Abstract: A method of measuring variation in dimensions and alignment error of thin film magnetic heads formed on a raw bar cut-off from a substrate is provided. Such method comprises illuminating a MR element and a resistance detector element which is formed for monitoring a lapping process, both of which are formed on the raw bar, with illuminating light whose wavelength is 300 nm or less; forming an image by imaging light reflected from the elements; and converting the image to an image signal through photoelectric conversion so as to detect variation in dimensions of the MR element and the resistance detector element formed on the raw bar, and alignment error between the MR element and the resistance detector element with a high degree of accuracy.

Abstract: A magnetic head is formed of materials having different hardnesses. The head includes a base coat formed on a substrate having a high hardness, for example alumina titanium carbide, upon which a base coat, for example alumina, is formed. The base coat typically had a thickness in the range of 0.05 to 0.5 &mgr;m. This structure provides an improved flying height for heads manufactured using a lapping process.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a sensitive material mounted on a drum by emitting light beams to the sensitive material. The apparatus includes a cylindrical drum for supporting the sensitive material mounted peripherally thereof, a drive mechanism for rotating the drum with a rotary shaft disposed on an axis of the drum, guide members formed in opposite end surfaces of the drum and extending circumferentially about the rotary shaft, a pair of counterweights movable along each of the guide members, a moving mechanism for engaging each of the counterweights and moving relative to the drum, thereby to move the counterweight along the guide member, and a fixing mechanism for fixing the counterweight to the guide member in time of image recording.

Abstract: Front end clamps are disposed on the cylindrical surface of a recording drum, and rear end clamps are attached in any of a plurality of positions at the cylindrical surface of the recording drum. A controller controls a front end clamp opening/closing device to open the front end clamps and controls a pair of rollers to feed a plate held on a plate carry-in path. The controller also controls the front end clamp opening/closing device to close the plate fixing portion of the front end clamps to fix the front end of the plate on the cylindrical surface, controls a driving device to rotate the recording drum for a predetermined amount, and controls a rear end clamp attaching/detaching device to attach the rear end clamps to the cylindrical surface to fix the rear end of the plate on the recording drum cylindrical surface.

Abstract: Depending on the lateral width thereof, an image recording material P is stably positioned on a recording drum, employing two positioning pins with an appropriate pitch therebetween. Non-contacting portions prevent any irrelevant positioning pins from coming into contact with the material P.

Abstract: Annular grooves are formed on both end surfaces of a recording drum to be rotated, and two balance weights are disposed inside each of the annular grooves. The balance weight is composed of a magnet, and is attracted to the end surface of the recording drum by its magnetic force. The two balance weights are arranged at a predetermined attaching angle such that an unbalance force caused by centrifugal forces developed by a plate, a movable clamp, and so forth is canceled. Every time the size and the mass of the plate are changed, the positions of the two balance weights are adjusted, so that forced vibration in the recording drum is restrained.

Abstract: A thin-film includes an inductive element and a first and second magneto-resistive effect elements in which the first and second magneto-resistive effect elements are arranged in proximity to each other on a substrate, and one surface of the substrate perpendicular to the surface formed with the first and second magneto-resistive effect elements constitutes a slider surface, thereby providing appropriate hight of the magneto-resistive effect elements.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising a substrate having thereon at least two different kinds of pressure-sensitive adhesive layers, wherein one pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (A) is constituted by a pressure-sensitive adhesive having a modulus at 50% elongation of 68,650 to 117,680 Pa and a modulus at 200% elongation of 147,100 to 245,170 Pa and another pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (B) is constituted by a pressure-sensitive adhesive having a modulus at 50% elongation of 19,610 to 68,650 Pa and a modulus at 200% elongation of 68,650 to 147,100 Pa. The pressure-sensitive adhesive tape has strong adhesion and suitable releasable properties. Use of such a tape in disposable diapers suppresses generation of discordant peeling sounds.

Abstract: Annular grooves are formed on both end surfaces of a recording drum to be rotated, and two balance weights are disposed inside each of the annular grooves. The balance weight is composed of a magnet, and is attracted to the end surface of the recording drum by its magnetic force. The two balance weights are arranged at a predetermined attaching angle such that an unbalance force caused by centrifugal forces developed by a plate and a movable clamp, for example, is canceled. Every time the size and the mass of the plate are changed, the positions of the two balance weights are adjusted, so that forced vibration in the recording drum is restrained.

Abstract: Provided is a drum surface scanner with which punched holes and/or cuts can be formed in a plate which has been correctly defined by position, and the plate can be clamped to a recording drum. When a plate P comes in front of movable pins 113, i.e., on a hole punch unit 4 side, the upper roller of a conveyor roller 125 moves down, and conveyor rollers 124 and 125, and conveyor belts 111 all start rotating in the positive direction. Once the plate P moves out of the range covered by a sensor PH159, the movable pins 113 follow the tail end of the plate P at a given distance therefrom. When the front end of the plate P reaches the hole punch unit 4, the movable pins 113 which have been chasing the plate P push the tail end thereof to make the front end thereof abut to the hole punch unit 4. At the same time, based on the movement amount of the movable pins 113 from their original positions to current positions pushing the tail end of the plate P, the plate P is checked for its length Y.

Abstract: An L-shaped slide plate mounted with a workpiece holding device on a slide guide is firmly attached to an angle adjustment mechanism, and a reciprocating motion drive unit mounted with the angle adjustment mechanism on a slider table is firmly attached to a bridge so that an angle between a surface of a workpiece to be lapped and a surface of a lapping plate is kept substantially constant, and also the bridge is disposed so as to stride the lapping plate. Thereby, in a state of row bar in which a plurality of magnetic head sliders run in a line, an air bearing surface of magnetic head can be lapped with high accuracy with an element recession being decreased and an occurrence of a scratch being restrained.

