Abstract: An endoscope includes: an objective optical system including a lens, allowing light from an imaging subject to be incident on a distal end surface, and focusing the light onto an image-capturing surface of an image-capturing element; an elongated light guide provided adjacent to a side of the system and guiding illumination light to be emitted from a distal end; and an optically transparent distal end cover disposed at a position where the distal end of the guide is covered, wherein the distal end surface is located farther forward than the distal end of the guide, a notched portion is provided at a distal-end outer edge of a side surface of the system, the side surface being adjacent to the guide, so that the system is narrower toward a front side from the distal end of the guide, and the cover is provided so as to bulge toward the notched portion.

Abstract: In an electric motor cooling structure for cooling an electric motor provided in a power unit by jetting an oil to the electric motor, an oil passage for passing the oil therethrough is formed between a cover member covering the electric motor from outside and a lid member fitted to the cover member. The cover member is formed with a plurality of jet holes as through-holes communicating with the oil passage, and the plurality of jet holes are oriented in the same direction as an axial direction of the motor. The oil passage is formed in an annular shape as viewed in the axial direction of the electric motor. The cover member is formed with a second oil passage for supplying the oil to a rotary shaft of the electric motor. Such cooling structure efficiently cools the electric motor while suppressing processing cost with a simple oil passage structure.

Abstract: An endoscope illumination system is provided in an insert part and includes an exit surface from which illumination light is emitted, an entrance side optical surface on which the illumination light is incident, and an exit side optical surface from which the illumination light goes out. The entrance side optical surface includes an inner light distribution surface and an outer light distribution surface. The outer light distribution surface is located farther from the center axis of the insert part than the inner light distribution surface. The inner light distribution surface includes a first inner surface. The first inner surface is a curved surface that is convex to the exit surface. The outer light distribution surface is a flat surface or a curved surface that is concave to the exit surface.

Abstract: In EL display panels fabricated by vapor deposition, a vapor-deposition fine mask is employed to form red, green, and blue pixels. An issue, however, has been that misregistration of the vapor-deposition fine mask occurs, lowering manufacturing yields. To resolve this issue, on a thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate, red, green, and blue pixel electrodes are fashioned in matrix form. The TFT substrate is conveyed into a vapor-deposition chamber. Under a vacuum, an organic evaporation source is employed to codeposit a light-emitting layer composed of a host material and a red guest material on the TFT substrate display screen. An ultraviolet laser beam generated by a laser device is optically guided into the vapor-deposition chamber through a laser window and directed on the light-emitting layer formed onto the green and blue pixel electrodes. Positional selecting on the green and blue pixels is carried out by controlling a mirror galvanometer.

Abstract: An apparatus creates an extended configuration proposal of a storage system including multiple nodes. A processor of the apparatus is configured to acquire information on requested performance of each host, which accesses the storage system. The processor is configured to acquire information on performance of each of multiple existing nodes of the storage system. The processor is configured to determine a number and performance of one or more additional nodes and a coupling form between the host and the storage system so as to satisfy the requested performance of each host. The processor is configured to include the number and the performance of the one or more additional nodes and the coupling form in the extended configuration proposal.

Abstract: In an electric motor cooling structure for cooling an electric motor provided in a power unit by jetting an oil to the electric motor, an oil passage for passing the oil therethrough is formed between a cover member covering the electric motor from outside and a lid member fitted to the cover member. The cover member is formed with a plurality of jet holes as through-holes communicating with the oil passage, and the plurality of jet holes are oriented in the same direction as an axial direction of the motor. The oil passage is formed in an annular shape as viewed in the axial direction of the electric motor. The cover member is formed with a second oil passage for supplying the oil to a rotary shaft of the electric motor. Such cooling structure efficiently cools the electric motor while suppressing processing cost with a simple oil passage structure.

Abstract: An endoscope includes: an objective optical system including a lens, allowing light from an imaging subject to be incident on a distal end surface, and focusing the light onto an image-capturing surface of an image-capturing element; an elongated light guide provided adjacent to a side of the system and guiding illumination light to be emitted from a distal end; and an optically transparent distal end cover disposed at a position where the distal end of the guide is covered, wherein the distal end surface is located farther forward than the distal end of the guide, a notched portion is provided at a distal-end outer edge of a side surface of the system, the side surface being adjacent to the guide, so that the system is narrower toward a front side from the distal end of the guide, and the cover is provided so as to bulge toward the notched portion.

