Abstract: A control device turns on a system relay and relays. A first boost converter rectifies an AC voltage supplied through a connector and a first power supply line. Further, the boost converter responds to a signal from the control device to boost the rectified voltage, and outputs the boosted voltage to a second power supply line. A second boost converter receives a voltage from the second power supply line to convert the voltage in accordance with a signal from the control device for output to a third power supply line. Since the system relay and one relay are both turned on, first and second batteries are connected in parallel to the third power supply line and a ground line. The first and second batteries are thereby charged.

Abstract: A control device turns on a system relay and relays. A first boost converter rectifies an AC voltage supplied through a connector and a first power supply line. Further, the boost converter responds to a signal from the control device to boost the rectified voltage, and outputs the boosted voltage to a second power supply line. A second boost converter receives a voltage from the second power supply line to convert the voltage in accordance with a signal from the control device for output to a third power supply line. Since the system relay and one relay are both turned on, first and second batteries are connected in parallel to the third power supply line and a ground line. The first and second batteries are thereby charged.

Abstract: A pacing apparatus for use in a manual production line features a sensory output configured to provide varying sensory cues scaled to a desired task achievement period. The pacing apparatus may also include a sensory display having a plurality of lights configured to provide varying visual cues scaled to a desired task achievement period. A system for pacing workers in a manual production line may include means for entering data corresponding to a desired task achievement period and means for providing varying sensory cues scaled to the desired task achievement period.

Abstract: The characteristic of nonlinear processing with respect to image data is designated by a GUI and the result of the processing quickly displayed. A personal computer 72 displays a GUI image for input on a monitor. When a user designates a nonlinear characteristic on the GUI image by an input device 70, the personal computer 72 extracts a break point approximation function indicating the nonlinear characteristic and displays the same in the GUI image. Further, the personal computer 72 generates a program for executing nonlinear processing indicated by the extracted break point approximation function by a linear array type multiple parallel processor (DSP 80) and downloads the generated program to the DSP 80.

Abstract: A porous iron system metal bond diamond grinder using diamond as grinding particles and iron system metal powder as binder so as to have a large number of pores in the binder. The grinding particles are chemically and physically combined with the iron system metal to be held. The occupancy rate of pores in the whole grinder is 5 to 60%. The iron system metal is selected from a group composed of mixtures of iron powder, carbon-coated iron powder, iron nitride powder, carbon and iron. Carbon of diamond constituting the grinding particles is reacted to the iron system metal in the surface. In the manufacturing method, grinding particles and binder are mixed and molded into a predetermined shape and the molded product is then heated and sintered at 900.degree. to 1150.degree. C. The occupancy rate of pores and/or the concentration gradient of diamond are adjusted. The porous iron system metal bond diamond grinder capable of performing grinding continuously for a long time without loading can be provided.

Abstract: In a memory device, data stored in memory cells bridging memory cell columns for two lines can be read out in response to an address signal supplied only once. The memory cells (R00-R03), (R10-R13), (R10-R13), (R20-R23)m (R20-R23) and (R30-R33) for the two adjoining lines are connected to common word lines L0, L1, L2. Also, a series of bit lines are sequentially selected by a counter. The data stored in the memory cells bridging the memory cell columns for the two lines can be read out only once by supplying an address signal only one time.

Abstract: A machine for producing soybean curd comprises a conveyor having coagulating buckets, a device for filling a mixture of soybean milk and a coagulant into the buckets, means for heating the mixture in the buckets to coagulate the mixture into soybean curd, and a device for withdrawing the soybean curd from the buckets. A preheater for preheating the buckets to a temperature higher than the temperature of the mixture to be filled is disposed for a path of travel of the buckets at a position upstream from the filling device.

Abstract: A process for producing bean curd comprising the steps of cooling soybean milk and bittern individually to below the coagulating temperature of the milk, mixing the cooled milk and bittern together and filling the mixture into buckets, coagulating the mixture in the buckets by heating, and withdrawing the coagulated milk from the buckets and detwatering the coagulated milk to obtain formed bean curd. An apparatus for practicing the process comprises a mold box and a pressing closure each having in a required portion a multiplicity of holes not passing the coagulated milk therethrough but permitting the water contained in the coagulated milk to pass therethrough.

Abstract: A bean curd producing machine comprising soybean milk coagulating means, means for dewatering and shaping coagulated soybean milk and means for delivering bean curd shaped by dewatering. The coagulating means comprises a bucket conveyor disposed within a heating chamber and having coagulating buckets arranged in parallel rows, and a distributing trough disposed above the paths of travel of the buckets in all the rows thereacross and formed in its bottom wall with filling openings positioned immediately above the respective rows of buckets. The dewatering-shaping means comprises a bucket conveyor having press buckets arranged in parallel rows and each formed in a required portion with many dewatering apertures, a press bar disposed above the paths of travel of the press buckets in all the rows thereacross, and lids suspended from the press bar each by a spring, equal in number to the number of the press bucket rows and each provided for one press bucket.

Abstract: A sealed container eventually shaped into a rectangular parallelopiped is formed by folding a sheet of blank and joining together the required folded portions. The container has a longitudinal seal portion formed by joining together the longitudinal opposite edge portions of the blank and extending vertically over the rear side of the rectangular parallelopipedal container main body, and upper and lower transverse seal portions formed by sealing the upper and lower ends of the blank as shaped in the form of a tube. The upper and lower seal portions extend sidewise over the top side and bottom side of the main body, respectively, and are folded toward the rear side.

Abstract: In a packaging machine for use with a plurality of webs as a packaging material, each of the webs being formed with fold lines extending widthwise thereof and arranged longitudinally thereof at a spacing corresponding to the height of the finished containers to be eventually formed from the web, the plurality of webs being different in the spacing between the fold lines to form containers of capacities which are variable according to the height, a folding apparatus for forming folds in the web by folding the web along the fold lines, comprising a plurality of folding rollers corresponding to the plurality of webs, each of the folding rollers being movable to and retractable from an operative position in which the folding roller is rotatable by the corresponding web when the web is advanced as passed therearound, each of the folding rollers having edges extending axially thereof and coinciding with the fold lines of the corresponding web.

Abstract: A container forming apparatus for packaging machine by which a vertical tube filled with contents is sealed over a required width at a spacing corresponding to the length of one container and is cut at the midportion of the seal width, the apparatus comprising a slide having forming jaws, and a slide lift assembly drivingly movable by a pulse motor.

Abstract: A package container tube processing apparatus by which a vertical tube filled with contents is divided into lengths each corresponding to one container to form intermediate containers. The apparatus comprises a vertical rod movable upward and downward and reversibly rotatable, a movable frame attached to the vertical rod and movable therewith upward and downward while permitting the reversible rotation of the vertical rod, a pair of pressure arms supported at their lower portions by the movable frame so as to be pivotally movable about a pair of horizontal axes parallel to each other, a pair of seal bars fixed to the upper portions of the pressure arms respectively and opposed to each other, and conversion means for converting the forward-reverse rotation of the vertical rod to a pivotal motion of the two pressure arms to move the two seal bars toward or away from each other.