Abstract: An extension part of an insulator covering a part of a coupling portion of a laminated core of an armature is inclined to the inside in the radial direction along the coupling part. A inclined face which is extended inward in the radial direction is formed in the cylindrical part of the armature. By forming the armature in an annular shape, a gap which is almost parallel or narrowed to the inside in the radial direction is formed between neighboring inclined faces. The gap is formed to be smaller than the diameter of a conductor.

Abstract: In an axial fan including a motor, a substrate that connects the ends of a plurality of coils is disposed at a position axially under the bottom portion of a case with an axial gap therebetween. A spacer is interposed between the substrate and the bottom portion, and the substrate is fixed to the spacer. A plurality of through holes provided in the bottom portion are disposed in axial alignment with a plurality of through holes provided in the spacer. An air flow produced by rotation of an impeller at least partially passes through the interior of the case to be discharged to the outside of the case through the through holes in the bottom portion and in the spacer so that heat generated inside the motor can be efficiently transferred to the outside of the case.

Abstract: A sliding door structure of a vehicle is provided for sliding a door body with respect to an opening portion of a vehicle body in forward and rearward directions of the vehicle body for opening and closing. The sliding door structure includes a rail disposed on the door body and aligned with the forward and rearward directions of the vehicle body. An arm protrudes from an edge portion on a door opening direction side of the opening portion of the vehicle body, and is configured to engage with the rail to hold the door body movably in the forward and rearward directions. The arm includes an arm side engagement portion configured to engage with a vehicle body side engagement portion disposed proximate to the edge portion of the door opening direction side of the opening portion of the vehicle body.

Abstract: The invention provides an electric power steering apparatus which can improve a steering feeling. In the electric power steering apparatus, in the case that once the electric abnormality is generated in the hardware such as the motor, the torque sensor or the like and an output of the assist force by the motor is reduced, however, the electric abnormality is thereafter dissolved due to some kind or another reason, the output of the assist force by the motor is increased immediately to an intermediate target value (within a broken line ?). Accordingly, it is possible to prevent such a steering feeling as the steering wheel becomes suddenly heavy.

Abstract: In an axial fan, a case (40) accommodating the fan motor stator (50) is anchored into a bearing retainer (10), in which ball bearings (20, 21) as a bearing unit are accommodated, along a bulge part (13) formed on the lower end portion thereof. The case (40) extends heading axially downward, wherein there is no diametrical overlap between the ball bearings (20, 21) and the stator (50). Since only the bulge part (13) of the bearing retainer (10) is fixed to the case (40), heat arising from the stator (50) is thermally conveyed via the case (40) only to the bulge part (13). The fact that the thermal conveyance zone is minimal enables unrestrained curtailment of heat transmitted to the ball bearings (20, 21). As a result the axial fan can be designed for prolonged bearing lifespan.

Abstract: An extension part of an insulator covering a part of a coupling portion of a laminated core of an armature is inclined to the inside in the radial direction along the coupling part. A inclined face which is extended inward in the radial direction is formed in the cylindrical part of the armature. By forming the armature in an annular shape, a gap which is almost parallel or narrowed to the inside in the radial direction is formed between neighboring inclined faces. The gap is formed to be smaller than the diameter of a conductor.

Abstract: In an axial fan, a case (40) accommodating the fan motor stator (50) is anchored into a bearing retainer (10), in which ball bearings (20, 21) as a bearing unit are accommodated, along a bulge part (13) formed on the lower end portion thereof. The case (40) extends heading axially downward, wherein there is no diametrical overlap between the ball bearings (20, 21) and the stator (50). Since only the bulge part (13) of the bearing retainer (10) is fixed to the case (40), heat arising from the stator (50) is thermally conveyed via the case (40) only to the bulge part (13). The fact that the thermal conveyance zone is minimal enables unrestrained curtailment of heat transmitted to the ball bearings (20, 21). As a result the axial fan can be designed for prolonged bearing lifespan.

Abstract: The invention provides an electric power steering apparatus which can improve a steering feeling. In the electric power steering apparatus, in the case that once the electric abnormality is generated in the hardware such as the motor, the torque sensor or the like and an output of the assist force by the motor is reduced, however, the electric abnormality is thereafter dissolved due to some kind or another reason, the output of the assist force by the motor is increased immediately to an intermediate target value (within a broken line ?). Accordingly, it is possible to prevent such a steering feeling as the steering wheel becomes suddenly heavy.

Abstract: A recording disk drive motor is disclosed which is employed in a recording disk drive that retains a removable recording disk that has a diameter of 30 mm or less, as well as a method of manufacturing a stator core used in the same. The core back of the stator core in the motor has an arc shaped inner circumferential surface therein that is offset from the center thereof. The stator core is produced from a laminated body having a stator core, a chuck frame that is integral with and surrounds the stator core, and connector arms that connect the stator core and the chuck frame and integral therewith. After the windings are wound around the stator teeth, the stator core is cut from each connecting arm and the stator core is removed from the chuck frame.

