Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program executed by a computer with a near field wireless communication function is provided. The information processing program causes the computer to perform the steps of exchanging data with any proximate information storage medium and proceeding with game processing in accordance with a time difference between predetermined timing and one of timing at which exchange of data with the information storage medium is enabled and timing at which exchange of data with the information storage medium is disabled.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program executed by a computer with a near field wireless communication function is provided. The information processing program causes the computer to perform the steps of exchanging data with any proximate information storage medium and proceeding with game processing in accordance with a time difference between predetermined timing and one of timing at which exchange of data with the information storage medium is enabled and timing at which exchange of data with the information storage medium is disabled.

Abstract: An exhaust gas treating apparatus includes an adsorption tower (20) that has an adsorption layer filled with an adsorbent and a heat transfer path through which heat is transferred to the adsorption layer. The apparatus performs switching among the following processes: an adsorption process of introducing an exhaust gas from an engine (10) into the adsorption layer of the adsorption tower so that target components to be treated, including NOX, in the exhaust gas are adsorbed by the adsorbent; a desorption process of introducing the exhaust gas into the heat transfer path of the adsorption tower to heat the adsorption layer and introducing a desorption gas into the heated adsorption layer so that the target components are desorbed from the adsorbent, and a cooling process of introducing a cooling gas into the adsorption layer of the adsorption tower to cool the adsorption layer and introducing the cooling gas that has passed through the adsorption layer into an inlet of the engine.

Abstract: An exhaust gas treating apparatus includes an adsorption tower (20) that has an adsorption layer filled with an adsorbent and a heat transfer path through which heat is transferred to the adsorption layer. The apparatus performs switching among the following processes: an adsorption process of introducing an exhaust gas from an engine (10) into the adsorption layer of the adsorption tower so that target components to be treated, including NOX, in the exhaust gas are adsorbed by the adsorbent; a desorption process of introducing the exhaust gas into the heat transfer path of the adsorption tower to heat the adsorption layer and introducing a desorption gas into the heated adsorption layer so that the target components are desorbed from the adsorbent, and a cooling process of introducing a cooling gas into the adsorption layer of the adsorption tower to cool the adsorption layer and introducing the cooling gas that has passed through the adsorption layer into an inlet of the engine.

Abstract: A hard disk drive (HDD) including a disk, a spindle motor to rotate the disk, the spindle motor including a spindle shaft, a plurality of magnetic circuits having cores and coils wound around the cores, the magnetic circuits being installed along a peripheral portion of the spindle shaft, a base plate to support the spindle motor, and an actuator to move a head. The magnetic circuits include a first magnetic circuit installed in an operating region of the actuator, and a second magnetic circuit installed outside the operating region of the actuator. The first and second magnetic circuits have different shapes. The first magnetic circuit has a larger length in a respective core direction thereof parallel to the base plate and the second magnetic circuit has a larger thickness in a direction perpendicular to the respective core direction and perpendicular to the base plate.

Abstract: A disk driving apparatus includes a bearing sleeve having a cylindrical shape, a shaft rotatably supported in the bearing sleeve, a hub coupled to the shaft and having a support portion which supports a disk medium outside of the bearing sleeve, the hub further having a male screw portion formed on an outer circumferential surface of an upper end portion thereof, a clamp having a hole formed at the center thereof, in which the upper end portion of the hub is inserted, and which clamps the disk medium with the support portion of the hub, and a nut screw-coupled to the male screw portion of the hub and which provides a clamping force of the clamp.

Abstract: A ramp structure for a data storage device has a load/unload ramp and a disk attached to a spindle. The ramp structure has a first rigid support structure 52, a second rigid support structure 76 separated from the first rigid support structure, a bridge 78 that connects the first rigid support structure to the second rigid support structure, and ramp units 50 attached to the first rigid support structure. The rigid support structure has a thermal expansion coefficient selected so that the ramp-disk spacing is constant during changes in temperature. By placing the parts of the first rigid support structure 52 and the second rigid support structure sleeve 76 in an injection molding die and carrying out an insert molding, the ramp unit 50 has an accurate and stable size.

Abstract: A rolling method and apparatus permits a long metal blank to be rolled across the width thereof at a high rolling speed. According to one specific embodiment of the method and apparatus, a sun roller is mounted to a machine stand, and a set of planetary rollers is mounted for rolling movement around the sun roller. The long metal blank is rolled between the sun roller and the set of planetary rollers by feeding it in the direction of the center line axes through the sun roller and the set of planetary rollers. The method and apparatus provide a planetary cross-rolling process that may proceed in a successive manner. According to another specific embodiment of the method and apparatus, a sun roller is rotatably mounted to a machine stand, and a set of planetary rollers is mounted for engaging and rolling around the sun roller. A back-up housing is mounted to the machine stand and is also mounted around the set of planetary rollers.

