Abstract: The present invention provides a thin-film capacitor device having a charging circuit and a discharge circuit and capable of stably producing a constant voltage during discharging a thin-film capacitor by an inexpensive configuration. The thin-film capacitor device is characterized by a hybrid type for temporarily storing charge upon receiving DC current from the thin-film capacitor while the voltage becomes lowering, and for supplying DC current in a state of a DC/DC inverter having a base voltage remaining so that a discharge effect continues until the amount of storage in the thin-film capacitor completely runs out.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thin-film capacitor device having a charging circuit and a discharge circuit and capable of stably producing a constant voltage during discharging a thin-film capacitor by an inexpensive configuration. The thin-film capacitor device is characterized by a hybrid type for temporarily storing charge upon receiving DC current from the thin-film capacitor while the voltage becomes lowering, and for supplying DC current in a state of a DC/DC inverter having a base voltage remaining so that a discharge effect continues until the amount of storage in the thin-film capacitor completely runs out.

Abstract: The invention provides a thin-film capacitor discharging apparatus with an inexpensive configuration that can stably produce a constant voltage upon discharging a thin-film capacitor. The thin-film capacitor discharging apparatus is featured by discharging a thin-film capacitor for use in a direct current circuit, and including a discharging function serving as a hybrid such that direct current is received from the thin-film capacitor with voltage becoming lowered to temporarily store electric charge to supply the direct current to a DC/DC inverter while a basic voltage remains until the thin-film capacitor becomes completely empty of electric charge.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and so on for manufacturing an electrode collector which enables rapid charge and discharge and can be used in battery or capacitor electrodes. The invention is directed to an electrode collector that has fine titanium oxide particles having a large specific surface and surface-modified by means of an organic liquid metal such as vanadium, and to a method for manufacturing the same. This electrode collector can implement a collector with excellent rapid charge and discharge for use in batteries and capacitors. The fine titanium oxide particles may have an anatase-type crystal structure. These electrode collectors can be used as electrodes, lithium-ion batteries and capacitors.

Abstract: It is possible to prevent overcurrent from flowing at the time of initially charging thin-film capacitors with an inexpensive configuration. There are provided a direct current power supply DC supplying direct current to plural thin-film capacitors, resistors connected in series to the respective thin-film capacitors for limiting the current value of the direct current to be supplied from the direct current power supply DC to the thin-film capacitors, and series-parallel system changeover switches SW connected in series to the respective thin-film capacitors and having one contacts establishing, when selected, a series connection short-circuiting both ends of each thin-film capacitor and other contacts establishing, when selected, parallel connections supplying direct current through the resistors to the thin-film capacitors.

Abstract: The invention provides a compact, electrical energy storage device which has large capacity and can produce a high electrical energy. In accordance with the electrical energy storage device of the invention, the electrical energy storage device 1 comprising a first electrode 4, a dielectric layer 6 and a second electrode 7 is characterized in that between the first electrode 4 and the dielectric layer 6 and between the second electrode 7 and the dielectric layer 6 there is formed an electron collector layer 6 comprising electron collector microparticles 5a made up of metal, semiconductor or surface-modified ceramics.

Abstract: To provide an optical information recording medium on which visual information can be recorded on a label face side by using a laser apparatus for recording and reading electronic information by irradiation with a low output laser without exerting, e.g. thermal influence over electronic information recorded on the medium. The optical information recording medium of the present invention is an optical information recording medium 100 having such a structure that on a substrate 101, an electronic information recording layer 102, a reflective layer 103 formed in contact with the opposite side of the electronic information recording layer 102 from a side where a laser beam 107 enters, a protective layer 104, a visual information recording layer 105 and an overcoat layer 106 constituting an outermost layer are laminated in this order, and having a reflectivity against a beam applied from the label face side of at least 15 and at most 50%.

