Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor that monitors a first operational status of processors, activates one of unactivated processors of the processors, and based on a second operational status of the activated processor, determines an activation timing of a next processor to activate next, and activates the next processor at the activation timing.

Abstract: A transmission device includes: a code generator configured to generate delay measurement information; an insertion unit configured to sequentially insert the delay measurement information generated by the code generator, in each of delay measurement signals in a plurality of frames, and to sequentially transmit the plurality of frames sequentially inserted with the delay measurement information to a counterpart device on a transmission path whose path delay time is to be measured; and a detector configured to receive a plurality of frames transmitted from the counterpart device and to detect the delay measurement information included in each of delay measurement signals in the plurality of received frames.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for performing loop-free transmission in a communication network. The apparatus includes a plurality of ports, a controller, a memory, and an interface unit. The controller generates monitoring frames that are transmitted to another apparatus, so as to monitor a connection state of the communication network. The memory includes port-state information that stores a port state in association with each of the plurality of ports. The interface unit processes a frame based on the port-state information and sets, in the port-state information, a stopped state to a first port included in the plurality of ports, in accordance with a time period during which the monitoring frames are not generated. The interface unit discards a frame received via the first port for which the stopped state is set in the port-state information.

Abstract: A transmission device includes: a code generator configured to generate delay measurement information; an insertion unit configured to sequentially insert the delay measurement information generated by the code generator, in each of delay measurement signals in a plurality of frames, and to sequentially transmit the plurality of frames sequentially inserted with the delay measurement information to a counterpart device on a transmission path whose path delay time is to be measured; and a detector configured to receive a plurality of frames transmitted from the counterpart device and to detect the delay measurement information included in each of delay measurement signals in the plurality of received frames.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for performing loop-free transmission in a communication network. The apparatus includes a plurality of ports, a controller, a memory, and an interface unit. The controller generates monitoring frames that are transmitted to another apparatus, so as to monitor a connection state of the communication network. The memory includes port-state information that stores a port state in association with each of the plurality of ports. The interface unit processes a frame based on the port-state information and sets, in the port-state information, a stopped state to a first port included in the plurality of ports, in accordance with a time period during which the monitoring frames are not generated. The interface unit discards a frame received via the first port for which the stopped state is set in the port-state information.

Abstract: In a network system that communicates with a mobile node, optimization of a communication route between the mobile node and its communication partner is realized while suppressing modifications of the mobile node, the communication partner of the mobile node, and devices constituting a network.

Abstract: A transmission device in which a bus of a central processing unit is used to synchronize timing signals between units, thereby restraining enlargement in scale of wiring. A reference signal generator generates a reference signal. A reference signal receiver is mounted on a unit set as an active or standby unit and receives the reference signal. A timing signal generator divides the frequency of the received reference signal by means of a frequency divider/counter to generate a timing signal. A count holder holds the count value of the frequency divider/counter. The bus connects the units and the central processing unit. A count receiver receives, via the bus, the count value from the count holder of the active unit. A count updater updates the count value of the frequency divider/counter to the count value received by the count receiver.

Abstract: In a power supply monitoring device, a power supply voltage monitoring portion always monitors a power supply voltage supplied to a monitored circuit and outputs a voltage reduction signal when detecting that the power supply voltage is reduced below a predetermined threshold (e.g. a second voltage higher than a voltage guaranteeing a normal operation of the monitored circuit and lower than a rated voltage). A monitoring controller having received the voltage reduction signal determines whether or not an operational malfunction has occurred in the monitored circuit by comparing operation data of the monitored circuit with reference data of the monitoring controller itself. Also, the monitoring controller executes recovery processing (reset processing or reference data overwrite processing) suitable for the monitored circuit referring to a prestored recovery processing type specific to the monitored circuit when detecting an operational malfunction of the monitored circuit.

Abstract: A transmission device in which a bus of a central processing unit is used to synchronize timing signals between units, thereby restraining enlargement in scale of wiring. A reference signal generator generates a reference signal. A reference signal receiver is mounted on a unit set as an active or standby unit and receives the reference signal. A timing signal generator divides the frequency of the received reference signal by means of a frequency divider/counter to generate a timing signal. A count holder holds the count value of the frequency divider/counter. The bus connects the units and the central processing unit. A count receiver receives, via the bus, the count value from the count holder of the active unit. A count updater updates the count value of the frequency divider/counter to the count value received by the count receiver.

Abstract: In a power supply monitoring device, a power supply voltage monitoring portion always monitors a power supply voltage supplied to a monitored circuit and outputs a voltage reduction signal when detecting that the power supply voltage is reduced below a predetermined threshold (e.g. a second voltage higher than a voltage guaranteeing a normal operation of the monitored circuit and lower than a rated voltage). A monitoring controller having received the voltage reduction signal determines whether or not an operational malfunction has occurred in the monitored circuit by comparing operation data of the monitored circuit with reference data of the monitoring controller itself. Also, the monitoring controller executes recovery processing (reset processing or reference data overwrite processing) suitable for the monitored circuit referring to a prestored recovery processing type specific to the monitored circuit when detecting an operational malfunction of the monitored circuit.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention, a projector device having a trapezoidal distortion correction mode of projected video and including, a distance measurement sensor which obtains a distance to a screen and a tilt angle, a lens barrel which projects the projected video, and a zoom ring attached to the lens barrel by use of one embodiment of this invention, an irradiation position from the distance measurement sensor to the screen is changed based on a position of the zoom ring, so that a detection precision of the tilt angle of the screen can be enhanced.

