Patents Issued in March 28, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240100671
    Abstract: A powered fastener driver includes a first cylinder, a first piston positioned within the first cylinder, a second cylinder in fluid communication with the first cylinder, and a second piston positioned within the second cylinder. The second piston is moveable between a top-dead-center position and a bottom-dead-center position to initiate a fastener driving cycle. A drive blade is coupled to the second piston for movement therewith and a drive mechanism is configured to drive the first piston between the top-dead-center position and at or near the bottom-dead-center position. The drive mechanism includes a crank arm configured to rotate less than 360 degrees in a first direction to complete a first fastener driving cycle and less than 360 degrees in an opposite, second direction to complete a subsequent second fastener driving cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Edward A. Pomeroy, Elton L. Watson, Justin Clack
  • Publication number: 20240100672
    Abstract: A nail gun includes: a housing; an accessory box for accommodating a fastener and at least partially connected to the housing; and a power output portion for outputting a striking force to the fastener; and an operating member triggered to have at least a first position and a second position, where the nail gun has a maximum desired penetration depth when the operating member is operated to the first position, and the nail gun has a minimum desired penetration depth when the operating member is operated to the second position; and when the operating member switches from the first position to the second position, an angle by which the operating member rotates about a first straight line is less than or equal to 360°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Junjie Ye, Jie Jiang, Ran Lan
  • Publication number: 20240100673
    Abstract: Handle apparatus on a power tool, in particular a chipping hammer, having a drive, a control device, a transmission device, wherein the handle apparatus contains a lever element that is pivotable relative to a housing of the power tool. The lever element is movable reversibly relative to the housing of the power tool by exertion of a force in one direction, and a sensor device is contained for sensing at least one first or second position of the lever element relative to the housing of the power tool, wherein a first rotational speed for the drive is set when the first position of the lever element relative to the housing of the power tool is sensed and a second rotational speed for the drive is set when the second position of the lever element relative to the housing of the power tool is sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan RINGLER, Steffen GEIGER
  • Publication number: 20240100674
    Abstract: Handle apparatus on a power tool, in particular a chipping hammer, having a drive, a control device, a transmission device, wherein the handle apparatus contains a lever element that is pivotable relative to a housing of the power tool. The lever element is movable reversibly relative to the housing of the power tool by exertion of a force in one direction, and a sensor device is contained for sensing at least one first or second position of the lever element relative to the housing of the power tool, wherein a first rotational speed value for the drive is settable depending on the first sensed position of the lever element relative to the housing of the power tool or at least one second rotational speed value for the drive is settable depending on the second sensed position of the lever element relative to the housing of the power tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan RINGLER, Ehsan MAHDIZADEH, Steffen GEIGER
  • Publication number: 20240100675
    Abstract: A hammer drill includes a housing inside which a motor, a tubular tool holder, a driving mechanism, a rotation conversion member, and an inner housing are disposed. The driving mechanism is configured to perform at least one of rotation actuation of the tool holder and hammering actuation of a bit. The inner housing supports the driving mechanism, supports the tool holder via a first bearing, and supports an output shaft via a second bearing. The inner housing is divided into a front housing holding the first bearing and a rear housing that is formed in a separate body from the front housing and holds the second bearing. The inner housing is formed by connecting the front housing to the rear housing in an axis line direction of the tool holder. A seal member sealing outside space of the inner housing inside the housing is disposed in the front housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
  • Publication number: 20240100676
    Abstract: Power tool, in particular a pipe press, including a drive, a transmission device, a threaded spindle drive and a linear actuator, wherein a torque generated by the drive is transmissible via the transmission device and the threaded spindle drive to the linear actuator. The power tool includes a coupling device for converting a rotational movement generated by the transmission device into a linear movement, to be transmitted to the threaded spindle drive, from the transmission device to the threaded spindle drive, wherein at least one spring element for reducing torsion acting on the coupling device is comprised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Maximilian KNYRIM
  • Publication number: 20240100677
    Abstract: A method for automatic control switching for driving a sensorless motor of a power tool, the method including generating, using a signal generator, a high-frequency injection signal. The method includes coupling, using a coupling circuit, the high-frequency injection signal to an injection coil of the sensorless motor. The method includes decoupling, using a de-coupling circuit, a response to the high-frequency injection signal from a phase coil of the sensorless motor. The method includes determine a sensorless motor condition based upon the response of the injection coil to the high-frequency injection signal. The method includes driving, using a controller of the power tool, the sensorless motor based upon the sensorless motor condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy R. Obermann, Douglas R. Fieldbinder, Alexander Huber
  • Publication number: 20240100678
    Abstract: A machine tool in the form of a hand-held power tool or a semi-stationary machine tool, the machine tool having a tool holder for holding a work tool, a drive motor for driving the tool holder and at least one electrical function unit, the machine tool having a control device for actuating the at least one electrical function unit using at least one actuation function, the at least one electrical function unit being designed to perform an output function depending on the actuation by the at least one actuation function, and the machine tool having at least one operation element, which can be moved by an operator of the machine tool between a first operation element position and at least one second operation element position to actuate the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Matthias SEYBOLD, Christoph Martin SINGLE, Steffen WANDEL
