Abstract: A power tool includes a housing, a prime mover disposed in the housing, a first cylinder formed with a first chamber, a first rotating member rotatable with respect to the first cylinder about a first axis under the driving of the prime mover, a first piston movable in a direction parallel to the first axis when the first rotating member rotates relative to the first cylinder. The first cylinder and the first rotating member are disposed within the housing. The first piston is disposed within the first chamber The first rotating member is formed with a first transmission structure to drive the first piston The first piston is formed with a second transmission structure capable of cooperating with the first transmission structure to rotate the first rotation member to drive the first piston.

Abstract: A prior art powered wrist pin knocker is imported with a new plunger that prevents wobbling. The new plunger responds to a return vacuum pressure. The improved plunger is symmetrical along a longitudinal axis. New embodiments include a new side mount valve head to reduce length, a remote air controller and a variable length cylinder for the cannon. The new valve head is a simplified valve head assembly that adapts to an end of the cannon mount or a side mount or a remote mount. Another embodiment provides a stand for a surface mount application. This embodiment can have an extended piston for loosening tail bearings down a long channel. A manual return embodiment can use a rod to manually return the plunger to the proximal end for another firing cycle.

Abstract: A handheld power tool device having a drive unit, which includes at least one driveshaft, and at least one rotary percussion mechanism, which includes at least one intermediate shaft oriented at least essentially flush with respect to the driveshaft, and at least two bearings for mounting the driveshaft. It is provided that the bearings for mounting the driveshaft are situated on a side of the drive unit facing toward the rotary percussion mechanism.

Abstract: A power tool including a drive, and a planetary gear speed reducer reducing the speed of rotation transmitted from the drive. The planetary gear speed reducer has a positioning ball between a first sun gear and a second sun gear. The first sun gear has an annular engagement portion smaller in diameter than the positioning ball, and the second sun gear has a ball-retaining recess accommodating at least half of the positioning ball and retaining the positioning ball at a position on a rotation axis of the second sun gear. The ball-retaining recess has a bottom surface substantially perpendicular to the rotation axis and a cylindrical inner surface to retain the positioning ball at a point on the rotation axis. A gap is formed between the first sun gear and the second sun gear when the positioning ball is sandwiched between the annular engagement portion and the bottom surface.

Abstract: Electrical devices such as tools or tool systems are described which receive electrical power from either a separable battery or an electrical power cord. In certain versions, the tools include both a power cord receptacle and a battery receiving region located along the exterior of the tool housing. The tools can be configured such that when a battery is powering the tool, connection of a power cord to the tool is precluded. The tools can also be configured so that when a power cord is connected to the tool, connection of a battery is precluded. In particular, a hybrid drain cleaning tool system is also described that includes a hybrid drain cleaning tool in combination with a separable battery. Also described are hybrid powered threader devices and hybrid powered saw devices.

Abstract: This application provides tools for use with gas turbine engines. Example tools may include multi joint tools for use in a complex environment that has accessibility constraints, such as with a gas turbine engine. The multi joint tools may include a number of pie cut cylinders connected in series. The number of pie cut cylinders may include a connecting member and a receiving portion, where the number of pie cut cylinders is connected by a first connecting member of a first pie cut cylinder engaged with a first receiving portion of a second pie cut cylinder. The multi joint tools may include an end cut cylinder forming a first end of the multi-joint tool. The end cut cylinder may include a second connecting member engaged with a second receiving portion of the first pie cut cylinder.

Abstract: A handle is used with a tool or other device to provide an ergonomic connection and gripping portion for the tool. The handle includes a first end that is canopy shaped, onion shaped, or otherwise not ball shaped to allow for the end to be placed in a palm and to spread force about a greater area of the palm. A transition portion connects the canopy portion to a grip portion. The transition portion allows for a hand that is surrounding the grip portion to rest comfortably against or adjacent the canopy portion to provide for even greater comfort in use of the handle. The grip portion can include finger grooves. A cavity is included to attach the handle to the tool.

