摘要:
A semi-shield method is utilized to make it possible to advance pipes for an extremely long distance in the ground. In the method, a semi-shield machine and a plurality of advance pipes are pushed one after another into the ground, and sub-pipes are interposed between adjacent advance pipes. Each sub-pipe is formed with injection holes arranged in the circumferential direction. A tail void filling material is injected under pressure into a tail void provided around the outer circumference of the advance pipes through the injection holes so that the filling material is distributed uniformly over the entire circumference of the advance pipes. With this arrangement, it is possible to reduce the friction between the outer periphery of the advance pipes and the natural ground and thus to advance the advance pipes for an extremely long distance in the ground.
摘要:
A parallel processor system controls access to a distributed shared memory and to plural cache memories to prevent frequently-used local data from being flushed out of a cache memory. The parallel processor system includes a plurality of nodes each including a processor and a shared memory in a distributed shared memory arrangement, and a local-remote divided cache memory system, wherein local data and remote data are controlled separately. Each local-remote divided cache memory system includes a local data area, a remote data area, and a cache memory controller by which either the local data area or the remote data area is accessed according to the contents of an access request.
摘要:
Parallel processors communicate with each other over a network by transmitting messages that include destination processor information. A message controller for each processor in the network receives the messages and checks for faults in the message, particularly in the destination processor number contained in a first word of the message. If a fault occurs in the destination processor number, then the faulty message is transmitted to an appropriate processor for handling the fault. In this way the network operation is not suspended because of the fault and the message is not left in the network as a result of the error occurring in the destination processor number. The processor to which the faulty message is directed is determined by a substitute destination processor number contained in the message or is predetermined and set in another way, such as by a service processor. To recover from the fault, the processor receiving the faulty message can request that the message be retransmitted or the error can be corrected using an ECC, for example. If the faulty message cannot be retransmitted, then the processor or the host processor can request that the job to which the faulty message pertains be canceled by all of the processors executing that job without affecting the simultaneous execution of other jobs by the same processors.
摘要:
A data processing unit which can access a greater number of registers than registers addressable by an instruction to realize high-speed execution of a program. To this end, the data processing unit includes a greater number of floating point registers than the number of registers addressable by an ordinary instruction, a window start pointer register, a window start pointer valid register, a conversion circuit, when the window start pointer valid register has a value of 1, for converting a floating point register number in the instruction to a physical floating point register number and for changing a conversion pattern depending on the value of the window start pointer register, a window start pointer set instruction for setting a value at the window start pointer register, and floating point register pre-load and post-store instructions having a register field different in length from the ordinary instruction, and wherein the floating point register number specified by the register field is converted by the conversion circuit to the physical floating point register number on the basis of the value of the window start pointer register.
摘要:
A display includes: a display panel; a front-face member being provided on a front face of the display panel, and the front-face member covering a surrounding section, or the surrounding section and other part of the display panel; and a back-face member having rigidity and being provided on a back face of the display panel, the back-face member covering the back face, or the back face and other part of the display panel.
摘要:
An image recording apparatus including: a storing portion configured to store first image data based on which recording is performed on one of recording surfaces of a recording medium and second image data based on which the recording is performed on the other surface; a first density adjusting section configured to make an adjustment to a recording density for at least part of the first image data on the basis of an input of a user; a second density adjusting section configured to make an adjustment to a recording density for at least part of the second image data, the adjustment being reverse to the adjustment by the first density adjusting section; and a recording section configured to perform the recording on the basis of the first image data adjusted by the first density adjusting section and the second image data adjusted by the second density adjusting section.
摘要:
An image reading apparatus includes a document table that is transparent, a read unit that reads a document placed on the document table through the document table so as to generate image data representing a read image of the document, an extraction unit that converts the image data of the read result of the read unit into edge image data representing an edge image and extracts edge points satisfying a predetermined condition as edge points corresponding to a side of the document placed on the document table from the edge image data, an outer margin recognition unit that approximates the edge points corresponding to each side of the document extracted by the extraction unit to a line so as to recognize an outer margin of the document, and a likelihood evaluation unit that evaluates the likelihood of the outer margin recognized by the outer margin recognition unit.
摘要:
When a user sets water power using a water power adjustment switch in a remote control device, a controller controls the period of pressure fluctuations, the width of pressure fluctuations, and the central pressure of the discharge pressure of a pump on the basis of a signal transmitted by radio from the remote control device. When the user sets the divergent angle of washing water using a washing area adjustment switch in the remote control device, the controller controls the divergent angle of the washing water sprayed from a posterior nozzle on the basis of the signal transmitted by radio from the remote control device. Consequently, the washing water supplied to a side surface of a cylindrical swirl chamber from a first flow path in the posterior nozzle is sprayed from a spray hole as dispersed spiral flow, and the washing water supplied to a lower part of the cylindrical swirl chamber from a second flow path in the posterior nozzle is sprayed from the spray hole as linear flow.
摘要:
A passenger protecting apparatus that includes an air belt configured to inflate along a back surface of a seat back to provide protection to the lower body a passenger sitting behind the seat. The apparatus includes a buckle and a lap anchor. The rear end on the right and the left of the air belt are connected to the buckle and the lap anchor via a wire respectively. Upon collision, the air belt is inflated and the buckle and the lap anchor are pulled down to thereby pretension the seat belt.
摘要:
In controlling a seat belt retractor, at least one of signals selected from a state signal showing a movement of an occupant wearing a seat belt and an external signal obtained from detecting means installed in a vehicle during running thereof is received. Then, a rotation of a spool for a webbing is controlled by switching a rotational torque of a motor to a predetermined reduction ratio corresponding to at least one of the state signal and the external signal, or a driving state of the motor is controlled to a predetermined torque, to thereby wind the webbing on the spool. After fastening the seat belt, the seat belt is automatically wound, and after a predetermined time from completion of winding of the webbing, it is determined whether the winding of the webbing is further needed, and if necessary, the webbing is wound again.