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20090008168 | Vehicle, Driving Device And Control Method Thereof - When a gear of a transmission for transmitting torque of a motor to a drive shaft is shifted while an accelerator is off or an accelerator pedal is slightly stepped on, an upper limit rotation speed is set using a fluctuation rate of a value smaller than a value when the gear is not shifted, a target rotation speed of an engine is set using this upper limit rotation speed, and control is carried out so that an engine is operated at the target rotation speed. By this arrangement, when the accelerator pedal is stepped on and a large torque demand is demanded, rise of the engine rotation speed is restricted, a portion used for raising the rotation speed in power outputted from the engine is made smaller, and a larger power can be outputted to the drive shaft. | 01-08-2009 |
20090062063 | VEHICLE, DRIVING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - At the time of a Hi-to-Lo speed change of a transmission, which is configured to transmit an output torque of a motor to a driveshaft, in an accelerator off state or in a low acceleration state with the driver's slight depression of an accelerator pedal, an engine is controlled to be driven at a rotation speed of not lower than a speed change-time minimum rotation speed that is higher than an idling rotation speed. When the driver depresses the accelerator pedal to require a large torque demand, such drive control enables quick output of a large torque from the engine to a ring gear shaft as the driveshaft. | 03-05-2009 |
20090163317 | Power Output Apparatus, Vehicle Provided With the Same, and Method of Controlling the Same - In a vehicle having a planetary gear mechanism to which an engine, a first motor, a drive shaft and a second motor are connected, while the engine is stopped, an increase rate (ΔTr) by which required torque (Tr*), which is the torque required to be output to a drive shaft, is allowed to increase, is set based on an output limit (Wout) of a battery and an actual torque (T*) is set with the required torque (Tr*) limited by the set increase rate (ΔTr) (S | 06-25-2009 |
20110202210 | VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When motor driving is not permitted even though the EV switch is switched on, a warning sound is emitted from the speaker to the driver's cabin and information relating to a condition that is not established among the motor driving permission conditions is displayed on the display that is provided in the vicinity of the driver's seat. Therefore, more detailed information regarding the fact that motor driving is not permitted can be notified. | 08-18-2011 |
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20100180578 | ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM, ENGINE CONTROL METHOD - An engine control system for an engine equipped with a catalyst that purifies exhaust gas includes: a catalyst temperature acquisition section that acquires the temperature of the catalyst; and a control section that controls an engine such that a rate of increase in engine output speed is changed in accordance with the temperature of the catalyst. | 07-22-2010 |
20130218393 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRIC POWERED VEHICLE - In an electric powered vehicle in which vehicle driving force for reverse running is produced by a traction motor, vehicle driving force is set by a product of a base value set at least based on an accelerator opening and an amplification factor. The amplification factor is set at k | 08-22-2013 |
20140088811 | VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - An ECU executes a program including the steps of adding a prescribed value when a brake pedal has been pressed down, calculating an amount of change in pressing force of the brake pedal, performing first motoring processing when the brake pedal has been released, adding a prescribed value to a brake OFF counter, calculating an amount of change in stroke when an accelerator pedal has been pressed down, calculating a first rate target value in accordance with a pedal switching speed, calculating a second rate target value in accordance with a speed of pressing-down of the accelerator pedal, determining a final rate target value, and controlling a first MG in accordance with the determined rate target value. | 03-27-2014 |
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20110031935 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME - The present invention is characterized in that, in a negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery, the negative electrode being manufactured via an application step of applying a binder resin and an active material onto a surface of collector, the binder resin is an alkoxysilyl group-containing resin that has a structure being specified by formula (I); and the active material includes a lithium-inactive metal that does not form any intermetallic compounds with lithium, or a silicide of the lithium-inactive metal, and an elemental substance of Si. It is possible to upgrade cyclic characteristics by means of using the negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery according to the present invention. | 02-10-2011 |
20120202117 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NON-AQUEOUS-SYSTEM SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME - It is equipped with a negative-electrode current collector, and a negative-electrode mixture-material layer comprising a negative-electrode mixture material that includes a negative-electrode active material containing silicon (Si) and a binding agent at least, the negative-electrode mixture-material layer being formed on a surface of the negative-electrode current collector; and
