Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Bridgestone Corporation

Hitoshi Yasui

Shunsuke Hayashi

Kiyoharu Inou

Hideyuki Sakamoto

Shungo Fujita

Makoto Imamura

Takanori Komuro

Toshiaki Shirai

Kenji Fujino

Chuji Akiyama

Hideo Matsukawa

Yoshio Hasegawa

Makio Ishikawa

Yasuhiko Shioe

Kentaro Yoshizawa

The object is to improve the durability of fluid pressure actuators. The holding member with actuator cover according to this disclosure comprises: a holding section to be attached to a fluid pressure actuator driven by fluid pressure to hold an object; and an actuator cover that covers the fluid pressure actuator while the holding section is attached to the fluid pressure actuator.

Holding member with actuator cover and actuator cover

A fluid pressure actuator according to this disclosure is a fluid pressure actuator that expands and contracts by fluid pressure, including an attachment attached to the distal end side, wherein the attachment is a spatular portion including a holding surface at one side in the thickness direction, and the spatular portion includes: a thin-walled portion at the distal end side; and a bump thick-walled portion that is located at the proximal end side of the thin-walled portion and is thicker than the thin-walled portion by a bump portion that protrudes or is able to protrude on the holding surface.

Fluid pressure actuator

A distributed control system comprising a control station and a remote input/output device interconnected by a bus, wherein the system is provided with a continuation transmission service which first transmits an urgent output only and then performs cyclic scan transmission; an initialization start transmission service which first performs cyclic scan transmission for input only; an interruption duration measuring feature which measures the period of transmission interruption; and a control feature which activates the continuation transmission service when the result of the measurement is shorter than a predetermined period of time, and which activates the initialization start transmission service when the result of the measurement is longer than the predetermined period of time. Thus, for example, after a power supply failure, the system can rapidly recover and shift to normal process controlling operation without the delays normally experienced by prior control systems.

Distributed control system having a control unit to detect and control

A switching power supply comprising a converting circuit; an analog-to-digital converter for converting a signal referring to an output signal from the converting circuit into digital form; a parallel-to-series converter for converting a bit train signal containing the output signal from the analog-to-digital converter into a pulse train; an isolation means for transmitting the pulse train to the primary winding of a transformer while concurrently electrically isolating the pulse train; a series-to-parallel converter for demodulating the pulse train into a parallel signal; and a control circuit. The converting circuit has a switching device which turns ON and OFF the voltage applied across the primary winding. The converting circuit provides rectification and smoothing of voltage induced in the secondary winding of the transformer, and supplies an output DC voltage to a load. The control circuit calculates control output for regulating the output voltage from the converting circuit which is received also by the series-to-parallel converter, to a given voltage. The control circuit further acts to produce an output signal which turns ON and OFF the switching device.

Switching power supply

A signal conditioner comprising a receiving part, a transmitting part, and a power supply part, wherein the main functions of these components are digitalized and common circuit elements are used for different functions. Signal conditions may be of several different types, each of which is a hardware which can accommodate various transmitters and actuators.

Signal conditioner

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Tokyo, Japan

Hitoshi Yasui