Abstract: In an automatic operation system including: a positioning robot having a holding tool and an inertial sensor at a tip end portion of an arm thereof; a working robot having an operation tool at a tip end portion of an arm thereof; and a robot control device, a positioning correcting method of the present invention includes: conveying and positioning the holding tool, which holds a work, by the positioning robot at a positioning reference position of the holding tool corresponding to an operation position of the work; detecting a displacement amount of the holding tool from the positioning reference position by the robot control device based on an inertial force of the inertial sensor when the working robot carries out a predetermined operation with respect to the work; and correcting based on the detected displacement amount the positioning reference position of the holding tool to a position of the holding tool before the holding tool is displaced.

Abstract: A wrist portion of a robot includes: a first movable portion configured to rotate relative to an arm portion around a first wrist axis; a second movable portion configured to rotate relative to the first movable portion around a second wrist axis; a third movable portion configured to rotate relative to the second movable portion around a third wrist axis; and a cable insertion portion through which an effector cable is inserted, the effector cable being used to supply electric power to an end effector attached to the third movable portion. The cable insertion portion is provided at the first movable portion so as to be located on the first wrist axis. Two motors among a plurality of motors configured to drive the wrist portion are attached to the first movable portion so as to sandwich the cable insertion portion in a direction perpendicular to the first wrist axis.

Abstract: A vehicle obstacle detection device comprises: a radar unit provided between a back surface of a bumper and a wheel and configured to detect an obstacle by transmitting a radio wave through the bumper; and a misdetection prevention member for preventing misdetection in the radar unit by suppressing the occurrence of an own-vehicle's wheel reaching wave which is a part of a transmission wave and which passes between a transmitter section of the radar unit and the back surface of the bumper and reaches the wheel of the own vehicle.

Abstract: In a lock-out prevention control, in which when a portable device is locked out in a trunk room, an alarm is conducted and a latch of a trunk latch mechanism is controlled to its unlatch state without ID verification with a portable device, in the case where an operation of door lock is conducted by the portable device after a start of the alarm (step SB8), the alarm is stopped (step SB12) and the lock-out prevention control is prohibited. The lock-out prevention control is also prohibited when a switch located in a vehicle cabin is operated (step SB9) regardless of the door lock operation by the portable device. Thereby, the vehicle security and the utility or facility can be improved.

Abstract: Each portion constituting a displayed screen can be displayed with colors which a user easily views. When an operation button as a component is selected as a target for color customization in a content screen, a color customization operation screen is displayed which includes a first color selector display area with respect to this operation button and a second color selector display area with respect to a layout (background) on which this operation button overlaid and displayed. In the first color selector display area, the respective color selectors of text, background, and frame line as the elements constituting this operation button are displayed, and colors of the respective elements can be selected using these color palettes. It is similar for in the second color selector display area.

Abstract: In an automatic operation system including: a positioning robot having a holding tool and an inertial sensor at a tip end portion of an arm thereof; a working robot having an operation tool at a tip end portion of an arm thereof; and a robot control device, a positioning correcting method of the present invention includes: conveying and positioning the holding tool, which holds a work, by the positioning robot at a positioning reference position of the holding tool corresponding to an operation position of the work; detecting a displacement amount of the holding tool from the positioning reference position by the robot control device based on an inertial force of the inertial sensor when the working robot carries out a predetermined operation with respect to the work; and correcting based on the detected displacement amount the positioning reference position of the holding tool to a position of the holding tool before the holding tool is displaced.

Abstract: A miniaturized articulated manipulator 20 has a first arm member 31A internally provided with two driving motors 33 and 34, and a second arm member 30B not provided with any devices corresponding to the driving motors 33 and 34 and capable of being miniaturized. The driving motors 33 and 34 can be disposed in common areas 135 at least partially overlapping each other with respect to a direction parallel to the axis of the first arm member 30A and can be arranged in a direction perpendicular to the axis. Thus the first arm member 30A can be formed in a small axial size. Thus the first arm 30A and the second arm 30B can be miniaturized and hence the articulated manipulator 20 can be formed in a short overall length.

Abstract: A robot includes a body structure on which a robot arm having an end effector is rotatably supported. The body structure has a stationary base unit fixedly installed and a movable unit rotatably supported on the stationary base unit to turn about an axis of rotation. The stationary base unit includes a stationary-side guide part having a stationary-side internal space in which a flexible, elongate member connected to the robot arm or the end effector is extended loosely along the axis of rotation. The stationary-side guide part opens upstream in an elongate member inserting direction. The movable unit includes a movable-side guide part having a movable-side internal space in which the elongate member is extended loosely along the axis of rotation. The movable-side guide part opens downstream in an elongate member inserting direction. The stationary-side and the movable-side internal spaces communicate with each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial robot which can reduce torque required for driving an object to be moved. By providing a third reduction device and a third driving device separately, the dimension in the third axial direction of the third reduction device can be reduced, thus the distance from a second axis to an end effecter can be decreased. As such, the torque required for a first driving device and a second driving device to rotate and drive the end effecter can be reduced. Accordingly, even when the weight of the end effecter is increased, an increase of the torque required for the first driving device and the second driving device can be suppressed. Therefore, a higher speed operation can be achieved as compared with the conventional industrial robot.

