Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Takeya Kawamura

Katsuaki Morita

Takayuki Kono

Masaya Mitake

Yoshio Egashira

Yasuhiko Ikegami

Toshio Sanagawa

Tatsunori Hayashi

Junichi Ichise

Makoto Kaneuchi

A memory stores traveling schedule information of a vehicle without a contact wire, information on a next station located on a traveling interval and information about a plurality of traffic lights on the traveling interval temporarily, and a velocity pattern calculator for calculating a velocity pattern of the vehicle based on the traveling schedule information, the information on the next station and the information about the plurality of the traffic lights, in which the velocity pattern calculator calculates a velocity pattern which satisfies conditions that the vehicle is never stopped at a first traffic light, that when the vehicle departs from a current stop station, the vehicle is accelerated at an constant acceleration a and that after the acceleration, the vehicle travels at a constant first velocity V.

Traveling assistant system for vehicles without contact wire

A glass cullet separation apparatus according to the present invention includes a hopper (1), a rotary feeder (6), an inclined guide plate (14), a conveying belt (17), and a foreign glass discrimination device (37). The discriminated device can radiate a laser beam onto a surface of a cullet passing over a slit of the conveying belt (17) for emission therefrom and for discriminating a 'yes or no' foreign glass determination by analyzing a spectrum of the emission. Also, included is a color discrimination device (41), a foreign glass discrimination trigger sensor (33), a color discrimination trigger sensor (40), and air nozzles (44) for ejecting the cullet at each predetermined positions which correspond to the cullet of the foreign glass and the cullet of each color. A non-contact type photoelectric sensor (45) is provided for sensing the cullet passing the air nozzle (44). A collection receptacle (42) is provided for collecting the cullet, and a control device (28) is provided for controlling opening and closing of an electromagnetic valve of the air nozzle (44) for ejecting the cullet in response to a predetermined signal.

Glass cullet separation apparatus

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Minato-ku, Japan

Takeya Kawamura