Abstract: According to an embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member, a magnetic head and drive members. A gimbal portion of the wiring member includes a thin metallic plate including a tongue portion mounted with a magnetic head, a proximal end portion fixed to the support plate, support projections, and link portions, an insulating layer including first bridge portions extending from the proximal end portion to the tongue portion, and second bridge portions extending from the proximal end portion to middle portions of the first bridges, and a conducive layer including signal wirings extending to the tongue portion through the second and first bridge portions, and reinforcement wiring portions. The drive members are provided at the first bridge portions.

Abstract: A light emitting device is provided with a semiconductor light emitting element and a wavelength conversion portion. The wavelength conversion portion includes an outer peripheral portion between an input surface and an output surface. The outer peripheral portion includes a first inclined part at a side of the input surface and a second inclined part at a side of the output surface. The first inclined part and the second inclined part define a projecting portion that is projected on the outer peripheral portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate including a distal end portion, a trace member attached to the support plate, an elastic supporting member made from a distal end portion of the trace member and configured to support a head, and an actuation element expandable/contractible in the longitudinal direction of the trace member, at least a part of a bottom of which is adhered to a seating surface formed from a cover insulating layer of the trace member.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member including a thin metallic plate, an insulating layer and a conductive layer, the wiring member including a tongue portion located on a convex portion of the support plate, a proximal end portion fixed onto the support plate, and a bridge portion bridged between the tongue portion and the proximal end portion and including a inflection point with respect to a height direction of warping, a magnetic head attached to the tongue portion, and a piezoelectric element bonded to the bridge portion at a section between the proximal end portion and the inflection point.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member, a magnetic head and drive members. A gimbal portion of the wiring member includes a thin metallic plate including a tongue portion mounted with a magnetic head, a proximal end portion fixed to the support plate, support projections, and link portions, an insulating layer including first bridge portions extending from the proximal end portion to the tongue portion, and second bridge portions extending from the proximal end portion to middle portions of the first bridges, and a conducive layer including signal wirings extending to the tongue portion through the second and first bridge portions, and reinforcement wiring portions. The drive members are provided at the first bridge portions.

Abstract: A phosphor has the general formula (M2x,M3y,M4z)mM1O3X(x/n), wherein M1 represents at least one element including at least Si and selected from the group consisting of Si, Ge, Ti, Zr, and Sn, M2 represents at least one element including at least Ca and selected from the group consisting of Ca, Mg, Cd, Co, and Zn, M3 represents at least one element including at least Sr and selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ra, Ba, and Pb, X represents at least one halogen element, M4 represents at least one element including at least Eu2+ and selected from the group consisting of rare-earth elements and Mn, m is in the range 1?m?4/3 n is in the range 5?n?7, and x, y, and z are each in such a range as to satisfy x+y+z=1, 0.45?x?0.8, 0.05?y?0.45, and 0.45, and 0.03?z?0.35.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head suspension assembly includes a base plate, a load beam including a proximal end secured onto the base plate, a head supported on the load beam via a gimbal, a flexure attached on the load beam and the base plate, and first and second piezoelectric elements in first and second openings of the base plate. The proximal end of the load beam includes first and second extended connections bifurcated from the proximal end and connected to the base plate, first and second island connections, and an opening region exposing the base plate. The flexure extends between the first and second extended connections and between the first and second island connections, and is directly provided on the base plate.

Abstract: A method for preparing a phosphor that comprises a crystalline oxide having M1O3 (M1 is a tetravalent metallic element) as a main framework thereof and essentially including a halogen element X (X is at least one element selected from a group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I) and divalent metal ions M2 and Eu2+, includes using a compound represented by a compositional formula NH4X as a starting material when synthesizing the phosphor. At least a compound represented by a compositional formula NH4Cl may be used as the starting material.

Abstract: A head gimbal assembly includes a base plate, a load beam, a first end of which is supported by the base plate, a magnetic head supported at a second end of the load beam, a flexure including a plurality of wirings electrically connected to the magnetic head, the flexure extending from a surface of the base plate to an edge of the base plate, an adhesive applied in a space formed between the surface of the base plate and a surface of the flexure facing the surface of the base plate to bond the flexure to the base plate and to the edge of the base plate.

Abstract: A head gimbal assembly includes a base plate, a load beam, a first end of which is supported by the base plate, a magnetic head supported at a second end of the load beam, a flexure including a plurality of wirings electrically connected to the magnetic head, the flexure extending from a surface of the base plate to an edge of the base plate, an adhesive applied in a space formed between the surface of the base plate and a surface of the flexure facing the surface of the base plate to bond the flexure to the base plate and to the edge of the base plate.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a suspension, a head, and a conductor trace on the suspension, including one end portion electrically connected to the head and the other end portion includes a terminal area. The conductor trace includes a thin metal plate, a base insulating layer on the thin metal plate, a trace pattern on the base insulating layer, including a plurality of conductors and a plurality of first and second connection terminals continuous with the conductors, and a cover insulating layer on the base insulating layer, configured to cover the trace pattern. The terminal area includes an opening including two opposite side edges, the first connection terminals extend into the opening from one of the side edges thereof, and the second connection terminals extend into the opening from the other side edge thereof.