  • Publication number: 20240100679
    Abstract: A power tool, comprising first and second module, removable from the first module, the first and second modules being insertable into one another along an insertion axis defining an insertion direction, the first module having a pressing inhibiting element, moved along with the second module, and a pressing blocking element, the inhibiting element being turnable with respect to the blocking element about the insertion axis between normal and detaching positions, the second module being held against the first module in the normal position and removable from the first module in the detaching position, the blocking element allowing the inhibiting element to be transferred along the insertion axis toward the first module into a pressing position when the inhibiting element is in the normal position, the blocking element blocking the insert fitting from being transferred into the pressing position when the inhibiting element is in the detaching position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Karl FRANZ, Dennis MUENTENER
  • Publication number: 20240100680
    Abstract: A bearing device for supporting an accumulator module on an interface of a power tool housing section of a handheld tool and a corresponding accumulator housing section of the accumulator module, including at least one bearing element, which is designed to captively support the accumulator module in a connection position, in which the accumulator module is electrically connected to the handheld tool, and to permit the transfer of the accumulator module from the connection position into a removal position, in which the accumulator module may be removed from the handheld tool. The at least one bearing element includes a polymer and is arranged between the power tool housing section and the accumulator housing section in the connection position for the purpose of supporting the power tool housing section and the accumulator housing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: C. & E. Fein GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus JUSTINSKI, Olaf KLABUNDE
  • Publication number: 20240100681
    Abstract: A handle assembly includes a first arm member. The first arm member defines a proximal end and a distal end. A hand-grip is coupled to the proximal end of the first arm member. A second arm member is pivotally coupled with the distal end of the first arm member. The second arm member defines a distal end. A dispenser holding assembly is supported at the distal end of the second arm member. The dispenser holding assembly is configured to hold a dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Donna Cariello
  • Publication number: 20240100682
    Abstract: A flexible interface (130) may operably couple a head portion (110, 210) and a shaft (120, 220) of a hand tool (100, 200). The flexible interface may include a retention assembly (160) and a locking assembly (150) including an actuator (152, 250, 250?) defining a locked state and an unlocked state for the hand tool. In the unlocked state, an angle of the head portion may be pivotable relative to a pivot axis (225) substantially perpendicular to a direction of extension of the shaft and, in the locked state, the angle of the head portion is fixed. The actuator may be configured to move in a direction substantially perpendicular to the pivot axis to operate the locking assembly to transition between the locked state and the unlocked state, and configured to move in a direction substantially parallel to the pivot axis to operate the retention assembly to retain hand tool in the unlocked state. A hand tool comprising said flexible interface is also related.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Minglin Shi, Cheng Yang, Yi-Hsiang Tseng, Tsung-Hsien Shen
  • Publication number: 20240100683
    Abstract: A tool box includes a base element and a cover. The base element and the cover form a box interior for receiving at least one hand-held power tool. The tool box further includes a locking tab for locking the cover to the base element. The locking tab includes an insertion tool holding device for holding at least one insertion tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Zheyan Hong, Chia Chun Kang, Yen Tiong Tan
  • Publication number: 20240100684
    Abstract: A storage assembly for a tool accessory may include a cover member configured to cover a first end of the tool accessory, a base portion configured to retain a second end of the tool accessory in an orifice, and a retention assembly which may slidably operably couple the cover member to the base portion. The retention assembly may include a first protrusion which may be disposed at the base portion, a guide channel which may be disposed at the cover member, and a first reception slot which may extend substantially perpendicular to the guide channel. The guide channel may be substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the storage assembly. The first protrusion may interface with the guide channel and the first reception slot. The first protrusion may be retainable in the first reception slot responsive to rotating the base portion relative to the cover member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jeremiah Hickman, Jason D. Benson
  • Publication number: 20240100685
    Abstract: The present disclosure is for a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) safety tray device. The safety tray device is secured to the rail of a MEWP by a hanging device of a first backplate. The size of the safety tray device may be increased by the adding one or more additional backplates. The additional backplates may be added to the safety tray device in order span a gap between multiple rails of a MEWP and to provide support across multiple rails of the MEWP. The safety tray device may further have accessory trays, swivel hooks, and tool holders that are further adjustable and modifiable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Jay Mislich
  • Publication number: 20240100686
    Abstract: This electric tool provides superior workability even at outdoor locations, high places, etc., and has a compact and easy-to-use structure. The electric tool includes: a chuck which grips a bolt hole positioning pin; a cylinder part which has provided thereto a piston that draws the chuck and pulls in the bolt hole positioning pin; a body which has provided thereto a hydraulic pump that delivers hydraulic oil to the cylinder part and a motor that drives the hydraulic pump; a connection part which connects the cylinder part and the body and through which the hydraulic oil is passed; and a secondary battery which supplies electricity to the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Keita HYODO
