Abstract: This invention relates to an electronic component mounting apparatus. In the apparatus, a rotary body for changing the direction of a component mounting section is fixed to a hollow rotary shaft with a flange. The hollow rotary shaft is provided in a hollow motor and rotated integrally with the rotary body by driving of the hollow motor. A wire extending from an electric component, which is provided in the rotary body for changing the direction of the component mounting section, is arranged in the hollow rotary shaft of the hollow motor. An end of the wire is fixed to the rotary body, and the wire is arranged with looseness or into a spiral in the hollow rotary shaft. Further a lateral surface of inside the hollow rotary shaft and a surface of a coupling shaft are coated with protective materials.

Abstract: A photoelectric switch emits pulsed detection light and outputs a light detection signal as reflected light is received. For generating an on-off judgment output for switching on and off, the level of the light detection signal is shifted towards a specified level during a specified light receiving period by an amount corresponding to the difference between the specified and the level of the light detection signal at a time immediately before the pulsed detection light is expected to arrive. On the basis of thus level-shifted signal, it is determined whether at least one of the conditions for generating the on-off judgment output is satisfied. The on-off judgment output is generated at least on the condition that the levels of the light detection signal at specified timings are in a specified size relationship.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a component feeding member for feeding electronic components having lead wires in a tape-bonded state, an insertion head for separating the electronic components fed from the feeding member from the tapes and inserting to holes of a board, and a fixing head facing the insertion head via the board for cutting and folding the lead wires of the inserted electronic component in the board thereby fixing the electronic component to the board. AC servo motors operating independently of each other are individually set in the insertion head and the fixing head, which are controlled by a device so as to be synchronous with each other.

Abstract: A television receiver receiving an analog video signal, comprises additional information detecting means for separating and extracting an additional information code from the analog video signal, and outputting the additional information code; additional information recording means for recording the additional information code output from the additional information detecting means; additional information writing switch means for passing or blocking the additional information code that is output from the additional information detecting means toward the additional information recording means, in response to a control signal; conversion means for converting the additional information code output from the additional information detecting means or the additional information code reproduced from the additional information recording means into a character or an image; and signal synthesizing means for synthesizing the analog video signal and the additional information that has been converted into a character or an

Abstract: In a television signal transmitting and receiving apparatus, a digitally coded television signal, such as an MPEG2-Video stream, is transmitted, and an accounting level requested by the use is input to the receiver, whereby the decoding coefficient at decoding in an MPEG2-Video decoder is varied to obtain n image having a resolution according to the accounting level. In this apparatus, it is possible to offer a service with a resolution according to the accounting level.

Abstract: There is provided a conductive grinding wheel 10 rotating centering on a vertical shaft center and including a horizontal working surface 10a, and the grinding wheel comprises a conductive base member 11 formed of an integrally molded flat plate, and a plurality of fan-shaped segments 12 detachably attached to the base member to entirely constitute the annular working surface. Each segment comprises a base metal 12a directly attached to the base member and a grinding wheel part 12b formed on the surface of the base metal. Moreover, the grinding wheel part comprises a recessed groove 14 for partitioning the working surface into a plurality of working areas 13, and an electrolytic fluid supply hole 15 for directly supplying the electrolytic fluid to the respective working areas, so that the electrolytic fluid is supplied to the respective electrolytic fluid supply holes through the base member.

Abstract: A television receiver receiving an analog video signal, comprises additional information detecting means for separating and extracting an additional information code from the analog video signal, and outputting the additional information code; additional information recording means for recording the additional information code output from the additional information detecting means; additional information writing switch means for passing or blocking the additional information code that is output from the additional information detecting means toward the additional information recording means, in response to a control signal; conversion means for converting the additional information code output from the additional information detecting means or the additional information code reproduced from the additional information recording means into a character or an image; and signal synthesizing means for synthesizing the analog video signal and the additional information that has been converted into a character or an

Abstract: To reliably and simply prevent the output of specified image data, a unit to detect a pattern is installed in one of the devices in a system consisting of an image scanner 1, control device 2 (a personal computer) and printer 3 which are connected consecutively. This pattern detection unit contains a unit which detects a specified pattern from the mass of image data representing a document. Once this pattern has been found, either the subsequent image data are altered before being output or output of the image data is interrupted. When the system starts up, the control unit for each device checks whether that device, or one of the other devices in the system, has a pattern detection unit as described above. If it determines that no device has such a unit, it halts operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for the processing and segmenting of a cover-forming laminate web or sheeting structure which is adapted to interconnect a plurality of containers, such as the base members of blister packages each of which is designed to contain a hydrophilic contact lens in a sterile aqueous solution. More specifically disclosed is an apparatus for the imprinting, perforating, slitting and cutting the laminated web structure such that the severed laminate segments constitute printed covering label for an array of such containers, and whereby the laminated web or sheeting segment may be severed along weakening or perforation lines so as to provide a separable packaging arrangement for individual of the containers which are subsequently adhered thereto.

Abstract: An axial type electronic component inserting apparatus is provided for inserting into holes of a board a pair of lead wires of each of axial type electronic components connected by a tape at regular intervals. A first kind of the components have a larger tape interval and a second kind of the components have a smaller tape interval. The apparatus includes a pair of centering chucks having recesses for contacting both sides of the body of the component, and being movable in a symmetrical manner with respect to the center to adjust the body of the component from both sides of the main body while the recesses come in contact with both sides of the body of the component, thus resulting in centering of the component.

