ISHIDA CO., LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160114596 | LABEL ISSUING APPARATUS - A label issuing apparatus of an embodiment includes a print unit that prints commodity information on a linerless label, a feeding unit that feeds the linerless label, a cutting unit that detaches the linerless label as a label piece, and a temporary adhesion unit that holds the label piece, and superimposes an upstream end portion in a feeding direction of the held label piece on a downstream end portion in a feeding direction of a subsequent label, the subsequent label being the linerless label next fed by the feeding unit. | 04-28-2016 |
20160039552 | STRETCH PACKAGING MACHINE - A stretch packaging machine is provided with a lift mechanism and a tray movement mechanism. The lift mechanism has a plurality of loading members on which a tray is loaded and which lift up the tray toward film such that the tray contacts the film sealing an opening at the top of the tray. The tray movement mechanism is configured to move the tray slidingly over the loading members of the lift mechanism to a predetermined position on the loading members. A frictional coefficient of at least first loading members is such that contact between the tray and the loading members disposed on the near side in the moving direction in which the tray is moved by the tray movement mechanism is smaller than the frictional coefficient of second loading members disposed on the far side in the moving direction. | 02-11-2016 |
20150352596 | INSPECTION SYSTEM - An inspection system is provided with a weight inspection device, a sorting device, and a frame. The weight inspection device includes a weighing conveyor for conveying a weighing object, and a load cell for weighing the weighing object conveyed by the weighing conveyor, and inspects the weighing object using the result of weighing by the load cell. The sorting device includes an sorting conveyor arranged downstream of the weighing conveyor, a movable member being configured to come in contact with the weighing object conveyed by the sorting conveyor to change a traveling direction of the weighing object, and a cylinder for driving the movable member based on the result of inspection by the weight inspection device so as to cause the movable member to come in contact with the weighing object. The frame supports the weighing conveyor, the load cell, and the movable member. | 12-10-2015 |
20150298842 | BOX PACKING DEVICE - A box packing system includes a frame, a cardboard sheet feeder, a box making section and a box packing device. The cardboard sheet feeder is configured to lift one of a plurality of cardboard sheets from a cardboard sheet stacking area of the frame. The cardboard sheets are in an upright state within the cardboard sheet stacking area and are folded or collapsed. The box making section re-shapes the cardboard sheet unfolding the cardboard sheet and transforms the cardboard sheet into a cardboard box where a bottom lid is closed and a top lid is opened defining an opening of the cardboard box. The box packing device has a dropping part that moves the cardboard box in a laterally opened state downwardly to s located filling position and a pushing part that pushes an article into the opening of the cardboard box while within the filling position. | 10-22-2015 |
20150129323 | COMBINATION WEIGHING DEVICE - A combination weighing device facilitates the performance of operation using optimal operational settings. The combination weighing device includes a dispersion feeder, a plurality of radial feeders and a plurality of weighing hoppers. The dispersion feeder is disposed in an upper portion, and conveys and disperses supplied articles. The radial feeders are arranged radially on the periphery of the dispersion feeder, and convey the articles that are discharged from the dispersion feeder. The weighing hoppers receive the articles discharged from the radial feeders. The combination weighing device performs a combination weighing based on the weight of the articles in the weighing hoppers. In the combination weighing device, the operational settings are performed automatically. | 05-14-2015 |
20140230581 | MASS MEASUREMENT DEVICE - Amass measurement device measures the mass of an article, even when the article is being moved. A mass measurement device includes a robot hand, a robot arm, a force sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a control unit. The robot hand holds an article (Q). The robot arm moves the robot hand. The force sensor is provided between the robot hand and the robot arm and measures force acting on the article (Q) during movement. The acceleration sensor measures acceleration acting on the article (Q) during the movement. The control unit runs and controls the robot hand and the robot arm, and calculates the mass of the article (Q) on the basis of the force and acceleration acting on the article (Q) during the movement. | 08-21-2014 |
20130134015 | ARTICLE ALIGNMENT DEVICE - An article alignment device aligns articles having first end portions and second end portions that have a shape different from the shape of the first end portions. The article alignment device includes a first conveyance device, a second conveyance device, and a control device. The first conveyance device has conveyance units that carry and convey the articles. The first conveyance device conveys the articles in a first orientation. In the first orientation the first end portions are positioned on a downstream side with respect to a first conveyance direction of the articles. The second conveyance device is placed downstream of the first conveyance device. The control device controls the first and second conveyance devices such that the orientation of first articles conveyed by the second conveyance device are changed to a second orientation where the second end portions are positioned on the downstream side. | 05-30-2013 |
20130130878 | BAG-MAKING PACKAGING MACHINE - A bag-making packaging machine includes a bag-producing part, a bag receiving part, and a bottom forming part. The bag-producing part is configured and arranged to transversely seal a tubular packaging material to produce a bag having a top seal part and a bottom seal part formed above and below a product-enclosing main body of the bag. The bag receiving part is configured and arranged to receive and hold the bottom seal part and a part of the main body of the bag, which has been dropped from the bag-producing part. The bottom-forming part is configured and arranged to deform the bag in contact with the bag receiving part to form a bottom portion of the bag into a prescribed shape. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126248 | WEIGHING DEVICE - A weighing device includes a weighing unit, a camera, an identifying unit, a product weight calculation unit, a label printer unit, a person sensor and a shopper-side notification unit. The weighing unit measures weight of a container and a product therein selected by a shopper to produce a weight value. The camera detects the size of the container. The identifying unit identifies the container based on size. The product weight calculation unit subtracts weight of the identified container from the weight value to calculate the weight of a product. The label printer unit prints a label displaying the price of the product based on the weight of the product. The person sensor detects whether or not the shopper is present at the weighing device. The shopper-side notification unit guides the shopper through purchasing and label printing in response to the person sensor detecting the presence of the shopper. | 05-23-2013 |
20130118860 | PACKAGING APPARATUS - A packaging apparatus includes a chute, a moving member, and a control unit. The chute encloses a passage space, and has a slit formed in a first portion. Items to be packaged are supplied from an upper apparatus to the passage space. The first portion surrounds a first space. The first space is part of the passage space, where the items targeted to be packaged, readily become clogged. The moving member is configured to move into the first space and withdraw from the first space through the slit. The control unit causes the moving member to enter the first space after the items targeted to be packaged have passed through the first space. | 05-16-2013 |
20130098799 | PRODUCT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A DISPLAY STRIP AND A PRODUCT ENCLOSED BAG WITH A BIAXIAL ORIENTATED FILM - [Problem to be Solved] | 04-25-2013 |
20130059709 | BAG MAKING AND PACKAGING MACHINE - A bag making and packaging machine forms a first transverse seal portion in a packaging material formed in a tubular shape, fills the packaging material with articles, thereafter further forms a second transverse seal portion to make a bag, and allows the bag to fall, and is equipped with a vibrating mechanism. The first transverse seal portion is formed in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the packaging material. The vibrating mechanism tilts the packaging material to an outer side of a fall path of the bag and vibrates the packaging material after the packaging material has been filled with the articles and before the second transverse seal portion is formed. | 03-07-2013 |
