Abstract: An error identification method includes a tool sensor position acquisition stage, a reference block position acquisition stage, a relative position calculation stage, a reference tool position acquisition stage, a position measurement sensor measurement stage, a length compensation value calculation stage, a diameter compensation value acquisition stage, a position measurement stage, a position compensation stage, and a geometric error identification stage. The diameter compensation value acquisition stage acquires a radial direction compensation value of the position measurement sensor with the measured jig. The position measurement stage indexes the rotation axis to a plurality of any given angles and measures respective positions of the measured jig. The position compensation stage compensates the position measurement value at the position measurement stage using the length direction compensation value and the radial direction compensation value.

Abstract: A position measurement method to pleasure a position of an object in a machine tool includes a tool sensor position acquisition stage, a reference block position acquisition stage, a relative position calculation stage, a reference tool position acquisition stage, a position measurement sensor measurement stage, a length compensation value calculation stage, and a position measurement stage. In the position measurement stage, the measurement position of the object is compensated using a length direction compensation value of a position measurement sensor calculated in the length compensation value calculation stage. The object is measured by the position measurement sensor installed to a main spindle.

Abstract: An occupant restraining device capable of coping with a plurality of collision directions without additional airbags is provided. An occupant restraining device (100) is adapted to restrain an occupant P sitting in a vehicle seat (110), and the device includes a seatbelt (120) fixed to left and right sides of a seat cushion (116) of the seat to restrain the occupant's hips (P2), airbags (130a) and (130b) stored inside a seat back of the seat on the left and right sides thereof and inflated and deployed on the left and right sides of the occupant. Tensile fabric (140) is connected to each of the airbags and the seat cushion and applied with tension, when the airbags are inflated and deployed, so as to be extended between the airbags inflated and deployed and both side surfaces of the seat cushion.

Abstract: An error identification method of a machine tool includes an initial position measurement step of indexing a main spindle head rotation axis to an initial angle to measure an initial position of a measured jig, a table reference angle calculation step of calculating a reference angle of the table, a reference position measurement step of indexing the table rotation axis to the reference angle and indexing the main spindle head rotation axis to the initial angle, a relative position measurement step of respectively indexing the table rotation axis and the main spindle head rotation axis to a plurality of predetermined angles, an arc approximation step of approximating the plurality of measured position values into an arc, and an error calculation step of calculating an error of a center position of the rotation axis, a tilt error of the rotation axis, or a tilt error of the translational axis.

Abstract: A method of packaging an air-bag includes providing an air-bag having a base. A first part of the air-bag is folded at least partly towards the base of the air-bag and additionally folded such that the first part of the air-bag incorporates at least one Z-fold. The first part of the air-bag and a second part of the air-bag are at least partly rolled towards the base of the air-bag to package the air-bag.

Abstract: A glass sheet processing apparatus processes an edge surface of a glass sheet using a processing tool. The glass sheet processing apparatus includes a pressing force generation element and a buffering element. The pressing force generation element generates a pressing force that the processing tool exerts on the edge surface of the glass sheet. The buffering element buffers an impact force that the edge surface of the glass sheet exerts on the processing tool.

Abstract: A geometric-error identification system includes a control unit configured to identify geometric errors in a machine. The machine controls three or more translational axes and one or more rotation axes so as to perform positioning for a positional relationship between a main spindle and an object. The control unit controls the rotation axis so as to index a measurement object jig, measures an indexed position of the indexed measurement object jig on a three-dimensional space using a position measurement sensor attached to the main spindle so as to acquire a measurement value, and identifies geometric errors of the machine related to the translational axis and/or the rotation axis based on the measurement values in a plurality of positions. The control unit measures an initial position of the measurement object jig and performs calibration of the position measurement sensor using an initial measurement value acquired for measuring the initial position.

Abstract: An imaging method includes photographing a subject to acquire image data, determining a pointing motion performed by a photographer included in the subject based on the image data, and outputting an instruction signal corresponding to the motion. The method further includes performing the photographing more than once to acquire image data based on the instruction signal, and creating a composite image based on the image data obtained by the performing the photographing more than once and the instruction signal.

Abstract: A curtain airbag capable for preventing occupant ejection from a vehicle, particularly in the vicinity of a rearmost seat, while reducing the output required of an inflator associated with the airbag. The curtain airbag is stored at an upper position on a side surface portion of the occupant compartment of the vehicle, so as to be inflated and deployed along the side surface portion. The curtain airbag includes an inflation region and a wide portion in the form of non-inflatable cloth. The wide portion is attached to a rear edge portion of the inflation region and also attached to at least one point of the vehicle rearward of a front-side pillar, the front-side pillar being located forward of rearmost side window. The wide portion has a shape that allows it to be strained, by the inflated and deployed inflation region, into a generally planar configuration over an assumed strike area of the rearmost side window.

