Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Shigeru Yasuda

Mitsuru Tanaka

Yuichi Sakamoto

Takeshi Ishida

Takaaki Hibi

Noriyuki Machida

Tadashi Hatamachi

Tetsuro Kikuchi

Kohei Nomura

Seiji Yoshitake

Yukio Ito

Hideo Tanaka

Noboru Yamagishi

Makoto Yamamoto

Masashi Takeda

Kunio Iwakawa

Kentaro Saeki

Yasuhiro Higashida

Toshikazu Nakashima

Hiroaki Hasegawa

Hiroshi Kasuga

Koji Akiba

Kouji Akiba

A food frying treatment apparatus includes: a frying oil circulation mechanism, which makes frying oil flow out from a frying oil tank on a downstream side and makes the frying oil flow in the frying oil tank on an upstream side by a frying oil inflow device, which ejects the frying oil in an upward direction from a bottom portion side of the frying oil tank; a frying food transport mechanism including a first transport mechanism, which transports the food fed into the frying oil tank on the upstream side in a floating state on a surface of the frying oil, and a second transport mechanism, which transports a frying food subsequently to the first transport mechanism in an immersed state below the surface of the frying oil in the frying oil tank; and a fried food collection mechanism, which collects a fried food from the frying oil tank.

Frying treatment apparatus

[Problem] To develop a device for diverting, to multiple conveyance paths, a plurality of cup-shaped containers conveyed in a single file on a manufacturing line, and consolidating a prescribed number of the containers as a group so as to be sequentially and continuously conveyed. [Solution] The method that has been found to be effective involves providing a plurality of adjacently arranged successive conveyance paths that branch out from a conveyance path of a conveyance device that continuously conveys cup-shaped containers having prescribed shapes in a single file, sequentially conveying the cup-shaped containers on the branch conveyance paths, stopping the movement of the cup-shaped containers and aligning the containers at the end point of the branch conveyance paths, consolidating the containers as a group at the end point in each of the conveyance paths, and transferring the cup-shaped containers to another conveyance path.

Cup-shaped container conveyance device

A multistage steaming machine is provided with a conveyor arranged at multiple stages such that a group of noodle strings carried in a steam chamber main body portion goes and returns plural times along a first direction to be conveyed from an upper stage to a lower stage in the steam chamber main body portion. Further, in the multistage steaming machine, a steam pipe applies steam to the group of noodle strings conveyed at an upper stage portion of the steam chamber main body portion, and the group of noodle strings is conveyed to the lower stage.

Multistage steaming machine

A multistage steaming machine is configured such that a steam chamber main body portion in which steam is actually supplied to a group of noodle strings is provided with: a tunnel-shaped noodle introducing portion extending from the steam chamber main body portion in an obliquely downward direction; and a tunnel-shaped noodle discharging portion similarly extending from the steam chamber main body portion in an obliquely downward direction. A vertical position of an inlet end of the noodle introducing portion and a vertical position of an outlet end of the noodle discharging portion are lower than a vertical position of a lower end portion of the steam chamber main body portion.

A method for producing instant fried noodles which includes the steps of: reversing a noodle lump upside down within 15 seconds after detaching the noodle lump from oil in a fry tank in a frying treatment of the instant fried noodles; putting gelatinized noodle strings in a plurality of retainers pivotally supported by two endless parallel chains; immersing the plurality of retainers, in which the noodle strings have been put by movements of the two chains, in a fry tank to fry the noodle strings; detaching the retainers from oil in the fry tank by movements of the two chains; reversing the retainers upside down by rotating the pivotally supported retainers within 15 seconds after the detachment; conveying the retainers in a state in which the retainers are reversed upside down by movements of the chains; and separating a plurality of fried noodle lumps from the retainers.

Method for producing instant fried noodles and frying treatment device

A device includes a loosening room into which cooked rice is fed, an air blowing port which is configured to blow high-speed air toward the cooked rice in the loosening room; and a collecting room provided adjacent to the loosening room with a wall therebetween, the high-speed air is blown from the blowing port and is blown to the cooked rice in the loosening room such that the cooked rice is scatted and floated by blowing the air, and the cooked rice floating and moving over the wall is collected by the collecting room.

