Abstract: In an industrial pump, a bearing provided in a pump main body rotatably supports both end sides of a rotating shaft to which an impeller is attached. A shaft seal apparatus is arranged in adjacent to the bearing. The shaft seal apparatus is cooled by a cooling water introduced from an external portion. A shaft seal case is fitted to an inner peripheral surface of a bracket accommodating the shaft seal apparatus in accordance with a shrink fitting. A cooling water is circulated in a boundary portion between the bracket and the shaft seal case. It is omitted a work for closing an opening portion of a cooling means for circulating the cooling water by welding.

Abstract: A prewhirl type inlet casing for inducing a spiral stream in fluid has a suction passage arranged on an upstream side, being orthogonal to a rotary shaft of fluid machinery, and an internal passage connected to the suction passage, the internal passage being formed in a spiral shape so as to induce a swirl stream orthogonal to the rotary shaft in the fluid. A guide vane provided in the fluid passage in the inlet casing has a rectifying function capable of distributing flow rates in the swirl stream of the fluid in the internal passage between the swirl center side and the swirl outer peripheral side, and causing the fluid to deflect into the swirling direction of the swirl stream induced by the internal passage.

Abstract: Provided is a nanoprint apparatus in which a substrate and a mold formed on its surface with fine concavities and convexities are heated and pressed with each other through the intermediary of a buffer member interposed therebetwen, including a mechanism for successively replacing the buffer member with new one at each time which the mold and the substate are heated and pressed, thereby it is possible to form a fine structure on the substrate.

Abstract: A turbo-type fluid machine comprises a mouth ring part provided between a shroud of an impeller and a pump casing and having a seal function. The mouth ring part comprises an impeller ring on a side of the shroud of the impeller and a casing ring provided on a side of a non-rotating body wall surface of the casing. The impeller ring is structured to have a stepped portion that is in the form of a staircase with at least two steps to be small in diameter toward a suction side of the impeller and large in diameter toward an outlet of the impeller. The casing ring is labyrinth-shaped to comprise a projection and a recess. A narrow clearance part having a narrow radial clearance is formed between the projection and the impeller ring. A flow passage spatial portion defining an enlarged portion of the narrow radial clearance is formed by the recess and the stepped portion of the impeller ring.

Abstract: A turbo-compressor being driven by an electric motor has an inlet guide vane and a blow-off valve. The surge limit line of the compressor is amended depending upon seasonal changes of temperature and pressure of a working gas to be sucked into the compressor. Upon the basis of the surge limit line amended, the minimum opening of the inlet guide vale is altered, thereby reducing the driving power or force of the compressor.

Abstract: A single-shaft multistage pump is provided to make small-sized and space-saved possible. The single-shaft multistage pump includes a rotary shaft on which impellers are disposed at multiple stages, bearings and for supporting the rotary shaft, and a balance device adapted to apply, to the rotary shaft, a balance thrust force opposing an impeller thrust force. A water-lubricated bearing is used as each of the radial bearings, and the rotary shaft is supported by the water-lubricated bearings with a balance member of the balance device interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A drainage pump has a pump part in which blades mounted on a rotary shaft are arranged in a pump casing and an underwater bearing unit which uses pumped water mixed with hard particles as a lubricant and has a sliding bearing for journaling the rotary shaft. A portion of the rotary shaft journaled by the sliding bearing is formed of a cemented carbide material and a shaft journaling surface of the sliding bearing is formed of a thermoplastic resin material to be embedded with hard particles.

Abstract: A mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus comprises: an information input unit, in which information of an object, to which a mixed liquid is offered, is input; a material storage system that stores a plurality of materials for a mixed liquid; a product information system that selects kinds and quantities of the stored materials on the basis of the input information of the object, to which a mixed liquid is offered; a liquid transfer unit, by which the selected materials are taken out from the material storage system; a mixing unit, in which the materials supplied from the liquid transfer unit are mixed; an injection unit, by which the mixed liquid is injected into a mixed liquid container; an input unit, by which matters being declared on a label of the mixed liquid container are input; and a label formation unit, in which the input matters are printed on the label and the label is stuck on the mixed liquid container, and wherein the label formation unit begins printing before the injection unit completes injec

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor, being small-sized and compact, for compressing hydrogen gas to be used in a fuel-cell car, has a crankshaft, to which an end of a connecting rod is connected. The other end of the connecting rod is connected to a crosshead. To the crosshead are connected a pair of shafts, each extending in directions opposing to each other. To each of the shafts is connected a plunger. The each plunger is received within a cylinder at the tip portion thereof. A pair of plungers moves reciprocally on an almost same axis, and the crosshead is formed in one body.

Abstract: A screw compressor comprises a casing, and a male and a female rotor formed with axially twisted screw grooves and accommodated in the casing, the both rotors being rotated by timing gears fixed to the respective rotors while a desired minute gap is kept therebetween, and a method of manufacturing rotors therefor. In the screw compressor, the male and female rotors formed with axially twisted screw grooves in the casing comprise concave stripes having a minute depth and provided on the respective screw grooves to extend along directions of twist thereof, and leakage of a compressed air is less to give a high compression efficiency.

Abstract: A screw compressor comprises a casing, and a male and a female rotor formed with axially twisted screw grooves and accommodated in the casing, the both rotors being rotated by timing gears fixed to the respective rotors while a desired minute gap is kept therebetween, and a method of manufacturing rotors therefor. In the screw compressor, the male and female rotors formed with axially twisted screw grooves in the casing comprise concave stripes having a minute depth and provided on the respective screw grooves to extend along directions of twist thereof, and leakage of a compressed air is less to give a high compression efficiency.

Abstract: In a solution emitting head for emitting a solution through an outlet, having a main body including a cavity, a cover attached to the main body in such a manner that the cover covers the cavity to form a chamber so that the solution is stored in the chamber temporarily before being emitted from the outlet, and a solution pressurizing device for pressurizing the solution in the chamber, the cover is fixedly attached to the main body by one of metal-to-metal bonding and an adhesive dissolution-resistant against the solution between the cover and the main body.

Abstract: A turbo-type fluid machine comprises a mouth ring part provided between a shroud of an impeller and a pump casing and having a seal function. The mouth ring part comprises an impeller ring on a side of the shroud of the impeller and a casing ring provided on a side of a non-rotating body wall surface of the casing. The impeller ring is structured to have a stepped portion that is in the form of a staircase with at least two steps to be small in diameter toward a suction side of the impeller and large in diameter toward an outlet of the impeller. The casing ring is labyrinth-shaped to comprise a projection and a recess. A narrow clearance part having a narrow radial clearance is formed between the projection and the impeller ring. A flow passage spatial portion defining an enlarged portion of the narrow radial clearance is formed by the recess and the stepped portion of the impeller ring.

Abstract: A pump device for pressurizing a fluid to be fed, comprises: a rotary shaft, a bearing including a bearing surface adapted to face to the rotary shaft so that the rotary shaft is supported on the bearing surface in a rotatable manner, and an impeller fixed to the rotary shaft to be rotatable with the rotary shaft so that the fluid is pressurized by a rotation of the impeller.

Abstract: A prewhirl type inlet casing for inducing a spiral stream in fluid comprising a suction passage arranged on an upstream side, being orthogonal to a rotary shaft of fluid machinery, and an internal passage connected to the suction passage, the internal passage being formed in a spiral shape so as to induce a swirl stream orthogonal to the rotary shaft in the fluid. A guide vane is provided in the fluid passage in the inlet casing. The guide vane has a rectifying function capable of distributing flow rates in the swirl stream of the fluid in the internal passage between the swirl center side and the swirl outer peripheral side and has a rectifying function capable of causing the fluid to deflect into the swirling direction of the swirl stream induced by the internal passage. With these rectifying functions, a rectified swirl stream can be easily created in the in internal passage so as to prevent occurrence of a deviation of a cavitations inducing zone.

Abstract: One substrate is supported by an attracting and adsorbing operation and by an adhesive means provided inside a pressurizing plate; the other of substrate, on which a liquid crystal agent is dropped, is supported on a table by an attracting and adsorbing operation or by an adhesive means. Then, the pressure inside the chamber is reduced until a designated reduced pressure level is attained, and the pressure is increased after the substrates come firmly into contact with an adhesive agent that has been provided on the other of substrates, so that the individual substrates are attracted and adsorbed by the pressurizing plate and the table, whereby the substrates are laminated while positioning the substrates. Then, by retracting the adhesive means in the pressurizing plate or the table, the adhesive member is removed from the substrate surface, while or after twisting the adhesive member.

Abstract: A single-shaft multistage pump is provided to make small-sized and space-saved possible. The single-shaft multistage pump includes a rotary shaft on which impellers are disposed at multiple stages, bearings and for supporting the rotary shaft, and a balance device adapted to apply, to the rotary shaft, a balance thrust force opposing an impeller thrust force. A water-lubricated bearing is used as each of the radial bearings, and the rotary shaft is supported by the water-lubricated bearings with a balance member of the balance device interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A magnetic separation unit can prevent any magnetic flocs deposited on an inner wall of a water passing pipe from closing a water channel for stabilizing a magnetic separation performance and reduce cost by a small-diameter portion of the water passing pipe. The magnetic separation unit has an air-core solenoid type magnet provided around the water passing pipe guiding, from a lower side, treated water including magnetic flocs in which contaminants and magnetic particles are flocculated, a rotating disc type magnetic filter case provided above the air-core solenoid type magnet for attracting the magnetic flocs in the treated water supplied from the water passing pipe and flushing means for flushing the matrixes to which the magnetic flocs are attracted. The water passing pipe has a small-diameter pipe positioned in the air-core solenoid type magnet, and an enlarged pipe enlarged from the small-diameter pipe toward a water passing part of the rotating disc type magnetic filter case.

Abstract: A turbo-compressor comprises a compressor main body for compressing an operation fluid, an inlet guide vane apparatus being provided on a suction side of the compressor main body and having guide vanes, and a blow-off valve being provided in a discharge said compressor main body. An opening of the blow-off valve is variable. A pressure detector is provided on the discharge side of the compressor. At least any one of a time-period and a number of times of operations of the inlet guide vane apparatus is memorized in a memory, when it is operated at an inlet guide vane opening, being equal or less than a setting limit. A controller controls the blow-off valve and the guide vanes based on the values which are memorized in the memory.

Abstract: In a hybrid vibration experiment of the structure, while shaking an actual model simulating a portion of the structure, vibration response analysis of a numerical model simulates the remaining portions of the structure using a computer. Loading members are provided neighboring the actual model. A plurality of vibrators vibrates the actual model through the loading members. The vibrators are controlled so that, not a point displacement but, a distributed displacement is loaded on the actual model.