Abstract: A motor includes a motor-base-holder which comprises (a) a base, (b) a bearing supporter vertically protruded from the base for supporting a bearing, (c) a stator supporter concentric with the bearing supporter for being mounted with a stator, (d) a motor base having terminals made of a metal plate and insert-molded around the bearing supporter, and (e) a frame made of the same metal as the terminals and linked to fringe of the motor base. This structure solves difficulties of mini-motors such as difficulties of handling the motor, difficulties of mating those elements each other, and time-consuming bonding action. A method of assembling the same motor achieves high productivity.

Abstract: A motor includes a motor-base-holder having (a) a base, (b) a bearing supporter vertically protruded from the base for supporting a bearing, (c) a stator supporter concentric with the bearing supporter for being mounted with a stator, (d) a motor base having terminals made of a metal plate and insert-molded around the bearing supporter, and (e) a frame made of the same metal as the terminals and linked to fringe of the motor base. This structure solves difficulties of mini-motors such as difficulties of handling the motor, difficulties of mating those elements each other, and time-consuming bonding action. A method of assembling the same motor achieves high productivity.

Abstract: A tilt of a light beam to be radiated onto an information recording disk is corrected without using a dedicated tilt sensor. The correction is performed based on the characteristic that an offset amount between a tilt amount maximizing an RF signal amplitude and a further tilt amount maximizing an LPP signal amplitude is constant and independent of positions on the same disk. A pre-pit signal indicative of an existence/nonexistence of a pre-pit formed on the disk is produced from returned light of the light beam, while an RF signal is produced from bits of information recorded on the disk on the basis of the returned light. An optimum tilt-correcting amount is decided by making use of a relationship between the pre-pit signal and the RF signal at a particular tilt amount. The tilt amount is corrected using the optimum tilt-correcting amount.

Abstract: In the zoom lens apparatus, a lens frame for a variable-magnification lens or a correcting lens is configured of an inner frame and an outer frame, and any focus blurring due to variations in wavelength of subject light can be compensated for accurately by shifting the inner frame holding the lens relative to the outer frame. The correcting lens frame for the correcting lens is configured of the inner frame and the outer frame, and the inner frame is shifted according to variations in wavelength of subject light. Any focus blurring can be thereby compensated for steplessly according to variations in wavelength of subject light.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image receiving layer (3) which alliveates or substantially dissolves at least one problem selected from a low quality of the image such as glossiness and sharpness, a low preservative property of the image such as heat resistance, and a high running cost. Moreover, an object of the present invention is to provide a thermal transfer recording image receiver (1) having such image receiving layer (3). To achieve the objects, the present invention provides a image receiving layer (3) for a thermal transfer recording image receiver (1) having a substrate (2) and the image receiving layer (3) characterized in that the image receiving layer (3) is formed from a composition comprising an acrylic polyol resin and other thermoplastic resin. Further, the present invention provides such thermal transfer recording receiver (1) having the image receiving layer as well as a thermal transfer recording method using the receiver.

Abstract: A motor includes a surface mountable motor base having (a) a base, (b) a bearing supporter extending from the base for supporting a bearing, (c) a stator supporter concentric with the bearing supporter for supporting a stator, and (d) a terminal for connection to a winding of the stator, the terminal exposed on a bottom of the motor base and extending substantially parallel to the base. This structure solves difficulties of mini-motors such as difficulties of handling the motor, difficulties of mating those elements with each other, and time-consuming bonding. A method of assembling the same motor achieves high productivity.

Abstract: A driving game, wherein players having various driving skills—from beginners to those advanced—may enjoy both aspects of amusement and simulation in consistency. The game device of the present invention has an element for providing to a player a plurality of different movement modes upon moving the vehicle along a traveling line. Upon selection of a desired movement mode, a vehicle-driving game relating to the driving mode selected by the player is executed. Included in this plurality of driving modes are an assist mode in which auto-brake control is performed and a training mode in which various indications, such as the timing of the braking point, are given.

Abstract: A bearing supporter and stator supporter concentric with the bearing supporter and for being mounted with a stator assembly are provided on a motor base. Around the bearing supporter, lower faces of metal terminals are exposed from a bottom face of a base section. The stator assembly is fit on and fixed to the stator supporter. Further the motor base has a stator stopper protruded from the base section, and the stator stopper faces closely a lower end face of an outer wall of the stator assembly in axial direction. This structure allows a motor to be reflow-soldered to a board of an apparatus using this motor, and increases impact-resistance against radial load and thrust load applied to a radial and thrust bearings, a coupling section of the bearing supporter and the motor base, a coupling section of a shaft, a coupling section of the motor and the apparatus.

Abstract: A convenient screening tool and a convenient screening method for obtaining an agent for treating diabetes, a pharmaceutical composition for treating diabetes, and a process for manufacturing the pharmaceutical composition are disclosed.

Abstract: Brushless motors for portable information equipment that can be simultaneously reflow-soldered to a substrate and efficiently and densely mounted thereon in such a way that the coupled portion between the motor and the substrate has a high impact resistance, thereby providing small and reliable portable information equipment having a high productivity.

