Abstract: A grille shutter control device of a vehicle includes an encapsulation structure covering an engine, a grille shutter provided at an opening formed at a front wall portion of the encapsulation structure, an actuator configured to move the grille shutter to open/close the opening, and a controller configured to control the actuator. The controller determines whether or not heat damage occurs on a related component relating to the engine upon key OFF, closes the grille shutter upon key OFF in the case of determining that the heat damage will not occur, and opens the grille shutter upon key OFF in the case of determining that the heat damage will occur.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit which displays information in a first display state of the information processing apparatus itself and displays a search result obtained by using at least a part of the information as a search key in a second display state of another information processing apparatus of a different type from the information processing apparatus itself.

Abstract: In a semiconductor-mounting heat dissipation base plate including: an insulating substrate to which a metal circuit layer for mounting a semiconductor chip thereon is fixed; a heat dissipation base formed from the same metal material as the metal circuit layer at a side opposite to the metal circuit layer across the insulating substrate and fixed to the insulating substrate similar to the metal circuit layer; and a strengthening member provided in the heat dissipation base so as to be separated from the insulating substrate, the sizes of crystal grains of a metal structure at a part of the heat dissipation base or the metal circuit layer are reduced by a crystal size reducing material adhered to a mold, thereby preventing an adverse effect of a columnar crystal structure.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a controller configured to determine whether a position error signal (PES) is invalid while reading data from a magnetic medium using at least one data channel. An invalid PES indicates off-track reading or a defect in the magnetic medium. The controller is also configured to determine whether a PES value is above a first predetermined threshold in response to a determination that the PES is valid. Moreover, the controller is configured to inject error bits into a data stream in place of corresponding bits of decoded data in response to a determination that the PES is invalid, a determination that the PES value is above the first predetermined threshold, or a determination that the PES is invalid and the PES value is above the first predetermined threshold. Other systems and methods are described in accordance with more embodiments.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a controller and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller. The logic is configured to perform track-dependent erasure decoding on encoded data based on detection of one or more time-varying signal quality issues associated with at least one of a plurality of tracks read simultaneously from a data storage medium. In another embodiment, a method includes determining, by a magnetic tape drive, track signal quality reliability for a plurality of tracks read simultaneously from a magnetic tape medium. In addition, the method includes performing, by the magnetic tape drive, track-dependent erasure decoding on encoded data based on detection of one or more time-varying signal quality issues associated with at least one of the plurality of simultaneously-read tracks.

Abstract: A toner contains toner particles, titanate fine particles having a Group II element, and hydrotalcite compound fine particles as an external additive and satisfying 10?Lt?80 and 100?Lh?Weight average particle diameter (D4) of toner particles×0.50, when the number average particle diameter (D1) of primary particles of the titanate fine particles is defined as Lt (nm) and the number average particle diameter (D1) of primary particles of the hydrotalcite compound fine particles is defined as Lh (nm).

Abstract: A toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin, an amorphous polyester, and a colorant, wherein a softening point of the toner is at least 110° C. and not more than 140° C.; an integrated value f1 for stress of the toner is not more than 10 g·m/sec, as measured using a tack tester, with a temperature for a probe end being 150° C. and a press holding time being 0.01 seconds; and an integrated value f2 for stress of the toner is at least 30 g·m/sec, as measured using a tack tester, with a temperature for a probe end being 150° C. and a press holding time being 0.1 seconds.

Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle including a binder resin, an amorphous polyester, and a colorant, wherein the binder resin includes a vinyl resin, the toner has a softening point of at least 110° C. and not more than 140° C., an amount of the amorphous polyester is at least 4.0 parts by mass and not more than 30.0 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and a temperature T at which an area increasing rate of one toner particle sample becomes 1.40, is not more than 110° C., and a slope of the area increasing rate with respect to a temperature in the range of the area increasing rate of 1.40 to 2.00 is not more than 0.07.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a controller and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller. The logic is configured to read data stored as a plurality of first codeword sets on a first write section of a magnetic medium. The logic is also configured to read at least some of the data stored as one or more rewritten codeword sets on a rewrite section of the magnetic medium. A length of at least one rewritten row stored to the rewrite section of the magnetic medium is greater than: a length of another rewritten row in the same rewritten codeword set, and/or a length of at least one row in a codeword set stored to the first write section of the magnetic medium.

Abstract: Various embodiments for data error recovery in a tape storage system, by a processor device, are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises, in a tape storage system using an iterative hardware and microcode decoder, initializing at least one iterative decode cycle on the buffered dataset when an uncorrectable read error occurs; and for a next iterative decode cycle, building upon data corrections obtained in a previous iterative decode cycle.

Abstract: A signal processing device is provided, which includes a transmission-reception switch connected to a transmission circuit and a reception circuit and configured to output, in a transmission period, a transmission signal inputted from the transmission circuit to outside the device and output, in a reception period, a reception signal inputted from the outside to the reception circuit, a reception signal amplifier configured to amplify the reception signal, and a processing circuit configured to switch a power source of the reception signal amplifier from OFF to ON when switching from the transmission period to the reception period.

