Abstract: A workpiece processing apparatus includes: a cabinet having a projection chamber, workpieces being subjected to processing in the projection chamber; a projector configured to project projection media toward the workpieces charged into the projection chamber; an image sensor configured to image the projection chamber to form an image; and a control unit configured to output information relating to presence or absence of a residue in the projection chamber based on an initial image and an inspection image, the initial image being an image formed by the image sensor and being an image of the projection chamber with no workpiece remaining, the inspection image being an image formed by the image sensor and being an image of the projection chamber after discharging processing in which the plurality of workpieces are discharged from the projection chamber.

Abstract: An information processing device is connected to pieces of equipment and connected to a communication server and configured to transmit and receive data with the communication server. The pieces of equipment include machines as operation targets, sensors provided in the machines, and control devices that operate the machines. The information processing device includes a transmission unit that transmits, to the communication server, notification data for providing notification of information related to the machines on the basis of sensor information by the sensors, a reception unit that acquires, from the communication server, response data in response to the notification data, and a control unit that outputs, to the control devices, a control instruction including operation content of the machines in accordance with the response data.

Abstract: A slave device is efficiently and highly accurately taught to move. To a fixed shaft provided to a base member a proximal end part of a first master arm is turnably coupled. A master motor including a rotor that is rotated by a turning movement of the first master arm is provided to the base member. A part of the first master arm is rotatably coupled, via a first coupling pin, to a first portion that is eccentric with respect to an axis of the rotor.

Abstract: Achieved is a robot system that enables a worker and the like to grasp, as data, a force actually acting on a target. A robot system includes a master robot, a slave robot, a force sensor, a display, and a controller, the controller being configured to carry out a display process of, on the display, displaying force data indicative of a reaction force which has been detected by the force sensor.

Abstract: A blasting abrasive includes a particle of hot melt resin and abrasive grains to be firmly fixed to the particle, a blasting method further includes preparing a blasting abrasive including particles of hot melt resin and abrasive grains to be firmly fixed to the particles, heating gas, and injecting both the blasting abrasive and the heated gas.

Abstract: An excretion care assistance device includes a processor. The processor is configured to carry out a first specification process of specifying defecation times of care-receivers on the basis of sensor terminals and a second specification process of specifying a time at which group excretion care is to be started for at least one care-receiver group, in accordance with a frequency distribution indicative of a total number of times of defecation in each of a plurality of time periods, the frequency distribution being determined from the defecation times that have been specified in the first specification process.

Abstract: The plant state detection system includes an odor detector including an odor detection unit configured to detect an odorant emitted from a plant, and a plant state detector configured to acquire odor information detected by the odor detection unit and detect a state of the plant based on the odor information.

Abstract: A force plate includes: a base plate; a top plate attached to the base plate; a strain element that is attached to the top plate, the strain element being configured to be deformed in accordance with deformation of the top plate; and a plurality of strain gauges configured to detect the deformation of the strain element.

Abstract: A system for determining a set temperature of molten metal in a pouring facility includes a temperature sensor configured to detect a molten metal temperature at a nozzle tip of a ladle during pouring processing, and a control unit configured to acquire temperature transition obtained by plotting the molten metal temperature for each mold in each of the pouring processing, wherein the control unit determines the upper limit temperature to cause a percentage of the number of optimum temperature transitions included in a plurality of acquired temperature transitions in the number of the plurality of acquired temperature transitions to become a predetermined percentage, and determines a temperature obtained by adding a drop temperature that is a temperature dropped during conveyance processing and the determined upper limit temperature, as the set temperature.

Abstract: A processor (213) carries out, after a device is activated and before a blasting medium projected to a projection target object (500), a first inspection process (T1) for determining, in a state in which no blasting medium (400) is supplied to an impeller (110) while each motor of the impeller is rotating, whether a current value supplied to the each motor of the impeller is not more than a first threshold (?1), and a second inspection process (T?1) for determining, in a state in which the impeller is projecting the blasting medium, whether the current value supplied to the each motor of the impeller is not less than a second threshold (?2), and displays, on a display (300), at least one of (1) respective determination results of the first inspection process and the second inspection process and (2) a determination result obtained by generalizing the determination results (1).

