Abstract: A cold protection material includes an outer fabric, an inner fabric, two connecting members bonded to the outer fabric and the inner fabric to form a space between the outer fabric and the inner fabric, and a filler stored in the space. Each of the two connecting members has an outer surface bonded to the outer fabric and an inner surface bonded to the inner fabric, and has air permeability, and each of the two connecting members is formed of a flexible material, and is soft enough not to be deformed to reduce a distance between the outer surface and the inner surface by a weight of the outer fabric or the inner fabric.

Abstract: A cold protection material includes: a front side fabric constituting a front fabric of the cold proof garment or constituting a fabric disposed inside the front fabric; a back side fabric disposed on a back side of the front side fabric; two partition members forming a space between the front side fabric and the back side fabric; a filler made of down or feathers stored in the space; an air permeable member disposed to cover a vent hole provided in the front side fabric or the back side fabric; and a sealing member fixed to the air permeable member so as to prevent ventilation at least at a portion facing the vent hole in the air permeable member. The air permeable member allows ventilation at a portion other than a portion to which the sealing member is fixed.

Abstract: A shrimp-like food has mannan-containing fibrous portions and a mannan-containing binding portion binding between the fibrous portions. The fibrous portions are preferably arranged in a random orientation in the food. The fibrous portions preferably have a thickness of 0.8 to 3.0 mm. The mannan contents in the fibrous and binding portions are both preferably 1 to 7 mass %.

Abstract: A shrimp-like food has mannan-containing fibrous portions and a mannan-containing binding portion binding between the fibrous portions. The fibrous portions are preferably arranged in a random orientation in the food. The fibrous portions preferably have a thickness of 0.8 to 3.0 mm. The mannan contents in the fibrous and binding portions are both preferably 1 to 7 mass %.

Abstract: A method of designing a patterned magnetic recording medium including a magnetic film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy which is patterned into dots form includes steps of setting values to dot pattern periods Px and Py, a thickness “t”, a thermal stability factor Kn, a minimum inter-dot spacing S0, and a maximum recording field Hm, setting an initial value of a saturation magnetization Ms, finding a nucleation field for magnetization reversal Hn and estimating a coercivity Hc and a saturation field Hs, and repeating the steps given above so as to make the saturation field Hs lower than the maximum recording field Hm, thereby determining the magnetic properties Ms, Hn and Hc satisfying a desired condition.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium has a recording layer formed of a magnetic material represented by the following general formula: [(Co1-mPtm)1-nCrn]100-x-yTixOy, where m and n are atomic ratios, m is 0.2 or more and 0.4 or less, n is 0 or more and 0.1 or less, x is 9 at. % or more and 13 at. % or less, and y/x is 1.8 or more and 2.3 or less.

Abstract: A method of designing a patterned magnetic recording medium including a magnetic film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy which is patterned into dots form includes steps of setting values to dot pattern periods Px and Py, a thickness “t”, a thermal stability factor Kn, a minimum inter-dot spacing S0, and a maximum recording field Hm, setting an initial value of a saturation magnetization Ms, finding a nucleation field for magnetization reversal Hn and estimating a coercivity Hc and a saturation field Hs, and repeating the steps given above so as to make the saturation field Hs lower than the maximum recording field Hm, thereby determining the magnetic properties is Ms. Hn and Hc satisfying a desired condition.

Abstract: To present an information recording medium for achieving high density information recording, in particular, a high signal output and a high resolution in magnetic recording, for example, an information recording medium sequentially forming a layer made of soft magnetic material, a layer made of nonmagnetic material, and an information recording layer of ordered alloy with L10 crystal structure selected from group A is manufactured in a specified manufacturing method. Herein the group A is defined to include FePt ordered alloy, CoPt ordered alloy, FePd ordered alloy, and their alloy.

Abstract: In an apparatus for recording and reproducing a digital picture signal, the large number of data bits in the digital picture signal to be recorded is reduced by a ratio of approximately 1:9, and the thus compressed data are recorded with a recording density of at least approximately 0.8 bit/&mgr;m2 in relatively narrow successive skewed tracks without guard bands on a metal evaporated magnetic tape having predefined characteristics. The magnetic tape has a width of no more than approximately 8 mm and a thickness of no more than approximately 7 &mgr;m and is wound in a relatively small size cassette.

Abstract: An information recording layer consisting of a composite of an ordered alloy of L10 crystal structure selected from a group A, and MgO is used for a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The group A includes an FePt ordered alloy, a CoPt ordered alloy, an FePd ordered alloy and an alloy thereof. This information recording layer has a very small magnetic domain structure and allows high density recording as seen from a signal output spectrum showing a result of a recording and reproducing evaluation of a magnetic recording medium in one example. The information recording layer can be formed at lower film formation temperature than a temperature of a composite thin film of an ordered alloy of L10 crystal structure according to a conventional technique.

