Abstract: A driver alert system for a vehicle and a method for operating the driver alert system are disclosed. The driver alert system for the vehicle includes an alert system triggering event detection module for detecting a driver alert system triggering event. The alert system triggering event detection module includes at least one of a steering event detection module for detecting a steering event, a blind spot detection module for detecting a blind spot event, and a front collision warning event detection module for detecting a front collision warning event. The driver alert system for the vehicle includes a driver alert level determination module for determining a driver alert level for the driver alert system triggering event. The driver alert system also includes a driver alert module for alerting the driver of the vehicle using a driver alert device based on the driver alert.

Abstract: A driver alert system for a vehicle and a method for operating the driver alert system are disclosed. The driver alert system for the vehicle includes an alert system triggering event detection module for detecting a driver alert system triggering event. The alert system triggering event detection module includes at least one of a steering event detection module for detecting a steering event, a blind spot detection module for detecting a blind spot event, and a front collision warning event detection module for detecting a front collision warning event. The driver alert system for the vehicle includes a driver alert level determination module for determining a driver alert level for the driver alert system triggering event. The driver alert system also includes a driver alert module for alerting the driver of the vehicle using a driver alert device based on the driver alert.

Abstract: A horn antenna part of a radar apparatus is made of a heat emitting material and includes: an antenna body part having a plurality of horn parts arranged in an array form, wherein each horn part is open toward a front surface of the apparatus, and has a diameter which gradually increases toward the front surface; and a feeder part including a waveguide which communicates with the horn parts, wherein the feeder part is connected to the antenna body part. The radar apparatus also includes: a wireless part for generating a high-frequency signal supplied to the feeder part, and converting a reflected high-frequency signal to a medium-frequency signal; and a circuit part for controlling the high-frequency signal and processing the medium-frequency signal. At least one of the wireless part and the circuit part is arranged in a manner such that it contacts the feeder part.

Abstract: A horn antenna part of a radar apparatus is made of a heat emitting material and includes: an antenna body part having a plurality of horn parts arranged in an array form, wherein each horn part is open toward a front surface of the apparatus, and has a diameter which gradually increases toward the front surface; and a feeder part including a waveguide which communicates with the horn parts, wherein the feeder part is connected to the antenna body part. The radar apparatus also includes: a wireless part for generating a high-frequency signal supplied to the feeder part, and converting a reflected high-frequency signal to a medium-frequency signal; and a circuit part for controlling the high-frequency signal and processing the medium-frequency signal. At least one of the wireless part and the circuit part is arranged in a manner such that it contacts the feeder part.

Abstract: An abrasive tape is supplied to a tape head by a tape supply unit and taken up from the tape head by a tape take-up unit. The tape head presses the abrasive tape against a surface of an object under polish, which is rotated by a rotating unit. A tape head pressuring unit utilizes a voice coil motor, for example. Since the tape head pressuring unit generates a pressuring force for pressuring the tape head using the electromagnetic force, it is able to set a minute pressuring force by controlling a drive signal, and to obtain the fine adjustment of the pressuring force easily by controlling the electric signal. Therefore, it becomes possible to press the abrasive tape against the surface of the object under polish with a desired low pressure.

Abstract: Above a substrate mounted on rollers, an upper board is prepared a predetermined distance apart from the substrate. A pipe fills a space between the upper board and the substrate with washing water by supplying the washing water at a predetermined flow rate. A washing water layer is formed evenly on an upper surface of the substrate when the substrate passes below the upper board. Below the substrate, a lower board is prepared a predetermined distance apart from the substrate. A pipe fills a space between the lower board and the substrate with the washing water by supplying the washing water at a predetermined flow rate. A washing water layer is formed evenly on a lower surface of the substrate when the substrate passes above the lower board. The air emitted from an air knife is sprayed to the upper/lower surface of the substrate slantingly at a predetermined incident angle in an opposite direction of a substrate moving direction.

Abstract: An abrasive tape is supplied to a tape head by a tape supply unit and taken up from the tape head by a tape take-up unit. The tape head presses the abrasive tape against a surface of an object under polish, which is rotated by a rotating unit. A tape head pressuring unit utilizes a vice voice coil motor, for example. Since the tape head pressuring unit generates a pressuring force for pressuring the tape head using the electromagnetic force, it is able to set a minute pressuring force by controlling a drive signal, and to obtain the fine adjustment of the pressuring force easily by controlling the electric signal. Therefore, it becomes possible to press the abrasive tape against the surface of the object under polish with a desired low pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a textured zone in a predetermined surface area on a magnetic data recording disc, which is capable of precisely controlling the position and range of the texturing zone. Bumps 4 are formed on a CSS zone on the inner peripheral side of a magnetic recording disc 1 by the use of a spindle means 6 and a laser beam bombarding means 7. The spindle means 6 is provided with a chuck mechanism 13 with opposingly confronting tapered surfaces 18a and 21a to hold a disc 1 in a centered position in alignment with the rotational axis of a spindle shaft 10. On the other hand, the laser beam bombarding means 7 has part of component parts of its optical system, from a laser energy source 34 up to an electromagnetic shutter 39, mounted on its main casing 7a, and has a reflector mirror 40 and an objective lens 41 accommodated in a movable housing 31 which is movable in the direction of its optical axis to displace a laser spot position on the surface of the disc 1 in a radial direction thereof.

Abstract: A disk texturing apparatus for texturing surfaces of a magnetic disk or the like with cross-pattern grooves. The texturing apparatus is basically constituted by a rotational drive having a spindle for supporting and rotating a disk, and a tape transport mechanism for moving a texturing tape across and in pressed with a texturing surface of said disk. The spindle of the rotational drive mechanism is arranged to hold a disk in an eccentrically deviated position off the rotational axis of the rotational drive. As a result, the disk is revolved along an eccentrically deflecting orbit around the rotational axis of said rotational drive while being rotated with the spindle, moving in and out in radial directions in a degree commensurate with the amount of deviation from said rotational axis to form cross-pattern grooves on the disk surface.

Abstract: Described herein is a disk washing apparatus for cleaning substrate disks of memory medium, which comprises in combination: a loader section having a magazine for holding a number of disks to be washed; a working section including a washing stage arranged to wash the front and rear faces of a disk simultaneously with inner and outer peripheral surfaces thereof, a rinsing stage arranged to rinse the front and rear faces of a disk simultaneously with inner and outer peripheral surfaces thereof, and a drying stage adapted to dry a washed and rinsed disk by high speed spin drying; an unloader section having a magazine for accommodating cleaned disks; and disk transfer chucks adapted to transfer disks one after another stepwise from the loader section to the unloader section, passing the disks successively to the washing, rinsing and drying stages of the working section, the washing, rinsing, and drying stages being located in series between the loader and unloader sections.