Abstract: An absorption refrigerator includes a high temperature regenerator for heating a water solution including a halogen compound to generate steam. An oxide film having thickness of 0.02-5.0 &mgr;m, one of the colors blue, purple and gray, or a hydroxyl group is formed on a surface of at least one of the high temperature regenerators and the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An absorption refrigerator includes a high temperature regenerator for heating a water solution including a halogen compound to generate steam. An oxide film having thickness of 0.02-5.0 &mgr;m, one of the colors blue, purple and gray, or a hydroxyl group is formed on a surface of at least one of the high temperature regenerators and the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A method of testing a performance of an HGA including a step of obtaining a displacement performance of a precise positioning actuator by driving this actuator to displace and by executing a track profile measurement of at least one thin-film magnetic head element.

Abstract: A load beam is provided with a base plate and a slider. A magnetic head apparatus is fixed to a head arm via the base plate. In such a magnetic head supporting mechanism, an elastically deformable portion is provided between the base plate and the load beam. Thus a floating structure that allows the load beam to swing is formed about the elastically deformable portion. A projection bulging from the load beam serving as a load generating portion is adapted to coincide with a balanced fulcrum about the load beam, and a pressing load of the slider to a recording medium is set by a pressure applied to the top of the projection.

Abstract: A pulse wave analyzing apparatus including a cuff 12 for detecting a pulse wave from a living subject, a pressure sensor 16 for converting the pulse wave detected by the cuff 12, into an electric signal, i.e., a pulse wave signal SM, a plurality of band-pass filters 62 CBPF(1), BPF(2), . . . , BPF(n)) that have respective low-side cuff-off frequency bands differing from each other and each receive the pulse wave signal SM, a provisional rising point determining device 64 for determining respective times PS of respective provisional rising points of respective pulse waves represented by respective secondary pulse wave signals SM2 that have passed through the band-pass filters 62, and a proper rising point determining device 66 for comparing the respective times PS of respective provisional rising points with each other and thereby determining a time AS of a proper rising point based on the respective times PS of respective provisional rising points.

Abstract: A ring configuring method configures a network in which a plurality of nodes are connected linearly, and performs topology construction for the ring by circulating topology data through the respective nodes and collecting connection information of the respective nodes. The method includes the steps of providing in the topology data a flag indicating whether the connection information is collected in each node; inverting the flag at a terminal station which is an end node of the open ring, and turning the topology data there; causing the topology data to passing through a node other than any terminal station as it is; and adding the connection information to the topology data in each node according to the flag, and performing topology construction.

Abstract: An apparatus for examining arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a first portion of the subject, a stenosis-related-information obtaining device for obtaining, based on a shape of the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, stenosis-related information that changes in relation with stenosis of an artery of a second portion of the subject that is located upstream of the first portion of the subject in a direction in which blood flows in the artery, and a stenosis judging device for making, based on the stenosis-related information obtained by the stenosis-related-information obtaining device, a judgment about the stenosis of the artery of the second portion of the subject.

Abstract: A delay circuit includes an output circuit including first and second output elements. The first and second output elements are connected serially between a first power supply source and a second power supply source. The delay circuit further includes a delay element, which is coupled between a first input circuit and an output circuit to generate a first control signal that is delayed with respect to the input signal. The delay circuit still further includes a first node coupled between the delay element and one of the first and second output elements; and a second node, coupled to the other output elements to supply a second control signal having substantially no delay with respect to the input signal.

Abstract: A discharge accelerating unit which accelerates a discharge of a capacitive load (floating capacitor C1) of a signal line when a positive polarity input gradation voltage DAC(P) decreases is provided for a positive polarity operating circuit. A charge accelerating unit which accelerates a charge of a capacitive load (floating capacitor C2) of a signal line when a negative polarity input gradation voltage DAC(N) decreases is provided for a negative polarity operating circuit. Good characteristics can be obtained irrespective of a switching period of the positive polarity operating circuit and the negative polarity operating circuit and luminance levels of adjacent dots. The number of devices which are added by the invention can be minimized.

Abstract: A load beam is provided with a base plate and a slider. A magnetic head apparatus is fixed to a head arm via a base plate. In a mechanism or structure for supporting such a magnetic head supporting mechanism, an elastically deformable portion is provided between the base plate and the load beam. Thus, a floating structure that allows the load beam to swing is formed about the elastically deformable portion. In addition, a weight of the load beam is balanced with respect to the elastically deformable portion. Furthermore, a contact portion for applying pressure to the load beam is provided on the head arm so that a pressing load to a recording medium would be set by an amount of rotation of the load beam caused by the pressure applied by the contact portion.

