Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: an indicator configured to indicate an operation status of a device; a switch configured to receive an input; a time determination module configured to determine whether an input time during which the input is continually received by the switch exceeds a predetermined first time; a lighting controller, when the time determination module determines that the input time passes the first time, configured to control the indicator so as to be turned on in a first lighting pattern; a detector configured to detect an end of the input received by the switch; and a processor, when the time determination module determines that the input time is greater than or equal to the first time and the detector detects the end of the input received by the switch, configured to perform predetermined first processing.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a magnetic head for perpendicular recording, includes a slider including a facing surface opposed to a recording medium, and a head portion on the slider and configured to perform information processing for the recording medium. The head portion includes a main pole configured to apply a perpendicular recording magnetic field to the recording medium, a recording coil configured to excite the main pole, a write shield pole opposing the main pole across a write gap, side shields arranged individually on opposite sides of the main pole in a track width direction and magnetically isolated from the main pole, and low-flux-density layers formed of a material having a saturation magnetic flux density lower than that of the main pole, located between the main pole and the side shields, and configured to regulate magnetic fluxes flowing from the main pole to the side shields.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a Don't Disturb Service management system and implementation thereof. The system includes a Don't Disturb Service management center and a subscriber identify module with the Don't Disturb function. In the Don't Disturb Service management center, a content management device records the content of messages and sets attributes for each recorded message; a downlink instruction sending and processing device selects the corresponding message from the content management device according to the service identifier included in the service request up-sent by the subscriber identify module, and constructs the data short messages to be sent, with the content and attribute of the selected message and its attributes in the predetermined format.

Abstract: A voltage control circuit provides a test supply voltage during manufacturing and testing of a semiconductor device and provides an operational supply voltage after certification of the semiconductor device. The operational supply voltage is lower than the test supply voltage. The voltage control circuit includes a clamp circuit having a plurality of voltage regulation devices, typically diodes. The voltage regulation devices control an output of the clamp circuit. A voltage regulator is electrically coupled to the clamp circuit and generates a first control signal based upon the output of the clamp circuit. A charge pump then receives the control signal from the voltage regulator, and, based on the value of the control signal, the charge pump generates the test supply voltage. At least one bypass device is connected to at least one of the plurality of voltage regulation devices. The bypass device is activated following the certification of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: While steam is supplied to flow channels to heat inner cavity surfaces to a temperature equal to or higher than the heat distortion temperature of a molding resin, the resin mixed with a supercritical fluid is injected from an injection molding machine into a mold cavity. When the injection of a predetermined quantity of the resin is completed, the supply of the steam to the flow channels is stopped, and cooling water starts to be supplied to the flow channels. The inner cavity surfaces are thus quickly switched from a heated state to a cooled state, cooling and solidifying the resin into a molded product of good appearance which is free of broken cell marks on its surface.

Abstract: A mobile video system includes a first video source, a second video source, a first video monitor, a second video monitor, an audio signal receiver, and a wireless transmitter. One of the first video source and the second video source generates a first audiovisual signal. One of the first video monitor and the second video monitor receives a video portion of at least one of the first audiovisual signal and the second audiovisual signal. The wireless transmitter transmits an audio portion of one of the first audiovisual signal or the second audiovisual signal to the audio signal receiver. A video portion of the first audiovisual signal or the second audiovisual signal is displayed on the first video monitor, on the second video monitor, or on both the first video monitor and the second video monitor.

Abstract: A rough surface made of a doped polycrystal silicon film is formed on an amorphous silicon film disposed on a semiconductor substrate, by a method including the steps of: (a) activating dangling bonds present on a surface of an amorphous silicon film; (b) forming an amorphous silicon-polysilicon mixed-phase layer on the surface of the amorphous silicon film by contacting the dangling bonds with a gas containing silane gas and dopant gas while controlling the ratio of dopant gas to silane gas to bind silicon atoms and dopant atoms to the dangling bonds; and (c) annealing the amorphous silicon-polysilicon mixed-phase layer to form polysilicon grains therefrom, thereby forming a rough surface made of doped polysilicon film. Doping can be conducted after formation of the polysilicon grains.

Abstract: A power steering device for a vehicle includes: a wheel-steering generator adapted to be connected to an axle case comprising a differential gear and a pair of right and left axles having a common axis; right and left steering knuckles adapted to be connected to the right and left axles, respectively, to attach right and left steering wheels thereto; right and left tie rods disposed between the right steering knuckle and the right piston rod and between the left steering knuckle and the left piston rod, respectively, to transmit force from the right and left piston rods to the respective steering knuckles, thereby steering the respective wheels; and right and left coupling members which couple the right and left tie rods with the right and left piston rods, respectively.

Abstract: A thin film is formed on a substrate in a film-forming apparatus which has upper and lower electrodes between which radio-frequency power is applied in a processing chamber, and a heater is used to heat the lower electrode on which the substrate is loaded. In one lot, at least one substrate is processed. The electrode is heated at the end of a stand-by period between lots and before starting the film-forming process.

Abstract: A method of assembling electronic equipment using a work station which comprises a rotatable work surface, a fixed work surface and a support frame. The rotatable work surface is rotatably mounted to the fixed work surface which is, in turn, mounted to the support frame. The work station includes a locking mechanism positioned between the rotatable work surface and the fixed work surface for adjusting the rotational orientation of the rotatable work surface. The rotatable work surface and the fixed work surface are both made of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) safe material.

Abstract: A keratan sulfate hydrolase of an endo-.beta.-N-acetylglucosaminidase type, obtained by culturing Bacillus circulans KsT202, has reactivity on keratan polysulfate at high concentrations, an optimum pH of 4.5-6, stability at a pH of 6-7, an optimum temperature of 50-60.degree. C., thermostability at a temperature of 45.degree. C., and a molecular weight of approximately 200,000 dalton.

Abstract: An engine control system includes an inverse model which includes a forward model and a feedback loop, wherein an actuating parameter, such as the quantity of fuel injected from a fuel injector, outputted from the forward model is used as a controlled variable, such as the air-fuel ratio in an exhaust system, inputted into the inverse model through the feedback loop. The forward model has preferably a learning function using condition-indicating factors such as engine speed and throttle angle. Accuracy of the inverse model is improved and appropriate engine control can be realized even during a transient state of the engine.

Abstract: An acridine derivative metal complex of formula 2 having a large absorption in the near-infrared range and a reduced absorption in the visible range, which acridine derivative metal complex is used in a transparent recording medium: ##STR1## where M is a metal atom, and X is a negative ion.