Abstract: The invention fabricates a perpendicular recording head eliminating influence of external magnetic field and provides a magnetic disk drive having high stability by using the magnetic recording head and constructs a structure in which shield against external magnetic field is formed from a main pole via a gap layer and an edge portion thereof is recessed from a surface against a medium. By providing the shield against the external magnetic field, the influence of the external magnetic field is restrained and by recessing the edge from the surface against the medium, leakage of magnetic field from the shield against the external magnetic field to the medium is prevented to thereby prevent a magnetization signal from being erased.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus management system includes a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus which operates in accordance with a parameter, an obtaining device for obtaining evaluation values of an operation result of the semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus corresponding to a plurality of parameter values of the parameter, a holding device for holding the evaluation values obtained by the obtaining device for each object to be processed by the semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, and an optimization device for analyzing the evaluation values held by the holding device. The optimization device optimizes the parameter on the basis of at least one of a sensitivity representing a change degree of the evaluation values upon the change in the parameter, and a variation amount of the evaluation values for each object to be processed.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fitting a tire-and-wheel assembled body to an axle, which is capable of resolving imbalance in a state of fitting an assembled body including a tire and a wheel to an axle. In this fitting method, a tire is fitted to a wheel, and then core positions of fastening holes are, or a core position of a hub hole is, adjusted in the wheel to minimize an amount of eccentricity of an assembled body including the tire and the wheel.

Abstract: The object of this invention of a float for liquid waste disposal apparatus enables the content inside a container to be easily visually recognizable and allows a faster and steadier solidification of an absorbed liquid waste. The connection plates 5c connects the annular member 5a serving as the guide member to the outer peripheral portion of the cup portion 5b retaining the water-absorptive material 6 wherein the annular member 5a is restrained by the inner wall 26 of the lying member L for preventing the float 5 from revolving in the vertical direction. The liquid waste 21 absorbed from the upper portion and into the lying member L flows downward via the flow path structured with the interstitial portion 27 formed between the annular member 5a and the cup portion 5b and the interstitial portion 28 formed between the inner wall 26 of the lying member L and the annular member 5a.

Abstract: A seal device (31) for a bearing system (21) is constituted by first and second seal rings (32) and (35). The first seal ring (32) is constituted by a lip seal (33) having a lip portion (33B) in sliding contact with an end face (23B) of a bush (23) which is fitted on a joint shaft (26), and a slide tube (34) having a seal surface (34C) on an end face at an axial end away from the lip portion (33B) which is formed integrally with a tubular body portion (33A) of the lip seal (33). The second seal ring (35) is fixedly fitted in a boss (22) radially on the outer side of the first seal ring (32), and provided with a seal surface (35D) on the inner side of an annular inward collar portion (35C) for sliding contact with the seal surface (34C) of the slide tube (34).

Abstract: An inkjet printer for recording an image on a recording medium with an active ray cure ink to be cured by exposure to an active ray, having a head for emitting the active ray cure ink onto a recording medium, an active ray source for emitting the active ray wherein the active ray source is arranged at the rear of the head in the direction of a relative movement of the head with respect to the recording medium during emission of ink, and in a same side where the head is provided with respect to the recording medium, and a shield member for preventing the active ray emitted by the active ray source from directly or indirectly entering into a trajectory formed by an ink particle emitted from the head and reaching the recording medium.

Abstract: An electrically conductive foam component free from blooming and having a stable electrically conductive property. The electrically conductive foam component is produced by foaming an electrically conductive composition which comprises a base polymer and a borate compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; M is an alkaline metal or an alkaline earth metal; and n is a positive number.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a lead-in area which includes a control data area and an information data area in which information data is to be recorded. In this recording medium, a groove track in the control data area is divided into a plurality of mark portions and space portions based on a frequency band of a recording RF signal.

Abstract: A discharge lamp lighting device comprises a plurality of discharge lamps, at least one reflector, and at least one leakage transformer. Each leakage transformer lights three discharge lamps and comprises: a first leakage transformer, which comprises a frame-core shaped substantially rectangular and two bar-cores disposed parallel to each other and orthogonal to two opposing sides of the frame-core with a predetermined gap from the frame-core, has two of primary and secondary windings structurally independent of each other, and which lights two discharge lamps of the three; and a second leakage transformer, which comprises a frame-core shaped substantially like square-U letter and a bar-core disposed orthogonal to two opposing sides of the frame-core with a predetermined gap from the frame-core, has one primary and secondary winding structurally independent of each other, and which lights remaining one discharge lamp.

