Nissan Motor Company Limited

Other

Kojiro Kobayashi

Tetsuji Morita

Masayuki Inoue

Kenji Miyamoto

Shigeyuki Nakagawa

Minoru Kasukawa

Akio Hirose

Hiroshi Sakurai

Kenji Kanamori

Fumihiko Gejima

Sadao Yanagida

Kohichi Ikarugi

Teiji Hisano

Tadashi Fukuzawa

Kohki Noda

According to a metal joining method of the present invention, first and second dissimilar metals are joined together by interposing between the first and second metal materials a third metal material dissimilar to the first and second metal materials and causing eutectic melting at least either at an interface between the first and third metal materials or at an interface between the second and third metal materials.

Dissimilar metal joining method

A tubing including an overlap portion formed by the first and second circumferential end portions overlapping and joined with each other, and a fluid leakage preventing member for preventing pressurized fluid from leaking from the tubing upon the tubing being subjected to hydrostatic forming. An apparatus and method for hydrostatic forming of a tubing having an overlap portion. The apparatus includes a die and a nozzle having fluid leakage preventing means for preventing the pressurized fluid supplied into the tubing from leaking from a clearance between the first and second circumferential end portions of the overlap portion of the tubing at the longitudinal end portions of the tubing.

Tubing for hydrostatic forming, hydrostatic forming apparatus, and hydrostatic forming method using the apparatus

A high-sensitivity apparatus having simple constitution that measures the flying height of a magnetic head. Light emitted from a white light source 25 is directed to the gap between a disk 23 and a head 21, and subjected to multiple reflection between the disk 23 and the head 21. Reflected light from an opaque object, which may be either the disk 23 or the head 21, is divided into at least three components having respective wavelength regions which are directed to different photodetectors 35, 36, and 37 for the respective wavelength regions. An estimation device 38 estimates the flying height of the head according to the least-square method from the outputs of the photodetectors using functions prepared in advance for the respective wavelength regions, and correlates the disk-head gap and the reflected light intensities detected by the respective photodetectors. Real-time calculation according to the least-square method is performed by means of a table look-up technique or a tracking servo technique.

Head flying height measuring apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tetsuji Morita