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20090000943 | MAGNETRON SPUTTERING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR STRUCTURE OF THIN FILM - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a magnetron sputtering apparatus sputtering a target by a plasma includes a plurality of magnets that are arranged in the vicinity of a position where the target is disposed. The plurality of magnets form a magnetic field for confining the plasma; and a rotating mechanism rotates the plurality of magnets around a rotation center. | 01-01-2009 |
20090207532 | MAGNETO RESISTANCE EFFECT DEVICE, HEAD SLIDER, MAGNETIC INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS, AND MAGNETO RESISTANCE EFFECT MEMORY - A magneto resistance effect device includes a fixed magnetization portion including a ferromagnetic material, in which the magnetization direction can be fixed, and a tunnel barrier layer including high band gap metal oxide and low band gap metal oxide, and arranged on the fixed magnetization portion. The device includes a free magnetization portion including a ferromagnetic material, arranged on the tunnel barrier layer, in which the magnetization can be changed. | 08-20-2009 |
20090218218 | MAGNET UNIT FOR MAGNETRON SPUTTERING SYSTEM - A magnet unit for a magnetron sputtering system includes a base plate and a plurality of magnet parts each including a first magnet and a first supporting member. The first supporting member supports the first magnet and fixes the first magnet to the base plate. The magnet parts confine a plasma. | 09-03-2009 |
20090219123 | MAGNET UNIT FOR MAGNETRON SPUTTERING SYSTEM - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a magnet unit for a magnetron sputtering system includes a base board, an inner magnet fixed to the base board and an outer magnet fixed to the base board. The outer magnet is fixed surround the inner magnet. At least one of a portion of the inner magnet or a portion of the outer magnet is displaceable on the base board. | 09-03-2009 |
20120213247 | TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT METHOD - A temperature measurement system including a measurement plate placed on a measurement plane specified on at least one of an intake opening and an exhaust opening of a rack storing an information processing apparatus or at a position being away from the measurement plane by a predetermined distance; and an infrared camera configured to capture an image of the measurement plate, where the infrared camera is placed at a position with which the measurement plane is not captured and the measurement plate is captured by the infrared camera. | 08-23-2012 |
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20100296945 | FAN CONTROL APPARATUS AND FAN CONTROL METHOD - A fan controlling apparatus for controlling a plurality of fans which are tandemly arranged in ventilation direction of a chamber to control a temperature of a hot generating object placed in the chamber, the apparatus includes a memory for storing data of the rotational speed each of fans in relation to the temperature of the heat generating object, and a controller for controlling the rotational speed of each of the fans respectively in dependence on the temperature of the heat generating object in reference to the data stored in the memory. | 11-25-2010 |
20110079462 | MUFFLING DEVICE - A muffling device has a muffling piece that is placed in an airflow path and muffles sound caused by airflow, and a drive unit that performs one of rotation and movement of the muffling piece. | 04-07-2011 |
20120063606 | SOUND PRESSURE PREDICTION APPARATUS, SOUND PRESSURE PREDICTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A sound pressure level prediction apparatus includes a storage unit for storing measured sound pressure levels. The sound pressure level prediction apparatus also includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire sound pressure levels measured at a plurality of locations for a first fan and at least one sound pressure level for a second fan, and the at least one sound pressure level being measured at the same location as at least one of the plurality of locations used for measuring the sound pressure levels for the first fan. The sound pressure level prediction apparatus further includes a prediction unit configured to predict, based on the acquired sound pressure levels of the first fan and the at least one sound pressure level for the second fan, a sound pressure level for the second fan at a location where the sound pressure level for the second fan has not yet been measured. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066170 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, SOUND-VOLUME PREDICTION APPARATUS, AND SOUND-VOLUME PREDICTION METHOD - A sound-volume prediction apparatus acquires model information on an electronic device and positional information on an air intake section and/or an air-exhaust section of the electronic device. Furthermore, by using the model information and the positional information, the sound-volume prediction apparatus extends a sound ray that indicates a transmission route of sound generated by a sound source inside the electronic device toward the air-intake section and/or the air-exhaust section from the position of the sound source until the sound ray reaches the outside of the electronic device. The sound-volume prediction apparatus predicts sound transmission characteristics inside the electronic device by using geometric information on the flow path of the extended sound ray. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072132 | STORAGE MEDIUM, PREDICTING APPARATUS, AND PREDICTING METHOD - A predicting apparatus includes an obtaining unit and a predicting unit. The obtaining unit included in the predicting apparatus obtains actual measurements of data about a fan being rotated at a predetermined revolution frequency N [rpm]. The predicting apparatus then predicts data about the fan to be rotated at a revolution frequency N′ that is different from the predetermined revolution frequency N based on the actual measurements of the data thus obtained. | 03-22-2012 |
20130131886 | BLOWER CONTROL DEVICE, BLOWER CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A blower control device changes a PQ characteristic in a second table so that an operating point (Q | 05-23-2013 |
