Abstract: The present invention provides means capable of detecting a force acting on an upper part of an endless belt of the treadmill from a subject on the upper part of the belt even in a treadmill in which the height of a lower space below the upper part of the endless belt is limited. A treadmill comprises an endless belt 6 entrained about a front roller 4 and a rear roller 5 and a support plate 3 provided below an upper part 60 of the endless belt 6 and on which the upper part 60 of the endless belt 6 runs. The support plate 3 comprises a plurality of piezoelectric elements P inside the support plate 3 and/or on a surface of the support plate 3 so as to detect a force acting on the support plate 3 from the upper part 60 of the endless belt 6.

Abstract: A treadmill according to the present invention includes: a frame; an endless belt; an endless-belt drive unit; a plurality of cameras provided on the frame such that the orientations and/or locations thereof can be adjusted; a motion-data acquisition unit that markerlessly acquires motion data of a subject by using image information obtained with camera images; a motion analysis unit that analyzes the motion of the subject by using the motion data; and a control unit that controls the endless-belt drive unit based on the motion data.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a screw cutting mechanism that can stably feed screws to a driver bit by stabilizing the position of the screws, and that has an accurate and smooth cutting action.

Abstract: [Problem] This invention provides a smaller size and space-saving low-floor treadmill which is improved in durability of support of the rea roller and which can prevent bending of the rear roller by using smaller sized roller in the rea roller for a moving belt of the low-floor treadmill.

Abstract: [Problem] This invention provides a smaller size and space-saving low-floor treadmill which is improved in durability of support of the rea roller and which can prevent bending of the rear roller by using smaller sized roller in the rea roller for a moving belt of the low-floor treadmill.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a screw cutting mechanism that can stably feed screws to a driver bit by stabilizing the position of the screws, and that has an accurate and smooth cutting action.

Abstract: A screw supply apparatus includes a screw feeding unit, a screw transfer unit, and an escape unit. In the screw supply apparatus, the screw feeding unit includes a rotating drum having a horizontal rotating shaft. At a rear surface fixation bearing portion positioned on the rear surface side of the rotating drum, a screw input portion is provided for introducing screws into the rotating drum. Also, at a front surface fixation bearing portion positioned on the front surface side of the rotating drum, an opening is formed. The screw transfer unit includes a pair of transfer rails, which has a central groove and is inserted from the opening of the front surface fixation bearing portion into the rotating drum. In the vicinity of the outer circumference of the rotating drum, a drive cam is provided.

Abstract: A screw supply apparatus includes a screw feeding unit, a screw transfer unit, and an escape unit. In the screw supply apparatus, the screw feeding unit includes a rotating drum having a horizontal rotating shaft. At a rear surface fixation bearing portion positioned on the rear surface side of the rotating drum, a screw input portion is provided for introducing screws into the rotating drum. Also, at a front surface fixation bearing portion positioned on the front surface side of the rotating drum, an opening is formed. The screw transfer unit includes a pair of transfer rails, which has a central groove and is inserted from the opening of the front surface fixation bearing portion into the rotating drum. In the vicinity of the outer circumference of the rotating drum, a drive cam is provided.

Abstract: An automatic screw tightening apparatus suppresses damage of an inner wall of a transfer tube, stabilizes the posture of the screw, stably supplies the screw to a driver bit, and reduces screw tightening time. A rotatable arm is installed at the screw discharging unit and a feed head unit is installed at a fore end of the rotatable arm to be brought into close contact with a driver bit portion of a fore end of the screw tightening mechanism. The feed head unit is movable between close contact with the driver bit portion and an evacuation position where the feed head unit is far from the driver bit unit. At the close contact position, the driver bit portion of the fore end of the screw tightening mechanism is brought into contact with the screw and sucks a head portion of the screw to engage the screw.

Abstract: In an automatic screw tightening apparatus, a feed head unit is movable to and from close contact with a driver bit portion. The driver bit portion contacts the screw and sucks the head portion of the screw in close contact. The feed head unit includes a longitudinal groove opened to the outside and connected to a vertically extending screw feed hole. Only a thread portion of the screw is capable of horizontally advancing and retreating in the longitudinal groove.

