Abstract: An image reading device may include a conveyance path; a conveyance mechanism; and a first image sensor and a second image sensor that are disposed on both sides of the conveyance path. The conveyance mechanism may include a driving source; a pair of first conveyance rollers located upstream of a first and second image read position; and a pair of second conveyance rollers located downstream of the first and second image read position. The pair of first conveyance rollers may include a first drive roller; and a first opposing roller. The pair of second conveyance rollers may include a second drive roller and a second opposing roller.

Abstract: An ice making machine may include an ice tray, a drive unit that turns the ice tray, a frame body supporting the ice tray and the drive unit, a cold air guide part integrally formed with the frame body, and a cold air duct connecting an opening in the frame body with a cold air supply port. The frame body includes a wall part at an end of the ice tray, the wall part is formed with the opening and the cold air guide part, and the cold air guide part flows cold air through the opening toward the ice tray. The cold air guide part is a frame body side inclined wall and the cold air duct includes a duct side inclined wall facing the frame body side inclined wall and a cold air blowing outlet includes the frame body side inclined wall and the duct side inclined wall.

Abstract: There is provided a motor including a rotor having a magnet fixed to the outer periphery of a rotor main body, a spindle for rotatably supporting the rotor via the rotor main body, a first bearing unit provided at one end side of the rotor in a longitudinal direction of the spindle, and a second bearing unit provided at the other end side of the rotor in the longitudinal direction of the spindle. The first bearing unit slidably contacts the spindle with a set clearance, and the second bearing unit includes an elastic bearing unit slidably contacting the spindle in a state of being elastically pressed against the spindle. When the first bearing unit is defined as a bearing unit at the one end side in the longitudinal direction of the spindle, the elastic bearing unit is configured to be located as a bearing unit at the other end side.

Abstract: An actuator and a tactile device are provided. In the actuator, a gel member is disposed in a portion where a support body and a movable body face each other. The gel member is attached to the movable body and the support body by a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer. The gel member includes a first portion and a second portion having a higher hardness than an intermediate portion on a first adhesive layer side and a second adhesive layer side from the intermediate portion. If the thicknesses of the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are changed, a spring constant of the gel member is changed. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are made to appropriate thicknesses. The gel member, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are addition reaction types, and the base polymers thereof are the same.

Abstract: An ice making machine may include an ice tray, a drive unit which is provided at one end of the ice tray and is structured to turn the ice tray, a frame body which supports the ice tray and the drive unit, and a cold air duct which connects an opening formed in the frame body with the cold air supply port. The frame body is provided with a wall part which faces the drive unit at the other end of the ice tray and the opening is formed in the wall part. The cold air duct is provided with an inclined flow passage part inclined with respect to a direction where an ice making recessed part in the ice tray is opened, and the inclined flow passage part is provided with a cold air blowing outlet which faces the ice making recessed part.

Abstract: A clutch device may include an actuator and a clutch member structured to be driven by the actuator to perform mechanical connection and disconnection. The actuator may include an output arm having an operating point which drives the clutch member, a support point which swingably supports the output arm at a position separated from the operating point of the output arm, a clutch motor, and a reduction gear mechanism structured to transmit a drive force of the clutch motor to a force point provided between the operating point of the output arm and the support point.

Abstract: A card reader may include a break-in sensing circuit and a security circuit structured to output a break-in sensing signal into the break-in sensing circuit, and receive a returned break-in sensing signal that returns from the break-in sensing circuit. The security circuit may include an output terminal to output the break-in sensing signal, and an input terminal to receive the returned break-in sensing signal. The break-in sensing signal may be input to an input section of the break-in sensing circuit, and then output from an output section of the break-in sensing circuit as the returned break-in sensing signal. The break-in sensing signal may be a pulse signal. At least either one of the output terminal and the input terminal of the security circuit may include a protection element between the terminal itself and an earth ground.

