Hitachi, Ltd.

Adeka Corporation

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Omron Corporation

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Oji Paper Co., Ltd.

Masaaki Shimizu

Yosuke Maeda

Koichi Shigeno

Naonobu Sukegawa

Toshiyuki Ukai

Takashi Yasui

Yoshifumi Takamoto

Nobuyasu Kanekawa

James Koh

Masatoshi Hoshino

Kohei Sakurai

Fumio Arakawa

Yoshiko Yasuda

Takeo Nishikawa

Kentaro Yoshimura

Toyohiko Kagimasa

Ken Naono

Naomi Sato

Hiromitsu Ito

Makoto Ohashi

Tomofumi Tokiyoshi

Tomoyuki Ariyoshi

Masayuki Suetomi

Takashi Hyodo

Fujio Fujita

Isao Fujihata

Toshiaki Mori

Yasuyuki Demachi

Tadatoshi Maeda

Yoshie Makabe

Kenji Yanagisawa

Azumi Sato

Keisuke Matsuhira

Koichi Kimishima

Tomohito Ishiguro

Shota Amasaki

Nobuyasu Sasaguri

Shigeaki Sakaguchi

Tohiyuki Ukai

A low-voltage circuit in a bidirectional DC-DC converter converts output AC power from a high-voltage circuit to DC power to charge a smoothing reactor and discharge the smoothing reactor, and includes an active snubber circuit including switching elements and each having a backward diode and a snubber capacitor. The snubber capacitor of the active snubber circuit has its one end connected to a drain end of the switching elements, and has its other end connected to a node between a center tap of a high-frequency transformer and a smoothing reactor.

Bidirectional DC-DC converter, power conditioner, and distributed power system

There is provided an apparatus for manufacturing powdered ice with salinity includes a water supply unit configured to supply a salted water; a spraying unit connected to the water supply unit and configured to generate a pressurized salted water-air mist; an ice generating unit connected to the spraying unit and configured to generate ice nuclei; a collecting unit connected to the ice generating unit and configured to grow the size of the powdered ice and to collect the powdered ice; and a reserving unit connected to the collecting unit and configured to transfer and store the powdered ice.

Apparatus for manufacturing powdered ice with salinity

A problem is to distribute data efficiently to each computing node in a parallel computing processing system. A parallel computing processing apparatusaccomplishes high-speed computing processing by processing the data read out from a plurality of storage apparatusesvia an I/O management serverA and an I/O serverB in parallel by a plurality of computing servers. During the above, when a job is submitted from a user terminal, the I/O management serverA determines, with respect to a program to be executed, which of the computing serversexecutes each of the processes of the program and whether each of the processes uses a computing acceleration modulewith referring to a host definition information table, a rank arrangement information table, an acceleration module location information table, and an application characteristics information table. If the I/O management serverA determines that each of the processes uses the computing acceleration moduleand the process concerned is processed by the computing serverhaving the computing acceleration module, the I/O management serverA allots an I/O bandwidth for the process concerned preferentially.

Data distribution apparatus, data distribution method, and data distribution program for parallel computing processing system

A compound represented by the following general formula (1). In the formula, A represents a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring and the like, wherein these rings may be substituted with a halogen atom and the like, Rrepresents a hydrogen atom and the like, Rrepresents a Chydrocarbon group having or not having at least one group selected from an epoxy group, 4-vinylphenyl group and a (meth)acryloyloxy group, or a hydrogen atom, wherein at least one of Rwith n occurrences is a Chydrocarbon group having at least one group selected from an epoxy group, a 4-vinylphenyl group and a (meth)acryloyloxy group, n represents an integer of 1 to 6, and X represents a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a phosphorus atom, or an n-valent organic group having 35 or less carbon atoms.

Polymerizable (photosensitive or reactive) cyano-containing compound, a dye, and colored photosensitive composition

Disclosed is a colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition using a compound that is excellent in solubility and heat-resistance in a resin composition, and also relates to an optical filter using the colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition, specifically a color filter that does not decrease luminance and thus is preferable for image display devices such as liquid crystal display panels. Specifically, disclosed is a colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition containing (A) a dye that contains at least one kind of compound represented by any of the general formulas (1) to (4), (B) a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond or (B') a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, which has alkali-developability, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator, and use of the composition. The compound represented by any of the general formulas (1) to (4) is as described.

Colored photosensitive composition

The present invention provides a dye that is excellent in solubility and heat-resistance, and a novel compound that is suitable for the dye, and specifically provides a yellow dye having a maximum absorption wavelength in the region of 420 to 470 nm. Furthermore, the present invention provides a colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition and an optical filter using the dye, and specifically provides a color filter that does not decrease luminance and thus is preferable for an image display device such as a liquid crystal display panel. Specifically, the present invention provides a novel compound represented by the following general formula (1), a dye using the compound, and a colored (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition and a color filter. The content of the above-mentioned general formula (1) is as described in the description.

