Fujitsu Corporation

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Nichias Corporation

Ariake Ceramic Constructions Co., Ltd.

Hideo Tanaka

Yutaka Katsumata

Shigeru Kuwata

Seiji Sakurai

Chikara Masuta

Syoichi Naruse

Kyoko Uehara

Mitsuru Sanagi

Junichi Kuchiki

Shigeru Fukumaru

Plants in which the expression of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase gene

A hot plate is used with a molten metal storage container in which a molten metal or bath is temporarily stored prior to any subsequent casting process, and keeps the molten metal temporarily stored in the storage container at a specific constant temperature by heating the molten metal as required. The temperature of the stored molten metal is controlled so that it cannot fall below the particular temperature. The hot plate includes a heating unit formed in a flat shape from any suitable heat resistant, electrically insulating material and having an electric heating wire or coil therein: and A box unit made of any suitable ceramic material has the flat heating unit freely inserted and removably mounted therein. As a variation of the hot plate, the box unit may include a ceramic coating layer formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof, the ceramic coating layer being reinforced with any suitable fibrous ceramic textile. Leads from the electric heating wire or coil may be drawn through the lateral side of the box unit near an upper open side at the top of the box unit.

Hot plate for keeping molten metal in a molten state

In an inter-subsystem communication system which has a communication queue enqueued by one subsystem having processors and dequeued by another subsystem having processors, there is provided between the subsystems direct memory access means which permits either of the subsystems to directly access a memory of the other subsystem, and in a queue element enqueued by the one subsystem is inserted memory access control information necessary for accessing the one subsystem, whereby a high-grade function is performed by the plurality of subsystems. When the source subsystem issues an enqueue command, the queue element length of a queue element produced in response to the queue command is compared with a remaining space of the queue and, if the comparison result satisfies a predetermined condition, an overflow interruption is caused in the processor of the source subsystem, thereby to efficiently detect a queue overflow state or queue usable state.

Inter-subsystem direct transfer system

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideo Tanaka