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20130244110 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE SAME - The present invention is characterized in that, in a negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery, the negative electrode being manufactured via an application step of applying a binder resin and an active material onto a surface of collector, the binder resin is an alkoxysilyl group-containing resin that has a structure being specified by formula (I); and the active material includes a lithium-inactive metal that does not form any intermetallic compounds with lithium, or a silicide of the lithium-inactive metal, and an elemental substance of Si. It is possible to upgrade cyclic characteristics by means of using the negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery according to the present invention. | 09-19-2013 |
20140014521 | FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT BOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a flexible circuit board that maintains high insulation reliability, exhibits high wiring adhesion, has low thermal expansion, and allows the formation of a fine circuit thereon. Specifically, the present invention provides a flexible circuit board, wherein at least a nickel plating layer is laminated on a polyimide film to form a polyimide film provided with a nickel plating layer and a wiring pattern is applied to the nickel plating layer thereof. The polyimide film has a thermal expansion coefficient of 0 to 8 ppm/° C. in the temperature range from 100 to 200° C., and the nickel plating layer has a thickness of 0.03 to 0.3 μm. | 01-16-2014 |
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20090242456 | Packaging container and method - A packaging container includes a pallet, an enclosure box, an enclosure base, a sheet, and a set of fasteners. The pallet carries the article thereon. The enclosure box rests on the pallet to enclose the article therewithin, and includes a top wall, first and second pairs of opposite side walls, an open bottom, and a first set of through-holes. The enclosure base lies between the article and the pallet to hold the article. The sheet extends across at least a portion of the pallet and the first pair of opposite side walls to secure the pallet to the enclosure box when fastened to the enclosure box, and includes a flat center panel, a pair of side flaps, and a second set of through-holes. The set of fasteners are passed through the first and second sets of through-holes to fasten the sheet to the enclosure box from outside the enclosure box. | 10-01-2009 |
20100213088 | Packaging container - A packaging container includes a pallet, an enclosure base, an enclosure box, a sheet, and a set of fasteners. The pallet includes a bottom deck, a top deck, and a set of support members. The enclosure base is placed on the pallet top deck. The enclosure box is placed above the pallet top deck around the enclosure base, and includes a top wall, first and second pairs of opposed side walls, an open bottom, and a first set of through-holes. The sheet is passed across the pallet hollow structure and fastened to the enclosure box to connect the pallet to the enclosure box, and includes a center panel, a pair of side flaps, and a second set of through-holes. The set of fasteners are passed through the first and second sets of through-holes to fasten the sheet to the enclosure box from outside the enclosure box. | 08-26-2010 |
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20090026010 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SOUND ABSORBER AND PRODUCED BY THE PROCESS, SOUND ABSORBER AND SOUND ABSORBING STRUCTURE - A process for producing a sound absorber having skin layers constituting front and back surfaces and, interposed between the skin layers, a void layer having a number of voids, and having a plurality of formed holes each having a depth which is enough to penetrate one of the skin layers and is not enough to reach the other skin layer; comprising: providing a mold having a fixed part, a movable part, and at least one pin disposed in a manner that it can be projected into and retracted from a cavity; and having a step to cause the pin to project into the cavity during the course of charging the cavity with a resin material and molding the sound absorber and form the holes communicating with the void layer simultaneously with molding of the sound absorber. | 01-29-2009 |
20110040022 | LONG-FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED ARTICLE THEREOF - A long-fiber-reinforced resin composition including the following component (A) and the component (B), the content of the component (A) being 50 to 90 wt % and the content of the component (B) being 10 to 50 wt %; and the content of reinforcing fiber contained in the component (A) being 20 to 60 wt % relative to the total amount of the fiber-reinforced resin composition: | 02-17-2011 |
20110178229 | FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED BODY THEREOF - Long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin particles and a blend thereof are provided, wherein the opening property of the reinforcing fibers during molding is good, and a molded body exhibiting an excellent appearance and having high mechanical strength is obtained. The particles (A) contains a thermoplastic resin (A1), produced by using a metallocene catalyst, a modified polyolefin resin (A2) modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, and reinforcing fibers (A3) and satisfy the following requirements (1) to (5); (1) the amount of modification of the unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof is 0.01 to 2 percent by weight in 100 percent by weight of the total of (A1) and (A2); (2) (A1) and (A2) constitute 20 to 70 percent by weight in 100 percent by weight of the total of (A1), (A2), and (A3); (3) (A3) constitutes 30 to 80 percent by weight in 100 percent by weight of the total of (A1), (A2), and (A3); (4) when 25 g of (A) is encapsulated in a 20-L chamber and is stood at 65° C. for 1 hour, the amount of acetaldehyde dissipated from (A) is 3.0 μg/m | 07-21-2011 |
