Abstract: The magnetoresistance effect element is of a multilayered structure having at least magnetic layers and an intermediate layer of an insulating material, a semiconductor or an antiferromagnetic material against the magnetic layers, and the magnetoresistance effect element has terminals formed at least on the opposite magnetic layers, respectively, so that a all the magnetic layers constituting the magnetoresistance effect element are opposed substantially at right angles to the recording surface of a magnetic recording medium. Therefore, the area of the magnetic layers facing the recording surface of the magnetic recording medium can be extremely reduced, and thus the magnetic field from a very narrow region of the high-density recorded magnetic recording medium can be detected by the current which has a tunneling characteristic and passes through the intermediate layer.

Abstract: A rotor of a motor is attached to a rotor axis slidably both in axial direction and rotational direction, each of elastic bodies is attached to each of side faces of the rotor, and the rotor is fastened to the rotor axis through the elastic body, mechanically by applying pressure on each of the side faces of the rotor in the axial direction through the elastic body, or chemically by bonding the rotor axis and each of the elastic bodies as well as each of the elastic bodies and each of the corresponding side faces of the rotor.

Abstract: A torque converter comprises an impeller shell, a pump impeller integrally formed with the impeller shell, a turbine runner, a stator, a front cover, and at least one of a flanged portion through which a driving power of an engine is transmitted and a ring gear for a starter. The flanged portion is formed on an outer peripheral portion of an outer hull that includes the impeller shell and the front cover. A pilot boss portion is disposed at an axial portion of the front cover and is adapted to be fitted to a crank shaft of the engine, and a sleeve-like oil pump driving shaft is disposed at an axial portion of the impeller shell and is adapted to drive an oil pump. The pilot boss portion is formed integrally with the front cover through a plastic working operation, and the flanged portion formed at a front portion of the outer periphery of the front cover is increased in thickness through a plastic working operation that forms the flanged portion as a lamination.

Abstract: In a composite magnetic head comprising a magnetoresistive read head including a magnetic thin film having a magnetoresistive effect and soft magnetic members interposing the soft magnetic film between them through a non-magnetic insulation layer, an induction type write head including poles formed in a moving direction of a medium and a conductor crossing the poles, and disposed in the proximity of the magnetoresistive head, and a substrate supporting these heads, the present invention discloses a composite magnetic head characterized in that part of a floating surface inclusive of the magnetic head constituent members has recesses and the read/write operations to and from the medium are effected by the portion interposed by these recesses.

Abstract: A process for making a nonwoven fabric in which continuous fibers are evenly distributed and neither bundles nor lumps of the fibers, includes a guide box for continuous fibers being provided between extruding nozzles adapted to discharge the continuous fibers under hot air blast and a conveyor belt. The box has an upper end opening and a lower end opening being larger than the upper end opening. The continuous fibers are subjected to a suction effect provided from below the guide box so that the continuous fibers may be secondarily stretched and thereby thinned within the guide box.

Abstract: A method for boring a well with a laser beam is provided, the method comprising: shining the laser beam into a conduit, wherein the laser beam is guided through the conduit by the internal reflectivity of said conduit; and extending the conduit into the well, so that the laser beam exiting the conduit shines onto an area in the well to be bored. A system for boring a well with a laser beam is also provided, the system comprising: a means for shining the laser beam into a conduit; wherein the laser beam is guided through the conduit by the internal reflectivity of said conduit; and a means for extending the conduit into the well, so that the laser beam exiting the conduit shines onto an area in the well to be bored. An apparatus is provided as well, comprising a conduit that is extendable into the well, and an inner surface inside of the conduit, wherein the inner surface is reflective to the laser beam.

Abstract: A torque converter comprises an impeller shell, a pump impeller integrally formed with the impeller shell, a turbine runner, a stator, a front cover, and at least one of a flanged portion through which a driving power of an engine is transmitted and a ring gear for a starter. The flanged portion is formed on an outer peripheral portion of an outer hull that includes the impeller shell and the front cover. A pilot boss portion is disposed at an axial portion of the front cover and is adapted to be fitted to a crank shaft of the engine, and a sleeve-like oil pump driving shaft is disposed at an axial portion of the impeller shell and is adapted to drive an oil pump. The pilot boss portion is formed integrally with the front cover through a plastic working operation, and the flanged portion formed at a front portion of the outer periphery of the front cover is increased in thickness through a plastic working operation that forms the flanged portion as a lamination.

