Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Masashi Wakisaka

Hirofumi Doi

Sotsuo Miyoshi

Mutsuo Sekiya

Katsuya Miki

Takakazu Tochimoto

A stepping motor is provided with a plate spring for pressing a housing and a rotor against each other. One of the housing and the rotor is provided with a projection. Variations in position, which is inherent in position control by a related art stepping motor, due to lack of a retaining force subsequent to an initial position setting or due to variations in rotating speed of the motor, are eliminated. Thus the motor is suitably used for controlling of the position of, for example, an HID lamp unit.

Stepping motor for stable control of position of driven body

A check valve has a valve element 12 integral with a metallic bushing 11 and made of a substantially annular rubber material. A hole is provided in the center of the valve element, and a shaft 13 passes through the hole. A spring 2 is mounted around the shaft, and a back face of the valve element is supported at one end of the spring through the metallic bushing. A truncated conical stopper 4 includes a recess at an intermediate portion, and is mounted downstream of the valve element to restrict the amount of movement and deformation of the valve element. The stopper is fixed at one end 13b of the shaft. It is thereby possible to provide a reliable check valve in which flow resistance can significantly be reduced, and sufficient safety can be established against counter flow pressure.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masashi Wakisaka