A particles object freezing device includes a belt and an injection plate.The belt is configured to support conveyance of a particles object and has airpermeability. The injection plate includes a plurality of injection holes configuredto inject a cooling gas to the belt from below. Further, the belt includes a sliding portion configured to move while sliding on an upper surface of the injection plate in a traveling direction of the belt. Thus, the particles object freezing device is implemented where a flow of the cooling gas is stabilized.
F25D 13/06 - Dispositifs fixes associés à des machines frigorifiques, p.ex. chambres froides avec transporteurs faisant traverser la chambre de refroidissement aux produits à refroidir
F25D 17/04 - Dispositions pour la circulation des fluides de refroidissement; Dispositions pour la circulation de gaz, p.ex. d'air, dans les enceintes refroidies pour la circulation de gaz, p.ex. convection naturelle
F25D 25/04 - Introduction, port ou déchargement des produits à refroidir par transporteurs
A particles object freezing device includes an air-permeable belt configured to support conveyance of a particles object, and an injection plate which includes a plurality of injection holes configured to inject a cooling gas for fluidizing the particles object toward the belt from below. The injection plate includes a first injection part and a second injection part which are disposed along a width direction of the belt, and are different in opening ratio. A first boundary between the first injection part and the second injection part is along a traveling direction of the belt.
F25D 13/06 - Dispositifs fixes associés à des machines frigorifiques, p.ex. chambres froides avec transporteurs faisant traverser la chambre de refroidissement aux produits à refroidir
F25D 17/04 - Dispositions pour la circulation des fluides de refroidissement; Dispositions pour la circulation de gaz, p.ex. d'air, dans les enceintes refroidies pour la circulation de gaz, p.ex. convection naturelle
F25D 25/04 - Introduction, port ou déchargement des produits à refroidir par transporteurs
The meat processing apparatus includes a conveying line including a plurality of conveying units arranged in series, at least one processing station for processing the meat conveyed by the conveying line, and a controller for controlling the conveying units. Theplurality of conveying units include: a first conveying unit having a first conveyor and a firstsensor for detecting the meat placed on the first conveyor? and a second conveying unit located downstream of the first conveying unit, and having a second conveyor and a second sensor for detecting the meat placed on the second conveyor. The controller is configured to drive and control the first conveyor and the second conveyor based on a detection result of the second sensor.
A tool checking device for a robot arm includes: a tool movement control unit configured to control the robot arm so as to move a tool attached to the robot arm to a defined position? an imaging control unit configured to control an imaging device so as to capture an image of the tool moved to the defined position? and a determination unit configured to determine whether the tool satisfies a tool condition regarding a tool type or tool state that needs to be satisfied, on the basis of a captured image imaged by the imaging device.
A tool checking device for a robot arm includes: an image processing unit configured to perform, on a captured image of a tool attached to the robot arm, image processing associated with a tool condition regarding a tool type or tool state that needs to be satisfied by the tool, andgenerate a processed image in which a related area associated with the tool condition is extracted? and a determination unit configured to determine whether the tool attached to the robot arm satisfies the tool condition, on the basis of the processed image.
An image processing device that: acquires an image depicting a photographic subject assuming a prescribed orientation and a prescribed shape, a first reference image depicting a photographic subject assuming a first orientation having a known relationship to the prescribed orientation and a first shape having a known relationship to the prescribed shape, and a second reference image depicting a photographic subject assuming a second orientation different from the prescribed orientation and/or a second shape different from the prescribed shape; extracts feature data indicating a feature of the photographic subject depicted in the image and first reference data indicating a feature of the photographic subject depicted in the first reference image; extracts second reference data indicating a feature of the photographic subject depicted in the second reference image; uses the first reference data to identify, in the first reference image, a location where the feature indicated by the feature data is located; and uses the relationship between the first orientation and the second orientation and/or the relationship between the first shape and the second shape to identify, in the photographic subject assuming the second orientation and/or the second shape, a location where the feature indicated by the feature data is located.
This feature point recognition system (1) compares data for a first group of feature points that a first algorithm computation unit (12) finds by non-masking processing and data for a second group of feature points that a third algorithm computation unit (16) detects via masking processing by a second algorithm computation unit (14), determines whether there are abnormalities in the data, and can thereby recognize the feature points of a subject P more accurately and stably than past systems.
