Abstract: A recording medium (100) is provided with a first recording layer (L0) and a second recording layer (L1) for recording information. The first recording layer and the second recording layer are provided with control areas (102, 118), respectively, for recording control information for controlling at least recording or reproduction of the recording information. An area portion of the second recording layer which corresponds to an end portion on an inner circumference side of the control area in the first recording layer, and an end portion on an outer circumference side of the control area in the second recording layer are separated by a prescribed value or more.

Abstract: A recording apparatus with a device for recording information onto a medium, provided with: (i) a first layer irradiated with laser light to record information on a first area; and (ii) a second layer irradiated with laser light through the first layer and having a second area whose edge on an inner circumferential side corresponds to an edge on an outer circumferential side of the first area; and a controlling device for controlling the recording device to pre-record, into an area portion of the first area, other than an area portion having a size corresponding to a tolerance length, which indicates an acceptable range of a relative position shift between an address defined on the predetermined position in the first layer and an address related to the predetermined position in the second layer, with the edge on the outer circumferential side of the first area as a starting point.

Abstract: A data transfer method for connecting a master unit on an upstream side and a plurality of slave units on an downstream side in series with serial bus by a daisy chain system and transferring data having an appended error check code or error correction code between a data transmitter and a data receiver, the data transfer method including: transferring the data flowing in the serial bus in the slave unit from the data transmitter to the data receiver without performing an error check or error correction; performing an error check of the data in a circuit provided in the slave unit aside from a circuit in which the data flow; and informing a result of the error check to the master unit individually by the slave unit, which has performed the error check of the data.

Abstract: In an information recording medium including at least a first recording layer (L0 layer) capable of recording information and a second recording layer (L1 layer) capable of recording information, an information recording device (300) records information in a predetermined area (12) of the second recording layer by a laser beam which has passed through a transmission area (11) of the first recording layer. The information recording medium (300) includes recording means (302, etc.) for recording the information in the first recording layer or the second recording layer, judgment means for judging whether an unrecorded amount indicating the size of the unrecorded area in the radial direction in the transmission area is smaller than a predetermined amount, and control means used when the unrecorded area is judged to be smaller than the predetermined amount, for controlling the recording means to record information in the predetermined area.

Abstract: A recording medium (100) is provided with: a first recording layer (L0) including a first area; and a second recording layer (L1) including a second area, wherein an edge on one side of the second area is located at a position obtained by shifting to an other side at least by a tolerance length from an area portion in the second recording layer corresponding to an edge on the one side of the first area, or an edge on the other side of the second area is located at a position obtained by shifting to the one side at least by the tolerance length from the area portion in said second recording layer corresponding to the edge on the one side of the first area, in which the tolerance length indicates an acceptable range of a relative position shift between an address which is defined on the predetermined position in the first recording layer and an address which is related to the predetermined position in the second recording layer.

Abstract: A recording device has a recording unit for recording information in a medium having a first layer and a second layer; a forming unit for forming a buffer area in each of the first and second layers; and a control unit for controlling the forming unit to form the buffer area in the first layer to have a prescribed size and an edge on an outer circumference side of the buffer area in the second layer at a position, shifted from an area section of the second layer corresponding to the edge on the outer circumference side of the buffer area by a relative positional shift between an address at a prescribed position in the first layer and an address relating to the prescribed position in the second layer, or at a position shifted by a tolerance length indicating a tolerance range of such positional shift.

Abstract: A heat sink including a base and a plurality of upright heat-radiating projections provided on the base. The heat-radiating projections include a first projection having a first rigidity, and a second projection having at least a second rigidity partially lower than the first rigidity. The second projection is located along an outer periphery of an array or configuration of the plurality of heat-radiating projections on the base.

Abstract: A pressure measured by a load cell is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter provided in an analog interface, and is processed by a digital filter provided in the analog interface. A sensor signal processed in the digital filter is transferred to a controller 10 for industrial machinery every transfer cycle via an optical fiber. A digital sampling cycle by the A/D converter is set to be shorter than the transfer cycle.

Abstract: An information recording device is used for recording record information in an information recording medium at least including a first recording layer capable of forming a first recording area and a second recording layer capable of forming a second recording area. The information recording device includes: write elements; acquisition elements for acquiring offset information indicating a relative shift; calculation elements for calculating an address (“Y?=Inv Y??”) indicating a second boundary point opposing to a first boundary point according to the offset information; and control elements for controlling the write elements so as to write record information (i) while making the first boundary point a recording end or start position and (ii) making the second boundary point indicated by the calculated address a recording start or end position.

Abstract: A motor control system capable of outputting motor control data contained in a numeric control device and inputting motor control data to the numeric control device as required, without using a proprietary connector and/or a switching unit. The control system has a numeric control device, a plurality of motor amplifiers for receiving a command from the numeric control device via a serial communication line, a plurality of motors such as servomotors each driven by each of the plurality of motor amplifiers, and a data I/O device for inputting and outputting motor control data, as analog data or digital data, included in software in the numeric control device. The data I/O device may also transmit motor control data, to the numeric control device, as analog or digital data.