Abstract: An apparatus can include a workbench and a dockable cart. In an example, the apparatus can include a workbench frame including a first storage space and a docking area. A holding member can be coupled to the workbench frame to support the dockable cart using the workbench frame. The dockable cart can include a cart frame having a second storage space and a support element. In an example, the dockable cart can be moveable between a docked position and an undocked position. In the docked position, the support element can be engaged with the holding member to dock the dockable cart with the workbench frame including lifting the dockable cart. In the undocked position the dockable cart can be separated from the workbench.

Abstract: A method and a device are provided for controlling a robotic cleaner. According to an example of the method, an environment image of an area may be acquired, and a sub-area to be swept in the area may be determined based on the environment image. Then, the robotic cleaner may be controlled to reach the sub-area to be swept and perform a sweeping task in the sub-area to be swept.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods, computer program products, and computer systems for instructing a robot to prepare a food dish by replacing the human chef's movements and actions. Monitoring a human chef is carried out in an instrumented application-specific setting, a standardized robotic kitchen in this instance, and involves using sensors and computers to watch, monitor, record and interpret the motions and actions of the human chef, in order to develop a robot-executable set of commands robust to variations and changes in the environment, capable of allowing a robotic or automated system in a robotic kitchen to prepare the same dish to the standards and quality as the dish prepared by the human chef.

Abstract: A robot includes: a base; a first arm which is provided on the base so as to be rotatable around a first rotation axis; and a second arm which is provided on the first arm so as to be rotatable around a second rotation axis having an axial direction different from the axial direction of the first rotation axis, an angle formed by the first arm and the second arm is set as 0°, when seen in the axial direction of the second rotation axis, and the second arm does not interfere with an attachment surface where the base is provided, when the angle is 0°.

Abstract: Methods of controlling a hyper redundant manipulator, the hyper redundant manipulator including: a plurality of sections comprising a first free end section and a second end section; and a base arranged to receive the plurality of sections in a coiled configuration, the base being coupled to the second end section of the plurality of sections, the method comprising: receiving a trajectory for movement of the plurality of sections; determining an error in position and/or orientation relative to the trajectory for one or more sections of the plurality of sections, the error being caused at least in part by the coiled configuration; and controlling movement of the one or more sections using the determined error to compensate for the error in position and/or orientation of the one or more sections.

Abstract: Systems and methods for remote operating and/or monitoring of a robot are disclosed. In some exemplary implementations, a robot can be communicatively coupled to a remote network. The remote network can send and receive signals with the robot. In some exemplary implementations, the remote network can receive sensor data from the robot, allowing the remote network to determine the context of the robot. In this way, the remote network can respond to assistance requests and also provide operating commands to the robot.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a management method and system for wireless networking of units inside a robot. The system includes a control unit and a plurality of tributary units, wherein each tributary unit has a wireless transceiver module, and the units are in wireless communication with each other. With the management method and system for wireless networking of units inside a robot according to the present disclosure, by virtue of the short-range and low-power consumption wireless communication technology, networking is implemented for the units inside the robot to take the place of the communication manner using limited cables, electrical faults caused by wearing and bending of the cables for a long time are removed, safety and reliability of the robot are improved.

Abstract: Deep machine learning methods and apparatus related to manipulation of an object by an end effector of a robot. Some implementations relate to training a semantic grasping model to predict a measure that indicates whether motion data for an end effector of a robot will result in a successful grasp of an object; and to predict an additional measure that indicates whether the object has desired semantic feature(s). Some implementations are directed to utilization of the trained semantic grasping model to servo a grasping end effector of a robot to achieve a successful grasp of an object having desired semantic feature(s).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a robot control device is used for a robot arm including a link and a motor for rotationally driving the link. The robot control device includes a derivation part. The derivation part derives a first estimated value including a variation of a rotation angle of the link and a second estimated value including a variation of a rotation angle of the motor, based on an angular velocity and a current reference value of the motor. Furthermore, the derivation part derives an external force generated to the robot arm, based on a difference between the first estimated value and the second estimated value.

