Author: claimsbot

1. A rotating electric machine comprising:
an annular stator including an inner circumference, a plurality of teeth arranged along the inner circumference of the stator, and a slot defined between adjacent ones of the teeth;
a coil arranged in the slot;
a rotor surrounded by the stator, with the rotor having a rotational axis and an outer circumference extending about the rotational axis in a circumferential direction; and
a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in the rotor, with each permanent magnet having a magnetic pole center;
a plurality of circumferential portions respectively corresponding to the magnetic pole centers and defined along the outer circumference of the rotor at a plurality of locations, with each circumferential portion extending along part of a virtual circumferential surface, which is coaxial with the rotor, and spaced from one another in the circumferential direction; and
a plurality of convex portions connecting adjacent pairs of the circumferential portions, wherein each of the convex portions is located radially inward from the virtual circumferential surface, projects in a radially outward direction, and includes a plurality of angled portions directed in the radially outward direction.
2. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein each of the convex portions is defined by connecting a plurality of straight lines lying along a cross-sectional plane orthogonal to the rotational axis of the rotor.
3. The rotating electric machine according to claim 2, wherein the angled portions of each convex portion is in a quantity of two, and the convex portion is defined by connecting three straight lines.
4. The rotating electric machine according to claim 3, wherein the two angled portions are minor images formed on opposite sides of a bisector bisecting the convex portion in the circumferential direction.
5. The rotating electric machine according to claim 4, wherein the three straight lines include a middle straight line and two side straight lines located on opposite sides of the middle straight line, with each of the two side straight lines being longer than an extension line that is drawn from the side straight line to the circumferential surface.
6. The rotating electric machine according to claim 3, wherein:
the two straight lines located at the sides of the three straight lines are mirror images formed on opposite sides of a bisector bisecting the convex portion in the circumferential direction;
when the angular width about the rotational axis of the circumferential portions is represented by A the number of poles of the rotating electric machine is represented by p, the angular width about the rotational axis between the two ends of each of the side straight lines is represented by \u03b8c, the radius of the circumferential portions is represented by R, the difference between the radius R and a minimum distance between the convex portion and the rotational axis is represented by depth Dh, in a state in which Dhr=Dh\xd725.5R;
the angular width A is set in a range satisfying following condition (1) and (ex1); and
the angular width \u03b8c is set in a range satisfying following condition (2), (ex1), and (ex2):

condition (1):
Ao\u226660\u22122\xd7arccos(1\u2212Dh25.5)\u2212(\u221218.9\xd7Dhr+12.7)\xb0
and
Ao<60\u22122\xd7arccos(1\u2212Dh25.5)\xb0
condition (2):
when the angular width A is in the range expressed by condition (1), one of the following equations (i) to (iii) is satisfied, and all of the equations (iv) to (vi) are satisfied:
\u03b8co\u226610\xb0\u2003\u2003(i)
\u03b8co\u2266(\u22120.5\xd7Ao+16)\xb0\u2003\u2003(ii)
\u03b8co\u2266(2.5\xd7Ao\u221230)\xb0\u2003\u2003(iii)
60\u2212Ao\u22122\xd7arccos(1\u2212Dhr25.5)\xb02<\u03b8co\u2003\u2003(iv)
\u22120.5\xd7Ao+(\u221214.1\xd7Dhr+26.7)\xb0\u2266\u03b8co\u2003\u2003(v)
\u03b8co<(60\u2212Ao)\xb02\u2003\u2003(vi)
A=Ao\xd76p\u2003\u2003(ex1):
\u03b8c=\u03b8co\xd76p\u2003\u2003(ex2).
7. The rotating electric machine according to claim 6, wherein: the angular width A is set in a range satisfying following condition (1-1) and (ex1); and the angular width \u03b8c is set in a range satisfying following condition (2-1), (ex1), and (ex2):
condition (1-1):
for the range of Dhr\u22661.2 mm,
22\xb0\u2266Ao\u2266(\u221210\xd7Dhr+37)\xb0(when Dhr\u22660.5)
(\u221221.4\xd7Dhr+32.8)\xb0\u2266Ao\u2266(\u221210\xd7Dhr+37)\xb0(when 0.5<Dhr\u22660.8)
(\u221238.75\xd7Dhr+46.5)\xb0\u2266Ao\u2266(\u221227.5\xd7Dhr+51)\xb0(when 0.8<Dhr)
condition (2-1):
when the angular width A is in the range expressed by condition (1-1), the condition (2) is satisfied and the following equation (vii) is satisfied:
\u03b8co\u2266(\u22122.5\xd7Dhr+2.5)\xd7(Ao\u221216\xb0)+10\xb0\u2003\u2003(vii)
A=Ao\xd76p\u2003\u2003(ex1):
\u03b8c=\u03b8co\xd76p\u2003\u2003(ex2).
8. The rotating electric machine according to claim 3, wherein:
the two straight lines located at the sides of the three straight lines are mirror images formed on opposite sides of a bisector bisecting the convex portion in the circumferential direction;
when the angular width about the rotational axis of the circumferential portions is represented by A, the number of poles of the rotating electric machine is represented by p, the angular width about the rotational axis between the two ends of each of the side straight lines is represented by \u03b8c, the radius of the circumferential portions is represented by R, the difference between the radius R and a minimum distance between the convex portion and the rotational axis is represented by depth Dh, in a state in which Dhr=Dh\xd725.5R;
the angular width A is set in a range satisfying following condition (1-2) and (ex1); and
the angular width \u03b8c is set in a range satisfying following condition (2-2), (ex 1), and (ex2):

condition (1-2):
for the range of Dhr\u22660.5 mm,
(\u22122.5\xd7Dhr+27.25)\xb0\u2266Ao\u2266(\u22122.5\xd7Dhr+30.25)\xb0
Condition (2-2):
(\u221212.5\xd7Dhr+15.25)\xb0\u2266\u03b8co\u2266(\u221212.5\xd7Dhr+18.25)\xb0
and
\u03b8co<(60\u2212Ao)\xb02
A=Ao\xd76p\u2003\u2003(ex1):
\u03b8c=\u03b8co\xd76p\u2003\u2003(ex2).
9. The rotating electric machine according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of permanent magnets are respectively accommodated in a plurality of accommodating holes, an adjacent pair of the accommodating holes including a first accommodating hole and a second accommodating hole, wherein the first accommodating holes includes a first wall surface defining the first accommodating hole and having a first point, and wherein the second accommodating holes includes a second wall surface defining the second accommodating hole and having a second point, a maximum one of angular widths between the first point and the second point being referred to as an inter-bridge angle \u0398b, with the inter-bridge angle \u0398b being set in the range of 0<\u0398b\u226610\xb0,
the three straight lines include a first straight lines, a second straight line, and a third straight line, the second straight line and the third straight line being located on opposite sides of the first straight line,
wherein a point obtained when the first straight line undergoes parallel displacement and contacts the first wall surface is tentatively referred to as H01, and a point obtained when the third straight line undergoes parallel displacement and contacts the first wall surface is tentatively referred to as H30, wherein among the two points H01, H30, the one closer to the associated straight line H1, H3 is used as the first point,
wherein a point obtained when the first straight line undergoes parallel displacement and contacts the second wall surface is tentatively referred to as H02, and a point obtained when the second straight line undergoes parallel displacement and contacts the second wall surface is tentatively referred to as H20, wherein among the two points H02, H20, the one closer to the associated lines H1, H2 is used as the initial point.
10. The rotating electric machine according to claim 9, wherein the inter-bridge angle \u0398b is 5.2\xb0.
11. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein each of the angled portions is a convex curve projecting in a radially outward direction of the rotor, connecting two of adjacent straight lines.
12. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of permanent magnets have polarities differing alternately in the circumferential direction.
13. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of circumferential portions are arranged at an equiangular pitch.
14. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the teeth and the outer circumference of the rotor form a gap therebetween, the gap becoming largest at a portion corresponding to a polarity switching portion located between a pair of adjacent ones of the permanent magnets.
15. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the coil is wave wound about the stator.
16. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, further comprising: poles, the quantity of which is set to six.
17. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein there are a plurality of slots in which the quantity of the slots is eighteen.
18. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the convex portions are formed so that output torque waveform of the rotating electric machine is increased to a higher order.
19. The rotating electric machine according to claim 18, wherein the convex portions are formed so that a basic order component of the output torque waveform of the rotating electric machine is increased to a higher order.
20. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the permanent magnets are flat and orthogonal to a radial line of the rotor.
21. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the permanent magnets are each spaced from the rotational axis of the rotor by the same distance.
22. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the rotating electric machine is used as a car air conditioner motor.
23. A rotating electric machine according to claim 22, further comprising:
a rotation shaft rotated by the air conditioner motor; and
a compression operation body for compressing gas in a compression chamber based on rotation of the rotation shaft.

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. Manufacturing method of a magneto-optical recording medium having a recoding layer and a reflective layer on a substrate, the recording layer having a layered structure in which a garnet ferrite layer, and at least one underlayer for the garnet ferrite layer selected from the group consisting of a spinel ferrite layer, rutile-type oxide layer and a hematite layer are layered, characterized by comprising the steps of:
forming said underlayer on said substrate, heat-treating the underlayer, forming said garnet ferrite layer adjacent to the underlayer, and
heat-treating the garnet ferrite layer at a temperature of 500 to 700\xb0 C.,
thereby reducing internal compressive stress of the garnet ferrite layer by tensile stress provided from the underlayer.
2. Manufacturing method of a magneto-optical recording medium having a recording layer and a reflective layer on a substrate, the recording layer having a layered structure in which a garnet ferrite layer, and at least one underlayer for the garnet ferrite layer selected from the group consisting of a spinel ferrite layer, rutile-type oxide layer and a hematite layer are layered on tracks on which data are recorded, characterized by comprising the steps of:
forming said underlayer on said substrate,
heat-treating the underlayer,
forming said garnet ferrite layer adjacent to the underlayer, and
heat-treating the garnet ferrite layer at a temperature of 600 to 630\xb0 C.,
thereby reducing internal compressive stress of the garnet ferrite layer by tensile stress provided from the underlayer, and magneto-optical properties are provided only to the tracks.

1. A dermatological system, comprising:
an optical waveguide for transmitting radiation received at a first end thereof to a second end adapted to contact a subject’s skin surface so as to irradiate a portion of the skin, and
a reflecting plate adapted to contact a portion of the skin surface and surrounding at least a portion of said second waveguide end,
said reflecting plate returning at least a portion of radiation backscattered from the irradiated skin portion to the subject’s skin.
2. A dermatological system according to claim 1, wherein said plate comprises an aperture sized and shaped for receiving at least a portion of said second end of the wave guide.
3. A dermatological system according to claim 1, wherein said reflecting plate has a concave shape.
4. A dermatological system according to claim 1, wherein said reflecting plate is formed of a thermally conductive material.
5. A dermatological system according to claim 4, further comprising a heating element in thermal contact with said reflecting plate for heating thereof.
6. A dermatological system according to claim 5, wherein said heating element comprises a thermoelectric element.
7. A dermatological system according to claim 1, wherein said reflective plate comprises an angle-dependent reflective coating.
8. A dermatological system according to claim 1, wherein said reflective plate provides specular reflection of radiation.
9. A dermatological system according to claim 1, wherein said reflective plate provides diffuse reflection of radiation.
10. A dermatological system according to claim 1, wherein said second end of the waveguide comprises reflecting side walls for returning at least a portion of radiation applied to the patient’s skin that is retroreflected into the waveguide back to the patient’s skin.
11. A dermatological system according to claim 10, wherein said waveguide further comprises a chamber optically coupled to the second end for internally reflecting at least a portion of backscattered radiation extending through the second end into said chamber back to the patient’s skin.
12. A system for treating a dermatological condition located in a volume of a patient’s skin, comprising:
an optical waveguide having a first end for receiving radiation generated by a radiation source and a second end for contacting a patient’s skin, said waveguide transmitting said received radiation from the first end to the second end for application to the patient’s skin, and
a reflector disposed within said waveguide for returning at least a portion of backscattered radiation entering the waveguide back to the patient’s skin.
13. A system according to claim 12, wherein said reflector comprises reflecting side walls of said second end of the waveguide, said reflecting walls returning at least a portion of radiation applied to the patient’s skin that is retroreflected into the waveguide back to the patient’s skin.
14. A system according to claim 12, wherein said waveguide further comprises a chamber optically coupled to the second end for internally reflecting at least a portion of backscattered radiation extending through the second end into said chamber back to the patient’s skin.
15. A system according to claim 12, wherein said second end of the waveguide has an aperture at least substantially as large as a backscatter aperture of radiation backscattered from the patient’s skin.
16. A system according to claim 15, wherein said reflector has a reflection aperture D at least substantially as great as said backscatter aperture.
17. A system according to claim 12, wherein said reflector comprises at least a portion of said second end of the waveguide formed as a reflection plate.
18. A system according to claim 17, wherein said reflection plate has a concave shape.
19. A system according to claim 12, wherein said reflector is disposed along at least a portion of a sidewall of said wave guide.
20. A system according to claim 19, wherein said reflector has a coefficient of reflection for reflecting backscattered radiation more strongly at angles nearly perpendicular to the skin surface than at angles nearly parallel to the skin surface.
21-32. (canceled)

The claims below are in addition to those above.
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1-14. (canceled)
15. Electrical energy distribution network for a transport vehicle, such as an aircraft, of the type comprising a management unit and nodes to which at least one power supply source and equipment to be supplied by said power supply source can be connected by means of links, referred to as external links, characterised in that said nodes are connected together by internode links forming at least one mesh of a meshed network, said or each mesh being polygonal of an order higher than or equal to three, at least one node in the or each mesh being an active node, each active node in said network being controlled by the management unit in order to control each of the electrical connections of the internode and external links connected to said active node.
16. Network according to claim 15, characterised in that all the meshes of said network are identical.
17. Network according to claim 15, characterised in that each of the nodes other than said active node or nodes provides the electrical connection of all the internode links and external links connected to said node.
18. Network according to claim 15, characterised in that said or each active node comprises firstly switches each having a terminal connected to a port to which an internode or external link is connected and a terminal connected to a common point and, secondly, a control unit designed to receive control data from said management unit and to control each of said switches for opening or closing.
19. Network according to claim 18, characterised in that said management unit allocates a logic address to each active node and to each switch of said node, said management unit transmitting control data to the logic address of the switch concerned or, in the case of control data relating to all the switches of an active node, the logic address of said node.
20. Network according to claim 18, characterised in that said or each active node comprises means for measuring physical operating characteristics of said node that deliver their measurement signals to the control unit, said control unit controlling the switches according to these measurement signals.
21. Network according to claim 20, characterised in that said measurement signals are transmitted by the control unit to the management unit, which in response transmits to said node control data that are a function of these measurement signals.
22. Network according to claim 15, characterised in that the internode or external links consist of coaxial cables comprising a conductor for the power supply signal and a conductor for the earth, each node providing with the links the continuity of the network earth.
23. Network according to claim 22, characterised in that said internode or external links also comprise means for transporting control signals, each node providing with said links the transmission of these signals in the whole of the network.
24. Network according to claim 15, characterised in that each active node has a physical address and means for communicating said physical address, such as a radio-frequency identification device.
25. Electrical installation of aircraft, characterised in that it comprises at least one electrical energy distribution network according to claim 15.
26. Electrical installation according to claim 25, characterised in that it comprises a plurality of electrical energy distribution networks, the active nodes of which are controlled by the same management unit.
27. Electrical installation according to claim 25, characterised in that said at least one of said distribution networks is installed level with the floor of the aircraft.
28. Electrical installation according to claim 27, characterised in that the nodes of said distribution network or networks are fixed on cross members forming part of the structure of the aircraft and the links are mounted either on said cross members or on passenger seat runners of the aircraft.