Abstract: A gas generated by an inflator is supplied through a branching pipe to first and second air bags, which are deployed from a side of a seat to a space between an inner surface of a side of a vehicle compartment and an occupant. A one-way valve mounted in the branching pipe permits the gas to move from the second air bag to the first air bag and inhibits a back flow of the gas, whereby the internal pressure in the first air bag can be maintained higher than that in the second air bag, to thereby restrain the occupant' waist more strongly than the occupant's breast. Moreover, the gas generated by the single inflator is diverted by the branching pipe and supplied to the two air bags. Therefore, the two air bags can be deployed while minimizing the number of the inflator.

Abstract: An air bag device includes an air bag which is accommodated in a folded state along sides of a seat back and a seat cushion of a seat for an occupant. Upon side collision of a vehicle, the air bag is expanded by a gas generated by an inflator and deployed between an inner surface of a side of a vehicle compartment and an occupant. The air bag is disposed outside a lap belt of a seat belt device, and hence is deployed from the sides of the seat back and the seat cushion, so that a shock-absorbing effect can be effectively exhibited.

Abstract: An HGA includes a head slider having at least one head element, a resilient flexure for supporting the head slider to control flying attitude of the head slider, a load beam, supporting the flexure at its top end section, for applying a load in a direction perpendicular to a surface of a recording medium to the head slider, at least one fixing part, formed integral with the load beam, for fixing the load beam to a support arm, and a load-generation part, coupling the at least one fixing part with the load beam, for generating the load. The load-generation part has first at least one leaf spring section formed in a three-dimensionally bent shape and integral with the load beam, the first at least one leaf spring section being located at the rear of the at least one fixing part.

Abstract: An augmentation-index determining apparatus, including a cuff, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressing pressure of the cuff, a pulse-wave extracting device which extracts a pulse wave from the cuff, a peak-occurrence-time determining device for determining, based on a high-cuff-pressure pulse wave which is extracted by the pulse-wave extracting device when the cuff-pressure changing device makes the pressing pressure of the cuff higher than a systolic blood pressure of a subject, a time of occurrence of a peak point of an incident-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse and a time of occurrence of a peak point of a reflected-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse wave, and an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the respective times of occurrence of the respective peak points of the incident-wave and reflected-wave components of the high-cuff-pressure pulse, respective times of occurrence of respective peak points of incident-wave and reflected-wave c

Abstract: An HAA includes a head slider having at least one head element, an arm member for supporting the head slider at one end section, an actuator, mounted to the other end section of the arm member, for rotationally moving the arm member in a direction substantially parallel with a recording medium surface around a horizontal rotation axis of the arm member, and a load generation unit for generating a load for energizing the head slider in a direction to the recording medium surface by rotationally moving the arm member in a direction substantially orthogonal to the recording medium surface around a vertical rotation axis. The position of the center of gravity of the HAA is located at a different position from the vertical rotation axis on a center axis of the arm member.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a portion of the subject, an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, an augmentation index indicating a proportion of a reflected-wave component of the pulse wave to an incident-wave component thereof, so that the arteriosclerosis of the subject is inspected based on the augmentation index determined by the augmentation-index determining device, a waveform-related-information obtaining device which obtains waveform-related information that is related to a change of a waveform of the pulse wave detected by the pulse-wave detecting device, a display device, an augmentation-index displaying device for operating the display device to display the augmentation index determined by the augmentation-index determining device, and a waveform-related-information displaying device for operating the displ

Abstract: A cuff pulse wave detecting apparatus including: a main portion; a cuff which is remote from the main portion and which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of a living subject; and a pressure sensor which is connected to the cuff for detecting a pressure in the cuff, the cuff pulse wave detecting apparatus detecting a cuff pulse wave as a pressure oscillation transmitted from the subject to the cuff, wherein the pressure sensor is provided between the main portion and the cuff.

Abstract: An HGA includes a magnetic head slider with at least one thin-film magnetic head element, a resilient flexure made of a stainless steel, supporting the magnetic head slider, a load beam made of a stainless steel, supporting the flexure, for applying a predetermined load to the magnetic head slider, a drive IC chip with a circuit for the at least one thin-film magnetic head element, a lead conductor member on which the drive IC chip is mounted, and a high-thermal-conductivity member made of a material with a higher thermal conductivity than that of the stainless steel and inserted between the lead conductor member and the load beam in a region containing at least a section on which the drive IC chip is mounted.