Abstract: One object is to efficiently reduce the load of a collector of a cash-in-transit company, a shop, and the like in transporting a plurality of money cassettes when the collector collects these money cassettes and transports them. Upon receiving an operation instructing storage of money in a state in which the banknote and/or the coin has been inserted into a banknote inlet (10) and/or a coin inlet (110), a lighter money cassette is selected by referring to money weight data stored in a memory, the banknote and/or the coin is stored in the selected money cassette, and then the money weight data is updated. Accordingly, each of the weight of the money stored in the money cassettes (X and Y) are equalized each other.

Abstract: An elevator apparatus includes an elevator car; an air blower including an air inlet and an air outlet; ducts each having one end individually connected to the elevator car, the air inlet and the air outlet; intake and exhaust air volume adjusting means having the other end of each of the ducts connected thereto, which adjusts an intake and exhaust volume of air in the elevator car by varying a volume of air that bypasses the car to flow from the air outlet to the air inlet of the air blower; and control means that controls the intake and exhaust air volume adjusting means, to adjust air pressure within the car to set air pressure. The elevator apparatus adjusts air pressure within the elevator car, even when there is a small differential pressure between the set air pressure within the car and an air pressure outside the car.

Abstract: In a four-way valve having a simple structure, even if a high-temperature refrigerant and a low-temperature refrigerant flow close to each other, heat loss between both refrigerants is suppressed. The valve comprises a housing member including a valve chamber, a valve seat including a bearing surface portion located in the valve chamber, a first channel through which a high-temperature fluid flows and a second channel through which a low-temperature fluid flows at a predetermined time, including openings adjacent to each other at a bearing surface portion of the valve seat, passing through the valve seat and extending outside of the valve chamber, and a valve element moving to the bearing surface portion of the valve seat. A thermal resistor portion suppressing heat transfer between these channels is located near the openings, between the first and second channels.

Abstract: In a route guiding system equipped with a route guiding server (30) and terminal devices (20), a reference point is set as a base point in a travel direction to guide a moving body in a direction that should be taken on route, the direction the moving body should take from the aforementioned reference point is determined based on information relating to the aforementioned route, a specific target object is selected from among target objects used to specify the direction to be taken by the moving body that is near the aforementioned reference point, attribute information relating to the selected target object is obtained, and the travel direction from the aforementioned determined reference point is specified for the moving body based on the attribute information obtained, in order to guide the moving body in the direction that should be taken on the route.

Abstract: An elevator apparatus includes an elevator car; an air blower including an air inlet and an air outlet; ducts each having one end individually connected to the elevator car, the air inlet and the air outlet; intake and exhaust air volume adjusting means having the other end of each of the ducts connected thereto, which adjusts an intake and exhaust volume of air in the elevator car by varying a volume of air that bypasses the car to flow from the air outlet to the air inlet of the air blower; and control means that controls the intake and exhaust air volume adjusting means, to adjust air pressure within the car to set air pressure. The elevator apparatus adjusts air pressure within the elevator car, even when there is a small differential pressure between the set air pressure within the car and an air pressure outside the car.

Abstract: In a four-way valve having a simple structure, even if a high-temperature refrigerant and a low-temperature refrigerant flow close to each other, heat loss between both refrigerants is suppressed. The valve comprises a housing member including a valve chamber, a valve seat including a bearing surface portion located in the valve chamber, a first channel through which a high-temperature fluid flows and a second channel through which a low-temperature fluid flows at a predetermined time, including openings adjacent to each other at a bearing surface portion of the valve seat, passing through the valve seat and extending outside of the valve chamber, and a valve element moving to the bearing surface portion of the valve seat. A thermal resistor portion suppressing heat transfer between these channels is located near the openings, between the first and second channels.

Abstract: In a four-way valve having a simple structure, even if a high-temperature refrigerant and a low-temperature refrigerant flow close to each other, heat loss between both refrigerants is suppressed. The valve comprises a housing member including a valve chamber, a valve seat including a bearing surface portion located in the valve chamber, a first channel through which a high-temperature fluid flows and a second channel through which a low-temperature fluid flows at a predetermined time, including openings adjacent to each other at a bearing surface portion of the valve seat, passing through the valve seat and extending outside of the valve chamber, and a valve element moving to the bearing surface portion of the valve seat. A thermal resistor portion suppressing heat transfer between these channels is located near the openings, between the first and second channels.

Abstract: In a four-way valve having a simple structure, even if a high-temperature refrigerant and a low-temperature refrigerant flow close to each other, heat loss between both refrigerants is suppressed. The valve comprises a housing member including a valve chamber, a valve seat including a bearing surface portion located in the valve chamber, a first channel through which a high-temperature fluid flows and a second channel through which a low-temperature fluid flows at a predetermined time, including openings adjacent to each other at a bearing surface portion of the valve seat, passing through the valve seat and extending outside of the valve chamber, and a valve element moving to the bearing surface portion of the valve seat. A thermal resistor portion suppressing heat transfer between these channels is located near the openings, between the first and second channels.

