Abstract: A highly corrosion-resistant member that is equipped with: a substrate made of stainless steel; an intermediate layer coated on at least a part of a surface of the substrate; and an amorphous carbon film coated on at least a part of a surface of the intermediate layer is completed by forming the intermediate layer and amorphous carbon film at such a low temperature that a temperature of the surface of the substrate is 450° C. or less. Another highly corrosion-resistant member that is equipped with: a substrate made of stainless steel, substrate whose superficial-layer portion is subjected to nitriding treatment; and an amorphous carbon film coated on at least a part of a surface of the superficial-layer portion is completed by carrying out the nitriding treatment and a formation of the amorphous carbon film at such a low temperature that a temperature of a surface of said substrate is 450° C. or less.

Abstract: The invention is aimed, in a rolling bearing device, to improve its durability by appropriately attenuating vibration of a rotating shaft by means of a high level of dumping performance, and thereby to reduce the load imposed on the rolling bearing and/or the overall system. A rolling bearing device of the present invention comprises a rolling bearing (13) including: an inner ring (24) and an outer ring (23) that are disposed so as to be relatively rotatable; and a plurality of rolling elements (25) disposed between the inner ring (24) and the outer ring (23), in which the rolling bearing (13) supports relative rotation between a shaft (14) and a housing (12). Besides, the rolling bearing device comprises, between the rolling bearing (13) and the housing (12), a damper member (60) formed by one or more metal wires (64) that are knitted.

Abstract: In a power transmitting device, projections are formed on a surface of a main cam that faces an armature. This structure causes the main cam to contact the armature only at distal surfaces of the projections. The area of the distal surfaces of the projections is in a range where the magnetic flux density generated at the distal surfaces of the projections by the electromagnet is saturated. Therefore, reduction of the responsiveness and controllability of the power transmitting device due to magnetization of the main cam is suppressed.

Abstract: A torque fluctuation damper pulley 10 is provided with a torque fluctuation damping elastic member 15 between a hub 11 attached to a rotational shaft and a pulley member 13. The torque fluctuation damping elastic member 15 includes a pair of rubber members 15A and 15B which sandwich a support portion 24 of the pulley member 13 under equal elastic forces from the front and rear in the axial direction of the pulley member 13 to joint the hub with the pulley member 13 elastically. Thus, the pulley member 13 always has equal forces being applied thereto from the front and rear in the axial direction, so that it becomes possible to make unnecessary any thrust bearing which would otherwise be required for positioning the pulley member 13 in the axial direction.

Abstract: A torque sensor includes a first shaft, a second shaft that is coaxially linked to the first shaft, a cylindrical magnet that rotates integrally with the first shaft, a pair of magnetic yokes that rotate integrally with the second shaft, and three magnetic sensors that respectively detect a change in magnetic flux of the magnetic yokes for calculating torque applied to the first and second shafts. Output characteristics of the three magnetic sensors are different from each other.

Abstract: Two kinds of pins having rolling contact surfaces of different shapes are used as first pins. A recess is formed at that portion of the first pin disposed between a chain outer periphery-side edge portion thereof and the rolling contact surface thereof. A straight portion is formed at that portion of the second pin disposed between a chain outer periphery-side edge portion thereof and the rolling contact surface thereof. With this construction, the two kinds of pins can be easily discriminated from each other from their appearance.

Abstract: In a thrust bearing, an axially outer end portion of each pin of a pin-type retainer is fixed to an outside ring by a weld, and a threaded shaft, formed at an axially inner end portion of each pin, is screwed into a threaded hole formed in an inside ring.

Abstract: There is provided a steering apparatus including a pinion communicating with an operation of a steering member, a rack shaft having a rack meshed with the pinion, and a support yoke resiliently coming into contact with the rack shaft, and being configured to convert rotation of the pinion into movement of the rack shaft in an axial direction in a meshing portion in which the pinion and rack mesh to each other. The steering apparatus comprises a detection unit for detecting a force applied to the support yoke to which a force acting on the meshing portion being transmitted from the rack shaft and a calculation unit for calculating a steering torque applied to the steering member based on the force detected by the detection unit, wherein the pinion and the rack are formed in helical gears.

Abstract: A motor driving control method in which when the steering angular velocity is lower than a predetermined reference angular velocity, an actual motor drive current is inferred from a back electromotive voltage and an applying voltage in a three-phase brushless motor, and a limitation on the peak level of each of three-phase alternating current command waves is mitigated by permitting the interval between a pair of intersection points of a peak area of each of the three-phase alternating current command waves with a peak point neighborhood of a triangle wave to become approximately the same length as a dead time.

Abstract: A second computing section executing a compensation control is provided with a third computing section computing a d-axis correction amount, and a fourth computing section computing a q-axis correction amount. The respective computing sections compute a d-axis correction amount and a q-axis correction amount on the basis of an arithmetic expression constituted by a first term obtained by multiplying a correction coefficient relating to an object axis by a q-axis current command value and a second term obtained by multiplying a correction coefficient relating to an auxiliary axis by a d-axis current command value. The second computing section computes a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command value which do not generate a torque ripple caused by a distortion of an induced voltage waveform, by adding the d-axis correction amount and the q-axis correction amount to the d-axis current command value and the q-axis current command value.