Abstract: There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of writing and reading of data in and from the hard disk in a casing thereof. A main unit includes an automatic loading/ejecting mechanism that receives the hard disk cartridge into a predetermined inner position within the main unit and ejects the same out from the position, and a microprocessor that controls storage operation for storing data in the hard disk cartridge. Before the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism performs a receiving operation, it is determined whether access to contents recorded on the hard disk can be gained, and when the access cannot be gained, the receiving operation by the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism is inhibited.

Abstract: A control valve includes a separation portion, which is part of a rod, blocks a through hole that connects a valve chamber and a second chamber with each other. Therefore, the pressure of the second chamber is not directly affected by changes in the opening degree of the control valve. The second chamber and a valve hole forming a part of the through hole are both connected to a second pressure zone through an upstream section of a supply passage. This prevents creation of pressure difference between the valve hole and the second chamber, and thus prevents entry of foreign particles in sliding portions between the through hole and the rod.

Abstract: In a motor portion of a linear actuator, a rear end cap and a front end protrusion, which are disposed respectively at the rear and front ends of a stator assembly, and which include rear and front bearings to rotatably support a rotor assembly, are formed by injection-molding simultaneously and integrally with a stator support member which fixedly supports constituent members of the stator assembly, whereby the stator assembly, the rear end cap, and the front end protrusion can be coaxially aligned to one another with a high degree of precision thus improving the assembling precision of the motor portion. Also, since the front bearing can be attached to the front end protrusion before an output shaft is attached, the rotation characteristic of the rotor assembly can be evaluated before the output shaft is attached.

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Abstract: A semiconductor dynamic quantity sensor detects a dynamic force and a fault diagnosis through the use of a single bridge circuit. Sensor output terminals are connected to midpoints between gauge resistors to make a combination of the midpoints at which an equal electric potential is measured when no pressure is applied to a diaphragm of the sensor. Fault diagnostic output terminals are connected to wiring patterns in the same manner as the first output terminals. One of the sensor output terminals has three selectable terminals connected to different positions of the midpoint. One of the diagnostic output terminals also has three selectable terminals connected to different positions of the wiring patterns. Accordingly, an offset voltage of the sensor output and the fault diagnostic output can be adjusted appropriately when one of the selectable terminals are selected as appropriate.

Abstract: An display apparatus arranged in a matrix having plural luminance modulation elements for modulating or do not modulating luminance depending upon application of a voltage of positive or reverse polarity,

Abstract: The present invention provides a card recording apparatus capable of printing in high speed as well as reducing overall dimensions of the apparatus. After a card is transported to an information recording section 200 in a lateral (short length) direction of the card, an information signal is recorded on the card thereby. Then, the card is transported to a second heating section 300. An ink image formed on an intermediate recording medium 7 by a first heating section 500 is re-transferred to the card by the second heating section 300. A warp developed on the card by the second heating section 300 is corrected by a card warp correcting section 400.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to-carrying out a high density magnetic recording to a material having a large coercive force by perpendicular magnetic recording head.

Abstract: An electromagnetic drive device for lineally reciprocatilvely moving an operating member like a spool of a spool valve is reduced in the manufacturing cost without being degraded in its operational performance. In the electromagnetic drive device, a stator body is excited by an electromagnetic coil to axially move a plunger guided in an inner bore of the stator body, against the resilient force of a spring. The stator body is constituted by arranging a plurality of core portion annular plate elements made of a magnetic material, a plurality of yoke portion annular plate elements made of a magnetic material and a plurality of non-magnetic portion annular plate elements made of a non-magnetic material and placed between the core portion annular plate elements and the yoke portion annular plate elements and by piling up and bodily joining these annular plate elements in axial alignment with one another.

Abstract: An organic electro luminescence display panel includes a hole transport layer and a luminescent layer disposed on the hole transport layer. The luminescent layer includes at least first and second luminescent layers. The first and second luminescent layers are repeatedly arranged on the hole transport layer so as to be adjacent each other. The first luminescent layer includes a first dopant for emitting a first light having a first wavelength, and the second luminescent layer includes a second dopant for emitting a second light having a second wavelength, which is shorter than the first wavelength. No first dopant is disposed between the hole transport layer and the second luminescent layer.