Abstract: A motor and a fan device are provided. The motor includes a motor bracket; a conductive shaft fixed to a front surface side of the motor bracket; a rotor rotatably supported on the shaft; a stator fixed to the front surface side of the motor bracket inside the rotor and wound with a plurality of coils for generating a magnetic field to rotate the rotor; a substrate, a front surface thereof mounted with a driver circuit for controlling magnetic field generation by the coils; and a driver case fixed to a rear surface side of the motor bracket and forming an accommodation space accommodating the substrate between itself and the motor bracket. A positive wiring of the driver circuit is mounted outside a region on the substrate overlapping the shaft when the motor is viewed from an axial direction of the shaft.

Abstract: The present invention controls, within a frequency range, an output command value not to exceed the upper limit of an output command permitted by a high-frequency amplifier. A method for controlling a high-frequency power supply device and the high-frequency power supply device involve performing frequency control within a frequency range of variable frequencies, limiting the upper limit of an output command value for controlling an output of a high-frequency amplifier within the frequency range of variable frequencies on the basis of an output limit value, and thereby preventing damaging of the high-frequency amplifier caused by an excessive command.

Abstract: A driver is provided. A driver (1) includes an aluminum substrate (10) to which electronic components (13) are joined, and a resin member (20) that covers the electronic components (13). The resin member (20) has a first resin portion (21) that covers the electronic components (13) and a second resin portion (22) that covers the first resin portion (21). The hardness of the first resin portion (21) is lower than the hardness of the second resin portion (22).

Abstract: A driver is provided. A driver (1) includes an aluminum substrate (10) to which electronic components (13) are joined, and a resin member (20) that covers the electronic components (13). The resin member (20) has a first resin portion (21) that covers the electronic components (13) and a second resin portion (22) that covers the first resin portion (21). The hardness of the first resin portion (21) is lower than the hardness of the second resin portion (22).

Abstract: An azo compound of the present invention is represented by the general formula (1): (wherein, R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydroxy group, or a polymerizable functional group selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acryloyl group, a (meth)acryloyloxy group, a (meth)acrylamide group, a vinyl group, a vinyloxy group, and a maleimide group; X1 represents single bond when R1 is a hydroxy group and represents a linking group represented by -(A1-B1)m- when R1 is a polymerizable functional group; X2 represents a single bond when R2 is a hydroxy group and represents a linking group represented by -(A2-B2)n- when R2 is a polymerizable functional group; R3 and R4 each independently represents —OR7, a hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or —CONR8R9; and R5 and R6 each independently represents a carboxy group, a sulfo group, a nitro group, amino group, or a hydroxy group).

Abstract: An azo compound of the present invention is represented by the general formula (1): (wherein, R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydroxy group, or a polymerizable functional group selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acryloyl group, a (meth)acryloyloxy group, a (meth)acrylamide group, a vinyl group, a vinyloxy group, and a maleimide group; X1 represents single bond when R1 is a hydroxy group and represents a linking group represented by -(A1-B1)m- when R1 is a polymerizable functional group; X2 represents a single bond when R2 is a hydroxy group and represents a linking group represented by -(A2-B2)n- when R2 is a polymerizable functional group; R3 and R4 each independently represents —OR7, a hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or —CONR8R9; and R5 and R6 each independently represents a carboxy group, a sulfo group, a nitro group, amino group, or a hydroxy group).

Abstract: The present invention provides a photo-alignment layer for a liquid crystal display device, which has good liquid crystal display device characteristics such as a good voltage holding ratio and also has good alignment stability and sufficient resistance to light and heat. The photo-alignment layer is manufactured by coating a polymerizable monomer having at least one photo-alignment moiety, which carries out a photo-alignment function by the photo dimerization reaction, and at least two polymerizable maleimide groups per molecule on a substrate, and exposing the coating layer to light to cause the photo dimerization reaction of the structural unit and the photopolymerization reaction of the polymerizable maleimide group, thereby to form a crosslinked polymeric layer and to enable the polymeric layer to carry out the photo-alignment function.

Abstract: A photo-alignment layer having excellent long-term stability to light and heat is manufactured by coating a material for the photo-alignment layer, which contains a dichroic dye having two or more polymerizable groups per molecule, on a substrate, and exposing the coating layer to polarized light, thereby imparting a photo-alignment function, and polymerizing the polymerizable groups by heating or light exposure.

Abstract: A photo-alignment layer having excellent long-term stability to light and heat is manufactured by coating a material for the photo-alignment layer, which contains a dichroic dye having two or more polymerizable groups per molecule, on a substrate, and exposing the coating layer to polarized light, thereby imparting a photo-alignment function, and polymerizing the polymerizable groups by heating or light exposure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photo-alignment layer for a liquid crystal display device, which has good liquid crystal display device characteristics such as a good voltage holding ratio and also has good alignment stability and sufficient resistance to light and heat. The photo-alignment layer is manufactured by coating a polymerizable monomer having at least one photo-alignment moiety, which carries out a photo-alignment function by the photo dimerization reaction, and at least two polymerizable maleimide groups per molecule on a substrate, and exposing the coating layer to light to cause the photo dimerization reaction of the structural unit and the photopolymerization reaction of the polymerizable maleimide group, thereby to form a crosslinked polymeric layer and to enable the polymeric layer to carry out the photo-alignment function.

Abstract: In order to reduce an impact noise which is made when a pen lifting rail (5) is swung up into contact with a pen support arm (4) in a writing apparatus wherein the arm is swung up and down by swinging the rail up and down, in the present invention, immediately before the pen lifting rail (5) being swung up by de-energizing a solenoid, which is energized to swing down the rail, comes into contact with the bottom of the pen support arm (4), the solenoid is instantaneously energized to slow down the upward swinging of the rail to reduce the impact noise.

Abstract: An optical recording medium of the type whereby information is recorded and reproduced by utilizing a change of the reflectance of an irradiated portion, caused by irradiating a recording film formed on a substrate with laser beams is described. The recording film in this optical recording medium has a three-layer structure comprised of a layer containing at least tin and selenium and layers of a passive state-forming metal or an oxide thereof, contiguous to both sides of said layer containing tin and selenium. A film of a phthalocyanine compound having a light transmission of at least 80% at a wavelength of 770 to 850 nm is disposed between the recording film and the substrate.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is disclosed, which has a substrate and a recording film formed on the substrate. The recording film has a film comprising tin as the main component and passive state-forming metal layers formed on both sides of the tin film. The optical recording medium has a high recording sensitivity, a good signal quality and a high reliability. The optical recording medium is prepared by forming a first passive state-forming metal layer, a film comprising tin as the main component and a second passive state-forming metal layer in sequence on a substrate, and preferably heating the thus-obtained laminate.