Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.

Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd.

Kazuyuki Kurosawa

Hidehiko Yuse

Shinji Ishikura

Atsushi Shibutani

Susumu Takashima

Ken Takenouchi

Toshihiko Yoshida

Keizou Kanzaki

Shie Nishimoto

Katsumi Sembon

Yukio Takada

Norio Inukai

Masanobu Sato

Hidetoshi Koike

Hideo Kurashima

Tsuneo Imatani

Masami Yuyama

Koichi Ishizaka

Tsutomu Iwasaki

Makoto Horiguchi

Kazumi Ozawa

Yoshihiko Kimura

Takayuki Aikawa

Naoto Matsuda

Jin Nakayama

Kazumasa Fukushima

Ichiro Kunihiro

Masami Inoue

Takashi Moto

Taketo Sakurai

Mitsuo Tanioka

Masao Ninomiya

Toyotarou Tokimoto

Takwto Sakurai

Souichi Kawakami

Taketo Sukurai

Shinichi Hizume

Osamu Koizumi

Katsumi Senbon

Hiroshi Sahara

To reduce an amount of use of a replacement gas used for replacing air in a container. A gas replacement system includes: a washing machine that washes the container with water; a filling machine that fills the container with a content fluid; a sealing machine that seals the container transferred from the filling machine; a chamber that covers the filling machine and the sealing machine, and contains a replacement gas; and a water discharge mechanism (washing machine) that discharges the water in the container having been carried into the chamber while containing the water out of the container in the chamber. The water in the container is replaced with an ambient gas in the chamber along with the discharge of the water.

Gas replacement system and gas replacement method

A can filling/seaming device that fills a can with a liquid content and seals the can with a lid by double-seaming allows a filler and a seamer to be integrated in a compact arrangement. A can filling/seaming device includes a filler that fills a can with a liquid content while conveying the can by rotation of a filling turret, a seamer that attaches a lid to the can filled with the content by double-seaming, and a forwarding turret provided between a carrying-out position of the filling turret and a carrying-in position to the seamer to circularly convey the can filled with the content, wherein a lid supply part is provided on the forwarding turret.

Can filling/seaming device and can filling/seaming method

A filling device with a filling failure is identified less costly, and the filling amount by the filling device is adjusted quickly. The filling/sealing device includes a filler including a filling turret having a plurality of holding parts and a filling device provided for each of the holding parts to fill a container with a liquid content, forwarding turrets that hold and turret-convey a container transported from the filling turret, a sealing device that seals the container transported from the forwarding turrets with a lid, an inspection device provided in the path, in which the container is held and turret-conveyed, to inspect a filling amount in the container, and a controller that identifies a filling device with a filling failure on the basis of an inspection result from the inspection device and controls the filling amount by the filling device.

Filling/sealing device for container

There is provided a filling-and-sealing device and a filling-and-sealing method capable of reducing an amount of use of a replacement gas used for replacing air in a container. The filling-and-sealing device includes a filling machine that fills a container with a content fluid; a sealing machine that seals the container transferred from the filling machine with a lid; a chamber that covers the filling machine and the sealing machine; a gassing system that replaces, in the chamber, a gas in the container with a carbon dioxide gas by introducing the carbon dioxide gas as a second replacement gas supplied from a tank; and a pre-gassing system that replaces the gas in the container with a first replacement gas that remains in the chamber containing the carbon dioxide gas before processing by the gassing system.

Filling-and-sealing device and filling-and-sealing method

In transferring and conveying an article between rotation conveyance bodies, the rotation conveyance bodies () are placed so as to have a prescribed gap between pitch circles thereof, and the article is conveyed along a transition curve whose curvature continuously varies from the pitch circle curvature of a rotation conveyance body () before the transfer to the pitch circle curvature of a rotation conveyance body () after the transfer between both the pitch circles, whereby the article is transferred and conveyed with acceleration smoothly varying and without a change in the distance between the axes of the rotation conveyance bodies.

Method and device for conveying articles

At least one of an obverse surface film and reverse surface film, which are used to together constitute a plastic pouch, is folded back across the entire width of the plastic pouch, and peripheral edge portions of the pouch are heat-sealed, to thereby form, on at least one position, a folded-back section communicating with the body of the pouch.

Plastic pouch and manufacturing method therefor

A pouch with a nozzle has a reliable dispensing opening. The pouch holds liquid contents. The pouch has a shell portion formed by sealing two plies of plastic together to form a pouch volume and a nozzle portion which communicates with the inside of the shell portion. The nozzle portion is formed by a series of embossments which form a reliably open passage for dispensing fluid. Three sets of embossments include a plane shape, a dot shape or a line shape.

Pouch container

A horizontal evaluation data generation section calculates an average value of pixel signals in a vertical optical black region based on given pixel data in the horizontal optical black region and outputs the calculated average value to an evaluation section. A vertical evaluation data generation section calculates an average value of pixel signals in a vertical optical black region based on given pixel data in the vertical optical black region and outputs the calculated average value to the evaluation section. The evaluation section outputs a gain value according to the difference between the two sent average values to a computing section. A smear information memory stores pixel signals in a line in the vertical optical black region. The computing section multiplies the pixel data stored in the smear information memory by the sent gain value, and subtracts the multiplied pixel data from the pixel data imaged by the CCD.

