Abstract: A control device for a mobile body enabling a smooth transition operation between a first mode and a second mode is provided. A change amount of a center of gravity component at a prescribed time is expressed by using an inertial force-dependent manipulated variable component, which changes in accordance with an instantaneous value (d2Zb/dt2(t1) to d2Zb/dt2(t13)) of desired inertial force at the prescribed time (t1 to t13) in the time series of the desired inertial force (d2Zb/dt2(t)) defined by an up-and-down direction motion parameter, and a displacement-dependent manipulated variable component, which changes in accordance with an instantaneous value (Zb(t1) to Zb(t13)) of desired displacement at the prescribed time (t1 to t13) in the time series of the desired displacement (Zb(t)) defined by the up-and-down direction motion parameter.

Abstract: A control device for a mobile robot capable of stabilizing the posture of the mobile robot while in motion is provided. A control unit (26) for a mobile robot (1) includes a required total floor reaction force central point position calculating unit which calculates a required total floor reaction force central point position (Pzmp(1) to Pzmp(7)) as a position of a total floor reaction force central point by using, as a factor, a first total floor reaction force center reference position (SP(1) to SP(7)) which is defined on the basis of a current time's supporting region (Sd1 to Sd7), i.e. a smallest convex region including ground contact surfaces of current time's supporting limbs, and a next time's supporting region (Sd2 to Sd8), i.e. a smallest convex region including ground contact surfaces of next time's supporting limbs.

Abstract: A robot controller of the present invention comprises a movement control part which controls an operation of a robot so that a movable part of the robot moves on a predetermined track, and a return control device which controls an operation of the robot so that if the movable part departs from the track during its movement on said track, the movable part will return to the track. The return control part is configured to limit a force generated by at least one of a plurality of drive devices which drive the robot, to a predetermined upper limit value or less.

Abstract: A robot includes an arm and a control unit configured to control a motion of the arm using compliant motion control. The control unit changes a parameter value of the compliant motion control depending on a relative position and orientation of a first object moving along with the arm and a second object.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot that operates to move a machining tool relative to a workpiece, an actuator that changes a position of the machining tool, and a control device that controls the robot. The control device includes a robot control unit that operates the robot along a predetermined motion trajectory, a force detection unit that detects force acting between the machining tool and the workpiece, a position detection unit that detects a current position of the machining tool, a force control unit that obtains a target position of the machining tool such that a detection value of the force detection unit approaches a predetermined value, and a position correction unit that calculates a position correction amount of a motion trajectory of the robot and a position correction amount of the actuator in response to the target position of the machining tool.

Abstract: A human-collaborative robot system includes a detection unit that directly or indirectly detects a physical quantity which is changed in response to contact force applied to a robot when the robot comes in contact with an external environment, and a stop command unit that compares the physical quantity detected by the detection unit with a first threshold value and a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value, stops the robot according to a predetermined stop method when the physical quantity is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and is smaller than the second threshold value, and stops the robot in a shorter period of time as compared with the predetermined stop method when the physical quantity is equal to or greater than the second threshold value.

Abstract: Example systems and methods allow for dynamic updating of a plan to move objects using a robotic device. One example method includes determining a virtual environment by one or more processors based on sensor data received from one or more sensors, the virtual environment representing a physical environment containing a plurality of physical objects, developing a plan, based on the virtual environment, to cause a robotic manipulator to move one or more of the physical objects in the physical environment, causing the robotic manipulator to perform a first action according to the plan, receiving updated sensor data from the one or more sensors after the robotic manipulator performs the first action, modifying the virtual environment based on the updated sensor data, determining one or more modifications to the plan based on the modified virtual environment, and causing the robotic manipulator to perform a second action according to the modified plan.

Abstract: In implementations of magnetically attached end effectors, end effectors for use with a robotic touchscreen testing apparatus are held in a rack. The apparatus is able to fix, remove, and change end effectors though movement of a movable spindle of the apparatus relative to the rack. The end effectors are attached to the spindle through magnets and aligned with the spindle through complimentary alignment features on the end effectors and the spindle.

