Abstract: In a fluidal machine with an impeller rotating to urge a fluid radially outwardly by a centrifugal force, a vane guiding the fluid discharged from the impeller, a vane member which includes a front end of the vane facing to the impeller so that the fluid discharged from the impeller strikes against the front end and which is prevented from contacting the atmosphere, and a casing surrounding the vane member and contacting the atmosphere, the vane member is discrete from the casing, a vibration propagation between the vane member and the casing is prevented or restrained, and a vibration of a pipe extending from the casing is absorbed.

Abstract: An alarm notifying device comprises a circuit which performs communications via a communication line, a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom, and a CPU. The alarm notifying device notifies an alarm to the outside when the alarm signal is detected. The alarm notifying device has the function of receiving a mail, the function of analyzing the contents of a text of the received mail, and the function of changing information lying inside the device according to the contents of the text of the received mail.

Abstract: An alarm notifying device comprising apparatus for inputting an alarm signal of a facility to be monitored, apparatus for connecting to a mail server for delivering an electronic mail by way of a communication line, a memory for storing a guidance text corresponding to the contents of an alarm, and a CPU having the function of transmitting an electronic mail about the alarm. In the alarm notifying device, the CPU has the function of adding the contents of an alarm and a guidance text corresponding to the alarm contents to an electronic mail.

Abstract: In a fluidal machine with an impeller rotating to urge a fluid radially outwardly by a centrifugal force, a vane guiding the fluid discharged from the impeller, a vane member which includes a front end of the vane facing to the impeller so that the fluid discharged from the impeller strikes against the front end and which is prevented from contacting the atmosphere, and a casing surrounding the vane member and contacting the atmosphere, the vane member is discrete from the casing, a vibration propagation between the vane member and the casing is prevented or restrained, and a vibration of a pipe extending from the casing is absorbed.

Abstract: In a fluidal machine with an impeller rotating to urge a fluid radially outwardly by a centrifugal force, a vane guiding the fluid discharged from the impeller, a vane member which includes a front end of the vane facing to the impeller so that the fluid discharged from the impeller strikes against the front end and which is prevented from contacting the atmosphere, and a casing surrounding the vane member and contacting the atmosphere, the vane member is discrete from the casing, a vibration propagation between the vane member and the casing is prevented or restrained, and a vibration of a pipe extending from the casing is absorbed.

Abstract: A film laminating apparatus attaches films to electronic circuit boards, such as printed circuit boards and silicone boards or wafers. The film laminating apparatus conveys a plurality of boards at intervals, forms pieces of lamination film at the intervals of the boards on a base film with a processing area between boards and continuously conveys the base film into a reduced-pressure chamber having a board loading port, a film loading port, a laminating mechanism for attaching the lamination film on the base film to the boards, and a board unloading port for ejecting the laminated boards. Shutters are provided for opening and closing shutter sections provided in the board loading port and the board unloading port of the reduced-pressure chamber, and a vacuum source is provided for evacuating the reduced-pressure chamber when the reduced-pressure chamber is closed by the shutters.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus 199, 169 has a roll paper vibrating device which vibrates roll paper in contact with the lower surface of a screen mask in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the roll paper while the roll paper is being moved in contact with the lower surface of the screen mask. Thereby, the roll paper in contact with the lower surface of the screen mask is moved in a waveform-shape pattern. Therefore, the cumulative contact area of the roll paper on the lower surface of the mask is increased, and it is possible to efficiently remove residue, such as paste attached onto the lower surface of the screen mask of the printing apparatus and paste attached inside pattern openings of the screen mask, to maintain a good printing performance.

Abstract: An air cleaner includes a housing having an upper wall and side walls, an air filter mounted with respect to the housing, a fan including a vane-wheel having a plurality of vanes, a supporting plate extending substantially between at least two side walls for supporting the fan. An air flow directional member directs an air flow output from the fan. The vane is formed to have a winglike cross-section, and the vane-wheel includes not more than four vanes. The vane-wheel has a base plate and a shroud. Each of the base plate and the shroud is formed to have a reinforcement portion on its circumference. A U-shaped balance weight is attached to a flattened portion formed on the curled portion. The air cleaner of the present invention can reduce noise and vibration and improve efficiency of the fan.

