Abstract: When a controller receives a new command from a main controller during overwrite-deletion processing for a specific storage apparatus, the received command is stored at least until completion of the overwrite-deletion processing when the received command is a command to the specific storage apparatus. Alternatively, progression of overwrite-deletion process is stored and priority processing of the received command is executed. On the other hand, when the received command is not a command to the specific storage apparatus, processing for the command is executed.

Abstract: A fixing portion 18c for suppressing movement of a developer bag 16 when the developer bag 16 is unsealed by moving a sealing member 19 is provided. By this, unsealing becomes easy.

Abstract: A plasma processing method includes holding a target substrate on a holding table installed in a processing chamber; generating a microwave for plasma excitation; supplying a reactant gas having dissociation property; generating an electric field by introducing the microwave via a dielectric plate disposed to face the holding table; setting a distance between the holding table and the dielectric plate is set to a first distance based on periodicity of a standing wave formed in the dielectric plate by the introduction of the microwave, and generating plasma in the processing chamber in a state where the electric field is generated in the processing chamber; and after the generating of the plasma, setting the distance to a second distance shorter than the first distance by moving the holding table up and down, and performing the plasma process on the target substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a metal halide lamp having a ceramics arc tube, wherein a rated power is 35 to 100 W and a color temperature is 2800 to 3700 K, wherein halogen additives as light emission materials are included in the arc tube, wherein the halogen additives consists of (1) cerium (Ce); (2) sodium (Na); (3) calcium (Ca); (4) thallium (Tl); and (5) rare earth metal comprising at least one of dysprosium (Dy), thulium (Tm), and holmium (Ho), and the halogen additives are iodide compounds, wherein, for respective composition ratios of the halogen additives for (1) to (4), cerium iodide is 1.5 mol % to 3.0 mol %; sodium iodide is 45 mol % to 90 mol %; calcium iodide is 5 mol % to 15 mol %; and thallium iodide is 2 mol % to 7 mol %.

Abstract: The invention provides dispersing agents for inorganic fillers capable of uniformly dispersing inorganic fillers in a substrate such as made of a rubber or resin material such that molded products with improved mechanical strength and abrasion resistance can be produced from such a substrate material and more specifically that rubber compositions with improved abrasion resistance and workability can be obtained and that automobile tires with improved low fuel consumption and handling stability can be produced from such rubber compositions, as well as a method of producing such dispersing agents characterized as using a modified conjugated diene polymer obtained by introducing specified structural units with improved mutual reaction with inorganic fillers into a conjugated diene polymer having affinity with rubber and resin materials.

Abstract: A focal-plane shutter includes at least one blade group, a shutter base plate where the blade group is rotatably attached, a blade driving member rotatably supported by the shutter base plate and configured to drive the blade group from a standby position to a travelling completed position when taking pictures, a charge member configured to charge the blade driving member and a braking member formed on a first surface opposite to a second surface where the blade driving member of the shutter base plate is rotatably supported and configured to abut against a protruding portion which penetrates the shutter base plate from the blade driving member so as to protrude to the first surface.

Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a dose calculation unit to calculate, for each of a plurality of first small regions made by virtually dividing a writing region of a target object to be mesh-like regions each having a size larger than an influence radius of forward scattering of a charged particle beam, a dose of the charged particle beam shot in a first small region concerned of the plurality of first small regions, by using a dose formula which is different depending on a shot type classified by whether a shot figure formed by the charged particle beam is at an edge of a figure pattern or inside the figure pattern in the first small region concerned, and a writing unit to write, for each of the plurality of first small regions, the figure pattern with a dose calculated by the dose formula.

Abstract: In connecting flexible printed circuits, a structure with improved connection strength of the connection portion is provided. In this structure in which a first flexible printed circuit and a second flexible printed circuit are connected to each other, a through-hole is provided on the second flexible printed circuit, and a resin member passes through the through-hole and is adhered to the wires of a connection surface of the first flexible printed circuit and the side of the second flexible printed circuit opposite to the connection surface, whereby impact is absorbed by the elasticity of the resin; as for the first flexible printed circuit, adhesion is performed on a metal in a wiring layer with high adhesion strength, while as for the second flexible printed circuit, adhesion is performed on the back side upon which no peeling stress is exerted, improving joining strength to prevent peeling.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connector assembly having a small size and preventing a contact between a bolt fastener and a detection member. The connector assembly includes a connector having an inner chamber with an opening and a plurality of connector terminals, a connector receptacle having a plurality of connector receptacle terminals securable together with the connector terminals and a first detection member, and a cover for covering the opening and having a second detection member. When the opening of the inner chamber is covered with the cover, the first detection member and the second detection member are connected together and detect that the cover is covered. The first detection member is disposed between the adjacent connector receptacle terminals. An end surface of the first housing is positioned inwardly of the inner chamber with respect to a surface of a connector electrical contact portion.

Abstract: An electricity storage module includes a casing 110 that includes an intake port 114 through which a cooling medium is taken in, located at one end of the casing, and an outlet port 115 through which the cooling medium is let out, located at another end of the casing. A plurality of electricity storage elements 140 are arrayed from the intake port 114 toward the outlet port 115 with clearances set between the electricity storage elements, and the clearances present between the electricity storage elements 140 are altered so as to achieve a higher flow velocity for the cooling medium on the outlet port side compared to the flow velocity of the cooling medium on the intake port side.

