Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Jidosha Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Masaru Inoue

Keiichi Shimizu

Sumio Hashimoto

Hirokazu Otake

Takuro Hiramatsu

Masatoshi Kumagai

Mitsuhiko Nishiie

Takeshi Shimoda

Hironori Tanaka

Hiroshi Kawamata

Takashi Ando

Masayuki Yoshinobu

Sei Kawao

Shogo Ogaki

Junichiro Yamamoto

Masao Hanya

Toshiki Ando

Hitoshi Kawano

Kenichi Takikawa

Hideki Fuchino

Shigehisa Kawatsuru

Kenji Taguchi

Akira Homma

Makoto Kawagoe

Tomoko Ishiwata

Shogo Imuta

Ken Suzuki

Osamu Okawara

Yoko Noguchi

Fumie Iwata

Ichiro Sasuga

Yoshihiro Teramoto

Rintarou Niwa

Kazunori Yashiro

A plate material has a first portion, a second portion, and a fracture portion connecting the first portion and the second portion, and is separated into the first portion and the second portion by tearing the fracture portion. The first portion and the second portion are arranged in a first direction. The fracture portion has thin portions arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. Widths in the second direction of the thin portions are different from each other.

Plate material, plate material tearing method, and suspension

The present invention provides a method of feeding an agent, capable of stabilizing a remaining agent of a feeding part in characteristic and amount just before definitively feeding an agent to each definitive portion. The method includes intermittently moving a feeding part to a plurality of definitive portions defined on a structural object to definitively feed a flowable agent with a predetermined amount to each one of the definitive portions. The structural object includes a semi-finished product part with the definitive portions and a frame to be separated from the semi-finished product part. The frame includes a waste portion for the flowable agent. The waste portion has a same form as the definitive portions. The feeding part wastefully feeds the flowable agent to the waste portion with a same amount as the predetermined amount and thereafter starts the intermittently moving for the definitively feeding of the flowable agent.

Method of feeding agent and structural object subjected to the method

An electronic device manufacturing apparatus includes a conveyer, a plurality of heaters, gas supply source, narrow path part, and a plurality of guide parts. The conveyer conveys a work to which an uncured conductive adhesive agent is applied. The narrow path part includes a narrow path formed along a locus in which the conductive adhesive agent passes. The guide parts which guide the inert gas to feed into the narrow path include gas dispersion members which store the heat of the heaters and disperse the inert gas.

Electronic device manufacturing apparatus

In a first terminal portion, a first conductor, a terminal element as a first protection, and a first gold-plating layer are provided. The first terminal element is thicker than a base nickel layer of a slider terminal portion. The first gold-plating layer is provided with a first roughening processed portion. An electrically conductive paste contacts the roughening processed portion. In a second terminal portion, a second conductor, a terminal element as a second protection, and a second gold-plating layer are provided. The second terminal element is thicker than the base nickel layer. The second gold-plating layer is provided with a second roughening processed portion. An electrically conductive paste contacts the second roughening processed portion.

Disk drive suspension

A microactuator element is disposed on a gimbal portion of a flexure. A first end of the element is secured to a first supporting portion by a first insulating adhesive. A second end is secured to a second supporting portion by a second insulating adhesive. A first conductor is disposed on the first supporting portion. A second conductor on the ground side is disposed on the second supporting portion. A first electrode is disposed on a first end of the element. A first electrically conductive paste is provided between the first electrode and the first conductor. A second electrode is disposed on a second end of the element. A second electrically conductive paste is provided between the second electrode and the second conductor.

A method of reclaiming a head suspension includes detaching a sliderfrom a tongueof the head suspension and removing an adhesiveremaining on the tongue. Removing the adhesiveremaining on the tongueincludes feeding a solvent, which promotes the removal of the adhesive, to a part of the tonguewhere the adhesiveremains and promoting the removal of the remaining adhesivefrom the tongueby applying physical energy to the adhesive remaining part on the tongue. The physical energy is produced by heating, supersonic vibration, and the like. The method easily removes the adhesivefrom the tonguewithout directly applying mechanical force to the tongue, thereby improving yields.

