Abstract: An electrochromic element, which includes a pair of electrodes and an electrochromic layer disposed between the electrodes. The electrochromic layer contains at least one of two or more kinds of anode electrochromic materials, or two or more kinds of cathode electrochromic materials. All of one of the anode electrochromic materials and the cathode electrochromic materials have an equal molecular length, or have a molecular length ratio of (large molecular length)/(small molecular length) of 1.4 or less, the electrochromic element being such that even when a driving environment temperature changes, its gradation can be controlled under a state in which its absorption spectrum is retained.

Abstract: The storage system is capable of creating one or more virtual storage subsystems to which virtual resources having logically divided a processing capacity of the physical resources are allocated, and upon creating a virtual volume for receiving I/O requests from the host within the virtual storage subsystem, the virtual storage subsystem allocates the virtual resource to the virtual volume, and when an I/O request to the virtual volume is received from the host, performs processing related to the I/O request using the virtual resource having been allocated. According further to the storage system, after allocating the virtual resource to the virtual volume, the storage system raises a utilization rate of the virtual resource allocated to the virtual volume in a stepwise manner.

Abstract: A plurality of battery cells are connected by a busbar. Electrode terminals of the battery cells each include a protruding portion and a welding surface around the protruding portion. The busbar includes a welding plate portion being in surface-contact with the welding surface and having a cut-away portion for guiding the protruding portion, and an exposure gap that exposes the welding surface between the inner side of the cut-away portion and the protruding portion. The busbar is welded to the welding surface in a predetermined welding width (H) by both of a fillet weld part and a penetration welding portion such that the inner edge of the cut-away portion as the fillet weld part is welded to the welding surface, and the boundary between the busbar and the welding surface is welded by the penetration welding portion.

Abstract: A configuration aimed at reducing loads on storage apparatuses at a restoration site is provided in an environment where there are differences in the performance and capacity of the storage apparatuses between a primary site and the restoration site. Second volumes which form a remote copy with first volumes provided to a host at a primary site are located in a storage apparatus at the restoration site, which can satisfy the performance requirement upon failure of the first volumes, on the basis of performance information and available capacity information. A volume group is configured for each of the second volumes located at one storage apparatus at the restoration site and the first volumes; and an extended volume group including a plurality of second volumes, in which data is replicated and recorded in a write order to write the data to the first volumes, and their first volumes is set.

Abstract: A vehicular power source device includes: a case incorporating a battery; a service plug coupled to the battery incorporated in the case; and a protection cover of the service plug. The protection cover includes: a covering portion of the service plug; a fixing board fixed to the case via a fastener; and an opening board disposed to be adjacent to the fixing board and providing a gap to the case. In addition, the fixing board includes: a fixing portion fixed onto the case via the fastener; a linking portion linking the fixing portion to the covering portion; and a breaking portion. The breaking portion is provided in the fixing portion or in a boundary portion between the fixing portion and the linking portion, and a breaking strength of the breaking portion is lower than that of the linking portion.

Abstract: The disclosure reduces the size and cost of a power conditioner. A power conditioner including a DC/DC converter connected to a power supply device and an inverter connected to the DC/DC converter includes: a plus side wiring connecting the DC/DC converter and the inverter; a minus side wiring connecting the DC/DC converter and the inverter; a capacitor having one end connected to the plus side wiring and an other end connected to the minus side wiring; and a fuse provided on the minus side wiring, wherein the DC/DC converter has at least one switching element; the other end of the capacitor is connected to a first connection point provided on the minus side wiring on the DC/DC converter side with respect to the fuse; and the switching element is connected to a second connection point provided on the minus side wiring on the inverter side with respect to the fuse.

Abstract: Provided is an organic electrochromic device which has a high response speed and is excellent in durability even when a large current is flowed transiently, in which: an electrochromic layer arranged between a pair of electrodes contains an organic electrochromic material, a redox substance, and a solvent; the organic electrochromic material and the redox substance are each a material to be reversibly subjected to a redox reaction; and a potential at which the redox substance is oxidized (or reduced) is present between a potential at which the organic electrochromic material is reversibly oxidized (or reduced) and a potential at which the organic electrochromic material is irreversibly oxidized (or reduced).

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technology which adaptively switches video analysis methods according to a congestion situation within a video, and which carries out a suitable video analysis by a limited computational volume. Provided is an image processing device 100, wherein a congestion estimation unit 102 estimates a congestion situation within a video which is acquired from an image input unit 101. A control unit 103 switches methods for video analysis according to the congestion situation. In a situation of low congestion, an image analysis unit for use in normal situations 105 carries out the video analysis by a basic method. In a situation of high congestion, an image analysis unit for use in congested situations 106 carries out a high-precision video analysis, such as an analysis which spans a plurality of frames.

Abstract: An encryption key used with a storing apparatus and an encryption key used with a non-volatile cache memory are identical to each other. A cache control portion unit effects control in such a way that an encryption key EK used to encrypt first data stored in the storing apparatuses, and an encryption key EK used to encrypt second data which are data corresponding to the first data and are stored in the non-volatile cache memory, are identical to each other. If the cache control portion receives a write request and first data WD, the cache control portion identifies from the storing apparatuses a storing apparatus that is to be the storage destination of the first data, identifies an encryption key allocated to the identified storing apparatus, encrypts the second data corresponding to the first data using the identified encryption key, and stores the data in the non-volatile cache memory.

