Abstract: An apparatus and method are presented for repairing damage to the boundary wall between an engine coolant passage and a fuel injector bore in a cylinder head. The method involves removing the fuel injector from the fuel injector bore adjoining the damaged boundary wall and inserting a purpose-built sealant injector tool into the fuel injector bore. The sealant injector tool is dimensionally equivalent to the fuel injector in critical regions so that it conforms to the interior surface of the fuel injector bore. Sealant is injected into the sealant injector tool at high pressure until the sealant flows into the crack between the fuel injector bore and the coolant passage after which the sealant injector tool is removed and the fuel injector reinstalled.

Abstract: A blade configured for use in a blending apparatus includes a body portion and a pair of wing portions extending from the body portion. At least a leading edge of the blade is forged to increase a hardness property. The leading edge may have a minimum thickness that provides a relatively blunt leading edge. The wing portions of the blade may be formed after forging the blade.

Abstract: An irrigation insertion tool is disclosed for inserting an irrigation emitter into an irrigation tubing. The irrigation insertion tool comprises a primary lever including a primary fulcrum base coupling a primary handle and a primary jaw. A secondary lever includes a secondary fulcrum base coupling a secondary handle and a secondary jaw. A couple joins the primary fulcrum base and the secondary fulcrum base for defining a fulcrum. A tubing channel is in the primary jaw for receiving the irrigation tubing. An emitter socket is in the secondary jaw for receiving the irrigation emitter. The primary handle and the secondary handle converge for generating a mechanical advantage between the primary jaw and the secondary primary jaw. The primary jaw and the secondary jaw compress the irrigation tubing with the irrigation emitter and pierce the barb tube through the irrigation tubing.

Abstract: A turbine part replacing apparatus for moving a combustor of an industrial gas turbine from and to a mounting port of the gas turbine is disclosed, the apparatus including a mobile frame with a moving mechanism for substantially horizontal translation motion on the ground, a vertically extendable arm attached to and extending from said mobile frame, and a carriage attached to the extendable arm such that the carriage may be moved vertically with respect to the mobile frame. Moreover, the turbine part replacing apparatus is adapted for receiving the combustor in the carriage and for vertically moving the received combustor by the extendable arm from and to the mounting port.

Abstract: A jig apparatus includes holding members on which an object to be processed is placed, which members are supported so that they are able to move in a vertical direction. The jig apparatus also includes control unit that controls positions in the vertical direction of the holding members. Control unit causes second holding members, which are selected from among holding members around first holding members on which the object is placed, to be moved to a place in the vertical direction, and to cause the first and second holding members to cooperate in holding the object.

Abstract: An automated reloading system for replacing a spent surgical end effector in a manipulatable robotic tool portion of a robotic surgical system is disclosed. The automated reloading system comprises a drive assembly configured to generate rotary drive motions and a selectively movable support assembly defining a plurality of end effector reloading positions. Each reloading position being configured to support a new surgical end effector or a spent surgical end effector therein. The selectively movable support assembly being further configured to selectively serially move each reloading position into a driving position wherein the new surgical end effector or the spent surgical end effector therein is configured to selectively receive the rotary drive motions. The automated reloading system further comprises means for releasably locking the movable support assembly in the driving position during the application of the driving motion to the new surgical end effector or the spent surgical end effector.

Abstract: A numerically controlled machine tool, including a machine bed, a cabin having a cabin wall which embraces at least part of the machine bed, and at least one shaped element, which has a substantially panel-shaped basic form and is attached to the machine tool in such a way that a cavity is present between the shaped element and the cabin wall and/or the machine bed.

Abstract: A separator apparatus is provided for a cutting machine which separates chips from coolant, wherein the separator includes a fluid chamber into which an airborne mixture of chips and coolant driven by an airflow enters via an entry port, the separator apparatus being configured to: sufficiently slow the speed of the airborne mixture once inside the chamber so that the chips and coolant separate out from the airflow; retain the chips and coolant released from the airborne mixture in the fluid chamber; and allow air from the airborne mixture to exit the fluid chamber via an air outlet; wherein the fluid chamber includes a chip collector which captures the chips and enables the chips to be separated and removed from the coolant in the chamber; and wherein the fluid chamber includes a coolant outlet through which coolant, from which the chips have been removed, is able to exit.

