Abstract: Norvaline derivative of the formula [I] or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, method for preparing the same, pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and use of the compound for inhibiting transporting activity of glycine transporter type 2 (GlyT2) wherein X is —CH2—, —O—, —S— or single bond; Ar is optionally substituted aryl or lower cycloalkyl; n is 0 to 2; R1 and R2 are (i) each is hydrogen or lower alkyl; (ii) R1 and R2 are combined to form lower alkylene; or (iii) R1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl and R2 is combined with R4 or R6 to form lower alkylene; R3 and R4 are (i) each is hydrogen or lower alkyl; (ii) R3 and R4 are combined to form lower alkylene; or (iii) R3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl and R4 is combined with R2 or R6 to form lower alkylene; R is ?or —OR7; R5 and R6 are (i) each is optionally substituted lower alkyl, or hydrogen; (ii) R5 and R6 are combined to form aliphatic 5- to 6-membered heterocyclic group; or (iii) R5 is optionally substituted lower alkyl or hydrogen and R

Abstract: Norvaline derivative of the formula [I] or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, method for preparing the same, pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and use of said compound for inhibiting transporting activity of glycine transporter type 2 (GlyT2).

Abstract: A stepper motor controlling apparatus has a driver which drives a stepper motor in response to an input pulse signal, a PWM controlling section which changes a duty ratio of the pulse signal fed to the driver to control a rotation of the stepper motor, a pulse encoder which rotates in response to the rotation of the stepper motor, and outputs a pulse according to a position of a moving object, a position counter which counts the pulse output from the pulse encoder to sense a present position of the moving object, and a pulse rate controlling section which controls an update latency time of the pulse signal according to a deviation between a target position of the moving object and the present position.

Abstract: There is provided a stepping motor comprising: a stator assembly; a rotor assembly rotatably disposed inside the stator assembly, and including a rotary shaft rotatably supported by bearings, a sleeve fixedly attached onto the rotary shaft, and at least one magnet disposed outside the sleeve; and a preloading mechanism disposed between the sleeve and one of the bearings, and including a coil spring, and a spring holder which is composed of an outer case shaped in a cup-like configuration and an inner case shaped in a cup-like configuration, and which is adapted to house the coil spring. In the stepping motor described above, the spring holder of the preloading mechanism is formed of reinforced polyamide resin, and a washer member having a high sliladability is disposed between the preloading mechanism and the one bearing.

Abstract: A method of disassembling a washing machine is a disassembling method for a washing machine including a reduction-gear unit (66) secured on the outside of a water tub (65) and a dehydration tub (12) disposed in the water tub (65), and the method includes a release step of applying force, along the axial direction of a rotary shaft (16), in the direction of separating the reduction-gear unit (66) and the dehydration tub (12) from each other to release connection between the reduction-gear unit (66) and the dehydration tub (12). This scheme can be employed to provide a method of disassembling a washing machine that can recover resin included in the washing machine at a high recovery ratio.

Abstract: There is provided an actuator which includes: a stator assembly including a pair of stator yokes, and a coil disposed between the pair of stator yokes; a rotor unit including a magnet at its outer circumference and disposed inside the stator assembly; an output shaft disposed inside the rotor unit; a housing; a front plate disposed between the stator assembly and the housing; a printed board having a land portion leading to a grounding wire; and a grounding terminal having electrical conductivity and elasticity and disposed between the stator assembly and the housing. One end portion of the grounding terminal makes contact with one of the pair of stator yokes, and the other end portion thereof makes connection to the land portion of the printed board, whereby static electricity and electromagnetic noises generated in the stator assembly are conducted to the grounding wire.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator with high performance such as high speed and high resolution is inexpensively provided with solutions to problems associated with power supply and leakage flux, which have been involved in the structure of a moving coil type and have been shortcomings of a VCM type actuator. A composite electromagnetic actuator apparatus employs the foregoing electromagnetic actuator. The electromagnetic actuator is equipped with a stationary assembly that includes two coils disposed coaxially with each other inside a hollow stator yoke composed of a soft magnetic material, and a movable assembly composed of a movable magnet unit and a movable yoke unit both disposed inside the coils with a very small clearance therefrom so as to be movable in the axial direction, wherein the movable assembly travels in the axial direction by the interaction between a magnetic field generated by the movable magnet unit and a current passing through the coils.

