Ishida Co. Limited

Hideshi Miyamoto

Toshiharu Kageyama

Mikio Kishikawa

Makoto Ichikawa

Yutaka Tamai

Masashi Kondo

Yoshiki Horitani

Tatsuo Ito

Satoshi Hashimoto

Shinji Koike

Shinji Takeichi

Ryoichi Sato

Naomi Imaaki

Takashi Kimura

Michihiko Yonetsu

Yuji Okamoto

Takuma Furukawa

Toshikazu Shotsu

Keisuke Sei

Kazuya Sugimura

Takao Yoshikawa

Yusuke Kiyota

Hiroki Otoshi

Tono Tsugawa

Toru Hiratsuka

Shinya Enami

Go Kobayashi

A bagmaking and packaging machine packages articles with a film. The bagmaking and packaging machine includes a laser printing device and a receiving member. The laser printing device prints on a printed surface of the film. The receiving member is disposed so as to oppose a non-printed surface on the opposite side of the printed surface of the film. The receiving member has a reflection suppressing surface. The reflection suppressing surface suppresses regular reflection of laser light emitted by the laser printing device.

Packaging apparatus

A production management device includes: a communication section provided to enable communication with a combination weighing apparatus and a bag-making and packaging apparatus; a management device provided to enable communication with the combination weighing apparatus and the bag-making and packaging apparatus via the communication section; and a storage device configured to store therein various information. The management device generates and stores production information in the storage device. In the production information, a weighing value of articles weighed by the combination weighing apparatus, the weighing value being output at discharge timing at which the combination weighing apparatus discharged the articles to the bag-making and packaging apparatus, is associated with identification information given to a packaging film of the articles, the identification information being output at packaging timing at which the articles discharged at the discharge timing were packaged by the bag-making and packaging apparatus.

Production management device, production management system, and combination weighing apparatus

An article processing apparatus () according to an embodiment discharges an article to a downstream apparatus () disposed downstream. The article processing apparatus includes: a display (); a capturing unit () that captures a picture including at least part of the downstream apparatus; and a controller () that displays, in a case where a processing operation of the article remains stopped in the article processing apparatus, on the display, the picture captured by the capturing unit.

Article processing apparatus and downstream apparatus

A conveyance mechanism () includes: a trough () that conveys an article; a support member () to which the trough is detachably coupled, the support member including a vibrator that vibrates the trough; and a coupling member () that couples the trough and the support member. The trough includes a first abutting member () that is located on a back side of a conveyance face for conveyance of the article and abuts on the support member. The support member includes a second abutting member () that is plate-shaped and has a second circumferential edge () vertically identical to a first circumferential edge () that is a circumferential edge of the first abutting member. The coupling member couples the trough and the support member by fastening the first abutting member and the second abutting member with the first circumferential edge and the second circumferential edge in superposition. The second abutting member () is provided with a through hole () passing through the second abutting member.

Conveyance mechanism and combination weighing apparatus

A weighing and packaging apparatus () includes a packaging unit (), a weighing unit (), and a frame (). The packaging unit () includes a film transport mechanism () that transports a film (F) in a film transport direction, a detachable former (), a former seat () that supports the former (), and a sealing mechanism (). The weighing unit () is positioned on an upper side in a vertical direction of the packaging unit (), and supplies articles (A) to be packaged to the packaging unit (). The frame () supports at least the weighing unit (), and includes legs including a first front leg (), a first back leg (), a second front leg (), and a second back leg (). A movable portion () including the former seat () moves in a maintenance mechanism movable space (PM) when the former () is detached. All of the legs are located so as to avoid a leg prohibited space (PP).

Weighing and packaging apparatus

The object of the present invention is to provide a novel conveying device with which it is possible to easily adjust a conveying amount of articles in a trough using a restricting plate, and a combination weighing apparatus having the conveying device. A conveying device to convey articles in a trough has a restricting plate to restrict a flow of the articles in the trough and the angle at which the restricting plate faces the articles is variable. With this configuration, there is no need to prepare a plurality of restricting plates that have different shapes and materials or to exchange such a plurality of restricting plates in the same manner as in a conventional device because the conveying amount in the trough can be adjusted merely by varying the angle at which the restricting plate faces the articles.

