Abstract: A disk device according to one embodiment includes magnetic disks, arms each with a first depression, suspensions, and first dampers. The magnetic disks are aligned along a first rotation axis. The arms are aligned along a second rotation axis. Each arm includes a first side surface, a second side surface with a slit, a first surface, a second surface, a first seating surface, and a second seating surface. The first depression is open to the first side surface and the first surface, and located closer to the first rotation axis than the slit. Each of the suspensions is supported by the first seating surface or the second seating surface and partially accommodated in the slit. Each of the first dampers is attached to each of the arms along the first depression.

Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus includes a plasma treatment chamber in which a treated base material is accommodated, a conveyance part which conveys the treated base material into the plasma treatment chamber, an inductive coupling linear antenna configured to generate plasma, a bias electrode which modules a plasma potential, and a heating part which heats the treated base material. A cross section of the bias electrode cut perpendicularly to a longitudinal direction has a dome-shaped or U-shaped box shape, and the inductive coupling linear antenna and the heating part are disposed substantially in parallel in the bias electrode in the longitudinal direction of the bias electrode.

Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus is constituted by a treated base material at a ground potential in a plasma treatment chamber and an inductive coupling antenna unit disposed to face the base material, and a bias electrode which modulates a plasma potential is provided between them. In addition, an in-line type plasma treatment apparatus in which a plurality of the treatment chambers are connected is provided.

Abstract: A cover for an automobile engine covers a crank pulley and an auxiliary drive belt of an engine arranged in an engine room with the crank pulley and the auxiliary drive belt being in a posture facing a front direction of a vehicle body. The cover includes a reinforcing body that includes a fastening part attaching to the engine and is integrated with a sound-absorbing main body.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains an image shot such that a court of a sporting event is within an angle of view, detects a plurality of objects in the image, trims an area specified based on positions of the plurality of objects in the image, and recognizes an action of a specific player out of the plurality of objects based on a trimmed image. The apparatus trims an area including the specific player specified based on a reference being a position of a first object used in the sporting event out of the plurality of objects.

Abstract: A charging system for a vehicle equipped with a battery includes a first vehicle, a second vehicle, and a server, wherein the first vehicle is one of a plurality of chargers arranged to charge the battery. The charger acquires power supply information regarding the power supply status of the power supplied to the first vehicle and transmits the power supply information to the server, and the server determines the soundness of the charger based on the power supply information received from the first vehicle, to provide health information regarding the health of the charger to the user of the first vehicle and/or the second vehicle.

Abstract: An inductive coupling antenna unit is airtightly mounted in an opening provided in a wall of a vacuum chamber. The inductive coupling antenna unit includes: a lid, airtightly covering the opening; an antenna conductor, provided on the lid; and a heating heater, provided on an inner surface of the lid.

Abstract: A cover for an automobile engine covers a crank pulley and an auxiliary drive belt of an engine arranged in an engine room with the crank pulley and the auxiliary drive belt being in a posture facing a front direction of a vehicle body. The cover includes a reinforcing body that includes a fastening part attaching to the engine and is integrated with a sound-absorbing main body.

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning composition for a component of a semiconductor manufacturing process chamber including: a foaming agent; an oxidizing agent; and an acidic compound, in which a value of (Number of moles of the acidic compound contained in the cleaning composition×acid valence of the acidic compound)/(Number of moles of the foaming agent contained in the cleaning composition×Base valence of the foaming agent) is more than 0.1 and less than 1.5.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a flexure for use in a suspension assembly includes: a supporting plate; a wiring member including a metal plate and a wiring substrate placed on the metal plate and has a tip-side portion placed on the supporting plate, a base end-side portion extending to an outside of the supporting plate, and a first end provided at an extension end of the base end-side portion; and a piezoelectric element mounted on the wiring member. The wiring substrate includes an insulating layer and a conductive layer stacked on the insulating layer, the conductive layer having a plurality of connecting pads including a ground pad to which a ground electrode of the piezoelectric element is connected, a plurality of connecting terminals provided at the first end and including a ground terminal, and a plurality of traces including a ground trace connecting the ground pad and the ground terminal.

Abstract: A resin powder for solid freeform fabrication includes a particle having a pillar-like form, wherein the ratio of the height of the particle to the diameter or the long side of the bottom of the particle is 0.5 to 2.0, the particle has a 50 percent cumulative volume particle diameter of from 5 to 200 ?m, and the ratio (Mv/Mn) of the volume average particle diameter (Mv) to the number average particle diameter (Mn) of the particle is 2.00 or less.