Method of reclaiming a head suspension from a head gimbal assembly

According to one embodiment, a luminaire is provided which can enhance the feeling of brightness of a space and can reduce glare. The luminaire includes an equipment mounted on a ceiling surface. The equipment includes a light source and a light control unit. When an amount of light emitted outside from the equipment is an equipment luminous flux, and a direction right under the equipment has a luminous intensity distribution angle of 0&#xb0;, the light control unit controls to cause a luminous flux falling within a range of a luminous intensity distribution angle of 90&#xb0; to 120&#xb0; to be 20% or more of the equipment luminous flux and to cause a luminous flux falling within a range of a luminous intensity distribution angle of 60&#xb0; to 90&#xb0; to be 20% or less of the equipment luminous flux.

Luminaire controlling a luminous intensity distribution

A positioning apparatus includes a stage on which a piezoelectric element is set, a stop unit having a stop face to which the piezoelectric element set on the stage is pushed so that the piezoelectric element is positioned at a target position corresponding to an attaching part of, for example, a head suspension to which the piezoelectric element is attached, and a pushing unit to push the piezoelectric element toward the stop face, the pushing unit blowing a gas to push the piezoelectric element. The positioning apparatus is capable of correctly positioning the piezoelectric element to the target position without damaging the piezoelectric element.

Positioning apparatus

A reflow bonding method easily bonds first and second wiring members together by reflowing solder arranged on at least one of first and second bonding parts that are defined on the first and second wiring members, respectively. The method includes positioning the first and second wiring members so that the first and second bonding parts face each other with the solder interposed between them and heating and pressing one of the first and second bonding parts from behind with a pressing face of a heater chip so that the first and second bonding parts lie one on another and so that the solder is heated and reflows to bond the first and second wiring members together.

Reflow bonding method and method of manufacturing head suspension

For a piezoelectric actuator in which, upon receiving electric power, a piezoelectric element causes a shear deformation to minutely move a movable member of the actuator relative to a base member of the actuator, a power supply includes a wiring member having an insulating layer, a wiring connector, a hole through at least the wiring member insulating layer, and a contact in the through hole. The wiring member has a conductive base layer, the insulating layer, and a conductor layer, the connector base layer having an insular part and a main part that is electrically isolated from the insular part. The wiring connector has a first face joined with an electrode of the piezoelectric element and a second face joined with the insular part. The contact electrically connects the conductor layer of the wiring member to the wiring connector and to the piezoelectric element.

For a piezoelectric actuator having an electrode joined with the joint face of the actuator movable member, a power supply including a wiring connector having a face joined with the electrode and another face attached to a conductive base layer of a wiring member and head suspension employing the same

A processing device is provided with a circuit connected to a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. An AC voltage source produces an AC waveform voltage obtained by adding a bias voltage to an AC voltage for capacitance measurement. The AC waveform voltage is applied between the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion through the measurement probes. The moment the AC waveform voltage is applied to the circuit with a switch closed, an inrush current flows through the circuit based on a potential difference of the bias voltage. This inrush current causes dielectric breakdown in the conductive resin, thereby securing the continuity of the conductive resin. With the continuity of the conductive resin secured, a capacitance of the piezoelectric body is measured by the AC waveform voltage, and it is determined whether or not the piezoelectric body is normal.

Processing device for piezoelectric actuator and processing method for piezoelectric actuator

Recess lighting fixture

A lighting apparatus comprises a housing and a first reflector. The first reflector is mounted beneath the light source and includes a plurality of segmented reflectors, each having at its top, a installation hole and at its bottom, an opening wider than the installation hole. A second reflector is positioned beneath the first reflector. The height of the second reflector causes a first light shielding angle defined by a straight line passing through the installation hole and the bottom edge of the corresponding segmented reflector to be larger than a second light shielding angle defined by a straight line passing through the bottom edge of the segmented reflector and the bottom edge of the second reflector.

Lighting apparatus

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Masaru Inoue