Abstract: A tool measuring apparatus for measuring a height of a punch body and a die includes a measurement device that measures a distance from a punch reference position that is set preliminarily to an end surface of the punch body, and a distance from a die reference position that is set preliminarily to an end surface of the die. The punch reference position and the die reference position are placed independently from each other. According to the tool measuring apparatus, it is possible to measure a punch body and a die easily even in a case where a size of the punch body and a size of the die are significantly different from each other.

Abstract: A system and method for imparting a textured surface effect in a board. The system and method are configured to releasably secure a charge on a table; determine a random abrasion pattern for the charge with at least one programmable controller; and control at least one abrasion assembly with the at least one programmable controller in accord with the random abrasion pattern to selectively engage and remove desired portions of the upper surface of the charge with the at least one abrasion assembly to form a randomized textured surface effect thereon.

Abstract: A cam grinding method using a cam grinding device includes: an intermediate-cam lift-data generating step of, based on first lift data of a first cam and second lift data of a second cam, generating imaginary intermediate cam lift data of a spline curve that contains profiles of both cams; a first cam grinding step of grinding the first cam; a second cam grinding step of grinding the second cam; and an intermediate-cam grinding step of removing an unground portion generated at a boundary portion between the first cam and the second cam by plunge grinding or spark-out grinding on the basis of the intermediate-cam lift data after the second cam grinding step.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a calibration apparatus which enables the pressing force of the polishing pad to be adjusted by a simple method without the need of removing a stage on which a substrate can be placed. One embodiment of the invention provides a calibration apparatus for a bevel polishing system for polishing a bevel portion of a substrate, comprising: a load measuring device capable of measuring a pressing load from a polishing pad of the bevel polishing system; and a base plate capable of having the load measuring device placed thereon, wherein the base plate is capable of being fixed on a vacuum suction table which is capable of having a substrate placed thereon.

Abstract: A multi-layered polishing pad arrangement includes a first polishing pad layer having a first top and a first bottom major surface, a second polishing pad layer having a second top and a second bottom major surface, and a coupling arrangement disposed between the first bottom surface and the second top surface. The thickness of each of the first and second polishing pad layer ranges between 0.125 mm and 10 mm.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a finish polishing pad and the polishing pad which allow formation of a stable film and enables polishing with fewer polishing scratches. The method includes the steps of: dissolving a composition for forming polyurethane resin film containing a polyurethane resin and an additive(s) in a solvent capable of dissolving the resin; removing an insoluble component(s) to make the content of the insoluble component(s) in the solution less than 1% by mass relative to the total mass of the composition; adding a poor solvent to the solution from which the insoluble component(s) has(have) been removed, followed by mixing, the amount of the poor solvent added being calculated according to a defined Formula 1; and forming a film from the mixture solution on the film formation substrate by a wet coagulation method, to thereby form the polyurethane resin film.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polishing pads which include a polishing layer, wherein the polishing layer includes a working surface and a second surface opposite the working surface. The working surface includes a plurality of precisely shaped pores, a plurality of precisely shaped asperities and a land region. The present disclosure further relates to a polishing system, the polishing system includes the preceding polishing pad and a polishing solution. The present disclosure relates to a method of polishing a substrate, the method of polishing including: providing a polishing pad according to any one of the previous polishing pads; providing a substrate, contacting the working surface of the polishing pad with the substrate surface, moving the polishing pad and the substrate relative to one another while maintaining contact between the working surface of the polishing pad and the substrate surface, wherein polishing is conducted in the presence of a polishing solution.

Abstract: To cut out a hard-brittle substrate by blasting, laying out substrates 2 on a plate material 1 made of a hard-brittle material with leaving a space for blasting; forming first protective films 4 on both surfaces of the plate material 1 at layout positions of the substrates 2; and forming second protective films 5 on both surfaces of a margin 3 of the plate material 1 with leaving a space with respect to the first protective films 4 and having outer edges from a periphery of the plate material 1 at a width of 5 mm or less; cutting regions 6 between the films 4, 4 and between the films 4, 5 from one surface of the plate material 1 to a depth of approximately half of a thickness thereof by blasting, then cutting from the other surface of the plate material 1 until the plate material 1 is penetrated.

