Abstract: A disk drive device includes a device main body in which a disk slot for inserting and removing a disk-like recording medium is provided, a disk holding unit that rotatably holds the disk-like recording medium, a main chassis that supports the disk holding unit and a base unit, an arm unit rotatably supported on one or the other side in a plane parallel to the disk-like recording medium, an urging arm that urges the disk-like recording medium, a first centering member that supports the side of the disk-like recording medium, and a second centering member that supports the side of the disk-like recording medium. The first centering member and the second centering member are regulated in positions to support the side of the disk-like recording medium. The first centering member and the second centering member support the disk-like recording medium in a centering position.

Abstract: A disk drive apparatus includes: a device main body which a disk-shaped recording medium is inserted and ejected therefrom; a loading arm which has an arm main body and a support part; a loading cam plate which has a cam groove and rotate the loading arm; a drive mechanism which is coupled to the loading cam plate; an eject arm which is rotatably supported; a link mechanism which couples the eject arm to the drive mechanism; and a cam unit which is engaged in the link mechanism, wherein a long hole is provided in one of the arm main body and the pivot part, and a protrusion part is provided in the other one which is inserted into the long hole.

Abstract: The invention provides a composition for production of a sterilizer having a water content of 1 to 25% by weight and comprising (A) an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and an organic acid having a hydrocarbon group which may have a hydroxyl group and (B1) hydrogen peroxide. From the composition, a sterilizer is obtained as an aqueous solution containing an organic peracid.

Abstract: A disk drive device includes a housing provided with a disk slot in which a large-diameter disk-like recording medium is inserted and from which the recording medium is ejected, an eject arm that ejects the large-diameter disk-like recording medium, and a disk conveying mechanism that rotationally moves at least the eject arm to an ejection position of the large-diameter disk-like recording medium. The eject arm is provided with a stopper that prevents insertion of a small-diameter disk-like recording medium. When the eject arm is rotationally moved to the ejection position, the stopper is rotationally moved to a position where the stopper is brought into contact with a side on an insertion end side of the small-diameter disk-like recording medium when substantially the entire small-diameter disk-like recording medium is inserted from the disk slot.

Abstract: A recording medium driving device which records information in or reproduces information from the recording medium, includes a device body in which a recording medium is inserted and from which the recording medium is removed, a conveying mechanism that conveys the recording medium in a loading direction and an eject direction, a mounting section on which the recording medium is mounted, a conveyance arm that moves according to movement of the recording medium in the loading direction and the eject direction and conveys the recording medium, and a driving mechanism that has a driving source for imparting a driving force for moving the conveyance arm. The conveyance arm includes a contact section that brought into contact with the recording medium and an urging member that urges the contact section in the eject direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: A recording medium drive device includes: a holding unit configured to hold a recording medium inserted from a slot; a link mechanism including a plurality of arms turnably connected to each other; an eject lever activated in response to the turning motions of the link mechanism for pushing the recording medium to eject the recording medium from the slot; a drive source configured to supply a drive force for the turning operations of the link mechanism; an urging spring disposed in the link mechanism for applying an urging force in the ejecting direction to the recording medium when the recording medium is inserted from the slot; and position regulating means disposed at a position to suppress the urging spring for the recording medium, for regulating the arms of the link mechanism at the ejecting time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a detergent composition for CIP, which comprises (A) a solvent having an SP value of 6 to 9 at 25° C. and (B) a surfactant such as a nonionic surfactant.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stationary type imaging apparatus reduced in size and in weight. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit 4 for imaging an object and a casing 5 carrying the imaging unit 4 and also carrying a component mounting unit 36 on its bottom for mounting component parts of the imaging apparatus. On the component mounting unit 36, a first wiring board 37 is provided for extending along a bottom plate of the casing 5, and a second wiring board 38 is provided for extending towards the imaging unit 4 in a state separated from the first wiring board 37.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a monitoring camera for picking up the image of an environment inside or outside a building. A ceiling part (13) is provided in one end side in the longitudinal direction of a rectangular main body part (11). On the other end side, a bottom surface part (14) is provided. Since an image pickup part (12) is provided in the front part of the main body part (11) held between the ceiling part (13) and the bottom surface part (14), the monitoring camera can be disposed along an outer wall (2). The monitoring camera (10) has a power supply part (37) contained in the ceiling part (13) and a control circuit part (29) contained in the main body part (11) provided in the lower part of the power supply part (37). Thus, the control circuit part (29) can be protected from the heat generation of the power supply part (37).

Abstract: An electric power trading support system includes a demand prediction unit, a demand prediction error evaluation unit, a demand predicted value upward adjustment ratio (quantity) setting unit, a private power generation/power purchase ratio (quantities) setting unit, an optimization unit for evaluating optimum values of the demand predicted value upward adjustment ratio (quantity) and the self power generation/power purchase ratio (quantities) based on costs, and a display unit for displaying the optimum values evaluated by the optimization unit, maximizing profit to an electric power retailer by minimizing the cost for power generation and power purchase when the electric power retailer sells electric power by use of a private power generator and backup electric power purchased from an electric power company.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bactericide composition comprising hypochlorous acid or a salt thereof. In particular, the present invention provides a liquid bactericide composition comprising an aqueous solution comprising hypochlorous acid and/or a salt thereof, a surfactant (B) and a pH adjusting agent (C), and having a ph valve in the range of 3 to 8 at 25° C.