20120065306 | LONG-FIBER REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED OBJECT THEREOF - A long fiber-reinforced resin composition including components (A), (B), and (C), the composition including 50 to 90 wt % of the component (A) and 10 to 50 wt % of the component (B) based on the total content of the components (A) and (B), the component (A) having a content of reinforcing fibers of 20 to 60 wt % based on the total content of the components (A) and (B). | 03-15-2012 |
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20100209667 | NONWOVEN STRETCH FABRIC - A nonwoven fabric which, even when having a low basis weight, has a wide stretch range at time of use. It is inhibited from breaking or decreasing in strength upon stretching. It feels good to the touch and has excellent cushioning properties and high air permeability. The nonwoven stretch fabric has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. It has, arranged on each side, strip-form sparse regions extending in the longitudinal direction and strip-form dense regions extending likewise, the two kinds of regions being alternately and successively arranged in the transverse direction. The strip-form dense regions on one side and those on the other side are alternately arranged in the transverse direction. The nonwoven stretch fabric is constituted of a mixture of stretched fibers and stretchable fibers or is composed of stacked layers of these two kinds of fibers. The stretched fibers include stretched fibers which have been partly stretched in the area located between each of the strip-form dense regions on that one side and the adjacent one of the strip-form dense regions on the other side. The fibers constituting the partly stretched fibers have an average fiber diameter of 12-21 μm. | 08-19-2010 |
20120231946 | METHOD FOR THINNING AGGREGATE OF WATER-ABSORBENT MATERIAL AND THIN AGGREGATE OF WATER-ABSORBENT MATERIAL OBTAINED USING THE METHOD - A method for thinning an aggregate of water-absorbent materials. An aggregate of water-absorbent materials includes hydrophilic fibers and superabsorbent polymer particles and has a thickness direction. Steam at a temperature corresponding to water's boiling point or higher is ejected to the aggregate while the aggregate is compressed in the thickness direction. | 09-13-2012 |
20140171894 | BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT MATRIX AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A bodily fluid absorbent matrix adapted to restrict a wet feeling against the wearer's skin after the absorbent matrix in a bodily fluid absorbent wearing article having absorbed bodily fluids and a method for manufacturing the absorbent matrix. A bodily fluid absorbent wearing article has an absorbent matrix formed of aggregate of bodily fluid absorbent material between a liquid-permeable first sheet and a liquid-impermeable second sheet. The member includes hydrophilic fibers as the bodily fluid absorbent material. Density of the absorbent matrix changes so as to increase from the first sheet toward the second sheet in thickness direction of the absorbent matrix. A planar orientation index of the hydrophilic fibers also changes so as to increase in the thickness direction of the absorbent matrix. | 06-19-2014 |
20150223999 | ABSORBENT BODY IN ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An absorbent body in absorbent articles that causes exudates to disperse in a planar direction and a method of producing the same. The absorbent body has an absorbent core material covered with a cover sheet. The core material has a mass per unit area of 650 g/m | 08-13-2015 |
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20090029165 | THERMOADHESIVE CONJUGATE FIBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A major object of the invention is to provide a thermoadhesive conjugate fiber with low heat shrinkability and high adhesion having low orientation and high elongation and having extremely satisfactory card-passing properties. The object of the invention can be achieved by a thermoadhesive conjugate fiber made of a fiber forming resin component and a crystalline thermoplastic resin having a melting point of at least 20° C. lower than that of the fiber forming resin component and having a breaking elongation of from 60 to 600%, a dry heat shrinkage percentage at 120° C. of from −10.0 to 5.0%, and more preferably a percentage of crimp/number of crimps of 0.8 or more; and a manufacturing method of a thermoadhesive conjugate fiber, which includes drawing an undrawn yarn of a conjugate fiber taken up at a spinning rate of from 150 to 1,800 m/min in a low draw ratio of from 0.5 to 1.3 times at a temperature higher than both a glass transition temperature of a major crystalline thermoplastic resin of the thermo-adhesive resin component and a glass transition temperature of the fiber forming resin component and simultaneously subjecting to a fixed-length heat treatment and subsequently subjecting to a heat treatment under no tension at a temperature of at least 5° C. higher than the temperature of the fixed-length heat treatment. | 01-29-2009 |
20090042031 | METHOD OF PRODUCING ISLANDS-IN-SEA TYPE COMPOSITE SPUN FIBER - The method of producing an islands-in-sea type composite spun fiber having an island component diameter of 1 μm or less according to the present invention comprises drawing (superdrawing) with a total draw ratio of from 5 to 100 an undrawn islands-in-sea type composite spun fiber having been prepared by spinning at a spinning speed of from 100 to 1,000 m/min, at temperatures higher than the glass transition points of both the polymer forming the sea component and the polymer forming the island components of the composite spun fiber. | 02-12-2009 |
20090053521 | Synthetic staple fibers for an air-laid nonwoven fabric - Synthetic staple fibers having good air opening property and useful for producing an air-laid nonwoven fabric having excellent quality, have a fiber length of 0.1 to 45 mm and a cross-sectional profile having 1 to 30 concavities, in which cross-sectional profile the ratio D/L, of a largest depth D of each concavity to a largest width L of the opening of the concavity, is in the range of from 0.1 to 0.5. | 02-26-2009 |