Abstract: A firewall device that executes filtering of a packet for an internal network to which a moving terminal belongs is set so that a control packet related with registration of position information about the moving terminal is allowed to pass. When the moving terminal is connected to an external network, the moving terminal transmits a control packet including position information about the self terminal to a communication terminal as communication destination. The communication terminal registers the position information included in the control packet from the moving terminal transferred from the firewall device and posts the position information to the firewall device. The firewall device updates the position information about the moving terminal based on the posted position information, and sets permission for the packet to pass between the moving terminal and the communication terminal.

Abstract: The drill of the present invention has only one cutting discharge groove (11) formed in the outer periphery of a bit (10). A leading edge protruding farthest towards the tip in the axial direction in a tip flank (12) is composed at a single point and located on an axis (O). When bit is viewed from the tip side in the direction of axis, tip flank is in the form of a multilevel surface composed of second through fourth flanks (14B, 14C and 14D) arranged along the peripheral direction, and a reverse side first flank (14E) surrounded by second through fourth flanks and intersecting with axis.

Abstract: The drill of the present invention has only one cutting discharge groove (11) formed in the outer periphery of a bit (10). A leading edge protruding farthest towards the tip in the axial direction in a tip flank (12) is composed at a single point and located on an axis (O). When bit is viewed from the tip side in the direction of axis, tip flank is in the form of a multilevel surface composed of second through fourth flanks (14B, 14C and 14D) arranged along the peripheral direction, and a reverse side first flank (14E) surrounded by second through fourth flanks and intersecting with axis.

Abstract: A fastening bolt fastens flanges between a bolt head and a nut attached on the threaded portion of the shaft via spherical washers. The fastening bolt has a cavity formed within the shaft. By application of pressure in the cavity with a hydraulic fluid supplied through a hydraulic pressure port in a plug, the shaft is extended and the fastening bolt becomes unfastened condition. In the unfastened condition, a gap is created between flange and nut, and the nut and the fastening bolt are free to rotate each other, therefore, the nut can be removed easily by hand from the fastening bolt, even the bolt is large in size. The fastening force is adjustable by the width of the gap before releasing hydraulic pressure in the cavity. By releasing hydraulic pressure in the cavity, the fastened condition is obtained. Conversion between fastened condition and unfastened condition can be made quickly and easily.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a molten metal producing and refining method which does not damage the apparatus, realizes a stable and high second combustion rate, and is capable of effectively recovering heat generated by the second combustion. The method comprises introducing a metal-containing material, a carbonaceous material, a flux and O.sub.2 gas into a furnace. The carbon which dissolves into the metal bath in the furnace from the carbonaceous material is combusted with the O.sub.2 gas to generate heat and CO gas. The CO gas is subjected to the second combustion with the O.sub.2 gas to additionally generate heat, and the metal-containing material is melted and refined by both the generated heat and carbon. The method is characterized in that O.sub.2 gas or O.sub.2 -containing gas is blown into the furnace through large-diameter tuyeres installed near the bottom of the furnace and a part of the O.sub.

Abstract: Metal oxide ore is subjected to smelting reduction to obtain the molten metal by a method which comprises prereducing said ore in solid state in a prereduction furnace, thereafter melting said ore and carrying out final reduction thereof in a smelting reduction furnace, and at the same time introducing gas generated in said smelting reduction furnace and having reductive capability into said prereduction furnace, the rate of prereducing said ore in said prereduction furnace being controlled at a value with a maximum of the order of 33 percent for raising the rate of utilization of energy to a maximum limit.

Abstract: A metal-making apparatus is suited for the production of molten iron from iron ore which is in a state of particles with a wide range in size. Included are a solid-state prereduction furnace for preliminarily reducing the raw ore particles in a solid state, and a smelting reduction furnace for smelting the prereduced ore particles and reducing them in a molten state. High temperature reducing gas generated within the smelting reduction furnace is directed into the prereduction furnace and blown up through a distributor on which there is loaded a charge of raw ore particles. The ore particles of larger size form a fluidized bed on the distributor and so are prereduced by making intimate contact with the gas. Ore particles of smaller size, on the other hand, are carried away from the fluidized bed by the waste gas and thereby prereduced while being recirculated through the prereduction furnace.

Abstract: In a fuel injection pump having two kinds of plungers rotatably displaced by a common rack, each of one kind of plungers ceasing fuel supply and each of the other kind of plungers supplying fuel during idling of an engine, a measuring screw-like groove of each plunger ceasing fuel supply during idling of the engine has a longitudinal groove communicating with a plunger pump chamber. The longitudinal groove is of relatively enlarged width, and a cut portion crossing at a right angle to said longitudinal groove is provided at the intersection of the longitudinal groove and the upper edge of the screw-like groove. The depth of this cut portion increases toward the longitudinal groove.