Abstract: A method, equipment and a program that present uncertain factors such as the demand variation of electric power, electric power unit price and fuel unit price in stochastic models, provide the analytical means of the correlation between return and risk by which the results can be quantitatively given, have GUI means to do trail and error evaluation of the combinations of various conditions regarding to the interrupt operation plan and electric power trade contract plan and have an amendment means by which the amendment of plans is cooperated with the analytical means of the correlation between return and the risk has been proposed. The system enables to comprehend the correlation between returns and risk that the present operating schedule involves.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of sterilizing a food packaging container or a food charging system, which comprises a chemical sterilizing treatment which involves contacting an aqueous sterilizing solution containing a hypochlorous acid-containing, chlorine-based sterilizing agent and a pH adjusting agent with the surface of a food packaging container or the surface of a line pipe, an instrument and a chamber in a food packaging system and a heat sterilizing treatment which involves increasing the temperature of the surface to be sterilized, the two sterilizing treatments being carried out simultaneously or in separate steps. The invention also provides a sterilizing device which has a predetermined sterilizing effect on a wide variety of microbial species, can be easily handled, does not corrode a treated surface over a prolonged period of time, is free of a pungent smell and does not require any special treatment for disposal of waste liquor.

Abstract: A colored liquid hypochlorite bleach composition is provided, comprising a particulate pigment such as Ultramarine Blue, which is stably suspended in the composition by means of a flocculate, such as calcium soap flocs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for carrying out a germicidal process on microbes, which uses hypochlorous acid or the like. More specifically, the present invention provides a sterilizing method in which an aqueous solution comprising (A) hypochlorous acid and/or a salt thereof, (B) a surfactant and (C) a pH adjusting agent is made in contact with microbes.

Abstract: Detergent formulations incorporating crystalline alkali metal silicate granules provide enhanced performance in removing sebum dirt stains at low dosages of detergent in the wash. The detergent formulations are prepared by combining an alkali metal silicate having a high pH value with a nonionic surfactant and an acid precursor of an anionic surfactant capable of having a lamellar orientation. The formulation is granulated by tumbling in an agitating mixer while increasing the bulk density at elevated temperatures to yield alkali metal silicate granules having a bulk density of from 0.6 to 1.2 g/ml.

Abstract: The granular detergent composition for clothes washing including a surfactant, a metal ion capturing agent, a crystalline alkali metal silicate, and an acidic ingredient, wherein the granular detergent composition includes at least two different granules: a first granule containing the crystalline alkali metal silicate, and a second granule, which is an acidic granule, containing the acidic ingredient. In the granular detergent composition, the crystalline alkali metal silicate and the acidic ingredient are being present in different granules, and the granular detergent composition shows alkaline property in distilled water at 25° C. and has a bulk density of 650 g/L or more. Since each of an acidic ingredient and a crystalline alkali metal silicate is included in a different granule, the initial rise in the pH at initial washing can be adjusted, so that a further improved detergency against the sebum dirt stains is exhibited.

Abstract: The bleaching detergent composition in a form of granules or powders containing an organic peracid precursor which produces an organic peracid upon reaction with hydrogen peroxide in water, the organic peracid having an alkyl group with 7 to 19 carbon atoms, and a hydrogen peroxide releasing material, wherein the bleaching detergent composition comprises the following components a) to c): a) one or more surfactants; b) one or more crystalline alkali metal silicates; and c) one or more agents for capturing metal ions other than the crystalline alkali metal silicates b), wherein a total amount of the above a), b), and c) components in the bleaching detergent composition occupies from 70 to 99% by weight, and wherein the weight ratio of component b) to component a) is b/a=90/10 to 45/55, and the weight ratio of component b) to component c) is b/c=7/93 to 75/25, and wherein the weight ratio of the organic peracid precursor to nonionic surfactants used as component a) is from 10/90 to 70/30.

Abstract: A washing method characterized in that washing is carried out under conditions that a pH of a washing liquid starts increasing after a water hardness of the washing liquid starts decreasing; a detergent composition characterized by containing particles capable of delayed-exerting an alkalizing effect of a washing liquid, wherein a pH of a washing liquid starts increasing after a water hardness of the washing liquid starts decreasing; and a detergent composition comprising an alkalizing agent coated with an organic material, or organic and inorganic materials, the alkalizing agent occupying an amount of 70% by weight or more of the entire alkalizing agents in the detergent composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a 2-hydroxypropanediamine derivative represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 mean individually a linear or branched C.sub.6 -C.sub.36 alkyl or alkenyl group, X denotes a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylene or alkenylene group which may be substituted by at least one hydroxyl, sulfonic or carboxyl group and has 1-6 carbon atoms, y.sup.1 is a sulfonic group, a sulfuric acid residue or a carboxyl group, y.sup.2 means a hydroxyl group, a sulfuric acid residue or ##STR2## and n stands for 0 or 1, or a salt or quaternized product thereof, and a detergent composition containing such a compound. This compound is low in irritativeness to the skin and hair and excellent in foamability, and can give a pleasant feeling to the user's skin and the like.