Abstract: A structure securely attaches a component to an opening portion in a plate-shaped member without stripping or turning over the member. Each of a pair of mount members includes a first engagement portion engaged with a rear surface of the plate-shaped member and a second engagement portion engaged with the component. The component includes projecting portions to be fitted between the mount members, thus the component can be fixed against coming off by engagement of the second engagement portion and the component. The projecting portions inhibit the mount members engaged with the opening portion from moving, thereby preventing the mount members from coming off the opening portion. Since the fitting member is fitted between the second engagement portions, the fitting member inhibits the second engagement portions from moving to come closer to each other, and from disengagement from the component, thereby more securely preventing the component from coming off.

Abstract: In a structure, which securely attaches a component to an opening portion in a plate-shaped member without stripping or turning over the plate-shaped member, each of a pair of mount members includes a first engagement portion engaged with a rear surface side of the plate-shaped member and a second engagement portion engaged with the component. The component includes projecting portions to be fitted between the mount members to enable fixing against coming off by engagement of the second engagement portion and the component. The projecting portions inhibit the mount members from moving so as not to come off the opening portion. Since the second engagement portion is formed from the multiple step portions engageable with the component, engagement with the component may be done even if plate thickness of the plate-shaped member varies, enabling fixing without backlash and improving versatility to the plate-shaped member having different plate thickness.

Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has an arc extinguishing chamber housing a contact mechanism having a pair of fixed contacts and a movable contact that contacts with the pair of fixed contacts. The arc extinguishing chamber has a plate-shaped fixed contact support insulating substrate including through holes to fix at least the pair of fixed contacts and formed with a metal foil on an outer peripheral circumferential edge of one surface by a metalizing process. The pair of fixed contacts and a metal cylindrical body are brazed and joined to the metal foils of the fixed contact support insulating substrate, and an insulating cylindrical body is disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the metal cylindrical body.

Abstract: In a structure, which securely attaches a component to an opening portion in a plate-shaped member without stripping or turning over the plate-shaped member, each of a pair of mount members includes a first engagement portion engaged with a rear surface side of the plate-shaped member and a second engagement portion engaged with the component. The component includes projecting portions to be fitted between the mount members to enable fixing against coming off by engagement of the second engagement portion and the component. The projecting portions inhibit the mount members from moving so as not to come off the opening portion. Since the second engagement portion is formed from the multiple step portions engageable with the component, engagement with the component may be done even if plate thickness of the plate-shaped member varies, enabling fixing without backlash and improving versatility to the plate-shaped member having different plate thickness.

Abstract: A structure securely attaches a component to an opening portion in a plate-shaped member without stripping or turning over the member. Each of a pair of mount members includes a first engagement portion engaged with a rear surface of the plate-shaped member and a second engagement portion engaged with the component. The component includes projecting portions to be fitted between the mount members, thus the component can be fixed against coming off by engagement of the second engagement portion and the component. The projecting portions inhibit the mount members engaged with the opening portion from moving, thereby preventing the mount members from coming off the opening portion.

Abstract: Provided is a position controller for a flexible substrate (100) provided in a processing apparatus conveying a band-shaped flexible substrate (1) in a longitudinal position, in the lateral direction and processing the substrate in a processing unit (20) installed on a conveying path of the substrate.

Abstract: A conveying device has a substrate conveying device for conveying a flexible substrate while holding the flexible substrate upright, with one end part in a width direction of the flexible substrate being on an upper side; and a substrate retaining device. The substrate retaining device has a pair of grip rollers; a support mechanism rotatably supporting the pair of grip rollers; a transmission mechanism transmitting a force to pressure contact one of the grip rollers with the other grip roller; a first driving device configured to adjust a pressure contact force of the pair of grip rollers; an angle adjusting mechanism configured to incline the pair of grip rollers with respect to a conveying direction of the flexible substrate; and a second driving device configured to adjust an inclination angle of the pair of grip rollers with respect to the conveying direction of the flexible substrate.

Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has an arc extinguishing chamber housing a contact mechanism having a pair of fixed contacts and a movable contact that contacts with the pair of fixed contacts. The arc extinguishing chamber has a plate-shaped fixed contact support insulating substrate including through holes to fix at least the pair of fixed contacts and formed with a metal foil on an outer peripheral circumferential edge of one surface by a metalizing process. The pair of fixed contacts and a metal cylindrical body are brazed and joined to the metal foils of the fixed contact support insulating substrate, and an insulating cylindrical body is disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the metal cylindrical body.

Abstract: An apparatus (30) for control of the position of a flexible substrate (1) in the vertical width direction has first and second upper sandwiching roller pairs (31, 32) for sandwiching the upper edge of the flexible substrate while sending the flexible substrate. Rotation shafts of the first upper sandwiching rollers (31) are inclined so as to have a deflection angle (?) directed obliquely upward with respect to a first transport direction (F), in a sandwiching portion, of the flexible substrate, and rotation shafts of the second upper sandwiching rollers (32) are inclined so as to have a deflection angle (?) directed obliquely upward with respect to a second transport direction (R) opposite the first transport direction in a sandwiching portion. A switching device for switching the first and second upper sandwiching roller pairs (31, 32) between operative and inoperative states is provided.

Abstract: On a lamination frame is disposed a stacked member of photovoltaic cells and a concave-convex member. The photovoltaic cells are formed using a flexible substrate. When forming the stacked member, each of the plurality of photovoltaic cells is disposed on a lamination frame in the state of an intermediate member sandwiched between protective films for lamination and sealing. Among the protective films, the protective film positioned on the side of the light-receiving face of the photovoltaic cells is opposed entirely by the concave-convex member. The concave-convex member has concavities and convexities on the surface opposing the protective film. By simultaneously subjecting the intermediate member and the concave-convex member to lamination treatment, a plurality of photovoltaic cells can be simultaneously and individually sealed by the protective film.

