Abstract: A transfer member includes: an inner layer; and an outer layer that is adhered to the inner layer and has a hardness lower than a hardness of the inner layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotary shaft, a first core, a permanent magnet, and an intermediate member. The rotary shaft extends in a first direction. The first core is provided around the rotary shaft in a first plane perpendicular to the first direction. The permanent magnet is provided around the first core in the first plane. The intermediate member is provided between the rotary shaft and the first core. The intermediate member includes a first portion containing a carbon fiber, and a second portion aligned with the first portion in the first direction and containing a metal. The stator is provided around the rotor in the first plane.

Abstract: The abnormality detection device includes a first extraction unit extracting an input waveform data from a waveform data input to the first extraction unit, a first determination unit for determining whether the input waveform data includes a detection object waveform data, a second extraction unit for extracting and outputting the detection object waveform data from the input waveform data when the input waveform data is determined to include the detection object waveform data by the first determination unit; and a second determination unit for determining whether the detection target device has an abnormality based on whether the detection object waveform output from the second extraction unit indicates an abnormality.

Abstract: An optical disk device records data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk. The optical disk device comprises zone storing means for preliminarily storing locations of a plurality of zones set by dividing a recordable or rewritable area of the optical disk from an inner periphery thereof to an outer periphery thereof, position detecting means for detecting a position on the optical disk so as to record data at the position, judging means for judging which of the zones the position corresponds to by referring to the zone storing means, and controlling means for controlling the device to perform a data-recording by a CLV method to each of the zones specified by the judging means by setting a recording velocity and a recording power for each of the zones so as to enable the data-recording to provide an equal recording density to all of the zones.

Abstract: An optical disk device records data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk. The optical disk device comprises zone storing means for preliminarily storing locations of a plurality of zones set by dividing a recordable or rewritable area of the optical disk from an inner periphery thereof to an outer periphery thereof, position detecting means for detecting a position on the optical disk so as to record data at the position, judging means for judging which of the zones the position corresponds to by referring to the zone storing means, and controlling means for controlling the device to perform a data-recording by a CLV method to each of the zones specified by the judging means by setting a recording velocity and a recording power for each of the zones so as to enable the data-recording to provide an equal recording density to all of the zones.

Abstract: An optical disk device record data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk. After a pause and a restart in the constant angular velocity (CAV) method occurs predetermined times due to a cause of a recording error such as a buffer underrun, the data-recording by the CAV method is, for the first time, switched to the data-recording by the constant linear velocity (CLV) method at a recording velocity equal to or less than a recording velocity just before the last pause so as to provide a recording density equal to said constant recording density when said pausing is performed.

Abstract: An information recording method and an information recording apparatus are disclosed, which are mainly applicable to a multilayer optical recording medium, recording on a layer being carried out from outer circumference to inner circumference, such as in an OTP method. The information recording method includes a step of trial writing for writing data on a trial writing area of the optical recording medium while gradually changing recording power for laser irradiation, and obtaining optimal recording power based on a reproduced signal of the data that are trial-written in advance of starting a recording operation, and a step of adjusting the obtained optimal recording power according to a recording-start position, and starting the recording operation using the adjusted optimal recording power.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting pre-pit information is disclosed, including an optical pickup, an optical-detecting section, a difference-detecting circuit, a first peak-value detecting circuit, a filtering circuit, a second peak-value detecting circuit, a differential potential-dividing circuit, and a comparator.

Abstract: An optical disk device records data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk. The optical disk device comprises zone storing means for preliminarily storing locations of a plurality of zones set by dividing a recordable or rewritable area of the optical disk from an inner periphery thereof to an outer periphery thereof, position detecting means for detecting a position on the optical disk so as to record data at the position, judging means for judging which of the zones the position corresponds to by referring to the zone storing means, and controlling means for controlling the device to perform a data-recording by a CLV method to each of the zones specified by the judging means by setting a recording velocity and a recording power for each of the zones so as to enable the data-recording to provide an equal recording density to all of the zones.

Abstract: An optical disk device records data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk. The optical disk device comprises zone storing means for preliminarily storing locations of a plurality of zones set by dividing a recordable or rewritable area of the optical disk from an inner periphery thereof to an outer periphery thereof, position detecting means for detecting a position on the optical disk so as to record data at the position, judging means for judging which of the zones the position corresponds to by referring to the zone storing means, and controlling means for controlling the device to perform a data-recording by a CLV method to each of the zones specified by the judging means by setting a recording velocity and a recording power for each of the zones so as to enable the data-recording to provide an equal recording density to all of the zones.

Abstract: An information recording device for writing information in a circumferential direction of a disk-type recording medium, with a substantially constant linear density.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting pre-pit information is disclosed, including an optical pickup, an optical-detecting section, a difference-detecting circuit, a first peak-value detecting circuit, a filtering circuit, a second peak-value detecting circuit, a differential potential-dividing circuit, and a comparator.

Abstract: An optical disk device records data on a recordable or rewritable optical disk. The optical disk device comprises zone storing means for preliminarily storing locations of a plurality of zones set by dividing a recordable or rewritable area of the optical disk from an inner periphery thereof to an outer periphery thereof, position detecting means for detecting a position on the optical disk so as to record data at the position, judging means for judging which of the zones the position corresponds to by referring to the zone storing means, and controlling means for controlling the device to perform a data-recording by a CLV method to each of the zones specified by the judging means by setting a recording velocity and a recording power for each of the zones so as to enable the data-recording to provide an equal recording density to all of the zones.