Abstract: A method to perform an adaptive test performs a pressure sensitivity test to examine a pressure sensitivity of a solver to time, and judges, based on a result of the pressure sensitivity test, whether or not the pressure sensitivity of the solver is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold. If the pressure sensitivity is equal to or higher than the predetermined threshold, the solver is prompted to answer a pending question, acquires an input of the answer, and determines if a time period consumed by the solver in answering the pending question is shorter than a time limit set for answering the pending question and, if shorter, gives the solver an increased time limit for answering a next question.

Abstract: A storage unit stores educational course selection premise information about a condition of a skill required as a premise of taking an educational course. A skill information obtaining unit obtains skill information about a skill of a person who plans to take an educational course. The similarity between the educational course selection premise information and the skill information is checked. That is, it is checked how the skill of the person who plans to take an educational course is similar to the condition of the skill required as a premise of taking the educational course. An educational course having high similarity (that is, having a high similarity level) is selected as an educational course to be taken by the person who plans to take an educational course.

Abstract: A photoelectric rotary encoder includes a light source that emits a beam, a returning section that returns the emitted beam to a direction opposite to a emitting direction of the beam, and a photodetector that is disposed on a substrate on which the light source is disposed and that receives the returned beam via a disk having a detection pattern section. The photoelectric rotary encoder detects a rotation displacement of the disk based on the received signal. In this photoelectric rotary encoder, an optical element that lets a stray beam component of the beam from the light source escape to the outside via the side surface of the optical element, is disposed in front of the substrate on which the light source and the photodetector are disposed. The optical element covers the substrate to integrate the optical element and the substrate together.

Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus are disclosed. The drawing information including at least the information including at least one object that can be displayed, the information pertinent to the size in the line direction and in the line feed direction of the object, and the layout-related information, is analyzed, the coordinate information pertinent to a display start position of the object in a drawing area is acquired based on the analyzed result, the coordinate information pertinent to the display start position is converted based on the layout-related information acquired by the results of analysis and the converted coordinate information pertinent to the display start position is converted into the real drawing coordinate information on the drawing area.

Abstract: A code disk for a high-resolution encoder that can detect an absolute position and a method for manufacturing a mold to produce the code disk are provided. The code disk is formed by using transparent substrate. The code disk includes a plurality of tracks provided on the transparent substrate and an area provided between the plurality of tracks. Each surface of the plurality of tracks has a different pattern. A level of the area is different from that of the each surface of the plurality of tracks. The method for manufacturing the mold includes steps of processing a plurality of tracks with a flat surface on material; processing an area with a level different from that of each surface, between the plurality of tracks; forming different patterns on the each surface; plating the first material; and peeling plating from the first material to obtain a mold.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive test to reduce the pressure to the time limit, which obstructs a proper evaluation of a solver. In the normal adaptive test, the time limit for each question is fixed. However, in the present invention, if a time period the solver consumed to answer a question is shorter than the time limit for the question, it enables the solver to use a difference period between the time limit and the time period the solver consumed to answer the question in addition to the time limit set for the next question. Thus, for example, if the solver could answer an easy question early, the rest of the time limit can be applied to a difficult question.

Abstract: A network apparatus is provided, which allows another network apparatus to recognize the disconnection with reliability, if a power supply to the network apparatus is interrupted. A control unit operating with a first power supply outputs a first signal, which is level-converted and supplied as a second signal to an intermediate potential supply unit operating with a second power supply. In the intermediate potential supply unit, a switch receives a reset signal as a switch signal and outputs, when the power supply is interrupted, a ground potential to a driver instead of the second signal. As a result, an intermediate potential supplied to a cable is forcibly set to the ground potential.

Abstract: A storage unit stores educational course selection premise information about a condition of a skill required as a premise of taking an educational course. A skill information obtaining unit obtains skill information about a skill of a person who plans to take an educational course. The similarity between the educational course selection premise information and the skill information is checked. That is, it is checked how the skill of the person who plans to take an educational course is similar to the condition of the skill required as a premise of taking the educational course. An educational course having high similarity (that is, having a high similarity level) is selected as an educational course to be taken by the person who plans to take an educational course.

Abstract: A robot for removing an unnecessary portion on a workpiece, comprises a tool for removing the unnecessary portion, a tool positioning apparatus which contains a reference coordinate system, carries the tool attached thereon, and is movable to change a position and a posture of the tool in the reference coordinate system, a jig on which the workpiece is securely fixed to maintain a desired position and a desired posture of the workpiece with respect to the reference coordinate system of the tool positioning apparatus, and an arithmetic unit for calculating a movement path and a posture of the tool moved by the tool positioning apparatus on the basis of a position of the unnecessary portion on a desired shape of the workpiece, in which the arithmetic unit corrects the movement path and the posture of the tool not in accordance with the position of the unnecessary portion on the desired shape of the workpiece, but in accordance with a shape of at least one of the workpiece, the tool and the jig.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing system which accepts a custom order of product from a customer and custom manufactures a product without sacrificing manufacturing efficiency. The manufacturing system includes the featuring steps of inputting the required specification of a product, creating the product design based on the design information of the product transmitted from a designing department, status data from the production department, and the input required specification, showing the created product design to the customer, selectively indicating a product to be purchased, transmitting the specification of the selected product to the production department, and producing a product based on the selected product specification.

