Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Hgst Netherlands, B.v.

Takahiro Nakagawa

Toshio Abe

Masaru Kageura

Atsushi Mizukami

Naoki Nakanishi

Hiroyuki Namiki

Kenichi Inaho

Reiko Horikawa

Masashi Tsuyama

Shigeto Nishiuchi

Satoshi Takahashi

Makoto Kameyama

Kyo Akagi

Kimiyoshi Hayashi

Masahiro Kawase

Hiroshi Fukuyama

Toshiaki Satoh

Hiroshi Kochiya

Hideki Sawada

Youichi Nonaka

Yumi Muramatsu

Katsuya Sato

Motoaki Kato

Takanobu Ichiki

Munenori Shimizu

Tadatsugu Iyoda

A conveyance system. The conveyance system includes a movable device for conveying an article, and a robot selected from the group consisting of an articulated robot and an orthogonal robot. The movable device is configured to be both vertically and horizontally movable; and, the robot is mounted on the movable device. The robot includes a hand and a gripper disposed on the hand. The gripper is configured to hold the article. The movable device and the robot are configured to convey the article in conveyance operations that include an extraction, a conveyance, and an installation, of the article; the range of the conveyance operations lies within a working range of the robot from a present position that is selected with priority. The movable device is configured to remain in a stationary state when the article is conveyed by the robot using the conveyance operations within the working range.

Conveyance system and automated manufacturing system

Embodiments of the invention provide a data storage device test method and data storage device manufacture method which allow a tester to perform an operation test of plural data storage devices connected thereto in a shorter period of time. In one embodiment, an operation test of each of plural HDDs-connected to a tester is performed by making plural HDDs-execute commands received from the tester, wherein, during a waiting period when exchange stops between the tester and, for example, HDDof which operation test is being executed, the tester executes the operation test of another HDD. Such a waiting period occurs, for example, before HDDbecomes ready to receive a command, before a data transfer is completed and before HDDbecomes ready to receive the subsequent command. By using this waiting period, the tester issues a command to, for example, HDDif the HDD is ready to receive a command or transfers data to the HDD if data transfer is possible.

Multi drive test system for data storage device

Information that is required for laying out character string data is entered, as are character string data. The printing attributes for the data are then edited, and are employed to extract contour information. Thereafter, the extracted contour information is employed to determine the information that is to be used as a reference when laying out the character string data, and a layout position is specified. Then, the various data that are obtained are stored as printing data, and the character string data are laid out in a drawing area. Therefore, the printing data can be precisely and easily prepared, without the work efficiency of a user being deteriorated.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for determining character layout

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention erase a desired area on a recording surface of disk or disk drive apparatus. According to an embodiment, a hard disk drive (HDD) performs erase on a recording surface by moving a head element unit at one-half a servo track pitch with reference to a servo address. Before actual erase is started on the recording surface, the HDD generates a management table configured based on servo addresses from a management table configured based on data tracks. At an erase process, the HDD sets parameters in accordance with the zone and skips a management area with reference to this management table based on the servo addresses.

Method for erase process on recording surface of disk and disk drive apparatus

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Since a plurality of electric CAD systems (CAD),generate circuit diagram data with different data structures, input interface (IF) software (SOFT) implements processing for extracting predetermined item data used in parts selection SOFT from each CAD, and processing for adding data obtained by the parts selection SOFT to each CAD. The parts selection SOFT implements selection of parts, output of slips, and the like on the basis of the predetermined item data. Output IF-SOFT converts information associated with the selected parts output from the parts selection SOFT into a different data format used in the subsequent process, and outputs the converted information.

Parts selection apparatus and parts selection system with CAD function

A magnetic head includes a first core having magnetic materials joined together through a magnetic gap, a second core having a magnetic material, and a coil formed with a thin film around a magnetic joining part between the first core and the second core.

Magnetic head with coil formed by thin film

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takahiro Nakagawa