Abstract: A recording method includes a reading step of detecting a reflection light from a recording layer to which a recording is to be made and converting the detected light into a read signal; a detecting step of detecting a position of a preformatted area of a recording layer which the optical beam transmits therethrough other than the recording layer to which a recording is to be made; and a correcting step of correcting intensity of an irradiation light beam or a reproduced signal on the basis of the read signal and the preformatted area position. An apparatus for carrying out the recording method is also provided.

Abstract: A card casting machine casts or throws a card B into a case 10, such as an optical disk case, having a pair of case bodies 11a and 11b openable via a hinge 15. The card casting machine includes a case closing device 2 to close the case 10 from an open condition by lifting both case bodies 11a and 11b of the case 10 placed on a support table 16, and a card casting device 4 to cast the card B into the case 10 during the closing operation when an open angle &agr; of the case 10 is an acute angle.

Abstract: To provide a resin material in which various properties of a polyacetal resin such as excellent appearance, slidability and thermal stability are maintained and a rigidity is improved as well. That is, a polyacetal copolymer which is prepared by a copolymerization of 100 parts by weight of trioxane (A), 0.0005 to 2 parts by weight of the component (B), which is a compound (B-1) having at least three glycidyl groups in the molecule or a compound (B-2) having at least two epoxy groups in the molecule, and 0 to 20 parts by weight of a cyclic ether compound (C) copolymerizable with trioxane, and which has a total terminal group amount of 15 to 150 mmol/kg, when (B) is (B-2).

Abstract: A bill counting machine includes a bill setting section, a bill take-out means for taking out bills from the bill setting section one by one into a main body of the bill counting machine, a bill conveyor for conveying the bills in a bill conveying passage, a sensor device for detecting optical properties and/or magnetic properties of each bill and producing detection data of the bill, a reference data memory for storing reference data of bills, a discriminator for comparing the detection data of the bill produced by the sensor device with the reference data of bills, thereby discriminating whether or not the bill is acceptable, the denomination of the bill and whether bills are being conveyed by the bill conveying means one by one and counting bills to be counted, and a bill stacking section, the bill counting machine further including a stopper locatable at a projecting position in the bill conveying passage downstream of the sensor device, the discriminator being constituted so as not to count a bill discri

Abstract: There is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device capable of securing sufficient read accuracy without providing superfluous sense time margin when there are variations in temperature and transistor characteristics. This nonvolatile semiconductor storage device includes a reference cell 2 whose threshold value is preparatorily set to a value between a lower limit of a threshold voltage distribution in a state 0 in which nonvolatile memory cells MC00 through MC12 have a high threshold value and an upper limit of a threshold voltage distribution in a state 1 in which the memory cells have a low threshold value. When the characteristics of the nonvolatile memory cells MC00 through MC12 shift due to the influence of a change in temperature or the like, the characteristics of the reference cell 2 shift so as to follow this characteristic shift.

Abstract: A music reproducing apparatus is provided. The apparatus reproduces music on the basis of music data which includes music information representing music to be reproduced and beat information representing a beat of the music and which is recorded on a recording medium. The music information is divided into a plurality of music information pieces whose time length are equal to each other. The beat information is divided into a plurality of beat information pieces. Each of the beat information pieces includes information for designating one of the music information pieces in which the beat of the music is present.

Abstract: An information recording medium has:a plurality of audio information which are independent of each other; and a plurality of reproducing control information to be used for reproducing the audio information. Each of the plurality of reproducing control information is assigned to any one of the plurality of audio information. The reproducing control information includes double reproducing control information. The double reproducing control information is assigned to one of the plurality of audio information to which different one of the plurality of reproducing control information has been assigned.

Abstract: An information reproducing apparatus has a read device, is capable of reproducing sub picture information and is also capable of performing a highlight display of the sub picture information. In an information record medium to be reproduced by this reproducing apparatus, at least the sub picture information and reproduction control information to control a reproduction of the sub picture information are recorded on the record track such that the sub picture information and the reproduction control information are divided into a plurality of groups. Each of the groups is a predetermined unit able to be accessed by the information reproducing apparatus, and has a sub picture pack in which the sub picture information is contained and a control pack in which the reproduction control information is contained.

Abstract: A title sheet inserting machine includes a rotatable turret having a plurality of equally spaced copes, which each have a corrugated contact face adapted to hold a title sheet. A drag is provided movably toward and away from the cope at the first station of the turret. A space forming device provided adjacent to the second station of the turret is adapted to form a title sheet insertion space in the case. A case transferring pusher transfers the case formed with the title sheet insertion space therein toward the cope placed at the second station of the turret. A case retreating pusher retreats the case having the title sheet therein from the cope placed at the third station of the turret.

Abstract: An information storage medium includes: a video zone for recording audio/video information including video information and audio information associated with the video information; an audio zone for recording audio information; first navigation information for a video player which can reproduce the audio/video information; second navigation information for an audio player which can reproduce the audio information in the video zone and the audio information in the audio zone; and third navigation information for a compatible player which can reproduce both the audio/video information and the audio information. The first navigation information, the second navigation information and the third navigation information are recorded separately from each other.

