Abstract: Provided is a medical strap having an upper strip and a lower strip. An upper surface of the upper strip is a rough surface, while a lower surface thereof has floss disposed thereon. A plurality of hooks are disposed on an upper surface of the lower strip, and a lower surface of the lower strip is a smooth surface. Transverse and longitudinal parting lines are formed in a region on the upper strip, and therefore movable and securing portions are formed. A medical tubing is secured by the movable and securing portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fastening strap for disposable absorbing articles comprising a fabric backing and a hook strap on which a plurality of hooks are formed for releasably engaging loops on a loop strap of the disposable absorbing articles, wherein the hook strap is secured directly to the fabric backing by means of fusion bonding to form patterns on the fastening strap to thereby producing a fastening strap for disposable absorbing articles in a more simple process without using any adhesive. A method for manufacturing this fastening strap and a disposable absorbing article including this fastening strap are also provided.

Abstract: A hook, in a mechanical fastener, includes a hook body having a base, at least one hook arm and a hook body side-curved portion corresponding to the at least one hook arm, the at least one hook arm including a hook end and a neck portion between the hook body and the hook end, the neck portion having an inner curved portion opposing to the hook body side-curved portion. The hook body side-curved portion is defined by a portion of a circumference of a first circle, the inner curved portion of the neck portion is defined by a portion of a circumference of a second circle and the hook end is defined by a portion of a circumference of a third circle.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-reflecting strip for a liquid crystal display device. The light-reflecting strip includes a light-reflecting substrate having a configuration surface and a smooth surface; a light-reflecting base layer coated on the configuration surface; a reflecting layer deposited on the light-reflecting base layer by evaporation deposition; a high transmittance colorant layer printed on the reflecting layer by means of a screen printing with a screen having a mesh number greater than 300; an adhesive layer applied on the smooth surface of the light-reflecting substrate; and a release paper detachably adhered to the adhesive layer. Another aspect of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including the light-reflecting strip.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a fastening strap assembly for used in a foam article. The fastening strap assembly includes a substrate having two sidewalls each formed along one side thereof in a longitudinal direction and spaced apart from each other; a substantially fishbone-shaped fastening member disposed between the sidewalls and adhered to the substrate, the fastening member having an elongate central rib and a plurality of fastening parts laterally extending from either sides of the rib and longitudinally spaced apart from each other, each fastening part having a plurality of hooks formed on a upper surface thereof; and a magnetic layer disposed between the substrate and the fastening member. The fastening strap assembly of the present invention has a unique sideway bending/curving function. Another aspect of the present invention provides a foam article, such as a seat cushion, including the sideway-bendable fastening strap assembly.

