Abstract: The movable body includes a pivot and a contact portion. The pivot is rotatably supported. The contact portion is disposed at a position contactable with a contact piece. The movable body rotates around the pivot and presses the contact piece via the contact portion to move the second contact close to the first contact. The actuator presses the movable body to rotate the movable body around the pivot. The contact piece has a curved portion located between the second contact and the support. The pivot is located on a side where the support is disposed with respect to the curved portion. The actuator includes a pressing member which presses the movable body. The pressing member moves in an axial direction of the pressing member to press the movable body.

Abstract: This resin temperature detecting device for an injection molding machine detects the temperature of resin (12) flowing through a resin flow passage (11) in an injection molding machine provided with a nozzle part (1) having the resin flow passage (11). A heat sensing part (SP) of a temperature sensor (10) is provided at a heat sensing position in the vicinity of a leading end part (N) of the resin flow passage (11) in the nozzle part (1), the leading end part being the portion of the resin flow passage (11) where the inner diameter is smallest.

Abstract: A control device that controls a drive unit included by a production line includes: an obtaining unit that obtains physical information indicating a variation with time of a posture of a worker at work; a storage for storing physical information of the worker obtained when the worker works in a stable posture; a detection unit that detects a difference between a magnitude of the variation with time indicated by the physical information obtained and a magnitude of a variation with time indicated by the physical information stored in the storage; and a determination unit that determines from the detected difference whether to change an amount of controlling the drive unit.

Abstract: In a semiconductor relay module, inside a package, one of a pair of input parts of a first semiconductor relay is connected to a first input terminal, the other of the pair of input parts of the first semiconductor relay is connected to a second input terminal, one of a pair of input parts of a second semiconductor relay is connected to the second input terminal, the other of the pair of input parts of the second semiconductor relay is connected to the first input terminal, one of a pair of input parts of a third semiconductor relay is connected to a third input terminal, and the other of the pair of input parts of the third semiconductor relay is connected to the first input terminal or the second input terminal.

Abstract: An operation reception device (200) comprising: a display unit (101) for switching between and displaying a plurality of screens; a display control unit (102) for controlling the switching of the screens on the display unit (101) in a prescribed sequence; and a main control unit (103) for controlling the screen switching sequence. When the main control unit (103) receives a switching instruction from a first screen and a screen having an operation permission for changing the setting content of a sequence control device exists, switching to the screen having an operation permission is not carried out; instead, switching to a screen not having an operation permission is carried out.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a control device including a memory storing address information and a server section communicating with the external machine serving as a destination of publishing the address information. The server section includes a determining section, a monitoring section, and an address managing section. The determining section determines priority levels of publishing variables included in a control program to the external machine in accordance with a predetermined rule. The monitoring section monitors free capacity of the memory. With respect to public variables for the external machine among the variables included in the control program, the address managing section adds logical addresses of the respective public variables to the address information in order of the publishing priority levels as long as the free capacity does not fall below a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Provided is a cable disconnection preventing structure or the like in which a conducting wire is not cut at a connecting portion at which a distal end of a conducting wire is connected to a substrate or the like even when a cable is pulled. The cable disconnection preventing structure (100) comprises a case (30) and a conducting wire fixing member (20) which fixes a conducting wire (2) exposed from a sheath (1) to the sheath (1) at one end portion of the cable (10). The conducting wire (2) is disposed between an inner surface (31) around the cable hole (30a) and the conducting wire fixing member (20).

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a scale-down factor determination unit that generates two-dimensional images of an object viewed from a plurality of viewpoints using three-dimensional data representing a three-dimensional shape of the object and determines a scale-down factor for each viewpoint, a template generation unit that scales down the generated two-dimensional image from each viewpoint using the scale-down factor determined for the viewpoint and calculates a feature quantity from a scaled-down image to generate a template, and a template information output unit that outputs, for each viewpoint, the template and the scale-down factor used for generating the template in a manner associated with each other.

Abstract: Provided are a power storage control apparatus and a power storage control method with which a second power storage apparatus connected to a first storage apparatus via a power distribution network can be used based on an availability status of the first power storage apparatus under a configuration that a plurality of power storage apparatuses are deployed in the power distribution network. The power storage control apparatus includes a status determination part, a signal generation part and a communication part. The status control part determines the availability status of the first power storage apparatus deployed in the power distribution network. The signal generation part generates a control signal for using the second power storage apparatus connected to the first storage apparatus in the power distribution network instead of the first power storage apparatus based on a determination result from the status determination part.

