Abstract: A speaker grille is arranged to have screw seats projected toward a mount opening in a rear parcel tray of a vehicle, and a skirt portion for contacting a surface of the rear parcel tray at a predetermined distance spaced from the mount opening. A holder plate has a fitting projection portion for fitting in the mount opening, a flange portion projecting from the fitting projection portion to be substantially wider than the mount openings so that the flange portion will abut and support a lower surface of the rear parcel tray. The holder plate is screwed to the speaker grille such that the rear parcel tray is clamped between, and supported by, the skirt portion and flange portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of controlling the diameter of a single crystal produced by the Czochralski method. The diameter of a tapered portion of the single crystal is controlled by controlling the temperature of a melt in a crucible and the rotational speed of the crucible. The control range of the rotational speed of the crucible is made narrower as the diameter of the tapered portion approaches closer to that of a body portion, and the rotational speed is made constant while the body portion is grown.

Abstract: An apparatus is used in the production of a monocrystalline rod by Czochralski method and is adapted for measuring the diameter of the monocrystalline rod at the melt surface of the melt by processing image signal derived from an image sensor. The measurement of the diameter is conducted by determining the diameter of the monocrystalline rod at the melt surface by processing the output signal from the image sensor, and multiplying the rod image diameter with a function of the difference between the initial melt surface level and a melt surface corrected in accordance with a change in the temperature in the apparatus chamber or a change in the leval of the electrical power supplied to a heater for heating a crucible.

Abstract: A load measuring device for measuring the pulling up load of a monocystalline rod (38) grown by the Czochralski method utilizes a strain gauge (20). The monocrystalline rod (38) is pulled up by wire rope (36) consisting of multiple strands. The pulley (34) guiding the wire rope between a drum (36) and a crystal holder (44) has a guide groove which has a cross-sectional shape which is substantially identical to a semicircle circumscribing the wire rope.

Abstract: A melt-surface initial position adjusting apparatus which is suitable for use in a monocrystal growing system employing the Czochralski method to adjust the vertical position of the melt surface before the growing of a monocrystal. The apparatus can ensure a highly precise measurement of a crystal-diameter measuring device, thereby enabling a reduction in the costs of producing a monocrystal bar. Before the growing of a crystal, the vertical position (H) of the surface (16A) of a melt within a crucible is measured. The crucible is moved vertically on the basis of the measured value in such a manner as to maintain the distance (L) between the melt surface (16A) and an image sensor (28) for measuring the crystal diameter at a predetermined value.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the diameter of a crystal in which an optical sensor scans along a sensing line which crosses at one point a luminous ring formed at the interface between a crystalline rod and a melt; the picture element position corresponding to a maximum luminance is discriminated when the optical sensor scans; the mean value of the picture element position is calculated over at least one revolution of the crystalline rod; and the diameter D of the crystalline rod at a portion thereof interfacing with the melt is calculated from the mean value and the level of the melt. Similarly, the minimum crystal diameter can be calculated by obtaining the picture element position corresponding to the minimum crystal diameter instead of obtaining the mean of the picture element position.

Abstract: A horizontal multi-link type robot has servomotors for rotating first and second arms, respectively. These servomotors are mounted to a first arm support shaft so as to be symmetrical with respect to this shaft. The first arm is mounted to the first arm support shaft so as to be rotatable in a horizontal plane. The second arm is mounted to a second arm support shaft, which extends parallel to the first arm support shaft and is rotatably held to the first arm. A tool holding shaft extends parallel to the second arm support shaft and is rotatably held to the second arm.