Abstract: A PM-type electric rotating machine comprises a rotation axis, a rotor that rotates together with the rotation axis and a stator that rotatably supports the rotation axis. The rotor has a closed-end-cup-shaped holder that is mounted at one end of the rotation axis and a permanent magnet fixed on an inner surface of a cylindrical portion of the holder. The stator has a housing bush that supports the rotation axis in an axis hole formed through the center of the housing bush, twelve stator cores that are radially mounted around the housing bush to face the outer tip ends thereof to the permanent magnet with an air gap, and coils that are wound around the stator cores via insulators. The inner base portions of the stator cores are connected to one another with pressure so as to form a ring-shaped yoke by mounting the stator cores around the housing bush.

Abstract: A lamination system comprises; a film transfer means for transferring along a first transfer path a continuous film chosen from more than two kinds of films different in width, a cutting means provided along the first transfer path for cutting the film in a predetermined length, a card transfer means for transferring an ID card along a second transfer path that converges with the first transfer path at a predetermined point of conversion, a thermocompression bonding means for laminating the film cut on a surface of the ID card at the downstream of the point of conversion. The lamination system is provided with guide members for restricting the transverse movement of the film within a distance corresponding to the maximum width of the films, and alignment means for aligning the film along a desired side end of the first transfer path.

Abstract: A core has an annular inner core portion, a rib-shaped core portion extending radially from the annular inner core portion and an outer peripheral core portion. Magnetic pole tooth portions are formed in an annular shape on the outer periphery of the rib-shaped core portion, and the core is composed of a plurality of core blocks having the same shapes as blocks formed by dividing the core in circumferential direction.

Abstract: In an electric motor comprising a rotor, a stator, a stator core that constitutes the stator, a core section that constitutes the stator core, a plurality of split core blocks which constitute the core section, and a metallic connection housing that connects the split core blocks in dovetailed form to create one connected core section, the split core blocks are each formed of a laminated steel plate, in that the connection housing is formed of a material softer than the laminated steel plate, and the dovetailed connections at the connection housing are plastically deformed to remove the connection gap existing at each of the dovetailed connections.

Abstract: In an industrial robot having a plurality of arms, each arm is coupled with other elements such as a mounting base, another arm, a robotic hand, and revolved by a motion of a revolving joint. A motor for moving the revolving joint, an encoder for sensing a rotation angle of a drive shaft of the motor, and a control circuit for controlling the driving of the motor are provided on the same arm. A signal cable for transmitting a sensing signal of the encoder to the control circuit is terminated at the control circuit on the same arm. There is no need to align the signal cable from the encoder to a main control circuit provided in the mounting base.

Abstract: A permanent magnet motor comprising a permanent magnet and an armature having a plurality of winding grooves facing the permanent magnet with an air gap therebetween. The armature has a plurality of auxiliary grooves on a magnetic pole surface thereof, wherein a composite of two vectors of cogging torque generated by the auxiliary grooves is deviated by 180° or 120° from a vector of cogging torque generated by the winding grooves in the sixth harmonic plane, and wherein a width of a portion of an air gap magnetic flux density waveform that includes a value that is more than 90% of a peak value of the air gap magnetic flux density waveform is less than 80% or 86% of a width of a pole pitch portion of the air gap magnetic flux density waveform.

Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotary machine according to the present invention has a stator having an annular magnetic member and three, four, five or six stator magnetic poles (1) extending radially from the annular magnetic member, windings (3) of three, four or five phases, each wound around each of the stator magnetic poles (1), two sets of rotors (2) adjacent each other arranged in the axial direction and faced to the stator with an air gap therebetween, and two permanent magnets (51) magnetized in the axial direction.

Abstract: In an industrial robot having a plurality of arms, each arm is coupled with other elements, such as a mounting base, another arm, a robotic hand, and revolved by a motion of the revolvable joint. The revolvable joint has a rotary electric connecting structure such as a slip ring or a rotary transformer which can be rotated endlessly. Electric powers for driving motors by which the arms are revolved and control signals for controlling the driving of the motors are supplied or transmitted through the rotary electric connecting structure, so that the arms can be rotated endlessly without twisting or breaking of electric cables.

Abstract: A first sensor (13-1), the mounting position of the first sensor (13-1) being recognized as a counting number of instruction pulses to a pulse motor (3), is arranged along a plate (11) with slits of an encoder at a portion between a position where a pushing holder (7) is connected to a plunger (9) for the liquid infusion, and a start position where the pushing holder (7) is separated from the plunger (9). A counting means (16) for counting encoder pulses from the encoder, is reset when a first sensor (13-1) is detected by a position detecting device (14) moved together with the pushing holder (7), and started to count the encoder pulses according to the movement of the pushing holder (7). A time to complete the liquid infusion is calculated by using a distance between the position where the plunger (9) is connected to the holder (7) and a liquid infusion finish position proper to the syringe, and a predetermined liquid infusion speed.

Abstract: A three-phase toroidal coil type electric rotating machine including a rotor that includes a cylindrical permanent magnet having M pairs of N-poles and S-poles that are alternatively arranged around a rotor axis, and a stator that includes three stator units stacked in an axial direction around the cylindrical permanent magnet. Each stator unit has a pair of stator magnetic poles and a toroidal coil sandwiched therebetween. Each stator magnetic pole has M pieces of claw poles extending in the axial direction. The claw poles of the stator magnetic poles are in mesh with each other inside the toroidal coil. The toroidal coils are connected as a delta connection. The positional relationship between the claw poles and the cylindrical permanent magnet is determined such that the phase differences among speed electromotive forces caused in the toroidal coils are 120 degrees (electrical angle) between any two of the three terminals.