Abstract: In order to set control with a high degree of freedom while taking into account a time response waveform, a robot control apparatus includes a control section that acquires a driving position of a driving section that drives a robot and a detection value of an operation force operating on the robot detected by a force detector, and controls the driving section based on the detection value, a first setting value, and a second setting value; a first display section that displays a detection waveform that is a time response waveform of the detection value; a second display section that displays a storage waveform that is a time response waveform of the operation force stored in a storage medium in advance; and a receiving section that receives setting of at least the second setting value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first generation unit configured to generate deviation data for each of parameters of respective apparatuses relating to three-dimensional measurement, a second generation unit configured to generate deviation data based on a captured image of a target acquired using the parameters and a registration image of the target, an acquiring unit configured to acquire similarity between the deviation data generated by the second generation unit and the deviation data for each of the parameters generated by the first generation unit, and a presentation unit configured to present presentation information relating to calibration of the parameters based on the similarity.

Abstract: A method calculates a calibration parameter for a robot tool. The method is based on the reception of an image dataset from medical imaging of an image volume via a first interface. The image volume contains a part of the robot tool and the robot tool is attached to a robot. A robot dataset is received by a second interface. The robot dataset contains a position of a movable axis of the robot during the recording of the image dataset. The position and/or orientation of a marking in the image dataset are determined by a computing unit. An image-based position and/or orientation of the tool center point of the robot tool are calculated by transforming the position and/or orientation of the marking. The calibration parameter is calculated based on the robot dataset and on the image-based position and/or orientation of the tool center point via the computing unit.

Abstract: A system includes an animated character head having one or more processors configured to receive an input, to make an animation selection based on the input, and to provide a first control based on the animation selection. The animated character head also includes a display configured to provide an indication of the animation selection for visualization by a performer operating the animated character head.

Abstract: A long member assembling device has hand parts configured to grip a long member, arm parts and trunk parts configured to adjust a position of each of the hand parts, a hand part configured to grip the long member, the hand part numbering less than the hand parts, an arm part and a trunk part configured to move the hand part and adjust a position of the hand part gripping the long member, the arm part and the trunk part having higher positioning accuracy than the hand parts, and a control unit configured to, on the basis of an original shape of the long member stored in a memory, drive the arm parts and the trunk parts to adjust the positions of the hand parts and the hand part such that the shape of the long member gripped by the hand parts matches the original shape.

Abstract: A workpiece conveying system is provided, which includes a workpiece including a workpiece main body, a cylindrical gripping part protruding from the workpiece main body, and an engaging plate attached to a tip-end surface of the gripping part, a chuck device including three jaws configured to grip the gripping part in radial directions of the gripping part, and a robot to which the chuck device is attached. The engaging plate includes an overhang part protruding from the gripping part along the tip-end surface of the gripping part, and an engaging slot, into which one of the three jaws fits, is formed in the overhang part.

Abstract: The present invention provides a robot apparatus which can determine a contact state at a contact point without increasing the contact point, can be miniaturized, and also can decrease the cost. Contact points are provided in a hand device. Contact points are provided in a tool device, which come in contact with the contact points, respectively, when the tool device has been mounted on the hand device. A voltage detecting circuit is provided in the tool device, which detects a voltage between the contact points. The controlling circuit determines contact states between the contact points and the contact points, by using a value of the voltage which has been detected by the voltage detecting circuit.

Abstract: A vacuum device for a material handling system includes a vacuum device body and a sealing element. The vacuum device body has a vacuum passageway in which a vacuum is generated in response to activation of a pressurized air supply that forces pressurized air through a venturi device. The sealing element moves to a sealing position to substantially seal the vacuum passageway when the air supply is activated, and is urged toward the sealing position via pressurized air that is diverted from an inlet of the vacuum device to the sealing element. The sealing element moves to substantially vent the vacuum passageway when the air supply is deactivated. The vacuum passageway may be in fluid communication with a vacuum cup, which seals against the object when the sealing element is at the sealing position and the vacuum generating device generates at least a partial vacuum in the vacuum passageway.

Abstract: A robot includes a movable part having a first internal space, a shock-absorbing section disposed outside the movable part, and having a second internal space, and a state switching section capable of switching between a first state of supplying a fluid from a fluid supply source to the first internal space and a second state of supplying the fluid from the fluid supply source to the second internal space. Further, the state switching section includes a first flow channel adapted to supply the fluid from the fluid supply source to the first internal space, a second flow channel adapted to supply the fluid from the fluid supply source to the second internal space, and a valve capable of adjusting opening/closing degrees of each of the first flow channel and the second flow channel.