Abstract: To reliably and simply prevent the output of specified image data, a unit to detect a pattern is installed in one of the devices in a system consisting of an image scanner 1, control device 2 (a personal computer) and printer 3 which are connected consecutively. This pattern detection unit contains a unit which detects a specified pattern from the mass of image data representing a document. Once this pattern has been found, either the subsequent image data are altered before being output or output of the image data is interrupted. When the system starts up, the control unit for each device checks whether that device, or one of the other devices in the system, has a pattern detection unit as described above. If it determines that no device has such a unit, it halts operation.

Abstract: In a method of inserting, into a board, axial-type electronic components, wherein each of the electronic components has a pair of lead wires extending from a main body and belongs to an assembly of electronic components connected by a tape as arranged at regular intervals, the components are grasped with a plurality of chucks which are intermittently moved to a component supplying position and a component transferring position, respectively. Each of these chucks comprises grasping pieces having first and second grasping grooves, the first grasping grooves having inner surfaces for grasping end portions of each of a first kind of the components whose taped portions are of a first tape interval, the second grasping grooves having inner surfaces for grasping end portions of each of a second kind of the components whose taped portions are of a second tape interval smaller than the first tape interval, the second grasping grooves being slightly deeper than the first grasping grooves.

Abstract: A perforating device for web material comprises a plurality of laser heads for emitting pulse laser beams toward the web traveling at constant speed and a plurality of linear actuators for individually supporting the laser heads, moving the laser heads independently in the width direction of the web, and determining positions for the application of the pulse laser beams.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a component feeding member for feeding electronic components having lead wires in a tape-bonded state, an insertion head for separating the electronic components fed from the feeding member from the tapes and inserting to holes of a board, and a fixing head facing the insertion head via the board for cutting and folding the lead wires of the inserted electronic component in the board thereby fixing the electronic component to the board. AC servo motors operating independently of each other are individually set in the insertion head and the fixing head, which are controlled by a device so as to be synchronous with each other.

Abstract: To reliably and simply prevent the output of specified image data, a unit to detect a pattern is installed in one of the devices in a system consisting of an image scanner 1, control device 2 (a personal computer) and printer 3 which are connected consecutively. This pattern detection unit contains a unit which detects a specified pattern from the mass of image data representing a document. Once this pattern has been found, either the subsequent image data are altered before being output or output of the image data is interrupted. When the system starts up, the control unit for each device checks whether that device, or one of the other devices in the system, has a pattern detection unit as described above. If it determines that no device has such a unit, it halts operation.

Abstract: A piercing apparatus includes a traveling unit for causing a tip paper to travel at a predetermined speed along a traveling path, a plurality of laser piercing heads for irradiating pulsed laser beams onto plural positions which are spaced apart from one another on the traveling path, and a controller for pulse-driving laser oscillators of the laser piercing heads in a manner synchronized with one another at time intervals of a period which varies depending on the tip paper traveling speed, whereby minute holes of a desired size are stably formed with a desired spacing in the tip paper which travels at a high speed. The controller variably adjusts the spacing with which minute holes are formed, by controlling the timings at which drive pulses are supplied to the respective laser piercing heads.

Abstract: A piercing apparatus includes a laser oscillation head for irradiating a pulsed laser beam onto a tip paper which travels at a prescribed speed along a traveling path to form minute holes at spacial intervals in the tip paper, a camera for picking up a picture image of a minute hole formed in the tip paper, and a controller for feedback-controlling the drive of the laser oscillation head in accordance with the size of and the spacing between minute holes obtained by analyzing one or more picture images of minute holes, so that minute holes of a desired size are formed in the tip paper with a desired spacing, to provide the tip paper with a desired air permeability.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a light source section, a recognizing section, a moving device, and an operating section. The light source section is disposed transversely of a board so as to illuminate one side of the board. The recognizing section includes lenses, which are disposed transversely of the board so as to face the board from an opposite side relative to the light source section. The recognizing section also includes line image sensors disposed transversely of the board for receiving light rays from the lenses. The moving device is operable to move both the light source section and the recognizing section without changing the relative positions of these sections but moves them in such a way as to change their respective positions relative to the board. The operating section is operable to calculate image data for the entire board from image information obtained by the recognizing section and from position information obtained by the moving device.

Abstract: The present invention intends to make the time as long as possible during which a XY table which is interlocked to avoid the contact of an insert guide section and an anvil section moves for positioning thereof. For this purpose, the height of an electronic part mounted onto a substrate in the preceding step and electronic parts to be successively mounted are compared with the distance of an insert head section and the anvil section from the substrate, and such an interlock height as to prevent the mounted electronic parts from coming into contact with said insert head section or said anvil section is maintained and updated in accordance with the height of the highest electronic part among the mounted ones, thereby moving the XY table.

Abstract: An inserting apparatus inserts, into specified holes of a board, an axial type electronic component having a pair of lead wires extending from a main body and belonging to an assembly of electronic components which are connected by a tape and arranged at regular intervals. The apparatus includes chucks constructed so that the chucks can move forward and backward while grasping end portions of the axial type electronic component. A component carrying device is provided with the chucks and arranged at regular intervals in a circular form, each operating intermittently so that each chuck stops at least in a component supplying position and a component transferring position. A component supplying device is provided with a cutter for cutting the tape connecting the assembly of axial type electronic components, and operates to supply each axial type electronic component to each chuck located in the component supplying position.