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20120074238 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - By employing a heat source control section that controls the operating state of an internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle, a necessary heat calculating section that calculates the engine coolant temperature needed by a heater core, which consumes the heat supplied from the engine through engine coolant water, and the time at which this engine coolant temperature becomes necessary, a heat supply estimating section that estimates engine coolant temperature at the aforementioned time in a case in which the engine is operated continuously in the current operating state, and a heat generation increase requesting section that requests the heat source control section to increase heat generation quantity of the engine when the engine coolant temperature estimated by the heat supply estimating section is less than the engine coolant temperature calculated by the necessary heat calculating section the heat necessary for the heater core is supplied more efficiently and adequately. | 03-29-2012 |
20120198869 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An engine and an electronic control unit perform cooling capacity increase control for compensating for a insufficiency of the cooling capacity of a cooling device. The electronic control unit performs a variety of control for a vehicle, including control of the cooling device. At that time, the electronic control unit calculates the target value of the cooling capacity of the cooling device, calculates the estimate value of the cooling capacity that will be able to be exerted in the future under the current control, compares the target value and the estimate value, and when it is determined from the result of the comparison that the cooling capacity will be insufficient, performs the cooling capacity increase control. The electronic control unit changes the contents of the cooling capacity increase control according to the degree of insufficiency of the estimate value with respect to the target value. | 08-09-2012 |
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20090013705 | Refrigeration apparatus with exhaust heat recovery device - A refrigeration apparatus with an exhaust heat recovery device mounted on a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle for allowing a refrigerant for refrigeration to circulate therethrough, and a Rankine cycle for allowing a refrigerant for the Rankine cycle to circulate therethrough. The Rankine-cycle condenser and the refrigeration-cycle condenser are disposed in predetermined positions of the vehicle in series with respect to a flow direction of external air for cooling, and the Rankine-cycle condenser is disposed on an upstream side of the external air with respect to the refrigeration-cycle condenser. | 01-15-2009 |
20090031749 | Refrigeration apparatus with exhaust heat recovery device - A refrigeration apparatus with an exhaust heat recovery device mounted on a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle for allowing a refrigerant for refrigeration to circulate therethrough, and a Rankine cycle for allowing a refrigerant for the Rankine cycle to circulate therethrough. The refrigeration-cycle condenser and the Rankine-cycle condenser are disposed in predetermined positions of the vehicle in series with respect to a flow direction of external air for cooling, and the refrigeration-cycle condenser is disposed on an upstream side of the external air with respect to the Rankine-cycle condenser. | 02-05-2009 |
20090071156 | Waste heat recovery apparatus - A waste heat recovery apparatus including a Rankine cycle which includes a heater for heating an operation fluid by waste heat from a heat-generating device, an expansion unit for converting energy of expansion of the operation fluid flowing out from the heater into mechanical energy, and a condenser for condensing and liquefying the expanded operation fluid, a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the operation fluid on the inlet side of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting inlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting outlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls a command rotational speed of the expansion unit based on superheated degree information at the inlet of the expansion unit obtained from the operation fluid temperature and the inlet-side pressure, and pressure information in which the outlet-side pressure is considered. | 03-19-2009 |
20100259121 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A power transmission device for transmitting a driving force from a vehicle-mounted driving source to a vehicle-mounted rotary device includes a driving rotor mechanically coupled to the vehicle-mounted driving source via a belt, and a driven rotor disposed coaxially with the driving rotor and mechanically coupled to a drive shaft of the vehicle-mounted rotary device. Furthermore, the power transmission device is provided with a magnetic join portion disposed in at least one of the driving rotor and the driven rotor, and the magnetic join portion is adapted to transmit a rotary driving force from the driving rotor to the driven rotor by a magnetic force, while keeping a predetermined clearance between the driving rotor and the driven rotor. Thus, in the power transmission device, a natural frequency can be made much lower than a frequency of vibration generated from the vehicle-mounted rotary device in idling of a vehicle. | 10-14-2010 |
20140038009 | BATTERY TEMPERATURE REGULATING DEVICE - A battery temperature regulating device is applied to a battery pack configured by parallely connecting battery groups, each of which is a series connection of battery cells capable of charge and discharge. The device regulates temperatures of the battery groups. The battery temperature regulating device includes a heat transfer unit that transfers heat of a part of the battery groups to another battery group. | 02-06-2014 |
