efficiency due to the absence of excessive heat loss due to ventilation. In order to meet this requirement, the desiccant air conditioner is equipped with a honeycomb rotor wash-coated with agents having capabilities of absorptions of humidity, carbon dioxide and nitrogen, and this honeycomb rotor is divided into at least an absorption zone and a desorption zone. The air in a room is, after being passed through the absorption zone, fed back to the room, and the air which is passed through the desorption zone is exhausted into outside of the room. In this way, carbon dioxide and nitrogen in a room, the latter quantity being corresponded to that of the consumed oxygen in the room, are exhausted into outside of the room, allowing to exhaust carbon dioxide and at the same time to keep the oxygen density to within an allowed limit without the need of excessive ventilation.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: an internal circuit; a detecting circuit which detects an element characteristic of the internal circuit; a calculating circuit which calculates a first consumption energy consumed when a power gating operation is performed on a task processed by the internal circuit and a second consumption energy consumed when an operation of reducing a voltage and a frequency is performed in accordance with the element characteristic; and a switching circuit which performs the power gating operation on the internal circuit when the first consumption energy is smaller than the second consumption energy and performs the operation of reducing a voltage and a frequency when the second consumption energy is smaller than the first consumption energy.

Abstract: A power supply voltage adjusting apparatus includes a voltage setting part that, according to a characteristic variation of a semiconductor integrated circuit, sets a first power supply voltage of a first power supply domain module among a plurality of modules in the semiconductor integrated circuit, each module respectively having a different power supply voltage; a detecting part that compares phases of a first clock signal flowing through the first power supply domain module and a second clock signal flowing through a second power supply domain module to detect a phase difference; and a voltage adjusting part that adjusts a second power supply voltage supplied to the second power supply domain module to reduce the phase difference detected by the detecting part.

Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated circuit including plural types of transistors having different threshold voltages, a plurality of oscillators including respective types of transistors are provided. The respective oscillation frequencies of these oscillators are counted, and based on the count values, a voltage to be set on a power supply voltage device for the semiconductor integrated circuit is determined according to the count values.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: an internal circuit; a detecting circuit which detects an element characteristic of the internal circuit; a calculating circuit which calculates a first consumption energy consumed when a power gating operation is performed on a task processed by the internal circuit and a second consumption energy consumed when an operation of reducing a voltage and a frequency is performed in accordance with the element characteristic; and a switching circuit which performs the power gating operation on the internal circuit when the first consumption energy is smaller than the second consumption energy and performs the operation of reducing a voltage and a frequency when the second consumption energy is smaller than the first consumption energy.

Abstract: A revolving gas adsorption concentrator uses about 300 degree centigrade of hot desorption air. The revolving gas adsorption concentrator prevents leakage of such hot desorption air. An elastic seal which has elasticity divides a honeycomb shape rotor into a desorption zone and an adsorption zone and touches the honeycomb shape rotor. A heat-resistant seal comprises of material whose heat resistance is higher than elastic seal. The heat-resistant seal has two plates which has a mutually opened spacing to prevent hot gas from going to the elastic seal based on the labyrinth effectiveness. The elastic seal is formed in the outside of desorption zone from heat-resistant seal. The seal of the hot desorption air is almost blocked by heat-resistant seal and the desorption air which leaked slightly can be thoroughly blocked completely by elastic seal.

Abstract: A power supply voltage adjusting apparatus includes a voltage setting part that, according to a characteristic variation of a semiconductor integrated circuit, sets a first power supply voltage of a first power supply domain module among a plurality of modules in the semiconductor integrated circuit, each module respectively having a different power supply voltage; a detecting part that compares phases of a first clock signal flowing through the first power supply domain module and a second clock signal flowing through a second power supply domain module to detect a phase difference; and a voltage adjusting part that adjusts a second power supply voltage supplied to the second power supply domain module to reduce the phase difference detected by the detecting part.

Abstract: A revolving gas adsorption concentrator uses about 300 degree centigrade of hot desorption air. The revolving gas adsorption concentrator prevents leakage of such hot desorption air. An elastic seal which has elasticity divides a honeycomb shape rotor into a desorption zone and an adsorption zone and touches the honeycomb shape rotor. A heat-resistant seal comprises of material whose heat resistance is higher than elastic seal. The heat-resistant seal has two plates which has a mutually opened spacing to prevent hot gas from going to the elastic seal based on the labyrinth effectiveness. The elastic seal is formed in the outside of desorption zone from heat-resistant seal. The seal of the hot desorption air is almost blocked by heat-resistant seal and the desorption air which leaked slightly can be thoroughly blocked completely by elastic seal.

Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated circuit including plural types of transistors having different threshold voltages, a plurality of oscillators including respective types of transistors are provided. The respective oscillation frequencies of these oscillators are counted, and based on the count values, a voltage to be set on a power supply voltage device for the semiconductor integrated circuit is determined according to the count values.

