Abstract: A nurse call system according to the present invention includes a nurse call master unit (3) which includes a first display part (31); a patient information memory unit (52a) which stores patient information containing at least names of patients and person-in-charge information representing nurses each in charge of one or more of the patients; a working information memory unit (38a) which stores working information of the nurses for each date and each working time zone; and a display control unit (36) which can display a plurality of the patients and the individual nurses in charge of the plurality of patients in a next or succeeding working time zone simultaneously on the first display part (31), in a manner of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, based on the patient and working information.

Abstract: A nurse call system according to the present invention includes a nurse call master unit (3) which includes a first display part (31); a patient information memory unit (52a) which stores patient information containing at least names of patients and person-in-charge information representing nurses each in charge of one or more of the patients; a working information memory unit (38a) which stores working information of the nurses for each date and each working time zone; and a display control unit (36) which can display a plurality of the patients and the individual nurses in charge of the plurality of patients in a next or succeeding working time zone simultaneously on the first display part (31), in a manner of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, based on the patient and working information.

Abstract: A sorter sorts one line of articles conveyed at an entrance into a plurality of lines of articles at an exit, relative to a width direction of an article conveyance direction. The sorter includes an elastic continuous conveyance body, an entrance rotation roller, an exit rotation roller and a drive device. The elastic continuous conveyance body is configured and arranged to support a bottom surface of each of the articles. The entrance rotation roller is a roller over which the continuous conveyance body is provided at the entrance. The exit rotation roller is a roller over which the continuous conveyance body is provided at the exit. The drive device is configured and arranged to slide the exit rotation roller in a direction orthogonal to the article conveyance direction.

Abstract: A production system is provided in which high production efficiency can be maintained in the entire production line even in cases in which there is a lack of uniformity in the rates at which the articles are actually supplied from a supply unit; the weighing unit, packaging unit, quality inspection unit, or other constituent device has stopped operating; or other problems have occurred. In this production system, a centralized control system controls the set capacities of devices that constitute a production line including a weighing device, a bagging machine, and other devices disposed downstream, so that the capacities are varied on the basis of the detection results of a supply rate detection sensor of a supply device, that is, on the basis of the actual rates of supply from the supply device to the weighing device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a seasoning apparatus capable of evenly seasoning each individual article, without seasoning any too heavily or too lightly. Therein, a screw having a helical blade is installed in a tube. The helical blade provides partitions that are provided upright between an article supply port and a discharge port. An article group, before seasoning, is accommodated in a section partitioned by the partitions, the motor rotates the screw, and the article group is transported from the supply port to the discharge port. Therein, each article group is transported to the discharge port separated from other article groups, and each individual article in the article group is seasoned evenly with the same seasoning processing time and the same seasoning supply ratio. In addition, the constitution of the seasoning apparatus is simplified because the screw simultaneously serves the two functions of separating and transporting the article groups.

Abstract: A strip-pack manufacturing apparatus is arranged to receive an article having a projecting portion at a prescribed receiving position and to affix the article to a tape at a prescribed affixing position, and includes a transporting mechanism, a grasping section, a transfer mechanism, an affixing mechanism, and a wrinkle smoothing mechanism. The transporting mechanism is arranged to transport the article to the receiving position with the projecting portion of the article being oriented in front. The transfer mechanism is arranged to transfer the article from the receiving position to the affixing position in a state wherein the article is grasped at the project portion by the grasping section. The affixing mechanism is arranged to affix the article to the tape at the affixing position. The wrinkle smoothing mechanism is disposed at the receiving position and arranged to smooth wrinkles of the projecting portion.

Abstract: A production system is provided in which high production efficiency can be maintained in the entire production line even in cases in which there is a lack of uniformity in the rates at which the articles are actually supplied from a supply unit; the weighing unit, packaging unit, quality inspection unit, or other constituent device has stopped operating; or other problems have occurred. In this production system, a centralized control system controls the set capacities of devices that constitute a production line including a weighing device, a bagging machine, and other devices disposed downstream, so that the capacities are varied on the basis of the detection results of a supply rate detection sensor of a supply device, that is, on the basis of the actual rates of supply from the supply device to the weighing device.