Abstract: An example gripper may include: a base; two or more fingers attached to the base, with each finger being movable towards, and away from, one or more others of the fingers; and one or more ports at the base or at one or more of the fingers to provide suction through a vacuum.

Abstract: A robot includes an nth arm (n is a natural number), an (n+1)th arm rotatably supported with respect to the nth arm, and a connection destination selection part that can select a connection destination of a cable routing present inside of the nth arm from a cable routing present outside of the nth arm and a cable routing present inside of the (n+1)th arm.

Abstract: A rotary joint, a hollow gear and a hollow wiring unit having a first flexible printed circuit board therein, to allow hose to pass through both the hollow gear and the hollow wiring unit. A robot includes the rotary joint.

Abstract: A robot includes an arm that rotates about a predetermined rotation axis as a rotation center, and a cable routing connecting part that can connect a cable routing inside of the arm and a cable routing outside of the arm, wherein the cable routing connecting part is provided in the arm, and present within a circle having a radius as a distance between a part of the arm farthest from the rotation axis as seen from a axis direction of the rotation axis and the rotation axis and centered at the rotation axis.

Abstract: A robot includes a base, an arm provided on the base, a connecting member provided in an interior of the base and an interior of the arm, a first fixing member that fixes the connecting member in the interior of the arm and guides the connecting member in the interior of the arm, and an inertial sensor, wherein the inertial sensor is not in contact with the connecting member.

Abstract: A cutter assembly has a blade holder, a blade, a slider and a screw-locking device. The blade is moveably mounted in the blade holder and has a moving direction. The blade holder has a bottom and multiple engaging segments disposed on the bottom along the moving direction of the blade. The slider is mounted slidably on the blade holder and connected to the blade. The screw-locking device is mounted on the slider and has a locking bolt and a locking sleeve screwed with each other. The locking bolt has an end selectively engaging at least one of the engaging segments.

Abstract: A rotary electric shaver includes an outer blade whose upper surface functions as annular shaving surfaces and having multiple hair inlets formed therein, and an inner blade that has a small blade which rotates while coming into sliding contact with a lower surface of the outer blade from below the annular shaving surfaces and. At least a portion of the multiple hair inlets is formed in an elongated hole shape extending along a radial direction of the annular shaving surfaces and, and an end portion (alternatively, both end portions and) in the radial direction has a widened portion (alternatively, and) which is open wider in a circumferential direction than a central portion.

Abstract: A shaving razor having a handle and a shaving head with an exposed reciprocating blade. A power source is disposed within the handle with an actuator that causes at least one blade of a multi-blade razor head to reciprocate within a zone of motion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: The invention discloses a novel application of standard printed circuit board (PCB) assembly modules, electronic assembly, and/or semiconductor assembly equipment for the assembly of consumer products, such as razor cartridges. In addition, nozzles of the pick/place component placement machine of the present invention may be desirably adapted to operate on type of razor cartridge component (e.g., blade, lubricating strip) disposed on a pallet. The adapted nozzle may include adaptors which may have an elongated portion, an angled portion, a tapered portion, a gripper portion, a curved portion, a rounded portion, a pointed tip, a stamper, a marker, a printer, a guide portion, a spring portion, a moveable leg, or any combination thereof, for operating on a razor cartridge component.

Abstract: A knife holder assembly for opening the knife when the knife is removed from the holder includes the knife structured to have a foldable blade. The holder is structured to removably contain the knife. A wheel is coupled to the holder. The blade on the knife engages the wheel when the knife is removed from the holder. The wheel unfolds the blade.

Abstract: A small food cutting device comprising: a lid, the lid comprising: an inner ceiling; a lid wall enclosing the inner ceiling; a base, configured to mate with the lid, the base comprising: an inner floor; a base wall enclosing the inner floor; and wherein the base is configured to hold a plurality of small foods, with the lid laying on top of the plurality of small foods and forming a gap between the lid and the base, the gap generally aligned to the mid-height of the small foods.