Abstract: The centrifugal projector (1) of the present invention has: a side plate (11), a plurality of blades (3) attached to the side plate (11), a control cage (41-45) disposed on a radial inner side of the side plate for releasing the projection material between blades from an opening portion (41a-45e), a distributor (22), disposed on a radial inner side of the control cage, for mixing and supplying the projection material to the control cage, and a rotary shaft (14) for rotating the side plate, blades and distributor; wherein the blades are formed to be pitched so that a radial outer side (3c) thereof is positioned to a rear in the rotational direction (R1) compared to a radial inner side (3b) thereof; the control cage (41-45) has a plurality of opening windows (41a-45e), or a single opening window in which a portion or all of a plurality of opening windows are respectively overlapped and integrated into a single piece.

Abstract: A flowable composite particle that includes a plurality of bound hard particles and a binder alloy. The bound hard particles are unfractured bound hard particles and fractured bound hard particles. Each of the bound hard particles is bonded to the binder alloy. The bound hard particles have a particle size of ?325 Mesh. The flowable composite particle have a particle size distribution is: (a) between more than about zero weight percent and about 5 weight percent flowable composite particles of a +80 Mesh particle size, (b) between about 60 weight percent and about 95 weight percent flowable composite particles of a ?80+325 Mesh particle size, and (c) between more than about zero weight percent and about 35 weight percent flowable composite particles of a ?325 Mesh particle size.

Abstract: A grindstone tool is provided with a shaft part which has a tubular shape having a connection hole therein, a head part which has a cylindrical shape coaxially and integrally connected to the leading end of the shaft part and having a hollow section therein, and abrasive grains which adhere to the entire outer peripheral surface of the head part via a bonding material. A grinding fluid is supplied to the hollow section of the head part from one end side of the head part, the other end side of the head part is blocked by a lid member, and in the head part, a plurality of communication holes through which the hollow section and the outer peripheral surface communicate with each other, and which each have a taper shape with a diameter size on the outer peripheral surface side larger than a diameter size of the shaft center side are formed.

Abstract: A tool, a tool system, and method for applying torque to a hammer union. The tool includes a handle attached to a tool head, and the tool head further includes at least two indentations, the indentations having a curved rearward wall and forming a mouth with a first width and a mid-section with a second width, wherein the mid-section width is greater than the mouth width.

Abstract: A hand-guided power tool, having a housing and a tool holder disposed on a drive shaft. The drive shaft is rotatably supported in the housing in at least one first bearing that is disposed in at least some portions in the vicinity of a face end of the housing oriented toward the tool holder. Between the first bearing and the tool holder, a detent mechanism for impact generation for the drive shaft is embodied.

Abstract: A hand-power tool includes at least one oscillation-damping device that has at least one damping spring, a damping mass, and a mechanism housing. The oscillation-damping device has at least two retaining parts that at least partly enclose the damping mass.

Abstract: A generally continuous cylindrical body where a first set of tools and a second set of tools are arranged at the proximate and distal ends of the body to rotate in a specific alternating 180 degree sequence in either an “L” mode or “screwdriver” mode for use. The tools are configured to be positioned at one or more hinge points by screws and shoulder screws. At a proximal end of the tool body, and at the tangent of the circumference of the body at the distal end of each tool; each tool is configured to rotate away from the body to a plurality of angles. The general cylindrical body also provides angled channels or walls with varying angular depths or tool slots where the tools are arranged and retained within the general cylindrical body.

Abstract: Handle for cleaning tool or similar which has an elbow at an intermediate point which defines a lower straight section and an upper section which externally forms a widened surface with a configuration and length adapted to the forearm of an individual which at the front end ends in a flexible clamp which secures the forearm of the user in an area close to the elbow while on the same exterior face and close to the angled area of the handle there is a handhold in such a manner that it can be applied both on the ground or on a low surface as well as on the ceiling or an elevated surface above the head of the user.

