Keyence Corporation

Zuiko Corporation

Akihiro Miyoshi

Masaki Nakakado

Yusuke Otsubo

Minoru Taneda

In an optical information reader, an entire size is reduced while a space for accommodating an imaging unit, a space for accommodating a cable of an external interface, and a space for accommodating plural boards in which circuits of a signal processing unit are accommodated are secured. An entire size of a housing is determined based on sizes of a main board and an imaging unit to realize an optical information reader having a minimum shape. The main board has the largest area as a board, and a CPU and a memory are mounted thereon. The imaging unit includes a camera module, a lighting LED unit, and a marker. The main board is disposed near an internal wall of a housing. Other functions are functionally divided into sub-boards and disposed around a frame body, and a connection portion to the cable is accommodated in the frame body to achieve miniaturization.

Optical information reader

A velocity-changing apparatus of the present invention includes: a drumfor transporting the continuous web Wat a transport velocity which is generally equal to a circumferential velocity V(&#x3b8;) of the drumwhile changing the circumferential velocity V(&#x3b8;) periodically at least once per one rotation of the drum; a movable memberdisposed upstream of the drumfor feeding the continuous web Wto the drum; and a cutterfor cutting, on the drum, the continuous web Wbeing transported at the transport velocity which is generally equal to the circumferential velocity V(&#x3b8;) of the drum. The movable membermoves according to the change of the circumferential velocity V(&#x3b8;) of the drumso that a feed velocity at which the continuous web Wis fed to the drumis generally equal to the transport velocity of the continuous web Wbeing transported by the drum

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Osaka, Japan

Akihiro Miyoshi