Abstract: A hand device is attached to a robot arm, grips a workpiece extending helically around a helical axis, and includes a base attached to the robot arm and a gripping part that is supported by the base in a rotatable manner around a predetermined rotation axis and that grips the workpiece. The gripping part grips the workpiece on the predetermined rotation axis such that the helical axis of the workpiece substantially extends along the predetermined rotation axis, and rotates in a helical direction of the workpiece in accordance with an external force acting on the workpiece in a tangential direction around the predetermined rotation axis.

Abstract: A robot system is provided with a robot including a free cart and a manipulator mounted on the free cart, and a control device for controlling the manipulator. The control device controls the manipulator to execute a predetermined task, and also controls the manipulator to move the robot itself.

Abstract: A hand device is attached to a robot arm, grips a workpiece extending helically around a helical axis, and includes a base attached to the robot arm and a gripping part that is supported by the base in a rotatable manner around a predetermined rotation axis and that grips the workpiece. The gripping part grips the workpiece on the predetermined rotation axis such that the helical axis of the workpiece substantially extends along the predetermined rotation axis, and rotates in a helical direction of the workpiece in accordance with an external force acting on the workpiece in a tangential direction around the predetermined rotation axis.

Abstract: A compressor includes a main body having in a housing a vane back-pressure space configured to project a vane forming a compression room for compressing gas, and a centrifugal oil separator. A discharge section to which the gas from the oil separator is ejected is formed in the housing, and the oil separator includes a pressure-adjusting valve configured to adjust pressure of the vane back-pressure space according to pressure of the discharge section. The pressure-adjusting valve is arranged in the oil separator without being affected by the gas ejected from the oil separator.

Abstract: In a gas compressor, a cyclone block is configured to include a substantially cylindrical space into which a compressed gas is introduced to separate refrigeration oil from the gas. A pressure bypass is formed in the substantially cylindrical space defined by an outer cylindrical unit and an inner cylindrical unit to communicate with a discharge chamber having lower pressure than that of the substantially cylindrical space. The pressure bypass includes a pressure valve to open and close the pressure bypass in accordance with the internal pressure of the substantially cylindrical space having the pressure bypass. During a high speed operation of a compressor unit, the coolant gas including unseparated refrigeration oil is discharged from the pressure bypass.

Abstract: A gas compressor includes a cylinder block, a rear side block, a front side block, a cylinder chamber segmented by the above three blocks, a rotor provided in the cylinder chamber, vane slots formed on the rotor, vanes inserted into the vane slots, and a suction hole provided on at least one of the front and rear side blocks. Refrigerant is suctioned into the cylinder chamber from the suction hole. An opening edge of the suction hole is composed of an in-chamber opening edge that locates within the cylinder chamber and an in-block opening edge that faces to a sidewall of the cylinder block. The in-chamber opening edge locates on a side of an oval inner wall away from an outer circumference of the rotor. According to the gas compressor, leaning of the vanes is restrained, so that ground damage or attrition of the blocks, vibrations and noises are restrained.

Abstract: An on-board antenna device comprises: a radiation element (302) formed on an inner-surface of a widow glass (51) for a vehicle (50); a base plate (305) fixed on the inner-surface of the widow glass (51) so as to surround the radiation element (302); a circuit board (308) having a conductive layer in a surface (308a) thereof, which is opposed to the radiation element (302), and a component mounting surface electrically connected to the radiation element (302) in the other surface (308b) thereof; and a housing (312) assembled onto the base plate (305), and the circuit board (308) being contained therein; wherein the circuit board (308) has a cutout portion (308f) to incorporate a connector (324) for a transmission line connection.

Abstract: An antenna structure of a rectangular loop antenna that is provided on a window glass of a vehicle, includes: another loop portion that is provided inside a rectangular loop portion of the rectangular loop antenna and has a path partially shared with the rectangular loop portion; and a bypass unit that connects the path of the another loop portion and the path of the rectangular loop portion which is not shared with the path of the another loop portion.

Abstract: A heating line pattern structure is provided, in which the effect of the heating lines of a defogger on an antenna for a TV broadcast especially for a digital TV broadcast may be decreased. The defogger is structured by arranging heating lines between bus bars on both sides. The portion of an uppermost heating line in proximity to the monopole antenna are folded rectangularly at a regular interval to form a meander shape. One lateral heating line is extended under the meander-shaped heating line portion, and is connected to a vertical heating line to which four lateral heating lines are connected together.

Abstract: In a gas compressor, a cyclone block is configured to include a substantially cylindrical space into which a compressed gas is introduced to separate refrigeration oil from the gas. A pressure bypass is formed in the substantially cylindrical space defined by an outer cylindrical unit and an inner cylindrical unit to communicate with a discharge chamber having lower pressure than that of the substantially cylindrical space. The pressure bypass includes a pressure valve to open and close the pressure bypass in accordance with the internal pressure of the substantially cylindrical space having the pressure bypass. During a high speed operation of a compressor unit, the coolant gas including unseparated refrigeration oil is discharged from the pressure bypass.

