Abstract: A power steering system having a housing having first and second housing sections, a steering shaft rotatably housed in the housing, a sensor coil, a coil bobbin having a coil holding part and a flange part and housed in the first housing section, a first held section provided at the flange part, a sensor board housed in the housing, a second held section provided at the sensor board, first and second riveting portions provided at the first housing section, and an electric motor. The first riveting portion fixes the coil bobbin to the first housing section by melting and deforming the first riveting portion with the first held section touching the first riveting portion. The second riveting portion fixes the sensor board to the first housing section by melting and deforming the second riveting portion with the second held section touching the second riveting portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television apparatus includes: a specific receiver configured to receive, from a communication apparatus connected via a network, list information of a plurality of network services each of which provides data, destination information indicating a connection destination for each of the network services, and setting information corresponding to each of the network services and indicating a setting to a display to receive the data from each of the network services; a display controller configured to control displaying of the list information; a selection receiver configured to receive a selection of the network service included in the list information that is displayed; and a setting controller configured to set the display according to the setting information corresponding to the selected network service and configured to control the display to display the data received from the connection destination for the selected network service indicated by the destination information.

Abstract: A ratchet mechanism of the ratchet tensioner comprises a toothed ratchet element slidable in a housing and movable in a sliding direction, a plunger movable in an advance/setback direction and having rack teeth engageable by the teeth of the ratchet element, and a ratchet-biasing spring for biasing the ratchet element so that its teeth engage the rack teeth. The rack teeth have stop surfaces facing in the setback direction and sliding surfaces facing the advancing direction. The sliding surfaces are curved surfaces bulging in the advancing direction and in the direction of disengagement of the ratchet element from the rack teeth, the bulge being in an area extending from an entry starting location to an entry ending location.

Abstract: A ratchet-type tensioner capable of restricting setback of a plunger includes a ratchet mechanism that allows setback of the plunger by sliding a ratchet element in a disengaging direction to disengage ratchet teeth from rack teeth when a reaction force acts on the plunger as a result of excessive chain tension. The ratchet element is slidable in a ratchet-receiving hole, and an inclination suppressing structure that prevents the ratchet element from becoming skewed in the ratchet receiving hole to an extent such that its forward end contacts one side of the hole while its rearward end contacts the opposite sides of the hole.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device having a disk, includes: a flag updating module configured to register a flag used when data is written onto the disk, the data is read from the disk and whether to verify the data or not is determined, so as to be associated with each of a plurality of predetermined temperature sections; a temperature detector configured to detect an environmental temperature of the magnetic disk device; a verifying module configured to determine whether to execute the verification or not according to a flag where the detected environmental temperature corresponds to one temperature section of the plurality of temperature sections and that is registered by the flag updating module so as to be associated with the one temperature section; and a measuring module configured to measure an error rate at a same point in time as the verification.

Abstract: There is provided a ratchet-type tensioner whose spring stopping washer for seating a ratchet biasing spring is rigidly and readily assembled to a ratchet-receiving hole so as not to fall out of the ratchet-receiving hole and which reduces flapping noise and prevents seizure of the plunger by securely and stably operating a ratchet mechanism in operating an engine. The ratchet-type tensioner 100 is arranged so that the spring stopping washer has a C-ring anchored in the rear-end area of the ratchet-receiving hole by fitting in a diameter-reduced state and by enlarging its diameter within an anchoring circumferential groove of the ratchet-receiving hole and a spring stopping piece extended from the C-ring to a ring center area to seat the ratchet biasing spring.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sol of spinous inorganic oxide particles not containing coarse particles, in which particles having extremely homogeneous particles are dispersed in a solvent. An acidic silicic acid is added to a dispersion liquid of core particles to grow core particles, and then again the acidic silicic acid is added at the addition rate 1.2 to 1.8 higher than that in the previous step to prepare a sol of spinous inorganic oxide particles. Then the sol is subjected to centrifugation to remove coarse particles having the diameter of 800 nm or more, thus spinous inorganic oxide particles having peculiar form such as a spinous one being obtained.

Abstract: In a ratchet tensioner, rack teeth on a plunger are engaged by ratchet teeth on one end of a movable plug that slides in a hole in the tensioner housing along a direction orthogonal of the direction of movement of the plunger. The movable plug is prevented from rotating in the hole in which it slides so that the ratchet teeth engage the rack teeth on the plunger smoothly and reliably.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a broadcast transmitter includes a generator and a transmitter. The generator generates service information including event information table information that describes format information indicating the format of distribution content corresponding to broadcast content distributed via a communication network. The transmitter multiplexes the service information into a transport stream and transmits the transport stream.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sol of spinous silica-based particles in which silica-based particles having peculiar forms, spinous forms are dispersed in a solvent. The spinous silica-based particles have verrucous projections formed on surfaces of spherical silica-based particles. In the spinous particles, a value of the surface roughness (SA1/SA2, SA1 indicating a specific surface area measured by the BET method or the Sears method and SA2 indicating a specific surface area converted from an average particle diameter (D2) measured by the image analysis method) is in the range from 1.7 to 10. Furthermore the average diameter (D2) measured by the image analysis method is in the range from 7 to 150 nm.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive includes a parameter management table, a parameter adjustment module and an interpolation module. The parameter management table stores a parameter used to write or read data to or from a disk in the parameter management table in association with each of a plurality of predetermined temperature divisions. The parameter adjustment module adjusts a first parameter stored in the parameter management table in association with a first temperature division to a second parameter adapted for the first temperature division if an ambient temperature detected by a temperature detector corresponds to the first temperature division and if the first parameter is unadjusted. The interpolation module updates an unadjusted third parameter corresponding to a third temperature division between the first temperature division and a second temperature division for which the parameter is adjusted based on a result of the adjustment of the first parameter.

