Abstract: A tire includes a plurality of land portions defined by a plurality of circumferential grooves, and each of the plurality of land portions has a plurality of lateral grooves crossing the land portion. Each of the plurality of lateral grooves is made up of a center region extending at an angle of inclination relative to a tread width direction and side regions extending at a smaller angle of inclination relative to the tread width direction than the center region, the side regions increasing in groove width toward the respective circumferential grooves. Each of the plurality of lateral grooves has a sipe having, only in the center region, a shallow portion with a smaller depth, the shallow portion being located at least near a boundary part between the center region and each of the side regions with a starting point of the shallow portion being apart from the boundary part.

Abstract: Provided is a carbonization furnace in which disordering of fiber bundles does not occur and there is no lack of uniformity throughout the entire furnace interior, even in the supply of heated inert gas. A carbonization furnace for manufacturing carbon fiber bundles, the furnace being provided with a heat treatment chamber, an inlet sealed chamber and an outlet sealed chamber, a gas spray nozzle, and a conveyance path, wherein: the gas spray nozzle (4) has a double tube structure obtained from a hollow cylindrical inner tube (8) and a hollow cylindrical outer tube (7), and is disposed in a direction that is horizontal and is orthogonal to the fiber bundle conveyance direction; in the outer tube, multiple gas-spraying holes (7a) are disposed across the width of the conveyance path in the longitudinal direction of the outer tube, and the area of the gas-spraying holes of the outer tube is 0.

Abstract: A computer system includes a node including a plurality of processes, an instruction unit that designates a key range of data processed by the process, and a distribution unit. When a first key range is processed by a first process and a third key range, which is a portion of the first key range, is processed by a second process that processes a second key range, the instruction unit transmits a first updated key range to the first process, transmits a second updated key range to the second process, and transmits third range update information including first and second new ranges to the distribution unit. When receiving the third range update information, the distribution unit changes the distribution of the data to be processed. The first process performs data processing in the first updated key range and the second process performs data processing in the second updated key range.

Abstract: To perform a flame-resistant treatment on a precursor fiber strand by sending hot air to a heat treatment chamber (2) through a hot air blowing nozzle (4) in a direction parallel to a running direction of a precursor fiber strand (10). The hot air blowing from the hot air blowing nozzle (4) passes through a porous plate and a rectifying member that satisfy the following conditions (1) to (4), wherein the conditions are set as follows: (1) A/B?4.0; (2) 0.15???0.35; (3) 0?B?d?20; and (4) 80% or more of an area of one opening of the porous plate when causing facing surfaces of the porous plate and the rectifying member to overlap each other is included in one opening of the rectifying member, A indicating a hot air passage distance (mm) of the rectifying member, B indicating a horizontal maximum distance (mm) of one opening of the rectifying member, ? indicating a rate of hole area of the porous plate, and d indicating an equivalent diameter (mm) of the porous plate.

Abstract: A horizontal heat treatment device continuously subjects an untreated continuous flat object to heat treatment while horizontally transferring the untreated object within a heat treatment chamber. Seal chambers are interconnected to the untreated-object loading opening and treated-object unloading opening of the heat treatment chamber. A passage is connected to an opening of each of the seal chambers, the opening located on the side opposite the heat treatment chamber. The untreated-object passage loading opening interconnected to the untreated-object seal chamber loading opening and the treated-object passage unloading opening interconnected to the treated-object seal chamber unloading opening are the untreated-object loading opening and treated-object unloading opening of the heat treatment device. A pair of gas ejection nozzles are provided at upper and lower positions of the passages. The nozzles eject gas in specific directions, and the nozzle openings have a specific shape, a direction, and a length.

Abstract: A furnace to flame-resistantly treat a precursor fiber strand by sending hot air to a heat treatment chamber through a hot air blowing nozzle in a direction parallel to a running direction of the strand is provided. The hot air passes through a porous plate and a rectifying member satisfying the following conditions: (1) A/B?4.0; (2) 0.15???0.35; (3) 0?B?d?20; and (4) 80% or more of the area of one opening of the porous plate when facing surfaces of the porous plate and the rectifying member overlap is included in one opening of the rectifying member, where A is the rectifying member hot air passage distance (mm), B is a horizontal maximum distance (mm) of one opening of the rectifying member, ? is a rate of hole area of the porous plate, and d is the porous plate equivalent diameter (mm).

Abstract: A computer system, comprising a plurality of computers coupled to one another via a network, the computer system being configured to execute a task using a database constructed from the plurality of computers, the plurality of computers including a first computer and a second computer, the second computer being configured to execute: data replication for receiving the recovery request, for reading data, and for transmitting the read data to the first computer as first replicated data; and update processing for determining, in a case where a command to update the data is received in a recovery state, the sequence number of the update command, for updating predetermined data, and for transmitting the updated predetermined data as second replicated data, the first computer or the second computer being configured to control a write order of the first replicated data and the second replicated data by the first computer.

