Abstract: Embodiments of the invention reduce damage to a disk recording medium when a slider flying above the disk recording medium inside a magnetic disk drive comes into contact with the disk recording medium due to slider vibration. In one embodiment, a magnetic head slider includes a front pad, a rear pad, and carbon protective films. The front pad includes a step bearing surface disposed on the side of a leading end and leading side rail surfaces formed on the step bearing surface. The rear pad includes a rear step bearing surface disposed across a deep groove surface from the front pad and a trailing side rail surface formed on the rear step bearing surface. The carbon protective films are formed on regions including vertices of slider corner portions, respectively. The leading side rail surfaces and the trailing side rail surface are formed substantially on the same level. The carbon protective films are harder than a slider base material and have a small coefficient of friction.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a slider structure able to lower a flying height compensation ratio caused by a projecting deformation of an air bearing surface of a slider by a flying height control mechanism and afford a change in flying height with a low control power. In one embodiment, a slider is provided with a leading edge, an air bearing surface, and a trailing edge. The air bearing surface includes a front pad, the front pad being made up of a front step bearing surface, leading rail surfaces, and side step bearing surfaces. The air bearing surface also includes a negative pressure groove surface surrounded by the front pad.

Abstract: A head-slider which is configured to fly above a magnetic-recording disk. The head-slider includes a disk-facing side, which faces the magnetic-recording disk. The disk-facing side includes a plurality of surfaces including at least: a step bearing surface; a rail surface, which protrudes toward the magnetic-recording disk and is configured to exert a positive pressure; a deep-recessed surface, which is formed deeper than the step bearing surface and is configured to exert a negative pressure; an extended lateral surface, which is formed at substantially a same depth as the step bearing surface and disposed outside the deep-recessed surface in a width direction of the head-slider; and, an extended rear surface, which is formed at substantially the same depth as the step bearing surface and disposed at a trailing edge of the head-slider, and contiguous with the extended lateral surface.

Abstract: When a wireless IC tag in which information on a print area of a medium is recorded is provided in the medium, an image forming apparatus which forms an image on the medium by inputting the image includes: a wireless IC tag reader which reads information recorded in the wireless IC tag; an information acquiring unit which acquires the information from the wireless IC tag by using the wireless IC tag reader; a tag actual location designating unit which designates an actual location of the wireless IC tag by using the wireless IC tag reader; a reference location designating unit which designates a reference location of the medium; an angle calculating unit which calculates a rotational angle used to set the designated actual location of the wireless IC tag to a predetermined location on the basis of the designated reference location of the medium; and an image forming unit which forms the image in the print area of the medium by rotating the image by the calculated rotational angle.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a tag information reading/writing unit which reads information from an IC tag attached to or embedded in a predetermined location of a print medium and writes information to the IC tag through wireless communication with the IC tag and which reads layout information, which defines at least a location of a printable area on the print medium, from the IC tag; a record data inputting unit which inputs record data representing contents recorded on the print medium; and a printing control unit which performs a printing process on the print medium on the basis of print target data in which a print location of the contents represented by the record data is determined on the basis of the layout information and which updates the layout information on the basis of information directly or indirectly representing a printed area in the print medium subjected to the printing process and allows the tag information reading/writing unit to write the layout information subjected to the updating p

Abstract: A printing apparatus management system includes: a printing apparatus which includes an IC tag performing wireless communication with the outside and a memory being connected to the IC tag; and a first information terminal which has at least a function of writing information in the memory through wireless communication with the IC tag. The first information terminal maintains authentication data used by the printing apparatus, writes the authentication data in the memory, and transmits the authentication data to another information terminal.

Abstract: There is provided an image reading device including a tag information reading unit for reading information recorded in an IC tag by performing radio communication with the IC tag attached or embedded at a predetermined position of a medium that becomes a target of image reading and an image reading unit for creating image data of an image recorded on the medium by scanning the medium. The image reading unit determines an area for the scanning based on area information related to the medium among information read by the tag information reading unit and, and scans the determined area.

Abstract: A converter that converts a data received from a wireless communication interface to a data that is based on a wire-communication standard, the converter including a wire-communication interface that communicates with a printer based on a wire-communication standard, a wireless communication interface that communicates with a terminal unit based on the wireless communication standard, a receiving unit that receives a data from the terminal unit via the wireless-communication interface, a communication establishment unit that establishes a communication with the printer via the wire-communication interface, and a wire-communication unit that transmits the data received by the receiving unit via the established communication to the printer, wherein the communication establishment unit establishes a communication with the printer when the receiving unit receives the data.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider suitable for a disk drive measuring 1.8 inches or less in disk size incorporates preventive measures against the decreases in lifting force that occur in small sliders with a slider width of 0.8 mm or less. The present invention improves the inclination margins of the flying slider in a rolling direction at the lowest flying point, and achieves low flying height and stable flying. The slider is constructed with stepped surfaces on the slider's leading-side flying surface formed up of shallow-grooved surfaces and a deep-grooved surface so that a trailing-side width W2 between the stepped surfaces is smaller than a leading-side width W1.

Abstract: An information-processing device transmitting an audiovisual distribution start request mutually with another information-processing device to, thereby, start the audiovisual distribution or reception including: a distribution request part that transmits the distribution start request to another information-processing device; a distribution response part that transmits a distribution start response for the distribution start request from another information-processing device to the another information-processing device; and a distribution control part that controls the distribution request part or the distribution response part upon start of the audiovisual distribution or reception to regulate transmission of the distribution start request or the distribution start response.

