Abstract: In order to provide an impact work machine capable of preventing oil leakage and cooling a power transmission apparatus, an impact work machine transmitting power of an electric motor 16 including an output shaft extending in an axis A1 direction to an anvil includes: a housing including a motor case accommodating the electric motor, and a grip extending from the motor case; a speed reducer and an impact mechanism 96 each transmitting power of the electric motor to the anvil; a hammer case located forward of the motor case and nonrotatable relative to the motor case; an extension portion provided on the housing and extending from the motor case toward the hammer case so as to cover at least part of the hammer case; and a passage provided between the hammer case and the extension portion and through which air passes.

Abstract: A method of determining an actual amount of torque and/or angle applied to a work piece by a tool. In an embodiment, the method includes determining a rotational angle, a tilt of the tool, and a measured torque of the tool. The actual amount of torque or angle applied to the work piece is then determined based on the rotational angle, the tilt, and the measured torque.

Abstract: An assembly tool is provided for connecting a fastening element to at least one component. The assembly tool has a marking device, which is designed to apply a first type of marking to a fastening element when a first connecting step is finished, and to apply a second type of marking to a fastening element when a second connecting step is finished.

Abstract: A multiple tool, including at least one tool body provided with a central portion and radial portions departing from said central portion, each of said radial portions carrying a respective tool. The multiple tool further includes at least a frame provided with at least an opening for removably housing said at least one tool body, and with peripheral seats for removably housing respective implements.

Abstract: A method of inserting an H-Seal in a bearing, the H-Seal having two ends, two upper lips, two lower lips and a vertical flange positioned between the bearing that secures the upper and lower lips together, the bearing having seal faces, inner and outer rings and a gap therebetween. The method provides including an insertion tool assembly, priming the H-Seal into the insertion tool, sliding the tool with the H-Seal loaded therein within a slot, placing the lower lips back on their respective face, allowing the lower lips to recover their initial shape. The tool moves the lower lips to a vertical position (T shape), inserts the seal between the rings and the lower lips recover their initial shape and places them naturally back on their respective faces.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tool for driving a barbed staple into a workpiece, the tool includes a housing enclosing a power delivery source and a driver blade driven by the power delivery source and comprising an engagement portion configured for engagement with the staple. The tool further includes a nosepiece comprising an aperture providing access for loading a staple into the nosepiece and a passage configured for slidable mounting of the driver blade. In use, the driver blade may be driven along a longitudinal axis of the passage by the power delivery source to engage and drive a staple into a workpiece. Clearances are providing to allow for loading and passage of the barbed staples in the nosepiece and arrangements are provided to maintain the alignment of the staple in the nosepiece to compensate for those clearances.

Abstract: A multi wrench with tool heads rotationally coupled to the outer circumference of at least one end of a handle. The tool heads are comprised of spanners, sockets, ratchet sockets and nested spanners and sockets. The tool heads are operational in all positions for best comfortable use, with some positions giving best clear vision of operation. Another variation of the invention is a frame with tool heads rotationally coupled to its outer circumference. One side has a stud or a hole which engages a hole or a stud of a conventional handle. While the other side has a stud or a hole which engages a hole or a stud of a conventional tool.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a housing, a motor having a motor shaft, and a fan mounted onto the motor shaft and driven by the motor. The fan has a plurality of large and small fan blades arranged in a staggered form on a surface of the fan. Such arrangement of the fan blades effectively improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the power tool.

Abstract: Presented here are toollessly releasable, interchangeable handles for hand tools and methods of use thereof. Hand tool users often experience discomfort and injury because hand tool handles are not well suited to each user's hands. In addition, different hand tools have different handles, so users that switch between hand tools often find a different level of comfort with different hand tools. The disclosed platform for interchangeable handles for hand tools allows a user to attach handles custom fitted to their hand to any corresponding hand tool, and likewise allows different users to share a hand tool by detaching the first user's handles and then attaching a second user's handles. Various embodiments for connecting interchangeable handles to hand tools are shown. Additionally, a fluid reservoir disposed within an interchangeable handle and locking mechanisms for keeping the interchangeable handles attached to the hand tool are disclosed.