Abstract: The present invention provides a curable resin composition which exhibits the following properties: excellent basic performances such as heat resistance; sufficient optical characteristics such as transparency; and excellent demoldability when a molded body of the composition is demolded at the time of molding. The present invention further provides a molded body obtainable by molding the curable resin composition and a production method thereof. A curable resin composition for molded bodies, including a thermocurable resin, wherein the curable resin composition for molded bodies includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting a compound having a boiling point of 260° C. or less at one atmospheric pressure, a silicon compound having a polyoxyalkylene chain, a silicon compound having an aryl group, and a silicon compound having a polyoxyalkylene chain and an aryl group.

Abstract: A seat locking device includes a striker and a catching section. The catching section includes a base plate including a first entrance concave portion, a cover member including a second entrance concave portion, a latch, a lock plate, and a bumper rubber including a substantially isosceles-triangle portion. A lateral surface of a holding concave portion of the latch is inclined such that an opening side of the lateral surface is located closer to a bottom surface of the first entrance concave portion than its counter-opening side. A bottom surface of the holding concave portion is closer to an imaginary center line of the first entrance concave portion than one lateral surface of the first entrance concave portion so that a catching-capable dimension for the striker is set between the bottom surface of the holding concave portion and another lateral surface of the first entrance concave portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connector assembly allowing attachment of a connector to a connector receptacle with a limited attachment space. The connector assembly includes the connector having a terminal and a connector housing, the connector receptacle having a case and a terminal portion, and a fastening member. The terminal has an electrical contact portion with a hole. The connector housing has a column portion for receiving the electrical contact portion with the hole aligned in an insertion direction of the connector. The terminal portion has a connection portion to be superposed with the electrical contact portion and has a second hole to be communicated with the hole. The case has a housing portion for supporting the connection portion so that the second hole of the connection portion is aligned with the insertion direction of the connector.

Abstract: Provided is a multi-fingered type hand device that facilitates arrangements of wirings connecting driving members which drive fingertips and the like of a robot with members which control the driving members. The multi-fingered type hand device 1 includes a wrist portion 10, a base portion 20, and a plurality of finger mechanisms 30, the wrist portion 10 having therein a wrist sensor 12, at least one of the plurality of finger mechanisms 30 having therein a fingertip sensor 321, the base portion 20 including a frame-shaped frame portion 21, a tactile sensor 25, a first substrate 23 that controls outputs of the wrist sensor 12, the fingertip sensor 321, and the tactile sensor 25, and a second substrate 24, the first substrate 23 and the second substrate 24 being disposed opposite to each other so as to sandwich the frame portion 21 from the upper and lower.

Abstract: A computer-readable medium storing therein a data conversion program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes receiving after a schema of a database has been changed from a former schema to a new schema, a processing request concerning the database; judging based on difference information concerning the former schema and the new schema, whether in the processing request, a condition that specifies process data subject to processing, has been changed by the new schema; searching the database for conversion data whose format is to be converted from the former schema to the new schema, the searching based on judgment results obtained at the judging and on the processing request; and converting the format of the retrieved conversion data, from the former schema to the new schema.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a recording layer having a granular structure in which magnetic particles are dispersed within a non-magnetic base, and a non-magnetic material embedded in grooves of patterns formed on the recording layer. The magnetic particles have an inverted truncated cone shape with a diameter larger in an upper region of the recording layer than in a lower region of the recording layer.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus edits an actual data portion excluding a header from data transmitted by streaming transmission from a first information processing apparatus after start of streaming transmission. The data processing apparatus transmits edited actual data portion and header to a second information processing apparatus by streaming transmission. The second information processing apparatus reproduces the voice data or the animation data transmitted by streaming transmission. The actual data portion is edited so that the voice data or the animation data to be transmitted may be reproducible in the second information processing apparatus, and so that a program may become unexecutable even if it would be transmitted to the second information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A sun gear which is rotationally driving according to power which is transmitted from a driving motor, a planetary gear which can be displaced in the circumferential direction of the sun gear in a state of being engaged with the sun gear, and a winding-up gear which transmits a rotational driving power to a winding-up roller are provided, and the planetary gear is released from an engagement with a rack gear unit, rotates the winding-up roller by being engaged with the winding-up gear, and winds up a wiping member after the planetary gear moves a wiper holder in the wiping direction by being engaged with the rack gear unit of the wiper holder.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device employing a dot inversion drive method includes a pixel array, a data driver circuit, a short circuit, and a scanning circuit. The short circuit is disposed for respective outputs of the data driver circuit, and includes a switching element for connecting each of the outputs to a precharge voltage different from an output voltage. The short circuit includes the switching element disposed in one of a first switching group and a second switching group; the switching element of one of the first switching group and the second switching group is connected to respective pairs of pixel column units including an odd-numbered pixel column and an even-numbered pixel column which are adjacent to each other; and the pairs of pixel column units which are adjacent to each other are each connected to the switching element disposed in respective switching groups different from each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes a disk-facing surface configured to face a recording layer of a recording medium, a main magnetic pole includes a distal end located on the disk-facing surface and configured to apply a recording magnetic field to the recording layer of the recording medium, a leading shield on a leading side of the main magnetic pole, opposed to the distal end of the main magnetic pole across a gap, a high-frequency oscillator between the leading shield and the distal end of the main magnetic pole, and a recording coil configured to excite the main magnetic pole with a magnetic field.