Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Mitutoyo Corporation

Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Rakuten, Inc.

Keio University

Jx Nippon Oil Energy Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoru Yoshida

Kunihiro Ohyama

Tomotaka Yano

Masahiro Arioka

Koji Sano

Yuta Nakayama

Kyoichi Otsuka

Taehyun Kim

Takuya Seshita

Takeshi Uchitani

Masayuki Yamane

Kiyonori Tsuda

Ichiro Kadota

Toru Yoshimune

Nobuyuki Taguchi

Hiroko Suzuki

Hiroya Hirose

Tadashi Hayakawa

Emi Kita

Tomomi Katoh

Koichi Kato

Akihiro Nakaniwa

Junichi Terai

Kazuhiro Hayakawa

Hirofumi Ono

Jo Masutani

Yuta Moriwaki

Shin Hashimoto

Atsushi Horii

Makoto Fukuda

Nobuo Shigeta

Kazuhiko Ogawa

Shuji Takasu

Toshiyasu Ito

Junichi Abe

Koichi Sakata

Kazuyoshi Kondo

Tetsuya Ito

Makoto Kikura

Kazuyoshi Matsumoto

Yuki Oshikawa

Hiroshi Tanimoto

Koji Kubo

Takashi Tanaka

Tatsuya Nagahama

Kohichi Utsunomiya

Satoshi Ueda

Jinichiro Kato

Suguru Masunaga

Norikazu Yanase

Hiroki Matsui

Hiroshi Sakai

Kazuo Tsubota

Nobuyori Yagi

Ryosuke Suzuki

Masanori Arai

Shiomi Andou

Shiro Igasaki

Naoaki Inoue

Gaku Hosono

Yuuzoh Obata

Yutaka Watanabe

Teruhiko Matsuo

Masashi Ohnishi

Hikaru Kurosaki

Eiichi Yanagisawa

Yoshiharu Ishii

Noriyuki Okada

Yuko Shishido

Hitoshi Isobe

Masakatsu Watanabe

Minoru Tanaka

Yuki Kurahashi

Masami Iwama

Kouji Kikuchi

Masanori Doi

Yoshiyuki Shiomi

Tomoko Tanabe

Akira Hayashi

Junichi Kojima

Naoki Hirata

Masafumi Yamanaka

Toshihiko Matsui

Shigeto Shimmura

Shin Hatou

Takahisa Ootake

Nobuyuki Mimura

Takeshi Matsuse

Nobuo Ohba

Shinya Kikutani

Masami Obara

Toshitaka Kuroda

Masanao Fujii

Klyonori Tsuda

Isamu Okuzumi

Masanori Tamada

Hiroji Ishii

Asako Kudo

Tachyun Kim

Naoto Oita

The vending machine control system S performs authentication processing for authenticating a user on the basis of information on the user who is about to open a doorof a vending machine, and when the user is authenticated, performs control to unlock the doorof the vending machine. Then, the vending machine control system S identifies a product picked up from a storing chamberafter the dooris unlocked, and when a reserved product is included in the identified product, outputs different information depending on whether or not the authenticated user is a reservation person of the reserved product.

Vending machine control system, vending machine, and information output method

An image measurement apparatus, which functions as a non-contact profile-measuring device, includes: an image sensor as an image pick-up device; a variable focal length lens (liquid lens unit) disposed on an optical axis extending from a workpiece to the image sensor; and a controller (image-pickup lens controller and image measurement processor) configured to control the variable focal length lens and process a detected image by the image sensor. The image measurement apparatus, which also functions as a non-contact displacement-detecting device, includes: an image sensor; a variable focal length lens (liquid lens unit) disposed on an optical axis extending from the workpiece to the image sensor; and a controller (displacement-detection lens controller and profile measurement processor) configured to control the variable focal length lens and a detected image by the image sensor.

Image pick-up device, image measurement apparatus, non-contact displacement-detecting device and non-contact profile-measuring device

A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of pressure generating elements configured to generate pressure to discharge a liquid, a plurality of wirings configured to transmit a drive signal to the plurality of pressure generating elements, respectively, a plurality of integrated circuits configured to drive the plurality of pressure generating elements, respectively, the plurality of integrated circuits being provided on the plurality of wirings, respectively, and a heat sink configured to contact the plurality of integrated circuits to dissipate heat in the plurality of integrated circuits. The heat sink includes a first dissipation part that directly contacts one of the plurality of integrated circuits, and a second dissipating part that contacts another of the plurality of integrated circuits via one of the plurality of wirings.

Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus

A conveying apparatus includes an outer casing for disposing the conveying apparatus on a traveling structure, a storage case that is disposed inside the outer casing and that allows a stored article to be placed therein and removed therefrom from above, a plurality of stretchable elastic members that are spaced apart from each other in a crosswise direction and each of which includes a bridging portion that bridges between front and rear ends of the outer casing in a traveling direction of the traveling structure, and a plurality of suspension devices that are spaced apart from each other at least in a fore-aft direction and each of which includes an upper end assuming a supported portion that is supported slidably on the elastic member and a lower end assuming a supporting portion that supports the storage case.

Transport device

A centrifugal compressor includes an impeller that rotates about an axis; an inlet guide vane including a plurality of vanes disposed on an upstream side of the impeller and provided at intervals in a circumferential direction of the axis, the inlet guide vane being directed inward in the radial direction between adjacent vanes, and forming a guide flow path having an exit angle in the radial direction and guiding the fluid; and a suction flow path that introduces the fluid from a part in a circumferential direction into the inlet guide vane. The exit angle of the vane of the first region on the one side when viewed from the suction flow path in the inlet guide vane is displaced to the suction flow path side as compared to the exit angle of the vane of a second region on the opposite side of the one side.

