Abstract: A vehicle driving device includes a rotation shaft, a motor, a drive case having an end wall, a rotation detecting sensor, and an oil pump. The rotation detecting sensor has a sensor rotor and a sensor stator which is fixed to an inner surface of the end wall by a stator fastener. The oil pump includes a pump rotor, an oil pump cover and a seal member. The oil pump cover is joined to a joining surface formed on the outer surface of the end wall by fastening a cover fastener to a cover screw hole. The cover screw hole is formed into a shape opened only to the outside of the drive case and disposed outside of the seal member and a through hole through which the stator fastener is inserted is disposed on the joining surface inside of the seal member.

Abstract: An electric machine 100 is provided, which includes: a stator 10 including a concentrated-winding armature winding 14; an inner rotor 30; and an outer rotor 20, the outer rotor 20 having a plurality of circumferentially spaced magnetic path forming elements 21, the inner rotor 30 having a plurality of rotor teeth 32, which are arranged side by side in the circumferential direction, wound by induction coils 34 and field coils 35; and a rectifier circuit 36 configured to rectify induced current generated by each of induction coils to DC current.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle driving device. The vehicle driving device includes a rotation shaft, a motor, a drive case having an end wall, a rotation detecting sensor, and an oil pump. The rotation detecting sensor has a sensor rotor and a sensor stator which is fixed to an inner surface of the end wall by a stator fastener. The oil pump includes a pump rotor, an oil pump cover and a seal member. The oil pump cover is joined to a joining surface formed on the outer surface of the end wall by fastening a cover fastener to a cover screw hole. The cover screw hole is formed into a shape opened only to the outside of the drive case and disposed outside of the seal member and a through hole through which the stator fastener is inserted is disposed on the joining surface inside of the seal member.

Abstract: A brake disc is provided capable of effectively reducing the generation of noise such as brake noise by making specifications relating to lightening holes different from each other between two brake disc plates. In the brake disc, two brake disc plates are laminated so as to slide on each other by vibration during braking, and specifications relating to one or more selected from lightening holes, plate thickness, diameter, and warpage are made different from each other between the brake disc plates. In addition, lightening holes are formed on at least one of the brake disc plates, and one or more specifications selected from the number of lightening holes, the shapes of the lightening holes, the sizes of the lightening holes, and the arrangement positions of the lightening holes are made different from each other between the brake disc plates.

Abstract: A brake disc is provided capable of effectively reducing the generation of noise such as brake noise by making specifications relating to lightening holes different from each other between two brake disc plates. In the brake disc, two brake disc plates are laminated so as to slide on each other by vibration during braking, and specifications relating to one or more selected from lightening holes, plate thickness, diameter, and warpage are made different from each other between the brake disc plates. In addition, lightening holes are formed on at least one of the brake disc plates, and one or more specifications selected from the number of lightening holes, the shapes of the lightening holes, the sizes of the lightening holes, and the arrangement positions of the lightening holes are made different from each other between the brake disc plates.

Abstract: The image display device includes an output unit which outputs an image information light including image information; and a hologram element on which the image information light is incident, and projects the image information light via the hologram element on a retina to make a user visually recognize an image. The hologram element includes a first hologram area and a second hologram area. A first image projected on the retina by a first image information light of the image information light via the first hologram area and a second image projected on the retina by a second image information light of the image information light via the second hologram area are different images.

Abstract: A holographic recording and reproducing apparatus comprises: a pickup for moving an objective lens that focuses a coherent light beam along a recording track on a holographic recording medium and for detecting reflected light from the recording track to perform focus- and tracking-servo control; a relative velocity determination unit for determining a relative velocity of a converging position of the objective lens with respect to the holographic recording medium; a driving unit for changing a relative position of the objective lens with respect to an optical path of the coherent light beam so as to make the relative velocity fall within a predetermined range at least during a predetermined period; and a control unit for performing recording or reproduction for a recording layer during the predetermined period. The holographic recording medium includes a plurality of markers used for positioning an optical interference pattern of the coherent light beam.

Abstract: A recording medium has a recording layer capable of be performed in recording or reproducing of information with light irradiation and carried with a substrate. The recording medium includes a guide layer having guide tracks each followed by a light beam spot focused from an objective lens through the recording layer, the guide tracks disposed at a first pitch. The recording medium includes a guide track transfer region provided on the guide layer and having at least one line of a track arranged in parallel between the guide tracks adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the guide track so as to be in a direction perpendicular to the guide track within a range shorter than that of the guide track.

Abstract: A holographic record carrier is capable of recording or reproducing information by irradiating light. The holographic record carrier is comprised of a holographic recording layer for storing an optical interference pattern produced by a signal light component of a coherent reference light and a signal light as a diffraction grating therein; a reflective layer stacked on the holographic recording layer in the opposite side of the light incidence side; and a plurality of non-reflective regions arranged on the reflective layer in the same interval as the record-interval of the diffraction grating.

Abstract: There is provided a hologram recording and reproducing apparatus for a hologram recording medium that stores optical interference fringes therein as a diffraction grating generated by coherent reference light and signal light. The hologram recording and reproducing apparatus includes a control circuit that is connected to a spatial light modulator and controls each pixel in such a way that the reference light is modulated according to information data to produce the signal light. The control circuit spatially classifies a plurality of pixels in the spatial light modulator into a central modulation area disposed on the optical axis and at least one annular modulation area sequentially disposed around the central modulation area in a concentric manner, and controls the pixels in the central modulation area and the pixels in the annular modulation area using respective different recording modulation methods to deliver the signal light through the central modulation area and the annular modulation area.

