Abstract: Disclosed herein are slider designs having improved trailing air flow dams, and data storage devices including such sliders. In some embodiments, a slider comprises a trailing edge and an air-bearing surface (ABS) comprising a trailing edge pad, and a trailing air flow dam coupled to the trailing edge pad, wherein, in an ABS view of the slider, the trailing air flow dam is recessed from and curves away from the trailing edge. In the ABS view, a shape of the trailing air flow dam may comprise two segments. The slider also has a leading edge and may at least one sub-ambient pressure cavity adjacent to the trailing air flow dam and disposed between the trailing air flow dam and the leading edge. A contact point of the trailing air flow dam may be at least 50 microns from a corner of the slider.

Abstract: Provided is a compound represented by formula (IV) or a salt thereof, wherein the content of the compound represented by formula (I) is 350 ppm by mass or less.

Abstract: A spray nozzle and a deaerator each include an external cylinder provided with a plurality of jetting outlets on an outer circumference portion thereof, an inner cylinder that is supported inside the external cylinder so as to be movable in an axial center direction and is provided with a plurality of first communication holes capable of communicating with the jetting outlets, and an open-close valve that includes a shaft coupled to the inner cylinder and a valve body provided at a distal end portion of the shaft and capable of opening and closing a distal opening of the external cylinder. The spray nozzle and the deaerator thus structured provide improved performance by preventing an increase in pressure loss occurring regardless of a jet flow amount.

Abstract: Provided is a compound represented by formula (IV) or a salt thereof, wherein the content of the compound represented by formula (I) is 350 ppm by mass or less.

Abstract: A developer bearing member including: a rotational shaft; and an elastic layer on an outer circumference surface of the rotational shaft, developer being borne on a surface of the elastic layer, wherein the elastic layer is configured such that a load per unit area of a contact portion between one surface of a flat glass plate and the surface of the elastic layer is to be 5.8 N/mm2 or more, in a state that the one surface of the flat glass plate being parallel with an axis direction of the rotational shaft and the one surface of the flat glass plate coming into contact with the surface of the elastic layer with a predetermined penetration level, and wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis on the surface of the elastic layer is greater than a volume-average particle diameter of a particle of the developer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are slider designs having improved trailing air flow dams, and data storage devices including such sliders. In some embodiments, a slider comprises a trailing edge and an air-bearing surface (ABS) comprising a trailing edge pad, and a trailing air flow dam coupled to the trailing edge pad, wherein, in an ABS view of the slider, the trailing air flow dam is recessed from and curves away from the trailing edge. In the ABS view, a shape of the trailing air flow dam may comprise two segments. The slider also has a leading edge and may at least one sub-ambient pressure cavity adjacent to the trailing air flow dam and disposed between the trailing air flow dam and the leading edge. A contact point of the trailing air flow dam may be at least 50 microns from a corner of the slider.

Abstract: A state detection apparatus includes a state detection sensor that is attached to an architecture and that detects a state of the architecture, a power supp that generates power on the basis of vibration of the architecture, and a controller that controls the state detection sensor and the power supp. The controller supplies power to the state detection sensor to drive the state detection sensor in a case where a voltage by power generation exceeds a first threshold (threshold voltage), and acquires state information to be used for diagnosing the state of the architecture on the basis of a signal indicating a detection result received from the state detection sensor.

Abstract: A condenser includes heat transfer pipe groups, a main body and an intermediate body. The intermediate body has an inlet that opens in a horizontal direction, and an outlet that opens downward. The main body has an inlet that opens upward and is connected to the intermediate body outlet. The heat transfer pipe groups are arranged in the horizontal direction and disposed in the main body. A near-side outlet edge is an edge of the intermediate body outlet on a side near the intermediate body inlet in the horizontal direction and a far-side outlet edge is an edge of the intermediate body outlet on a side far from the intermediate body inlet. At least one part of the main body is located below an imaginary line that connects the near-side and far-side outlet edges and at least one part of the main body is located above the imaginary line.

Abstract: A magnetostrictive element that can exhibit a sufficiently large magnetostriction amount in a longitudinal direction is formed of a single crystal alloy magnetostrictive material. The magnetostrictive element has a shape of a plate-shaped rectangular parallelepiped, a main plane of the plate-shaped rectangular parallelepiped includes a plurality of magnetic domains that are regions where atomic magnetic moments are arranged in the same direction and whose width is 10 ?m to 200 ?m, and a total area rate of a magnetic domain where an angle difference between a lateral direction of the main plane and a direction of the magnetic moments of the magnetic domain is 10° or less to the main plane is 60% to 100%.

Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous binder for electrodes or separators, which is used in a lithium ion battery that has excellent cycle life characteristics at high temperatures. A nonaqueous binder for electrodes or separators of lithium ion batteries, which is obtained by complexing cellulose nanofibers and a thermoplastic fluororesin, and which is characterized in that the cellulose nanofibers have a fiber size (diameter) of from 0.002 ?m to 1 ?m (inclusive), a fiber length of from 0.5 ?m to 10 mm (inclusive), and an aspect ratio ((fiber length of cellulose nanofibers)/(fiber diameter of cellulose nanofibers)) of from 2 to 100,000 (inclusive).

