baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2002523105-A (JP)
Title: 異種遺伝子の運搬用の標的化アデノウイルスベクター
IPC: C12N15/34
Filed: 1999-08-27
Abstract: (57)【要約】
アデノウイルスファイバータンパク質およびヘキソンタンパク質の内部部位の修飾はアデノウイルスベクターの有効な標的化を可能にする。アデノウイルスの標的化の方向を変えるために利用可能な部位を同定した。該ヘキソンタンパク質のHVR5ループおよび該ファイバータンパク質のHIループ（ノブ）は、外来タンパク質配列の挿入に対して高度に許容性であり、それは対応ウイルスの生存能および生産性に影響を及ぼさないらしかった。該エピトープの利用性および機能性は隣接スペーサーのサイズに強く依存する。他の結果は、短い標的化ペプチドが該ファイバータンパク質のC末端に有効に融合されうると示唆している。特定の実施形態においては、ウロキナーゼ型プラスミノーゲンアクチベーター受容体保持細胞に標的化するためにHVR5部位、ファイバータンパク質HIループまたはファイバータンパク質C末端において修飾された一連のアデノウイルスベクターを製造した。そのようなベクターは、脈管系に標的化するのに（例えば癌または心臓血管病態の遺伝子治療に）特に有用である。
Patent JP-2002529253-A (JP)
IPC: B23K26/24
Filed: 1999-11-04
Abstract: An apparatus for handling a pair of sheet metal workpieces to be welded is provided that includes a first workpiece holder, a second workpiece holder, at least one backing element, and at least one squeeze roller. The first and second workpiece holders are positioned so that an edge of one of the pair of sheet metal workpieces is in contact with, or separated a gap from, an edge of the other sheetmetal workpiece. The backing element is disposed on a first side of the sheet metal workpieces, and the squeeze roller is disposed on a second side of the sheetmetal workpieces opposite the first side. The squeeze roller is substantially aligned with the backing element. The squeeze roller is formed as a body symmetrical in rotation. Force selectively applied to the squeeze roller will cause plastic deformation of one of the pair of sheet metal workpieces and thereby cause the deformed sheet metal workpiece to extend into the gap.
Patent JP-2002530170-A (JP)
IPC: D21H27/00
Filed: 1999-11-17
Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-ply tissue comprising at least two plies, the tissue having a surface area in one plane, and a thickness orthogonal to the plane, wherein the thickness is at caliper of at least 0.35 mm, and wherein the tissue has an unembossed wiping surface over a major part of the surface area of the tissue, and wherein the multi-ply tissue has an average basis weight of at least 40 g/m<2> and has a wet burst strength of at least 150g; and to a process for making the multi-ply tissue.
Patent JP-2002531981-A (JP)
Title: マイクロ波セラミックフィルタ及びフィルタ特性の調整方法
IPC: H01P1/205
Filed: 1999-12-03
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、入力／出力端子（４）とアース（３）との間の間隔（d）によって、セラミックボディ（１）に形成され接続されているセラミック共振器のフィルタ特性を調整するための方法である。
Patent JP-2002532838-A (JP)
Title: 低温フリープラズマビームを発生する装置
IPC: H05H1/30
Filed: 1999-11-12
Abstract: (57)【要約】
少なくとも１つの高周波源（１５）と、少なくとも１つのガス入り口開口（１０）および少なくとも１つの出口開口（１３）を備えた、電磁放射に対して透過性の中空体（１１）とを有する低温フリープラズマビームを発生する装置を提案する。該高周波プラズマ源（１３）は、特にマイクロ波プラズマソース又は高周波プラズマソースでありかつまず少なくとも中空体（１１）の内部に低温ガスプラズマ（１２）を生成し、該ガスプラズマを低温フリープラズマビーム（２１）としてビーム出口開口（１３）を介して中空体（１１）から導かれかつ作業室（１９）に入射する。作業室（１９）内では、真空が支配する。フリープラズマビーム（２１）は作業室（１９）内でも収束したままでありかつそこで浄化のため、エッチングのため又は反応ガスを用いたプラズマコーティングのために使用することができる。
Patent JP-2002533485-A (JP)
IPC: C08F4/659
Filed: 1999-12-15
Abstract: Branched ethylene-propylene compositions which have improved melt strength and shear thinning are provided. The weight average branching index g' for the higher molecular weight region of the ethylene-propylene composition is less than 0.95. Additionally, a novel process is provided for efficiently producing a branched ethylene-propylene composition comprising: a) contacting propylene monomers and ethylene monomers in a reactor with an inert hydrocarbon solvent or diluent and a catalyst composition comprising one or more single site catalyst compounds capable of producing an ethylene-propylene polymer at a temperature from about 50° C. to about 180° C., wherein the ratio in the reactor of the propylene and ethylene monomers to the inert hydrocarbon solvent or diluent is less than 2.0, and further, wherein the propylene and ethylene monomers and the inert hydrocarbon solvent or diluent comprise no more than 90 percent of the total contents of the reactor; and b) recovering a branched ethylene-propylene composition, wherein the weight average branching index g' for the higher molecular weight region of the ethylene-propylene composition is less than 0.95.
