International Business Machines Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Tokyo Electron Limited

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Nippi Corporation

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Globalfoundries Inc.

The University of Tokyo

Nature Architects Inc.

Keisuke Tanaka

Roy Daron Cideciyan

Thomas Mittelholzer

Robert Allan Hutchins

Simeon Furrer

Paul Joseph Seger

Steven Ross Bentley

Takashi Matsui

Nhan Xuan Bui

Kazuhiro Tsuruta

Hisato Matsuo

Yusuke Hasegawa

Naoki Okamoto

Shohei Tsuda

Setsuko Masuda

Kenji Ohtani

Evangelos Stavros Eleftheriou

Mark Alfred Lantz

Norihisa Haneda

Pamela Ruth Nylander-Hill

Masami Fujimoto

Koji Nishikawa

Yojiro Hotta

Yoshitaka Suzumura

Kazuo Terauchi

Shuichi Hiroko

Takaaki Furui

Yoshinori Ohta

Ryo Nagata

Tsuyoshi Miyamura

Ernest Stewart Gale

Masayuki Iwanaga

Tomohisa Sano

Atsuhiko Ohmori

Yuujirou Nagashima

Satoshi Arimura

Shunji Hattori

Masayuki Demura

Teruhiko Ushio

Takenori Okada

Mikio Watanabe

Koji Saito

Akira Watanabe

Takashi Katagiri

Michihisa Magome

Tomoko Taketomi

Kazuyuki Sato

Yu Yoshida

Kozue Uratani

Kevin Dale Butt

Mikio Ishihara

Yusuke Kosaki

Daisuke Oya

Yoshiko Shiimori

Takamitsu Furukawa

Koki Muto

Tatsuya Iwasa

Tadashi Nishimuro

Yuki Wakabayashi

Shouzou Kobayashi

Kouhei Shimoyama

Azusa Yanagisawa

Shoji Takeuchi

Osamu Hayashida

Koichi Matsuda

Scott Jeffrey Schaffer

Katsuo Oshima

Glen Alan Jaquette

Yutaka Oishi

Eiji Ogura

Kenji Nakamura

Reed Alan Hancock

Koki Sato

Kosuke Fukudome

John Alexander Koski

Yoshiki Kawaoka

Tetsuya Tamura

Hironobu Nagura

Takuya Mizuguchi

Atsushi Teshima

Hiroshi Nagahata

Akimitsu Sasaki

Hiroshi Suganuma

Hitoshi Ueno

Kazuo Sawai

Shinkichi Irie

Tatsuya Mimura

Akihiko Nara

Takayuki Ogura

Machi Moriya

Yasuhiro Osakabe

Shiro Amano

Toru Michigami

Teru Okitsu

Satoru Yamagami

Naoko Teramura

Katsumasa Iijima

Yoshikatsu Kobayashi

The present disclosure includes systems and methods for reducing rewrite overhead in a sequential access storage system. The method may comprise writing a data set to a sequential access medium using a magnetic head, wherein the data set comprises a plurality of encoded data blocks, classifying each of the plurality of encoded data blocks on the sequential access medium into one of at least three classes of write quality, and rewriting the encoded data blocks in a rewrite area of the sequential access medium based at least in part on the write quality class. In some embodiments, the at least three classes of write quality may comprise a hard rewrite class for which rewrites are necessary to prevent data loss, a soft rewrite class for which rewrites are desirable but not necessary, and a no rewrite class for which no rewrite is needed or desired.

Selective hard and soft rewrites

A first aspect of the present disclosure provides a chair. This chair is provided with a seat portion in which a deformation mode of at least a portion of a seating surface of the seat portion is isolated in such that a target curved surface including a double-curved surface of a prescribed type, relative to a prescribed position, is formed irrespective of the position of the buttocks of a user when the user is seated.

Chair, seat portion, and backrest

Mechanisms are provided to receive encoded header information stored on a tape of a tape drive, wherein the encoded header information has been generated by: generating, for a plurality of tracks of the tape of the tape drive, a header information in a plurality of symbols, wherein the plurality of symbols is comprised of a first set of symbols and a second set of symbols, wherein the first set of symbols include identical information across all tracks of the plurality of tracks, and wherein the second set of symbols are configurable to include different information across all tracks of the plurality of tracks; and modifying, for writing to the tape of the tape drive, the first set of symbols of the plurality of tracks to include parity information corresponding to information included in the second set of symbols of the plurality of tracks. The received encoded header information is decoded.

Header decoding mechanism for tape storage

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of writing a dataset to a tape, the dataset comprising a plurality of sub datasets, each sub dataset including a plurality of headers and a plurality of records. The method includes storing, in each header of each sub dataset, at least a portion of a record range indicator indicating a range of records included in the dataset.

Locating data within tape systems using sub dataset headers

In an approach to adaptive tape calibration criteria based on the number of dead tracks, the number of rewrite occurrences for each dead track on a tape drive is determined. Responsive to detecting that a head is in a dead track state, the number of dead tracks is stored on the tape drive. A calibration threshold is determined, where the calibration threshold includes the number of dead track rewrites and the calibration reference value for a specific tape drive type. Responsive to the number of rewrite occurrences exceeding the calibration threshold while writing a data set, a calibration of the tape drive.