20130037383 | CONVEYANCE APPARATUS - A conveyance apparatus aligns conveyed packaging bags. In the conveyance apparatus, a thickness measurement part measures the thickness of a packaging bag. A controller infers that the width of the packaging bag has decreased when the thickness of the packaging bag is greater than a reference thickness, and the controller causes a first guide member to move so as to approach a second guide member via a guide drive part. In addition, the controller infers that the width of the packaging bag has increased when the thickness of the packaging bag is less than the reference value, and the controller causes the first guide member to move so as to be distanced from the second guide member via the guide drive part. | 02-14-2013 |
20120311975 | FORM-FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A form-fill-seal machine includes a vertical sealing mechanism, a first film detection sensor, and a controller. The vertical sealing mechanism has a horn, an anvil, and an ultrasonic transmitter. The vertical sealing mechanism sandwiches a cylindrical film conveyed by a pull-down belt mechanism, by the horn and the anvil, and seals the cylindrical film by applying ultrasonic vibrations to the cylindrical film. The first film detection sensor detects whether the cylindrical film is sandwiched by the horn and the anvil. The controller stops the ultrasonic transmitter in a circumstance in which the first film detection sensor detects that the cylindrical film is not sandwiched by the horn and the anvil. | 12-13-2012 |
20120285130 | LATERAL SEALING DEVICE OF PACKAGING MACHINE - In a lateral sealing mechanism, a cylindrical film is sandwiched and ultrasonic sealing is performed along a direction that intersects a conveying direction while a first horn and a first anvil, and a second horn and a second anvil rotate. The first horn is mounted on a first rotating body in a state of being coupled to a plurality of vibrating elements. The second horn is mounted on the second rotating body in a state coupled to a plurality of vibrating elements. A securing member grips a horn unit, which includes the horns and the plurality of vibrating elements, on the forward and rearward sides in the direction of rotation of the horn assembly in the vicinity of the node of ultrasonic vibration and secures the horn unit to the first rotating body and the second rotating body, respectively. | 11-15-2012 |
20120285129 | FORM-FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A form-fill-seal machine has a forming structure, a vertical seal structure, and a clamp fixing mechanism. The forming structure has a support frame, a tube, a sailor collar-shaped unit, and an anvil. The tube is fixed to the support frame. The sailor collar-shaped unit is fixed to the support frame, and wraps a sheet-shaped film around the tube so that two ends thereof overlap. The anvil is fixed to the tube. The vertical seal structure has an oscillator. The oscillator generates ultrasonic waves in order to seal overlapping portions of two ends of the film, being conveyed through the intervening gap with the anvil, in a vertical direction. The clamp fixing mechanism fixes the forming structure and the vertical seal structure in fixed positions relative to one another. | 11-15-2012 |
20120285128 | FORM-FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A form-fill-seal machine has a tube, a sailor-collar-shaped part, and a vertical sealing mechanism. The sailor-collar-shaped part wraps a sheet-shaped film around the tube so that two edges thereof define overlapping portions. The vertical sealing mechanism ultrasonically seals the overlapping portions of the sheet-shaped film in the vertical direction. The vertical sealing mechanism has an oscillator and a roller. The oscillator generates ultrasonic waves. The roller is disposed downstream of the oscillator along the advancing direction of the film. The roller holds down the film while rotating in the advancing direction of the film after the film has passed the oscillator. | 11-15-2012 |
20120285127 | FORM-FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A form-fill-seal machine | 11-15-2012 |
20120225763 | BAG-MAKING PACKAGING MACHINE - A bag-making packaging machine has a cylindrical part and a forming collar. The forming collar guides a sheet-shaped packaging material so that the packaging material wraps around the cylindrical part. The forming collar has a folded-back portion for changing a direction in which the packaging material advances to an approximately perpendicular direction. A cutout through which the thick-layered portion of the packaging material passes is formed in the folded-back portion. This reduces the amount of friction applied to the thick-layered portion when the packaging material passes by the folded-back portion of the forming collar. | 09-06-2012 |
20120217069 | LABEL PRINTING SCALE DEVICE - A label printing scale device includes separable casings that are vertically overlaid in two levels, one on top of the other. Specifically, the label printing scale device includes an upper casing housing at least a load cell and a circuit part, and a lower casing housing at least power-generation circuit, a printer, and a control part. | 08-30-2012 |
20120208686 | CARDBOARD BOX ASSEMBLY APPARATUS - A cardboard box assembly apparatus is a device for folding four panels constituting a lid section of a cardboard box, forming an interleaved lid where each of the four panels by overlaps adjacent ones of the four panels. The cardboard box assembly apparatus is provided with detruding members, locking members, and mover devices. The detruding members detrude respective first portions of the four panels. The locking members lock respective second portions of the four panels, preventing the second portions from moving in detrusion directions. Detrusion directions refer to directions of detrusion of the four panels. The mover devices move the locking members in a direction including at least a vertical direction component. | 08-16-2012 |
20120204522 | ARTICLE TRANSFER DEVICE AND PACKAGING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH SAME - An article transfer device includes a funnel-shaped structure and a high pressure air supply pipe. The funnel-shaped structure has an upper end opening adapted to receive articles dropped from above and a lower end opening adapted direct the articles to a form-fill-seal machine. An inner space is defined within the funnel-shaped structure between the openings. The upper part of the inner space has a greater cross-sectional area than the cross-sectional area of the lower part of the inner space. A plurality of air ejection holes are formed in an inner peripheral surface of the funnel-shaped structure surrounding the inner space. The air ejection holes are arranged with respect to one another defining a helical shape pattern about the funnel-shaped structure. Gaseous material is spouted out from the high pressure air supply pipe and into the inner space through the plurality of air ejection holes. | 08-16-2012 |
20120204515 | PACKAGING MACHINE - In a packaging machine, a pair of shutter members holds a tubular film therebetween and shake the tubular film. Articles on an upstream side of the shutter members within the tubular film therefore aggregate toward the side of the shutter members while the vibration of the shutter members causes the gaps between the packaged articles to be filled. Since the packaged articles aggregate by inertia due to the vibration, fragmentation thereof is less likely than in a case in which the packaged articles are compressed by direct contact. Merely by the movement of rollers on a waved surface of a shutter cam, the shutter members are shaken in accordance with the waved surface. | 08-16-2012 |
20120204514 | PACKAGING MACHINE - A packaging machine includes a pair of brushes that hold a tubular film (Fm) therebetween while rotating and impeding the advancement of packaged articles. Consequently, an elongated stream of packaged articles aggregate at the leading end of the pair of brushes. When the pair of brushes release the tubular film, the packaged articles are again conveyed in a more closely aggregated state than the aggregated state thereof when the advancement of the packaged articles was temporarily impeded. The rotational axis of each brush is also biased a predetermined distance from the central axis of a core thereof. Since the brushes swing in conjunction with the rotation thereof, small vibrations and large swings cause the gaps between packaged articles to be readily filled and reduce the space occupied by the packaged articles. As a result, the bag size can be reduced. | 08-16-2012 |
20120198799 | FORM-FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A form-fill-seal machine is capable of reducing poor sealing caused by a packaged article catching in lateral seal portions. The form-fill-seal machine is provided with an upper tube, a lower tube disposed therebelow, a former, a lateral sealing mechanism below the lower tube, and opening and closing sliding members. A packaged article is dropped through the interiors of the upper tube and the lower tube. The former winds a sheet of a film F around the circumference of the lower tube to convert same into a tubular film. The lateral sealing mechanism laterally seals the tubular film. The opening and closing sliding members, which are disposed between the upper tube and the lower tube, shut off an upwardly oriented flow of gas from the interior of the lower tube when in a closed state. | 08-09-2012 |