Abstract: Exosuit systems may be assistive, as it physically assists the wearer in performing particular activities, or can provide other functionality such as communication to the wearer through physical expressions to the body, engagement of the environment, or capturing of information from the wearer. In order to transmit assistance to the user of the exosuit, loads need to be translated by the exosuit. This is can be through the use of load distribution members. Load distribution members can be placed around the pelvis, waist, thighs, and other body parts.

Abstract: A bionic robot and a spine apparatus thereof. Magnetorheological fluids are filled in the cavity, the first tube and the second tube to actuate the first end of the piston rod, so that the piston rod is actuated to move along the axial direction of the cavity. The excitation coil is wound around the first tube. When the controller provides a variable current for the excitation coil, the excitation coil produces a variable magnetic field at the first tube, thereby causing a magnetorheological effect that the magnetorheological fluid is in low liquidity and high viscosity. Then, the transmission speed of the piston rod is changed, which is presented as a damping characteristic, reducing the pause and transition in the spine apparatus, and improving the flexibility and the bionic performance of the robot.

Abstract: A plug-in adapter includes a thread designed to screw the plug-in adapter to an adjustment instrument, a plug-in device designed for detachably connecting the plug-in adapter to a counter plug-in device of an access opening on a robot for a reference position marking of the robot, and a stylus designed to couple a measuring tip of the adjustment instrument to the reference position marking. The plug-in device has a plug-in section that is designed for axially plugging of the plug-in section into the counter plug-in device of the robot.

Abstract: A leg assembly of a robot comprising a waist includes a thigh rotatably coupled to the waist, a lower leg rotatably coupled to the thigh, a foot rotatably coupled to the lower leg, a servo fixe to the thigh, a first transmission mechanism configured to transmit motion from the servo to the thigh to drive the thigh to rotate with respect to the waist; a second transmission mechanism configured to transmit motion from the thigh to the lower leg to drive the lower leg to flex when the thigh move upward and extend when the thigh move downward; and a third transmission mechanism configured rotatably connected to the thigh and the foot in such a way that the foot dorsiflexes from an original position when the lower leg is flexing and rotates back toward the original position when the lower leg is extending.

Abstract: A robot includes a base, an arm provided on the base and rotating around a rotation axis, a control board provided on an inside of the base and configured to control driving of the arm, a power supply board provided on the inside of the base and configured to supply electric power to the control board, and a main substrate provided on the inside of the base detachably from the base and configured to support the control board and the power supply board.

Abstract: A system and method of determining a grasp type of an end-effector of a robot when interacting with an item wherein a plurality of velocity values of the end-effector at various positions of its movement are collected and used to determine the grasp type when a given velocity value is below a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A drive control device activates at least one of a plurality of operation regions and restricts operations by a robot such that the robot operates within the activated operation region. With a plurality of operation regions such as an operation region 1 and an operation region 2 being activated, when the drive control device predicts that the robot will be included in a range of any of the operation region 1 and the operation region 2, the drive control device does not cut off supply of electric power to a servo amplifier, whereas when the drive control device predicts that the robot will be included in a range of neither of the operation region 1 and the operation region 2, the drive control device cuts off supply of electric power to the servo amplifier.

Abstract: A control device includes: a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot, wherein the processor is configured to: generate a second control signal by reducing at least one of frequency components obtained based on an output of a first detector which is installed in a portion vibrated by a robot and detects vibration from a first control signal for driving the robot, and wherein the portion is different from the robot and an end effector installed in the robot.

Abstract: A control device includes: a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot, and the processor is configured to receive an instruction to execute a specific operation which is an operation determined in advance; and an amplifier that causes a motor of a robot to execute the specific operation when the processor receives the instruction to execute the specific operation; wherein the processor is configured to receive a measurement result of vibration measured by a measurement device installed in the robot from the measurement device in the execution of the specific operation.

