Abstract: A magnetic disk drive includes a base having an opening, a cover configured to close the opening of the base, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet configured to seal a gap between the base and the cover. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a substrate layer configured to support the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of 250 kPa or less at 23° C. The substrate layer has an elastic modulus of 1,680 N/cm to 3,000 N/cm. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet shows a deviation amount less than 1.0 mm, the amount being the deviation amount of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet per 250 gf/cm2 of the sheet in a holding ability test at 80° C. after one hour from a time when the holding ability test is started. Helium gas is accommodated in a cavity defined by the base and the cover.

Abstract: A measuring process unit for executing a measuring process of, in correspondence with a plurality of combinations obtained by respectively combining a plurality of connection terminals Tx and a plurality of connection terminals Ty, and in respect of the connection terminals Tx, Ty corresponding to each of the combinations, supplying an AC voltage SA to the connection terminals Ty by means of an AC current source 2 and detecting electric current flowing in the connection terminals Tx by means of an ammeter 3, to thereby acquire currents corresponding to each of the combinations; and a calculating unit for executing a calculating process of, based on the size of the currents detected by the ammeter 3 in the measuring process and on information indicating the currents' phases, calculating capacitance and resistance values corresponding to each of the combinations.

Abstract: A gas branching apparatus that branches and supplies a gas to first to N-th supply targets, includes first to N-th pipes wherein the first to N-th pipes are each branched into first to N-th branch pipes on a downstream end side, and wherein the i-th branch pipes of the respective first to N-th pipes are connected in common to the i-th supply target, and the i-th branch pipes of the respective first to N-th pipes are provided with valves, respectively, where i denotes each of integers of 1 to N.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a substrate layer configured to support the pressure-sensitive adhesive agent layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of 250 kPa or less at 23° C. The substrate layer has an elastic modulus of 1680 N/cm to 3000 N/cm both inclusive. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet shows a deviation amount less than 1.0 mm The amount is the deviation amount of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet per 250 gf/cm2 of the sheet in a holding ability test at 80° C. after one hour from a time when the test is started.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting wires of an object in which a plurality of x-axis and y-axis wires are arranged perpendicular to each other, each x-axis and y-axis wire having a display wire and tab wire, respectively. The apparatus includes a power supply device supplying an AC signal to the wire as an inspection object; a connecting device being in conductive contact with the tab wire to transmit the AC signal, a first detecting device disposed in a non-contact manner at one end of the display wire and conductively connected to one end of the power supply device, a second detecting device disposed in the non-contact manner and opposed to the display wire and conductively connected to the one end of the power supply device, and a determining device determining quality of the wire on the basis of results of the first and second detecting devices.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique to duplicate and translocate any large region in a chromosome of a fungus belonging to Aspergillus across a wide range, so that it will possible to stably and systematically acquire an Aspergillus strain having a novel trait, which was un-acquirable by conventional techniques. The present invention relates to a transformant of the fungus belonging to Aspergillus wherein a transformation marker gene with deficiency of a terminal part at the 5? or 3? end of its coding region is integrated into an outside of a target region in a chromosome of the fungus subject to duplicated translocation, and a transformation marker gene with deficiency of a terminal part at the 3? or 5? end of its coding region is integrated into an outside of a region in another chromosome of the fungus to be replaced with the target region.

Abstract: A gas supplying unit supplies a nitrogen gas into a furnace body of a graphite heating furnace in which at least a part of the furnace body is formed with a graphite. An exhausting unit exhausts a gas inside the furnace body to outside the furnace body. A dew-point temperature of the nitrogen gas supplied into the furnace body is equal to or lower than ?80° C. A pressure inside the furnace body is equal to or higher than 140 Pa with respect to an atmospheric pressure outside the furnace body.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus for printing an image on a recording medium of a plurality of types of recording mediums set in any of a plurality of storage units by conveying the recording medium to a printing position includes a determination unit configured to determine a used amount for each type of recording medium, and a display control unit configured to display on a display device information for guiding a high usage type recording medium to be set in a storage unit which has a short conveyance distance to the printing position among the plurality of the storage units based on the used amounts determined by the determination unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting warpage of a sheet-like member includes a conveyance device for conveying a glass substrate in a substantially horizontal attitude and a non-contact displacement meter for measuring a distance to a surface of the glass substrate. The apparatus is configured to preset an upper limit waveform and a lower limit waveform based on an ideal waveform of surface shape displacement of the glass substrate in a conveyance direction, which is determined based on a characteristic of the conveyance device; and determine whether or not an actual waveform of the surface shape displacement of the glass substrate in the conveyance direction during conveyance, which is obtained based on the distance measured by the non-contact displacement meter, falls within a range between the upper limit waveform and the lower limit waveform.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting wires of an object in which a plurality of x-axis and y-axis wires are arranged perpendicular to each other, each x-axis and y-axis wire having a display wire and tab wire, respectively. The apparatus includes a power supply device supplying an AC signal to the wire as an inspection object;, a connecting device being in conductive contact with the tab wire to transmit the AC signal, a first detecting device disposed in a non-contact manner at one end of the display wire and conductively connected to one end of the power supply device, a second detecting device disposed in the non-contact manner and opposed to the display wire and conductively connected to the one end of the power supply device, and a determining device determining quality of the wire on the basis of results of the first and second detecting devices.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technique which is for duplicating across a wide region any large region on a chromosome of a fungus belonging to Aspergillus strain, and which enables the stable and systematic acquisition of a previously un-acquirable fungus belonging to the Aspergillus strain having novel traits. Disclosed is a transformant wherein a transformation marker gene sequence is arranged on the outside of terminals (5?, 3?) of a region so as to sandwich an arbitrary region of a chromosome, and chromosome duplication has taken place by means of homologous recombination after double strand breakage generated in a homologous region inside the gene. Also disclosed is a method for duplicating an arbitrary region of a chromosome of a fungus belonging to Aspergillus strain by culturing said transformant.

