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20080291575 | Flexure, method of manufacturing flexure, and head suspension with flexure - A flexure has a substrate made of a thin conductive metal plate, a base insulating layer made of flexible resin formed on the substrate, wiring patterns formed on the base insulating layer and connected to a slider mount, and a cover insulating layer formed over the wiring patterns. The flexure is substantially coated with a conductive polymer layer having a thickness in the range of 18 to 130 nm. The flexure prevents electrostatic accumulation and ion migration. | 11-27-2008 |
20090185460 | Method of correcting head suspension, method of manufacturing head suspension, head suspension, and method of processing thin plate - A method corrects a head suspension by irradiating an objective part of the head suspension with a laser beam. The method is capable of precisely correcting the head suspension even when correcting the head suspension a plurality of times. The method removes residual stress created by the preceding correction from the head suspension, and then, carries out the next correction. Accordingly, the method can precisely correct the objective part of the head suspension with a laser beam even if the objective part has once been irradiated with a laser beam in the preceding correction. | 07-23-2009 |
20100033874 | Method of correcting head suspension, method of manufacturing head suspension, head suspension and method of processing thin plate - A method corrects a head suspension by irradiating an objective part of the head suspension with a laser beam before or after mounting a read/write head on the head suspension. The method can precisely correct the head suspension even when correcting the head suspension a plurality of times. The method includes drawing, with the laser beam, a straight line of predetermined length on the objective part and repeating this process a plurality of times in such a way that the direction of a straight line drawn this time crosses the direction of a straight line drawn last time. | 02-11-2010 |
20110061589 | LIQUID APPLICATION APPARATUS - A liquid application apparatus applies a liquid to an objective region. The apparatus includes a trap having an opening from which the liquid linearly appears, a feeder to feed the liquid to the trap, and an operation unit to position the trap on the objective region and bring the linearly appeared liquid at the trap into contact with the objective region, thereby linearly applying the liquid to the objective region. The apparatus is capable of linearly applying the liquid in a uniform thickness to the objective region. | 03-17-2011 |
20110061594 | ADHESIVE APPLICATION APPARATUS - An adhesive application apparatus for applying a liquid adhesive to an object includes a regular application stage against which the object is placed for a regular application of the liquid adhesive to the object, a trial application stage to which a trial application of the liquid adhesive is carried out, an application unit relatively movable with respect to the regular application stage and trial application stage to carry out the regular application and trial application of the liquid adhesive, and a suction unit carrying out a suction operation of the liquid adhesive used in the trial application. The adhesive application apparatus smoothly carries out the trial application of the liquid adhesive without bothering the operation of an adhesive application line. | 03-17-2011 |
20110079351 | METHOD OF FILING ADHESIVE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HEAD SUSPENSION - A method of filling an adhesive into a gap includes steps of introducing one or more capsules containing the adhesive having an adhering function and a setting function into the gap, discharging the adhesive from the adhesive capsules by applying energy to the adhesive capsules in the gap, and setting the adhesive in the gap by applying energy to the discharged adhesive. The method can easily fill the adhesive | 04-07-2011 |
20120146671 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CRACKS IN PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A method detects one or more cracks in a piezoelectric element interposed between a pair of electrodes and deforms according to a voltage applied thereto through the pair of electrodes. The method includes steps of applying a voltage at least at a resonance frequency of the piezoelectric element to the piezoelectric element through the pair of electrodes, measuring a dielectric tangent between the pair of electrodes under the applied voltage, and detecting if there are cracks in the piezoelectric element according to the measured dielectric tangent. The dielectric tangent of the piezoelectric element at the resonance frequency has a large peak or no peak depending on whether or not the piezoelectric element has cracks. Accordingly, the method easily and surely detects if the piezoelectric element has cracks according to the dielectric tangent of the piezoelectric element measured at the resonance frequency. | 06-14-2012 |
20120164325 | METHOD OF FORMING LUBRICATIVE PLATED LAYER ON VISCOUS LIQUID FEED NOZZLE AND VISCOUS LIQUID FEED NOZZLE - In a viscous liquid feed nozzle having a nozzle body provided with a thin and long hole with a front end serving as a feed port, a lubricative plated layer is provided by immersing the liquid feed nozzle in a plating tank containing a lubricative plating solution and forming, by electroless plating, the lubricative plated layer at least on the inside and outside of the feed port. | 06-28-2012 |
20120231156 | FLEXURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FLEXURE, AND HEAD SUSPENSION WITH FLEXURE | 09-13-2012 |
