601results about How to "Performance deterioration" patented technology

An electronic device includes a substrate, a functional element formed on the substrate, an electrolytic element provided on at least one of a side of the substrate on which the functional element is formed and a side of the substrate opposite to the side on which the functional element is formed, configured including a solid-state electrolyte layer and a pair of electrodes for holding the solid-state electrolyte layer in between, and capable of applying electrolysis to water, and a sealing member for sealing the functional element and the electrolytic element.

Two data centers located in the vicinity are connected using a synchronous transfer copy function, and one of the data centers is coupled with a third data center disposed at a remote location by an asynchronous remote copying function. The order whereat a storage sub-system located in the vicinity has received data from a host is consistently guaranteed, and the third data center holds the data. Further, each storage sub-system includes a function whereby, during normal operation, data can be exchanged and the data update state can be obtained by the storage sub-systems located in the two data centers that do not directly engage in data transmission.

A method for processing digitized speech signals by analyzing redundant features to provide more robust voice recognition. A primary transformation is applied to a source speech signal to extract primary features therefrom. Each of at least one secondary transformation is applied to the source speech signal or extracted primary features to yield at least one set of secondary features statistically dependant on the primary features. At least one predetermined function is then applied to combine the primary features with the secondary features. A recognition answer is generated by pattern matching this combination against predetermined voice recognition templates.

The present invention is a method and apparatus for protection of various items against counterfeiting using physical unclonable features of item microstructure images. The protection is based on the proposed identification and authentication protocols coupled with portable devices. In both cases a special transform is applied to data that provides a unique representation in the secure key-dependent domain of reduced dimensionality that also simultaneously resolves performance-security-complexity and memory storage requirement trade-offs. The enrolled database needed for the identification can be stored in the public domain without any risk to be used by the counterfeiters. Additionally, it can be easily transportable to various portable devices due to its small size. Notably, the proposed transformations are chosen in such a way to guarantee the best possible performance in terms of identification accuracy with respect to the identification in the raw data domain. The authentication protocol is based on the proposed transform jointly with the distributed source coding. Finally, the extensions of the described techniques to the protection of artworks and secure key exchange and extraction are disclosed in the invention.

In a semiconductor storage device, a memory controller divides each of blocks in each of chips into a first page set composed of pages and a second page set composed of pages, divides a logical address space into groups, and divides each group into lines. Block units are created each of which is obtained by assembling a predetermined number of blocks from the blocks in each chip. A predetermined number of block units from the block units are managed as standard block units, and the other block units are managed as spare block units. Each standard block unit is made to correspond to one group. The corresponding group data is stored in the pages in the first page set in each block constituting the standard block unit, and unwritten pages for recording update data for the group data are provided to be included in the second page set.

A virtual LU astride a plurality of storage devices is a virtual volume composed of a plurality of partial volumes. Functions of the storage system, Zoning information of a SAN and a host group information of the virtual volume are inherited to a partial volume created for each physical device. When a page granularity data migration is executed, volume or data are migrated to other storage devices without depending on the relationship between a physical port and the physical device. When a host IO request is received when migration is on-going, response processing is performed by synchronizing storage devices within the range of migration data. The host IO request related to the page being migrated sends a partial complete response including information for re-routing the request to a path of the appropriate data migration destination device capable of issuing the IO.

A high-performance and highly-reliable snapshot management apparatus and method, and storage system are provided that can prevent the adverse influence of overhead when they retain a multiplicity of snapshots. An operational volume is set in a storage area provided by a first storage apparatus and a plurality difference volumes are set in a storage area provided by a second storage apparatus. In response to data writing to the operational volume, difference data is saved in the difference volumes and management tables for it are created, with each snapshot being managed according to the management tables. Each management table is divided according to one or more snapshots in accordance with the snapshot creation time. The second and any following management tables store specified inheritance information to inherit the content of the preceding management tables.