Abstract: A pry bar has a transversely disposed generally triangular cross-section handle grip portion having surfaces formed of a soft elastomeric over-molded material. The handle is formed with an inner hard thermoplastic core and molded over outer elastomeric cover. A metal tether receiving element and impact cap are fixedly secured at the handle proximate end.

Abstract: A system that converts fanfold material into packaging templates includes a converting machine and an outfeed table. The converting machine has a converting assembly that performs conversion functions, such as cutting, creasing, and scoring, on fanfold material as the fanfold material moves through the converting machine. The outfeed table guides the packaging templates out of the converting machine in a first direction. The outfeed table then directs the packaging templates to a user side of the outfeed table so that a user may readily retrieve the packaging templates from the user side of the outfeed table.

Abstract: A cutting guide serves to adjust a length of an exhaust tube introduced in an exhaust pipe so as to adapt to combination of the exhaust pipe communicating from the inside to the outside of a building with an exhaust terminal attached to an end portion of the exhaust pipe on an outdoor side. The cutting guide has a reference site for alignment with an exhaust pipe unit including the exhaust pipe, and has an indication of a cutting position of the exhaust tube for adjusting a length of the exhaust tube protruding from the end portion of the exhaust pipe portion on the outdoor side to a length adapted to a type of the exhaust terminal.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described for communicating action instructions between a home automation system and a mobile robotic device. In some embodiments, the action instructions may be communicated by receiving, at the home automation system, input data, and processing the input data to obtain action instructions. In some embodiments, the action instructions may be communicated to the mobile robotic device, and the mobile robotic device may execute the received action instructions.

Abstract: A device comprising a main body, an arm assembly comprising first arm member, a first joint, a second arm member, a second joint, orientation control means for adjusting the orientation of the arm members and/or joints of the arm assembly relative to the main body, one or more passive actuating means for counterbalancing at least a part of the weight of the arm assembly, wherein an adjustable lever mechanism is arranged between the main body and the arm assembly, drive means configured for adjusting the lever arm, one or more orientation sensors for determining the orientation of the arm members and/or joints of the arm assembly relative to the main body, and lever arm control means for adjusting the lever arm of the adjustable lever mechanism with the drive means. The invention further relates to a method of adjusting a lever arm of such a device.

Abstract: An arm supporting exoskeleton comprises a shoulder base coupled to an arm link mechanism. The arm link mechanism comprises a proximal link and a distal link configured to rotate relative to each other about a rotating joint; at least one arm-coupler adapted to couple a user's arm to the distal link; a tensile force generator coupled to the proximal link and the distal link, and providing a torque to flex the distal link relative to the proximal link; and a protrusion located substantially at the rotating joint. When the distal link extends past a toggle angle, the protrusion constrains the tensile force generator, and the torque provided by the tensile force generator remains substantially small, When the protrusion does not constrain the tensile force generator, the torque tends to flex the distal link relative to the proximal link, thereby reducing human shoulder forces and torques required to raise the arm.

Abstract: A bracketing system provides a structural support for a parallel robot and the moving components thereof. The bracketing system also serves to increase the functionality of the parallel robot. The bracketing system includes a plurality of aluminum brackets fabricated through extrusion, and serving as heat sinks The brackets comprise a substantially triangular shaped bracket disposed to integrally join with the vertices of a plurality of horizontal members and a plurality of vertical members on the parallel robot. The horizontal members and the vertical members form a triangle shape with three vertices and three sides. This allows for six brackets to position between an inner surface of each vertex. Mounting holes on the brackets enable a fastener to pass through for attaching the brackets to the vertical members and the horizontal members. The brackets slide along the vertical member to enable tightening of a tension belt and adding accessories.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for providing a desired movement of one or more joints of a manipulator arm having a plurality of joints with redundant degrees of freedom while effecting commanded movement of a distal end effector of the manipulator. Methods include defining a constraint, such as a network of paths, within a joint space defined by the one or more joints and determining a movement of the plurality of joints within a null-space to track the constraints with the one or more joints. Methods may further include calculating a reconfiguration movement of the joints and modifying the constraints to coincide with a reconfigured position of the one or more joints. Various configurations for devices and systems utilizing such methods are provided herein.

