Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate for a magnetic recording medium that ensures a floating height on a magnetic head. This substrate is made of a sintered body provided with pores having a diameter in the range of 0.05 &mgr;m to 2.0 &mgr;m extending across 5% to 50% of the surface area of the substrate.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source having a plurality of integrated light emitting portions for emitting laser beams of different wavelengths, the light source being adapted to selectively emit one of the laser beams of different wavelengths; a photodetector for detecting the laser beam; and an optical system for directing the laser beam emitted from the light source to the disc, and for directing the laser beam reflected by the disc to the photodetector. The light source is positioned such that a straight line connecting respective light emitting points of the plurality of light emitting portions is coincident with a tangential line of a track on a disc to be reproduced.

Abstract: A laser diode chip for an optical pickup apparatus, in which a plurality of laminated light emitting portions which emit laser beams having different wavelengths are formed on a substrate, and light emitting points of the plurality of light emitting portions are placed at positions separated by different lengths from each other in the laminate direction from the same plane of the substrate.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus includes a semiconductor laser device having a plurality of light emitting portions for emitting laser beams having different wavelengths on a substrate for emitting a laser beam from one of the plurality of light emitting portions in response to a light emitter selecting instruction in the same emitting direction. The laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser device is converged by an objective lens and led to a recording surface of an optical disk, and the objective lens is moved to one of a plurality of different positions in a radial direction of the optical disk, corresponding to the selected light emitting portion.

Abstract: In a cylinder head 1 of an internal combustion engine, communicating passageways 17, 18, 17′, 18′ for coolant are provided between combustion chambers 3 and pass-through holes 21 to 28 at positions which overlap straight lines L1, L2 connecting centers C2, C3 of the exhaust port openings 6a, 7a with centers C5 to C8 of the pass-through holes 25 to 28 and straight lines L3, L4 connecting centers C9, C10 of the intake port openings 4a, 5a with centers C11 to c14 of the pass-through holes 21 to 24 when a mating surface 2 of the cylinder head 1 with the cylinder block is viewed from the bottom. When peripheries of the exhaust port openings 6a, 7a and intake port openings 4a, 5a thermally expand, the suppression of thermal expansion by the bolts at fastening portions is alleviated by the communicating passageways 17, 18, 17′, 18′.

Abstract: An apparatus for performing a generator locking for a video signal including a first video processing circuit for processing an input video signal, an expansion module having a second video processing circuit and a delay circuit having a delay time introduced by said second video processing circuit, a synchronizing signal separating circuit for separating a synchronizing signal from an external reference signal, and a phase-lock loop circuit for generating a reference control signal for said first video processing circuit as well as a phase comparison signal. Said phase comparison signal is fed-back to the phase-lock loop circuit by means of said delay circuit. Although the expansion module is connected to the expansion slot, a phase of a finally obtained video signal is remained in a same fixed relationship as a phase relationship when a connection board is connected to the expansion slot.

Abstract: The present invention provides an infrared ray blocking transparent film which can be produced at low cost despite using indium tin oxide powder (which can inhibit metallic luster) and which can exhibit excellent electromagnetic wave transmissivity. An infrared ray blocking layer is provided on at least a surface of a base film, and the infrared ray blocking layer includes indium tin oxide powder and resin in a weight ratio of 90/10 to 60/40.

Abstract: In a back-up system, during normal operation, a first data is stored in a main storage unit and a buffer storage unit and also transferred to an auxiliary storage unit. During a back-up operation, the auxiliary storage unit is no longer updated and the first data stored in the auxiliary storage unit is transferred to a back-up storage unit. Also during the back-up operation, a second data is stored in the main storage unit and the buffer storage unit. Then, after the back-up operation has been performed, the second data is transferred from the buffer storage unit to the auxiliary storage unit.

Abstract: A device for monitoring a sheet material which device is used for a conveying apparatus for conveying sheet materials along a prescribed conveying path, said device comprising: a photoelectric conversion element which has a linear detecting area and outputs values which varies in accordance with an amount of light received at the detecting area, the amount of light changing due to the passage of a sheet material along the conveying path; and recognizing means which recognizes a position of a transverse direction end portion of the sheet material on the basis of a value output by the photoelectric conversion element. By disposing the edge of one half portion of the detecting area of the photoelectric conversion element at a reference position of each sheet material such as a central position of the sheet materials, a change in a width of the sheet material and even a minute amount of meandering of the sheet material can be reliably detected, and the width and a type of the sheet material can be recognized.

Abstract: An infrared ray blocking transparent film which can be very thin and have greater transparency and higher adhesion than that of conventional films; the cost for forming the film can be lower due to the reduced amounts of forming materials used for the infrared ray blocking layer, is disclosed. An infrared ray blocking layer is provided on a surface of a base film, by coating conductive materials including indium tin oxide powder and resin; a hard coat layer is provided on a surface of the infrared ray blocking layer; an adhesive layer is provided on a rear surface of the base film. Since resin employed in the infrared ray blocking layer is UV-curing resin including photo-cationic polymerization initiator, thickness of the layer is reduced, and transparency and adhesion thereof are improved.

Abstract: A two-focal-point pickup device capable of suppressing the generation of glitch or bump in reproduced signal. The optical pickup device irradiates a light beam emitted from a light source onto an optical recording medium to form a light spot on a track of a recording surface of the optical recording medium to read the optical recording medium while controlling the position of the light spot relative to the track of the recording surface. The optical pickup device includes a converging lens section coaxially disposed in an optical axis of the light beam to converge the light beam onto the recording surface; and a hologram lens section coaxially disposed in the optical axis of the light beam to diffract the light beam.

