Abstract: A hammer is provided that includes a handle, a head, a striking insert, and a claw. The hammer provides for a head with a keyed hole to couple to a keyed projection on a striking insert. The head also includes a dovetail projection that couples to the dovetail connection of the claw. Each component may comprise a different material. For example, the striking insert and the claw comprise one material, and the handle and the head comprise another material. In some embodiments, a slotted punch with a magnetic retainer creates a bore through the face of the head and the striking insert to support a fastener (e.g., a nail) within the head.

Abstract: The multifunctional pocket knife (1) is made up of a handle (2) formed by two rigidly connected sides (3, 3?) providing at least one stowage space (4) for foldable tools (6) each pivoting about link pins (5), (5?), respectively, disposed at each end of the handle (2). One of the tools (6) consists of a pair of scissors (8) extending along the longitudinal axis of the knife (1) and being made up of two planar blades (9, 9?) each comprising a cutting edge (10, 10?) and both pivoting about the same axis (5). A pair of scissors (8) intended to be incorporated in a multifunctional pocket knife (1).

Abstract: A tactical entry multi-tool for first responders is disclosed. The tool can be used to breach encountered obstacles. The tool can include an axe blade, hammer head, breaching wedge, “T” slot connector/wrench, and a handle assembly. The axe blade and hammer head are located at the top of the tool with the breaching wedge located at the bottom at a fixed angle. The axe blade is located opposite of the hammer head with a sturdy handle located between the two in a generally T shaped orientation. The handle assembly is located along the shaft of the tool. The “T” slot is located between the axe and hammer, and has the dual function of being a wrench to open/close valves, and acting as a slot to insert the breaching wedge of a second tool for additional force. The multi-tool may be configured from a single piece of high-performance metal.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a multi-tool including a handle having a first and a second end opposite the first end and a hammer face attached at the first end of the handle. A pry bar is attached at the first end of the handle along with a lifting hook. A vault key is attached at the second end of the handle. The lifting hook may extend from the first end of the handle or may be formed as a groove or cutout in the first end of the handle or in the pry bar.

Abstract: An example of a guard for a power tool includes a body that defines an interior space configured to receive the power tool. The body is configured to cover at least a moving portion of the power tool. The body includes an aperture formed through a bottom face of the body and a fastener configured to pass through the aperture and secure the guard to the power tool.

Abstract: A housing for power tools such as chainsaws, blowers, trimmers or hedge trimmers. The housing has a front end, at which a tool of the power tool is attached. The housing further includes a rear end and a top side. A battery compartment is provided at the top side of the housing and extends inside the housing and has a shape adapted to receive a battery. The shape is essentially cuboidal and has a rectangular cross section looking at the top side of the housing. The short sides of the rectangular cross section are substantially parallel with the rear end and the front end of the housing.

Abstract: A hand tool system comprises a first driver, a second driver, and a driver adapter. The first driver and the second driver each comprises a driver handle having an external configuration and a driver component secured to the driver handle. The driver adapter is selectively fittable over the driver handles of the first and second drivers. The driver adapter comprises an elongate body, a first socket formed in a first end of the elongate body, a second socket formed in a second end of the elongate body, and a plurality of through holes formed through and distributed longitudinally along a length of the elongate body. Each socket has an internal configuration sized and shaped to receive a driver handle of either the first or second driver and to transfer torque to the driver upon rotation of the driver adapter.

Abstract: A novel drum speed key tool that provides improved balance and efficiency for the installation, tightening, and removal of drum lug nuts. The drum speed key tool provides a finger receiving cup to allow a user to insert a finger or grip with their hand and efficiently apply rotational force to the drum speed key while maintaining attached to the drum lug nut with reduced slippage of the drum speed key tool from both the user's grip and the drum lug nut.

Abstract: A socket storage device is provided, including: a base and a socket holder. The base has an assembling portion. The socket holder is disposed on the assembling portion and rotatable between a first position and a second position. The socket holder includes an insertion portion and a locking portion. The insertion portion includes an engagement portion. The locking portion includes a blocking portion being movable between a third position and a fourth position. When the socket holder is in the first position, the blocking portion is in the third position, the locking portion is biased against the engagement portion, and the engagement portion is unmovable relative to the insertion portion; when the socket holder is in the second position, the blocking portion is in the fourth position, and the engagement portion is movable relative to the insertion portion.