Abstract: A digital image receiving apparatus includes a media drive (11) for reading image information from a storage medium (M1), an image information processing unit (22) for processing the image information to display a plurality of images in the image information read by the media drive, in thumbnail image form on a display (12), and an order information processing unit (24) for creating order information including which images to be printed from a printing order given by a customer for each image displayed on the display (12). The image information processing unit (22) includes an image data size acquisition unit (22a) for acquiring image data sizes of image data included in the image information and serving as printing sources. Information on the image data sizes acquired is displayed on the display (12) as associated with thumbnail images of corresponding image information.

Abstract: A framework for a business application system, which is used for constructing the business application system, is described by an object-oriented language having characteristics of abstraction and inheritance. The framework includes an abstract class group 10 having abstractly defined the structure and behavior of the business application system, and a common component group 20 including a plurality of common components commonly for use in the business application system. The abstract class group 10 includes a system core class group 11 having abstractly defined the basic structure and behavior of the business application system, and a screen system class group 12, a report system class group 13 and a business logic system class group 14, which inherit the system core class group 11.

Abstract: An an address generator generates a read address. It is detected whether the generated read address is continuous to the read address previously generated. A cache unit control circuit controls the read data to be directly output to a requester of the read data without passing the read data through a cache RAM, if a cache miss occurs, and if it has been detected that the two addresses are continuous. As a result, the subsequent operations can executed even if the present operation has not been completed.

Abstract: An information processing device reads, buffers, decodes and executes instructions from an instruction store portion by pipeline processing includes: an instruction reading request portion which assigns a read address to the instruction store portion, an instruction buffering portion which includes a plurality of instruction buffers which buffer an instruction sequence read from the instruction store portion; an instruction execution unit which decodes and executes instructions buffered by the instruction buffering portion. A branching instruction detection portion detects a branching instruction in the instruction sequence read from the instruction store portion. A branch target address information buffering portion includes a plurality of branch target address information buffers which, when the branching instruction detection portion has detected a branching instruction, buffer the branch target address information for generating the branch target address of the branching instruction.

Abstract: The present invention is defined in that an information processing device which reads, buffers, decodes and executes instructions from an instruction store portion by pipeline processing comprises: an instruction reading request portion which assigns a read address to the instruction store portion; an instruction buffering portion including a plurality of instruction buffers which buffer an instruction sequence read from the instruction store portion; an instruction execution unit which decodes and executes instructions buffered by the instruction buffering portion; a branching instruction detection portion which detects a branching instruction in the instruction sequence read from the instruction store portion; and a branch target address information buffering portion including a plurality of branch target address information buffers which, when the branching instruction detection portion has detected a branching instruction, buffer the branch target address information for generating the branch target addre

Abstract: A circuit for data transfer includes a first buffer operating at a first clock frequency, a plurality of second buffers operating at a second clock frequency, and a selector circuit which receives data at the first clock frequency, and supplies the data to a selected one of the first buffer and the second buffers.

Abstract: In an information processing device, a first address adder generates a first address representing a target for write of data or a storage location of data to be read. A second address adder generates a second address by adding 8 to the first address. First to seventh selectors appropriately select either the first address or the second address, and supply the selected address to first to seventh memory areas, respectively. An eighth memory area is supplied with the first address.

Abstract: In a cache memory control method and computer of the present invention, a cache memory is connected to a main memory and divided into a plurality of cache blocks, and a lock/unlock signal is supplied to the cache memory to either set a replace-inhibition state of at least one of the cache blocks in which replacing at least one of the cache blocks to the main memory is inhibited, or reset the replace-inhibition state of at least one of the cache clocks such that replacing at least one of the cache block to the main memory is allowed. Either reading or writing of the main memory is performed by using the remaining cache blocks of the cache memory, other than the at least one of the cache blocks, such that, when the replace-inhibition state is set by the lock/unlock signal, replacing the at least one of the cache blocks to the main memory is inhibited during the reading or writing of the main memory.

Abstract: A co-generation system and a dehumidification air-conditioner, which generates electricity and provides highly efficient air-conditioning by reducing the latent heat load of the air-conditioner. Exhaust gas from either a turbine or an internal combustion engine heats air for desorption of adsorbed moisture from a humidity rotor. The humidity rotor has a sound adsorption material to attenuate high frequency noise coming from the exhaust outlet of the co-generation system.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an electrode for lithium secondary battery formed by depositing a thin film composed of active material capable of lithium storage and release, on a metallic foil to be used as a current collector, in which the surface of the metallic foil is roughened through wet-etching and then the thin film is deposited on the roughened surface.

Abstract: There is provided an enterprise system constructing method capable of supporting to rapidly construct enterprise systems to share and reuse the whole structure of the systems, and of flexibly and easily changing and extending the systems.