Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi-lg Data Storage, Inc.

Keiji Sasao

Tadakatsu Nakajima

Yoshiaki Yamauchi

Hiroshige Kikuchi

Ikuo Nishida

Manabu Ochi

Hisahiro Miki

Shinya Tsubota

Makoto Ibe

Hiroyuki Toyoda

Hideyuki Onuma

Kouhei Takita

Mitsukata Shizuya

An air conditioning apparatus comprises an air-conditioning unit including at least a cooling coil as a heat exchanger, a blower, a chiller, and a coolant pump for conducting air-conditioning, wherein the coolant pump pumps the coolant cooled by the chiller to the cooling coil, the cooling coil cools the air through heat exchange of the coolant and the air, the blower supplies the cooled air into a room. Coolant temperature of the chiller, the coolant flow rate of the coolant pump, and the air flow rate of the blower are calculated in accordance with the set points of the indoor temperature and the indoor humidity, and the chiller, coolant pump, and blower are controlled on the basis of the arithmetic calculation results. Thereby, the indoor temperature and indoor humidity are independently controlled in the central air-conditioning system.

Air conditioning apparatus

In an optical disk apparatus for recording and/or reading information with respect to an optical disk, comprising, a chassis for containing the optical disk, and a tray being movable with respect to the chassis and adapted to support the optical disk thereon so that the optical disk is movable with respect to the chassis, the chassis has an opening for discharging an air from an inside of the chassis to an outside of the chassis through the opening.

Optical disk apparatus with openings for discharging air from therein

A disc drive unit capable of preventing occurrence of errors in a recording system such as a CD or a DVD, using an optical head for recording data on a disc or reproducing data recorded on the disc. A disc tray is adapted to accommodate the disc, and load and unload the disc. A top cover is arranged above the disc. The top cover is formed therein with a concave and convex part for avoiding positioning a node of each of vibration modes (0, n) (where n=2, 3, 4) caused by a critical rotating speed of the disc, at a position right above the optical head.

Disc drive unit

A control server includes a device information database storing device characteristic data constituting the air conditioning equipment, a fuel/power rate database storing price and rate data regarding gas, oil, power and the like, a device characteristic and price database, an air conditioning equipment simulator for calculating running costs by using the data stored in the fuel/power rate database, and communication portion for performing communications through a network. The control server, and an air conditioning management controller for managing and controlling the air conditioning equipment provided with the communication portion for performing communications through the network, are connected to the network. An operation plan is made by the control server, the operation plan is transmitted to the air conditioning equipment management controller for controlling the air conditioning equipment through the network, and the air conditioning equipment is controlled and operated according to the operation plan.

Air conditioning equipment operation system and air conditioning equipment designing support system

An air-conditioning operation management company provides control information concerning air-conditioning equipments to a plurality of semiconductor manufacturing factories. The air-conditioning operation management company stores a measured result of an outside-air condition measuring unit in a past outside-air condition record database and obtains forecasted maximum temperature information on-that day from a weather forecast providing system. An outside-air condition transition forecasting unit forecasts all, transition of the outside-air condition on that day on the basis of the forecasted maximum temperature information. Information stored in an air-conditioning thermal load database, an air-conditioning equipment characteristic database and a set-temperature-and-humidity-of-air-conditioning-equipment database are employed to provide an optimum operation method of the air-conditioning equipments to the semiconductor manufacturing factories. Further, a forecasted result of an outside-air condition transition, an analyzed result of an air-conditioning thermal load and an analyzed result of a controlling method are displayed in customer terminals.

Air-conditioning controlling system

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Kasumigaura, Japan

Keiji Sasao