Abstract: The storage apparatus includes a control unit that manages a storage area allocated to the host computer. The control unit assigns an identifier to the host computer that accesses the storage area, and assigns the identifier to the first computer's first interface that accesses the storage area, assigns a second port identifier of a second interface of a storage device that communicates with a host computer to a first port identifier of the first interface by accepting a port identifier and sets a logical path, storing the port identifier and the second port identifier in association with each other in the host computer connection information, assigning the identifier of the storage area to the identifier of the host computer, associating the identifier of the storage computer with the identifier of the host computer, and storing the storage area allocation information.

Abstract: A fiber-containing particulate resin structure (S) is a particulate resin structure including a resin (1) and fibers (2), in which the fibers (2) are dispersed in the resin (1) in an opened state, and an average density of the resin structure is in a range of 0.20 to 1.00 (g/cm3).

Abstract: A storage system includes a management processor and main processors. Each of the main processors is configured to alternately switch between a period in which main function processing, including I/O processing in response to an I/O request from a host, is executed and a period in which a management instruction is executed. The management processor is configured to: manage information associating each of uncompleted management instructions, which are already transmitted to the main processors, with a transmission destination main processor to which the each of the uncompleted management instructions is transmitted; select, based on the uncompleted management instructions of the main processors, a transmission destination main processor to which a next management instruction is to be transmitted, from among the main processors; and transmit the next management instruction to the selected transmission destination main processor.

Abstract: An inverter circuit provided in a power conversion device includes a full-bridge inverter, and a short circuit part. The short circuit part includes switching elements and clamp elements connected to the switching elements. The clamp elements suppress application of an excessive voltage such as a surge voltage to the switching elements.

Abstract: If resources allocated to a host computer exist in different physical storage nodes within a virtual storage system after performing migration to a storage system, mapping of resources among the physical storage nodes becomes necessary, and if the amount of communication between physical storage nodes that occurs during access to resources exceeds a bandwidth of the connection path, the host I/O performance may be deteriorated compared to the performance before migration. Therefore, when migration is performed from a first physical storage node to a virtual storage system composed of a plurality of second physical storage nodes, a management computer allocates resources of the second physical storage nodes within a range of bandwidth of the transfer path between the second physical storage nodes based on configuration information of the plurality of second physical storage nodes, performance information, and load information of the volume provided by the first physical storage node.

Abstract: A highly reliable assembled battery has first passages formed between a first rectangular cell and a first surface of the body part of a separator, and has second passages formed between a second rectangular cell and the second surface of the body part of the separator in an alternating manner from above to below. Openings are provided in a side wall part of the separator. The first passages and the second passages are exposed by the openings.

Abstract: An inverter circuit provided in a power conversion device includes a full-bridge inverter, and a short circuit part. The short circuit part includes switching elements and clamp elements connected to the switching elements. The clamp elements suppress application of an excessive voltage such as a surge voltage to the switching elements.

Abstract: A configuration aimed at reducing loads on storage apparatuses at a restoration site is provided in an environment where there are differences in the performance and capacity of the storage apparatuses between a primary site and the restoration site. Second volumes which form a remote copy with first volumes provided to a host at a primary site are located in a storage apparatus at the restoration site, which can satisfy the performance requirement upon failure of the first volumes, on the basis of performance information and available capacity information. A volume group is configured for each of the second volumes located at one storage apparatus at the restoration site and the first volumes; and an extended volume group including a plurality of second volumes, in which data is replicated and recorded in a write order to write the data to the first volumes, and their first volumes is set.

Abstract: The power supply device includes a plurality of battery cells each having a rectangular outer shape; separators each interposed between the battery cells and insulating mutually adjacent battery cells; and fastening members for fastening a battery cell stack including the alternately stacked battery cells and the separators. The separator includes a sandwiching plate portion disposed between the facing principal surfaces of the mutually adjacent battery cells, and a plate-like bottom-surface cover portion provided to both surfaces of the sandwiching plate portion, at a lower end of the sandwiching plate portion, and protruding in a stacked direction of the battery cells to cover bottom surfaces of the battery cells. The bottom-surface cover portions of the separators stacked on both surfaces of the battery cells are stacked on each other at the bottom surfaces of the battery cells.

Abstract: A power control apparatus includes: a first conversion apparatus that applies DC/DC conversion to direct current power from a power generator for generating power using natural energy, and outputs the resultant power; a second conversion apparatus that applies DC/DC conversion to the power output from the first conversion apparatus and charges a power storage unit with the resultant power, and also applies DC/DC conversion to power from the power storage unit and discharges the resultant power; a third conversion apparatus that supplies alternating current power to a power system and an alternating current load by applying DC/AC conversion to the power output from the first conversion apparatus and/or the power discharged by the second conversion apparatus; and a controller that causes the second conversion apparatus to perform the discharge so that the power output from the third conversion apparatus is higher than power consumed by the alternating current load.

Abstract: The storage system is capable of creating one or more virtual storage subsystems to which virtual resources having logically divided a processing capacity of the physical resources are allocated, and upon creating a virtual volume for receiving I/O requests from the host within the virtual storage subsystem, the virtual storage subsystem allocates the virtual resource to the virtual volume, and when an I/O request to the virtual volume is received from the host, performs processing related to the I/O request using the virtual resource having been allocated. According further to the storage system, after allocating the virtual resource to the virtual volume, the storage system raises a utilization rate of the virtual resource allocated to the virtual volume in a stepwise manner.