Abstract: The pressing member is configured to move to an off-position and an on-position. When the pressing member is located at the off-position, the first contact and the second contact come into a non-contact state. When the pressing member is located at the on-position, the first contact and the second contact come into a contact state by press of the pressing member against the contact piece. The actuator moves the pressing member from the off-position to the on-position via an overshoot position located beyond the on-position. The contact piece includes a body, and a low rigidity portion having rigidity lower than rigidity of the body. The pressing member presses the low rigidity portion.

Abstract: A support apparatus includes: an obtaining part, which obtains status information respectively from one or a plurality of safety devices network-connected with a control apparatus; a selecting part, which selects the safety device to which device identification information is to be newly set based on the status information of each safety device; and a setting part, which determines and sets corresponding device identification information in accordance with an instruction from a user based on network identification information set for the network to which each safety device belongs and a network address of each safety device.

Abstract: A switch has a base, an operation unit disposed above the base and moving in a contacting-separating direction with respect to the base in response to an external force, a pair of link members configured to guide movement of the operation unit in the contacting-separating direction, and a coupling portion configured to turnably couple the pair of link members to each other. Each of the pair of link members each includes a coupling-portion-side supported portion supported on one of the base and the operation unit and an end-side supported portion supported on the other of the base and the operation unit. One of the base and the operation unit on which the coupling-portion-side supported portion is supported includes a wall surface provided with a movement space.

Abstract: A sensor support system includes a sensor and a terminal device configured to display form information of the sensor. The sensor includes a two-dimensional code (storage tag) which can be read from the terminal device and which is configured to store the form information of the sensor. The terminal device is configured to calculate position information of the sensor from an image of the sensor, configured to generate a virtual image of the form information of the sensor, and configured to display on a display an image in which the virtual image is superimposed on an image of the sensor taken by a camera.

Abstract: An optical device includes a light guide plate configured to guide light within a plane parallel to an emission surface, and a plurality of deflectors configured to deflect light guided thereto by the light guide plate, causing light forming an image in a space outside the light guide plate to exit from the emission surface. Each deflector in the plurality of deflectors cause the light to exit from the emission surface toward a direction substantially converging onto a single convergence point or convergence line in the space, or to substantially radiate from a single convergence point or convergence line in the space. The convergence point or the convergence line is mutually different among the plurality of deflectors with a grouping of a plurality of the convergence points or the convergence lines forming the image in the space.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay is provided with a housing; a first fixed contact terminal and a second fixed contact terminal; a movable contact, a movable shaft with one end connected to the movable contact, and a coil spring placed between the movable contact and an insulating wall in a chamber in the housing. The coil spring configured to bias movable contact points toward the opposing fixed contact points. The movable contact includes a contact body which includes a connection hole configured to receive the movable shaft and allow the movable shaft to travel relatively in the contact movement direction. The movable shaft includes a second holder that together with the first holder retains the coil spring.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay is provided with a housing; a first fixed contact terminal and a second fixed contact terminal; a movable contact, a movable shaft with one end connected to the movable contact, and a coil spring placed between the movable contact and an insulating wall in a chamber in the housing. The coil spring configured to bias movable contact points toward the opposing fixed contact points. The fixed contact terminals each includes: a contact arrangement portion in the chamber; an external terminal arranged outside the housing; and an intermediate portion held by the insulating wall and connecting a contact arrangement portion and an external terminal; the intermediate portion curves near the second compartment relative a virtual line connecting both ends thereof in the extension direction.

Abstract: To reduce the working hours of a user in an operation and improve an operation rate in an industrial network system. A communication setting change part is provided which automatically changes, in a timing of an end effector replacement, the communication setting in a communication part according to the communication information that corresponds to an end effector.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control device that executes model predictive control related to a predetermined control target corresponding to an actual target device which is an actual target of servo control in order to cause an output of the actual target device to track a predetermined command. The control device includes: an integrator which receives input of a deviation between the predetermined command and an output of the predetermined control target; and a model predictive control unit which has a prediction model that defines a correlation between a predetermined state variable and an input to the predetermined control target in a form of a predetermined state equation, and which performs model predictive control based on the prediction model according to a predetermined evaluation function in a prediction section having a predetermined time width using the output of the integrator as an input.

Abstract: A switch includes a housing, a movable member reciprocable in the movement direction relative to the housing and including an operation part located at an end of the movable member outside the housing, a guide that guides the movable member in the movement direction, and a sealant sealing a gap between the movable member and the housing inside the compartment.

Abstract: A sensor control device and a sensor system are provided through which it is possible to automatically detect whether mutual interference occurs for a plurality of sensor units, and it is possible to automatically set periodic light projection timings for preventing mutual interference. A sensor control device includes a light projection control part configured to instruct a light projection operation for each of a plurality of sensor units and a light projection timing setting part configured to set periodic light projection timings when each of the sensor units is periodically operated based on results of light projection control for each of the sensor units and detection results of each of the sensor units.