Abstract: A work vehicle includes a cabin, a driver's seat provided in the cabin, a step disposed downwardly of the cabin for providing access for a driver to the driver's seat and an air conditioner for conditioning air inside the cabin, the air conditioner having an air conditioner body, an air inlet/outlet box, and a blower pipe for sending conditioned air from the air conditioner body to the air inlet/outlet box. The cabin includes an entrance door mounted to one lateral side thereof and includes the air inlet/outlet box mounted to the other lateral side thereof. The air conditioner body is disposed downwardly of the driver's seat and the blower pipe is disposed downwardly of the step.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a cabin, a driver's seat provided in the cabin, a step disposed downwardly of the cabin for providing access for a driver to the driver's seat and an air conditioner for conditioning air inside the cabin, the air conditioner having an air conditioner body, an air inlet/outlet box, and a blower pipe for sending conditioned air from the air conditioner body to the air inlet/outlet box. The cabin includes an entrance door mounted to one lateral side thereof and includes the air inlet/outlet box mounted to the other lateral side thereof. The air conditioner body is disposed downwardly of the driver's seat and the blower pipe is disposed downwardly of the step.

Abstract: To make an optical switch smaller, two frames are formed by etching in such manner that when they are stuck together to form a support member, an hexagonal opening appears. The end portions of a pair of fixed optical fibers are arranged in the bottom portions of a pair of opposing V-grooves provided in this hexagonal opening. A pair of movable optical fibers are fixed at the other end of the support member, and these movable optical fibers are arranged in such manner that their end faces are contiguous with the end faces of the pair of fixed optical fibers. A drive mechanism causes the end portions of this pair of vertically arranged movable optical fibers to move to the left or the right, come into contact with the walls of respective V-grooves, slide into the bottoms of the grooves, and thereby have their cores aligned with the cores of the fixed optical fibers.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in an imaging area of a semiconductor substrate. Above each of the photoelectric conversion elements, a light-gathering microlens for gathering light on the photoelectric conversion element is disposed. Further, a microlens for shape inspection having the same shape as that of the light-gathering microlens is disposed outside the imaging area. A base pattern for inspection is disposed below the microlens for shape inspection. The shape of the microlens for shape inspection is inspected through observing an image of the base pattern through the microlens for shape inspection. A result of this inspection applies as it is to the light-gathering microlenses.

Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator includes a dust-collecting electrode group and a discharge electrode group arranged in the recited order with respect to the gas flow direction of a gas to be treated in the electrostatic precipitator. The discharge electrode group includes a plurality of discharge electrodes, each of which is made of a rectangular metal plate. The longitudinal edges of each plate form semicircles, with a series of saw-toothed portions having tips protruding from between each pair of semicircles. The dust-collecting electrode group includes a plurality of dust-collecting electrodes, each of which is made of a chain suspended adjacent the discharge electrode group at a predetermined spacing. The chains of the dust-collecting electrode groups are suspended so that they can rock back and forth.

Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator has a plurality of arrays of spaced parallel dust-collecting electrodes, and at least one array of spaced parallel discharge electrodes, each array of discharge electrodes is arranged between an adjacent pair of arrays of dust-collecting electrodes. Each array of dust-collecting electrodes and each array of discharge electrodes are arranged such that the faces of the dust-collecting and discharge electrodes are parallel to each other, and parallel to the flow direction of a gas to be treated. The spacing between the dust-collecting electrodes of an array of dust-collecting electrodes, and the spacing between the discharge electrodes of an array of discharge electrodes may be sequentially narrowed from the upstream side of the electrostatic precipitator to the downstream side of the electrostatic precipitator.

Abstract: The computer aided planning support system of this invention is constructed of a planning information input device from which an object data for making a plan is inputted; an object data storage unit for storing the inputted object data; a planning unit for making a plan by reading the object data stored in the object data storage unit and processing the read-out data in accordance with a planning program; a planning data storage unit for storing the data associated with the plan made by the planning unit; a planning data processing unit for processing the planning data stored in the planning data storage unit in accordance with a predetermined scheduling function and sending the processed data to the planning unit; and a planning information output device for outputting the planning result generated by the planning unit in the form a user can use it.

Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator of the present invention is composed of a discharge section positioned in a casing inducing gas to be treated containing unwanted matters such as dust and miscellaneous bacteria from a gas feeding duct to a gas exhaust duct and arranged in a state of crossing with a passage of the gas to be treated, and dust collecting sections each having a gas permeable configuration installed in parallel with each other at a distance in front and in the rear with respect to the discharge section, wherein a high voltage application unit is provided in the discharge section, a dust collecting chamber is provided at the lower part of the dust collecting sections, the discharge section, the dust collecting sections, the high voltage application unit and the dust collecting chamber are provided in one frame as one body, and the electrostatic precipitator is arranged to be installed freely in a row through a mounting flange provided on the peripheral surface of the frame with respect to a passage of

Abstract: In a method for determining an optimum scheduling in a computer-aided scheduling system the data associated with a schedule to be generated is previously stored in a memory data. A strategy decision table showing therein one or more scheduling strategies suitable for a plurality of the states in a scheduling process is prepared. An optimization definition table indicating degree of improvement precedence or precedence order of the scheduling strategies of the evaluation items, where degree of improvement precedence is defined as degree of improvement of evaluation value of he evaluation item in changing of the scheduled strategy, is prepared. A schedule is generated by repetition of selecting and executing the scheduling strategies by using the strategy decision table. The other schedules are generated by changing the scheduling strategy selected in the state of the scheduling process by using the optimization definition table. An optimum schedule having the best evaluation value is selected.

Abstract: In a scheduling system, constraints changing based on situations and scheduling know-how are implemented according to the knowledge engineering method, whereas computations for the concrete, optimal allocation are conducted according to the mathematical programming method. As a result, there can be achieved a scheduling which can easily cope with changes in the scheduling know-how and constraints and which has a high maintainability and a high computation speed.

Abstract: An inner burr cutting and inner surface cleaning apparatus comprises a base, a carriage mounted on the base and reciprocable along a long pressure-welded pipe of medium and small diameters, a supporting tube supported at one end thereof by the carriage and insertable into the pipe having an inner burr produced on an inner surface thereof, a first motor mounted on the carriage, a rotary shaft coaxially inserted into the supporting tube, having one end protruding from the other end of the supporting tube and rotated at the other end by the first motor, an inner burr cutting device fixedly mounted on the rotary shaft for cutting off the inner burr, sets of rollers, each set thereof being arranged circumferentially on an outer periphery of the supporting tube for contacting the inner surface of the pipe, a centering device disposed at the other end of the supporting tube for centering the cutting device in the pipe, a second motor mounted on the centering device and having a drive shaft coaxial with the rotary sh

Abstract: An inner burr cutting, inner face cleaning and inner face painting apparatus for long pressure-welded pipes of medium and small diameters comprises a carriage mounted on a base for reciprocal movement, a supporting tube mounted on the carriage to be inserted into a long pressure-welded pipe of a small or medium diameter, a hollow rotary shaft projecting from the supporting tube, an inner burr cutting device fixed to the rotary shaft, a mechanism for centering the inner burr cutting device in the pressure-welded pipe, a spatter crushing brush, an electromagnet device for attracting spatters and inner burr chips, a spattering prevention device, a paint spraying device disposed ahead of the electromagnet device, and a cooling device surrounding the pressure-welded pipe.