Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yasumichi Muto

Minoru Yamada

Shigeru Shimogama

Yoshiya Shiraishi

A semiconductor laser heating apparatus has a measuring instrument for measuring an optical-power output relative to a current to be supplied to the semiconductor laser. The heating apparatus also has a calculator for calculating a correction coefficient of the optical-power output based on the measured data, and has a controller for correcting a supply current to the semiconductor laser relative to a value determined by an optical-power output determiner based on the calculation result. The heating apparatus employing optical fibers as an output terminal thus can always produce a desirable heating condition regardless of the optical-power output deteriorated with the lapse of time.

Semiconductor laser heating apparatus

A brake release circuit of an electromagnetic brake for locking a motor and an indication circuit for indicating a brake release are coupled together. Both the circuits may be turned on and off by a single switch contact. A motorbrake release device secures space saving and high safety, and is economical.

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Suita, Japan

Yasumichi Muto