20140041826 | VEHICLE TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS AND IN-VEHICLE THERMAL SYSTEM - A vehicle temperature control apparatus for controlling temperature of a temperature control object, which is at least one of inside air of a vehicle compartment and a vehicle component, includes a heat capacitive element capable of storing heat, a refrigeration cycle in which heat is absorbed from a low temperature side and is dissipated to a high temperature side, a heat exchanger that causes the heat capacitive element to exchange heat with refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle, and a heat dissipation portion which dissipates heat in the refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle to the temperature control object. Thus, a temperature control by using the heat capacitive element can be effectively performed. | 02-13-2014 |
20150017495 | BATTERY TEMPERATURE REGULATING DEVICE - A battery temperature regulating device includes batteries, inter-battery passages, and a fluid driving device. The batteries are connected to be capable of energization and arranged in a stacking manner. Each of the inter-battery passages is defined between corresponding adjacent two of the batteries. The fluid driving device is configured to flow temperature regulating fluid for regulating temperature of the batteries through the inter-battery passages. Each of the inter-battery passages includes a first inter-battery passage and a second inter-battery passage. Between the corresponding adjacent two of the batteries, a direction in which temperature regulating fluid flows into the first inter-battery passage and a direction in which temperature regulating fluid flows into the second inter-battery passage are different from each other. A flow direction of temperature regulating fluid flowing through the first inter-battery passage is opposite from a flow direction of temperature regulating fluid flowing through the second inter-battery passage. | 01-15-2015 |
20150128632 | VEHICULAR THERMO-CONTROL DEVICE - A vehicular thermo-control device adjusts a temperature of a battery. The device has a primary system through which cooling water circulates, and a secondary system through which a refrigerant circulates. The primary system has a heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between the battery and the cooling water, and a heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between the cooling water and an ambient air. The secondary system is a refrigerating cycle. Both heat exchangers on a high temperature side and a low temperature side of the refrigerating cycle are thermally coupled with the primary system. Only one heat exchanger provides heat exchange with the ambient air. The pump of the primary system can switch circulating direction of the cooling water. A controller controls devices to perform cooling and heating operation. | 05-14-2015 |
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20090045741 | Photomultiplier - The present invention relates to a photomultiplier having a fine structure capable of realizing high detection accuracy by effectively suppressing cross talk among electron-multiplier channels. The photomultiplier comprises a housing whose inside is maintained vacuum, and, in the housing, a photocathode, an electron-multiplier section, and anodes are disposed. The electron-multiplier section has groove portions for cascade-multiplying photoelectrons as electron-multiplier channels, and the anodes are constituted by channel electrodes corresponding to the groove portions respectively defined by wall parts. In particular, at least parts of the respective channel electrodes are located in spaces sandwiched between pairs of wall parts defining the corresponding groove portions. | 02-19-2009 |
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20090305450 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERTING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of obtaining a photoelectric converting device which can sufficiently maintain airtightness of a housing space for photocathode without degradation of the characteristics of the photocathode. In accordance with the manufacturing method, on the side wall end face of a lower frame and a bonding portion of an upper frame forming an envelope of the photoelectric converting device, a multilayered metal film of chromium and nickel is formed. In a vacuum space decompressed to a predetermined degree of vacuum and having a temperature not more than the melting point of indium, these upper and lower frames introduced therein are brought into close contact with each other with a predetermined pressure while sandwiching indium wire members, and accordingly, an envelope having a housing space whose airtightness is sufficiently maintained is obtained. | 12-10-2009 |
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20140110640 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SULFIDE COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR BY USE OF SOLVOTHERMAL METHOD AND ROD-LIKE CRYSTAL OF SULFIDE COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR - The present invention provides a method of producing a sulfide compound semiconductor containing Cu, Zn, Sn and S, in which the method includes a solvothermal step of conducting a solvothermal reaction of Cu, Zn, Sn and S in an organic solvent, and a rod-like crystal of sulfide compound semiconductor containing Cu, Zn, Sn and S. | 04-24-2014 |
20140134087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXHAUST GAS CONTROL OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a NOx purification catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine; a degradation degree estimating unit estimating a degradation degree of the NOx purification catalyst; and an air-fuel ratio control unit adjusting an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the NOx purification catalyst, wherein, until the estimated degradation degree of the NOx purification catalyst reaches a predetermined degradation degree, the air-fuel ratio control unit adjusts the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas to a rich air-fuel ratio, and, when the estimated degradation degree of the NOx purification catalyst exceeds the predetermined degradation degree, the air-fuel ratio control unit changes the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas from the rich air-fuel ratio to a lean air-fuel ratio so that the NOx purification catalyst is regenerated. | 05-15-2014 |
