Abstract: A door handle, to be attached to a door, includes an outer case, an inner case integrated with the outer case, and a pressure detector configured to detect pressure applied to the inner case. The inner case includes a recess in proximity to an end portion in a longitudinal direction, and the pressure detector detects a displacement of a first inner wall surface on a center portion side of the inner case in the recess, caused by the pressure applied to the inner case.

Abstract: An ash discharge system has a conveyor device which transports clinker ash out of a region that is below a furnace bottom of a boiler furnace; and a separation device provided at a passage of the clinker ash from the furnace bottom to the conveyor device, the separation device including a separator which permits the clinker ash with a predetermined size or less to pass through the separator, and inhibits a large-mass clinker from passing through the separator, the large-mass clinker being the clinker ash with a size larger than the predetermined size.

Abstract: A grizzly apparatus includes a plurality of grizzly bars arranged at predetermined intervals in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction which is an extension direction of center axes of the grizzly bars. Each of the plurality of grizzly bars is rotatable in a direction opposite to a direction of rotation of its adjacent grizzly bar so that a slit through which a screening target object passes and a gap through which the screening target object does not pass alternately emerge, between adjacent grizzly bars. The guide includes an outer member forming its outer shape, and has at least one guide surface inclined with respect to the second direction in such a way that the guide surface descends as the guide surface advances in the second direction toward the slit to guide the screening target object having fallen onto the guide to the slit.

Abstract: An ash discharge system has a conveyor device which transports clinker ash out of a region that is below a furnace bottom of a boiler furnace; and a separation device provided at a passage of the clinker ash from the furnace bottom to the conveyor device, the separation device including a separator which permits the clinker ash with a predetermined size or less to pass through the separator, and inhibits a large-mass clinker from passing through the separator, the large-mass clinker being the clinker ash with a size larger than the predetermined size.

Abstract: A grizzly apparatus includes a plurality of grizzly bars arranged at predetermined intervals in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction which is an extension direction of center axes of the grizzly bars. Each of the plurality of grizzly bars is rotatable in a direction opposite to a direction of rotation of its adjacent grizzly bar so that a slit through which a screening target object passes and a gap through which the screening target object does not pass alternately emerge, between adjacent grizzly bars. The guide includes an outer member forming its outer shape, and has at least one guide surface inclined with respect to the second direction in such a way that the guide surface descends as the guide surface advances in the second direction toward the slit to guide the screening target object having fallen onto the guide to the slit.

Abstract: A system is provided for fusion splicing at least one pair and, more typically a plurality of pairs (e.g., 24 pairs), of optical fibers together. The system includes a pair of electrodes and a controller. The optical fibers are positioned between the pair of electrodes. In this regard, the electrodes are capable of passing an electric current therebetween to create an electric arc capable of heating an end of each of the optical fibers. The controller is capable of controlling the electrodes to thereby pass the current therebetween to create the electric arc. Advantageously, the controller is capable of controlling the electrodes to pass an initial current to thereby create and maintain an initial electric arc and thereafter pass a processing current to thereby create and maintain a processing electric arc, where the initial current is higher than the processing current.

Abstract: Software and hardware such as part feeding and assembling devices constituting a production system are simplified with the use of a plurality of processing and assembly integrated units in which processing and assembling of parts are coupled and integrated in accordance with products to be produced. The necessities for an automatic warehouse and an automated ground vehicle are eliminated by getting rid of futility of mere movements of the parts. A fundamental idea is that a production system is constructed of units in which three sections--a section for processing a raw material, a check functional section and an assembling section--are integrally combined in accordance with the products to be produced. The parts are processed, checked and assembled by single units just in time while targeting molded parts of plastic and pressed parts.

Abstract: A method of bonding an insulated and coated wire which has an insulated coating on the outside of an electrically conductive wire is disclosed which consists in connecting one end of said insulated and coated wire to the anode side of an arc power source and connecting a discharge torch to the cathode side of said arc power source with an arc discharge performed between the tip of said insulated and coated wire and the discharge torch to form a ball at said end, and said ball being positioned with respect to the bonding pad of an electrically conductive electrode and bonding being performed with a specified pressure applied to said ball.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting wiring patterns on a wiring board and leads of a parts to be mounted on the wiring board, via the solder provided between the leads and the patterns. The parts-connecting apparatus enables, especially, circuit elements of a high degree of, to be connected automatically with high reliability and accuracy by using solder through the steps of setting the wiring board in a predetermined position while pressing a surface thereof so as to remove the warp from the wiring board, fastening the leads of the part to the wiring patterns by a magnet provided on the lower surface of the wiring board, and heating the solder provided on the portions of the leads which are fastened to the wiring patterns.

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting electronic elements comprises: a board positioning means having a pair of rails disposed on an X-Y table, the board positioning means being adapted to fix and position a board which is fed thereto along the rails; an element supply means having a plurality of element supply units each adapted to feed to its element supply position an electronic element to be inserted in the board, the element supply units being arranged such that their element supply positions are placed in one or a plurality of rows; a plurality of chucks each formed such as to correspond to the configuration and size of the associated electronic elements to be inserted; an inserting head having a holder mechanism and adapted to detachably support one of the chucks by the holder mechanism and to reciprocatively move between a chuck exchanging position and element supply and insertion positions; and a chuck exchanging means including a chuck unit in which the chucks are arranged on an index-movable plate and a chuck

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for inserting coils into slots formed in the stator core of a dynamoelectric machine such as an electric motor, with the stator core having open type slots each of which cooperates with blades of the apparatus for guiding the coil and a stripper for forcing the coil out of the blades. A closed space has a volume sufficient to avoid any disorder of coil wire layers when the coil is received by the closed space. After placing the coils in the closed spaces, the coils are pushed into the respective slots and, as desired, the coils are further compressed until the coil wires assume a non-circular cross-section. By so doing, it is possible to remarkably increase the space factor of each slot.

Abstract: A cushioning member is placed in the open slots formed in a core, weirs are disposed at the ends of teeth located on both sides of each of said open slots, a coil composed of a conductor having an insulation film is disposed in said open slots and between said weirs, and said coil is pressed from the opening of said slot toward the bottom thereof in order to deform the cross-sectional shape of the conductor having insulation film from a circular shape into a non-circular shape.

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting electronic elements comprises means for supplying electronic elements, means for cutting to different lengths a plurality of lead wires extended in the same direction from the body of an electronic element supplied by the electronic element supply means, a chuck mechanism for holding the body of the electronic element with the lead wires thereof cut to different lengths by the cutting means, means for changing the direction of the lead wires with respect to insertion holes by swivelling the chuck mechanism by a predetermined angle around an axis perpendicular to the plane of a printed circuit board, an insertion head including insertion means for inserting the lead wires into the insertion holes by moving the chuck mechanism vertically with respect to the printed circuit board, an index table for moving the insertion head stepwise from at least a lead wire forward end position measuring station to a lead wire insertion station, means for measuring the forward end position of each le