20130151213 | DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE - A design support method includes: executing by a computer operations of: moving, in an arbitrary direction, a first particle that is placed at a position in an internal space of a three-dimensional model of a design target and has a diameter of a size; recording a movement trace of the first particle; and calculating a volume of a first spatial region formed by the recorded movement trace. | 06-13-2013 |
20130197871 | PREDICTED VALUE CALCULATION METHOD AND DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS - A design support apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts component models having a connection relationship with a position specified inside a predetermined component model, from a plurality of component models that are hollow and are included in the three-dimensional model of a device to be designed, depending on whether each of the plurality of component models satisfies predetermined conditions on cross-sectional areas of the component models, and a calculation unit that calculates a predicted value of the acoustic characteristics of the component models extracted by the extraction unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130325412 | DETERMINING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND METHOD - There is provided a determining apparatus which includes a first extractor configured to extract space inside an electronic device from a model indicating the electronic device, the electronic device including a plurality of audio output apparatus and a plurality of ribs, a second extractor configured to extract the plurality of ribs from the model, a divider configured to divide the space into a plurality of chambers, the plurality of chambers being partitioned by the plurality of ribs, and a determining unit configured to determine respective rear chambers to each of the plurality of audio output apparatus so that the rear chambers satisfies a certain parameter, the rear chambers being formed by combination of one or more chambers determined by the determining unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20140288889 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, ANALYSIS MODEL GENERATING METHOD, AND ANALYSIS MODEL GENERATING APPARATUS - An analysis model generating apparatus includes a processor that is configured to generate based on three-dimensional design information of an object under analysis, first information that represents a rectangular parallelepiped surrounding the object; generate for each direction of three orthogonal sides of the rectangular parallelepiped indicated by the first information, second information that indicates cross sections of the rectangular parallelepiped orthogonal to the direction; calculate based on the design information and for each of the cross sections indicated by the second information, an index value corresponding to a proportion of the object in a cross section; detect among the cross sections, adjacent cross sections having a difference in the calculated index value greater than a predetermined value; and generate for each of the detected adjacent cross sections, a plate model representative of a plate that is disposed orthogonal to the direction at a position corresponding to the adjacent cross section. | 09-25-2014 |
20140324380 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COOLING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD - A calculating unit calculates, using information indicating temperatures of a fluid mixture at individual locations across a space, heat quantities transferred to the fluid mixture at the individual locations. The fluid mixture is a blend of a plurality of fluids allowed to flow in by a plurality of cooling apparatuses. The calculating unit calculates heat quantities transferred to each of the fluids at the individual locations based on the heat quantities transferred to the fluid mixture at the individual locations, a velocity distribution of the fluid mixture, and flow rate distributions of the individual fluids. The calculating unit evaluates, using the heat quantities transferred to each of the fluids at the individual locations, the degree of contribution of each of the cooling apparatuses to cooling of an object disposed in the space. | 10-30-2014 |
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20090158080 | STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA BACKUP METHOD - A storage device includes: a storage unit for storing data; a memory for storing management information; a local storage unit for storing differential data; a controller for controlling the storage device in accordance with a process comprising the steps of: updating data; updating management information; transmitting differential data to the another storage device, the differential data being the updated portions of the data which have been updated after preceding backing up of data until current backing up of data; resetting the management information after transmitting the differential data; storing, when the storage device fails transmission of the differential data to the another storage device, the differential data and the associated management information in the local storage unit; and transmitting the differential data to the another storage device at a later time after resetting of the management information. | 06-18-2009 |
20100138622 | BACKUP APPARATUS, BACKUP METHOD AND BACKUP PROGRAM - A backup apparatus has an address conversion table for storing, in correspondence with each other, a logical address and a physical address. The backup apparatus has a sequential data count setting unit, a sequential data information acquisition unit, and a reading unit. The sequential data count setting unit sets sequential data count information indicating the number of data blocks in a sequence in the physical address in the address conversion table. The sequential data information acquisition unit, upon receiving a read request, reads the data block in the address conversion table corresponding to the leading logical address among the logical addresses requested to be read and acquires the sequential data count information set in the address conversion table. The reading unit reads a physical volume corresponding to physical addresses in a sequence in accordance with the sequential data count information acquired by the sequential data information acquisition unit. | 06-03-2010 |