Abstract: A method for controlling a machine tool in which a main spindle and a table are moved relative to each other by two or more translation axes and at least one rotation axis is provided. In the method, an error in a position of the tool with respect to the workpiece due to an error of the machine tool is corrected to calculate a translation axis command value and a rotation axis command value. The method includes a step of selecting an arbitrary axis configuration, a step of calculating a correction value for the translation axis for correcting the position error in a command value coordinate system of the translation axis included in the arbitrary axis configuration, and a step of calculating a correction value for the rotation axis for correcting the position error in a command value coordinate system of the rotation axis included in the arbitrary axis configuration.

Abstract: A method for controlling a machine tool in which a main spindle on which a tool is mounted and a table holding a workpiece are moved relative to each other by two or more translation axes that are not perpendicular to each other and at least one rotation axis. In the method, an error in a position of the tool with respect to the workpiece due to a geometric error is corrected to calculate a command value for controlling the translation axis. The method includes a conversion step of converting the error and a correction value for correcting the error by performing a homogeneous coordinate transformation from a workpiece coordinate system to the imaginary Cartesian coordinate system, and a correction value calculation step of calculating a correction value in a command value coordinate system of the translation axis by performing a homogeneous coordinate transformation of the correction value.

Abstract: A glass sheet processing apparatus processes an edge surface of a glass sheet using a processing tool. The glass sheet processing apparatus includes a pressing force generation element and a buffering element. The pressing force generation element generates a pressing force that the processing tool exerts on the edge surface of the glass sheet. The buffering element buffers an impact force that the edge surface of the glass sheet exerts on the processing tool.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an MCP with sufficient physical strength and high detection efficiency. The MCP has a double cladding structure composed of first cladding glasses each of which has a through hole serving as a channel, and a second cladding glass having a high acid resistance and employing a honeycomb structure. In an entrance end face each first cladding glass has a tapered opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of computing a correction value for the machine tool having two or more translational axes and one or more rotational axes for correcting error in a position and an orientation of the tool with respect to a workpiece due to the geometric error. The method includes a rotational axis correction value computing step (S3) for computing a correction value for the rotational axis by use of a geometric parameter representing the geometric error, and a translational axis correction value computing step (S4) for computing a correction value for the translational axis by use of a command value for each of the rotational axes, a command value for each of the translational axes, and the geometric parameter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and the like that are capable of calculating a correction value for a rotational axis and make it possible to correct an error in position or position and posture of a tool, which results from a geometric error, correct an error in posture of the tool, and also enhance the accuracy in machining by preventing a translational axis from operating in an infinitesimal manner due to a correction command. In a machine tool having two or more translational axes and one or more rotational axes, a correction value for each of the translational axes is calculated using a command position of each of the rotational axes, a coordinate value of a correction reference point as one point designated in advance in a command position space of each of the translational axes, and a geometric parameter representing the geometrical error.

Abstract: An imaging method includes photographing a subject to acquire image data, determining a pointing motion performed by a photographer included in the subject based on the image data, and outputting an instruction signal corresponding to the motion. The method further includes performing the photographing more than once to acquire image data based on the instruction signal, and creating a composite image based on the image data obtained by the performing the photographing more than once and the instruction signal.

Abstract: In a control method for a machine tool including two or more translation axes and at least one rotation axis, a command for a distal end position of a tool and an attitude of the tool is provided to correct an error in the distal end position and the attitude with respect to a workpiece due to a geometric error to calculate a command value for controlling the translation axes. The method includes calculating the command value on the basis of a command coordinate value for the distal end position, a converted coordinate value obtained by converting a coordinate value of a rotation center point of the rotation axis in an actual state into a coordinate value without an error in inclination, and an axial unit vector for the ideal rotation axis.

Abstract: A vehicle curtain airbag device capable of improving an occupant ejection preventing performance at an end of a vehicle in the longitudinal direction and providing an excellent impact absorbing function when receiving an occupant in a vehicle interior. A front strap is provided between a seam portion that divides a front chamber positioned at an end of a vehicle longitudinal direction from an adjacent main chamber, and a front pillar positioned at the end of the vehicle longitudinal direction so as to connect the seam portion to the front pillar, on an outer surface of the front chamber. A height position of a first connecting portion (P) between the front pillar and the front strap is set to be higher than a height position of a second connecting portion (Q) between the seam portion and the front strap.

Abstract: A bracket for fastening a tightening strap of a curtain airbag to a vehicle part includes a base plate and a support surface for fastening the bracket to the vehicle part. A retaining web, fastenable to the tightening strap, is located on the bracket in such a way that the retaining web can be moved to a fastening position by performing a swivel motion with the bracket being supported on the vehicle part via the support surface.

Abstract: A curtain airbag mitigating possible occupant ejection from a vehicle. The curtain airbag includes a serial main chamber that is capable of being inflated and deployed along a vehicle cabin side face; a delay chamber that is positioned at a front end section of the serial main chamber and that is inflated and deployed so as to overlap an A1 impact point below an A-pillar of the vehicle; and an ace tab that fixes the upper edge of the delay chamber to the A-pillar. The ace tab is provided at a position overlapping a straight line LS that is provided on the shortest way from the A1 impact point to the A-pillar, as viewed from inside the vehicle cabin.