Abstract: An electronic component includes: a first internal electrode provided in an element body; a second internal electrode provided in the element body; a third internal electrode provided in the element body and drawn out to a first side surface; and a fourth internal electrode provided in the element body and drawn out to a second side surface. The third internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode are electrically connected to each other through an external connection conductor formed on at least the first side surface and the second side surface. In a first direction, the first internal electrode faces the third internal electrode without facing the second internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode. In the first direction, the second internal electrode faces the fourth internal electrode without facing the first internal electrode and the third internal electrode.

Abstract: An elevator device includes a guide rail (1), a car (3), and a guide device (4). The car (3) is movable in a horizontal direction at a specific height. The guide device (4) includes a supporting member (11) and a guide member (12). The guide member (12) is displaceable to a first position for restricting movement of the car (3) in the horizontal direction and guiding up-down movement of the car (3) and a second position where the guide member (12) does not come into contact with the guide rail (1) when the car (3) moves in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: A vehicular lighting fixture is provided which includes a combination of an aiming mechanism and a leveling mechanism that can reduce deformation of an aiming/leveling bracket. A vertical aiming mechanism and a leveling mechanism include an aiming/leveling bracket that is integrally molded with a resin. A rectangular recess is formed in the aiming/leveling bracket so as to accommodate an aiming nut serving as a point of load for the vertical aiming and an actuator output shaft serving as a point of effort. The rectangular recess is located on or near the central axis of the aiming nut where the central axis substantially coincides with the front-rear direction of a vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicular lighting fixture is provided which includes a combination of an aiming mechanism and a leveling mechanism that can reduce deformation of an aiming/leveling bracket. A vertical aiming mechanism and a leveling mechanism include an aiming/leveling bracket that is integrally molded with a resin. A rectangular recess is formed in the aiming/leveling bracket so as to accommodate an aiming nut serving as a point of load for the vertical aiming and an actuator output shaft serving as a point of effort. The rectangular recess is located on or near the central axis of the aiming nut where the central axis substantially coincides with the front-rear direction of a vehicle.

Abstract: A droplet jetting apparatus includes: a nozzle that ejects a jet of liquid droplets; a detector that detects a hand or an object in a flight path of liquid droplets from the nozzle; a pump including a suction portion for suction of liquid, and a discharge portion which is connected to the nozzle and discharges the liquid which has been sucked into the suction portion; a driver which by rotation of a cam, sucks liquid into the pump and discharges the liquid in a compressed state; and controller which actuates the driver. When the detector detects the hand or object, the controller actuates the pump by rotation of the cam, and ejects a jet of liquid in droplet form from the nozzle.

Abstract: A wastegate sealing jig (13) includes a base (14) which is fixable to an exhaust portion (11) of a turbocharger (1), the base (14) including a wastegate valve (6), and a turbine hole (12) which discharges exhaust gas in a turbine chamber (4b), a protrusion (15) which is provided in the base (14) so as to extend toward the exhaust portion (11), a valve member (16) which is attached to a distal end of the protrusion (15). The wastegate (5) is closed by the valve member (16) by inserting the valve member (16) between the wastegate (5) and the wastegate valve (6) of the turbocharger (1) in a state in which the wastegate valve (6) is opened.

Abstract: This storage system is designed to: divide data into a plurality of chunk data (pieces of data) in a deduplication process; select one or more chunk data from among the plurality of chunk data in accordance with a sampling period which indicates that, on average, one chunk data be selected from among each N chunk data; and calculate a fingerprint, such as a hash value, for each of one or more characteristic chunk data, which are the selected one or more chunk data, and determine whether data including the one or more characteristic chunk data is a duplication. The storage system changes the sampling period on the basis of the results of past deduplication processes.

Abstract: In an elevator hoisting machine mounting device, an elastic support device includes a supporting elastic body that deforms elastically upon reception of a load from a hoisting machine unit. A buckling suppression device disposed at a remove from the elastic support device in a horizontal direction includes first and second buckling suppression elastic bodies that sandwich, from above and below, a buckling suppression attachment portion provided on a lower portion of the hoisting machine unit, and a holding tool that holds the first and second buckling suppression elastic bodies on a machine base. The buckling suppression device suppresses, by an elastic restoring force of the first and second buckling suppression elastic bodies, buckling of the hoisting machine unit relative to the machine base due to the elastic deformation of the supporting elastic body.

Abstract: A storage system according to an aspect of the present invention includes one or more storage devices for storing write data to which a write request from a host computer is directed, and a storage controller that provides one or more volumes to the host computer. Further, the storage system manages the time when a write request is last received from the host computer for each partition within the volume. Then, the storage controller performs a deduplication process upon detecting the partition not receiving a write request for a predetermined time or more from the time when the write request is last received.

Abstract: A computer, which is configured to extract an attribute being a character string indicating a feature of a paper-based document, the computer stores template information dictionary information. The computer is configured to: execute character recognition processing on image data on the paper-based document; extract an attribute corresponding to each of the at least one type of attribute, which is defined in each of the plurality of templates, through use of a result of the character recognition processing and the plurality of templates; calculate a score regarding the extracted attribute for each of the plurality of templates; select one of the plurality of templates that has the highest extraction accuracy of the attribute based on the score; and generate output information through use of the selected template.

Abstract: A machine base attachment device for an elevator hoisting machine includes a reinforcing body attached to a forming rail that guides movement of an elevating body, and a machine base fixing member that is fixed to a machine base for supporting a hoisting machine, and attached to the forming rail. The forming rail includes a pair of flange portions and a rail projecting portion fixed between the pair of flange portions. A groove portion that opens between the pair of flange portions is formed in the rail projecting portion. The reinforcing body includes an insertion portion that is inserted into the groove portion. The machine base fixing member is attached to a part of the rail projecting portion in which the insertion portion is inserted.