Abstract: A signal processing device is provided, which includes a pulse compressing module configured to generate a pulse compressed signal obtained by performing pulse compression on a reception signal that is a reflection of a transmission signal transmitted to outside the device, a pseudo signal generating module configured to generate, based on the reception signal, a pseudo signal of which a pseudo main lobe portion corresponding to a main lobe of the pulse compressed signal has a lower signal level than signal levels of pseudo side lobe portions corresponding to side lobes of the pulse compressed signal, and a side lobe removing module configured to remove the pseudo signal from the pulse compressed signal.

Abstract: A radar control device is provided, which includes a signal generating module configured to generate a transmission pattern signal comprised of at least one kind of pulse signal that is set among pulse signals including first and second pulse signals, a transmitter configured to externally transmit the transmission pattern signal via a radar antenna, a detector configured to detect transmission power of each pulse signal included in the transmission pattern signal, and a processing circuit configured to control, when the transmission pattern signal includes the second pulse signal, the transmission power of the transmission pattern signal by using a control value calculated based on the transmission power of the second pulse signal, and control, when the transmission pattern signal consists of the first signal, the transmission power of the first pulse signal by using a control value previously used for controlling the transmission power of the second pulse signal.

Abstract: Provided is toner that contains a toner particle, and an external additive containing a strontium titanate particle, wherein the toner has an average circularity of at least 0.935 and not more than 0.995, the strontium titanate particle has a number-average primary particle diameter of at least 10 nm and not more than 60 nm, the strontium titanate particle has a peak in the range of 39.700°±0.150° and a peak in the range of 46.200°±0.150° in a CuK? x-ray diffraction spectrum obtained in the 2? range of at least 10° and not more than 90° where ? is the Bragg angle, and the ratio of the area Sb of the peak at 46.200°±0.150° to the area Sa of the peak at 39.700°±0.150° is at least 1.80 and not more than 2.30.

Abstract: A toner including a toner particle and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains an inorganic fine particle A and a silica fine particle; in a surface of the toner observed using a scanning electron microscope, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the silica fine particle is from 5 nm to 50 nm, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the inorganic fine particle A is at least 10 nm and less than 60 nm, a coverage ratio X1 of the toner surface covered by the silica fine particle is from 60 area % to 95 area %, the inorganic fine particle A is a fine particle of a titanate having a Group 2 element, and a coverage ratio X2 of the toner surface covered by the inorganic fine particle A is from 5 area % to 40 area %.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a controller and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller. The logic is configured to cause data to be written to a first write section of a magnetic medium as a plurality of first codeword sets, and cause at least some of the data to be written to a rewrite section of the magnetic medium as one or more rewritten codeword sets. A length of at least one rewritten row stored to the rewrite section of the magnetic medium is greater than either a length of another rewritten row in the same rewritten codeword set and/or a length of at least one row in a codeword set stored to the first write section of the magnetic medium.

Abstract: Recombinant collagenases with a stable specific activity and enzyme agents for cell and tissue dissociation such a recombinant are provided. The recombinant collagenase is derived from Grimontia hollisae-derived collagenase is characterized by having, from the N terminus to the C terminus, a collagenase catalytic domain, a linker region sequence, and a prepeptidase C terminal domain, which Grimontia hollisae-derived recombinant collagenase does not comprise at least the prepeptidase C terminal domain. The obtained recombinant collagenase has a high and stable specific activity.

Abstract: A system and method for recommending content to a user. In embodiments of the system and method, one or more content groups is generated, at least one of the content groups including more than one type of content, and a display indicative of the one or more content groups is presented to the user.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, an amorphous polyester, and a crystalline polyester, wherein the binder resin contains a vinyl resin; the amorphous polyester has a monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons, and a monomer unit derived from a dialcohol; the content of the monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons is 10 to 50 mol % with reference to the total monomer units derived from a carboxylic acid in the amorphous polyester; and in a cross section of the toner particle, the vinyl resin constitutes a matrix and the amorphous polyester constitutes domains, and the crystalline polyester is present in the interior of the domains.

Abstract: 1) A graft material for nerve regeneration characterizing by comprising collagen-based materials containing collagen having an orientation. 2) A method for producing a graft material for nerve regeneration comprising a step of immersing the collagen-based materials containing collagen having an orientation in a solution containing a collagen-binding site-containing growth factor comprising a receptor agonist peptide and a collagen-binding peptide and binding the collagen-binding site-containing growth factor to the collagen. 3) A kit for producing a graft material for nerve regeneration characterized by comprising collagen-based materials containing collagen having an orientation, and a collagen-binding site-containing growth factor comprising a receptor agonist peptide and a collagen-binding peptide.