An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens having a negative refractive power with a concave surface directed to an image side thereof; a second lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface directed to an image side thereof and having an absolute value of a radius of curvature on the image side is equal to or smaller than that on an object side thereof; an aperture stop; a third lens which is a planoconvex lens having a plane on an object side thereof or a double-convex lens having on an object side thereof a surface of which an absolute value of a radius of curvature is larger than that on an image side thereof; and a compound lens of a fourth lens and a fifth lens, the compound lens having a positive composite power.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a circuit part formed on and above the semiconductor substrate, a passivation film covering the circuit part, an electrode pad provided outside the circuit part in such a manner that the electrode pad is exposed from the passivation film, and a guard ring pattern provided between the electrode pad and the circuit part such that the guard ring pattern surrounds the circuit part substantially. The guard ring pattern extends from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to the passivation film.

A phosphor made of phosphor particles coated with inorganic substance lamination, wherein an outermost layer is a transparent layer made of one or more of SiO2, Al2O3 and SiON, having a thickness of about 10 nm to about 500 nm, and formed by fluidized bed CVD, and a transparent inner coating layer is formed inside the outermost layer by a method different from the fluidized bed CVD. The inner coating may be formed by nonaqueous method not using a water content, for example sintering super-fine particles distributed on phosphor particles.

An administrator instructs creation of a volume to a virtual storage device and registration of a host port for providing access permission to the volume. The virtual storage device searches a candidate of a physical storage device capable of reaching the host port and a candidate of the target port based on the access permission information, and creates a distributed volume astride the candidate physical storage device. The distributed volume is composed of a plurality of partial volumes, and the partial volumes inherit the functions of the storage device and the access permission information set for the distributed volume. The virtual storage device distributes an access permission to the physical storage device, constitutes the access permission information of the host port and the volume with respect to the candidate target port, and registers the access permission information of the host port and the target port to the SAN switch.

A lithium air battery capable of being used for a long time with little deterioration due to influence by moisture in the air in which oxygen supply to a porous cathode is not inhibited by an air electrode current collector is provided. The lithium air battery includes an oxygen permselective film that is less likely to transmit moisture vapor and that selectively transmits oxygen, an oxygen chamber that stores oxygen, an air electrode current collector made of a porous material, a diffusion layer that is arranged between the air electrode current collector and a porous cathode and is made of a conductive material, the porous cathode containing a conductive material and a catalyst material, a separator that is less likely to pass moisture vapor, a nonaqueous electrolyte, an anode that extracts lithium ions, and an anode current collector. The lithium air battery may have a water-repellent layer.

A broadband variable gain amplifier with improved linearity and gain characteristic is provided. According to the present invention, the broadband variable gain amplifier comprises: an amplification unit for amplifying an input signal applied to an input terminal and outputting an amplified signal to an output terminal; and a gain control unit which is connected between the input and output terminals, and for controlling gain of said amplification unit, wherein said gain control unit comprises: a variable resistance unit whose resistance value is varied according to a control signal; and a broadband matching unit for proving an optimal impedance characteristic to the input terminal said amplification unit in a broad band, where in said variable gain resistance unit and said broadband matching unit is connected in parallel.

In a mono-crystal oxide conductive member on a silicon substrate, including an electrode material of a perovskite type piezoelectric element and an electrostrictive material and an oxide conductive material as a film formation substrate, a distance x between silicon atoms and a distance y between atoms of the mono-crystal oxide conductive member satisfy the following relationship: Z=mynx-1min≧0.05(n and m are given positive integers, 1≦n≦5, 1≦m≦7 and nx≦3, my≦3).

A humidifier has a hollow-fiber membrane module comprising a cylindrical gas vent pipe, a permeable hollow-fiber membrane accommodated in the vent pipe, and a first distributing mechanism disposed in the vent pipe. The first distributing mechanism includes a plurality of vent holes formed along an outer periphery of the vent pipe, a distributor covering the vent holes, a gas conduit communicating with the distributor, and a connection hole connecting the gas conduit and the vent holes to each other. Widths of the vent holes in a circumferential direction of the vent pipe are equal to each other, and quantities of flow of gas flowing from the vent holes are equal to each other.