Abstract: A vehicular headlamp including a light source bulb, a reflector reflecting light from the light source bulb forward in a convergent manner, a condensing lens provided at such a position that, of the light reflected from the reflector, at least a meridian light flux in a vertical cross-section is incident as divergent light, a shade provided in proximity to a position of convergence of the meridian light flux and which blocks part of the reflected light, and an aiming bracket to which an aiming member for tilting the reflector is attached. The shade is composed of a metal plate member that is formed integrally with the aiming bracket, and is attached to the reflector. With this construction, the total number of parts of the headlamp is reduced and costs can be reduced accordingly.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus (SS1) is provided with: a signal process device (72) for applying a predetermined signal process to record information (R), which is to be recorded onto an information record medium (1: DVD) and is inputted from the external, to output processed record information (Sr), and for dividing control information (Si), which corresponds to the record information and is inputted from the external, into search control information (Sdsi, DSI), which is information to search a record position of the record information to be reproduced at a time of reproducing the record information, and reproduction display control information (Spci, PCI), which is information to control a reproduced display of the record information at the time of reproducing the record information, to output the search control information and the reproduction display control information; a multiplex device (75, 76) for multiplexing the processed record information, the search control information and the reproduction

Abstract: An information record medium (1: DVD) has a record track recorded with record information to be reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus (S2). The information reproducing apparatus is provided with a read device (80), and performs a reproduction while moving the read device along the record track at a predetermined reading linear velocity. the record information is divided into a plurality of first data groups (30: VOBU), each of which is a unit able to be accessed by the information reproducing apparatus, recorded on the record track. Lowest reading rate information (212) indicates a minimum requirement of a reading rate for the information reproducing apparatus to reproduce a reproduction unit, which comprises at least one of the first data groups and which is to be reproduced by the information reproducing apparatus such that a sequential logical meaning of the reproduction unit is continuous.

Abstract: An information recording medium has: a plurality of audio information which are independent of each other; and a plurality of reproducing control information to be used for reproducing the audio information. Each of the plurality of reproducing control information is assign to any of the plurality of audio information. The reproducing control information includes double reproducing control information. The double reproducing control information is assigned to one of the plurality of audio information to which different one of the plurality of reproducing control information has been assigned.

Abstract: A vehicular headlamp equipped with a light source bulb composed of a bulb body and a bulb supporting portion for supporting the bulb body and with a reflector in which a bulb insertion hole for insertion of the bulb body of the light source bulb is formed. An annular wall is formed around the bulb insertion hole of the reflector and a bulb abutment face on which the body supporting portion is made to abut from behind is formed in the annular wall. A notch portion that is notched forwards from the bulb abutment face is formed in the annular wall. Accordingly, the heat generated within the reflector is dissipated into the external space and the possibility of heat deformation of the reflector is reduced.

Abstract: An information reproducing apparatus has a read device, is capable of reproducing sub picture information and is also capable of performing a highlight display of the sub picture information. In an information record medium to be reproduced by this reproducing apparatus, at least the sub picture information and reproduction control information to control a reproduction of the sub picture information are recorded on the record track such that the sub picture information and the reproduction control information are divided into a plurality of groups. Each of the groups is a predetermined unit able to be accessed by the information reproducing apparatus, and has a sub picture pack in which the sub picture information is contained and a control pack in which the reproduction control information is contained.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus (SS1) is provided with: a signal process device (72) for applying a predetermined signal process to record information (R), which is to be recorded onto an information record medium (1: DVD) and is inputted from the external, to output processed record information (Sr), and for dividing control information (Si), which corresponds to the record information and is inputted from the external, into search control information (Sdsi, DSI), which is information to search a record position of the record information to be reproduced at a time of reproducing the record information, and reproduction display control information (Spci, PCI), which is information to control a reproduced display of the record information at the time of reproducing the record information, to output the search control information and the reproduction display control information; a multiplex device (75, 76) for multiplexing the processed record information, the search control information and the reproduction

Abstract: An information record medium (1: DVD) has a record track recorded with record information to be reproduced by an information reproducing apparatus (S2). The information reproducing apparatus is provided with a read device (80), and performs a reproduction while moving the read device along the record track at a predetermined reading linear velocity. The record information is divided into a plurality of first data groups (30: VOBU), each of which is a unit able to be accessed by the information reproducing apparatus, recorded on the record track. Lowest reading rate information (212) indicates a minimum requirement of a reading rate for the information reproducing apparatus to reproduce a reproduction unit, which comprises at least one of the first data groups and which is to be reproduced by the information reproducing apparatus such that a sequential logical meaning of the reproduction unit is continuous.

Abstract: An information record medium (1: DVD) having a record track (1a) recorded with at least video information is to be reproduced by a reproducing apparatus (S2), which has a read device (80) and reproduces at least video information while relatively moving the read device along the record track. In the information record medium, at least video information and control information (41: NAVI-PACK, 50: PCI, 51: DSI) comprising access information to access the video information are recorded on the record track such that the video and control informations are divided into a plurality of first data groups (30: VOBU), each of which is a unit able to be accessed by the reproducing apparatus and each of which comprises the video and control informations.

Abstract: There is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device that has a high reliability free from malfunction of redundancy block during erase operation and causes no disadvantage in terms of layout area thereof. A memory array is a virtual ground type memory array employing ACT memory cells MC. A redundancy block 35 uses a redundancy sector constructed of the ACT memory cells MC of one line connected to one redundancy word line RWL as a unit of redundancy. Then, the redundancy block 35 and a main block 31 are formed on different p-wells of a triple well while being electrically insulated from each other. Thus, by applying a negative voltage to only the p-well of the main block 31 and keeping the p-well of the redundancy block 35 at zero volt during an erase operation, the redundancy block 35 is not erased. Further, there is no need for providing a source line level supply circuit besides a main block control circuit 32, so that no disadvantage occurs in terms of layout area.