Abstract: In a product supply apparatus 3 for successively receiving products X, transported from a previous processing station, and then supplying them towards a quality inspecting machine 4 positioned downstream thereof, there is provided upper and lower conveyors 33 and 35 for transporting the products X successively while sandwiching the products X from above and below; a photo-sensor 38 for detecting each of the products X; and a control unit 40 for controlling a motor 37, adapted to drive the conveyors 33 and 35, based on a result of detection by the photo-sensor 38 to adjust an interval between the forward and rearward neighboring products X and X to a target interval. Since simultaneously with adjustment of the interval while the product X is transported the product X is sandwiched from above and below by the conveyors 33 and 35, it is possible for the product X to be pressed by respective belts 33c and 35j of the conveyors 33 and 35 to flatten.

Abstract: The present invention provides a seasoning apparatus (20) capable of evenly seasoning each individual article, without seasoning any too heavily or too lightly. Therein, a screw (23) having a helical blade (21) is installed in a tube (24). The helical blade (21) provides partitions that are provided upright between an article supply port (A) and a discharge port (B). An article group, before seasoning, is accommodated in a section partitioned by the partitions, the motor (26) rotates the screw (23) in that state, and the article group in the section is thereby transported from the supply port (A) to the discharge port (B). Therein, each article group is transported to the discharge port (B) separated from other article groups, and each and every individual article in the article group is seasoned evenly with the same seasoning processing time and the same seasoning supply ratio.

Abstract: A weighing and flavoring system includes a measurer for measuring articles, a flavoring apparatus disposed downstream of the measurer for supplying flavoring in a predetermined quantity, thus flavoring the articles, a check measurer that measures the quantity of the flavored articles, setting means for setting at least one threshold value based on the quantity of the articles as measured by the measurer, and a sorting unit that performs sorting according to the weight of the flavored articles based on the threshold value.

Abstract: In a product supply apparatus 3 for successively receiving products X, transported from a previous processing station, and then supplying them towards a quality inspecting machine 4 positioned downstream thereof, there is provided upper and lower conveyors 33 and 35 for transporting the products X successively while sandwiching the products X from above and below; a photo-sensor 38 for detecting each of the products X; and a control unit 40 for controlling a motor 37, adapted to drive the conveyors 33 and 35, based on a result of detection by the photo-sensor 38 to adjust an interval between the forward and rearward neighboring products X and X to a target interval. Since simultaneously with adjustment of the interval while the product X is transported the product X is sandwiched from above and below by the conveyors 33 and 35, it is possible for the product X to be pressed by respective belts 33c and 35j of the conveyors 33 and 35 to flatten.

Abstract: A seal inspecting machine for inspecting bagged products to determine the presence or absence of a seal abnormality in each bagged product being transported by a transport conveyor 2 includes a presser unit 3 and a servo motor 32 for driving the presser unit 3 to sandwich the bagged product G between the presser unit 3 transport conveyor 2. The servo motor 32 itself has a capability of detecting a reactive force acting on the presser unit 3 or a displacement of the presser unit 3 that occurs as a result of contact with the bagged product, where any failure of the bagged product to exert a sufficient reactive force or displacement resistance is considered evidence of a seal abnormality being present in such bagged product. With this seal inspecting machine, seal check of the bagged products can be efficiently and inexpensively carried out.

Abstract: A directing unit 2, which directs bags P arranged in one line of feed rollers 23 to two lines in a packing system for packing the bags P conveyed in one line from a previous process, includes eccentric pulleys 25, a belt 26, and a bag holding plate 28d. The belt 26 applies a force containing a component in the horizontal direction to the bags P in a direction crosses the conveyance direction thereof. The bag holding plate 28d is disposed above the feed rollers 23 and controls a lift of the bag P so that the bag P is not lifted more than a predetermined height when the force is applied to the bag P by the belt 26.

Abstract: A case packer has a product-supplying mechanism for transporting packaged products sequentially to a product-aligning mechanism including a plurality of conveyors arranged longitudinally towards a packing unit for packing a container with these transported products. The aligning mechanism starts to move intermittently every time a product is delivered from the supplying mechanism so as to sequentially align them. The aligned products are thereafter moved in a continuous motion towards the packing unit. Each conveyor of the aligning mechanism is again caused to move in the same intermittent mode of motion every time the products aligned thereon are discharged therefrom.

