Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for the production of single crystalline TiO2 flakes in the rutile crystal structure, to single crystalline TiO2 flakes obtained by this method as well as to the use thereof, especially as pigments in several application media.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that controls a light emitting apparatus, performs communication with the light emitting apparatus at predetermined intervals, decides information regarding a period of time remaining before the light emitting apparatus emits light, based on the remaining time to exposure and a period of time from when the remaining time starts decreasing, to when the wireless communication unit performs a first wireless communication thereafter, and performs control so that the information regarding the decided period of time is transmitted to the light emitting apparatus through the first wireless communication with the light emitting apparatus. In a case where transmission and reception of the information regarding the period of time between the image capturing apparatus and the light emitting apparatus fail, the image capturing apparatus performs control so that the information regarding the period of time is re-transmitted.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for the production of single crystalline TiO2 flakes in the rutile crystal structure, to single crystalline TiO2 flakes obtained by this method as well as to the use thereof, especially as pigments in several application media.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that controls a light emitting apparatus, comprises a wireless communication unit that performs communication with the light emitting apparatus at predetermined intervals, a deciding unit that, upon receiving an instruction to cause the light emitting apparatus to emit light to perform shooting, obtains a remaining time before the image capturing apparatus performs exposure, and decides information regarding a period of time remaining before the light emitting apparatus emits light, based on the remaining time to exposure and a period of time from when the remaining time starts decreasing, to when the wireless communication unit performs a first wireless communication thereafter, and a control unit that performs control so that the decided information regarding the period of time is transmitted to the light emitting apparatus through the first wireless communication with the light emitting apparatus.

Abstract: A composite component is a composite component including a metal portion formed of a metal and a resin portion formed of a resin. The metal portion includes: a main body portion, a plurality of hole portions provided along any one of directions separating from each other and directions parallel to each other in the main body portion from outside toward inside, and a connecting portion configured to connect the hole portions to each other inside the main body portion. The resin portion includes: a cover portion covering the main body portion in a position corresponding to at least the hole portions, and a joint portion provided in a protruding manner from the cover portion to be positioned inside the plurality of hole portions, the joint portion being continuous in a position of the connecting portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ?-Al2O3 flakes prepared by a process comprising (1) preparation of an aqueous solution of at least one water-soluble and/or insoluble aluminum salt which optionally contains at least one sulfate compound, (2) adding a basic solution and optionally at least one dopant to the aluminum salt solution (1), (3) drying of the obtained gel, followed by calcination to obtain Al2 03 flakes and alkali salts in a molten salt, and (4) removal of the water soluble parts of the calcined molten salt obtained in step (3).

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for the production of single crystalline MgTiO3 flakes, in particular in the geikielite crystal structure, to single crystalline MgTiO3 flakes obtained by this method as well as to the use thereof, in particular as pigments in several application media.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for the production of single crystalline TiO2 flakes in the rutile crystal structure, to single crystalline TiO2 flakes obtained by this method as well as to the use thereof, especially as pigments in several application media.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sound generating element capable of providing flatter and less fluctuated sound pressure frequency characteristics includes a diaphragm that is formed in a circular plate shape with a circular profile. A piezoelectric element is affixed to the side of a bottom wall portion of the diaphragm. The piezoelectric element has an asymmetric octagonal profile including a pair of long side portions opposing each other, a pair of short side portions opposing each other, and four connecting side portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to alumina flakes having a defined thickness and particle size distribution and to their use in varnishes, paints, automotive coatings printing inks, masterbatches, plastics and cosmetic formulations and as substrate for effect pigments. and organic dyes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to alumina flakes having a defined thickness and particle size distribution and to their use in varnishes, paints, automotive coatings, printing inks, masterbatches, plastics and cosmetic formulations and as substrate for effect pigments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermally conductive, self-supporting, electrically insulating, flexible sheet, which is advantageously useful for the insulation of electrical machines or devices, to a process for the manufacture as well as to the use thereof.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sound generating element capable of providing flatter and less fluctuated sound pressure frequency characteristics includes a diaphragm that is formed in a circular plate shape with a circular profile. A piezoelectric element is affixed to the side of a bottom wall portion of the diaphragm. The piezoelectric element has an asymmetric octagonal profile including a pair of long side portions opposing each other, a pair of short side portions opposing each other, and four connecting side portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic disk inspection method and its system suitable to supply magnetic disks stored in a cassette to a plurality of inspection devices and collects inspected magnetic disks from the inspection devices. The cassette in which uninspected magnetic disks are stored is taken out from a cassette housing unit and transferred to any one of a plurality of optical inspection units. The optical disk inspection unit to which the cassette with the uninspected magnetic disks stored therein is transferred, takes out an uninspected magnetic disk and inspects both surfaces thereof. The magnetic disk whose both surfaces are inspected and which is determined as a non-defective product is stored in a cassette for collecting non-defective magnetic disks. The cassette is transferred from the optical inspection unit to the cassette housing unit. The transferred cassette is housed in the cassette housing unit.

