Abstract: A support system for use with an aircraft or vehicle capable of hovering. The support system includes a detecting portion provided outside an airframe and configured to detect a target object that may become an obstacle; an imaging portion configured to take an image of surroundings of the aircraft; a data processing portion; a display portion and the like. The data processing portion acquires data from the detecting portion and an avionics system. The data processing portion uses the acquired data to generate target object schematic image data indicating approach of the target object or possibility of the approach of the target object and outputs the target object schematic image data to the display portion. The display portion displays an obstacle state display image based on the target object schematic image data, the obstacle state display image schematically showing a state of the obstacle around the aircraft.

Abstract: A substrate transfer device includes a manipulator, a substrate gripping hand, an actuator configured to rotate the substrate gripping hand about a roll axis, and a controller adapted to operate the manipulator to hold a substrate by a first engaging member and a second engaging member of the substrate gripping hand, then operate the actuator so that a first principal surface of the substrate is located above a base member, and a normal line of the first principal surface is oriented downward from a horizontal plane, and move a movable guiding member toward the tip-end part of the base member so that the second engaging member, a third engaging member, and the movable guiding member grip the substrate.

Abstract: A unison ring of a gas turbine engine includes: an annular body including fiber-reinforced resin or circular-arc bodies including the fiber-reinforced resin, the fiber-reinforced resin including resin and reinforced fibers; and pin holes in which a pin is in a radial direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the unison ring. A main orientation of the reinforced fibers of the fiber-reinforced resin is directed in a circumferential direction of the unison ring.

Abstract: A hand 100 includes a first gripper 2 and a second gripper 5. The second gripper 5 grips a workpiece located on a predetermined axis E. The first gripper 2 includes two first fingers 21 that are opened and closed in a predetermined opening/closing direction. Each of the first fingers 21 includes a first part 22 including a distal end and a second part 23 including a proximal end, and is bent or curved such that the first part 222 moves between an interference position M1 at which an imaginary region X defined by projecting the first part 22 in the opening/closing direction A interferes with the axis E and a non-interference position M2 at which the imaginary region X does not interfere with the axis E.

Abstract: An unmanned delivery system 100 includes a self-propelled robot 2, an unmanned aerial vehicle 1 which transports a package to an intermediate location on the way of delivering the package, and a robot controller which controls the self-propelled robot 2 so that the self-propelled robot 2 delivers to a receiver's address 4 the package which is unloaded at the intermediate location.

Abstract: A friction stir spot welder includes a pin, a shoulder, a rotary driver, an advance-retract driver, and circuitry. When a preset and predetermined first period of time has elapsed in a state where a speed of the rotating shoulder in an axial direction or a speed of the pin in the axial direction is a preset and predetermined first speed, the circuitry determines that the tip of the shoulder or the tip of the pin has reached a contact surface of a second workpiece which is in contact with a first workpiece.

Abstract: A work system which performs a work to a structure, and includes an aircraft, and a robot which performs the work to the structure. After the aircraft conveys the robot to the structure while holding the robot, the aircraft releases the robot after the aircraft lowers the robot onto the structure. The robot is released from the aircraft, and then performs the work to the structure.

Abstract: A vision system includes a robot body and a robot operation manipulator that receives inputs from an operator to manipulate the robot body. The vision system also includes a left-eye and right-eye cameras, and a display that displays parallax images for an operator. The vision system further includes an area operation manipulator that receives inputs by the operator to specify a target area to be seen three-dimensionally through the parallax images displayed on the display. The target area is located in an absolute space and is included in a portion of a field of view common between the left-eye and right-eye cameras. The vision system further includes a first controller that controls operation of the robot body, and a second controller that extracts and displays, as parallax images, images corresponding to the target area from a left-eye and right-eye capturing images captured by the left-eye and right-eye cameras, respectively.

Abstract: Substrate holding hand including a base plate spreading from base toward tip end sides, part of base plate located at base end side, fixed to hand tip portion, holding position at base plate, engaging claw at part of base plate located at tip end side, engaging claw configured to engage part of edge of substrate in vertical or inclined postures, part of edge located lower than center of substrate, moving portion at base end side of holding position and configured to move toward tip end side, and plurality of rotating bodies at the moving portion, being pressed by movement against edge of substrate located lower than holding position and engaged with claw, and plurality of rotating bodies pushing substrate upward holding position while rotating along edge of substrate.

Abstract: An electric power generation controller for use in an aircraft is a controller of an electric power generating system configured such that: a manual transmission changes speed of rotational power of an aircraft engine; a continuously variable transmission changes the speed of the rotational power which has been changed in speed by the manual transmission; and the continuously variable transmission transmits the rotational power to an electric power generator.

