Abstract: A coating apparatus includes: a coating manifold for supplying a coating liquid to a base material; a supply channel for supplying the coating liquid to the coating manifold; and a connection channel connecting the supply channel to the coating manifold. The connection channel includes at least one branch portion, and the at least one branch portion branches into two branch channels that are equal to each other in channel distance.

Abstract: To provide a gas filling device with a drainage treatment for rainwater that splashes onto a display panel side when the display panel is opened or closed for maintenance and inspection. A gas filling device 100 according to the present invention in which a display panel 10 having a filling amount indicator 1 therein is laterally opened, the gas filling device 100 including: an intermediate unit 50 disposed in a housing body 101, the intermediate unit 50 combined with the display panel 10; a sealing mechanism disposed in a portion of the intermediate unit 50 that faces an upper edge of the display panel 10; a rain gutter 12 disposed above the filling amount indicator 1, the rain gutter 12 extending in a width direction of the display panel 10.

Abstract: To provide a gas filling device in which its assembly work is simplified by unitizing a housing body and the total number of assembly steps is reduced, thereby achieving high production efficiency. A gas filling device 100 according to the present invention including a lower unit 10 housing a heat exchanger 13 on a base frame 1; an intermediate unit 20 located above the lower unit 10 and housing a display; a top unit 30 located above the intermediate unit 20 and housing a flow meter 33; and side units 40 located on both sides of the lower unit 10 and the intermediate unit 20 and housing filling hoses having filling nozzles at their tips.

Abstract: To provide a method for assembling a gas filling device in which its assembly work is simplified by unitizing a housing body and the total number of assembly steps is reduced, thereby achieving high production efficiency. A method for assembling a gas filling device 100 according to the present invention including the steps of: installing a base frame 1; placing a lower unit 10 containing a heat exchanger 13 on the installed base frame 1; positioning an intermediate unit 20 including a display above the lower unit 10; arranging side units 40 on both sides of the lower unit 10 and the intermediate unit 20, the side units 40 housing filling hoses having filling nozzles at their tips; and arranging a top unit 30 containing a flow meter 33 above the intermediate unit 20.

Abstract: A vertical bag-making/filling/packaging machine (1) comprises: a film supply portion (5); a film engaging portion (31) which is engaged with a film (F); a vertical seal portion (60) which makes the film (F) into a tubular shape; a film conveying portion (50); a film clamp (34) which holds the film (F) at the film engaging portion (31); a film tension releasing portion (20) which loosens the film (F); a filling portion (70) which inputs the content (X); a weighing portion (40) which weighs the content (X); a lateral sealing portion (80) which makes the film (F) into a bag body (G); and a cutter which cuts off the bag body (G).

Abstract: There is provided a packaging apparatus including a mechanism for joining a film from a film roll and a film from another film roll to each other. The packaging apparatus is capable of preventing a joint of the films from suffering a thermal sealing failure thereby increasing production efficiency. Package apparatus (10) includes film supply mechanism (10A) for joining and supplying films (1A, 1B) and packaging mechanism (10C) for producing package bags from the film. Film accumulator (10B) for guiding and holding the film in a meandering fashion is disposed between film supply mechanism (10A) and packaging mechanism (10C). Some of accumulating rollers (21) of film accumulator (10B) are movable to a predetermined position depending on the size of package bags to be manufactured.

Abstract: ABSTRACT There is provided a packaging apparatus including a mechanism for joining a film from a film roll and a film from another film roll to each other. The packaging apparatus is capable of preventing a joint of the films from suffering a thermal sealing failure thereby increasing production efficiency. Package apparatus (10) includes film supply mechanism (10A) for joining and supplying films (1A, 1B) and packaging mechanism (10C) for producing package bags from the film. Film accumulator (10B) for guiding and holding the film in a meandering fashion is disposed between film supply mechanism (10A) and packaging mechanism (10C). Some of accumulating rollers (21) of film accumulator (10B) are movable to a predetermined position depending on the size of package bags to be manufactured.

Abstract: There is provided a vertical filling-packaging machine capable of feeding fluidized content material into a tubular film with good quantitative accuracy and in which air bubbles are mixed into the content material. The packaging machine according to the present invention performs an operation of feeding content material through injection nozzle (15) into tubular film (1?) that includes a bottom portion. This packaging machine performs an operation of transporting the tubular film downward, and an operation of tightly sealing the tubular film by heat sealing using lateral sealing mechanism (60). Lower end (15a) of the injection nozzle is configured to be immersed in the content material throughout entirety of the series of packaging operations, and the operation of feeding the content material starts in a state in which the injection port of the injection nozzle is immersed in the content material.

Abstract: An industrial vehicle has a loading attachment, a mast, a tilt cylinder, first and second pressure sensors and a controller. The mast supports the attachment and guides the attachment. The tilt cylinder has a piston and a piston rod and operates by hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic fluid source. The piston rod connects with the piston and also connects with the mast. The piston divides the inside of the tilt cylinder into a rod side chamber and a bottom side chamber. The first and second pressure sensors respectively detect pressures of the hydraulic fluid in the rod side and the bottom side chambers. The controller calculates an axial force applied to the tilt cylinder based on signals detected by the sensors and calculates load weight moment in a back and forth direction of the vehicle based on the axial force and compares the calculated moment with a predetermined value.

Abstract: A pressure sensor is set in a conduit connected to a cylinder tube, and a temperature sensor is disposed within a chamber. Detection signals of the pressure sensor and the temperature sensor are sent to a control circuit. A sonic speed of the ultrasonic wave is corrected by using a relational formula or a map that is indicative of the relationship of the temperature and pressure of hydraulic oil to the sonic speed and that is stored in the storage device. A distance from an ultrasonic wave sensor to a bottom surface of the piston is calculated based on the sonic speed and a measurement time length detected by the ultrasonic wave sensor.

Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor is located in the bottom of a lift cylinder of a forklift and emits ultrasonic waves toward a piston in the cylinder. A controller controls the ultrasonic sensor to consecutively emit ultrasonic waves that have different amplitudes at predetermined intervals. The ultrasonic waves are emitted in order of smallness of amplitude. The controller computes the distance between the ultrasonic sensor and the piston based on a period from when the ultrasonic sensor emits one of the ultrasonic waves to when the ultrasonic sensor receives the ultrasonic wave that is reflected by the piston. As a result, the range of the detectable distances is extended.

Abstract: In a position detecting device which detects a piston rod based on the time elapsed from a point at which an ultrasonic wave is emitted from an ultrasonic wave sensor toward a lower end surface of the piston rod reciprocatingly moved linearly by supply and discharge of a working oil with respect to a hydraulic cylinder to a point at which the ultrasonic wave reflected by the lower end surface of the piston rod is received by the ultrasonic wave sensor, if the working oil's temperature is detected by a temperature sensor, then a microcomputer sets the strength of the ultrasonic wave emitted from the ultrasonic wave sensor in accordance with the temperature of the working oil so as to accurately detect the position of the piston.

Abstract: An anti-vibration member is provided on an inner wall of a cylinder tube of a lift cylinder. The anti-vibration member is formed into a cylindrical form, and an outer circumferential surface thereof is formed along an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder tube. The anti-vibration member is formed by coating resin high in ultrasonic wave attenuating effect (such as polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin). It is possible to attenuate or absorb a vibration of a surface wave transmitted from an ultrasonic wave sensor and indirectly transmitted through the inner wall of the cylinder tube.

Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor detects whether a piston is at the lowest position. The sensor is not affected by the environment or damaged by contact with other objects. The sensor is located in the bottom of a mast cylinder, transmits ultrasonic waves to the bottom of a piston and receives ultrasonic waves reflected by the piston. The sensor then outputs electric signals based on the received ultrasonic waves. The ultrasonic sensor is electrically connected to a transmitter-receiver, which, in turn, is electrically connected to a controller. The transmitter-receiver includes an ultrasonic wave generator and sends ultrasonic wave transmitting signal having a predetermined frequency to the ultrasonic sensor based on control signals from the controller. The controller measures time from when it outputs the ultrasonic wave transmitting signal to when the sensor receives a reflected wave. The controller then compares the measured time with a threshold value thereby judging whether the piston is at the lowest position.

Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor is located in the bottom of a lift cylinder of a forklift and emits ultrasonic waves toward a piston in the cylinder. A controller controls the ultrasonic sensor to consecutively emit ultrasonic waves that have different amplitudes at predetermined intervals. The ultrasonic waves are emitted in order of smallness of amplitude. The controller computes the distance between the ultrasonic sensor and the piston based on a period from when the ultrasonic sensor emits one of the ultrasonic waves to when the ultrasonic sensor receives the ultrasonic wave that is reflected by the piston. As a result, the range of the detectable distances is extended.

Abstract: A position detector includes a fluid cylinder having a piston. An ultrasonic transceiver is provided at one end of the piston outside of the moving range of the piston. In response to electrical signals, the ultrasonic transceiver transmits ultrasonic waves to a reflection surface of the piston. The transceiver receives the ultrasonic waves reflected by the piston and then generates electrical signals representing the reflected waves. A sensor detects that the piston is at a predetermined position, at which the distance to the transceiver is known. A CPU supplies electrical signals to the ultrasonic transceiver to produce ultrasonic waves and receives electrical signals representing the reflected waves from the ultrasonic transceiver. The CPU then computes a piston position value, which is a function of the travel time from when an ultrasonic wave is transmitted to when the reflected wave is received and the speed of the waves.

Abstract: A vertical-type filling and packaging machine for filling and packaging a filling material in a tubular film of resin has a pair of squeezing rollers rotatably disposed one on each side of the tubular film filled with a filling material. The squeezing rollers press against the tubular film to clamp and feed the tubular film downwardly and create an unfilled region in the tubular film. A heat sealing mechanism which is disposed downwardly of the squeezing rollers for heat-sealing and severing the unfilled region has a heater bar for heat-sealing the unfilled region and a cooling bar for cooling the portion which has been heat-sealed by the heater bar. The heater bar and the cooling bar are successively pressable against a portion of the unfilled region while the tubular film is being held at rest. A cutting device, which may be an independent cutting blade or a triangular protrusion on the heater bar, severs the heat-sealed portion, thereby producing a sacked product.

Abstract: A loading/unloading control apparatus for a industrial vehicle control the discharge capacity of a variable displacement type hydraulic pump in accordance with the detected result of the amount of load applied to a loading/unloading hydraulic actuator or with a manual setting by an operator, thereby to obtain the most suitable working speed of the actuator for loading/unloading operations.

Abstract: A controller in which a starting state is detected for the controller to control a displacement varying mechanism of the pump by the detected result of the starting state to minimize the discharge capacity of the pump, thereby minimizing the driving load of the pump. In this manner, the starting properties of the engine are improved to reduce consumption of energy at the starting time.

Abstract: A controller for a hydraulic fluid flow control apparatus determines a quantity necessary for loading/unloading operations according to a signal from a lever operating degree detector, and controls a variable displacement type hydraulic pump to obtain the quantity. Accordingly, unnecessary hydraulic fluid flow in the hydraulic apparatus is reduced. The controller determines when a vehicle is stopped according to a signal from a clutch ON-OFF detector or a neutral sensor, and can raise the rpm of an engine. Therefore, when the loading/unloading operations are being executed while the vehicle is stopped, there is no need to operate the accelerator pedal.