Abstract: A white light confocal optical measurement device capable of detecting abnormalities in a received light waveform; the optical measurement device includes: a light source; an optical system; a light receiving unit; and a processor configured to compute the distance from the optical system to the measurement object on the basis of a received light intensity of the wavelength components received in the light receiving unit. The processor compares a received light intensity of a wavelength component to a reference value for the wavelength component for a plurality of wavelength components in a waveform representing the light received, and detects an abnormality in the received light waveform when the amount of change in the received light intensity compared to the reference value therefor is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold for any wavelength component in the plurality of wavelength components.

Abstract: A control device includes a program execution module, a communication unit, and a collection module connected to the communication unit. The program execution module generates control instructions for a control target in accordance with a user program that is freely created. The communication unit transmits and/or receives communication data to and/or from an external device through a network. The collection module collects data satisfying a filtering condition from among the communication data that is transferred on the network. The collection module changes the filtering condition in accordance with an instruction included in the user program.

Abstract: This application describes multi-stage stop devices for robotic arms. During a first stage, rotational motion of a link of a robotic arm compresses a compressible member of the multi-stage stop device to absorb and dissipate at least some of the force generated by the collision. A second stage provides a hard stop the stops any further rotation. The multi-stage stop devices described herein can include a collapsing pin configured to compress a compressible member during the first stage. After the pin has collapsed a rigid sidewall provides a hard stop preventing further rotation during the second stage.

Abstract: Accuracy of feedforward control for a wire straightener is improved. A feedback operation amount to a straightener is determined by a feedback control means based on an error between a target curvature and a straightening curvature. A feedforward compensation means determines a feedforward compensation value from a measurement value of the straightener using a prediction model. A learning means performs machine learning on the prediction model using teaching data. The learning means adds at least one combination including the measurement value and a manipulated variable when an absolute value of an error is smaller than a reference value to the teaching data.

Abstract: A base member of the sensor includes a first projection part, a second projection part, and a third projection part, being columnar and projecting from a first placement surface. Tip ends of the first, second and third projection parts are formed on second placement surfaces. The first and second projection parts respectively include a fourth pin and a fifth pin inserted through a second rigid substrate and projecting from the second placement surface. Three ribs are formed on a peripheral surface of the fourth pin and disposed so that positions viewed from a center of the fourth pin respectively form angles less than 180 degrees. Two ribs are formed on a peripheral surface of the fifth pin, and project along a fourth line perpendicular to a third line connecting the fourth pin and the fifth pin.

Abstract: Provided is an image with which it is possible for a user to discern at a glance a difference in setting values used for image processing and image processing results depending on the difference in the setting values. An image processing system generates a display image in which a first display image including a first setting value group and a first image processing result is associated with a second display image including a second setting value group and a second image processing result. The image display system generates a display image in which a display mode of at least one of setting items corresponding to the setting values varying in value according to a comparison result is different from a display mode of others.

Abstract: A workpiece picking device includes a sensor that measures the workpieces, a hand that grasps the workpieces, a robot that moves the hand, and a control device thereof. The control device has a position orientation calculation part that calculates position, orientation and the like of the workpieces, a grasping orientation calculation part that calculates a grasping orientation of the workpieces by the hand, a route calculation part that calculates a route through which the hand moves to the grasping orientation, a sensor control part, a hand control part, a robot control part, a situation determination part that determines the situation of the workpieces on the basis of measurement result or the like of the three-dimensional position, and a parameter modification part that modifies at least one of a measurement parameter and various calculation parameters, when the determination result of the situations of the workpieces satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A first searcher searches a dictionary with a first character string that is input, and acquires a second character string corresponding to the first character string. The second searcher performs a web search with a search character string based on the first character string that is input, and acquires a keyword extracted from a search result as a third character string. A search switching step switches between the first searcher and the second searcher. An outputter outputs the second character string acquired by the first searcher or the third character string acquired by the second searcher.

Abstract: A sensor includes: a receptacle connectable to an external plug; a second housing accommodating at least part of the receptacle; a main substrate on which an electronic component used for sensing is mounted; a shield film covering at least part of the main substrate and shielding an electromagnetic wave emitted from the main substrate and/or an electromagnetic wave to penetrate the main substrate from the outside; a first housing accommodating at least part of the main substrate and at least part of the shield film; a flexible substrate connecting the main substrate and the receptacle; and a protection member abutting on an end of the shield film from the side opposite to the main substrate, the end of the shield film facing the flexible substrate.

Abstract: An illumination device (10) is attached to a gaming machine island including a plurality of gaming machines (40), and comprises LEDs (21a) that emit light, light guide plates (20), a rotating body (23), a plate-shaped member (24), a motor (31), a lower case (13), and a control unit 17. A plurality of light guide plates 20 are attached to the plate-shaped member 24. The light guide plates 20 each have an end surface 20a on which the light emitted from the LEDs 21a is incident, and a flat surface 20b from which the incident light is emitted. The rotating body 23 and the plate-shaped member 24 hold an LED board 21 and the light guide plates 20. The motor 31 rotates the rotating body 23 in the desired direction. The lower case 13 is provided with the motor 31, is connected to the rotating body 23 and the plate-shaped member 24 in a relatively rotatable state, and is installed on a gaming machine island that includes gaming machines 40.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus according to one or more embodiments may process metadata indicative of an attribute of real data input into an extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool external to the data processing apparatus. The real data and the metadata may each include an identification (ID). The data processing apparatus may include a memory and a processor. The memory may store a program. The processor may execute the program. The program may cause the processor to process the metadata to include the same ID as the real data output from the ETL tool.

