Abstract: A structure includes an enveloping layer formed on one of a circular outer surface or a flat outer surface having irregularities, wherein the enveloping layer includes an outer circumferential surface layer formed by thermally fusing a thermoplastic elastomer. The enveloping layer has a first material layer provided on one of the outer surfaces and formed from an amorphos plastic, and a second material layer provided on the first material layer and formed from a thermoplastic elastomer selected from the group consisting of styrenes, olefins, polyvinyl chlorides, urethanes and polyesters.

Abstract: A grease for a rolling bearing of an information recording and reproducing apparatus contains a base oil, a thickener, and at least one kind of an antioxidant selected from an amine-based antioxidant expressed by the General Formula (1), and a phenol-based antioxidant expressed by the General Formula (2). The base oil contains a refined mineral oil classified as Group III in a base oil category defined by the American Petroleum Institute, and the flash point of the refined mineral oil is 240° C. or higher.

Abstract: The present invention provides a structure including an enveloping layer formed on one of a circular outer surface and/or a flat outer surface having irregularities, wherein the enveloping layer includes an outer circumferential surface layer formed by thermally fusing a thermoplastic elastomer.

Abstract: Grease comprises a base oil and a thickener. The base oil contains mineral oil and poly-?-olefin, the proportion of the mineral oil is 10% by mass to 40% by mass in 100% by mass of the base oil, and a kinematic viscosity v1 of the mineral oil at 40° C. is higher than a kinematic viscosity v2 of the poly-?-olefin at 40° C. The base oil comprises a refined mineral oil that is classified as Group III in a base oil category defined by the American Petroleum Institute, and the flash point of the refined mineral oil is 240° C. or higher. A rolling bearing contains the grease, a rolling bearing device includes a shaft supported by the rolling bearing device, and an information recording and reproducing apparatus includes the rolling bearing device.

Abstract: A grease composition includes a base oil, a thickener and at least one kind of an antioxidant selected from an amine-based antioxidant and a phenol-based antioxidant expressed by the following respective general formulas (1) and 2: The base oil contains a poly-?-olefin and a mineral oil. A mass ratio of poly-?-olefin/mineral oil is 1.25 to 9.

Abstract: Provided is grease for a rolling bearing of an information recording and reproducing apparatus 1, containing a base oil, a thickener, and at least one kind of an antioxidant selected from an amine-based antioxidant (A) expressed by the General Formula (1), and a phenol-based antioxidant (B) expressed by the General Formula (2).

Abstract: Provided is grease for a rolling bearing of an information recording and reproducing apparatus 1, containing a base oil, a thickener, and at least one kind of an antioxidant selected from an amine-based antioxidant (A) expressed by the General Formula (1), and a phenol-based antioxidant (B) expressed by the General Formula (2).

Abstract: Provided are grease containing a base oil and a thickener, a rolling bearing including the grease, a rolling device 6, and an information recording and reproducing apparatus 1. The base oil contains mineral oil and poly-?-olefin, a proportion of the mineral oil is 10% by mass to 40% by mass in 100% by mass of the base oil, and a kinematic viscosity ?1 of the mineral oil at 40° C. is higher than a kinematic viscosity ?2 of the poly-?-olefin at 40° C.

Abstract: This invention provides a germanium-containing health promoting appliance which is used by making it into contact with the skin, which is produced at low cost without requiring the after-machining. The health promoting appliance is made of a sintered material composed of 2 to 20% by mass of germanium and the remainder of stainless steel, the fine pores of which are desirably sealed up by a resinous material and it is produced by sintering a green compact of desired shape of powder mixture of the above composition, under the rate of temperature rise of 10° C. per minute or less from 800° C. to the retaining temperatures of sintering at 1000 to 1300° C.

Abstract: This invention provides a germanium-containing health promoting appliance which is used by making it into contact with the skin, which is produced at low cost without requiring the after-machining. The health promoting appliance is made of a sintered material composed of 2 to 20% by mass of germanium and the remainder of stainless steel, the fine pores of which are desirably sealed up by a resinous material and it is produced by sintering a green compact of desired shape of powder mixture of the above composition, under the rate of temperature rise of 10° C. per minute or less from 800° C. to the retaining temperatures of sintering at 1000 to 1300° C.

Abstract: In a hydraulic bearing motor, by means of dynamic pressure generating grooves provided on a thrust shaft with a larger diameter not only on the end face thereof but also on the shaft surface thereof, pressures generated in oil when rotating a shaft body are made to be applied not only in the axial direction but also in the radial direction with high magnitude. This can provide the hydraulic bearing motor as being capable of satisfying features of exhibiting small NRRO, and vibration and shock resistance even with a thinned hydraulic bearing motor.

Abstract: A hydraulic dynamic pressure bearing motor has a rotational shaft mounted to undergo rotation about a rotational axis and having a shaft section and a flange section. A sleeve has a cavity for receiving the rotational shaft. A cover member is disposed over an open end of the sleeve cavity. A hydraulic dynamic pressure bearing includes minute radial and thrust clearances disposed between outer surface portions of the shaft and flange sections of the rotational shaft and inner surface portions of the sleeve and the cover member. A lubricating fluid is disposed in the minute radial and thrust clearances. The minute radial and thrust clearances are dimensioned so that during a non-rotational state of the rotational shaft, the flange section of the rotational shaft contacts preselected inner surface portions of the sleeve and the cover member while the shaft section of the rotational shaft does not contact any portion of the sleeve and an inner peripheral surface of the cover member.