Abstract: A data transmitting apparatus for transmitting data to a communication recipient by one-way communication includes a data transmitting unit transmitting data to the communication recipient by the one-way communication of a predetermined communication format; a data selecting unit allowing a user to select the data to be transmitted by the one-way communication; an instruction inputting unit allowing the user to input an instruction to transmit the data selected by the data selecting unit to the communication recipient by the one-way communication; a control unit controlling the data transmitting unit to transmit the data selected by the data selecting unit to the communication recipient by the one-way communication on the basis of the instruction input through the instruction inputting unit; and a detecting unit detecting successive inputs that the instruction to transmit the same data to the communication recipient by the one-way communication is successively input by the instruction inputting unit, when the

Abstract: The data reception apparatus includes a main processing unit that waits in a standby state so as to be able to receive the connection signal that is transmitted in a first communication mode, and further receives, after reception of the connection signal, the data signal that is transmitted in a second communication mode that is different from the first communication mode; a sub processing unit that is provided in addition to the main processing unit, the sub processing unit being capable of receiving the data signal that is transmitted in the second communication mode; a notification unit that is capable of notifying information to a user; and a notification control unit that controls the notification unit so that the notification unit notifies a communication error to the user if the sub processing unit has received the data signal although the main processing unit has not received the connection signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic head and a magnetic disk drive using the same, which is capable of increasing efficiency in changing the flying height of an element portion by heat generation of a heater in the magnetic head using the heater as well as capable of suppressing the change of the flying height of the element portion at the time of recording. In a magnetic head according to one embodiment of the invention, when a portion is defined as a “heater immobility line”, in which a position of the positive pressure generation surface does not vary when the electricity is distributed to a heater, and a portion is defined as a “write immobility line”, in which a position of the positive pressure generation surface does not vary at the time of recording, the area of the raised region surrounded by the heater immobility line is smaller than the area of the raised region surrounded by the write immobility line.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a slider structure able to lower a flying height compensation ratio caused by a projecting deformation of an air bearing surface of a slider by a flying height control mechanism and afford a change in flying height with a low control power. In one embodiment, a slider is provided with a leading edge, an air bearing surface, and a trailing edge. The air bearing surface includes a front pad, the front pad being made up of a front step bearing surface, leading rail surfaces, and side step bearing surfaces. The air bearing surface also includes a negative pressure groove surface surrounded by the front pad.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider suitable for a disk drive measuring 1.8 inches or less in disk size incorporates preventive measures against the decreases in lifting force that occur in small sliders with a slider width of 0.8 mm or less. The present invention improves the inclination margins of the flying slider in a rolling direction at the lowest flying point, and achieves low flying height and stable flying. The slider is constructed with stepped surfaces on the slider's leading-side flying surface formed up of shallow-grooved surfaces and a deep-grooved surface so that a trailing-side width W2 between the stepped surfaces is smaller than a leading-side width W1.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic head mounting surface, a slider rail surface, a step air bearing surface, and a negative pressure groove. The magnetic head mounting surface is arranged in a center area with respect to a width of the slider near an air flow-out edge on the slider and mounts a magnetic head. The slider rail surface has a first depth from the magnetic head mounting surface and its width on an air flow-in side for the magnetic head is wider that its width on an air flow-out side for the magnetic head. The step air bearing surface is formed on an air flow-in side of the slider rail surface and has a second depth from the slider rail surface. The negative-pressure groove which formed on an air flow-in side of the step air bearing surface and has a third depth from the step air bearing surface.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider, for sliding on a magnetic disk, which has a leading edge, a trailing edge, an air bearing surface having a front step bearing of submicron depth made from the leading edge, and a rail surface made from the front step bearing. A negative pressure recess which is deeper than the front step bearing, is formed as a recess from the rail surf ace, and a side step bearing with a depth identical to that of the front step bearing is made from the rail surface. Side padB are provided which each have a width W and length L, wherein W is greater than L.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention reduce damage to a disk recording medium when a slider flying above the disk recording medium inside a magnetic disk drive comes into contact with the disk recording medium due to slider vibration. In one embodiment, a magnetic head slider includes a front pad, a rear pad, and carbon protective films. The front pad includes a step bearing surface disposed on the side of a leading end and leading side rail surfaces formed on the step bearing surface. The rear pad includes a rear step bearing surface disposed across a deep groove surface from the front pad and a trailing side rail surface formed on the rear step bearing surface. The carbon protective films are formed on regions including vertices of slider corner portions, respectively. The leading side rail surfaces and the trailing side rail surface are formed substantially on the same level. The carbon protective films are harder than a slider base material and have a small coefficient of friction.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider mounted on a magnetic disk unit for supporting a magnetic head that writes and reads information to and from a magnetic disk is constructed such that a depth ?s1 from the surfaces of leading and trailing pads, which come into contact with a medium surface when the disk is at rest, to stepped surfaces formed on the air inflow side of the leading pads, a depth ?s2 from the contact surfaces to stepped surfaces formed on the air inflow side of the trailing pad and a step depth ?s3 from the contact surfaces to the surfaces of side rails are in a relation of ?s1??s2??s3. With this arrangement, the slider can follow the waved medium surface at a low flying height with a small flying height fluctuation, thus realizing high density recording, high reliability and reduced cost of the magnetic disk unit.