Abstract: A conveyance device includes a slider, a conveyor including a plurality of conveyance modules to convey the slider, and a connecting member provided separately from the conveyance modules and configured to connect the conveyance modules adjacent to each other such that a signal is transmittable. The conveyance device further includes a first indicator provided so as to correspond to each of the plurality of conveyance modules and configured to indicate states of the conveyance modules.

Abstract: A linear conveyor includes a plurality of modules constituting a conveyance path and a slider that travels along the conveyance path. The linear conveyor includes at least one relay unit disposed across adjacent modules. The modules are configured such that each of the modules has first and second module-side connection sections provided at both ends in a direction along the conveyance path, the modules being connected in a row along the conveyance path. The relay unit includes a first unit-side connection section that is connected to the second module-side connection section of one of a set of the adjacent modules, a second unit-side connection section that is connected to the first module-side connection section of the other of the set of the adjacent modules, and a first circuit that electrically connects the first and second unit-side connection sections to each other.

Abstract: In a linear conveyor device, each driver in each of sensor structural bodies includes a sensor position calculation part, a position identification part and a power supply control part. The sensor position calculation part calculates sensor position data of a sensor which forms a sensor structural body to which the sensor position calculation part per se belongs based on first sensor distance data which is stored in a data storage part. The position identification part identifies the position of a slider based on addition data obtained by adding sensor position data by the sensor position calculation part and detection data by a sensor which forms the sensor structural body. Then, the power supply control part drives a linear motor by performing a power supply control of a linear motor stator corresponding to the sensor structural body based on an identification result obtained by the position identification part.

Abstract: In a linear conveyor device, each driver in each of sensor structural bodies includes a sensor position calculation part, a position identification part and a power supply control part. The sensor position calculation part calculates sensor position data of a sensor which forms a sensor structural body to which the sensor position calculation part per se belongs based on first sensor distance data which is stored in a data storage part. The position identification part identifies the position of a slider based on addition data obtained by adding sensor position data by the sensor position calculation part and detection data by a sensor which forms the sensor structural body. Then, the power supply control part drives a linear motor by performing a power supply control of a linear motor stator corresponding to the sensor structural body based on an identification result obtained by the position identification part.

Abstract: A linear conveyor includes a plurality of modules constituting a conveyance path and a slider that travels along the conveyance path. The linear conveyor includes at least one relay unit disposed across adjacent modules. The modules are configured such that each of the modules has first and second module-side connection sections provided at both ends in a direction along the conveyance path, the modules being connected in a row along the conveyance path. The relay unit includes a first unit-side connection section that is connected to the second module-side connection section of one of a set of the adjacent modules, a second unit-side connection section that is connected to the first module-side connection section of the other of the set of the adjacent modules, and a first circuit that electrically connects the first and second unit-side connection sections to each other.

Abstract: A linear motor is equipped with sensor substrates that are attached to main motor bodies in the X-direction along a conveyance path in such a manner that the sensor substrates are accommodated within the dimensions of the main motor bodies. Each sensor substrate is equipped with a sensor for outputting an A-phase position detection signal upon detecting a slider, a sensor for outputting a B-phase position detection signal, and a position detection signal summer unit. Each position detection signal summer unit adds up, for A-phase and for B-phase, position detection signals that are output from the position detections unit of the adjoining substrates provided on either side of the relevant substrate.

Abstract: A linear motor is equipped with sensor substrates that are attached to main motor bodies in the X-direction along a conveyance path in such a manner that the sensor substrates are accommodated within the dimensions of the main motor bodies. Each sensor substrate is equipped with a sensor for outputting an A-phase position detection signal upon detecting a slider, a sensor for outputting a B-phase position detection signal, and a position detection signal summer unit. Each position detection signal summer unit adds up, for A-phase and for B-phase, position detection signals that are output from the position detections unit of the adjoining substrates provided on either side of the relevant substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a user interface with which a greater number of processes are executable in response to user operations made to a directional input device. When the directional input device receives a first direction followed by a second direction within a predetermined time period, the amount of change from the first direction to the second direction is calculated. If the calculated change amount exceeds a predetermined range, a first processes associated with each of the first and second directions is performed. If the calculated change amount falls within the predetermined range, a second process associated with the change amount is performed.

Abstract: In image data retrieval, image data that becomes the base of search is specified. When the search is to be carried out according to the distance from the image data on an image map, an automatic setting process of retrieval information is carried out. Here, a keyword, icon, chromaticity and the like of that image data are automatically set as retrieval information. The position of that image data on the image map becomes the center of a range when the ambiguity is set. By setting the ambiguity of the image map, keyword, icon, chromaticity, and the like in this state, the range of ambiguity is displayed, and image data within that range is automatically retrieved. As a result, analogous image data can be searched for according to subtle and ambiguous information or information that cannot be quantified.

Abstract: The invention provides a data retrieval apparatus which includes a sensibility database 2 for storing a plurality of title names, evaluation points on a plurality of evaluation items, and identifiers assigned to evaluators responsible for the evaluation points; an evaluation point input block 1 for accepting an evaluation on each of the plurality of evaluation items; an evaluation point correction process block 5 for correcting each of the evaluations accepted by the evaluation point input block 1 by using a plurality of evaluator difference data for each of the plurality of evaluators; a retrieval criteria generating process block 6 for selecting a title name from the sensibility database 2 on the basis of each corrected evaluation; and a data retrieval process block 7.