Abstract: A head gimbal assembly includes a suspension board with circuit, a pair of piezoelectric elements mounted on the suspension board with circuit to be expandable/contractible, and a slider on which a magnetic head is mounted and which is mounted on the suspension board with circuit and configured to be able to swing with expansion/contraction of the pair of piezoelectric elements. The pair of piezoelectric elements are placed on the suspension board with circuit such that a first imaginary line extending along an expanding/contracting direction of one of the piezoelectric elements crosses a second imaginary line extending along an expanding/contracting direction of the other piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A method for producing a suspension board with circuit includes the steps of (7) removing a first electroless plating layer corresponding to a first terminal and/or a second electroless plating layer corresponding to a second terminal by etching, (8) removing a metal supporting board in contact with the lower surface of a first conductive layer filling the inside of a first opening portion, and (9) providing an electrolytic plating layer on the surface of the first terminal with the first electroless plating layer removed and/or the surface of the second terminal with the second electroless plating layer removed and the lower surface of the first conductive layer exposed from the inside of the first opening portion by electrolytic plating supplying electricity from the metal supporting board.

Abstract: A suspension board with circuit includes a metal supporting board, an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting board, a conductive pattern formed on the insulating base layer, an insulating cover layer formed on the insulating base layer so as to cover the conductive pattern, and an insertion portion to be inserted into an E-block. A thickness of the insulating cover layer in the insertion portion is larger than a thickness of the insulating cover layer in a portion other than the insertion portion.

Abstract: A suspension board with circuit includes a metal supporting board, an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting board, a conductive pattern formed on the insulating base layer, an insulating cover layer formed on the insulating base layer so as to cover the conductive pattern, and an insertion portion to be inserted into an E-block. A thickness of the insulating cover layer in the insertion portion is larger than a thickness of the insulating cover layer in a portion other than the insertion portion.

Abstract: A bellows pump which is provided with a case member that forms an axial space therein, closed-bottomed cylindrical bellows that are arranged in the space in an axially extendable/contractable manner and axially separate the space into a pump chamber and an operation chamber, suction valves that are provided on a suction side of the pump chamber and guide a fluid to be transferred to the pump chamber, and discharge valves that are provided on a discharge side of the pump chamber and discharge the fluid to be transferred from the pump chamber, and which extends/contracts the bellows by introducing a working fluid into the operation chamber to discharge the working fluid from the operation chamber, wherein each of the bellows is configured by alternately forming mountain portions and valley portions along the axial direction and having, on a predetermined position in the axial direction, annular ring portion integrally formed therewith.

Abstract: A suspension board with circuit includes a metal supporting board, an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting board, a conductive pattern formed on the insulating base layer, an insulating cover layer formed on the insulating base layer so as to cover the conductive pattern, and an insertion portion to be inserted into an E-block. A thickness of the insulating cover layer in the insertion portion is larger than a thickness of the insulating cover layer in a portion other than the insertion portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable spark plug used for an internal-combustion engine and including an insulator with a high withstand voltage, and a method for manufacturing the same. Namely, it provides a spark plug containing a cylindrical metal shell having an insulator holding hole, a cylindrical insulator including an axial hole therein which extends in an axial direction, and engaging with said insulator holding hole of said metal shell, and a center electrode held in said axial hole of said insulator, wherein said insulator has a texture in which one or more pores exposed in a judgment area with 50 ?m in diameter occupy 40% or less of said judgment area at any locations in an observation area, in the case where a predetermined mirror-finishing section of an enclosed portion surrounded by said metal shell is used as said observation area to observe pores exposed in said observation.

Abstract: A test method for a spark plug ceramic insulator includes placing a first electrode in an inner hole of the ceramic insulator and placing a second electrode on an outer peripheral side of the ceramic insulator, developing a defect in the ceramic insulator by the application of a first voltage onto the ceramic insulator between the first and second electrodes and detecting the defect in the ceramic insulator by the application of a second voltage, which is lower than a flashover voltage that causes a flashover of the ceramic insulator, onto the ceramic insulator between the first and second electrodes.

Abstract: A roller 58 is rotatably held by an end portion of an eccentric support roller shaft 50 so that the roller 58 contacts with an inner periphery circular side surface of a rotor 40. Accordingly, a rotational resistance while the rotor 40 is eccentrically rotated can be decreased in comparison with a configuration in which an internal gear formed in an inner periphery of a rotor and an external gear formed in an eccentric shaft interlock each other. Thus, the rotating shaft 52 can be efficiently driven to rotate when a pressure difference is small and energy for rotating the roller 58 is small.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of an aspect of the present invention includes: a transport body that rotates while retaining a recording medium on an outer surface thereof; a liquid droplet ejection head that ejects liquid droplets onto the recording medium retained on the transport body; a collection unit, provided at a downstream side in a rotation direction of the transport body with respect to the liquid droplet ejection head and provided with a suction inlet through which a mist of the liquid droplets is sucked, that collects the mist sucked in from the suction inlet; and a guide member, provided between the suction inlet and the liquid droplet ejection head, that guides the mist toward the suction inlet.