20120145516 | Article Transfer Apparatus - An article transfer apparatus transfers articles downward into packaging. The article transfer apparatus includes a cylindrical chute that extends in a vertical direction. Slits are formed in a side wall surface of the chute. A clogging prevention member is rotatably supported adjacent to the chute. The clogging prevention member is configured and arranged to periodically enter the chute through the slit from an exterior of the chute while the clogging prevention member is rotating. | 06-14-2012 |
20120145466 | Combination Weighing Apparatus - A plurality of hoppers are disposed in a circle around a vertical axis, and articles ejected from the plurality of the hoppers are collected in a bottom outlet via a collecting chute and ejected to a packaging machine. The collecting chute is made of at least vertically overlapping stacked chutes, of which the upper chutes are shaped so that the articles ejected from the plurality of the hoppers do not cross articles ejected from adjacent hoppers. The upper chutes have the same angle of inclination, and the upper chutes are disposed in a radial formation around a vertical axis. The lower chute is formed into a funnel shape having no partitions on the inside wall. The center of the inlet and the center of the outlet are displaceable relative to one another. | 06-14-2012 |
20120034459 | HEAT SEALING ADHESIVE TAPE AND CONSUMER PRODUCT DISPLAY - The object of the present invention provides a heat sealing adhesive tape which can adhere to various kinds of products to be treated comprising various polymer materials as the outer surface thereof in a sufficient heat sealing adhesive strength, and enables retention of the adhesive property even under a high heat and humidity. The object is resolved by providing a heat sealing adhesive tape comprising a base layer and a sealant layer formed on at least one surface of the base layer, the sealant layer comprising a hot melt composition comprising an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, a styrenic block copolymer, and a tackifier, the composition having a melting point of 85° C. or lower and a melt flow rate (MFR) of 15.0 g/10 min. or less measured at 190° C. under a load of 2,160 g. | 02-09-2012 |
20120031734 | SORTER - A sorter sorts one line of articles conveyed at an entrance into a plurality of lines of articles at an exit, relative to a width direction of an article conveyance direction. The sorter includes an elastic continuous conveyance body, an entrance rotation roller, an exit rotation roller and a drive device. The elastic continuous conveyance body is configured and arranged to support a bottom surface of each of the articles. The entrance rotation roller is a roller over which the continuous conveyance body is provided at the entrance. The exit rotation roller is a roller over which the continuous conveyance body is provided at the exit. The drive device is configured and arranged to slide the exit rotation roller in a direction orthogonal to the article conveyance direction. | 02-09-2012 |
20110265432 | VERTICAL BAG-MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGING MACHINE - A vertical bag-manufacturing and packaging machine includes a feeding unit having an upstream tube portion, an opening/closing mechanism, and a downstream tube portion. The upstream tube portion is configured and arranged to downwardly convey the article. The opening/closing mechanism is disposed on a downstream side of the upstream tube portion with a gap being formed between a downstream end of the upstream tube portion and an upstream end of the opening/closing mechanism, and configured and arranged to selectively open or close to selectively discharge or hold the article discharged by the upstream tube portion. The downstream tube portion is disposed on a downstream side of the opening/closing mechanism, and configured and arranged to downwardly convey the article discharged by the opening/closing mechanism, the downstream tube portion having an internal diameter that is larger than an internal diameter of the upstream tube portion. | 11-03-2011 |
20110232228 | PACKAGING APPARATUS - A packaging apparatus includes a collection unit and a conveyance unit. The collection unit is configured and arranged to overlay a plurality of packaged objects on adjacent packaged objects. The conveyance unit is configured and arranged to convey, as a group of packaged objects, the packaged objects which are overlaid on the adjacent packaged objects at the collection unit. The conveyance unit includes a position control component. At least one portion of the position control component is positioned below a conveyance plane of the conveyance unit and the other portion of the position control component is positioned above the conveyance plane of the conveyance unit before positions of the packaged objects are adjusted, the one portion and the other portion of the position control component is provided sequentially. | 09-29-2011 |
20110196877 | WEIGHING APPARATUS - A weighing apparatus includes a conveying unit, a weighing unit, a detecting unit, a first storing unit and a presenting unit. The conveying unit is configured to convey an item. The weighing unit is configured to measure a weight of the item conveyed on the conveying unit. The detecting unit is configured to detect an item interval related to a distance between a plurality of items supplied to the conveying unit. The first storing unit is configured to store a plurality of item intervals acquired by the detecting unit during a predetermined period of time. The presenting unit is configured to provide, based on the item intervals stored in the first storing unit, guidance related to a change in an item conveying speed of the conveying unit. | 08-11-2011 |
20110131935 | FORM-FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A form-fill-seal machine is adapted to manufacture a bag having a gusset section, and includes a conveying part, a plurality of splitters and an inward-folding member. The conveying part is configured and arranged to convey a tubular packaging material. The splitters extend along a conveyance direction of the tubular packaging material to contact with the tubular packaging material from an interior side. The inward-folding member has a pressing part including a plurality of contacting portions that are three-dimensionally arranged to generally correspond to a shape of the gusset section. The inward-folding member is configured and arranged to press the contacting portions of the pressing part from an external side of the tubular packaging material against an outer surface of a gusset formation area of the tubular packaging material located between the splitters to form the gusset section. | 06-09-2011 |
20110114395 | WEIGHT-CHECKING APPARATUS - A weight-checking apparatus is adapted to check weight of an object while conveying the object in a predetermined direction. The weight-checking apparatus includes a conveying part, a weighing part and a control part. The conveying part is configured and arranged to convey the object in the predetermined direction. The weighing part is configured and arranged to weigh the object. The control part is configured to control the conveying part so that a conveying speed of the conveying part is reduced to a predetermined conveying speed according to a conveyance condition of the object being conveyed in an upstream of the weighing part. | 05-19-2011 |
20110107729 | BAG MAKING AND PACKAGING MACHINE - A bag making and packaging machine includes a conveying unit, a transverse sealing mechanism, and a gusset forming mechanism. The conveying unit is configured and arranged to continuously convey a tubular packaging material. The transverse sealing mechanism has a pair of sealing jaws configured and arranged to revolvingly move while following annular loci to seal the tubular packaging material in a transverse direction with respect to a conveyance direction of the tubular packaging material. The gusset forming mechanism has a pair of folding members configured and arranged to be pressed against side portions of the tubular packaging material to form gussets in the side portions of the tubular packaging material while the folding members move along the conveyance direction of the tubular packaging material before the transverse sealing mechanism seals the tubular packaging material. | 05-12-2011 |
20110082660 | WEIGHING SYSTEM - A weighing system is equipped with a plurality of weighing units, a combinatorial computing section, a weight checking unit, a correction value computing section and a correction value inputting section. The weighing units weigh goods. The combinatorial computing section is configured to perform combinatorial computing of the weighing results, to select a combination of the goods that is close to a target value calculated using a correction value, and to selectively control the weighing units to discharge the goods. The weight checking section is disposed downstream of the weighing units to check weights of the goods that have been discharged from the weighing units. The correction value computing section is configured to calculate the correction value based on checking results obtained by the weight checking unit. The correction value inputting section is configured to input the correction value to the combinatorial computing section. | 04-07-2011 |
