Abstract: A bending mechanism includes: a support member; a pivoting member supported at a distal end of the support member to be pivotable about an axis intersecting the longitudinal axis of the support member; a link disposed along the longitudinal axis and transmitting a force applied at a proximal end thereof to cause the pivoting member to pivot; and an adjuster adjusting stresses in the link so as not to exceed a threshold, at each pivoting position of the pivoting member with respect to the support member. The link includes a first member connected to the pivoting member and a second member disposed closer to the proximal end than the first member is. The adjuster includes a movable member moving in predetermined direction when the first and second members are relatively moved, and a spring biasing the movable member in such direction as to prevent the movement of the movable member.

Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear, a flexible external gear, and a wave generator. The wave generator has an elliptic cam and a bearing. An inner ring has an inner ring raceway surface which a plurality of balls are in contact with, and a pair of inner ring shoulder parts. At a position of a minor axis, a first inner ring shoulder part has a greater height than a second inner ring shoulder part. At a position of a major axis, the second inner ring shoulder part has a greater height than the first inner ring shoulder part.

Abstract: A gearbox comprising: an outer intermediate shaft carrying a first set of shaft gears; an inner intermediate shaft carrying a second set of shaft gears, the inner intermediate shaft running concentrically within the outer intermediate shaft; a first lay shaft carrying a first set of drive gears and an output gear positioned along the first lay shaft between two of the first set of drive gears, a second lay shaft carrying a second set of drive gears and an output gear positioned along the second lay shaft between two of the second set of drive gears, each drive gear being coupled to a respective shaft gear to together provide a plurality of gear ratios between the intermediate shafts and the output shaft; and an output shaft, each lay shaft being coupled to the output shaft by the respective output gear.

Abstract: An installing device includes a connection member and a linear motion support. The connection member is disposed at a base end portion of a hollow arm which extends in an extension direction and which has a hollow extending in the extension direction. A linear object passing through the hollow is connectable to the connection member. The linear motion support supports the connection member slidably with respect to the hollow arm in the extension direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a joint support structure of a robot and a robot having the same. The joint support structure comprises: a drive motor; a reducing transmission mechanism; a motor side casing; a transmission side casing; and a knee joint sleeve disposed on outer peripheries of the motor side casing and of the transmission side casing and connected to the reducing transmission mechanism; the motor side casing has a first annular groove; the transmission side casing has a second annular groove; the knee joint sleeve is provided with an annular connector circumferentially surrounding the motor side casing, and the annular connector has a third annular groove matched with the first annular groove to form a first ball track for accommodating first balls; the knee joint sleeve has a fourth annular groove is matched with the second annular groove to form a second ball track.

Abstract: A gear box of a hybrid power vehicle includes a first gear box part and a second gear box part. The first gear box part includes one input shaft and two intermediate shafts, and the input shaft is configured to be connected to an internal combustion engine, a first driving toothed gear and a second driving toothed gear are provided on the input shaft, a first driven toothed gear and a second driven toothed gear are provided on a first intermediate shaft, a third driven toothed gear and a fourth driven toothed gear are provided on a second intermediate shaft; and the second gear box part includes a third intermediate shaft provided with a driving toothed gear of a first gear of the electric motor and the first or second intermediate shaft provided with a driven toothed gear of the first gear of the electric motor.

Abstract: A power split transmission structure has at least three interfaces to direct driving power from a drive to at least one output in order to supply the driving power to connected consumers. It comprises at least two variator paths which each comprise a summation gearbox communicating with an electric or hydraulic machine via a mechanical and a non-mechanical path in order to modify torque, speed or both of the driving power. A control device regulates the summation gearbox of each of the variator paths. A power electronics system or hydraulic control device is connected to the electric or hydraulic machine of each of the variator paths. The transmission structure directs the driving power via the variator paths such that the electric or hydraulic machine of each variator path is operable in a generator or motor mode in order to compensate for a power shortfall or a power oversupply at at least one outlet of the transmission structure.

