Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a disk including a plurality of areas divided in a radial direction, a head, and a controller configured to control the head to write data to a first area including a plurality of tracks that are separated from each other, and a second area including at least two adjacent tracks that partially overlap. A first distance between track centers of said two adjacent tracks in the radial direction is different from a second distance between track centers of another two adjacent tracks in the second area in the radial direction.

Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a disk including a plurality of areas divided in a radial direction, a head, and a controller configured to control the head to write data to a first area including a plurality of tracks that are separated from each other, and a second area including at least two adjacent tracks that partially overlap. A first distance between track centers of said two adjacent tracks in the radial direction is different from a second distance between track centers of another two adjacent tracks in the second area in the radial direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device encrypts/decrypts data with an encryption key to write/read the data to/from the storage area. In the storage device, an elapsed time counter starts counting triggered by turning on of the storage device. A receiver receives a command containing a password and time information from a host device. The time information indicates current date and time. A calculator calculates elapsed the from last command input to current command input based on the time information and a counter value. An adder adds the elapsed time to time information contained in a command received last time. A time information determination module determines the consistency of the time information. A disabling module disables the encryption key if the time information is not consistent. An authentication module authenticates the password if the time information is consistent and allows access to the storage area if the password is successfully authenticated.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device encrypts/decrypts data with an encryption key to write/read the data to/from the storage area. In the storage device, an elapsed time counter starts counting triggered by turning on of the storage device. A receiver receives a command containing a password and time information from a host device. The time information indicates current date and time. A calculator calculates elapsed time from last command input to current command input based on the time information and a counter value. An adder adds the elapsed time to time information contained in a command received last time. A time information determination module determines the consistency of the time information. A disabling module disables the encryption key if the time information is not consistent. An authentication module authenticates the password if the time information is consistent and allows access to the storage area if the password is successfully authenticated.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting system includes a plurality of lamps having their own inherent respective light distribution characteristics. The plurality of lamps includes a first lamp to irradiate an area excluding a nearest field area just in front of a vehicle, and a second lamp which irradiates only the nearest field area. The plurality of lamps are operable to be simultaneously or selectively lit, and are operable so that irradiation lights of the lamps are combined so as to obtain a particular light distribution characteristic in accordance with various driving conditions of a vehicle.

Abstract: A lamp unit including mirror member 18 having an upward reflecting surface 18a, which reflects part of reflected light from a reflector 16 upward and is disposed between the reflector 16 and a projection lens 12. The mirror member 18 can be moved in the direction of an optical axis Ax and can take a reference position, where the front end edge 18a1 of the upward reflecting surface 18a is located at the rear focal point F of the projection lens 12, and a front movement position, which is located forward a predetermined distance from the reference position. When the mirror member is moved to the front movement position, part of the reflected light from the reflector 16 passes through a space behind the mirror member 18 so as to be incident on the lower region of the projection lens 12.

Abstract: In an internal circuit type, an encryption circuit is included in a device. Information specific to the device including the encryption circuit is preregistered to a net authentication site. A portable storage medium is inserted into an information recording/reproduction mechanism of the device, and an access is made to the net authentication site with a host PC. When a right to access to the net authentication site is obtained, the net authentication site reads shared information stored on the portable storage medium, and makes a comparison between the shared information and the contents of a database. If a match is found as a result of the comparison, the net authentication site writes devices-specific information to the shared information on the portable storage medium, so that encrypted data on the portable storage medium can be read with the device.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting apparatus can help improve irradiation for different speeds of an automobile. The vehicle lighting apparatus includes lamps for installation at front portions of an automobile. An irradiation direction of the lamps can be deflected in left and right directions based on a steering operation of a steering apparatus, and a rate of change of a deflection angle of the lamps with respect to the steering angle is made smaller as the vehicle speed increases to a high speed.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting system includes a plurality of lamps having their own inherent respective light distribution characteristics. The plurality of lamps includes a first lamp to irradiate an area excluding a nearest field area just in front of a vehicle, and a second lamp which irradiates only the nearest field area. The plurality of lamps are operable to be simultaneously or selectively lit, and are operable so that irradiation lights of the lamps are combined so as to obtain a particular light distribution characteristic in accordance with various driving conditions of a vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting system comprising an additional illumination lamp for additionally illuminating ahead of a vehicle and a control means for controlling turn-on and turn-off of the additional illumination lamp so as to follow a steering angle at which the vehicle is steered. The control means sets a turn-on reference steering angle ?2 for turning on the additional illumination lamp based on the steering angle, a primary turn-off reference steering angle ?1 for turning off the additional illumination lamp at a steering angle which is smaller than the turn-on reference steering angle ?2 and a secondary turn-off reference steering angle ?3 for turning off the additional illumination lamp at a steering angle which is larger than the primary turn-off reference steering angle ?1 when the vehicle is steered to a predetermined steering angle which is larger than the turn-on reference steering angle ?2.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting device is provided with a pair of lamps arranged on right and left sides of a front part of a vehicle. Illumination light beams emitted from the pair of lamps are overlapped with each other to illuminate a front area of the vehicle. A light distribution characteristic of only one of the lamps is independently changed and controlled. For example, a light distribution characteristic where the luminosity of a direct front area of an own vehicle is somewhat reduced may be obtained by changing the light distribution pattern of one lamp from that of the other lamp. This prevents the driver of an oncoming vehicle from being dazzled by the light reflected on a road surface in the direct front area. At the same time, this avoids the direct front area being in a substantially entirely dark state and improves the visibility of the direct front area.