Abstract: A method for preparing a phosphor that comprises a crystalline oxide having M1O3 (M1 is a tetravalent metallic element) as a main backbone thereof and essentially including a halogen element X (X is at least one element selected from a group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I) and divalent metal ions M2 and Eu2+, includes using a compound represented by a compositional formula NH4X as a starting material when synthesizing the phosphor. At least a compound represented by a compositional formula NH4Cl may be used as the starting material.

Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a light-emitting diode (LED) package, in which an LED is implemented, and a resistor, connected to the LED in series, which is placed in the position subject to a change in temperature of the LED package. The resistor has a positive temperature coefficient. The volume resistivity of the resistor at 0° C. is preferably 2×10?8 [?·m] or above. The temperature coefficient of the resistor in a range of 0° C. to 100° C. is preferably 0.05 [10?3/° C.] or above.

Abstract: A light source module for a vehicle lamp, including an optical system that guides light emitted from the light source module in a certain irradiation direction and has an optical center, the light source module has a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements disposed in a straight line and electrically connected to each other in series. One of the semiconductor light emitting elements that is positioned closest to the optical center of the optical system has a light emitting area that is smallest of the plurality of the semiconductor light emitting elements.

Abstract: A light emitting device is provided with a semiconductor light emitting element and a wavelength conversion portion. The wavelength conversion portion includes an outer peripheral portion between an input surface and an output surface. The outer peripheral portion includes a first inclined part at a side of the input surface and a second inclined part at a side of the output surface. The first inclined part and the second inclined part define a projecting portion that is projected on the outer peripheral portion.

Abstract: A phosphor has the general formula (M2x,M3y,M4z)mM1O3X(2/n), wherein M1 represents at least one element including at least Si and selected from the group consisting of Si, Ge, Ti, Zr, and Sn, M2 represents at least one element including at least Ca and selected from the group consisting of Ca, Mg, Cd, Co, and Zn, M3 represents at least one element including at least Sr and selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ra, Ba, and Pb, X represents at least one halogen element, M4 represents at least one element including at least Eu2+ and selected from the group consisting of rare-earth elements and Mn, m is in the range 1?m?4/3, n is in the range 5?n?7.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a suspension, a head, and a conductor trace on the suspension, including one end portion electrically connected to the head and the other end portion includes a terminal area. The conductor trace includes a thin metal plate, a base insulating layer on the thin metal plate, a trace pattern on the base insulating layer, including a plurality of conductors and a plurality of first and second connection terminals continuous with the conductors, and a cover insulating layer on the base insulating layer, configured to cover the trace pattern. The terminal area includes an opening including two opposite side edges, the first connection terminals extend into the opening from one of the side edges thereof, and the second connection terminals extend into the opening from the other side edge thereof.

Abstract: In a light emitting module, each of a first light wavelength conversion member, a second light wavelength conversion member, and a third light wavelength conversion member converts the wavelength of the light emitted by a semiconductor light emitting element to emit the light within a wavelength range different from the others. Each of the first light wavelength conversion member, the second light wavelength conversion member, and the third light wavelength conversion member is formed into a plate shape and is laminated such that the light emitted by the semiconductor light emitting element passes through each of them in descending order of the average wavelength of the light whose wavelength has been converted.

Abstract: In a light emitting module, a semiconductor light emitting element emits short-wavelength visible light. A plurality of the semiconductor light emitting elements are provided side by side on the same flat surface. The light wavelength conversion member contains a first phosphor and a second phosphor, the wavelength of the light emitted after the wavelength thereof has been converted by either of the two being different from the excitation wavelength for the other. The first phosphor emits yellow light by exciting the short-wavelength visible light. The second phosphor emits blue light by exciting the short-wavelength visible light. The first phosphor does not include the wavelength range of the blue light in the excitation wavelength range thereof. The light wavelength conversion member is cured after being potted so as to integrally cover the plurality of the semiconductor light emitting elements.

Abstract: In a light emitting module 40, a semiconductor light emitting element 48 is configured by forming an electrode pattern to which a current for light emission is supplied on the light emitting surface 48a. A light wavelength conversion member 52 is formed to be transparent and to convert the wavelength of the light emitted by the semiconductor light emitting element 48 and to emit the light from the emitting surface 52a. In the light wavelength conversion member 52, a plurality of protruding portions 52b are provided on the emitting surface 52a at an arrangement interval smaller than the repeating pattern interval in the electrode pattern. Each of the plurality of protruding portions 52b is formed into a hemispherical shape. In addition, the plurality of protruding portions 52b are provided on the emitting surface 52a at an arrangement interval of 300 ?m or less.