Abstract: Substrates are disclosed for forming a microlithographic mask having a thin membrane. Also disclosed are masks formed from such substrates. The masks preferably include a support member to support the membrane, the membrane defining the mask pattern. The support member can be configured as a network of supporting struts fused to a mask membrane. The mask membrane preferably includes a thin crystalline layer (e.g., silicon) containing an impurity (dopant). Each atom of the impurity has an atomic radius that is smaller than the atomic radius of atoms of the crystalline material. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing such substrates and masks.

Abstract: A two-focal-point pickup device capable of suppressing the generation of glitch or bump in reproduced signal. The optical pickup device irradiates a light beam emitted from a light source onto an optical recording medium to form a light spot on a track of a recording surface of the optical recording medium to read the optical recording medium while controlling the position of the light spot relative to the track of the recording surface. The optical pickup device includes a converging lens section coaxially disposed in an optical axis of the light beam to converge the light beam onto the recording surface; and a hologram lens section coaxially disposed in the optical axis of the light beam to diffract the light beam.

Abstract: A two-focal-point pickup device capable of suppressing the generation of glitch or bump in reproduced signal. The optical pickup device irradiates a light beam emitted from a light source onto an optical recording medium to form a light spot on a track of a recording surface of the optical recording medium to read the optical recording medium while controlling the position of the light spot relative to the track of the recording surface. The optical pickup device includes a converging lens section coaxially disposed in an optical axis of the light beam to converge the light beam onto the recording surface; and a hologram lens section coaxially disposed in the optical axis of the light beam to diffract the light beam.

Abstract: An optical pickup device using a polarizing optics system is characterized in that the polarization beam splitter comprises a polarizing film having optical properties of transmittance and reflectivity satisfying the following formulas (1) and (2):T.sub.P .times.{D.sub.S .times.R.sub.S +D.sub.P .times.(1-T.sub.P)}.gtoreq.I.sub.B (1)T.sub.P .times.R.sub.S .gtoreq.22I.sub.B (2)under conditions T.sub.P +R.sub.P =1 and R.sub.S +T.sub.S =1 except an absorbancy, wherein T.sub.P denotes a transmittance of a P-polarized light component in the incident light,T.sub.S denotes a transmittance of a S-polarized light component in the incident light,R.sub.P denotes a reflectivity of a P-polarized light component in the incident light,R.sub.S denotes a reflectivity of a S-polarized light component in the incident light,I.sub.

Abstract: An antiglare material capable of exhibiting an excellent antiglare effect by preventing imaging reflection of an external light source and suitable for an image display with sharpness and high resolution as well as a polarizing film by utilizing the same. The antiglare material of the invention is a transparent substrate of which at least one of the surfaces is roughened to a predetermined surface roughness. The polarizing film of the invention is a laminate consisting of a first protective layer which is the above defined antiglare material and a second protective layer laminated onto the unroughened surface of the first protective layer with intervention of a polarizing substrate. The roughened surface of the transparent substrate in the above mentioned antiglare material, which may be used in the above described polarizing film, preferably has a haze value in the range from 1 to 25 according to JIS K7105 and the transparent substrate is preferably a transparent film.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproduction of an information record medium in which information record layers are multiply formed is provided with: a light source for emitting a light beam; a light detector for detecting a reflection light beam and outputting a light detection signal corresponding to the detected reflection light beam; an optical system for condensing the emitted light beam onto one of the information record layers and condensing the light beam reflected from one of the information record layers as the reflection light beam onto the light detector; and an actuator for at least partially actuating the optical system in a focus servo direction to focus-servo-control the emitted light beam with respect to one of the information record layers on the basis of a focus error signal generated from the light detection signal outputted by the light detector. The optical system is designed so as to satisfy the expression of S<0.

Abstract: A rectangular parallelepipedic case includes four or more walls formed by bending a single plate. To produce the case, a double plate is used. The double plate is formed from plastic by extrusion, and first and second plate elements confronted with each other. Partition portions interconnect the first and second plate elements, and extend in the direction of the extrusion, to define plural hollow chambers between the first and second plate elements. The double plate is bent along bend lines substantially at a right angle. At least one of the bend lines is at least partially curved.

Abstract: A printer control apparatus provided with a CPU for converting video data supplied from an external unit to video data tailored to the operation of the printer; a memory holding various types of data during that conversion processing; and a read/write control unit performing the read/write control of the data between the memory, CPU, and the printer, which includes latch units which respectively latch the address and data from the CPU and thereby perform the processing at the minimum bus cycle. Also, the upper bit side of that address is made to include the control data from the CPU, and an autonomous read/write control is carried out. Further, that read/write control is carried out while using the video buffer comprising several standard size pages and by freely using that page.

Abstract: A coma aberration correcting method in an optical pickup for generating a plurality of light beams forming a plurality of light focused points is provided with processes of: measuring an optimum angle which is an angle with respect to respective one of the information record media of the pickup body by tilting the pickup body while irradiating each of the light beams under a condition where the actuator is fixed on the pickup body; calculating a pickup body fixing angle on the basis of (i) a first variation rate measured in case that only the actuator is tilted with respect to respective media, (ii) a second variation rate measured in case that the actuator is fixed on the pickup body and that the pickup body as a whole is tilted with respect to respective one of the information record media, and (iii) the measured optimum angle; calculating an actuator fixing angle; and fixing the pickup body so as to have the calculated pickup body fixing angle, and fixing the actuator on the pickup body so as to have the c