Patent JP-2002533860-A (JP)
Title: 光走査装置
IPC: G11B7/1381
Filed: 1999-12-06
Abstract: (57)【要約】
光走査装置は、異なる開口数を有する走査ビーム（１５）を必要とする２つの異なる形式の光記録担体（１，２５）を走査できる。装置は、２つの形式のディスクに対する放射ビームが通る経路の光軸に沿った異なる位置で、２つの絞り（３３，３２）を有する。第１の絞り（３３）は、第１の形式の記録担体（１）が走査されるときに放射ビームの開口数を制限する。第２の絞り（３２）は、第２の形式の記録担体（２５）が走査されるときに放射ビームの開口数を制限する。
Patent JP-2002535631-A (JP)
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2000-01-21
Abstract: The method for scanning a turbid medium involves displacing an optical signal source over a first face of the medium and a corresponding optical detector over an opposite face from one respective spatial location to another. Each spatial location is associated with a corresponding input region on the first face and a corresponding output region on the opposite second face. The optical detector in response to optical signals detected from each of the output regions generates a primary set of image data, secondary and/or tertiary image data by scanning the turbid medium using input regions and output regions of different sizes. The various sets of image data obtained may be manipulated in any manner, namely subjected to a data processing technique, so as to, for example, highlight the differences or similarities between the images.
Patent JP-2002535012-A (JP)
Title: 遺伝子発現の連続分析用マイクロアッセイ及びその応用
IPC: C12Q1/6809
Filed: 2000-01-25
Abstract: (57)【要約】
以下の連続工程:(1) 常磁性ビーズに共有結合したオリゴ(dT) 25 を用いて、少量の生物学的試料から単一工程でmRNAを抽出し、(2) 該mRNA から二本鎖cDNAライブラリーを生成し、(3) Sau3A I を用いて得られたcDNAを切断し、(4) 切断したcDNAを2つのアリコートに分け、(5) 2つの各アリコートに含まれるcDNAを、Sau3A I 制限部位を介して以下の式:GATCGTCCC-X 1  又は GATCGTCCC-X 2 [ここで、30〜37ヌクレオチドからなり、異なるX 1 及びX 2 は、55〜65℃のTmを有する20〜25 bpのPCRプライミング部位を含む]の1つを有する二本鎖のcDNA一分子からなるリンカーに連結し、(6) 工程(5)で得た生成物をタグ酵素BsmF Iで消化し、(7) DNAポリメラーゼを用いてBsmF Iタグを平滑末端にし、異なるリンカーと連結したタグを混合し、(8) 工程(7)で得たタグを連結して、DNAリガーゼでジタグを形成し、(9) 工程(8)で得たジタグを、55〜65℃のTmを有する20〜25bpからなるプライマーを用いて増幅し、(10) 工程(9)で得た増幅生成物をSau3A I で消化して増幅生成物から20〜28bpのジタグを単離し、消化生成物を分離し、(11)工程(10)で得たジタグを連結してコンカテマーを形成し、このコンカテマーを精製して300bpより大きいコンカテマーを分離し、(12) このコンカテマーをクローニングしてシーケンシングし、かつ(13) 種々の得られたタグを分析するからなる、生物学的試料の特異的な状態を明らかにすることのできるタグライブラリーを得る方法。
Patent JP-2002535564-A (JP)
IPC: F17C9/00
Filed: 2000-01-27
Abstract: A bottom entry pumping system for liquids, particularly cryogenic liquids, is described which includes a container with an outer wall, which may be concrete and/or metal, and an optional inner metal liner. A line is provided for transporting liquid from a liquid storage tank into the container via a pump connected to the line. The line may be optionally vacuum-jacketed. There is also provided at least one cryogenic valve in the line which can be controlled from outside the container. While pumping liquified natural gas (LNG) is an expected use of the invention, pumping other cryogenic liquids and even other non-cryogenic liquids may be performed with the invention. It is anticipated that the bottom entry pumping system of the invention will meet NFPA 59A requirements in the full containment embodiment.
