Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the harvest of strawberry in a hot season by a simple facility without using a temporary planting bed. SOLUTION: A mother stock is planted in the middle term of a hot season under natural conditions, a hot long-day environment is maintained until the former stage or the former half period of the middle stage of a cold season by using a warming facility and an illumination culture facility of a greenhouse, and the runner grown under the condition is subjected to a seedling collection and a fix planting procedure. Strawberry fruit can be harvested in the hot season under the natural conditions by this process. The combination of the culture method of this invention with a conventional culture method in ordinary seasons enables the harvest of fruit in a hot season under natural conditions by the culture method of this invention and the harvest in a cold season by the conventional culture method in ordinary seasons and, accordingly, strawberry fruit can be harvested and shipped throughout the year. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a greenhouse so structured as to limit the wind blowing in from the side of a flank face; and to provide a mechanism for suppressing fluttering of a ventilation film. SOLUTION: The greenhouse is provided with a mechanism for suppressing fluttering of a ventilation film having a covering film 80 one edge 81 of which is arranged so as to have no clearance with a flank face 14, and the other edge 82 of which is arranged so as to be superposed on the outer surface of a ventilation film 40. A driving part 60 giving rotatory power while moving following a winding-up axis 50 can be arranged inside the covering film 80. Such mechanism and structure result in limiting the wind blowing in the greenhouse from the side of the flank face so as to suppress fluttering of the ventilation film and wind damage such as falling down of crops when the strong wind blows. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving device capable of easily switching over between a power-transmitting mode for an actuator and a power-non-transmitting mode by a simple constitution. SOLUTION: This device is provided by installing the actuator 50 on a guide rail as transportable, and on switching over from the actuator power-transmitting mode to the actuator power-non-transmitting mode, separating whole of the actuator 50 including a cylinder 60 from an outputting transportable body 20 for constituting an outputting mechanism by retreating a transporting body 80 for switching operation. Thereby, it is possible to extremely easily switching over between the actuator power-transmitting mode and the actuator power-non-transmitting mode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving apparatus for a greenhouse saving labor in driving a member which is the object of operation in the greenhouse. SOLUTION: The driving apparatus for the greenhouse comprises an actuator 10 provided with a cylinder 11 filled with a driving material changing the volume corresponding to temperature and a piston 12 sliding in the cylinder 11. The piston 12 is connected to a thermally driven arm 32 connected to the member which is the object of the operation and the cylinder 11 is fixed and arranged in a supporting frame 20. When the temperature is increased, the driving material is expanded to push out and elongate the piston 12. Thereby, the thermally driven arm 32 is rotated. A connecting arm 40 is rotated through an actuating arm 33 and a rotating shaft 31 by rotating the thermally driven arm 32. Thereby, the member which is the object of the operation is operated. The actuating arm 33 can manually be operated irrespective of the elongated state of the piston 12 by releasing the engaged state of the thermally driven arm 32 with the actuating arm 33. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism for preventing cutting of a running wire caused by circumferential rotation of the running wire. SOLUTION: This mechanism comprises connecting a functional element 2 with a running wire 4. A guide element 3 has a pipe connector 31 connecting with a leading pipe 5 and a wire connecting part 32 in which a running wire 4 is inserted and so the connecting part is engaged with the leading pipe 5 and connected with the running wire 4. The function element 2 pushes a guide element 3 according to running of the running wire 4 and, thereby, the leading pipe 5 is moved. By interlocking the running wire 4 with the leading pipe 5, even if the running wire 4 circumferentially rotates, the function element 2 of the connecting part also rotates around the running wire 4 as the rotation axis. Thereby, torsion load is not applied on the running wire 4 itself and so cutting of the running wire 4 is prevented. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermoplastic polyester elastomer composition which is usable as a covering resin for use in wire ropes.SOLUTION: The thermoplastic polyester elastomer composition includes (a) at least one polymer A selected from a polyester elastomer block copolymer A-1 having a glass transition temperature of not lower than 0°C and a crystalline polyester A-2 having a glass transition temperature of not lower than 0°C, and (b) a polyester elastomer block copolymer B having a glass transition temperature of lower than 0°C, in a ratio of 75:25 to 97.5:2.5, with the difference between both the glass transition temperatures being 20°C or more; and there is a provided the wire rope which is covered with the composition.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus capable of setting a tilt angle so as to align a vacuum suction pad with a shape of a workpiece.SOLUTION: Two motors 102 and 202 are orthogonally disposed in a horizontal plane on a moving board 1. A first arm 103 with the same lengths in the right and left direction is fixed to an output shaft of the first motor. A second arm 203 with the same lengths in the right and left direction is fixed to an output shaft of the second motor. First links 105a and 105b are pivoted to both ends of the first arm. A second link 201 is pivoted to both ends of the second arm. A stationary plate 300 to which the vacuum suction pad is mounted is provided. A support beam for rotatably supporting the stationary plate is provided crosswise under the stationary plate. First universal joints 107a and 107b are provided at both ends of the support beam. The upper end of the first link is coupled with the support beam via the first universal joints. In addition, protruding arms 307a and 307b are protrusively provided along an outer peripheral edge of the stationary plate and on a line orthogonal to the support beam. Second universal joints 207a and 207b are provided on the respective protruding arms. The upper end of the second link is coupled with the stationary plate via the second universal joints.