Tsubakimoto Chain Company

Makoto Uehira

Shingo Koyama

Satoshi Takashige

A power control device is provided which can execute self-sustaining operation only when conditions for allowing the self-sustaining operation are satisfied reliably, so as to supply AC power to a power load connected with a power system before the self-sustaining operation. In a case where an instruction to change the power control device into the self-sustaining operation state is accepted, the inverter is connected with the loads by the disconnection relay and the self-sustaining operation is started when voltage to be applied to a wiring portion between the disconnection relay and the earth leakage breaker is not detected, when current flowing between the main breaker and the power system is not detected and when a contact signal indicative of the open/close state of the main breaker indicates an open state. Moreover, the inverter is disconnected from the power system by the disconnection relay and the self-sustaining operation is stopped when the power control device is in the self-sustaining operation state in addition to that current flowing to or from the power system is detected or to that a contact signal indicative of the open/close state of the main breaker indicates a close state.

Power control device

In a power feeding apparatus having pickup coils L and L , a rectifier circuit and output terminals U and V, the relays R and R are connected between the output side terminals of the rectifier circuit and the output terminals U and V. Whereas a protective circuit (switching control circuit) , which is connected to the pickup coils L and L and the relay coils r and r to obtain the electric power from the output side terminals of the rectifier circuit in order to carry out ON/OFF control of the relays R and R corresponding to the voltage at the both ends of the pickup coils L and L , is provide. The power feeding apparatus enables to prevent an overcurrent from flowing through a load, to prevent the circuit elements from being destroyed or burnt out due to an overcurrent generated in the pickup coils or an overvoltage generated in a resonance capacitor, to indicate an occurrence of an abnormality and to control the electric power supply by means of a remote control.

Power feeding apparatus, transporter and transport system

A carrying apparatus driven by a linear motor which is capable of keeping response at the time of acceleration and deceleration almost constant in spite of the change of the weight of the carrying vehicle. At the carrying vehicle side, the magnitude of a gap between a track and the carrying vehicle, which is in the state of non-contact with the track due to an electro-magnet, and the electric current flowing through the electro-magnet is detected. The weight information related to the weight of the carrying vehicle is calculated on the basis of above detected results. The calculated weight information of the carrying vehicle is transmitted to a running control unit at the ground side. The driving force of the linear motor is adjusted on the basis of the transmitted weight information.

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Osaka, Japan

Makoto Uehira