Abstract: A charging control device is equipped with a state of charge detection unit adapted to detect a state of charge of a secondary battery, a storage unit adapted to store a charging pattern in which the state of charge and a charging current are associated, and a charging control unit adapted to change the charging pattern in accordance with the state of charge of the secondary battery when charging is initiated, and to control the charging current in accordance with the charging pattern after having been changed.

Abstract: A processing performance computation unit (101) computes processing performance of an embedded device when a neural network having a plurality of layers is implemented. A requirement achievement determination unit (102) determines whether or not the processing performance of the embedded device when the neural network is implemented satisfies required processing performance. A reduction layer specifying unit (103) specifies a reduction layer which is a layer whose calculation amount is to be reduced, from among the plurality of layers, based on a calculation amount of each layer of the neural network, where it is determined by the requirement achievement determination unit (102) that the processing performance of the embedded device when the neural network is implemented does not satisfy the required processing performance.

Abstract: A projector includes a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator and a refrigerant sender. The refrigerant generator includes a rotating moisture absorbing/discharging member, a first air blower configured to deliver air containing the refrigerant transformed into the gas at the cooling target to a first portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member located in a first region, a heat exchanger connected to the refrigerant sender, and a second air blower configured to cool the heat exchanger. The air having passed through the first portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member flows into the heat exchanger. Air exhausted from the heat exchanger is delivered to a second portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member located in a second region different from the first region.

Abstract: The storage system includes a controller and a storage drive accessible from the controller. The controller includes a memory and a processing unit. The memory includes a first cache area in which the writing of data by the storage drive is permitted, and a second cache area in which the writing of data by the storage drive is prohibited. A In the first cache area, the storage of data, by staging-in-advance in response to a read request for a sequential read, by the processing unit is permitted, and the storage of cache data in a dirty state by the processing unit is prohibited. In the second cache area, the storage of the cache data in the dirty state by the processing unit is permitted.

Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of electrode wires formed in a touch panel; a plurality of signal wires connecting together opposing ends of each of the electrode wires and a connecting circuit board connected to the touch panel; and a plurality of circuit board terminals formed on the connecting circuit board, each of the circuit board terminals being connected to a corresponding one of the signal wires, wherein the circuit board terminals include: a first circuit board terminal connected at one end to one of the electrode wires; and a second circuit board terminal connected at an other end to the one electrode wire, the first circuit board terminal and the second circuit board terminal being different.

Abstract: A power consumption control device includes: a storage battery; a heating unit; a storage unit storing a combination of a temperature of the storage battery and a remaining capacity of the storage battery in association with an increase amount in an effective capacity of the storage battery when the storage battery is heated by the heating unit which is supplied with each of the heating powers; a control unit configured to determine a first power which can be charged to the storage battery and to distribute the first power to the storage battery and the heating unit so that the increase amount in the effective capacity of the storage battery is maximized based on the first power, the increase amount for each of heating powers corresponding to the temperature of the storage battery and the remaining capacity of the storage battery, and the heating powers.

Abstract: The projector includes a cooler cooling a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. A refrigerant generator of the cooler includes a moisture absorption/desorption member, a first blower feeding air to the moisture absorption/desorption member, a first heat exchanger, a second blower circulating air inside a circulation channel passing through the first heat exchanger and the moisture absorption/desorption member, a second heat exchanger at least partially disposed in the circulation channel. The second heat exchanger includes a thermoelectric element, a first heat-transfer member coupled to a heat absorption surface of the thermoelectric element, and a second heat-transfer member thermally coupled to a heat dissipation surface of the thermoelectric element. The first heat-transfer member cools the air flowing through the circulation channel. The second heat-transfer member has a heat dissipation section configured to heat the air which was cooled by the first heat-transfer member.

Abstract: A projector includes a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator and a refrigerant sender. The refrigerant generator includes a rotating moisture absorbing/discharging member, a first air blower configured to deliver air containing the refrigerant transformed into the gas at the cooling target to a first portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member located in a first region, a heat exchanger connected to the refrigerant sender, and a second air blower configured to cool the heat exchanger. The air having passed through the first portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member flows into the heat exchanger. Air exhausted from the heat exchanger is delivered to a second portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member located in a second region different from the first region.

Abstract: This sputtering cathode has a sputtering target having a tubular shape in which the cross-sectional shape thereof has a pair of long side sections facing each other, and an erosion surface facing inward. Using the sputtering target, while moving a body to be film-formed, which has a film formation region having a narrower width than the long side sections of the sputtering target, parallel to one end face of the sputtering target and at a constant speed in a direction perpendicular to the long side sections above a space surrounded by the sputtering target, discharge is performed such that a plasma circulating along the inner surface of the sputtering target is generated, and the inner surface of the long side sections of the sputtering target is sputtered by ions in the plasma generated by a sputtering gas to perform film formation in the film formation region of the body to be film-formed.

Abstract: A storage system includes a first storage controller including a plurality of main storage media and one or more processor cores, and a second storage controller including a plurality of main storage media and one or more processor cores and performing communication with the first storage controller. Storage areas of the main storage media in the first storage controller are allocated to an address map. In response to the occurrence of failures in one or mode main storage media of the main storage media of the first storage controller, the first storage controller performs restarting to reallocate the storage areas of the main storage media excluding one or more main storage media having caused the failures to an address map reduced than before the occurrence of the failures. The second storage controller continues operating during the restarting of the first storage controller.