Abstract: A box for transporting and/or storing small parts, tools, machines or such objects comprises a body, a lid and a receiving space formed by the body and the lid. The body has a bottom and side walls surrounding the bottom. The lid is connected to the body. The receiving space contains at least one storage container for small parts, tools, machines or such objects. The receiving space comprises a flat section facing the storage container on one side thereof and a grid formed by a plurality of protrusions. The storage container is arranged on the flat section, in a position that secures against lateral movement, using at least one, preferably a plurality of the protrusions.

Abstract: Support (1) for tools (U) comprising at least one modular component (2) comprising a main body (3) configured to realize a rest and/or a stop for a tool (U). The main body (3) is further configured to realize a reversible connection between the modular component (2) and one or more further modular components (2).

Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot comprising a body and a display screen coupled to the body and configured to display information. A wheel control system is coupled to the body and configured to move the body in a given direction. At least one of a camera, an onboard UWB device, or a sensor is coupled to the body. A central processing unit is in communication with the wheel control system, the display screen, and the at least one camera, onboard UWB device, or sensor. The central processing unit is configured to adjust the orientation of the display screen relative to a user based on information received from the at least one camera, onboard UWB device, or sensor.

Abstract: A drive unit for joint being arranged between two arm members of a manipulator of a robotic system, the drive unit being intended for the rotatory drive of one arm member in relation to the other arm member, the drive unit having a first drive module, which is to be connected to a first arm member by means of at least one connecting element in a force- and torque-transmitting manner, and having a second drive module, which is to be connected with a second arm member by means of at least one connecting element in a force- and torque-transmitting manner, in which the connecting elements are configured to cooperate with the arm members in radial direction with respect to the rotary axis of the drive unit.

Abstract: A robot includes: a wrist unit including a plurality of wrist joints; and a plurality of basic joints configured to determine the position of the wrist unit in a three-dimensional space. Only the basic joints are provided with torque sensors configured to detect torque of the basic joints about axis lines.

Abstract: A robot system includes a cooking device to heat a cooking container and having an operation unit configured to select a temperature level; a robot configured to control the temperature level and a cooking time of the cooking device; a dust sensor disposed around the cooking device or on the robot to sense a concentration of foreign substances; a temperature sensor disposed around the cooking device or on the robot to sense a temperature of the cooking container or the cooking device; and a controller configured to control the robot in a safe mode such that at least one of the temperature level and the cooking time is varied according to a danger level determined by a concentration sensing value of the dust sensor and a temperature sensing value of the temperature sensor.

Abstract: Provided is a method for detecting an imminent collision between an object and a component of an autonomous system in the real environment including at least one real, decentralized autonomous component, whereby of at least a part of the autonomous system a virtual image is available, emulating at least one aspect of the autonomous system.

Abstract: When a control message is determined and sent from a master system to a slave system, the control message is accompanied with a time stamp, indicative of the master model version of the environment which was applied when the control data was determined by the master system. When data, triggered by data provided from the environment to the slave system in the form of updated sensor data is provided from the slave system to the master system, also that data, indicative of an updated slave model version of the environment made by the slave system, is provided to the master system, together with a time stamp, indicative of when the update of the slave model version was made. By applying the suggested time stamp, a coordination of model versions can be obtained between the master system and the slave system.

Abstract: A method of processing control signals using a plurality of ports of a robot control device is provided. The method may include determining a logic signal of each of the plurality of ports corresponding to an N-bit signal frame; generating a port setting bit for determining whether to use each of the plurality of ports corresponding to the N-bit signal frame based on an order of the plurality of ports; generating a result bit by performing a bit operation on the logic signal of each of the plurality of ports and the port setting bit; and processing a first signal based on the result bit.

Abstract: In a control method by a robot system, in the robot system including a plurality of robots and a teaching device connected to the plurality of robots via a network, the teaching device transmits, to an identification act execution robot among the plurality of robots, an identification act instruction signal for causing the identification act execution robot to perform an identification act of identifying a transmission target robot to which operation data is planned to be transmitted among the plurality of robots, the identification act execution robot, which receives the identification act instruction signal, performs the identification act, and, after the identification act execution robot performs the identification act, when the identification act execution robot and the transmission target robot are the same, the teaching device transmits the operation data to the transmission target robot.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a robotic system. The system may include a robot configured to receive an initial constrained approach for performing a robot task. The system may further include a graphical user interface in communication with the robot. The graphical user interface may be configured to allow a user to interact with the robot to determine an allowable range of robot poses associated with the robot task. The allowable range of robot poses may include fewer constraints than the initial constrained approach. The allowable range of poses may be based upon, at least in part, one or more degrees of symmetry associated with a workpiece associated with the robot task or an end effector associated with the robot. The system may also include a processor configured to communicate the allowable range of robot poses to the robot.

