Abstract: There is provided a disk array system including an EXP (Expander) for connecting a plurality of memory devices in a daisy chain fashion, through a plurality of cables in which CC (electrical signal cable) and AOC (optical signal cable) are mixed. The EXP accesses a cable built-in MEM, determines whether the cable is CC or AOC from the acquired CABLE information, sets the appropriate protocol and parameters based on a determination result, identifies the EXP requiring a frame-to-frame connection based on an SAS address, and acquires the CABLE information only for the cable to be connected to the EXP to make an appropriate setting.

Abstract: There is provided a metallic glass component with its surface layer having both durability of a film and chromatic color properties, and a method for forming the surface layer. Surface active treatment is performed wherein the surface of the metallic glass component is reacted with a mixed aqueous solution of nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid to remove an oxide film and to provide an anchor bond shape on the surface of a metallic glass component, and electroplating or electroless plating is then performed, to form a plating film on the surface of the metallic glass component. It is thereby possible to form a surface layer of a metallic glass which has both durability and a chromatic color.

Abstract: A steering force assisting device that includes an electric motor and includes independent two sets of motor driving circuit and control unit, and the electric motor includes coils having the same polarity and different motor characteristics, the coils being wound around each of teeth of a stator of the electric motor. The motor characteristics are a high speed/low torque characteristic and a low speed/high torque characteristic, and may be selected on the basis of the running condition of a vehicle.

Abstract: A thrust bearing device is constituted by a turbine-side thrust collar and a compressor-side thrust collar that are fixed to a rotary shaft; and a thrust bearing that is arranged between the thrust collars. The thrust bearing is provided with an oil passage that supplies lubricating oil r to sliding-contact surfaces formed between the thrust bearing and the thrust collars. The outsides of the thrust collars in a radial direction incline toward the thrust bearing side. A gap c between the sliding-contact surfaces is narrowed as the gap goes outward in the radial direction, and establishes a basic region gap (c1)>an outer peripheral end gap (c2). The lubricating oil outflow resistance of a radial outer region of the gap c becomes larger than that of a radial inner region. Therefore, the lubricating oil r can be kept from flowing out from a radial outer outlet.

Abstract: A resin molded article for, for instance, vehicles formed thereon a stitch pattern, including a first member (32) having a plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36) protruding towards a design surface (31) and formed on a front side in alignment and a second member (44) formed such that the front side of the first member (32) is covered thereby and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) are exposed from the second member (44). The surface of the second member (44) constituting the design surface (31) and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) exposed from the second member (44) are in colors different from each other, and stitches in a stitch pattern are configured on the design surface (31) of the resin molded article by the plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36).

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for providing a fairness protocol in a network element are disclosed herein. In accordance with the disclosed fairness protocol, the average bandwidth of traffic sourced from each of a plurality of ingress ports is monitored. The largest bandwidth of traffic sourced from a port within a first group of ingress ports (e.g., ingress ports of a network element) is identified and compared to the largest bandwidth of traffic sourced from a port within a second group of ingress ports (e.g., ingress ports of one or more network elements communicatively connected to the network element). In order to fairly allocate bandwidth when transmitting traffic that is sourced from the first and second groups, precedence is given to traffic flowing from the group associated with the identified port sourcing the lower bandwidth of traffic.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide: a composition for an organic semiconductor insulating film, which is capable of forming an insulating film that exhibits excellent hydrophobicity and smoothness of the surface, while having excellent electrical stability; and an organic semiconductor insulating film obtained by using the composition for an organic semiconductor insulating film. The present composition contains a polysiloxane and an organic polymer compound. The polysiloxane is a polyhedral silsesquioxane having an oxetanyl group and/or an oxetanyl group containing silicon compound represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), each of R1-R3 independently represents a monovalent organic group (provided that at least one of R1-R3 is a monovalent organic group having an oxetanyl group); and each of v, w, x and y independently represents 0 or a positive number (provided that w and at least one of v, x and y are positive numbers).

Abstract: An authentication system 1 that uses sound to transmit one-time password(s) may be equipped with portable terminal(s) 10, authentication terminal(s) 30, and authentication server(s) 50. Portable terminal 10 may be equipped with password generating unit(s) 21 which encrypt information including password generation user identifier(s) issued by authentication server(s) 50 and generate one-time password(s), encoding unit(s) 22 which encode one-time password(s) and generate baseband signal(s), carrier wave generating unit(s) 23 which generate carrier wave(s) in audible band(s), modulating unit(s) 25 which use baseband signal(s) to modulate carrier wave(s) and generate modulated signal(s), and speaker(s) 17 which transmit modulated signal(s) in the form of sound wave(s). One-time password(s) may be input as sound wave(s) from portable terminal(s) 10 to authentication terminal(s) 30.

Abstract: A diffraction aberration corrector formed by the multipole of the solenoid coil ring and having a function of adjusting the degree of orthogonality or axial shift of the vector potential with respect to the beam axis. In order to cause a phase difference, the diffraction aberration corrector that induces a vector potential, which is perpendicular to the beam axis and has a symmetrical distribution within the orthogonal plane with respect to the beam axis, is provided near the objective aperture and the objective lens. A diffracted wave traveling in a state of being inclined from the beam axis passes through the ring of the magnetic flux. Since the phase difference within the beam diameter is increased by the Aharonov-Bohm effect due to the vector potential, the intensity of the electron beam on the sample is suppressed.

