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Method, apparatus and program storage device that provides a distributed file serving architecture with metadata storage virtualization and data access at the data server connection speed is provided. A host issues a file access request including data target locations. The file access request including data target locations is processed. Remote direct memory access (RDMA) channel endpoint connection are issued in response to the processing of the file access request. An RDMA transfer of the file-block data associated with the file access request is made directly between a memory at the host and a data server.

The present invention relates to a respiratory gas consumption monitoring method and monitoring device that is portable and has high measurement accuracy, for enabling the analysis and prediction of the respiratory behavior of subjects employing a variety of different types of breathing apparatuses in water, etc. Respiratory gas consumption monitoring device (20), for monitoring the respiratory gas consumption of the user of a breathing apparatus (1) in which a respiratory gas (G) inside a high pressure gas container (2) is reduced in pressure at pressure regulator (4) and supplied to a breathing mask (10), is provided with:a primary pressure sensor (21) for detecting the pressure prior to pressure reduction at pressure regulator (4);a temperature sensor (22) for correction;an environmental pressure sensor (23) for detecting the environmental pressure;an amplifier (24) for amplifying the signals from the aforementioned sensors;an A / D converter (25) for performing analog / digital conversion of the amplified signal;a data logger (26) for recording and storing the analog / digital converted signals; anda display (27) for display.In addition, as needed, a computer (X) for calculating, analyzing, and predicting data may be housed in housing (28), and connected to breathing apparatus (1) by connecting primary pressure sensor (21) to a high pressure opening (8) of pressure regulator (4) using a high pressure hose (29).

As a key sheet for fixing a base sheet and key tops to be arranged on the base sheet using adhesive layers, a key sheet where the key tops and the base sheet are fixed, is obtained by forming printed adhesive layers of the key tops on facing surfaces of at least either of the key tops or the base sheet by means of printing, and then bringing the printed adhesive layer into contact with the other facing surfaces in a softened or molten state, and by curing the printed adhesive layer.

A redundant memory cell column region provided corresponding to respective regular memory cell column regions can have data read and written through a sub I / O line pair and a main I / O line pair independent to those of the regular memory cell column region. Also, one redundant memory cell column region can be connected to a corresponding global I / O line pair G-I / O of any of the regular memory cell column regions via a multiplexer to be replaceable of any of two regular memory cell column regions.

An improved light-emitting display having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large trigger voltage is supplied across the micro-component by up to two triggering electrodes and ionization can be maintain by a sustain voltage supplied by up to two sustain electrodes. The display is further divided into a plurality of panels that can be individually addressed in parallel, preferably directly through the back of the panels and can include voltage multiplying circuitry to decrease the power demands for addressing circuitry. Alternative methods of addressing the micro-components include the use of directed light and arrangements of electrodes to address multiple micro-components with a single electrode.

The present invention is directed to a fuel supply with an environmentally sensitive valve. The environmentally sensitive valve is sensitive to the environmental factor(s) such as temperature, pressure or velocity. The valve may be configured so that the valve automatically resets when the environmental triggering event no longer exists.

The front wheels of the vehicle having an adjustable wheel base are joined to the front portion of a main frame, on which a vehicle seat is mounted. The upper ends of a pair of rotating arms are rotatably joined to the main frame. The lower ends of the rotating arms are rotatably joined to the rear wheels. The upper arms and the lower arm are provided rotatably connected together such that the main frame and the rear wheels are joined at the back of the rotating arms. The operating portion of the operating apparatus, on which the main frame is installed, is joined via the operating links to the rotating arms. By operating the operating apparatus, the rotating arms are rotated by the operating links and the rear wheels are moved with respect to the front wheels. Simultaneously, the inclination of the main frame is changed.

A device for the feeding of poultry including a bowl device comprising a feed bowl, a cupola suspending the feed bowl, and a downpipe. The feed bowl is located beneath the downpipe and the cupola is formed from grid bars. The downpipe comprises an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder encompassing the inner cylinder. The outer cylinder is guided in a rotatable, a raisable and a lowerable manner on the inner cylinder. The bowl device includes at least one lifting stop for delimiting a lifting and lowering path of the bowl. The outer cylinder and the inner cylinder is comprised in each case of adjacent cylinder sections co-axial to each other, whereby face peripheral areas of the cylinder sections turned towards each other are connected to one another by bridging elements which bridge a gap area which corresponds to an interval distance between the cylinder sections.

The present invention provides a starting clutch disposed between a transmission and an engine and having a wet type multi-plate clutch for transmitting a power, in which the wet type multi-plate clutch includes a plurality of friction plates housed for an axial sliding movement, a clutch drum for housing the friction plates, and a piston for urging a radial central region or therearound of the friction plate to engage the friction plates, and oil which has lubricated the wet type multi-plate clutch is temporarily trapped within the clutch drum and then is discharged.

