Abstract: A noodle boiling apparatus includes a noodle boiling unit, and a hot water supply mechanism supplying water, which is heated, to the noodle boiling unit. The noodle boiling unit includes a boiling tank storing the water and boiling noodles, a hot water pipe supplying the water, which is heated, to the boiling tank, and a discharge pipe discharging the water from the boiling tank to the hot water supply mechanism. The hot water supply mechanism includes a heat exchanger heating the water to a desired temperature and a circulation pump pumping the water to the heat exchanger. The hot water supply mechanism is configured to circulate the water constantly between the boiling tank and the hot water supply mechanism when the noodles are boiled.

Abstract: A heating unit includes a cylindrical body, a first planar electrode, a second planar electrode, and a conductive thin film, in which the cylindrical body is configured to be fillable with a food having conductivity, the first planar electrode and the second planar electrode are configured to be arrangeable so as to seal the food on two sides of the food filled in the cylindrical body, the conductive thin film is provided in a band shape along a circumferential direction at a position between the first planar electrode and the second planar electrode on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical body. The heating unit is configured to heat the food by supplying current into the food from the first planar electrode and the second planar electrode.

Abstract: A stirring apparatus for foods includes an endless conveyer, a plurality of cups, and a rotation mechanism. The endless conveyer has a conveying surface circulating in an endless manner and is arranged to be inclined. The cups are attached to the endless conveyer to be perpendicular to the conveying surface. The rotation mechanism rotates the cups. The rotation mechanism includes a rotation shaft, a driven magnet, a driving magnet, and a rotation driving device. One end of the rotation shaft is fixed to a bottom plate of the cup. The driven magnet is provided at the other end of the rotation shaft. The driving magnet faces the driven magnet at a predetermined interval. The rotation driving device rotates the driving magnet.

Abstract: An upper guide assembly includes an upper wire guide, an upper power feed contact, and a power feed contact movement device, and a lower guide assembly includes a lower power feed contact. The upper power feed contact and the lower power feed contact are configured to contact the wire electrode to supply power by moving in a horizontal direction from initial positions not contacting the wire electrode. The power feed contact movement device is configured to move the upper power feed contact in the horizontal direction from the initial position by a predetermined offset amount. The offset amount is set based on a machining condition including at least one of a condition of the wire electrode, a condition of a workpiece, and a surface roughness required for a cut surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes an injection unit, a measurement unit, a position sensor, a pressure sensor, and a controller. The measurement unit includes a measurement cylinder, a die having a die hole, a purge opening provided in the measurement cylinder, and a flow path switching pin that switches a discharge destination of a molding material to either one of the die and the purge opening. The controller is configured to advance a plunger so that the pressure of the molding material matches a set test load, discharge the molding material from the die hole, and calculate a melt flow rate.

Abstract: Provided are an injection device control method, which is a control method for an injection device including a first cylinder and a second cylinder, and an injection molding system, in which an injection molding is performed with a set temperature of a heater that heats the second cylinder, a rotation speed of a screw in the second cylinder, and a cycle time as parameters. An estimated value (Q2) of energy input from the heater to a molding material and an estimated value (Q3) of energy input from the screw for shearing of the molding material are calculated, and a ratio between (Q2) and (Q3) is visualized and presented to an operator.

Abstract: After the injection shaft moves backward and the gas is supplied into the injection chamber, it is desired to accurately control the gas supply amount in the injection device in which the injection shaft is moved forward to compress and dissolve the gas in the molding material in the injection chamber. An injection device of the disclosure supplies a gas into an injection chamber via a gas supply hole which passes through an injection shaft and is opened at a tip surface of the injection shaft. The injection device of the disclosure has at least one seal ring and at least one piston ring aligned in an axial direction on an outer circumferential surface of the injection shaft.

Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes a wire electrode and upper and lower guide devices guiding the wire electrode, and includes: a power conductor moving in a first direction as a horizontal axis direction and supplying power by contacting the wire electrode; and a fixing device fixing the power conductor in the lower guide device and switchable between a fixed state, in which a movement of the power conductor relative to the lower guide device in a second direction as another horizontal axis direction orthogonal to the first direction is not possible, and a non-fixed state in which such relative movement is possible. The wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes: a pressing device, movable relative to the lower guide device and pressing the power conductor in the non-fixed state to move in the second direction; and a movement device, moving the pressing device relative to the lower guide device.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing method includes a heating step, a manufacturing step, a cooling step, a cutting step, a first correction step, and a second correction step. In the heating step, a build table is heated to a preheating temperature. In the manufacturing step, a solidified layer is formed. In the cooling step, the build table is cooled to a cooling temperature. In the cutting step, a cutting process is performed on the solidified layer. In a first correction step executed after the heating step and before the manufacturing step, a positional misalignment of the base plate is measured, and a coordinate system used in the manufacturing step is corrected. In a second correction step executed after the cooling step and before the cutting step, a positional misalignment of the base plate is measured, and a coordinate system used in the cutting step is corrected.

Abstract: A system estimates a build state of a build object. The system includes an image acquisition unit and an analysis unit. The build object is manufactured by repeating: forming a material layer by supplying material powder onto a build area, and forming a solidified layer by irradiating the material layer with one or more laser beams. The image acquisition unit acquires, in real time, an image of spatter around each molten pool formed by the irradiation of the laser beams. The analysis unit extracts at least one feature related to the spatter from the image, calculates coordinates indicating a position of the molten pool, estimates a local parameter representing the build state of the solidified layer by inputting the at least one feature to a trained model, and outputs the local parameter in a form associated with the coordinates.

Abstract: An injection device of an injection molding machine includes an injection cylinder, a plunger, and a seal cylinder. The seal cylinder has a seal surface facing the plunger, a front surface forming a front surface flow path, and an outer side surface forming a side surface flow path. Between the injection cylinder and a side surface of the plunger, a first clearance is provided which is a gap that allows a molding material to flow through. Between the seal surface and the side surface of the plunger, a second clearance is provided which is a gap smaller than the first clearance and is reducible by a pressure of the molding material generated during dwelling.

Abstract: An injection molding machine and a viscosity measurement method of the disclosure are provided with an injection cylinder to which a viscosity measurement unit is attachable and detachable and a control device. When setting an inner diameter of the injection cylinder or an outer diameter of the injection shaft as D. For a capillary installed to the viscosity measurement unit, a capillary inner diameter is set as d. By respectively using three or more values ?k of the shear rate, k being a natural number, the control device is configured to calculate injection velocities Vk based on Formula (1) and automatically sets a value of the injection velocity Vk within a predetermined range, among the calculated injection velocities, as an injection velocity at a time of viscosity measurement.

Abstract: A pressure measurement device mountable to an injection unit that injects molding material of an injection molding machine, and an injection molding machine are provided. The pressure measurement device includes: a measurement cylinder mounted to the injection unit and through which the molding material injected by the injection unit flows; a plurality of dies mounted to the measurement cylinder and through which the molding material flows, and having different specifications; a flow path switching pin that selectively switches a discharge destination of the molding material to any one of the plurality of dies; and a pressure sensor that measures a pressure of the molding material in the measurement cylinder.

Abstract: A method for measuring a rotation center of a multi-axis processing machine 100 includes: using reference ball 8 and a measurement device 7 which has a probe 71 and measures, as a measurement value 72, a movement amount of the probe 71 when the reference ball 8 contacts the probe 71; executing a measurement process of rotating the rotation axis to measure the measurement value 72 in a state in which the reference ball 8 installed to one of the processing head 2 and the table 62, 63 contacts the probe 71 of the measurement device 71 installed to another of the processing head 2 and the table 62, 63; and executing a rotation center calculation process of calculating a rotation center of the rotation axis from the measurement value 72, a rotation angle of the rotation axis, and a position of a center of the reference ball 8.

