1868 results about "Solid of revolution" patented technology

An article transport device comprises an endless revolving body that is configured to move along a cyclic path in a substantially horizontal direction; a plurality of article supports each of which supports an article, wherein the article supports move together with the endless revolving body with the supports spaced apart from each other in a traveling direction; a support mechanism for supporting the article supports to the endless revolving body such that the article supports can move between a transport position adjacent the endless revolving body and an away position spaced apart from the transport position; and a guide mechanism for causing at least some of the article supports to move from the transport position to the away position and to move from the away position to the transport position, at an article delivering location or an article receiving location along the cyclic path of the endless revolving body.

A subsonic aircraft having backswept lifting wings is equipped with individually rotatable winglets at the wing tips thereof, in order to reduce drag during cruise flight, to minimize the dangers posed by wing tip vortices to following aircraft during take-off and landing, and to minimize the total wingspan during ground operations, with respective different positions of the winglets. A streamline-shaped rotation body made up of at least two individually rotatably supported rotation segments is mounted on the wing tip of each lifting wing. A respective winglet is mounted on each respective rotation segment. Each rotation segment with its associated winglet is individually rotatable about a rotation axis of the rotation body extending substantially parallel to the aircraft lengthwise axis. Thereby, each winglet is individually pivotable to any selected pivot angle relative to a horizontal plane extending through the rotation axis. Each winglet and its associated rotation segment is rotatable through an angular range between maximum end limits of at least +90° (vertically upward) and at least -90° (vertically downward) relative to the horizontal plane.

A sheet processing apparatus for folding a sheet bundle at a predetermined position includes paired rotating bodies for folding the sheet bundle having nip portions, a pressing device for pressing the predetermined position of the sheet bundle into the nip portions of the paired rotating bodies, and a device connected to the paired rotation bodies for providing rotation to the paired rotating bodies. A pulling force of the rotating bodies to pull the sheet bundle pressed into the nip portions of the rotating bodies has an amount which does not separate a sheet of the sheet bundle contacting the rotating bodies from the subsequent sheets in the sheet bundle when pulling the sheet bundle.

The operation unit includes a shaft that receives by its one end a pressing force applied through a pressing operation by a finger/thumb, a rotating body that rotates about the shaft according to an operation by the finger/thumb within a movable range of the finger/thumb, a first sensor that detects a pressing force applied to the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft, a second sensor that detects a pressing force applied to the shaft in a direction other than the axial direction of the shaft, and a third sensor that detects a rotating state of the rotating body.

A process and device are disclosed for precipitating solid compounds from the liquid zinc or liquid zinc-based alloys of a metal bath. According to the disclosed process, partial amounts of the metal phase containing the compound(s) are exposed to an acceleration higher than the acceleration due to gravity and at least partially dissociated thereby into fractions containing heavier and/or lighter components. The molten mass depleted of solid compounds is returned to the metal bath and the part of the molten mass enriched with the desired compounds is discharged. The disclosed device is substantially characterized in that a hollow rotary body (2) is introduced into the molten mass (1). The hollow rotary body (2) can be driven about an axis and is fitted in the submerged or lower area with conveyor means (21) which project into the cavity. In its discharge or upper area, the hollow rotary body (2) is provided with at least one discharge opening (23) for the depleted molten mass (14) eccentrically arranged in its wall and with at least one further discharge opening (25) for the liquid metal enriched with the desired compounds centrally arranged and/or eccentrically arranged on the discharge side. At least one of the upper molten mass discharge openings (23, 24) in the rotary body (2) opens into a discharge area of a housing (3) which at least partially surrounds the rotary body (2).

A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation to radiate infrared rays; a pressing rotary body, rotatable in a direction counter to the direction of rotation of the fixing rotary body, pressed against the fixing rotary body to form a fixing nip therebetween through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed; a heater disposed opposite the fixing rotary body to heat the fixing rotary body; a temperature detector spaced apart from the fixing rotary body to detect a temperature of the fixing rotary body based on the infrared rays from the fixing rotary body and disposed below the fixing nip in a vertical direction; and a tube disposed between the fixing rotary body and the temperature detector, the tube through which the infrared rays from the fixing rotary body enter the temperature detector.

The cutting apparatus of the present invention is a cutting apparatus to execute cutting the end portion of a pillar-shaped honeycomb molded body having multiple cells that are established in rows in the longitudinal direction and partitioned by cell walls, and is provided with a rotary body having a rotary shaft established horizontally, a molded body clamping member configured to clamp the honeycomb molded body established on the rim of the rotary body, and at least one cutting disk, and is configured in such a manner as to execute cutting of an end portion of the honeycomb molded body while the honeycomb molded body, which is clamped by the molded body clamping member, is in a state of being put in motion according to the rotary movement of the rotary body.

