What is claimed is:
1. An axial force controlling method for controlling an axial force applied to a rolling bearing in a bearing apparatus having said rolling bearing and a shaft body, said rolling bearing being mounted to said shaft body such that said rolling bearing fits an outside of said shaft body, said rolling bearing being prevented from dropping off by holding a caulked portion against an outer end face of an inner ring of said rolling bearing, and said caulked portion being formed by bending a cylindrical portion to be caulked on a free end side of said shaft body outward in a diameter direction, said method comprising the following steps for controlling said axial force applied to said rolling bearing through said caulked portion:
defining a first position as a position of an end edge on an inner periphery side of a chamfered portion formed at an inner peripheral shoulder portion of said inner ring;
defining a second position as a caulking starting point on an inner periphery side at a boundary of said cylindrical portion to be caulked;
determining axial forces resultant from said second position having axial displacements both axially inward and outward of said first position;
plotting said axial forces versus a displacement variable proportionate to said axial displacements and setting a minimum axial force to define an acceptable displacement range of said first position and said second position through which said minimal axial force is achieved; and
performing caulking by bending the cylindrical portion beginning at said second position such that an axial displacement of said second position relative to said first position falls within said acceptable displacement range.
2. An axial force controlling method according to claim 1 wherein a coordinate point x of said second position is set the same as an origin of the first position in order to obtain maximum axial force.
3. An axial force controlling method according to claim 2, wherein a relationship of a radial thickness t of the cylindrical portion to be caulked is set at 0.15xt0.05 while a required axial force of more than 2500 kgf is obtained.
4. An axial force controlling method according to claim 1, wherein said caulked portion of said shaft body is thinner than a remainder of the shaft body.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of identifying a physiological state of a target cell comprising:
providing a normalized expression atlas reflecting a plurality of reference loci, said plurality of reference loci corresponding to a set of reference phenotypes associated with reference samples, wherein each of the reference loci is determined based on a compendium of covariance measurements determined between different biochemical expression measurements across the reference samples;
in a specifically-programmed computer, projecting onto the normalized expression atlas an expression vector reflecting at least a subset of biochemical expression measurements determined from a target cell to be identified, thereby locating the locus corresponding to the target cell on the normalized expression atlas;
in the specifically-programmed computer, determining deviation of the locus corresponding to the target cell from the reference loci corresponding to at least one selected reference phenotype, wherein the magnitude of the deviation indicates degree of similarity between the physiological state of the target cell and said at least one selected reference phenotype, thereby identifying the physiological state of the target cell relative to said at least one selected reference phenotype.
2.-108. (canceled)