Abstract: This disc brake includes a cylinder bore into which a piston is fitted, a seal groove provided in the cylinder bore as an annular groove, and a seal member which has a rectangular cross section shape and which is fitted into the seal groove and seal a space between the piston and the cylinder bore. The seal groove includes a bottom surface portion, a side surface portion, and a chamfered portion. The chamfered portion is formed to expand an opening of the seal groove in the axial direction of the cylinder bore and has two types of curvature radii (r1 and r2).

Abstract: A conveyance route switching mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus that includes the conveyance route switching mechanism include a driving source, a gate, a first gear, and an internal gear. The driving source includes a driving shaft. The gate includes a gate shaft, and a blade that is provided on the gate shaft, and switches conveyance routes of paper sheets. The first gear is provided on the gate shaft. The internal gear meshes with the first gear. According to rotation of the driving shaft, the gate shaft rotates on an axis of the gate shaft, and revolves with the driving shaft as a rotation center while the first gear meshes with the internal gear.

Abstract: A sensor includes a complex-transfer-function calculator that calculates a complex transfer function from received signals, a reflection-coefficient calculator that calculates a reflection coefficient using a complex transfer function when an object to be detected is arranged at one of L positions and an ideal complex transfer function which is a theoretical value for the position at which the object to be detected is arranged, various normalizers that calculate a normalized reflection coefficient by normalizing the reflection coefficient, a reflection-coefficient interpolator that calculates an interpolated reflection coefficient by interpolation calculation of the reflection coefficient using the normalized reflection coefficient for each coordinates used in position estimation of the object to be detected, and a position estimator that corrects the position estimation, using a steering vector and the interpolated reflection coefficient that are determined based on the position of each of the transmitting a

Abstract: A circuit board storage bag and a storage rack are disclosed. A plurality of printed circuit board storage bags for accommodating a circuit board comprise a front surface portion and a rear surface portion opposed to the obverse and reverse surfaces, respectively, of the circuit board accommodated in the circuit board storage bag and connecting portions for connecting the front surface portion and the rear surface portion. The front surface portion and the rear surface portion bend at the connecting portions to open and close the circuit board storage bag for use in transporting the circuit board. The circuit boards are stored in a storage rack having an inclined mounting surface for mounting the storage bags and a bag stopper at the lower end of the mounting surface. The bags are stored in vertical position on one side at the lower end of the mounting surface.

Abstract: An information storage unit stores pieces of information that are classified on the basis of their relationships. An information providing unit provides a client terminal with information stored in the information storage unit via a communication network in response to an access request from the client terminal. An access frequency acquiring unit acquires access frequencies, for respective classification items of the pieces of information, of accesses to the pieces of information. An information generating unit generates prescribed information so that pieces of information of plural classification items will be displayed in the client terminal in such a form as to be based on histories of the access frequencies.

Abstract: A circuit board storage bag and a storage rack are disclosed. The stock in process, of the printed circuit boards between processes, is reduced while at the same time saving the space otherwise required for the stock, and the inward and outward delivery of the printed circuit boards are facilitated. A plurality of printed circuit board storage bags (1) each for accommodating a circuit board (90) each comprise a front surface portion (11) and a rear surface portion (12) opposed to the obverse and reverse surfaces, respectively, of the circuit board (90) accommodated in the circuit board storage bag (1) in closed state and connecting portions (13 to 15) for connecting the front surface portion (11) and the rear surface portion (12). The front surface portion (11) and the rear surface portion (12) connected to each other are adapted to bend at the connecting portions (13 to 15) thereby to open and close the circuit board storage bag (1) for use in transporting the circuit board (90) between processes.

Abstract: A workflow management device which cooperates with an electronic bulletin board is disclosed. The workflow management device includes a request target designation unit which accepts a designation of a request target of an activity in a workflow and having a function to accept a designation of an electronic bulletin board as a request target of the activity, and a bulletin board posting unit which posts, when the request target designation unit designates an electronic bulletin board as a request target of an activity, to the electronic bulletin board, an activity request message containing a link to data of the activity in the workflow.

Abstract: An information storage unit stores pieces of information that are classified on the basis of their relationships. An information providing unit provides a client terminal with information stored in the information storage unit via a communication network in response to an access request from the client terminal. An access frequency acquiring unit acquires access frequencies, for respective classification items of the pieces of information, of accesses to the pieces of information. An information generating unit generates prescribed information so that pieces of information of plural classification items will be displayed in the client terminal in such a form as to be based on histories of the access frequencies.

Abstract: A graphical access counter for encouraging users to repeatedly access a homepage is provided. In a flower-counter-number display area of the access counter, a flower counter value incremented by each access and reset at a predetermined period is displayed. In a flower-counter-image display area, a plant image growing in accordance with the flower counter value is displayed. In a cumulative-counter display area, a cumulative counter value incremented by each access is displayed. In a comment display area, a message from a sever is displayed. The flower counter value and the cumulative counter value are incremented only by one a day even if the corresponding homepage is accessed a plurality of times within the same day.