Abstract: In an inspection apparatus that inspects both surfaces of a patterned media disk, to perform inspection while maintaining a high level of throughput, a patterned media disk inspection apparatus of the present invention includes an optical inspection unit, a table unit that includes plural substrate rotation drive units on which a substrate is mounted and rotated and rotates and conveys the substrates mounted on the substrate rotation drive units between a position at which the substrate is inspected by the optical inspection unit and a position at which the substrate is taken out and supplied, a substrate reversing unit, a cassette unit that accommodates substrates, and a substrate handling unit that takes out an uninspected substrate from the cassette unit and supplies the uninspected substrate to the table unit, and further stores a substrate, both surfaces of which have already been inspected, in the cassette unit.

Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission includes a speed change controller configured to generate a speed change instruction. A temperature calculator is configured to calculate a temperature of at least one frictional engagement element among frictional engagement elements. A rotation difference calculator is configured to calculate a rotation difference between an input and an output of the at least one frictional engagement element. A determining unit is configured to determine whether the frictional engagement element is engageable or non-engageable based on the temperature and the rotation difference of the frictional engagement element and a pattern of the speed change instruction. The delay unit is configured to delay engagement until the determining unit determines that the frictional engagement element is engageable, if the determining unit determines that the frictional engagement element is non-engageable when the speed change controller generates the speed change instruction.

Abstract: In order to rapidly inspect shape defects in the object of inspection that is the minute pattern on a magnetic recording medium formed from patterned media, in the disclosed patterned media defect inspection method detected spectral waveform data is compared with reference-standard spectral reflectance waveform data, which is stored in a database and the pattern-shape of which is known, and defects are detected. The type of the defects is determined on the basis of the disparity, for each detected wavelength, between the spectral waveform data of the detected defects, and the reference-standard spectral reflectance waveform data.

Abstract: In an inspection apparatus that inspects both surfaces of a patterned media disk, to perform inspection while maintaining a high level of throughput, a patterned media disk inspection apparatus of the present invention includes an optical inspection unit, a table unit that includes plural substrate rotation drive units on which a substrate is mounted and rotated and rotates and conveys the substrates mounted on the substrate rotation drive units between a position at which the substrate is inspected by the optical inspection unit and a position at which the substrate is taken out and supplied, a substrate reversing unit, a cassette unit that accommodates substrates, and a substrate handling unit that takes out an uninspected substrate from the cassette unit and supplies the uninspected substrate to the table unit, and further stores a substrate, both surfaces of which have already been inspected, in the cassette unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic disk inspection method and its system suitable to supply magnetic disks stored in a cassette to a plurality of inspection devices and collects inspected magnetic disks from the inspection devices. The cassette in which uninspected magnetic disks are stored is taken out from a cassette housing unit and transferred to any one of a plurality of optical inspection units. The optical disk inspection unit to which the cassette with the uninspected magnetic disks stored therein is transferred, takes out an uninspected magnetic disk and inspects both surfaces thereof. The magnetic disk whose both surfaces are inspected and which is determined as a non-defective product is stored in a cassette for collecting non-defective magnetic disks. The cassette is transferred from the optical inspection unit to the cassette housing unit. The transferred cassette is housed in the cassette housing unit.

Abstract: In magnetic disk inspection, it is made possible to perform the total operation in which magnetic disks taken out from a cassette are inspected on both surfaces thereof, classified by the grades according to the inspection results and returned again to corresponding cassettes, while maintaining high throughput. To achieve such inspection, a plurality of uninspected boards are put on a plurality of corresponding rotation-drive portions at a plurality of corresponding board taking-out and supply positions in a magnetic disk inspection apparatus and are transferred to a plurality of corresponding inspection positions. The boards are optically inspected while rotating. The optically inspected boards are transferred to the plurality of corresponding board taking-out and supply positions and the plurality of transferred boards are taken out. The taken-out boards are sorted according to the optical inspection results and stored in the corresponding cassettes into which inspected boards are stored.