Loosening method and loosening device for cooked rice

A fault monitoring apparatus is connected to computer systems and monitors a fault in the computer systems. The fault monitoring apparatus is provided with a storage section for storing and holding fault recovery information including rules for defining recovery operations when faults occur in the computer systems, and when a fault occurs in the computer systems, retrieves the rules previously set in the fault recovery information and instructs the computer systems so as to perform a recovery operation corresponding to a rule matching to the fault which occurs in the computer systems.

Computer recovery method and system for recovering automatically from fault, and fault monitoring apparatus and program used in computer system

A bill processing apparatus with a credit card reader is configured such that a credit card insert slot () for inserting a credit card () therein is formed in the upper surface of a front mask (), a credit card guide chute () connected to the credit card insert slot () is formed in the front mask () so as to be connected to a bill guide chute (), and the lower surface () of this bill guide chute () is bent so as to be proximate to the lower surface () of the front mask, and when the credit card () is inserted into the credit card insert slot (), the credit card () enters the bill insert slot () by way of the credit card guide chute () and reaches the lower surface () of the bill guide chute (), whereby credit card data can be stably read inside a front mask without changing the size of a conventional standardized front mask.

Bill processing apparatus with credit card reader

Grounding member ( ) for grounding static electricity generated in sheet material transfer rollers ( ) of the sheet material transfer device ( ) comprises a circuit pattern for grounding ( ) formed on a printed circuit board ( ) and of an electrically conductive force applying member ( ) having one end ( ) in contact with a shaft ( ) and another end ( ) in contact with the circuit pattern for grounding ( ) for always pressing the sheet material transfer rollers ( ) toward a sheet material transfer path ( ) and discharges static electricity generated in the sheet material transfer rollers ( ) through the shaft ( ), the force applying member ( ) and the circuit patterns for grounding ( ).

Sheet material transfer device

A unit box ( ) containing a bank-note conveyor belt unit ( ) and a bank-note identifying unit ( ) and not containing a bank-note accommodating unit, is provided in an openable and closable fashion with respect to a body ( ) of a bank-note processing device ( ), so that a conveyor belt ( ) facing the side of a bank-note input opening ( ) is exposed when the unit box ( ) is opened.

Bank-note processing device

A criterion for recognizing the presence of paper money is determined from the output of the photosensor ( ) in its standby state when paper money is inserted. The criterion is stored in memory ( ) for use to detect the existence of paper money.

Method and apparatus for processing paper money

In a cleaning sheet for cleaning a bill identification unit comprising bill identification sensors, a brush part is formed on the surface of a main sheet body of the cleaning sheet so that when the brush part passes through bill identification sensors, the brush part cleans the bill identification sensors and concave portions where the bill identification sensors are embedded so that even a non-contact type bill identification sensor disposed slightly retreated from the surface of a bill transporting route can be cleaned.

Cleaning sheet for cleaning bill identification unit

A surface of an optical sensor which faces on a paper money transport path is covered by transparent antistatic covers in order to prevent to as great an extent as possible the adhering of dust and dirt to the optical sensor.

Paper money identification device

If the number of returned bills is two or more, the returned bills are identified as abnormally returned bills by an abnormally returned bill detector, and predetermined abnormal-state processing is accomplished by performing control operations using an abnormality processor. If a bill has jammed in the bill conveying channel, information concerning the direction in which the bill has jammed is stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit of the control unit, and, as a result of control operations performed by the bill reverse-direction conveyance control unit of the control unit, the bill is conveyed in the direction opposite to the bill jamming direction stored in the bill jamming direction memory unit when the bill jammed in the bill conveying channel is to be removed. A shutter that opens and closes the bill conveying channel is also installed and the shutter is driven via a gear transmission comprising a worm gear that develops considerable frictional force between the engaged gears and has a high reduction rate as viewed from the motor side, and a worm wheel that engages the worm gear.

Bill processing device

A paper money processor using a single motor in which, when the motor is forwardly driven, a power transmission section transmits a rotational force of the motor only to a paper money transporter section to convey an inserted paper money into the interior of a processor body and when the motor is reversely driven, the power transmission section transmits the rotational force of the motor to both of the paper money transporter section and a pushing section to drive the both so as to return the paper money back to a paper money insert slot, and when a repayment demand occurs, a control section permits the reverse rotation of the motor only if the paper money is located at a returnable position.

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Tsurugashima, Japan

Shigeru Yasuda