Abstract: In the lapping of a magnetic head formed of materials of different hardness levels, the film thickness of a base coat formed on a substrate having a high hardness is made to be in the range of 0.05 to 0.5 &mgr;m, and the lapping for producing the magnetic head is performed by use of a lapping plate made of a material of relatively low hardness, whereby it becomes possible to reduce a pole-tip recession into a range not more than 1 nm and to suppress the average surface roughness of a lapped surface into another range not less than 10 nm.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a sensitive material mounted on a drum by emitting light beams to the sensitive material. The apparatus includes a cylindrical drum for supporting the sensitive material mounted peripherally thereof, a drive mechanism for rotating the drum with a rotary shaft disposed on an axis of the drum, guide members formed in opposite end surfaces of the drum and extending circumferentially about the rotary shaft, a pair of counterweights movable along each of the guide members, a moving mechanism for engaging each of the counterweights and moving relative to the drum, thereby to move the counterweight along the guide member, and a fixing mechanism for fixing the counterweight to the guide member in time of image recording.

Abstract: The invention provides an automatic amplitude equalizer for compensating an amplitude characteristic of an input signal, wherein a control signal for equalizing an inclination amplitude distortion of an input signal is detected making use of a pair of digital demodulated signals to compensate for the amplitude characteristic of the input signal with a high degree of accuracy and which can be constructed with a reduced circuit scale and at a reduce cost.

Abstract: An oil-absorbent composition including 30 to 99.5 parts by weight of (I) an oil-absorbent, cross-linked polymer formed from 96-99.999% by weight of (A) monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated group in the molecule, said monomer (A) containing mainly a monomer having a solubility parameter of not more than 9, and 4-0.001% by weight of (B) a cross-linking monomer having at least two polymerizable unsaturated groups in the molecule, provided the sum of monomer (A) and cross-linking monomer (B) is 100%, and 70 to 0.5 to parts by weight of (IV) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (II) inorganic compounds having a methanol value of not less than 25% and (III) substantially water insoluble organic acid salts, provided the sum of oil-absorbent, cross-linked polymer (I) and compound (IV) is 100 parts by weight.

Abstract: In the case where a received multi-level orthogonal amplitude signal is not synchronized with a local carrier frequency signal, a digital multiplexing radio receiver recognizes that an adaptively-equalized data exist in a specified area on the phase plane of Ich and Qch orthogonal coordinates. The receiver controls an operation of amplifying Ich and Qch demodulated signals to a fixed level, based on the data of which exist in the specified area. Similarly, the receiver controls a phase of the local carrier frequency signal based on the data of existing in the specified area, and controls tap coefficients of an adaptive transversal filter which equalizes the received multi-level orthogonal amplitude signal. In the specified area, a distance between signal points of multi-level orthogonal amplitude signal is large so that influence caused by a phase rotation is small. Accordingly, the digital multiplexing radio receiver can rapidly and stably return to a synchronous mode.

Abstract: By grinding the grinding surface of a diamond grinding tool which is formed in a predetermined shape by securing diamond abrasive grains by bond circularly or flat with high accuracy by the processing type truing method, uniformly dressing the above bond surface so as to project diamond abrasive grains, lapping the tips of the diamond abrasive grains projected from the above bond by the lapping type truing method so as to make the cutting edge height constant, the run,out of the grinding surface can be controlled to the order of submicrons and the cutting edges which are tips of the diamond abrasive grains can be aligned precisely.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring board is constructed of insulating substrates and circuit patterns formed thereon. A manufacturing method produces the multilayer wiring board by forming a mask on one surface of the multilayer substrate. The mask has apertures registered with blind holes and/or a through hole wherein the apertures have different diameters depending on the depths of the blind holes and/or the through hole such that the larger the depth, the larger the diameter. Etching is performed on the multilayer substrate corresponding to the smallest aperture using an abrasive powder having a particle size smaller than the diameter of the smallest aperture. Portions of the multilayer substrate are gradually etched corresponding to the other apertures using abrasive powders having particle sizes smaller than the diameters of the other apertures wherein the blind holes having the desired depths and/or the through hole are formed in the multilayer substrate.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring board and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The wiring board comprises an insulating substrate having a first and second conductor layers formed on major surfaces of the insulating substrate, a blind hole formed through the first conductor layer and the insulating substrate to expose the second conductor layer at the bottom of the blind hole, and a connecting conductor provided to cover the exposed surface of the second conductor layer wall portion of the blind hole and the first conductor layer. Since the connecting conductor and the second conductor are made in surface contact, connection reliability is very much improved. The blind hole is made by blasting a fine abrasive powder beam to selectively remove the insulating substrate. The end of selective removal can be easily controlled by the difference of working speed against the insulating substrate and the conductor layer to successfully expose the second conductor layer at the bottom of the blind hole.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a piezoelectric beam of a dual-axis angular rate sensor, in which the piezoelectric beam is excited in a direction at right angles to the lengthwise direction of two piezoelectric sensors and to a rotary shaft; detected voltages of the two piezoelectric sensors are measured by a signal measuring circuit; a bending portion of at least one of the two piezoelectric sensors is ground so that the levels of the two measured signals and the difference therebetween become small; the piezoelectric beam is excited again in the lengthwise direction of the piezoelectric sensors at right angles to the rotary shaft; detected voltages of the two piezoelectric sensors are measured by the signal measuring circuit; and a weight mounted on the free end of at least one of the two piezoelectric sensors is ground so that the levels of the two measured signals and the difference therebetween become small.