20140141966 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF - Disclosed is an exhaust gas purifying catalyst in which grain growth of a noble metal particle supported on a support is suppressed. Also disclosed is a production process for producing an exhaust gas purifying catalyst. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprises a crystalline metal oxide support and a noble metal particle supported on the support, wherein the noble metal particle is epitaxially grown on the support, and wherein the noble metal particle is dispersed and supported on the outer and inner surfaces of the support. The process for producing an exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprises masking, in a solution, at least a part of the surface of a crystalline metal oxide support by a masking agent, introducing the support into a noble metal-containing solution containing a noble metal, and drying and firing the support and the noble metal-containing solution to support the noble metal on the support. | 05-22-2014 |
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20100077873 | MONITORING DEVICE OF GAS INTRODUCING DEVICE FOR ANALYZER - Gas is supplied from positive pressure (10 | 04-01-2010 |
20110000323 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTRODUCING GAS FOR ANALYSIS DEVICE - Gas is supplied from positive pressure (10 | 01-06-2011 |
20120107188 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF - Disclosed is an exhaust gas purifying catalyst in which grain growth of a noble metal particle supported on a support is suppressed. Also, disclosed is a production process of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, by which the above exhaust gas purifying catalyst can be produced. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprises a crystalline metal oxide support and a noble metal particle supported on the support, wherein the noble metal particle is epitaxially grown on the support, and wherein the noble metal particle is dispersed and supported on the outer and inner surfaces of the support. The process for producing an exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprises masking, in a solution, at least a part of the surface of a crystalline metal oxide support by a masking agent, introducing the support into a noble metal-containing solution containing a noble metal, and drying and firing the support and the noble metal-containing solution to support the noble metal on the support. | 05-03-2012 |
20160074836 | EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST (AS AMENDED) - The object of the present invention is to provide a novel exhaust gas purifying catalyst having excellent NOx purification performance. The object can be achieved by an exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprising: a substrate; and a catalyst layer disposed on the substrate which comprises a first carrier, and platinum and a first palladium supported on the first carrier; in which the weight ratio of the platinum to the first palladium is 3:1 to 8:1. | 03-17-2016 |
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20080289715 | Complex pipe and coating/development processing apparatus equipped with complex pipe - In a complex pipe, a plurality of pipe members containing at least a pipe member for liquid and a pipe member for electricity are fixed in parallel arrangement. One end of the complex pipe is connected to a stationary equipment and the other end is connected to a movable member. The plurality of pipe members are integrally combined by a cover member having flexibility. A liquid supply pipe is inserted with a space in the pipe member for liquid. A fluid for temperature adjustment is supplied to the space between the pipe member for liquid and the liquid supply pipe. | 11-27-2008 |
20110217473 | WET PROCESSING APPARATUS, WET PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A wet processing apparatus for wet-processing substrates can suppress the reduction of throughput when some component part thereof becomes unserviceable. The wet processing apparatus includes a first nozzle unit and a second nozzle unit. When the wet processing apparatus operates in a normal mode, a substrate carrying mechanism is controlled so as to deliver substrates alternately to processing units of a first group and those of a second group so that the substrates are processed sequentially in order. When the processing units of the first group (the second group) are unserviceable due to the inoperativeness of the substrate holders, a processing liquid supply system or a nozzle support mechanism, the nozzle unit for the processing units of the second group (the first group) is moved to process substrates by the serviceable ones of the first group (the second group). | 09-08-2011 |
20110220216 | LIQUID TREATMENT APPARATUS, MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING METHOD OF A CUP BODY, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A liquid treatment apparatus treating a surface of a substrate held generally horizontally on a stage in a housing by supplying a treating liquid to said surface from a supply nozzle. The liquid treatment apparatus includes a cup body provided so as to surround the substrate held in the substrate holding part laterally, the cup body being mounted detachably to a base inside the housing from an upward direction thereof; a cup body holding part holding the cup body detachably; and an elevating mechanism moving the cup body holding part up and down between a first position at which the cup body is mounted upon the base body and a second position located above the first position. | 09-15-2011 |
20130273256 | WET PROCESSING APPARATUS, WET PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A wet processing apparatus for wet-processing substrates can suppress the reduction of throughput when some component part thereof becomes unserviceable. The wet processing apparatus includes a first nozzle unit and a second nozzle unit. When the wet processing apparatus operates in a normal mode, a substrate carrying mechanism is controlled so as to deliver substrates alternately to processing units of a first group and those of a second group so that the substrates are processed sequentially in order. When the processing units of the first group (the second group) are unserviceable due to the inoperativeness of the substrate holders, a processing liquid supply system or a nozzle support mechanism, the nozzle unit for the processing units of the second group (the first group) is moved to process substrates by the serviceable ones of the first group (the second group). | 10-17-2013 |