Abstract: A case packer has an inspection unit, a packing unit and a sorting unit. The inspection unit is disposed on the upstream side of a path of transportation for transporting packaged products and inspects conditions of the products being transported on the path and thereby distinguishes defective products from normal products. The packing unit is disposed on the downstream side and packs a container simultaneously with products delivered to it in a plurality of rows. The sorting unit is disposed between the inspection unit and the packing unit and discharges the defective products away from the normal path of transportation but arranges the normal products in the plurality of rows. The sorting unit uses quasi-circular members with a straight edge. They are rotatable in a plane perpendicular to the path in both directions from a retracted position at which they do not protrude into the transportation path of the products and serve to discharge each of defective products by rotating in one direction.

Abstract: A transport apparatus (C) for transporting products (X), supplied onto a lower transport path, successively to an upper transport path, and a loading apparatus for loading the products (X), which have been transported by the transport apparatus, into a receptacle (Y). The system includes a first transport mechanism (2) for transporting the products (X) towards a pick-up station (P2), a lifter mechanism (4) for holding the products (X), having been transported to the pick-up station (P2), and transferring the products (X) from the pick-up station (P2) towards a delivery station (P3) defined generally above the pick-up station (P2), and a second transport mechanism (5) for receiving the products (X), which have been transferred to the delivery station (P3) by the lifter mechanism (4), and transporting the products (X) towards a stand-by station (P4) defined above a loading station (P5) at which the bagged products are loaded into the receptacle (Y).

Abstract: A waterproof automatic weighing apparatus comprising a case hermetically sealed by means of sealing members, internal components lodged in this case, and external components arranged outside this case. The internal components include weight sensing elements, driving sections for opening and closing hopper gates, electromagnetic vibrator sections, and a control unit having an electrical circuit. The external components include a dispersion table, feed troughs, pool hoppers, weighing hoppers, and, as needed memory hoppers. Each of the internal components is hermetically connected to the corresponding external component.

Abstract: A weighing system includes a weighing apparatus composed of distributive table, a plurality of radial supply troughs disposed around the peripheral edge of the distributive table for being supplied with articles to be weighed from the distributive table, a plurality of weighing units supporting respective openable weighing hoppers for weighing articles supplied to the weighing hoppers, at least one of the distributive table and the radial supply troughs having a slide surface slanted radially outwardly to a large extent for allowing the articles to slide thereon, each of the radial supply troughs having a radially outer distal end disposed over one of the weighing hoppers, and a collection chute disposed below the weighing hoppers. A liquid drain device is disposed at the distal end of each of the radial supply troughs. A shutter is interposed between each of the radial supply troughs and a corresponding one of the weighing hoppers.

Abstract: A compact combinational weighing apparatus comprises a compact housing structure for weighing devices and a remote control unit which are connected only by an elongate signal-transmitting cable. Inside the housing are a number of article batch handling units disposed in a linear array. Each article batch handling unit includes a pool hopper of a double-gate structure for receiving an article batch from an article feeder and two weigh hoppers for weighing received article batches. The article batch in the pool hopper is selectably discharged into either of the weigh hoppers below by opening the gate corresponding to the selected weigh hopper. The two gates of each pool hopper are closed by a single spring and opened by individual rotary solenoids. Load cells for weighing the article batches in the pair of weigh hoppers belonging to each article batch handling unit are disposed in mutually lined-symmetrical relationship with respect to a horizontal line.

Abstract: The invention of this application relates to a weighing machine in which a weighing member such as a weighing saucer or hopper holding or accommodating the materials to be weighed is provided on one side of a load cell through a support, and the load cell is supported on the other side thereof on a frame directly or indirectly through an elastic body for absorbing vibrations. The weighing machine is basically constructed so that the load cell is supported on the other side thereof on the frame through a strain generator for allowing damping in the fixed direction and, at the same time, through an anti-vibration damper for improving a damping characteristic, whereby vibrations of the load cell is damped promptly.