Abstract: In a method for scraping off automatically an excessive portion of a workpiece by a cutting tool, a surface shape of the excessive portion of the workpiece is measured, a cross-sectional area variation of the excessive portion along a feed course in which the cutting tool will proceed during a cutting operation thereof is calculated from the measured surface shape of the excessive portion, and the excessive portion is scraped off in the feed course with a feed speed of the cutting tool which is changed in accordance with the calculated cross-sectional area variation of the excessive portion along the feed course, so that the larger the calculated cross-sectional area of the excessive portion is, the smaller the feed speed of the cutting tool is, and the smaller the calculated cross-sectional area of the excessive portion is, the larger the feed speed of the cutting tool is.

Abstract: A six-degree-of-freedom articulated robot mechanism includes a three-degree-of-freedom translation unit for adjusting the position. The translation unit includes an orientation maintaining mechanism which has a rotation articulation of the direct drive type connecting a drive motor directly to an arm, and a link mechanism. A three-degree-of-freedom rotation unit for adjusting the orientation includes three rotation articulators of the direct drive type connecting a drive motor directly to a table, and the axes of the three rotation articulators intersect one another at one point.

Abstract: A method of controlling the movements of a robot having a plurality of degrees of freedom includes expressing the attitudes of a hand or a working tool fitted to the arm end of the robot, the by the use of base vectors of a rectangular coordinate system fixed to the hand or the working tool. The attitudes are given as coordinate components related to a rectangular coordinate system which is fixed to the pedestal of the robot and which serves as reference. Interpolation and movement control of the robot is performed on the basis of the coordinate components. By performing control, based on the coordinate components real-time calculation processings is reduced highly accurate robot movement which is smooth in terms of both time and space is accomplished.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-pin chip mounting method and apparatus based on a TAB (Tape Automated Bonding) system in which leads formed on a tape and bumps formed an IC chip are aligned with each other and compress-bonded to each other. An IC chip having bumps formed on a surface thereof and inner leads formed on a carrier tape are disposed opposite to each other at a bonding station. A position of the IC chip on a stage is detected through the inner leads at the bonding station to determine the amount of correction of position of the stage. The inner leads and the IC chip are aligned with each other on the basis of the determined correction amount and are thereafter bonded to each other.

Abstract: A probing control apparatus for use in aligning an object comprises: a mechanism having n-degrees of freedom and adapted for controlling the object; n pieces of actuators for actuating the mechanism; detecting means for detecting change in the output from the object in response to the operation of each actuator; and control means for computing a command for each actuator in accordance with a change in the output detected by the detecting means and amount of movement of the mechanism, and for controlling each actuator in accordance with the command such that the output from the object takes the maximum value.

Abstract: The invention relates to joining of fine wires, and more particularly to a wire bonding method suitable for connecting a number of wires within a narrow area. A first wire is bonded on a pad, and a second wire is bonded on the position where the first wire has been bonded. Bonding of a subsequent wire is performed in that the wire is stacked and bonded in similar manner mentioned above. Thus a plurality of repair wires can be bonded within one pad even if the pad area is very small.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control system for a servomechanism device such as robot, and more particularly to a position correcting control system for a servomechanism device which is well suited to perform high-precision positioning or high-perfomance operations on the basis of a sensor feedback control system such as force detection feedback control.

Abstract: There is disclosed in this application an industrial robot comprising: a first arm pivotally supported at its one end for rotation around a first axis; a second arm pivotally supported at its one end by the other end of the first arm for rotation around a second axis parallel to the first axis; a wrist mechanism carried by the free end of the second arm and having at least one degree of freedom; and driving motors for driving the first arm, the second arm and the wrist mechanism, respectively; wherein at least one of the first arm and the second arm is connected to the drive motor through a double link mechanism having a phase difference.

Abstract: A workable high strength shape memory alloys comprising:Al: 11.5-13.5%,Ni: 2-6%,Mn: 1-5%,Ti: 0.1-5%,each on the weight basis, and the balance of Cu and inevitable impurities.In the modified alloy composition, the workability can be improved without increasing the martensitic transformation temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for calibrating a transformation matrix of a force sensor, in which: a force sensor is attached between a wrist portion and a hand portion of a robot; a standard work (weight) whose weight and position of a center of gravity are known is attached or held to the hand portion; each driving source of the robot is made operative in response to commands from a control unit and thereby sequentially changing the posture of the force sensor attached to the robot; the control unit obtains a force consisting of a force and a moment due to an arithmetic operation from the posture and position information of the force sensor which is detected on the basis of signals from encoders to detect an operational amount of each operating element of the robot and from the weights and the positions of the centers of gravity of the standard work and the hand portion and the like inputted as data; the control unit receives a strain voltage detected from the force sensor; the