Abstract: Vehicle automatic transmission system having input shaft drive gears, output shaft driven gears meshing with the drive gears, a torque converter disposed between an engine crankshaft and the input shaft, synchromesh mechanisms for synchronously engaging the drive gears with the driven gears and a shift controller for automatically actuating the synchromesh mechanisms to obtain a required gear ratio. A lock-up clutch is incorporated in the torque converter for connecting a turbine shaft of the torque converter with the crankshaft. An electronically controlled throttle valve automatically operates to reduce crank shaft rotation speed when the gear is shifted, a bypass clutch transmits torque from the input shaft to the output shaft when the gear is shifted while the electronically controlled throttle valve reduces rotation speed of the crankshaft, and an input clutch selectively controls torque transmission from the crankshaft to the input shaft when the gear is shifted.

Abstract: An automatic transmission including an input shaft, an output shaft, a main clutch for transmitting a power of an engine to the input shaft, and synchromesh mechanisms for automatically changing over a plurality of shift gear trains, comprises an intermediate shaft disposed on an axis other than the input and output shafts and a sub clutch mounted on the intermediate shaft for variably controlling a transmission torque transmitted from the input shaft to the output shaft on shifting gears.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric is formed with, in addition to crests of high fibers surface density and troughs of low fibers surface density extending in parallel one to another in one direction, bridge-like regions each extending transversely of this one direction between pair of the crest and the trough adjoining each other, and thereby enables a direction dependency of tensile strength and stretchability to be effectively alleviated.

Abstract: An automatic transmission is provided with an input shaft in which a plurality of drive gears are provided, and an output shaft in which a plurality of driven gears constantly engaging with the drive gears are provided. A transmission gear for transmitting a power is selectively switched from a plurality of transmission gear trains formed by the drive gears and the driven gears respectively engaging with the drive gears, by a switching mechanism. An input clutch for switching a transmission of an engine power to the input shaft and a disconnection thereof is arranged between a crankshaft of the engine and the input shaft. A plurality of bypass clutches capable of transmitting the power to the respective transmission gear trains are provided at an end portion of the input shaft, and the engine power is transmitted to the output shaft via at least any one of the bypass clutches at a time of shifting gears.

Abstract: A composite web including an elastically stretchable web and an inelastically stretchable web bonded together is stretched on a course defined between at least two nip roll pairs to obtain an elastically stretchable composite sheet. The composite web is brought into contact with a peripheral surface of at least one roll of each nip roll pair over an area of the peripheral surface defined by a quadrant of this roll's circular cross section.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device with high reliability (free from troubles in storing data), a high charge injection efficiency, and enabling parallel operation in a VG cell array, includes channel forming regions, a charge storing film which consists of stacked dielectric films and is capable of storing a charge, two storage portions forming parts of the charge storing film and overlapping the channel forming regions, a single layer dielectric film between the storage portions and in contact with the channel forming region, a control gate electrode on the single layer dielectric film, and a memory gate electrode on the storage portions.

Abstract: In a power transmitting system of a four-wheel drive vehicle in which driving force provided from a transmission coupled to a laterally mounted front drive engine is distributed to front and rear wheels through a transfer disposed behind the engine, the transfer comprises a pair of bevel gears which change a transmission direction of the driving force; a first and second gears which shift an axis of a pinion shaft in parallel; and an output shaft which is rotatably inserted into the second gear. A hydraulic multi plate clutch couples the second gear and the output shaft so that engagement and disengagement are freely allowed, and is disposed on the axis of the second gear and more closely to the engine 1 side than the second gear. Additionally, a spline shaft formed at a top of an input shaft of the propeller shaft is spline-fitted into the second output shaft. Thereby, back-and-force shift is allowed. A steering gear box is located in downward of the front side input shaft.