Abstract: A system includes a self-servo-write (SSW) module, a read module, and a write module. The SSW module writes servo spirals on a magnetic medium of a hard disk drive (HDD) via a write head of the HDD. The read module reads the servo spirals via a read head of the HDD and generates read signals. The write module writes non-servo data on the magnetic medium via the write head based on the read signals before the SSW module writes servo wedges on the magnetic medium.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a novel method for forming a loop member of a hook-and-loop fastener assembly. According to one embodiment, the method comprises continuously providing a plurality of yarns in a predetermined pattern; plastically deforming the yarns into a desired loop shape; continuously providing a web of substrate; and directly securing the yarns that have been plastically deformed into a desired loop shape to the substrate with a bonding process, thereby a loop member of a hook-and-loop fastener assembly having both a high fastening strength and a high engagement stability may be manufactured speedily, massively and at a low cost. The embodiments of the present invention also provide an apparatus for performing the method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method for forming hook elements directly on a fabric substrate. In the method of present invention, melted plastic material is injected into cavities of a molding roll; excessive plastic material is scraped from a peripheral surface of the molding roll with a scrapper; a web of fabric substrate is bonded to the hooks molded in the cavities through a thermo-pressing process by using a thermo-pressing roll; and the combined hooks and fabric substrate is cooled and removed from the molding roll to form a fabric material with a hook strap. The present invention also provides an apparatus for performing the method of the present invention.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel hook and an injection molded hook strap of a mechanical fastener including the hook. The hook of the present invention can effectively mitigate/eliminate the stress concentration and plastic deformation problem of the injection molded hook and the destruction problem of the injection molded hooks and loops by redesigning the mutual structural relationship between the curvature of the hook body and the neck portion of the curved hook arm and the hook end, so as to provide the functionalities of prolonging the effective lifetime of the hooks and the loops, extending the engaging duration between the hooks and the loops, and enhancing the engagement strength between the hooks and the loops.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a light-reflecting strip for a liquid crystal display device. The light-reflecting strip includes a light-reflecting substrate having a configuration surface and a smooth surface; a light-reflecting base layer coated on the configuration surface; a reflecting layer deposited on the light-reflecting base layer by evaporation deposition; a high transmittance colorant layer printed on the reflecting layer by means of a screen printing with a screen having a mesh number greater than 300; an adhesive layer applied on the smooth surface of the light-reflecting substrate; and a release paper detachably adhered to the adhesive layer. Another aspect of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including the light-reflecting strip.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a fastening strap assembly for used in a foam article. The fastening strap assembly includes a substrate having two sidewalls each formed along one side thereof in a longitudinal direction and spaced apart from each other; a substantially fishbone-shaped fastening member disposed between the sidewalls and adhered to the substrate, the fastening member having an elongate central rib and a plurality of fastening parts laterally extending from either sides of the rib and longitudinally spaced apart from each other, each fastening part having a plurality of hooks formed on a upper surface thereof; and a magnetic layer disposed between the substrate and the fastening member. The fastening strap assembly of the present invention has a unique sideway bending/curving function. Another aspect of the present invention provides a foam article, such as a seat cushion, including the sideway-bendable fastening strap assembly.

Abstract: A disk drive has multiple disk surfaces and corresponding heads, each disk surface includes multiple regions, and each head is for recording on and playback of information from a corresponding disk surface. The data track density in a first region on a first disk surface is different than the data track density in a second region on a second disk surface, and the first and second regions are radially similarly situated regions. A method of sequentially accessing data in the first and second regions includes sequentially accessing data tracks in the first region and then sequentially accessing data tracks in the second region.

Abstract: A power factor correction circuit used for regulating the phase of a DC current outputted from a rectifier unit in a power supply includes an energy inductor, an output diode, a switch unit, a pulse width modulation unit, a sensing resistor, and a converter transformer. The converter transformer utilizes the DC current outputted from the rectifier unit to generate an induced current, which will pass through the two ends of the sensing resistor to produce a reference voltage, thereby the pulse width modulation unit can produce the duty cycle for the switch unit according to the reference voltage, so that the switch unit can regulate the phase of the DC current through controlling the flowing direction of the DC current.

Abstract: A disk drive has multiple disk surfaces and corresponding heads, each disk surface includes multiple regions, and each head is for recording on and playback of information from a corresponding disk surface. The data track density in a first region on a first disk surface is greater than the data track density in a first region on a second disk surface, the data track density in a second region on the first disk surface is less than the data track density in a second region on the second disk surface, the first regions are radially similarly situated regions and the second regions are radially similarly situated regions.

Abstract: A data storage device has multiple storage media surfaces and corresponding heads, each storage media surface includes multiple regions, and each head is for recording on and playback of information from a corresponding storage media surface. A method of defining a storage format for the storage media surfaces includes reading data from each region on each storage media surface with the corresponding head, measuring a record/playback performance of each head for each region on each corresponding storage media surface based on the data read from the regions, and selecting a track density for each region on each storage media surface based on the measured record/playback performance of the corresponding head for the region.

Abstract: A method of defining storage format in a data storage device having a plurality of storage media and a plurality of corresponding data transducer heads, each transducer head for recording on and playback of information from a corresponding storage medium. A storage format is defined in at least one region on each storage medium, wherein each region includes a plurality of concentric tracks for recording on and playback of information. The method includes: moving each storage medium with respect to the corresponding transducer head and reading data from each storage medium with the corresponding transducer head; measuring a record/playback performance capability of each transducer head; selecting a group of track densities, one track density for each region on a storage medium, based on the measured record/playback performance capability of the corresponding transducer head.