Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Computer Consultant Ltd.

Masami Takahashi

Yoshimichi Shibuya

Takahiko Kozaki

Norihiko Moriwaki

Tadashi Ishibashi

Keiji Kojima

Shunichi Torii

Takayuki Kanno

Kei Yonezawa

Mitsuhiro Wada

Takafumi Ebara

Yusho Futami

Masumi Fukano

Akio Makimoto

Kazumi Rissen

Jiro Kino

Kaori Nakayama

Shoji Kawai

Takashi Tabei

Yoshihito Nasu

Yasuo Oginuma

Tomoyuki Marui

Eiji Tatsukawa

Charging equipment and a charge control unit are provided, in which a plurality of devices mounted with battery can be simultaneously charged by the single charging equipment. Further, a method of controlling charge and a method of receiving charge are also provided. The charging equipment supplies electric power to the battery for charging, comprising a power output part which outputs DC power used for charging, a plurality of user operation units which can be connected with a vehicle equipped with a battery as a device mounted with battery, and the charge control unit which controls a power supply from the power output part to the user operation unit. Herein, the charge control unit distributes the electric power outputted from the power output part to supply the distributed power to the user operation unit connected with the vehicle.

Method of receiving charge, method of controlling charge, charge control unit and charging equipment

In a packet switching apparatus capable of multicast, the length of a bitmap added to a multicast packet is made variable, depending on the number of line interface cards housed in the packet switching apparatus.

Packet switching apparatus, method of transmitting multicast packet at packet switching apparatus, and setup method of packet switching apparatus

A packet switch having a structure of writing a variable length packet received from each of input lines into a shared buffer memory on a fixed length data block unit basis, wherein a buffer controller forms an input queue for each input line and, when the last data block of a variable length packet is registered in the input queue, links a linked address list for the input queue to one or a plurality of output queues corresponding to one or a plurality of packet destination output lines.

Shared buffer type variable length packet switch

An inexpensive DC power source apparatus is provided which realizes a countermeasure against high frequency and redundant operation for improving reliability by using a simplified circuit construction to thereby reduce the number of parts. An input voltage follow type current controlled boosting chopper and a current feedback type self-running inverter are used in combination, and output voltage stabilization is accomplished by utilizing the voltage stabilizing function of the boosting chopper and current balance during parallel operation is accomplished by self-balance due to an impedance drop in the self-running inverter, thereby realizing the inexpensive power source apparatus in which the number of parts is reduced.

DC power source apparatus that suppresses harmonics

In an information processing method and system including a secondary storage, a primary storage for storing data blocks of the secondary storage and a directory containing control information for the data blocks stored in the primary storage, the directory is consulted to determine whether a desired data block is in the primary storage, and if it is, the data block is read from the primary storage. The control information of the directory contains pairs of addresses on the primary storage of the data blocks stored in the primary storage and the addresses on the secondary storage.

Buffer control method for quickly determining whether a required data

A liquid crystal display element is provided which can clearly and simultaneously produce analog and digital displays. The analog display is produced by a first liquid crystal layer provided near a reflecting plate while the digital is made by a second liquid crystal layer disposed adjacent to the first liquid crystal layer.

Liquid crystal display element

A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of display sections each formed of a plurality of common electrodes and corresponding segment electrodes to display a character is disclosed. The device comprises a plurality of liquid crystal display elements piled in the direction perpendicular to the display surface of the device. Each of the liquid crystal display elements includes ones selected from the above-mentioned common electrodes and segment electrodes corresponding to the selected common electrodes to reduce the number of common electrodes included in each liquid crystal display element, thereby reducing the number of common electrode leads provided in each liquid crystal display element.

Liquid crystal matrix display cells piled with non-overlapping display

A liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of upper and lower substrates disposed in opposition to each other with upper and lower electrode patterns being formed on the inner surfaces of the substrates, respectively. A part or all of cross-over portions of wiring conductors of the upper and the lower electrode patterns are disposed within an effective display region with the width of the wiring conductors being reduced at the cross-over portions. The cross-over portions disposed within the effective display region are located with a predetermined distance from a display pattern to be produced. A failure such as a short-circuit formed between the upper and the lower electrode patterns is significantly reduced, while the area of the active display region can be increased.

Liquid crystal display device

A method for driving a liquid crystal display element so as to give a simultaneous analogue display of 3 kinds of information. The liquid crystal display element is driven over 1/3-duty periods by applying 4 kinds of voltage waveforms to one electrode formed on one of paired substrates, and at least 5 kinds of voltage waveforms to the other electrode on the other substrate, said electrodes being divided into a multiplicity of electrode patterns. In particular, one of the 4 kinds of voltage waveforms applied to the electrodes of one of said substrates is set to provide an OFF condition for the display regardless of which of the at least 5 voltage waveforms is applied to the electrodes of said other substrate. In this driving method only one chip of the element driving LSI is sufficient for a simultaneous analogue display of 3 kinds of information e.g. hour, minute, and second.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Masami Takahashi