An angular sensor which enables to obtain an output signal proportional to a relative rotational angle with low manufacturing cost and with miniaturized size. An angular sensor which includes a first magnet and a second magnet fixed to a rotation body, magnetic flux sensing surface is fixed to the stator to be positioned in magnetic field between the first magnet and the second magnet and perpendicular to magnetic sensing direction for sensing a magnetic flux, a magneto-electric transducer element for outputting an electric signal corresponding to a magnetic sensing direction element of the magnetic density, deflection yokes. The deflection yokes are positioned facing the magnetic flux sensing surfaces. The deflection yokes are positioned within a range of three quarters of a distance between the first magnet and the second magnet in X-axis direction and one half of a distance between the first magnet and the second magnet in Y-axis direction.

A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor is mounted to a rotating body, which is supported by a rotating shaft mounted rotatably with respect to a fixed element. The FBG sensor extends along the rotating shaft, one end of which is disposed at the center of the end of the rotating shaft. An optical fiber is mounted to the fixed element, one end of which is disposed opposite to the end of the FBG sensor, apart from the FBG sensor. Light emitted from a broadband light source passes through the optical fiber and is transmitted to the FBG sensor across a gap between the optical fiber and the FBG sensor. The FBG sensor reflects light with frequencies corresponding to deformation of the rotating body. A data processing unit receives the reflected light and calculates the deformation of the rotating body based thereupon.

A fixing device includes a pressing rotary body pressed against a fixing rotary body to form a fixing nip therebetween through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed; a heater to heat the fixing rotary body, disposed opposite a circumferential surface of the fixing rotary body and upstream from the fixing nip a predetermined circumferential distance along the circumferential surface of the fixing rotary body in a direction of rotation of the fixing rotary body; a heater driver to turn on and off the heater; a timing calculator to calculate a reference time at which a trailing end portion of the recording medium in a conveyance direction of the recording medium reaches the fixing nip; and a heater driver controller to cause the heater driver to turn off the heater at a turn-off time earlier than the reference time.

An omnidirectionally moving wheel includes multiple rotating bodies and a wheel, wherein each rotating body has a flexibility to be able to bend a rotational axis, is bent to encircle an outer circumference of the wheel in a ring-like shape, and is compressed in a direction of the rotational axis of each rotating body to be disposed on the wheel in a manner to allow rotation centered around each rotating body's secured rotational axis extending along a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis of the wheel.

The invention relates to a three-freedom-degree constant speed decoupling space robot active spherical wrist and a universal compliant control method. The offset mode that the included angles are formed among rotation plane normal and rotating shafts is adopted for both an upper hemisphere rotating body and a lower hemisphere rotating body. The intersection point of the two rotating shafts of the upper rotating body and the lower rotating body is the sphere center of hemispheres of the upper rotating body and the lower rotating body, the intersection point of the two rotating shafts coincides with the rotating center of an inner ball cage universal joint and the rotating center of an outer ball cage universal joint respectively, and then constant speed decoupling of three input movements is achieved; the output end of the outer ball cage universal joint is connected with a shaft neck of the upper rotating body through a bearing in a suspension mode, three absolute corner coded discs are connected with the upper rotating body, the lower rotating body, a motor conducting spinning motion, and the output end of a speed reducing system respectively, a six-dimensional ATI sensor is installed at the output tail end of the wrist, and a wrist universal compliant follow-up control mode is achieved by a rotating joint of an upper hemisphere, a rotating joint of a lower hemisphere and a joint conducting spinning motion through a system friction force compensation technology. The three-freedom-degree constant speed decoupling space robot active spherical wrist and the universal compliant control method are accurate in locating, stable in movement, and capable of avoiding oscillation phenomena of movement coupling and mechanical arms and effectively relieving mechanical interference in a spherical wrist full compliant mode.

An image forming apparatus comprises: a main unit; and a developer cartridge detachably attached to the main unit. The developer cartridge comprises: a rotational body having a rotational axis and rotatable in a rotation direction; and an extended portion formed on the rotational body to extend along the rotational axis, the extended portion rotatable around the rotational axis. The main unit comprises: a driving unit configured to rotate the rotational body in the rotation direction; a detecting unit configured to detect a movement of the extended portion and an extending amount of the extended portion; and a determining unit configured to: determine whether the developer cartridge is a new product according to a presence of a movement of the extended portion detected by the detecting unit; and determine type of the developer cartridge based on the extending amount of the extended portion detected by the detecting unit.

An imaging device includes a convex mirror for reflecting incident light representing an object, the convex mirror having a shape of solid of revolution; an imaging mechanism for taking an image represented by reflected light from the convex mirror; and an optical member for guiding the incident light toward the convex mirror and guiding the reflected light toward the imaging mechanism, the optical member being in close-contact with the convex mirror.