Patent JP-2002537603-A (JP)
Title: ウエブサイト用のハイパーメディアコンテンツの作成
IPC: G06F17/21
Filed: 2000-02-16
Abstract: (57)【要約】
ウエブサイトのためのハイパーメディアのコンテンツは、パーソナルコンピュータ（ＰＣ １a）のようなコンピュータ構成を使用して作成され、該コンピュータ構成はオペレーティングシステム（14）をもち、該オペレーティングシステム（14）においてファイルを階層形構造に構成することができ、該オペレーティングシステムは階層形構造の視覚表示およびファイルコンテンツの表示を与えるビューア（17）を用意されている。オペレーティングシステムのためのビューア（17）を使用して、ウエブサイトのコンテンツに対応するファイルの階層形構造（図５参照）を設定し（段階Ｓ1）、次に変換プログラムモジュール（29）を実行して、ファイル構造に対応する、その中にハイパーリンクをもつウエブサイトのためのハイパーメディアへファイルコンテンツを変換する（段階Ｓ2）。ブラウザ（50）でハイパーメディアをローカルにプレビューした後で、コンテンツはサーバへアップロードされて、ウエブサイトを設定する(段階Ｓ3)。
Patent JP-2003508012-A (JP)
IPC: C12N15/54
Filed: 2000-03-04
Abstract: The invention is related to a DNA polymerase obtainable from Pyrobaculum islandicum whereas the six conserved motifs indicative of family B DNA polymerases were contained in the Pyrobaculum islandicum DNA polymerase sequence and whereas this polymerase exhibits 3'-5'-exonuclease activity.
Patent JP-2002540636-A (JP)
Title: ハイブリッド熱電子エネルギー変換器およびその方法
IPC: H01L37/00
Filed: 2000-03-06
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、ソリッドステート熱電子エネルギー変換器を具体化したものであり、熱エネルギーを電気エネルギーに変換し、かつ、電気エネルギーを冷却エネルギーに変換するための方法および装置（１０、１０４、１０８）を対象としている。本発明により、接触ポイントに向って断面積が減少する微小表面接点（１３、４２、４４）を介して、エミッタ（１２）およびコレクタ（１６）間の熱分離が維持される。微小表面接点（１３、４２、４４）を、エミッタ（１２）、障壁（１４）あるいはコレクタ（１６）に関連させることができる。エミッタ（１２）およびコレクタ（１６）間の熱分離を維持することにより、障壁（１４）を通して電子が衝撃的に移動し、熱伝導率による電子の移動が減少する。したがって、衝撃電子の収集および収集することができない熱伝導率による電子の減少を通して効率が向上する。本発明の原理は、正孔導電率および電子に適用することができる。
Patent JP-2002543703-A (JP)
Title: デジタル補聴器用のラウドネス正常化制御
IPC: H04R25/00
Filed: 2000-04-25
Abstract: (57)【要約】
デジタル使用者ラウドネス正常化制御はデジタル信号プロセッサを有するデジタル補聴器または他の個人の増幅装置内での実行のために設けられる。デジタル補聴器は単一周波数チャンネル方式または多重周波数チャンネル方式のいずれでもよい。制御は、ラウドネス制御信号および入力信号レベルに応答して単一チャンネル装置のまたは多重チャンネル装置の各チャンネルにおいて入出力特性またはラウドネス関数を変更する。制御装置は、個々の弱聴を補正するための曲線をなす圧縮、入力圧縮、出力圧縮、およびその組み合わせを含んでいる種々の動作モードを設けるようにプログラムされ得る。代替の実施例において、多重周波数チャンネルを有している増幅装置用の制御は各周波数チャンネル用の独立のラウドネス制御信号を含むことができる。
Patent JP-2002544168-A (JP)
Title: ゴナドトロピン
IPC: A61P15/08
Filed: 2000-05-05
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、無排卵の女性における卵胞発生の誘発におけるゴナドトロピンの使用に関する。特定すれば、本発明は、特別の１日毎の用量において無排卵の女性において卵胞発生を誘発するための医薬の製造におけるＬＨ（または均等用量のｈＣＧ）の使用に関する。特定の態様においては、ＬＨはＦＳＨと共に使用してよい。
Patent JP-2002206796-A (JP)
Title: Human safety control device, portable telephone device and level gage
Inventor: TSUYUSAKI MIEKO
IPC: F24H9/20
Filed: 2001-01-05
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a human safety control device, a portable telephone device and a water level gage, which permit the safety of a human being in a bathroom or a toilet, provides multi-functions permitting relieving the stiffness on the shoulder, announcing bath time, displaying the water level and a temperature in a bathtub, enabling reuse of the bath water as washing water providing audio-visual amusement can be installed inexpensively with a simple work of the same and can be maintained by special maintenance work reduced as much as possible. SOLUTION: A circuit is incorporated in a main control box 1 announces bathing time and displays the arrival a set level or a set temperature for the safety of the human being in the bathroom or the like. A speaker 3 is accommodated in the main control box 1 while switches, capable of setting the regulation of various kinds of setting times, the setting of a level and a temperature, are arranged on the surface of a board. A starting button 5 and a stopping button 7 are buttons for starting or stopping the flow provided with the function of announcing time during bathing or the like for the safety of the human being in the bathroom or the like.
