Abstract: An extruder is provided with: a screw rotationally driven about the axis by a first motor; a barrel having a screw hole into which the screw is inserted and a de-airing port configured to discharge air inside the screw hole; a filter configured such that a part thereof faces the de-airing port of the barrel; and a filter-driving mechanism configured to move the filter to shift the part of the filter facing the de-airing port.

Abstract: A battery management device is configured to set a limited measurement range that limits a range for measuring a voltage of each of a plurality of batteries for a vehicle. The battery management device is configured to measure the voltage of each of the plurality of batteries within the limited measurement range.

Abstract: A barrel main body, a sleeve, and a fixing mechanism (a fastening hole and a fastening device) are provided. The barrel main body includes a barrel hole having a cylindrical shape and a slit dividing an inner circumferential surface of the barrel hole. The sleeve having a hollow cylindrical shape is removably incorporated into the barrel hole. The slit includes two cutout surfaces facing each other with a space between. The fixing mechanism brings the inner circumferential surface of the barrel hole into close contact with the sleeve without any gap by narrowing the space between the cutout surfaces and deforming the barrel main body.

Abstract: A barrel main body, a sleeve, and a fixing mechanism (a fastening hole and a fastening device) are provided. The barrel main body includes a barrel hole having a cylindrical shape and a slit dividing an inner circumferential surface of the barrel hole. The sleeve having a hollow cylindrical shape is removably incorporated into the barrel hole. The slit includes two cutout surfaces facing each other with a space between. The fixing mechanism brings the inner circumferential surface of the barrel hole into close contact with the sleeve without any gap by narrowing the space between the cutout surfaces and deforming the barrel main body.

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: In the machine tool according to the present invention, a cutting tool 25 is configured to be optionally turned to take each reverse orientation, based on a C axis as the center of rotation about the Z axis, which is vertical to the X-Y plane parallel to a top face of a work 13. First, the orientation of the cutting tool 25 is set to correspond to machining in an advancing stroke for the work 13, so as to perform the machining for the work while moving it in an advancing direction. Then, the orientation of the cutting tool is reversed, so as to perform the machining for the work while moving it in a retracting direction.

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: An object of the invention is to minimize the number of in-process items. To this end, in an inter-process buffer controlling apparatus according to the invention, the size of a buffer to be used for storage of work subjects of predetermined work is increased if a difference or a ratio between a variance of first intervals at which the work subjects are delivered to the buffer and a variance of duration that is taken for the preceding process exceeds a prescribed first threshold value, and the size of the buffer is decreased if a difference or a ratio between an average of second intervals at which work subjects generated by the work are delivered to the following buffer and an average of the first intervals exceeds a prescribed second threshold value.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to minimize the number of in-process items. To this end, in an inter-process buffer controlling apparatus according to the invention, the size of a buffer to be used for storage of work subjects of predetermined work is increased if a difference or a ratio between a variance of first intervals at which the work subjects are delivered to the buffer and a variance of duration that is taken for the preceding process exceeds a prescribed first threshold value, and the size of the buffer is decreased if a difference or a ratio between an average of second intervals at which work subjects generated by the work are delivered to the following buffer and an average of the first intervals exceeds a prescribed second threshold value.

Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing management system for controlling an SMT line to manufacture printed circuit boards the manufacture of which has been designated. A source data management file created by CAD data for a printed circuit board, an inventory parts management file, a cartridge management file and an SMT line information file which includes manufacturing conditions of the SMT manufacturing equipment and equipment arrangement are registered in a database. An SMT set-up support unit creates a set-up instruction manual, which specifies set-up for manufacturing printed circuit boards on the SMT line, by referring to the various files that have been stored in the database. Further, a mounting data creating unit creates mounting data, which are for allowing the mounting machine to mount parts on printed circuit boards, using part setting position addresses of the mounting machine contained in set-up information and part mounting position coordinates contained in the source data management file.

Abstract: A bracket is provided with a projection having its tip displaced from a rear panel of a pillar inner panel toward the rear end of the automobile and the projection is provided with a through bore and that the garnish main body has its inner surface held in linear contact with the tip of the projection of the bracket and includes a boss inserted into the through bore of the projection of the bracket and supported by the projection.

Abstract: A production control system is disclosed which comprises a plurality of processing apparatuses each thereof including a single cell or a plurality of identical cells, a storage for temporarily storing objects to be processed, a transportation facility for transporting the objects to be processed between the cells or between the cell and the storage, a plurality of cell controllers each thereof controlling each cell, a physical distribution control system for controlling the transportation facility, and a charge control system for issuing a transportation command to the physical distribution system in response to a request for sending in and a request for taking out from the cell controllers as well as a notice of completion of transportation from the physical distribution control system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pallet arranging system for use in a multiple-item small-lot production setup. The system uses a plurality of pallet groups each comprising a plurality of pallets, each of the pallets including a plurality of cartridges, each of the cartridges containing a large number of parts of the same type. The system creates channel setting data for use by a part assembler fed with parts and printed circuit boards. The parts are assembled by the part assembler onto predetermined positions on the printed circuit boards in accordance with the channel setting data that designate which cartridge is to be assigned to which of the channels constituting the pallet groups.

Abstract: A system for manufacturing printed circuit board units having facilities for automatically performing a component replacement work or component replenishment work which may take place during the changeover of products and ensuring an effective flexible manufacture of the printed wiring board units includes a plurality of the processing cells. Conveyance passages, on which automatic conveying vehicles travel, extend across the processing cells. Along the conveyances passages, there are provided storages opposite to the processing cells. Predetermined electronic components are arranged in advance onto a pallet in a predetermined sequence by an automatic on-pallet arranging unit provided separately from the processing cells, and the pallet is supplied into the processing cells.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a production control system for dealing with the demand of producing many kinds of products in small quantities within a short delivery period by improving productivity of production lines and unmanned operation of the lines. The production control system has a plurality of facilities (1) including parts mounters (14) for processing products through processes, cell controllers (2) for controlling the facilities, a line control system (3) for centrally controlling all the cell controllers, and a transporting unit (4) controlled by the line control system to transport the products between the facilities. The line control system (3) comprises a unit (401) for preparing a detailed execution schedule by considering, in real time, a schedule of a relatively short period extracted from a schedule of a relatively long period, half-finished conditions of the products in a line, and actual events.

Abstract: An adsorbing material for an autoantibody and/or immune complexes is provided. The adsorbing material has an insoluble carrier and an organic low-molecular-weight compound containing a hydrophobic compound, which is fixed to the insoluble carrier. The adsorbing material may be used in an adsorbing device, which has a vessel having fluid inlet and outlet openings with the adsorbing material being contained in the vessel. The adsorbing device may be used in a blood purifying apparatus for absorbing and removing an autoantibody and/or immune complexes from blood plasma, which apparatus has (a) a plasma separating device and (b) a blood-plasma mixing device, which are disposed in series in a blood circulation passage, and (c) a plasma purifying device comprising the adsorbing device disposed in a plasma recycle passage connected to the blood circulation passage to introduce plasma, separated in the plasma separating device, into the mixing device.