20140124545 | METHOD OF FORMING LUBRICATIVE PLATED LAYER ON VISCOUS LIQUID FEED NOZZLE AND VISCOUS LIQUID FEED NOZZLE - A viscous liquid feed nozzle has a nozzle body having a thin and long hole with a front end serving as a feed port. The nozzle is used with a viscous liquid feed unit to feed a viscous liquid such as a viscous adhesive from the feed port. The nozzle has a lubricative plated layer at least on the inside and outside of the feed port. The lubricative plated layer is formed by electroless plating by immersing the nozzle in a plating tank containing a lubricative plating solution. A base end of the nozzle body may have a wide port. In this case, the lubricative plated layer is formed by immersing the nozzle body in the plating tank containing the lubricative plating solution so that the lubricative plating solution enters the wide port and by applying pressure or gravity to the lubricative plating solution in the wide port to pass the lubricative plating solution through the thin and long hole of the nozzle body and discharge the same from the feed port. The viscous liquid feed nozzle with the lubricative plated layer is capable of stably feeding a very small quantity of a viscous liquid. | 05-08-2014 |
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20090251410 | Pointer display device, pointer display/detection method, pointer display/detection program and information apparatus - Disclosed herein is a pointer display device, including, a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section, a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point in a touch operation on the touch panel and to display a pointer in an area containing the contact point, and a hotspot detection section configured to detect as a hotspot a position corresponding to one part of the pointer exclusive of the contact point. | 10-08-2009 |
20100061637 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a binarization unit that binarizes a selected image region based on prescribed criteria into an image trimming target white pixel region and a background black pixel region, a hole filling unit that fills a hole of the white pixel region by converting a black pixel surrounded by the white pixel region into the white pixel, a distance conversion unit that calculates a distance value from each white pixel to the black pixel region, a skeleton extraction unit that extracts points indicating a skeleton of the white pixel region according to each distance value, and a trimming outline determination unit that excludes a less significant point based on prescribed conditions, draws an oval or perfect circle according to each distance value, centered at a non-excluded point, and determines an outer edge of ovals or perfect circles as an outline for trimming a trimming target image. | 03-11-2010 |
20100208051 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image pickup part; a display part; a position detecting part for detecting a position of a target relative to the display part; a face detecting part for detecting a face from a taken image; an attribute obtaining part for obtaining attribute information of the target; a group determining part for determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the detected target; a content determining part for determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information of the target and the attribute information of the target; and a display processing part for displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target. | 08-19-2010 |
20110018825 | SENSING A TYPE OF ACTION USED TO OPERATE A TOUCH PANEL - Apparatus and methods relate to a touch panel and a sensor that senses a type of action used to operate the touch panel. The sensor can be a vibration sensor that senses a vibration caused by an object contacting the touch panel. The sensor can be separate from the touch panel. | 01-27-2011 |
20110122153 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a transformed-coordinate calculating section that calculates transformed coordinates for each of a plurality of superimposed images associated with coordinates in a background image, by transforming coordinates of other superimposed images with respect to one superimposed image as a reference image in such a way that coordinate intervals within a predetermined area with respect to the reference image become denser with increasing distance from the reference image toward the boundary, a coordinate setting section that sets coordinates of the reference image on the basis of a mean value obtained by calculating a mean of the calculated coordinates of the other superimposed images with respect to the reference image, and a display control section that displays the background image and the plurality of superimposed images on a display section in such a way that the reference image is placed at the set coordinates in the background image. | 05-26-2011 |
20120206340 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - To provide a display method capable of displaying the original power saving effect if a monitoring display of the power saving effect is not made when the monitoring display of the power saving effect is made. Provided is a display method including capturing an image in front of an image display surface included in a display apparatus that displays the image and detecting presence of a moving body positioned in front of the image display surface, deciding a power saving amount of the display apparatus including the power saving amount of the image display surface by using an analysis result of the presence or absence of a human face and a detection result of the moving body in the captured image, and deriving and displaying the actual power saving amount when no display is made on the image display surface on the image display surface when information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface. Accordingly, when a monitoring display of a power saving effect is made, an original power saving effect if no monitoring display of the power saving effect is made can be displayed. | 08-16-2012 |
20120218179 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A display apparatus and a control method capable of preventing its user from viewing an image in an improper viewing position. The display apparatus includes: an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzer that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit, and calculates a position of a target that should be guided to a proper viewing position; and a display controller that causes a display unit to perform display to guide the target to the proper viewing position when the target position calculated by the image analyzer is at an improper viewing position. | 08-30-2012 |
