Abstract: In order to make it possible to be readily attachable and detachable with respect to a motor and capable of realizing a lead-free encoder sensor mounting body, an encoder sensor is detachably or fixedly attached on a base, the base being pressedly in contact with an electrode terminal of the motor and including a pressing contact part that is electrically connected to a power line, and thus the base is detachably fixed to an end surface of the motor by a pressing force of the pressing contact part.

Abstract: In a radial optical path type rotary encoder, in order to be able to reduce deterioration of resolution and variation among products due to burrs during molding and/or rounding of a die, a scale for a rotary encoder is provided with a scale body which is formed substantially in a cylindrical shape, the scale body having a side surface portion in which a light transmitting portion through which light passes and a light blocking portion by which light with a predetermined width in a circumferential direction is blocked are formed alternately in the circumferential direction, wherein the side surface on a light-incident side of the light blocking portion is formed outside a light transmittable region having an outer edge defined by a light beam tangent to the side surface of the light blocking portion amidst the light passing through the light transmitting portion, in a lateral cross-section view.

Abstract: In order to make it possible to be readily attachable and detachable with respect to a motor and capable of realizing a lead-free encoder sensor mounting body, an encoder sensor is detachably or fixedly attached on a base, the base being pressedly in contact with an electrode terminal of the motor and including a pressing contact part that is electrically connected to a power line, and thus the base is detachably fixed to an end surface of the motor by a pressing force of the pressing contact part.

Abstract: In a radial optical path type rotary encoder, in order to be able to reduce deterioration of resolution and variation among products due to burrs during molding and/or rounding of a die, a scale for a rotary encoder is provided with a scale body which is formed substantially in a cylindrical shape, the scale body having a side surface portion in which a light transmitting portion through which light passes and a light blocking portion by which light with a predetermined width in a circumferential direction is blocked are formed alternately in the circumferential direction, wherein the side surface on a light-incident side of the light blocking portion is formed outside a light transmittable region having an outer edge defined by a light beam tangent to the side surface of the light blocking portion amidst the light passing through the light transmitting portion, in a lateral cross-section view.

Abstract: A method for polishing a silicon carbide crystal substrate according to the present invention includes a polishing process of polishing a silicon carbide crystal substrate having a surface roughness Rz of at most 50 ?m, using an abrasive solution containing abrasive particles made of boron carbide. Accordingly, it is possible, by using boron carbide as abrasive particles instead of conventionally used diamond, to reduce the damage caused to silicon carbide crystals, which constitute the material to be polished, and to the surface of the polishing surface plate, and to perform surface polishing precisely.

Abstract: A method for polishing a silicon carbide crystal substrate according to the present invention includes a polishing process of polishing a silicon carbide crystal substrate having a surface roughness Rz of at most 50 ?m, using an abrasive solution containing abrasive particles made of boron carbide. Accordingly, it is possible, by using boron carbide as abrasive particles instead of conventionally used diamond, to reduce the damage caused to silicon carbide crystals, which constitute the material to be polished, and to the surface of the polishing surface plate, and to perform surface polishing precisely.