Abstract: According to a first aspect, an industrial personal computer (IRC) (100) is provided. The IPC comprises: •a first housing module (10) having a first electronic component, an internal electric power supply device and a first electric connection portion; and •a second housing module (20?) having a second electronic component and a second electric connection portion, the first and the second housing modules being stacked along a stacking direction (SD), wherein the first and second connection portions form a connection bus along the stacking direction at least for transmitting electric power between the first and second housing modules; wherein •the second electronic component is an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) device (21); and •the IRC further comprising a power management controller (28).

Abstract: Provided is a proximity sensor that can limit degradation in voltage resistance. A proximity sensor includes: a housing; a coil portion that is accommodated in one end of the housing; a clamp portion that is connected to the other end of the housing; a substrate which is accommodated inside the housing and the clamp portion, and on which a circuit electrically connected to the coil portion is mounted; a shield that covers a part of the substrate located on a side of the housing; and a resin portion which is arranged inside the housing and the clamp portion, and covers at least a part of the substrate. The shield has an extension portion which extends to an inside of the clamp portion and covers at least a part of the circuit located inside the clamp portion.

Abstract: A control device includes: a first generator generating a first command position of a control object on a plane in each control cycle based on a target trajectory; a first control part generating a first operation amount by model predictive control using a first dynamic characteristic model and the first command position; a second generator generating a second command position of the control object on an orthogonal axis in each control cycle; and a second control part generating a second operation amount by model predictive control using a second dynamic characteristic model and the second command position. Based on shape data indicating a surface shape of an object and the first command position, the second generator generates the second command position so that a distance between the control object and a surface of the object is constant.

Abstract: A technique enables control parameter adjustment with a more accurate estimated inertia ratio for multiple servomotors. An adjustment support apparatus (9) supports adjustment of inertia ratios as control parameters for servo drivers (5, 6) that drive multiple servomotors. The adjustment support apparatus (9) includes an inertia ratio obtainer (91) that obtains inertia ratios estimated by inertia ratio estimators (52, 62) included in the servo drivers (5, 6) and an inertia ratio setting control unit (92) that synchronizes inertia ratio settings and updates between the servo drivers (5, 6).

Abstract: This robot system includes a robot on which a driver bit for rotating a screw is mountable, and a robot controller that controls the robot. The robot controller gives a command to the robot to insert a teaching jig into a screw hole which is to be threaded with the screw in a state where the teaching jig is mounted instead of the driver bit, and determines a direction in which the driver bit is inserted by adjusting a direction in which the teaching jig is inserted so as not to cause a load due to interference between the teaching jig and the screw hole.

Abstract: A proximity sensor unit includes a proximity sensor section including a sensor electrode capable of detecting a capacitance value according to a distance to an object to be detected in a detection direction and a moving device capable of moving the sensor electrode of the proximity sensor section or the object to be detected in the detection direction.

Abstract: A blood pressure measuring device includes a device main body; a curler configured to bend along a circumferential direction of a wrist of a living body, configured to come into contact with a portion of the wrist at least between a dorsal side and a palmar side; a strap provided to the device main body, and further configured to be mounted on the wrist; a sensing cuff arranged in a region of the wrist where arteries exist; a back plate provided on a side of the sensing cuff nearer to the curler; a rubber plate provided between the curler and the back plate and configured to elastically deform; a pressing cuff provided on a side of the curler nearer to the strap; and a cuff provided on a side of the curler nearer to the living body.

Abstract: A voice coil motor (VCM) according to one or more embodiments may include a casing, a permanent magnet, a yoke and iron-core, a bobbin, and a coil part. The coil part may include a drive and primary coil serving as a drive coil and a primary coil of a displacement sensor including a differential transformer, the drive and primary coil being interlinked with a magnetic flux by the permanent magnet, and two secondary coils of the displacement sensor. The yoke and iron-core may be disposed in a central space defined in the coil part, and serves as an iron core of the displacement sensor.

Abstract: An analysis device according to one aspect of the present invention supplies a definition for a dependency relation between an input parameter and an output parameter of a standard function, which cannot be derived in a dependency analysis of a control program, the definition being supplied by use of function structure information which is external information. In other words, an analysis device according to this configuration identifies a dependency relation between an input parameter and an output parameter of the standard function on the basis of function structure information that defines a dependency relation between the input parameter and the output parameter of the standard function. Therefore, the dependency relation between the input and the output of a standard function becomes clear, so the dependency relations between a plurality of device variables that mediate the standard function can be identified.