Abstract: A change-over mechanism causing a main support frame and a sub support frame to rotate is made up of a drive motor, a rotating body, and coupling rods. One end of the coupling rod is coupled to the rotating body, and the other end thereof is coupled to the main support frame. One end of the coupling rod is coupled to the rotating body, and the other end thereof is coupled to the sub support frame. When a belt junction conveyor is changed over between a first and a second transfer states, one of the coupling rods is pushed out and the other one is pulled by the rotating body rotating by an activation of the drive motor, so that the main and the sub support frames are rotated in the opposite direction from each other, and a direction of transport of products by an endless belt is changed over.

Abstract: A belt junction belt conveyor in which a thick periphery edge of a belt is elastically held after the belt is rewound by upper and lower inclined pulleys so that the meandering tendency of the belt occurring from being rewound by the upper and lower inclined pulleys is effectively prevented.

Abstract: A road-ice detecting sensor includes: a temperature sensing member of T shape made of a highly heat conductive metal, having a temperature sensor to be grounded onto a road and a fin part erected from this temperature sensor; an optical fiber having an FBG bonded onto the fin part of the temperature sensing member; and a case having a heat insulating member surrounding the fin part of the temperature sensing member and the optical fiber. A plurality of number of the read-ice detecting sensors are installed on a road, connected to one another via an optical cable. Pulsed light is launched into one of the ends of the optical cable, and beams of reflected light from the respective road-ice detecting sensors are received to measure the road temperature.

Abstract: The object is to provide a construction method of an information-communicable underground pipe whereby communication cables can be readily laid in an underground pipeline having a main pipe and branch pipes branched therefrom thereby allowing the underground pipeline to be used as an information-communicable underground pipe, and to provide a construction structure and a construction member therefor.

Abstract: A method and a system for cleaning the glass surface of an object, such as a surface light, a run way guide light, or a reflector, installed on various pavements or roads, by propelling a cleaning agent from a blast nozzle to the glass surface. The blast nozzle is installed on the front end of an arm of a working robot mounted on a truck. A truck mounted with a cleaning agent blaster and a working robot (21) provided with a blast nozzle (23) and a CCD camera (24) at the forward end of a manipulator is stopped at a specified position in the vicinity of an object to be cleaned, i.e. surface light or a reflection mirror (30). Based on an image of the object taken by the CCD camera (24), dimensions are recognized from distance information through processing by a vehicle-mounted computer, the image shape of the object is collated with a stored shape and recognized, and then positional information of the recognized object is searched.

Abstract: A sorting conveyor has a cross sorter which can travel smoothly on a semicircular corner part of a traveling path. A large number of transporting units 1 are connected and travel on loop shaped transporting route in which an endless belt conveyor 2 provided at the respective transporting units 1 is driven in the direction perpendicular to the traveling direction at a sorting position. A chassis of the transporting unit consists of a beam shaped link 5 connectable to the front and rear ends thereof via connecting units 14, and a base 7 fixed to the center of the upper part of the link 5. A center guide wheel 8 is suspended from the connecting unit 14 of the end of the link 6 to come into contact with a guide rail of the transporting route. A traveling wheel 9 and a guide wheel 10 are mounted adjacent to both ends of a base 7 to come into contact with a guide rail of both sides of the transporting route. The wheels 9, 10 travel along a circular excursion whose center is a focus point of the transporting route.

Abstract: A belt curve conveyor has a number of guide wheel units provided in proximity to the peripheral part of a fan-type belt slung over between tapered end pulleys of a drive side and a driven side, wherein the guide wheel units comprise first and fourth guide wheels are supported by a holder member secured to a base and second and third guide wheels supported by a bracket, a rotary lock part is provided at inner center of the holder member around an axis of rotation of the bracket while a keyhole is formed at an outer surface to be engaged with a key part arranged on a detachable lock handle so that the second guide wheel and the third guide wheel become separated from an inner surface of the belt by inserting the key part of the lock handle in the lock part, pressing and turning the lock to rotate the bracket in the same direction by 90 degrees, which enables the belt to be removed.

Abstract: A patient isolation unit including a foldable frame body, a flexible envelope made of a flammable resin sheet which can be attached to the assembled frame body, and an exhauster to discharge or exhaust the air from the envelope. The exhauster includes a UV lamp, an HEPA filter, and a blower.

Abstract: A bioclean room is formed surrounded by a frame body with side portions of the frame opened and curtains to be selectively opened and shut to cover opened side portions of the frame body. An air flow passage is equipped with an air cleaning device to deliver the air in the frame body along a top plate to an air blow duct above the patient's head through which clean air is blown into the bioclean room. The frame body is equipped with an opening on the head side of the patient through which a medical console can be received inside the bioclean room when the frame body is brought into abutment against a wall.

