Abstract: A navigation system provides guidance for performing a U-turn. The navigation system includes a processing unit, which acquires guidance route information and road information to determine whether the guidance route requires a turning around in a divided two-lane road. If a turning around is required, the processing unit specifies an extension distance of a connection road of the divided two-lane road. U-turn guidance is provided if the extension distance is at or below a predetermined length, or otherwise, to guidance is provided to prompt a double turn.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprised of at least dielectric particles having barium titanate as its main ingredient, wherein the ratio of dielectric particles having a surface diffusion structure comprised of a main ingredient phase comprised of the main ingredient and a diffusion phase present around the main ingredient phase with respect to said dielectric particles is 60% or more and the ratio of dielectric particles having a domain in the main ingredient phase with respect to the dielectric particles having the surface diffusion structure is 20% or less. According to the present invention, a dielectric ceramic composition and electronic device realizing good high temperature accelerated life can be provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition including dielectric particles comprising a main ingredient phase having barium titanate as its main ingredient and a diffusion phase present at the periphery of said main ingredient phase, wherein when an average value of the depth where sub ingredient elements present at said diffusion phase diffuses from a surface of said diffusion phase toward a center of said dielectric particle is designated as an average diffusion depth, a dispersion of the average diffusion depth among the dielectric particles is, in terms of CV value, 5 to 30%. According to the present invention, an electronic device excellent in all of the dielectric constant, high temperature accelerated life, TC bias, and IR temperature dependency can be provided.

Abstract: A structure for mounting an electric motor in a vehicle, comprises: a mounting frame detachably fixed to a body component of the vehicle by a bolt; an upward-projecting bracket, which is upwardly projected from the mounting frame, being attached to the body component of the vehicle; a bolt hole, in which the bolt is inserted, being formed on the upward-projecting bracket; and a downward-projecting bracket, which is downwardly projected from the mounting frame, being connected to the electric motor. Both the mounting frame and the downward-projecting bracket are set apart from an axis of the bolt hole.

Abstract: A ceramic capacitor having a ceramic body and terminal electrodes, the ceramic body being substantially a rectangular parallelopiped in shape, the terminal electrodes being provided at the two ends of the ceramic body in the length direction, each terminal electrode being provided to cover one end face of the ceramic body in the length direction, part of the two surfaces in the width direction, and part of the two surfaces in the thickness direction, wherein, when the length of the ceramic body is L1 and the maximum lengths of the terminal electrodes at the two surfaces of the ceramic body in the width direction are L3 and L4, 0?(|L4?L3|/L1)?0.0227 is satisfied. One surface among the two surfaces of the ceramic body in the width direction is the paste introduction side in the roller coating, while the other surface is the paste escape side in the roller coating.

Abstract: A multilayer capacitor comprises a ceramic sintered body, an internal electrode disposed in the ceramic sintered body, and an external electrode disposed on an external surface of the ceramic sintered body. The external electrode has a first electrode layer formed on the external surface of the ceramic sintered body, a second electrode layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a conductive resin layer formed on the second electrode layer. The internal electrode and the first electrode layer consist primarily of a base metal. The second electrode layer consists primarily of a noble metal or a noble metal alloy. The conductive resin layer contains a noble metal or a noble metal alloy as a conductive material.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition comprised of at least dielectric particles having barium titanate as its main ingredient, wherein the ratio of dielectric particles having a surface diffusion structure comprised of a main ingredient phase comprised of the main ingredient and a diffusion phase present around the ingredient phase with respect to said dielectric particles is 60% or more the ratio of dielectric particles having a domain in the main ingredient phase with respect to the dielectric particles having the surface diffusion structure is 20% or less. According to the present invention, a dielectric ceramic composition and electric device realizing good high temperature accelerated life can be provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition including dielectric particles comprising a main ingredient phase having barium titanate as its main ingredient and a diffusion phase present at the periphery of said main ingredient phase, wherein when an average value of the depth where sub ingredient elements present at said diffusion phase diffuses from a surface of said diffusion phase toward a center of said dielectric particle is designated as an average diffusion depth, a dispersion of the average diffusion depth among the dielectric particles is, in terms of CV value, 5 to 30%. According to the present invention, an electronic device excellent in all of the dielectric constant, high temperature accelerated life, TC bias, and IR temperature dependency can be provided.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition including dielectric particles and grain boundary phases present among these dielectric particles, wherein when measuring a concentration of Si and/or element “A” contained in the grain boundary phases (where, “A” is at least one element selected from cationic elements with an effective ion radius in sixfold coordination of 0.065 nm to 0.085 nm), the concentration of the Si and/or element “A” disperses depending on the position in the grain boundary phases, and the dispersion of the concentration of Si and/or elmemt “A” in the grain boundary phases is, in terms of CV value, larger than 10% and less than 58%. According to the present invention, a dielectric ceramic composition and an electronic device excellent in capacity-temperature characteristic while realizing a good high temperature accelerated life can be realized.

Abstract: According to this invention, there is provided a playback device including a control unit which causes a rotational speed control unit to control the rotational speed of a drive unit on the basis of a first reference signal such that the rotational speed of the drive unit becomes almost equal to a rotational speed with which second data can be played back from a second recording area, by causing a playback unit to move to a first recording area of a disc-like recording medium and causing a selection unit to select the first reference signal, and then causes the rotational speed control unit to control the rotational speed of the drive unit on the basis of a second reference signal by causing the playback unit to move to the second recording area and causing the selection unit to select the second reference signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing method comprising reading information of a data frame from an external to store the information in a memory, the data frame being defined to include an error detecting parity code, checking by use of the error detecting parity code whether or not there is an error in the information of the data frame stored in the memory, transferring, to a host, the information of the data frame stored in the memory, when any error is not found by the checking, and checking by use of the error detecting parity code whether or not there is an error in the information of the data frame transferred to the host, and retransferring the information of the data frame from the memory to the host, when the error is found.