G01N 23/04 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de rayonnement [ondes ou particules], p.ex. rayons X ou neutrons, non couvertes par les groupes , ou en transmettant la radiation à travers le matériau et formant des images des matériaux
A22C 17/00 - Autres dispositifs pour le traitement de la viande ou des os
An elastic support device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first member that includes a first magnet; and a second member that includes a second magnet, that is disposed to face the first member, and that can move relatively with respect to the first member when receiving an external force. The elastic support member is configured so that the magnetic force acting between the first magnet and the second magnet acts to hold the second member at an in-situ position when the second member does not receive an external force, and to return the second member to the in-situ position when the second member does move by receiving an external force.
A shoulder-blade incision-making apparatus according to a least one embodiment of the present invention is for separating a meat portion attached to a shoulder- blade of a poultry carcass from the shoulder blade, and includes: a fixing jig on which the poultry carcass which is eviscerated and which has leg parts removed is to be placed and fixed; a fixing jig conveyer forming a conveyance path of the fixing jig and configured to convey the fixing jig along the conveyance path; a first separating member disposed above the conveyance path movably upward and downward; and a first driving device for moving the first separating member in an upward and downward direction. The first driving device is operated to move downward the first separating member and move the first separating member along a surface of the shoulder blade of the poultry carcass in accordance with a timing when the poultry carcass fixed to the fixing jig reaches a meat-separation position below the first separating member so that the meat portion attached to the shoulder blade is separated from the shoulder blade.
A contour measurement apparatus and a contour measurement method for measuring a contour of a poultry carcass with which a contour of a desired area of the poultry carcass can be recognized, as well as a deboning device for a poultry carcass are provided. The contour measurement apparatus includes: a fixing jig on which the poultry carcass is placed and fixed; a conveyer forming a conveyance path for the fixing jig and configured to convey the fixing jig along the conveyance path; a contact element that is supported movably in an upper and lower direction within a two-dimensional plane including a conveying direction of the fixing jig and extending in a vertical direction, and is able to be in contact with a measurement target portion of the poultry carcass; an upper and lower direction position sensor configured to detect a position of the contact element in the upper and lower direction; a fixing jig position sensor configured to detect a position of the fixing jig moving in the conveying direction; and a contour calculation unit configured to calculate a contour of a surface of the poultry carcass on the two-dimensional plane based on detected values obtained by the upper and lower direction position sensor and the fixing jig position sensor along with a movement of the poultry carcass held and conveyed by the fixing jig.
A shoulder incision-making apparatus for a poultry carcass according to the present invention is for cutting a shoulder joint section of a poultry carcass, and includes: a fixing jig on which a poultry carcass which is eviscerated and which has leg parts removed is to be placed and fixed; a conveyer forming a conveyance path of the fixing jig and configured to convey the fixing jig along the conveyance path; a first cutter disposed in the conveyance path; and a second cutter disposed in the conveyance path at a downstream side of the first cutter in a conveying direction. The first cutter is configured to make an incision on the shoulder joint section of the poultry carcass, and the second cutter is configured to be inserted into the incision to cut the shoulder joint section.
A poultry tenderloin extraction apparatus is provided that can achieve higher poultry tenderloin extracting process performance without posing a risk of bone chips mixing in the poultry tenderloin. The poultry tenderloin extraction apparatus includes: a fixing jig configured to move while holding a poultry carcass; a poultry tenderloin extraction body section disposed on each of left and right sides with respect to a conveying direction of the fixing jig; a first moving unit configured to move the poultry tenderloin extraction body section toward the moving fixing jig; and a second moving unit configured to move the poultry tenderloin extraction body section away from the moving fixing jig. The poultry tenderloin extraction body section includes a clamping device including: a clamping lower plate to be inserted under the poultry tenderloin in a width direction relative to a longitudinal direction of the poultry tenderloin of the poultry carcass held by the fixing jig; and a clamping upper plate to be supported above the poultry tenderloin, the clamping device being configured to clamp the poultry tenderloin between the clamping lower plate and the clamping upper plate when the poultry tenderloin extraction body section moves toward the fixing jig. The apparatus is configured to, while the poultry tenderloin is clamped between the clamping lower plate and the clamping upper plate, separate the poultry tenderloin from the poultry carcass by a movement of the fixing jig toward a front side in the conveying direction and a movement of the poultry tenderloin extraction body section away from the fixing jig by the second moving unit.