20090243141 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF POLYESTER FIBER FOR AIRLAID NONWOVEN FABRICS - An object of the invention is to provide a polyester based fiber for airlaid nonwoven fabrics enabling one to manufacture an airlaid nonwoven fabric which is extremely excellent in airlaid web formability, especially in spinning properties from a screen, is satisfactory in texture and is bulky. This object can be achieved by a manufacturing method of a polyester fiber for airlaid nonwoven fabrics made of, as a fiber forming resin component, a polyester having a fineness of not more than 10.0 dtex or a fiber length of 8.0 mm or more, having a number of crimp of 8.5 peaks/25 mm or more, a percentage of crimp/number of crimp ratio of not more than 0.65 and a crimp modulus of elasticity of 70% or more and containing 80% by mole or more of an alkylene terephthalate repeating unit in the whole of repeating units, which includes drawing an undrawn yarn taken up at a spinning rate of not more than 1,500 m/min in a low draw ratio of from 0.60 to 1.20 times at a temperature of at least 10° C. higher than a glass transition temperature of the polyester and simultaneously subjecting to a fixed-length heat treatment. | 10-01-2009 |
20130199744 | BIOMASS-DERIVED POLYESTER STAPLE FIBERS AND WET-LAID NONWOVEN FABRIC FORMED FROM THE SAME - The present invention has an object to provide staple fibers suitable for manufacturing a wet-laid nonwoven fabric having excellent adhesive strength and heat resistance at a reduced environmental burden, a manufacturing method of the same, and a nonwoven fabric using the staple fibers. The object can be achieved by polyalkylene terephthalate or polyalkylene naphthalate staple fiber wet nonwoven fabric having excellent adhesive strength and heat resistance that are provided by blending and thermal-compression bonding of low oriented yarn and fully oriented yarn, wherein a specific ratio of biomass-derived carbon, fineness, fiber length, and a weight ratio between fully oriented staple fibers and low oriented staple fibers in the wet-laid nonwoven fabric are used to obtain a fine low oriented yarn having excellent binder performance and a fine fully oriented yarn having an unprecedented level of fineness. | 08-08-2013 |
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20080267464 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention provides a mechanism for re-registering a paper fingerprint that may change. A configuration for this includes: a extracting means that extracts a paper fingerprint of a sheet surface and coded information on the paper fingerprint; a means that decodes the coded information extracted by the extracting means; a matching means that matches paper fingerprint data decoded by the decoding means with data of the extracted paper fingerprint; and a re-registration prompting means that performs a display to prompt a re-registration based on a result of matching by the matching means. | 10-30-2008 |
20090323111 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image processing controller suspends an operation of hardware when receiving instructions of an interrupt of an event that should be executed with higher priority than rendering, such as a copy job, during execution of rendering by the hardware. Then, an information processing controller executes the rendering, which was being executed by the hardware, by software. Accordingly, even if an interrupt to suspend the operation of the hardware occurs during rendering by the hardware, the rendering can be completed as quickly as possible without waiting for restart of the operation of the hardware. | 12-31-2009 |
20110317191 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus capable of performing control so as to prevent a line registration error from occurring, even if a timing to start counting a positional deviation becomes different between color plane images. A BD identification unit of the image forming apparatus identifies whether a main scanning sync signal is a sync signal for odd-numbered line or for even-numbered line, and outputs a first or second timing edge signal. According to the timing edge signal, a sub-scan timing controller controls an output timing of an image signal to a printer controller. When the top of a page is detected based on the timing edge signal first input from the BD identification unit, the sub-scan timing controller is made enabled. If the first timing edge signal is subsequently input, the image signal output timing is controlled according to the second timing edge signal which is next input. | 12-29-2011 |
20120062945 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus that, whichever of a web application and a native application is being executed when a specific hard key is operated, make uniform a function executed by operating the hard key. When processing is executed by communicating with the web application on a web server, and the operation is performed by the hard key included in the information processing apparatus, the web server is notified of identification information for identifying the hard key, and an operation screen is displayed based on screen information received from the web server that has been notified of the identification information. | 03-15-2012 |
20120154859 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - In an image processing apparatus, preparation processing instruction information is received from an external apparatus before a processing unit executes an image processing function so that preparation processing is performed on the processing unit based on the preparation processing instruction information. | 06-21-2012 |
