Abstract: A motor includes a stationary unit and a rotary unit. The stationary unit includes a stator, a base portion having at least one hole, and a flexible wiring substrate. The flexible wiring substrate reaches a position higher than a lower surface of the base portion through at least one hole and is arranged to supply electric power to the stator. The flexible wiring substrate includes a connection portion arranged higher than the lower surface of the base portion and connected to the stator. The connection portion includes a solder portion arranged on a lower surface thereof to cover a portion of a lead wire extending from a coil of the stator. At least a portion of the solder portion is positioned within the hole.

Abstract: A spindle motor, which is for use in a disk drive apparatus which includes a housing including a base member and a cover member, includes a stationary portion and a rotating portion. The stationary portion includes a stationary shaft and the base member. The rotating portion includes a sleeve portion. The stationary shaft is inserted into the bearing hole. The stationary shaft includes an annular surface arranged to come into direct or indirect contact with the cover member, the annular surface being located higher than the sleeve portion and extending in a circumferential direction, and an upper protrusion arranged to be fixed to a cover inner circumferential surface defining a cover penetrating hole of the cover member, the upper protrusion protruding upward from the radial inner side of the annular surface. The base member includes a fixing portion arranged to directly or indirectly fix the cover member.

Abstract: In wire-cut electrical discharge machining apparatuses that simultaneously perform a plurality of cutting processes by engaging a wire between main guide rollers at a plurality of times, a wire-cut electrical discharge machining apparatus is provided that suppresses vibrations at cutting wire sections, to enable the cutting processes under steady-state accuracy. In addition to the main guide rollers, vibration-damping driven guide rollers or vibration-damping guides are included which form a plurality of cutting wire sections where the vibrations are suppressed by guiding the wire into place, and the positions of the cutting wire sections are thereby defined with respect to nozzles.

Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes a wire electrode, a guide roller that arranges wire electrodes in parallel by winding the wire electrode therearound, a plurality of slidable contact conductors that are in slidable contact with the wire electrodes arranged in parallel, respectively, and a power feeding jig that holds the slidable contact conductors individually and feeds power individually to the wire electrodes arranged in parallel via each of the slidable contact conductors, in which the power feeding jig includes a plurality of reference surfaces that determine a fixing interval between the slidable contact conductors.

Abstract: A spindle motor includes a base portion, a rotor hub, a stator, and a circuit board. The base portion preferably includes a through hole and is arranged to spread out radially around a central axis. The rotor hub is arranged above the base portion to rotate about the central axis. The stator is arranged above the base portion, and includes coils each including at least one lead wire. The circuit board is arranged radially outward of the through hole, and arranged on a lower surface of the base portion. The base portion includes a communicating groove arranged to join the through hole and the circuit board to each other. The at least one lead wire of the coils is arranged to pass inside the through hole and the communicating groove to be electrically connected to the circuit board. The through hole is sealed with a sealant.

Abstract: A rotary unit of a motor includes a tubular hub portion. A bearing mechanism of the motor includes a bearing portion positioned radially inward of the hub portion. A stationary unit of the motor includes a stator fixing portion positioned inward of the hub portion and higher than a lower end of the hub portion. A cylinder gap is defined between the hub portion and an upper section of the bearing portion. A first communication gap is defined between a lower section of the hub portion and an upper section of the stator fixing portion. A second communication gap is defined between the lower end of the hub portion and a radial inner section of the stator core.

Abstract: A motor includes a stationary unit and a rotary unit. The stationary unit includes a stator, a base portion having at least one hole extending in the up-down direction, and a flexible wiring substrate. The flexible wiring substrate reaches a position higher than a lower surface of the base portion through at least one hole and is arranged to supply electric power to the stator. The flexible wiring substrate includes a connection portion arranged higher than the lower surface of the base portion and connected to the stator. The connection portion includes a solder portion arranged on a lower surface thereof to cover a portion of a lead wire extending from a coil of the stator. At least a portion of the solder portion is positioned within the hole.

Abstract: A fan includes a motor and an impeller. The motor includes a stationary portion and a rotating portion rotatably supported by the stationary portion. The stationary portion includes a stator and a bearing portion arranged inside of the stator. The rotating portion includes a rotor magnet arranged radially outside the stator; a shaft inserted in the bearing portion, and having an upper portion fixed to the impeller directly or through one or more members; and a thrust portion arranged axially opposite the bearing portion, and including an annular surface arranged around the shaft.

Abstract: A random number generator includes a ring oscillator having an EX-OR gate and four inverters together forming a loop. This loop enters stable state for a start signal having the low level and oscillates for the start signal having the high level. When the start signal has a pulse of a width shorter than the loop's delay time, output nodes responsively, sequentially enter metastable state hovering between the high and low levels. The metastable waveform becomes smaller with time and finally disappears. As metastable state cannot be controlled in longevity, it disappears at any random number node. A counter thus outputs a signal serving as true random number data depending on the longevity of the metastable state. A random number generator miniaturized and having reduced power consumption, and of high performance can thus be implemented.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which can perform initialization to a first state of two states of the first state and a second state, and which can generate a signal having a potential corresponding to the initialized first state. The present invention is the semiconductor device which can perform initialization to “0” (a first state) of two states of “0” and “1” (a second state), and which can generate a signal having a potential corresponding to initialized “0”. The semiconductor device 10 includes a plurality of flip-flop circuits 2 that are connected in parallel and which can hold the two states of “0” and “1”; and an AND circuit 3 which generates and outputs a signal having a potential corresponding to “0” when a state held in at least one flip-flop circuit 2 among the flip-flop circuits 2 is “0”. The AND circuit is connected to the flip-flop circuits 2.

