Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fuji Photo Film, Inc.

Shingo Sawahara

Akihisa Kita

Masao Tsuruta

Akira Takagi

Randy L Oliver

Erik W Hedegor

A battery testing and sorting apparatus that includes an upwardly inclined conveyor having a conveyor drive for moving batteries to be tested and sorted. The conveyor includes a battery feeding section disposed along the conveyor for positioning the batteries laterally onto the conveyor so that terminals of the batteries are in a horizontal orientation on the conveyor. A testing section is disposed along the conveyor upstream from the battery feeding section for testing the electrical condition of the batteries as they move along the conveyor. A sorting section is disposed along the conveyor upstream from the testing section for ejecting the batteries from the conveyor according to the electrical condition of the batteries determined by the testing section. In this manner, a battery testing and sorting apparatus is provided for continuously sorting large quantities of batteries into groups based on the electrical condition of the batteries.

Battery tester and sorting apparatus

A magnetic tape wind-up method comprises the steps of winding up a magnetic tape around a hub, which is incorporated in a cassette case, while the magnetic tape is being moved and is in contact with a contact member provided in the cassette case. The magnetic tape is wound up while a gas is being blown against the contact member or against a portion of the magnetic tape, which portion is present in the vicinity of the contact member, in such a way that the gas flows between the contact member and the magnetic tape.

Magnetic tape wind-up method

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Minami-ashigara, Japan

Shingo Sawahara