Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and an armature coil wound on the stator core. The rotor is arranged radially inside the stator to radially face the stator. The rotor includes: a field core having a plurality of magnetic pole portions for respectively forming a plurality of magnetic poles the polarities of which are alternately different in a circumferential direction; a field coil wound on the field core; and a tubular short-circuiting member that is arranged radially outside the magnetic pole portions to cover radially outer surfaces of the magnetic pole portions and magnetically connects each circumferentially-adjacent pair of the magnetic pole portions. The short-circuiting member is provided within an axial range between two axial ends of the stator core.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine rotor includes multiple claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, permanent magnets, and a tubular outer peripheral iron core portion. The claw-shaped magnetic pole portions face a stator in a radial direction, are arranged with clearance spaces in a circumferential direction, and are alternately magnetized to different polarities in the circumferential direction by power application to a field winding. A permanent magnet is arranged in each clearance space such that the polarity of each of side surfaces facing the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions in the circumferential direction is the same as the polarity of a corresponding one of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. An outer peripheral iron core portion covers an outer peripheral side of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. The outer peripheral iron core portion has a tubular body portion and magnet holding portions configured to hold the permanent magnets.

Abstract: To provide an image capture device capable of doing multiple image captures by using multiple image capture units and capable of measuring a distance between each of the image capture units and a target more correctly. An image capture device according to the present invention is an image capture device with multiple image capture units. The image capture device comprises: one light emission unit for distance measurement that emits a reference beam; and the multiple image capture units that capture images of a reflected beam of the reference beam while having common timing of image capture.

Abstract: An object monitoring apparatus including sensors. The apparatus includes first and second sensors that measure mutually corresponding spatial areas; a first judging unit that judges whether an object is present in a predetermined monitored area, based on measurement data of the first sensor; a second judging unit that judges whether an object is present in an extended area extending toward an outside of the monitored area, based on measurement data of the second sensor; a first signal-output unit that outputs a first object-sensing signal, when the first judging unit judges that an object is present in the monitored area; and a second signal-output unit that outputs a second object-sensing signal, when the first judging unit judges that an object is present in the monitored area and in a case where the second judging unit judges that an object is present in the extended area.

Abstract: A robot system includes: a recognition means that recognizes an operator in distance image data as a security surveillance target; an area setting means that sets, in the distance image data, a common work area that a robot and the operator are allowed to enter; and a boundary setting means that sets, in the distance image data, a first boundary that the operator S is allowed to cross for entering the common work area but the robot is not allowed to cross, and a second boundary that the robot is allowed to cross for entering the common work area but the operator is not allowed to cross, wherein the crossing of the second boundary by the security surveillance target and the crossing of the first boundary by a non-target object not recognized as the security surveillance target are detected.

Abstract: A monitor apparatus includes a camera that captures a three-dimensional image and an image processing device that processes the output signal of the camera. A part of an image capturing region of the camera is set as a monitor region. The image processing device includes a region setting unit that sets a plurality of spatial regions by dividing the monitor region. The region setting unit divides the monitor region at a plurality of cutting planes radially extending from the camera serving as a start point. The region setting unit sets the spatial region on one end as a precaution region and sets the spatial region on the other end as a limit region.

Abstract: To provide a metal gloss design member provided with a light reflection film such as a silver thin film having satisfactory weather resistance even in outdoor use. A silver coating film 10 provided at least with a silver thin film 14 and with a topcoat layer 16 formed on the outer side in the stacking direction relative to the silver thin film 14 is formed on a substrate 3 and then the topcoat layer 16 has ultraviolet absorbability.

Abstract: A laser processing system having a measurement function. The laser processing system includes a processing head configured to irradiate an object with a laser beam in a scanning manner via an optical system for processing; an illumination-light emitting section provided in the processing head, and configured to cause illumination light to be emitted from the processing head toward the object along an optical axis of the optical system for processing; a light receiving section located in a predetermined positional relationship with the illumination-light emitting section, and configured to receive a reflection of the illumination light reflected at an irradiated point on the object; and a measurement section configured to process the reflection received by the light receiving section and obtain three-dimensional measurement data of the irradiated point.

Abstract: An image processing device of an image apparatus includes a distance image generation unit that generates a first distance image and a second distance image from the output signals of a first camera and a second camera based on flight times of light. The image processing device includes a stereo image generation unit that generates a stereo image from the output signals of the cameras. The image processing device includes an image comparison unit that compares the stereo image and the distance image and detects an abnormality of at least one of the first distance image and the second distance image.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot installed such that the working space thereof is within a first area, an image acquisition unit that sequentially acquires images of the vicinity of a boundary of the first area and a second area that are adjacent to each other with the boundary therebetween, a monitoring-area setting unit that sets a monitoring area in a space adjacent to the boundary in the second area in the images acquired by the image acquisition unit, an object detecting unit that detects a moving object in the monitoring area set by the monitoring-area setting unit by processing the images acquired by the image acquisition unit, and a controller that performs control so as to restrict the operation of the robot when the moving object is detected by the object detecting unit.