Abstract: A recording disk drive motor is disclosed which is employed in a recording disk drive that retains a removable recording disk that has a diameter of 30 mm or less, as well as a method of manufacturing a stator core used in the same. The core back of the stator core in the motor has an arc shaped inner circumferential surface therein that is offset from the center thereof. The stator core is produced from a laminated body having a stator core, a chuck frame that is integral with and surrounds the stator core, and connector arms that connect the stator core and the chuck frame and integral therewith. After the windings are wound around the stator teeth, the stator core is cut from each connecting arm and the stator core is removed from the chuck frame.

Abstract: A DNA characterized by coding for a single-stranded antibody capable of binding to a hepatitis B virus core protein: a single-stranded antibody coding for the DNA: a therapeutic agent for hepatitis B comprising the single-stranded antibody as the active ingredient; and a gene therapeutic agent containing the DNA as the active ingredient.

Abstract: A cartridge chucking apparatus capable of stably and correctly restricting the position of a cartridge with an improved reliability and precision. A cartridge is provided with a circle hole and an elongated hole as reference holes for restricting an in-plane position of the cartridge. The cartridge chucking apparatus has: a loading chassis having projections for holding the cartridge and restricting the position in the height direction and support shafts for supporting the loading chassis while it is raised or lowered; a base chassis having reference planes for squeezing the cartridge with the projections at a recording/reproducing position of the loading chassis to restrict the position in the height direction and positioning pins formed on the reference planes for being inserted into the reference holes to restrict an in-plane position of the cartridge; and elastic members for energizing the loading chassis so that first the positioning pin is inserted into the circle hole of the cartridge.

Abstract: Cyclooxygenase-2 promoter is incorporated into adenoviral vector to mitigate the adverse effects of adenoviral suicide gene therapy by minimizing transgene expression in the liver. The promoters disclosed herein are promising tumor-specific promoters for adenoviral vector based gene therapy of gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancers.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for cutting a wafer from a crystalline ingot, by directing a stream or streams of etching gas at the crystalline ingot in a vacuum. Waste in cutting can be greatly minimized and the work environment can also be kept clean. Further, excellent surface smoothness can be realized on the cut wafers.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing a wafer from a crystalline ingot, wherein the method supplies an etching gas, having a high etching property for at least one constituent of the crystalline ingot, in a state of a molecular beam stream on a predetermined part of the crystalline ingot to be processed, volatilizing the predetermined part gradually from the ingot, and then removing the predetermined part entirely so as to cut the wafer from the ingot. According to the method, waste in cutting can be greatly minimized and the work environment can also be kept clean. Further, excellent surface smoothness can be realized on the cut wafers.

Abstract: An air fuel ratio sensor has a sensor element having a sensing portion and a flange portion in contact with a tapered portion of an accommodation hole of a housing. The sensor element is hot crimped at a hot crimping portion of a housing. At least the hot crimping portion is made of a ferritic stainless steel formed by cold forging and having a composition content comprising a total amount of C and N impurities of 0.03 wt % or below. The average hot crimping temperature of the housing is performed at lower than 1000.degree. C. as applied for a time period of one second or less.

Abstract: A camera wherein exposure parameters fixed by a program line can be shifted along an exposure value EV line so that exposure parameters for an exposure operation are based on the shifted program line according to the preference of the camera user.The camera has setting means for temporarily changing these exposure parameters at a constant exposure value with respect to the values predetermined by a program line. A counting means counts the number of times that a shutter is released while the program line is shifted in one direction and control means stores the changed values for shifting the program line under certain conditions. In this way a learning function is provided to learn the aforementioned tendency of the user.

Abstract: A camera having a zoom lens. The camera includes a shutter, an aperture and program exposure mode control. The program exposure control includes one or more reference program characteristics representing combinations of shutter speed and aperture corresponding to one or more of a portrait mode, a landscape mode and a close up mode. Each reference program characteristics define a predetermined aperture in a first range from a low shutter speed to a hand-induced vibration limit and defines a different aperture in a second range beyond the hand-induced vibration limit. One of the reference program characteristics is selected, wherein the hand-induced vibration limit is defined in accordance with a focal length of said zoom lens.

Abstract: In representing a depth of field in a camera, the depth of field is displayed on the basis of the magnitude of a field depth feeling Df which corresponds to human feeling. The field depth feeling Df is obtained by processing at least one of a depth of field on calculation, an object distance, a lens hypen-focal length, a diameter of permissible circle of confusion, a lens aperture value and a lens focal length.