20140160515 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus can achieve power saving while preventing documents from being incorrectly placed upside down. A control method for controlling the image processing apparatus includes processing, by a first image processing unit, image data, read by a first reading unit, on a first side of documents, processing, by a second image processing unit, image data, read by a second reading unit, on a second side of the documents, determining whether the first reading unit or the second reading unit has read a predetermined number of blank pages, and if it is determined that the first reading unit or the second reading unit has read the predetermined number blank pages, performing power control to shut off power supply to the first image processing unit or the second image processing unit before reading the documents is completed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140165011 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a plurality of images are laid out within one page, the images may overlap each other. There is provided a layer change unit configured to, if the images overlap each other, intuitively change the hierarchical level of an image to perform processing for an image hidden behind another image, thereby allowing processing for the image hidden behind the other image by changing the hierarchical level of the image while maintaining its position without moving the image. | 06-12-2014 |
20150264217 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, having a reconstruction circuit for which reconstruction based on construction data is possible, comprises a first storage unit configured to store the construction data; a writing unit configured to, when the image processing apparatus transitions to a power saving state, write the construction data, which is stored in a first storage unit, in a second storage unit which is different to the first storage unit; and a reconstruction unit configured to, when the image processing apparatus returns from the power saving state, reconstruct the reconstruction circuit based on the construction data stored in the second storage unit. | 09-17-2015 |
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20110022584 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A database management system has a query interface for receiving a query and a query executor for executing the received query. The query executor dynamically generates a task, and executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. In execution of each task, each time data is required to be read from a database, the query executor generates a task for acquiring the data, and in execution of the generated task, issues a data read request for reading the data from the database, to thereby shorten a time taken to execute each task. | 01-27-2011 |
20120005191 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A database management system has a query interface for receiving a query and a query executor for executing the received query. The query executor dynamically generates a task, and executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. In execution of each task, each time data is required to be read from a database, the query executor generates a task for acquiring the data, and in execution of the generated task, issues a data read request for reading the data from the database, to thereby shorten a time taken to execute each task. | 01-05-2012 |
20120259838 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A database management system has a query interface for receiving a query and a query executor for executing the received query. The query executor dynamically generates a task, and executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. In execution of each task, each time data is required to be read from a database, the query executor generates a task for acquiring the data, and in execution of the generated task, issues a data read request for reading the data from the database, to thereby shorten a time taken to execute each task. | 10-11-2012 |
20150112965 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMPUTER, AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A database management system (DBMS) generates a query execution plan including information representing one or more database (DB) operations necessary for executing a query, and executes the query in accordance with the query execution plan. In the execution of the query, the DBMS dynamically generates tasks for executing the DB operations and executes the dynamically generated tasks. The query execution plan includes a plurality of query blocks, which are sets of one or more DB operations. When newly generating a task, the DBMS executes determination processing of simultaneous-task-generation number. The determination processing of simultaneous-task-generation number is to calculate, targeting each of the query blocks, the number of simultaneous task generation, which is the number of tasks simultaneously generatable as tasks for executing the query block. The number of the dynamically generated tasks is equal to or smaller than the number of simultaneous task generation. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112966 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMPUTER, AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A database management system (DBMS) generates a query execution plan including information indicating one or more database (DB) operations necessary to execute the query. The DBMS dynamically generates a task for executing the DB operation in execution of the query. The DBMS performs a determination processing of simultaneous-task-generation number when newly creating a task. The determination processing of simultaneous-task-generation number is to calculate the number of simultaneous task generation, which is the number of tasks that can be generated simultaneously, based on the number of tasks which can be newly generated, a first memory resource amount which is the amount of memory resources necessary to be allocated per task newly generated, and a second memory resource amount which is the number of memory resources that can be newly allocated. The number of tasks generated dynamically and simultaneously is equal to or smaller than the calculated number of simultaneously generatable tasks. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112967 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMPUTER, AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A database management system (DBMS) generates a query execution plan including information representing one or more database (DB) operations necessary for executing a query and executes the query based on the query execution plan. In the execution of the query, the DBMS dynamically generates a task for executing a DB operation and executes the dynamically generated task. The DBMS executes a task in a plurality of threads executed by a processor core. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113535 | PARALLEL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER, AND PARALLEL DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A parallel data processing system includes a parallel data processing execution unit for reading a data from a data set including a first data set that includes a plurality of first data and a second data set that includes a plurality of second data and executing processing. The parallel data processing execution unit (A) reads the first data from the first data set, and acquires a first value from the first data based on first format information acquired from an application, (B) generates one or more threads for respectively reading one or more second data corresponding to the first value from the second data set based on first reference information acquired from the application, (C) executes (A) and (B) on one or more first data in the first data set, and (D) executes a plurality of the threads in parallel. | 04-23-2015 |
20150149439 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND ANALYSIS METHOD - This analysis system analyzes the behavior of a DBMS in a computer system having a computer which executes tasks in parallel and reads data from a database (DB) when executing a query. This analysis system acquires the number of selected rows corresponding to a key value of an index key used in the query, and calculates a model-based predicted degree of processing parallelism of the processing corresponding to the query. The system acquires, from the storage device, event information on an input-output event with respect to the storage medium when the processing corresponding to the query is executed actually, calculates a measured degree of processing parallelism when the processing corresponding to the query is executed actually, based on the event information, and displays information based on the model-based predicted degree of processing parallelism and the measured degree of processing parallelism. | 05-28-2015 |
20160034533 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A database management system has a query interface for receiving a query and a query executor for executing the received query. The query executor dynamically generates a task, and executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. In execution of each task, each time data is required to be read from a database, the query executor generates a task for acquiring the data, and in execution of the generated task, issues a data read request for reading the data from the database, to thereby shorten a time taken to execute each task. | 02-04-2016 |
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20100262853 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that shortens the waiting time that a user feels when restoration from a hibernation state is performed, a method for controlling the same, and a recording medium are provided. To accomplish this, when restoration from a power saving state (hibernation state) is performed, the information processing apparatus of the present invention restores only an operating system (OS) to a state of an execution in a main storage memory (RAM), and thereafter restores processes in the OS to a state of an execution. Further, the OS sequentially transfers images of the processes to the RAM from a non-volatile storage apparatus, and resumes execution of the processes from a process for which transfer is complete. | 10-14-2010 |
20120229839 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus capable of controlling an image forming unit and operating in any one of a plurality of power modes including a first power mode and a second power mode which consumes less power than the first power mode. The image forming apparatus includes an activation unit configured to activate the image forming apparatus, an adjustment unit configured to adjust the image forming unit when the activation unit activates the image forming apparatus, a shift unit configured to shift the image forming apparatus to the first power mode or the second power mode after the activation unit completes the activation of the image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the adjustment unit not to adjust the image forming unit when the shift unit shifts the image forming apparatus to the second power mode. | 09-13-2012 |
20130010318 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image processing apparatus which keeps energizing some loads to reduce next startup processing at the time of power OFF operation via a switch of the apparatus while stopping power supply to all the loads at the time of power OFF operation by remote control, a control method for the apparatus, and a program. To accomplish this, this image processing apparatus is shifted to the power OFF state upon, for example, receiving an instruction for decreasing power consumption from an external apparatus, and is shifted to the quick OFF state upon receiving an instruction for decreasing power consumption from the external apparatus. | 01-10-2013 |
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20130332914 | FIRMWARE UPDATING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An updating method for firmware that is stored as a file in an image forming apparatus that includes a file system that has a journaling function. The method comprises determining whether an update for the firmware is instructed, and determining to update the firmware when it is determined that the update is instructed; determining whether firmware for the update is stored in a storing unit when it is determined to update the firmware, and disabling the journaling function when the firmware for the update is stored in the storing unit; and updating the firmware by use of the firmware for the update in a state in which the journaling function is disabled. | 12-12-2013 |