Abstract: A press felt for use in a papermaking machine comprises a base body, a batt material and a hydrophilic nonwoven fabric, all intertwiningly integrated by needle punching. The batt material comprises a staple fiber, and is composed of a wet paper web side layer and a press side layer. The hydrophilic nonwoven fabric is provided in the wet paper web side layer. The hydrophilic character of the nonwoven fabric improves the movement of water to the nonwoven fabric, and the holding the water in the nonwoven fabric. As a result rewetting is prevented more effectively than in the case of prior press felts.

Abstract: A stepper motor controlling apparatus has a driver which drives a stepper motor in response to an input pulse signal, a PWM controlling section which changes a duty ratio of the pulse signal fed to the driver to control a rotation of the stepper motor, a pulse encoder which rotates in response to the rotation of the stepper motor, and outputs a pulse according to a position of a moving object, a position counter which counts the pulse output from the pulse encoder to sense a present position of the moving object, and a pulse rate controlling section which controls an update latency time of the pulse signal according to a deviation between a target position of the moving object and the present position.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator with high performance such as high speed and high resolution is inexpensively provided with solutions to problems associated with power supply and leakage flux, which have been involved in the structure of a moving coil type and have been shortcomings of a VCM type actuator. A composite electromagnetic actuator apparatus employs the foregoing electromagnetic actuator. The electromagnetic actuator is equipped with a stationary assembly that includes two coils disposed coaxially with each other inside a hollow stator yoke composed of a soft magnetic material, and a movable assembly composed of a movable magnet unit and a movable yoke unit both disposed inside the coils with a very small clearance therefrom so as to be movable in the axial direction, wherein the movable assembly travels in the axial direction by the interaction between a magnetic field generated by the movable magnet unit and a current passing through the coils.

Abstract: There is provided an actuator which includes: a stator assembly including a pair of stator yokes, and a coil disposed between the pair of stator yokes; a rotor unit including a magnet at its outer circumference and disposed inside the stator assembly; an output shaft disposed inside the rotor unit; a housing; a front plate disposed between the stator assembly and the housing; a printed board having a land portion leading to a grounding wire; and a grounding terminal having electrical conductivity and elasticity and disposed between the stator assembly and the housing. One end portion of the grounding terminal makes contact with one of the pair of stator yokes, and the other end portion thereof makes connection to the land portion of the printed board, whereby static electricity and electromagnetic noises generated in the stator assembly are conducted to the grounding wire.

Abstract: There is provided a stepping motor comprising: a stator assembly; a rotor assembly rotatably disposed inside the stator assembly, and including a rotary shaft rotatably supported by bearings, a sleeve fixedly attached onto the rotary shaft, and at least one magnet disposed outside the sleeve; and a preloading mechanism disposed between the sleeve and one of the bearings, and including a coil spring, and a spring holder which is composed of an outer case shaped in a cup-like configuration and an inner case shaped in a cup-like configuration, and which is adapted to house the coil spring. In the stepping motor described above, the spring holder of the preloading mechanism is formed of reinforced polyamide resin, and a washer member having a high sliladability is disposed between the preloading mechanism and the one bearing.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator with high performance such as high speed and high resolution is inexpensively provided with solutions to problems associated with power supply and leakage flux, which have been involved in the structure of a moving coil type and have been shortcomings of a VCM type actuator. A composite electromagnetic actuator apparatus employs the foregoing electromagnetic actuator. The electromagnetic actuator is equipped with a stationary assembly that includes two coils disposed coaxially with each other inside a hollow stator yoke composed of a soft magnetic material, and a movable assembly composed of a movable magnet unit and a movable yoke unit both disposed inside the coils with a very small clearance therefrom so as to be movable in the axial direction, wherein the movable assembly travels in the axial direction by the interaction between a magnetic field generated by the movable magnet unit and a current passing through the coils.

