Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130020917 | ENCODER, DRIVING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CALCULATING ABSOLUTE POSITION, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ENCODER - An encoder includes a position data obtainer that obtains superordinate data representing a position of a moving body in a superordinate section and subordinate data representing a position in a subordinate section repeated in a superordinate section with higher resolution than that of the superordinate data, a storage in which a correction value that can correct a deviation amount occurring in the superordinate data against the subordinate data is recorded to be associated with an absolute position with resolution nearly equal to that of the superordinate data, a corrector that obtains the correction value from the storage and corrects the superordinate data, and a section identifier that identifies, based on the superordinate data corrected by the corrector and the subordinate data when the superordinate data is obtained, the subordinate section in which the subordinate data is obtained against the superordinate section. | 01-24-2013 |
20130033123 | THETA Z DRIVE APPARATUS AND STAGE APPARATUS - In this θZ drive apparatus, at least three coil portions are arranged to be capable of driving a stage in a direction Z, a direction θx which is a rotation direction employing a direction X in a horizontal plane as a center line of rotation, and a direction θy which is a rotation direction employing a direction Y in the horizontal plane orthogonal to the direction X as a center line of rotation. | 02-07-2013 |
20130043755 | ROTOR FOR USE IN IPM ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, AND IPM ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE PROVIDED WITH THE ROTOR - A rotor includes a rotor core; and first and second permanent magnets arranged in the core such that each of the first magnets corresponds to one of the second magnets and, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to a rotation axis thereof, a first line passing through the first magnet and a second line passing through the second magnet meet at a point pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets are arranged such that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the point is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, and a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first line being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second line. | 02-21-2013 |
20130057004 | ROBOT HAND AND ROBOT DEVICE - This disclosure discloses a robot hand of underactuated mechanism. The robot hand includes a plurality of actuators, a plurality of joints where the number of the joints is more than the number of the actuators, a palm portion, three finger portions each including a plurality of links having bases coupled to the palm portion and coupled being capable of flexion, and a shape-fitting mechanism which is provided in at the finger portion, and which enables to grasp an object to be grasped in an enclosing manner with the finger portions by performing providing torsional displacement to the links. | 03-07-2013 |
20130067869 | ROBOT APPARATUS, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PACKAGED PRODUCT OF STRING-SHAPED OBJECT - A robot apparatus includes a turning base, a lower arm, an upper arm, a wrist unit, a hand, and a controller. The hand is provided on the wrist unit to hold or release a longitudinally intermediate portion of a noodle lump. The controller controls operations of the turning base, the lower arm, the upper arm, the wrist unit, and the hand. The controller controls the turning base, the lower arm, the upper arm, and the wrist unit so that the hand moves the noodle lump obliquely upward at least in a part of a path from a holding position at which the noodle lump is held and a releasing position at which the noodle lump is released. | 03-21-2013 |
20130076289 | ROTARY ENCODER, ROTARY MOTOR, AND ROTARY MOTOR SYSTEM - The encoder includes a disk in a disk shape that is arranged rotatably about a rotation axis and that includes one track in a ring shape on which a rotating grating is formed and one or more origin detection areas serving as partial areas on which a rotating grating is formed, and a mask that is fixed and arranged in a manner facing the disk and on which one or more fixed gratings are formed so as to constitute a diffraction interference optical system together with the rotating gratings. A plurality of slits and included in at least one rotating grating are formed along a curved line obtained by curving a plurality of radial lines about the rotation axis in the circumferential direction at predetermined curvature such that pitches and of the slits and can be set to a predetermined value. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085604 | ROBOT APPARATUS, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TO-BE-PROCESSED MATERIAL - A robot apparatus includes a robot arm and a held-state detector. The robot arm includes a first holder configured to hold a to-be-held object. The held-state detector is coupled to the robot arm and is configured to detect a held state of the to-be-held object held by the first holder while the robot arm is transferring the to-be-held object. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085605 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TO-BE-PROCESSED MATERIAL - A robot system includes a container, a disposed-state detector, and a robot arm. The container is configured to accommodate a plurality of to-be-held objects and includes a reticulated portion. The disposed-state detector is configured to detect disposed states of the plurality of respective to-be-held objects disposed in the container. The robot arm includes a holder configured to hold a to-be-held object among the plurality of to-be-held objects based on the disposed states of the plurality of respective to-be-held objects detected by the disposed-state detector. | 04-04-2013 |