Abstract: A technique aimed to decrease the resource required for operations on a structured document, decrease the amount of a memory used, and increase the processing speed when the structured document is processed. Elements constituting a structured document to be converted are separated into key elements and nonkey elements, a new element given a predetermined tag name and a predetermined attribute name is created, tag name conversion is performed to create a tag name character string and describe the tag name character string as an attribute value corresponding to the predetermined attribute name in the new element, content conversion is performed to create a content character string including contents of the nonkey elements and describe the content character string as a content of the new element, and the key elements are described unchanged in a converted structured document. The method is applied to a system handling structured documents such as XML.

Abstract: A brushless motor, comprising a rotor having a magnet, a coil for generating a magnetic field for drivingly rotating the rotor, and a power supply terminal for supplying a power to the coil from outside, wherein all electrical connection parts ranging from the power supply terminal to the end of the coil are connected to each other through welded parts.

Abstract: Provided is a driving game, wherein players having various driving skills—from beginners to those advanced—may enjoy both aspects of amusement and simulation in consistency. The game device of the present invention moves an object in a virtual three-dimensional space pursuant to operations from a player and generates images of the moving state of such object. This game device is provided with an element for providing to a player a plurality of different movement modes upon moving the vehicle along a traveling line; an element for enabling a player to select a desired movement mode from such plurality of different movement modes; and an element for executing a vehicle-driving game relating to the driving mode selected by the player. Included in this plurality of driving modes are an assist mode in which auto-brake control is performed and a training mode in which various indications, such as the timing of the braking point, are given.

Abstract: A media discharging device for an ink-jet printer includes a rubber roller and star roller. A pair of paper guides are arranged on both sides, with respect to its rotary shaft of, the star roller, opposing each other and close to the star roller. Each paper guide has a slant which is inclined gradually upward in the paper discharge direction. This slant is positioned offset with respect to the path of movement of the projections on the star roller towards the paper discharge side, so as to prevent the rear edge of the recording paper from dropping into the recessed portions of the star roller.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data compression method in which a plurality of consecutive characters of a data string to be compressed are set as a character string to be searched for. Bits of a bit string representing the set character string are allocated to at least two codewords. Thus, first and second searching codewords are generated. These first and second codewords are used as array addresses. Fist and second array tables are prepared, in which information on the past occurrence positions of the set character string is previously entered as the contents thereof. When the first and second codewords are generated from the character string to be compressed, the first and second array tables are looked up by using these codewords as the addresses of the arrays. When results of looking up these tables match with each other, it is found that the set character string occurred in the past.

Abstract: A disk control apparatus includes a host interface unit for inputting and outputting data from and to a host, a cache memory for temporarily storing the input data, a compression/decompression unit for compressing or restoring the input data and outputting the data, a buffer memory for temporarily storing the compressed data outputted from the compression/decompression unit, a disk access control unit for controlling an access to a disk and a disk data management unit for making a management as to which position of a disk storage device to write the data stored in the cache memory.

Abstract: A disk control apparatus includes a host interface unit for inputting and outputting data from and to a host, a cache memory for temporarily storing the input data, a compression/decompression unit for compressing or restoring the input data and outputting the data, a buffer memory for temporarily storing the compressed data outputted from the compression/decompression unit, a disk access control unit for controlling an access to a disk and a disk data management unit for making a management as to which position of a disk storage device to write the data stored in the cache memory.

Abstract: An electronic health consultation method. Vital data indicative of a health state and photographed images of meals are input by a health advisee's client and saved in a server. A dietician's client views the electronic images of the meals, communicates the results of analysis to the health advisee's client, and stores them in the server. On the health advisee's vital data and the results of analysis of the health advisee's meals carried out by the dietician, the server determines whether or not the health advisee is healthy. If the health advisee is determined to be abnormal, this is communicated to a doctor's client.

Abstract: The present invention provides a data compression method in which a plurality of consecutive characters of a data string to be compressed are set as a character string to be searched for. Bits of a bit string representing the set character string are allocated to at least two codewords. Thus, first and second searching codewords are generated. These first and second codewords are used as array addresses. Fist and second array tables are prepared, in which information on the past occurrence positions of the set character string is previously entered as the contents thereof. When the first and second codewords are generated from the character string to be compressed, the first and second array tables are looked up by using these codewords as the addresses of the arrays. When results of looking up these tables match with each other, it is found that the set character string occurred in the past.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor facing the stator. The rotor has a magnet and an eccentric weight. The magnet is magnetized in a rotational direction and produces driving magnetic field. The eccentric weight is made of the material having a greater specific gravity than the magnet. The magnet shapes in a cylinder and a part of the cylinder is cut away to form a space. The eccentric weight is placed in the space. A rotational area of the magnet and that of the eccentric weight overlap each other. In this structure, rotation of the rotor spins the eccentric weight, thereby producing large vibrations. The eccentric weight is accommodated by a motor housing for the safety. The thin and compact motor is thus obtainable.