Abstract: A method for controlling printing control apparatus for printing an image on any of a plurality of recording media each set in a plurality of storage units includes inputting a plurality of print jobs, and determining an execution order of the plurality of print jobs in a range in which printing is consecutively executed on the recording medium fed from the same storage unit based on a type of the recording medium corresponding to each of the input plurality of print jobs, and in which each of the input print jobs is not postponed more than a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting warpage of a sheet-like member includes a conveyance device for conveying a glass substrate in a substantially horizontal attitude and a non-contact displacement meter for measuring a distance to a surface of the glass substrate. The apparatus is configured to preset an upper limit waveform and a lower limit waveform based on an ideal waveform of surface shape displacement of the glass substrate in a conveyance direction, which is determined based on a characteristic of the conveyance device; and determine whether or not an actual waveform of the surface shape displacement of the glass substrate in the conveyance direction during conveyance, which is obtained based on the distance measured by the non-contact displacement meter, falls within a range between the upper limit waveform and the lower limit waveform.

Abstract: A suspension board with circuit includes a metal supporting layer, an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting layer, a conductive layer formed on the insulating base layer, and a slider supported on the metal supporting layer via a pedestal. The conductive layer includes a conductive overlapping portion which overlaps a plane on which the slider is projected when projected in a thickness direction. The conductive overlapping portion is provided to be spaced apart from the slider.

Abstract: A vehicle heater control apparatus variably controls electric power to be supplied to a heater with an inexpensive configuration and simple control. The vehicle heater control apparatus is provided in a vehicle including an engine control system, the engine control system including: an intake air temperature sensor for detecting an intake air temperature; and a speed sensor for detecting a traveling state of the vehicle, the engine control system using the intake air temperature and the traveling state to control drive of the engine, and the vehicle heater control apparatus includes a heater control portion for variably controlling electric power to be supplied to a warmer provided to a heated part of the vehicle based on the intake air temperature and the traveling state.

Abstract: A suspension board with circuit includes a metal supporting layer, an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting layer, a conductive layer formed on the insulating base layer, and a slider supported on the metal supporting layer via a pedestal. The conductive layer includes a conductive overlapping portion which overlaps a plane on which the slider is projected when projected in a thickness direction. The conductive overlapping portion is provided to be spaced apart from the slider.

Abstract: A gas supplying unit supplies a nitrogen gas into a furnace body of a graphite heating furnace in which at least a part of the furnace body is formed with a graphite. An exhausting unit exhausts a gas inside the furnace body to outside the furnace body. A dew-point temperature of the nitrogen gas supplied into the furnace body is equal to or lower than ?80° C. A pressure inside the furnace body is equal to or higher than 140 Pa with respect to an atmospheric pressure outside the furnace body.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique to duplicate and translocate any large region in a chromosome of a fungus belonging to Aspergillus across a wide range, so that it will possible to stably and systematically acquire an Aspergillus strain having a novel trait, which was un-acquirable by conventional techniques. The present invention relates to a transformant of the fungus belonging to Aspergillus wherein a transformation marker gene with deficiency of a terminal part at the 5? or 3? end of its coding region is integrated into an outside of a target region in a chromosome of the fungus subject to duplicated translocation, and a transformation marker gene with deficiency of a terminal part at the 3? or 5? end of its coding region is integrated into an outside of a region in another chromosome of the fungus to be replaced with the target region.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a strain having a significantly increased frequency of homologous recombination, which is necessary for gene disruption of gene replacement by gene targeting of a mitosporic filamentous fungus. This invention relates to a transformant having an increased frequency of homologous recombination (gene targeting), which is a mitosporic filamentous fungus belonging to Trichocomaceae, due to suppression of a ku gene by ku gene disruption or antisense RNA method, to a method for the production of a gene-disruption stain, gene-deletion strain, gene-replacement strain, gene-insertion strain or chromosome-modification strain by means of the gene targeting method using said transformant, and to the above-mentioned ku genes such as those derived from Aspergillus sojae and Aspergillus oryzae, and their expressed products (proteins).

Abstract: A gas supplying unit supplies a nitrogen gas into a furnace body of a graphite heating furnace in which at least a part of the furnace body is formed with a graphite. An exhausting unit exhausts a gas inside the furnace body to outside the furnace body. A dew-point temperature of the nitrogen gas supplied into the furnace body is equal to or lower than ?80° C. A pressure inside the furnace body is equal to or higher than 140 Pa with respect to an atmospheric pressure outside the furnace body.