Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoshi Ishihara

Tomoaki Arai

Sakae Ishikawa

Katsumi Nakamura

Hideki Kobayashi

Kenji Makino

Toshiaki Yamamoto

Hiroyasu Koizumi

Makoto Tajima

Hiroshi Chikuma

Minoru Tsuchiya

Kunio Matsugi

Yoshiki Tsuda

Junichi Enari

Mamoru Baba

Tsuyoshi Abe

Moku Naruishi

Hideyuki Goda

Isamu Tanaka

Juusei Matsumoto

Satoshi Kitaoka

Junichi Murano

Takefumi Adachi

Hisao Chikano

Toshiyuki Suzuki

Seiji Take

Yoshiaki Hida

Hirofumi Sugane

Masao Gogami

Shinichi Ookawa

Yukishige Kuwabara

Noriyuki Nakagawa

A packing unit includes a pallet, a structural base, and a fixing device. The pallet mounts an article thereon. The structural base has a fixed portion and is detachably attached to the article. The fixing device fixes the article to the pallet and includes an article fixing member slidably supported by the pallet. The article fixing member is movable between a fix position at which the article fixing member is engaged with the fixed portion of the structural base of the article to fix the article to the pallet and a release position at which the engagement of the article fixing member and the fixed portion is released.

Packing unit

A packaging device includes a bottom plate and a mounting plate arranged above the bottom plate at a specific distance form the bottom plate. An article to be transported is placed on the mounting plate. A cushioning member is arranged in a space between the bottom plate and the mounting plate. The cushioning member protects the article from shocks. A reinforcing unit is arranged on the bottom plate in the space between the bottom plate and the mounting plate so that support members of the article rest on the reinforcing unit.

Packaging device and buffer

A packing tool for packing large articles such as image forming apparatuses has a pallet to place the article, and an article-fixing member to secure the article to the pallet. The article-fixing member is accommodated in an accommodating section in the pallet. When securing the article to the pallet, the article-fixing member is pulled out and wound around the article.

Pallet packing tool

When a first article is to be delivered to a customer and a second article is to be collected from the customer, first rack components required for delivery of the first article and second rack components not required for delivery of the first article, yet required for collecting the second article, are specified. Delivery procedure and collection procedure of the articles using the specified first rack components and second rack components are instructed to a worksite. Accordingly, delivery and collection of the articles can be carried out by making efficient use of the rack components commonly used for the first article and the second article.

Method of and system for managing rack operation, method of and system for managing multistage rack, article conveyance and storage device, and computer product

Tanks of a first heat exchanger have plane sections perpendicular to bottoms having a plurality of tube insertion holes formed therein. Tanks of a second heat exchanger with circular cross sections have bottoms having a plurality of tube insertion holes formed therein. The axes of the tube insertion holes of the first and second heat exchangers are held in parallel with each other. The second heat exchanger is in contact with the plane sections of the first heat exchanger tank.

Integral-type heat exchanger

Pallet

Pallet packing method and pallet packing tool used in the method

An article transporting/storing device of the present invention includes a table to be loaded with a desired article. A pair of post units are spaced from each other, and each include two posts connected together. A pair of unit supporting devices respectively support the two post units on the table such that the post units are selectively locked in a position in which they stand substantially vertically on the table or unlocked and allowed to be angularly moved toward the mount surface of the table between the post units.

Article transporting/storing device

First and second coupling members are provided between neighboring two columns so that the distance between neighboring columns detachably attached to the four corners of a pallet on which a commodity is placed can be freely changed. Guiding members for guiding an upper commodity carrying and storing apparatus when the upper commodity carrying and storing apparatus is stacked on a lower commodity carrying and storing apparatus are provided on a top plate.

Commodity carrying and storing apparatus

First and second coupling members are provided between two adjoining supports so that a space between the two supports detachably attached to corners of a pallet with an article placed thereon can be freely adjusted.

Article transporting/storing apparatus and article transported by the apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Ishihara