A method for measuring an internal temperature of a freezing target object and an internal temperature measurement device for a freezing target object is provided with which an internal temperature of a freezing target object such as a frozen food product that has been frozen. The method for measuring an internal temperature of a freezing target object includes: a placing step of placing the freezing target object in a microwave resonating magnetic field generated by a microwave resonator; a state detection step of detecting a resonant state of the freezing target object in a frozen state by using the microwave resonator and detecting an internal temperature of the freezing target object by using a temperature meter; a calibration curve calculation step of calculating a calibration curve by performing a regression analysis by using the resonant state detected in the state detection step as an explanatory variable and by using the internal temperature of the freezing target object detected by the temperature meter as a response variable; and a temperature calculation step of calculating the internal temperature of the freezing target object in the frozen state by applying the resonant state detected in the detection step to the calibration curve calculated in the calibration curve calculation step.
G01K 7/00 - Mesure de la température basée sur l'utilisation d'éléments électriques ou magnétiques directement sensibles à la chaleur
G01K 11/00 - Mesure de la température basée sur les variations physiques ou chimiques, n'entrant pas dans les groupes , , ou
G01N 22/00 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de micro-ondes ou d'ondes radio, c. à d. d'ondes électromagnétiques d'une longueur d'onde d'un millimètre ou plus
To prevent the production of metal powder in a conveyor device for conveying food (12), and prevent the contact pressure and wearing from increasing at the slide portion between a conveyor belt (15a, 15b, 15c and 15d) and a guide rail (82) in a low temperature environment. A conveyor device for conveying food includes a large number of round bars (60) which forms the conveyor belt (15a, 15b, 15c and 15d), coupling members (62) which are fixed to both ends of each of the round bars (60), a guide rail (82) which slidably supports the conveyor belt (15a, 15b, 15c and 15d), and a slide block (78) fixed to each round bar (60) and configured to slide on the guide rail (82). The coupling members (62) includes rotatable rollers (74), the rollers (74) mesh with a sprocket (48, 50), and the sprocket (48, 50) conveys the conveyor belt (15a, 15b, 15c and 15d) in a conveyance direction. The rollers (74) and the meshing portion of the sprocket (48, 50) include a wear resistant resin member.
B65G 17/06 - Transporteurs comportant un élément de traction sans fin, p.ex. une chaîne transmettant le mouvement à une surface porteuse de charges continue ou sensiblement continue, ou à une série de porte-charges individuels; Transporteurs à chaîne sans fin dans lesquels des chaînes constituent la surface portant la charge avec une surface portante formée par une série de maillons, de plaques ou plates-formes reliés entre eux, p.ex. longitudinaux
B65G 17/00 - Transporteurs comportant un élément de traction sans fin, p.ex. une chaîne transmettant le mouvement à une surface porteuse de charges continue ou sensiblement continue, ou à une série de porte-charges individuels; Transporteurs à chaîne sans fin dans lesquels des chaînes constituent la surface portant la charge
In a conveyor device for conveying food the present invention including a large number of bar members (60) which form the conveyor belt, coupling members (62) which couple the bar members (60) with each other, a guide rail (82) which supports the conveyor belt, and a sprocket (48, 50) which meshes with tooth-shaped portions (72d) formed on the coupling members (62). Each of the coupling members (62) includes a metallic insert member (64) and a wear resistant resin member (72) incorporating the metallic insert member (64) has a bent shape with an interior space (s), has both end portions coupled to a first bar member (60), and has a pair of slotted holes (74a; 66a, 74b; 66b) in which a second bar member (60) which is adjacent to the first bar member (60) is loosely fitted. The wear resistant resin members (72) form the tooth-shaped portions (72d) and slide surfaces (78a, 78b) which slide on the guide rail (82), and a meshing portion of the sprocket (48, 50) which meshes with the tooth-shaped portions is formed of a wear resistant resin. With this configuration, contact pressure and friction in a slide portion between the conveyor belt and the slide portion can be prevented from increasing in a low temperature environment.
