Abstract: An analog insulation multiplexer not causing magnetic saturation even if a small transformer is used and having a wide use temperature range. The analog insulation multiplexer includes: a first switching element for generating a drive control signal in accordance with an external signal; a drive insulation transformer for receiving the drive control signal on a primary side via a first resistor and for delivering an insulated drive control signal from a secondary side; a second switching element for chopping an analog signal input in accordance with the insulated drive control signal; and an analog signal insulation transformer for delivering an insulated chopped analog signal on a secondary side.

Abstract: The semiconductor integrated circuit is provided, in which an external temperature control or temperature monitoring is possible, with little influence by the noise of a system board which mounts the semiconductor integrated circuit. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes the temperature detection circuit which detects the chip temperature, and the functional module which flows a large operating current. An external terminal which supplies operating voltage, and an external terminal which supplies ground voltage are coupled to the functional module. The temperature detection circuit generates a temperature detection signal and a reference signal. The reference signal and the temperature detection signal are led out to the exterior of the semiconductor integrated circuit via a first external output terminal and a second external output terminal, respectively, and are supplied to an external temperature control/monitoring circuit which has a circuitry type of a differential amplifier circuit.

Abstract: Air that is cooled with ground temperature is circulated in a room, by delivering air in the room outward to an exhaust pipe with a predetermined exhaust pressure; sucking the air discharged from the exhaust pipe with a predetermined suction pressure via an underground path that is formed in ground by the air discharged from the exhaust pipe into the ground; and delivering the sucked air into the room.

Abstract: An air condition control device for controlling a plurality of air conditioners which cool a plurality of electronic apparatuses respectively, the air condition control device includes a storage section for storing a heating value information related to respective heating values of the electronic apparatuses, and a controller for detecting that a fault has occurred in one of the air conditioners, specifying any of the electronic apparatuses which has been cooled by the one of the air conditioners having occurred the fault when the fault in the one of the air conditioners is detected, determining a heating value of each of the specified electronic apparatuses on the basis of the heating value information, and setting the air flow rate for at least one of the other air conditioners in accordance with the heating values of the specified electronic apparatuses.

Abstract: An epoxy resin curable composition for a prepreg, comprising the following components (A) to (E): (A) a polyamide compound having a structure derived from an aromatic diamine including a phenolic hydroxyl group, the aromatic diamine having the phenolic hydroxyl group in a position adjacent to an amino group; (B) an epoxy resin; (C) an epoxy resin curing agent; (D) a filler; and (E) a solvent.

Abstract: A data center includes a housing room that houses an information technology device; an air conditioning machine that cools air in the housing room and supplies the air under a floor of the housing room; a grille that allows the air supplied under the floor to circulate in the housing room; and a rack device that houses the information technology device. In the housing room in the data center, the rack device is arranged in such a way as to surround the grille. The information technology device is housed in the rack device in such a way as to take in air from a space surrounded by the rack device via the grille and discharge air to the housing room. The air conditioning machine is arranged at a side from which the information technology device discharges air.

Abstract: A temperature predicting apparatus for predicting possible abnormal temperature of air for cooling at least one of electronic devices mounted on a rack, the temperature predicting apparatus includes a storing section for storing temperature information related to at least one temperature measured by a temperature sensor provided on an intake side of the electronic device, and a controller for estimating a change tendency in the temperature on the intake side of the electronic device on the basis of the temperature information stored in the storing section, and predicting the possible abnormal temperature on the basis of the estimated change tendency.

Abstract: A thermal-fluid-simulation analyzing apparatus includes an execution unit that generates an analysis model using analysis conditions to conduct a first thermal fluid simulation analysis based on the generated analysis model, an analysis-condition collecting unit that collects analysis conditions when a predetermined period passes after the first thermal fluid simulation analysis, a condition extracting unit that extracts a boundary condition from the analysis conditions collected by the analysis-condition collecting unit, and a re-execution unit that selects a region corresponding to the boundary condition extracted by the condition extracting unit from regions of the analysis model generated by the execution unit, updates the selected region with the boundary condition, and conducts a second thermal fluid simulation analysis for the updated analysis model.

Abstract: A free access floor formed by free access panels arranged above a base floor. The free access floor includes a specific panel that is one of the free access panels and has a slit, and a partitioning plate inserted into the slit, so as to hang down from a surface of the specific panel and orient airflow in a space between the base floor and the free access panels.

Abstract: An analog multiplexer with an insulated power supply includes: an analog signal transformer receiving an analog signal input in its primary winding via an FET, and ON/OFF driving the FET to generate a pulse with an amplitude of the analog signal in its secondary winding; a drive transformer receiving a drive pulse input in its primary winding via an FET to generate a pulse turning ON/OFF the FET in its secondary winding; an inhibit generation circuit generating an inhibit pulse having a wider pulse width than that of the drive pulse; an AND gate determining a logical product of a continuous pulse from a continuous pulse generation circuit and the inhibit pulse to obtain a power supply pulse train; and a rectifying/smoothing circuit obtaining a direct current voltage corresponding to the power supply pulse train to apply the direct current voltage to the primary winding of the transformer through high resistance.