20110059833 | BAG MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGING APPARATUS - A bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus is adapted to form a strip film into a cylindrical film. The bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus includes a sealing unit with a pair of sealing members facing each other to seal an end portion of the cylindrical film therebetween to package an article. Each of the sealing members includes a sealing jaw, a heating unit, and a heat insulating member. The sealing jaw has a heat generating surface, and configured and arranged to seal the cylindrical film on the heat generating surface. The heating unit is configured and arranged to heat the heat generating surface of the sealing jaw. The heat insulating member insulates the heat conduction from the heating unit to a direction other than a direction toward the heat generating surface of the sealing jaw. | 03-10-2011 |
20110058650 | X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS - An X-ray inspection apparatus includes: a conveyor which carries an object carried in from a carry-in port to a carry-out port; an X-ray irradiating part which irradiates the object carried by the conveyor with X-rays; a line sensor which detects the X-rays from the X-ray irradiating part which have passed through the object; and X-ray shielding curtains provided in the carry-in port and the carry-out port. The X-ray shielding curtain includes a tungsten-containing layer. | 03-10-2011 |
20110036645 | COMBINATION MEASURING DEVICE - A combination measuring device has a combination measuring unit. The combination measuring unit has a dispersing section configured to radially disperse articles loaded thereinto from above, a plurality of head sections configured to receive the articles from the dispersing section, and an assembling section configured to assemble the articles, which are contained in hoppers of one or more of the head sections selected according to a target weight. The head sections are arranged on a line formed by cutting away a circular arc from a circle surrounding the dispersing section. | 02-17-2011 |
20110025461 | ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL SYSTEM - An electronic shelf label system includes a plurality of electronic shelf labels, plurality of transmitters, and a transmission controller. The transmission controller divides the transmitters into a plurality of communication groups so that each of the communication groups has a collective communication area including at least one of the transmitters, and to control the transmitters in units of the communication groups. The transmission controller also controls all of the transmitters included in one of the communication group, which is determined based on input of position specification information for specifying a position of a worker who is utilizing a portable information processing device, to cause product information of a target product to be transmitted to a target electronic shelf label by one of the transmitters that belongs to the communication group. | 02-03-2011 |
20100323868 | BAG-MAKING AND PACKAGING APPARATUS - A bag-making and packaging apparatus includes a bag-making and packaging mechanism and a fold formation mechanism. The fold formation mechanism is configured and arranged to deform a packaging material from a planar state to a folded state having a cross-sectional shape including a fold portion formed by three creases, and to feed the packaging material to the bag-making and packaging mechanism. The fold formation mechanism may include a conveying path regulating part that defines a part of a conveying path of the packaging material with the conveying path regulating part temporarily bending the packaging material for a plurality of times. The bag-making and packaging apparatus may further includes a slanting member for slanting the fold portion to be generally parallel to a region of the packaging material other than the folding section, and a conveying angle changing member disposed downstream of the slanting member. | 12-23-2010 |
20100310043 | X-RAY INSPECTION DEVICE - An X-ray inspection device includes an X-ray detecting unit, a determining unit, and an output unit. The X-ray detecting unit is configured and arranged to detect a level of X-rays passing through an article. The determining unit is configured to determine a state of the article based on a detection level of the X-rays detected by the X-ray detecting unit using a plurality of thresholds including a first threshold and a second threshold for a single determination criterion. The output unit is configured and arranged to output a result of determination made by the determining unit. | 12-09-2010 |
20100290589 | X-RAY INSPECTION DEVICE - An X-ray inspection device is adapted to detect foreign matter in a target object while the target object is conveyed. The X-ray inspection device includes an X-ray emission device, a scintillator unit, a slit member and a photodiode array. The scintillator unit extends in a direction that intersects a conveyance direction of the target object, and is configured and arranged to optically convert the X-rays emitted by the X-ray emission device into visible light. The slit member forms a slit that extends in the direction that intersects the conveyance direction, and is disposed on an upstream side of the scintillator unit with respect to a direction of X-ray irradiation. The slit member is arranged so that a width of the slit is narrower than a width of the scintillator unit, and is equal to or wider than half a light-receiving width of the photodiode array in the conveyance direction. | 11-18-2010 |
20100270249 | Display Strip - [Problem to be Solved] To provide a display strip capable of attaching by heat sealing bags comprising a biaxial oriented film and having no low-melting-point layer on the outer surface of the bag. | 10-28-2010 |
20100253472 | ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique relating to an electronic shelf label system that is capable of suppressing malfunction of an electronic shelf label caused by the increase of internal resistance of a battery. In order to achieve this object, in an electronic shelf label system of the present invention, an electronic shelf label | 10-07-2010 |
20100242416 | PACKAGING SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of reducing the power consumption of a packaging machine without declining the availability factor of the whole of the system in a packaging system. In order to achieve the object, the packaging system includes a processing device performing a predetermined process on supplied processing objects and discharging them, and a packaging machine packaging the processing objects discharged from the processing device. The packaging machine includes a control unit centralized controlling the operation of the whole of the packaging machine. The control unit operates the packaging machine in the power-saving mode when the insufficient supply of the processing objects has occurred in the processing device, or when the insufficient supply of the processing objects is likely to occur in the processing device. | 09-30-2010 |
20100236189 | STRIP-PACK MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A strip-pack manufacturing apparatus for attaching an end part (Z) of a bag (X) to a strip comprises holding means for holding the bag (X) and transporting the same to a predetermined attaching position; a pair of rollers ( | 09-23-2010 |
20100233326 | Antibacterial Laminate - Disclosed is an antibacterial laminate having at least either of antibacterial property and antifungal property. The antibacterial laminate is composed of at least a base layer ( | 09-16-2010 |
20100229502 | STRIP PACK DEVICE - A strip pack device is adapted to manufacture a strip-pack product having an article attached to a strip. The strip pack device includes a conveying part, a drawing-in part, a moving part and an attachment part. The drawing-in part is configured and arranged to draw a front end of the article conveyed by the conveying part to a predetermined position. The front end is located frontward in a conveying direction. The moving part is configured and arranged to receive the article at the predetermined position in the drawing-in part, to move the article from the predetermined position in a generally opposite direction of a draw-in direction of the drawing-in part, and to move the article to an attaching position. The attachment part is configured and arranged to attach the front end of the article to the strip after the article has been moved to the attaching position. | 09-16-2010 |
20100225444 | ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL AND CORRESPONDENCE CHANGING METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to provide techniques for shortening a time required for establishing a correspondence between an electronic shelf label and a product. In an electronic shelf label system ( | 09-09-2010 |