Abstract: A processing apparatus is capable of efficient processing in a short time and obtaining a processed food product with exemplary quality. The processing apparatus includes a processing unit and a pair of electrodes. The processing unit is in a tubular shape, and an accommodation space capable of accommodating a material to be processed is formed as an internal space thereof, and includes a heating unit. A heating space constituting a part of the accommodation space is formed in the heating unit. The pair of electrodes are configured to clamp the material to be processed in the heating space for joule heating, and are configured to be movable from the heating space while clamping the material to be processed.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes an injection device including at least first and second injection units, and one mold clamping device. A molding material is injected into a first cavity space by the first injection unit, and a molding material is injected into a second cavity space by the second injection unit. The injection molding machine further includes a control device controlling the injection device and the mold clamping device, and a storage device storing a set time in advance. The control device starts injection of the second injection unit after elapse of the set time from a predetermined time point. The predetermined time point is a time point at which the first injection unit starts injection or an earlier time point. The set time is a delay time for delaying start of injection of the second injection unit from start of injection of the first injection unit.

Abstract: The invention provides an electrostatic precipitator, including: a gas inlet, supplied with gas containing dust that is a magnetic substance; a charging part, charging the dust; a collecting part, capturing the charged dust; a cleaning device, including at least one of a charging part cleaning device and a collecting part cleaning device; a magnet filter, provided downstream of the collecting part; an ozone removing filter, provided downstream of the magnet filter and removing ozone from the gas; and a gas outlet, discharging the gas in which the dust and the ozone are removed. In the magnet filter, multiple magnet plates are arranged at a predetermined interval. A downstream side of each magnet plate provided on an upper side with respect to a center is inclined downward. A downstream side of each magnet plate provided on a lower side with respect to the center is inclined upward.

Abstract: A three-dimensional laser beam machining apparatus includes a laser scanning head and a stage configured to be relatively movable with respect to each other, and a controller configured to control the laser scanning head and the stage based on a machining program. The machining program includes instructions regarding an irradiation sequence of the laser beam for a plurality of irradiation areas, each having the predetermined size. The plurality of irradiation areas are areas defined by dividing each of a plurality of layers, obtained by dividing a three-dimensional model of a target shape in a thickness direction, into a predetermined size in a surface direction using division lines. The division lines are offset from each other for each adjacent layer.

Abstract: A method for preparing an additive manufacturing program includes a loading step, a dividing step, an overhang calculating step, a subdividing step, a maintaining step, and an outputting step. In the loading step, a three-dimensional model is loaded. In the dividing step, the three-dimensional model is divided into divided layers. In the overhang calculating step, an overhang angle or overhang length of the divided layer is calculated. In the subdividing step, at least a part of the divided layer including an overhang portion is subdivided into two or more in a lamination direction. In the maintaining step, neither subdivision of the divided layer nor addition of a support structure supporting the divided layer is performed. The subdividing step and the maintaining step are selectively performed based on the overhang angle or overhang length. In the outputting step, an additive manufacturing program defining a command pertaining to additive manufacturing is output.

Abstract: A change device, a fine hole electric discharge machine, and an electrode change method that enable automatic and continuous machining of a large number of holes using electrodes of different diameters. A fine hole electric discharge machine including automatic electrode supply devices and a first change device is provided. The automatic electrode supply device includes an electrode cartridge storing a plurality of electrodes of a predetermined diameter and an electrode feeder device supplying the electrodes one by one from the electrode cartridge. The first change device includes a first magazine accommodating the automatic electrode supply devices in a detachable manner and a first transfer device transferring the automatic electrode supply device between the first magazine and a first chuck on a machining main spindle. The first magazine accommodates a plurality of automatic electrode supply devices storing the electrodes of different diameters.