Abstract: A connection structure in which a robot link member including a first wall, a second wall facing the first wall with an interval, and a connecting wall connecting the first wall and the second wall is connected with a member to be connected contacting a surface of the first wall of the link member, which does not face the second wall, the connection structure includes a bolt penetrating the first and second walls and including a head part contacting the second wall and a screw part screwed into the member to be connected, and a deformation preventing member sandwiched between the first and second walls by tightening the bolt to prevent or reduce deformation of the walls in a direction in which the walls become closer to each other.

Abstract: A failure diagnosis device applicable to a mechanical device provided with. motors independent of One another as sources to drive motion axes, respectively, and configured to acquire a moving position of each motion axis and a disturbance torque value applied to the motion axis every predetermined period, and to diagnose a failure of the mechanical device, includes a failure diagnosis unit configured to diagnose the motion axis as a failure when the disturbance torque value is larger than a predetermined failure determination threshold, and a re-determination unit configured to conduct re-determination of the failure on the motion axis, which is diagnosed as the failure by the failure diagnosis unit, based on a previous maintenance record and a previous inspection result.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for identifying glove-port positions intended for being mounted on a panel supported by a glovebox structure (11) which defines a closed chamber enabling an operator to perform handling operations while being isolated from said chamber. The device comprises a base (19), means for attaching this base (19) to the glovebox structure (11), at least one template (22, 23) which is supported by this base (19) while being movable with respect to this base, in order to be able to occupy different positions with respect to this base (19), each template comprising an opening which is capable of receiving a glove port, and means for locking each template (22, 23) in position with respect to the base (19).

Abstract: A cutting device includes a support shaft; a first blade body which holds the support shaft; a rolling bearing which is mounted on the support shaft, and has an outer race and an inner race; a second blade body which is provided to overlap the first blade body, and is rotatably supported on the support shaft via the rolling bearing; a fixing member which is disposed on the support shaft on a side opposite to the first blade body across the rolling bearing; and a biasing member disposed between the rolling bearing and the fixing member. One of the outer race and the inner race rotates integrally with the second blade body, and the other of the outer race and the inner race is biased toward the first blade body by the biasing member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary cutting unit (207) of a shaving head of a shaving device, which cutting unit comprises an external cutting member (211) and an internal cutting member (212). In interconnected condition, a holding force prevents the external and internal cutting members from moving apart. Said holding force is at least exerted by a first central portion (221) of the external cutting member upon a second central portion (222) of the internal cutting member, and/or vice versa. Said holding force may for example be provided by means of a snap connection or magnetic attraction between said first and second central portions. As compared to rotary cutting units of existing shaving heads, the invention meets various known desirable design requirements, while at the same time providing for manual removal and insertion of the internal cutting members in a very easy, comfortable and intuitive manner, and the structure to achieve all this being non-complex and compact.

Abstract: A razor head includes a head frame, a razor blade, an independent trimming unit and a lubricating strip. The head frame has a front frame wall, a rear frame wall and a side frame wall. The razor blade is arranged between the front frame wall and the rear frame wall, and assembled on the side frame wall. The trimming unit is assembled on the side frame wall, with a receiving groove being defined by the trimming unit and the rear frame wall. The lubricating strip is inserted into the receiving groove, and clamped by the trimming unit and the rear frame wall. By this token, the trimming unit not only has trimming function, but also has holding function for fixing the lubricating strip, accordingly, the manufacturing process is simplified, the manufacturing materials and manufacturing cost are reduced.

Abstract: A tool for inflating a chamber (50) in an article composed at least partially of polymer layers, such as thermoplastic layers. The tool can allow for forming an aperture in a polymer layer (350), inflating a chamber (50) or volume (130) in fluid communication with the aperture, and then welding or sealing the chamber (50) so that the inflation fluid is substantially retained in the chamber (50) and/or does not escape via the aperture. In various aspects, the formation of the aperture, inflation of the chamber (50), and sealing of the chamber (50) or aperture can be performed by a single tool and/or based on a single registration of the thermoplastic article with a tool. In some aspects, formation of the aperture is enabled in part by using a punch (100, 201, 205) with a cupped surface (341) that allows the top layer of a thermoplastic article to be breached without forming a hole in at least one lower layer (350).