Abstract: A technique to facilitate continuing the operation through a load applied by a user who proceeds with a picture program is provided. A force plate functions as a controller controlling a game console. The foot pressure includes a transmitting section configured to transmit, when the COP of a user enters a peripheral part of the force plate, an alert signal to an HM display configured to output a picture from the game console.

Abstract: A management device manages a manufacturing line for a product. The management device includes a storage for storing sensor information obtained by a sensor disposed in the manufacturing line, a storage for storing control information in the manufacturing line, and a storage for storing defect information including image data of a product determined to be defective with regard to a defect of the product. The management device includes a display unit and a display controller for causing the display unit to display one screen including defect information, sensor information corresponding to the defect information, and control information corresponding to the defect information.

Abstract: A sand mold-forming additive capable of making a sand mold-forming composition having excellent forming property and a sand mold having excellent moisture resistance is provided. The sand mold-forming additive contains 0.01-2.00 parts by weight of an inorganic alkali metal compound (B) per 100 parts by weight of anionic surfactant (A). The inorganic alkali metal compound (B) is at least one selected from sodium chloride and sodium sulfate. The ionic surfactant (A) is preferably at least one selected from alkyl sulfonic acid metal salts (A1), alkyl sulfuric acid metal salts (A2), and polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether sulfuric acid ester metal salts (A3).

Abstract: A picking-up robot is successfully made more compact. The robot arm includes a plurality of arm tubes that fit one within another in a nested manner. A push chain is inserted in the robot arm. The push chain is connected to a foremost arm tube at one end of the push chain. A sprocket is rotatably attached to the strut. The push chain is engaged on the sprocket.

Abstract: An operation device receives an operation which an operator has carried out in order to move an operation target. The operation device includes an operation section, a first member, a second member, and a force sensor. The operation section is capable of being subjected to one or both of a tilting operation and a rotating operation. The first member is mechanically connected to the operation section and is displaced in accordance with an amount of operation by the operation section. The second member stops the first member at a predetermined stop position. The force sensor detects, while the second member is stopping the first member, a force or moment which is applied to the second member.

Abstract: A shot processing device includes: a cabinet defining a projection chamber, the cabinet including an opening that communicates with the projection chamber and opens toward an outer surface of a workpiece; a projector that is provided in the cabinet and projects shot media toward the outer surface of the workpiece via the opening; and a seal structure provided along an opening edge of the opening. The seal structure includes a magnet unit provided on a portion of the opening edge, the portion extending in a first direction intersecting a central axis of the workpiece.

Abstract: A shot processing device includes: a projection device that projects shot media onto an outer surface of a workpiece; a moving mechanism that relatively moves the projection device with respect to the workpiece in a first direction; a tilting mechanism that tilts the projection device around an axis extending in a second direction; and a control device that performs attitude control of the projection device and causes the projection device to project the shot media. The projection device includes: a cabinet including an opening; a projector that projects the shot media toward the outer surface via the opening; and a first distance sensor and a second distance sensor provided in the cabinet and spaced apart from each other in a third direction. The control device performs the attitude control based on a first distance measured by the first distance sensor and a second distance measured by the second distance sensor.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a force sensor including: preparing a first substrate which is made of a material that transmits electromagnetic waves and includes on its surface a metal array arranged in a periodic pattern and a second substrate which includes on its surface a metal layer that reflects electromagnetic waves; forming a spacer member on the surface of the first substrate; forming a first metal layer around the spacer member on the surface of the first substrate; forming a second metal layer in a region corresponding to the first metal layer on the second substrate; and fusing the first metal layer and the second metal layer together to fix the first substrate and the second substrate in a state in which the spacer member formed on the surface of the first substrate abuts the surface of the second substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a force sensor including: a first substrate that is made of a material that transmits electromagnetic waves and includes a metal array arranged in a periodic pattern on its surface; a second substrate that is disposed to face the first substrate with a gap therebetween and includes a metal layer that reflects the electromagnetic waves transmitted through the first substrate on its surface; a connecting member configured to connect the first substrate to the second substrate and define an internal space that houses the metal array and the metal layer; and an inert substance that fills the internal space.