Abstract: A head slider for a magnetic disk drive is provided. The head slider includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side of an air bearing surface. The head slider further includes a first recess on the air bearing surface of the head slider, the first recess defining a first rail proximate the inner diameter side and a second rail proximate the outer diameter side wherein the first rail and the second rail are higher with respect to the recess and are asymmetrical with respect to each other.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider suitable for a disk drive measuring 1.8 inches or less in disk size incorporates preventive measures against the decreases in lifting force that occur in small sliders with a slider width of 0.8 mm or less. The present invention improves the inclination margins of the flying slider in a rolling direction at the lowest flying point, and achieves low flying height and stable flying. The slider is constructed with stepped surfaces on the slider's leading-side flying surface formed up of shallow-grooved surfaces and a deep-grooved surface so that a trailing-side width W2 between the stepped surfaces is smaller than a leading-side width W1.

Abstract: In a motor-driven power steering apparatus, there are provided a reference output characteristic memory previously storing a reference output characteristic expressing a corresponding relation between a driving current of an electric motor and an output torque corresponding to the driving current, a correction coefficient computing circuit computing a ratio TO/TM between an output torque TM of the electric motor detected at a time of applying a predetermined current M to the electric motor, and an output torque TO corresponding to the driving current IM in the reference output characteristic as an output correction coefficient. A current control computing means calculates a corrected current control signal by multiplying a current control signal of the electric motor computed on the basis of a steered condition of a vehicle by the output correction coefficient, and outputs a drive control signal based on the corrected current control sign al to a motor driving means.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider suitable for a disk drive measuring 1.8 inches or less in disk size incorporates preventive measures against the decreases in lifting force that occur in small sliders with a slider width of 0.8 mm or less. The present invention improves the inclination margins of the flying slider in a rolling direction at the lowest flying point, and achieves low flying height and stable flying. The slider is constructed with stepped surfaces on the slider's leading-side flying surface formed up of shallow-grooved surfaces and a deep-grooved surface so that a trailing-side width W2 between the stepped surfaces is smaller than a leading-side width W1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical connector adapter that is so configured as to prevent a laser beam from leaking outwards to do harm to a person at the time of insertion or removal of an optical connector plug for optical connection, and, specifically, an optical connector adapter having, at one end side, a housing part with a tip end being open, and at the other end side, a coupling part adapted to provide coupling with an optical component, and serving to couple an optical connector plug coupled with the housing part by insertion with the optical component such that an optical axis is aligned, wherein a super-elastic alloy shutter plate having been subjected to a plate-shape memory heat-treatment without providing any bent part is so mounted at an inner position close to an opening end of the housing part as to stand upward from one wall surface to a position adapted to shield the optical axis.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide solutions to a problem, in which a reduced peripheral speed resulting from a trend toward a magnetic disk having a smaller diameter makes it more and more difficult to achieve a lifting force that allows a magnetic head slider to fly stably. According to one embodiment, in a magnetic head slider comprising a leading edge, a trailing edge, and an air bearing surface, the air bearing surface includes a plurality of leading side rail surfaces, a trailing side rail surface disposed in the same plane as the leading side rail surfaces and having a magnetic head mounted thereon, a stepped bearing surface having a predetermined depth ?1 from the leading side rail surface, and a negative-pressure groove surface having a depth ?2 from the leading side rail surface, the depth ?2 being even deeper than the stepped bearing surface.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider, for sliding on a magnetic disk, which has a leading edge, a trailing edge, an air bearing surface having a front step bearing of submicron depth made from the leading edge, and a rail surface made from the front step bearing. A negative pressure recess which is deeper than the front step bearing, is formed as a recess from the rail surf ace, and a side step bearing with a depth identical to that of the front step bearing is made from the rail surface. Side padB are provided which each have a width W and length L, wherein W is greater than L.

