Abstract: A conveyor system has a monitor for entering information about sheets, an input/output control console for setting operating conditions of a first conveyor and a second conveyor based on the information about the sheets, and a power control console for operating the first conveyor and the second conveyor based on the operating conditions. The information about the sheets includes information as to the length of each of the sheets and data as to the position where the sheets are loaded from a press. A conveyor feed length representative of a feed cycle of a sheet on the first conveyor and the second conveyor, and the number of sheets on the second conveyor are automatically determined based on the length of the sheets and the data.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes at least three electrode layers and organic electroluminescent light-emitting structures, a number of which structures is smaller by one than that of the electrode layers, on a substrate. The electrode layer and the light-emitting structure are alternately formed in this order on the substrate. A group of the electrode layers formed in an odd-numbered layer position from the substrate and a group of the electrode layers formed in an even-numbered layer position from the substrate are electrically connected at a same potential, respectively. Light is alternately emitted in a group of the organic electroluminescent light-emitting structures formed in an odd-numbered layer position from the substrate and a group of the organic electroluminescent light-emitting structures formed in an even-numbered layer position from the substrate, upon application of an alternating voltage between the above-described two groups of the electrodes layers.

Abstract: A vehicle drive device comprises an actuator located between an electric motor and axles for driving the vehicle, a built-in power source for supplying electric power to the actuator, and a control means for controlling the drive of the actuator. The built-in power source can be consisted of a battery, and the actuator can be consisted of an electromagnetic clutch. Here, the vehicle drive device further comprises a boost means, such as a DC-DC converter, for boosting voltage of the built-in power source such as the battery. The output voltage of the boost means is supplied electric power to the actuator such as the electromagnetic clutch. The output voltage of the boost means can be also supplied the electric power to the field coil of the electric motor.

Abstract: A thermal type flow measuring device comprises a heating resistor(HF), a temperature measuring resistor(Ru) upstream of the heating resistor(HF) with respect to a fluid(Q), and a temperature measuring resistor(Rd) downstream of the heating resistor(HF). A heat sensitive resistance element(CF), the upstream temperature measuring resistor(Ru) and the downstream temperature measuring resistor(Rd) form a first bridge circuit, and this first bridge circuit and the heating resistor(HF) form a second bridge circuit. Feedback control means(OP1, Tr) heat the heating resistor(HF) in accordance with an output for keeping a balance of the second bridge circuit.

Abstract: A control mechanism (20; 70) and a method for use in an installation for transporting bulk material, granular material or powdery material through a conveyor line (1) with the aid of a pressurized gaseous medium. The control mechanism (20; 70) is arranged for being connected to the conveyor line (1) for the purpose of introducing a pressurized gaseous medium (15) therein and comprises a connecting opening (24) for connecting the control mechanism (20; 70) to an inlet (25) in the conveyor line (1), an intake (26) for gaseous medium (15), which is in communication with the connecting opening (24), valve means (28; 71), which operatively engage the intake (26), and means (31, 32, 35, 50, 51; 32) for controlling the valve means (28; 71) associated with the pressure of the gaseous medium in the conveyor line (1).

Abstract: A lateral-shear interferometer utilizes two relatively thick glass plates bonded together in a single block with a tilted air gap between opposing inner surfaces. The thickness of the glass plates is selected to be sufficiently large to separate the output beams from the light reflected from the top and bottom surfaces of the block, thereby eliminating the need for antireflection coatings. The shear interferometer is combined with an external mirror mounted on a tilt stage actuated by a computer-controlled tilt actuator to perform phase-shifting interferometric analysis in conventional manner.

Abstract: A fuel swirling means 15 for giving a swirling force at the upper stream of the valve sheet 7 to the fuel passing through the surrounding area of the valve body 13 and a nozzle 16 injecting a swirling fuel are provided. A fuel spray 47 injected out from the injection port 17 of the nozzle 16 is so formed that the orientation of the fuel spray is deflected in a definite direction on the basis of the longitudinal axis C of the fuel injection valve body, the reachable distance L1 of the fuel spray at the deflected side is longer and the reachable distance L2 of the fuel spray at another side opposite to the deflected side is shorter.

Abstract: A thermal enhance multi-chips module package mainly comprises an assembly substrate, a first assembly package, a second assembly package, a heat dissipation board, and a thermally conductive metal ring. The first assembly package and the second assembly package are disposed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the assembly substrate respectively; and the thermally conductive metal ring is disposed at the periphery of the upper surface of the heat dissipation board and encompasses the second assembly package. The second assembly package has a logic chip therein and generates a lot of heat, and the heat dissipation board can transmit the heat to the outside through the thermally conductive metal ring so as to prevent the excessive heat from transmitting to the motherboard and accumulating in the motherboard. Accordingly, the motherboard can be avoided damaging.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tire assembling/disassembling machine, particularly for industrial vehicle wheels, having a support frame (2) delimiting a foreheadt, a back and two sides, a rigid support framework (13) articulated at the back of the support frame (2) according to an articulation axis (12), driving means (15) for angularly lifting/lowering said rigid support framework (13) with respect to said support frame, a self-centering assembly (14) overhangingly carried by said rigid support framework (13) at the foreheadof said support frame (2), whereby its axis of rotation is substantially normal to said articulation axis (12), and bead-releasing means carried by said rigid support framework.

Abstract: An apparatus for optically inspecting particles and/or defects correlates sizes of particles and/or defects to a cause of failure in an inspection result. A data processing circuit points out a cause of failure from the statistics on the inspection result, and displays information on the inspection result. A failure analysis is conducted by setting a threshold for identifying a failure in each of regions on a semiconductor device or the like to statistically evaluate detected particles.

