Abstract: Rotary support bodies which support both ends of a rod penetrating a manipulating knob body are formed by joining a first rotary support member which is arranged at one side of the manipulating knob body and supports one end of the rod and a second rotary support member which is arranged at another side of the manipulating knob body and supports another end of the rod, and one end of the rod is fixed to the second rotary support member, and another end of the rod is engaged with the first rotary support member. Accordingly, a manipulating knob can be mounted on a casing in a state the manipulating knob is mounted on the rotary support body.

Abstract: An AGC circuit is provided which includes a first AGC detector circuit that switches whether the AGC voltage is output or not, a second AGC detector circuit that always outputs the AGC voltage, a first resistor with a high impedance compared to a tuned frequency of which one end is connected to an output port of the first AGC detector circuit and the other end is connected to an output port of the second AGC detector circuit, and a switching element that is provided between the other end of the first resistor and a ground, in which an output source that outputs the AGC voltage to the amplifier can be switched to the first AGC detector circuit or the second AGC detector circuit by an On/Off operation of the switching element.

Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic head assembly, which includes magnetic heads, support plates, and a flexible wiring substrate that are integrally formed. The magnetic heads include heating elements for making head element parts protrude toward magnetic disks by thermal expansion, the support plate supports the magnetic head, the flexible wiring substrate is provided along the support plate and electrically connects the magnetic heads to a circuit system, and the magnetic head assembly and the magnetic disks are assembled in a case. The magnetic disk device includes a sensor and a floating distance control circuit. The sensor detects at least one of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity in the case. The floating distance control circuit increases or decreases current supplied to the heating element on the basis of the output of the sensor and controls the floating distance of the magnetic head so that the floating distance is constant.

Abstract: An attachment structure is provided for attaching a stator member of a rotating connector to a bracket fitted into a steering column while being positioned. The bracket is provided with engaging recess grooves having first and second reference surfaces each orthogonal to each other, which are arranged along the axial direction of a steering shaft, and the stator member is provided with engaging protrusions respectively inserted into the corresponding engaging recess grooves. An elastic tongue piece for elastically urging the engaging protrusions on the first reference surface is formed in the engaging recess groove. Elastic tongue pieces for elastically urging the engaging protrusions on the second reference surfaces are formed on the engaging protrusions.

Abstract: A control unit of a wireless connection terminal compares the received signal strength indicator of an access point currently connected to by the wireless connection terminal with the received signal strength indicator of a neighboring access point. If the difference between the two received signal strength indicators is higher than or equal to 40%, the connection to the current access point is severed and roaming in which the connection is switched to the neighboring access point is performed. Even when the difference between the two received signal strength indicators is not higher than or equal to 40%, roaming in which the connection is switched to the neighboring access point is performed if the received signal strength indicator of the access point to which the wireless connection terminal is currently connected becomes lower than or equal to 20%.

Abstract: The invention provides a variable tuning circuit capable of extending a variable range in a high frequency band, ensuring the value of L of an inductor to increase the value of Q of a circuit in a low frequency band, and preventing a reduction in gain, an increase in noise, and unstable oscillation. A variable tuning circuit includes: a first parallel resonance circuit that includes a varactor diode, a capacitor connected in series to the varactor diode, and a first inductor connected in parallel to the varactor diode and the capacitor; and a second parallel resonance circuit that includes a second inductor connected in parallel to the varactor diode with a direct current cut-off capacitor interposed therebetween. When the varactor diode has a maximum capacitance, a resonant frequency of the second parallel resonance circuit is set about a lowest frequency in a variable frequency range.

Abstract: A connector for connecting with an external terminal on an electronic component includes a spiral contact which is wound a plurality of turns. The spiral contact has a single projection that projects outwardly toward an outer circumference of the turns. When the spiral contact is in contact with the external terminal, the projection of the spiral contact comes into contact with the external terminal.

Abstract: A variable gain amplifying circuit includes a gate-grounded amplifying FET and a collector-grounded amplifying transistor. A gate voltage of the FET and a base voltage of the transistor are adjusted by a supplied AGC voltage. When an input RF signal has small amplitude, the gate voltage is increased by a high AGC voltage so as to increase a main current of the FET, thereby increasing a signal gain of the FET. When the input RF signal has large or medium amplitude, the gate voltage is decreased by a low AGC voltage so as to decrease a main current of the FET, thereby decreasing the signal gain of the FET.

Abstract: A thin-film magnetic head which can locally project a reproduction element toward a recording medium and a method of manufacturing the thin-film magnetic head are provided. The thin-film magnetic head includes a reproduction element, a recording element which is stacked on the reproduction element and has a pair of magnetic core layers and a coil layer configured to apply a recording magnetic field to the magnetic core layers, and a heat-emitting member emitting heat by electrification, which causes the reproduction element to project toward the recording medium by thermal expansion. The heat-emitting member is disposed below the coil layer.