Abstract: In a tensioner having a ratchet mechanism composed of annular teeth on a plunger and an expansible resilient ring disposed in a groove formed in the inner peripheral surface of a plunger-accommodating hole in a tensioner housing, the rear surfaces of the annular teeth have a steep slope, and the front surfaces of the annular teeth have a gradual slope with a convex curvature such that the rate of change of the slope decreases proceeding in the direction of retraction of the plunger.

Abstract: A tensioner for a chain or similar power transmission medium comprises a spring-biased plunger having annular rack teeth with gradually sloping forward surfaces and steeper rearward surfaces. The teeth are engaged by radially movable balls received in inclined grooves in an axially movable annular ball seat disposed in an annular groove formed in the wall of a plunger-accommodating hole in a tensioner housing. The bottoms of the inclined grooves face a steep rearward surface of a rack tooth, and the annular ball seat is axially movable in the annular groove and biased in the plunger protruding direction by a spring that exerts a biasing force greater than the biasing force exerted on the plunger. The balls and the movable annular ball seat block retraction of the plunger on engine start-up, but permit retraction when excessive force is imparted to the plunger while the plunger is in a protruding condition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a managing module configured to manage pieces of image information corresponding to types of applications; a determination module configured to determine whether a present time satisfies a preset temporal condition; an image selecting module configured to select first image information corresponding to a type of an activated application, and second image information corresponding to the type of the activated application when the present time satisfies the temporal condition; and a display module configured to generate a first image based on the first image information to be displayed on a display device when the image selecting module selects the first image information. The display module generates a second image based on the second image information to be displayed on the display device in place of the first image when the image selecting module selects the second image information.

Abstract: A tensioner unit comprises a tensioner body, a gasket in overlapping relationship to the tensioner body whereby the gasket can be sandwiched between the tensioner body and a mounting surface to which the tensioner body is to be secured, and a threaded mounting bolt inserted through a mounting hole in the tensioner body for securing the tensioner body to the mounting surface. A bolt hole is provided in the gasket, and the mounting bolt also extends through the bolt hole. The gasket grips the bolt and holds the mounting bolt, the gasket, and the tensioner body, in fixed relationship to one another, and maintains the gasket in a predetermined aligned relationship with the tensioner body when the gasket is in overlapping relationship with the tensioner body during mounting of the tensioner body on the mounting surface.

Abstract: An information communication method performed by a communication terminal apparatus, the method including: sharing a first encryption key with a first server; receiving a request for sending identification information of the communication terminal apparatus; authenticating the first server based on certificate information of the first server that is acquired while sharing the first encryption key and verification information retained in the communication terminal apparatus; encrypting the identification information of the communication terminal apparatus using a second encryption key; and encrypting, using the first encryption key, according to an authentication result, encrypted identification information of the communication terminal apparatus as generated by using the second encryption key, and transmitting resulting double-encrypted identification information of the communication terminal apparatus to the first server.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of hot rolled steel sheet (hot coil) for line pipe use in which API5L-X80 standard or better high strength and low temperature toughness and ductile fracture arrest performance are achieved and a method of production of the same. For this purpose, the hot rolled steel sheet of the present invention comprises C, Si, Mn, Al, N, Nb, Ti, Ca, V, Mo, Cr, Cu, and Ni in predetermined ranges and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which the microstructure is a continuously cooled transformed structure, in which continuously cooled transformed structure, precipitates containing Nb have an average size of 1 to 3 nm and are included dispersed at an average density of 3 to 30×1022/m3, granular bainitic ferrite and/or quasi-polygonal ferrite are included in 50% or more in terms of fraction, furthermore, precipitates containing Ti nitrides are included, and they have an average circle equivalent diameter of 0.

Abstract: In a ratchet-type tensioner, a rocking ratchet pawl is released from a rack of teeth on a tensioner plunger following engine start-up by a hydraulically operated pin slidable in a pin hole and caused to protrude therefrom by oil under pressure received directly from an external oil supply, or alternatively from the tensioner's high pressure oil chamber through a passage in the tensioner housing. Optionally, an orifice can be provided within the pin hole to control flow of oil when the supply is excessive and to avoid leakage when the supply is insufficient.

Abstract: In a ratchet tensioner, a linearly moving ratchet for engagement with rack teeth on a plunger is operated a piston that is spring-biased in a direction to engage the ratchet teeth with the rack, and movable by oil pressure in a direction to disengage the ratchet teeth from the rack. The piston is located within a hole in the housing and, with that hole, forms a second high pressure oil chamber that can receive oil through an oil supply path independent of the oil supply path that carries oil to a first high pressure oil chamber formed by the plunger and the tensioner housing.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel glycopeptides antibiotic derivatives. These glycopeptide antibiotic derivatives are characterized in that a sugar residue (I) represented by the formula: (wherein n is an integer of 1 to 5; Sugs are each independently a monosaccharide, (Sug)n is a divalent sugar residue formed by binding of same or different 1 to 5 monosaccharides; RA1 is optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, or optionally substituted cycloalkyl; and RE is OH or NHAc (Ac is acetyl)) is bound to an aromatic ring of the fourth amino acid residue in the glycopeptide skeleton. These derivatives have antibacterial activity against vancomycin-resistant bacteria.