20140146341 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus that can start up with an engine unit being in a non-power-distributed state and a control method for the same are provided. Information indicating the error in an engine unit is stored in a non-volatile memory, the engine unit based on the information stored in the non-volatile memory is power-distributed in a case where the image forming apparatus starts up, and if the error is detected in the engine unit that was power-distributed, notification of the error in the engine unit is made. | 05-29-2014 |
20150029537 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - If an event that requires reboot of an image forming apparatus has occurred, a time remaining until a shutdown time set for an automatic shutdown function is compared against a threshold value, and if the time remaining is shorter than the threshold value, the image forming apparatus shuts down without rebooting. | 01-29-2015 |
20150134892 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus having a non-volatile main memory, allocates a memory area to be used for processing of an application in the non-volatile main memory, in a case where an instruction of processing by the application is received, and stores data in the allocated memory area. The apparatus and method clear data stored in the memory area and release the memory area, when processing for the data stored in the memory area by the application has completed. | 05-14-2015 |
20150358492 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides an image processing apparatus which keeps energizing some loads to reduce next startup processing at the time of power OFF operation via a switch of the apparatus while stopping power supply to all the loads at the time of power OFF operation by remote control, a control method for the apparatus, and a program. To accomplish this, this image processing apparatus is shifted to the power OFF state upon, for example, receiving an instruction for decreasing power consumption from an external apparatus, and is shifted to the quick OFF state upon receiving an instruction for decreasing power consumption from the external apparatus. | 12-10-2015 |
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20100054792 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING UNIT - An image forming apparatus is provided with an image bearing member for bearing a toner image while rotating, a toner image forming device for forming the toner image on the image bearing member, a neutralizer for neutralizing electric charges on the image bearing member by irradiating light to the charged image bearing member after the toner image formed on the rotating image bearing member is transferred to a transfer material, and a frame for supporting the neutralizer. A first clearance is present between the neutralizer and the frame. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054795 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING UNIT - An image forming apparatus is provided with an image bearing member for bearing a toner image while rotating, a developing device including a developing roller for supplying toner to a surface of the image bearing member and a pair of gap rollers held in contact with opposite end portions of the image bearing member to define a specified gap between the developing roller and the surface of the image bearing member, and a lubricant applicator for applying a lubricant to parts of the opposite end portions of the image bearing member where the gap rollers are in contact. | 03-04-2010 |
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20140294427 | TONER COLLECTOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A toner collector includes a housing, an inlet port, a fan, a discharge port, a first upstream side filter, and a downstream side filter. The inlet port is opened in the housing. The fan is disposed in the housing, and intakes and discharges the airflow having flowed in through the inlet port. The discharge port is provided to the fan. The first upstream side filter is disposed on an upstream side of the fan in a direction of the airflow, and captures the toner and allows passage of the airflow. The downstream side filter is disposed on a downstream side of the discharge port in the direction of the airflow, and allows passage of the airflow discharged from the discharge port and captures the toner. The downstream side filter has a larger cross-sectional area of a cross section perpendicular to the direction of the airflow than the discharge port. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294429 | TONER COLLECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A toner collecting unit includes a housing, an inlet, a first fan, a lower duct, a first filter, and an oscillation motor. The inlet is provided in the housing. Toner flows into the inlet together with an air flow. The first fan is arranged in the interior of the housing and is configured to suck the air flow flowing from the inlet and to exhaust the air outside the housing. The lower duct guides the air flow upward from below. The first filter is arranged in an upper part of the lower duct so that its approach surface, which the air flow enters, faces downward. | 10-02-2014 |
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20130172345 | 1-ACYL-4-(PHENOXY, BENZYLOXY, OR PHENYLAMINO)-1,2,3,4-TETRAHYDROQUINOLINE DERIVATIVES - Disclosed is a low-molecular-weight compound having an EPO production-promoting activity and/or a hemoglobin expression-enhancing activity. Specifically disclosed is an EPO production promoter and/or a hemoglobin expression enhancer comprising a 1-acyl-4-(phenoxy, benzyloxy or phenylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivative, more specifically a tetrahydroquinoline compound represented by the general formula (1); | 07-04-2013 |
