Tsubakimoto Chain Company

Hideaki Minami

Shoichiro Komiya

Masaaki Ikeda

Takayuki Matsuda

Kenzo Yamamoto

Satoshi Takashige

Haruyoshi Kitayoshi

Kazuo Kishida

Hisaichi Irie

To provide a cable and/or the like supporting and guiding device, by which a cable and/or the like can be easily incorporated into a chain and damage of the cable and/or the like and an accident of break in a cable can be minimized. A cable and/or the like supporting and guiding device comprises a chain (CH), a cable and/or the like (CB) disposed along the chain, and a support (), which intersects the chain to support the cable and/or the like disposed on the chain. The support is composed of a material, which is flexed in the longitudinal direction of the cable and/or the like. In a curved section of the chain, when force is applied to the cable and/or the like, the support is flexed or bent in a direction of an action of force to ensure a length of the cable and/or the like, which is required for bending.

Cable and/or the like supporting and guiding device

In a non-contact power supply apparatus which interlinks a magnetic flux generated by an AC current flowing through a primary circuit with a secondary circuit so that an induced power is generated in the secondary circuit, and supplies a constant voltage to a load, the secondary circuit is composed of a plurality of inductors connected in series, and each of a plurality of capacitors is interposed between inductors. The total sum of inductance of the plurality of inductors and the total sum of capacitance of the plurality of capacitors have a resonant relation with respect to an AC current of the primary circuit.

Non-contact power supply system and apparatus and carrying equipment using the system

A method for inspecting the surface of an inspection object with a picked-up image obtained by entering light from the inspection object into an annular prism, and picking-up the light emitted from the prism, and an apparatus used for execution thereof. Also a prism composed of a columnar light permeable material, having a space of a circular truncated cone or a truncated pyramid opened at both axial end sides in its inside, to be used in this apparatus.

Surface inspection method, surface inspection apparatus, and prism

A managing method of a run of a moving object of the present invention commonly utilizes a first scheduling using a simulation for finding a shortest time for selecting the moving object and running route corresponding to the moving demand, and a second scheduling in which a deadlock attributable to a predetermined moving sequence is not generated, performing the first scheduling using the simulation first and when it is not fulfilling a predetermined condition, performing the second scheduling.

Managing method of a run of moving objects

This invention relates to an automatic guided vehicle for automatically conveying parts, half-finished products and products in a factory or a warehouse. The automatic guided vehicle is provided with a horizontally turnable loading table above a travelling truck, and constructed so that a pair of right and left driving wheels of the travelling truck are rotated reversely to each other so that the travelling truck whirls to steer and a rotating force of a motor for rotating one driving wheel is transmitted to the loading table to thereby turn the loading table reversely relative to the whirling direction of the travelling truck by an equal amount of whirling of the travelling truck, whereby even when the travelling truck whirls, the loading table does not change its orientation with respect to a floor or stations. Accordingly, when the station is located sidewise of a travelling way, or when the same is located at the end of a branch extending perpendicularly to the travelling way, there is no need of whirling the automatic guided vehicle for loading on or unloading from the goods to be conveyed.

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Osaka, Japan

Hideaki Minami