Abstract: An information recording layer consisting of a composite of an ordered alloy of L10 crystal structure selected from a group A, and MgO is used for a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. The group A includes an FePt ordered alloy, a CoPt ordered alloy, an FePd ordered alloy and an alloy thereof. This information recording layer has a very small magnetic domain structure and allows high density recording as seen from a signal output spectrum showing a result of a recording and reproducing evaluation of a magnetic recording medium in one example. The information recording layer can be formed at lower film formation temperature than a temperature of a composite thin film of an ordered alloy of L10 crystal structure according to a conventional technique.

Abstract: A vehicle navigation system and method in the present invention comprises a navigation apparatus transmitting a current position of a vehicle and a target destination of the vehicle, and a base station receiving the current position and the target destination, searching a route information from the current position to the target destination, and transmitting the route information to the navigation apparatus. The base station includes an information storage section storing added information with regard to road features, a route searching section searching the added route information from the information storage section, a transmitting section transmitting the route information to the navigation apparatus and then transmitting the added information to the navigation apparatus. The navigation apparatus displays the route information and the added route information each of which is transmitted from the base station.

Abstract: An information system of a vehicle has a controller which is arranged to decide a danger point on a traveling road according to a traveling circumstance of the vehicle and to store the danger point for the next travel. The information system informs a driver that the vehicle approaches the danger point stored. Therefore, the information system can provide optimum information according to driver's driving skill to the driver.

Abstract: A data recording device such as a hard disk apparatus has an orthogonal coding circuit and a modulation circuit. The orthogonal coding circuit encodes recording data to be recorded to adjacent two tracks as two orthogonal code streams which are included in an Hadamard matrix. The modulation circuit outputs recording signals, which are obtained by modulating the code streams using the NRZI system, to a magnetic head. Reproduction signals read out from a magnetic disk by the magnetic head are decoded as recording data based upon given decoding rules according to the two code streams.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a data recording medium for recording and reproducing data by use of a magnetic field or light and formed of an ordered alloy thin film comprising the steps of forming at least one underlayer principally containing an element or a compound selected from the group consisting of Cr, Pt, Pd, Au, Fe, Ni, MgO, NiO and controlled in such a way that a crystal plane having a crystal lattice face of a Miller index (100) is in parallel to a substrate, and forming an ordered alloy layer with L1.sub.0 crystal structure by sputter deposition within the range satisfying Equation 1: P.times.D>3000, where P is Ar sputter-gas pressure (Pa) and D is a target-substrate distance (mm), is disclosed.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic recording medium comprising, a substrate, a crystal orientation enhancement underlayer of hcp structure formed on the substrate, a perpendicular orientation dispersion angle of c-axis thereof being not more than 10 degrees, and a cobalt-chromium-based magnetic layer formed on the underlayer, the magnetic layer having a thickness of 100 nm or less and containing 1 to 8 at % of niobium.

Abstract: The coefficient k.sub.1 of linear expansion in a temperature range from 50.degree. to 300.degree. C. of a non-magnetic support member of a recording medium, before a Co-Cr alloy film is formed thereon, is less than 0 mm/mm .degree.C., and the coefficient k.sub.2 of linear expansion in a temperature range from 50.degree. to 300.degree. C. of that support member after the Co-Cr alloy film is formed is less than 0.3.times.10.sup.-5 mm/mm .degree.C. The alloy film also includes carbon in the magnetic layer, and a protective film comprised of carbon is further formed on the magnetic layer. The recording medium is particularly adapted for perpendicular magnetic recording.

Abstract: In a vacuum evaporation method for depositing a thin film on a substrate by heating a sublimable source material under vacuum to vaporize it, the source material is subjectd to vaporization in an unsintered state. Electron-beam heating may be employed. The primary advantage of avoiding precedent sintering of the source material is great reduction in scattering of fine particles of the source material in the vacuum chamber. Consequently the deposited film has an even and smooth surface. A representative of the sublimable source material is a II-VI compound semiconductor such as ZnS used as the host material of an electroluminescent phosphor. Thin-film electroluminsecent devices produced by using the vacuum evaporation method according to the invention possess improved reliability.

Abstract: A system for shaking water off a surface includes an electromagnetically operable driver unit for driving a member having the surface. The driver unit is connected to a control unit which controls oscillation frequency to be generated by the driver unit. The control unit adjusts the frequency of oscillation transmitted to the member for matching the oscillation frequency with the resonating frequency of the member for effectively shaking the water off the surface.