Abstract: There is provided a loading support system including a container selection unit configured to select a container, which is suitable for a shape of a load to be loaded on a cargo bed of a collection and delivery vehicle, from a plurality of standardized containers having different shapes, and a loading location determination unit configured to determine a loading location of the container, which is selected by the container selection unit, in the cargo bed.

Abstract: A delivery management system includes: an acceptance unit configured to accept a delivery request including information on a delivery date of a package, from a user, a setting unit configured to set a delivery fee, in which a discount according to the delivery date is applied, for the delivery request; a delivery schedule storage unit configured to store a delivery schedule of each of a plurality of delivery vehicles; and a determination unit configured to determine a delivery vehicle that delivers the package corresponding to the delivery request based on the delivery schedule such that a requirement of the delivery date of the delivery request is satisfied.

Abstract: There is provided a loading support system including a container selection unit configured to select a container, which is suitable for a shape of a load to be loaded on a cargo bed of a collection and delivery vehicle, from a plurality of standardized containers having different shapes, and a loading location determination unit configured to determine a loading location of the container, which is selected by the container selection unit, in the cargo bed.

Abstract: A sharing system includes a management apparatus connected to a plurality of user terminals, a storage facility terminal provided in a storage facility, and a plurality of relay facility terminals respectively provided in a plurality of relay facilities through a network. The management apparatus includes a usage processing unit configured to perform usage processing of an article. When the usage processing unit receives a usage request, which is transmitted from the user terminal and which includes a usage user and a usage article, the usage processing unit transmits, to the storage facility terminal, a transport instruction to transport the usage article to the relay facility corresponding to the usage user, as the usage processing.

Abstract: A cargo handling place reservation system includes a reception unit configured to receive a reservation application from a user; and a reservation unit configured to reserve a reservation target candidate place as the cargo handling place for the reservation target transportation vehicle. The reservation unit is configured to extract vacant candidate places, which are the candidate places where other reservations are not set in an allocated time slot from the expected arrival time of the reservation target transportation vehicle at the candidate place until a use time allocated to the reservation target transportation vehicle elapses, by referring to a vehicle information storage unit and a candidate place information storage unit, to determine the reservation target candidate place from the extracted vacant candidate places, and to set the reservation in the allocated time slot as the reservation status of the reservation target candidate place in the candidate place information.

Abstract: A power transmission for a compressor includes a driven member rotable by an engine. The power transmission includes a drive member rotable coaxially with the driven member to rotate a shaft of a compressor for regulating displacement of the compressor. The power transmission includes a link interconnecting the driven member and the drive member with each other in a crossing direction relative to the drive shaft. The link is disengageable from one member of the driven member and the drive member.

Abstract: A coupling member (18) is of a forked leaf spring which is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of sidepiece portions (18a, 18a), a pair of bent portions (18b, 18b), a pair of joining portions (18d, 18d) and a curved portion (18e). The sidepiece portions (18a, 18a) are disposed parallel to each other. The bent portions (18b, 18b) are configured to extend from the sidepiece portions (18a, 18a) and have sandwich portions (18c, 18c) releasably supporting a first pin (14) mounted on a pulley, respectively. Each sandwich portion (18c) has an inside surface (19a) which is opposed to the outside circumferential surface of the first pin (14) at a regular distance, and a first and second projections (19b, 19c) which are provided at both ends of the inside surface (19a) and contacted with the outside circumferential surface of the first pin (14).

Abstract: A power transmission device (11) has a pulley (13), a hub (15), a first pin (14), a second pin (17) and a coupling member (18). The coupling member (18) is of a forked leaf spring which is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of sidepiece portions, a pair of bent portions, a pair of joining portions and a curved portion. The sidepiece portions are disposed parallel to each other. The bent portions are configured to extend from the sidepiece portions and have sandwich portions releasably supporting the first pin (14) mounted on the pulley (13), respectively. Each sandwich portion has an inside surface which is opposed to the outside circumferential surface of the first pin (14) at a regular distance, and a first and second projections which are provided at both ends of the inside surface and contacted with the outside circumferential surface of the first pin (14).

Abstract: A coupling member (18) is of a forked leaf spring which is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of sidepiece portions (18a, 18a), a pair of bent portions (18b, 18b), a pair of joining portions (18d, 18d) and a curved portion (18e). The sidepiece portions (18a, 18a) are disposed parallel to each other. The bent portions (18b, 18b) are configured to extend from the sidepiece portions (18a, 18a) and have sandwich portions (18c, 18c) releasably supporting a first pin (14) mounted on a pulley, respectively. Each sandwich portion (18c) has an inside surface (19a) which is opposed to the outside circumferential surface of the first pin (14) at a regular distance, and a first and second projections (19b, 19c) which are provided at both ends of the inside surface (19a) and contacted with the outside circumferential surface of the first pin (14).

Abstract: A pulley is configured to receive a torque from a drive source for rotation. The pulley includes a resinous pulley body having a belt engagement portion on the outer periphery of the pulley body. The pulley includes a base plate integrally provided to a pin protruding from the pulley body at a predetermined position to engage another member other than the pulley and being insert molded within the pulley body.