Abstract: A lamp unit including mirror member 18 having an upward reflecting surface 18a, which reflects part of reflected light from a reflector 16 upward and is disposed between the reflector 16 and a projection lens 12. The mirror member 18 can be moved in the direction of an optical axis Ax and can take a reference position, where the front end edge 18a1 of the upward reflecting surface 18a is located at the rear focal point F of the projection lens 12, and a front movement position, which is located forward a predetermined distance from the reference position. When the mirror member is moved to the front movement position, part of the reflected light from the reflector 16 passes through a space behind the mirror member 18 so as to be incident on the lower region of the projection lens 12.

Abstract: In a vehicle lighting apparatus in which the irradiation direction of lamps provided at the left and right portions of an automobile can be deflected to the left and right directions in association with the steering operation of a steering apparatus, the deflection angles of the left and right lamps are changed in different manners in accordance with a vehicle speed, for example. For example, at the time of steering to the right, when a vehicle speed is a predetermined value or less, only the right lamp is subjected to the deflecting operation, while when a vehicle speed exceeds the predetermined value, both the right and left lamps are simultaneously subjected to the deflecting operation. The deflection angles of the left and right lamps are differentiated in accordance with the speed change of an automobile.

Abstract: The deflection angles of the irradiation of lamps provided at the left and right portions of an automobile are continuously increased in correspondence to the increase of a steering angle until the steering angle reaches a predetermined value. The left and right lamps are held at particular deflection angles respectively when the steering angle is equal to or more than a predetermined steering angle. The value of the particular deflection angle of the lamp on the steering direction side is made larger than that of the lamp on the opposite side. When the deflection angle is small, the left and right lamps are deflected in almost the same state to irradiate the straight traveling direction or the traveling direction of an automobile. When the deflection angle becomes large, the lamp on the steering direction side irradiates the traveling direction and the lamp on the opposite direction irradiates an area in the straight traveling direction.

Abstract: A vehicle light apparatus which serves to change a lighting range of a lamp L for illuminating a forward part of the vehicle corresponding to a steering angle of the vehicle comprises lighting range control means for turning the lighting range into an opposite direction to a current steering direction when steering is returned into a straight running direction. When a steering angular velocity is greater than a predetermined value, a lighting range for illuminating an opposite side is increased following the return of the steering into the straight running direction. A next curve or the course of an intersection road can be illuminated prior to the steering operation in a running condition on an S-shaped road or an intersection road in which right and left turns continue. Thus, the vehicle light apparatus is very effective for maintaining the safe running of the vehicle on a curved road and an intersection road.

Abstract: Lamp units for radiating a beam ahead of a vehicle in a light distribution pattern are housed in a lamp body. Illumination of the auxiliary lamp units is controlled based on driving conditions. Illumination control means extinguish light through dimming by gradually decreasing voltage applied to the light sources. When the applied voltage has dropped to a threshold value, the applied voltage is controlled to zero immediately. Compared to when the lamps remaining in an illuminated state are suddenly extinguished, a change in quantity of light is mild, and no uncertainty arises. Below a threshold value where the applied voltage gradually drops to the threshold value and a change may arise in the filament crystalline structure due to annealing at a transition temperature, the applied voltage approaches zero. Hence, the filament does not pass from the transition temperature while being rapidly cooled, thus avoiding filament crystalline structure change.

Abstract: A vehicle light apparatus comprises a controller 10 for changing a lighting range of a lamp L for illuminating a forward part of a vehicle corresponding to a steering angle of the vehicle and for controlling the lighting range of lighting means corresponding to a steering angular velocity of the vehicle. Alternatively, there is provided lighting range control means for changing a lighting range of lighting means for illuminating a forward part of the vehicle corresponding to a steering angle of the vehicle and for controlling the lighting range of the lighting means based on an operation of a turn signal lamp of the vehicle. It is possible to decide a running condition of the vehicle from the steering angular velocity or the operation state of the turning signal lamp and a vehicle speed, thereby rapidly controlling a change in the lighting direction or the lighting area of the lamp L in a running direction.

Abstract: A first shade 32 is properly moved to vertically shift the position of a cutoff line, and furthermore, a lighting unit 20 is properly tilted in a vertical direction to displace a whole light distribution pattern in the vertical direction. Consequently, a light irradiation is carried out with a light distribution pattern at an irradiation angle corresponding to a vehicle traveling situation. In that case, a second shade 34 is properly moved to form a dark portion in a central part on the lower end of the light distribution pattern in a predetermined size if necessary. Consequently, the amount of a light irradiation on a short-distance region can be controlled finely, and a road surface on this side can be prevented from becoming too bright in a high-speed travel and a light reflected by the road surface which causes a glare can be prevented from being generated in a rain travel.

Abstract: This invention relates to the emulation processing method of a storage device and the storage device for accessing storage medium from a host that has a different sector size, and where alternate processing is performed in the sector unit of storage medium even when there is a writing error when updating the disk. In a system where a second sector size of a host is smaller than a first sector size of the storage medium, data that are staged in a buffer according to a request from the host is rewritten using write data, and then staged sector data or the rewritten sector data are saved in an alternate area and the storage medium is updated with the rewritten sector data. Since the sector data before updating is saved beforehand, it is possible to perform alternate processing using the sector unit of the storage medium.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting system comprising an additional illumination lamp for additionally illuminating ahead of a vehicle and a control means for controlling turn-on and turn-off of the additional illumination lamp so as to follow a steering angle at which the vehicle is steered. The control means sets a turn-on reference steering angle ?2 for turning on the additional illumination lamp based on the steering angle, a primary turn-off reference steering angle ?1 for turning off the additional illumination lamp at a steering angle which is smaller than the turn-on reference steering angle ?2 and a secondary turn-off reference steering angle ?3 for turning off the additional illumination lamp at a steering angle which is larger than the primary turn-off reference steering angle ?1 when the vehicle is steered to a predetermined steering angle which is larger than the turn-on reference steering angle ?2.