Patent JP-2002154087-A (JP)
Title: Disc-shape knife
Inventor: OKINA TOMOJI
IPC: B26D7/26
Filed: 2001-01-09
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disc-shape knife at a low cost with superior workability. SOLUTION: This disc-shape knife comprises: a knife part 6 provided with a cutting edge 24 arranged at a disc-shape peripheral part and formed into a ring shape; and a main body 4 in which the knife part 6 is attached concentrically to its outer peripheral edge. A clamp part 8 which fixedly couples the knife part 6 with the main body 4 is provided. The clamp part 8 has a plate shape of such as an annular shape for elastically holding an inner peripheral edge of the knife part 6 and is formed approximately flush with one side face of the knife part 6. Further, the knife part 6 may be formed by punching a cutter steel of plate-shape so as to be annular shape.
Patent JP-2002208963-A (JP)
Title: Information service providing system and its method and information shearing server
Inventor: SHIIMORI YOSHIKO
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2001-01-10
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for allowing the planner of a service to easily develop an unique planning page without owning any specific data base server or Web server, and to feedback profits to be acquired according to the utilization of the planning page to both a planner and a contributor. SOLUTION: This system is provided with a picture sharing server 40 and a printer 50 as a means for executing a print service linked to this picture sharing server 40, and a planner who is able to develop a planning page on the picture sharing server 40 is recruited. Then, the contribution of pictures is accepted from the public through the registered planning page, and a service (print order and download or the like) for realizing the chargeable offer of the contributed pictures is developed. The execution of the service and a money collecting task are integrally operated by the manager of the picture sharing server 40. Then, the service utilization situations are totaled for each planning page and contributor, and profits acquired according to the service utilization are fed back to both the planner and the contributor.  Also, each planner and contributor is periodically informed of the totaled results.
Patent JP-2002206703-A (JP)
Title: Boiler demolishing method
Inventor: YASU MITSUO
IPC: E04G23/08
Filed: 2001-01-11
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a boiler demolishing method by which a boiler installed in a building can be highly efficiently and safely demolished. SOLUTION: The method to demolish the boiler 2 installed in a state to be suspended from a top girder 1 at the upper part of a building comprises a temporary supporting frame installation process wherein a temporary receiving frame 3 is installed below a boiler 2; a boiler loading process wherein the boiler 2 is loaded on the temporary receiving frame such that the boiler 2 is brought into a state to be supported from therebelow by the temporary receiving frame 3; a boiler separation process that the boiler 2 brought into a state to be loaded on the temporary receiving frame 3 is separated away from the top girder 1; and a regular demolishing process wherein the boiler 2 separated away from the top girder 1 is demolished from above and sides together with the top girder 1.