Abstract: A device for creating partial cuts, such as transverse spiral cuts, into an elongated food product, such as hot dogs, frankfurters, and wieners, the device having an upper housing section with at least one top blade and a lower housing section with at least one bottom blade, wherein closing the top housing on top of the lower housing with the elongated food product inside allows the top blades and the bottom blades to partially cut through the elongated food product creating a helical groove pattern around the outer surface of the elongated food product while leaving an inner core intact. The device may also have guide channels to guide a skewer through the inner core for easy removal of the food product from the housing. The device can also be provided as a kit with skewers, modified tongs, and a heating unit to cook the food product in the housing.

Abstract: A piercing mechanism configured to pierce a sealing film of a bread ingredient box includes a bottom seat, a top seat disposed above the bottom seat for supporting the bread ingredient box, and a sawtooth blade disposed on an inner side of the bottom seat. A plurality of spaced-apart support units are disposed on the bottom seat, and each includes an outer support tube, an inner post inserted into the outer support tube and extending out of the bottom seat for abutting against a housing of a bread maker, an outer spring having two opposite ends respectively abutting against the top and bottom seats, and an inner spring having two opposite ends respectively abutting against the inner post and the outer support tube.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for measuring a protrusion length of a protrusion portion on each side of sheet after cutting even when there is variation in positions of cords embedded in the sheet, apparatus with imaging unit that images cross-sectional profile in width direction of sheet including protrusion portions, and generates waveform data from imaging of cross-sectional profile, detect maximum height-positions of crests and of troughs of waveform data, set, based on waveform data, a maximum height-position of crest closest to width end of sheet as maximum height-position of end crest, set a position corresponding to an edge of protrusion portion of sheet, located on more width end side than maximum height-position of end crest, as minimum height-position of a terminal trough, detect distance in width direction of sheet between maximum height-position of end crest and of the terminal trough, and measure protrusion length of protrusion portion based on detected distance.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a pipe, a pressing foot assembly, a spring, and a blade assembly. The pressing foot assembly is slidably sheathed on an end of the pipe. The spring is sheathed on the pipe. An end of the spring abuts against the pipe, and the other end of the spring abuts against the pressing foot assembly. The blade assembly passes through the pipe and the pressing foot assembly in a slidable manner. When the cutting tool moves along a first direction, the pressing foot assembly keeps pressing against an object in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, such that the blade assembly protrudes from the pressing foot assembly and cuts the object along the first direction.

Abstract: A cutting fluid jet machine includes: a cutting fluid jet nozzle; a nozzle-angle adjusting servo motor; a nozzle-length adjusting servo motor; a nozzle-location calculating unit; and a nozzle controlling unit for controlling an angle and a length of the cutting fluid jet nozzle in accordance with movement of a machine tool in a spindle direction based on a nozzle location calculated by the nozzle-location calculating unit.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide improved storage options for push-sticks used in connection with rip fences on table saws and similar cutting devices where push-sticks might be used. The push-stick storage system may include a rip fence and a push-stick retention mechanism. The push-stick retention mechanism may be defined by upright side walls that define a channel or slot therebetween for receiving a push-stick. The retention mechanism may also include a stop (or a stop block) positioned at a first position within the channel, and a retainer positioned at a second position within the channel.

Abstract: A method of detecting and mitigating kickback in a saw includes identification of a running average speed (RPM) of a saw blade, the speed at a given time sample relative to the running average speed, the percentage change in speed from one speed sample to the previous speed sample, and the percentage change in average speed based on the current speed of the saw blade. If the identified speed profile from the samples indicates a kickback is imminent, then the saw identifies an imminent kickback event and removes power from the saw motor to mitigate kickback.

Abstract: A ceramic part and methods for making the ceramic part are disclosed. A green body or non-sintered part may be formed using a casting or molding process. The green body may not be sintered or may be partially sintered before machining one or more features into a surface of the green body. After machining, the component may be fully sintered to create a hardened ceramic component.