Abstract: A projector having a cooling target includes a light source configured to emit light, a light modulator configured to modulate the light emitted from the light source, a projection optical device configured to project the light modulated by the light modulator, a cooler configured to cool the cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas, and a controller configured to control the cooler. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant, and a refrigerant sender configured to transmit the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target. The controller controls the refrigerant generator based on at least one of temperature of the cooling target and ambient humidity of the projector.

Abstract: A projector having a cooling target includes a light source configured to emit light, a light modulator configured to modulate the light emitted from the light source, a projection optical device configured to project the light modulated by the light modulator, a cooler configured to cool the cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas, and a controller configured to control the cooler. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant, and a refrigerant sender configured to transmit the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target. The controller controls the refrigerant generator based on at least one of temperature of the cooling target and ambient humidity of the projector.

Abstract: A storage system includes a controller and a nonvolatile memory drive, in which the controller transmits a write request that designates a volume identifier of a volume to be provided to a host, to the nonvolatile memory drive; the nonvolatile memory drive exclusively allocates a free block selected from a plurality of blocks to the volume identifier; write data of the write request is written to the free block; when the write data is update write data, an area that stores data to be updated is changed to an invalid data area; and after valid data of a block including the invalid data area is migrated to another block, all data of the block including the invalid data area is erased.

Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of controllers and a plurality of storage drives. A first cache area and a second cache area are set in a memory. The first cache area is permitted to be written data by the plurality of storage drives, and the second cache area is not permitted to be written data by the plurality of storage drives. In a case where the plurality of controllers duplicates data stored in the cache area to a cache area of another controller for redundancy, the plurality of controllers causes the data to be redundant in a second cache area of the other controller in a case where the data is stored in the first cache area, and causes the data to be redundant in a first cache area of the other controller in a case where the data is stored in the second cache area.

Abstract: This sputtering cathode has a sputtering target having a tubular shape in which the cross-sectional shape thereof has a pair of long side sections facing each other, and an erosion surface facing inward. Using the sputtering target, while moving a body to be film-formed, which has a film formation region having a narrower width than the long side sections of the sputtering target, parallel to one end face of the sputtering target and at a constant speed in a direction perpendicular to the long side sections above a space surrounded by the sputtering target, discharge is performed such that a plasma circulating along the inner surface of the sputtering target is generated, and the inner surface of the long side sections of the sputtering target is sputtered by ions in the plasma generated by a sputtering gas to perform film formation in the film formation region of the body to be film-formed.

Abstract: High reliability and high performance of a storage device formed of a Dual port NVMe SSD are achieved while preventing the risk of destruction of data. The storage device includes a main memory that belongs to each of two or more clusters and that stores data related to an IO request; and a processor belonging to each of the clusters controlling accesses to the main memory. The main memory includes a first region where writing from the memory drive is permitted and a second region where the writing is prohibited. The processor selects the first region as a transfer destination related to the IO request from the memory drive when the IO request is a first request, and selects the second region as the transfer destination related to the IO request from the memory drive while permitting writing to the second region when the IO request is a second request.

Abstract: The projector includes a cooler cooling a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. A refrigerant generator of the cooler includes a moisture absorption/desorption member, a first blower feeding air to the moisture absorption/desorption member, a first heat exchanger, a second blower circulating air inside a circulation channel passing through the first heat exchanger and the moisture absorption/desorption member, a second heat exchanger at least partially disposed in the circulation channel. The second heat exchanger includes a thermoelectric element, a first heat-transfer member coupled to a heat absorption surface of the thermoelectric element, and a second heat-transfer member thermally coupled to a heat dissipation surface of the thermoelectric element. The first heat-transfer member cools the air flowing through the circulation channel. The second heat-transfer member has a heat dissipation section configured to heat the air which was cooled by the first heat-transfer member.

Abstract: Provided is an operating device for a construction machine that prevents an operator from accidentally gripping the blocking bar when the operator walks through the passage in front of the console box and that also prevents work clothes of the operator from being caught in the blocking bar. An operating device for a construction machine includes: a console box having an operating lever attached to an upper surface thereof, wherein the operating lever outputs a signal for operating the construction machine in response to a manual operation; and a blocking bar that is swingably attached to the console box about an axis extending widthwise between a block position at which to block a passage provided in front of the console box and a retreat position at which the blocking bar retreats from the passage. A recess is formed in a front end of a lateral side of the console box. The blocking bar is housed in the recess when it is positioned at the retreat position.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source device configured to emit light, a light modulator configured to modulate the light emitted from the light source device in accordance with an image signal, a projection optical device configured to project the light modulated by the light modulator, and a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant and a refrigerant sender configured to send the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target.

Abstract: An optical communication apparatus has an interface circuit that acquires transfer condition information including a bit rate and a channel spacing of an optical network, a processor that selects a modulation scheme in accordance with the transfer condition information and operates in the modulation scheme, wherein the processor is configured to select a first modulation scheme when the bit rate is greater than a first value in accordance with the channel spacing, and select a second modulation scheme when the bit rate is smaller than the first value, the second modulation scheme having a data transfer performance higher than the first modulation scheme.