An inductive power transfer system including a synchronous drive system having a resonance control module. The resonance control module includes a primary coil module with a primary LC circuit. The resonance control module seeks and detects the resonant frequency of the primary LC circuit. The synchronous drive system further includes a switching coil amplifier for selectively energizing the primary coil to keep the primary LC circuit operating at or as close as possible to its natural resonant frequency. The inductive power transfer system may further include a secondary receiving unit. The secondary receiving unit includes a secondary LC circuit coupled with the primary LC circuit for inductively receiving power. The secondary LC circuit includes an LC filter and a rectifier unit for operating the secondary LC circuit at a mutual resonance with the primary LC circuit.

An object is to provide a semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be retained even when power is not supplied, and does not have a limitation on the number of times of writing operations. A semiconductor device includes a source-bit line, a first signal line, a second signal line, a word line, and a memory cell connected between the source-bit lines. The memory cell includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. The second transistor is formed including an oxide semiconductor material. A gate electrode of the first transistor, one of a source and drain electrodes, and one of electrodes of the capacitor are electrically connected to one another. The source-bit line and a source electrode of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other. Another source-bit line adjacent to the above source-bit line and a drain electrode of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other.

A device for feeding poultry kept in a barn, comprises at least one food supply tube (1) which is held above the floor of the barn such as to be able to be lowered or raised, with a series of branch openings, each provided with a dish device (2) hanging on the supply tube, comprising a dropping tube extending from the branch opening and a feeding dish (4) arranged below, the dropping tube with a spoked arrangement of lattice bars (5) forming the cup of the dish. The dropping tube comprises an inner cylinder (7) leading off from the branch opening and an outer cylinder (8) surrounding the inner cylinder, from which the dish hangs by means of the lattice bars, such as to be placed on the floor of the barn in the lowered state of the food supply tube. The outer cylinder runs on the inner cylinder such as to rotate, be raised or lowered and at least one stop is provided for limiting the raising and lowering stoke. The outer and the inner cylinder each comprise adjacent cylindrical sections (8′, 8, 7′, 7) coaxial to each other, whereby front face regions of the cylinder sections turned to face other are connected to each other by means of bridging bodies (9, 23), which bridge a gap region corresponding to the separation between the cylinder sections.

A maintenance device installed in a liquid-ejecting apparatus including a movable carriage that has a liquid ejection head performs maintenance of the liquid ejection head and includes at least one maintenance component that reciprocates between an operating position at which the maintenance component engages with the carriage or the liquid ejection head and a standby position at which the maintenance component is disengaged from the carriage and the liquid ejection head; a power transmission mechanism that transmits power input from a rotational drive source to output power for reciprocating the maintenance component between the operating position and the standby position, the power transmission mechanism having a clutch unit on a power transmission path of the power transmission mechanism; and a retaining mechanism including a stopper that moves in association with the movement of the carriage such that the stopper engages with at least one movable body provided on the power transmission path between the maintenance component and clutch surfaces of the clutch unit when the carriage is separated from a cleaning position, and such that the stopper is disengaged from the movable body when the carriage is at the cleaning position.

[Object] It is an object to provide a mount structure of a touch panel with a vibration function which is superior in impact resistance, dust-proofness, and drip-proofness, and can effectively transmit a vibration of a vibration element.[Solution to Problem] The mount structure of the touch panel with the vibration function is characterized by including a touch panel body, a design sheet bonded to an upper surface of the touch panel body and having a transparent window part and a decorative part surrounding the transparent window part, a vibration element formed in a back surface peripheral part of the touch panel body and hidden by the decorative part, a casing dented so as to have a level difference to allow the above parts to be externally fitted in and having a recess part or an opening part for a display device, and a frame-shaped support part to support the back surface peripheral part of the touch panel body, in its bottom surface, an elastic member frame arranged on the support part and positioned on an outer edge side of the touch panel with respect to the vibrator, and a vibration control unit arranged inside the casing to apply a drive voltage to the vibration element.

A data processing apparatus and method of data processing are disclosed. An instruction execution unit executes a sequence of program instructions, wherein execution of at least some of the program instructions initiates memory access requests to retrieve data values from a memory. A prefetch unit prefetches data values from the memory for storage in a cache unit before they are requested by the instruction execution unit. The prefetch unit is configured to perform a miss response comprising increasing a number of the future data values which it prefetches, when a memory access request specifies a pending data value which is already subject to prefetching but is not yet stored in the cache unit. The prefetch unit is also configured, in response to an inhibition condition being met, to temporarily inhibit the miss response for an inhibition period.

In order to provide a trailer coupling for motor vehicles comprising a bearing element, a towing element which can be pivoted in relation to the bearing element between an operative position and a rest position and displaced in the direction of the pivot axis between a pivoting position and a fixing position and a fixing device, with which the towing element can be fixed in position on the bearing element, with a simplified fixing of the towing element on the bearing element it is suggested that the towing element have a bearing member, that the bearing element have a receiving member, in which the bearing member engages at least in the fixing position and in relation to which the bearing member can be moved between the pivoting position and the fixing position in a direction of displacement and vice versa, and that the fixing device have a blocking device which blocks the bearing member with respect to any movement in the direction of displacement relative to the receiving member and has at least one blocking member arranged in one of the elements and movable from a release position in the direction of a blocking position acted upon by a force and at least one blocking surface which is arranged on the other one of the elements and behind which the blocking member engages in the blocking position.