Abstract: A driving device includes: a shaft; and a cylindrical bush having an insertion hole into which the shaft can be inserted. The insertion hole includes an opening portion having an inner diameter decreasing from a first end surface toward a second end surface of the bush, and a small-diameter hole portion extending from an end of the opening portion to the second end surface. The shaft includes a shaft portion having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the small-diameter hole portion, and an abutment portion having an outer diameter greater than the inner diameter of the small-diameter hole portion. The bush has a sealing surface defining the opening portion. The abutment portion of the shaft abuts on the sealing surface of the bush in an axial direction of the insertion hole to seal a gap formed between the shaft and the bush inside the insertion hole.

Abstract: Provided is a coordination system between a common drying facility and a rice milling factory, capable of reproducing milled rice or cooked rice with favorable quality for a consumer.

Abstract: A satellite facility is operated in a unmanned manner even in a grain processing facility (a common grain drying and preparing facility, a rice milling factory, a food factory or the like, for example) where the characteristics of starting materials vary with time.

Abstract: A variable nozzle mechanism in which a nozzle mount has a first surface which has a minimum clearance in a direction of an axis with respect to a lever side facing surface in an opposing region facing the lever side facing surface in the direction of the axis, and a second surface which is disposed adjacent to the first surface in a circumferential direction of the nozzle mount and has a clearance in the direction of the axis with respect to the lever side facing surface larger than the clearance in the direction of the axis between the first surface and the lever side facing surface.

Abstract: A driving device includes: a shaft; and a cylindrical bush having an insertion hole into which the shaft can be inserted. The insertion hole includes an opening portion having an inner diameter decreasing from a first end surface toward a second end surface of the bush, and a small-diameter hole portion extending from an end of the opening portion to the second end surface. The shaft includes a shaft portion having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the small-diameter hole portion, and an abutment portion having an outer diameter greater than the inner diameter of the small-diameter hole portion. The bush has a sealing surface defining the opening portion. The abutment portion of the shaft abuts on the sealing surface of the bush in an axial direction of the insertion hole to seal a gap formed between the shaft and the bush inside the insertion hole.

Abstract: This exhaust gas bypass device and supercharger are provided with: an actuator (31) for moving a driving rod (41) reciprocally in the axial direction of the driving rod; a coupling rod (32) coupled to the tip section of the driving rod (41); a support shaft (34) rotatably supported on a housing; a coupling link (33), one end section of which is rotatably coupled to the tip section of the coupling rod (32) via a coupling shaft (45) and the other end section of which is fixed to the one end section of the support shaft (34); a waste gate valve (35) coupled to the other end section of the support shaft (34); and a damping member for damping displacement between the coupling rod (32) and the coupling link (33), whereby reliability is improved by ensuring desirable operative characteristics.

Abstract: This exhaust gas bypass device and supercharger are provided with: an actuator (31) for moving a driving rod (41) reciprocally in the axial direction of the driving rod; a coupling rod (32) coupled to the tip section of the driving rod (41); a support shaft (34) rotatably supported on a housing; a coupling link (33), one end section of which is rotatably coupled to the tip section of the coupling rod (32) via a coupling shaft (45) and the other end section of which is fixed to the one end section of the support shaft (34); a waste gate valve (35) coupled to the other end section of the support shaft (34); and a damping member for damping displacement between the coupling rod (32) and the coupling link (33), whereby reliability is improved by ensuring desirable operative characteristics.

Abstract: Provided are an exhaust bypass device and a turbocharger. The present invention is provided with: an actuator (31) for reciprocating a driving-rod (41) in the axial direction; a support shaft (34) rotatably supported in a housing (46); a connection link (33) having one end portion and the other end portion, wherein the one end portion is rotatably connected to a tip portion of the driving-rod (41), and the other end portion is fixed to one end portion in the axial direction of the support shaft (34); a waste gate valve (36) connected to the other end portion in the axial direction of the support shaft (34); and a compressive coil spring (61) disposed between the housing (46) and the connection link (33), and having a coil diameter that varies along the axial direction.

Abstract: Provided are an exhaust bypass device and a turbocharger. The present invention is provided with: an actuator for reciprocating a driving-rod in the axial direction; a support shaft rotatably supported in a housing; a connection link having one end portion and the other end portion, wherein the one end portion is rotatably connected by a connection member to a tip portion of a connection rod connected to the driving-rod, and the other end portion is fixed to one end portion in the axial direction of the support shaft; and a waste gate valve connected to the other end portion in the axial direction of the support shaft. The present invention is also provided with: a connection shaft provided in the connection link as the connection member; and a bearing block provided in the connection rod and serving as a bearing member that rotatably supports a plurality of different parts in an axial direction of the connection shaft.

Abstract: An object is to provide a seal structure capable of reducing abrasion of a seal ring without increasing the number of components and of minimizing generation of abrasion powder. A seal structure to seal clearance between an outer peripheral surface 8a of a rotary shaft 8 and an inner peripheral surface 6a of a bearing housing 6 includes: a first seal groove 22A formed on the outer peripheral surface 8a of the rotary shaft 8; a second seal groove 22B disposed between the first seal groove and the impeller; a first seal ring 26 to be mounted to the first seal groove; and a second seal ring 28 to be mounted to the second seal groove.