Abstract: Link for an articulated manipulator, comprising a tubular body extending along a longitudinal axis thereof and having a first joint end and a second joint end, wherein the first joint end and the second joint end define a first joint plane and a second joint plane, respectively. The first joint plane and the second joint are each at an inclination angle with respect to the longitudinal axis, wherein the first joint plane is arranged parallel to a first axis and wherein the second joint plane is arranged parallel to a second axis, the longitudinal axis being perpendicular to the first axis and second axis, and wherein the first axis and second axis are at a mutual twist angle of at least one times the inclination angle.

Abstract: A joint structure of a robot includes a first member, a second member which is rotatably supported around a horizontal rotation axis line with respect to the first member, and an actuator which rotates the second member with respect to the first member, a through-holes, each of which allows a lubrication space in which a lubricant for the actuator is enclosed to connect with an outer space is provided in at least one of the first member and the second member, and more than three of the through-holes are provided at an interval in a circumferential direction centering around the horizontal rotation axis line.

Abstract: The present disclosures relates to a toroidal continuously variable transmission which includes: a rotating shaft; a pair of outside disks supported by a rotating shaft to rotate in synchronization with the rotating shaft; an inside disk supported by the rotating shaft to rotate relative to the rotating shaft; a pair of rolling bearing units, each including a radial rolling bearing capable of supporting an axial load to support the inside disk so that relative rotation with respect to the rotating shaft is possible; a plurality of power rollers arranged between the axial inside surfaces the outside disks and the axial outside surfaces of the inside disk to transmit power between them; and a preloading mechanism elastically pressing the outer ring of the radial rolling bearing in the axial direction.

Abstract: A robot arm includes multiple links and joints connecting the links to one another in an articulated manner, wherein, in cooperation with the joints, the links are designed to carry and move a load in space. The joints can be automatically adjusted by motors of the robot arm to move the links. At least one first link has a first casing and a neighboring second link has a second casing. The casings are designed to transfer respective forces and torques resulting from the weight of the robot arm itself and/or the load to the neighboring link. The first casing and/or the second casing has a deformation element designed to form a buffer body in a joint space between the first and second casings, which is changed due to an adjustment of the associated joint. The buffer body at least substantially or completely fills the changeable joint space.

Abstract: Manual dual clutch power transmission unit 10 for a vehicle (tractor, constructional vehicle and the like), which comprises a synchro-shuttle transmission unit 10S (forward/reverse drive transmission), a hydro-mechanical operated a dual clutch unit 10D, a multi-speed transmission unit 10T (8 speed transmission unit), a range transmission unit 10R (3 ranges—low range, medium range and high range), a hydro-mechanical transmission control mechanism 100 which controls shifting and selection of gears (odd gear and/or even gear) and corresponding clutches (odd clutch and/or even clutch) respectively, and an auxiliary transmission actuation mechanism 200 which actuates the power transmission unit 10 when at least one of the hydraulic dual clutch unit 10D of the power transmission unit 10 and a hydraulic system of the vehicle is not functioning, wherein the transmission control mechanism 100 for the multi-speed transmission unit 10T is provided with Z-gate sequential gear shift pattern.

Abstract: A magnetic-induced stiffness changed soft robot drive module includes magnetic-induced stiffness changed layer, two-degree-of-freedom pneumatic driver, magnetic core and sealing fixing device. The magnetic-induced stiffness changed layer and two-degree-of-freedom pneumatic driver are printed and formed. The magnetic core can be deformed together with the driver, and a magnetic field can be generated when it is energized. After the magnetic core is installed into the two-degree-of-freedom pneumatic driver, then assembled with the sealing fixing device, a soft robot drive module with one end fixed is finished. The magnetic-induced stiffness changed layer has the fast, reversible and controllable stiffness adjustment ability under the action of electromagnetic field.

