Abstract: An indicator for a refrigerator filter which has a body configured to contain a replaceable filter cartridge and including an openable cap to enclose the filter cartridge within the body. The indicator includes a control having a filter life determination mechanism and arranged to emit a signal when a life of the filter cartridge is determined to be expired. A visual display is arranged in association with the body which comprises an illuminating component which illuminates upon receipt of the signal from the control, graphics positioned in association with the body, and a light pipe extending from the graphics towards the illuminating component to transmit light from the illuminating component to the graphics.

Abstract: An automatic clothes washer having a clothes trap for reducing the likelihood that an article of clothing can escape from a wash basket during the spinning of the basket.

Abstract: A refrigerator is provided with a cabinet having a door that is openable by a user to provide access to a refrigeration compartment. A storage bin is located in the refrigeration compartment and accessible upon the opening of the cabinet door. A mounting system is arranged for the storage bin, supporting the storage bin for movement into and out of the refrigeration compartment. A latch is carried on the cabinet door to be selectively engaged by the user with a latch receiving portion of the storage bin. When the latch is engaged with the latch receiving portion, the storage bin will be pulled out of the refrigerator upon the opening of the cabinet door, and when the latch is disengaged from the latch receiving portion, the storage bin will remain in the refrigeration compartment, unless manually moved by the user.

Abstract: A suspension system for a motor of a combustion-powered hand tool includes a motor retaining ring defining a space for accepting the motor, an outer ring radially spaced from the retaining ring and configured for attachment to a cylinder head of a combustion chamber, and at least one resilient suspension element configured for dampening vibrations between a motor support and a tool frame, and having a plurality of resilient beams connecting the retaining ring and the outer ring.

Abstract: A motor mount for suspending a fan motor in a combustion-powered tool includes an inner ring for securing to the motor, an outer ring that is secured to a portion of the tool, and a web portion disposed between and connecting the inner ring and outer ring. The inner ring, outer ring, and web portion are formed as a unitary piece. Preferably, the mount is formed of a thermoplastic polyester elastomer.

Abstract: An information recording method and an apparatus therefor, wherein a recording compensation controlling unit 1 receives data to be recorded and determines whether a pulse timing adjustment is to be performed or not, and instructs an APC 3 to adjust the timing thereby to advance the pulse start timing of laser light and/or to delay the pulse termination timing when the pulse timing adjustment is to be performed. The recording compensation controlling unit 1 determines the pulse timing adjustment corresponding to the presence or absence of a predetermined “space, record mark”, whereby the positional shift quantity of leading and trailing edges is reduced even for the marks having a fine dimension, and the jitter is reduced.

Abstract: There is provided an optical storage device that can position a lens carriage and objective lens even when position sensors for the lens carriage and objective lens are excluded in an effort to make an optical disk unit thinner. When a seek of the carriage relative to an optical disk is started, the carriage is accelerated smoothly, decelerated smoothly, and thus positioned on a target track. The vibration of a lens actuator on the carriage occurring during seek can be minimized, and the lens actuator is locked substantially in the center of the carriage. During a seek operation of the carriage, a false lens signal equivalent to a lens signal used to lock the lens actuator in the center of the carriage is produced using the envelope of a tracking error signal obtained from reflected light of the light beam emanating from the optical disk. With the false lens signal, the lens actuator is locked in the center of the carriage.

Abstract: This invention relates to a magnetic head assembly for information recording and reproduction on and from a magnetic disk using a magnetic head, a method manufacturing the same and a magnetic disk apparatus. A head chip has an insulating layer, a magnetic pole and a coil with a terminal portion. A flexible support body has a lead portion and a terminal portion to be connected to the terminal portion of the head chip. The flexible support body is attached to the arm for supporting the head chip.

Abstract: A MR head employs a biasing soft magnetic film of a FeXN-based alloy which undergoes no change in the direction of its axis of easy magnetization even when subject to heat treatment. The MR head has an anisotropic magnetic field size of 10 Oe or greater, and electrical resistance p of 70 .mu..OMEGA.cm or greater, and a saturation flux density Bs of 1 T or greater. The direction of the axis of easy magnetization of the biasing soft magnetic film is oriented perpendicular to the direction of sense current, and the direction of the axis of easy magnetization of the MR film is oriented parallel to the sense current direction.

Abstract: A magnetic tape library apparatus having a bar code reader. The apparatus comprises a cell unit for housing magnetic tape cartridges, a drive unit for performing write and read operations on each magnetic tape cartridge, a cartridge access station for loading and unloading magnetic tape cartridges, an accessor for transferring each magnetic tape cartridge along a predetermined path, and a bar code reader station located along the path of the accessor. The bar code reader station includes a rotatable table on which to place a magnetic tape cartridge, and the bar code reader capable of reading a bar code from the magnetic tape cartridge placed on that table.