Patent JP-2002204668-A (JP)
Title: Nutritive composition
Inventor: TANAKA HIROSHI
IPC: A23L33/00
Filed: 2001-01-11
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nutritive composition enabling such a person suffering from the kidney disease as a patient with renal failure, a dialysis patient or the like who requires energy supply, to be tastily, enjoyably and easily supplied with energy from food with no oily feeling, and also causing no rapid elevation of blood glucose level on the user after taking the composition. SOLUTION: This nutritive composition mainly comprises maltooligosaccharide, and contain 50-80 wt.% of the maltooligosaccharide, <=5 wt.% of oil and fat wherein sodium content accounts for <=15 mg, phosphorus for <=20 mg, and potassium content for <=15 mg each based on 100 g of the nutritive composition.
Patent JP-2002207708-A (JP)
Title: Arithmetic unit
Inventor: NAKANISHI CHIKAKO
IPC: G06F15/16
Filed: 2001-01-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To evade data destruction and access competition in an arithmetic unit provided with a sharing memory between plural processors. SOLUTION: A sharing memory 10 used in common between a master processor and a co-processor core includes buffers B0, B1. An access control part 11 makes the each one of the buffers B0, B1 access the each one of the master processor and the co-processor exclusively in response to buffer assigning data BN. The buffer assigning data BN is stored in a control register allocated to a specified address and rewritten softwarewisely by the master processor.
Patent JP-2002217581-A (JP)
Title: Electronic unit
Inventor: NISHINO JUN
IPC: H05K9/00
Filed: 2001-01-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide simple shielding capable of shielding with a single shielding plate. SOLUTION: An electronic unit stores an electronic component mounted on a printed board, to generate an electromagnetic wave in a direction crossing with an electronic component mounting surface of the printed board, in a case having an upper case made of a resin and a lower case made of the resin. The electronic unit comprises the shielding plate which is disposed at a distance from the component above the component.
Patent JP-2002217262-A (JP)
Title: Method for carrying substance to be processed
Inventor: IIJIMA TOSHIHIKO
IPC: H01L21/66
Filed: 2001-01-12
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for carrying a substance to be processed, in which an actual load port does not provide a extra space and can load the substance to be processed as if there are a plurality of load ports even if the number of the actual load port is the one to thereby prevent a foot print increase and a cost increase. SOLUTION: The method for carrying the substance to be processed is the one for carrying a wafer W to a prober 2 from an AGV 3, that is, to set at least one imaginary load port 23V other than the actual load port (adapter) 23 of the prober 2 at the prober 2 by use of optical coupling PIO communications, to search a place other than the adapter 3, to store the water W at the place, and then to carry the wafer to the adapter 23.
Patent JP-2002211629-A (JP)
Title: Wrapping film
Inventor: SUZUKI MIKIO
IPC: C08L23/12
Filed: 2001-01-15
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wrapping film which can be attached to a container having a relatively rough surface such as stainless as well as glass, sticks so tight that even a liquid does not leak, can be cut well using a knife provided on a box of a home wrapping film, and has enough heat resistance in using the same for heat cooking in a microwave oven, etc. SOLUTION: This film is made of a thermoplastic resin compound whose elongation at break in the longitudinal direction is smaller than 100% and whose 5% stretch strength in the longitudinal direction is 150 cN/10 mm or less.
Patent JP-2002215182-A (JP)
Title: Continuous speech recognition device
Inventor: TOMOE TAKASHI
IPC: G10L15/183
Filed: 2001-01-16
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuous speech recognition device which has a reduced memory and a reduced computing quantity and high versatile applicability. SOLUTION: A context free grammar described in the shape of a network with a form divided into a subnetwork grammar (rule) is compiled and recorded by an appropriate method for the rule. A compressed master rule is extracted on a memory according to the need for search processing, the connection relation between master rules is managed by an embedded type method. The master rule is extracted in a format (prone rule) suitable for the search processing of continuous speech recognition. The prone rule, a prone arc contained in the prone rule, and a prone node are stored in and deleted from the memory, and the connection relation between rules is managed on a tree structure. A search is performed by using the rule, the prone arc or the like of a format optimized for a unified format or the search.  The difference in the format of the master rule is absorbed, the prone arc is extracted, and then the phoneme arc between the rules is extracted to an environmental dependence phoneme arc without never performing a rule transition performed once.