Abstract: A flame-retardant soundproof material for vehicles includes a polyurethane foam obtained by foam-molding a urethane resin composition. The urethane resin composition contains an isocyanate component (A), a polyol component (B), and an expandable graphite (C). The isocyanate component (A) includes a mixture of 2,4?-MDI and 4,4?-MDI, and one or more modified forms selected from carbodiimide modified forms and uretonimine modified forms of at least one of 2,4?-MDI and 4,4?-MDI. The content of the one or more modified forms in the urethane resin composition is 5.0 mass % to 8.8 mass %. The polyol component (B) includes a polyether polyol as a main constituent. The expandable graphite (C) has an expansion initiation temperature of 170° C. to 200° C., an expansion ratio of 10 or more at 250° C., and a content of 8 mass % to 20 mass % in the urethane resin composition.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt having a tubular shape and extending in a longitudinal direction, and having a longitudinal end, a drive roller to rotate the belt to convey a print medium between the drive roller and the belt, a bushing located at the longitudinal end of the belt, and a guide wall adjacent to the bushing. The belt is displaceable in the longitudinal direction relative to the bushing. The bushing includes a shoulder adjacent to the longitudinal end of the belt and a stem extending from the shoulder to an inside of the belt to support the belt. The guide guides the bushing to move in a direction opposite to a conveyance direction of the print medium when the belt moves toward the bushing. The stem of the bushing includes a convex portion that is in contact with an inner surface of the belt when the belt is displaced in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A method of charging a power storage mounted on a vehicle with electric power inputted to a charging port of the vehicle includes connecting a first charging path leading from the charging port via a first charger to the power storage and disconnecting a second charging path leading from the charging port via a second charger to the power storage, performing precharging of the first charger while the second charging path is disconnected and the first charging path is connected, determining whether or not the precharging of the first charger has been completed, and connecting both of the first charging path and the second charging path when it is determined that the precharging of the first charger has been completed.

Abstract: A biosensor is a field-effect transistor-based biosensor including an insulating substrate, and a measurement sensor and a reference sensor on the insulating substrate. A probe molecule is in the measurement sensor. The probe molecule has a first basic moiety in the measurement sensor, and a recognition moiety with a first end bound to the first basic moiety and a second end defining a distal end of the probe molecule. A second basic moiety is in the reference sensor and has a same structure as that of the first basic moiety of the probe molecule in the measurement sensor. The recognition moiety of the probe molecule in the measurement sensor is absent at the distal end of the second basic moiety.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; an input interface for inputting data of a first image; a backlight module; and at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an estimating unit configured to estimate brightness of light to be irradiated from the backlight module to the liquid crystal panel; a correcting unit configured to correct the first image to a second image based on the brightness estimated by the estimating unit, a contrast of the liquid crystal panel, and a target contrast so that a brightness error with respect to a display brightness in a case where the first image is displayed with the target contrast is suppressed; and a control unit configured to control transmittance of the liquid crystal panel based on data of the second image.

Abstract: A method for collecting a fine particle stored in a structure by suctioning the fine particle using a nozzle, in which, as the structure, a structure in which at least one communication portion that communicates a space storing the fine particle with one surface side and the other surface side of the structure is formed is used.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus can include a heater roller, a tension roller, a belt movable from the heater roller to the tension roller, a pressure roller to make pressure contact with the heater roller via the belt to form a fixing nip, and a blower member including a first opening to direct air toward the belt and a second opening to direct air toward the heater roller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an endless belt to rotate, belt rollers including a tension roller and an adjustment roller extending inside the endless belt, a nip roller extending adjacent the endless belt to form a nip between the nip roller and the endless belt, and a cam shaft that includes a nip forming cam and a tension adjustment cam. The nip forming cam moves the nip roller between a pressed position in which the nip roller is pressed against the endless belt, and a retracted position in which the nip roller is retracted from the endless belt. The tension adjustment cam moves the adjustment roller relative to the tension roller.

Abstract: A head suspension assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member on the support plate, a head mounted on the wiring member and electrically connected to the wiring member, and a piezoelectric element mounted on the wiring member. The piezoelectric element has first and second electrodes electrically connected to the wiring member. The wiring member includes a metal layer, a base insulating layer, a conductive layer, and a cover insulating layer stacked in order. The cover insulating layer includes a pad opening through which the first electrode is connected to the conductive layer with a conducive adhesive therebetween. The base insulating layer includes a first region below the first pad opening and a second region below a side surface of the piezoelectric element. A thickness of the base insulating layer in the second region is less than a thickness of the base insulating layer in the first region.