Abstract: An excavator attachment is attached to a rotating platform of an excavator. A display unit visually displays a predicted stability indicating stability of the posture of the excavator after the excavator is manipulated.

Abstract: An excavator attachment is attached to an excavator rotating platform. During normal operation, a drive means drives the attachment according to operator input into a manipulation device. A sensor detects motion of the excavator. Based on output of the sensor, a slip suppression unit detects slipping of the excavator undercarriage in an extension direction of the attachment, and corrects operation of the attachment performed by the drive means.

Abstract: A cryocooler includes a compressor, an expander, a gas line that allows a working gas to be circulated between the compressor and the expander and includes a high pressure line through which the working gas is supplied from the compressor to the expander and a low pressure line through which the working gas is collected from the expander to the compressor, a bypass line that connects the high pressure line to the low pressure line such that the working gas bypasses the expander and returns from the high pressure line to the low pressure line, and a bypass flow rate control unit that controls a flow rate of the working gas flowing in the bypass line to provide pressure control of the gas line. The bypass line includes a variable flow rate bypass and a fixed flow rate bypass.

Abstract: A human detection system may detect the presence of a human around a shovel by using an image captured by an imaging device that is attached to the shovel and that captures a human from diagonally above. The human detection system may have an extracting part that extracts a part of the captured image as a target image, and an identifying part that identifies whether an image included in the target image extracted by the extracting part is an image of a human by an image processing. A target image region in the captured image corresponds to a virtual plane region having a predetermined size in a real space. In the real space, the virtual plane region faces toward the imaging device and is inclined with respect to a horizontal surface.

Abstract: A cryopump system includes at least one cryopump including a refrigerator including a low temperature cooling stage and a high temperature cooling stage, a low temperature cryopanel cooled by the low temperature cooling stage, and a high temperature cryopanel cooled by the high temperature cooling stage. A compressor unit includes a compressor main body that compresses a working gas supplied to the refrigerator, an operating frequency of the compressor main body being variable. The compressor unit is operated such that a pressure ratio between high pressure and low pressure of the compressor main body is in a range between 1.6 and 2.5.

Abstract: A particle accelerator includes: a pair of magnetic poles disposed to face each other; a coil which surrounds each of the magnetic poles and generates a first magnetic flux density directing from the magnetic pole on one side to the magnetic pole on the other side; a foil stripper provided on a circling orbit of charged particles to strip off electrons from the charged particles; and a magnetic flux density adjustment unit which generates a second magnetic flux density directing in an opposite direction to a direction of the first magnetic flux density, in which the magnetic flux density adjustment unit makes an absolute value of magnetic flux density at a position of the foil stripper when viewed in a plan view smaller than an absolute value of the first magnetic flux density.

Abstract: A forming device includes: a first cavity portion in which a pipe portion is formed and a second cavity portion in which a flange portion is formed, the first cavity portion and the second cavity portion being formed between a first die and a second die; a flange adjusting member which is capable of being advanced into the second cavity portion and is capable of being retreated from the second cavity portion, and which adjusts a length of the flange portion; and a control unit. The control unit sequentially performs a first control of allowing the flange adjusting member to be advanced into the second cavity portion, a second control of allowing the gas supply unit to supply a gas so as to temporarily form the flange portion, and a third control of allowing the flange adjusting member to be retreated from the second cavity portion.

Abstract: An oil separator includes: an oil separator container; and a filter element that is disposed in the oil separator container, defines an outer cavity between the oil separator container and itself, includes an inner cavity into which refrigerant gas is introduced, and separates oil from the refrigerant gas flowing to the outer cavity from the inner cavity. The filter element includes a tubular inner filter member that surrounds the inner cavity, and an outer filter layer that includes a refrigerant gas outlet surface exposed to the outer cavity and is disposed outside the inner filter member. A wire-like or band-like filter retaining member that is in contact with the outer filter layer from the outside may be provided. The refrigerant gas outlet surface may occupy at least 80% of the surface area of the outer filter layer.

Abstract: A hybrid construction machine includes: a motor generator system connected to an internal combustion engine and performing a motor generator operation; an electric power accumulation system connected to the motor generator system; a load drive system connected to the electric power accumulation system and being driven electrically; an abnormality detection part equipped to the motor generator system, the electric power accumulation system and the load drive system; and a main control part determining whether an abnormality has occurred based on a detection value of the abnormality detection part. When the abnormality determination part determines that an abnormality has occurred, the main control part stops a drive of a drive system in which the abnormality is detected in the load drive system.

Abstract: A forming device that forms a metal pipe by blow forming includes: a gas supply part that supplies a gas to a metal pipe material to expand the metal pipe material; a die attachment part to which a die that is brought into contact with the expanded metal pipe material to form the metal pipe is attached; a gas discharge part that discharges the gas from the metal pipe material; and a pressure detector that detects a pressure of the gas, the gas supply part includes a gas compression part that compresses the gas, and a supply line that transfers the gas compressed by the gas compression part to the metal pipe material, the gas discharge part includes a discharge line that transfers the discharged gas, and the pressure detector is provided in each of the supply line and the discharge line.