Abstract: A second hand H2 that couples a first workpiece to a second workpiece, where the first and second workpieces are to be coupled to each other by insertion coupling, includes: a second gripper 5 that grips the first workpiece; a straight-moving actuator 6 that moves the second gripper 5 straight in the direction of a predetermined axis E; and a rotation actuator 7 that rotates the second gripper 5 about the axis E. The second gripper 5 includes three second fingers 51 that grip the first workpiece, and a linkage 52 that opens and closes the three second fingers 51.

Abstract: A multi-control valve device includes: a valve block including a plurality of valve holes; a plurality of spools movably housed in the plurality of valve holes in a one-to-one correspondence; one or more attachment parts provided on the valve block; and a plurality of solenoid valves provided on the one or more attachment parts in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of spools and each of which reduces a primary pressure, outputs a secondary pressure to a corresponding one of the plurality of spools, and moves the spool. The valve block includes a primary pressure supply passage through which the primary pressure is supplied to each of the plurality of solenoid valves.

Abstract: A manipulation device and a manipulation system of a simpler configuration. A manipulation device includes an input part configured to receive an input of an operational instruction by an operator in order to operate a manipulating target, and a speaker configured to receive a signal based on vibration detected at the manipulating target and generate vibration based on the received signal. The vibration generated by the speaker is transmitted to the operator through at least a part of the input part.

Abstract: A controller of a robot system performs first control of controlling a robot arm in accordance with an operation with an operator to thereby cause an end effector to apply a treatment to an object and of recording trajectory data and second control of controlling the robot arm based on the trajectory data recorded in the first control to thereby move the end effector such that the end effector reproduces a moving trajectory and applies a treatment to the object. In the second control, in controlling the robot arm based on the trajectory data, the controller controls a pressing force of the end effector against the object.

Abstract: A device and method for producing an arc-shaped roll-formed part having an outer contour with a predetermined constant curvature and an inner contour with a varying curvature, having an outer contour with a varying curvature and an inner contour with a predetermined constant curvature, or having an outer contour with a varying curvature and an inner contour with a varying curvature. Circuitry obtains a third amount of movement corresponding to a sum of first and second amounts of movement of a bending roll as an amount by which the bending roll moves in a width direction during roll bending.

Abstract: A multi-control valve includes: spools that are located side by side in a particular direction; and a housing including slide holes that receive therein the respective spools. The housing includes a first and second pump passages that extend in the particular direction, the first and second pump passages being located at both sides of the spools, respectively. Among the spools, a common spool that is used in common for the first and second pump passages is received in a merging slide hole. The housing includes: a first communication passage that is located at the first pump passage side of the merging slide hole and that extends from the first pump passage to the merging slide hole; and a second communication passage that is located at the second pump passage side of the merging slide hole and that extends from the second pump passage to the merging slide hole.

Abstract: A directional and flow control valve includes: a housing with a pump port, a first supply/discharge port, a second supply/discharge port, and a tank port, the housing including therein a first pilot chamber, a second pilot chamber, and a third pilot chamber; and a first spool and a second spool, which are independent of each other. The first spool includes a first end surface facing the first pilot chamber and a second end surface facing the third pilot chamber. The second spool includes a first end surface facing the second pilot chamber and a second end surface facing the third pilot chamber. The first spool brings the first supply/discharge port into one of the pump port or the tank port, and the second spool brings the second supply/discharge port into the other one of the pump port or the tank port.

Abstract: A gas solenoid valve includes: a housing; a main valve body; a guide member; a first biasing member that is disposed in a housing space formed inward of the guide member to surround the main valve body and biases the main valve body in an opening direction; a second biasing member; and an electromagnetic drive device. The housing space is spaced apart from one end of the guide member in the opening direction. A buffer groove is formed at the one end of the guide member to surround an opening end of an inner hole of the guide member.

Abstract: A flight vehicle includes a main body, a thrust generating unit, and one or more joints. The thrust generating unit includes one or more thrust generating subunits. Each joint is respectively associated with a corresponding thrust generating subunit. Each joint couples a corresponding thrust generating subunit to the main body and permits the associated thrust generating subunit to freely pivot relative to the main body. Each thrust generating subunit includes a plurality of thrust generators. Within each thrust generating subunit, one or more of the thrust generators is arranged to generate thrust that induces a first torque in one direction along a circumference of a circle centered on a first pivot axis, and other one or more of the thrust generators is arranged to generate thrust that induces a second torque in an opposite direction along the circumference of the circle centered on the first pivot axis.

Abstract: A driver includes: a first motor located so as to rotate a driving shaft; a second motor located so as to rotate the driving shaft; and circuitry. The circuitry performs control while switching between a dual mode and a single mode. In the dual mode, the circuitry drives the first motor and the second motor together. In the single mode, the circuitry drives a drive target motor that is one of the first motor and the second motor and performs such control as to set one or more among a rotational speed, rotation acceleration, and rotation deceleration of the drive target motor to be lower than that or those in the dual mode.