Abstract: To provide an optical information recording medium on which visual information can be recorded on a label face by using a laser apparatus for recording and reading electronic information by irradiation with a low output laser without exerting e.g. thermal influence over electronic information recorded on the medium. The present invention provides an optical information recording medium 100 having such a structure that on a substrate 101, an electronic information recording layer 102, a reflective layer 103 formed in contact with the opposite side of the electronic information recording layer 102 from a side where a laser beam 107 enters, a protective layer 104, a visual information recording layer 105 and an overcoat layer 106 constituting an outermost layer are laminated in this order, wherein the surface roughness of the outermost layer on the label face side is at most ½ of the wavelength (?) of a laser beam 108.

Abstract: An optical information-recording medium includes: a substrate; an electronic information-recording layer on the substrate in which digital information is recorded by the light applied from the side of the substrate; a reflection layer on the electronic information-recording layer; a visible information-recording layer on the reflection layer so that a region of the visible information-recording layer lays outside a circumference having a radius not less than half a radius of the substrate; and an over-coating on the visible information-recording layer. Visible information is recorded in the visible information-recording layer with light applied through the over-coating.

Abstract: To provide an optical information recording medium on which visual information can be recorded on a label face by using a laser apparatus for recording and reading electronic information by irradiation with a low output laser without exerting e.g. thermal influence over electronic information recorded on the medium. The present invention provides an optical information recording medium 100 having such a structure that on a substrate 101, an electronic information recording layer 102, a reflective layer 103 formed in contact with the opposite side of the electronic information recording layer 102 from a side where a laser beam 107 enters, a protective layer 104, a visual information recording layer 105 and an overcoat layer 106 constituting an outermost layer are laminated in this order, wherein the surface roughness of the outermost layer on the label face side is at most ½ of the wavelength (?) of a laser beam 108.

Abstract: To provide an optical information recording medium on which visual information can be recorded on a label face side by using a laser apparatus for recording and reading electronic information by irradiation with a low output laser without exerting, e.g. thermal influence over electronic information recorded on the medium. The optical information recording medium of the present invention is an optical information recording medium 100 having such a structure that on a substrate 101, an electronic information recording layer 102, a reflective layer 103 formed in contact with the opposite side of the electronic information recording layer 102 from a side where a laser beam 107 enters, a protective layer 104, a visual information recording layer 105 and an overcoat layer 106 constituting an outermost layer are laminated in this order, and having a reflectivity against a beam applied from the label face side of at least 15 and at most 50%.

Abstract: It is to provide an information recording medium having a visual information recording layer which is a high sensitive visual information recording layer capable of recording at a relatively low temperature without having a heat effect on an electronic information recording medium and which is excellent also in durability of the display record. An information recording medium having at least a visual information recording layer for recording visual information and a substrate, characterized in that the visual information recording layer contains organic matter particles having a melting point of at least 50° C. and at most 180° C. and an average particle size of at least 0.5 ?m and at most 2.0 ?m, and is capable of recording by heating or irradiation with light without substantial chemical change of the organic matter particles.

Abstract: An optical information-recording medium includes: a substrate; an electronic information-recording layer on the substrate in which digital information is recorded by the light applied from the side of the substrate; a reflection layer on the electronic information-recording layer; a visible information-recording layer on the reflection layer so that a region of the visible information-recording layer lays outside a circumference having a radius not less than half a radius of the substrate; and an over-coating on the visible information-recording layer. Visible information is recorded in the visible information-recording layer with light applied through the over-coating.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium that does not cause a deterioration of the noise characteristics and improves the production efficiency, a manufacturing method for the same, and a magnetic recording replay apparatus. An in-plane undercoat film 2 and an in-plane hard magnetic film 3 whose axis of easy magnetization is generally oriented in the in-plane direction are formed between the non-magnetic substrate 1 and the soft magnetic film 4, the in-plane undercoat film 2 comprises Cr or a Cr alloy, and the in-plane hard magnetic film 3 has as the major constituent a CoCrPtX alloy (where X is one or more of B, Ta, Cu, Zr, Nb, Re, Ni, Mn, Ge, Si, O, and N).