20100223886 | ARTICLE TRANSFER DEVICE, AND PACKAGING DEVICE AND WEIGHING DEVICE EQUIPPED THEREWITH - When the articles dropping from above are received inside a hopper, at least a bottom portion of the hopper is allowed to move downwardly with the bottom portion of the hopper being closed. Therefore, the collision speed between the articles and the bottom portion of the hopper is reduced. In addition, by opening the bottom portion of the hopper while moving the bottom portion downwardly, the downward initial speed is added to the articles to be discharged. | 09-09-2010 |
20100223885 | STRIP- PACK MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A strip-pack manufacturing apparatus is adapted to manufacture a strip-pack in which at least first and second articles are attached to a strip. The strip-pack manufacturing apparatus includes an attachment part and an orientation control part. The attachment part is configured and arranged to attach an end portion of each of the first and second articles to the strip. The orientation control part is disposed downstream of the attachment part, and configured and arranged to control the orientation of the first article attached to the strip prior to the second article while the attachment part attaches the second article to the strip. | 09-09-2010 |
20100219002 | MEASURING DEVICE - A measuring device is arranged to store a block or group of a plurality of objects in a state where the objects are congested in the block, to suppress the scattering magnification of the objects when the objects are dropped off to prevent failures such as seal bite in a filling device disposed below the measuring device, to shorten the dropping length of the objects, and to reduce the contact resistance of the objects to a receiving opening of the filling device during the objects are dropped off to attain the discharging speed of the objects. The shapes and opening degrees of a gate unit can be changed so that a lower opening of a hopper is disposed inside the receiving opening of the filling device in a top plan view. | 09-02-2010 |
20100213093 | Product Assembly - [Problem to be Solved] To provide a product assembly including a display strip and product-enclosed bags attached to the display strip, to which the product enclosed bag once detached can be reattached in spite of the fact that the display strip is of a heat sealing type and which can make customers recognize that the product-enclosed bag once detached can be reattached to the display strip. | 08-26-2010 |
20100212973 | WEIGHT CHECKING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of easily changing a position of a measuring portion which measures a weight of a check object in accordance with a change of specifications or addition of specifications. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a weight checking apparatus ( | 08-26-2010 |
20100210438 | BAG-MAKING PACKAGING MACHINE - A bag-making packaging machine includes a bag-producing part, a bag receiving part, and a bottom forming part. The bag-producing part is configured and arranged to transversely seal a tubular packaging material to produce a bag having a top seal part and a bottom seal part formed above and below a product-enclosing main body of the bag. The bag receiving part is configured and arranged to receive and hold the bottom seal part and a part of the main body of the bag, which has been dropped from the bag-producing part. The bottom-forming part is configured and arranged to deform the bag in contact with the bag receiving part to form a bottom portion of the bag into a prescribed shape. | 08-19-2010 |
20100205913 | PACKAGING APPARATUS - A packaging apparatus includes a conveyance unit having first and second position control plates. The first position control plate is arranged to selectively move forward or backward so as to obstruct or pass the group of packaged objects conveyed on the conveyance unit. When positions of the packaged objects are adjusted, the second position control plate is arranged to move from a downstream-side portion of the conveyance unit toward the first position control plate, rotate in a direction toward the first position control plate, or move from the downstream-side portion of the conveyance unit toward the first position control plate and simultaneously rotate in the direction toward the first position control plate. A subsequent process step delivery unit is arranged to deliver the group of packaged objects after the positions thereof are adjusted by the first and second position control plates, to a subsequent process device. | 08-19-2010 |
20100202694 | INSPECTION APPARATUS - An inspection apparatus inspects a package group including a plurality of discrete packages that are successively connected in a chain. The inspection apparatus includes an irradiating component, a light receiving component, a generating component, an identifying component, an estimating component and a weight diagnosing component. The irradiating component is configured and arranged to irradiate inspection waves to the package group with the inspection waves being X-rays or terahertz waves. The identifying component is configured to identify a plurality of discrete package regions corresponding to the discrete packages from an inspection image generated by the generating component. The estimating component is configured to estimate one or more weight values respectively corresponding to one or more of the discrete package regions. The weight diagnosing component is configured to diagnose the package group as being abnormal in weight when any of the weight values falls outside a predetermined range. | 08-12-2010 |
20100173765 | APPARATUS FOR FOLDING CARDBOARD BOXES - In an apparatus for folding cardboard boxes, an area of each of four top portion flaps of a corrugated cardboard box is locked by a locking member having an elastic member, and an area of each of the four top portion flaps of the corrugated cardboard box is pushed down by an overlapping folding member. | 07-08-2010 |
20100170196 | PACKAGE APPARATUS - A package apparatus includes a first conveyance unit and a second conveyance unit. The first conveyance unit is configured and arranged to convey a plurality of packaged objects in a first conveying direction. The second conveyance unit is provided below the first conveyance unit and configured and arranged to convey the packaged objects in a second conveying direction generally opposite from the first conveying direction. The second conveyance unit is configured and arrange to overlay each of the packaged objects received from the first conveyance unit on an adjacent one of the packaged objects such that the packaged objects are generally oriented in the second conveying direction to form a group of the packaged objects that is conveyed in the second conveying direction on the second conveyance unit. | 07-08-2010 |
20100166432 | CODING DEVICE, PULSE REGENERATING DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to provide coding techniques which allow for higher efficiency and easier synchronization with coded data. In order to attain the object, a coding device according to the present invention converts 2-bit informational data into 4-bit coded data according to a predetermined coding rule. According to the coding rule employed in the coding device, one of four possible kinds of bit strings of informational data is converted into alternately a bit string of four bits in which each of values of two successive bits is “1” and a bit string of four bits in which each of values of all bits is “0”. Then, the other kinds of bit strings are converted into bit strings of four bits which differ from one another, in each of which a value of only one bit is “1”. | 07-01-2010 |
20100150308 | X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS - An X-ray inspection apparatus includes an X-ray radiating part, an X-ray detecting part, a mass estimation unit and a mass class determination unit. The X-ray radiating part is configured and arranged to radiate X-rays to an inspection target. The X-ray detecting part is configured and arranged to detect the X-rays radiated from the X-ray radiating part that transmitted through the inspection target. The mass estimation unit is configured to estimate a mass of the inspection target based on an amount of the X-rays detected by the X-ray detecting part. The mass class determination unit is configured to determine which mass class among a plurality of mass classes within a preset range the inspection target belongs to based on the mass of the inspection target estimated by the mass estimation unit. | 06-17-2010 |
20100148916 | LOAD CELL - The load cell includes a strain generating body having a strain generated portion, and a strain detection element provided on a surface of the strain generating body in a portion corresponding to the strain generated portion and having an inversion portion and a straight portion. A creep characteristic is adjusted by a thickness of the strain generated portion in a portion corresponding to the inversion portion. | 06-17-2010 |
20100138322 | ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL AND PRODUCT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An electronic shelf label includes a display unit and a display control unit. The display unit is configured and arranged to display product information pertaining to a product corresponding to the electronic shelf label. The display control unit is configured to control the display unit to display on-order information when the display control unit receives a first prescribed signal from outside the electronic shelf label. The on-order information indicates that the product corresponding to the electronic shelf label is on order. | 06-03-2010 |