B65G 17/38 - Chaînes ou éléments de traction similaires; Liaisons entre les éléments de traction et les porte-charges
B65G 17/06 - Transporteurs comportant un élément de traction sans fin, p.ex. une chaîne transmettant le mouvement à une surface porteuse de charges continue ou sensiblement continue, ou à une série de porte-charges individuels; Transporteurs à chaîne sans fin dans lesquels des chaînes constituent la surface portant la charge avec une surface portante formée par une série de maillons, de plaques ou plates-formes reliés entre eux, p.ex. longitudinaux
A cooling-heating device for an ice rink facility is described. The device supplies cold heat generated by a heat pump circuit to the ice rink and hot heat generated by the heat pump circuit to the hot heat consuming facilities annexed to the ice rink. The device includes a condensing means including heat exchangers, the heat exchangers being connected to the heat pump circuit in parallel and heating-up low-temperature water by use of condensation heat of CO2 refrigerant; a three way valve provided at a CO2 refrigerant branch point on upstream sides of the heat exchangers in the heat pump circuit; and a control device that controls the opening of the three way valve based on the temperature of the CO2 refrigerant at the outlet of the heat exchangers, so that the control device controls the CO2 refrigerant flow rate of the CO2 refrigerant fed into the heat exchangers.
F25B 29/00 - Systèmes de chauffage et de refroidissement combinés, p.ex. fonctionnant alternativement ou simultanément
F24C 3/02 - Poêles ou fourneaux à combustibles gazeux dans lesquels la chaleur est produite uniquement par des flammes
F24H 4/00 - Appareils de chauffage de fluides caractérisés par l’utilisation de pompes à chaleur
F25B 9/00 - Machines, installations ou systèmes à compression dans lesquels le fluide frigorigène est l'air ou un autre gaz à point d'ébullition peu élevé
An ice rink cooling facility 100 in which a cooling-pipe bank 1 having a plurality of cooling pipes 11 is arranged at the bottom part of the ice rink 10 and CO2 brine streams through the cooling pipe bank 1 so as to cool the ice rink 10, the ice rink cooling facility 100 including, but not limited to: at least one planar heat conduction member that is arranged on and over the cooling pipes 11; a CO2 circulation circuit 3 that is connected to the cooling pipes 11 so that the CO2 brine circulates in the CO2 circulation circuit 3; an ammonia refrigerating cycle in which an ammonia refrigerant circulates; and, a cascade condenser 211 in which the heat exchange is performed between the CO2 brine and the ammonia refrigerant so that the CO2 brine is cooled and re-liquefied by use of the ammonia refrigerant.
F25C 3/02 - Procédés ou appareils spécialement adaptés à la production de glace ou de neige pour les sports d'hiver ou pour des loisirs similaires, p.ex. pour des installations sportives; Production de neige artificielle pour les patinoires
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING RINK ICE AND UTILIZING HIGH-TEMPERATURE HEAT GENERATED WHEN CREATING RINK ICE
A system for creating rink ice and utilizing high-temperature heat generated when creating rink ice, the rink ice being created by spraying water over a base material layer and flowing cold brine through cooling tubes embedded in the base material layer includes: a heat pump performing a refrigerating cycle using CO2 as a refrigerant for producing cold brine and hot water, and a means for introducing the brine which has worked to freeze the water sprayed over the base material layer and received heat from the water sprayed over the base material layer and the ice created to the heat pump, thereby the hot water is produced by the heat pump by using heat contained in the brine introduced to the heat pump as a heat source and the brine deprived of the heat in the heat pump is returned to the cooling tubes to be used as the cold brine, thus the cold brine for creating the rink ice and cooling the ice layer created and the hot water to be used in ancillary facilities of the ice-skating rink facility are produced.