Abstract: A random number generator includes a ring oscillator having an EX-OR gate and four inverters together forming a loop. This loop enters stable state for a start signal having the low level and oscillates for the start signal having the high level. When the start signal has a pulse of a width shorter than the loop's delay time, output nodes responsively, sequentially enter metastable state hovering between the high and low levels. The metastable waveform becomes smaller with time and finally disappears. As metastable state cannot be controlled in longevity, it disappears at any random number node. A counter thus outputs a signal serving as true random number data depending on the longevity of the metastable state. A random number generator miniaturized and having reduced power consumption, and of high performance can thus be implemented.

Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus is constructed in such a manner as to include: a wire electrode having a plurality of cutting wire portions that are separated from one another in parallel and are opposed to a workpiece; a machining power supply that generates a pulsed machining voltage; a plurality of power feed contact units that are electrically connected to the cutting wire portions and apply the machining voltage between the cutting wire portions and the workpiece; and a nozzle that ejects machining liquid from an ejection opening toward an electrode gap along the cutting wire portions.

Abstract: A spindle motor includes a base portion, a rotor hub, a stator, and a circuit board. The base portion preferably includes a through hole and is arranged to spread out radially around a central axis. The rotor hub is arranged above the base portion to rotate about the central axis. The stator is arranged above the base portion, and includes coils each including at least one lead wire. The circuit board is arranged radially outward of the through hole, and arranged on a lower surface of the base portion. The base portion includes a communicating groove arranged to join the through hole and the circuit board to each other. The at least one lead wire of the coils is arranged to pass inside the through hole and the communicating groove to be electrically connected to the circuit board. The through hole is sealed with a sealant.

Abstract: In bearing mechanism for a motor spinning a storage disk about a center axis, an interference-fit portion of a shaft is interference-fitted into a through hole of a bushing from an axial lower side thereof such that the shaft is fixed to a rotor hub. The interference-fit portion of the shaft is defined with an upper section, a lower section, and a concave portion. When the shaft is interference-fitted into the bushing, the upper and lower sections engage with the bushing, and the concave portion radially faces an inner surface of the bushing with a gap defined therebetween.

Abstract: A random number generator includes a ring oscillator having an EX-OR gate and four inverters together forming a loop. This loop enters stable state for a start signal having the low level and oscillates for the start signal having the high level. When the start signal has a pulse of a width shorter than the loop's delay time, output nodes responsively, sequentially enter metastable state hovering between the high and low levels. The metastable waveform becomes smaller with time and finally disappears. As metastable state cannot be controlled in longevity, it disappears at any random number node. A counter thus outputs a signal serving as true random number data depending on the longevity of the metastable state. A random number generator miniaturized and having reduced power consumption, and of high performance can thus be implemented.

Abstract: A random number generator includes a ring oscillator having an EX-OR gate and four inverters together forming a loop. This loop enters stable state for a start signal having the low level and oscillates for the start signal having the high level. When the start signal has a pulse of a width shorter than the loop's delay time, output nodes responsively, sequentially enter metastable state hovering between the high and low levels. The metastable waveform becomes smaller with time and finally disappears. As metastable state cannot be controlled in longevity, it disappears at any random number node. A counter thus outputs a signal serving as true random number data depending on the longevity of the metastable state. A random number generator miniaturized and having reduced power consumption, and of high performance can thus be implemented.

Abstract: In bearing mechanism for a motor spinning a storage disk about a center axis, an interference-fit portion of a shaft is interference-fitted into a through hole of a bushing from an axial lower side thereof such that the shaft is fixed to a rotor hub. The interference-fit portion of the shaft is defined with an upper section, a lower section, and a concave portion. When the shaft is interference-fitted into the bushing, the upper and lower sections engage with the bushing, and the concave portion radially faces an inner surface of the bushing with a gap defined therebetween.

Abstract: When a CPU proceeds to an interruption process, a value permitting an access to a security-related area is set in a flag register, and when the CPU returns from the interruption process, a value prohibiting an access to the security-related area is set in the flag register. A resource selecting signal generating circuit generates access signals for accessing to various areas in a non-volatile memory and an RAM, in accordance with the flag stored in the flag register. Therefore, when the security-related area is held as an interruption processing area, it becomes possible to prevent an access to the security-related area from a security-non-related program area, and hence, it becomes possible to prevent leakage of security-related information.

Abstract: A random number generator includes a ring oscillator having an EX-OR gate and four inverters together forming a loop. This loop enters stable state for a start signal having the low level and oscillates for the start signal having the high level. When the start signal has a pulse of a width shorter than the loop's delay time, output nodes responsively, sequentially enter metastable state hovering between the high and low levels. The metastable waveform becomes smaller with time and finally disappears. As metastable state cannot be controlled in longevity, it disappears at any random number node. A counter thus outputs a signal serving as true random number data depending on the longevity of the metastable state. A random number generator miniaturized and having reduced power consumption, and of high performance can thus be implemented.

Abstract: A center core laminated part and a side core laminated part are formed separately from each other. The center core laminated part is integrated with the side core laminated part by engaging depressed engaging portions with projected engaging portions, wherein the depressed engaging portions and the projected engaging portions are formed relatively on the corresponding opposite surfaces, to form a laminated core part for forming a magnetic path.