Abstract: A pump module includes a fuel pump, a fuel filter having a filter casing and a filter element, a fuel outlet, and a pressure regulator. The filter casing covers at least a part of the outer circumference of the fuel pump, and accommodates the filter element. The fuel outlet is disposed outside the outer circumference of the filter casing, and includes an outflow passage for flowing the fuel from a discharge opening disposed on a sidewall of the outer circumference of the filter casing. The outflow passage includes a retrieve passage extending from the discharge opening to the sidewall of the outer circumference of the filter casing. The pressure regulator is disposed outside the outer circumference of the filter casing, and includes a regulator inlet for introducing the fuel, the regulator inlet being opened to the retrieve passage.

Abstract: A reflection type Faraday rotator includes first to sixth reflection type sub-rotators. Light is made incident on the first to sixth sub-rotators while repeating reflecting thereat. A Faraday rotation occurs at a sub-rotator having a center wavelength equal to the wavelength of the light The sub-rotators are of reflection-type, have a larger bandwidth of outgoing light compared to a transmission type, and have center wavelengths (wavelength characteristics) different from one another. Thus, the effective wavelength range (the wavelength bandwidth) is increased. Expensive optical devices conventionally required for increasing the wavelength bandwidth are not needed. Accordingly, the cost can be reduced.

Abstract: A magnetic impedance element including a substrate made of a non-magnetic material, a thin-film magnetic core formed on said substrate, and first and second electrodes disposed on both ends of said thin-film magnetic core in a longitudinal direction thereof, characterized in that said thin-film magnetic core is formed by laminating a plurality of magnetic films through non-magnetic thin-films.

Abstract: An evaporated fuel adsorbed by an adsorbing member of a canister is compulsively desorbed by driving of a purge pump and is introduced into an intake passage of an internal combustion engine. In this instance, intake pulsation of the intake passage of an internal combustion engine is introduced into a driving chamber of the purge pump and a partition is moved, so that the capacity of a pump chamber is varied. In other words, the purge pump conducts its pump operation by utilizing the movement of the partition resulting from the introduction of intake pulsation of the intake passage of the internal combustion engine, and a power loss can be thus reduced. When a pressure difference is small between the intake pressure inside the intake passage of the internal combustion engine and the pressure on the canister side, too, a desired purge flow rate can be secured in accordance with the operating condition of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A Faraday rotator is provided which obtains excellent optical characteristics with a small number of layers. In the Faraday rotator, a metal reflective film is formed on a substrate, then a first periodic dielectric multilayer film made of silicon dioxide SiO2 and tantalum pentaoxide Ta2O5, a magneto-optical thin film, and a second periodic dielectric multilayer film made of tantalum pentaoxide Ta2O5 and silicon dioxide SiO2 are formed sequentially. The number of layers of the first periodic dielectric multilayer film is larger than that of the second periodic dielectric multilayer film. Incident light from a polarizer passes through the periodic dielectric multilayer films, is reflected at the metal reflective film, returns through the periodic dielectric multilayer films, and passes through an analyzer to exit out.

Abstract: An optical information recording device for recording information utilizing holography comprises a recording medium moving means for moving a recording medium, a follow-up control circuit for controlling an irradiation position, and a signal converting means for obtaining a reproduction signal from an address servo-control area including a light source for radiating an information beam and a reference beam onto the recording medium. The follow-up control circuit is composed of a binary-coding means for binary-coding the reproduction signal and a follow-up signal circuit, and detects the travel amount of the irradiation position moving means and generates, according to the travel amount detected and for a specific time during which the irradiation position of the information beam and the reference beam follows, an irradiation position control signal for controlling an irradiation position moving in one information recording area through an output terminal of a gain control amplifier.

Abstract: A fuel supplying apparatus for use with a main fuel tank and an engine includes a fuel discharge pipe for supplying fuel to the engine, a sub-tank disposed in the main fuel tank, a fuel pump for pressurizing fuel and a jet pump. The jet pump includes a throat and a nozzle projecting into the throat from the bottom wall of the sub-tank. The throat has a fuel inlet opening disposed outside the sub-tank and a fuel discharge opening disposed in the sub-tank. When pressured fuel is injected into the inlet opening of the throat, the fuel in the main tank is sucked to the sub-tank.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magneto-optical member capable of ensuring an excellent light transmittance and an optical isolator using the same. A first one-dimensional magnetic photonic crystal having a magneto-optical thin film, and a second one-dimensional magnetic photonic crystal having another magneto-optical thin film are laminated so as to sandwich a dielectric thin film with a small refractive index having an optical length of &lgr;/4+m&lgr;/2 where &lgr; is a wavelength of light and m is 0 or a positive integer. Since a plurality of magneto-optical thin films are present as magnetic thin films and hence the total thickness of the magnetic thin films is increased, the Faraday rotation angle is increased. Also, a large light transmittance can be obtained because of the presence of the dielectric thin film with a small refractive index having (&lgr;/4+m&lgr;/2) thickness where the first and second one-dimensional magnetic photonic crystals are laminated.

