Hitachi, Ltd.

Iriso Electronics Co., Ltd.

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yamatake-honeywell Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Tanaka

Norifumi Nishikawa

Yoshiyuki Ogura

Satoshi Wakayama

Daichi Shimba

Yoshiro Suzuki

Tomomitsu Saito

Takeo Maruyama

Makoto Nakamoto

Noriyuki Kurihara

Yutaka Saito

Hideyuki Takatani

Hiroyuki Yanaka

Koichi Hachio

The connectorincludes a movable housingthat is displaceable with respect to an attachment objectin an X direction, which is a direction perpendicular to a connection direction, and a terminalconfigured to electrically connect the attachment objectand a connection object. The terminalincludes the displacement portionthat is displaceable in the X direction with respect to the attachment object. The contact portionsandconfigured to contact the connection objectare formed in the displacement portion. Here, the displacement portionis displaceable with respect to the movable housing

Connector

In a connector, a terminal has a pair of contact portions that are fixed to a housing and disposed so as to provide a stable and reliable electrical connection. In the connector, a movable housing has a first contact portion fixation groove that supports a first contact portion of the terminal and a second contact portion fixation groove that supports a second contact portion. The terminal has a link portion that can join the first contact portion and the second contact portion to each other so as to be able to adjust the clearance therebetween. The link portion can absorb a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion fixation groove and the second contact portion fixation groove and a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion and the second contact portion.

Connector to provide reliable electrical connection

Since both a physical storage place and a logical storage place in a storage system are separately managed as a directory structure, or a hierarchical structure, even in such a case that the physical storage place has been changed, the logical storage place which is displayed to the user is not changed, and thus, the user can use the file while the user need not become aware of the change of the file. When the contents of a file is displayed, a physical storage destination of the file is acquired based upon both a reference path and a relative path of the file, and then, the file is acquired from the physical storage destination.

File management system

In a distributed database system including a plurality of database systems each having a database, wherein a database possessed by one of the database systems serves as an original database, and databases of the remaining database systems are produced by replicating the original database, the presence or absence of update contention of the same data in two database systems is detected. When data susceptible to detection of update contention is updated, an update serial number is produced for the data. The update serial number includes a system identifier for identifying a database system in which the data is updated and an update frequency related to the number of times of updates. The update serial number is accumulatively stored in an update serial number history associated with the data each time the data is updated. When the updated data and the update serial number history associated therewith are transferred to a receiving database system, the contents of the update serial number history associated with the received data is compared with the contents of an update serial number history associated with data corresponding to the received data (target data) in a database of the receiving database system, and a contending state of the received data with the target data is determined based on the result of the comparison in the receiving database system.

Distributed database system and method of detecting contention in data

A measuring apparatus of the present invention measures the constituent concentration of a specimen after loading into the apparatus a test piece having a test material which develops coloring as a result of a reaction with the constituents of a specimen. When the apparatus detects that the test piece having the test material has been loaded, it automatically begins to measure the constituent concentration of the specimen. That is, after the loading of the test piece is detected, a predetermined time period is measured. During this time measurement, the time period is displayed at a predetermined time interval. After the time measurement of this predetermined time period is terminated, the test material is irradiated with a light, and the intensity of the light from the test material is detected. The constituent concentration of the specimen applied to the test material can be determined on the basis of the reflected light intensity thus detected. Furthermore, this measuring apparatus can detect a reverse insertion of a test piece, and is constructed so as to disable the measurement of the constituent concentration of a specimen if supplementary information to be stored along with measurement information has not been set.

Measuring apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Hitoshi Tanaka