Abstract: A robot is moved along a first continuous programmed path with a robot controller executing a learning path control program without performing an operation on a workpiece. The actual movement of the robot along the first continuous programmed path is recorded. The first continuous programmed path is adjusted to create a second programmed path. The robot is moved along the second continuous programmed with the robot controller executing the learning path control program without performing the operation on the workpiece. The actual movement of the robot along the second continuous programmed path is recorded. Traces of the recorded actual movements of the robot along the first continuous programmed path and the second continuous programmed path are displayed.

Abstract: A control device includes: a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot provided with a force sensor, wherein the processor is configured to display a first detection result in which specific position information indicating a specific position of the robot and force information output from a force sensor correspond to each other on a display, in a case where robot inspects an operation component that outputs an electric signal corresponding to an operation.

Abstract: The control device 41 includes a desired variable value determining unit (52a) which determines desired values of unknown variables composed of coefficients in respective terms of a polynomial function expressing a desired ZMP trajectory and a landing position correction amount for correcting a desired landing position of a leg from a reference desired landing position. The desired variable value determining unit (52a) uses an evaluation function having the coefficients in the polynomial function and the landing position correction amount as unknown variables, and a plurality of constraint conditions each configured by a linear equality or linear inequality regarding the unknown variables, to determine desired values of the unknown variables, by a solution method for a quadratic programming problem, in such a way as to minimize the value of the evaluation function.

Abstract: A robot provided with eyes includes an operation unit that operates a display and a movable member; a checker that checks whether eye contact with a predetermined target is made or not; a determiner that determines whether a predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied during the eye contact or not, in a case in which the checker checks that the eye contact with the predetermined target is made; and an operation controller that controls the display and the movable member to cancel the eye contact with the predetermined target, in a case in which the determiner determines that the predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot and a motion control unit. The robot includes a bottom, a swiveling base, first to third arms. A bottom side of the first arm is supported on the swiveling base swivelably around a horizontal-direction second axis. A bottom side of the redundant arm is supported on a leading side of the first arm swivelably around an axis parallel to the second axis. A bottom side of the second arm is supported on a leading side of the redundant arm swivelably around a third axis parallel to the second axis. A bottom side of the third arm is supported on a leading side of the second arm rotatably around a fourth axis perpendicular to the third axis. The motion control unit activates the redundant arm so that a control point provided on the fourth axis linearly moves while maintaining a direction of the fourth axis.

Abstract: The invention includes a method of testing a mobile device with a robotic testing device having a holder, a first motor operatively connected to a first robotic implement, and a second motor operatively connected to a second robotic implement. The method includes securing, via the holder, the mobile device to the robotic testing device; actuating, via the first motor, the first robotic implement to contact the mobile device at a first location at a first time; actuating, via the second motor, the second robotic implement to contact the mobile device at a second location at a second time; and recording, via a data processor of the robotic testing device, a response of the mobile device in memory of the robotic testing device. The robotic testing device includes a pressure feedback sensor configured to sense a pressure of one or more of the robotic implements while interacting with the mobile device.

Abstract: A robot control device includes a memory and a processor configured to acquire first environmental information regarding a surrounding environment of a robot, specify a first appropriate level associated with a first activity based on the first environmental information by referring to a control policy in which activity information on an activity which has been conducted by the robot, environmental information at a time of conduction of the activity, and appropriate level determined based on a reaction to the activity are associated with each other, and when the first appropriate level information of the first activity does not satisfy a specific condition, deter conduction of the first activity by the robot.

Abstract: A robotic system has a plurality of user selectable operating modes. To select one of the operating modes, a user performs a distinguishing action which uniquely identifies a desired operating mode among the plurality of user selectable operating modes. A method implemented by a processor in the robotic system identifies the distinguishing action and places the robotic system in the user selected operating mode.