The invention provides an organic positive temperature coefficient thermistor comprising at least two polymer matrices, a low-molecular organic compound and a conductive particle having spiky protuberances. For the polymer matrices, at least two thermoplastic polymer matrices having varying melting points or at least one thermoplastic polymer matrix and at least one thermosetting polymer matrix are used. It is thus possible to provide an organic positive temperature coefficient thermistor which has sufficiently low room-temperature resistance and a large rate of resistance change between an operating state and a non-operating state, and can operate with a reduced temperature vs. resistance curve hysteresis, ease of control of operating temperature, and high performance stability.

A microphone unit (1) is provided with: a case (11), in which a diagram (contained in a MEMS chip (12)) that vibrates due to sound pressure, an internal space (111) that houses the diagram, and an opening (112) that links the internal space (111) to the outside and serves as a tone hole, are disposed; and a film (14) that is formed by a material that is not permeable to air, and that is joined to the base (11) in such a manner as to cover the opening (112). An internal pressure regulation section (141) is disposed in the film (14).

A memory system permitting a number of alternative memory blocks to be made ready in order to extend the rewritable life and thereby contributing to enhanced reliability of information storage is to be provided. The memory system is provided with a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of data blocks in predetermined physical address units and a controller for controlling the nonvolatile memory in response to an access request from outside. Each of the data blocks has areas for holding a rewrite count and error check information regarding each data area. The controller, in a read operation on the nonvolatile memory, checks for any error in the area subject to the read according to error check information and, when there is any error, if the rewrite count is greater than a predetermined value, will replace the pertinent data block with another data block or if it is not greater, correct data in the data block pertaining to the error.

In the processing of multimedia contents data, analyzing the structure of the multimedia contents to be reproduced and changing sync information field configuration information contained in the multimedia contents based on the structure of the analyzed multimedia contents.

System-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based apparatus for detecting malicious code in portable terminal is provided. Apparatus includes SoC including hardware-based firewall packet-filtering packet received from outside through media access control unit according to setting of firewall setting unit in SoC memory and storing filtered packet in application memory or transferring filtered packet to anti-malware engine, hardware-based anti-malware engine detecting malicious code by performing pattern-matching operation between code pattern in file transferred from firewall or file received through input / output (I / O) interface unit and pattern of malicious code registered in malware signature database (DB) of mobile device application unit, SoC memory providing setting of firewall and support file decoding function for file format recognition of anti-malware engine, and hardware-based controller controlling switching operation to transfer file filtered by firewall directly to application memory or to anti-malware engine and control malicious code detection cycle of anti-malware engine.

A replication system rapidly switches from a normal-system site to a standby-system site in the event of a problem and reliably maintains functions, and moreover, reduces drops in performance. A first site provides system functions that accompany writing and reading of data. A relay transfer device receives update information from the first site, causes completion of processes for replication in the first site, and continuously executes processes for successively transferring the update information to a second site. The second site receives the update information of the first site and applies this update information to itself to retain a replica of the data of the first site. If, when executing a write request command or a read request command to provide at least a portion of the system functions, the second site has not yet retained the most recent data that are the target of the command, the second site acquires the necessary update information and then executes the command.

A tube for a peristaltic pump comprises an elastically deformable tubular body (2) made from a PVC composition containing: 100 phr of a PVC resin having a K value, measured according to standard ISO 1628-2, of not less than 85, from 40 to 100 phr of DEHA plasticizer, from 0.05 to 1.0 phr of lubricant, from 0.3 to 15.0 phr of stabilizer and co-stabilizer. The deformable tube, which is usefully employed for liquid transport in a dialysis apparatus, enables a high level of fluid transport efficiency to be maintained, even after many hours of peristaltic pump operation.