Abstract: A job assigning apparatus connected to a plurality of arithmetic units for assigning a job to each of the arithmetic units, the job assigning apparatus includes a power consumption acquiring processor for acquiring power consumptions with respect to each of the arithmetic units, a selector for selecting one of the arithmetic units as a submission destination in increasing order of the power consumptions acquired by the power consumption acquiring processor, and a job submitting processor for submitting a job to the submission destination.

Abstract: An installation for cooling an electronic device includes an air conditioner having an air outlet for blowing cooling air to a room; a first detector adjacent to the air outlet of the air conditioner, for detecting a temperature of the cooling air; a rack accommodating the electronic device, the rack having an air inlet for receiving the cooling air from the air conditioner and an air outlet for exhausting air to the room; a second detector adjacent to the air inlet of the rack, for detecting a temperature of air received through the air inlet of the rack; and a controller for acquiring the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors, and controlling a quantity of the cooling air blown from the air outlet of the air conditioner so as to decrease a difference between the temperatures detected by the first and the second detectors.

Abstract: There are included a location-information management unit that manages location information of devices arranged in a spatial layout on a screen, a device-feature management unit that manages device features of the devices, a guide-information generation unit that reads the location information and the device features of the devices arranged in the spatial layout from the location-information management unit and the device-feature management unit respectively and generates device-layout guide information allowing for the device features of the devices based on the read location information and device features of the devices, and a monitor unit that guides and displays the device-layout guide information generated by the guide-information generation unit.

Abstract: The semiconductor integrated circuit is provided, in which an external temperature control or temperature monitoring is possible, with little influence by the noise of a system board which mounts the semiconductor integrated circuit. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes the temperature detection circuit which detects the chip temperature, and the functional module which flows a large operating current. An external terminal which supplies operating voltage, and an external terminal which supplies ground voltage are coupled to the functional module. The temperature detection circuit generates a temperature detection signal and a reference signal. The reference signal and the temperature detection signal are led out to the exterior of the semiconductor integrated circuit via a first external output terminal and a second external output terminal, respectively, and are supplied to an external temperature control/monitoring circuit which has a circuitry type of a differential amplifier circuit.

Abstract: An air conditioning control apparatus for controlling an air conditioner in a room which accommodates a computer, includes obtaining repetitively a detected value of a total power consumption of the computer and the air conditioner and a detected value of a air temperature at the air inlet, storing the obtained values into a memory, determining an approximate expression representing a relation between the total power consumption and the air temperature on the basis of the values stored into the memory, determining a value of the air temperature corresponding to the lowest value of the total power consumption, by using the calculated approximate expression, and controlling the air conditioner so that the air temperature become equal the calculated air temperature.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an open amount of a plurality of air transfer grilles which are installed in a room, includes a determining unit for determining first target amounts of blowing to each of the racks, for determining second target amounts of blowing from each of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the first target amounts so that each of air of the first target amounts are blown to each of the racks, and for determining open amounts for each of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the plurality of second target amounts so that each of the amounts of blowing from each of the grilles becomes each of the second target amounts, and a controller for controlling each of the open amounts of the air transfer grilles on the basis of the each of the determined open amounts.

Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus for detecting abnormality of air conditioning in a room which accommodates a plurality of computers having an air inlet and having an outlet, includes, a plurality of temperature detectors for detecting temperatures at each of the air inlets, a memory for storing a plurality of reference patterns, each of the reference patterns representing a set of temperatures at each of the air inlets and corresponding to one of a plurality of abnormal categories, a determining unit for determining one of the abnormal categories by comparing the detected temperatures by the temperature detectors with the reference patterns stored in the memory, an output unit for outputting information corresponding to the category of the air condition abnormality determined.

Abstract: An installation for cooling an electronic device provided on a floor in a room includes an underfloor space below the floor; an air conditioner for sending air to the underfloor space; a first opening provided in the floor and adjacent to the electronic device, for sending air from the underfloor space to the room; and a second opening provided in the floor and adjacent to the air conditioner, the second opening being configured to cause the air pressure of the lower side of the second opening to be lower than the air pressure of the upper side of the second opening.

Abstract: An information handling apparatus includes a chassis installed a plurality of electric parts of the information handling apparatus, having a pair of openings on opposite sides for allowing an incoming and outgoing air flow for cooling down an inside of the information handling apparatus, a pair of temperature detectors for detecting temperature at each of the openings, a fan installed in the housing for generating airflow between the openings, the fan being capable of reversibly switching airflow direction, and a controller for performing switching of the air flow direction by the fan so that the fan generates the airflow from one of the openings at which a detected with lower temperature is detected as compared with the other of the openings.

Abstract: The present invention provides an arrangement for enabling a plurality of central processing units to share specific resources while ensuring overall reliability owing to domain separation.