Abstract: A robot gripper includes a main gripper body that has a connection flange designed to secure the rotational gripper to a tool flange of a robotic arm; a base element that is mounted on the main gripper body such that it can rotate about a first rotational axis by a first rotational joint able to be adjusted automatically by a first drive motor; a first gripper finger mounted such that it can rotate about a second rotational axis aligned parallel to the first rotational axis, relative to the base element, by a second rotational joint which can be adjusted automatically by a second drive motor; and at least one additional gripper finger. The second rotational joint is configured to adjust the first gripper finger individually, using the second drive motor, independently of the at least one additional gripper finger.

Abstract: Finger assemblies at the end of a robotic arm end effector includes talon that are retractable. Retraction may be accomplished by a vertical or horizontal barrel cam, a paddle and spin assembly, and/or a resilient plate. A method includes contacting a portion of a finger body against a datum.

Abstract: A suction device includes an adapter having a supply passage to which a negative pressure fluid is supplied, a bellows connected to a lower end of the adapter, and a pad member formed at the distal end of the bellows. The pad member has plural first and second ribs on a suction surface that attracts a workpiece under suction. The first ribs are disposed on an outer circumferential side of an attachment provided in the center of the pad member and extend toward the outer circumferential side. The second ribs are provided on an outer circumferential side of the first ribs, and are disposed in a circumferentially offset manner with respect to the first ribs. Additionally, between the respective first ribs which are disposed alongside one another in the circumferential direction of a skirt, supply paths are formed to which the negative pressure fluid is supplied from the attachment.

Abstract: A workpiece gripping device includes a gripping member and a holding member. The gripping member includes a pair of extension parts that protrude from a base part and face each other with a space therebetween where the plate-shaped part of the workpiece can be inserted, and is deformable so that at least parts of the extension parts approach each other or are separated from each other. The holding member includes a slit for holding the gripping member slidably along a direction in the extension parts protrude, can make the extension parts approach each other by housing at least parts of the extension parts in the slit, and can make the extension parts be separated from each other by projecting at least parts of the extension parts from the slit.

Abstract: A modular tooling receiver that includes a wall having a port that extends through it, an engaging member that is movably disposed in the port, and a lock actuator that is disposed on a first side of the wall. The lock actuator is moveable between a first position in which the lock actuator urges the engaging member in a first direction defined from the first side of the wall to a second side of the wall and a second position wherein the lock actuator permits the engaging member to move in a second direction defined from the second side of the wall to the first side of the wall. A first biasing element biases the lock actuator toward the first position. A damper controls a rate of motion of the lock actuator from the second position toward the first position.

Abstract: A robot arm comprising a number N of actuator-drivable joint connections GVn, which are connected in series via arm links GLi, where n=1, 2, . . . , N, and i=1, 2, . . . , N?1, and N?6, wherein the robot arm is configured in such a way that the axes of rotation RGV,N-2 and RGV,N-1 of each of joint connections GVN-1, GVN-2 intersect at an angle in the range from 50 to 130°, an axis of rotation RGV,N of joint connection GVN, is arranged radially at a constant distance D1 from the axis of rotation RGV,N-1, and a sensor is present in the joint connection GVN-1 to detect a force or a torque about the axis of rotation RGV,N-1.

Abstract: A connection module includes a shaft member that can be rotated in place and can be lifted up and down, two wires arranged side by side and spirally wound on the shaft member, and an holder block connected with the bottom end of the shaft member and the bottom end of each wire such that the holder block drives the two wires to expand or to contract along the axial direction of the shaft member or to spiral in the axial direction of the shaft member when the holder block is driven by the shaft member. Thus, the connection module of the present invention can simplify the conventional complicated wiring mode, thereby saving operation space and reducing the risk of line breakage.

