Slider used to access data on rotating disk in hard disk drive, including vertical micro-actuator forming piezoelectric layer perpendicular to air bearing surface and coupled to deformation region including read-write head. Slider further includes vertical control signal stimulating vertical micro-actuator to alter vertical position. The vertical control signal stimulates vertical micro-actuator t...

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) including a humidity sensor. Humidity sensor communicating with embedded circuit to provide humidity reading to alter flying height control asserted to control vertical positioning of slider above disk surface. Method operating HDD using humidity sensor and apparatus implementing method. Methods of manufacturing embedded circuit and HDD, and their products.

Embodiments of the invention reduce a possibility that a head will collide with a medium when the clearance between the head and the medium is adjusted by using a medium, and sufficiently reduce the clearance even at an initial stage of accessing a data area. In one embodiment, a hard disk drive (HDD) switches a heater from OFF to ON in the specified timing after a seek mode is switched to a follo...

A medium-opposed surface of a slider body is hemisected into first and second areas by the centerline extending in the longitudinal direction of the slider body. The second area is designed to generate a positive pressure larger than that generated at the first area when a load acting on the slider body in a direction toward a recording medium decreases. The head slider of the type is allowed to e...

A liquid pharmaceutical composition comprising GABA analog, water and one or more polyhydric alcohols containing 2 to 6 carbon atoms, hereby the one or more polyhydric alcohols comprise about 25 to about 75 % weight/volume of the composition and the composition has a pH of about 5.5 to 7.0. A method for the preparation of the composition comprising (a) adding one or more polyhydric alcohols contai...

A load platform, especially intended for transporting barrels of circular plan, comprising a upper load surface (5) provided with a series of recesses (6) of circular contour which reproduce the resting surface of the base of said barrels, and in that the length of the sides of the load surface (5) is a multiple of the length of the sides of the base of crates for transporting beverage bottles. Ri...

COMPOSIçãO FARMACêUTICA SóLIDA OU LìQUIDA COMPREENDENDO NEUROTOXINA BOTULìNICA presente invenção refere-se a uma composição farmacêutica sólida ou líquida, compreendendo um complexo de neurotoxina botulínica (tipos A, B, C, D, E, F ou G) ou uma neurotoxina botulínica de alta pureza (tipos A, B, C,D, E, F ou G) e um tensoativo. Em particular, a presente invenção refere-se a uma composição farmacêut...

PLACA SEM AMIANTO FORMADA PELA FORRAçãO HIDRáULICA. A presente invenção refere-se a uma placa sem amianto formada por forração hidráulica que compreende: 1,0 a 2,0% em massa de fibras com base em álcool polivinílico, cada uma tendo uma circularidade transversal de 40 a 70% em relação ao conteúdo de sólido total e 2,0 a 4,0% em massa de uma polpa de eucalipto tendo uma liberdade de 100 a 500 mL em ...

Dispositif d'évzcuation d'un fluide contenant des particules solides en suspension au travers d'une cheminée rotative munie d'une roue à ailettes, dont la force centrifuge refoule une partie du fluide et des particulessolides aspirées dans la cheminée rotative et procédés de polymèrisation catalytique, de combustion, de fabrication de gaz de synthèse, de séchage, d'imprégnation, d'enrobage,de sépa...

Disclosed herein is an apparatus for generating a spinning cold plasma. A preferred embodiment of the spinning cold plasma apparatus is portable and includes a vortex tube having an inner wall to form a vortex reaction chamber. The vortex tube preferably has a cold gas outlet formed at a first end of the vortex tube and a hot gas outlet formed at a second end of the vortex tube. The vortex tube pr...

A liquid container contains a liquid therein and is detachably mountable to a liquid ejection device. The liquid container has a liquid lead-out port for supplying said liquid to the outside, the liquid lead-out port being disposed in a connection surface, and an abutment surface for opening a channel valve by abutting against part of said channel valve provided in said liquid ejection device, the...

A series of organometallic complexes and the singlet oxygen sensitization properties of these complexes are provided. Complexes with acetylacetonate ligands give singlet oxygen quantum yields near unity, whether exciting the ligand-based state or the lowest energy excited state (MLCT+³LC). The singlet oxygen quenching rates for these beta-diketonate complexes are small, roughly three or...

High power, high frequency switches include a transmission line having at least three portions that are serially coupled between an input port and an output port to define at least two nodes and to carry a high power, high frequency signal between the input port and the output port. First and second power transistors are provided. At least a third power transistor also is provided. The controlling...

A method performs a plurality of filter operations on a data packet using an instruction. The method receives an instruction to filter at least one data packet. The method retrieves a filter result based on the received instruction. The method then performs a plurality of filter operations on the at least one data packet in accordance with the retrieved filter result.

Embodiments of a photonic link having low residual carrier, for use in transmitting information between an electronic signal source and an electronic signal receiver is provided. The photonic link comprises a transmitter, which uses angle modulation, and two threshold optical frequency discriminators that are biased to provide large even-order distortion, an optical signal receiver and at least on...

The present invention relates to subterranean operations, and more particularly, to settable fluids comprising particle-size distribution-adjusting agents, and methods of using such settable fluids in subterranean and surface applications. In certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the settable fluid comprises a cement, a set retarder, and a particle-size distribution-adjusting age...

A signal relay apparatus, method, application program, and computer readable medium adapted for wireless network are capable of saving power consumption due to failure of adjusting amplifying gain dynamically and solving the difficulty of demodulation since noise is also amplified during relay. For wireless access network, the present invention decreases the transmission power of mobile devices so...

CLìNQUER SULFOALUMINOSO, PROCESSO DE FABRICAçãO DO MESMO E LIGANTE HIDRáULICO A invenção refere-se a um clínquer belita-sulfoaluminoso, a seu processo de fabricação e à sua utilização para a preparação de ligantes hidráulicos, e compreendendo, como composição mineralógica: 5 a 25%, preferivelmente 10 a 20%, de fase aluninoferrita cálcica de uma composição correspondendo à fórmula geral C2AXF (1-X)...

Production of a holder (1) comprises deforming a thermoplastic material in a die to form a thin-walled body having an upper side (2) and a number of tubular parts (3) opening into the upper side. The tubular parts are arranged in rows and lie on a line which forms an acute angle in relation to the transverse direction of the rows. An independent claim is also included for a holder produced by the ...

The air lift system for supplying water from the pre-sedimentation compartment (4) to the aeration compartment (5) includes a control device for generating air pulses with a higher pressure and flow rate compared with the lift pressure. A water purification installation comprises a small tank (1) with a volume less than 100 m3> and containing at least one internal wall (2, 3) dividing the tank to ...