Abstract: In a deformable structure, connecting parts each of which has a base part are arranged longitudinally so that adjacent connecting parts are connected to each other. Respective first axes of the adjacent connecting parts are inclined to each other in a state that a spacer on one of the two adjacent base parts comes into contact with the other base part. When an external force is exerted on the deformable structure, the spacers restrain the deformable structure from being further curved into a radius of curvature smaller than a predetermined allowable radius of curvature. Most of the external force exerted on the deformable structure is born by the base parts and the spacers so that only a low force acts on the connecting parts. Thus the connecting parts do not break easily so that the deformable structure has a high strength.

Abstract: A robot arm structure for a carrying robot is capable of carrying a load in a wide range under restrictions on robot arm motions. A second arm 38 is joined to an upper link 35, a third arm 39 is joined to the second arm 38, and a fourth arm 40 is joined to the third arm 39. A holding unit mounted on the fourth arm 40 can be moved in a wide range through the angular displacement of the second arm 38 to the fourth arm 40 even in a state where a first arm 36 is maintained at a predetermined position relative to a bed 33. Thus a load can be moved in a wide range.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial robot which can reduce torque required for driving an object to be moved. By providing a third reduction device and a third driving device separately, the dimension in the third axial direction of the third reduction device can be reduced, thus the distance from a second axis to an end effecter can be decreased. As such, the torque required for a first driving device and a second driving device to rotate and drive the end effecter can be reduced. Accordingly, even when the weight of the end effecter is increased, an increase of the torque required for the first driving device and the second driving device can be suppressed. Therefore, a higher speed operation can be achieved as compared with the conventional industrial robot.

Abstract: In a lock-out prevention control, in which when a portable device is locked out in a trunk room, an alarm is conducted and a latch of a trunk latch mechanism is controlled to its unlatch state without ID verification with a portable device, in the case where an operation of door lock is conducted by the portable device after a start of the alarm (step SB8), the alarm is stopped (step SB12) and the lock-out prevention control is prohibited. The lock-out prevention control is also prohibited when a switch located in a vehicle cabin is operated (step SB9) regardless of the door lock operation by the portable device. Thereby, the vehicle security and the utility or facility can be improved.

Abstract: In a deformable structure, connecting parts each of which has a base part are arranged longitudinally so that adjacent connecting parts are connected to each other. Respective first axes of the adjacent connecting parts are inclined to each other in a state that a spacer on one of the two adjacent base parts comes into contact with the other base part. When an external force is exerted on the deformable structure, the spacers restrain the deformable structure from being further curved into a radius of curvature smaller than a predetermined allowable radius of curvature. Most of the external force exerted on the deformable structure is born by the base parts and the spacers so that only a low force acts on the connecting parts. Thus the connecting parts do not break easily so that the deformable structure has a high strength.

Abstract: A control unit automatically stops an engine when a vehicle is stopped and automatically starts the engine in a case where operation for a vehicle start is conducted by a passenger or a specified emergency start is required. Herein, in the case where the operation for the vehicle start is conducted by the passenger, the engine is automatically started when ID verification with a portable device is confirmed, and in the case where the specified emergency start is required, the engine is automatically started without the confirmation of the ID verification with the portable device. Accordingly, a proper antitheft function of a smart engine starter (SES) system and a proper engine-start function of an idling stop start (ISS) system.

Abstract: The objective of this application is to make it possible to timely acquire the user's evaluation about evaluation-targeted content. A survey window is provided to include a title region, an operation region and a content region. The content region indicates the evaluation-targeted content that the evaluator evaluates. The operation region indicates photographs of agent's faces as help buttons, and feeling input buttons that the evaluator selectively operates according to the emotion experienced when estimating the evaluation-targeted content. The evaluator selectively operates the feeling input buttons when the evaluator experiences an emotion while browsing the evaluation-targeted content to estimate. Thus, the evaluation about the evaluation-targeted content can be more accurately obtained.

Abstract: A miniaturized articulated manipulator 20 has a first arm member 31A internally provided with two driving motors 33 and 34, and a second arm member 30B not provided with any devices corresponding to the driving motors 33 and 34 and capable of being miniaturized. The driving motors 33 and 34 can be disposed in common areas 135 at least partially overlapping each other with respect to a direction parallel to the axis of the first arm member 30A and can be arranged in a direction perpendicular to the axis. Thus the first arm member 30A can be formed in a small axial size. Thus the first arm 30A and the second arm 30B can be miniaturized and hence the articulated manipulator 20 can be formed in a short overall length.

Abstract: A robot includes a body structure on which a robot arm having an end effector is rotatably supported. The body structure has a stationary base unit fixedly installed and a movable unit rotatably supported on the stationary base unit to turn about an axis of rotation. The stationary base unit includes a stationary-side guide part having a stationary-side internal space in which a flexible, elongate member connected to the robot arm or the end effector is extended loosely along the axis of rotation. The stationary-side guide part opens upstream in an elongate member inserting direction. The movable unit includes a movable-side guide part having a movable-side internal space in which the elongate member is extended loosely along the axis of rotation. The movable-side guide part opens downstream in an elongate member inserting direction. The stationary-side and the movable-side internal spaces communicate with each other.