Abstract: A magnetic disk unit includes a magnetic disk attached to a spindle so as to be rotatable, a slider having a magnetic head for reading/writing data onto/from the magnetic disk, a suspension for providing the slider with a predetermined load, and an actuator arm for positioning the slider attached to the suspension on the magnetic disk. A first pad including the magnetic head and second pads including no magnetic heads are disposed on an air bearing surface of the slider. During rotation of said magnetic disk, a part of the first pad keeps in contact with the magnetic disk. A load point of the suspension with respect to the slider is positioned between a leading edge of the slider and a position located at a distance equivalent to substantially 0.42 times a whole length of the slider from the leading edge of the slider.

Abstract: A compact slider has a reduced area of bearing surfaces, thus substantially decreasing a lifting force obtained through an air bearing characteristic. In one embodiment, a shallowly grooved surface and air bearing surfaces are disposed on an inflow side of a bearing surface of a slider. The air bearing surfaces are connected to each other through a connection air bearing surface. Side shallowly grooved surfaces are respectively disposed rearward of the air bearing surfaces. The side shallowly grooved surface extends up to a point near an outflow end. A center air bearing surface is disposed on the outflow end of the slider. A magnetic head is mounted on the center air bearing surface. A center shallowly grooved surface is disposed on an inflow side of the center air bearing surface. A deeply grooved surface is disposed at a center of the bearing surface. No cutting margins are provided on both sides of the slider.

Abstract: A compact slider has a reduced area of bearing surfaces, thus remarkably decreasing a lifting force obtained by an air bearing characteristic. In one embodiment, a shallowly grooved surface is disposed on an inflow side of a bearing surface of a slider, and a pair of inflow side air bearing surfaces are disposed rearward of and adjacently to the shallowly grooved surface. Side shallowly grooved surfaces are disposed on both sides rearward of the air bearing surfaces in such a manner as to extend near an outflow end. A center air bearing surface is disposed at a center in a width direction at the outflow end of the slider. A magnetic head is mounted at the center air bearing surface. A center shallowly grooved surface is disposed on an inflow side of the center air bearing surface. A deeply grooved surface is disposed at a center of the bearing surface surrounded substantially by the air bearing surfaces, the side shallowly grooved surface, and the center shallowly grooved surface.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider for sliding on the magnetic disk, which comprises: a leading edge; a trailing edge, wherein the air bearing surface has a front step bearing with submicron depth of the air bearing surface was made from said leading edge in the continuity, a rail surface made from this front step bearing in the continuity, a negative pressure recess which is more profound than said front step bearing made in the continuity from this rail surface and a side step bearing with the depth identical with said front step bearing made in the continuity from the rail surface, whereby the ratio of depth R of said recess and depth ?s of said front step bearing is R/?s ?5.

Abstract: An optical delay line of a configuration in which a number of components such as a circulator and an optical coupler is reduced is to be provided. To this end, the optical delay line has a configuration in which, after an optical fiber diffraction grating having a core subjected to refractive index modulation and a cladding partly cleared of its outer circumference and an optical fiber having a cladding partly cleared of its outer circumference are brought close to each other so that the cores have mutually parallel directions of an optical axis to fabricate a directional coupler, both ends of the optical fiber are connected into an optical fiber loop. In this way, an optical delay line to generate a specific time delay for controlling optical signals can be provided in small dimensions and with a small number of components.

Abstract: A magnetic disk unit includes a magnetic disk attached to a spindle so as to be rotatable, a slider having a magnetic head for reading/writing data onto/from the magnetic disk, a suspension for providing the slider with a predetermined load, and an actuator arm for positioning the slider attached to the suspension on the magnetic disk. A first pad including the magnetic head and second pads including no magnetic heads are disposed on an air bearing surface of the slider. During rotation of said magnetic disk, a part of the first pad keeps in contact with the magnetic disk. A load point of the suspension with respect to the slider is positioned between a leading edge of the slider and a position located at a distance equivalent to substantially 0.42 times a whole length of the slider from the leading edge of the slider.