Abstract: A saw blade for rotating about an axis to cut green concrete may include a main body and a cutting portion. The main body includes an inner section and an outer section. The inner section has a first thickness in an axial direction that is greater than a second thickness of the outer section. The cutting portion includes a diamond-metal matrix joined to the outer section to cut a material responsive to rotation of the blade. The inner section extends radially outwardly from a center of the blade to a non-contact shoulder at the first thickness to transition to the outer section at the second thickness. The outer section extending radially outwardly to an outer diameter of the main body.

Abstract: A device for cleaving a crystalline sample, the device comprises: upper and lower bending elements that are arranged to contact upper and lower surfaces of the crystalline sample and to apply a bending moment on the crystalline sample; a first surface impact element that contacts a first surface of the crystalline sample; a cleaving element that is arranged to impact a second surface of the crystalline sample while the bending moment is applied on the crystalline element; wherein the second surface is opposite to the first side and oriented to the upper and lower surfaces of the crystalline sample wherein the device excludes any second surface alignment element for aligning the crystalline sample by contacting the second surface.

Abstract: A double-screw extruder for thermoplastic materials, with a first and a second extruder screw, whereby the extruder screws have an inlet and an outlet and a core, helically extending screw flights being arranged through the core from the inlet to the outlet, so that the screw peaks and valleys are circumferential, and the peaks of the first screw penetrate into the valleys of the second screw, and vice versa. The screw flights may have a geometry which is step-shaped in cross section, whereby the steps may be provided such that the stepped course of the peaks is congruent with the stepped course of the valleys.

Abstract: Polymer pellets are formed using air to influence the separation of polymer from a polymer melt. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a polymer material is extruded through a nozzle to form a polymer melt extending from the nozzle. A non-uniform thickness is generated in the polymer melt using a gas or gasses to apply a drag force to the polymer melt. This drag force reduces a thickness of a portion of the polymer melt adjacent the nozzle, and the polymer melt is fractured into discrete droplets at the reduced thickness. The discrete droplets are then solidified to form pellets.

Abstract: An image displaying device includes a background layer and a display layer. The display layer includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is substantially smooth, and the outer surface includes a plurality of raised areas and recessed areas. The display layer has a first zone with a first thickness measured between the inner surface and a raised area and a second zone with a second thickness measured between the inner surface and a recessed area. The display layer also includes a coloring agent having a higher concentration in the first zone as compared to the second zone. The display layer has increased light transmissivity through the recessed areas and decreased light transmissivity through the raised areas such that a contrast of light transmissivity between the raised and recessed areas generates an image.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a sandwich box impact beam for a vehicle. The method includes fabricating inner and outer facing sandwich structures each including an inner facesheet, an outer facesheet and a micro-truss core therebetween. The micro-truss cores are an ordered three-dimensional network of self-propagating polymer waveguides grown from a photo-monomer resin using a controlled exposure to collimated UV light sources at specified orientations through a plurality of apertures in a mask. The method includes mounting the inner and outer sandwich structures so that an open area is provided therebetween where the inner facesheets face each other across the open area.

Abstract: An apparatus including a mold having a top opening which leads to an inner chamber. The mold may include a first, second, third, and fourth walls, and a bottom which enclose the inner chamber. The apparatus may further include a first and/or second devices which are configured with respect to the mold to supply first and/or second mixtures of quartz and resin to the inner chamber of the mold. The apparatus may include transportation sheet which lies in the inner chamber of the mold and on an inside surface of the third wall of the mold, and which is sandwiched between the first wall and the third wall of the mold and the second wall and the third wall of the mold. The first and second devices may include means for moving the mold to allow placement of the first and/or second mixtures in specific areas of the inner chamber.