20130088126 | OPTICAL ENTIRE-CIRCUMFERENCE ENCODER AND MOTOR SYSTEM - An optical entire-circumference encoder includes a substrate. A light source is disposed on a rotation axis and a first surface of the substrate. A disc, rotatable about the rotation axis, is disposed on a second surface of the substrate. The disc includes first and second rotation tracks each including rotating slits. A light guiding unit radially guides light from the light source toward an entire outer circumference of the disc to the first and second rotation tracks. The light guiding unit includes a first light guiding section and second light guiding sections. The first light guiding section includes a ring-shaped surface directly or indirectly opposed to a rotation track. The first light guiding section radially guides the light out from the ring-shaped surface toward the first rotation track. The second light guiding sections guide part of the radially guided light to the second rotation track. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088904 | ALTERNATING-CURRENT/DIRECT-CURRENT CONVERTER - An alternating-current/direct-current converter includes a rectifier, a reactor, a capacitor, and a switching rectifier. The rectifier is configured to rectify alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power source, thereby converting the alternating-current voltage into direct-current voltage, and to output the direct-current voltage. The capacitor includes terminals. The switching rectifier is coupled to the AC power source and switchable to output the direct-current voltage to the capacitor. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094932 | WORKPIECE TAKEOUT SYSTEM, ROBOT APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TO-BE-PROCESSED MATERIAL - A workpiece takeout system includes a robot arm and a disposed-state detector. The robot arm is configured to perform a workpiece takeout operation to take out a workpiece disposed in an area among a plurality of areas. The disposed-state detector is configured to detect a disposed state of the workpiece and is configured to, while the robot arm is performing the workpiece takeout operation to take out the workpiece disposed in the area among the plurality of areas, detect a disposed state of another workpiece disposed in another area among the plurality of areas. | 04-18-2013 |
20130099606 | STATOR AND ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A stator includes a core body provided so as to contact a substantially cylindrical peripheral-wall inner surface of a frame and having a stator coil wound thereupon, and a mold portion in which a coil end of the stator coil is molded out of resin. A gap is provided between the peripheral-wall inner surface and the mold portion. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103198 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - A service providing system according to an embodiment includes a robot unit, an interface that receives input of order input information, and a control unit that is connected to the robot unit and the interface, and causes the robot unit to execute an operation based on the order input information input with the interface. Furthermore, the service providing system receives input of the order input information with the interface, causes the robot unit to execute the processing operation based on the order input information input with the interface, and provides a product on which the processing operation has been performed by the robot unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130113326 | ROTOR CORE, ROTOR, AND ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE - A rotor core according to an embodiment has a plurality of magnet openings and cavity portions. The magnet openings are in juxtaposition with each other in a circumferential direction. Permanent magnets are inserted in the magnet openings. The cavity portions are each formed relative to an area sandwiched between two magnet openings, out of the magnet openings, in which the permanent magnets that are mutually adjacent and that have magnetic pole directions relative to a radial direction opposite to each other are inserted. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113327 | ROTOR CORE, ROTOR, AND ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE - A rotor core according to an embodiment includes a pair of magnet openings disposed such that a space therebetween widens toward an outer peripheral side and in which a pair of permanent magnets having a magnetic pole direction relative to a radial direction identical to each other are inserted. The magnet openings each have a shape that connects together a first opening portion formed along the profile of the corresponding permanent magnet and a second opening portion that, when the permanent magnet is inserted in the first opening portion, covers, out of corner portions of the permanent magnet, a corner portion closest to the other permanent magnet with an air gap defined therebetween. The second opening portion forms a bridge portion between the second opening portion and the second opening portion of the other magnet opening. | 05-09-2013 |
20130119794 | ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A rotating electrical machine includes a cylindrical stator and a frame including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being formed by reducing the diameter of the frame at a part of an outer peripheral surface such that the thickness of the frame at the part is reduced, the second portion having a larger thickness than the first portion, the stator being provided to an inner peripheral surface of the frame. The frame includes a containing portion, a first coolant path, and a second coolant path. The containing portion contains a thermal component, the first coolant path is formed between the containing portion and the stator, and the second coolant path is formed in the second portion. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119832 | ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A rotating electrical machine includes: a frame including a first housing portion for housing an electronic component and a second housing portion formed integrally with the first housing portion for housing a rotator and a stator; and a bracket including a first communicating hole communicating with the first housing portion and a second communicating hole communicating with the second housing portion. | 05-16-2013 |
20130140963 | MOTOR WITH ENCODER AND ENCODER FOR MOTOR - A motor with an encoder has a motor, and an encoder disposed on the anti-load side of this motor. The motor includes a motor electromagnetic part, and a motor shaft rotatably supported by a load side bearing and an anti-load side bearing, and the encoder includes a hub having a convex part formed in a load side end thereof, the hub being coaxially fixed to an anti-load side end of the motor shaft, and a rotating disc fixed to an anti-load side end of this hub. The convex part of the hub is fitted to a concave part formed in the anti-load side end of the motor shaft so that the hub is fixed to the motor shaft. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142608 | PARALLEL MECHANISM - A parallel mechanism includes a fixed plate, four turnable actuators, four peripheral driving mechanisms, and a movable plate. The four turnable actuators are disposed in respective four directions of the fixed plate with pivot axes of two adjacent turnable actuators being orthogonal to one another and with pivot axes of two opposing turnable actuators being parallel to one another. The four peripheral driving mechanisms each include an upper arm made up of a bar integral with a rotor of a turnable actuator corresponding to the upper arm. An upper joint couples the upper arm to the lower arm. A lower joint couples the lower arm to the movable plate. The movable plate is driven by the four turnable actuators through the four peripheral driving mechanisms with at least four degrees of freedom including one rotational degree of freedom along a plane direction of the movable plate. | 06-06-2013 |