Abstract: A method of producing a pulley rotatably supported on a support body using a bearing by resin-molding includes the step of fitting a bearing to an inner surface of an insert fitting. The method includes the step of setting the insert fitting with the bearing in a die. The method includes the step of performing resin-molding on an outer surface of the insert fitting.

Abstract: A power transmission for a compressor includes a driven member rotatable by an engine. The power transmission includes a drive member rotatable coaxially with the driven member to rotate a shaft of a compressor for regulating displacement of the compressor. The power transmission includes a link interconnecting the driven member and the drive member with each other in a crossing direction relative to the drive shaft. The link is disengageable from one member of the driven member and the drive member.

Abstract: In order to produce a single headed piston for a swash plate compressor, the following steps are used. First, a shaped block of metal is cast, the block including a plurality of unfinished piston structures which are aligned and integrated, each unfinished piston structure including a head portion and a neck portion which are axially spaced. Then, the head portions of the piston structures are machined. Then, an outer surface of the cast block is entirely coated with a fluorocarbon resin. Then, the coated outer surfaces of the head portions are ground, and then, each neck portion is machined to form two spherical recesses which face each other, the two spherical recesses being used for slidably receiving shoes. Then, the cast block is cut to separate the piston structures from one another.

Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor has a plurality of cylinders circumferentially arranged in a casing thereof. It includes a device for achieving a smooth axial movement of each piston in the cylinder while suppressing a rotational movement of the piston about an axis thereof. This device includes a cylindrical piston rod that extends from an eccentric portion of a piston head of each piston and a supporting plate tightly installed in the casing. The supporting plate has a circular opening through which the piston rod of each piston slidably passes.

Abstract: A swash-plate type compressor comprises a drive shaft, at least one plunger piston, a cylinder block rotatably supporting the drive shaft and defining therein at least one cylinder chamber or bore, the cylinder chamber slidably accommodating the piston to permit an axial reciprocal sliding movement of the piston in the cylinder chamber, a swash plate rotatably mounted on the drive shaft, and a linkage provided between the drive shaft and the swash plate for causing a rotational movement of the swash plate in synchronization with rotation of the drive shaft, while permitting a wobbling movement of the swash plate. The piston includes a bottom section having a recessed portion for receiving a pair of semi-spherical shoes and for slidably holding the swashplate side walls between the shoe pair for the axial reciprocal sliding movement of the piston, and a main skirt section having a through-opening extending in a rotational direction of the swash plate.

Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor has a coupling structure between a drive shaft and a swash plate in order to allow the swash plate to be movable along the drive shaft and inclinable relative to the same. The coupling structure comprises a bearing portion provided on the drive shaft to rotate therewith. The bearing portion includes first and second semicylindrical outer walls which are symmetrically arranged with respect to an axis of the drive shaft and first and second flat side walls which are symmetrically arranged with respect to the axis. Each of the first and second semicylindrical outer walls is perpendicular to each of the first and second flat side walls. The bearing portion further includes a rectangular center bore formed in a hub portion of the swash plate. The center bore is so sized and shaped as to intimately and slidably receive therein the bearing portion.

Abstract: In a variable displacement swash plate type compressor, there is employed a structure for stopping or minimizing a turning movement of a piston about its axis. The structure comprises a given part of the piston which is always out of the corresponding cylinder chamber; a turn stopper portion formed on the given part and including laterally opposed sides each having a rounded outer surface; and a cylindrical surface defined in a casing of the compressor at a portion which faces the turn stopper portion. The cylindrical surface is so arranged as to make a surface-to-surface contact with one of the laterally opposed sides when the piston is turned about its axis by a given angle.

Abstract: A cooling system of a V-type internal combustion engine comprises a coolant passage formed around each engine cylinder. A coolant gallery is formed between the two cylinder banks of a cylinder block of the engine and extends along the row of the engine cylinders of each cylinder bank, the coolant gallery being in communication with a coolant pump at the outlet member. Additionally, the coolant gallery is formed with a plurality of communication holes through each of which the coolant gallery is in direct communication with the coolant passage formed around each engine cylinder. Accordingly, all the engine cylinders are uniformly cooled while achieving uniform distribution of the coolant from the coolant pump into the two cylinder banks.

Abstract: A structure of a cylinder assembly of an internal combustion engine has a coolant circulating system for cooling the cylinder assembly while the engine is driving. The cylinder assembly generally comprises a cylinder block formed therein a plurality of engine cylinder in line, and a cylinder head sealingly mounted on the cylinder block. The coolant circulating system comprises a coolant chamber formed within the cylinder block so that it surrounds substantial part of each engine cylinder, a return passage formed in the cylinder head. The coolant chamber communicates with the return passage through a plurality of vertical passages. Adjacent the top of the vertical passage, there is provided with a projecting portion inwardly projecting thereto. A sloped passage is formed within a partition disposed between each of adjacent engine cylinder. The upper end of the sloped passage is opened at the projecting portion at right angle to the planar surface of the projecting portion.