20140261163 | LIQUID TREATMENT APPARATUS - In one embodiment, a cleaning member has an annular part and an opening positioned radially inside the annular part, and can be moved up and down between a first position and a second position relative to a cleaning nozzle. For cleaning of the back surface of the wafer, the cleaning member is placed at its first position that allows a cleaning liquid to reach the back surface of the substrate through the opening of the cleaning member. For cleaning of the cup structure, the cleaning member placed at its second position higher than the first position is being rotated, and a cleaning liquid discharged from the cleaning nozzle collides with an annular part of the cleaning member and is guided to the inner surface of a cup structure. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100040779 | LIQUID PROCESSING APPARATUS, LIQUID PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is a liquid processing apparatus capable of increasing the number of arranged substrate retainers without increasing the total exhaust amount of the liquid processing apparatus. A N-number (N is an integer identical to or greater than three) of cup bodies are inhaled and exhausted in total exhaust amount E through a plurality of separate exhaustion passage each having a first damper, and through a common exhaustion passage connected in common downstream of the separate exhaustion passages. The first dampers are configured such that an external air is received from the cup body in a first intake amount of external air E | 02-18-2010 |
20100227056 | Solution treatment apparatus, solution treatment method and resist coating method - The invention includes a lower guide unit which obliquely extends downward to an outside from a position closely opposed to a peripheral edge portion of a rear surface of the substrate held on the substrate holding unit, and is formed in an annular shape in a circumferential direction of the substrate; and an upper guide unit which has an upper end surface located at a substantially same height as a front surface of the substrate held on the substrate holding unit, forms a lower annular flow path between the upper guide unit and the lower guide unit for guiding downward together with a gas flow a treatment solution scattering from the substrate, is formed in an annular shape opposed to the lower guide unit to surround an outside lower region of the substrate, and has an inner peripheral surface having a longitudinal-sectional shape curved to bulge outward and extending downward. | 09-09-2010 |
20140154890 | PERIPHERY COATING APPARATUS, PERIPHERY COATING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A periphery coating unit performs a scan-in process of moving a resist liquid nozzle | 06-05-2014 |
20140370199 | LIQUID PROCESSING APPARATUS, LIQUID PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A liquid processing apparatus includes multiple substrate holding units each configured to horizontally hold a substrate and arranged in a left/right direction; a moving unit that is spaced from an arrangement of the substrate holding units in a forward/backward direction and is moved in the left/right direction; a nozzle standby unit, provided between a movement path of the moving unit and the arrangement of the substrate holding units, at which a nozzle that supplies a processing liquid to the substrate held by the substrate holding unit is on standby; and a rotatable arm having one end at which a nozzle holding unit that detachably holds the nozzle and the other end rotatably provided at the moving unit. The nozzle is transferred between the nozzle standby unit and a supply position where the processing liquid is supplied to the substrate together by the moving unit and the rotatable arm. | 12-18-2014 |
20150214046 | PERIPHERY COATING APPARATUS, PERIPHERY COATING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - There is provided a periphery coating method of coating a coating liquid on a periphery region of a substrate. The method includes performing a scan-in process of moving the coating liquid nozzle from an outside of an edge of the substrate to a position above the periphery region of the substrate while rotating the substrate and discharging the coating liquid from the coating liquid nozzle; and performing a scan-out process of moving the coating liquid nozzle from the position above the periphery region of the substrate to the outside of the edge of the substrate while rotating the substrate and discharging the coating liquid from the coating liquid nozzle. Further, in the scan-out process, the coating liquid nozzle is moved at a speed lower than a speed at which the coating liquid is moved to a side of an edge of the substrate. | 07-30-2015 |
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20130010683 | RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A relay apparatus includes a first control section which connects to a first network, a second control section which connects to a second network, the type of which is different from that of the first network, and a relay section which selects a path to be operated as an active system from the first network and the second network and switches paths based on information regarding the first network and information regarding the second network, wherein the second control section converts a transmission unit for transmission in the first network into a transmission unit for transmission in the second network, and transmits the transmission unit to the second network. | 01-10-2013 |
20140314092 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, EDGE DEVICE, EDGE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, EDGE DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, NON-EDGE DEVICE, NON-EDGE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-EDGE DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A communication system includes an Ethernet™ network and a MPLS-TP network connected with each other. A communication device transmits an OAM frame including frame type information showing that a frame type is an OAM frame, MPLS communication device identification information for identifying a communication device configuring the MPLS-TP network, and process content information showing a process content. When the type of a frame from the Ethernet network is an OAM frame, an edge device provides the frame with header information including an OAM identifier including MPLS communication device identification information included by the frame. When a communication device identified based on MPLS communication device identification information included by an OAM identifier of header information of a received frame is the device itself, a communication device executes an OAM process based on a process content shown by process content information. | 10-23-2014 |