F25C 3/02 - Procédés ou appareils spécialement adaptés à la production de glace ou de neige pour les sports d'hiver ou pour des loisirs similaires, p.ex. pour des installations sportives; Production de neige artificielle pour les patinoires
F25B 30/02 - Pompes à chaleur du type à compression
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AZOSPIRILLUM AND HERBASPIRILLUM BACTERIA AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF PLANT DISEASE USING THE SAME
An object of the present invention is to provide a means for imparting resistance against pathogenic fungal, pathogenic bacterial, or pathogenic viral disease to agriculturally useful plants. The present invention relates to a bacterium belonging to the genus Azospirillurn or the genus Herbaspirillum capable of imparting resistance against pathogenic fungal, pathogenic bacterial, or pathogenic viral disease to a host plant by living symbiotically within the plant, a method for controlling plant disease using the bacteria, and plants produced by such method.
A liquid injection type screw compressor in which, in a compression stroke of an working space formed by male and female rotors, liquids such as oil or water is prevented from leaking from the high pressure working space to a gas inlet side, suction resistance of gas sucked from the gas inlet to a rotor casing is reduced to improve volumetric efficiency, and shape forming of the casing is simplified. The liquid injection screw compressor has the male and female rotor pair of screw rotors, the rotor casing (1a, 1b) having a bore for receiving the rotors, a gas suction opening and a gas outlet that are provided in both end sections of the casing and communicate with the bore, and a lip section (4) projected from a bore surface (2) positioned more on the upstream side than a suction seal line (5) of the casing in order to prevent a back flow of the liquid from the bore surface toward the gas inlet side. The lip section (4) is positioned in a region surrounded by the suction seal line (5) and a line separated by a distance of one screw pitch of the rotors from the suction closure line (5) to the suction opening side.
F04C 18/16 - Pompes à piston rotatif spécialement adaptées pour les fluides compressibles du type à engrènement extérieur, c. à d. avec un engagement des organes coopérants semblable à celui d'engrenages dentés d'un autre type qu'à axe interne avec des pistons rotatifs dentés à dents hélicoïdales, p.ex. du type ayant la forme d'un chevron, du type à vis
A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which chilled air jets rectified to have long spray travel is produced, thin stream layer of chilled air is formed on the surface of the article to achieve increased heat transfer, and exhaust passages of the chilled air are formed such that they do not affect the cooling function. A plurality of slit nozzles 5a, 6a are apposed above and under the conveyor belt along the belt transfer direction, each of the nozzles 5a, 6a is shaped such that it has an angled and succeeding parallel entrance way so that the chilled air is rectified in the entrance ways and spout from the nozzle opening at large velocity, and exhaust passages 12 are formed between each of the slit nozzles such that the chilled air spouted from the nozzles flows toward both lateral end sides of the conveyor belt 2.
F25D 13/06 - Dispositifs fixes associés à des machines frigorifiques, p.ex. chambres froides avec transporteurs faisant traverser la chambre de refroidissement aux produits à refroidir
F25D 17/00 - Dispositions pour la circulation des fluides de refroidissement; Dispositions pour la circulation de gaz, p.ex. d'air, dans les enceintes refroidies
An ammonia/CO2 refrigerating system having a liquid pump for feeding the liquid CO2 cooled in a brine cooler by the utilization of the vaporization latent heat of ammonia in an ammonia refrigeration cycle to a cooler, which comprises a liquid receiving vessel 4 for receiving a CO2 brine cooled in a brine cooler 3, a liquid pump 5 capable of changing the rate of the feed of a liquid, a rising piping 90 provided between the liquid pump 5 and a cooler 6, and a communication pipe 100 for communicating the top of the riser pipe 90 with the CO2 gas phase in the liquid receiving vessel 4, wherein the discharge pressure of the liquid pump 5 is set so as for the CO2 recovered form the cooler 3 or the liquid receiver 4 in the state of a liquid or a gas-liquid mixture, and the level of the rise in the rising piping 90 is set at a level being the same as or higher than the highest storage level for the CO2 brine in the liquid receiving vessel4. The above ammonia/CO2 refrigerating system allows a refrigeration cycle of a combination of an ammonia cycle and a CO2 cycle to be formed with no care, even when a refrigerating showcase, which is the cooler side of the CO2 cycle, is installed at an arbitrary place.
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