Abstract: Provided is an excavation tool for efficiently taking waste rocks produced during excavation into the inner peripheral side of a casing pipe. An excavation tool (10) includes a casing shoe (11), a casing pipe (15), a rod (60), a device (40), and an excavation bit (20). The excavation bit (20) has a head portion (22) and a skirt portion (23). The head portion (22) is provided with: a face flute (27), which is open into the tip face of the head portion and extends radially outward; a connection flute (28), which is integrally connected to the outer peripheral end of the face flute (27) and extends toward the rear end side, and an intake hole (29), which is integrally connected with the discharge flute (46) of the device (40) and is open to the inner peripheral side of the skirt portion (23) from the connection flute (28).

Abstract: In a plasma display device, the scan electrode drive circuit is mounted at least on a first circuit board generating a sustain pulse and a second circuit board outputting a scan pulse to the scan electrodes. The first circuit board includes a plurality of first metal fittings, each having a screw hole, as an output terminal. The second circuit board includes a plurality of second metal fittings, each having a through-hole, as an input terminal. The first circuit board and the second circuit board are connected to each other by inserting and screwing screws into the screw holes of the first metal fittings via the through-holes of the second metal fittings.

Abstract: The brushless motor includes a stator having a electromagnetic coil and a position sensor; an axis fixed to the stator; and a rotor having a permanent magnet. The rotor rotates around the axis. The rotor is linked to a driven member that is driven by the brushless motor.

Abstract: A coreless electric machine includes: a permanent magnet on a first member; N-phase (N?2) air-core electromagnetic coils on a second member; and a coil back yoke on the second member, each electromagnetic coil including a conductor bundle in which a conductor is wound M times (M?2), coil sub-aggregates are provided, each including the N electromagnetic coils of the respective N phases and in each of which a conductor bundle forming an effective coil area of a first-phase electromagnetic coil contacts a second conductor bundle forming an effective coil area of another phase electromagnetic coil, and the second conductor bundle is in an air-core portion of the first phase electromagnetic coil, and the coil sub-aggregates are arranged along the cylindrical area, in which the coil sub-aggregates do not overlap in a radiation direction of the cylindrical area, and adjacent coil sub-aggregates contact each other.

Abstract: A coreless electric machine apparatus includes: a permanent magnet arranged on the first member; two-phase coreless electromagnetic coils arranged on the second member; a coil back yoke arranged on the second member, wherein the electromagnetic coils include effective coil areas for generating a force to move the first member relatively to the second member, and coil end areas, the effective coil areas of the two-phase electromagnetic coils have same shape and are arranged in a cylindrical area between the permanent magnet and the coil back yoke, the coil end area of a first phase electromagnetic coil of the two-phase electromagnetic coils is bent in an inside direction or an outside direction of the cylindrical surface, the two-phase electromagnetic coils have same electric resistance value, and the coil back yoke covers outer peripheral areas of the effective coil areas and does not cover outer peripheral areas of the coil end areas.

Abstract: An energy converter includes magnetic coils of N phases (N is an integer of 3 or more), and a PWM drive circuit for driving the magnetic coils of N phases, wherein the magnetic coil of each phase can be independently controlled by the PWM drive circuit.

Abstract: An energy converter includes magnetic coils of N phases (N is an integer of 3 or more), and a PWM drive circuit for driving the magnetic coils of N phases, wherein the magnetic coil of each phase can be independently controlled by the PWM drive circuit.

Abstract: An energy converter includes magnetic coils of N phases (N is an integer of 3 or more), and a PWM drive circuit for driving the magnetic coils of N phases, wherein the magnetic coil of each phase can be independently controlled by the PWM drive circuit.

Abstract: To provide a technique that improves an efficiency of using a magnetic field in a brushless electric machine. A brushless electric machine includes a first member having N sets (N is an integer of 2 or more) of electromagnetic groups, and a second member that has N+1 sets of magnetic field forming member groups and can move in a predetermined moving direction in relative to the first member. One set of the electromagnetic coil group and one set of the magnetic field forming member group are alternately disposed along a direction perpendicular to the moving direction.

Abstract: The fluid power generator is provided. The fluid power generator includes: a rotating member that rotates by fluid force; a generator motor that is mechanically linked with the rotating member and that is configured to function both as a generator and as a motor; a rotation speed meter that measures a rotation speed of the generator motor; and a controller that controls the generator motor, wherein the controller has a control mode to keep the rotation of the rotating member irrespective of a variation in flow rate of the fluid.

Abstract: Provided is an excavation tool which can firmly fix a locking pin so that the locking pin does not move even in the case of an impact during excavation and/or the locking pin being pushed out in the insertion/removal direction. The excavation tool (10) includes a tool body (20) having an attaching hole (32) and an attaching member (40). The attaching member (40) is provided with an attaching shaft (45) inserted into the attaching hole (32), and the outer peripheral surface of the attaching shaft (45) is provided with a groove (46) which crosses the extension direction of the attaching shaft (45). The tool body (40) is provided with a pin hole (33) extending in a direction crossing the extension direction of the attaching hole (32). A part of the pin hole (33) passes through the attaching hole (32). A locking pin (56), which can engage with the groove (46) of the attaching shaft (45) inserted into the attaching hole (32), is inserted into the pin hole (33).