Abstract: A handheld mortise forming device includes a base unit having a first support extending parallel to a first axis. The first support includes first and second working ends. A first sidewall and a second sidewall are connected to the first support. One of two connecting units is rotatably mounted to the first sidewall. The other connecting unit is rotatably mounted to the second sidewall. A second support extends parallel to the first axis and is connected to the two connecting units. The second support is rotatable relative to the first and second sidewalls and includes an abutting face. A clamping unit includes a pressing member located on a side of the second support adjacent to the abutting face. The pressing member can clamp lumber. The pressing member is jointly rotatable with the second support and is switchable between the first working end and the second working end.

Abstract: Provided is a mouthpiece for an extruder provided at an extruder extruding a flowable molding material, including: a molding material flow passage; a molding material extrusion port formed at a front end of the molding material flow passage; and one or plural flow resistance members provided to advance into and withdraw from the molding material flow passage, the advancing and the withdrawing being performed by an operation at the outside of the mouthpiece for the extruder.

Abstract: A concrete impression template is provided. The template includes a plate having an upper surface, a lower surface and an edge. The lower surface and the upper surface may each be substantially planar. The edge and the lower surface may form a design shaped.

Abstract: A pocket forming member having a support body with one or more slots in communication with a slot extension. A hook, adapted to hold a form flush, is connected to the support body. The hook has a first vertical portion, a horizontal portion, and a second vertical portion. The hook can be adjustable.

Abstract: A product and method to eliminate blade spacers in blade heads or stacks that are formed by multiple blades fixed relative to one another including a plurality of spacerless blades wherein the spacerless blades include a blade core with a blade core thickness that is greater than a segment thickness of grinding and/or cutting segments fixed to the blade core to allow core-to-core contact between adjacent blades in the plurality of spacerless circular blades while also producing segments spacings in the plurality of segments between the adjacent blades without the need for blade spacers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a kneader/extruder that is provided with a heating cylinder (16), a screw (17) housed in the heating cylinder (16) so as to be capable of rotation and forward/backward movement, and a die (18) attached to the tip of the heating cylinder (16), and generates a plastic compound (6) having a reinforcement fiber kneaded therein, said kneader/extruder being provided with a shutter member (19) that opens and closes a compound extrusion port (18a) provided in the die (18), and performing kneading and extrusion of the compound (6) intermittently. The shutter member (19) may be provided with a scraper (20) that scrapes the compound (6) off from the surface of the die (18). Due to this, this kneader/extruder can generate a one-press portion of the compound and can be easily maintained.

Abstract: A treatment system for plastic material includes a feeding device, a treatment unit, and a plasticizing device arranged downstream thereof. The treatment unit has a comminuting device and a conveying device which are received in a housing. An outlet opening is arranged in an end region of a conveying section of the conveying device. The plasticizing device has an extruder screw which is received in an extruder housing. The extruder housing is equipped with a filling opening which is arranged so as to directly adjoin the outlet opening arranged in the housing. In the region of the outlet opening, the conveying device has a circulating direction which runs in the opposite direction of the conveying direction of the extruder screw.

Abstract: The invention provides for a set of molding elements (4, 5) adapted to be attached in a mold for molding tires, each molding element being able to mold a cut in a tire tread, wherein the set of molding elements comprises complex shaped molding elements, each molding element being able to connect to another molding element from the set of molding elements along a generally straight interface (54) defined between connecting molding elements The invention also provides for a mold for molding tires, said mold comprising a set of molding elements as described above attached to a main cast aluminum body.

Abstract: A pocket, to form particulate material as absorbent for hygienic products, includes: a substrate shaped to the absorbent padding; a grid-shaped support, couplable to support the substrate during suction of the particulate material through the substrate and includes a curved external face, an internal face, a pair of greater side faces and a pair of lesser side faces that are opposite one another, openings enable gas to flow from the external face to the internal face during suction. A method for making the pocket includes making at least one of the external openings of a different shape and/or dimension from one of the internal openings, and making the external walls and the internal walls by layer additive manufacturing.

