Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Takahashi

Makoto Wakabayashi

Takeshi Nishinomiya

Morihiro Sada

Hirofumi Terazaki

Kenichi Nagashima

Hideyuki Kondou

A heating apparatus includes a steel belt conveyer having a steel belt with a top part that transports and heats, and induction heating coils having an elliptical or a rectangular shape disposed under or over the top part of the steel belt such that the longitudinal direction of each of the induction heating coils forms an angle of 45&#xb0; to 135&#xb0; inclusive with the moving direction of the steel belt. A heating stabilization device can be used in such an apparatus. The heating stabilization device has one or a plurality of rollers that are brought into contact with the top surface of the top part of the steel belt so that the top part of the steel belt is prevented from rising during a heating operation.

Heating apparatus and heating stabilization device in thereof

An apparatus for counting and packing solid foods comprising a table device for holding the solid foods to be counted and packed, plural vacuum nozzles, a flexible vacuum pad, and adsorption confirmation sensors. The apparatus also includes an arm holding the vacuum nozzles. The vacuum nozzles are displaceable in horizontally in a right and left direction and in a vertically up and down directions. The vacuum nozzles are configured to adsorb and convey the solid foods from the table to a packing device. A vacuum breaking channel is used to cease adsorption by compressed air.

Apparatus for counting and packing solid foods

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Oura-gun, Japan

Hiroshi Takahashi