Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Nikkiso Company Limited

Combi Co., Ltd.

Combi Corporation

Takashi Chino

Keisuke Kato

Hideo Yoshikoshi

Masaru Takeuchi

Yuji Nogami

Hajime Kitamura

Mikio Kitai

Hajime Yashiro

Shinroku Nakao

Takashi Kimura

Atsushi Tsutsumi

Masaaki Suzuki

Takao Kawamura

Katuhiro Tokutake

Kenzo Kaminaga

Yoshihisa Hirakuri

Masao Ito

Kazuhiko Arai

Hideo Hata

Yuzo Abe

A sheet-testing apparatus including kneading rolls, a frame feeder, sheet applicator, foreign material detector, a frame with a light transparent window and a cutter for cutting a sheet. A sheet thickness detection apparatus outputs an electric signal to a memory. A kneading apparatus has a pair of heating rolls separated by a gap. The directions and speeds of rotations of the rolls are adjustable. A sensor detects the gap and a bank sensor detects the condition of a bank in the gap. The distance between the rolls, their temperatures, rotations, and speeds are automatically controlled. A pair of blades peel a sheet from the sheet-winding roll. Material dropped through the gap between the heating rolls is returned to a point above the gap. A cutting device has a length of wire sprung onto a rolled sheet to sever the sheet. A heating roll cleaning device brings cleaning rolls into sliding engagement with the heating rolls. A heating roll cleaning device has means for feeding an elongated cloth-like cleaning member for cleaning heating rolls.

Frame feeding apparatus and automatic sheet thickness detection apparatus

A sheet-testing apparatus including kneading rolls, a frame feeder, sheet applicator, foreign material detector, a frame with a light transparent window and a cutter for cutting a sheet. A sheet-testing sample-making apparatus has a cluster of kneading rolls, frame feeder, and sheet applicator. A sheet thickness detection apparatus outputs an electric signal to a memory. A kneading apparatus has a pair of heating rolls separated by a gap. The directions and speeds of rotations of the rolls are adjustable. A sensor detects the gap and a bank sensor detects the condition of a bank in the gap. The distance between the rolls, their temperatures, rotations, and speeds are automatically controlled. A pair of blades peel a sheet from the sheet-winding roll. Material dropped through the gap between the heating rolls is returned to a point above the gap. A cutting device has a length of wire sprung onto a rolled sheet to sever the sheet. A heating roll cleaning device brings cleaning rolls into sliding engagement with the heating rolls. A heating roll cleaning device feeds an elongated cloth-like cleaning member for cleaning heating rolls.

Automatic kneading apparatus and fallen material returning apparatus

An apparatus for automatically inspecting powdery products is disclosed having a plurality of automatic inspection devices each device processing, in parallel, a subdivision of a supplied sample of a powdery product. Each device is controlled by a corresponding terminal computer. To one terminal computer there are connected a device for reading sample information attached to the supplied powdery sample and a device for recording, on the sample subdivisions, information concerning conditions for inspection established by the terminal computer on the basis of the sample information read by the first reading device. To each of the other terminal computers there is connected a corresponding device for reading the information concerning conditions for inspection recorded on the subdivision of the sample. Each terminal computer controls the operation of the automatic inspection devices on the basis of the information concerning conditions for inspection read by each corresponding reading device.

Automatic apparatus for inspecting powdery product

An apparatus for automatically determining the rate of plasticizer absorption of a powdery resin sample such as a vinyl chloride resin sample. The apparatus for automatically determining the rate of plasticizer absorption of a powdery resin sample is one in which the rate of plasticizer absorption is determined by treating, in a centrifugal separator 10, a powdery resin contained in an inspection container 2 together with an excess of a plasticizer, to remove from the powdery resin sample the excess plasticizer, and determining the amount of the plasticizer absorbed by and remaining in the powdery resin. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an electronic balance 3 for weighing out the powdery resin which is connected to an arithmetic circuit 61; an injection means 5 for injecting the plasticizer into the powdery resin; a disposal chute 6 for recovering the inspection container 2 already used in the weight-determination; and a suction device 7 for aspirating the plasticizer separated by and remaining in the centrifugal separator 10. The apparatus further includes a robot 4 for transferring the powdery resin contained in the inspection container 2 to the electronic balance 3, the plasticizer-injection means 5, the centrifugal separator 10 or the disposal chute 6; and a driving unit 15 for moving an aspiration port 9 of the suction device 7 up and down within the centrifugal separator 10.