Abstract: An undercut processing mechanism is attached to and used in a molding die for forming a molded product having an undercut portion, and allows demolding of the undercut portion. The undercut processing mechanism includes: a holder attached to or formed integrally with the molding die; a sliding piece configured to be slidable relative to the holder such that a mold core is moved so as to demold the undercut portion; a retaining piece configured to retain the sliding piece such that the sliding piece is slidable; and a support wall configured to support the sliding piece so as to prevent the sliding piece from being tilted when the sliding piece slides. The sliding piece forms a part of the mold core for forming the undercut portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates firstly to a method for reproducing a stem cell niche of an organism. The invention further relates to a reproduction of a stem cell niche of an organism. According to the invention, an image of a tissue of an organism is generated, which tissue comprises at least one stem cell niche. The image is filtered in order to obtain a structural pattern of the imaged stem cell niche. In a further step, a lithographic mask is generated from the structural pattern. According to the invention, a starting material of a substrate is structured by means of indirect or direct application of the lithographic mask, whereby a structured substrate is obtained which represents the reproduction of the imaged stem cell niche of the organism. The reproduction can be characterised as biolithomorphic.

Abstract: Described are methods for producing at least a part of a sporting good, in particular a sports shoe. According to one aspect of the invention, the method includes the steps of: (a) depositing a first material into a mold and (b) vibrating the mold to modify the distribution of the first material in the mold.

Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer pipe with an outer layer which forms a pipe outer contour, an inner layer which forms a pipe inner contour, and at least one intermediate layer by means of a centrifugal casting process. A mixture of resin and microfibers is supplied to a rotating die in order to form the inner layer, and a specified separation of the resin and the microfibers is produced by controlling the die rotational speed during a specified time such that the content of the microfibers in a boundary layer, which starts from the pipe inner contour, is lower than the content in a stability layer facing the intermediate layer. The invention likewise relates to a corresponding multilayer pipe.

Abstract: A uniform temperature roll-extrusion forming system and a uniform temperature roller structure thereof are provided. The uniform temperature roll-extrusion forming system includes: a pressure roller and a uniform temperature roller. The uniform temperature roller includes: a roller body which has a uniform temperature chamber partitioned into a first chamber, a second chamber, and a third chamber, wherein the chambers are independent from one another; a pair of rotating shafts formed on two side plates of the roller body and internally provided with a flow channel communicated with the first chamber and the third chamber; and a plurality of heat exchange pipes arranged in the second chamber, wherein each heat exchange pipe is communicated with the first chamber and the third chamber; wherein the second chamber is a closed space and used for being internally provided with at least one supercritical fluid.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image forming system of the present invention is characterized to include a density adjustment unit configured to adjust, for print data for printing a grayscale image used to cause a predetermined region of a thermally expandable sheet to thermally expand, density of the grayscale image according to types of pattern images included in the grayscale image, in print regions of the pattern images such that expansion heights of the print regions of the pattern images become desired heights.

Abstract: An elongate element is formed from a composite material and a coil is formed by winding the elongate element around a master model. The master model provides the coil with the general shape of a continuous ring and with dimensions that allow the resulting coil to form an insert equipped with at least two parts that are intended to extend respectively through at least two separate opening panel zones to be reinforced.

Abstract: A system for manufacturing a particulate-binder composite article including a mold defining a mold cavity, a first opening into the mold cavity, and a second opening into the mold cavity, a mass of a particulate material received in the mold cavity, a binder source in selective fluid communication with the mold cavity by way of the first opening, the binder source including a binder material, a first filter disposed across the first opening, the first filter being permeable to the binder material and substantially impermeable to the particulate material, and a second filter disposed across the second opening, the second filter being permeable to air and substantially impermeable to the particulate material.

Abstract: The mold device according to the present invention is a mold device to resin-seal the semiconductor device including an insert electrode, and in the semiconductor device, the insert electrode is provided with an insert hole, a nut having a screw hole is disposed in the insert electrode so that the insert hole and the screw hole communicate with each other, the mold device includes a mold body into which resin is injected to resin-seal the semiconductor device, including a side of the insert electrode where the nut is disposed, and a rod-like member that is inserted into the insert hole, and the rod-like member is inserted into the screw hole of the nut through the insert hole of the insert electrode to draw the nut to the side of the insert electrode.