Abstract: In an arm operating device of an industrial robot, two chains are laid over the driving wheel provided in the supporting arm and the driven wheel provided in the bending arm, respectively, and are coupled through rigid transmission rods and a tension device to each other, and one of the transmission rods is rectangular in section, and is slightly pushed inwardly by a guide provided on the supporting arm, whereby the device operates positively and smoothly with being free from vibrations, and chain elongation and twist.

Abstract: In a numerical control machine tool, the sliding errors are compensated by control means comprising: a position detector for detecting a current position on a first axis at all times in association with a first-axis position detector; a compensation data memory in which compensation data for a second axis corresponding to positions on the first axis have been stored, the memory outputting a compensation data corresponding to a position which coincides with a current position specified by the position register; a pulse generator means for calculating the difference between the current compensation data and the preceding compensation data and generating a pulse train proportional to the difference; an adder for subjecting to addition or subtraction the pulse train generated and a pulse train obtained by converting the output signal of a second-axis position detector; a pulse restoring means for converting the output pulse train of the adder into a signal similar in form to the output of the position detector; a

Abstract: In a robot locus control metod, the coordinates of first three representative points and first work points of an object to be handled by a robot are taught to the robot, when the relative position of the robot and the object is changed, the coordinates of second three representative points corresponding to the first three representative points are taught, and the coordinates of second work points are calculated from the relative position of the first three representative points and the first work points and the second three representative points, thereby to command the robot working locus.

Abstract: In a speed detector having a fixed frequency oscillator for producing two-phase sine waves to excite two-phase exciting windings of a resolver, first and second multipliers for multiplying the output of the detecting winding of the resolver by the two-phase sine waves respectively, and a position conversion circuit and speed conversion circuit, the speed conversion circuit comprises: a third multiplier for multiplying a signal of the first multiplier by a signal of a VFO; and a fourth multiplier for multiplying a signal of the second multiplier by a signal of the VFO, the outputs of the third and fourth multipliers being applied through a comparator to a proportional integration amplifier, the output of which is used as the rotation speed signal and applied to the VFO, thereby to eliminate the necessity for provision of a countermeasure against harmonics and harmonic noise involved in the use of an integration circuit required when a resolver is used as a detector.

Abstract: There is disclosed a current type inverter excellent in transient response which comprises a two-phase sine wave generator for receiving signals corresponding to a motor speed signal and a speed deviation signal, to provide sine waves shifted 90.degree. in phase, and a vector calculating circuit for calculating stator current instruction vectors from exciting current components and torque current components, the outputs of the vector calculating circuit being applied as frequency instruction signals of a conventional current type inverter.

Abstract: In a control device of an AC motor wherein a torque equivalent to that of a DC motor is created by controlling the instantaneous values of its stator current, or in a vector control device, signals from a position detector such as a resolver coupled to the AC motor are utilized to form stator current instruction signals and to provide rotation position feed-back signals and rotation speed feed-back signals for the AC motor, thereby to perform precise servo-control.

Abstract: In the armature of an electrical rotary machine, each of the half coils printed on both surfaces of an insulating disc is made up of a radially extended linear conductor and inner and outer sloped conductors connected to the ends of the linear conductors, the half coils being connected to one another to form complete coils wound around the disc, and the inner conductor is extended along an involute line with a circle as its base circle, which is smaller in diameter than the circle which is formed by the inner ends of the winding conductors.

Abstract: In a control device of an AC motor wherein a torque equivalent to that of a DC motor is created by controlling the instantaneous values of its stator current, or in a vector control device, signals from a position detector such as a resolver coupled to the AC motor are utilized to form stator current instruction signals and to provide rotation position feed-back signals and rotation speed feed-back signals for the AC motor, thereby to perform precise servo-control.

Abstract: An automatic pattern generation type sewing machine having a digital signal generator for outputting digital signals corresponding to stitch positions of a stitch pattern provided by the use of a signal synchronous with the arm shaft of the sewing machine is so improved that a plurality of sets of parameters can be successively applied to the digital signal generator and quadrants of a stitch pattern can be designated to form a more complicated, compound pattern.

Abstract: In an automatic pattern generation type sewing machine, a function generating device generates stitch positions using a signal synchronous with the rotation of the armshaft of the sewing machine, a digital signal generating device provides digital signals corresponding to the stitch positions, and a servo driving device, using the digital signals, moves the cloth or the needle, to thereby form a variety of geometrical stitch patterns automatically.

Abstract: In a reed switch comprising an envelope, first and second stationary terminals, and an armature supported elastically on the second stationary terminals in such a manner that the innermost end portion of the second stationary terminal and one end portion of the armature are opposite to each other with a magnetic gap, each of the one end portion of the armature and the innermost end portion of the second stationary terminal is larger in sectional area than the other portion thereof, thereby to decrease the magnetic resistance of the magnetic gap and to increase the closing power of the switch. According to another aspect of the invention, the reed switch has a back stop for detaining the armature when the switch is opened.

Abstract: A continuous casting system provides with a foreign matter receiving gutter between two adjacent rolls to receive foreign matters dropping during the drawing operation of castings, and a foreign matter removing nozzle to wash away the foreign matter dropped on the gutter. An electromagnetic agitator of the continuous casting system is provided with a proximity switch at least at its inlet side to sense a magnetic substance approaching the agitator thereby to control the operation of the agitator, thus eliminating troubles caused by the vibration of the magnetic substance.

Abstract: A continuous casting system provides with a foreign matter receiving gutter between two adjacent rolls to receive foreign matters dropping during the drawing operation of castings, and a foreign matter removing nozzle to wash away the foreign matter dropped on the gutter. An electromagnetic agitator of the continuous casting system is provided with a proximity switch at least at its inlet side to sense a magnetic substance approaching the agitator thereby to control the operation of the agitator, thus eliminating troubles caused by the vibration of the magnetic substance.