Abstract:
An outboard motor includes an engine holder, an engine disposed above the engine holder in an installed state of the outboard motor, a flywheel magnet device disposed above the engine, an oil filter disposed on a side portion of the engine, an electric equipment box, an air suction device, an exhaust device and a fuel supply device, these electric equipment box, suction device, exhaust device and fuel supply device being arranged around the engine, and an engine cover covering the engine. The air suction device is composed of a throttle body, a surge tank and an intake manifold including a plurality of branch members extending from the surge tank, the intake manifold is disposed vertically, in the installed state, on one side of the engine so that the intake manifold is located between the flywheel magnet device and the oil filter as viewed from a side portion thereof and the intake manifold has at least a portion superposed on the flywheel magnet device and the oil filter as viewed in a plan view. The electric equipment box and the exhaust device are disposed on another side of the engine opposing to the side on which the intake manifold is disposed.
Abstract:
A magnetic head device for reading information from or writing information to a rotating magnetic recording medium includes a magnetic pole for reading information from or writing information to the medium and a slider for supporting the magnetic pole and moving the magnetic pole on the medium. The slider includes a contact portion for supporting the magnetic pole, and keeping the magnetic pole in contact with the medium, a positioned member flying above the medium, the flying member having a first surface where dynamic pressure generated by fluid-flow caused by rotation of the medium, and a connecting member having a mass less than that of the flying member, the connecting member connecting between the contact portion and the flying member.
Abstract:
A disk drive apparatus having a fluid bearing, an enclosure, a fixed shaft, a hub, a working fluid, spiral grooves, a disk, a head, and an axial-gap three-phase brushless motor. The shaft has two ends and a peripheral surface. The hub has a first inner surface opposing one end of the shaft and a second inner surface surrounding the peripheral surface of the shaft, and is designed to float with respect to the shaft by virtue of a fluid pressure. The working fluid is provided in a gap between the one end of the shaft and peripheral surface of the shaft, on the one hand, and the inner surfaces of a cup-shaped member, on the other hand. The spiral grooves are formed in at least one of the peripheral surface of the shaft and the first inner surface of the cup-shaped member. A bearing plate lies opposite the disk at a distance while stationary. When the disk moves, the distance between the disk and bearing plate decreases in order to generate fluid pressure.