20100135459 | X-RAY INSPECTION DEVICE AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM - An X-ray inspection device includes a conveying unit, an identification part, and an operation control part. The X-ray inspection device irradiates articles with X-rays while the article is being conveyed, and the article is inspected. The conveying unit is configured and arranged to convey the article. The identification part is configured and arranged to identify whether the article is a test piece or an end product. The operation control part is configured to set operation of the X-ray inspection device to a normal mode in which the article is determined to be defective or not defective when the article has been identified as an end product by the identification part, and to a test mode in which a state of the device is assessed when the article has been identified as a test piece by the identification part. | 06-03-2010 |
20100115894 | BAG-MAKING AND PACKAGING MACHINE - A bag-making and packaging machine includes a forming mechanism, a vertical sealing mechanism, a transverse sealing mechanism and a receiving member. The forming mechanism is configured to roll a sheet-shaped packaging material into a cylindrical shape to form a cylindrical packaging material. The vertical sealing mechanism is configured and arranged to seal an overlapping portion of the cylindrical packaging material with heat vertically along a direction in which the cylindrical packaging material extends. The receiving member is attached to the forming mechanism in a position facing the vertical sealing mechanism, and configured and arranged to sandwich the overlapping portion together with the vertical sealing mechanism. The receiving member has elasticity with which the receiving member presses the overlapping portion toward the vertical sealing mechanism. | 05-13-2010 |
20100115886 | BOXING DEVICE AND PACKAGING DEVICE - A boxing device includes a collecting unit, a group weight measuring unit, a determination unit, and a boxing unit, and adapted to pack a predetermined weight or a predetermined number of articles in a box. The collecting unit is configured and arranged to collect the articles as a group. The group weight measuring unit is configured and arranged to measure the weight of the group. The determination unit is configured and arranged to determine whether or not it is adequate to pack the group of the articles in the box based on the weight measured by the group weight measuring unit. The boxing unit is configured and arranged to pack, in the box, a plurality of the groups of the articles determined by the determination unit to be adequate to be packed in the box. | 05-13-2010 |
20100102012 | PRODUCT DISPLAY ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRODUCT DISPLAY ARRANGEMENT - A product display arrangement includes a strip member, a first product and a second product. The first product is affixed to the strip member. The second product is affixed to the strip member with the second product being aligned with respect to the first product. The second product is different in type from the first product with the first and second products being in a mutually complementary relationship. | 04-29-2010 |
20100101193 | FORM-FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A form-fill-seal machine for manufacturing pouches of a plurality of types having different shapes includes a tubular part, a conveying part and a sealing part. The tubular part is replaceable according to a shape of the pouch to be manufactured. The conveying part is configured and arranged to convey tubular packaging material along the tubular part with an internal surface of the packaging material facing an external surface of the tubular part. A position of the conveying part with respect to the tubular part is selectively movable according to the shape of the pouch to be manufactured. The sealing part is configured and arranged to seal a prescribed position on the packaging material conveyed by the conveying part. | 04-29-2010 |
20100101188 | BAG MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGING APPARATUS AND BAG MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGING METHOD - A bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus manufactures a bag by sealing a packaging material formed in a tubular shape and at the same time fills the bag with articles to be packaged. The bag manufacturing and packaging apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism, a squeezing mechanism and a conveyance adjusting unit. The conveyance mechanism is configured and arranged to convey the packaging material in a conveying direction. The squeezing mechanism includes a squeezing unit configured and arranged to sandwich the packaging material and to perform a squeezing motion so as to move the articles to be packaged to the downstream side in the conveying direction. The conveyance adjusting unit configured and arranged to move the packaging material towards the upstream side in the conveying direction during the squeezing motion of the squeezing unit. | 04-29-2010 |
20100089666 | COMBINATION WEIGHING APPARATUS - A combination weighing apparatus includes a distribution unit, a plurality of conveying units and a plurality of weighing hoppers. At least one of the conveying units has a trough and a plurality of spiral members. The trough has an inside edge positioned below the distribution unit and an outside edge positioned above the weighing hopper. The spiral members are placed above a bottom surface of the trough with each of the spiral members defining an external peripheral surface. The spiral members are configured and arranged to be rotatably driven to convey the product material supplied from the distribution unit in a vicinity of the inside edge, along the external peripheral surfaces toward a vicinity of the outside edge. The spiral members are configured and arranged to stop movement of the product material on the external peripheral surfaces when the spiral members are not rotatably driven. | 04-15-2010 |
20100083611 | STRIP-PACK APPARATUS - A strip-pack apparatus is positioned between an upstream mechanism and a downstream mechanism and adapted to process products and to manufacture a strip pack. The strip-pack apparatus includes a moving mechanism, an affixing mechanism, an operating mode selecting unit and a control unit. The moving mechanism is configured and arranged to selectively move the products to an affixing position or the downstream mechanism. The operating mode selecting unit is configured and arranged to receive a selection input for an operating mode between a strip pack manufacturing mode in which the moving mechanism moves the products to the affixing position and a product passing mode in which the moving mechanism moves the products to the downstream mechanism without moving the products to the affixing position. The control unit is configured to control operations of the moving mechanism and the affixing mechanism according to the operating mode that has been selected. | 04-08-2010 |
20100083475 | STRIP PACK APPARATUS, AND GRASPER DEVICE AND DEWRINKLER DEVICE USED THEREIN - In a strip pack apparatus in which an end portion of a bag being grasped is attached to a tape, a grasper device for grasping the bag holds the end portion from a direction substantially perpendicular to the end portion to be attached to the tape. The grasper device holds the end portion at both sides of an attachment region. In addition, the strip pack apparatus also includes a dewrinkler device for dewrinkling the end portion, and the grasper device grasps the end portion at both sides of the dewrinkler device. | 04-08-2010 |
20100057380 | X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS - An X-ray inspection apparatus includes a storage device, a setting device, a determining device, a calculating device and a display control device. The setting device is configured to set a hypothetical reference value that is different from an actual reference value that was used during the inspection of the articles. The determining device is configured to determine whether a contaminant exists inside each of the articles based on a result of a comparison between the hypothetical reference value and each of detection data stored in the storage device. The calculating device is configured to calculate a hypothetical contaminant existence rate as a ratio of a number of the articles in which the determining device has determined that a contaminant exists with respect to a total number of the articles. The display control device is configured to control a display section to indicate the hypothetical contaminant existence rate. | 03-04-2010 |
20100046703 | WEIGHT INSPECTION APPARATUS AND WEIGHT INSPECTION SYSTEM PROVIDED THEREWITH - A weight inspection apparatus includes a weight obtaining unit, an irradiation unit, a detection unit and an estimated weight calculation unit. The weight obtaining unit is configured to obtain an actual weight of an inspection target object. The irradiation unit is configured to irradiate the inspection target object with energy waves. The detection unit is configured to detect the energy waves irradiated at the inspection target object. The estimated weight calculation unit is configured to calculate an estimated weight of the inspection target object based on a result of detection by the detection unit. The deviation amount calculation unit is configured to calculate a difference between the actual weight obtained by the weight obtaining unit and the estimated weight obtained by the estimated weight calculation unit. | 02-25-2010 |
