Abstract: A motor control system includes a motor and a motor control circuitry. The motor includes a rotation axis and a bearing rotatably supporting the rotation axis. The motor control circuitry is configured to control the motor. The motor control circuitry includes a driving time adding circuit configured to add up a driving time of the motor to obtain an accumulated driving time of the motor, a remaining lifetime calculation circuit configured to calculate a remaining lifetime of the bearing based on a lifetime of the bearing and the accumulated driving time, and a warning outputting circuit configured to output warning information when the remaining lifetime is equal to or less than a threshold.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial equipment production system, including: a production propriety acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result indicating whether or not industrial equipment is producible by using setting information regarding the industrial equipment based on equipment information regarding the industrial equipment; a supply propriety acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on user information regarding a user, a determination result indicating whether or not the industrial equipment produced by using the setting information is suppliable to the user; and a permission unit configured to permit the production of the industrial equipment that uses the setting information based on the determination result acquired by the production propriety acquisition unit and the determination result acquired by the supply propriety acquisition unit.

Abstract: A motor control system includes a motor and a motor control circuitry. The motor includes a rotation axis and a bearing rotatably supporting the rotation axis. The motor control circuitry is configured to control the motor. The motor control circuitry includes a driving time adding circuit configured to add up a driving time of the motor to obtain an accumulated driving time of the motor, a remaining lifetime calculation circuit configured to calculate a remaining lifetime of the bearing based on a lifetime of the bearing and the accumulated driving time, and a warning outputting circuit configured to output warning information when the remaining lifetime is equal to or less than a threshold.

Abstract: A processing system for processing experiment of biochemistry, biology and/or biotechnology includes a manual pipette which includes a piston and suctions and discharges liquid when the piston of the manual pipette is moved by external drive force, an automatic pipette which includes a piston and a built-in actuator and suctions and discharges liquid when the piston of the automatic pipette is moved by the actuator, a robot including a robotic arm which selects and grasps the manual or automatic pipette based on an operation command, and a robotic arm control device including circuitry which controls the robot such that the robotic arm selects and grasps the manual or automatic pipette based on the operation command. The operation command includes a collection of jobs that controls processes for processing a processing target in an experiment of biochemistry, biology and/or biotechnology and a container containing the processing target in a processing order.

Abstract: An industrial machine management system includes a maintenance-use portable terminal and a cloud server. The maintenance-use portable terminal includes a data communication unit for transmitting management information for a user, which is set in accordance with an input from the user in regard to an industrial machine to be managed. The cloud server includes a data communication unit for receiving the management information for the user transmitted by the data communication unit, and a machine information storage for storing the management information for the user received by the data communication unit in association with individual identification information on the industrial machine to be managed.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial equipment production system, including: a production propriety acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result indicating whether or not industrial equipment is producible by using setting information regarding the industrial equipment based on equipment information regarding the industrial equipment; a supply propriety acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on user information regarding a user, a determination result indicating whether or not the industrial equipment produced by using the setting information is suppliable to the user; and a permission unit configured to permit the production of the industrial equipment that uses the setting information based on the determination result acquired by the production propriety acquisition unit and the determination result acquired by the supply propriety acquisition unit.

Abstract: A processing system for processing experiment of biochemistry, biology and/or biotechnology includes a manual pipette which includes a piston and suctions and discharges liquid when the piston of the manual pipette is moved by external drive force, an automatic pipette which includes a piston and a built-in actuator and suctions and discharges liquid when the piston of the automatic pipette is moved by the actuator, a robot including a robotic arm which selects and grasps the manual or automatic pipette based on an operation command, and a robotic arm control device including circuitry which controls the robot such that the robotic arm selects and grasps the manual or automatic pipette based on the operation command. The operation command includes a collection of jobs that controls processes for processing a processing target in an experiment of biochemistry, biology and/or biotechnology and a container containing the processing target in a processing order.

Abstract: An encoder includes an absolute pattern, a light source, and a plurality of light reception elements. The absolute pattern is disposed in a measurement direction. The light source is configured to emit light to the absolute pattern. The plurality of light reception elements are arranged in the measurement direction and are configured to receive the light emitted from the light source and transmitted through or reflected by the absolute pattern. The plurality of light reception elements include a first light reception element having a shape asymmetrical in the measurement direction.

Abstract: An encoder includes an object body having an absolute pattern formed along a measurement direction, a light source positioned such that the light source emits light to the absolute pattern of the object body, and light receiving elements aligned along the measurement direction such that the light receiving elements receive the light transmitted through or reflected by the absolute pattern of the object body. The light receiving elements include a first light receiving element having a polygonal shape and having a first region in the polygonal shape and a second region formed on an inner side of the first region such that the second region has an optical sensitivity lower than an optical sensitivity of the first region and that the first region includes corner portions of the polygonal shape.

Abstract: An encoder includes an absolute pattern, a light source, and a plurality of light reception elements. The absolute pattern is disposed in a measurement direction. The light source is configured to emit light to the absolute pattern. The plurality of light reception elements are arranged in the measurement direction and configured to receive the light emitted from the light source and transmitted through or reflected by the absolute pattern. The plurality of light reception elements include at least one first light reception element having an edge in the measurement direction. The edge is inclined relative to a width direction perpendicular to the measurement direction.