Abstract: In a centrifugal chamber 9, an elastic rotation shaft 30 and a high-rigidity rotation shaft 34 extend coaxially. When a rotor selected from an angle rotor 17 and a swing rotor 36 which have different sizes and shapes is set in the centrifugal chamber 9, an optimal shaft is connected automatically to the selected rotor. The angle rotor 17 having a low tendency toward mass eccentricity is supported and rotated by the elastic rotation shaft 30 for high-speed rotation. The swing rotor 34 having a high tendency toward mass eccentricity is supported by the high-rigidity shaft 34 for low-speed rotation. Rotation torque is transmitted to the swing rotor 34 from the elastic rotation shaft.

Abstract: A pressure measured by a load cell is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter provided in an analog interface, and is processed by a digital filter provided in the analog interface. A sensor signal processed in the digital filter is transferred to a controller 10 for industrial machinery every transfer cycle via an optical fiber. A digital sampling cycle by the A/D converter is set to be shorter than the transfer cycle.

Abstract: A casing is provided with an outer frame defining an internal space and with a partition dividing the internal space into a fan housing and a motor housing. The outer frame is formed with an inlet and an outlet allowing fluid communication between the fan housing and an exterior. The imaginary rotational axis of the fan is substantially coincident with the imaginary central axis of the inlet. The fan is positioned between the inlet and the motor. The fan includes a mount portion mounted on the drive shaft, a generally circular base plate formed integrally with the mount portion, and a plurality of vanes protruding from the base plate toward the inlet. The outer frame includes a slanted portion adjacent to the inlet and slanted in such a manner that a distance between the slanted portion and the imaginary central axis is gradually reduced in a direction toward the inlet.

Abstract: Noise detection is performed by using the output of the phase comparator that the PLL comprises. The phase comparator outputs a signal that is based on the phase difference between the output of the voltage controlled oscillator and the reference signal. The phase difference reflects the effect of noise on the PLL and, in addition to the characteristics of the noise itself, such as the wave height value of the noise and the frequency component thereof, reflects the tolerance of the PLL to noise, whereby the level of risk that the system can actually be caused to malfunction can be judged.

Abstract: In a centrifugal chamber 9, an elastic rotation shaft 30 and a high-rigidity rotation shaft 34 extend coaxially. When a rotor selected from an angle rotor 17 and a swing rotor 36 which have different sizes and shapes is set in the centrifugal chamber 9, an optimal shaft is connected automatically to the selected rotor. The angle rotor 17 having a low tendency toward mass eccentricity is supported and rotated by the elastic rotation shaft 30 for high-speed rotation. The swing rotor 34 having a high tendency toward mass eccentricity is supported by the high-rigidity shaft 34 for low-speed rotation. Rotation torque is transmitted to the swing rotor 34 from the elastic rotation shaft.

Abstract: A centrifugal separator comprises a driving unit, a power transmission unit including a driving shaft and a crown mounted to one end of the driving shaft, a rotor having a rotor body to which an insertion hole into which the crown is inserted is formed and including a sample holding member, the rotor being formed with a projection member so as to extend outward, a rotor casing into which the rotor is accommodated in a rotatable manner, and a receiving member disposed on the rotor casing side to receive the projection member. In a state that the crown is inserted into the insertion hole from a bottom wall side of the rotor casing, a first distance between the bottom wall of the rotor casing and a front end portion of the crown is made smaller than a second distance between a bottom portion of the projection member and a bottom portion of the insertion hole formed to the rotor body.

Abstract: A centrifugal separator comprises a driving unit, a power transmission unit including a driving shaft and a crown mounted to one end of the driving shaft, a rotor having a rotor body to which an insertion hole into which the crown is inserted is formed and including a sample holding member, the rotor being formed with a projection member so as to extend outward, a rotor casing into which the rotor is accommodated in a rotatable manner, and a receiving member disposed on the rotor casing side to receive the projection member. In a state that the crown is inserted into the insertion hole from a bottom wall side of the rotor casing, a first distance between the bottom wall of the rotor casing and a front end portion of the crown is made smaller than a second distance between a bottom portion of the projection member and a bottom portion of the insertion hole formed to the rotor body.

Abstract: A centrifuge includes a rotor and a drive device for rotating the rotor. A support frame is located between the rotor and the drive device. A viscoelastic member is provided between the support frame and the drive device. A locating device operates for locating the drive device in an axial direction. The locating device may include a suspension connecting the support frame and a bottom of the drive device. Preferably, the suspension includes one of a wire rope and a piano wire.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compile method comprising steps of allocating a variable which is living and may be used after processing by an exception processing program, to a register whose contents are not changed in delivery processing, during a period of delivery processing when a flow of processing is delivered to the exception processing program written as a part of the program, in case where the exception occurs within a predetermined range of the program, and generating a code corresponding to the delivery processing.

Abstract: An endoscope provided with a lighting apparatus. In this lighting apparatus, a tapered fiber is applied between a lamp and a base end face of a light guide. This taper fiber is in a tapered configuration which gradually diminishes in diameter toward an end side. The lamp is a high luminance lamp of a low outgoing angle. The lamp, a battery, and the tapered fiber of the lighting apparatus are arranged unitedly on a grip portion of the endoscope.