20100332780 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTROL APPARATUS - A storage system has a storage pool for at least one of a logical volume having a plurality of slices, a memory for storing a slice table indicating whether each slices of the logical volume is assigned from the storage pool or not, and a controller for receiving a release command for releasing one of the slices, sending out a response indicating the releasing of one of the slices corresponding to the release command has completed regardless of an execution of processing corresponding to the release command, duplicating a copy target area included in the one of the slices corresponding to the release command into a copy target volume included in the storage pool, and releasing the one of the slices upon completely duplicating the copy target area into the copy target volume. | 12-30-2010 |
20120016842 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE APPARATUS - In a data processing apparatus, a snapshotting unit creates a second snapshot in a first storage space while a first snapshot of the first storage space exists in a second storage space. A storage unit stores first progress data indicating progress of physical copy to the first storage space for a current second snapshot, and second progress data indicating progress of physical copy to the first storage space for a preceding second snapshot. | 01-19-2012 |
20130246724 | BACKUP DEVICE, METHOD OF BACKUP, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN PROGRAM FOR BACKUP - A backup device that generates a backup volume of an object volume, the backup device includes: a first storage device that stores data of the backup volume; and a processor that generates, upon receipt of an instruction of generating the backup volume, the backup volume by copying data of the object volume into a first region of the first storage device, moves the data of the backup volume, the data being stored in the first region of the first storage device, to a second region of the first storage device, the second region being subordinate to the first region, and releases, upon receipt of an instruction of generating the backup volume under a state where the data of the backup volume is stored in the second region, the data of the backup volume from the second region. | 09-19-2013 |
20140380005 | STORAGE CONTROLLER, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN CONTROL PROGRAM - A storage controller performing a copy process in which data stored in a copy source storage area is copied to a copy destination storage area, the storage controller includes a processor, wherein the processor receives a transfer command for giving an instruction for transferring data stored in a first area of the copy source storage area to a second area of the copy source storage area, starts a transfer process in which transfer data from the first area is read and is written into the second area in accordance with reception of the transfer command, and starts copying the transfer data into a corresponding area of the copy destination storage area that corresponds to the second area in the copy process together with the starting of the transfer process. | 12-25-2014 |
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20090168261 | HEAD SLIDER AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE - A magnetoresistive element is located between a lower shielding layer and an upper shielding layer. The magnetoresistive element receives an electric current through the lower shielding layer and the upper shielding layer. A non-magnetic conductive layer is embedded in the insulating film between the slider body and the lower shielding layer. An air layer is formed between the head slider and a storage medium. Capacitive coupling is established between the head slider and the storage medium. The capacitive coupling allows transmission of the noise from the storage medium to the slider body. The noise affects capacitance established between the lower shielding layer and the slider body. The non-magnetic conductive layer serves to prevent variation in a potential difference resulting from transmission of the noise between the lower shielding layer and the upper shielding layer. | 07-02-2009 |
20110313733 | Contact defining device, contact defining method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium - A contact defining device includes: a component moving unit that moves a component represented by data of a surface region in a 3D model in a predetermined direction; an overlap determination unit that determines whether or not the surface region of the component moved by the component moving unit includes an overlapping area that overlaps the surface region of another component; and a contact defining unit that, when a determination is made by the overlap determination unit that the surface region of the component includes the overlapping area that overlaps the surface region of another component, defines the overlapping area as a contact area with the another component. | 12-22-2011 |
20120239359 | MESH NUMBER PREDICTION METHOD, ANALYZING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A mesh number prediction method obtains a mesh length for a case in which a mesh having an arbitrary shape is created by approximating an entire analyzing target by a three-dimensional (3D) mesh model based on data of a 3D surface model of the analyzing target, obtains a mesh number of each part forming the analyzing target for a case in which a mesh having an arbitrary shape is created by approximating each part by a 3D mesh model based on the mesh length, and obtains a predicted total mesh number of the entire analyzing target from a ratio of volumes of the entire analyzing target and each part based on the mesh number. | 09-20-2012 |
20140142899 | SETTING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A disclosed setting method includes: in response to an instruction to replace a first component with a second component, determining whether or not data that correlates a surface of the first component with a surface of a third component has been set; upon determining that the data that correlates the surface of the first component with the surface of the third component has been set, extracting a surface of the second component, which corresponds to the surface of the first component; and correlating the extracted surface of the second component with the surface of the third component instead of the surface of the first component in the data. | 05-22-2014 |