Abstract: A tilting pad gas bearing includes: a plurality of bearing pads disposed in a circumferential direction of a rotor; and a pivot member that swingably supports the bearing pads. Each of the bearing pads has a curved shape and includes: a pad main body supported by the pivot member; a heat insulating material layer disposed on a side of the pad main body that faces the outer circumferential surface of the rotor, and formed of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity of the pad main body; and a concave portion disposed in an outer circumferential surface on an outer circumferential side of the bearing pad in a curving direction. A base end of the pivot member is fixed to a housing, and the pivot member has a protruding portion that passes through the housing.

Abstract: A rotational body 1 includes a rotational shaft 2, an impeller 3, and a nut 6. The impeller includes a hub portion 4 having a peripheral surface 4s inclined to the axial direction of the rotational shaft and having an insert hole 4h in which the rotational shaft is inserted, and a blade portion 5. At least one of the rotational shaft or the insert hole of the hub portion has an interference fit portion 10 for fit between the rotational shaft and the impeller, where the outside diameter of the rotational shaft is larger than the inside diameter of the insert hole of the hub portion. The interference fit portion is formed in a region which does not include the largest outside diameter portion 4B where the hub portion has a largest outside diameter, with the rotational shaft and the impeller mating with each other.

Abstract: This vibration measurement device is configured to measure the balancing vibration of the cartridge, a kind of rotating machines, who has a rotor and a cartridge body to support the rotor rotatably for variable operating speed, and is provided with a rigidly fixed support structure, acceleration sensors which detect the vibration of the cartridge, and a flat spring which elastically supports the cartridge with respect to the support structure and has a variable spring constant of elastic support.

Abstract: An object is to provide a floating bush bearing device including a circumferential groove over the entire circumference of an outer peripheral surface of a floating bush while ensuring that a pressing force is applied by lubricant oil to the floating bush to reduce oscillation, as well as a turbocharger provided with the bearing device.

Abstract: A variable nozzle mechanism in which a nozzle mount has a first surface which has a minimum clearance in a direction of an axis with respect to a lever side facing surface in an opposing region facing the lever side facing surface in the direction of the axis, and a second surface which is disposed adjacent to the first surface in a circumferential direction of the nozzle mount and has a clearance in the direction of the axis with respect to the lever side facing surface larger than the clearance in the direction of the axis between the first surface and the lever side facing surface.

Abstract: A floating-bush bearing device (1) for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft (2), includes: a floating bush (3) having a cylindrical shape and including a bearing hole (33) into which the rotational shaft (2) is to be inserted; and a bearing housing (4) which rotatably houses the floating bush (3).

Abstract: An object is to provide a centrifugal compressor in which an axial force applied from a shrink-fit impeller to a sleeve section is ensured even if the sleeve section is separated from a clamp surface in an axial direction of an attachment hole, as well as a turbocharger provided with the centrifugal compressor and a method of producing the centrifugal compressor. An inner peripheral surface of an attachment hole formed on a hub includes a clamp surface and a diameter-widening surface, and an outer peripheral surface of a sleeve section includes a diameter-reducing surface.

Abstract: A tilting pad gas bearing includes: a plurality of bearing pads disposed in a circumferential direction of a rotor; and a pivot member that swingably supports the bearing pads. Each of the bearing pads has a curved shape and includes: a pad main body supported by the pivot member; a heat insulating material layer disposed on a side of the pad main body that faces the outer circumferential surface of the rotor, and formed of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity of the pad main body; and a concave portion disposed in an outer circumferential surface on an outer circumferential side of the bearing pad in a curving direction. A base end of the pivot member is fixed to a housing, and the pivot member has a protruding portion that passes through the housing.

Abstract: A motor rotor structure for an electric turbo charger is manufactured at low cost with good quality by fixedly fitting, over a shaft, a rotor core having electromagnetic steel sheets pre-formed as an integrated stack. The rotor structure includes a rotor core which is rotated by a magnetic field formed by a stator in a housing; a shaft configured to rotate a compressor impeller and the rotor core together; and a bearing supporting the shaft. The rotor includes the rotor core including the electromagnetic steel sheets; a stopper portion formed at an intermediate portion of the shaft to restrict axial movement of the rotor core; and a pressing unit which presses the rotor core fitted over the shaft against the stopper portion. The pressing unit prevents a circumferential phase shift between the shaft and the rotor core by a pressing force thereof.

Abstract: This disclosure enables high-productivity fabrication of porous semiconductor layers (made of single layer or multi-layer porous semiconductors such as porous silicon, comprising single porosity or multi-porosity layers). Some applications include fabrication of MEMS separation and sacrificial layers for die detachment and MEMS device fabrication, membrane formation and shallow trench isolation (STI) porous silicon (using porous silicon formation with an optimal porosity and its subsequent oxidation). Further, this disclosure is applicable to the general fields of photovoltaics, MEMS, including sensors and actuators, stand-alone, or integrated with integrated semiconductor microelectronics, semiconductor microelectronics chips and optoelectronics.