The present invention provides a dye that is excellent in solubility and excellent in heat resistance and a novel compound that is preferable for the dye, and specifically provides a yellow dye having a wavelength of maximum absorption in the region of 400 to 450 nm, and also provides a coloring (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition using the above-mentioned dye, and an optical filter using the above-mentioned coloring (alkali-developable) photosensitive composition, specifically a color filter that does not decrease luminance and thus is preferable for image display devices such as liquid crystal display panels. Specifically, a compound represented by the following general formula (1) is used as the dye. The content of the above-mentioned general formula (1) is as described in the description.

Dye and coloring photosensitive composition

A system including plural storage devices provides a technique for controlling storage devices in which files are located by a file system, and turning on or off the storage devices based on prediction of the start or end of access to the files. A program that manages power to the storage devices and data access to the storage devices via the files includes means or functions for allocating a storage device as an area in which a file is located, for selecting a storage device in which a file is located, for predicting that access to a file is started for commanding turning on power to a storage device based on the prediction that access to a file is started, for predicting that access to a file terminates, and for commanding turning off power to a storage device based on the prediction that access to a file terminates.

Method for managing storage, program and system for the same

Provided is a computer system including a plurality of computing hosts, which constructs a shared file system dynamically so that job execution efficiency is improved. In the computer system which includes the plurality of computing hosts and executes a job requested, in a case where the job is executed by the plurality of computing hosts, each computing host which executes the job is configured to: share a file necessary for executing the job; access the shared file to execute the requested job; and cancel the sharing of the file after execution of the requested job is completed.

File sharing method, computer system, and job scheduler

A vehicular control system which includes a user parameter input module, an external parameter input module, a plurality of objective functions, a policy setting module, and a policy node. The user parameter input module Inputs a user parameter. The external parameter input module inputs an external parameter resulting from an outside environment. The objective functions are set for each control characteristic, respectively, so as to calculate an internal parameter of each control target from the user parameter and the external parameter. The policy setting module sets policies indicating a control index of the user for the objective functions respectively. The policy node weights the objective functions on the basis of the policies, adjusts the internal parameter in accordance with the policy so that the internal parameter is optimized among the objective functions, and issues a command to a control node corresponding to the internal parameter.

Vehicular control system and control method

Provided is a method of managing, in a computer including a processor and a memory that stores information referred to by the processor, the memory. The memory includes a plurality of memory banks, respective power supplies of which are independently controlled. The respective memory banks include a plurality of physical pages. The method includes collecting the physical pages having same degrees of use frequencies in the same memory bank, selecting the memory bank, the power supply for which is controlled, on the basis of the use frequency, and controlling the power supply for the memory bank selected.

Method and computer for reducing power consumption of a memory

Provided is a method used in a computer system which includes at least one host computer, the method including managing a job to be executed by the host computer and a power supply of the host computer, the method including the procedures of: receiving the job; storing the received job; scheduling an execution plan for the stored job; determining, based on the execution plan of the job, a timing to execute power control of the host computer; determining a host computer to execute the power control when the determined timing to execute the power control is reached; controlling the power supply of the determined host computer; and executing the scheduled job.

Method of power-aware job management and computer system

In a system having plural storage devices, high-speed file access is obtained by arranging files optimally without the trouble of setting for each file to which storage device the file is allocated. A storage system comprising: nodes coupled to one another via a network; storage devices connected to the nodes; a file attribute detecting module that detects one or more file attributes; a file access rule information storing unit that stores information about one or more file access rules that are associated with the file attribute; and a file access control module that controls access to a file in the storage devices in conformity with the one or more file access rules that are associated with the one or more detected file attributes.

Program and method for file access control in a storage system

An alkali-developable, colored photosensitive resin composition obtained by adding a colorant and a photopolymerization initiator to an alkali-developable resin composition, containing a reaction product obtained by esterification between an epoxy adduct and a polybasic acid anhydride, the epoxy adduct having a structure formed by adding an unsaturated monobasic acid and a compound selected from a phenol compound, an alcohol compound, an amine compound, and a carboxylic acid to an epoxy resin represented by general formula. The epoxy adduct is formed by adding 0.1 to 1.0 carboxyl group of the unsaturated monobasic acid and 0 to 0.9 phenolic hydroxyl group, alcoholic hydroxyl group, amino group or carboxyl group per epoxy group of the epoxy resin, with the sum of the carboxyl unsaturated monobasic acid and the phenolic hydroxyl group, alcoholic hydroxyl, amino or carboxyl group being 0.1 to 1.0 per epoxy group.

Alkali-developable, colored photosensitive resin composition and color filter using the alkali-developable, colored photosensitive resin composition

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Masaaki Shimizu