Abstract: A method drives a panel and a plasma display unit, wherein one field includes a plurality of subfields, each having an addressing period for producing an address discharge selectively in the discharge cells, and a sustaining period for producing a sustain discharge by applying a number of sustaining pulses corresponding to a weight of brightness in a discharge cell where the address discharge has been produced. Additionally, a sustaining pulse generator circuit includes a power recovery section for controlling the rising or the falling of the sustaining pulse by producing resonance between an inter-electrode capacitance of a display electrode pair and an inductor, and a clamping section for clamping a voltage of the sustaining pulse at a predetermined potential, wherein the power recovery section is used to set twice a time of the rising of the sustaining pulse to be equal to or longer than a duration of the sustaining pulse.

Abstract: The brushless motor has a first and second drive member. The first drive member is equipped with M phase coil groups each having N electromagnetic coils where M is an integer of 1 or greater and N is an integer of 1 or greater. The second drive member has a plurality of permanent magnets, and is able to move relative to the first drive member. The first drive member has 2 (M×N) magnetic body cores. Each phase electromagnetic coil is coiled on a periodically selected magnetic body core at a ratio of 1 to 2M from among the arrangement of 2 (M×N) magnetic body cores.

Abstract: A coreless electromechanical device having a first and second member which are movable relative to each other, includes: a permanent magnet disposed on the first member; an air-cored electromagnetic coil disposed on the second member; and a coil back yoke which, being disposed on the second member, has a stacked structure, wherein the electromagnetic coil is disposed between the permanent magnet and coil back yoke, the electromagnetic coil has an active coil region, in which a force causing the first member to move relatively in a movement direction is generated in the electromagnetic coil, and coil end regions, and the coil back yoke covers the active coil region, but does not cover the coil end regions.

Abstract: Provided is an excavation tool which can firmly fix a locking pin so that the locking pin does not move even in the case of an impact during excavation and/or the locking pin being pushed out in the insertion/removal direction. The excavation tool (10) includes a tool body (20) having an attaching hole (32) and an attaching member (40). The attaching member (40) is provided with an attaching shaft (45) inserted into the attaching hole (32), and the outer peripheral surface of the attaching shaft (45) is provided with a groove (46) which crosses the extension direction of the attaching shaft (45). The tool body (40) is provided with a pin hole (33) extending in a direction crossing the extension direction of the attaching hole (32). A part of the pin hole (33) passes through the attaching hole (32). A locking pin (56), which can engage with the groove (46) of the attaching shaft (45) inserted into the attaching hole (32), is inserted into the pin hole (33).

Abstract: An energy converter includes magnetic coils of N phases (N is an integer of 3 or more), and a PWM drive circuit for driving the magnetic coils of N phases, wherein the magnetic coil of each phase can be independently controlled by the PWM drive circuit.

Abstract: Provided is an excavation tool for efficiently taking waste rocks produced during excavation into the inner peripheral side of a casing pipe and discharging the waste rocks to the outside. An excavation tool (10) includes a casing shoe (11), a casing pipe (15), a rod (60), a device (40), and an excavation bit (20). A discharge flute (46) for discharging the waste rocks is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the device (40). The excavation bit (20) has a head portion (22) and a skirt portion (23). The device (40) can be inserted into the inner periphery of the skirt portion (23).

Abstract: In a plasma display device, the scan electrode drive circuit is mounted at least on a first circuit board generating a sustain pulse and a second circuit board outputting a scan pulse to the scan electrodes. The first circuit board includes a plurality of first metal fittings, each having a screw hole, as an output terminal. The second circuit board includes a plurality of second metal fittings, each having a through-hole, as an input terminal. The first circuit board and the second circuit board are connected to each other by inserting and screwing screws into the screw holes of the first metal fittings via the through-holes of the second metal fittings.

Abstract: The fluid power generator is provided. The fluid power generator includes: a first member that has multiple coils; a second member that is rotatable relative to the first member and that has multiple permanent magnets; a rotating member that is mechanically linked with either one of the first member and the second member to rotate by fluid force; and a clearance controller that moves at least one of the first member and the second member to thereby change a clearance between the first member and the second member, wherein the clearance controller changes the clearance in such a manner as to make the clearance smaller after a start of rotation of the rotating member than before the start of rotation of the rotating member.

Abstract: To provide a technique that improves an efficiency of using a magnetic field in a brushless electric machine. A brushless electric machine includes a first member having N sets (N is an integer of 2 or more) of electromagnetic groups, and a second member that has N+1 sets of magnetic field forming member groups and can move in a predetermined moving direction in relative to the first member. One set of the electromagnetic coil group and one set of the magnetic field forming member group are alternately disposed along a direction perpendicular to the moving direction.