Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus and an information storage disc for use therewith. The information storage disc has ID storage areas formed in predetermined locations in the radial direction of the disc, the ID storage areas storing either sector or track numbers previously and magnetically. In this setup, if the read head is dislodged from the center line of a given track, the read head still reads the sector number correctly. The information recording and reproducing apparatus has the read head and the write head arranged so that they are positioned on a given intermediate track in a substantially aligned manner. With the write head positioned on a given track, the read head is dislodged from that track only by a negligible distance. This allows the read head to read sector and track numbers unfailingly from the disc.

Abstract: A highly reliable magnetic recording and playback apparatus utilizes an independent magnetic clock pattern region and a pattern set region to provide a common timing reference between a data recording region and its adjacent tracks. In the apparatus, the pattern set region provides a reference point so that the circumferential location of the magnetic pattern region can be determined. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes elements for playback of reproduced information recorded on a magnetic disk and an arrangement which provides for the generation of a data existing point clock.

Abstract: A highly reliable magnetic record playback apparatus utilizes an independent magnetic clock pattern region and a pattern set region to provide a common timing reference between a data recording region and its adjacent tracks. In the apparatus, the pattern set region provides a reference point so that the circumferential location of the magnetic pattern region can be determined. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes elements for playback of reproduced information recorded on a magnetic disk and an arrangement which provides for the generation of a data existing point clock.

Abstract: To increase the recording capacity of a magnetic disc, tracks of this magnetic disc are divided into a number of sectors, with each sector being formed from a number of segments. Each segment is basically made up of a data region and a servo region with data being recorded on the data region and a clock pattern which becomes the basis for generation of a clock, a fine pattern which becomes the basis for the tracking operation, and an access pattern which becomes the basis for a seek operation being recorded on the servo region. An ID region and servo region are formed before the data region and servo region which make up the leading segment with the sector ID for this region being recorded in this ID region. After this ID has been read from this ID region, while it is being determined whether or not this ID is the same as the designated ID, the servo operation corresponding to the servo control signal occurring in the servo region is carried out.

Abstract: A highly reliable magnetic recording and playback apparatus utilizes an independent magnetic clock pattern region and a pattern set region to provide a common timing reference between a data recording region and its adjacent tracks. In the apparatus, the pattern set region provides a reference point so that the circumferential location of the magnetic pattern region can be determined. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes elements for playback of reproduced information recorded on a magnetic disk and an arrangement which provides for the generation of a data existing point clock.

Abstract: The information reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is the information reproducing apparatus which reproduces the data from the recording medium by utilizing the partial response system and decodes the data by using the shift register on the basis of the Viterbi decoding method, wherein the shift register includes the flip-flops Da.sub.j as the plurality of latch means connected in series for latching the data and the XOR gates 31a to 31d as the arithmetic means which are disposed between the adjacent flip-flops Da.sub.j to carry out CRC calculation and which calculates the exclusive-ORs of the outputs of the flip-flops Da.sub.j.

Abstract: There is disclosed a magnetic disk device of the external synchronization system using a head assembly of the recording/reproducing heads separation type. This magnetic device comprises: a reproducing head for reproducing data from a magnetic disk; a clock signal generator for generating a clock signal on the basis of a reproduced signal corresponding to a clock pattern from the reproducing head; a delay circuit for delaying recording data relative to the clock signal generated at the clock signal generator; a recording head for recording the recording data delayed by the delay circuit onto the magnetic disk; a position detecting circuit for detecting head position information (e.g.

Abstract: A movable member supported for movement on a track has a pressure receptor portion which faces laterally outward. An accelerating device in a horizontally held particular track portion of the track, at the upstream side thereof, acts upon the pressure receptor portion to apply high speed transport force to the movable member. A decelerating device at the downstream side of the particular track portion acts upon the pressure receptor portion to decelerate the movable member. The accelerating device acts upon the pressure receptor portion at the downstream side of the particular track portion, whereby high speed transport force is applied to the movable member so that the movable member may be transported at high speed on the horizontally held particular track portion. The decelerating device acts upon the pressure receptor portion of the movable member being transported at high speed, whereupon the movable member is decelerated.

Abstract: A magnetic disk includes a servo zone for reproducing signals for control therefrom and a data zone for recording and reproducing a data signal, wherein the servo zone and the data zone are alternately and repeatedly provided on each of annular tracks, and at least a header portion of each of the servo zones is constituted by a recognizable data. A magnetic disk recorder for recording a signal on and reproducing a signal from the thus constructed magnetic disk includes a recording amplifier for supplying a signal to a magnetic head to thereby record the signal on the magnetic disk, and a unit for, upon turning off an operation of the recording amplifier, applying to the recording amplifier a current for generating a magnetic field from the magnetic head directed to the same direction as a magnetized direction of a predetermined bit of a header portion of the servo zone.