Abstract: A rotation detector provided in a motor unit according to an embodiment includes a first support and a second support, a pair of magnetic field generator, at least one magnetic field detector, and a first magnetic member and a second magnetic member. The pair of magnetic field generator is provided on the first support in a manner facing the second support, and has opposite polarities. The magnetic field detector is formed by winding a coil around a magnetic element whose magnetized direction changes in the longitudinal direction, and is provided on the second support in such a manner that a longitudinal-direction side of the magnetic element faces the first support. Each of the first magnetic member and the second magnetic member is made of a magnetic material, and covers a longitudinal-direction end of the magnetic field detector facing the first support.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses an encoder. The encoder includes a slit array and an optical module. The optical module includes a point light source and a light receiving array comprising a plurality of light receiving elements arranged side by side along the measurement axis and arranged around the point light source in a plane parallel to the slit array, the light receiving elements being respectively receiving light irradiated from the point light source and reflected from the reflection slit. The light receiving array includes a first light receiving array and a second light receiving array. The point light source, the first light receiving array and the second light receiving array are arranged in the manner that a shortest distance between the point light source and the first light receiving array is smaller than a shortest distance between the point light source and the second light receiving array.

Abstract: An industrial machine management system includes a maintenance-use portable terminal and a cloud server. The maintenance-use portable terminal includes a data communication unit for transmitting management information for a user, which is set in accordance with an input from the user in regard to an industrial machine to be managed. The cloud server includes a data communication unit for receiving the management information for the user transmitted by the data communication unit, and a machine information storage for storing the management information for the user received by the data communication unit in association with individual identification information on the industrial machine to be managed.

Abstract: An encoder includes a position data obtainer that obtains superordinate data representing a position of a moving body in a superordinate section and subordinate data representing a position in a subordinate section repeated in a superordinate section with higher resolution than that of the superordinate data, a storage in which a correction value that can correct a deviation amount occurring in the superordinate data against the subordinate data is recorded to be associated with an absolute position with resolution nearly equal to that of the superordinate data, a corrector that obtains the correction value from the storage and corrects the superordinate data, and a section identifier that identifies, based on the superordinate data corrected by the corrector and the subordinate data when the superordinate data is obtained, the subordinate section in which the subordinate data is obtained against the superordinate section.

Abstract: An optical entire-circumference encoder includes a substrate. A light source is disposed on a rotation axis and a first surface of the substrate. A disc, rotatable about the rotation axis, is disposed on a second surface of the substrate. The disc includes first and second rotation tracks each including rotating slits. A light guiding unit radially guides light from the light source toward an entire outer circumference of the disc to the first and second rotation tracks. The light guiding unit includes a first light guiding section and second light guiding sections. The first light guiding section includes a ring-shaped surface directly or indirectly opposed to a rotation track. The first light guiding section radially guides the light out from the ring-shaped surface toward the first rotation track. The second light guiding sections guide part of the radially guided light to the second rotation track.

Abstract: A rotation detector of a motor according to an embodiment includes a first support and a second support, a pair of magnetic field forming units, at least one magnetic field detector, and a first magnetic member and a second magnetic member. The first magnetic member and the second magnetic member are each made of a magnetic material, cover longitudinal-direction both ends of the magnetic field detector facing the first support, respectively, and face each other with a gap interposed therebetween at a longitudinal-direction mid-portion of the magnetic field detector in the longitudinal direction. A dimension of each of the magnetic field forming units in a tangential direction of a circumference is larger than a dimension of the corresponding magnetic field forming unit in a radial direction and is larger than the distance of the gap.

Abstract: An encoder includes a slit array along a first measurement axis, and an optical module capable of relatively moving with respect to the slit array. The optical module comprises a point light source that irradiates the part of the slit array, and a light receiving array comprising a plurality of light receiving elements along a second measurement axis and arranged in positions offset with respect to the point light source. The light receiving elements is receiving light irradiated from the point light source and reflected from the reflection slit. The plurality of light receiving elements comprises respective shapes such that the light receiving element nearer to the point light source comprises a shorter length in a width direction and end parts on an opposite side of the light receiving element with respect to the point light source are arranged side by side in positions along the second measurement axis.

Abstract: A rotation detector provided in a motor unit according to an embodiment includes a first support and a second support, a pair of magnetic field generator, at least one magnetic field detector, and a first magnetic member and a second magnetic member. The pair of magnetic field generator is provided on the first support in a manner facing the second support, and has opposite polarities. The magnetic field detector is formed by winding a coil around a magnetic element whose magnetized direction changes in the longitudinal direction, and is provided on the second support in such a manner that a longitudinal-direction side of the magnetic element faces the first support. Each of the first magnetic member and the second magnetic member is made of a magnetic material, and covers a longitudinal-direction end of the magnetic field detector facing the first support.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses an encoder. The encoder includes a slit array and an optical module. The optical module includes a point light source and a light receiving array comprising a plurality of light receiving elements arranged side by side along the measurement axis and arranged around the point light source in a plane parallel to the slit array, the light receiving elements being respectively receiving light irradiated from the point light source and reflected from the reflection slit. The light receiving array includes a first light receiving array and a second light receiving array. The point light source, the first light receiving array and the second light receiving array are arranged in the manner that a shortest distance between the point light source and the first light receiving array is smaller than a shortest distance between the point light source and the second light receiving array.

Abstract: An optical entire-circumference encoder includes a plurality of rotation slits provided to transmit light at an equal pitch radially around a rotation axis as a center in a rotation track. A plurality of fixed slits is provided to transmit light at an equal pitch in a plurality of regions radially around the rotation axis as the center in a fixed track. A plurality of light receivers is disposed in a vicinity of the rotation axis to receive a light guided by the light guide in the regions respectively. The fixed slits in one of the regions and the fixed slits in another region adjacent to the one of the regions among the regions in the fixed track are formed so that a phase difference by which a rotation direction of the rotor is determined occurs between light reception signals of the plurality of light receivers.