Abstract: A hologram reproducing apparatus is provided that can be reduced in size. A hologram reproducing apparatus of the invention reproduces signal information from a recorded media having a domain of diffraction grating that is irradiated with a record light beam containing a coherent reference light component and a signal light component spatially modulated according to the signal information substantially on the same optical axis and is recorded an interference of the reference light component and the signal light component.

Abstract: A hologram recording apparatus (100) includes a record angle change device (19) capable of relatively changing the record angle of a hologram recording medium (200) relative to signal light (L3) and reference light (L2); and a control device (18). The control device sets a record angle for recording a specific angle record plane as a standard record angle among a plurality of angle record planes on the hologram recording medium. Furthermore, the control device controls the record angle change device so as to change and fix the record angle after then by a predetermined angle from the set standard record angle.

Abstract: A hologram record apparatus (100) includes a parameter set device (19), a move device (20), and a control device (18). The parameter set device (19) modifies parameters for multiple recordings such as a record angle and a focal depth in relation to at least one of signal light (L3) and reference light (L2) and can fix the parameters. The move device (20) relatively moves the focus position of the signal light and the reference light in the direction along the record surface of a hologram record medium. The control device (18) performs control so that the parameter for the last recording used for recording at the m-th focus position is used as the parameter for the first recording at the m+1-th focus position.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator, in which light modulation elements are arranged in a same plane. In the spatial light modulator, a plurality of the light modulation elements are arranged such that there are at least two periods of periodic structure corresponding to an arrangement of the light modulation elements in an arbitrary direction in the plane where the light modulation elements are arranged.

Abstract: A holographic recording and reproducing apparatus comprises: a pickup for moving an objective lens that focuses a coherent light beam along a recording track on a holographic recording medium and for detecting reflected light from the recording track to perform focus- and tracking-servo control; a relative velocity determination unit for determining a relative velocity of a converging position of the objective lens with respect to the holographic recording medium; a driving unit for changing a relative position of the objective lens with respect to an optical path of the coherent light beam so as to make the relative velocity fall within a predetermined range at least during a predetermined period; and a control unit for performing recording or reproduction for a recording layer during the predetermined period. The holographic recording medium includes a plurality of markers used for positioning an optical interference pattern of the coherent light beam.

Abstract: An example recording apparatus includes a pulse oscillation laser, a half mirror for splitting the pulse oscillation light of the laser into a signal light and a reference light, an optical shutter disposed in the optical path of the signal light, a beam expander for converting the signal light into a light beam of a predetermined diameter, a spatial modulator for modulating the recording data into two-dimensional image information, a Fourier Transform lens for introducing the signal light modulated by the spatial modulator onto a recording medium, mirrors for introducing the reference light onto the recording medium with a predetermined angle, a system control unit, a laser driver, a system controller, a recording medium drive mechanism, a modulator driver, a data input unit, and a data processing unit.

Abstract: A hologram record apparatus (100) includes a spatial light modulator (15) and a control device (18). The spatial light modulator (15) is arranged on an optical path of signal light (L1) and divided into a plurality of cell blocks (151) arranged in a matrix. Each of the cell blocks (151) is further divided into a plurality of cells (152) arranged in a matrix. The spatial light modulator (15) can perform modulation on the cell basis. The control device (18) controls the spatial light modulator so as to modulate the signal light according to a plurality of record information sets to be recorded on a hologram record medium (200). Pluralities of modulation units (153) existing in the same cell block are not made into identical patterns. Since a plurality of cell blocks having a large pitch as compared to the pixel pitch are simultaneously or successively turned on/off, it is possible to reduce the distance between the zeroth-order light and the higher-order light.

Abstract: A hologram recording medium is a hologram recording medium which is irradiated with light for recording information therein or reproducing information therefrom. The hologram recording medium has a recording layer made of a photo-sensitive material capable of preserving an optical interference pattern, a reflective layer disposed on one side of the recording layer opposite to the side on which an light beam impinges, and a quarter wavelength plate interposed between the recording layer and the reflective layer.

Abstract: A compatible hologram system has a supporting part for loadably supporting a recording medium made of a photosensitive material, a signal generating part for allowing a coherent beam modulated in response to predetermined data to enter the recording medium and providing a three-dimensional light interference pattern therewithin to produce a diffraction grating, and a data processing part for detecting reproduced data by diffracted light from the diffraction grating and demodulating the data to the predetermined data. The recording medium has a reference data area in which a reference diffraction grating corresponding to a three-dimensional light interference pattern of a coherent light beam modulated in response to reference data has been stored in advance, a sector data area in which sector data is recorded, and a user data area in which user data is recorded.

Abstract: A hologram recording and reproducing system having compatibility has: a supporting unit for freely attachably supporting a recording medium including a photosensitive material; a signal light-generating unit for projecting a coherent light beam modulated according to a predetermined data into a recording medium and generating a diffraction grating by providing a three-dimensional light interference pattern in the recording medium; a detector unit for detecting and photoelectrically converting a diffracted light from the diffraction grating; and a demodulating unit for demodulating a predetermined data from an output from the detector unit. The detector unit has an intermediate data-generating unit for generating an intermediate data, and the demodulating unit has a conversion table in which the intermediate data and the predetermined data are uniquely associated, and demodulates the predetermined data by performing a computation based on a correlation in the conversion table.