Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Japanese National Railways

Hakusan Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Keiichi Aoki

Masaki Takahashi

Shinya Tsuchida

Yasuhiro Ootori

Yuta Tamaki

Ichiro Sasaki

Yousuke Takashima

Kiyokazu Tanahashi

Yujin Morisawa

Hideaki Hasegawa

Yukito Inoue

Syunsuke Bamba

Hirotsugu Oishibashi

Kazutaka Eto

Muneyuki Ohara

Nobuyuki Sugawara

Katsuyoshi Ueyama

Mitsuo Nakamura

Kensuke Ikeda

Hiroaki Tsurumi

Tadashi Takimoto

Kenzo Hagiwara

Satoshi Mito

Makoto Sunayama

Yuuta Tamaki

Akio Kobayashi

Mitsuharu Morishita

There is provided an electronic apparatus which improves an external appearance and which easily ensures the strength of an exterior member. In the electronic apparatus, an upper surface of an exterior panel (A) has, on a peripheral portion of the upper surface, a first position (P), a second position (P) defined on an opposite side of a center (P) of the upper surface from the first position (P), a third position (P), and a fourth position (P) defined on an opposite side of the center (P) of the upper surface from the third position (P). A line (L) that connects the first position (P) and the second position (P) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to a lower side, and a line (L) that connects the third position (P) and the fourth position (P) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to an upper side.

Electronic apparatus and exterior panel thereof

A reading-out sectionis capable of reading out files recorded in a first auxiliary storage deviceand a second auxiliary storage device. A recording management sectionmoves a file of an application recorded in the second auxiliary storage deviceto the first auxiliary storage device. An application execution sectionexecutes the application by using the file moved to the first auxiliary storage device

Information processing device and application execution method for managing an application execution environment

Not only cooling performance for an integrated circuit such as a central processing unit (CPU) but also cooling performance for a power supply unit is improved. An electronic apparatus includes a first heat sink and a power supply unit including a power supply unit case having an intake air wall in which a plurality of air intake holes are formed. The intake air wall is located in front of the first heat sink. The intake air wall has an external surface being inclined with respect to both a front-rear direction and a left-right direction and facing the first heat sink. A cooling fan is disposed to feed air toward the intake air wall.

Electronic apparatus

A decrease in responsiveness when storing content in a flash memory is reduced. A storage management apparatus includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks that include a plurality of usable blocks and one or more spare blocks. The apparatus is configured to acquire a new data set; change at least a part of the one or more spare blocks into a usable block and store the new data set in the thus changed usable block, in a case where a size of the new data set is larger than the writable area of the plurality of usable blocks and where the size of the new data set is larger than the writable area when an unnecessary data set contained in the plurality of usable blocks is deleted; and change the usable blocks all the data sets of which are deleted into spare blocks through garbage collection.

Storage management apparatus, storage management method, and program

A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.

Storage management device, storage management method, and program

An object of the present invention is to reduce deterioration in responsiveness to storage of content in a flash memory. A storage management apparatus according to the present invention includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks each having a reserved area and a normal area, acquires a new dataset when a writable area included in a normal area of the plurality of blocks is larger than the new dataset and the new dataset is smaller in size than the writable area included in the normal area of the plurality of blocks in a case where unnecessary datasets included in the plurality of blocks are deleted, copies non-unnecessary datasets from the normal area of a specific block including the unnecessary datasets to the normal area of another block, deletes all datasets included in the normal area of the specific block, and stores the new dataset in the normal area of the specific block from which all the datasets are deleted.

Proposed is an electronic apparatus with which it is possible to increase design freedom concerning a wall section formed with vent holes. A rear wall section (D) includes a rectilinear wall section () spaced rearward from a rear edge () of a circuit board (), and an inclined wall section () located on the rear side relative to the rectilinear wall section (). An inner wall section () is located between the inclined wall section () and the rear edge () of the circuit board (), and is not located between the rectilinear wall section () and the rear edge () of the circuit board ().

Foreign matter is prevented from entering the inside of an electronic apparatus. An electronic apparatus () includes plural exhaust holes (E, E) formed in an armor member (), an air flow path (S) formed inside the armor member () and connected to the plural exhaust holes (E, E), a power source circuit () disposed in the air flow path (S), and a foreign matter preventing member () located between the power source circuit () and the plural exhaust holes (E, E). The foreign matter preventing member () is formed with plural openings (Es). Each of the openings (Es) is smaller in size than each of the exhaust holes (E, E).

