Abstract: Provided is a method of producing mineral function water showing beneficial effects, such as antioxidant effects, or the like. The water including contains mineral-containing water (A) and mineral-containing water (B) according to a ratio of 1:5 to 1:20 (weight ratio), the mineral-containing water (A) containing first mineral components eluted from mineral-imparting material (A) containing: vegetation raw material, woody plant raw material, and sulfur raw material, the mineral-containing water (B) containing second mineral-containing water (B) containing the mineral component eluted from inorganic mineral-imparting material (B).

Abstract: A portable mineral water acquisition device that has an internal power supply, a drive pump, and the like includes, in a portable housing: a control unit that receives electric power from a battery; the drive pump that is controlled by the control unit and uses the battery as an electric power supply; and a water purification device that softens treated water that is pumped by the drive pump and produces delicious water.

Abstract: A mobile power generation/water purification system includes, in a housing thereof: a photovoltaic power generation device; a battery that stores electricity generated by the photovoltaic power generation device; a control unit that receives electric power from the battery; and a drive means controlled by the control unit and using the battery as an electric power source. A water purification device is disposed inside the housing in a single flow path connectable to a suction hose and an outflow hose. The drive means of the water purification device is a plurality of drive pumps which are electrically connected to the battery by respective conductive cables. The photovoltaic power generation device is a solar panel wound around a rotation shaft inside the housing. The solar panel can be pulled out directly in a horizontal direction from a horizontally elongated cutout window of the housing.

Abstract: A film-forming method of an osmium film includes disposing a metal plate in a chamber; introducing OsO4 gas at a flow rate of 0.1 to 3 cc/min and an inert gas for maintaining discharge into the chamber while maintaining the pressure in the chamber to 13 to 40 Pa; and forming an osmium film on the surface of the metal plate by turning the gas in the chamber into plasma using radio frequency output power with the density of 0.25 to 2.0 W/cm2.

Abstract: An automatic guided vehicle drive device includes a top plate member, a drive unit, a holding plate member and a turning shaft mechanism. The drive unit has left and right wheel axles attached to left and right wheels, respectively. The holding plate member is coupled between the top plate member and the drive unit to pivotally hold the drive unit with respect to a movement direction. The turning shaft mechanism is coupled between the top plate member and the holding plate member to turnably support the drive unit about a vertical line passing through an intersection between an axial centerline of the wheel axles and a middle line oriented in the movement direction and passes through an approximate middle position between the wheel axles while exerting a force along the vertical line in a direction of separating the drive unit from the top plate member via the holding plate member.

Abstract: An automatic guided vehicle drive device includes a top plate member, a drive unit, a holding plate member and a turning shaft mechanism. The drive unit has left and right wheel axles attached to left and right wheels, respectively. The holding plate member is coupled between the top plate member and the drive unit to pivotally hold the drive unit with respect to a movement direction. The turning shaft mechanism is coupled between the top plate member and the holding plate member to turnably support the drive unit about a vertical line passing through an intersection between an axial centerline of the wheel axles and a middle line oriented in the movement direction and passes through an approximate middle position between the wheel axles while exerting a force along the vertical line in a direction of separating the drive unit from the top plate member via the holding plate member.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an aperture plate using a plasma excitation chemical vapor deposition (CVD) device includes the steps of placing a metal plate in a vacuum chamber of the CVD device; discharging air inside the vacuum chamber; charging a mixture of a gas containing at least osmium and a gas containing a hydrogen gas; adjusting a pressure of the vacuum chamber at a predetermined level; and generating plasma inside the vacuum chamber. An electrically conductive amorphous coating having a dense structure is uniformly formed over a surface and an interior of a micro-hole of the aperture plate. Also, it is possible to form an osmium coating having a high purity and a low impurity content with good repeatability.