20100044116 | HOPPER, HOPPER UNIT, AND COMBINATION WEIGHING APPARATUS - A hopper is provided with which damages of articles can be suppressed without lowering the processing speed. A hopper ( | 02-25-2010 |
20100043352 | LONGITUDINAL SEALING MECHANISM - A longitudinal sealing mechanism is adapted to seal an overlapped portion of a packaging material formed into a tubular shape with the overlapped portion extending along a conveying direction of the packaging material. The longitudinal sealing mechanism includes a contact section, a heating section and a receiving member. The contact section comes into contact with the overlapped portion of the packaging material. The heating section heats the contact section to perform longitudinal sealing of the overlapped portion to form a longitudinal seal portion. The receiving member abuts against the contact section with the overlapped portion of the packaging material being disposed therebetween. The contact section, the heating section, and the receiving member are arranged such that an amount of heat per unit time applied to the packaging material from the contact section decreases in a direction toward both sides of the longitudinal seal portion. | 02-25-2010 |
20100037568 | BAG MAKING AND PACKAGING APPARATUS - A bag making and packaging apparatus is adapted to bend a film and to form a packaging bag. The bag making and packaging apparatus includes a former and a supporting member. The former is configured and arranged to form the film into a tubular shape. The supporting member removably supports the former. The supporting member is configured and arranged to allow movement of the former from a first position, in which a packaging operation is performed, to a second position, which is lower than the first position. | 02-18-2010 |
20100024988 | STRIP PACK APPARATUS - A strip pack apparatus is an apparatus for manufacturing a strip pack with a plurality of items attached on a backing sheet. The strip pack apparatus includes a conveying unit configured and arranged to convey the item generally in the horizontal direction, a moving unit configured and arranged to move the item from the conveying unit to a position obliquely downward on the front side in the conveying direction, and an attaching unit configured and arranged to attach the item moved by the moving unit to the backing sheet. | 02-04-2010 |
20100002835 | X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS AND X-RAY INSPECTION PROGRAM - An X-ray inspection apparatus detects, by an X-ray line sensor, X-rays irradiated towards a product placed on a conveyor and transmitted therethrough in order to detect the presence of foreign matter contained in the product. The X-ray inspection apparatus includes a determination unit and a calibrating unit. The determination unit is configured to determine, based on detection results by a line sensor obtained at each of prescribed positions of the conveyor, whether each of the prescribed positions of the conveyor is an appropriate position for calibrating the line sensor. The calibrating unit is configured to calibrate the line sensor based on detection results obtained by the line sensor at a position that is determined by the determination unit to be the appropriate position for calibrating the line sensor. | 01-07-2010 |
20100001924 | ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL AND ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to provide techniques which allow for suppressing unnecessary switching of display screens of electronic shelf labels. In order to attain the object, an electronic shelf label | 01-07-2010 |
20090308024 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND BOXING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A transport apparatus for transporting an article, which is a bag formed from a flexible packaging material, includes a first transport part and a second transport part. The first transport part is configured and arranged to transport the article in a predetermined transport direction with the article being supported from below by a transport surface of the first transport part. The second transport part is configured and arranged to transport the article in the predetermined transport direction while exerting a downward force on a portion of an upper surface of the article being transported by the first transport part. | 12-17-2009 |
20090304998 | FILM ROLL - A film roll is provided in which the terminal end of the film can be temporarily held in place and easily peeled off without damaging the film. A film roll ( | 12-10-2009 |
20090295592 | ELECTRONIC DISPLAY MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - An electronic display medium includes a display component and a notification device. The display component is configured to display a display content. The notification device is configured to issue at least one of a visual notification output and an auditory notification output indicative of a display change on the display component to a user of the electronic display medium when the display content displayed on the display component is updated. | 12-03-2009 |
20090288376 | PACKAGING MACHINE - A packaging machine includes a packaging machine main body, a film transport unit, a former and a former insertion guide assembly. The film transport unit is coupled to the packaging main body to transport a film from a first end part of the packaging main body towards a second end part of the packaging main body opposite from the first end part. The former is disposed in the second end part of the packaging main body to form the film transported by the film transport unit into a cylindrical shape and to direct the film downwards. The former insertion guide assembly is configured and arranged to guide the former to a predetermined position in the second end part of the packaging machine main body while the former is rotated from a lateral side of the packaging machine main body when the former is mounted to the packaging machine main body. | 11-26-2009 |
20090283385 | CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND PACKING DEVICE PROVIDED THEREWITH - A conveyance device for accumulating and aligning a plurality of articles and conveying a batch of the articles includes a conveyance unit, first, second and third support members, and a drive unit. The conveyance unit is configured to convey the batch of the articles in a conveying direction. The first and second support members are configured to move along the conveyance unit so as to support an article disposed at a front end or a back end among the articles constituting the batch of the articles. The third support member is arranged on the conveyance unit and configured to move with respect to the conveyance unit so as to sandwich the batch of the articles between the third support member and at least one of the first support member and the second support member. The drive unit is configured to independently drive the first, second and third support members. | 11-19-2009 |
20090277692 | COMBINATION WEIGHING APPARATUS - A combination weighing apparatus includes a dispersion unit, conveying units and weighing units. The dispersion unit is arranged to radially disperse product material. The conveying units are arranged around a periphery of the dispersion unit. The weighing units are arranged around a periphery of the conveying units. Each of the conveying units includes a trough. At least one of the troughs has a cross-sectional diameter that gradually increases generally from the inside end to the outside end so that the one of the troughs and an adjacent one of the troughs are kept in contact with each other from the inside ends to the outside ends. At least one of the conveying units has a spiral member disposed over a bottom surface of the trough. The spiral member is configured and arranged to convey the product material supplied from the dispersion unit toward the outside end of the trough. | 11-12-2009 |
20090277133 | CONVEYING DEVICE, AND BOXING DEVICE AND BOXING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A conveying device is adapted to receive a plurality of articles, to accumulate the articles so as to form a batch of the articles, and to convey the batch of the articles. The conveying device includes a delivery unit, a placing unit and a control unit. The delivery unit is configured and arranged to turn the articles to orient the articles in a standing position after receiving the articles while delivering the articles to a downstream side at a delivery position. The placing unit is configured and arranged to accumulate the articles sequentially delivered from the delivery unit to form the batch of the articles in a prescribed accumulation form. The control unit is configured to change a delivery interval in which each of the articles is sequentially delivered to the placing unit according to the prescribed accumulation form. | 11-12-2009 |