Abstract: A wired circuit board includes a first wired circuit board provided with a first conductive pattern which has first terminals comprising placement surfaces for placing a meltable metal and first wires continuous with the first terminals; and a second wired circuit board provided with a second conductive pattern which has second terminals connected with the first terminals through the meltable metal and second wires continuous with the second terminals. The first wired circuit board and the second wired circuit board are arranged so that a first plane containing the first terminals and a second plane containing the second terminals are intersected with each other, and the placement surfaces are zoned so as to gradually widen toward the second terminals.

Abstract: A wired-circuit-board-assembly sheet includes a plurality of wired circuit boards arranged in parallel in one direction, which are regularly omitted at given intervals, and a plurality of units defined by margin portions where the wired circuit boards are omitted.

Abstract: A suspension board with circuit includes a metal supporting board, an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting board, a conductive pattern formed on the insulating base layer, an insulating cover layer formed on the insulating base layer so as to cover the conductive pattern, and an insertion portion to be inserted into an E-block. A thickness of the insulating cover layer in the insertion portion is larger than a thickness of the insulating cover layer in a portion other than the insertion portion.

Abstract: A test method for a spark plug ceramic insulator includes placing a first electrode in an inner hole of the ceramic insulator and placing a second electrode on an outer peripheral side of the ceramic insulator, developing a defect in the ceramic insulator by the application of a first voltage onto the ceramic insulator between the first and second electrodes and detecting the defect in the ceramic insulator by the application of a second voltage, which is lower than a flashover voltage that causes a flashover of the ceramic insulator, onto the ceramic insulator between the first and second electrodes.

Abstract: A spark plug including: an insulator having a through hole extending in an axial direction, the through hole including, a first portion and a second portion provided on a rear end side of the first portion, the second portion having a larger diameter than that of the first portion; a center electrode provided in the first portion; an external terminal provided in the second portion; and a sintered ceramic resistor provided in the second portion. The sintered ceramic resistor is formed from a sintered body of a conductive ceramic, connecting the center electrode and the external terminal electrically, and having a length in an axial direction of 40% or more of a length in an axial direction of the second portion of the through hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable spark plug used for an internal-combustion engine and including an insulator with a high withstand voltage, and a method for manufacturing the same. Namely, it provides a spark plug containing a cylindrical metal shell having an insulator holding hole, a cylindrical insulator including an axial hole therein which extends in an axial direction, and engaging with said insulator holding hole of said metal shell, and a center electrode held in said axial hole of said insulator, wherein said insulator has a texture in which one or more pores exposed in a judgment area with 50 ?m in diameter occupy 40% or less of said judgment area at any locations in an observation area, in the case where a predetermined mirror-finishing section of an enclosed portion surrounded by said metal shell is used as said observation area to observe pores exposed in said observation.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antifouling paint composition having a non-aqueous dispersion resin having a core-shell structure which is constituted of (a) a hydrophilic core component comprising a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which 5-75% by weight comprise free acid groups and ?3% by weight comprises silyl ester groups, (b) a shell component having a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which <3% by weight comprises free acid groups or silyl ester groups, said resin having an acid value 15-400 mg KOH/g wherein the core component accounts for ?80% of the acid value of the resin, said paint composition having rosin wherein ?90% by weight of the rosin has conjugated, non-aromatic double bonds, and ?25% thereof being metal resinate which constitutes 1-40% by wet weight of the composition, the dry weight ratio between (i) NAD resin and (ii) rosin and metal resinates being 100:15 to 15:100.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a dimer diol derivative and a composition containing the dimer diol derivative which have an excellent water-holding property, an excellent pigment dispersion property and further a high level of safety. The dimer diol derivatives according to the present invention is a dimer diol derivative represented by the following chemical formula 19.

Abstract: A spark plug including: an insulator having a through hole extending in an axial direction, the through hole including, a first portion and a second portion provided on a rear end side of the first portion, the second portion having a larger diameter than that of the first portion; a center electrode provided in the first portion; an external terminal provided in the second portion; and a sintered ceramic resistor provided in the second portion. The sintered ceramic resistor is formed from a sintered body of a conductive ceramic, connecting the center electrode and the external terminal electrically, and having a length in an axial direction of 40% or more of a length in an axial direction of the second portion of the through hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antifouling pain composition comprising a non-dispersion resin having a core-shell structure which is constituted of (a) a hydrophilic core component comprising a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which 5-75% by weight comprise free acid groups and ?3% by weight comprises silyl ester groups, (b) a shell component comprising a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomers of which <3% by weight comprises free acid groups or silyl ester groups, said resin having an acid value 15-400 mg KOH/g wherein the core component accounts for ?80% of the acid value of the resin, said paint composition comprising rosin wherein S90% by weight of the rosin has conjugated, non-aromatic double bonds, and ?25% thereof being metal resinate which constitutes 1-40% by wet weight of the composition, the dry weight ratio between (i) NAD and (ii) rosin and metal resinates being 100:15 to 15:100.