Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Phc Holdings Corporation

Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Ando

Nobuo Taketani

Hiroki Matsunaga

Jinsaku Kaneda

Akihiro Maejima

Eisaku Maeda

Takuya Yamazaki

Ryuichi Shibutani

Hisao Morita

Hiroshi Moribe

Atsushi Nakazono

Kazuyoshi Harada

Masahiko Sasada

Hiroki Kinugawa

Hitoshi Adachi

Masahiro Takeshima

Masashi Inao

Hiroyasu Shimaoka

Tsuneo Matsukura

Atsuhisa Kageyama

Yasuhiro Maenishi

Hirotaka Kobayashi

Kazuhiro Akatsu

Masaaki Noda

Shigeru Morinaga

Genichiro Kawamichi

Kahei Nakamura

Toshiki Matsumoto

Kaoru Shigematsu

Tooru Aoki

Seiya Yoshida

Minoru Miyata

Hisashi Maezono

Eiji Okuda

Hideharu Miki

Kazuo Manabe

Akiyoshi Oozawa

Norio Imai

Masayuki Higashi

Yuichi Sugiue

Taisuke Mori

Osamu Asayama

Hideaki Ueda

Mitsuru Kaito

Ryouji Kouchi

Nobuaki Sakamoto

Koji Matsuhira

Shunsuke Higashi

Keiichi Watanabe

Yoichi Kanegami

An image forming apparatus includes a head, a detector, and circuitry. The head forms an image on a recording medium. The detector detects a vertical movement of the recording medium and a distance to the recording medium in a vertical direction. The detector includes an optical sensor to project light to the recording medium and receive the light reflected from the recording medium. The circuitry sets a first area based on a result of detection performed by the detector. The first area is an area in which the recording medium and the head collide with each other. The circuitry retracts the head to prevent the recording medium and the head from colliding with each other, in a case where a position of the head is in the first area.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium

A component mounting system includes a component mounting line, a storage device, and a display device. The component mounting line is formed by connecting a plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The storage device is connected to the component mounting line via a network to acquire information from each of the plurality of mounting board manufacturing machines. The display device is connected to the storage device via the network and displays a progress status of set-up work executed when changing a type of a mounting board manufactured by the component mounting line based on information stored in the storage device.

Component mounting system and progress display system of set-up work

A group determination method includes a step of calculating an external set-up work time for an external set-up work by which a component supplier used in a group that is a next production target of a group under production in a component mounting line, including a plurality of the component mounters capable of attaching and detaching a component supply carriage which can arrange a plurality of the component suppliers (tape feeders), is removed from the component mounting line and arranged in the component supply carriage; and a step of calculating a production completion time at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed in consideration of the external set-up work time. A plurality of groups which are common in an arrangement of component suppliers for the mounting boards that are the production targets are determined so that production completion time is shortened.

Group determination method and group determination apparatus

An electronic component mounting method is performed by an electronic component mounting system including a component mounting line formed by interconnecting component mounting units which concurrently performs component mounting work on two kinds of boards different in mounting workload. The component mounting units includes: first and second board conveyance mechanisms; a component mounting unit; a board distribution unit which receives the board from the upstream-side apparatus and distributes the received board to either the first board conveyance mechanism or the second board conveyance mechanism; and a distribution control unit which controls the first board conveyance mechanism, the second board conveyance mechanism and the board distribution unit. The electronic component mounting method comprises mixedly distributing the two kinds of the boards to each of the first and second board conveyance mechanisms based on a board request signal issued from a most-upstream component mounting unit in the component mounting line.

Electronic component mounting method

A parts mounting system includes: a parts checking section that detects parts information which is identification information applied to the electronic parts and includes a parts code for specifying parts of the electronic parts and a parts maker code for specifying the parts maker and checks the detected parts information with parts information previously registered in a storing part; and a parts data generation section that, when the detected parts information is unregistered parts information in which the parts code is stored in the storing part and the parts maker code of the parts code is not stored in the storing part, generates parts data of the electronic parts relating to the unregistered parts information based on previously registered parts data having the same parts code.

Parts mounting system and parts mounting method

In two component mounting lines or more each including the plurality of the component mounters, a set-up changing work time, necessary for executing set-up changing work in the two component mounting lines or more based on the number of workers assigned for production in the two component mounting lines or more in each time zone, and the number of workers necessary for the set-up changing work necessary when the mounting board is changed in the two component mounting lines or more, is calculated; and a production completion time, which includes a set-up changing work time and at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed, is calculated; and a group is determined so that the production completion time is shortened within a predetermined time period in the two component mounting lines or more.

