Abstract: A storage management apparatus configured to allocate physical addresses in a physical storage area, to virtual addresses in a virtual storage area for storing data is provided. The storage management apparatus includes a processor that executes a process to define, in the physical area, a continuous area having a plurality of continuous physical addresses, and define, based on a virtual address to which a physical address in the continuous area has initially been allocated, an allocation range of virtual addresses for allocating the defined continuous area; and allocate a physical address in the defined continuous area to a virtual address in the defined relation range.

Abstract: A storage management apparatus configured to allocate physical addresses in a physical storage area, to virtual addresses in a virtual storage area for storing data is provided. The storage management apparatus includes a processor that executes a process to define, in the physical area, a continuous area having a plurality of continuous physical addresses, and define, based on a virtual address to which a physical address in the continuous area has initially been allocated, an allocation range of virtual addresses for allocating the defined continuous area; and allocate a physical address in the defined continuous area to a virtual address in the defined relation range.

Abstract: A storage controller that generates multiple versions of a snapshot of a storing device and that includes a first calculator that counts a first number of segments updated in a first snapshot that is to be deleted among the multiple versions of the snapshot but not updated in a second snapshot of a successive version to the first snapshot, a second calculator that counts a second number of segments updated in the second snapshot, and a determining processor that determines, when the first number is the second number or more, that the second snapshot and the first snapshot are a merging source and a merging destination in merging processing, respectively, and determines, when the first number is less than the second number, that the first snapshot and the second snapshot are the merging source and the merging destination, respectively, the merging source being merged into the merging destination.

Abstract: The electronic device of the present invention is an electronic device provided with a nonaqueous solvent battery such as a lithium ion secondary battery and with an electronic circuit arranged adjacent to the battery, the adjacent electronic circuit being protected such that it is not adversely affected by an electrolyte leaked from the nonaqueous solvent battery. An epoxy resin composition which is a resin used to protect the circuit is superior in resistance to an electrolyte, water resistance, heat resistance, adhesion, prevention of resin cracks during a cooling and heating cycle and storage stability and is used to protect the electronic circuit, thereby making it possible to improve the life of an electronic device remarkably. The epoxy resin composition used in the present invention is an epoxy resin composition comprising (a) an epoxy resin, (b) a phenol compound and a metal complex as a latent catalyst, (c) a butyral resin and (d) an inorganic filler.

Abstract: In a magnetic brake apparatus for a continuous casting mold having a pair of first and second upper electromagnets 17A and 17B which are oppositely placed near the rear faces of the opposing side walls of the continuous casting mold 10, and a pair of first and second lower electromagnets 21A and 21B which are oppositely placed thereunder, a static magnetic field being generated between each pair of electromagnets to stem the stream of the molten steel supplied to the casting mold by the static magnetic field, the apparatus has controlling units which independently control a current supplied to magnetic coils 16A and 16B being constituents of the first and second upper electromagnets and a current supplied to magnetic coils 20A and 20B being constituents of the first and second lower electromagnets.

Abstract: A non-oxidizing heating method and apparatus in which a non-oxidizing gas of high temperature is continuously generated and supplied into a furnace by changing over a plurality of heat storage type heaters alternately while repeating an operation in which one heater stores heat and the other heater heats and blows the non-oxidizing gas. Since it is possible to heat by producing a completely non-oxidizing atmosphere within the furnace, the method and apparatus can be effectively utilized in furnaces which require heating in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, for example, various furnaces such as a ladle, tundish, etc. used in a field of steel manufacturing and continuous casting, and various furnaces used in a field of heating and heat treatment of metallic materials, and thus, it is effective to achieve reduction of operational cost, improvement of product quality, and improvement of product yield.