Abstract: A blasting chamber capable of conducting painting on a workpiece subsequent to a blasting process in the same working chamber is provided. A dust collection unit 20 that ventilates a main unit 10 during blasting work and a ventilation unit 30 that ventilates a main unit during a painting step are provided. A side wall 11 of the main unit is provided with an entrance 11a and an opening-and-closing member 11b that opens/closes the entrance, the dust collection unit is provided so as to project from a roof panel 15 to a floor panel 16 at a position closer to an other side wall 12 that is opposed to this side wall so as to partition the interior of the main unit, and a working space 10a and a ventilation duct 10b are defined in the main unit. A roof panel 15 above a working space has air suction holes 17 formed therein, and an intake opening 22 that communicates between the dust collection unit and the ventilation duct is provided.

Abstract: To provide an apparatus for supplying a constant quantity of abrasive that can accurately control abrasive quantity supplied to a blasting machine. A rotating disk 20 that rotates in the horizontal direction is provided inside an abrasive tank 10, with a gap 3 being capable to rotate the rotating disk 20, being formed at an end 11a of a mixed fluid flow path 11 arranged on one surface of the rotating disk 20, and at an end 12a of a gas flow path 12 arranged facing other surface of the rotating disk 20 via the rotating disk 20 at the end 11a of the mixed fluid flow path 11. Hole sections 21 are provided in the rotating disk 20 on a rotation locus passing through the gap 3, equally spaced and passing through in a thickness direction of the rotating disk 20, with stirrer blades 22 protruding from the upper surface of the rotating disk 20, and the rotating disk 20 being immersed in abrasive stored inside the abrasive tank 10, except for a part positioned in the gap 3.

Abstract: A bottom wall surface of a blasting chamber of a blasting machine provided with hoppers for recovering an abrasive is formed at a lowest possible position. A cabinet 3 of a blasting machine 1 is compartmentalized at a predetermined position into an upper space and a lower space by mesh members (21, 22) that allow the abrasive to pass therethrough to form a blasting chamber 2 having a bottom wall surface 20 defined by the mesh members (21, 22). Hoppers 10 substantially shaped like an inverted quadrangular pyramid are disposed below the mesh members (21, 22) such that top portions of the hoppers 10 are opened toward the mesh members (21, 22) and that the bottom end of each of the hoppers 10 is made to communicate with suction means, such as a dust collector, through a recovery pipe 30.

Abstract: An abrasive, which makes it possible to polish a surface to be processed of a workpiece with a blast processing, and together therewith, can bear using for a long period of time or a plurality of times, and a method for blast processing with the abrasive are provided. The abrasive is composed of a base material as an elastic body and abrasive grains, wherein the abrasive grains of 10 to 90% by weight are compounded and dispersed into the base material of 90 to 10% by weight such that a content rate (compounding ratio) of the abrasive grains in the abrasive is 10 to 90% by weight when an amount of the abrasive is 100% by weight. The method for blast processing includes a step of injecting or projecting the abrasive at a predetermined angle of incidence with respect to the surface to be processed of the workpiece.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a constant amount of abrasives that can accurately control the amount of the abrasives to be supplied to a blasting machine is provided. A horizontally rotating disc 20 is provided in an abrasive tank 10 so as to be embedded in the abrasives. An opening at one end 11a of an abrasive transport path 11 is formed so as to be close to or in contact with one surface of the disc 20, an opening at one end 12a of a supply channel 12 for transport air flow is formed so as to be close to or in contact with the other surface of the disc 20, and an abrasive retrieve section 5 is formed between the both openings. Furthermore, measuring holes 21 penetrating the disc 20 in the thickness direction are formed at regular intervals along a rotation orbit of the disc 20 passing through the retrieve section 5, and an introduction path 17 for compressed gas which is ejected to the abrasives disposed above the measuring holes 21 and outside the retrieve section 5 is provided.