A rectangular parallelepiped-shaped cartridge main body having a protective cap removably attached to a first end side thereof has a puncture needle retainer that retains a puncture needle provided at the back of a puncture opening provided on the first end side of the cartridge main body such that the puncture needle is slidable toward the puncture opening. Furthermore, a sensor unit having a depositing opening is provided on the first end side of the cartridge main body. The sensor unit has an introduction promoting hole that communicates with an introduction channel communicating with the depositing opening and that opens to the surface of the cartridge main body. The protective cap is provided with a puncture needle protector that covers the puncture needle, a sensor protector that covers the depositing opening of the sensor unit, and a sensor protector that covers the introduction promoting hole.

Biological information measurement cartridge and measurement device using same

A device for detecting a state of a discharged liquid droplet includes a plurality of nozzles which is arranged in a width direction of a recording medium orthogonal to a feeding direction of the recording medium to discharge a liquid droplet toward the recording medium, a light emitter which is provided on one side of the recording medium in the width direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the recording medium, and a light receiver which is provided on the other side of the recording medium in the width direction, wherein the light emitter includes a light-emitting element, a condenser lens which condenses light from the light-emitting element to emit as a light beam, and an aperture stop member including an aperture opening through which the light beam passes.

Device for detecting state of discharged liquid droplet and image-forming apparatus including the same

A liquid droplet detecting device includes nozzles arranged in a paper width direction orthogonal to a paper conveying direction to discharge liquid droplets, a light emitting element provided on one side of the paper width direction to emit a light beam for liquid droplet detection, a light receiving element provided on the other side of the paper width direction to receive the light beam, a storage in which correspondence information on each of the nozzles and a scan position of the light beam when discharge of a liquid droplet from each of the nozzles is detected is stored, a controller to allow the light beam to scan according to the correspondence information, and a detector to determine presence or absence a liquid droplet discharged from each nozzle from an output of the light receiving element.

Liquid droplet detecting device, inkjet recording device incorporating same, and liquid droplet detection method

Disclosed is a technology of discharging, from a drug cartridge, a drug instructed to discharge, while managing a plurality of drugs stored in a drug cartridge. The technology makes it possible to correctly discharge the drugs even when the dosing order of the drugs is changed. A medical agent dispenser has: a main body case (); an annular drug cartridge () which is housed in the main body case () and has a plurality of holders () at equal intervals in the longitudinal direction; a discharge mechanism () which discharges the drugs from the holders (); and an input interface () which receives operations of leading the drug to be discharged. Based on the number of operations the input interface () has received, gears (), i.e., rotating mechanisms which rotationally transfer the drug cartridge (), are controlled.

Medical agent dispenser

A wireless blood glucose meter () has a blood glucose level detector (), a transmitter (), a receiver (), a storage component (), and a transmission power determiner (). Whether or not an acknowledge signal has been received and the transmission power when the transmitter () has transmitted a blood glucose level are stored as history information in the storage component (), and the transmission power determiner () determines the transmission power when the transmitter () transmits on the basis of the history information stored in the storage component ().

Biological sample measurement apparatus and biological sample measurement system equipped with same

A drive voltage supply circuit has a first wire line, a second wire line, a first drive circuit, a plurality of second drive circuits, a control circuit for driving the first drive circuit and the plurality of second drive circuits, and an impedance element connected between the first wire line and each of output terminals.

Drive voltage supply circuit

On a semiconductor chip in a semiconductor integrated circuit, a plurality of circuit cells each of which has a pad are formed along a first chip side of the semiconductor chip. Among the plurality of circuit cells, one or more circuit cells at least in the vicinity of an end portion on the first chip side are arranged having a steplike shift in a direction apart from the first chip side with decreasing distance from the center portion to the end portion on the first chip side.

Semiconductor integrated circuit

The collector, emitter, and base of a bipolar transistor circuit are connected to a high side power supply terminal, the drain of a level shift transistor, and a floating power supply terminal, respectively. When a high side output transistor is on, the floating power supply terminal is at the potential of a high potential power supply terminal. The high side power supply terminal is at a potential higher than the potential of the floating power supply terminal by a constant voltage. Turning the level shift transistor on, its drain potential drops below the potential of the floating power supply terminal; The base current flows through the bipolar transistor circuit and the drain potential of the level shift transistor is clamped near the potential of the floating power supply terminal; The bipolar transistor circuit is turned on and its collector current supplies the drain current of the level shift transistor.

Sustain driver, sustain control system, and display device

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Ibaraki, Japan

Hiroshi Ando