Adaptive tape calibration criteria by number of dead tracks

In a semiconductor-mounting heat dissipation base plate including: an insulating substrate to which a metal circuit layer for mounting a semiconductor chip thereon is fixed; a heat dissipation base formed from the same metal material as the metal circuit layer at a side opposite to the metal circuit layer across the insulating substrate and fixed to the insulating substrate similar to the metal circuit layer; and a strengthening member provided in the heat dissipation base so as to be separated from the insulating substrate, the sizes of crystal grains of a metal structure at a part of the heat dissipation base or the metal circuit layer are reduced by a crystal size reducing material adhered to a mold, thereby preventing an adverse effect of a columnar crystal structure.

Semiconductor-mounting heat dissipation base plate and production method therefor

In an approach to adaptive tape calibration criteria based on the number of stop writes, the number of rewrite occurrences caused by a stop write is determined for each specific tape drive type. Responsive to detecting a stop write during a write operation, the total number of stop writes is stored on the tape drive. A rewrite calibration threshold is determined, where the rewrite calibration threshold includes the total number of stop writes on the tape drive and a calibration reference value for the specific tape drive type. Responsive to the number of rewrite occurrences caused by the stop write exceeding the rewrite calibration threshold while writing a data set on the tape drive, a calibration of the tape drive is performed.

Adaptive tape calibration criteria by number of stop writes

A methodology that enables, for example, tape drive operation at lower SNR and/or reduced rewrite area uses a first threshold T and a second threshold r for a rewrite condition. Codeword interleaves (CWIs) in a data set are written onto a plurality of simultaneously-written parallel tracks of a magnetic recording medium, read back and error correction decoded. A determination is made as to whether at least one of the Cor C' codewords in each decoded CWI contains more byte errors than the second threshold r of the rewrite condition. A number of CWIs in a rewrite buffer are according to the following criteria: b&#x2032;=b&#x2212;T when bis greater than the first threshold T, and b&#x2032;=0 when bis less than or equal to the first threshold T.

Magnetic tape device capable of selecting codeword rewrite based on determined threshold

A toner including a toner particle; and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains strontium titanate particle, and when in a projected image of the strontium titanate particle photographed using a scanning electron microscope, a standard deviation of a distance from a center of the projected image to an outline of the projected image is Ds, and a circle-equivalent diameter of the projected image is Da, a value CV calculated by Equation (1) is 0.07 or less,/(/2)&#x2003;&#x2003;(1).

Toner

A toner contains toner particles, titanate fine particles having a Group II element, and hydrotalcite compound fine particles as an external additive and satisfying 10&#x2264;Lt&#x2264;80 and 100&#x2264;Lh&#x2264;Weight average particle diameter (D4) of toner particles&#xd7;0.50, when the number average particle diameter (D1) of primary particles of the titanate fine particles is defined as Lt (nm) and the number average particle diameter (D1) of primary particles of the hydrotalcite compound fine particles is defined as Lh (nm).

A toner including a toner particle and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains an inorganic fine particle A and a silica fine particle; in a surface of the toner observed using a scanning electron microscope, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the silica fine particle is from 5 nm to 50 nm, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the inorganic fine particle A is at least 10 nm and less than 60 nm, a coverage ratio X1 of the toner surface covered by the silica fine particle is from 60 area % to 95 area %, the inorganic fine particle A is a fine particle of a titanate having a Group 2 element, and a coverage ratio X2 of the toner surface covered by the inorganic fine particle A is from 5 area % to 40 area %.

In one embodiment, a system includes a controller and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller. The logic is configured to perform iterative decoding on encoded data to obtain decoded data. The logic is also configured to perform post-decoding error diagnostics on a first portion of the decoded data in response to not obtaining a valid product codeword in the first portion after the iterative decoding of the encoded data. Other systems, methods, and computer program products for producing post-decoding error signatures are presented in accordance with more embodiments.

Post-decoding error check with diagnostics for product codes

Provided is toner that contains a toner particle, and an external additive containing a strontium titanate particle, wherein the toner has an average circularity of at least 0.935 and not more than 0.995, the strontium titanate particle has a number-average primary particle diameter of at least 10 nm and not more than 60 nm, the strontium titanate particle has a peak in the range of 39.700&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; and a peak in the range of 46.200&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; in a CuK&#x3b1; x-ray diffraction spectrum obtained in the 2&#x3b8; range of at least 10&#xb0; and not more than 90&#xb0; where &#x3b8; is the Bragg angle, and the ratio of the area Sb of the peak at 46.200&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; to the area Sa of the peak at 39.700&#xb0;&#xb1;0.150&#xb0; is at least 1.80 and not more than 2.30.

According to one embodiment, a system includes a controller configured to determine whether a position error signal (PES) is invalid while reading data from a magnetic medium using at least one data channel. An invalid PES indicates off-track reading or a defect in the magnetic medium. The controller is also configured to determine whether a PES value is above a first predetermined threshold in response to a determination that the PES is valid. Moreover, the controller is configured to inject error bits into a data stream in place of corresponding bits of decoded data in response to a determination that the PES is invalid, a determination that the PES value is above the first predetermined threshold, or a determination that the PES is invalid and the PES value is above the first predetermined threshold. Other systems and methods are described in accordance with more embodiments.

Reliable data reading with data set screening by error injection

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Keisuke Tanaka