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A sliding door system has a pair of horizontally opposed vertical surfaces defining therebetween an opening, an upper horizontal surface connecting uppermost ends of the vertical surfaces, a lower horizontal surface connecting lowermost ends of the vertical surfaces, and a door moving horizontally to open and close the opening. The sliding door system also includes a first optical device having a light emitter for emitting light, a second optical device having a light detector for detecting the light, and a light reflector for reflecting the light emitted from the light emitter to the light receiver. The light reflector is positioned in at least one of the horizontally opposed vertical surfaces. The first and second optical devices are positioned in the upper horizontal surface.

Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for maintaining audit records for a database or other resource. According to one embodiment, a method for maintaining audit records for a database can comprise detecting an operation involving at least one record of the database. An audit record can be generated for the operation and the audit record can be stored in an audit table in the database. Insert operations and select operations for the audit table can be supported but other operations for the audit table can be prohibited. Additionally or alternatively, creation of more than one audit table having a same name and schema can be prevented.

An AP allows a CTS generator provided within a control unit to generate a self-destined, e.g., IEEE802.11b standard-based CTS signal containing a duration time corresponding to each standard. Then, the AP notifies to each STA operated based on the 11b standard in a basic service set, that it is being ready for transmission due to the transmission of the CTS signal, thereby to prohibit the operation of the corresponding STA. Further, the AP transmits a beacon based on an IEEE802.11g standard to thereby set a condition based on this standard and is caused to perform transmission / reception to and from the corresponding STA alone over the duration time indicated by the 11b standard. In a reverse case, the AP transmits a CTS signal containing a self-destined duration time under the IEEE802.11g standard to prohibit the operation of the corresponding STA based on the 11g standard. Further, the AP transmits a beacon based on the 11b standard to thereby set a condition based on this standard and is caused to perform transmission / reception to and from the corresponding station alone over the duration time indicated by the 11g standard.

Disclosed is a disk array system which includes a plurality of disks constituting a disk array and a backup storage for backing up data in the disk array and performs control so that when a failed disk among the disks constituting the disk array is replaced with the replacement disk, restoration of data in the replacement disk is performed using the backup device.

In a refrigerant cycle for a vehicle air conditioner, a compressor is operated by a power from a vehicle engine, a load detecting unit is disposed to detect load of the engine, an electromagnetic clutch is turned off so that a consumed power consumed in the compressor is reduced to zero when the load detected by the load detecting unit is equal to or larger than a first threshold value. In the refrigerant cycle, the first threshold value is set to be changed along a power-cutting curved line in such a manner that an increase rate of the first threshold value relative to the vehicle speed becomes larger as the vehicle speed becomes larger.

A switching frequency setting unit sets switching frequency of a switching element, based on both the temperature of a cooling medium which cools a DC-DC converter and the temperature of a switching element of the DC-DC converter. A switching controller controls the voltage conversion ratio of the DC-DC converter by controlling switching operation of the switching element at the set switching frequency.

An anti-vibration support system for an engine, comprising an active anti-vibration supporting device including an elastic member adapted to receive a vibration of the engine; a liquid chamber, wherein at least a portion of a wall surface of said liquid chamber is defined by said elastic member; a movable member adapted to change a volume of said liquid chamber; and an actuator that uses an electromagnetic force to drive said movable member, wherein the vibration of the engine is prevented from being transmitted to a vehicle body frame by controlling a supply of electric current to said actuator, and wherein operation of said active anti-vibration supporting device is prohibited when an abnormality in an operational state of the engine is detected.

A seat belt apparatus has a seat belt, a retracting device for the seat belt, a clash predicting means for outputting a clash predicting signal, a control unit for operating the retracting device when it receives the clash predicting signal, and a switching means for prohibiting the operation of the retracting device when the switching means is manually operated to an OFF state. As a result, unpleasant feeling to a vehicle occupant can be reduced.

A printing apparatus with a plug-and-play execution unit includes a plug-and-play control unit and a permission receiving unit. The plug-and-play execution unit can perform predetermined communication processing with an external control apparatus, and the predetermined communication processing is triggered by a connection with the control apparatus when the connection is established via a predetermined communication path. The plug-and-play control unit is configured to prohibit the plug-and-play execution unit from operating in a case where an instruction for activating the printing apparatus according to a specific operation mode is received from an outside source, so that the plug-and-play execution unit is prevented from performing the communication processing. The permission receiving unit is configured to receive permission for execution of plug and play. In a case where the permission for execution is received, the plug-and-play control unit cancels the prohibition of operation of the plug-and-play execution unit.

Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for maintaining audit records for a database or other resource. According to one embodiment, a method for maintaining audit records for a database can comprise detecting an operation involving at least one record of the database. An audit record can be generated for the operation and the audit record can be stored in an audit table in the database. Insert operations and select operations for the audit table can be supported but other operations for the audit table can be prohibited. Additionally or alternatively, creation of more than one audit table having a same name and schema can be prevented.

The optical disc apparatus according to the present invention includes a tilt detecting means; a coma aberration correcting means; and a spherical aberration correcting means. Based on the result of a tilt detection, the amount of the correction performed by the coma aberration correcting means is determined so that the amount of correction is constant for the whole circumference of an optical disc, and then a spherical aberration is corrected by the spherical aberration correcting means. Thus, it is possible to correct the spherical aberration that has occurred due to the coma aberration correcting means, while the tilt margin is secured, thereby improving the reliability of reproduction and recording by the optical disc apparatus. Further, the optical disc apparatus according to the present invention is configured, in the case where a thermal shock tilt has occurred during the activation of the apparatus, to wait until the thermal shock tilt has settled. Thus, it is possible to perform the activation while the influence of the thermal shock tilt is avoided, thereby improving the reliability of the recording and reproduction operations by the optical disc apparatus.

In an optical disk, while restricting a program area which has been defined as to the normal disk and on which a user can record arbitrary information, a remaining area located outside this restricted program area is previously secured as an advertisement area where an advertisement-purpose visible image is formed. In the case that an advertisement-purpose recordable optical disk is loaded on an optical disk recording apparatus, the optical disk recording apparatus accesses via a pubic line network to an advertisement information distributing apparatus so as to acquire advertisement image information. Next, the optical disk recording apparatus irradiates an optical beam to the advertisement area in response to the acquired advertisement image information so as to reproduce the advertisement image.

A system for inhibiting and providing access to appliance control knobs includes a support structure for mounting individual control knobs or groups thereof, and an actuator assembly for extending and retracting control knobs either individually or collectively.

Provided is a power factor correction circuit capable of reducing ringing sound of a transformer produced when an overshoot protection is effected. An output voltage control circuit performs constant voltage-control such that capacitor charge voltage of an output capacitor corresponds to a first voltage value, and when the capacitor charge voltage of the output capacitor reaches a second voltage value higher than the first voltage value, an overvoltage detecting unit detects the second voltage value. Further, a current limiting unit detects a value of a switching current through a switching element, and determines a limiting value of the level of the switching current. Then, the switching current is limited to the limiting value, and when an overvoltage detecting unit detects the second voltage value, a limiting value changing unit causes the current limiting unit to change the limiting value to decrease the value of the switching current.

A vehicular control device includes: a transmitter section that transmits a request signal to an electronic key according to an input operation; a receiver section that receives a response signal from the electronic key; a verification section that performs verification of the electronic key on the basis of the response signal; a determination section that determines that an abnormal state occurs, when the receiver section cannot receive the response signal until a first time or when the receiver section receives the response signal until the first time and the verification section fails in verification based on the response signal, after the transmitter section has transmitted the request signal; and a control section that prohibits, when the determination section determines that an abnormal state occurs, a vehicle operation until a second time passes after the determination, and allows the vehicle operation after the second time has passed.

In a semiconductor memory device having a plurality of memory cells grouped in memory banks, each memory bank having a plurality of memory blocks accessible by a common row address, a method of reading from or writing to the plurality of memory blocks, comprising the steps of detecting successive read or write operations of different blocks, prefetching the address of the next block to be read or written during the first of the successive read or write operations; and withholding a precharge of the memory bank having the successively read or written memory blocks after the first of the successive read or write operations until completion of the successive read or write operations. A semiconductor memory device is also provided having a circuit for inhibiting the activation of the precharge signal at the end of a first memory access operation when successive memory access operations are to be performed with the first memory access operation at a first row address and a first memory block and the next memory access operation at the same first row address and a second memory block having a block address different from the first memory block.

In a refrigerant cycle for a vehicle air conditioner, a compressor is operated by a power from a vehicle engine, a load detecting unit is disposed to detect load of the engine, an electromagnetic clutch is turned off so that a consumed power consumed in the compressor is reduced to zero when the load detected by the load detecting unit is equal to or larger than a first threshold value. In the refrigerant cycle, the first threshold value is set to be changed along a power-cutting curved line in such a manner that an increase rate of the first threshold value relative to the vehicle speed becomes larger as the vehicle speed becomes larger.

A printing system comprises a processing unit provided in a printing portion B for performing print processing by transmitting image data acquired by a receiving terminal A to the printing portion B. The necessary present processing can be performed by logging on to the present system by inputting authentication information from a keyboard 12 and mouse 13 provided as an input terminal in the receiving terminal A to the processing unit 25 of the printing portion B. The print processing can be executed also when an operator is not logged in to the present system.