Abstract: Provided is a method of disassembling a cold head provided with a displacer that extends in an axial direction, a cylinder that accommodates the displacer, and a displacer drive unit that is fastened to the cylinder and is connected to the displacer such that the displacer is driven in the axial direction, the method including mounting a lifting-up jig onto the displacer drive unit, unfastening the displacer drive unit and the cylinder from each other, and operating the lifting-up jig such that the displacer drive unit is lifted up from the cylinder together with the displacer.

Abstract: There is provided a cryocooler including a cryocooler cylinder, a pressure switching valve that generates a periodic pressure fluctuation inside the cryocooler cylinder, and a sensor that measures a periodic deformation of the cryocooler cylinder, which is caused by the periodic pressure fluctuation inside the cryocooler cylinder.

Abstract: A displacer assembly includes a first displacer including a first displacer lower lid portion and extending along a displacer center axis, a second displacer including a second displacer upper lid portion and disposed so that the second displacer upper lid portion is adjacent to the first displacer lower lid portion along the displacer center axis, and a cross-shaped connector including a first connector pin and a second connector pin, and connecting the second displacer upper lid portion to the first displacer lower lid portion so that the second displacer is inclinable forward, rearward, rightward, and leftward with respect to the first displacer.

Abstract: A cryocooler includes: a magnetic shield axially extending along a second-stage cylinder from a second-stage cooling stage outside the second-stage cylinder and disposed separated from a first-stage cooling stage by an axial separation distance, wherein an annular space open to a helium atmosphere is formed between the second-stage cylinder and the magnetic shield, and the axial depth of the annular space is longer than the axial separation distance; and a convection suppression member, for suppressing axial convection of helium gas in the annular space caused by temperature difference between the second-stage cylinder and the magnetic shield, is disposed in the annular space and is of longer axial length than the axial separation distance.

Abstract: There is provided a mounting structure for mounting a cryocooler cold head on a vacuum vessel. The cold head includes a cold head-side cooling stage and a cold head-side flange. The mounting structure includes a cold head accommodation sleeve installed in the vacuum vessel and including a sleeve-side cooling stage which comes into thermal contact with the cold head-side cooling stage by coming into physical contact with the cold head-side cooling stage, and a sleeve-side flange to be coupled to the cold head-side flange, an inter-flange distance adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a distance between the sleeve-side flange and the cold head-side flange so that the cold head-side cooling stage and the sleeve-side cooling stage are physically brought into contact with each other or brought into a contactless state therebetween, and a flange fastening mechanism configured to fasten the cold head-side flange to the sleeve-side flange.

Abstract: A cryocooler includes an attachment flange including a refrigerant gas introduction port through which refrigerant gas is introduced into a recondensing chamber from an ambient temperature environment, and attachable to the recondensing chamber, and a cooling stage that is disposed inside the recondensing chamber when the attachment flange is attached to the recondensing chamber. The refrigerant gas introduction port is perpendicularly or obliquely oriented with respect to an axial direction of the cryocooler so that a refrigerant gas flow exiting the refrigerant gas introduction port deviates from the cooling stage.

Abstract: A cryocooler includes a displacer, a cylinder in which the displacer is accommodated, a Scotch yoke mechanism which drives the displacer, and a housing in which the Scotch yoke mechanism is accommodated. The Scotch yoke mechanism includes a crank, a yoke plate, a second drive shaft, and a first drive shaft. The housing may include a drive mechanism accommodation chamber in which the crank and the yoke plate are accommodated, a first assist chamber in which a distal end of the first drive shaft is accommodated, and a second assist chamber which is provided between the drive mechanism accommodation chamber and a gas chamber or between the drive mechanism accommodation chamber and the first assist chamber. The first assist chamber and the second assist chamber can be adjusted to a higher pressure than the pressure in the drive mechanism accommodation chamber.

Abstract: A web processing system which includes two rollers configured to rotate at the same phase while being in contact with a web which continuously exists along a movement passage and a suppressing mechanism for suppressing a tension variation of the web between the two rollers.

Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper rotating body, an attachment including a boom and an arm, a controller, an engine, and a hydraulic pump that is driven by the engine and discharges hydraulic oil to drive the attachment. The controller is configured to obtain a hydraulic load applied to the attachment and calculate an engine speed command at predetermined time intervals based on the obtained hydraulic load.

Abstract: The life estimation system is a life estimation system that estimates a life of the reduction gear including a reduction mechanism. The life estimation system includes a sensor that is to be mounted onto the reduction gear and detects information for identifying a stress generated in a specific part of the reduction gear, and an estimating unit that identifies the stress generated in the specific part based on detection information obtained by the sensor and estimates the life of the specific part based on the identified stress.