Abstract: Provided is a robot calibration method for calibrating a position of an arm tip of a robot, the method including measuring a relative positional relationship between a first link and a second link on opposite ends of at least three links which are connected to each other so as to execute collective calibration for at least two joint axes between the at least three links, measuring a relative positional relationship between a base and a link connected to the base to execute independent calibration for a joint axis between the base and the link, or measuring a relative positional relationship between the first link and another link as to execute independent calibration for a joint axis between the first link and the other link, and calibrating the position of the arm tip based on the collective and the independent calibrations.

Abstract: Intelligent robotic hand assembly systems.

Abstract: A robot includes an output unit including at least one of a display or a speaker, a camera, and a processor configured to control the output unit to output content, to acquire an image including a plurality of users through the camera while the content is output, to determine a mood of a group including the plurality of users based on the acquired image, and to control the output unit to output feedback based on the determined mood.

Abstract: A robot system includes a user interface configured to receive an operational instruction from an operator, a robot installed in a workspace and configured to perform a series of works including a plurality of processes, a sensor installed in the workspace, a transparent type display unit configured so that the operator is visible of a physical real world and configured to display information detected by the sensor as the image screen, and a control device. The control device displays on the transparent type display unit, when the robot is operated by the user interface, first information that is information detected by the sensor, as the image screen.

Abstract: A compact, intuitively-operable input device for manipulating a robot is provided. Provided is an input device for manipulating a robot. The input device includes: a base; a movable section supported in a three-dimensionally movable manner relative to the base; and a detector that performs detection by resolving an operation amount of the movable section relative to the base into parallel movement amounts along a first axis and a second axis, which extend parallel to a predetermined surface of the base and are orthogonal to each other, and a parallel movement amount along a third axis that is orthogonal to the first axis and the second axis.

Abstract: A robotic end effector and method for use thereof are provided. The robotic end effector can include a rigid base structure (230), a plurality of rigid proximal phalanges (210) connected to the rigid base structure (230), a plurality of rigid distal phalanges (200) connected to the proximal phalanges (210) respectively, and a plurality of bellows (250), wherein one end of a proximal phalange (210) is connected to one end of the base structure (230) by a bellows (250), wherein one end of a distal phalange (200) is connected to a proximal phalange (210) by a bellows (250), and wherein a portion of the base structure (230), each proximal phalange (210), and each distal phalange (200) are covered in silicone rubber. It can achieve a high output force to input pressure ratio, and cost efficiently.

Abstract: A joint structure of a robot includes a first member, a second member which is rotatably supported around a horizontal rotation axis line with respect to the first member, and an actuator which rotates the second member with respect to the first member, a through-holes, each of which allows a lubrication space in which a lubricant for the actuator is enclosed to connect with an outer space is provided in at least one of the first member and the second member, and more than three of the through-holes are provided at an interval in a circumferential direction centering around the horizontal rotation axis line.

Abstract: A control apparatus, comprising: an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image in which a control target that a robot controls and a target position to which the control target is to be moved are imaged by an imaging apparatus that is attached to the robot; an axial direction obtainment unit configured to obtain an axial direction of a rotational axis of the control target; a target position detection unit configured to detect the target position in the image; an operation generation unit configured to generate an operation for the control target so that the target position is present in the axial direction and to further generate an operation by which the control target becomes closer to the target position in the axial direction; and a control unit configured to control the control target in accordance with the operation.

Abstract: An out-the-front knife comprises a handle having a blade channel, a slider channel, and an opening. A blade in the blade channel is configured to travel along the blade channel. A firing mechanism in the slider channel is configured to extend the blade to an open position and retract the blade to a closed position. The firing mechanism comprises a slider that has a nub that fits into the opening and extends outside the handle. A button has a nub opening that receives the nub and at least one bearing opening. A friction plate is interposed between the button and the handle. At least one bearing is inserted into the at least one bearing opening. The at least one bearing supports the button on the friction plate.

Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing with a blade carrier configured for holding a blade, and a handle coupled to the housing via an engagement interface configured to allow a user of the cutter apparatus to selectively interfit together the housing and the handle in multiple different cutter apparatus configurations, wherein the engagement interface includes a coupler configured to permit the housing and the handle to be repositioned further apart in a housing/handle reconfiguring mode in which the coupler permits the handle to be rotatably repositioned in relation to the housing or vice versa while substantially limiting longitudinal movement of the housing relative to the handle.