Abstract: A ceramic capacitor having a ceramic body and terminal electrodes, the ceramic body being substantially a rectangular parallelopiped in shape, the terminal electrodes being provided at the two ends of the ceramic body in the length direction, each terminal electrode being provided to cover one end face of the ceramic body in the length direction, part of the two surfaces in the width direction, and part of the two surfaces in the thickness direction, wherein, when the length of the ceramic body is L1 and the maximum lengths of the terminal electrodes at the two surfaces of the ceramic body in the width direction are L3 and L4, 0?(|L4-L3|/L1)?0.0227 is satisfied. One surface among the two surfaces of the ceramic body in the width direction is the paste introduction side in the roller coating, while the other surface is the paste escape side in the roller coating.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a shaped steel beam having a strong bonding force with respect to concrete, and to obtain a wall with a reduced thickness. An H-beam has a plurality of projections on an inner face, and satisfies the conditions P/h?10 and P/b2?4, where b2 represents the upper-side width of the projections, h represents the projection height, and P represents the projection pitch in a cross section perpendicular to the inner face having the projections. A wall uses the H-beam as a structural member. In the wall, H-beams stand at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction of the wall with outer faces of flanges pointing toward the surface of the wall.

Abstract: A ceramic capacitor having a ceramic body and terminal electrodes, the ceramic body being substantially a rectangular parallelopiped in shape, the terminal electrodes being provided at the two ends of the ceramic body in the length direction, each terminal electrode being provided to cover one end face of the ceramic body in the length direction, part of the two surfaces in the width direction, and part of the two surfaces in the thickness direction, wherein, when the length of the ceramic body is L1 and the maximum lengths of the terminal electrodes at the two surfaces of the ceramic body in the width direction are L3 and L4, 0?|(L4?L3|/L1?0.0227 is satisfied. One surface among the two surfaces of the ceramic body in the width direction is the paste introduction side in the roller coating, while the other surface is the paste escape side in the roller coating.

Abstract: A multilayer capacitor comprises a ceramic sintered body, an internal electrode disposed in the ceramic sintered body, and an external electrode disposed on an external surface of the ceramic sintered body. The external electrode has a first electrode layer formed on the external surface of the ceramic sintered body, a second electrode layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a conductive resin layer formed on the second electrode layer. The internal electrode and the first electrode layer consist primarily of a base metal. The second electrode layer consists primarily of a noble metal or a noble metal alloy. The conductive resin layer contains a noble metal or a noble metal alloy as a conductive material.

Abstract: A disk device has a reading portion that reads out from a disk having a rewritable area, a plurality of defect management areas and a plurality of position information areas indicating an optimum position used for reproduction in the plurality of the defect management areas, a recording portion that records information in the rewritable area or the defect management area, a reproducing portion which reproduces information read out by the reading portion and stored in the rewritable area based on given defect management information, and a control portion that reads out a plurality of defect management information based on the plurality of the position information stored in the position information area and controls the reading portion and the recording portion so as to repair defect management information which fails to be read out corresponding to defect management information which is read out successfully.

Abstract: A disk apparatus has reader unit which reads disk having re-writable storage area, a plurality of defect management areas, and a plurality of location information areas that indicate the location of optimum one to be played back in the plurality of defect management areas, and which outputs readout signal, playback unit which plays back information stored in the rewritable storage area in response to the readout signal of the reader unit on the basis of given defect management information, and controller unit which, when all the plurality of location information stored in the location information areas are accessed and some of them but not all are read out successfully, selects the latest location information among the plurality of location information read out successfully and controls the playback unit to execute playback operation on the basis of one item of the defect management information specified by the selected latest location information.

Abstract: Terminal electrodes 11 and 12 of a main body 2 of a multilayer capacitor 1 are connected to electrode connection parts 21A and 22A of a pair of external terminals 21 and 22 formed by a metal material. At the bottom part of the electrode connection part 21A, an external connection part 21B connected to the electrode connection part 21A is formed. At the bottom part of the electrode connection part 22A, an external connection part 22B connected to the electrode connection part 22A is formed. The widths of the terminal electrodes 11 and 12 and the widths of the external connection parts 21B and 22B are substantially the same, but the widths of the electrode connection parts 21A and 22A are formed narrower. Due to this, propagation of vibration can be suppressed and generation of noise reduced.

Abstract: A laminate type electronic component 1 has, at least, a dielectric part 2 containing a dielectric as a constituent material, and a pair of a first external electrode 31 and a second external electrode 32, each disposed in close contact with the dielectric part 2, opposing each other by way of the dielectric part 2. The dielectric part 2 has laminated dielectric layers 21a to 21f; and at least two internal electrodes 23a to 23e disposed one by one between layers adjacent each other in the dielectric layers 21a to 21f, while each being electrically connected to one of the first external electrode 31 and second external electrode 32. At least one of the internal electrodes 23a to 23e is electrically connected to the first external electrode 31, and at least one of the internal electrodes 23a to 23e is electrically connected to the second external electrode 32.

Abstract: Gate electrode lines 11 formed on glass substrate 3 are separated by separating portions 32 for respective pixels 5 to shorten lengths of gate electrode lines 11. Both end portions of gate electrode lines 11 separated by separating portions 32 are electrically connected by conductive films 42 made from the same materials as signal electrode lines 13. When glass substrate 3 is lifted up while glass substrate 3 is charged with static electricity, the increases in voltages at gate insulation film 31 provided between gate electrode lines 11 and polycrystalline semiconductor film 22 are effectively suppressed so that electrostatic destruction of gate electrode lines 11 can be prevented.