Abstract: A cartridge transferring robot for use in a library apparatus which is capable of certainly transferring a plurality of types of cartridges (media) to meet various needs from the users. In the present invention, for this purpose, in case where a plurality of types of cartridges are handled within the library apparatus, a picker section includes a type identifying mechanism to identify the type of the cartridge held in the picker section in a state of being gripped by a hand mechanism. Further, this invention is for transferring cartridges among a storage unit, a cartridge entry/exit station and a drive unit within a library apparatus storing a large number of cartridges such as magnetic tape cartridges and optical disk cartridges.

Abstract: Monoclonal antibody AT180 secreted by the hybridoma deposited at ECACC on Dec. 22, 1992 under No. 92122204, and monoclonal antibody AT270 secreted by the hybridoma deposited at ECACC on Jul. 7, 1993 under 93070774, each of which forms an immunological complex with a phosphorylated epitope of an antigen belonging to abnormally phosphorylated tau protein (PHF-tau) residing in the region spanning positions 143-254 with the following amino acid sequence:143 150 NH.sub.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for navigating a manifold in a high-dimensional space and to interface sound to movement. According to the system of the invention, an input movement sensor operates to capture movement of an object in relation to the manifold. The captured movement is then communicated to generate a control signal in a higher dimensional phase space. A window space translates information from the phase space to render a representation of the relation between the location of the object and the manifold. Sound quality changes are related to movement. Sound output is via a sound synthesizer which generates sound relating to input movement. In a preferred embodiment, movement of an object in relation to a manifold is captured in a three-dimensional virtual reality environment. In a preferred embodiment the manifold is sound generated. The captured movement is then communicated in order to generate a higher dimensional phase space.

Abstract: An AGC circuit is used for read channels of a disk storage apparatus, by controlling a level of a reading output of a head to be kept constant. This AGC circuit has a gain control amplifier and a feedback circuit for digitally feeding back an output thereof. A maximum current value of a current type D/A converter is varied for every zone in zone bit recording. A gain adjusting time of the AGC circuit can be therefore minimized in each zone. A GAP length in the respective zones can be thereby reduced, and a storage capacity is increased. A maximum current value of the current type D/A converter is varied in a read/write area and a data surface servo area on a disk storage medium. It is therefore feasible to minimize the gain adjusting time of the AGC circuit in each of the servo area and the read/write area. The current type D/A converter is set so that a plus-side maximum current value is different from a minus-side maximum current value.

Abstract: A tilt detector and tilt detecting method of detecting a tilt amount by using a tracking error signal, for example, a push-pull signal, obtained from the difference in quantities of light received by a photo detector halved in a direction vertical to the track direction, and correcting an error of tilt amount detected by the imbalance of the light beam on the mirror surface.An optical recording medium for emphasizing the asymmetricity to the track center of the tracking error signal by changing a spatial frequency in the direction vertical to the track at a specified portion to the spatial frequency in the direction vertical to the track at another portion.

Abstract: A library apparatus capable of being manufactured at low cost, in which a cartridge can be moved accurately without high mechanical precision. The library apparatus comprises a plurality of cells each for containing a cartridge, a reference cell unit, an accessor unit, a passage unit, at least a drum unit, at least a drive unit, a guide rail and an accessor. The accessor has a high-accuracy diagnostic cell. The error between the light axis of a photoelectric sensor of the accessor and the operation axis of a hand unit of the accessor is measured by inserting and withdrawing a high-accuracy diagnostic cartridge into and out of the diagnostic cell. Also, a position correction value and a sensor sensitivity correction value for the accessor actually moving to a cell are determined. On the basis of the error and correction values thus obtained, a table showing the relative positions of all the cells is prepared before the operation of the library apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a magnetic tape drive unit including a write circuit for writing data onto a magnetic tape, a read circuit for reading data written on the magnetic tape, a cartridge load circuit for controlling a load operation that a magnetic tape cartridge put into the drive unit is moved to a position where a hub of the cartridge is rotatable, and also controlling an unload operation reverse to the load operation, and a tape thread circuit for controlling a thread operation that the magnetic tape is drawn from the cartridge loaded and is then wound around a machine reel, and also controlling an unthread operation reverse to the thread operation. The magnetic tape drive unit further includes a power supply for supplying power to each circuit. An operating condition of each circuit is monitored and the supply of power from the power supply to each circuit is individually switched on or off by a control circuit, thereby allowing power saving.

Abstract: A magnetooptic recording medium having a writing layer and a readout layer on a substrate is used. Data is recorded in the writing layer of the magnetooptic recording medium at a recording density smaller than a diameter of a focal spot of a laser beam. The data recorded in the writing layer of the magnetooptic recording medium at the recording density smaller than the beam diameter is reproduced by setting a reproducing laser power to a proper value. A reproduction laser power calibrating module executes the reproducing operation for calibration of the magnetooptic recording medium, thereby deciding the optimum value of the laser power which is used upon reproduction.