Abstract: A wafer load lock and linear delivery system including within a load lock vacuum chamber a paddle cantilevered from a trolley traveling on a single rail extending on a lateral side of the wafer end of the paddle while it is retracted into the load lock chamber. The trolley is magnetically coupled to an external mechanical, drive through a vacuum wall of the vacuum chamber which drives the wafer on the paddle into an attached processing chamber. A single wafer may be loaded onto the paddle through a door in the vacuum wall. Alternatively, a cassette of wafers may be loaded into a cassette station opposite the processing chamber. One end of the paddle removes a wafer from the cassette, and a hand off station moves the wafer to a second end of the paddle, which then moves it into the processing chamber.

Abstract: A program preparation apparatus that can reduce power consumption and that can suppress malfunctions and the occurrence of noise by improving software is provided. An assembler prepares a relative object program based on an assembly source program. Next, the assembler changes the order of instructions included in the assembly source program in a range that does not influence the operational results in a CPU and, thereby, prepares another assembly source program so as to prepare a relative object program based on this assembly source program. Next, the assembler finds the respective maximum Hamming distance values between respective instructions for a plurality of relative object programs so that the program of which the maximum Hamming distance value is the lowest is determined as a formal relative object program.

Abstract: An electrode for a crusher and a crusher capable of increasing energy utilized for crushing are obtained. The electrode 1 for a crusher comprises a central conductor (12, 17) extending along a central axis and having an outer peripheral surface, an insulating member (13, 18) arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the central conductor (12, 17) and a peripheral conductor (15) arranged to enclose the insulating member (13, 18). The peripheral conductor (15) includes a first conductor (14a) and a second conductor (14b) arranged at a space from the first conductor (14a) in the extensional direction of the central axis.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of unit windings 41 is formed by being divided into a first winding section 42 having opened end portions and a second winding section 43, and the first winding section 42 is shaped in such a manner that a step in radial direction of a stator core 2 is formed between opposing side sections 46 and 47 and the opened end sections are bent in the crossing over direction of the winding so that open ends 443 and 444 of the opened end sections 44 oppose each other in the radial direction of the stator core 2, then the open ends 443 and 444 are connected by winding conductor pieces 431 and 432 of the second winding section to complete the unit winding 41, thereby, end sections of a stator winding are shortened and a small size dynamo electric machine is realized.

Abstract: A method for the classification of an occupancy status of a vehicle seat, where occupancy profiles from an occupancy sensor are recorded and evaluated and the classification of the actual occupancy status is determined. The method includes, when the system power is turned off, storing the last determined class and the last recorded profile into a non-volatile memory; when the system power is turned on, comparing the first recorded profile with the profile stored into the non-volatile memory; and if the likeness of the first recorded profile and the profile stored in the non-volatile memory exceeds a specific threshold, setting the actual class to equal the class stored into the non-volatile memory.

Abstract: Recovery from peripheral nerve and nerve plexus injuries is usually slow and incomplete because the regenerating motor axons often head erroneously toward sensory receptors rather than muscle fibers and because the target muscles atrophy while waiting for the slow process of reinnervation. Research has suggested that electrical stimulation with different waveforms and temporal patterns at different times during the regeneration process might improve the clinical outcome through various mechanisms, but a practical means to deliver such stimulation has been lacking. This invention teaches the use of miniature electrical stimulators that can be implanted alongside the injured nerve(s) at the time of surgical repair and that can be powered and controlled by transmission of radiofrequency energy from outside the body so as to provide a variety of electrical stimuli at different times during the recovery process.

Abstract: A code reader is configured to reads information unique to an object from a code (e.g., one dimensional code, two dimensional code, three dimensional code, or multi-dimensional code combined with different codes, hereinafter referred to as a code) by providing the code directly or indirectly on the object in order to identify the particular object (e.g., a product) among the plural objects made of metal, rubber, ceramic, and resin, or the like.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for automatically forming raw tuna loins into homogenized, formed packets and packing those packets into bags for freezing and shipping to distant canning plants. A conveyed stream of raw tuna loins is tamped and compacted into a homogenized tuna stream of a predetermined height and width with dimensions compatible with processing equipment at the canning plant. A predetermined length of the homogenized tuna stream is measured and cut into packets and automatically packed into bags of predetermined size. In one embodiment, a servo controlled, intermittent advance conveyor is provided which is adapted to periodically advance said stream of raw tuna loins a distance which corresponds to the length of the bags into which the tuna is being packed. The apparatus for homogenizing the raw tuna loins is either a ski-shaped tamper driven by rotating cranks or a top belt including a pressure cylinder for urging the top belt into contact with the stream of raw tuna loins.

Abstract: In an inspection device for inspecting for possible foreign matters contaminating a liquid filled transparent container, a red color illumination unit 23A is disposed behind a glass container 22 filled with liquid and a pair of blue color illumination units 23B and 23C are disposed so as to sandwich the red color illumination unit 23A. Both the red color and blue color illumination units 23A, 23B and 23C are disposed so that the red color light transmits through the glass container 22 and the blue color light reflected by a possible foreign matter in the liquid merges with the red color transmission light. Both the transmission light and the reflection light are separated by a color separation mirror 4 and are imaged by CCD cameras 5 and 6 so as to detect both black color series and white color series foreign matters can be detected at the same time.

Abstract: A gas flowmeter capable of reducing a secular change comprises a silicon semiconductor substrate formed with a cavity and a heat element formed above the cavity of the semiconductor substrate by way of an insulating film. The heat element is a silicon (Si) semiconductor thin film impurity-doped at high concentration. Stoichiometrically stable silicon nitride (Si3N4) thin films as barrier layers which less permeate and less absorb hydrogen in the heat generating temperature range of the heat element are formed above and below the silicon (Si) semiconductor thin film.