Abstract: An on-board antenna device, comprises a radiation element (22) formed on an inner-surface of a window glass (51) for a vehicle (50), a base plate (405) having an opening, the base plate (405) being fixed on the inner-surface of the window glass (51) so as to surround the radiation element (22), and a housing (27) assembled onto the base plate (405), the housing (27) having an opening surrounding the radiation element, wherein the base plate has four leakage prevention walls (405b, 405c, 405d and 405e) and each of four leakage prevention walls (405b, 405c, 405d and 405e) has a surface substantially parallel to each of four sidewalls (430b, 430c, 430d and 430e) of the housing (27).

Abstract: Rear glass is provided with a patch-like radiation conductor and a first ground conductor surrounding the patch-like radiation conductor. An electronic circuit unit includes a base plate fixed on the rear glass; a frame body which houses a circuit substrate and is fixed on the base plate; and a cover for covering the frame body. One surface of the circuit substrate defines a component-holding surface which is connected with a second end of a feeder cable connected with the radiation conductor and the first ground conductor. The other surface of the circuit substrate is provided with a second ground conductor to function as a radio-wave reflective surface. The radio-wave reflective surface faces the radiation conductor and the first ground conductor disposed on the rear glass such that the radio-wave reflective surface is separated from the radiation conductor and the first ground conductor by a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A feeding structure of an antenna device formed on a window glass panel of a motor vehicle is provided. A first feeding element opposing to the hot antenna element of the planar antenna and second feeding element opposing to the ground antenna element are located in the module mounted on the window glass panel so as to cover the planar antenna.

Abstract: A vehicular antenna apparatus includes a radiating conductor directly patterned on a glass surface of a vehicle, a base plate fixed to the glass surface, a frame screwed to the base plate, a power feeding substrate and a circuit substrate accommodated and held in the frame, a connecting small substrate electrically connecting both substrates, and a cover attached on the top of the frame. A patterned surface of the power feeding substrate is close to and faces the glass surface, and thereby indirect power feeding can be performed. Both ends of the connecting small substrate are received in connecting holes. A power feeding pattern and a preamplifier circuit are connected via a microstrip line.

Abstract: An on-board antenna includes a radiation element provided on a dielectric substrate, a grounding conductor surrounding a periphery of an outer edge portion of the radiation element at a position spaced away outwardly from the outer edge portion, and a conductive member provided on the surface at a position spaced away outwardly from an outer edge portion of the grounding conductor.

Abstract: An on-board antenna device comprises: a radiation element (302) formed on an inner-surface of a widow glass (51) for a vehicle (50); a base plate (305) fixed on the inner-surface of the widow glass (51) so as to surround the radiation element (302); a circuit board (308) having a conductive layer in a surface (308a) thereof, which is opposed to the radiation element (302), and a component mounting surface electrically connected to the radiation element (302) in the other surface (308b) thereof; and a housing (312) assembled onto the base plate (305), and the circuit board (308) being contained therein; wherein the circuit board (308) has a cutout portion (308f) to incorporate a connector (324) for a transmission line connection.

Abstract: A vehicular antenna apparatus includes a radiating conductor directly patterned on a glass surface of a vehicle, a base plate fixed to the glass surface, a frame screwed to the base plate, a power feeding substrate and a circuit substrate accommodated and held in the frame, a connecting small substrate electrically connecting both substrates, and a cover attached on the top of the frame. A patterned surface of the power feeding substrate is close to and faces the glass surface, and thereby indirect power feeding can be performed. Both ends of the connecting small substrate are received in connecting holes. A power feeding pattern and a preamplifier circuit are connected via a microstrip line.

Abstract: An on-board antenna device, comprises a radiation element (22) formed on an inner-surface of a window glass (51) for a vehicle (50), a base plate (405) having an opening, the base plate (405) being fixed on the inner-surface of the window glass (51) so as to surround the radiation element (22), and a housing (27) assembled onto the base plate (405), the housing (27) having an opening surrounding the radiation element, wherein the base plate has four leakage prevention walls (405b, 405c, 405d and 405e) and each of four leakage prevention walls (405b, 405c, 405d and 405e) has a surface substantially parallel to each of four sidewalls (430b, 430c, 430d and 430e) of the housing (27).

Abstract: A heating line pattern structure is provided, in which the effect of the heating lines of a defogger on an antenna for a TV broadcast especially for a digital TV broadcast may be decreased. The defogger is structured by arranging heating lines between bus bars on both sides. The portion of an uppermost heating line in proximity to the monopole antenna are folded rectangularly at a regular interval to form a meander shape. One lateral heating line is extended under the meander-shaped heating line portion, and is connected to a vertical heating line to which four lateral heating lines are connected together.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a base frame supported on a base, a seat cushion provided on the base frame, and a seat back, wherein the seat back is structured so that a plurality of seat back pieces are arranged in the up-and-down direction with a predetermined space; and the base frame or a lowermost seat back piece is attached with an attachment member that stands so as to be elastically deformed and be able to be twisted around an axis, and the plurality of seat back pieces are attached to the attachment member, respectively.