Abstract: There is provided a printer which can suppress the variations in rotation speed of a platen and the forwarding speed of a recording medium when a recording unit abuts on a platen through the recording medium. The printer of the present invention includes a platen, a recording unit, and a brake. The brake presses a friction member to a smooth side surface of a rotation gear fixed a rotation shaft of the platen from the time point before the recording unit abuts on the platen through the recording medium. Accordingly, the platen rotates while constantly receiving a braking force by the braking device. Therefore, even though the recording unit abuts on the platen and the rotation speed of the platen is varied, the pulsation of the platen is suppressed.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head has coil layer formed in a space surrounded by a lower core layer, a protruding layer and a back gap layer. The top of these layers are planarized to a continuous flat surface. A lower magnetic pole layer, a gap layer, an upper magnetic pole layer and an upper core layer are formed on the flat surface and are precisely formed in a predetermined shape. The track width Tw can also be set to a predetermined dimension by the width of the upper magnetic pole layer at a surface facing the recording medium. Also, the magnetic path can be shortened to improve magnetic properties.

Abstract: A shift register circuit includes a first shift register having a plurality of stages connected in cascade, and a second shift register having more stages than the first shift register. The stages of the second shift register are divided into groups each formed of consecutive stages. The stages of the first shift register output pulse sequences having a predetermined number of consecutive pulses and having different phases from each other, to the stages constituting the groups of the second shift register as clock signals.

Abstract: An active matrix display device includes a pair of substrates, an optical modulation layer lying between the substrates, a plurality of pixel electrodes on one of the substrates, switching elements for driving the respective pixel electrodes provided in the vicinity of the pixel electrodes, and a reflective or transflective reflecting layer 138 formed on at least one substrate more distant from a viewer side. The reflecting layer has asymmetrical reflection properties.

Abstract: A controller is provided with an artificial retina chip. The artificial retina chip is connected to a display unit via a game machine body. Before starting the game, the artificial retina chip is instructed to recognize an image of frame of the display unit to store such image as the reference image. After starting the game, the controller is moved to recognize the image of frame of the display unit in order to detect the designated position by comparing the coordinate position data after the movement and the coordinate position data of the reference image.

Abstract: A magnetic head includes a slider having a recording and/or reproducing thin film element, and a flexure having an elastically deformable tongue piece, the slider and the flexure being bonded together and electrically connected with a conductive resin film. The conductive resin film includes at least one conductor containing carbon particles, carbon nano-tubes, or a metal nano-powder, a resin adhesive, and a metal conductive filler. The conduction-start voltage of the conductive resin film is set to 1.0 V or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a spin valve magnetic detecting element having large &Dgr;R. The positive or negative sign of the &bgr; value of a magnetic material constituting each of a first free magnetic sub-layer, a second free magnetic sub-layer and a pinned magnetic layer is defined so that the resistance values for spin-up conduction electrons are smaller than the resistance values for spin-down conduction electrons in all magnetic layers when magnetization of a free magnetic layer is changed to minimize the resistance value. In this case, the change &Dgr;R in resistance of the magnetic detecting element can be increased.

Abstract: A keyboard unit capable of making large the stroke of a key top and a sure click touch. In one aspect of the invention, the keyboard unit of the present invention comprises an elastic material such as a domed reversible return spring. In another aspect, a predetermined space is formed between a piezoelectric element and the base plate. The piezoelectric elements may extend underneath two support bodies from a first support body to a second support body. Each membrane switch and the return spring is depressed and reversed by a stem, wherein each of the piezoelectric elements is driven through the contact point of the respective membrane switch. The resulting driving force is transmitted to the respective key top through the stem. The stem is then elastically deformed and contracted by the inertia force pressing the key top to produce the stroke of the key top.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording head includes an auxiliary magnetic pole layer exposed at a surface facing a recording medium, a main magnetic pole layer deposited on the auxiliary magnetic pole layer with an insulating layer therebetween, a coil layer for applying a recording magnetic field to the auxiliary magnetic pole layer and the main magnetic pole layer, and a connecting layer placed on the auxiliary magnetic pole layer toward the back from the surface facing the recording medium. At the surface facing the recording medium, the upper base of the main magnetic pole layer is wider than the lower base so that the width in the track width direction of the main magnetic pole layer gradually increases with distance from the auxiliary magnetic pole layer. A method for making such a perpendicular magnetic recording head is also disclosed.

Abstract: In a submergence-detecting power-window apparatus, with a submergence-detecting circuit put in an inoperative state, a control unit turns on one of multiple control switches corresponding to the operation carried out on the window-opening-and-closing switch, a switch control unit applies a control voltage to a motor-driving unit through the turned-on control switch to drive the window-opening-and-closing motor in order to open or close the window; and with the submergence-detecting circuit put in an operative state by the car's submergence, a turned-on state of any one of the control switches is made ineffective and an operation carried out on the submergence-time window-opening switch causes a control voltage to be supplied to the motor-driving unit in order to open the window.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a chassis accommodating an impedance matching circuit. The impedance matching circuit is placed between an RF generator and a plasma excitation electrode. Magnetic probes for detecting a magnetic field generated at a slit in a sidewall of the chassis are placed axisymmetrically. The plasma processing apparatus also includes a feedback circuit for feeding back to an RF generator or a matching circuit so that a current detected by a current-detecting unit maintains a predetermined value.