Abstract: Provided is a shaver including a cartridge and a handle body. The cartridge includes a cartridge body formed in a rectangular frame shape; a plurality of blades installed in the cartridge body in the side-to-side direction of the cartridge body, each of the blades having a front portion bent downward; pair of side fixation slots formed on left and right frames of the cartridge body, respectively, so as to fix the left and right ends of each blade; a supporter connecting upper and lower frames of the cartridge body; and an inside fixation slot formed on the supporter so as to fix a portion of each blade. The handle body is coupled to the cartridge body.

Abstract: A handle for a shaving razor in which the handle comprises a frame and a movable member assembly operably coupled to the frame such that the frame is disposed between the movable member assembly and where the movable member assembly upper and lower portions are configured to move both above and below the frame. The movement can be linear or rotational. The movable member assembly comprises one or more springs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing a shearing bench for shearing a film having a thickness less than or equal to 10 microns, the shearing bench comprising a plurality of elements, each element being characterized by a plurality of parameters, the collection of parameters forming the parameters of the shearing bench, the plurality of elements comprising at least one blade assembly comprising a blade and a counter-blade collaborating with the blade, a system for progressing the film, and a system for urging the blade and the counter-blade against one another in order to shear the film.

Abstract: A method of processing a food item that includes moving a food item along a direction towards an automated slicer, wherein prior to the food item being sliced by the automated slicer the food item that is being moved has a length, L, as measured along the direction. The method further includes determining a thickness, T, of a slice of the food item to be generated by the automated slicer and slicing the food item that has the length, L, by the automated slicer so that a maximum possible number, Nmax, of slices of the food item are generated that have the thickness, T.

Abstract: A safety cutting tool includes an electrically conductive cutting member, an electric motor for actuating the cutting member, a gripping handle electrically insulated from the cutting tool, a cutting trigger control that can be actuated by the hand of the user gripping the gripping handle, the cutting trigger control being electrically insulated from the cutting tool, an emergency stop device sensitive to a user coming into contact with the cutting member. The emergency stop device is controlled by a comparator comparing an impedance of a first electric circuit comprising the cutting tool and a second electric circuit used as a reference, the first and second circuits having manual contact electrodes provided on at least one of the gripping handle of the tool and the cutting trigger control. A method for controlling such a tool is also disclosed. The tool and method are is-applicable to electric secateurs and shears.

Abstract: Knife assemblies adapted for use in slicing machines includes a knife holder having a support surface that defines an outer upper surface of the knife holder and a leading edge of the knife holder. An insert is supported by the knife holder and has leading and trailing ends that each extends along a longitudinal extent of the knife holder, and a longitudinal end between the leading and trailing ends. A knife is at least partly supported by the insert and has a cutting edge that projects beyond the leading end of the insert. The knife is clamped to the knife holder and the insert is secured to the knife holder by at least a first slot defined in the trailing end and/or longitudinal end of the insert, and at least a first locking post that engages the first slot and secures the insert to the knife holder.

Abstract: A table saw includes a locking device disposed on a rip fence device to couple a moving unit of the rip fence device to a rail unit of a worktable device. The locking device includes a locking pin extending and movable along an axis relative to the moving unit, and a turning member turnable about the axis to move the locking pin along the axis so as to lock or unlock the moving unit to or from the rail unit. An extending direction of the axis is parallel to the upper surface so as to render the turning operation of the turning member quick and convenient.

Abstract: A multifunctional base for a router is provided to allow precise and repeatable cuts through the use of a set of adjustable fences, template guides and bushings. The base has reference surfaces to allow precision cuts at set distances from a fence or template.

Abstract: A machine for inserting a tongue in an insertion groove in a panel. An operation of the machine involves displacing a first tongue to an end position of a tongue queue, which includes tongues under compression, in a tongue queue device, compressing the first tongue, displacing the tongues in the tongue queue by compression forces from the tongues under compression, displacing a second tongue, which is at a front position of the tongue queue, to an inserting device, displacing the second tongue into an insertion groove in a panel by the inserting device.

Abstract: Coloring systems and methods include a conveyor that transports a material. An auger is configured to move a colorant from a reservoir to the conveyor. A grinder receives the material and the colorant from the conveyor and grinds the material and the colorant together to produce a colored material.

Abstract: A system and method for manufacturing building materials made of volcanic material includes gathering of molten volcanic material that is collected by catching the molten volcanic material after the molten volcanic material flows off an edge of land, cooling the volcanic material by immersing the mold containing the volcanic material into a body of ocean water, and shaping the volcanic material into shapes that may be used in construction.