Abstract: A system and method for a planar positioning system for an output member, the system having a pair of x-coordinate linear carriages and a pair of y-coordinate linear carriages. The system has a guide mechanism for the pair of x-coordinate linear carriages and the pair of y-coordinate linear carriages. The system has a plurality of movement and constraining cables extending from the pair of x-coordinate linear carriages and the pair of y-coordinate linear carriages to the output member for driving the output, wherein the pair of x-coordinate linear carriages and the output member move in sync in the x-direction and the pair of y-coordinate linear carriages and the output member move in sync in the y-direction. A restraint mechanism restrains the output member in an additional degree of freedom besides the x- and y-directions. The restraint can be a cable uptake and release device.

Abstract: A power unit of a utility vehicle includes a power source for travel of the utility vehicle, a continuously variable transmission, a gear transmission, a first clutch, a second clutch, and an output mechanism. The gear transmission includes a first GT input shaft, a second GT input shaft, a GT output shaft, a first GT intermediate shaft, a second GT intermediate shaft, first speed-change gears, second speed-change gears, a first transmission gear, and a second transmission gear. The first clutch is configured to disable power transmission from the power source to the first GT input shaft. The second clutch is configured to disable power transmission from a CVT output shaft of the continuously variable transmission to the second GT input shaft.

Abstract: A joint bearing for a robot 1 which comprises a shaft 21 and at least one link element 24, 35, 36, 37, 38, 59, 60 mounted to be rotatable on shaft 21 between two axial bearings 22, 23, 43, 44, 45, 46, 54, 55, 63, 64, 69, where a resiliently compressible preloading element 33, 49, 52, 53, 56, 57, 65, 66 is provided which applies an axial preloading force to the axial bearings. A robot with at least one such joint bearing as well as a method for assembling a joint bearing for a robot are disclosed herein.

Abstract: A delta robot includes a robot base, an end effector carrier that can be positioned in space, and three parallelogram articulated couplings which connect the end effector carrier to the robot base and are designed to connect the end effector carrier in a displaceable manner while maintaining its orientation in space relative to the robot base. Each parallelogram articulated coupling can be displaced, driven by a motor, to automatically move the end effector carrier, wherein each motor can be braked by means of a brake in order to automatically stop the end effector carrier and/or to hold the end effector carrier in its present position. The end effector carrier comprises at least one input device connected to the brakes by control technology and designed to release the brakes in an actuated switching state of the input device such that the end effector carrier is manually displaceable.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a variable stiffness soft actuator inspired by an ossicle structure of echinoderm and a robot apparatus including the same. According to various embodiments, the soft actuate includes a plurality of ossicle elements arranged in a specific structure, wherein an interval between the plurality of ossicle elements is maintained or reduced depending on vacuum generation to change the stiffness of the soft actuator.

Abstract: A vehicle power unit has a transmission apparatus including a transmission, and a transmission actuating mechanism including a speed reduction gear train having multiple speed reduction stages for transmitting power from a drive gear on a drive shaft of a shift motor to a driven gear on a drum turning shaft of a shift drum. The speed reduction gear train has a speed reduction ratio ranging from 23 to 45, and the shift motor is a DC electric motor that produces a pulsating cogging torque having a maximum value ranging from 0.04 to 0.07 Nm. The vehicle power unit enables the transmission actuating mechanism to be made up of a reduced number of parts and to be simple in structure, making the transmission apparatus small in size, and ensures quicker and smoother gear changes with an electric motor.

Abstract: A low-back-clearance robot speed reducer includes a wheel holder (16), a pin gear shell (1), a first cycloidal wheel (6), a roller pin (8), a second cycloidal wheel (11), a gland (2), an elastic member (9), a first cross-shaped slider (5), a second cross-shaped slider (13) and a crankshaft (10). The first cycloidal wheel (6) and the second cycloidal wheel (11) are in a phase relation of 180 degrees and have a multi-point engagement transmission relationship with the pin gear shell (1) and the roller pin (8). The first cross-shaped slider (5) and the second cross-shaped slider (13) form a double cross-shaped slider structure, in which the groove profile of the sliders is of a trapezoidal groove structure. A clearance is automatically axially compensated by the elastic member (9). The center of rotation of the crankshaft (10) is coaxial with the wheel holder (16) and the gland (2).