Abstract: Regarding a distributed storage system including a plurality of nodes, a first node among the plurality of nodes judges whether the same data as first data, which is written to a first virtual partial area managed by the first node from among a plurality of virtual partial areas, exists in the virtual partial area managed by another node among the plurality of nodes; when the same data as the first data exists in the other node, the first node executes inter-node deduplication for changing allocation of either one of logical partial areas for the first virtual partial area or the virtual partial area of the other node to which the same data is written, to the other logical partial area; and when I/O load on the first node after execution of the inter-node deduplication of the first virtual partial area and the predicted value is less than a first threshold, the first node executes the inter-node deduplication of a second virtual partial area managed by the first node from among the plurality of virtual partia

Abstract: A wastegate sealing jig (13) includes a base (14) which is fixable to an exhaust portion (11) of a turbocharger (1), the base (14) including a wastegate valve (6), and a turbine hole (12) which discharges exhaust gas in a turbine chamber (4b), a protrusion (15) which is provided in the base (14) so as to extend toward the exhaust portion (11), a valve member (16) which is attached to a distal end of the protrusion (15). The wastegate (5) is closed by the valve member (16) by inserting the valve member (16) between the wastegate (5) and the wastegate valve (6) of the turbocharger (1) in a state in which the wastegate valve (6) is opened.

Abstract: A storage control apparatus performs, for each virtual area to which a physical area is allocated, any one of coarse-grained management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a first size unit, and fine-grained management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a second size unit smaller than the first size unit. The storage control apparatus manages mapping information that expresses a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area. The storage control apparatus performs at least one of change of any of fine-grained virtual areas to a coarse-grained virtual area and change of any of coarse-grained virtual areas to a fine-grained virtual area, based on the number of duplication areas of each virtual area and a size of the mapping information.

Abstract: A technique for highly efficient production of ?-amino butyric acid (GABA) using mochi barley of the group of mules barley, as a raw material. The technique converts glutamic acid into GABA due to the glutamate decarboxylase contained in the mochi barley so GABA-mochi barley grains and GABA-mochi barley bran and GABA-containing bran supernatant can be produced highly-efficiently by mixing mochi barley grains, which have been polished in a barley milling device to an extent of 2% or more and less than 20%, with a glutamic acid solution, which has a concentration of 0.1 to 3% and a pH value of 2 to 9, and soaking the barley in the solution at room temperature for 1 hour or more to overnight or, after soaking in the solution similarly for 1 hour or more to overnight, draining the barley grains, and keeping it overnight at room temperature.

Abstract: A direct injector unit includes a fuel pipe and injectors fixed to the fuel pipe. The direct injector unit is assembled to a cylinder head by: mounting the cylinder head in a predetermined posture; holding the direct injector unit while positioning a reference injector and guiding remaining injectors such that their leading end portions are movable; and inserting the injectors into injector mounting holes of the cylinder head by relatively moving the direct injector unit toward the cylinder head in a state in which the reference injector is positioned with respect to a corresponding injector mounting hole.

Abstract: Proposed are a storage apparatus and its control method capable of restoring data of a virtual page to an appropriate device hierarchy according to its data value. This storage apparatus stores, in a backup-destination storage medium, data stored in the respective physical pages allocated with the virtual volume and management information of the virtual volume including information concerning the device hierarchy to which the respective physical pages belong according to a backup command of the virtual volume, and allocates a physical page of the same device hierarchy as the device hierarchy of the physical page that was allocated before the backup to each of the restoration-target virtual pages of the virtual volume, respectively, and writes corresponding data, which was read from the storage medium, into each of the allocated physical pages according to a restoration command of the virtual volume and based on the management information of the virtual volume stored in the storage medium.

Abstract: Deduplication is executed in a storage device having low random access performance, such as an optical disk library. When an optical disk that is not inserted into an optical disk drive needs to be accessed in order to execute binary compare, data to be binary compared is stored in a temporary memory area in order to postpone the binary compare, and on the timing when the optical disk is inserted, the postponed binary compare is executed. Before second deduplication, which is deduplication between data to be stored in the storage device and the data in the optical disk library, is executed, first deduplication, which is deduplication between the data to be stored in the storage device and the data in the temporary memory area, is executed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automotive headlamp assembly having a light pipe. The present invention provides use of at least one incandescent light bulb to illuminate the light pipe. Power consumption is reduced from approximately 35 watts to 10 watts. The present assembly consists of a light pipe, at least one light source positioned at either end of the light pipe, the light source being an incandescent light bulb, at least one reflector and an elongated reflector positioned adjacent the light pipe. The reflector is positioned adjacent the light source to capture light from the light bulb, concentrate the light into a beam and reflect the light into the light pipe. The reflector aims light directly down the light pipe without the use of cable or LED mounted to the light pipe. The reflector prevents lost light and creates a more efficient headlamp assembly. The light pipe is a generally cylindrical elongated member having a plurality of attachment members.

Abstract: The present invention provides a headlamp assembly including a light pipe and reflex reflector integration utilizing a single bulb to illuminate both the reflex reflector and the light pipe, simultaneously. The headlamp assembly includes a single light source, a light pipe and a reflex reflector positioned adjacent one another allowing the light source to provide light to both the reflex reflector and the light pipe. The reflex reflector includes a reflecting element and a cutout to allow light to pass though the reflex reflector into the reflecting element. The reflex reflector is adapted to transform light from white to amber thereby creating the side marker function. The headlamp assembly further includes a reflector behind the light source to direct light into the light pipe. The automotive headlamp assembly provides an automotive headlamp assembly that includes a reflex reflector light and a light pipe while reducing cost and decreasing weight.