Abstract: An interference check system capable of appropriately checking interference between a machine tool and a robot in real time even in the case where real-time properties of data communication are not secured in a system including a machine tool and a robot. The interference check system includes a machine tool controller configured to control a machine tool, a robot controller configured to control a robot, and an interference check execution unit configured to include shape model data or the like of a machine tool mechanical unit and a robot mechanical unit. The interference check execution unit checks presence/absence of interference between the machine tool mechanical unit and the robot mechanical unit based on the shape model data of the machine tool and the robot and time-series data generated by integrating the positions of the control axes of the machine tool and the robot, respectively.

Abstract: A system to secure people's safety in places such as a factory wherein people and industrial robot collaborate with each other in a state that a physical fence surrounding the preferred industrial robot's working region is excluded. The system is capable of acquiring respective distances between robot and a plurality of people. Furthermore, a critical distance of each person is set on the basis of at least one of personal information that each person individually has and environment information to be set depending on the robot's setting environment. A mounted-type monitor is respectively mounted on the plurality of people and is capable of displaying information within a view of each person, and a control unit is capable of controlling display content thereon. According to the display control, when a distance between robot and each person becomes less than a critical distance, the distance state is displayed on the mounted-type monitor.

Abstract: A method comprising scanning a first painted surface of a first vehicle having two or more paint layers with a robotic terahertz radiation instrument to obtain a first painted surface thickness data and map for each of the two or more paint layers, comparing the first thickness map to a control map, and adjusting one or more paint application parameters based on a comparison of the first thickness map with the control map for painting a second surface of a second vehicle different than the first vehicle.

Abstract: A robot includes an arm that has a plurality of arm members, a drive unit driving the plurality of arm members, and a grasp unit; and a force detector. The robot sequentially performs a contact operation in which a fitting member grasped by the grasp unit is moved in a predetermined contact direction and is brought into contact with a to-be-fitted member, a posture change operation in which a posture of the fitting member is changed to a fitting posture, and a fitting operation in which the fitting member in the fitting posture is moved in a searching direction and the fitting member is fitted into the to-be-fitted member in a fitting direction. The contact direction, the searching direction, and the fitting direction are directions different from one another.

Abstract: A remote control station that controls a robot through a network. The remote control station transmits a robot control command that includes information to move the robot. The remote control station monitors at least one network parameter and scales the robot control command as a function of the network parameter. For example, the remote control station can monitor network latency and scale the robot control command to slow down the robot with an increase in the latency of the network. Such an approach can reduce the amount of overshoot or overcorrection by a user driving the robot.

Abstract: Provided is a hand controller device for detecting movement of one or more fingers of a user holding the device. The device includes: a support structure and opposing first and second finger supporting means, at least one of the finger supporting means being movably coupled to the support structure so that a movement of the movable supporting means increases or reduces an opening angle and/or distance between the opposing first and second finger supporting means; and a force and/or torque generation means that generates a force and/or torque between the first and second finger supporting means. The first and second finger supporting means include a finger detecting means to detect if the user's finger is in contact with a surface of the first and/or second finger supporting means, independently of whether or not the movable supporting means is moved.

Abstract: The invention relates to an articulated apparatus for guiding a relative movement of components into a target position, which may be the operating position of a micromanipulator arrangement. The articulated apparatus has multiple parts, which are movable with respect to each other. Two stop devices are used which, in combination, imitate the “latching-in” of a conventional latching device, but offer a considerably greater level of precision. A combined stop position is settable as said target position in which the first stop position and the second stop position are both present. The invention uses two stop devices in order to imitate the leaving of the “latched” target position in two directions as in the case of latching. Such articulated apparatus may be typically used with a micromanipulator arrangement of a cytobiological or microbiological workstation.

Abstract: Systems and methods to systematize the development of machines using inexpensive, fast, and convenient fabrication processes are disclosed. In an embodiment, a robot compiler generates a fabrication system, including mechanical, electrical, and software assemblies, that can be used for assembling a robot according to a user design.

