Abstract: A rubber extrusion device comprises a control plate having an adjustment flow path communicating with an extrusion flow path formed in a head and an extrusion port formed in a die is interposed between the head and the die; the control plate is slid along and between the head and the die to change a position of a communication region of the extrusion flow path with respect to the adjustment flow path at a leading end opening of the extrusion flow path to set the control plate at a desired position; and unvulcanized rubber, obtained by mixing and kneading rubber material while extruding the rubber material forward with a screw, passes through the extrusion flow path and the adjustment flow path to be extruded from the extrusion port.

Abstract: A rubber extrusion device includes a sensor which detects a deviation from a preset reference position of a rubber extrudate extruded from an extrusion port. Based on this detection data, a control unit provides control for correction of the deviation by adjusting a position of a die relative to a head along a leading end surface of the head or a rotational speed of a screw. A rubber material is mixed and kneaded while being extruded forward by a screw installed inside a cylinder. Resultant unvulcanized rubber is fed into an extrusion flow path and extruded from the extrusion port formed in the die.

Abstract: A method and a device for manufacturing a rubber coated cord, comprising: a rubber coated cord including a preceding cord is manufactured by causing the preceding cord to pass through a preceding head while filling the preceding head with unvulcanized rubber extruded from a rubber extruder, and a rubber coated cord including a next cord is manufactured by setting a leading edge portion of the next cord in a state where the leading edge portion of the next cord has passed through the next head in advance, manufacturing a predetermined length of the rubber coated cord including the preceding cord, and subsequently causing the next cord including a leading edge portion side range bonded to a trailing edge portion of the rubber coated cord including the preceding cord to pass through the next head while switching from the preceding head to the next head.

Abstract: In a MEMS electrostatic capacitor type acceleration sensor, the manufacturing costs of MEMS elements are reduced, and at the same time, the variations of the electrical and mechanical characteristics of the MEMS elements are reduced. A detection circuit generates a voltage signal corresponding to the product of a difference between the two capacitance values of a pair of MEMS capacitors and a servo signal. A modulation circuit outputs a signal corresponding to the difference between the capacitance values using the servo signal. The control circuit outputs the servo signal on the basis of a signal corresponding to the difference between the capacitance values.

Abstract: A cylindrical member manufacturing device is provided. A rear end of an arm is rotatably supported by a base fixed to a rotation shaft coaxial with a drum shaft and separated from the drum shaft in a drum width direction; the arm is set to rotate in a direction so that a front end moves toward and away from an outer circumferential surface of a forming drum; and the base, the arm, and the rotation shaft are integrally rotated about the rotation shaft with the rotating forming drum with the front end moved toward the outer circumferential surface and the arm pressing a front end of a band-like rubber member disposed on the outer circumferential surface and holding a first end on the outer circumferential surface in order to wind the band-like rubber member around the outer circumferential surface and form the band-like rubber member into a cylindrical shape.

Abstract: A method and a device for manufacturing a rubber coated cord, comprising: a rubber coated cord including a preceding cord is manufactured by causing the preceding cord to pass through a preceding head while filling the preceding head with unvulcanized rubber extruded from a rubber extruder, and a rubber coated cord including a next cord is manufactured by setting a leading edge portion of the next cord in a state where the leading edge portion of the next cord has passed through the next head in advance, manufacturing a predetermined length of the rubber coated cord including the preceding cord, and subsequently causing the next cord including a leading edge portion side range bonded to a trailing edge portion of the rubber coated cord including the preceding cord to pass through the next head while switching from the preceding head to the next head.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor that is highly accurate while ensuring reduced power consumption. A sensor is an electronic circuit that includes a sensor element, an analog filter, an A/D converter, and first and second electronic circuit. The analog filter filters a waveform that includes a sensor signal from the sensor element and noise based on a servo signal. The A/D converter converts the waveform filtered by the analog filter into a first digital signal. The first electronic circuit includes a digital filter and acquires a second digital signal by performing signal processing including at least a filtering process on the servo signal by using the digital filter. The second electronic circuit acquires a third digital signal by subtracting the second digital signal from the first digital signal. A setting for the signal processing for acquiring the second digital signal is changed on the basis of the third digital signal.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a CV conversion amplifier which is small in current consumption and capable of securing a sufficient capacitance-voltage conversion gain and a sufficient amplitude range of an output voltage and a capacitive sensor using the same which is low power consumption, low in noise, and wide in an input signal allowable range. A capacitive sensor includes first and second detection capacitors, a CV conversion circuit includes first and second feedback capacitors and obtains a voltage based on capacitance values of the first and second feedback capacitors, an AD converter performs analog digital conversion on an input voltage and obtains a digital signal, a digital control unit receives the digital signal as an input, and first and second digitally controlled variable capacitors have capacitance values that are controlled by the digital control unit.

Abstract: A rubber extrusion device comprises a control plate having an adjustment flow path communicating with an extrusion flow path formed in a head and an extrusion port formed in a die is interposed between the head and the die; the control plate is slid along and between the head and the die to change a position of a communication region of the extrusion flow path with respect to the adjustment flow path at a leading end opening of the extrusion flow path to set the control plate at a desired position; and unvulcanized rubber, obtained by mixing and kneading rubber material while extruding the rubber material forward with a screw, passes through the extrusion flow path and the adjustment flow path to be extruded from the extrusion port.