Abstract: A paste applicator for drawing a paste film in a desired pattern on a substrate, including a table for detachably supporting a substrate, a paste reservoir tube to be filled with a paste, and a nozzle communicating with the paste reservoir and having a paste discharging port opposing to an upper surface of the substrate mounted on the table. A device is supplied for changing the relative positional relationship between the nozzle and the substrate mounted on the table. The paste is applied onto the substrate to form a desired pattern of the paste. A measuring device measures a position of a paste discharging port of a nozzle exchanged together with the paste reservoir tube by using a paste pattern formed by applying the paste onto the substrate held on the table using the exchanged nozzle. The center of the paste pattern nearly agrees with the center of the paste discharging port.

Abstract: A method of adjusting the engaged clearance between rotors of a screw compressor which has a male rotor and a female rotor inside a casing, both of the rotors being rotated while maintaining a required very small clearance using timing gears fixed individually to the rotors through shrink fitting, wherein the very small clearance between the rotors is set to a required value by loosening the shrink fitting between one of the timing gears and the rotor on which the one of the timing gears is mounted, while movement of the other of the timing gears is being restricted; and intermittently applying torques to the rotor on which the one of the timing gears is mounted using a servo motor. In this way, it is possible to obtain a screw compressor in which a very small clearance between the rotors can be set to a required value in a short time, and in which high reliability in the symmetrizing adjustment and a high compressing performance can be obtained.

Abstract: A user-motion-response type exercise equipment capable of changing the moving speed of the moving belt surface so as to follow the running speed of the runner from the start to end of running. The equipment includes an endless belt mechanism having a moving surface for the user (runner) to walk or run on, a driving mechanism for driving the endless belt mechanism to move the moving belt surface at a speed in accordance with a control signal supplied externally, a position detector for detecting the user's position on the moving belt surface, and a controller for performing a control action combining a proportional control action and an integral control action in parallel in accordance with the user's position on the moving belt surface detected by the position detector as the controlled variable, and generating a control signal supplied externally to the driving mechanism and sending the control signal to the driving mechanism.

Abstract: A heating furnace and a method for uniformly thermo-setting a paste applied onto the surface of a substrate, and for manufacturing a high quality substrate. The heating furnace can be installed in a small area. A plurality of up-and-down moving pins are provided in a furnace body. The plurality of up-and-down moving pins are penetrating a hot plate having a heater and are vertically movable. A substrate loaded through an opening port in an isolation wall is mounted onto the up-and-down moving pins moved in their upper position. The substrate moved down near the hot plate using the up-and-down moving pins is preheated by the heated hot plate. Then, the substrate is further moved down and vacuum attracted to the hot plate to be heated by the hot plate. After that, the substrate is moved up to the original position and nitrogen gas from nozzles of a gas supply pipe is blown on the surface of the substrate to accelerate cooling of the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a paste to a surface of a substrate by holding the substrate on a table and by moving a nozzle relative to the table to form a desired paste pattern on the substrate. The apparatus has a device for measuring the position of a paste ejection orifice of the nozzle, a processing unit for calculating, from a result of the measurement by the measuring device, a displacement of the position of the paste ejection orifice when the nozzle is changed, and a mechanism for positioning the substrate at a desired position with respect to the ejection orifice of the changed nozzle on the basis of a result of the operation of the processsing unit. With this arrangement, even if the position of the ejection orifice of the nozzle is changed when the nozzle is changed, the desired positional relationship between the nozzle and the substrate can be set with improved accuracy, whereby a paste pattern can be drawn accurately.

Abstract: In a hot press according to the present invention, a control panel detects the fact that the viscosity of bonding resin of multilayer circuit board materials is minimized by taking thereinto at least one of the values measured by a speed sensor of a lower bolster, a measuring portion for measuring a control current of an electromagnetic proportional relief valve and a relief amount detector for detecting the relief amount of the electromagnetic proportional relief valve, and gives an instruction of an optimum air pressure addition timing. Accordingly, even if the multilayer circuit board materials and the like are varied, it is always possible to change over from a vacuum condition to an air pressure added condition at the best timing, thereby making it possible to obtain a multilayer circuit board of a uniform thickness without causing generation of void.