Abstract: An optical wavelength filter having one or more bands of transmission wavelengths of light, within a reflection spectrum of the filter, is formed using a section of an optical fiber as an optical fiber grating. The optical fiber core is configured with a periodically varying diffraction coefficient structure formed such that the grating pitch continuously varies in a fixed direction, with that structure containing one or more regions of interruption of the continuous variation of pitch, whereby the bands of transmission wavelengths are respectively defined by these interruption regions.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider for sliding on a magnetic disk includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, an air bearing surface having a front step bearing of submicron depth made from the leading edge, and a rail surface made from the front step bearing. A negative pressure recess which is more profound than the front step bearing is made from the rail surface, and a side step bearing having a depth identical with the front step bearing is made from the rail surface. The ratio of the depth R of the recess to the depth &dgr;S of the front step bearing is R/&dgr;s>5.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a device that performs dispersive compensation in an optical fiber transmission path, such as performing waveform shaping in optical fiber transmission. This adaptive dispersion compensating element is provided with a chirp Bragg grating 104 formed in an optical fiber, a temperature gradient impressing means 105 that impresses a temperature gradient along the longitudinal direction of the chirp Bragg grating, a spectral resolving means 106 that spectrally resolves the output light from the chirp Bragg grating, a detecting means 107 that detects the output light from the spectral resolving means, and a control means 108 that performs feedback control of the temperature gradient impressing means based on the output from the detecting means and provides a compact and high-stability device that performs the dispersive compensation in the optical fiber transmission path, such as performing the waveform shaping in the optical fiber transmission.

Abstract: An optical delay line of a configuration in which a number of components such as a circulator and an optical coupler is reduced is to be provided. To this end, the optical delay line has a configuration in which, after an optical fiber diffraction grating having a core subjected to refractive index modulation and a cladding partly cleared of its outer circumference and an optical fiber having a cladding partly cleared of its outer circumference are brought close to each other so that the cores have mutually parallel directions of an optical axis to fabricate a directional coupler, both ends of the optical fiber are connected into an optical fiber loop. In this way, an optical delay line to generate a specific time delay for controlling optical signals can be provided in small dimensions and with a small number of components.

Abstract: A magnetic disk unit includes a magnetic disk attached to a spindle so as to be rotatable, a slider having a magnetic head for reading/writing data onto/from the magnetic disk, a suspension for providing the slider with a predetermined load, and an actuator arm for positioning the slider attached to the suspension on the magnetic disk. A first pad including the magnetic head and second pads including no magnetic heads are disposed on an air bearing surface of.the slider. During rotation of said magnetic disk, a part of the first pad keeps in contact with the magnetic disk. A load point of the suspension with respect to the slider is positioned between a leading edge of the slider and a position located at a distance equivalent to substantially 0.42 times a whole length of the slider from the leading edge of the slider.

Abstract: A magnetic disk unit includes a magnetic disk, a slider having a magnetic head, a suspension for providing the slider, and an actuator arm for positioning the slider on the magnetic disk a first pad including the magnetic head and second pads including no magnetic heads are disposed on an air bearing surface of the slider. A load point of the suspension with respect to the slider is positioned between a leading edge of the slider and a position located at a distance equivalent to substantially 0.42 times a whole length of the slider from the leading edge of the slider. When the slider is seek-positioned on a certain track on the magnetic disk, a frictional force exerted between the first pad of the slider and the magnetic disk is smaller than a product of lateral stiffness of the suspension in a seeking direction and a track width.

Abstract: A magnetic head support mechanism comprises: a magnetic head for writing and reading data relative to a magnetic disk; a slider having a flying surface for flying over a surface of the magnetic disk, the slider having the magnetic head mounted thereon; a mounting portion on which the slider is mounted; a transverse frame connected to one end of the mounting portion; two flexible finger portions which extend respectively from opposite ends of the transverse frame, and are disposed respectively on opposite sides of the mounting portion; a beam portion connected at one end thereof to ends of the flexible finger portions; a spring portion connected at one end thereof to the other end of the beam portion; an arm mounting portion connected to the other end of the spring portion; and a slider posture control mechanism connecting a reverse surface of the slider at an air inflow-side end thereof to the beam portion.