Centrifugal compressor

A compressor includes a cylindrical casing, a bundle which includes a tubular stationary member and a rotor accommodated into the tubular stationary member, the bundle being configured to be inserted into an inner portion of the casing, and a roller configured to roll on an inner circumferential surface of the casing while supporting the bundle when the bundle is inserted into the inner portion of the casing along an axial direction. An outer circumferential surface of the roller is a continuous convex curved surface defined such that a curvature radius of an end side curved surface portion along a rotating shaft of the roller is smaller than a curvature radius of a center curved surface portion.

Compressor

A centrifugal compressor includes a casing body () configured to rotatably support a rotation shaft () and an impeller () fixed to the rotation shaft around an axis (O), the casing body in which an intake volute (B) which has a ring shape centered on the axis and through which a processing gas (G) is caused to flow in a direction of the axis and is introduced into a flow channel of the impeller, and a discharge volute which has a ring shape centered on the axis and through which the processing gas is discharged from the flow channel are formed; and a plurality of intake nozzles () which communicate with the intake volute and are able to cause the processing gas to flow into the intake volute from the outside and are provided at intervals in a circumferential direction around the rotation shaft.

Centrifugal-compressor casing and centrifugal compressor

This impeller is equipped with: a disk section that is fixed to a rotary shaft at least at the side of a first end in a direction of the axis and extends outward in a radial direction from the side of a second end; blade sections that are disposed to protrude from the disk section toward the side of the first end; and a cover section that covers the blade sections. The disk section includes a first member and a second member that are divided from each other in the direction of the axis by a dividing plane, which is orthogonal to the axis, at an inner side in the radial direction relative to the blade sections. The first member and the second member are joined on the dividing plane.

Impeller, rotary machine, and impeller manufacturing method

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a plurality of liquid discharge heads to discharge liquid, and a plurality of head tanks communicating with the plurality of liquid discharge heads, respectively. Each of the plurality of head tanks includes a liquid chamber to store the liquid and a gas chamber separated from the liquid chamber by a diaphragm, and the gas chamber of one of the plurality of head tanks communicates with the gas chamber of another of the plurality of head tanks.

Liquid discharge apparatus

This compressor assembly method involves: an arrangement step in which a bundle () is arranged such that an external travel device () can travel on a base surface () and an internal travel device can travel on the inner peripheral surface () of a casing (); a vertical position adjustment step in which, while measuring the relative positions in the vertical direction of the inner peripheral surface () of the casing () and the outer peripheral surface () of the bundle () at the opening () of the casing, the height position of the bundle () supported by the outside travel device () is adjusted on the basis of the measured relative positions in the vertical direction; and an insertion step in which the bundle () is inserted into the casing () while the vertical position adjustment step is performed.

Compressor assembly method, and bundle guiding device

There is provided a liquid circulation apparatus for circulating liquid through a plurality of discharge heads that includes discharge nozzles. The liquid circulation apparatus includes a liquid circulating channel to circulate the liquid via the plurality of discharge heads, a first manifold connected to each supply port of the plurality of discharge heads, a second manifold connected to each discharge port of the plurality of discharge heads, a discharging channel to discharge the liquid in the second manifold, and a bubble-discharging channel separate from the discharging channel, to discharge bubbles in the second manifold.

Liquid circulation device and liquid discharge apparatus

A rotary machine includes a guide section formed in an annular flow path in communication with a suction volute at an inner circumferential side of the suction volute, at which a plurality of vanes are installed in a circumferential direction, and configured to guide a fluid introduced from the suction volute, and an impeller connected to the guide section in the axial direction and into which the fluid guided by the guide section is introduced, wherein the suction volute has an annular opening section in communication with the guide section at the inner circumferential side, and an inner wall surface extending from the opening section toward the axial direction impeller in the axial direction to increase a width dimension in the axial direction and connected to a partition section at an opposite side of the suction nozzle.

Rotary machine

An image signal evaluator calculates a first image signal evaluation value based on an image signal captured in a state where a focusing position is adjusted to an imaging target. A water droplet adhesion determiner determines whether there is a possibility that a water droplet may be adhered onto an imaging window by comparing a first image signal evaluation value and a threshold value. In a case where it is determined that there is the possibility, an image signal evaluator calculates a second image signal evaluation value based on an image signal captured in a state where the focusing position is adjusted to a position of a close distance. The water droplet adhesion determiner determines whether a water droplet is adhered onto the imaging window by comparing the first image signal evaluation value and the second image signal evaluation value.

Imaging device and water droplet adhesion determining method

A method for assembling a compressor comprises: a bundle arrangement step in which a bundle is arranged behind the opening of a casing in the insertion direction; a first insertion step in which the front end of the bundle is inserted into the casing by moving the bundle by means of both an outside traveling device and an intermediate traveling device; and a second insertion step in which the intermediate traveling device is removed from the bundle and the bundle is inserted further inward into the casing by moving the bundle by means of both an inside traveling device and the outside traveling device.

Method for assembling compressor, and bundle guide device

A rotary machine includes a guide section formed in an annular flow path in communication with a suction volute at an inner circumferential side of the suction volute, at which a plurality of vanes are installed in a circumferential direction, and configured to guide a fluid introduced from the suction volute, and an impeller connected to the guide section in the axial direction and into which the fluid guided by the guide section is introduced. The suction volute has an annular opening section in communication with the guide section at the inner circumferential side, and an inner wall surface extending from the opening section toward the axial direction of the impeller in the axial direction to increase a width dimension in the axial direction and connected to a partition section at an opposite side of the suction nozzle.

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Satoru Yoshida