Abstract: A patient side cart for a teleoperated surgical system may include a base, a column connected to the base, a boom connected to the column, a manipulator arm connected to the boom, and a vibration reduction member. The manipulator arm may be configured to support a surgical instrument. The vibration reduction member may be configured to be moved between deployed and retracted positions relative to the base. The vibration reduction member may engage a ground surface in the deployed position and not be in contact with the ground surface in the retracted position. Various exemplary embodiments also relate to carts including a vibration reduction member and methods of controlling a vibration reduction member.

Abstract: A folding knife includes a lockbar for automatically locking a knife blade in an opened position relative to a handle. A puck attached to the lockbar is configured to engage a tang of the blade to lock the blade in an open position relative to the handle.

Abstract: Electric shaver includes body, head having blade block, and head supporting part connecting body with head. Head supporting part includes swing supporting part supporting head swingably about two swing axes, and head float part so that head is movable up and down with respect to body. This configuration allows head to swing about the two axes, and thus head easily follows undulations of skin. Head is movable up and down with respect to body, and thus head sinks with respect to body when head is strongly pressed against the skin. The aspect provides electric shaver that has a high follow-up performance of head swinging according to undulations of skin and hardly irritates the skin strongly.

Abstract: A cutter head for an electric hair trimmer generally includes a cutting assembly having a stationary blade, a movable blade, and a follower connected to the movable blade. The electric hair trimmer has a handle with a drive system and an ejection mechanism. The follower is configured for operative connection with the drive system of the handle for oscillating the movable blade relative to the stationary blade. The cutter head also includes a housing having a tongue configured to provide clearance for the follower when the cutter head is ejected from the handle via the ejection mechanism.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a cut mechanism configured to cut a workpiece; and a control device configured to: judge whether or not each of plural patterns to be cut by the cut mechanism is a test pattern used for evaluating a cut quality of the workpiece cut by the cut mechanism; determine a cut sequence, the cut sequence indicating a sequence in which the plural patterns are cut from the workpiece by the cut mechanism, the cut sequence being determined so that a pattern judged as the test pattern is cut before a normal pattern judged to not be the test pattern; and control the cut mechanism to cut the plural patterns from the workpiece according to the cut sequence.

Abstract: A triggering system includes a source lead, a ground lead, primary and secondary actuation circuits, and a serializing switch. Both the primary and second actuation circuits are connected to the source lead and the serializing switch has first and second positions. In a first position, the serializing switch connects the primary and secondary actuation circuit in parallel for actuating primary and secondary cartridge activated devices. In a second position, the serializing switch connects the secondary actuation circuit in series with the primary actuation circuit for verifying that the actuation circuits can reliably actuate both cartridge activated devices.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a punch mechanism disposed along a media path at a punch point at which a hole is to be punched through a punch location on a media sheet advancing along the media path. The punch mechanism includes a rotatable punch arm having a punch head, and a punch motor for rotating the punch arm. As the punch location on the advancing media sheet approaches the punch point, speed of the punch motor is controlled to adjust a rotational speed of the punch arm based on feedback signals associated with each of the punch motor and a media path motor used to advance the media sheet such that the punch head arrives at the punch point at substantially the same time as when the punch location on the media sheet arrives at the punch point.

Abstract: A device for cutting a flexible material of plastic type, laminated between two substrates and overhanging the edges of the substrates, includes a cutting tool and a pulling tool arranged upstream of the cutting tool.

Abstract: A blade mount for a cutting machine, in particular for a food slicing machine, includes a contact surface for a blade, a mount section for the blade projecting axially from the contact surface and at least one torque transmission element which projects axially from the contact surface, which is radially spaced apart from the mount section, which engages into the blade and in which a mount is formed for fastening the blade to the blade mount. Additionally, a blade is matched thereto, to a handling apparatus for assembling the blade at the blade mount, and to a system of blade mount, blade and handling apparatus.

Abstract: Lengths of an optical fiber may be broken apart from one another while a cross-sectional region of the optical fiber is in a state of multi-axial compressive stress, and the multi-axial compressive stress extends across the optical fiber. The breaking can include propagating a crack across the optical fiber. The crack can be positioned in sufficiently close proximity to the cross-sectional region so that the multi-axial compressive stress restricts the crack from penetrating the cross-sectional region. At least a portion of the optical fiber may be in tension during the breaking.