Abstract: A servo control signal is binarized using a digital delta-sigma modulator. The digital delta-sigma modulator forms a feedback loop including a digital adder/subtractor, a digital integrator, and a one-bit quantizer to perform pulse-density modulation of the input servo control signal and output the signal as a binary value of +1 or ?1.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for manufacturing a cylindrical member. By inserting an edge of the forming drum on one side in a width direction between an arm and a projection of a holding unit disposed opposite one another and bringing the arm and the projection closer together in a direction in which a separation distance is reduced, a first end of the rubber member disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the forming drum is disposed between the arm and the projection, pressed by the arm, and held on the outer circumferential surface, and a holding unit attached to the forming drum is rotated about a drum shaft together with the forming drum; and the rubber member is wound around the outer circumferential surface and formed into a cylindrical shape.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor that is highly accurate while ensuring reduced power consumption. A sensor is an electronic circuit that includes a sensor element, an analog filter, an A/D converter, and first and second electronic circuit. The analog filter filters a waveform that includes a sensor signal from the sensor element and noise based on a servo signal. The A/D converter converts the waveform filtered by the analog filter into a first digital signal. The first electronic circuit includes a digital filter and acquires a second digital signal by performing signal processing including at least a filtering process on the servo signal by using the digital filter. The second electronic circuit acquires a third digital signal by subtracting the second digital signal from the first digital signal. A setting for the signal processing for acquiring the second digital signal is changed on the basis of the third digital signal.

Abstract: Provided is an acceleration sensor capable of realizing a simultaneous operation method of signal detection and servo control in place of a time-division processing method, by an MEMS process in which a manufacturing variation is large. The acceleration sensor is an MEMS capacitive acceleration sensor and has capacitive elements for signal detection and capacitive elements for servo control different from the capacitive elements for the signal detection. A voltage to generate force in a direction reverse to a detection signal of acceleration by the capacitive elements for the signal detection is applied to the capacitive elements for the servo control.

Abstract: In a MEMS electrostatic capacitor type acceleration sensor, the manufacturing costs of MEMS elements are reduced, and at the same time, the variations of the electrical and mechanical characteristics of the MEMS elements are reduced. A detection circuit generates a voltage signal corresponding to the product of a difference between the two capacitance values of a pair of MEMS capacitors and a servo signal. A modulation circuit outputs a signal corresponding to the difference between the capacitance values using the servo signal. The control circuit outputs the servo signal on the basis of a signal corresponding to the difference between the capacitance values.

Abstract: There is provided an inertia sensor with low noise and high sensitivity. The inertia sensor captures a physical quantity as a change of electrostatic capacitance and detects the physical quantity based on a servo voltage generating electrostatic force that cancels the change of the electrostatic capacitance. The inertia sensor includes a detection capacitor unit that captures the physical quantity as the change of the electrostatic capacitance and a servo capacitor unit to which the servo voltage is applied. Here, the detection capacitor unit and the servo capacitor unit are connected mechanically through an insulation material.

Abstract: A rubber extrusion device includes a sensor which detects a deviation from a preset reference position of a rubber extrudate extruded from an extrusion port. Based on this detection data, a control unit provides control for correction of the deviation by adjusting a position of a die relative to a head along a leading end surface of the head or a rotational speed of a screw. A rubber material is mixed and kneaded while being extruded forward by a screw installed inside a cylinder. Resultant unvulcanized rubber is fed into an extrusion flow path and extruded from the extrusion port formed in the die.

Abstract: A die attached to a head of a rubber extrusion device is disposed at a leading end position of an extrusion flow path. The die is moved at least in a uniaxial direction relative to the head along a leading end surface of the head to place the die and the head in a desired relative position. A rubber material is extruded forward using a screw installed inside a cylinder, while being mixed and kneaded. Resultant unvulcanized rubber is fed into an extrusion flow path and extruded from an extrusion port formed in the die.

Abstract: A successive approximation type AD converter includes an in-phase voltage detection and supply circuit that supplies an in-phase voltage obtained by impedance voltage division of a first input analog signal and a second input analog signal to a first capacitance DA converter and a second capacitance DA converter. The first capacitance DA converter samples the first input analog signal with reference to the in-phase voltage, and the second capacitance DA converter samples the second input analog signal with reference to the in-phase voltage. After the sampling period ends, a comparator compares the output of the first capacitance DA converter and the output of the second capacitance DA converter, output voltages of the first capacitance DA converter and the second capacitance DA converter are changed by the control signal of a successive approximation logic unit on the basis of a comparison result, and comparison processing is repeated.

Abstract: A successive approximation type AD converter includes an in-phase voltage detection and supply circuit that supplies an in-phase voltage obtained by impedance voltage division of a first input analog signal and a second input analog signal to a first capacitance DA converter and a second capacitance DA converter. The first capacitance DA converter samples the first input analog signal with reference to the in-phase voltage, and the second capacitance DA converter samples the second input analog signal with reference to the in-phase voltage. After the sampling period ends, a comparator compares the output of the first capacitance DA converter and the output of the second capacitance DA converter, output voltages of the first capacitance DA converter and the second capacitance DA converter are changed by the control signal of a successive approximation logic unit on the basis of a comparison result, and comparison processing is repeated.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for manufacturing a cylindrical member. By inserting an edge of the forming drum on one side in a width direction between an arm and a projection of a holding unit disposed opposite one another and bringing the arm and the projection closer together in a direction in which a separation distance is reduced, a first end of the rubber member disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the forming drum is disposed between the arm and the projection, pressed by the arm, and held on the outer circumferential surface, and a holding unit attached to the forming drum is rotated about a drum shaft together with the forming drum; and the rubber member is wound around the outer circumferential surface and formed into a cylindrical shape.