Abstract: Provided is a carbonization furnace in which disordering of fiber bundles does not occur and there is no lack of uniformity throughout the entire furnace interior, even in the supply of heated inert gas. A carbonization furnace for manufacturing carbon fiber bundles, the furnace being provided with a heat treatment chamber, an inlet sealed chamber and an outlet sealed chamber, a gas spray nozzle, and a conveyance path, wherein: the gas spray nozzle (4) has a double tube structure obtained from a hollow cylindrical inner tube (8) and a hollow cylindrical outer tube (7), and is disposed in a direction that is horizontal and is orthogonal to the fiber bundle conveyance direction; in the outer tube, multiple gas-spraying holes (7a) are disposed across the width of the conveyance path in the longitudinal direction of the outer tube, and the area of the gas-spraying holes of the outer tube is 0.

Abstract: A loom, containing a first and second fill yarn-holding conveyor rods which are disposed at left and right sides of an opening formed by multiple side-by-side warp yarns that run in one direction at a prescribed speed and are repeatedly inserted into the opening toward center of a weaving width and withdrawn, a single fill yarn conveyor selectively gripped by the ends of the first or second fill yarn-holding conveyor rod, a first and second rod operating units which cause the first and the second fill yarn-holding conveyor rods to be inserted into the opening in a synchronized state and to be withdrawn from the opening, and a first and second fill yarn conveyor gripping and releasing units which are fixed to opposite ends of the first and the second fill yarn-holding conveyor rods and alternately repeat operations of gripping, releasing, and delivering the fill yarn conveyor.

Abstract: A shelf of a network synchronization device includes: a clock input reception unit which receives an input of a clock signal; a clock output unit which outputs a clock signal; a clock interruption detection unit which detects a clock interruption if the clock input reception unit does not receive a clock; an AIS signal detection unit which detects an AIS signal if the AIS signal is received through the clock input reception unit; an AIS signal generation unit which generates the AIS signal; an alarm control unit which outputs a predetermined alarm notification when the AIS signal detection unit does not detect the AIS signal if the clock interruption detection unit detects the clock interruption; and an output signal selection unit which outputs the AIS signal generated by the AIS signal generation unit to the clock output unit if the clock interruption detection unit detects the clock interruption.

Abstract: A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon fiber manufacturing method including a surface treatment step of ejecting an ozone solution in which ozone is dissolved in solvent from a fluid ejecting port toward a carbon fiber bundle and causing the ozone solution to pass between single fibers of the carbon fiber bundle so as to contact surfaces of the single fibers so that the surfaces of carbon fibers are treated by the ozone solution. Also, provided is a carbon fiber subjected to a surface treatment by the carbon fiber manufacturing method.

Abstract: A furnace to flame-resistantly treat a precursor fiber strand by sending hot air to a heat treatment chamber through a hot air blowing nozzle in a direction parallel to a running direction of the strand is provided. The hot air passes through a porous plate and a rectifying member satisfying the following conditions: (1) AB?4.0; (2) 0.15???0.35; (3) 0?B?d?20; and (4) 80% or more of the area of one opening of the porous plate when facing surfaces of the porous plate and the rectifying member overlap is included in one opening of the rectifying member, where A is the rectifying member hot air passage distance (mm), B is a horizontal maximum distance (mm) of one opening of the rectifying member, ? is a rate of hole area of the porous plate, and d is the porous plate equivalent diameter (mm).

Abstract: The loom comprises: a first and a second fill yarn-holding conveyor rods (14,15), which are disposed to the left and the right of an opening formed by multiple side-by-side warp yarns (Wa) that run in one direction at a prescribed speed and which rods are repeatedly and simultaneously inserted into the opening toward the center of the weaving width and withdrawn; and a single fill yarn conveyor (16) that is selectively gripped by the ends of the rods that face same and is alternately held and conveyed by the first or second fill yarn-holding conveyor rod (14,15). By operating a first and a second rod-operating units (19,20), a first and a second gripping/releasing parts (17,18) are operated via the first and the second fill yarn-holding conveyor rods (14,15) to alternately transfer the fill yarn conveyor (16) at the center of the weaving width, and after the transfer, are shuttled between the entrance of the opening and the center of the weaving width.

Abstract: In order to specify a data discarding point in a network, provided is a network system for collecting, in the network including an access network and a transport network, pieces of statistical information including a traffic amount of the network, including: an access terminal coupled to the access network; and an edge node for interconnecting the access network and the transport network, in which: the access terminal is configured to: measure pieces of statistical information including a traffic amount in the access terminal; and notify the edge node of the measured pieces of statistical information; and the edge node collects the pieces of statistical information notified by the access terminal.

Abstract: A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol.

Abstract: A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol.