Abstract: This filter is used for purifying air by removing foreign matters such as liquid droplets contained in the air. A separation unit is formed by a primary port, a port block to which a secondary port is formed, and a separation cylinder attached to the port block. Inside a swirl flow generating chamber of the separation unit, a cylinder blade portion formed by arranging a plurality of blades, which are extended in an axial direction along an inner peripheral surface and also inclined in a circumferential direction, in a cylindrical form is provided. The air flowed into the swirl flow generating chamber is caused to be a swirl flow by the cylindrical blade portion and foreign matters such as liquid droplets are discharged toward a collection container in a separation chamber. The purified air is guided from a discharge pipe to the secondary port.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid pressure cylinder improved in assembling performance so as to easily fix a partition wall to a cylinder main body. A plurality of pistons 15a and 15b are incorporated in a cylinder main body 11, axially aligned with each other, reciprocable in an axial direction, and respectively provided with piston rods 17a and 17b. A partition wall 14 is attached to the cylinder main body 11 so as to form pressure chambers 21a and 21b. A stopper space is formed by an engagement groove 31 provided to the partition wall 14 and a slit 32 formed so as to extend in a transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11. A stopper 34 is inserted in the stopper space in the transverse direction of the cylinder main body 11 so as to fix the partition wall 14 to the cylinder main body 11.

Abstract: An air ion measuring apparatus (20) is used for measuring the amount of ions in ionized air generated by an ion generating apparatus (10) having a discharge electrode (11) and a nozzle (12) serving as a discharge electrode. The air ion measuring apparatus (20) has a cylindrical electrode (22), and when the length of the cylindrical electrode (22) is denoted by “l”, a flow rate of air which flows through the cylindrical electrode (22) is denoted by “U”, detection current which flows in the electrode 22 is denoted by “Im”, time constant is denoted by “?”, and the detection current “Im” is denoted by a current detector (33), current generated by passage of ion is calculated by I 0 = U ? ? ? + l l ? I m ? [ A ] , it is possible to measure the amount of ions from the calculated carried ion current “I0”, and to measure the amount of ions while splaying the ionized air to an object required to be electrically neutralized.

Abstract: In an ion generator, a flexible discharge electrode 44 composed of one wire is provided to a base 43, and a turning motion of a free end 44b of the discharge electrode 44 about a fixed end 44a of the discharge electrode 44 is performed by repulsive force of a corona discharge generated by supplying a high voltage to the fixed end 44a. Therefore, in comparison with a discharge electrode composed of a bundle of thin wires, it is possible to significantly reduce dust emission from the free end 44b of the discharge electrode 44, and to further improve the ion generator 30 in maintenance interval. Since the discharge electrode 44 is compose of one wire, it is possible to reduce the discharge electrode 44 in size, easily observe the state of the discharge electrode 44, and simplify its maintenance. Since the discharge electrode 44 performs a turning motion, it is possible to transport the generated air ions EI to a wide area of a packaging film 10, and to enhance ionizing efficiency.

Abstract: A communication hole 17, which communicates with a primary-side port 15 and a secondary-side port 16, is opened and closed by a valve element 21 contacting with a valve seat 18, and a spring force in a direction of contacting with the valve seat 18 is applied to the valve element 21 by a valve spring 25. A pressure-regulating diaphragm 27 is mounted in a housing 11 opposite the valve element 21, and a spring force in a direction of opening the valve element 21 is biased to the pressure-regulating diaphragm 27 by a pressure-regulating spring 43. A tip face 49 that opens and closes a relief hole 47 is provided, and a stem 47 that converts, to the valve element 21, a movement of the pressure-regulating diaphragm 27 toward the valve element 21 is provided in the valve element 21.

Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit for absorbing an impact force without bending the reciprocating rod. The shock absorber has a hollow rod provided with a through hole. The hollow rod is mounted within an outer cylindrical body. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. A spring force toward one end portion side of the hollow rod is applied to the outer cylindrical body by a compression coil spring. An annular piston provided in the hollow rod partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. When the impact force is applied to the hollow rod, the liquid flows from one liquid chamber to another liquid chamber through a gap, whereby a resistance force is applied to the hollow rod.

Abstract: In a liquid supply apparatus, plungers which respectively expand and contract pump chambers are reciprocated linearly in an axial direction with their phases shifted to each other, thereby continuously discharging liquid. In a pump block, drive rods are mounted so as to be reciprocatable in an axial direction. At a center in an axial direction of shafts attached to the drive rods, drive rollers are mounted, and rollers are mounted at both ends of the shafts. Guide grooves which support the guide rollers are formed in guide blocks.

Abstract: A pilot type pressure regulator has: a primary port to which air is supplied from the outside; and a secondary port discharging air regulated by a main valve body provided to a main valve shaft. A main valve diaphragm abutting on an abutting end surface of the main valve shaft partitions an inner space into a secondary pressure chamber communicating with the secondary port and a pilot pressure chamber to which pilot pressure is supplied. This pressure regulator has an exhaust mechanism exhausting air from the secondary pressure chamber to the outside when pressure of the secondary port exceeds a set value. In the exhaust mechanism, a stopper holding a sealing material in a guide hole is inserted from the side close to a main valve hole, that is, an inner end portion.

Abstract: A diaphragm valve is used to perform opening/closing operations to switch between a state where two flow paths 14a and 15a communicate with each other and a state where the flow paths 14a and 14b are blocked from communicating with each other. A diaphragm unit 31 which is disposed in a valve housing 13 has a hollow valve body 32 capable of being reciprocated in the axial direction, the diaphragm unit 31 is formed with a communication flow path 32a through which two flow paths 14a and 14b are communicated with each other. A first diaphragm 34 is provided to one end portion of a hollow valve body 32, and a second diaphragm 36 is provided to the other end of the hollow valve body 32, when the hollow valve body 32 is moved in its axial direction and abuts on a valve seat portion 42, the communication flow path 32a is closed.

Abstract: A static electricity removing apparatus for removing static electricity of a charged object comprises a discharge electrode which generates an ionized air having a polarity opposite to that of the object by discharge, an auxiliary electrode which is provided with openings for the ionized air generated by the discharge electrode to pass through, and an electric field forming means which forms an electric field in a space between the auxiliary electrode and the object. The electric field forming means generates the electric field between the auxiliary electrode and the object by allowing a potential having a polarity opposite to that of the object to occur in the auxiliary electrode at the start of the static electricity removal and decreases the electric field between the auxiliary electrode and the object when an absolute value of the potential of the object is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A chemical liquid supply device has a pump provided with a pump chamber which is expanded and contracted by an elastically deformable bellows, and chemical liquid in a chemical liquid container flows into the pump chamber through a suction channel. The chemical liquid in the pump chamber is discharged through a discharge channel to a discharge nozzle. A looped circulation channel for returning the chemical liquid supplied from the pump chamber to the pump chamber is connected to the pump, and provided with an expanding and contracting portion. A filter for filtering the chemical liquid which is returned to the pump chamber is provided to the circulation channel. Since flow resistance of the filter is not applied to the pump when the chemical liquid is discharged from a discharge nozzle, it's possible to discharge a specific amount of chemical liquid from the discharge nozzle with a high degree of accuracy.

Abstract: An ion generator 10a has an ejection head 18 as an opposite electrode and a discharge electrode 16, and generates air ions by corona discharge. A nozzle 14 supporting the discharge electrode 16 is attached to a base member 12 formed with an air supply path 11, and the nozzle 14 is formed with an exposure surface 24 for exposing the tip end portion 16b of the discharge electrode 16 and a tapered surface 25. The nozzle 14 is formed with air guide holes 26 which communicate with the air supply path 11, and ejection ports of the air guide holes 26 are open on the tapered surface 25. Compressed air ejected from the ejection port is flowed along the tapered surface 25 so that outside air surrounding the nozzle 14 is involved in the compressed air, and sprayed in a front direction of the discharge electrode 16.

Abstract: The attaching/removing workability of the collecting vessel of a conditioning apparatus with respect to a port block is increased. A primary-side port and a secondary-side port are formed in a port block 13, and a female screw part 27 that is screwed to a male screw part 23 is provided to the collecting vessel 24 that is mounted to the port block 13. An annular lock member 31 is mounted to the opening end of the collecting vessel 24 so as to be movable in the axial direction. A tongue piece 38 that presses the annular lock member 31 towards the outside in the axial direction of the collecting vessel 24 is provided to the inside of the annular lock member 31. A movable-side engagement part 41 that engages a fixed-side engagement part 42 of the port block 13 when the collecting vessel 24 is rotated to a position of fastening completion is provided to the annular lock member 31.

Abstract: A grease pump unit has a metering valve 37 and a grease supplying device 50 in which a suction tube 16 on a pump device 11 extends through a follower plate 19 in a grease can 100, grease in the grease can 100 being sucked through the suction tube 16 and discharged through a discharge port 17 by activation of the pump device 11. Provided are a bubble dividing device 32 which supplies the grease discharged through the discharge port 17 through an supply pipe 24 to micronize bubbles in the grease and which supplies the grease through a supply pipe 36 to the metering valve 37, and a return pipe 47 which returns a portion of the grease not discharged through the metering valve 37 into the grease can 100 via the follower plate 19.

Abstract: An ejector (20), which built in an ejector housing hole (18), comprises: a nozzle (21) for diffusing and ejecting compressed air from an air supply port (23); and a diffuser (22) formed with an ejection port (29) for discharging air ejected from the nozzle (21) and air flowing in from a suction port (30). A muffler main body (42) attached to an ejector block (11) is formed with a silencing chamber (43), and a distal-end wall portion (42b) of the muffler main body (42) is formed with an exhaust port (48) facing the ejection port (29). It is possible to achieve the silencing effect while ensuring the vacuum degree of negative-pressure air and the intake flow rate by discharging air from the exhaust port (48).

Abstract: A drive characteristic and durability of a liquid supply device having a flexible pump member such as a bellows are improved. A drive pump in the liquid supply device has a bellows as the pump member that is elastically deformed axially by a drive rod. A drive pump chamber and a communication chamber are formed by the bellows and the housing, and the communication chamber and the drive pump chamber are partitioned by the orifice member. At a drive operation time of the drive rod, the through hole is blocked by the valve member, and a liquid flows in between the communication chamber and the drive pump chamber via a communication gap formed between the orifice member and an inner circumferential face of the housing.

Abstract: There is provided a potential measuring device of non-contact type which can improve measurement sensitivity. A potential measuring device which measures a charged object in a non-contact manner with a sensor includes: a first shutter and a second shutter each having a shutter part provided with an opening and a leaf spring part; a magnet attached to the leaf spring part of each of the first shutter and the second shutter; a yoke on which a coil is disposed, the coil applying an alternating magnetic field to the magnet of each of the first shutter and the second shutter to cause the shutter part to reciprocate via the leaf spring part; and a natural frequency adjusting means for adjusting a natural frequency of at least one of a first shutter system including the first shutter and the magnet and a second shutter system including the second shutter and the magnet.

Abstract: A potential measuring device which measures a charged object in a non-contact manner with a sensor may include a first shutter having a first shutter part, which is provided with a first opening which can be positioned at a position opposing the sensor, and leaf spring parts extending from both ends thereof; a second shutter having a second shutter part, which is provided with a second opening which can be positioned at a position opposing the sensor and the first opening, and leaf spring parts extending from both ends thereof; a coil provided so that a direction along a center axis opposes portions of the leaf spring parts; and a magnet provided on each of regions opposing both end sides of the coil in the leaf spring parts extending from the both ends of each of the first shutter part and the second shutter part.

Abstract: A shock absorber is attached coaxially with a reciprocating rod driven by a reciprocating unit to prevent a bending moment from being applied to the reciprocating rod in absorbing an impact force. The shock absorber has a hollow rod and an outer cylindrical body mounted axially movably relatively to and outside the hollow rod. An accommodating space is formed between the hollow rod and the outer cylindrical body. The hollow rod carries an annular piston, which partitions the accommodating space into two liquid chambers. A compression spring biases the outer cylindrical body toward one end of the hollow rod. When an impact forces the outer cylindrical body toward the other end of the hollow rod, liquid flows from one of the liquid chambers to the other through a gap, so that a resistance force is applied to the annular piston.

Abstract: In an ion generator, a flexible discharge electrode 44 composed of one wire is provided to a base 43, and a turning motion of a free end 44b of the discharge electrode 44 about a fixed end 44a of the discharge electrode 44 is performed by repulsive force of a corona discharge generated by supplying a high voltage to the fixed end 44a. Therefore, in comparison with a discharge electrode composed of a bundle of thin wires, it is possible to significantly reduce dust emission from the free end 44b of the discharge electrode 44, and to further improve the ion generator 30 in maintenance interval. Since the discharge electrode 44 is compose of one wire, it is possible to reduce the discharge electrode 44 in size, easily observe the state of the discharge electrode 44, and simplify its maintenance. Since the discharge electrode 44 performs a turning motion, it is possible to transport the generated air ions EI to a wide area of a packaging film 10, and to enhance ionizing efficiency.