Abstract: A servo control device to execute an operation in a discrete time system may include a velocity feedback path having a difference means calculating a pseudo-velocity from a detected position and a lowpass filter, and a PI control means executing a proportional integration control operation on a deviation between the pseudo-velocity and the position deviation to create a drive command for the driver. The velocity feedback path includes a first gain means applying a first gain to the pseudo-velocity, a delay means delaying the pseudo-velocity, and a second gain means applying a second gain to the delayed pseudo-velocity. A sum of an output of the first gain means and the second gain means is inputted to the lowpass filter, and “Fa(z)=1/(1?z?1Fb(z))” is satisfied where a transfer function of the PI control means is Fa(z), and a transfer function of the lowpass filter is Fb(z).

Abstract: A card reader may include a transport path; a housing; a magnetic head to read the magnetic information at a reading position of the transport; and a first inductive proximity sensor. The first inductive proximity sensor may include a first oscillation circuit; and first and second detection coils connected in parallel to the first oscillation circuit. The magnetic head may be accessible to the magnetic card from a first side of the transport path in a first direction perpendicular to a transport face of the magnetic card. Coil center lines of the first and second detection coils may extend in the first direction on the first side of the transport path. The first and second detection coils may be disposed adjacent to each other in the transport direction and structured to generate magnetic fields in opposite directions in the first direction when the first inductive proximity sensor is driven.

Abstract: Provided is a valve drive device including a power transmission switching unit capable of reducing noise and improving positional accuracy to perform smooth power switching. In the valve drive device, a valve element drive mechanism includes a motor, a driving gear, a driven gear, and a power transmission switching unit configured to switch between a power transmission state and a power non-transmission state. The power transmission switching unit includes at least one convex unit formed on the driven gear, a rotation restriction unit that is pivotably mounted on the driven gear with respect to the driven gear and engageable with the at least one convex unit, and a lever pivoting restriction unit formed on the driven gear and configured to restrict the rotation restriction unit from pivoting. The rotation restriction unit includes a pivot shaft and a lever unit.

Abstract: An ice making machine may include an ice tray having a plurality of recessed parts and a cold air duct having a cold air inflow port connected with a cold air supply port and one cold air outlet port facing the ice tray on an upper side. A size of the cold air outlet port is smaller than a size of an ice making face of the ice tray having a contour which includes the plurality of the ice making recessed parts along edges of openings of the plurality of the ice making recessed parts, and the cold air outlet port faces a center portion of the ice making face. It is preferable that an opening area of the cold air outlet port is 50% or less of an area of the ice making face and/or is smaller than an opening area of the cold air inflow port.

Abstract: A work transfer system may include cassettes to house a work; a processing apparatus; and a robot to load and unload the work. The robot may include a base, a base link connected to the base, an arm link coupled to the base link, an arm connected to the arm link, and a hand connected to the arm. The base link and the arm link are controlled so that a center a coupling shaft of the arm link and the arm moves along a straight line. The cassettes are parallel to the straight line. A via point is specified for each quadrant of coordinate system and the robot moves between stages that are a target of loading or unloading of the work and uses the via point as a via point when moving.

Abstract: A coil unit may include an even number of coils comprising a first coil and a second coil; and a coil holding member which holds the even number of the coils. An outer peripheral face of the coil holding member may include a side-face pair comprising a first side face and a second side face which are substantially parallel to each other. The first side face may be formed with a first protruded part around which the first coil is wound, the first protruded part being protruded to an outer peripheral side with respect to the coil holding member. The second side face may be formed with a second protruded part around which the second coil is wound, the second protruded part being protruded to an outer peripheral side with respect to the coil holding member. The first coil and the second coil may be structured from one conducting wire.

Abstract: A switch mechanism may include a lever holding part which is provided in a case, a turnable lever provided with a shaft part turnably supported by the lever holding part and a first arm part and a second arm part protruded from the shaft part, an urging member structured to urge the turnable lever, and a switch whose state is switched by displacement of the turnable lever. The turnable lever is attached to the lever holding part in a state that the urging member is engaged between the first arm part and the second arm part, and the urging member is movable between an engaging position, where the urging member is engaged between the first arm part and the second arm part, and an engaging release position, where the urging member is engaged with the second arm part and is disengaged from the first arm part.