Abstract: A method of forming a film on a component includes providing a curing device. The curing device includes a grooved receiving die, a suction device, and a UV curing system. The suction device vacuum-lifts the component into the groove and a gap between the component and the groove is thus created. A vacuum is created in the gap and a UV curing glue is injected into the gap, the UV curing glue being selected from a monomer, an oligomer, and a photoinitiator. The UV curing glue is cured by the UV curing system and the component with a cured film is easily demolded.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a reinforcement rod (2) from a fibrous composite material consisting of continuous mineral fibers (5, 23, 35) and at least one resin (7, 25), at least one portion of the mineral fibers (5, 23) being mixed with a resin-curing agent mixture, the mineral fibers (5, 23) that have been mixed with the resin-curing agent mixture and, optionally, resin-free mineral fibers (35) subsequently being brought together to form a rod, and the resin (7, 25) being cured. A mixture of at least one resin (7, 25) and at least two different curing agents is used as said resin-curing agent mixture, the two curing agents forming reactive species under different conditions for curing the resin (7, 25) such that the reactive species are available for the curing process at different times.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a method of designing a mold, the mold being at least part of a unitary body to be formed from a plurality of layers by 3D printing, the method comprising: defining an inner surface of the mold corresponding to at least part of an outer surface of an object to be molded in the mold; selecting a first material from which at least part of the mold is to be printed; and selecting a second material from which at least another part of the mold is to be printed, the second material having a higher thermal and/or electrical conductivity than the first material, wherein at least one of the layers from which the mold is to be formed by 3D printing includes areas to be printed from each of the first and second materials.

Abstract: A production method of producing a fiber-reinforced resin molding includes: kneading, in a kneader, molten thermoplastic resin with opened reinforcing fibers obtained by opening a bundle of reinforcing fibers, to produce a kneaded mixture; and placing or charging the kneaded mixture into a molding device to produce a fiber-reinforced resin molding.

Abstract: A method for producing a cable with a resin mold including a cable section comprising an electric wire and a sheath comprising a synthetic resin covering the electric wire, and a resin mold section into which a portion of the sheath is molded by a resin is provided. A portion of the cable section is received in a receiving space in a die formed with a molten resin inlet, an inflow passage, and a resin reservoir therein. A molten resin is injected from the inlet into the receiving space. A portion of the injected molten resin flows through the inflow passage and is retained in the resin reservoir. The portion of the sheath is molten by heat of the molten resin. The molten resin is solidified to thereby form a molded resin product. Its unnecessary portion solidified in the resin reservoir is removed from the molded resin product.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a mold core for manufacturing a container closure comprising a plurality of slides, a sleeve placed over the plurality of slides, a slide seat on which the plurality of slides are mounted, and a cam device arranged inside a space defined by the plurality of slides. The plurality of slides comprise a plurality of first independent slides and a plurality of second independent slides, wherein each of the first independent slides and each of the second independent slides are configured to be individually mounted on and individually detached from the slide seat; and wherein axial movement of the sleeve relative to the first independent slides and the second independent slides effects application of radial force onto the first independent slides and the second independent slides successively, so as to cause successive inward movement of the first independent slides and of the second independent slides within the sleeve.

Abstract: A mold comprising a scaffolding support structure including a base member, a top member and side members defining an enclosure. The scaffolding structure further includes a plurality of interconnected and elongated support members interspersed within the enclosure between the base member and the top member so as to define open space within the enclosure for ease of heating and cooling fluid flow, and a plurality of flow partitions within the enclosure. An intermediate layer is formed on the top member and a working surface layer is formed on the intermediate layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for forming films. In particular, the present invention relates to the formation of films on a substrate via the use of individual pumps to deposit individual wet film products onto a substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a plastic container is provided. The method includes disposing a preform into a primary mold cavity and applying pressurized air to urge the preform to conform to the shape of the primary mold cavity to form a primary article. The primary article is then permitted to shrink to a predetermined volume. The method can further include exposing the primary article to an internal vacuum to facilitate shrinking to a predetermined volume. The method further includes disposing the primary article into a second mold cavity and applying pressurized air to urge the primary article to conform to the second mold cavity to form an intermediate article. Finally, at least a portion of the intermediate article is trimmed off to form a final container.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing plastic containers in which, for each container, a plastic preform containing air is supplied; the preform is heated at a preform temperature over the glass temperature of the preform material, the preform is inserted in a mold having a mold cavity; and the preform is expanded to a container having the shape of a mold cavity by a forming liquid. The method also includes, between steps (b) and (d), the injecting of a gaseous product into the preform containing air, wherein the gaseous product is absorbable by the forming liquid. The injection conditions of the gaseous product are selected such that the injected gaseous product expels the air out of the preform.