Abstract: An assembling device for supplying and assembling a part on an object has a table and a first moving portion disposed above the table, where the first moving portion includes a guide and a movable body. The guide extends in a first direction parallel to a surface of the table out of a range in which the table is positioned. The movable body is movable to a position out of the range in which the table is positioned. The assembling device also has a second moving portion disposed on the table and movable in a second direction transverse to the first direction, the object being mounted on the second moving portion.

Abstract: A work-flow support having: a processing wait task storage unit that temporarily stores a task execution request and a rule interpretation execution unit executes a task corresponding to the execution request stored in the rule interpretation execution unit under the execution of another task according to rules. The rule interpretation execution unit and the task history storage unit manage history information about each task which has initiated its execution. The rule interpretation execution unit allows a task connection information storage unit to store therein connection information for connecting history information about the task corresponding to the execution request and another task to be executed to one another.

Abstract: A double-covered yarn based on a spandex core having a heat set of at least 50% and two sheath yarns wound in the same direction, a process for the preparation of such yarn and fabrics produced therefrom, are provided.

Abstract: An assembling device for supplying and assembling a part on an object has a table and a first moving means disposed above the table, wherein the first moving means includes a guide and a movable body. The guide extends in a first direction parallel to a surface of the table out of a range in which the table is positioned. The movable body is movable to a position out of the range in which the table is positioned. The assembling device also has a second moving means disposed on the table and movable in a second direction transverse to the first direction, the object being mounted on the second moving means.

Abstract: The invention provides a workflow support system and a method of the same that enables to refer to and to trace the history and progress state of the control information, as to a workflow transferring into a different system and an atypical task. The data base contains a task control information for executing a workflow, and the conversion unit converts a task information into a task sheet being an electronic document, which is stored in the document data base or the open document server. The task control information contains a relation between the tasks and a pointer indicating a storage location of a task sheet corresponding to the task, and the pointer is contained also in the task sheet. The task sheets are linked by this pointer. Tracing this pointer makes it possible to refer to the task sheets of the tasks involved, to grasp the progress state, and further to trace the task sheets involved.

Abstract: A user operates a user interface to select a rule for executing the process of a work flow, which is stored in a personal data base or a shared data base, and sends the conditional part of the selected rule as the goal to a query portion. Then, the query portion successively executes the process of the work flow through the computation by the SLD contradiction. When the goal fails in the execution by the computation, the failure goal is transferred as a tapple to the tapple space. The tapple is solved by another query portion, and the result of executing the tapple is returned to the tapple space. If a rule for executing the tapple is not found, the task is processed by man or a user and the result of the processing is entered into the system. In answer to this, the system interprets that the task has been proved to be true, and continues the execution of the work flow process.

Abstract: A structured document used for exemplifying a retrieved result is analyzed by a structure analyzing section, and its structure is expanded in a memory. A search-formula structure extracting section consecutively fetches fixed-type structural patterns stored in a knowledge base, and finds a structural pattern including a substructure of the structured document exemplified by the user. A search-condition extracting section determines a value of a field used for a search formula with respect to each of the records contained in the substructure extracted by the search-formula structure extracting section. A search-formula synthesizing section synthesizes an expression in a form which can be recognized as a search formula. The synthesized search formula can be modified by a search-formula editing section in compliance with an edit instruction from the user on condition that the exemplified substructure is retrievable.

Abstract: A washing method by a continuous washing machine including a drum having a charge port of a wash at one end and a discharge port thereof at the other end, partitions for dividing the drum into a plurality of chambers, and a scoop for scooping up the wash with the rotation of the drum and sequentially transferring it from a chamber on the side of charge port to a chamber on the side of discharge port, in which the normal rotation of the drum without transfer in the transfer direction and the reverse rotation without transfer are repeated several times to oscillate the wash several times, and then by the reverse rotation of the drum of one complete turn or more, the raising/dropping motion of the wash is performed by the scoop at least once, whereby washing is carried out by the combination of several oscillating motions and at least one raising/dropping motion.

Abstract: A positioning device for a parts supply tray has a plurality of areas each for containing a part. The parts supply tray is formed with a plurality of positioning holes each located at a substantially central position in each of the areas. The positioning device has a plurality of positioning pins adapted to be inserted into the positioning holes of the parts supply tray, respectively. When the part contained in one of the areas is to be selectively picked up, one of the positioning pins in the selected area is selectively inserted into the positioning hole corresponding to the selected positioning pin to thereby position the parts supply tray in a fixed position for each selected area.

Abstract: A parts tray conveying system includes a first station for supplying a plurality of occupied trays each containing parts under a stacked condition; a second station for separating the occupied trays under the stacked condition one by one from the upper stage; and a third station for conveying the occupied trays. Also provided is a device for taking an upper-most one of the occupied trays under the stacked condition from the second station to the third station; a fourth station for discharging a plurality of empty trays each containing no parts one by one from the third station; and a fifth station for stacking the empty trays discharged by the fourth station. Accordingly, a large number of the parts trays can be compactly set under the stacked condition in the conveying system to thereby effectively utilize space in the conveying system.