Abstract: A vehicle drive recorder is provided for recording a signal onto a hard disk, such signal obtained while vehicle is in operation. The recorder inhibits data recording upon receipt of an inhibit signal. Inhibit canceling signal is also available.

Abstract: A video signal recording apparatus using an information recording medium, having: a unit for identifying and detecting a WO type information recording medium and a rewritable type information recording medium; a control unit for each of the WO type information recording medium and the rewritable type information recording medium; and a display apparatus for displaying a detection result of the detecting unit. In the video signal recording apparatus using the information recording medium, file management information to form a directory is recorded as intermediate information onto the information recording medium.

Abstract: In an apparatus for recording continuous information of sound or the like, when a disk device generating a seek sound is used as recording means, such state is prevented that seek sound is mixed as noise and is recorded. In an input processing system of an audio signal in an apparatus for performing sound recording to storage means generating seek noise of the disk or the like, cut-off period 203 is provided by the period when the seek noise 201 is generated, and mixing of the seek noise 201 in the audio signal is prevented, and at the same time, the audio signal during the cut-off period 203 is interpolated by other means or the seek noise level previously set is subtracted.

Abstract: A sporting rod member which is strong against flexure, which is improved in tough and balance when it is flexed, and which can be made finer in thickness and lighter in weight. The sporting rod member uses a solid rod (8). The solid rod (8) is made up of a solid-state core member (10) and an outer layer (12) formed of fiber reinforced resin and disposed on the outside of the core member (10). In the solid rod (8), most of reinforcing fibers that are used in at least one of the solid-state core member and outer layer and that extend substantially in the axial direction thereof have a longitudinal elastic modulus of 40 ton/mm2 or higher.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted information processing apparatus such as a car-navigation system detects that a key switch of the vehicle has been set up at a Lock position (i.e., the engine is stopped). After that, the apparatus performs data reproduction of data files in an order from the oldest, then re-recording the reproduced data files with no change added thereto. Here, the above-described data files, which are stored within a magnetic disk device built in the apparatus, have been not updated for a constant time-period. This re-recording prevents a data loss caused by a thermal decay in the case where the magnetic disk device is mounted inside the vehicle that is likely to have existed under a high-temperature environment for a long time-period.

Abstract: In a magnetic disk apparatus which is removably mounted or embedded to a host apparatus and intermittently accessed for recording/reproducing data, a RAM contained in the host apparatus is utilized for a portion or entirety of a buffer RAM for use in the intermittent access to accomplish a reduction in size and cost of the magnetic disk apparatus. In addition, the magnetic disk apparatus is controlled to rotate a magnetic disk at a variable rotational speed, and operated at a rotational speed at which the total power consumption is minimized in accordance with the capacity of the utilized buffer RAM and whether an access is made for recording or reproduction, thereby improving a power saving effect.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element comprising a substrate and provided thereon, a light emission layer and at least one layer of a hole injecting layer, a hole transporting layer, an electron injecting layer, and an electron transporting layer, two layers of the light emission layer and the at least one layer being adjacent to each other, the method comprising the steps of (a) providing a first coating solution employing a first organic solvent for one layer of the two layers and a second coating solution employing a second solvent for the other layer of the two layers, the first solvent being immiscible with the second solvent; (b) simultaneously coating the first and second coating solutions on the substrate so that the first coating solution is in contact with the second coating solution; and (c) drying the coated.

Abstract: A dielectric transmission line attenuator or terminator, which is used with a dielectric transmission line provided with two conductive plates substantially parallel to each other and a dielectric strip held between the two conductive plates. A resistor film pattern is provided along a surface defined where upper and lower parts of the dielectric strip are divided, and substantially parallel to the two conductive plates. The resistor film pattern and the two conductive plates form a transmission line, and the dielectric transmission line and the transmission line are coupled.

Abstract: An information processing device, wherein a set-top box (102) that houses a removable hard disk device (101) is connected to a monitor (103), and the set-top box (102) comprises a host unit (201) and a hard disk device (101). The host unit (201) comprises an HDD interface controller (202), a user interface controller (209), and the like.

Abstract: A light illuminating type switch with a good click rate and having a desired click characteristic near to that of a single member of a metal dome. Fixed contacts 7a are provided on a base sheet 7. On an upper side of the base sheet 7, a dome shaped movable contact 8 capable of electrically connecting the fixed contacts 7a on the base sheet by being elastically deformed is arranged. The surface of the dome shaped movable contact 8 is attached with a flexible EL sheet E by using adhering agents 9a and 9b via an insulating member 6 over a peripheral portion of the dome shaped movable contact 8. The EL sheet E is formed with cut portions 10 partially at positions along an outer peripheral edge of the dome shaped movable contact 8. At least a pair of the cut portions 10 are formed at symmetrical positions centering on the movable contact 8.