Abstract: An industrial robot includes a lower arm portion including: a pair of proximal-end-side support parts; a pair of distal-end-side support parts; and a housing which integrally supports the proximal-end-side support parts and the distal-end-side support parts. The housing houses a first drive motor, a second drive motor, a first power transmission mechanism, a second power transmission mechanism, and a cable bundle. In the housing, the first power transmission mechanism and the second power transmission mechanism are disposed on an axial end side of either a first joint shaft or a second joint shaft, and the cable bundle is disposed on an axial end side of the other joint shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for the aseptic filling of liquids, to a method for opening and to a method for closing an opening window in a machine for the aseptic filling of liquids having an interior chamber and having an access opening in a wall of the machine which enables access to the interior chamber, wherein the access device comprises an opening window having a movable sash and a window frame which is permanently arranged in the wall, wherein there is an inflatable seal for aseptic sealing between the sash and the window frame. The invention further relates to a method for opening and closing the opening window in the machine for the aseptic filling of liquids.

Abstract: A scraper includes a body having a handle portion, a first clamping portion, and a second clamping portion. The first clamping portion and the second clamping portion integrally extends from an end of the handle portion. The second clamping portion is pivotable relative to the first clamping portion. The second clamping portion includes a first coupling member disengageably engaged with the first clamping portion. The first coupling member is configured to flex when subjected to a force, thereby disengaging from the first clamping portion. A control member is disposed on the first clamping portion and is configured to flex when subjected to force. Flexing of the control member pushes the first coupling member to thereby disengage the first coupling member from the first clamping portion. A blade is removably mounted between the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion.

Abstract: Electric shaver provided with a handle and a shaver head including at least one drivable cutter element, wherein said shaver head is connected to said handle by means of a support structure providing for a swivel and/or tilting axis about which said shaver head may swivel or tilt relative to said handle, wherein said support structure includes a pair of link arms forming a four-joint linkage with each link arm having a head joint connected to a shaver head part and a handle joint connected to the handle or a base part connected thereto.

Abstract: A rotary cutting unit of a shaving head of a shaving device, which cutting unit includes an external cutting member and an internal cutting member. In an interconnected condition, a holding force prevents the external and internal cutting members from moving apart. The holding force is at least exerted by a first central portion of the external cutting member upon a second central portion of the internal cutting member, and/or vice versa. The holding force may for example be provided by a snap connection or magnetic attraction between the first and second central portions.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing an outer blade for a hair cutting device from a material including bars that each have a shape of a rectangular stick and are arranged at predetermined intervals. The material is placed on a base. Next, a first tool having a leading end that has a gradually increasing width in a direction away from the material is used to press at least one part of each of the bars in a direction from a counter base-side first face of each of the bars toward a base-side second face of each of the bars. An edge of the first face of each of the bars is caused to project widthwise and to move toward the second face to be farther from an intermediate part of the first face.

Abstract: A shaving component for a shaving cartridge including at least one cutting member and at least one flexible strip onto which the cutting member is assembled. The flexible strip is able to assume different configurations such as a planar, convex and/or convex configuration while retaining the cutting member in a desired position. The shaving component is configured to be fastened to the shaving cartridge such as a hinged shaving cartridge.

Abstract: A razor blade assembly has a handle, a head having a cutting blade assembly of one or more cutting blades connected to the handle; and a spacer which is mounted to or is formed as part of the head to space the cutting edges of the blades from the skin of a user to create and maintain a 5 o'clock shadow appearance beard in the range of 0.1 mm to 0.4 mm in thickness.

Abstract: A self-defense device generally comprises a wearable piece of jewelry, such as a ring, that comprises an integrated blade element. The ring comprises an inner diameter sized to accommodate a user's finger or the ring may receive size inserts to effectively reduce the ring's inner diameter so as to accommodate a size of the user's finger. The blade may be serrated, barbed, hooked, and the like to provide for a more effective device. The blade may comprise various supports to add rigidity; may be contoured to accommodate the form of the user's finger; and may comprise a sheath to secure the blade during non-use. The self-defense device may also comprise multiple rings secured together to provide for multiple blades.

Abstract: Apparatus for trimming paper rolls or logs (2) including: a section for the entry of the logs (2) to be trimmed; a section for the exit of the trimmed logs (2?); a station with cutting device (6) for trimming the logs (2); a device (3) for moving the logs (2, 2?) between the entry section, the cutting station and the exit section; a device (4), associated with the log-moving device (3), for retaining the logs when subjected to movement.