Abstract: Method of operation of an air cleaner used in a motor vehicle, comprises the steps of: intermittently turning off a blower motor of the air cleaner at a given interval; detecting ripple components included in an output voltage developed by a dynamo driven by an engine of the motor vehicle by detecting the output voltage between dc power supply lines connected from the dynamo to the air cleaner; and maintaining turn off condition of the blower motor when the ripple component is lower than a given level during intermittently turning off the blower motor. When the engine is stopped, during the on interval of the blower motor, stoppage of the engine cannot be detected by watching the ripple components included in power supply lines. However, during the following intermittent turning off interval, stop of the engine can be detected because the ripple component due to operation of the blower motor is not developed.

Abstract: A concentration of a given gas is detected by a gas sensor when a command signal for turning off the gas sensor is present, the concentration is stored and the gas sensor is turned off. The invention detects the concentration of the given gas by the gas sensor when a command signal for turning on the gas sensor is present and determines a reference value by choosing either the stored concentration or the concentration detected after the gas sensor is turned on whichever is lower at an instant a predetermined interval after the gas sensor is turned on. A blower motor of an air cleaner is controlled in accordance with the difference between the reference value and the concentration detected after the gas sensor is turned on. In a second method, the concentration is stored in a nonvolatile memory just before the air cleaner is turned off. In a third method, a given value may be set as the reference value replacing the stored concentration if the given value is smaller than the stored concentration.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a latent image forming device for forming an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member, a first developing device including a first developer carrying member for carrying a first developer thereon to supply it to the image bearing member, a second developing device including a second developer carrying member for carrying thereon a second developer having a different color from that of the first developer to supply it to the image bearing member, wherein a developer carrying surface of the developer carrying member has a surface property which is different from that of the first developer carrying member, and a bias voltage applying device for applying a first developing bias voltage to the first developer carrying member and for applying to the second developer carrying member a second bias voltage which is different from the first developing bias voltage.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner is disclosed, wherein input power for a motor blower contained in the body of the same can be controlled by switches (6), (7) provided to the handle of a hose. Input power for motor blower is automatically controlled in accordance with the amount of dust passing through suction air path. A switch (22) is provided which is capable of changing suction force temporarily in automatic operation mode by operation of the user, irrespective of the amount of dust.

Abstract: A control circuit for an air cleaner including a gas sensor, an ultraviolet sensor and a control circuit for performing an automatic operation of the air cleaner in response to the detection of outputs of the sensors. A predetermined number of electrical pulses from the ultraviolet sensor are observed by the control circuit during a first predetermined time period after the passage of a second predetermined time period from a point of time when an initial pulse from the ultraviolet sensor has been inputted to the control circuit, the control circuit identifies the predetermined number of the pulses as a drive signal for initiating the operation of the air cleaner.

Abstract: In a vacuum cleaner of the type arranged to stop a motor when a driven brush is overloaded due to engagement with carpet or other obstacles, a starter circuit responsive to a manually operable power switch is employed to start the motor. The rotation of the rotary brush is detected by way of a sensor which produces a voltage. The starter circuit produces another voltage for a given period of time after the power switch is turned on, and these voltages are fed to a latching circuit which produces a control voltage when neither of the first nor second voltage is applied thereto, and the control voltage causes a control unit to interrupt power to the electric motor. As a result, once the latching circuit is put in a latching state after the brush has stopped, the motor is prevented from starting again unless the power switch is turned on again.

Abstract: A method of development including the steps of forming a thin layer of developer on a surface of a developer carrying member; opposing the surface of the developer carrying member to a latent image bearing member bearing a latent image to be developed with a clearance therebetween which is larger than the thickness of the thin developer layer at a developing position; and intermittently forming an alternating electric field, as a developing bias, across the clearance.

Abstract: A developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image formed by the electrophotographic process, etc., in which, when a developer on a non-magnetic sleeve used for developing an image is separated from the surface of this sleeve, the developer is divided into two streams, one of which is directly fed to a developer conveying device to convey the developer to a developing section for the image development, and the other of which is led to an agitating device to agitate the developer in the axial direction of the sleeve, and, after sufficient agitation, the developer stream is applied to the developer conveying device.By the abovementioned construction, the developer from at least one of the abovementioned streams is supplied to the developer conveying device without failure, whereby a required quantity of the developer can always be supplied even when the developing device is driven at a high operating speed.