Digital camera comprising smear removal function

In the pouch of the present invention in which a pouring spout is formed by means of a heat-sealed part and a non-heat-sealed part by heat sealing plastic films, the inside surfaces of the films that form the portion of the boundary area between the heat-sealed part and non-heat-sealed part of the pouring spout passage on the side of the non-heat-sealed part contact each other so that no gaps are left in a closed state. Accordingly, even if the pouch is suspended with the pouring spout down following the opening of the pouring spout, the leakage of the contents such as a liquid or the like accommodated in the interior of the pouch from the pouring spout a small amount at a time can be securely prevented.

Packaging bag with self-closeable outflow port, and method of manufacturing the packaging bag

A horizontal evaluation data generation section calculates an average value of pixel signals in a vertical optical black region based on given pixel data in the horizontal optical black region and outputs the calculated average value to an evaluation section. A vertical evaluation data generation section calculates an average value of pixel signals in a vertical optical black region based on given pixel data in the vertical optical black region and outputs the calculated average value to the evaluation section. The evaluation section outputs a gain value according to the difference between the two sent average values to a computing section. A smear information memory stores pixel signals in a line in the vertical optical black region. The computing section multiplies the pixel data stored in the smear information memory by the sent gain value, and subtracts the multiplied pixel data from the pixel data imaged by the CCD

An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing element which outputs a captured image signal including pixels, a magnification setting unit which sets an electronic zoom magnification, a mode setting unit which sets one of reading modes which vary in a number of the pixels included in the captured image signal according to the electronic zoom magnification, an electronic zoom unit which performs an electronic zoom process on the captured image signal based on the electronic zoom magnification, and an image quality adjuster which performs an image quality adjustment on the captured image signal based on the electronic zoom magnification.

Image capturing apparatus having electronic zoom function

An image signal generation unit comprises a horizontal pixel number conversion unit for performing the conversion of horizontal direction pixels corresponding to horizontal scanning period of NTSC system, for digital image data of the chrominance difference having the picture element number configuration based on the VGA standard, and a liquid crystal encoder for generating the primary color group digital image data RGB from digital image data YUV processed by the horizontal pixel number conversion unit, and output them directly on a liquid crystal display.

Image signal generation unit, digital camera, and image signal generation method

A method and apparatus for manufacturing pressurized packages capable of obtaining gas displacement pressurized canned goods with high accuracy of internal pressure by atomizing liquid nitrogen, and supplying it together with low temperature vaporized gases to a head space of a can. A spray device assembly ( ) for atomizing and spraying the liquid nitrogen is provided in an opening of the bottom of a liquefied gas storage tank ( ) formed as a vacuum heat insulating structure. The spray device assembly ( ) is constituted such that a valve ( ) for controlling the flow rate of liquid nitrogen, a spray nozzle ( ), a liquid nitrogen flowpassage ( ) extending from the valve ( ) to the spray nozzle ( ), a nozzle cooling tank ( ) for cooling the flowpassage, and a purge device for cutting an outer peripheral portion of a nozzle and an outlet portion off from the air, so as to prevent them from being frosted, are integrally mounted on a spray body The nozzle cooling tank ( ) always cools the pipe and the nozzle by liquid nitrogen, and enables supplying of the liquid nitrogen to the nozzle having a temperature gradient to the neighborhood of a boiling point, without boiling and vaporizing it from the tank to the nozzle. The liquid nitrogen supplied while preventing of being vaporized to an orifice inlet of the spray nozzle allows to pass through a nozzle orifice in the liquid state to release into the atmosphere, thereby giving rise to a rapid vaporizing expansion immediately after moving out of the nozzle orifice, so that other liquid nitrogen still in the liquid phase state is atomized.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing pressurized packaging body

A receiver such as a liquid crystal display television receiver, which a user carries with him, is used for learning at sight which television stations at a destination supply broadcasting service. The receiver performs automatic tuning operation of television signal waves to search available television channels, stores searched available television channels in a memory device, and displays a list of the available stored television channels. The receiver displays the available television channels stored in the memory device, and successively receives the available television channels, thereby displaying the television programs for a predetermined period. The receiver is equipped with a memory in which local areas, local television stations in the areas, frequency data and network relations between key stations and the local television stations are memorized. When an area memorized in the memory is designated, a station-selecting guide information is displayed, which indicates a network relation between the local television stations and the key stations. The receiver selects an arbitrary television station and detect the signal receiving intensity, and stores data of the selected television station and the relevant signal receiving intensity in the memory device. The receiver displays a channel number and frequency data of the selected television station in a displaying manner associated with the detected signal receiving intensity.

Television receiver with auto-tuning system

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuyuki Kurosawa