Abstract: A parallel processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor is configured to: acquire a first time and a second time; divide a plurality of nodes into a plurality of groups; generate a plurality of schedule candidates each which assigns time zones corresponding to a length of time used to perform a maintenance operation at one or more nodes included in the plurality of groups in a time period from the first time to the second time to the plurality of groups such that no overlap occurs among the plurality of groups; evaluate the plurality of schedule candidates based on one or more process execution schedules of the one or more nodes in the time period; and output one schedule candidate of the plurality of schedule candidates based on a result of the evaluation.

Abstract: An autonomous travelling vehicle provided with an elevation apparatus on a chassis includes Wi-Fi antennas and cellular antennas that are columnar antennas and that are stood adjacent to an area for elevational motions of an elevation mechanism of the elevation apparatus.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (323) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: Computers are connected via multidimensional mesh or torus connection in a network. In response to a request for executing maintenance processing on computers in the network, an apparatus detects execution-scheduled jobs to be executed after an execution start time of the maintenance processing, based on execution-scheduled start times of jobs to be executed by the computers. The apparatus calculates, for each execution-scheduled job, a characteristic value of an axial length of an execution-scheduled job area in each axial direction of multidimensional axes in the network, where the execution-scheduled job area includes a group of computers to execute the each execution-scheduled job. The apparatus determines a maintenance area in the network on which the maintenance processing is to be executed, based on the characteristic values of the axial lengths of the execution-scheduled job areas, and executes the maintenance processing on computers in the maintenance area.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: A parallel processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor is configured to: acquire a first time and a second time; divide a plurality of nodes into a plurality of groups; generate a plurality of schedule candidates each which assigns time zones corresponding to a length of time used to perform a maintenance operation at one or more nodes included in the plurality of groups in a time period from the first time to the second time to the plurality of groups such that no overlap occurs among the plurality of groups; evaluate the plurality of schedule candidates based on one or more process execution schedules of the one or more nodes in the time period; and output one schedule candidate of the plurality of schedule candidates based on a result of the evaluation.

Abstract: A mobile vehicle comprising: an electric undercarriage including a wheel that can travel; and a distance detection unit and a protruding structure which are mounted on the electric undercarriage, wherein the distance detection unit is configured to emit light horizontally in a range of a predetermined center angle around the electric undercarriage and to be capable of detecting a distance to an object present within the range of the predetermined center angle, the protruding structure includes one or more of an antenna, a warning light, an imaging device, and a lift mechanism unit, and the protruding structure is placed on the electric undercarriage at a position outside the range of the predetermined center angle, whose mobile vehicle can reliably recognize an obstacle without creating a blind spot in a traveling direction.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: An autonomous traveling apparatus includes a detecting device that is provided with a plurality of optical detecting units each of which detects a detection target object by using light. At least two optical detecting units out of the plurality of optical detecting units are arranged in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: An autonomous travelling vehicle provided with an elevation apparatus on a chassis includes Wi-Fi antennas and cellular antennas that are columnar antennas and that are stood adjacent to an area for elevational motions of an elevation mechanism of the elevation apparatus.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: A mobile vehicle comprising: an electric undercarriage including a wheel that can travel; and a distance detection unit and a protruding structure which are mounted on the electric undercarriage, wherein the distance detection unit is configured to emit light horizontally in a range of a predetermined center angle around the electric undercarriage and to be capable of detecting a distance to an object present within the range of the predetermined center angle, the protruding structure includes one or more of an antenna, a warning light, an imaging device, and a lift mechanism unit, and the protruding structure is placed on the electric undercarriage at a position outside the range of the predetermined center angle, whose mobile vehicle can reliably recognize an obstacle without creating a blind spot in a traveling direction.

Abstract: Computers are connected via multidimensional mesh or torus connection in a network. In response to a request for executing maintenance processing on computers in the network, an apparatus detects execution-scheduled jobs to be executed after an execution start time of the maintenance processing, based on execution-scheduled start times of jobs to be executed by the computers. The apparatus calculates, for each execution-scheduled job, a characteristic value of an axial length of an execution-scheduled job area in each axial direction of multidimensional axes in the network, where the execution-scheduled job area includes a group of computers to execute the each execution-scheduled job. The apparatus determines a maintenance area in the network on which the maintenance processing is to be executed, based on the characteristic values of the axial lengths of the execution-scheduled job areas, and executes the maintenance processing on computers in the maintenance area.

Abstract: The parallel computer system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses and a management apparatus to control the information processing apparatuses. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses outputs a resource usage quantity variation with respect to a job at a predetermined time interval. The management apparatus generates an execution history containing an attribute of the job and the resource usage quantity variation every time the job is executed, estimates a resource usage quantity of a new job, based on resource usage quantity variations contained in an execution history of a reference job matching the new job in terms of the attribute within a predetermined degree, and specifies the information processing apparatus to be assigned the new job, based on the estimated resource usage quantity.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: An operating device includes a first support frame, a support shaft, an operating panel, a second support frame, and a spring. The first support frame is fixed to a front side of a main apparatus. The support shaft projects from the first support frame in a widthwise direction of the main apparatus. The second support frame is pivotally supported on the support shaft in such a manner as to be displaceable within a predetermined range in the widthwise direction while supporting the operating panel. The spring biases the second support frame in a first direction which the second support frame is pressed against the first support frame. The first support frame has a plurality of recesses on a circumference of a circle that is concentric with the support shaft. The second support frame has a first projection capable of being engaged into any one of the recesses.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in one embodiment of the present invention is an image forming apparatus that includes a main body that performs processing to form an image on a recording paper, the image forming apparatus including, an ion generating section that is external to the main body, generates ions and emits those ions to the outside.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a processing section, a load section, an operating section, and a display unit. The processing section performs processing upon sheets of a recording medium. The operating section includes input keys which receive input operation for controlling the processing section, and is disposed over the load section. The display unit displays information corresponding to input operation from the operating section. And the operating section can be freely shifted between a pulled out position in which its input keys are exposed to the exterior, and a storage position in which it is stored internally, and, in the storage position, is disposed below the display unit.