20090266148 | SEAL CHECKER - A seal checker for conveying and pressing a packaging bag by upper and lower conveyance units is provided which is capable of saving space with a compact structure, and is also capable of improving maintainability and cleanability. A lower transfer conveyor is mounted on a main body frame, and an upper transfer conveyor is supported by an elevating mechanism mounted to the main body frame. The elevating mechanism includes first and second link members and a frame that connects upper end portions of the link members to each other. Lower portions of the first and second link members are connected to the main body frame. The frame is configured so as to move in parallel with the lower transfer conveyor. | 10-29-2009 |
20090260896 | COMBINATION WEIGHING APPARATUS - A combination weighing apparatus includes a dispersion unit, a plurality of weighing hoppers, and a combination unit. The dispersion unit circumferentially disperses articles that drop from above. The weighing hoppers are arranged generally circumferentially below the dispersion unit. The combination unit combines weight results obtained from each of the weighing hoppers. In addition, a state of a drop position of the articles in the dispersion unit changes during operation. | 10-22-2009 |
20090255882 | Display Strip and Package Assembly - It is the object of the invention to provide a display strip having sufficient punch hole strength for allowing a plurality of product-enclosed bags to be attached thereto for the purpose of arrangement and display, and package assembly. | 10-15-2009 |
20090236150 | WEIGHING DEVICE - A weighing device includes a weighing unit, a conveying unit, a plurality of discharge parts, a discharging unit and a controlling part. The controlling part is configured to set an order of priority for the discharge parts, to sort the objects weighed by the weighing unit into a plurality of predetermined weight ranks, to select a combination of a plurality of the objects in the same weight rank so that the combination has a total weight equal to a final target weight, and to control the discharging unit to discharge the objects selected for the combination into one of the discharge parts having the highest priority among the discharge parts that are not being used. | 09-24-2009 |
20090229891 | ROTARY MEASURING DEVICE - A rotary measuring device includes a measuring unit, a centrifugal force error calculation block, and a weight value calculation block. The measuring unit includes a measuring plate and a load cell. The load cell has a fixed end and a free end on which the measuring plate is disposed. The centrifugal force error calculation block calculates, on the basis of a first measured value outputted from the load cell in a state where the measuring unit is rotating, an angular displacement θ with respect to a horizontal plane of the load cell in the vicinity of the free end. The weight value calculation block calculates a weight value of the object on the basis of the angular displacement value and a second measured value outputted from the load cell in a state where the measuring plate is receiving the load resulting from the object. | 09-17-2009 |
20090229890 | TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND COMBINATIONAL WEIGHING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A transportation device capable of smoothly transporting even an object having a sticky surface or the like and a weighing device including the same are provided. A transportation device ( | 09-17-2009 |
20090194558 | STORAGE HOPPER, AND COMBINATION WEIGHING DEVICE AND PACKAGING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A storage hopper temporarily stores articles supplied from above and then discharges the articles downward. The storage hopper includes a holding member of an article holding change mechanism in a storage portion. The holding member changes a state in which the articles are held in the storage portion according to a state of the articles. | 08-06-2009 |
20090178861 | WEIGHING DEVICE - A first gate opens obliquely downward, and maintains the posture, rendering the slope angle of the bottom surface thereof steeper than that of the bottom surface of the second gate. Thus, the bottom surface of the second gate forms a gentle slope sliding surface, and the bottom surface of the first gate forms a steep slope sliding surface. Then articles drop following the shape of a parabola toward the bottom surface of the first gate on the steep slope side, with momentum gained from sliding down the bottom surface of the second gate on the gentle slope side, and then change the sliding trajectory inward upon bumping into the bottom surface of the first gate. The articles then drop following the shape of a parabola toward the center area of a dispersal table, with momentum gained from sliding down the bottom surface of the first gate. | 07-16-2009 |
20090173046 | ROLL OF PACKAGING MATERIAL, PACKAGING MACHINE USING THE ROLL OF PACKAGING MATERIAL AND PRODUCT HANDLING SYSTEM COMPRISING THE PACKAGING MACHINE - A bag forming and packaging machine for packaging a product using a roll of packaging material including a recording medium that readably records packaging related information. The bag forming and packaging machine includes a non-contact reading device that reads the packaging related information electromagnetically recorded in the recording medium in a non-contact fashion through a resonance phenomenon of radio waves; and a bag forming and packaging unit that produces a bag using the packaging material of the roll and packages the product in the bag based on the packaging related information read by the reading device. | 07-09-2009 |
20090147987 | X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS - An x-ray inspection apparatus includes a sample image obtaining unit, an ideal curve generating unit, a curve adjustment unit, and a mass estimation unit as a function block generated by a control computer. The sample image obtaining unit obtains 10 x-ray transmission images of sample inspected products each of whose mass is known in advance. The ideal curve generating unit generates a table based on a formula that indicates a relationship between the brightness of an area included in the x-ray transmission images and the estimated mass of the area. The curve adjustment unit refers to the input actual mass of each x-ray transmission image and adjusts the table such that the estimated mass approximates the actual mass. The mass estimation unit determines the estimated mass per unit area based on the post-adjusted table and adds up these masses to determine the total estimated mass of the product. | 06-11-2009 |
20090142614 | Biodegradable Bags for Packing Foods Available in High Speed Production - It is an object of the present invention to provide a biodegradable bag for packing a food capable of storing a food such as a snack food which is required to have an oxygen barrier property and a water vapor barrier property, which can be produced at a high speed by a bag making and packaging machine, which can be degraded by naturally occurring microorganisms in soil or water finally to a non-hazardous degradation product, which can be biorecycled, and which is not accumulated in nature. | 06-04-2009 |
20090094945 | Apparatus For Producing Bags With Three Dimensional Designs - The bag-making packaging machine 20 comprises a tubular former 23 having a former surface for aligning a packaging film 11, a pull-down mechanism 24, a vertical seal mechanism 21, a horizontal seal mechanism 22, and a molding apparatus 25 for molding three dimensional designs, in which the tubular former 23 has a molding surface 30 for molding the three dimensional designs at any position of the former surface, and the molding apparatus 25 is provided at the position opposite to the molding surface 30 of the former. As specific examples of the molding apparatus 25, a heater, a light irradiation apparatus, a mold, and pressing machine can be exemplified. When the molding apparatus 25 is the heater or the optical irradiation apparatus, a foamable ink is contained in the printing layer of the packaging film 11 to foam. When the molding apparatus 25 is the mold, the embossing is performed by further laminating the reinforcement sheet or the sheet for the three dimensional designs on the packaging film 11. And when the molding apparatus 25 is the pressing machine, the three dimensional sheet is laminated on the packaging film 11 beforehand. | 04-16-2009 |
20090035496 | Bag With Three Dimensional Designs | 02-05-2009 |
20080298547 | X-RAY INSPECTION APPARATUS - An X-ray inspection apparatus includes an irradiation unit, a light receiving unit, a transport unit, an X-ray shield unit, and a control unit. The irradiation unit is configured to irradiate the product with X-rays. The light receiving unit is configured to detect the X-rays irradiated from the irradiation unit. The transport unit is disposed between the irradiation unit and the light receiving unit, and is configured to transport the product. The X-ray shield unit is integral with the transport unit and is formed in an area irradiated by the X-rays. The control unit is configured to detect the position at which the X-rays are blocked by the X-ray shield unit based on the amount of X-rays detected at an end portion of the light receiving unit, and to determine whether the transport unit is properly mounted based on the position. | 12-04-2008 |