Abstract: Method for manufacturing a package with a blown foam structure and of a material at least comprising natural polymers such as starch, wherein the method comprises providing a mould with a mould cavity and inserting a starch batter in the mould cavity, moulding of a blank in said mould cavity from said starch batter, wherein the blank comprises a bottom panel and first and second side wall panels pivotally connected to the bottom panel along respective folding lines extending between said bottom panel and the respective first and second sidewall panels, removing the blank from the mould cavity, folding of the respective side wall panels along the respective folding lines in a substantially upward position such that adjacent side wall panels abut each other and form a package side wall that extends along a perimeter of said bottom, said side wall and the bottom defining a package inner space.

Abstract: One aspect of a process of forming an aircraft component includes bonding a first end of a honeycomb structure to a surface of an aircraft skin member, the honeycomb structure including multiple connected cells. Foam is sprayed on a second end of the honeycomb structure opposite the first end. The process also includes curing the foam on the second end of the honeycomb structure.

Abstract: Prepared is a film device (FD) in which a first thermoplastic film (141), a device layer (110) (i.e., a multi-layer product including a polyimide film and a device body), and a second thermoplastic film (142) are arranged. The film device (FD) is pressed against a forming mold (150) and heated at a lower temperature than the temperature limit of the polyimide film, such that the first thermoplastic film is stretched to conform to the shape of the forming mold (150).

Abstract: The present invention provides a resin bonding device comprising: a resin melting injection device A having: a cylinder 1 having an outlet member 5 with a nozzle part formed at a tip-end injection side, a stopper part 6 provided at a rear side for fixation or moving, and a pellet supply opening 11a at an intermediate position; a melting device 2 having a plurality of melting holes 22 formed communicating from inflow-side large openings 22a to outflow-side small openings 22b in the longitudinal direction of a device main body 21, the melting device 2 having a diameter equal to an inner diameter of the cylinder 1; and a heating unit 4 for heating the melting device 2, in which the melting device 2 is provided to be movable or fixed in the cylinder 1; and an adapter 8 that applies the molten resin q injected from the outlet member, to at least one side surface of a first member and a second member and prevents the molten resin q from escaping to resin-bond the first member and the second member to each other.

Abstract: A device for configuring deformable material to provide a predetermined relatively non-deformable visual display includes a plurality of configuration blocks for receiving deformable material that ultimately transforms to a relatively non-deformable material, and a key member for aligning and securing together adjacently disposed configuration blocks. Each of the configuration blocks include a plurality of gaps for arcuately disposing the configuration blocks; and an insert member that engages a ridge portion of each configuration block to ultimately configure an edge portion of the deformable material. A base portion of each configuration block ultimately receives deformable material thereupon that is configured to a predetermined design. Arm members of each configuration block and the insert member are manually removed, after the deformable material transforms to a relatively non-deformable material, to expose a predetermined design in the edge portion and the base portion of each configuration block.

Abstract: Methods and systems for manufacturing composite parts that include anodizable portions and non-anodizable portions such that an interface between the anodizable portions and non-anodizable portions are free of visible defects are described. The non-anodizable portions can be made of anodizable metals such as aluminum or aluminum alloy. The non-anodizable portions are made of material that do not generally form an anodic film, such as plastic, ceramic or glass materials. In particular, the methods described relate to manufacturing methods that are compatible with anodizing processes and avoid defects related to anodizing processes. In particular embodiments, the methods involve avoiding trapping of anodizing chemicals within a gap between an anodizable portion and a non-anodizable portion, which prevents the anodizing chemicals from disrupting the uptake of dye in a post-anodizing dyeing process.