Abstract: A hot press used, for example, for producing a thin printed board and a multilayered board, such as liquid crystal glass board bonded by a low-viscosity adhesive, and to a hot press suitable for forming a board requiring uniform bonding pressure. A hot press includes an upper and a lower bolster arranged in vertically opposed relation to each other, an upper and a lower heat plate respectively disposed in opposed relation to the upper and lower bolsters, a device for moving at least one of the upper and lower bolsters toward the other to produce a pressing force between the upper and lower heat plates, and pressure vessels respectively mounted on the heat plates. Each pressure vessel is made of a thin film and is filled with a fluid heating medium. When substrate blanks are interposed between the upper and lower pressure vessels and pressed by them, surface pressure for adhesive bonding becomes uniform, and heat from the heat plates is uniformly transferred to the blanks.

Abstract: A hot press for producing multilayered substrate blanks wherein the substrate blanks are placed between upper and lower bolsters via heat insulating plates and heating plates. The multilayered substrate blanks are fitted into a frame which is provided on the upper bolster and the multilayered substrate blanks are pressed and heated. The frame is fashioned of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion less than the coefficients of thermal expansion of the multilayered substrate blanks. When the multilayered substrate blanks are pressed and heated, outside dimensions become equal to the inside dimensions of the frame. Thus, no flow of an adhesive out of the multilayered substrate blanks occurs, and as a result it is possible to produce a high density multilayered substrate with a large number of layers.

Abstract: A hot press for producing a multilayered substrate including vertically opposing upper and lower bolsters relatively movable toward each other to press multilayered substrate blanks and to cool the plates after the bonding. A sealing arrangement includes a cylinder and encloses the upper and lower bolsters so as to define a hermetically sealed space, with an evacuating arrangement reducing the pressure inside the hermetically sealed space during heating and pressing in which a bonding agent in the multilayered substrate blanks is softened. A high-pressure gas supplying arrangement supplies a pressurizing gas into the hermetically sealed space so as to impart the bonding pressure.

Abstract: Electronic components such as integrated circuit components have rows of parallel leads extending from the sides of their bodies. In detecting bent leads of an electronic component, at least two measuring lines are set along each row of leads. The intersections between the measuring lines and the leads are extracted and processed to detect a bend in leads. The electronic component is photographed to produce image data which is stored in a memory. At least two measuring lines are virtually set along the row of leads of the image data stored in the memory. An intersection extractor extracts, from the image data, the intersections between the measuring lines and predetermined leads in the row of leads. A detector then uses the extracted intersections to detect bent leads.

Abstract: There is provided a reflow soldering apparatus for soldering electronic parts to a circuit substrate by blowing various inert hot gases of a desired density and temperature. A device for detecting whether or not a processing object is being conveyed into the apparatus is provided, so that the amount of inert gas to be supplied and the gas blowing speed are decreased when no processing object is present inside the apparatus. As a result, the amount of gas which flows out is made small, and a decrease in the temperature of the apparatus can be prevented. When the processing object is conveyed into the apparatus, the amount of supplied gas is increased so as to obtain a sufficient gas density. Thus, it is possible to prevent solder from being oxidized, and satisfactory solderability can be obtained.

Abstract: An apparatus for drawing a pattern of a photoresist on a substrate has a nozzle for discharging the paste and a substrate-supporting table movable along the X and Y-axes relative to the paste drawing opening of the nozzle. The nozzle is fixed to a Z-axis table which carries an optical displacement meter which measures the clearance between the substrate and the paste discharging opening. According to the results of the measurements, the Z-axis table is moved toward and away from the substrate so that the clearance is maintained at a desired distance. The optical displacement meter has a measuring point on the substrate. The measuring point is positioned so as not to interfere with the paste line which is drawn on the substrate with paste discharged from the nozzle.