Abstract: The method and apparatus are provided for controlling the gap between the rolls by comparing the initial gap setting and the actual gap value and providing the quantity of hydraulic fluid for the hydraulic rolling reduction cylinder in response to the output of the comparison.The method consists of setting the value for the gap between the rolls, measuring the actual gap, comparing the gap setting value and the actual gap value, controlling the quantity of hydraulic fluid to be supplied to the rolling reduction cylinder in response to any deviation between the two values, and thereby controlling the rolling reduction for the cylinder.

Abstract: A roll-forming apparatus is specifically designed to handle metal wires or other wire stock that is not for or is difficult for use in a drawing process, so that it can provide a reduced-diameter wire in a roll-forming process. The apparatus comprises a framed structure having four sides within which a pair of roll-forming rollers are arranged in parallel, one roller being powered by a driving power source, and the other roller being interchangeable. For a typical application, a plurality of such apparatuses may be arranged in series such that each unit is oriented at a right angle with regard to its adjacent unit.

Abstract: A method for finishing a relatively long metal tubing stock to any desired tapered shape through a single-pass operation. The method is performed with any number of individual swaging units, arranged in tandem each having the identical construction including the same working parts and assemblies. A grooved roll arrangement, associated with the tandem-configured swaging units, is used as a preliminary step to form an initial metal tubing stock into a multiple-stepped shape.

Abstract: The hot working method using a swaging machine provides for the minimizing heat transfer by the heat conduction from the preheated dies and work through the surrounding mechanical power transmission parts during the swaging process for the workpiece. The swaging machine has a die section including pairs of die elements and curved-profile buckers, the die elements having the working ends exposed toward the center beyond the inner sides of the corresponding buckers and the die elements and buckers being held together by means of steel balls, the motor-driven sectorial spindles for driving the die working section for rotation, the spindles and buckers being held together by means of steel balls, and springs for biasing the die working section toward the outside.

Abstract: The method and apparatus permit a relatively long metal tubing stock to be finished to any desired tapered shape through a single-pass operation. The apparatus is provided in the form of a tandem configuration including any number of individual swaging units each having the identical construction including the same working parts and assemblies. The grooved roll arrangement associated with the tandem-configured swaging units is used as a preliminary step, and forms an initial metal tubing stock to a multiple-stepped shape.

Abstract: A method of producing a continuous metallic tape from a metallic material wire by rolling. A wire having any desired cross-sectional shape is fed into the gap between a pair of rolls in a direction parallel to the axes of the rolls. The rolls are adapted to be reciprocatingly rotated or oscillated through a predetermined angular stroke. Guide members are provided at the material wire inlet side and the product tape outlet side for shifting the wire and the tape in a direction perpendicular to the direction of feed reciprocatingly and in synchronism with the rotation of the rolls. Pinch rolls are provided for intermittently feeding the wire when the latter is out of the area of rolling pressure.

Abstract: A method of producing a continuous metallic tape from a metallic material wire by rolling. A wire having any desired cross-sectional shape is fed into the gap between a pair of rolls in a direction parallel to the axes of the rolls. The rolls are adapted to be reciprocatingly rotated or oscillated through a predetermined angular stroke. Guides are provided at the material wire inlet side and the product tape outlet side for shifting the wire and the tape in a direction perpendicular to the direction of feed reciprocatingly and in synchronism with the rotation of the rolls. Pinch rolls are provided for intermittently feeding the wire, when the latter is out of the area of rolling pressure.

Abstract: The invention is related to a wire drawing device having a plurality of roller die units. Each unit contains two opposing grooved rollers which are respectively mounted in bearing frames which are connected to one another in an opposing fashion by threaded shanks. The shanks are rotatable and function to regulate the distance between the rollers. Each unit is housed in a square frame. The square frames are structured and dimensioned such that they can be serially aligned whereby the radial planes of each adjacent set of grooved rollers are perpendicular to one another thus allowing the distance between adjacent rollers to be less than the diameter of the rollers.

Abstract: For use in drawing, straightening or stretching a strip of metallic material such as bars, wire, and coils, an apparatus having a pair of elastic ring-equipped roll assemblies which provide a high tensioning force for the strip material held therebetween. As the tensioning force increases, the elastic ring in each of the roll assemblies tends to deform elastically along the circumferential direction of the area which contacts the material, thus increasing the contact area over which the applied force is evenly distributed. By this means the force per unit area can be reduced. The elastic ring is mounted on a control driving shaft by at least three axially rotatable rollers, two of which are arranged to bridge the area of the material contacted by the ring.