Abstract: An automatic screw tightening apparatus has a screw discharging unit for transferring a screw to a transfer tube, an engaging unit for engaging the head part of the screw transferred from the transfer tube with a front end of a driver, and an openable and closable sealing cover for preventing air from leaking and which is opened and exposes the screw for tightening.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for feeding screws. In the apparatus, screws are scooped up from the storage container by a scooping unit and put onto a carrying unit. The screws are arranged in line and carried by the carrying unit and discharged through a discharge unit. The scooping unit includes a rotating arm which rotates on the outer wall of the storage container, and a magnet which is fastened to the front end of the rotating arm. The carrying unit includes a screw receiving part. The rotating arm rotates on the outer wall of the storage container to scoop up the screws using magnetic force of the magnet and load the screws onto the screw receiving part. The scooping unit further includes a magnet spacing part which is provided on the outer wall of the storage container.

Abstract: In an automatic screw tightening apparatus, a feed head unit is movable to and from close contact with a driver bit portion. The driver bit portion contacts the screw and sucks the head portion of the screw in close contact. The feed head unit includes a longitudinal groove opened to the outside and connected to a vertically extending screw feed hole. Only a thread portion of the screw is capable of horizontally advancing and retreating in the longitudinal groove.

Abstract: There is provided an automatic screw tightening apparatus which suppresses damage of an inner wall of a transfer tube, stabilizes the posture of the screw, stably supplies the screw to a driver bit, and reduce screw tightening time.

Abstract: An automatic screw tightening apparatus has a screw discharging unit for transferring a screw to a transfer tube, an engaging unit for engaging the head part of the screw transferred from the transfer tube with a front end of a driver, and an openable and closable sealing cover for preventing air from leaking and which is opened and exposes the screw for tightening.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for feeding screws. In the apparatus, screws are scooped up from the storage container by a scooping unit and put onto a carrying unit. The screws are arranged in line and carried by the carrying unit and discharged through a discharge unit. The scooping unit includes a rotating arm which rotates on the outer wall of the storage container, and a magnet which is fastened to the front end of the rotating arm. The carrying unit includes a screw receiving part. The rotating arm rotates on the outer wall of the storage container to scoop up the screws using magnetic force of the magnet and load the screws onto the screw receiving part. The scooping unit further includes a magnet spacing part which is provided on the outer wall of the storage container.

Abstract: Even if the tension of the endless belt against the sliding contact member is reduced, the slip of the endless belt out of the rotary roller is prevented and the endless belt is smoothly moved. Also, since frictional resistance of the endless belt against the sliding contact member is reduced, durability of the endless belt can be substantially improved. The present running machine comprises a rotary roller 23 for circulatingly move an endless belt 20 mounted to the bedplate 10 and supported at a supporting plate 22 by a driving unit 26, a sliding contact member 25 for guiding the sliding-contact movement of the endless belt 20, a tension roller 30 for depressing the upper portion of the endless belt toward the lower portion, thereby making a distance of the upper portion and the lower portion smaller than the diameter of the rotary roller 23, and a tension/contact roller 40 depressing and contacting the endless belt 20 to the rotary roller 23.

Abstract: Even if the tension of the endless belt against the sliding contact member is reduced, the slip of the endless belt out of the rotary roller is prevented and the endless belt is smoothly moved. Also, since frictional resistance of the endless belt against the sliding contact member is reduced, durability of the endless belt can be substantially improved. The present running machine comprises a rotary roller 23 for circulatingly move an endless belt 20 mounted to the bedplate 10 and supported at a supporting plate 22 by a driving unit 26, a sliding contact member 25 for guiding the sliding-contact movement of the endless belt 20, a tension roller 30 for depressing the upper portion of the endless belt toward the lower portion, thereby making a distance of the upper portion and the lower portion smaller than the diameter of the rotary roller 23, and a tension/contact roller 40 depressing and contacting the endless belt 20 to the rotary roller 23.

Abstract: A running machine having a.reduced height from the ground to a running surface on an endless belt without decreasing the outside diameter of a driving roller. The running machine includes a driving roller for rotating the endless belt mounted in an inner portion of a frontal end of the endless belt, and a tension member mounted near the driving roller, depressing the upper portion of the endless belt toward a lower portion thereof to maintain a tensioned state of the endless belt. Thus, the distance between the upper portion and the lower portion of the endless belt is made smaller than the diameter of the driving roller.

Abstract: A running machine having a reduced height from the ground to a running surface on an endless belt without decreasing the outside diameter of a driving roller. The running machine includes a driving roller for rotating the endless belt mounted in an inner portion of a frontal end of the endless belt, and a tension member mounted near the driving roller, depressing the upper portion of the endless belt toward a lower portion thereof to maintain a tensioned state of the endless belt. Thus, the distance between the upper portion and the lower portion of the endless belt is made smaller than the diameter of the driving roller.