Apparatus for automatically determining rate of plasticizer absorption

An apparatus for automatically and continuously inspecting a powdery product for the presence of foreign substances as contaminants, which permits highly precise inspection of powdery products, comprises static charge eliminator 10 for eliminating electrostatic charges generated on a powdery sample supplied to the apparatus; hopper 41 for receiving and storing the powdery sample whose electrostatic charges have been eliminated and dropped onto the hopper through static charge eliminator 10; conveyor 42 for conveying the powdery sample, as a subject to be photographed, discharged from hopper 41 and spread over conveyor 42 in the form of a layer having a uniform thickness; and video camera 43 for photographing, over a predetermined visual field, the powdery sample on the subject-conveyor. Images taken by video camera 43 do not include those originated from dark spots due to unevenness of the powdery sample distribution, but includes only those originated from foreign substances even when inspecting a powdery sample which is liable to be electrically charged such as a vinyl chloride resin, since the powdery sample is not agglomerated.

Apparatus for automatically inspecting powdery products for the presence

An apparatus for supplying a solution of a powdery product as a specimen of viscosity measurement. The apparatus includes electronic discharge-weighing device (4) for determining the amount of the powdery sample in sample container (2), introduced into hopper (6) and discharged therefrom by vibration-generating drive (5); dissolution container (12) for receiving and dissolving the powdery sample from hopper (6); electronic balance (13)for weighing the powdery sample in container (12); supply source (14) for solvent into container (12); device (36) for heating and stirring the powdery sample and the solvent in container (12), and a control circuit for controlling the apparatus.

Apparatus for automatically preparing solution of powdery product as

An apparatus which permits continuous automatic determination of the bulk specific gravity of a powdery sample and highly precise measurement thereof. The apparatus comprises a robot 3 transporting a container 2 filled with a powdery sample; a funnel 4 provided with a damper, which receives the powdery sample discharged from the container 2; a damper-driving unit 5a for pulling out and pushing the damper 5; a sample sensor 7 for detecting the powdery sample dropped through the funnel 4 provided with a damper; a constant volume receiver 6 for receiving dropped through the funnel 4 provided with a damper; a scraping bar 8 for sliding the upper face of the constant volume receiver 6; a scraping bar-driving unit 8a for reciprocating the scraping bar 8; a constant volume receiver-conveying robot 21 transporting the constant volume receiver 6; an electronic balance 22 which determines the weight the powdery sample in the constant volume receiver 6; and a cleaner 23 for aspirating the weighed powdery sample.

Apparatus for automatically determining bulk specific gravity of powdery

A step-type training machine in which the exerciser trains using a predetermined load while detecting the pulse of the exerciser, and in accordance with data (e.g. the age, sex and weight) inputted before the training and various data (e.g. the exerciser's pulse) during the training, the step load is varied and controlled during the training so as to impart the optimum exercise load to the exerciser. The machine includes a frame; a plate for mounting various parts at a lower portion of the frame; a pair of crankarms each pivotally mounted by a pivot shaft on the plate and having a step member mounted on its one end movable up and down through a predetermined angle; an eddy current load device rotated by the swinging movement of the pair of crankarms; an input device for inputting individual data of the exerciser; a mechanism for measuring the pulse value of the exerciser; a detector for detecting the rotation frequency of the load device; a processor for extracting a control signal; and a display for displaying predetermined date extracted by the processing means.

Step-type training machine and control method

Massage treatment table

A cover over the screw shaft in a roller-type fingerpressure apparatus prevents clogging and is also provided with flanges to help guide the moving roller frame. The vertical extension of the rollers is enhanced by having the roller shafts vertically slidable in grooves formed in plates which are themselves vertically slidable with respect to the frame.

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Iruma, Japan

Takashi Chino