Abstract: A tube expanding apparatus includes mandrels, each mandrel having a billet on a leading end; a reciprocating actuator for supporting rear ends of the mandrels, the reciprocating actuator being supported to reciprocate in an axial direction of hairpin tube straight portions; a pressure cylinder for raising and lowering the reciprocating actuator and expanding the straight portions by pressing the billets into the hairpin tube straight portions; hairpin receivers for supporting curved portions of hairpin tubes; a fin receiver for supporting a lower end portion of the laminated radiating fins; and a hydraulic cylinder for raising and lowering the fin receiver in the axial direction of the hairpin tube straight portions. The hydraulic cylinder lowers the fin receiver to a predetermined position as the mandrels descend and the billets begin to be inserted into the hairpin tubes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a core bit (1) for a core drill in which a tube (20) is detachable relative to a coupling (10), and has a structure which allows core remaining in a tube to be removed out of an opening of the tube at a side thereof where no segment is present. The core bit further has a firm structure for fitting the tube (20) onto the coupling (10). The coupling (10) of the core bit (1) to be fitted to the core drill has an insertion part (11b), onto which the tube (20) is to be detachably fitted. On the outer side of the coupling (10), there is mounted a coupling cover (30), which covers the insertion part (11b) of the coupling (10). The provided on respective separate positions are: an anti-rotation structure for preventing the tube (20) fitted onto the insertion part (11b) from rotating relative to the insertion part (11b); and a fixing structure for preventing the tube (20) from dropping off the insertion part (11b).

Abstract: A tube expanding apparatus includes mandrels each having a billet on a leading end; a reciprocating actuator for supporting rear ends of the mandrels, the reciprocating actuator being supported so as to be able to reciprocate in an axial direction of hairpin tube straight portions; a pressure cylinder for raising and lowering this reciprocating actuator and expanding the straight portions by pressing the billets into the hairpin tube straight portions; hairpin receivers for supporting curved portions of hairpin tubes; a fin receiver for supporting a lower end portion of the plurality of laminated radiating fins; and a hydraulic cylinder for raising and lowering the fin receiver in the axial direction of the hairpin tube straight portions. The hydraulic cylinder lowers the fin receiver to a predetermined position as the mandrels descend and the billets begin to be inserted into the hairpin tubes.

Abstract: The present invention has been made aiming at decreasing sound pressure of the cooling wind and increasing cooling effect of the vehicular ac generator. The arrangement is such that a case is composed of a pair of opposing brackets having exhaust port ribs, defining a plurality of exhaust ports and intake port ribs disposed inner side of said exhaust ports and defining a plurality of intake ports, that exhaust port ribs of at least one of the brackets are tilted from 20° to 50° in the direction of rotation of the rotor with respect to the radial direction of the rotor and that the rib thickness of the exhaust port ribs in the normal plane of the tilt direction of the exhaust port ribs are equal to or less than 50% of the exhaust port width.

Abstract: In a circulating vibratory linear parts-feeder including: a main trough for transporting parts in one direction; and a return trough for transporting the parts in the opposite direction to the one direction, arranged closely to the main trough, and spaced with a small gap from the main trough, in which the parts are transferred from the downstream end of the return trough into the upstream end of the main trough. The parts are orientated in the main trough by orientating means and discharged from a discharge end to the outside and the other parts are returned from the downstream end of the main trough into the upstream end of the return trough. Thus the parts are being continuously circulated in the main trough and return trough. The main trough has a transport surface for orientating the parts, and an inward circulating surface which is lower than the transport surface. The return trough includes a circulating surface.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a highly mass-producible heat sink ensuring excellent cooling performance, and to provide an automotive alternator capable of stable running by suppressing temperature increases in diodes of a rectifier and in a stator. The heat sink is a die cast provided with a flat base 41 having a generally rectangular planar shape, one surface thereof constituting a surface for mounting heat-generating components, and a plurality of fins 42 disposed on the other surface of the base 41 at a pitch (P) in the longitudinal direction of the base, each rising perpendicularly from the other surface of the base and projecting in the longitudinal direction of the base, the projecting height (H) of the fins from the base being five or more times the thickness (T) of the fins. The plurality of fins 42 are formed such that the thickness (T), height (H), and pitch (P) of the fins satisfy the expressions T≦1 mm and 0.35≦T/P≦0.6.

Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a muffler chamber communicated with the discharge port (5, 8) and having a diameter larger than a diameter of the discharge port (5) of the fixed scroll (2) for suppressing occurrence of an impulse wave caused by water hammering when the discharge valve (9) is closed. Noise caused by a pressure ripple of the discharge port lessens, quieting the operation of the scroll compressor.

Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a counterboring part which communicates with an intermediate pessure chamber after the and intermediate pressure chambers have begun to communicate via separation of the spiral teeth.

Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a counterboring part which communicates with an intermediate pressure chamber after the high and intermediate pressure chambers have begun to communicate via separation of the spiral teeth.

Abstract: Intercommunication of data between adjacent element processors (3) is performed through a memory unit (6) which is independently accessible to the respective element processors (3) without interfere with the operations of the other element processors (3). Thus, memory access and data transfer can be achieved without interfere with the operations of individual element processor (3). Furthermore, it becomes possible to solve differential equations by asynchronous communication system.

Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor which is low in noise caused by water hammering of a refrigerant gas just after a discharge valve is closed. The scroll compressor includes a discharge member (45) having a discharge port (8) opposed to a discharge port (5) of a fixed scroll (2) and a discharge valve (9) opposed to the discharge port (8) of the discharge member (45) and opened/closed depending on a difference between flow passage pressure of a refrigerant gas and pressure in a high pressure space (27) in a sealed vessel (1). At least either of the fixed scroll (2) and the discharge member (45) is formed with a muffler chamber communicated with the discharge port (5, 8) and having a diameter larger than a diameter of the discharge port (5) of the fixed scroll (2) for suppressing occurrence of an impulse wave caused by water hammering when the discharge valve (9) is closed. Noise caused by a pressure ripple of the discharge port lessens, quieting the operation of the scroll compressor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing an instructional video from a videotape of a golfer swinging a golf club. A computer still picture output section converts the video into still pictures, which are output onto a display. A correction picture output section generates video images of a desired swing motion corresponding to each of the still images. The still pictures of a golfer being analyzed are overlaid over the corrected images, which include lines depicting proper form. Additional visual and audio information can be added, and the result is recorded onto another videotape.