20140191961 | POINTER DISPLAY DEVICE, POINTER DISPLAY/DETECTION METHOD, POINTER DISPLAY/DETECTION PROGRAM AND INFORMATION APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a pointer display device, including, a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section, a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point in a touch operation on the touch panel and to display a pointer in an area containing the contact point, and a hotspot detection section configured to detect as a hotspot a position corresponding to one part of the pointer exclusive of the contact point. | 07-10-2014 |
20150049040 | POINTER DISPLAY DEVICE, POINTER DISPLAY/DETECTION METHOD, POINTER DISPLAY/DETECTION PROGRAM AND INFORMATION APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a pointer display device, including, a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point in a touch operation on the touch panel and to display a pointer in an area containing the contact point, and a hotspot detection section configured to detect as a hotspot a position corresponding to one part of the pointer exclusive of the contact point. | 02-19-2015 |
20150054738 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A display apparatus and a control method capable of preventing its user from viewing an image in an improper viewing position are provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzer that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit, and calculates a position of a target that should be guided to a proper viewing position; and a display controller that causes a display unit to perform display to guide the target to the proper viewing position when the target position calculated by the image analyzer is at an improper viewing position. | 02-26-2015 |
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20080210351 | Formed product and method for production thereof - A formed product, characterized in that it is produced by using, as a material, a steel having an ultra fine structure comprising ferrite grains having an average grain diameter of 3 μm or less and by a method comprising only a forming step and including none of refining steps; and a method for producting the above formed product with ease. The formed product contains no alloying element and has been subjected to no refining step, and has been imparted with high strength and high toughness by the above ultra fine structure. | 09-04-2008 |
20100051144 | EXCELLENT COLD-WORKABILITY EXHIBITING HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL, WIRE OR STEEL BAR OR HIGH-STRENGTH SHAPED ARTICLE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THEM - There are provided an excellent cold-workability exhibiting high-strength steel wire or steel bar, or high-strength shaped article and a process for producing them. In particular, there is provided a process comprising carrying out hot working at 350 to 800° C. of a steel ingot, cast slab, steel slab or steel semifinished product having a C content of not greater than the solid solution limit of carbon of ferrite phase at Ae | 03-04-2010 |
20100173716 | FORMED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A formed product, characterized in that it is produced by using, as a material, a steel having an ultra fine structure comprising ferrite grains having an average grain diameter of 3 μm or less and by a method comprising only a forming step and including none of refining steps; and a method for producting the above formed product with ease. The formed product contains no alloying element and has been subjected to no refining step, and has been imparted with high strength and high toughness by the above ultra fine structure. | 07-08-2010 |
20120125067 | ORIFICE PLATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE ORIFICE PLATE - An orifice plate for liquid injection made of plate-shaped stainless steel, wherein an orifice is formed by shearing, is characterized in that the average crystal grain size of the stainless steel is 3 μm or less. The thickness of the plate-shaped stainless steel is 1.2 mm or less, and preferably 0.1 mm or less. The aspect ratio of the orifices is 0.8 or lower. The orifices are formed orthogonal to the plate surface, or slanted by 50° or at smaller angles. The plate-shaped stainless steel has a composition containing C, Mn, and Si. | 05-24-2012 |
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20140053940 | CURVED PIPE FOR ENDOSCOPES - In a bending tube including: multiple first slots for bending provided at set intervals, respectively, along a direction of a direction of a longitudinal axis O of a cylindrical bending tube body, the multiple first slots for bending extending in a circumferential direction of the bending tube body; slots for forming wire guide (a first slot for bending) paired and provided on arrangement of the multiple first slots for bending, the slots for forming wire guide extending in the circumferential direction of the bending tube body; and a wire guide formed by deforming a circumferential part of the bending tube body between the paired slots for forming wire guide, in an inner diameter direction; a width of a slot for bending adjacent to the wire guide is set relatively narrower than a width of other slots for bending. | 02-27-2014 |
20160100745 | BENDING TUBE FOR ENDOSCOPE AND ENDOSCOPE - In a bending tube for endoscope on which torsion preventing tab mechanisms are provided on the respective middle parts of first and second slots for bending located in an area from the proximal end of a bending tube body to a predetermined position on the distal end side (the torsion suppressing area), and the bending tube body being permitted to bend by the first and second slots for bending, the torsion preventing tab mechanism of at least any one of the first and second slots for bending arranged on the proximal end side of each of arrays (first and second arrays), other than the first and second slots for bending located at the most proximal end, among the first and second slots for bending arrayed in a same line, respectively, along a longitudinal direction of the bending tube body, is removed. | 04-14-2016 |