Abstract: A cross groove type constant velocity joint 10 comprises a cuplike outer race 11, an inner race 12, plural balls 13 and a cage 14. The outer race 11 has plural outer grooves 11a twisting about a rotational axis of the outer race 11 on its inner surface. The outer race 11 itself has plural restrictions 11b at the back of the outer grooves 11a to prevent the balls 13 from dropping out of the outer grooves 11a where the respective ball 13 is at the innermost end of the outer groove 11a.

Abstract: A balancer-shaft-supporting bearing unit is structured in such a manner that a balancer shaft, on which a driven gear that meshes with a driving gear provided on a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine is provided, is rotatably supported by a shaft-supporting portion of a housing via a roller bearing. Between the balancer shaft and the housing, a load-receiving portion that has a receiving face that receives the balancer shaft when the balancer shaft is elastically deflected by an impact load applied to the driven gear is formed at at least one of positions that are close to respective axial end portions of the driven gear.

Abstract: When stopping operation of an electric power steering apparatus, a motor relay is kept in an on-state even after a power supply relay is in an off-state. A drive control portion sets a target value of a d-axis current to a value other than zero and sets a target value of a q-axis current to zero, and performs a processing same as that at the time of rotating a motor. MOS-FETs contained in a motor driving circuit are controlled such that each of driving currents of the two phases or more is not zero and the brushless motor does not rotate even supplied with these driving currents. Electric charge accumulated in a capacitor is discharged via the MOS-FETs each in an on-state, a motor relay and the windings of the brushless motor. The electric charge accumulated in the capacitor may be discharged via the excitation coil of the motor relay.

Abstract: Magnetic poles of a ring magnet are fanned by magnetizing multiple small regions that are set in each of magnetic pole regions that are set in an outer peripheral face of the ring magnet so as to correspond to the magnetic poles. The small regions are set in such a manner that the proportion of a region that is magnetized increases from a boundary portion of each magnetic pole region toward a center portion of the magnetic pole region in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus includes: a torque sensor including a first sensor element and a second sensor element; a control unit; and a motor. When the first sensor element and the second sensor element are both normal, the first sensor output that is output by the first sensor element and the second sensor output that is output by the second sensor element have a predetermined correlation corresponding to a steering operation performed by a driver. When the first sensor element or the second sensor element is abnormal, the control unit executes weighting with respect to the first sensor output and the second sensor output and calculates a steering torque on the basis of the weighted first sensor output and the weighted second sensor output. The motor generates a steering assist force on the basis of the steering torque.

Abstract: A cage includes cage pockets for retaining rollers at plural positions along a circumferential direction of an annular plate. A projection extending in thickness direction of the cage is formed at a central part in the circumferential direction on an inner face of the cage pocket to pivotally support the roller. The projection is provided with a chamfered portion (non-contact portion) formed by chamfering an edge in the thickness direction, and a flat portion (contact portion) that is brought into contact with an opposing central portion in the thickness direction on a roller end face of the roller seated in o the cage pocket. The flat portion has a flat length almost equivalent to a displaceable distance of the cage in the thickness direction thereof.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electric power steering apparatus to be small and compact. The control housing 30 is installed between the motor housing 25 of the electric motor 18 and the gear housing 22. The ECU controlling the electric motor 18 is accommodated in the accommodating room S formed within the control housing 30. The motor housing 25 accommodates the bus bar 45 connected to the coil 44 of the stator 36, and the resolver 40 detecting the rotational position of the rotor 35. The resolver 40 is installed within the bus bar mounting member 262 in inner side of radial direction. The partition 52 is mounted on the control housing 30 and the fixing screw 81 is engaged with the insulating member 84 by the way that the fixing screw 81 is inserted into insulating member 84 from its bottom surface side.

Abstract: A superfinishing stone 2 is slid on a rotating subject surface 7 as pressed against the subject surface 7 and is held in contact against the subject surface 7 as vibrated thereon in a different direction from the sliding direction. The superfinishing stone includes plural stone portions 3, 4 divided by a split surface 6 inclined to both the sliding direction and the vibrating direction and mutually independently movable along the split surface 6 and in the pressing direction.

Abstract: A rotary shaft of a rotor including a magnet with a plurality of magnetic poles arranged at equal intervals on an outer circumference is supported at both ends by bearings. By externally fitting the inner ring of one bearing to the rotary shaft and holding it to be immovable in an axial direction and loosely fitting the outer ring of the bearing into the support hole and positioning it with belleville springs which are in contact resiliently with both sides, the rotary shaft and the rotor are supported so that they are movable in an axial direction within a movement amount of not greater than 2 mm according to a movement of the bearing caused against spring forces of the belleville springs.

Abstract: A configuration is provided which includes a differential gear-type transfer ratio varying mechanism interposed between an input shaft which rotates as a steering wheel is operated and an output shaft which rotates in conjunction with operation of a steering mechanism for permitting a differential operation between both the shafts, the configuration including a transfer ratio control motor for applying a rotational force to the output shaft, a reaction force control motor for applying a rotational force to the input shaft, and a steering control unit for controlling and driving the transfer ratio control motor to obtain a rotation transfer ratio that is predetermined according to operation of the steering wheel and controlling and driving the reaction force control motor to apply a predetermined reaction force to the steering wheel.