Conveying device, and combination weighing apparatus having the conveying device

In a combination weighing apparatus, a control unit executes combination weighing processing with a second value used as a target weighing value after controlling all of the hoppers so as to discharge the article while leaving the article in the conveying unit when the second value is less than a first value in a case where the target weighing value is changed from the first value to the second value.

Combination weighing device with control unit for targeted weight conveyance

A hopper includes a main body having a first opening to which articles are thrown in and a second opening from which the articles are discharged, a gate capable of being opened and closed with respect to the second opening, a restricting portion configured to restrict an opening and closing operation of the gate with respect to the second opening, and an attaching portion capable of being attached and detached with respect to an attached portion provided on a weighing apparatus. The restricting portion starts restricting the opening and closing operation in a state where the gate is closed with respect to the second opening in conjunction with an operation of detaching the attaching portion from the attached portion.

Hopper and combination weighing device

A combination weighing apparatus having excellent sanitation includes: a plurality of weighing mechanisms, a weighing mechanism frame which stores the weighing mechanisms, and a body frame which supports the weighing mechanism frame, in which a normal to a surface of the body frame is inclined with respect to a vertical direction.

Support structure for a combination weighing device

A combination weighing apparatus comprises a distributing table having a conical vibrating surface, a cap disposed above an apex portion of the distributing table, a plurality of supply troughs arranged radially around the distributing table with a downward gap S interposed therebetween, and a rotary stirrer for stirring articles supplied from the distributing table to the plurality of supply troughs. The rotary stirrer includes a stirring arm extending from the apex portion of the distributing table along the vibrating surface and a leading end stirring plate disposed on the leading end side of the stirring arm. The leading end stirring plate is arranged in the gap.

Vibrating conical distributing table for a combination weighing apparatus with rotary stirring arms having downwardly extending stirring plates

A combination weighing device includes a dispersing table, a plurality of radial feeders, a plurality of cameras, an image processing unit, and a touch panel. The dispersing table receives a supply of a large number of articles and disperses the articles. The radial feeders are arranged to extend radially from the dispersing table, receive the articles dispersed by the dispersing table, and convey the articles in a direction away from the dispersing table. The cameras are disposed at a position other than a space directly above the dispersing unit and capture images of the dispersing table and the radial feeders. The image processing unit generates a projection plan view image of the dispersing table and the radial feeders by synthesizing the images captured by the cameras. The touch panel outputs the plan view image.

Combination weighing device with imaging system

Multihead weigher

A packaging machine includes a pair of brushes that hold a tubular film (Fm) therebetween while rotating and impeding the advancement of packaged articles. Consequently, an elongated stream of packaged articles aggregate at the leading end of the pair of brushes. When the pair of brushes release the tubular film, the packaged articles are again conveyed in a more closely aggregated state than the aggregated state thereof when the advancement of the packaged articles was temporarily impeded. The rotational axis of each brush is also biased a predetermined distance from the central axis of a core thereof. Since the brushes swing in conjunction with the rotation thereof, small vibrations and large swings cause the gaps between packaged articles to be readily filled and reduce the space occupied by the packaged articles. As a result, the bag size can be reduced.

Packaging machine

A bag making and packaging machine forms a first transverse seal portion in a packaging material formed in a tubular shape, fills the packaging material with articles, thereafter further forms a second transverse seal portion to make a bag, and allows the bag to fall, and is equipped with a vibrating mechanism. The first transverse seal portion is formed in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the packaging material. The vibrating mechanism tilts the packaging material to an outer side of a fall path of the bag and vibrates the packaging material after the packaging material has been filled with the articles and before the second transverse seal portion is formed.

Bag making and packaging machine

A combination weighing device facilitates the performance of operation using optimal operational settings. The combination weighing device includes a dispersion feeder, a plurality of radial feeders and a plurality of weighing hoppers. The dispersion feeder is disposed in an upper portion, and conveys and disperses supplied articles. The radial feeders are arranged radially on the periphery of the dispersion feeder, and convey the articles that are discharged from the dispersion feeder. The weighing hoppers receive the articles discharged from the radial feeders. The combination weighing device performs a combination weighing based on the weight of the articles in the weighing hoppers. In the combination weighing device, the operational settings are performed automatically.

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Hideshi Miyamoto