Abstract: Washer media are disposed in an air inlet and an air outlet of a water spray chamber. A basic unit is formed by first stage nozzles from which spraying water that reaches the inlet washer media is sprayed in the reverse direction to an air flow; a water storage tank for receiving spraying water, located in the lower position of the water spray chamber; and a circulating water supply system that circulates the circulating water in the water storage tank to the first stage nozzles. Second stage nozzles from which spraying water directed against the outlet washer media is sprayed in the forward direction to the air flow are disposed in approximately the same positions as the first stage nozzles. There is also provided a supplementary water supply system for supplying supplementary water to the second stage nozzles.

Abstract: The belt driving device of the present invention has left and right frames (5, 15) which upper ends are connected by a slide bed (16), an endless belt (20) being latched by a head pulley (21) which is disposed on a head end of frames (5, 15) and a tail pulley (21) disposed on a tail end thereof, and an actuator unit (12) of the belt detachably mounted on the frame under side. A drive pulley (30) is disposed in the actuator unit (12) and is supported by a frame body with a rubber spring so as to contact with an outer surface on the return side belt and inner pulleys (23, 24) are disposed on the frame under side at the actuator unit attaching position so as to contact with the return side belt inner surface. The drive pulley (30) is always pressed and energized to the inner pulley side by the rubber spring and the belt supported between the inner pulley and the drive pulley (30) is friction actuated by pressing the drive pulley from the belt outside.

Abstract: An automated container transferring and loading system having a large number of carriage retracting lanes disposed orthogonally with respect to a row of stage conveyors of a cargo sorting yard, a carriage tow device for retracting a plurality of connected carriages into the carriage retracting lane, at least one group of stopper operation devices for locking and unlocking cargo stoppers on the carriages which are parked in the lane, and a pusher device capable of sliding longitudinally up and down the carriage retracting lanes for unloading containers on the carriage which are released by the cargo stoppers thereof and for loading a container from the stage conveyor onto the carriage.

Abstract: An ultrafiltration system includes radially disposed housings for ultrafiltration cartridges, the housing being outwardly connected to ducts which communicate with a pump in the housing. The housings are radially disposed, to permit a relative reduction in height of the cartridges relative to the pump height level.

Abstract: A goods dispensing device including an annular dispensing port formed in a container, an annular shelf located in a position for receiving the goods released through the annular dispensing port, a table rotatably supported in a position for receiving the goods flowing downwardly from the shelf, a ring located along the shelf for rotation independently of the table, a rotary drive unit connected to the table through motive force transmitting mechanism, a rotary drive unit connected to the ring through motive force transmitting mechanism, scrapers fixedly supported on the ring and projecting above the shelf, a guide scraper fixedly supported and projecting above the table, and a goods conveyor arranged below the guide scraper for conveying the goods dispensed from the container through the annular dispensing port. There is a relative difference between the rotary movements of the scraper rotating with the ring as a unit and the table.

Abstract: A vapor tank for processing a product by heating the same through exposure to vapor serving as a heat transfer medium. The vapor tank includes at least one partition wall separating a vapor chamber filled with vapor and a heating chamber for processing the product by heating the same for supplying a sufficient saturated vapor to the product. The partition wall is formed with openings for allowing the saturated vapor to be injected therethrough from the vapor chamber into the heating chamber where the product is enveloped by the saturated vapor. The vapor tank is provided with a recovery device for recovering the vapor flowing out of the tank through an inlet and an outlet for introducing and discharging the product into and out of the tank with a high degree of vapor recovering efficiency and with a minimum loss of energy. The vapor tank is also provided with a mechanism for externally supplying air currents to prevent the vapor from flowing out of the tank through the inlet and the outlet.

Abstract: An apparatus for counting numbers of microscopic corpuscles such as blood cells, comprising an optical system, a driving mechanism, a photoelectrical convertor means and a counter means. The optical means is adapted to illuminate a sample containing the corpuscles so as to irradiate magnified images onto a charge coupled device (CCD) as the convertor means having elements lined up in a row in an X-direction perpendicular to a Y-direction in which the sample is moved by the driving mechanism whereby X-directional scanning is automatically executed by the CCD without moving the sample while Y-directional scanning is conducted with a sample holder continuously moved by said mechanism comprising a drive motor and a cooperating spring. The CCD is adapted to detect the number of corpuscle images contained in each scanning line in the X-direction and thereby to produce electric signals fed to the counter means, which comprises electronic circuits for summing up these signals in respect of Y-direction.

Abstract: There is disclosed a horizontal type hydrohoist, in which slurry is forced to feed under lower pressure into feed pipes which are connected to a transport pipeline at their one ends and to a high pressure clear water pump at the others, said pump being adapted to deliver clear water under a high pressure, after which clear water is transferred under a high pressure through said feed pipe from said high pressure clear water pump, thereby transferring said slurry. This hydrohoist system presents the provision of means for preventing mixing and its spreading at the boundary portion between slurry and water within the feed pipes. More particularly, a separator which is designed not to rotate during the transfer is inserted in the aforesaid boundary portion in a manner that the separator may be transferred together with fluid, thus preventing the mixing of water with slurry as well as the resultant spreading thereof.