Abstract: [Problem] There are provided a thermal recording head capable of making proper operation of a converter, and a thermal recording apparatus including the same. [Solution] A thermal recording head (10) of the invention is driven on a basis of a first control signal and includes a head substrate (20) including heat generating elements (23a), a wiring substrate (30) including, on its surface, a wiring pattern (312) for transmission of the first control signal, and a mount substrate (40) disposed facing a back surface of the head substrate (20) and a back surface of the wiring substrate (30) and configured to mount the head substrate (20) and the wiring substrate (30). On the surface of the head substrate (20) is placed a control element (27) electrically connected to the heat generating elements (23a) and configured to control driving of the heat generating elements (23a).

Abstract: A lens unit has an optical system having at least one lens, a lens holder supporting the optical system and a lens frame having a guide component. The guide component guides a movement of the lens holder in a first direction. The lens holder has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is disposed slidably over the guide component. The second portion is disposed slidably over the guide component and disposed spaced apart from the first portion in the first direction. The guide component is sandwiched between the first portion and the second portion by an elastic force of the first portion and/or the second portion.

Abstract: An electrical discharge machine that performs electrical discharge machining on a workpiece by supplying a machining fluid to a machining gap between a machining electrode and the workpiece, the electrical discharge machine including: an air-bubble generation unit that generates air bubbles in the machining fluid; a storage unit that stores therein the machining fluid containing the air bubbles generated by the air-bubble generation unit; and a flow-rate adjustment unit that adjusts a flow rate of the machining fluid that flows in the storage unit, wherein the flow-rate adjustment unit adjusts the flow rate according to a diameter of the air bubbles contained in the machining fluid to be supplied to a machining tank in which the workpiece is placed.

Abstract: A lens unit has a lens frame configured to be mounted to an imaging device having an imaging element, a first optical system having a first optical axis supported by the lens frame, a second optical system having a second optical axis supported by the lens frame; and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of the first optical system and/or the second optical system in an optical axis direction with respect to the lens frame.

Abstract: Generated amount of active species is increased, and dew formation or moisture attachment hardly occurs on a dielectric layer. A plasma generating apparatus including a pair of electrodes, wherein a dielectric layer is arranged on at least one of surfaces of the electrodes facing each other, plasma discharge occurs as a predetermined voltage is applied to the electrodes, and a coating film is arranged on a surface of the dielectric layer.

Abstract: There are provided a recording head capable of reduction of variations in heat-generating temperature among heat-generating elements constituting a heat-generating-element array, and a recording device including the recording head. A recording head includes a heat radiator; a head base body having a substrate placed on or above the heat radiator and a heat-generating-element array composed of a plurality of heat-generating elements arranged on or above the substrate; a bonding layer that is interposed between the heat radiator and the substrate and bonds the heat radiator with the substrate; and a plurality of spacer particles arranged within the bonding layer so as to abut on both of the heat radiator and the substrate. The bonding layer includes a first region situated immediately below the heat-generating-element array and a second region extending in parallel with the first region. The spacer particles are arranged in the second region.

Abstract: [Problem] There are provided a thermal recording head capable of making proper operation of a converter, and a thermal recording apparatus including the same. [Solution] A thermal recording head (10) of the invention is driven on a basis of a first control signal and includes a head substrate (20) including heat generating elements (23a), a wiring substrate (30) including, on its surface, a wiring pattern (312) for transmission of the first control signal, and a mount substrate (40) disposed facing a back surface of the head substrate (20) and a back surface of the wiring substrate (30) and configured to mount the head substrate (20) and the wiring substrate (30). On the surface of the head substrate (20) is placed a control element (27) electrically connected to the heat generating elements (23a) and configured to control driving of the heat generating elements (23a).

Abstract: An information recording method using a recording medium includes forming a plurality of recording pulses in accordance with both a reference waveform having been stored in the recording medium and data regarding a shifting value relying on material of the recording medium also having been stored in the recording medium in a table manner, and recording information included in the plurality of recording pulses to the recording medium. The recording information is arranged to be stored according to the material of the recording medium.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects of optical tape technology, tape manufacturing, and tape usage. Methods and systems of tape technology disclose optical tape media including: configurations, formulations, markings, and structure; optical tape manufacturing methods, systems, and apparatus methods and systems including: curing processes, coating methods, embossing, drums, testing, tracking alignment stamper strip; optical tape methods and systems including: pick up head adapted for the disclosed optical tape; and optical tape uses including optical storage media devices for multimedia applications.