An X-ray spectrometer which uses at least one curved analyzing crystal and which provides improved wavelength resolution of characteristic X-rays used for analysis and improved ratio of characteristic X-rays to background intensity by using only effective diffractive regions of the analyzing crystal. X-ray blocking plates upstand from an end of a crystal support member supporting the analyzing crystal in the direction of angular dispersion of the crystal toward the inside of a Rowland circle. Incident X-rays going from the point X-ray source toward the crystal and X-rays diffracted by the crystal toward an X-ray detector are partially blocked by the X-ray blocking plates. The shielded regions vary according to the incident angle θ of the incident X-rays. Optimum or nearly optimum effective regions of the surface of the crystal can be used at all times.

Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a storage system, and a management computer, in which the storage system receives data I / O request to virtual logical volumes and data I / O request to one or more real logical volumes, each of the virtual logical volumes is allocated to one of one or more pools, storage areas of physical storage systems are allocated to all storage areas defined as the pools, and when a performance problem has occurred in one of the virtual logical volumes, the management computer selects the one of the virtual logical volumes, and selects a pool other than the pool to which the selected virtual logical volume is allocated and the real logical volumes as a migration destination of the selected virtual logical volume, to thereby prevent a performance problem from being caused by interference among the virtual logical volumes sharing the pool.

To provide a membrane / electrode assembly for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell which has a high power generation performance in an environment ranging from a low humidity to a high humidity and is scarcely susceptible to deterioration in the performance of the electrode even when fuel becomes deficient.A membrane / electrode assembly 10 for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, which comprises an anode 15 having an anode catalyst layer 11 containing an anode catalyst and an ion-exchange resin, a cathode 16 having a cathode catalyst layer 13 containing a cathode catalyst and an ion-exchange resin, and a polymer electrolyte membrane 17 disposed between the anode 15 and the cathode 16, wherein the anode catalyst is one having platinum or a platinum alloy supported on a carbon, and the amount of platinum or a platinum alloy supported in the anode catalyst is from 1 to 25 mass %; and the anode catalyst layer 11 contains fine particles made of at least one member selected from iridium oxide, iridium, ruthenium oxide and ruthenium, and the fine particles have a specific surface area of from 2 to 50 m2 / g.

The present invention is directed to provide an etching agent for a semiconductor substrate, which is capable of etching a titanium (Ti)-based metal film or a tungsten (W)-based metal film on a semiconductor substrate and an etching method using relevant etching agent, and relates to a liquid for preparing the etching agent for a semiconductor substrate composed of a solution comprising (A) hydrogen peroxide, (B) a phosphonic acid chelating agent having a hydroxyl group, (C) a basic compound, and (D-1) a copper anticorrosive and / or (D-2) 0.01 to 3% by weight of two or more kinds of anion species other than phosphonic acid chelating agents having a hydroxyl group, in which anion species have no oxidizing power, an etching method characterized by etching a titanium (Ti)-based metal film or a tungsten (W)-based metal film on a semiconductor substrate using relevant etching agent for a semiconductor substrate, further, a solution comprising (B) a phosphonic acid chelating agent having a hydroxyl group, (C) a basic compound, and (D-1) a copper anticorrosive and / or (D-2) anion species other than phosphonic acid chelating agents having a hydroxyl group, in which anion species have no oxidizing power.

An X-ray spectrometer which uses at least one curved analyzing crystal and which provides improved wavelength resolution of characteristic X-rays used for analysis and improved ratio of characteristic X-rays to background intensity by using only effective diffractive regions of the analyzing crystal. X-ray blocking plates upstand from an end of a crystal support member supporting the analyzing crystal in the direction of angular dispersion of the crystal toward the inside of a Rowland circle. Incident X-rays going from the point X-ray source toward the crystal and X-rays diffracted by the crystal toward an X-ray detector are partially blocked by the X-ray blocking plates. The shielded regions vary according to the incident angle θ of the incident X-rays. Optimum or nearly optimum effective regions of the surface of the crystal can be used at all times.

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a circuit part formed on and above the semiconductor substrate, a passivation film covering the circuit part, an electrode pad provided outside the circuit part in such a manner that the electrode pad is exposed from the passivation film, and a guard ring pattern provided between the electrode pad and the circuit part such that the guard ring pattern surrounds the circuit part substantially. The guard ring pattern extends from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to the passivation film.