Abstract: A method of curing a concrete product having a cavity is described and includes positioning the concrete product on a base, sealing an opening to the cavity using a cover plate, introducing carbon dioxide (CO2) gas into the cavity to execute carbonation of the concrete product, and, in response to the concrete product attaining a target specification, unsealing the opening. A system for curing a precast concrete product is also described.

Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional construction material component preferably having at least one curved surface. A plurality of spacers are arranged in a formwork. A textile reinforcement is supported on the spacers, such that the textile reinforcement has a defined position within a formwork interior of the formwork. A tensile force is applied via a tensioning device to the textile reinforcement in at least one tension direction. Construction material is introduced into the formwork interior and surrounds the textile reinforcement. The construction material is then hardened, wherein the tensile force is maintained during the hardening. During this process, the spacers are integrated into the construction material component. The tensioning device has at least one clamping unit for clamping an end portion of the textile reinforcement between two clamping surfaces. The clamping surfaces are provided on clamping insert bodies, which are of a plastic material of a defined hardness.

Abstract: A peeling apparatus includes: an ingot holding unit holding an ingot with an ingot portion corresponding to a wafer being faced up; an ultrasonic wave oscillating unit which has an end face facing the ingot portion corresponding to the wafer and oscillates an ultrasonic wave; a water supplying unit supplying water to an area between the ingot portion corresponding to the wafer and the end face of the ultrasonic wave oscillating unit; and a peeling unit that holds the ingot portion corresponding to the wafer with suction and peels off the wafer from the ingot.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a composite component comprising a main body and an integral flange, the method comprising applying fibre-reinforcement material on a tool having a main body portion and a flange-forming portion to provide a pre-form comprising a body region and a longitudinally adjacent flange region. The pre-form extends generally longitudinally between two longitudinal ends; and a trailing ply of the pre-form extends generally longitudinally between the longitudinal end closest to the flange region and an inner ply end located in the flange region or partway into the body region. Relative movement between the flange-forming portion and the main body portion causes sliding movement between the trailing ply and the flange-forming portion during a flange forming operation, thereby causing a tension force in at least the flange region of the pre-form of during forming of the flange.

Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a three-dimensional (3D) preform including reinforcing fibres and shape memory alloys (SMA) wires and a composite material including a polymer matrix with a 3D-preform embedded therein, wherein the 3D-preform includes reinforcing fibres and shape memory alloy (SMA) wires.

Abstract: An ultrasonic manipulator for processing three-dimensional composite preforms is provided, including at least one end effector, the end effector having an ultrasonic cutting device, an ultrasonic machining device, an ultrasonic inspecting device, and an ultrasonic bonding device. A method for creating three-dimensional preforms for use in molding composite parts is also provided, and includes the steps of grasping a preform/towpreg, inspecting the composite object using ultrasound, cutting a preform from the composite object using ultrasound, and at least some of the steps of shaping the preform using ultrasound, machining the preform using ultrasound, assembling a plurality of preforms, bonding the assembled preforms together to create a preform charge, and placing the preform charge in an injection mold.

Abstract: This invention concerns a process for producing particle foam part in which foam particles are heated in a molding tool so that they weld to the particle foam part. Heat is supplied to the foam particles by means of electromagnetic RF radiation. The foam particles are made of polyurethane (PU), polylactate (PLA), polyethylene block amide (PEBA) or polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

Abstract: To provide a method for manufacturing an optical element, which improves the surface precision of the optical surface as well as reducing the birefringence at a low cost. A method for manufacturing an optical element 1090A having optical surfaces 1091 and 1092 and a non-optical surface 1093A that is adjacent to the optical surface 1092 via a ridge by injection molding includes forming the non-optical surface 1093A with a mold surface. The mold surface includes a sink forming area 1095 as a first area having a first surface roughness, and a high transfer area 1094 as a second area having a second surface roughness different from the first surface roughness. The second area is located outside the first area.

Abstract: To provide method for manufacturing interdental cleaner configured to suppress leakage of elastomer from space for forming slip resistance portion in mold to outside of space in step of filling elastomer into mold. Method for manufacturing interdental cleaner includes first step of molding base portion having handle portion and shaft portion (40) by filling composite material into first mold, and second step of forming cleaning portion and slip resistance portion by filling elastomer into second mold (200) with the base portion situated in second mold (200). In first step, what is molded has handle portion including base (24), recessed portion (26), and bulge portion (28) bulging from surface of the recessed portion (26). In second step, cleaning portion and slip resistance portion are formed by filling elastomer into second space from portion of base portion distant from bulge portion (28) toward shaft portion (40).