Abstract: A stepping motor includes a first motor unit having a first stator unit and a first rotor unit and a second motor unit having a second stator unit and a second rotor unit. The first stator unit has air-core coils that are radially arranged on a first isolating magnetic disc. The first rotor unit has permanent magnets that are alternatively magnetized in N-pole and S-pole and radially arranged on a second magnetic disc with a predetermined air gap to the first stator unit. Similarly, the second stator unit has air-core coils on a third isolating magnetic disc and the second rotor unit has permanent magnets on a fourth magnetic disc. The first and second stator units are fixed to the different sides of a non-magnetic disc. The first and second rotor units are fixed to a rotation axis and face each other across the first and second stator units.

Abstract: An impeller of a centrifugal fan having a casing and a multi-blade impeller rotatably supported by a blade holding base in said casing, wherein when said impeller is rotated air is sucked from an air suction port formed on one side wall of said casing, and a centrifugal force is applied on said air, so that air of high pressure is taken out through an outlet formed on a portion of an outer peripheral surface of said casing. An inner peripheral surface of the impeller is formed of a conical surface having a large diameter at the suction port and a small diameter at the blade holding base. The small diameter at the blade holding base is in the range of 70 to 90% of the large diameter at the suction port. The diameter of the inner peripheral surface of the impeller is reduced linearly from a portion at the suction side to a portion at the blade holding base side.

Abstract: A heat roller control apparatus having a heat roller for hot melt coating a thin film on a member, a heater for heating the heat roller, temperature detecting member for detecting the surface temperature of the heat roller, temperature control member for controlling the heater according to a temperature detecting signal obtained from the temperature detecting means, and temperature judging member for producing a temperature judging signal for judging the state of the surface temperature of the heat roller according to the temperature detecting signal. The temperature judging member calculates a variation of the surface temperature of the heat roller from the temperature detecting signal every predetermined time and judging the stability of the hot melt coating by the variation of the surface temperature of the heat roller when the temperature detecting signal reaches into a predetermined temperature range.

Abstract: The controller comprises current sensors for detecting motor currents, an inverter containing a current control means for feeding currents to motor windings, a coordinate transformer that transforms the motor currents in a fixed coordinates system into currents in a first rotational coordinates system, and an angle calculator that transforms a command pulse into a command angle. A second rotational coordinates system composed of a dp axis and a qp axis perpendicular to the dp axis is determined from the command angle. A command current on the dp axis is set to be a value corresponding to a motor current amplitude and another command current on the qp axis is set to be zero. The motor current is projected on the dp and qp axes and controlled so as to make the components on the dp and qp axes coincide with the respective command currents on the dp and qp axes.

Abstract: A universal joint comprises a cavity formed in a joint case, a planar plate fitted in the cavity, a spherical member arranged in the cavity so that it is held by a spherical surface receiving seat and a portion of the planar plate, and pressure screw for pressing the planar plate toward the spherical surface receiving seat.

Abstract: A magnet type stepping motor which has (1) a stator with three-phase stator windings, and 6m pieces of stator main pole arranged side by side, where m is an integer and ≧1, the stator windings of one phase are wound around every two stator main poles among the 6m pieces of the stator main pole, wherein when the stator windings of one phase are excited with a direct current, m pieces of N pole and M pieces of S pole are formed alternately on the 6m pieces of stator main pole, and (2) a rotor of a cylindrical permanent magnet magnetized in the circumferential direction to form Z/2 pieces of N pole and Z/2 pieces of S pole alternately, where Z is the number of rotor poles.

Abstract: A lamination system comprises a first transfer means, a cutting means provided at the downstream of the first transfer means for cutting a laminate film, a second transfer means for transferring the cut laminate film, a card transfer means for transferring a card along a card transfer path that converges with the film transfer path at a point of convergence, and a thermocompression bonding means for laminating the cut laminate film with the card at the downstream of the point of convergence, in which a means for detecting a failure in cutting the laminate film is provided.

Abstract: There is provided a motor-driven system which realizes an optimum driving mode for an electric automobile, a robot carrier car, a drum of a copying machine, etc., and a motor-driven system having a function as an optimum actuator for such driving.

Abstract: A three-phase hybrid type stepping motor of the present invention comprises a stator, a rotor arranged concentrically with the stator and with an air gap therebetween, six stator poles extending radially and formed at a regular pitch on the inner peripheral surface of an annular stator yoke, each of the stator poles having a plurality of small stator teeth at the tip end thereof, the rotor having two splitted rotor elements and a permanent magnet held therebetween and magnetized so as to form N and S poles in the axial direction thereof, fifty of small rotor teeth formed at a regular pitch on the outer peripheral surface of each of the rotor elements, the two splitted rotor elements being shifted from each other in angular position by a ½ pitch of the small rotor teeth, wherein a permeance distribution of the small stator teeth is a vernier pitch balanced by a six or three order harmonic wave, and a ratio of the width of the pole tooth to the rotor teeth pitch is set to 0.35-0.45.

Abstract: In an electric motor comprising a rotor, a stator, a stator core that constitutes the stator, a core section that constitutes the stator core, a plurality of split core blocks which constitute the core section, and a metallic connection housing that connects the split core blocks in dovetailed form to create one connected core section, the split core blocks are each formed of a laminated steel plate, in that the connection housing is formed of a material softer than the laminated steel plate, and the dovetailed connections at the connection housing are plastically deformed to remove the connection gap existing at each of the dovetailed connections.