Abstract: A rotary encoder may include a magnet, a magnetic sensor, and a control part configured to calculate a rotation position of the rotor body based on an output signal outputted from the magnetic sensor. The control part includes a temperature detecting section configured to detect temperature of the magnetic sensor, an offset voltage calculation section configured to calculate an offset voltage of the magnetic sensor based on the output signal from the magnetic sensor, and a storage section which stores a slope and an intercept of a primary approximate expression calculated by a relationship between temperatures previously detected by the temperature detecting section and the offset voltages previously calculated by the offset voltage calculation section. The control part executes offset voltage estimate processing based on the slope and the intercept stored in the storage section and correction processing which corrects the output signal from the magnetic sensor.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable body having a lens, a turning support mechanism structured to turnably support the movable body around an optical axis of the lens, a gimbal mechanism structured to turnably support the turning support mechanism, a fixed body which supports the movable body through the gimbal mechanism and the turning support mechanism, a shake correction magnetic drive mechanism, and a rolling correction magnetic drive mechanism. The turning support mechanism includes a plate roll fixed to the movable body, a plate holder provided with a facing part which faces the plate roll in a direction of the optical axis, and a turning mechanism which is provided between the plate roll and the facing part and is structured so that the plate roll is turnable with respect to the plate holder. The gimbal mechanism turnably supports the plate holder around the first axis.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a turning support mechanism structured to turnably support a movable body having a lens around an optical axis, and a gimbal mechanism structured to turnably support the turning support mechanism. The gimbal mechanism includes a gimbal frame and a first connection mechanism which turnably connects a plate holder with the gimbal frame around a first axis, and the first connection mechanism includes a first support member which is protruded from the gimbal frame to a side of the plate holder on the first axis, and a first concave curved face which is provided in the plate holder and is turnably brought into contact with a tip end of the first support member. A reinforcement member is fixed to the gimbal frame so that a portion of the gimbal frame where the first axis is passed is reinforced.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable body having a lens, a turning support mechanism structured to turnably support the movable body around an optical axis of the lens, a gimbal mechanism structured to turnably support the turning support mechanism around a first axis and around a second axis intersecting the optical axis, a fixed body which supports the movable body through the gimbal mechanism and the turning support mechanism, a shake correction magnetic drive mechanism structured to turn the movable body around the first axis and around the second axis, and a rolling correction magnetic drive mechanism structured to turn the movable body around the optical axis. The shake correction magnetic drive mechanism and the rolling correction magnetic drive mechanism are arranged in a circumferential direction around the optical axis.

Abstract: The disclosure reduces the size of an optical unit with a shake correction function provided with a filter switching function and reduces the power consumption. An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a fixed body; a movable body having an optical element; an oscillation support mechanism configured to oscillatably support the movable body with respect to the fixed body; and a shake correction drive mechanism configured to oscillate the movable body, such that the movable body includes a filter and a filter switching mechanism configured to switch the presence or absence of the filter, and the oscillation support mechanism is arranged at a position overlapping the shake correction drive mechanism when seen from a direction perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the optical element, and the filter and the filter switching mechanism are arranged at a subject side of the optical element.

Abstract: A card reader includes a writing coil that is provided to a magnetic head for recording magnetic data in a magnetic card, and a drive circuit that supplies a write current to the writing coil. The drive circuit is a chopping circuit that supplies a chopping current, on/off of which is switched in a specified cycle, as the write current to the writing coil. An on/off cycle of the chopping current is a cycle in which a length of a magnetized pattern in a recording direction is shorter than a reading gap formed in a core around which the writing coil is wound or a core around which a reading coil being separately provided from the writing coil is wound, the magnetized pattern in the recording direction being formed in the magnetic card by the chopping current in a period including one each of the on and the off.