Electronic apparatus having foreign matter preventing element

A heat sink includes a plurality of fins arrayed in a first direction, and a heat pipe having a first extension extending in the first direction. A second direction extends perpendicularly to the first direction, a third direction extends perpendicularly to the first direction and the second direction, and when the heat pipe is viewed in the third direction, the heat pipe has a second extension spaced from the first extension in the second direction and extending in the first direction, and a joint which interconnects the first extension and the second extension and which is curved. The fins include a plurality of first fins arrayed along the first extension and the second extension and a second fin disposed around a position of the joint.

Heat sink and electronic device

An electronic apparatus includes a support member, and a cable mounted on the support member. The support member includes a first clamp portion and a second clamp portion mounting the cable on the support member. The first clamp portion includes a first portion being located at upper side of the cable and restricting upward movement of the cable. The second clamp portion is located on the lower side of the cable. At least part of an upper surface of the second clamp portion is located at a level superior to a lower surface of the first portion of the first clamp portion.

Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus including a main body, a compartment provided in the main body, a part that is accommodated in the compartment and that can be drawn out of the compartment, two attachment sections that are provided on the part and that are located away from each other, and a knob member attached to the two attachment sections. The knob member is a flexible member that is longer than a distance between the two attachment sections, includes a curved portion that is curved in such a manner as to swell in a direction away from the part, and is elastically deformable such that the swelling of the curved portion decreases.

Electronic apparatus and hard disk drive holder

An objective is to provide a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence element possessing a thin film exhibiting relatively low film-strength formed via a continuous wet coating process. Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence element possessing a substrate film and provided thereon at least an organic layer placed between a pair of facing electrodes, possessing a light emitting layer containing an organic light emission material; possessing the steps of forming the organic layer on a first electrode provided on the substrate film by a continuous wet coating method; and cutting the substrate film with an upper cutting blade and a lower cutting blade, wherein the lower blade faces the substrate film, the upper blade has a blade edge angle of 30-60&#xb0;, and the lower blade has a blade edge angle of 80-90&#xb0;.

Method of manufacturing organic electroluminescence element and manufacturing apparatus

A newer generation game terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with a storage access control unit. The storage access control unit accesses a newer generation storage according to a request for access from an application designed to execute a synchronization process based on the assumption of a speed of access to an older generation storage. The storage access control unit estimates time required to access the older generation storage in accordance with an evaluation function for calculating the required time. The storage access control unit executes an adjustment process to fill a time gap between the time required to access the newer generation storage and time estimated to be required to access the older generation storage.

Synchronization system and method for storages with different access speeds

The inner edge of a holesurrounding the outer circumference of a first heat sinkincludes two edgesandthat are positioned on opposite sides to each other with the first heat sinktherebetween. An upper frame (shield)includes spring portionson one edge, which is in contact with the first heat sinkto push the first heat sinktoward the other edge. Further, the upper frameincludes, the other edge, a position determining portionto which the first heat sinkis pressed. According to the above electronic apparatus, it is possible to define the position of a metallic component by a shield covering a circuit board and to cause the metallic component and the shield to be in contact stably.

This invention provides a process for producing an organic EL element that, in forming, by a coating method, an organic EL element comprising a substrate bearing a plurality of organic EL elements each comprising at least a first electrode, one or more organic compound layers, a second electrode, and a sealing layer, can easily form an external connection terminal forming part for external connection terminal formation and can realize high production efficiency and stable performance quality. The process for producing an organic EL element is a process for producing an organic EL element comprising a substrate bearing at least one organic EL element comprising at least a first electrode (an anode layer), at least one organic compound layer, a second electrode (a cathode layer), and a sealing layer and is characterized by comprising a masking member application step of laminating a masking member having an adhesive strength of 1 N/25 mm to 10 N/25 mm onto the organic compound layer formation prohibition region on the substrate, an organic compound layer formation step of forming the organic compound layer on the substrate, and a masking member separation step of separating the masking member.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keiichi Aoki