Abstract: A torque converter comprises an impeller shell, a pump impeller integrally formed with the impeller shell, a turbine runner, a stator, a front cover, and at least one of a flanged portion through which a driving power of an engine is transmitted and a ring gear for a starter. The flanged portion is formed on an outer peripheral portion of an outer hull that includes the impeller shell and the front cover. A pilot boss portion is disposed at an axial portion of the front cover and is adapted to be fitted to a crank shaft of the engine, and a sleeve-like oil pump driving shaft is disposed at an axial portion of the impeller shell and is adapted to drive an oil pump. The pilot boss portion is formed integrally with the front cover through a plastic working operation, and the flanged portion formed at a front portion of the outer periphery of the front cover is increased in thickness through a plastic working operation that forms the flanged portion as a lamination.

Abstract: A hydraulic multi-plate clutch is disposed between a second gear for changing the transmission direction of drive force to a parallel position and an engine. An oil pressure driving portion for actuating the hydraulic multi-plate clutch comprises integrally an oil pressure control mechanism portion mainly constituted by an oil pressure control valve and oil paths, an oil pump and an electric pump motor which are adapted to generate hydraulic oil pressure and an accumulator for smoothing the hydraulic oil pressure to prevent pulsations, and is disposed at a substantially horizontal side position of the hydraulic multi-plate clutch.

Abstract: The magnetoresistance effect element is of a multilayered structure having at least magnetic layers and an intermediate layer comprised of an insulating material, a semicondcutor or an antiferromagnetic material against said magnetic layers, and the magnetoresistance effect element has terminals formed with at least on the opposite magnetic layers, respectively, so that a current is sure to be flowed in the intermediate layer. The film surfaces of all the magnetic layers constituting the magnetoresistance effect element are opposed substantially at right angles to the recording surface of a magnetic recording medium. Therefore, the area of the magnetic layers facing the recording surface of the magnetic recording medium can be extremely reduced, and thus the magnetic field from a very narrow region of the high-density recorded magnetic recording medium can be detected by the current which has a tunneling characteristic and passes through the intermediate layer.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric making apparatus adapted to continuously feed a fibrous web in one direction, to eject streams of high pressure fluid from a plurality of nozzles against at least one surface of the web, thereby to entangle component fibers of the web and to obtain a predetermined nonwoven fabric. On the assumption that a Y-axis extends in a direction along which the web travels and an X-axis extends to intersect the Y-axis at right angles, the nozzles are arranged at predetermined intervals to define a straightly extending a first nozzle array R1 which is declined at a predetermined angle with respect to the Y-axis. The nonwoven fabric obtained has no impact traces by ejection of the streams of high pressure.

Abstract: A highly reliable thin film filter for an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer is disclosed, in which defects such as chips or cracks hardly occur in an optical thin film. The thin film filter consists of a glass base plate and the optical thin film formed on the glass base plate surface. A side surface of the optical thin film is at an acute angle, preferably at an angle of 6 to 60 degrees, with the glass base plate surface at a crossing point between the optical thin film side surface and the glass base plate surface on a plane perpendicular to the glass base plate surface. After the optical film is formed on the glass base plate surface and the optical thin film side surface is made by dry-etching, an individual thin film filter element is made by cutting the glass base plate with a dicer or the like. Defects such as chips or cracks do not occur on the optical thin film side surface, since the optical thin film is not cut during the cutting of the glass base plate.

Abstract: In a composite magnetic head comprising a magnetoresistive read head including a magnetic thin film having a magnetoresistive effect and soft magnetic members interposing the soft magnetic film between them through a non-magnetic insulation layer, an induction type write head including poles formed in a moving direction of a medium and a conductor crossing the poles, and disposed in the proximity of the magnetoresistive head, and a substrate supporting these heads, the present invention discloses a composite magnetic head characterized in that part of a floating surface inclusive of the magnetic head constituent members has recesses and the read/write operations to and from the medium are effected by the portion interposed by these recesses.