Abstract: A pickup device has various controlled elements such as a light source and a sensor which need to be electrically controlled. The controlled elements are connected with an in-pickup control element via internal signal lines and are controlled by control signals supplied from the in-pickup control element. The in-pickup control element is connected with an external microcomputer via a connector and an external signal line and receives a control signal or the like from the microcomputer. With this structure, the controlled elements in the pickup device are basically controlled, not by the external microcomputer, but by the in-pickup control element. Therefore, the signal lines for supplying the control signals to the controlled elements can be short signal lines only in the pickup.

Abstract: A tilt detecting device detects and corrects a disc tilt without a dedicated tilt sensor. There is a correlation between an amplitude level of a prepit detection signal and a disc tilt quantity on a disc on which prepits are formed in advance. Namely, the amplitude level of the prepit signal becomes maximum when the disc tilt quantity is zero. Therefore, by controlling a tilt correction quantity such that the amplitude level of the prepit detection signal becomes maximum, the tilt correction can be executed without utilizing a dedicated tilt sensor and the like.

Abstract: In a pickup device used for a drive apparatus of an optical disc, a storage element is provided. The storage element stores individual characteristic information associated with the pickup device. For example, the storage element stores the individual characteristic information associated with the level of the recording light waveform which is output from the LD provided in the pickup device. In recording information, the microcomputer in the drive apparatus obtains the individual characteristic information from the storage element in the pickup device and executes information recording by using an optimum write strategy determined in consideration of the individual characteristic information. Accordingly, the difference in characteristics of pickup devices is removed, and improvement and stabilization of the recording characteristic can be realized.

Abstract: A spherical aberration correcting apparatus is incorporated in an information recording system and gives the system a function of correcting spherical aberration in a real-time and effective manner under a recording operation of pieces of information. The spherical aberration correcting apparatus comprises a recording unit, reflected-light level detecting unit, correction amount deciding unit, and spherical aberration correcting unit. The recording unit records a piece of information through radiation of an optical beam onto an optical disk. The detecting unit detects a level of light formed of the optical beam reflected from the optical disk under a recording operation for the information, while the deciding unit decides a correction amount for spherical aberration on the basis of the level of the reflected-light. The correcting unit corrects the spherical aberration by using the correction amount.

Abstract: In a spherical aberration correcting apparatus, a test recording unit is configured to perform a test recording on an optical disk. A characteristic obtaining unit is configured to obtain a characteristic corresponding to a parameter by the test recording. The parameter is correlated with a spherical aberration. A correction amount deciding unit is configured to decide an optimum correction amount of the spherical aberration so as to minimize the spherical aberration according to the characteristic of the parameter. A spherical aberration correcting unit is configured to correct the spherical aberration according to the optimum correction amount of the spherical aberration.

Abstract: The information recording and reproducing apparatus drives the light source based on the recording data to irradiate the laser pulses on the storage medium and forms the recording marks. The level of the laser pulse is varied between the write power level necessary to form the recording marks and the bias level during the mark periods. Since the bias level is set to be lower than the read power level necessary to reproduce recording marks, the quantity of the laser light irradiated onto the storage medium during the recording may be reduced, and the adverse effect due to the heat accumulation or the heat distribution can be diminished. As a result, the recording marks of appropriate shape can be formed on the storage medium, and the information recording accuracy can be improved.

Abstract: A rewritable optical recording medium includes a segmented groove area in which the groove track is segmented along a rotating direction of the recording medium by groove non-forming portions to form a plurality of groove portions; and a continuous groove area in which a continuous groove is formed, the continuous groove having a groove width smaller than a groove width in the segmented groove area.

Abstract: A rewritable optical recording medium includes a segmented groove area in which the groove track is segmented along a rotating direction of the recording medium by groove non-forming portions to form a plurality of groove portions; and a continuous groove area in which a continuous groove is formed, the continuous groove having a groove width smaller than a groove width in the segmented groove area.

Abstract: An data recording apparatus comprises a laser diode applying light to a recording medium to record data, a front monitor diode detecting the intensity of light emitted from the laser diode, a switch device for switching to said lowpass filter in the operating state during the time period over which a signal of 14T mark is recorded, a lowpass filter inputted a signal which is outputted from a front monitor diode, and a sampling/holding unit sampling the output signal outputted from the lowpass filter. The intensity of light emitted from the laser diode based on the output signal sampled by the sampling/holding unit.

Abstract: In the information recording apparatus, by driving the light source by the pulse signal corresponding to the recording signal, the laser pulse corresponding to the recording signal is irradiated onto the recording medium. The recording signal has the mark period to form the recording mark, and the space period in which the recording mark is not formed. In the mark period, the output level of the laser pulse changes between the normal level and the writing level, thereby, the recording mark is formed on the recording medium. On the one hand, over a predetermined period in the space period, the output level of the laser pulse is changed to the low level lower than the normal level. Thereby, the heat accumulation onto the recording medium, due to the transient response of the laser pulse in the mark period, is reduced, and in the mark period after that, the correct recording mark can be formed.

Abstract: In a DVD-R on which information is to be recorded by an information recording apparatus, prior to the recording of the information therein, there are recorded in advance at least identification information for identifying the information recording apparatus for recording the information onto the DVD-R, and recording parameter information containing optimization information for optimizing a recording state in the record processing executed by the information recording apparatus specified by the identification information. Furthermore, the information recording apparatus reads the recording parameter information at the execution of record processing to use it for the record processing.

