Abstract: A card-type peripheral device having a plurality of specifications of external interfaces includes a connector configured to connect the card-type peripheral device to a connectable device connectable to the card-type peripheral device, the connector including a dedicated terminal in which an interface to be used is set; an electronic component configured to be accessed via the set interface; a plurality of interface function units each configured to control an interface compliant with one of the plurality of specifications; and a communication function unit configured to perform communication with the electronic component using one of the interface function units having a specification corresponding to a setting of the dedicated terminal.

Abstract: A method of producing a metal-ceramic composite material having a metallic luster. This method involves subjecting a cured product obtained by curing a curable silicone composition containing a metal filler to heating under a non-oxidizing atmosphere, at a temperature that is within a range from 400 to 1,500° C. and is less than the melting point of the metal filler. Using this method, a metal-ceramic composite material that has a shape and dimensions that meet the required specifications with a high degree of precision can be produced with comparative ease.

Abstract: A card-type peripheral device includes an electronic component including a memory disposed in a case, a terminal part including connection terminals connectable with a to-be-connected device, and a switch for disabling writing to the memory. The card-type peripheral device further includes a signal terminal capable of transmitting a signal indicating the status of the switch to the to-be-connected device.

Abstract: A card-type peripheral device includes an electronic component disposed in a case, and a terminal part including connection terminals connectable with a to-be-connected device, wherein a function of the electronic component and the number of terminals of the terminal part are maintained to be compatible with those of the to-be-connected device, and the outside dimensions of the case are set to be smaller than the outside dimensions of the to-be-connected device and greater than the outside dimensions of a predetermined small-size card.

Abstract: A heat dissipating member which is disposed between a heat generating electronic component which when operated generates heat and reaches a temperature higher than room temperature and a heat dissipating component is characterized in that the heat dissipating member is non-fluid in a room temperature state prior to operation of the electronic component and acquires a low viscosity, softens or melts under heat generation during operation of the electronic component to fluidize at least a surface thereof so as to fill between the electronic component and the heat dissipating component without leaving any substantial voids, and the heat dissipating member is formed of a composition comprising a silicone resin and a heat conductive filler.

Abstract: A card tray to be mounted to a memory card can make the memory card mountable in a card slot for memory cards conforming to standards different from those to which the memory card conforms. The card tray has a main body and a recessed mount section. The recessed mount section is formed such that the holder of a second memory card can be mounted to one of the major surfaces of the main body. A memory-card-mounted body is produced when the second memory card is mounted to the recessed mount section. The card tray is configured such that, when the first memory card is placed on the memory-card-mounted body with the left and right edges thereof aligned with each other, the contact pieces of the first memory card and the contact pieces of the second memory card have longitudinally overlapping parts and transversally overlapping parts as viewed from above.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided which has a substrate and a signal recording layer provided on the substrate and in which an information signal is recorded in the form of microscopic pits. A light beam is focused on the signal recording layer and some change of the light beam carried by a return light from the signal recording layer is detected to read the information signal recorded on the signal recording layer. The optical recording medium has a diameter of 65 mm or less and a thickness of 0.4 to 0.7 mm. An information signal recording area extends outwardly from a radial position of 12.5 mm or less from the center of the medium. The ratio in area between the information signal recording area and non-signal recording area is 3.4 or more. The storage capacity of this medium is 2 gigabytes or more. The optical recording medium has formed at the center thereof a center hole around which an annular table-abutment convexing to one side of the medium is formed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid addition-curable silicone composition for a fiber-reinforced composite material which, when combined with a reinforcing fiber and molded, yields molded items with excellent heat resistance and strength that can be used favorably for aircraft members (such as the main wings and fuselage of passenger aircraft or military aircraft), spacecraft members, artificial satellite members, electrical and electronic device componentry (such as mobile telephone cases), construction members (such as repairing or reinforcing materials for engineering and construction) and automobile members (such as structural materials surrounding the engine) that are exposed to high temperatures. The invention also provides a fiber-reinforced silicone composite material, and an effective method of producing the composite material.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing, in a simple manner, a general-purpose dielectric insulating thin film that has a varying dielectric constant and accepts an accurate film thickness control and a control of the composition, the structure and the thickness thereof. The process includes a step (A) of making a substrate having a hydroxyl group in its surface or having a hydroxyl group introduced into its surface, adsorb a metal compound having a functional group capable of reacting with a hydroxyl group for condensation and capable of forming a hydroxyl group through hydrolysis, a step (B) of removing the excessive metal compound from the substrate surface, a step (C) of hydrolyzing the metal compound to form a metal oxide layer, and a step (D) of treating the metal oxide layer according to any one treating method selected from the group consisting of oxygen plasma treatment, ozone oxidation treatment, firing treatment and rapid thermal annealing treatment to thereby obtain a dielectric insulating thin film.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a memory card that is a second memory card provided in connection with a first memory card. The first and second memory cards include: a body portion having the shape of a rectangular plate; and guide portions that project from both sides of the body portion in a width direction of the body portion and extend in a longitudinal direction of the body portion. Each guide portion has a thickness less than a thickness of the body portion. The first and second memory cards are equal in thickness and length of the body portion and distance between tips of the guide portions. The body portion of the second memory card has a width greater than a width of the body portion of the first memory card.