Abstract: In order to reduce cost through reduction in material cost and improvement of productivity, in a linear type actuator comprising: a stator unit having coils consisting of wound magnet wires and housed inside stator sub-assemblies and pole teeth arranged on the inner circumference thereof; a rotor unit having a field magnet arranged on the outer circumference thereof and rotatably disposed so as to oppose the pole teeth with a given gap; an output shaft attached to a center portion of the rotor unit and movable in the axial direction thereof; and converting means provided on the innermost diametral circumferential surface of the rotor unit and adapted to convert rotary motion of the rotor unit into linear motion of the output shaft, the converting means is made of a material different from that of the rotor unit.

Abstract: A claw-pole type stepping motor comprises: a rotor which is shaped substantially cylindrical, and which has a rotary shaft at its radial center; and two stators which are shaped like a cup, each have at least one magnetic coil, are coupled to each other so as to rotatably house the rotor with their magnetic coils located respectively toward both axial end faces of the rotor, and which each have two pole tooth arrays magnetically connected to each other such that magnetic phase difference therebetween at tips of respective pole teeth is 180 degrees in terms of electrical angle, and in the motor thus structure, three pipes of aluminum go axially through the two stators so as to hold together the two stators.

Abstract: In order to reduce cost through reduction in material cost and improvement of productivity, in a linear type actuator comprising: a stator unit having coils consisting of wound magnet wires and housed inside stator sub-assemblies and pole teeth arranged on the inner circumference thereof; a rotor unit having a field magnet arranged on the outer circumference thereof and rotatably disposed so as to oppose the pole teeth with a given gap; an output shaft attached to a center portion of the rotor unit and movble in the axial direction thereof; and converting means provided on the innermost diametral circumferential surface of the rotor unit and adapted to convert rotary motion of the rotor unit into linear motion of the output shaft, the converting means is made of a material different from that of the rotor unit.

Abstract: A claw-pole type stepping motor comprises: a rotor which is shaped substantially cylindrical, and which has a rotary shaft at its radial center; and two stators which are shaped like a cup, each have at least one magnetic coil, are coupled to each other so as to rotatably house the rotor with their magnetic coils located respectively toward both axial end faces of the rotor, and which each have two pole tooth arrays magnetically connected to each other such that magnetic phase difference therebetween at tips of respective pole teeth is 180 degrees in terms of electrical angle, and in the motor thus structure, three pipes of aluminum go axially through the two stators so as to hold together the two stators.

Abstract: A press felt for use in a papermaking machine comprises a base body, a batt material and a hydrophilic nonwoven fabric, all intertwiningly integrated by needle punching. The batt material comprises a staple fiber, and is composed of a wet paper web side layer and a press side layer. The hydrophilic nonwoven fabric is provided in the wet paper web side layer. The hydrophilic character of the nonwoven fabric improves the movement of water to the nonwoven fabric, and the holding the water in the nonwoven fabric. As a result rewetting is prevented more effectively than in the case of prior press felts.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator with high performance such as high speed and high resolution is inexpensively provided with solutions to problems associated with power supply and leakage flux, which have been involved in the structure of a moving coil type and have been shortcomings of a VCM type actuator. A composite electromagnetic actuator apparatus employs the foregoing electromagnetic actuator. The electromagnetic actuator is equipped with a stationary assembly that includes two coils disposed coaxially with each other inside a hollow stator yoke composed of a soft magnetic material, and a movable assembly composed of a movable magnet unit and a movable yoke unit both disposed inside the coils with a very small clearance therefrom so as to be movable in the axial direction, wherein the movable assembly travels in the axial direction by the interaction between a magnetic field generated by the movable magnet unit and a current passing through the coils.

Abstract: In a rotor structure of a spindle motor, an underside of a turntable and a top surface of a rotary yoke are integrated with each other by insert molding to eliminate an air gap therebetween in prior arts to thereby allow a stator assembly within the rotary yoke to increase its thickness and also enhance the rigidity of the integrated components while dimensions of the motor remaining unchanged, moreover, simultaneous integration with any components of a rotary shaft, a chucking magnet and a rotary magnet being advantageous in reduction of the assembling steps.