Abstract: A photoresist film removing apparatus includes a reacting chamber, an ozonizer producing a gas supplied to the reacting chamber, and an exhaust system that exhausts the gas from the reacting chamber. A source of a photoresist film-remover is located opposite a stage carrying a substrate covered with photoresist. Photoresist film-remover and the gas are supplied to the substrate through apertures. An electric field may be generated between the source of the photoresist film-remover and the substrate. Alternatively, a centrally located feed tube supplies only one of the gas and the photoresist film-remover through a single aperture and a reservoir discharges the other through apertures. The reservoir surrounds and is sealed to the feed tube. The apparatus may include a container holding a liquid photoresist film-remover and a mixture of the gas and remover is supplied from outside the reacting chamber to the substrate.

Abstract: A process, advantageous in producibility, for the production of a vinyl compound containing very small amounts of ionic impurities and hydrolysable halogens, which is capable of curing by means of heat and/or light and giving a cured product having excellent dielectric characteristics and heat resistance, which process can efficiently remove a generated salt and comprises reacting a non-protonic polar solvent solution of a specific bifunctional phenylene ether oligomer with a vinylbenzyl halide in the presence of an alkoxide of an alkali metal, wherein the thus-obtained reaction solution is acidified with a specific amount of an acidic substance, then a salt generated is removed, an alkali substance containing a specific amount of an alkali metal is added to the thus-obtained solution, then a salt generated is removed, and the thus-obtained solution is mixed with water or a water-alcohol mixed solution, to precipitate a solid.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a C/C composite material precursor which gives a C/C composite material by calcination including: carbon fiber, a matrix, and void-forming core which is burnt out or reduces the volume thereof at lower temperatures than temperature of the calcination and forms a void which has openings on the surface of the C/C composite material after calcination. Also disclosed is a method for producing a C/C composite material by calcination of the precursor; and the composite material obtained by the calcination.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: A method for cleaning articles using a surfactant which is effective in the formation of stable microbubbles is provided. The surfactant for microbubble formation contains a (poly)oxyalkylene adduct (A) of an active hydrogen atom-containing compound (a) represented by formula (1) Z-[(AO)n—H]p??(1) wherein Z is the residue of an active hydrogen-containing compound (a) with a valence of P resulting from removal of the active hydrogen atom or atoms; A is an alkylene group containing 1 to 8 carbon atoms; n is an integer of 1 to 400; and p is an integer of 1 to 100. The foaming power of a 0.02% by weight aqueous solution of the (poly)oxyalkylene adduct (A) as measured at 20° C. by the Ross Miles test is not higher than 50 mm.

Abstract: A head support device that is resistant to shock due to external impact, a disk device including the head support device, and a portable electronic device including the disk device are disclosed. In the head support device, a head support arm on which a head slider with a head is disposed through a flexible and elastic gimbal mechanism is formed rotatably about a rotary shaft as a horizontal rotating axis in parallel with a disk surface. The head support arm is formed such that it pivots, about a straight line drawn between apexes of a pair of pivots as a vertical pivot axis, vertically (generally perpendicularly) with respect to the disk surface. A gravity center position of a total mass of members, other than the head slider, pivoting about the vertical pivot axis is positioned near the vertical pivot axis.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bifunctional phenylene ether oligomer compound having a thermosetting functional group at each terminal, an epoxy resin containing the above oligomer compound and a use thereof. That is, it provides a sealing epoxy resin composition for sealing an electric part, an epoxy resin composition for laminates, a laminate, a printed wiring board, a curable resin composition and a photosensitive resin composition. The resins and resin compositions of the present invention are used in electronics fields in which a low dielectric constant, a low dielectric loss tangent and high toughness are required and also used for various uses such as coating, bonding and molding.

Abstract: The reproduction durability of an optical recording medium is evaluated highly accurately in a short period of time by providing a method for evaluating the optical recording medium, the method including determining an operating laser power for heating a recording layer to a recording operating temperature; determining a temperature of the recording layer when a laser beam having a predetermined reproducing laser power is radiated during a data reproduction; determining a relationship between the reproducing laser power during the data reproduction and a reproduction durability times at the reproducing laser power; and determining a relationship between the temperature of the recording layer during the data reproduction and the reproduction durability times from the relationship between the reproducing laser power during the data reproduction and the reproduction durability times.