Abstract: A straddle vehicle comprises a first external member having an outer surface exposed to outside of the straddle vehicle, the first external member includes a base section and a coating section coated on the base section, the coating section includes a color layer, and a light transmission layer stacked on the color layer and having the outer surface exposed to outside of the straddle vehicle, and the light transmission layer includes a self-restoring resin.

Abstract: The robot system includes an imaging unit, an image processing unit, an entry request unit for a person to request entry to a predetermined section, and a signal output unit which, in a case where the person has requested entry into the predetermined section, outputs, depending on a processing result of the image processing unit, an entry permission signal indicating that the person is permitted to enter the predetermined section. If the image processing unit detects that the robot has reached a stopping position taught in advance after the person requested to enter the predetermined section, at least one of an instruction to stop the robot and an instruction to stop a part of the robot system which is necessary to enable the person to enter therein is outputted, and the signal output unit outputs the entry permission signal.

Abstract: To provide a metal gloss design member provided with a light reflection film such as a silver thin film having satisfactory weather resistance even in outdoor use. A silver coating film 10 provided at least with a silver thin film 14 and with a topcoat layer 16 formed on the outer side in the stacking direction relative to the silver thin film 14 is formed on a substrate 3 and then the topcoat layer 16 has ultraviolet absorbability.

Abstract: To provide an image capture device capable of doing multiple image captures by using multiple image capture units and capable of measuring a distance between each of the image capture units and a target more correctly. An image capture device according to the present invention is an image capture device with multiple image capture units. The image capture device comprises: one light emission unit for distance measurement that emits a reference beam; and the multiple image capture units that capture images of a reflected beam of the reference beam while having common timing of image capture.

Abstract: A detection apparatus for detecting a three-dimensional position of an object includes a feature point detecting unit that, with consecutive or at least alternately consecutive two images among multiple images sequentially imaged when a robot is moving being a first image and a second image, detects multiple feature points in the second image including one feature point detected in the first image; a distance calculating unit that calculates a distance between the one feature point of the first image and the multiple feature points of the second image; and a feature point determining unit that determines a feature point for which the distance is the shortest. With consecutive or at least alternately consecutive next two images being the first image and the second image, processing for determining a feature point for which the distance is the shortest is repeated, thereby tracking the feature points of the object.

Abstract: The object recognition device includes an imaging unit that captures images of a predetermined monitoring area to acquire a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image, an object extraction unit that extracts an area having pixels whose pixel values are within a predetermined range from the three-dimensional image acquired by the imaging unit, an image searching unit that searches the two-dimensional image, acquired by the imaging unit, for a reference image registered in advance according to the type of an object, and a determination unit that determines the type of the object depending on whether or not the reference image searched for by the image searching unit exists in the area extracted by the object extraction unit.

Abstract: A three-dimensional data generation apparatus using measurement data from a three-dimensional sensor. The apparatus includes a measured coordinates obtaining section for obtaining measured coordinates of an object in a three-axis rectangular coordinate system set in an observation area, based on measurement data from a three-dimensional sensor measuring the observation area; and a subdivision information preparing section for defining a reference plane parallel to an X-Y plane of the three-axis rectangular coordinate system in the observation area, uniformly divide the reference plane into a plurality of subdivisions, and assign to a subdivision, among the subdivisions, that contains X-Y coordinate values of the measured coordinates of the object, a Z value of the same measured coordinates as a representative height of the subdivision.

Abstract: A safety management method sets a third space that both a worker and a robot can enter between a first space in which the worker is present and a second space in which the robot is disposed; sets, between the first space and the third space and between the second space and the third space, respectively, boundaries for monitoring crossing thereof; monitors the presence/absence of the robot or the worker in the third space; when a state of crossing of one boundary and a state of the worker or the robot in the third space are simultaneously switched to “detection”, restricts the operation of the robot, when crossing of another boundary is detected; and not restricts the operation of the robot when the state of crossing of the one boundary and the state of the worker or the robot in the third space are simultaneously switched to “non-detection”.

Abstract: A robot system includes: a recognition means that recognizes an operator in distance image data as a security surveillance target; an area setting means that sets, in the distance image data, a common work area that a robot and the operator are allowed to enter; and a boundary setting means that sets, in the distance image data, a first boundary that the operator S is allowed to cross for entering the common work area but the robot is not allowed to cross, and a second boundary that the robot is allowed to cross for entering the common work area but the operator is not allowed to cross, wherein the crossing of the second boundary by the security surveillance target and the crossing of the first boundary by a non-target object not recognized as the security surveillance target are detected.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine includes a field core having a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, a field coil wound on the field core, and a hollow cylindrical core member disposed to cover radially outer peripheries of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions of the field core. The core member has a plurality of first electrically-insulating portions that are spaced at first intervals in an axial direction of the core member. Each of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions of the field core has a radially outer peripheral surface abutting the core member and a plurality of second electrically-insulating portions provided on the radially outer peripheral surface. The second electrically-insulating portions are spaced at second intervals in the axial direction of the core member.