Abstract: A strip-shape flexible substrate is transported over a long horizontal distance, with its width extending in the vertical direction, the position of the substrate in the vertical direction is maintained with high precision, and the films are deposited onto its surface. When depositing the thin films to manufacture a thin film laminated body, at least one pair of gripping rollers arranged in at least one space between film deposition chambers, and which grasps an upper-side edge portion of the substrate with its width oriented in the vertical direction, are installed such that the rotation direction of the gripping rollers is diagonally upward, at an angle relative to the direction of transport of the substrate, and by changing the force with which the gripping rollers grasp the substrate, a force lifts the substrate, and the height of the substrate can be controlled.

Abstract: A film substrate conveying device is a device for conveying a belt-like film substrate while placing the film substrate upright, with one end part thereof being on an upper side in a width direction thereof. The film substrate conveying device has at least a pair of first grip rollers disposed to sandwich an upper end part of the film substrate therebetween; and a first angle adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting an inclination direction and an inclination angle of the first grip rollers to be capable of inclining a rotation angle of the first grip rollers such that a rotation direction of the first grip rollers is on an upper side with respect to a conveying direction.

Abstract: A conveying device has a substrate conveying device for conveying a flexible substrate while holding the flexible substrate upright, with one end part in a width direction of the flexible substrate being on an upper side; and a substrate retaining device. The substrate retaining device has a pair of grip rollers; a support mechanism rotatably supporting the pair of grip rollers; a transmission mechanism transmitting a force to pressure contact one of the grip rollers with the other grip roller; a first driving device configured to adjust a pressure contact force of the pair of grip rollers; an angle adjusting mechanism configured to incline the pair of grip rollers with respect to a conveying direction of the flexible substrate; and a second driving device configured to adjust an inclination angle of the pair of grip rollers with respect to the conveying direction of the flexible substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a position controller for a flexible substrate (100) provided in a processing apparatus conveying a band-shaped flexible substrate (1) in a longitudinal position, in the lateral direction and processing the substrate in a processing unit (20) installed on a conveying path of the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for manufacturing a thin film stacked member capable of improving the quality of the thin film stacked member by decreasing creases, heat wrinkles, and tension wrinkles in the film through wrinkle smoothing-out. An apparatus for manufacturing a thin film stacked member transports a strip-shape flexible substrate in a horizontal direction with a width direction of the strip-shape flexible substrate as the vertical direction. The strip-shape flexible substrate is transported to a film deposition portion provided in a transport path of the strip-shape flexible substrate. A thin film is stacked on a surface of the strip-shape flexible substrate by means of a film deposition apparatus provided in the film deposition portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a thin-film laminate prevents loosening of a strip-shaped flexible substrate at the time of conveying or misalignment of the strip-shaped flexible substrate with respect to a winding roller at the time of winding. In the apparatus, a strip-shaped flexible substrate in a lateral direction is conveyed by positioning longitudinally the width direction of the strip-shaped flexible substrate wound in a roll shape. The apparatus includes a deposition device having a deposition chamber for forming a thin film on the strip-shaped flexible substrate, a winding roll for winding a thin-film laminate, and an adjustment roller to prevent a loosening or misalignment of the strip-shaped flexible substrate between a pair of grip rollers and the winding roll, and the pair of grip rollers arranged in front of the adjustment roller to convey the thin-film laminate while maintaining a given height.

Abstract: A flexible substrate position control device in a processing device, which transports a flexible substrate in a horizontal direction and in a vertical orientation and carries out processing of the substrate by processing units installed in a transport path of the substrate, is provided with a pair of clamping rollers that clamp an upper edge of the substrate, a support mechanism that rotatably supports the pair of clamping rollers, urging means for applying pressing force to the pair of clamping rollers, and adjusting means for adjusting the pressing force applied by the urging means. The pair of clamping rollers has an inclination, in which the direction of pressing relative to the clamping surface of the substrate is towards the edge of the substrate in the width direction, and is supported such that the rotating direction at the clamping surface is the same direction as the transport direction of the substrate.

Abstract: A housing has an intake passage extending substantially in a vertical direction of a vehicle. A valve is configured to open and close the intake passage. A shaft supports the valve. A bearing supports the shaft. A hose is connected with an upper side of the housing in the vertical direction and configured to lead intake air into the intake passage. A communication passage configured to communicate an inside of an internal combustion engine of the vehicle with the hose. The communication passage has an opening in the vicinity of a point directly above the bearing. The hose has a wall surface defining a condensate passage, which connects the opening with a target location from which condensate is to be dropped.

Abstract: A housing has an intake passage extending substantially in a vertical direction of a vehicle. A valve is configured to open and dose the intake passage. A shaft supports the valve. A bearing supports the shaft. A hose is connected with an upper side of the housing in the vertical direction and configured to lead intake air into the intake passage. A communication passage configured to communicate an inside of an internal combustion engine of the vehicle with the hose. The communication passage has an opening in the vicinity of a point directly above the bearing. The hose has a wall surface defining a condensate passage, which connects the opening with a target location from which condensate is to be dropped.

Abstract: A housing has an intake passage extending substantially in a vertical direction of a vehicle. A valve is configured to open and close the intake passage. A shaft supports the valve. A bearing supports the shaft. A hose is connected with an upper side of the housing in the vertical direction and configured to lead intake air into the intake passage. A communication passage configured to communicate an inside of an internal combustion engine of the vehicle with the hose. The communication passage has an opening in the vicinity of a point directly above the bearing. The hose has a wall surface defining a condensate passage, which connects the opening with a target location from which condensate is to be dropped.