20130156534 | TRANSFER ROBOT - A transfer robot includes a first arm having a base end portion rotatably connected to an arm base, the first arm including a specified drive system arranged therein, a second arm having a base end portion rotatably connected to a tip end portion of the first arm, and a hand having a hand base rotatably connected to a tip end portion of the second arm, the hand serving to hold a substrate. The first arm includes an arm housing provided with a plurality of air injection holes and at least one air exhaust hole are provided. The first arm is configured such that a compressed air injected through the air injection holes flows along an inner wail surface of the arm housing and flows out through the air exhaust hole. | 06-20-2013 |
20130169209 | ENCODER, SERVOMOTOR, AND MOTOR UNIT - This disclosure discloses an encoder. The encoder includes a disk including a first and a second track. A first and a second rotating grating are formed in the first and second tracks, respectively. A first and a second detector are disposed so as to face the first and second tracks, and have a first fixed grating constructing a first diffraction interference optical system together with the first rotating grating and a second fixed grating constructing a second diffraction interference optical system together with the second rotating grating, respectively, and configured to detect a first and a second detection signal, respectively, from the first and second diffraction interference optical systems. At least one of the first and second rotating gratings is formed by a plurality of curved slits in a curved shape. | 07-04-2013 |
20130178979 | TRANSFER SYSTEM - A transfer system according to an embodiment includes a plurality of robot hands, a storage unit, and an instructing part. The robot hands are operable to hold a thin sheet-like workpiece. The storage unit stores therein speed information that represents a temperature of the workpiece associated with a specified speed of a robot hand that holds the workpiece. The instructing part extracts the specified speed for each robot hand from the speed information and instructs to move all of the robot hands at or lower than a representative speed determined based on a set of extracted specified speed data. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185913 | PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND ARTICLE PRODUCING METHOD - An assembling device (a production system) includes robots that produce a piping component from a plurality of types of parts, and a display that accepts an input of lot information of at least one of the plurality of parts used in producing operations by the first to third robots and that outputs unsuitable condition information when an unsuitable condition in any of the parts is detected, the unsuitable condition information identifying a lot of the any of the parts in which the unsuitable condition is detected. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190924 | ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system according to the embodiments includes a robot that includes a hand including a gripping mechanism that grips a thin plate-shaped work and an arm that moves the hand, and a robot control apparatus that controls the robot. The robot control apparatus, when causing the robot to transfer the work at a predetermined work transfer position by controlling the robot, performs a presence/absence confirmation of the work by operating the gripping mechanism while causing the hand to retract after the hand reaches the work transfer position. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190925 | ROBOT, ROBOT HAND, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING HOLDING POSITION OF ROBOT HAND - A robot includes a robot hand, an arm unit, and a controller. The robot hand includes a movable portion. To the arm unit, the robot hand is mounted. The controller is configured to control the arm unit to move the movable portion of the robot hand so as to adjust a holding position of the robot hand relative to a to-be-held object. | 07-25-2013 |
20130195584 | CONVEYING SYSTEM - A conveying system according to an embodiment includes a robot and a controller. The controller includes a switching unit. The robot includes an arm unit formed of a hand and a plurality of arms connected rotatably with respect to one another, and a base unit. An arm on a rear end side is connected to the base unit rotatably about a rotation axis, and the hand is rotatably connected to an arm on a front end side. The switching unit switches cylindrical coordinate control for controlling the arm unit such that a trajectory of the hand overlaps with any one of lines radiating from the rotation axis and rectangular coordinate control for controlling the arm unit such that the trajectory of the hand overlaps with none of the lines at a predetermined timing. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195598 | TRANSFER ROBOT - A transfer robot according to an embodiment includes an arm and a body. The arm is provided, at a terminal end thereof, with a robot hand transferring a thin plate-like workpiece, and operates in horizontal directions. The body includes a lifting and lowering mechanism that lifts and lowers the arm. In the transfer robot, at least a part of the body is disposed outside a side wall of a transfer room that is connected to an opening and closing device opening and closing a storage container for the thin plate-like workpiece and to a processing room processing the thin plate-like workpiece. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195601 | TRANSFER SYSTEM - A transfer system according to an embodiment includes a transfer room, a robot, a trajectory generator, a determination unit, and an output unit. The transfer room has an exclusive area defined by a predetermined distance. The robot has an arm unit that is equipped with a robot hand transferring a thin plate-like workpiece and that operates in horizontal directions. The robot is installed in the transfer room so that a minimum turning area of the arm unit overlaps with a part of the exclusive area. The transfer system generates a trajectory of the robot hand, then determines, based on the generated trajectory, whether a part of the arm unit is included in the exclusive area, and outputs a predetermined signal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204481 | ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot system includes a planar sign, a robot, a distance direction sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the robot and includes a map data memory and a progress direction determining device. The map data memory is configured to store map data of a predetermined running path including a position of the planar sign. The progress direction determining device is configured to compare a detection result of the distance direction sensor and the stored map data so as to determine a progress direction of the robot. | 08-08-2013 |