Abstract: A first sensor (13-1), the mounting position of the first sensor (13-1) being recognized as a counting number of instruction pulses to a pulse motor (3), is arranged along a plate (11) with slits of an encoder at a portion between a position where a pushing holder (7) is connected to a plunger (9) for the liquid infusion, and a start position where the pushing holder (7) is separated from the plunger (9). A counting means (16) for counting encoder pulses from the encoder, is reset when a first sensor (13-1) is detected by a position detecting device (14) moved together with the pushing holder (7), and started to count the encoder pulses according to the movement of the pushing holder (7). A time to complete the liquid infusion is calculated by using a distance between the position where the plunger (9) is connected to the holder (7) and a liquid infusion finish position proper to the syringe, and a predetermined liquid infusion speed.

Abstract: A disk driving device having a disk drive which records data on and retrieves data from a rewritable disk, including a finalizing means which executes a finalizing operation which inhibits writing to the disk, a judgment means which judges whether a rewritable disk has already been finalized, and a formatting means which forcibly executes a formatting of the disk that has been finalized.

Abstract: An optical disk device for writing onto an optical disk to allow invisible data to be written thereon. The optical disk device has an address detection section for detecting the last address of invisible data based on the last address recorded in an address information area and the last address of a user data area of the optical disk when an optical disk is replaced with another optical disk, an instruction data calculation section for finding address instruction data indicating the top address of an empty area from the last address detected by the address detection section, and a storage section for storing the address instruction data found by the instruction data calculation section. When writing is executed, it is executed starting at the top address corresponding to the address instruction data stored in the storage section.

Abstract: A data reproduction apparatus for a disk medium is disclosed.

Abstract: An optical disk device having a TDB read section for reading a write method indicated by a track descriptor block positioned on the outermost peripheral side of an optical disk that has been mounted when power is supplied or the optical disk is replaced, and a TDB storage section for storing the write method read by the TDB read section. When data is instructed to be written to the optical disk, the data is written to the optical disk when the write method thus instructed conforms to the write method stored in the TDB storage section.

Abstract: A disk drive of a driving device for a CD-R (compact disk recordable) disk or a CD-RW (CD-rewritable) disk, when a read-out error occurs due to a data mismatch in the PMA (program memory area) of the CD-R disk, it saves the address information concerning a start and a stop of a readable track which is recorded in the PMA, accesses a corresponding track based on the saved address information, reads out data of the accessed track, and then, records the read-out data in a new CD-R disk. Thereby, the larger amount of data can be recovered even if an error occurs in reproducing during the reading of the PMA of a recordable disk or a rewritable disk.

Abstract: A bread maker for baking a bread, having a memory for memorizing appropriate processing time data previously for kneading, rising and baking dough in accordance with a ratio of water to the weight of the ingredients. The data includes plural levels to be operated. In the bread maker, a ratio of the weight of water to the weight of the ingredients is calculated based on the weighed value, and which level the ratio belongs to is judged. Then, appropriate processing time for kneading, rising and baking in accordance with the ratio are set automatically, so that high-quality bread can be always made.

Abstract: In a track searching method for an optical disk drive such as CD-ROM and the like, when a search object time is given from a host computer, the number of tracks is which a difference between a present time, included in a discriminating information of track on which an optical pick-up is located, and the given searching object time is determined. In accordance with the detected number of tracks, an optical pick-up jumps. After, the number of tracks corresponding to a difference between a time included in a discriminating information of track and the above-mentioned searching object time is detected. Then, the ratio of the number of tracks to be jumped to the detected number of tracks of the difference is calculated. The ratio is accumulated in each track searching operation and its mean value is calculated. The mean value is used as revising coefficient on and after the second track searching.

Abstract: On loading a CD-ROM, which is a data recording medium, onto a reproducing device, a time information of a sub-code is read out, and then, a time information of a header is read out. In accordance with a difference between the time information of the sub-code and the time information of the header, an offset value is calculated and memorized. When a time information of a target header is given, by adding the offset value to the given time information of the header, a target time information is calculated, and a sub-code, which indicates a time information equal to the target time information, is searched as a target sub-code. On searching the target sub-code, a time information of the header is read out. By these operations, time for accessing is shorten, on being given the time information of the target header and searching the header.