Abstract: A data storage device has a closed loop extended park mode during spin down operation. A data storage device comprises a spindle motor configured to rotate one or more disks, and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to determine a value of current that is discharged from the spindle motor over time during a spin down of the spindle motor, and control a braking duty cycle for braking the spindle motor during the spin down such that the value of current discharged from the spindle motor over time does not exceed a selected current limit.

Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device comprising one or more disks, an actuator arm assembly comprising a voice coil motor (VCM), the VCM configured to operate in a first mode and a second, different mode, wherein the first mode corresponds to at least a first and a second setting, and a control circuitry configured to cause the VCM to seek towards a target track in the first mode using the first setting for a first duration, control transition of the VCM from the first to the second setting in the first mode, cause the VCM to seek towards the target track using the second setting for a second duration, and control transition of the VCM from the first to a second mode, wherein controlling the transitioning comprises seeking the VCM toward the target track in the second mode for a third duration.

Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device comprising one or more disks, an actuator arm assembly comprising a voice coil motor (VCM), the VCM configured to operate in a first mode and a second, different mode, wherein the first mode corresponds to at least a first and a second setting, and a control circuitry configured to cause the VCM to seek towards a target track in the first mode using the first setting for a first duration, control transition of the VCM from the first to the second setting in the first mode, cause the VCM to seek towards the target track using the second setting for a second duration, and control transition of the VCM from the first to a second mode, wherein controlling the transitioning comprises seeking the VCM toward the target track in the second mode for a third duration.

Abstract: A culturing method according to the present invention including a step of injecting cells extracted from a human body and a culture medium into a culture container, (2) a step of culturing cells while performing air ventilation and exchange of the culture medium in the culture container in which the culture medium and the cells are put, (3) a step of cleaning cultured cells which are cultured in the culture container and then withdrawing the cleaned cells from the culture container into a cell withdrawing vessel while some of the cleaned cells are left in the culture container, (4) a step of injecting a culture medium to the cultured cells left in the culture container in the step (3), and (5) a step of repetitively executing the step (2) and the step (3)

Abstract: A material for ameliorating skin tissue provided by the invention comprises, as a main component, a culture obtained by culturing cells or tissue fragments derived from human or other mammalian alveolar mucosa. Typically, 50% or more of the cells contained in the culture are fibroblasts, and having a high growth rate and a high productivity in vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEDF) and/or keratinocyte growth factor (KGF).

Abstract: A culturing method according to the present invention including a step of injecting cells extracted from a human body and a culture medium into a culture container, (2) a step of culturing cells while performing air ventilation and exchange of the culture medium in the culture container in which the culture medium and the cells are put, (3) a step of cleaning cultured cells which are cultured in the culture container and then withdrawing the cleaned cells from the culture container into a cell withdrawing vessel while some of the cleaned cells are left in the culture container, (4) a step of injecting a culture medium to the cultured cells left in the culture container in the step (3), and (5) a step of repetitively executing the step (2,) and the step (3).

Abstract: A material for ameliorating skin tissue provided by the invention comprises, as a main component, a culture obtained by culturing cells or tissue fragments derived from human or other mammalian alveolar mucosa. Typically, 50% or more of the cells contained in the culture are fibroblasts, and having a high growth rate and a high productivity in vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEDF) and/or keratinocyte growth factor (KGF).

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for effectively regenerating bone, and more specifically to provide a method for regenerating bone that is capable of treating patients suffering from bone defect or bone injury. The present invention provides a method for regenerating bone, which comprises culturing and/or transplanting mesenchymal cells in the coexistence of epithelial cells.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for regenerating tooth germ, and more specifically, to provide a method for regenerating tooth germ that enables the treatment of patients who have lost teeth or have had teeth damaged by dental diseases such as pyorrhea alveolaris or dental caries. The present invention provides a method for regenerating tooth germ by culturing tooth germ cells while giving mechanical stimulus to the cells, and a regenerated tooth germ.

Abstract: A cell culture method prepares first cells that are adhesion-dependent cells and monolayered or multilayered cells on a culture surface of a culture substrate, seeds second cells that are adhesion-dependent cells and are magnetized by allowing to have magnetic particles on the first cells, induces the second cells to a predetermined position on the first cells by magnetic force, and cultures the first cells and the second cells in a cell arrangement obtained by the magnetic induction. According to this cell culture method, after a cell sheet was prepared individually, cells can be multilayered without changing a temperature, peeling the monolayered sheet and laminating the monolayered sheets.

Abstract: Epidermal keratinocytes not incorporating magnetic particles therein and epidermal keratinocytes incorporating magnetic particles therein were seeded in a 24-well ultra-low-attachment plate, and cultured for one day after a neodymium magnet was placed outside the bottom of the well. As a result, control epidermal keratinocytes not incorporating magnetic particles therein did not adhere to the bottom of the well and did not form an undifferentiated cell sheet. On the contrary, epidermal keratinocytes incorporating magnetic particles therein, while being attracted to the bottom of the well by magnetic force, formed a multilayered cell sheet. This cell sheet could be easily recovered by removing the neodymium magnet placed outside the bottom of the well, then bringing a magnet having a hydrophilic film attached thereto close to the cell sheet from upside and to attract it via this hydrophilic film, and lifting it.

Abstract: The following are provided: a method for manufacturing artificial cartilages characterized in that undifferentiated mesenchymal cells are cultured in a cartilage differentiation inducing medium, and the cells are irradiated with ultrasound, as a method in which chondrocytes can be obtained in a short time in an amount sufficient for performing the treatment of cartilage disorder with surgical operation when a conservative therapy such as limitation of movement exhibits no effect, among various treatments of cartilage disorder; an artificial cartilage that has been produced by the method; and an apparatus for manufacturing artificial cartilages comprising a culture vessel containing cultured undifferentiated mesenchymal cells, an ultrasound transducer for applying ultrasound to the vessel, a control means for controlling the ultrasound, and a holding water-tank for installing the ultrasound transducer and the culture vessel in the holding water-tank in such a state that they are in contact with each other.