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20100161083 | Control system, control apparatus, control method and computer readable medium - With utilizing a function of a selection unit | 06-24-2010 |
20100249953 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF PERFORMING OPERATION CONTROL OF ACTUATORS - In a microcomputer, by virtue of the function of one input signal judgment module in the application layer, with respect to whether the situation is such that operation is to be requested to a controlled object from each of a plurality of applications, judgment processing onto input signals representing status information of controlled objects or detection information from sensors or the like is made common. The object-oriented architecture is introduced into an embedded computer program so that the memory is saved and the apparatus is simplified. | 09-30-2010 |
20100287563 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS AND DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A program of an application layer (upper layer) receives input information supplied from a platform layer (lower layer) and abstracts the information by an input information abstraction part. Based on the abstracted information, determination parts, a prioritized condition determination section and an information processing section make determinations and perform information processing, for example. A processing result obtained by the information processing section is converted into an information format suitable for the platform layer by an output information conversion section, and is outputted therefrom. When a format of information exchanged between the application layer and platform layer, for example, is changed, changes may be made to the input information abstraction part and the output information conversion section of the program of the application layer. | 11-11-2010 |
20110078694 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A system management layer changes a current program with a program (door lock failure diagnosis judgment program, security judgment program, door lock judgment program, keyless entry judgment program or the like) to be executed by an application layer, in accordance with an operation mode of on-vehicle equipment. Priorities of programs are previously stored for each operation mode, and a priority judgment program contributes to judge the priority of operation request based on the operation mode. Thus, plural programs of each hierarchal layer are categorized into groups per operation mode, although complicating in the single hierarchal layer. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the priority judgment processing from complicating for the operation request output by each computer program | 03-31-2011 |
20110098875 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a computer program and a control apparatus that can minimize a modification required for a part corresponding to scheduling of a program in response to a change of the program, even when the program is changed. A system monitoring program obtains operation conditions of each layer, to determine whether an operation mode should be changed or not, and selects an operation mode. A system configuration managing program notifies an operation mode to a configuration managing program of each layer. The configuration managing program determines an execution possibility of each program in accordance with the notified operation mode. A system scheduler performs scheduling of a scheduler included in each layer, in accordance with time passage and an event occurrence. The scheduler of each layer performs scheduling of programs allowed by the configuration managing program to be executed. | 04-28-2011 |
20110107349 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A middleware layer based on a middleware program is provided between a platform layer and an application layer. In the middleware layer, an interface on the application layer side is selectable, and also an interface on the platform layer side is selected. Further, functions in the middleware layer are configured as functional modules so that they are selectable according to a function on the application layer side and a function on the platform layer side. | 05-05-2011 |
20110126218 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Functions of platform layer based on platform program are separated into a resource manager layer that performs logical controls for hardware resources and a resource controller layer that performs physical controls for the hardware resources. The resource manager layer requires identifying a desired data based on an application program, but does not require knowing the actual address of the desired data in a storing unit. The resource controller layer knows the actual address, and physically reads out and replies the data instructed by the resource controller layer. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131590 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A control apparatus, a control method and a computer program are provided that are capable of shortening the developmental process and reducing the developmental load by enabling control that flexibly handles various required specifications and improving the reusability of programs. Functions implemented in an application layer and a platform layer are implemented by constructing a function framework which is an aggregate of components that implement detailed functions related with attributes such as a function or a role. The attribute information may be provided in a plurality of pieces, and when a function framework is constructed, a function framework conforming to various specifications can be constructed according to the selection of the attribute information. | 06-02-2011 |