Abstract: An apparatus creates an extended configuration proposal of a storage system including multiple nodes. A processor of the apparatus is configured to acquire information on requested performance of each host, which accesses the storage system. The processor is configured to acquire information on performance of each of multiple existing nodes of the storage system. The processor is configured to determine a number and performance of one or more additional nodes and a coupling form between the host and the storage system so as to satisfy the requested performance of each host. The processor is configured to include the number and the performance of the one or more additional nodes and the coupling form in the extended configuration proposal.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine in which a plurality of cylinders are arranged in series in a cylinder section, pressures of the cylinders can be detected by a smaller number of pressure sensors. An engine in which a plurality of cylinders are arranged in series in a cylinder section includes a communication path through which combustion chambers of the cylinders adjacent to each other communicate with each other, and a pressure sensor is disposed in the communication path.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine in which a plurality of cylinders are arranged in series in a cylinder section, pressures of the cylinders can be detected by a smaller number of pressure sensors. An engine in which a plurality of cylinders are arranged in series in a cylinder section includes a communication path through which combustion chambers of the cylinders adjacent to each other communicate with each other, and a pressure sensor is disposed in the communication path.

Abstract: An EL display panel fabricated by evaporation creates red, green, and blue pixels using a fine deposition mask (251). However, the displacement of the fine deposition mask (251) decreases the manufacturing yield. In the present invention, red, green, and blue pixel electrodes are arranged in a matrix on a TFT substrate (52). The TFT substrate (52) is transferred into a vacuum deposition chamber (56). A light-emitting layer made up of a host material and a red guest material is codeposited on the presentation screen of the TFT substrate using an organic evaporation source (66) in a vacuum. A laser device (58) generates ultraviolet laser light (59) which is guided into the vacuum deposition chamber (56) through a laser window (63) to irradiate a light-emitting layer formed on the green and blue pixel electrodes. The positions of the green and blue pixels are selected by controlling a galvano mirror (62).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, when a garbage collection end request is received from a host during the execution of garbage collection, a controller calculates a first, time that is a time until a second processing being executed is completed. In a case where the calculated first time does not exceed the first threshold, the controller completes the second processing being executed, and stops the first processing.

Abstract: An air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine capable of increasing accuracy in detection of the temperature of the air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine by a temperature sensor and carrying out the warm-up operation after the start-up of the air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine favorably. The air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine includes cooling fins that are provided on the circumferences of a cylinder block and a cylinder head; and a cooling passage that is provided in a combustion chamber upper wall covering a combustion chamber of the cylinder head and is used for cooling the combustion chamber upper wall with lubrication oil. The air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine has a temperature sensor configured to detect the temperature of the air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine by detecting the temperature of oil. The temperature sensor faces a cooling oil outlet portion of the cooling passage.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system is provided wherein an interruption generating unit generates an interruption signal for one or more commands executed by a transfer executing unit when an end number counter is greater than or equal to a first threshold. A transfer type conjecturing unit determines whether the transfer type of a first command to be executed after transmitting the interruption signal is sequential transfer or random transfer and sets the first threshold at a value different between when determining being the sequential transfer and when determining being the random transfer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, when a first command and first data are received from a host, and in a case where the number of free blocks is less than a first threshold, a controller executes a first processing. The first processing includes reading valid data included in one first block that includes the valid data and invalid data and writing the read valid data and at least a part of write data specified by the write command into the free block.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, when a first command and first data are received from a host, and in a case where the number of free blocks is less than a first threshold, a controller executes a first processing. The first processing includes reading valid data included in one first block that includes the valid data and invalid data and writing the read valid data and at least a part of write data specified by the write command into the free block.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, when a garbage collection end request is received from a host during the execution of garbage collection, a controller calculates a first, time that is a time until a second processing being executed is completed. In a case where the calculated first time does not exceed the first threshold, the controller completes the second processing being executed, and stops the first processing.

Abstract: An air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine capable of increasing accuracy in detection of the temperature of the air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine by a temperature sensor and carrying out the warm-up operation after the start-up of the air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine favorably. The air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine includes cooling fins that are provided on the circumferences of a cylinder block and a cylinder head; and a cooling passage that is provided in a combustion chamber upper wall covering a combustion chamber of the cylinder head and is used for cooling the combustion chamber upper wall with lubrication oil. The air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine has a temperature sensor configured to detect the temperature of the air/oil-cooled internal combustion engine by detecting the temperature of oil. The temperature sensor faces a cooling oil outlet portion of the cooling passage.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system is provided wherein an interruption generating unit generates an interruption signal for one or more commands executed by a transfer executing unit when an end number counter is greater than or equal to a first threshold. A transfer type conjecturing unit determines whether the transfer type of a first command to be executed after transmitting the interruption signal is sequential transfer or random transfer and sets the first threshold at a value different between when determining being the sequential transfer and when determining being the random transfer.

Abstract: While enlargement of cover members attached to an engine body is avoided, the flexibility of the shapes of the cover members is increased and it is made possible to lead to a predetermined position drainage discharged from a cooling water pump attached to the external surface of a lateral wall of the engine body. A drainage discharge hole for discharging drainage is provided in a lower portion of a pump case. An engine side rib leads downward drainage discharged from the drainage discharge hole is integrally provided on an engine body forming part of the engine body so as to project from an external surface of a lateral surface thereof.