Abstract: A method for the slicing of food products, wherein at least one product is fed to a cutting plane in which at least one cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotating and/or revolving manner, by a product feed which comprises at least one conveying device. At least one multifunctional work unit is adjusted in dependence on the operating situation into a contact position, in which the work unit presses the product moving in the conveying direction toward a lower product support and/or toward a lateral product contact, or into a blocking position in which the work unit counteracts a movement of the product in the conveying direction.

Abstract: Counter-die cylinder blanket of die cutting machine comprising a band (3) of soft plastic material provided with a key (4), and an insert (5) of stiffening material housed in the key (4), wherein the insert (5) additionally comprises separating ribs (11) which extend from the top face (8) and/or from a bottom face (9) to facilitate the positioning of the insert (5) in the key (4) during the forming by moulding of the band (3) inside of a mould (16), and it preferably incorporates separating ribs (11) which extend from its side faces (10).

Abstract: A food processing machine includes a slicing device, a slicing conveyor, a classifier device, and an exposed load cell device. The slicing device is adapted to slice a food product. The slicing conveyor is adapted to move the food product sliced by the slicing device. The classifier device is adapted to classify the food product sliced by the slicing device. The exposed load cell device is adapted to weigh the food product sliced by the slicing device. The exposed load cell device is located between the slicing conveyor and the classifier device. The exposed load cell device is permanently exposed providing accessible cleaning.

Abstract: A Zero Clearance Fence that gives precision to chop saw fences. The invention consists of two flat surfaces and mounting devices. The flat surfaces are beveled at one edge of both surfaces. The beveled edge allows a tape measure to be hooked on at any desired miter angle. The invention mounts onto the original chop saw fences so that they are able to slide towards and away from the saw blade. The ability to slide allows the fences to always be right next to the saw blade at any miter angle cut for precision in the cut measurements. The mounting apertures can be located anywhere to allow the Zero Clearance Fence to fit on any chop saw.

Abstract: Lumber retrieval systems and methods feed a centrally located saw with a predetermined assortment of boards picked from certain stations distributed at either side of the saw. In some examples, an overhead trolley system carries individual boards in a certain sequence from chosen stations to a board-receiving apparatus. The board-receiving apparatus, in turn, feeds the boards to the saw. The saw then cuts the boards into board segments, which can be used for making prefabricated trusses and wall panels. In some examples, the trolley system has a laser-scanning feature for determining the location of the next-to-pick board while simultaneously transporting the board currently heading to the board-receiving apparatus. In some examples, the trolley system includes two board carriers each of which are dedicated or assigned to certain stations. In some examples, one carrier serves as backup for the other one when one of the carriers is broken or otherwise inactive.

Abstract: A rotary feeder mechanism is provided for a stringer notcher wherein the feeder includes opposing pairs of pusher arms with one pusher arm of each pair being located on opposing sides of a magazine holding a vertically stacked supply of stringers to uniformly move the lowermost stringer onto a work table. The opposing pusher arms are eccentrically mounted on opposite sides of a rotary drive shaft. A control link is connected to each pusher arm to maintain the orientation of the distal ends of the pusher arms in a selected orientation during rotational movement. As one pusher arm moves a stringer onto the work table, the next vertically stacked stringer rests on the top surface of the stringer to be eased onto the bottom of the magazine as the pusher arm retracts below the level of the work table for the opposing pusher arm to then engage the next stringer.

Abstract: A system for a log splitter that is configured to automatically remove power to a pump and motor assembly for a hydraulic actuator when a valve assembly is in a position other than a first position causing the splitting assembly to advance in a first direction or a second position causing the splitting assembly to advance in an opposite first direction. The system incorporates one or more sensors (e.g., transducers) configured to detect different positions of the valve assembly and generate signals that may be processed by a system controller to respectively allow power to flow to or disallow power from flowing to the fluid pump. The disclosed system advantageously results in reduced overall power consumption and noise levels.