Abstract: Flaky particles whose thickness is ½ or less of a long side of a flat surface thereof are continuously injected together with a compressed gas onto a layer-forming surface of a workpiece to orient the flaky particles so that its flat surface is in line with the surface of the workpiece. By coating a binder to the surface of the workpiece in advance, a bonding between the flake particle thus oriented and the workpiece may be accomplished via this binder, or by generating heat at a point of collision between the surface of the workpiece and the flaky particle and at a collision point in which the subsequent flaky particles collide with the flaky particles that have already reached the surface of the workpiece, the bonding may be accomplished by means of this heat.

Abstract: An inspection method and an inspection apparatus that can easily measure a distribution of residual stress on a surface processed by shot peening, including a state of distribution in a depth direction of a material to be treated in a relatively short time without destroying the material to be treated. A coil provided in the inspection circuit is arranged on a surface processed by shot peening of the inspection target, an alternating current signal is input to the inspection circuit with changing a frequency so that frequency response characteristics of impedance of the inspection circuit is measured and acquired as inspection target data, and the inspection target data is compared to frequency response characteristics of impedance acquired from a sample of which a state of generation of residual stress is found.

Abstract: Provided is a moving mechanism for a blast gun which can easily move a blast gun accommodated in a blasting chamber and which can easily perform other operations from the outside thereof without leaking dust. A plurality of arm members (first input arm 21, second input arm 22, first output arm 31, and second output arm 32) are interlocked to form an input arm 20 and an output arm 30, each having one pair of arm members, one arm of the two arm members is pivotally attached to the other arm so as to be rotatable around an interlocked portion serving as a fulcrum, the input arm 20 is disposed outside the blasting chamber 3, and the output arm 30 is disposed inside the blasting chamber 3.

Abstract: A portion to be coated of a workpiece is subjected to substrate treatment by blasting to provide an anchor effect without leaving abrasive grains thereon. A substrate treatment method for a portion to be coated includes ejecting an elastic abrasive onto a portion to be coated of a workpiece to form irregularities with a predetermined surface roughness, thereby providing an anchor effect for a coating to be formed without causing the abrasive grains to be embedded in the surface of the workpiece. The elastic abrasive includes elastic carriers and abrasive grains, particularly, insulating abrasive grains, compounded and dispersed in the base material as an elastic body or carried on surfaces of the base materials by, for example, adhesion.

Abstract: A grinding method is provided which can grind a processing surface of a workpiece by a blast processing without use of specific abrasives to obtain a glossy surface such as a mirror surface. Abrasives together with compresses fluid are injected to the processing surface of the workpiece with an incident angle ? to meet the condition shown in the following equation: 0<V·sin ??½·VEquation 1; V=speed of the abrasive in an injection direction ?=incident angle of the abrasive to the processing surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: A grinding method is provided which can grind a processing surface of a workpiece by a blast processing without use of specific abrasives to obtain a glossy surface such as a mirror surface.

Abstract: A blasting apparatus and a blasting method enable a processing pattern to be enlarged or modified in a suction type blasting apparatus by using a relatively simple composition, and also permit stable, continuous ejection of an abrasive in the enlarged or modified processing pattern. A nozzle (42) of a blast gun (40) of a suction type blasting apparatus is surrounded by a nozzle cover (49) with a predetermined gap provided therebetween, and a passage (43) which is opened in an abrasive ejecting direction between the outer periphery of the nozzle (42) and the inner periphery of the nozzle cover (49) is communicated with a supply source of compressed air. An abrasive dispersion chamber (52) serving as a dispersing nozzle is connected to an ejection port (47) of the blast gun (40).

Abstract: A drive apparatus for an opening and closing mechanism includes an electric motor, a clutch, a reduction gear unit and a timer mechanism. The clutch includes a coupling having first and second halves engageable with each other, and an actuator mechanism for connecting and disconnecting the first and second halves. The first half of the coupling is operatively connected to a rotor of the motor. The reduction gear unit is operatively connected to the second half of the clutch. The reduction gear unit has an output shaft for being operably connected to the opening and closing mechanism. The timer mechanism is provided for regulating the operating period of time of the motor in response to the operation of the reduction gear unit.