A vehicle light emitting device including a light emitting element, a primary reflector, and a secondary reflector. A reflecting surface of the primary reflector has a shape of a substantially dome-shaped body of revolution formed by rotating about the optical axis Ax an ellipse E which has a primary focal point F1 which is a point near the light emitting element and a secondary focal point F2 which is a point near the reflecting surface. The primary reflector includes a belt-shaped region, which straddles a ring-shaped locus of the secondary focal point F2 and is configured as a light translucent portion, whereby reflected light from the primary reflector is caused to temporarily converge on the secondary focal point F2 in each cross-section of the body of revolution including the optical axis Ax and is thereafter caused to be incident on the secondary reflector as a diffused light.

The windmill assembly is a low drag, streamlined body of revolution that captures the kinetic energy content of the accelerated laminar air surrounding the body. The assembly includes a power-generating, wind-driven turbine that is compact, lightweight and capable of producing a substantially greater output than a conventional windmill with a comparable size rotor. The turbine includes a protruding aerodynamic nose and outer cowling that provide a streamlined, wind-collecting inlet section that constricts the incoming air stream and increases its velocity through the turbine blades. The turbine further includes an exit section designed to exhaust the air stream with a minimum of turbulence. One or more generators are coupled to a turbine wheel, and are electrically switched on and off to maximize the energy capture over the full range of ambient winds. The wind turbine assembly may be configured around a blimp-type body having counter-rotating turbine assemblies.

A fixing device includes a heating device to heat an endless rotary body with radiant heat, a power source to supply power to the heating device, a first heat source to heat a region on the endless rotary body corresponding to a width of the small size sheet, and a second heat source to heat regions on the endless rotary body corresponding to both widthwise ends of the large size sheet outside the width of the small size sheet. The power source supplies power only to the first heat source when the small size sheet is printed and to both the first and second heat sources when the large size sheet is printed. The power source supplies more power to the first heat source when the small size sheet is printed than when the large size sheet is printed within a maximum power available to the fixing device.

A rotation angle detector that is able to detect an absolute rotation angle of a detection body accurately and is able to reduce the installation space required. The rotation angle detector includes a first rotation angle detector connected to the detection body for generating a first detection signal having a cycle corresponding to the rotation of the detection body. The first rotation angle detector includes a first rotating body which is connected to the detection body and rotates together with the detection body. The detector includes a second rotation angle detector connected to the first rotation angle detector. The second rotation angle detector includes a second rotating body that rotates together with the first rotating body at a rate greater than that of the first rotating body, and generates a second detection signal having a cycle corresponding to the rotation of the second rotation body. The control device detects an absolute rotation angle of the detection body in accordance with the first detection signal and the second detection signal.

The invention discloses a friction welding method of a titanium-aluminum alloy turbine and a 42CrMo quenched and tempered steel shaft, which aims to solve the technical problem that when the titanium-aluminum alloy turbine rotor and the quenched and tempered steel shaft are connected by the current method, the tensile strength of a joint is low. The invention has the technical scheme that an embedded groove in a shape of a solid of revolution is processed at one side of the titanium-aluminum alloy turbine; in the welding process, the welding end surface of the turbine shaft has friction with the welding surface of the embedded groove of the titanium-aluminum alloy turbine; and by controlling the friction shortening amount, the casting fins formed at the turbine shaft side are fully filled into the embedded groove. Thus dual effects of metallurgical bonding and mechanical connection of the welding surface are achieved, and the tensile strength of the joint of connecting pieces at room temperature is increased from 390MPa in the background art to 480-537MPa.

The invention relates to a shaft-end overhung piezoelectric cantilever beam electric generator, and belongs to the technical field of new energy resources and power generation. A left end cover and a right end cover are respectively installed at two ends of a shell body through screws. A semi-annular balancing weight is installed on the lower side of the interior of the shell body through a screw. The upper portion of the left end cover and the upper portion of the right end cover are respectively provided with a lightening hole. A magnet I and a bearing are embedded in the inner side of the bottom wall of the left end cover. A magnet I and a bearing are embedded in the inner side of bottom wall of the right end cover. A piezoelectric vibrator is arranged between the left end cover and the shell body in a compression joint mode. A piezoelectric vibrator is arranged between the right end cover and the shell body in a compression joint mode. A magnet II and a frequency-modulation mass block are installed at the free end of each piezoelectric vibrator. A rotating shaft of a rotor is installed on the left end cover and the right end cover through bearings. A connecting disc is installed at one end of the rotating shaft through a nut. A magnet III is embedded in a rotating disc of the rotor. The shaft-end overhung piezoelectric cantilever beam electric generator has the advantages that the piezoelectric vibrators are motivated for electric generation and external fixing and supporting are not needed; the shaft-end overhung piezoelectric cantilever beam electric generator is an integrated type individual component, so that the structure of a rotating body does not need to be changed, and the shaft-end overhung piezoelectric cantilever beam electric generator is convenient to install and maintain; the shaft-end overhung piezoelectric cantilever beam electric generator is high in reliability, strong in power generation capacity, and wide in velocity zone.