Abstract: In a spindle motor, a core with a specified thickness is formed by laminating thinnest possible magnetic steel sheets to allow consumed current to be reduced. For example, by providing a structure of a core of a spindle motor with seven 0.2 mm thick steel sheets being laminated, it becomes possible to make consumed current smaller than that for a core laminated with four 0.35 mm thick steel sheets. Thus, a spindle motor is provided as being suited for downsizing an HDD and possible to reduce consumed power.

Abstract: In a thin dynamic pressure hydraulic bearing motor used for a compact HDD device which motor is provided with a thin hydraulic dynamic pressure bearing comprising a flanged rotary shaft comprising a shaft and a flange, a sleeve into which the flanged rotary shaft is rotatably inserted, a ring-like lid 35, and lubricating oil filling minute clearances formed by those bearing components, the thrust clearance c is determined as being equal to or less than a value for which a product md of the maximum vertical shift m at a rim of a magnetic disk and a diameter d of the flange of the flanged rotary shaft is divided by 4r, four times a radius r of the magnetic disk. Thus, even when no bearing stiffness is provided for the hydraulic dynamic pressure bearing motor at rest, the magnetic disk is made so as not to contact with a head supporting system such as a head loading arm.

Abstract: In a hydraulic bearing motor, by means of dynamic pressure generating grooves provided on a thrust shaft with a larger diameter not only on the end face thereof but also on the shaft surface thereof, pressures generated in oil when rotating a shaft body are made to be applied not only in the axial direction but also in the radial direction with high magnitude. This can provide the hydraulic bearing motor as being capable of satisfying features of exhibiting small NRRO, and vibration and shock resistance even with a thinned hydraulic bearing motor.

Abstract: A double sleeve type dynamic bearing comprises a fixed shaft having at least one end fixedly mountable to an apparatus in which the bearing is utilized, a rotary sleeve arranged coaxially with the fixed shaft so that a first fine gap is formed therebetween, a fixed sleeve arranged coaxially with the rotary sleeve so that a second fine gap is formed therebetween, and a lubrication oil filled in the fine gaps. The first fine gap and the second fine gap each have an open end exposed to air outside the bearing and an opposite end that is not exposed to the air, the opposite ends being in communication with each other. A holding member holds the fixed shaft and the fixed sleeve and is disposed adjacent to a lower end surface of the rotary sleeve to form a third fine gap between the holding member and the lower end surface of the rotary sleeve. The third fine gap is formed with a thrust dynamic pressure producing groove, and opposite ends of the first and second fine gaps meet each other through the third fine gap.

Abstract: A method for lubricating a part without leaving air bubbles includes the steps of assembling components so that an open end is formed for application of lubricating fluid and a fluid path is provided through which the lubricating fluid is to be circulated, introducing the lubricating fluid into the open end and applying a centrifugal force to the component by moving the component about a circular path so that the centrifugal force causes the lubricating fluid to be urged throughout the fluid path. The method is used in an embodiment to lubricate a dynamic pressure bearing having a gap between relatively moving parts. The gap has an open end into which the lubrication fluid is dripped and a closed end. During movement of the bearing about a circular path, the fluid is urged from the open end to the closed end.

Abstract: The present invention is a double sleeve type fluid dynamic pressure bearing, comprising a fixed shaft having respective ends to be fixed to a utilized apparatus; a rotary sleeve arranged to provide a first fine gap between an inner peripheral surface thereof and an outer peripheral surface of the fixed shaft, a fixed sleeve arranged to provide a second fine gap between an inner peripheral surface thereof and an outer peripheral surface of the rotary sleeve, a holder member arranged to cooperate with a lower end surface of the rotary sleeve to provide a third gap, and wherein the first fine gap and the second fine gap are formed with radial dynamic pressure producing grooves while the third fine gap is formed with a thrust dynamic pressure producing groove, the first, second and third fine gaps being filled with lubrication oil, the first fine gap and the second fine gap having one ends made as opening ends contacting with the air and the other ends made as closed ends communicated with each other through the

Abstract: An apparatus for preventing circumferential overspeeding of a grinding wheel is provided in which a first rejection pin, opposed to the circumferential surface of the grinding wheel, is linked with a second rejection pin through a link mechanism. A slide plate, guided by a cover device for covering a pulley belt connection portion, is engaged with the second rejection pin to be moved therewith radially of a first or second drive pulley being alternatively mounted on a drive motor. When the first rejection pin is manipulated from the forward end to the retraction end of a slot, prior to the mounting of a fresh grinding wheel, the slide plate moves a restraining pin provided thereon into a space to be occupied by the second drive pulley, larger than the first one, so that the fresh grinding wheel can be prevented from being driven by means of the second pulley.