20140249144 | PROPHYLACTIC AND/OR THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR ANEMIA COMPRISING TETRAHYDROQUINOLINE COMPOUND AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT - Disclosed is a compound which has a low molecular weight and has an activity of enhancing the production of EPO and/or an activity of enhancing the production of hemoglobin. Specifically disclosed is and EPO production enhancer and/or a hemoglobin production enhancer comprising a 1-acyl-4-(substituted oxy, substituted amino, or substituted thio)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline derivative, more specifically a tetrahydroquinoline compound represented by general formula (1) [wherein R | 09-04-2014 |
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20120179884 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Prior to performing download play, it is determined whether or not a slave apparatus program has been already stored in an internal memory of a slave apparatus. When not stored yet, the slave apparatus program is transmitted from a master apparatus to the slave apparatus, and stored in the internal memory of the slave apparatus. When already stored, the slave apparatus program is not transmitted from the master apparatus to the slave apparatus. Then, multiplay is performed by performing mutual communication between the master apparatus operating in accordance with a master apparatus game program and the slave apparatus operating in accordance with a slave apparatus game program. Thus, time and effort for receiving the same application program more than once are omitted, and it is possible to efficiently start a communication process. | 07-12-2012 |
20120180034 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Prior to performing download play, it is checked whether or not it is necessary to update firmware of a slave apparatus. When it is necessary to update the firmware of the slave apparatus, a firmware update program is transmitted from a master apparatus to the slave apparatus, and the firmware of the slave apparatus is updated in accordance with the firmware update program. Thus, it is possible to update basic software by a novel method. | 07-12-2012 |
20130123022 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An exemplary information-processing device includes: a switching unit configured to switch an operating mode of the information-processing device to an active mode or a sleep mode; a receiving unit configured to receive, when the information-processing device is in the active mode, an instruction to download data specified by a user; and a downloading unit configured to start download of the data when the operating mode of the information-processing device is switched from the active mode to the sleep mode. | 05-16-2013 |
20140032375 | CONTENT SELLING SYSTEM, TRADING MEDIUM, CONTENT SERVER DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONTENT SELLING METHOD - An example system includes a trading medium that is associated with a specific content, a selling terminal device that gives a notification of identification information had by the trading medium in response to selling processing regarding the trading medium, a server device that stores a selling condition of the trading medium, the content, and an association between the content and the identification information, and transmits the contents, and an information processing terminal device that receives an input of identification information, transmits it to the server device and receives the content transmitted from the server device. | 01-30-2014 |
20150095457 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, USER TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A non-limiting example information processing system includes a plurality of user terminals, and a download task list for each user terminal is managed by a list server. Existence/non-existence of renewal of the download task list is managed by a revision server, and the user terminal inquires of the revision server the existence/non-existence of the renewal. If the download task list is renewed, the user terminal acquires the download task list from the list server, and acquires a content from a content server according to an acquired download task list. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095464 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A non-limiting example information processing system includes a plurality of user terminals, and a download task list for each user terminal is managed by a list server. The download task list includes a list for each user terminal and a list for each of groups into which a plurality of user terminals are classified. If the download task list is renewed, the user terminal acquires the download task list from the list server, and acquires a content from a content server according to an acquired download task list. | 04-02-2015 |
20160092971 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER, STORAGE MEDIUM AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A non-limiting example content distribution system comprises a content server that is connected communicably with a game apparatus via a network. If it is decided to reservation-purchase of a content according to an operation of a user, the content server distributes a reservation content to a game apparatus. The reservation content is a content that a part of a normal content that can be executed by the game apparatus is changed to be inexecutable (unable to start). If reaching a date and time of a sale start of the content or an executable date and time, the game apparatus is downloaded with a modifying program for the reservation content according to an operation of the user to modify the reservation content. Therefore, the reservation content can be changed to a normal content. | 03-31-2016 |