Abstract: A rewritable type optical disc includes recording tracks formed with break portions; and recording marks corresponding to predetermined data and formed on the recording tracks. The recording marks are formed over the break portions on the recording tracks. If the predetermined data, such as control data, recorded as the recording mark is illegally altered, the position of the recording marks are changed and some break portions are not covered by the recording marks. Since the return light level of the break portion, which is not covered by the recording mark, is different from the return light level of the break portion covered by the recording mark, such illegal alteration of the predetermined data such as the control data may be detected.

Abstract: A rewritable optical recording medium includes a segmented groove area in which the groove track is segmented along a rotating direction of the recording medium by groove non-forming portions to form a plurality of groove portions; and a continuous groove area in which a continuous groove is formed, the continuous groove having a groove width smaller than a groove width in the segmented groove area.

Abstract: The present invention seeks to provide a dual mode mobile satellite communication unit, which requires low communication cost and very little battery power, does not require always carrying a large unit frame and does not always provide great weight burden on the user. A terrestrial communication portable unit is detachably mounted in the mobile satellite communication unit. The mobile satellite communication unit as base unit does not include a key operating section, a display section and a speech transducer section having a microphone and a loudspeaker, and utilizes those mechanically assembled on the portable unit side for keying and other operations. In an interlocked relation to the removal of the portable unit, the stand-by state of the base unit is turned off. It is thus possible to avoid wasteful battery power consumption on the base unit side.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of melt-adhering a hard resin product to a substrate, wherein: a primer which includes a silane coupling agent is applied to a substrate which includes silicon, a hard resin product contacts a portion to which the primer has been applied, and the resin product is vibrated while pressure is applied thereto, and a melt-adhering apparatus which uses this method. A melt-adhering apparatus, comprising: a melt-adhering gun which includes a horn which can hold a resin product; a nipping stand which is movably disposed beneath the horn so that a substrate is nipped between the nipping stand and the horn; moving means which relatively moves the melt-adhering gun and the nipping stand; and a converter which subjects the horn to ultrasonic vibration in response to an input signal. In the present invention, the resin product can be securely melt-adhered to the substrate inexpensively.

Abstract: A driving apparatus according to the invention turns on a capacitive light emitting device having a first electrode and a second electrode in accordance with a light-on instruction. The apparatus has: a voltage accumulating unit, for example, a capacitor for holding a voltage energy corresponding to the contents of the light-on instruction; a circuit for applying the voltage energy held in the voltage accumulating unit to a portion across electrodes (A and B) in one direction in response to a first control signal and for applying the voltage energy held in the voltage accumulating unit to the portion across the electrodes in the other direction in response to a second control signal; and a circuit for alternately generating the first and second control signals. The invention can cope with a deterioration due to an aging change or the like, prevent a reduction of a light emission intensity due to the deterioration or the like, and contribute to a simplification of the construction and a decrease in costs.

Abstract: Equipment for intracerebral administration of preparations is composed of a preparation-administering device (1) holding a preparation (2), and a plunger (4) removably arranged in the preparation-administering device adapted to push the preparation held therein toward one end of the preparation-administering device. The intracerebral preparation-administration equipment is inserted into a preparation-introducing guide (5) previously implanted in the head of a patient to introduce the preparation into its guide hole (26). The preparation is then guided to a site of administration through a flexible guide tube (23) communicated with the guide hole of the preparation-introducing guide. The equipment for intracerebral administration of preparations may be composed of a tubular preparation-retaining member (30) having a preparation contained therein, and a holder (32) for holding the tubular preparation-retaining member along with a push rod (31) inserted thereinto as an integral part thereof.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording data on and/or reproducing data from a recording medium includes a recording and/or reproducing unit, a memory, a memory controller, and a servo control circuit, and a system controller. The recording and/or reproducing unit records data on the recording medium and/or reproduces recorded data from the recording medium. The memory temporarily stores data outputted from the recording and/or reproducing unit or input data to be recorded on the recording medium by the recording and/or reproducing unit. The memory controller controls the memory to write and read data such that data are read from the memory in a unit of time at a transfer rate lower than the transfer rate at which data are written in the memory in a unit of time. The servo control circuit supplies a servo control signal to the recording and/or reproducing means, and has an adjustable servo control gain.

Abstract: A total hip replacement type artificial joint comprising a stem and a socket, the stem being provided with a head at the upper end thereof and comprising a porous portion as an upper portion, a protector located under and along the porous portion and at the same height as the porous surface of the porous portion, an intermediate portion which underlies the porous portion and which is trapezoidal in section, and a lower portion which underlies the intermediate portion and which is circular in section, and the socket comprising an outer cup and a protector, the protector being provided along the outer peripheral edge of the outer cup and at the same height as a porous surface formed on the outer surface of the outer cup.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording data on and/or reproducing data from a recording medium includes a recording and/or reproducing unit, a memory, a memory controller, and a servo, control circuit, and a system controller. The memory temporarily stores data outputted from the recording and/or reproducing unit or input data to be recorded on the recording medium by the recording and/or reproducing unit. The memory controller controls the memory to write and read data such that data are read from the memory in a unit of time at a transfer rate lower than the transfer rate at which data are written in the memory in a unit of time. The servo control circuit supplies a servo control signal to the recording and/or reproducing means, and has an adjustable servo control gain. The system controller controls operation of the recording and/or reproducing unit, the memory controller, and the servo control circuit.