Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electronic device including an electronic component including a chip main body, a plurality of electrodes, a passivation which includes openings, and UBMs which are respectively formed to be smaller than an opening area of the opening, a substrate including a plurality of substrate electrodes, and a plurality of spherical solder bumps configured to electrically connect the plurality of electrodes with the plurality of substrate electrodes. The solder bump is bonded to the electrode at a bonding portion located on a bottom surface of the spherical shape. Each of the plurality of electrodes includes an exposed portion generated because a bonding area between the solder bump and the electrode via the UBM is smaller than the opening area. The solder bump is separated apart from the passivation via an upper space located above the exposed portion of the electrode.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine system includes a rotor; and a stator including windings for low speed drive to be used only during low speed drive, windings for low/high speed drive to be used during both low and high speed drive, and a plurality of slots provided per pole per phase. The windings for low speed drive and the windings for low/high speed drive are distributively wound on different slots in the slots per pole per phase.

Abstract: A transfer system includes a substrate positioning device, robots having a first robot and a second robot; and robot control devices, the robot control devices including a first robot control device to which the first robot and the substrate positioning device are connected and a second robot control device to which the second robot is connected. The first robot control device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire, from the substrate positioning device, at least an absolute deviation amount between the rotation center of the mounting table and a center position of the substrate positioned, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit correction information relying on the absolute deviation amount acquired by the acquiring unit, to the second robot control device to which the second robot is connected.

Abstract: From a desired wrist joint position and a desired elbow rotation angle, a temporary elbow joint position is calculated on the assumption that a distance between a shoulder joint and an elbow joint is fixed. The shoulder joint has a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis, and the elbow joint has a fourth axis. From the calculated temporary elbow joint position, temporary angles of the first and second axes or temporary angles of the first to fourth axes are determined. The temporary angles are corrected in accordance with at least one evaluation function calculated from the temporary angles.

Abstract: A parallel link robot system includes a picking section from which a target object is picked, a placing section on which the target object picked from the picking section is placed, the placing section being arranged in a height position lower than the picking section, a parallel link robot including a plurality of parallel-connected link mechanism units and a holding unit attached to tip end portions of the link mechanism units, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the parallel link robot. The control unit is configured to execute a control for causing the parallel link robot to perform a picking operation by which the target object is held and picked from the picking section and a placing operation by which the target object picked by the picking operation is placed on the placing section.

Abstract: A carrier device according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a carrier chamber, a robot that is placed near one longitudinal-side wall in the carrier chamber, and a linear moving mechanism that has a track by which the robot is linearly moved in the longitudinal direction of the carrier chamber. The arm of the robot is defined to a length by which the arm does not interfere with the other longitudinal-side wall even if the arm is rotated around an arm spindle. The track of the linear moving mechanism has a length by which the leading end of the hand perpendicular to the track reaches a predetermined position in a connecting hole located at an end among connecting holes provided in the longitudinal-side wall.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power conversion semiconductor element having an electrode, an electrode conductor electrically connected to the electrode of the power conversion semiconductor element and including a side face and an upper end portion having a substantially flat upper end face, and a seal material formed of resin to cover the power conversion semiconductor element and the side face of the electrode conductor. The substantially flat upper end face of the electrode conductor is exposed from an upper surface of the seal material, and the upper end portion of the electrode conductor having the substantially flat upper end face has a projecting portion projecting sideward.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core in which first magnetic pole portions having permanent magnets and second magnetic pole portions having no permanent magnets are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. Each of the second magnetic pole portions has at least one notch provided near the permanent magnet adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A carrier device according to embodiments includes a carrier chamber that is provided with a plurality of connecting holes that are communicated with the outside, an articulated robot that is placed inside the carrier chamber, and a linear moving mechanism that makes at least the arm part of the articulated robot linearly move in a short side direction of the carrier chamber. The bottom end of the arm part of the articulated robot is provided on a base via an arm spindle to be rotatable horizontally and its leading end is provided with a hand that is rotatable horizontally and holds a board to be taken in and out via the connecting holes.

Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a first arm including a first joint portion; a second arm including a second joint portion swingably engaging with the first joint portion, the second arm being connected to the first arm to make up a link mechanism; and a biasing mechanism unit which biases the second joint portion toward the first joint portion. The biasing mechanism unit includes a connection member attached to the second arm and the connection member includes a locking portion configured to lock the connection member to the second arm.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core in which first magnetic pole portions having permanent magnets and second magnetic pole portions having no permanent magnets are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction; and a stator core which is arranged to face an outer periphery of the rotor core. The rotor core is configured such that an average gap length between the stator core and the second magnetic pole portions is larger than an average gap length between the stator core and the first magnetic pole portions.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A robot includes an arm having a base end portion rotatably installed through a joint part and a tip end portion in which an output shaft is installed; and a drive mechanism arranged within the arm and configured to drive the output shaft at a reduced speed. The drive mechanism includes a motor having a motor shaft, a driving pulley attached to the motor shaft, a driven pulley attached to the output shaft, at least one intermediate pulley provided between the driving pulley and the driven pulley, and a plurality of belts for operatively interconnecting the driving pulley and the driven pulley through the intermediate pulley.

Abstract: A transmission mechanism includes: a drive pulley which is provided on a drive shaft and has external teeth with a predetermined pitch width; a driven pulley which is provided on a driven shaft and has external teeth with the pitch width; and a belt having internal teeth with the pitch width which engage with the external teeth of the drive pulley and the driven pulley. Further, the belt includes sub-belts having a periodic variation characteristic in which the pitch width varies periodically, and the sub-belts are arranged in a state where phases of the periodic variation characteristic thereof are shifted from each other.

Abstract: A substrate positioning device includes: a supporting unit for supporting a substrate in place; a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit respectively arranged at major surface sides of the substrate to face each other; a light emission control unit configured to control a light emission quantity of the light emitting unit pursuant to a control value; and a detecting unit for detecting a light reception quantity received by the light receiving unit. The substrate positioning device further includes an adjusting unit for controlling the control value pursuant to the light reception quantity while the substrate is not supported by the supporting unit.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A robot includes an arm unit having a base end portion rotatably installed through a joint part. The arm unit includes a housing and a specified member arranged within the housing. At least a portion of the housing is made of a transparent material.

Abstract: 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.