Abstract: According to the conventional art disk array system, when a drive box of a first chassis is blocked, all the drive boxes of a second chassis connected subsequently therefrom will be blocked, and the data in the drive boxes arranged subsequently therefrom cannot be recovered based on the RAID configuration. Even if the data could be recovered based on RAID configuration, it is necessary to perform the recovery process based on RAID in all the subsequently arranged drive boxes, according to which the performance is deteriorated. The present system stores a first drive box in a first chassis out of a plurality of chassis, and a second drive box and a third drive box are stored in a second chassis. One of a plurality of expander controllers within the first drive box is connected to an expander controller in the second drive box, and the other expander controller is connected to an expander controller in the third drive box.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.

Abstract: A resin molded article for, for instance, vehicles formed thereon a stitch pattern, including a first member (32) having a plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36) protruding towards a design surface (31) and formed on a front side in alignment and a second member (44) formed such that the front side of the first member (32) is covered thereby and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) are exposed from the second member (44). The surface of the second member (44) constituting the design surface (31) and the protruding ends of the thread stitch portions (34, 36) exposed from the second member (44) are in colors different from each other, and stitches in a stitch pattern are configured on the design surface (31) of the resin molded article by the plurality of thread stitch portions (34, 36).

Abstract: A method for allocating port assignments for transmitting a reserved network stream across a network node comprises determining a cycle time associated with a network node. The method also comprises establishing, for at least one port of the network node, a plurality of virtual layers associated with the cycle time, wherein each of the plurality of virtual layers is divided into 2n equally-spaced slots per cycle (where n>0). The method further comprises receiving a reserved stream request associated with transmission of a reserved stream across the node, and determining a number of slots required to transmit the reserved stream. The method also comprises assigning one or more slots associated with a port of the network node to the transmission of packets associated with the reserved stream based on the determined number of slots. The method further comprises transmitting the stream according to the slot assignment associated with the port of the network node.

Abstract: The present invention is capable of reducing a calculation amount while lessening performance degradation from MLD. The present invention is a reception device that receives a transmit signal which is transmitted from a transmission device by a MIMO transmission scheme. The reception device includes a channel estimation unit (205) that performs channel estimation using a received signal, and calculates a channel estimation value, a signal detection unit (206) that generates a bit log-likelihood ratio by MIMO demultiplexing of a received signal based on the channel estimation value, and a decoding unit (207) that performs error correction decoding with respect to the bit log-likelihood ratio.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type that is formed near a surface of the first semiconductor layer; a first main electrode that is electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; a third semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type that neighbors the first semiconductor layer; a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type that is selectively disposed in an upper portion of the third semiconductor layer; a second main electrode that is electrically connected to the third semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer; a trench whose side face is in contact with the third semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer; a gate electrode that is formed along the side face of the trench by a sidewall of polysilicon; and a polysilicon electrode.

Abstract: An object is to position guide vanes for generating swirl flow at a housing inner circumferential side in front of an impeller wheel to improve a surge margin and to restrict decrease in a choke flow rate, while making the inclination angle of the guide vanes variable. A centrifugal compressor 19 includes a compressor housing 15, an impeller wheel 7 which compresses intake gas from an intake-air inlet 23, a plurality of guide vanes 63 disposed circumferentially along an inner circumferential wall of the intake-air channel 21 between the intake-air inlet 23 and the impeller wheel 7 to swirl the intake gas around the rotational axis, a central intake-air flow path 71 formed at an inner side of the guide vanes 63 to allow the intake gas to flow to the impeller wheel without passing through the guide vanes 63, and a guide-vane moving mechanism 73 which simultaneously changes the inclination angle of the guide vanes 63.

Abstract: An object is to position a plurality of guide vanes for generating swirl flow at a housing inner circumferential side in front of an impeller wheel to improve a surge margin and to restrict the decrease in a choke flow rate, thereby increasing an operation range of a compressor. A compressor 19 includes a compressor housing 15, an impeller wheel 7 which compresses intake gas flowing in from an intake-air inlet 23, a swirl-flow generating part including a plurality of guide vanes 55 disposed circumferentially along an inner circumferential wall of the intake-air channel 21 between the intake-air inlet 23 and the impeller wheel 7 and which swirls the intake gas from the intake-air inlet 23 around the rotational axis, and a central intake-air flow path 59 formed inside the guide vanes 55 to allow intake gas to flow to the impeller wheel 7 without passing through the guide vanes 55.

Abstract: A memory control apparatus, a memory control method, and a program are provided which allow reduction of the number of times of writing to a nonvolatile memory. According to the present invention, both of data to be written to one block of a plurality of blocks dividing a storage region of a nonvolatile memory and information for identifying the number of times of writing to the nonvolatile memory are written to the one block.

Abstract: Provided is a method of promoting the growth of green algae which promotes the growth of the green algae which is in a state of being a green swarm cell by irradiating the green algae that accumulate astaxanthin with an artificial light, in which the green algae are grown in a liquid medium while maintaining a state in which the color of a culture solution of the green algae is green or brown by alternately and continuously radiating a red illumination light and a blue illumination light.

Abstract: A variable geometry turbine includes a fluid space formed by a nozzle mount and a nozzle plate; and a plurality of nozzle vanes arranged in the fluid space at certain intervals in the circumferential direction so as to partition the fluid space. The nozzle vanes are supported by shafts on the nozzle mount, in such a manner as to be capable of turning. The flow rate of the discharged fluid can be adjusted by opening or closing the cross-sectional area of a flow path formed by the adjacent nozzle vanes. The nozzle plate is provided with plate projections protruding toward the nozzle vanes further than, at least, end surfaces of the nozzle vanes, so as to cover the spaces between leading edges of the nozzle vanes and trailing edges of the nozzle vanes adjacent thereto, when the nozzle vanes are at a closed position.