Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080208535 | DISC ARRAY DEVICE - The present invention aims to provide a disc array device capable of efficiently managing the replacement time of a battery backup unit of the disc array device. Installed environment information and operation state information of a battery backup unit of a disc array device are acquired in the disc array device. If the installed environment is determined as not appropriate from such information, the inappropriateness of the installed environment is notified to the user. If the operation state is not appropriate, the inappropriateness of the operation state is notified to the user. Furthermore, the lifetime of the battery backup unit is predicted and the replacement period is notified to the user. | 08-28-2008 |
20090210867 | DISK ARRAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR EXCHANGING FIRMWARE, PROGRAM FOR EXCHANGING FIRMWARE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - Disclosed is a disk array apparatus which includes disk apparatuses and which reads and writes data of the disk apparatus based on an I/O instruction issued by a host computer, includes: a CPU which carries out a first firmware; a memory which stores the first firmware in a first storage area of physical address space; and a TLB which belongs to the CPU and makes the first storage area of the physical address space of the memory associated with a first logical area of logical address space, wherein in case that the CPU receives a second firmware and an instruction to exchange firmware, the CPU stores the second firmware in a second storage area of the physical address space of the memory, and updates the TLB to make the second storage area associated with the first logical area. A method and program for exchanging firmware are also disclosed. | 08-20-2009 |
20100169688 | DISK ARRAY UNIT, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING POWER SOURCE IN DISK ARRAY UNIT - Intended is improvement in reliability of a disk array unit formed of a plurality of nodes at the time of start-up and stop. The disk array unit formed of a plurality of nodes, which includes a control unit which executes power source control of other node based on power source control information set at one of the nodes by inter-node communication executed through a common signal line which connects each node. | 07-01-2010 |
20110066884 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE, A STORAGE SYSTEM, A CONTROL METHOD OF THE POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE, A CONTROL METHOD OF A DISK ARRAY UNIT AND A COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A power supply control device including: a control unit which controls power supplied from a first device to a disk array unit accessible from host devices through a network device; and a second device which supplies power to the disk array unit and the power supply control device when the power supply from the first device is disconnected, the control unit including: a collecting unit which collects power supply fault information regarding at least one of the host devices and the network device; a starting unit which starts power supply from the second device when power supplied from the first device is disconnected; and a transmitting unit which transmits a notification to the disk array unit in response to collection of power supply fault information after starting the power supply from the second device, the notification indicating that the power supplied from the first device is disconnected. | 03-17-2011 |
20110206469 | LOCK HOPPER - The present invention relates to | 08-25-2011 |
20110315016 | DRY EXHAUST-GAS TREATING APPARATUS - An exhaust-gas treating apparatus, which includes an adsorption tower for removing various harmful substances in an exhaust gas using an adsorbent, a regeneration tower for releasing adsorbed substances from the adsorbent, a first transfer passage for transferring the adsorbent from the adsorption tower to the regeneration tower, a second transfer passage for transferring the adsorbent from the regeneration tower to the adsorption tower, a lock hopper connected to one end of the regeneration tower on a higher differential pressure side of a first differential pressure between an inside of the regeneration tower and an inside of the first transfer passage and a second differential pressure between the inside of the regeneration tower and an inside of the second transfer passage to thereby secure gas-tightness, a sealing unit connected to the other end of the regeneration tower on a lower differential pressure side to thereby secure gas-tightness, and an adjusting unit for maintaining the differential pressure in the sealing unit within a fixed range. | 12-29-2011 |
20110315017 | REGENERATION TOWER AND DRY APPARATUS FOR EXHAUST-GAS TREATMENT - A regeneration tower including a regeneration tower main body having a long trunk, and desorbed gas discharge passages through which a desorbed gas is discharged. The regeneration tower main body is configured so that a heating unit that heats an adsorbent, a separation part that separates desorbable substances as a desorbed gas from the heated adsorbent, and a cooling unit that cools the adsorbent from which the desorbable substances have been desorbed by heating are communicatively disposed in one direction and the heating unit and the cooling unit have approximately the same sectional outer diameter. | 12-29-2011 |
20120058017 | ADSORPTION TOWER OF DRY EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT DEVICE - An exhaust gas dry treatment device comprises an adsorption tower having: a box-shaped tower body; a plurality of reaction chambers have moving beds therein; a plurality of vertical partition plates which sequentially close between the end parts of the plurality of reaction chambers and between the end parts of the reaction chambers and the inner wall of the tower; an exhaust gas supply port allowing the inside of an inlet side wind box space which is formed in the tower body between the front tower wall and the reaction chamber end part to communicate with the inside of an exhaust gas supply duct; and an exhaust gas discharge port allowing the inside of an outlet side wind box space which is formed in the tower body between the rear tower wall and the reaction chamber end part to communicate with the inside of an exhaust gas discharge duct. | 03-08-2012 |
20120061206 | EQUIPTMENT FOR DISCHARGING A FIXED AMOUNT OF A PARTICULATE BODY - Fixed amount discharging equipment for simultaneously discharging a particulate body from a plurality of containers containing the particulate body, comprising a casing to the interior of which is provided a belt conveyor and having a particulate body discharge hole below the carrying direction end of the belt conveyor, and a plurality of supply arranged in the carrying direction of the belt conveyor and passing through the casing, lower ends thereof penetrating into the casing and being arranged above the belt of the belt conveyor, the lower ends of the supply pipes being such that the downstream sides thereof in the belt carrying direction have notches of a predetermined length from the end faces upward. | 03-15-2012 |
20120084508 | DISK ARRAY APPARATUS AND FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD THEREFOR - This invention proposes a disk array apparatus capable of improving its reliability. This disk array apparatus includes a first controller, and a second controller configured redundantly with the first controller, wherein the first controller and the second controller respectively include a storage area for storing firmware and are both in an operating state. When update processing of an update portion as a portion to be updated in the firmware of the first controller is unsuccessful, the first controller confirms whether update processing of an update portion of the firmware of the second controller is also unsuccessful, and, in a case where the update processing of the update portion of the firmware of the second controller has ended normally, rewrites firmware data of the update portion of the first controller with the firmware data of the update portion of the second controller. | 04-05-2012 |
20130281465 | PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE - A compound represented by formula (IA) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is useful for the treatment or prevention of diseases such sleep disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, schizophrenia, drug dependence, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, eating disorder, pain, gastrointestinal diseases, epilepsy, inflammation, immune-related diseases, endocrine-related diseases, and hypertension, and of which the action relies on an orexin (OX) receptor antagonistic activity. | 10-24-2013 |
20140194353 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF NERVOUS DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH DIABETES - Compositions and methods for treating neural dysfunction. A exemplary method comprises administering to a subject having a neuropathy, e.g., a cognitive dysfunction or Alzheimer's, a therapeutically effective amount of an insulin or insulin analog, wherein the insulin or insulin analog crosses the BBB and/or a compound that increases SREBP-2 expression or activity in the CNS of the subject. | 07-10-2014 |
20140286715 | LOCK HOPPER - The present invention relates to | 09-25-2014 |