Abstract: Method of forming an as-grown film of a superconductor composed of the MgB2 compound which is made by simultaneous evaporation of magnesium and boron is provided. The as-grown film is superconductive without an annealing process to make the film superconductive. The present invention can be applied to fabricate an integrated circuit of the superconductor film, because the high temperature annealing process to make the as-grown film superconductive is not needed.

Abstract: A machining feed rate for machining a workpiece portion to be machined by a machining tool based upon a machining program is set by reading a data of the workpiece portion, by sectionalizing the workpiece portion in an area corresponding to a workpiece shape of the workpiece portion, and by determining a shape change point based upon a workpiece shape of the workpiece portion. The machining feed rate is set for each area and for each shape change point with reference to a predetermined parameter corresponding to an attribute of the each sectionalized area and corresponding to an attribute of the each determined shape change point.

Abstract: In a base station for use in a CDMA open loop control reverse channel interference correcting system for carrying out correction of a reverse channel interference, a base receiver receives a reverse transmission signal as a reverse received signal and measures received powers of the reverse received signal to produce measured received power values. An average power calculating section calculates an average of the measured received power values to produce a calculated average value. On the basis of the calculated average value and a reference value, a correction value calculating section calculates a correction value for making a mobile station increase a current transmission power so as to become larger than a previous transmission power. A transmitting section transmits information indicative of the correction value to the mobile station.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods forming the superconductor of as-grown film of MgB2 which is made with magnesium and boron ejected from a magnesium target and a boron target respectively each in simultaneously sputtering process. The as-grown film composed of a compound of magnesium and boron is a superconductor without annealed. The present invention can be applied to fabricate an integrated circuit of superconductor film, because the high temperature annealing process for the as-grown film of MgB2 is not needed.

Abstract: To provide a reading/printing apparatus and a reading apparatus by which the facility with which each unit is assembled and maintained can be significantly improved because steps of fixing and connecting individual units need not be performed in order, a printing apparatus, a control board, and a power supply are disposed inside a housing obtained by integrally forming a base portion serving as a bottom surface, side walls serving as outer side surfaces, and an opening surrounded by the side walls. The reading apparatus, the printing apparatus, the control board, and the power supply are discretely constituted. The housing includes a first housing integrally formed with enough strength to separately fix the base portion, lower portions of the side walls, the reading apparatus, the printing apparatus, the control board, and the power supply, and a second housing covering the opening and integrally forming upper portions of the side walls.

Abstract: An end face of a transparent electrode or a backside electrode of an EL element is not bared in an end surface of an outer periphery of an EL insert molding or an end surface of an inner periphery of a through hole portion and the end face of the transparent electrode or the backside electrode of the EL element does not short-circuit with arranged other members. A decorative film is provided on a surface side, an EL element 3 provided on a backside of the decorative film, and molding resin is injected onto a backside surface of the EL element to form a molding resin portion. An end potion of the decorative film is provided to be shifted outwardly than an end portion of the EL element. The end portion of the EL element is covered with the end portion of the decorative film in a manner that the end portion of the decorative film is bent in a projection molding of the molding resin.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an EL insert molding which can manufacture the EL element without damage while a temperature and a pressure of resin to be injected are maintained at an optimum forming condition. A luminous portion and a non-luminous portion are provided in an EL element. The EL element is inserted in a cavity of an injection die, and resin is injected into the cavity to manufacture the EL insert molding. In the cavity, a gate portion is provided at a position opposite to the non-luminous portion of the EL element. A decorative film 2 may be formed integrally in front of the EL element.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording sheet comprising a substrate having thereon a porous layer formed by a process comprising the steps of:

Abstract: An upstream channel overload detection circuit for a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile communication system includes a reception electric field measurement section, noise level storage section, threshold storage section, and comparing section. The reception electric field measurement section detects the electric field strength levels of reception signals from a plurality of mobile terminals. The noise level storage section stores an output from the reception electric field measurement section as a noise level when there is no transmission power of the plurality of mobile terminals. The threshold storage section stores, as a threshold level, an output from the reception electric field measurement section which corresponds to an allowable number of transmissions from the plurality of mobile terminals.

Abstract: To remove the danger of breaking electrodes, to stabilize the quality of the device, and to facilitate the connection of the device to an EL-driving circuit. The surface of a substrate, outer packaging case 1 is integrated with a decorative film A and an EL device B. The upper case 1a of the outer packaging case 1 has through-holes 10 through which the transparent electrode layer 5 and the back electrode layer 8 that constitute the EL device B are partly exposed out. Contact pins 13 are elastically contacted with the transparent electrode layer 5 and the back electrode layer 8 via the through-holes 10, and the electrodes are thereby connected to an EL-driving circuit.