Abstract: A position determination system a determines whether a mobile terminal is present outside a vehicle compartment based on a reception strength of a radio signal transmitted from the mobile terminal through a vehicle interior antenna and a reception strength of a radio signal transmitted from the mobile terminal through a vehicle exterior antenna, and the vehicle exterior antenna is configured to be disposed in a predetermined region in a vicinity of a window of a vehicle in an outer surface portion of a vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are slider designs having improved trailing air flow dams, and data storage devices including such sliders. In some embodiments, a slider comprises a trailing edge and an air-bearing surface (ABS) comprising a trailing edge pad, and a trailing air flow dam coupled to the trailing edge pad, wherein, in an ABS view of the slider, the trailing air flow dam is recessed from and curves away from the trailing edge. In the ABS view, a shape of the trailing air flow dam may comprise two segments. The slider also has a leading edge and may at least one sub-ambient pressure cavity adjacent to the trailing air flow dam and disposed between the trailing air flow dam and the leading edge. A contact point of the trailing air flow dam may be at least 50 microns from a corner of the slider.

Abstract: A tube plate of a heat exchanger includes a tube plate base material to which ends of a plurality of heat transfer tubes are fixed, a first backplate that covers a surface of the tube plate base material on a first tube chamber side, and a fastener that includes at least a shaft section and fixes the first backplate to the tube plate base material. The first backplate includes heat transfer tube insertion holes through which a plurality of heat transfer tubes are inserted, and an insertion hole through which the shaft section is loosely inserted. The first backplate is joined to an end section of a second partition wall on a first end side. The second partition wall, the first backplate, and the fastener are formed of a material having higher corrosion resistance than the tube plate base material.

Abstract: A U-tube heat exchanger wherein a tube support plate divides the interior of a tube-exterior fluid chamber into a curved-tube chamber on a second end side including curved-tube sections of the U-tubes, and a chamber on a first end side. A second partition wall divides the interior of the chamber on the first end side inside the tube-exterior fluid chamber into a first straight-tube chamber including inlet-side straight-tube sections of the U-tubes, and a second straight-tube chamber including outlet-side straight-tube sections of the U-tubes. An opening penetrating from the first straight-tube chamber into the second straight-tube chamber is formed in the second partition wall. First passage holes, which penetrate from the first straight-tube chamber into the curved-tube chamber, and second passage holes, which penetrate from the second straight-tube chamber into the curved-tube chamber, are formed in the tube support plate.

Abstract: A method for producing a medium includes forming a fiber assembly by discharging a raw material liquid of fibers from a nozzle to generate the fibers and depositing the fibers so as to surround a circumferential surface of a rotatable winder, and transferring the fiber assembly to a base member while rotating the rotatable winder. The circumferential surface of the rotatable winder has a plurality of belt-shaped projection portions extending in a direction along a rotation axis of the rotatable winder.

Abstract: A vehicle communication system includes a central device and an on-vehicle device. A path determiner of the central device determines an information transmission path between a plurality of vehicles for consolidating information in a vehicle that performs a wireless communication with a terrestrial communication device out of the vehicles based on at least operating information on the vehicles. An on-vehicle communicator of the on-vehicle device acquires the information transmission path directly from the central device via the terrestrial communication device or indirectly from the central device via the terrestrial communication device and a second vehicle, and transmits and receives predetermined information to and from the terrestrial communication device or the second vehicle based on the acquired information transmission path.

Abstract: Provided herein is an FeGa-base magnetostriction element that has specific characteristics with regards to magnetostriction along the longitudinal direction, and that shows a sufficiently high magnetostriction level along the longitudinal direction. The magnetostriction element is formed of a magnetostrictive material that is a monocrystalline alloy represented by Fe(100-?)Ga? (? represents the Ga content (at %), and satisfies 14???19) or Fe(100-?-?)Ga?X? (? and ? represent the Ga content (at %) and the X content (at %), respectively, X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Cu, and C, and the formula satisfies 14???19, and 0.5???1).

Abstract: Provided herein is a magnetostriction element having a large power output and a high power density. The magnetostriction element is comprised of a magnetostrictive material that is a monocrystalline alloy represented by the following formula (1), Fe(100-?-?)Ga?X?,??Formula (1) wherein ? and ? represent the Ga content (at %) and the X content (at %), respectively, X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Cu, and C, and the formula satisfies 5???40, and 0???1.

Abstract: A system of an embodiment includes an analysis device that includes a first database for storing information for identifying a person and an object inside an image, performs, using the information, image analysis of footage taken by cameras installed in locations, associates an identified person, an object carried by the person, and a seat location with each other, determines, based on a user facial image and the user's seat location, whether a person associated with the seat location is the actual user, and outputs a verification result; and a device that includes a second data base for storing a seat, a facial image and identifying information of each user, transmits information on the user's seat and the facial image to the analysis device, receives the verification result from the analysis device, and transmits an alert to a predetermined point of contact.

Abstract: A drive mechanism including a brushed motor comprises a brushed motor including a commutator having a plurality of commutator segments and a brush contactable to the plurality of commutator segments, a movable member driven by the brushed motor, and a stopper member configured to stop rotation of the brushed motor by contacting the movable member. In a state in which the movable member contacts the stopper member to thereby stop the rotation of the brushed motor, the brush contacts only one of two adjacent commutator segments of the plurality of commutator segments.