Abstract: A wire harness includes a first connector and a second connector respectively provided at opposite ends of a cable, protective members that are arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the cable and cover the cable, a first fixing member that is provided on the protective member closest to the first connector and configured to fix the wire harness to a mounting target, and a second fixing member that is provided on the protective member closest to the second connector and configured to fix the wire harness to the mounting target. The cable is covered with the protective members in an entire region between the first fixing member and the second fixing member. End portions of each pair of the protective members that are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction overlap with each other to slide on each other, thereby forming a sliding portion.

Abstract: An optical disc device is disclosed. The optical disc device includes a thermal head that is disposed at a side opposite to an optical pickup, which irradiates a laser beam for writing and erasing information, relative to a mounted optical disc, and is configured to bring a thermal head into contact with a label, which is made of a thermosensitive information display film attached on a label-side surface of the mounted optical disc, to write visible information on the label. The optical disc device also includes a low-speed rotation mechanism configured to rotate the optical disc at a low speed by a motor when the thermal head writes visible information on a label, in addition to a high-speed rotation mechanism, such as a spindle motor, configured to rotate the optical disc at high speed when the optical pickup records or reproduces the information.

Abstract: An advertiser registers advertisement data in a server of a TV station. An advertisement presenting apparatus receives a video signal and an audio signal of a TV program, information about the program, and the advertisement data. A control section starts recording the TV program in a recording/reproducing section in response to a request from a user. When finishing recording, the control section causes a printing section to print information, which allows the user to easily grasp recorded contents, and an advertisement image based on the advertisement data on the top surface of an information recording medium, such as a DVD. The control section transmits an advertisement print notification to the server of the TV station. Having receiving the advertisement print notification, the server computes an advertising rate and charges the advertiser for the rate.

Abstract: When an optical recording device of a recording apparatus that is for executing optical recording of information on an optical disk records data on an optical disk, it obtains information by which the content of the data optically recorded can be guessed from the data recorded or from data of the recording apparatus. An image representing the obtained information by which the content of the data can be guessed is formed on a thermosensitive medium provided on the optical disk.

Abstract: A recoding apparatus includes an optical recording device that optically records information on an optical disk and an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a thermosensitive medium provided on the optical disk. When a moving image of a TV broadcast program is recorded on the optical disk by the optical recording device, it is possible to obtain information of TV broadcast such as a TV broadcast itself, an electronic program guide and the like, information held by the present recording apparatus or information relating to the program recorded by the optical recording device from information recorded on the optical disk. Then, the obtained information is image-formed on the thermosensitive medium provided on the optical disk by the image forming device.