Abstract:
A lift truck comprises a roller rotatable at a rate substantially proportional to a ground vehicle speed and a hydraulic regulator operated by the roller to discharge hydraulic fluid at a rate substantially proportional to the ground vehicle speed. An actuator for a push-pull mechanism with a face plate is operated on the hydraulic fluid generated by the hydraulic regulator so that the face plate can displace in synchronized with the ground vehicle speed.
Abstract:
A multiplex transmission system, in which one of a plurality of nodes, as a transmission node, mutually coupled together through a transmission path transmits data frame by frame to at least one of other nodes as at least one of reception node, and the reception node returns a reception acknowledge signal to the transmitting node upon proper reception of the frame of data. A reception acknowledge signal area comprising a plurality of bits is provided following the frame transmitted from the transmitting node. The reception acknowledge signal area is divided into a plurality of bit areas which are respectively assigned to the plurality of nodes. The reception node returns the reception acknowlege signal to the transmitting node from the respectively-assigned bit areas of the reception acknowledge signal area. As desired, a destination designation area having the same length as the reception acknowledge signal area is provided in a frame and is divided into a plurality of bit areas which are respectively assigned with the plurality of nodes. The individual destination nodes are specified by the respective bit areas of the destination designation area of the frame. Preferably, a pulse width modulation code for discriminating the binary logic based on the size of the pulse width is used as a transmission code at least in the reception acknowledge signal area.
Abstract:
A finisher installed at the rear end of an automotive vehicle body. The finisher is comprised of two plate-like plastic parts which are joined at a parting plane with each other. The two plate-like plastic parts have respectively outer surfaces which are planarly aligned with each other to form a common flat outer surface. At least one of the two plate-like plastic parts is colored. The parting plane includes a horizontal flat narrower section which is generally perpendicular to the outer surface, and an inclined flat wider section contiguous to the horizontal section and inclined relative to the outer surface in such a manner as to form an acute angle between it and the outer surface defining the colored plastic part, thereby improving the strength and appearance of the finisher.
Abstract:
A cam plate type axial piston pump capable of operating a control lever operatively connected to a cam plate to control an inclination angle of the cam plate and control its discharge depending on the inclination angle. A piston pump of such type exhibits self-return force toward a position nearer its neutral point when it reaches a position near the neutral point. The pump of the present invention is so constructed that a thrust plate provided on a cam plate is pivotally moved in order to positively utilize the self-return force.
Abstract:
An apparatus in which a wire electrode is pulled off a supply reel, passes through a predetermined path, is led to the machining portion of a work piece to cut the work piece, thereafter, the wire electrode is turned back, is returned along the path it has come to the machining portion of the work piece, and is used again to work the same work piece. At least one of these two segments of the wire electrode is advanced in a zig-zag path along the machining line when the work piece is cut, thereby allowing the working gap to be widened for improving the efficiency and accuracy of machining.
Abstract:
A traveling-wire electrical discharge machining method and apparatus in which a magnetic property of the traveling electrode wire is detected downstream of the cutting zone to indicate a disturbance of erosive electrical discharges from a predetermined normal mode in the cutting zone. The workpiece is a ferromagnetic material to provide a deposit of such material at a discharge site on the wire in the cutting zone and/or the wire is a ferrous material which preferably consists of 0.05 to 3% by weight one or more rare-earth element and the balance a steel material. The ferrous material may be present as a core wire having a layer of metal or alloy of higher conductivity.
Abstract:
An EDM method and system in which a DC output is pulsed to produce a succession of discrete, time-spaced, essentially unidirectional current pulses of a short duration not in excess of 10 microseconds for finish-machining a workpiece with a tool electrode across a fluid flooded EDM gap, each of the discrete current pulses having an essentially half-cycle sinusoidally rising and falling current-time characteristic and a peak current in excess of a predetermined current level. According to the invention, a peak current portion of each of the current pulses beyond the predetermined level is clipped to produce a reformed gap current pulse which is substantially square- or trapezoid-edged and has the predetermined current level.
Abstract:
This invention relates to improvement in a laser machining apparatus using both a working laser generator (101) and an auxiliary energy supplying apparatus (110) such as a plasma or the like. A feature of the invention is that an auxiliary energy generated from the auxiliary energy supplying apparatus is radiated on a workpiece (118) to a location which is slightly apart from an irradiation point of a working laser beam. In a preferred embodiment, the auxiliary energy supplying apparatus (110) is attached to a rotary disk (113) thereby allowing the auxiliary energy to be radiated to a location which is always preceding an irradiation point of the laser beam in the working progressing direction. The auxiliary energy may be radiated onto a surface opposite to the surface of a workpiece to which the laser beam is radiated. With such an arrangement, working efficiency and accuracy are improved and a structure of the whole system is also simplified, resulting in less failure. To further improve the working efficiency, in a desirable embodiment, an abrasive grain may be supplied to the working portion, or a high-pressure working fluid may be jetted thereto, or a working fluid to which an ultrasonic vibrational energy was applied may be supplied thereto. Further, a focal point automatic adjusting mechanism of the laser beam may be provided.
Abstract:
A grinding wheel capable of detecting and a method of monitoring it to detect, the development of a crack or like damage therein are disclosed. The wheel is constituted of an electrically nonconductive body having an electrically conductive strip, e.g. a thin film of an electrically conductive ink printed, of an electrically conductive paint applied, of a metal electrolessly or chemically deposited or of a metal electrolytically deposited, in a pattern, say, of quasi-circular or spiral configuration, on a portion of at least one side surface of the body. A current source is connected to the opposite ends of the conductive strip to pass an electric circuit therethrough. When a crack or like damage develops in the wheel body being rotated to perform a grinding operation, the circuit will be broken or a change in the current will occur, signaling the damage or crack formation.
Abstract:
A capacitor-type power supply for electrical machining has a capacitor connected across a machining gap while a high-frequency power generator is disposed at a location remote from the machining gap and provides a high-frequency electric power. A feeder connects the power generator with the capacitor to permit the capacitor to be charged with pulses of the high-frequency electrical power. The system permits the high-frequency source to be located distally from the machining gap.