Abstract: A measuring device includes a first space for pressurizing a pressurization target and a second space independent of the first space. The measuring device includes a first exhaust valve closing or opening a communication port communicating the first space with another space. An open/closed state of the first exhaust valve changes in accordance with a pressure difference between the first space and the second space.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit.

Abstract: A BaTiO3-type semiconducting ceramic material which has undergone firing in a reducing atmosphere and re-oxidation, wherein the relative density of the ceramic material after sintering is about 85–90%. A process for producing the semiconducting ceramic material of the present invention and a thermistor containing the semiconducting ceramic material are also disclosed.

Abstract: In the process for producing bisphenol A comprising crystallizing an adduct of bisphenol A and phenol from a phenol solution of bisphenol A obtained by reacting phenol and acetone in the presence of an acid catalyst, treating the formed slurry by solid-liquid separation and removing phenol from the solid component, a layer of the crystalline adduct is formed on a filter by filtering slurry (1) comprising the crystalline adduct, washing the layer of the adduct with a washing liquid, dissolving the layer of the adduct in a solution comprising phenol, producing slurry (2) comprising the crystalline adduct by crystallization, and separating the crystalline adduct by centrifugation of slurry (2). When bisphenol A is separated from the reaction mixture, the adduct of bisphenol A and phenol can be recovered from the mother liquor of the reaction efficiently at a high purity in accordance with the above process.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit.

Abstract: A tape library wherein a number of cassette tapes are accommodated and adjusted. One or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit. When a transport mechanism is within the basic unit, a control circuit section controls the transport mechanism by referencing a position reference point of the basic unit, and when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit the control circuit section controls referencing a position reference point of the expansion unit. The control circuit section and the transport mechanism of the basic unit are interconnected by an elongated-belt-like flat cable which includes a plurality of conductors extending in parallel and joined with an insulating material, and when an expansion unit is coupled the cable need not be replaced, allowing coupling of an expansion unit and smooth transportation of a recording medium in the expansion unit to a recording and/or playback section by the transport mechanism.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a component body having semiconductive ceramic layers and internal electrodes. The semiconductive ceramic layers and the internal electrodes are alternately laminated. The semiconductive ceramic layers have a relative density of about 90% or less and contain no sintering additives. The component body is provided with an external electrode on each side thereof. The ceramic electronic component has a low resistance and a high withstand voltage.

Abstract: An antenna is provided for use with a memory (MIC) incorporated in a recording medium that stores management data. The antenna is located at a position to read data signals from the memory before the recording medium inserted through an insertion port is completely transported to the transport mechanism of a drive. Thus, a recording/playback apparatus and a data library can be provided, which can use a large amount of information to manage the recording medium as management data before the recording medium is inserted into the drive.

Abstract: The semiconducting ceramic material of the present invention containing BaTiO3 and having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance is endowed with high withstand voltage. In the semiconducting ceramic material, a boundary temperature defined at the boundary between a first temperature range and a second temperature range is 180° C. or more (e.g., 370° C.) higher than the Curie temperature, wherein the first temperature range is higher than the Curie temperature and the ceramic material has a positive temperature coefficient of resistance in the range, and the second temperature range is higher than the first temperature range and the ceramic material has a negative temperature coefficient of resistance in the range.

Abstract: A chip-type electronic component is provided in which generation of cracks in a glass coating layer and degradation of the insulating resistance in the ceramic body is unlikely to occur. In addition, a manufacturing method therefor is also provided. In the glass coating layer described above, the ratio of the alkali metal content to the silicon content is gradually increased from the vicinity of the glass coating layer to the inside thereof. The component is formed by forming a glass coating layer on surfaces of the component, in which the ratio of the alkali metal to the silicon in the glass coating layer is 0.3 or more; and a subsequent step of dipping the component provided with the glass coating layer in an acidic aqueous solution.

Abstract: An antenna is provided to a memory (MIC) incorporated in a recording medium and storing management data. The antenna is located at such a position as to read data signals from the memory means before the recording medium inserted through the insertion port is completely transported to the transport mechanism of a drive. Thus, a recording/playback apparatus and a data library can be provided, which can use a large amount of information to manage recording medium as management data before the recording medium is inserted into the drive and which is simple in structure.

Abstract: A BaTiO3-type semiconducting ceramic material which has undergone firing in a reducing atmosphere and re-oxidation, wherein the relative density of the ceramic material after sintering is about 85-90%. A process for producing the semiconducting ceramic material of the present invention and a thermistor containing the semiconducting ceramic material are also disclosed.

Abstract: A resin sealing method for sealing a joining portion between a semiconductor chip 12 and a substrate 10 by filling a underfilled portion of a molded piece 40 in which a semiconductor chip is mounted on a substrate with solder bumps studded therebetween with sealing resin 14 by a transfer molding process, the method being characterized in that when the molded piece 40 is clamped with a mold of a transfer molding machine, the perimeter of the underfilled portion, except the end of a gate continuous to the underfilled portion, is closed with a release film 20, and in a state that the perimeter of the underfilled portion is closed, the sealing resin 14 having been supplied to a pot 42 provided in the mold is fed under pressure to the underfilled portion, to thereby fill the underfilled portion.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a component body having semiconductive ceramic layers and internal electrodes. The semiconductive ceramic layers and the internal electrodes are alternately laminated. The semiconductive ceramic layers have a relative density of about 90% or less and contain no sintering additives. The component body is provided with an external electrode on each side thereof. The ceramic electronic component has a low resistance and a high withstand voltage.

Abstract: A monolithic semiconducting electronic component includes barium titanate-based semiconducting ceramic layers and internal electrode layers, which are alternately laminated, and external electrodes arranged to be electrically connected to the internal electrode layers. The ratio S/I of the thickness S of each of the semiconducting ceramic layers to the thickness I of each of the internal electrode layers is about 10 to about 50. Preferably, the internal electrode layers are composed of a nickel-based metal.

Abstract: The invention provides a tape library wherein the accommodated number of cassette tapes can be adjusted freely. Where one or more expansion units are connected to a basic unit, when a transport mechanism is positioned within the basic unit, a control circuit section of the basic unit controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the basic unit, but when the transport mechanism is within an expansion unit, the control circuit section controls the position and operation of the transport mechanism with reference to a position reference point of the expansion unit.