Abstract: A bonded silicone rubber object which achieves little thermal deterioration and has excellent heat resistance and which suffers neither peeling nor tearing even when stretching is provided by bonding a silicone rubber substrate and an adhered substrate each other far more strongly and tenaciously than conventional ones. A bonded silicone rubber object includes: a silicone rubber substrate which includes and configured with silicone rubber; an adhered substrate which includes and configured with a non-glass material and includes an oxide, a sulfide and/or a nitride exposed on a bonding surface thereof; and the silicone rubber substrate and the adhered substrate which are bonded by direct bonding between reactive functional groups on a surface of the silicone rubber substrate and reactive functional groups on a surface of the oxide, the sulfide and/or the nitride.

Abstract: Stepping force can be transmitted effectively from a pad member to an arm member even when a stepping operation by the foot of an operator is performed at a position shifted in a lateral direction from the center position of the pad member in the lateral direction. The body of a brake pedal (20) that is a pedal for vehicle is formed of an arm member (21) rotatable vertically about a center shaft arranged in a proximal end portion (21A), and a pad member (22) to which a stepping operation by the foot of an operator is performed is attached to an end face (21C) of a distal end (21B) of the arm member (21). The arm member (21) is made of a pipe, and an end face (21C) of the arm member (21) to which the pad member (22) is attached has a laterally long shape.

Abstract: An analog-type electronic watch with an electrical generating apparatus, this watch having a load compensation function means, and completing avoiding the adverse influence of magnetic noise which accompanying electrical generation operation. This watch has an electrical generator which operates intermittently, an electrical generation detection means which detects electrical generation by the electrical generator based on a prescribed relationship to the operation of a drive judging means, and a control means which, when the driving judging means detects electrical generation by the electrical generator, supplies a compensation drive pulse to a drive circuit, regardless of the judgment results of the driving judging means.

Abstract: An electronic watch 400 which comprises a power supply 401 and a watch circuit 402.

Abstract: A hand apparatus of a robot includes fingers for clamping a first workpiece and inserting a second workpiece into the first workpiece, a compliance device disposed between an arm of the robot and the fingers, and a calculator for determining shifting information between the first and second workpieces. A memory memorizes design information associated with the insertion operation of the first and second workpieces, and the hand apparatus selects whether the compliance device is required or not on the basis of the information provided by the calculator and the memory.

Abstract: A hand mechanism for a robot is attached to the distal end of an arm portion of a robot and has independent modules for executing predetermined elementary motions, which modules can be combined with each other in selected arbitrary combinations to attain desired elementary motions. The hand mechanism includes a holder module which includes a fixing member fixed to the arm portion, an attaching plate to be attached to other modules and a coupling mechanism for coupling the fixing member and the attaching plate. The coupling mechanism includes angle an adjustment pin for adjusting the attaching angle of the attaching plate about the arm portion, and a shear pin bolt for releasing a coupling state between the fixing member and the attaching plate upon application of a shock to the hand mechanism.

Abstract: An alignment apparatus is interposed between a machine body and a terminal body attached to the machine body and performs alignment therebetween to have a predetermined compliance. The apparatus includes a mounting body connected to the machine body, with the mounting body and the terminal body having opposing surfaces, a first shaft member engaged with an engaging portion formed on the opposing surface of the mounting body, and a second shaft member engaged with an engaging portion formed on the opposing surface of the terminal body. The second shaft member is located on an identical axis to the first shaft member. A plurality of pin members are disposed around the first and second shaft members to surround them, and biasing members apply a tightening force to the plurality of pin members.

Abstract: In an electronic timepiece utilizing a stepping motor, voltage induced in the electromagnetic coil of the motor due to free oscillation of a rotor thereof is detected in a plurality of successive detection periods after application of a driving force to the motor is completed, and it is determined on the basis of such induced voltage for the respective detection periods whether the rotor failed to step or not. If the stepping failure is determined in at least one detection period, a compensation pulse is fed to the stepping motor to compensate for the stepping failure of the rotor and thereafter driving energy supplied to the electromagnetic coil of the motor is increased.

Abstract: In an electronic timepiece having two stepping motors, one for driving at least a second-hand and the other for driving at least an hour-hand, rotation or non-rotation of the rotor of said other stepping rotor is detected and when non-rotation is detected, failure of stepping of said other stepping motor is determined and said one stepping motor is controlled to be actuated in a warning mode which is different from a normal mode to give warning of the failure of stepping of said other stepping motor.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece havig a stepping motor driving time indicating hands is provided with a system whereby the stepping motor is selectively driven at one of three different drive power levels, in accordance with the load currently being applied to the motor. Detection of the load level is performed by momentarily sampling a voltage induced in the motor drive coil during a short time interval following a drive pulse. The system provides rapid response to changes in load level, highly stable control, and excellent tolerance to variations in characteristics of different stepping motors and circuit components.

Abstract: In an electronic timepiece having a stepping motor which drives time indicating means, a system is provided for detecting an increase in the load torque on the stepping motor above a predetermined level. When such an increase is detected, the conditions for detection of the load on the stepping motor are changed, and thereafter drive pulses of increased power are applied to the stepping motor. When the increased load is removed, this is detected under the new set of detection conditions, and a return to the original detection conditions is executed, with the drive pulse power being returned to the original level. Stability of control is thereby provided, together with immediate response to increased load on the stepping motor.

Abstract: An electronic watch 400 which comprises a power supply 401 and a watch circuit 402.