Patent JP-2002220208-A (JP)
Title: Method and device for manufacturing oxygen-enriched gas
Inventor: YASUHARA MITSUTATSU
IPC: B01D53/22
Filed: 2001-01-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device capable of reducing a mixed gas pressure to a lower level than in case of using an oxygen selective permeable membrane and producing a high pressure oxygen-enriched gas and accordingly reducing transferring energy of the oxygen-enriched gas. SOLUTION: This comprises pressuring a mixed gas containing oxygen and nitrogen, supplying the pressured mixed gas to a nitrogen selective permeable membrane to make nitrogen in the mixed gas selectively permeate the membrane, thereby recovering nitrogen-enriched gas and at the same time obtaining a high pressure oxygen-enriched gas from the non-permeated side of the nitrogen selective permeable membrane.
Patent JP-2002211083-A (JP)
Title: Color imaging apparatus, color calibration method, and method for ordering expendables thereof
Inventor: ONO TAKASHI
IPC: G03G15/01
Filed: 2001-01-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the amount of color calibration work without avoiding color calibration and to provide an environment for facilitating color calibration. SOLUTION: The amount of color calibration work is reduced such that the user of a color imaging apparatus does not avoid color calibration using a network. Furthermore, an environment for facilitating color calibration is provided for the user using means for lowering the price expendables being ordered next time depending on the number of execution times of color calibration in order to promote execution of color calibration.
Patent JP-2002216333-A (JP)
Title: Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording machine
Inventor: TAKEUCHI TERUAKI
IPC: G11B5/667
Filed: 2001-01-22
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium which can reliably form fine magnetic domains in an amorphous recording layer consisting of a rare earth transition metal material. SOLUTION: The magnetic recording medium 100 has a recording layer 4 for perpendicular recording and a surface magnetizing layer 3. The surface recording layer is formed in contact with the recording layer to couple together. This makes the magnetic flip start field strength in the recording layer smaller than the pinning coercive force. Even if the recording layer is made of a moving magnetic wall material, the magnetic walls are prevented from moving when a magnetic field is applied to the recoding medium from the magnetic head, and fine magnetic domains are formed in the recording layer.
Patent JP-2002217864-A (JP)
Title: Digital signal receiver
Inventor: IWASAKI TOSHIYA
IPC: H04H40/18
Filed: 2001-01-22
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely decode demodulation information in a digital signal receiver for receiving a digital signal, for transmission data and demodulation information of the transmission data are included in one and the same data string. SOLUTION: One symbol includes a plurality of unit sections according the mode. In the respective unit sections corresponding to one and the same symbol, same demodulation information is transmitted repeatedly. Demodulation information is extracted independently and decoded for the respective unit sections. A decoding result having the highest reliability is selected from a plurality of decoding results corresponding to the same symbol, and it is treated as the decoding result corresponding to the symbol. Thus, demodulation information is decoded precisely and a digital signal can normally be received, even if a transmission line characteristic is disturbed in some sections.
Patent JP-2002216235-A (JP)
Title: Cap feeder for cup-type vending machine
Inventor: ITO TAKAFUMI
IPC: B65G51/03
Filed: 2001-01-23
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cap feeder improved so that a cap delivered from a housing box can be smoothly supplied to a capping mechanism without being influenced by static electricity, the contamination of a shooter or the like. SOLUTION: In this cup feeder to be mounted on a cup-type vending machine to supply and put the cap onto the upper surface of a beverage containing cup on a cup carrying route within the machine comprising the cap housing box 11 and the cap shooter 12 laid between the cap housing box and the capping mechanism 7 arranged on the cup carrying route, a number of air blowout ports 12a are dispersively formed on the carrying surface of the shooter as a cap carrying trouble preventive means, an air guide manifold 13 and a blower 14 are attached to the reverse side of the cap shooter. Accordingly, air is blown out from the reverse side of the shooter to the carrying surface side through the air blowout ports according to the cap supplying operation to impart a floating force to the cap, so that the cap is smoothly slid down in the shooter.