Abstract: In a memory card with a newly-added module for performing data communication, data communication is stably performed without receiving a noise effect. As an embodiment of the present invention, a memory card 100 has a thin-plate-shaped holding member 20, a memory section 24 provided as buried in the holding member 20, plural first connection pieces 2-10 connected to the memory section 24, a data communication section 26 provided as buried in the holding member 20, and two connection pieces 11, 12 connected to the data communication section 26. The two second connection pieces 11, 12 are disposed at the end of a row part R1 on which only the plural first connection pieces 2-10 are aligned. One first connection piece 10 positioned at the end of the row part R1 is a ground terminal. That is to say, in the plural first connection pieces 2-10, the first connection piece 10 adjacent to the second connection piece 11 is a ground terminal.

Abstract: When associating a plurality of logical devices with one logical volume, the storage controller of the present invention improves the responsive performance thereof by determining the position for allocating the logical devices in accordance with the pattern of access made from the host. One logical volume is constituted by a plurality of logical devices. The control section computes the performance indicator (load) of each logical device in accordance with the pattern of access to the logical volume from the host. The control section computes the performance indicator of each RAID group for the case where each logical device is allocated on the basis of the performance indicator of each logical device. The control section determines a RAID group to allocate each logical device, so that the variance of the performance indicator of the RAID group becomes minimum.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided which has a substrate and a signal recording layer provided on the substrate and in which an information signal is recorded in the form of microscopic pits. A light beam is focused on the signal recording layer and some change of the light beam carried by a return light from the signal recording layer is detected to read the information signal recorded on the signal recording layer. The optical recording medium has a diameter of 65 mm or less and a thickness of 0.4 to 0.7 mm. An information signal recording area extends outwardly from a radial position of 12.5 mm or less from the center of the medium. The ratio in area between the information signal recording area and non-signal recording area is 3.4 or more. The storage capacity of this medium is 2 gigabytes or more. The optical recording medium has formed at the center thereof a center hole around which an annular table-abutment convexing to one side of the medium is formed.

Abstract: An information processing system comprises a fault storage area which stores fault data relating to specific faults, an information issuing portion which issues information, an intermediate information processing portion, and an information filter portion. The intermediate information processing portion receives and outputs information issued by the information issuing portion, and upon receiving an anomaly in response to output of information, prior to notifying the information issuing portion of the anomaly, re-outputs the output information at least once, but if an anomaly is received even after re-output at least once, notifies the information issuing portion of the anomaly.

Abstract: There is provided a memory card usable with a selected one of a plurality of interfaces. The memory card (100) includes a holder (20), a memory unit (22) buried in the holder (20), a controller (24) buried in the holder (20), a plurality of first contacts (2 to 10) connected to the controller (24), a select signal generator (26) buried in the holder (20) and two second contacts (11, 12) connected to the select signal generator (26). The select signal generator (26) is to supply a select signal S1 to an interface unit (2402) correspondingly to interface select signals D1 and D2 supplied via the second contacts. One of two types of interfaces is selected based on the interface select signal S1 supplied via the second contacts and data communication is made via the selected interface.

Abstract: A fiber formed of a non-melting solid silicone having an elemental composition represented by a formula (1) is provided. A nonwoven fabric formed of the fiber is also provided. SiCaHbOc ??(1) wherein a is a number that satisfies: 0.5?a?7.0, b is a number that satisfies: 0.5?b?8.0, and c is a number that satisfies 1.0?c?3.0. The fiber is useful as modifiers for various synthetic resins. The fiber and nonwoven fabric are useful as a reinforcing material for composite materials.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a heat-resistant inorganic textile formed of a heat-resistant inorganic fiber that includes an inorganic base fiber and a heat-resistant inorganic ceramic layer that coats the inorganic base fiber, the method including the steps of: (1) subjecting an inorganic base textile formed of the inorganic base fiber to a coating treatment with a meltable silicone resin or a curable silicone composition, thereby forming a meltable silicone resin layer or curable silicone composition layer that coats the inorganic base fiber, (2) subjecting the meltable silicone resin layer to a non-melting treatment, thereby forming a non-melting silicone resin layer, or subjecting the curable silicone composition layer to curing, thereby forming a silicone cured product layer, and (3) heating the non-melting silicone resin layer or silicone cured product layer under a non-oxidizing atmosphere, at a temperature within a range from 400 to 1,500° C.

Abstract: An amorphous inorganic ceramic material including silicon, carbon and oxygen is provided. In the ceramic material, the average elemental ratio between silicon, carbon and oxygen is represented by a compositional formula: SiCaOb wherein, a is a number that satisfies: 0.5?a?3.0, and b is a number that satisfies 0.5?b?4.0), the material has a siloxane skeleton formed of Si—O—Si bonds, and the hydrogen mass fraction is within a range from 0 to 1% by mass. The material exhibits excellent heat resistance, wettability with other materials, strength and elastic modulus, and is useful as a reinforcing material for composite materials, or as an exhaust gas filter material or the like.

Abstract: A method of producing an inorganic molded item comprising a matrix composed of an inorganic ceramic and an inorganic filler dispersed within the matrix is provided. The method includes heating a silicone-based molded object comprising a matrix composed of a solid silicone and an inorganic filler dispersed within the matrix, under a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature within a range from 400 to 1,500° C. This method suffers almost no volumetric shrinkage, and yields a molded item with the intended shape and dimensions, and a favorable level of strength.