Abstract: A magnetic impedance element including a substrate made of a non-magnetic material, a thin-film magnetic core formed on said substrate, and first and second electrodes disposed on both ends of said thin-film magnetic core in a longitudinal direction thereof, characterized in that said thin-film magnetic core is formed by laminating a plurality of magnetic films through non-magnetic thin-films.

Abstract: A cutting tool 1 includes a hard coating formed on the surface of a substrate formed of, for example, a hard material of cemented carbide (WC-Co-type cemented carbide) equivalent to JIS K10 and polished into the shape of ISO SPGN120312. The cutting tool 1 has a plate-shape with a rake face (the main surface side) that is wider than the opposite face. The hard coating has a thickness in the range of from 1 &mgr;m to 5 &mgr;m, is formed of a TiAlN material, and has a Ti/Al ratio of 1. Coarse grains present in the hard coating and having a size not less than coating thickness occupy an area percentage not greater than 5% by area. The hard coating has a surface roughness Ra of not greater than 0.1 &mgr;m and a surface roughness Rz of not greater than 1 &mgr;m.

Abstract: A magnetic impedance element including a substrate made of a non-magnetic material, a thin-film magnetic core formed on said substrate, and first and second electrodes disposed on both ends of said thin-film magnetic core in a longitudinal direction thereof, characterized in that said thin-film magnetic core is formed by laminating a plurality of magnetic films through non-magnetic thin-films.

Abstract: A reflection type Faraday rotator includes first to sixth reflection type sub-rotators. Light is made incident on the first to sixth sub-rotators while repeating reflecting thereat. A Faraday rotation occurs at a sub-rotator having a center wavelength equal to the wavelength of the light The sub-rotators are of reflection-type, have a larger bandwidth of outgoing light compared to a transmission type, and have center wavelengths (wavelength characteristics) different from one another. Thus, the effective wavelength range (the wavelength bandwidth) is increased. Expensive optical devices conventionally required for increasing the wavelength bandwidth are not needed. Accordingly, the cost can be reduced.

Abstract: A Faraday rotator of multilayer film type is provided in which satisfactory optical characteristics are obtained with a small number of layers. In the Faraday rotator, a first periodic dielectric multilayer film made of silicon dioxide SiO2 and tantalum pentaoxide Ta2O5 is formed on a substrate, then a magneto-optical thin film, and a second periodic dielectric multilayer film made of tantalum pentaoxide Ta2O5 and silicon dioxide SiO2 are formed sequentially. The first and second periodic dielectric multilayer films sandwich the magneto-optical thin film such that their respective higher refractive dielectric thin films are in contact with the magneto-optical thin film. The number of layers of the first periodic dielectric multilayer film is larger than that of the second periodic dielectric multilayer film.

Abstract: A Faraday rotator is provided which obtains excellent optical characteristics with a small number of layers. In the Faraday rotator, a metal reflective film is formed on a substrate, then a first periodic dielectric multilayer film made of silicon dioxide SiO2 and tantalum pentaoxide Ta2O5, a magneto-optical thin film, and a second periodic dielectric multilayer film made of tantalum pentaoxide Ta2O5 and silicon dioxide SiO2 are formed sequentially. The number of layers of the first periodic dielectric multilayer film is larger than that of the second periodic dielectric multilayer film. Incident light from a polarizer passes through the periodic dielectric multilayer films, is reflected at the metal reflective film, returns through the periodic dielectric multilayer films, and passes through an analyzer to exit out.

Abstract: A Faraday rotator of multilayer film type is provided which can achieve excellent optical characteristics with a reduced number of layers. In the Faraday rotator, a metal reflection film, a periodic dielectric multilayer film made of silicon dioxide SiO2 and tantalum pentoxide Ta2O5, a magneto-optical thin film, and another periodic dielectric multilayer film made of tantalum pentoxide Ta2O5 and silicon dioxide SiO2 is formed sequentially. Light incident on a polarizer goes therethrough, is reflected at the metal reflection film while traveling trough the periodic dielectric multilayer films, and goes through an analyzer to exit out.

Abstract: A ceramic substrate 4 of a tool body 1 is made of silicon nitride ceramic, and the surface of the ceramic substrate 4 is coated with a titanium carbide/nitride coating layer 1f. The coating layer 1f has a structure made mainly of columnar crystal grains grown in the layer thickness direction, and when an average size of crystal grains observed on the surface is expressed by d and an average thickness of the coating layer by t, t is adjusted to between 0.5 and 3 &mgr;m and a d/t value to at least 0.1 and at most 0.5. Such a coating layer 1f is formed by a CVD method at the formation temperature in the intermediate low temperature range of 750° C. to 900° C.