  • Publication number: 20240100687
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for automating tasks are described. A multi-step framework enables a gradient towards task automation. An agent performs a task while sensors collect data. The data are used to generate a script that characterizes the discrete actions executed by the agent in the performance of the task. The script is used by a robot teleoperation system to control a robot to perform the task. The robot teleoperation system maps the script into an ordered set of action commands that the robot is operative to auto-complete to enable the robot to semi-autonomously perform the task. The ordered set of action commands is converted into an automation program that may be accessed by an autonomous robot and executed to cause the autonomous robot to autonomously perform the task. In training, simulated instances of the robot may perform simulated instances of the task in simulated environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Suzanne Gildert
  • Publication number: 20240100688
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that executes a simulation by using a virtual model. The information processing apparatus includes a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to display the virtual model and an operating portion on a display unit, the operating portion being used by a user to operate the virtual model, and change setting information on the operating portion in response to input of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: SATOSHI SUGAYA, HIRONOBU SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240100689
    Abstract: An encoder device including a position detection unit for detecting position information of a moving part; a magnet having a plurality of polarities along a moving direction of the moving part; and an electric signal generation unit for generating an electric signal, based on a magnetic characteristic of a magnetosensitive part, the electric signal generation unit having the magnetosensitive part whose magnetic characteristic is changed by a change in magnetic field associated with relative movement to the magnet, wherein the magnetosensitive part is disposed so that the magnetosensitive part is spaced apart from a side surface of the magnet in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction and a length direction of the magnetosensitive part is orthogonal to tangential directions of at least some of magnetic field lines of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240100690
    Abstract: A gripper includes a body part, a finger base part coupled to the body part to be rotatable, the finger base part including a first finger base part and a second finger base part configured such that when the first finger base part is rotated in a first direction with respect to the body part, the second finger base part is provided to be rotatable in a second direction opposite the first direction with respect to the body part, and a finger part coupled to a first side of the body part or the finger base part to be reciprocal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Beom Su Kim, Hyun Seop Lim, Ju Young Yoon, Kyu Jung Kim, Hyo-Joong Kim, Seong Taek Hwang, Ho Jun Kim, Dong Jin Hyun, Min Woong Jeung
  • Publication number: 20240100691
    Abstract: A self-propelled device includes a traveling body and a robot arm that is mounted on traveling body. Robot arm includes a base portion that is turnably connected to traveling body; an arm portion that is connected to base portion; and an end effector that is detachably attached to a distal end of arm portion and performs work on a target. Self-propelled device further includes an additional apparatus that includes at least one of an antenna, an imaging device, a laser sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, and a lighting device, and is attached to arm portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki NAGASUE, Masaaki NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100692
    Abstract: An object gripping method includes determining a gripping center coordinate system when gripping a target object assumed to be gripped by an end effector having a plurality of fingers for each of a plurality of gripping postures that are able to be taken by the end effector, determining an initial fingertip position from the determined gripping center coordinate system, instructing the end effector to grip the target object at the initial fingertip position and gripping the target object, fixing a fingertip position of the end effector with respect to the gripping center coordinate system, and determining an operation amount of the gripping center coordinate system according to a desired operation amount of the target object and operating the target object according to an operation of the gripping center coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tadaaki Hasegawa, Masanori Yoshihira
  • Publication number: 20240100693
    Abstract: Some implementations relate to using trained robotic action ML models in controlling a robot to perform a robotic task. Some versions of those implementations include (a) a first modality robotic action ML model that is used to generate, based on processing first modality sensor data instances, first predicted action outputs for the robotic task and (b) a second modality robotic action ML model that is used to generate, in parallel and based on processing second modality sensor data instances, second predicted action outputs for the robotic task. In some of those versions, respective weights for each pair of the first and second predicted action outputs are dynamically determined based on analysis of embeddings generated in generating the first and second predicted action outputs. A final predicted action output, for controlling the robot, is determined based on the weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Ho, Eric Jang, Mohi Khansari, Yu Qing Du, Alexander A. Alemi
  • Publication number: 20240100694
    Abstract: Systems techniques to control a robot are described herein. In at least one embodiment, a machine learning model for controlling a robot is trained based at least on one or more population-based training operations or one or more reinforcement learning operations. Once trained, the machine learning model can be deployed and used to control a robot to perform a task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ankur HANDA, Gavriel STATE, Arthur David ALLSHIRE, Victor MAKOVIICHUK, Aleksei Vladimirovich PETRENKO
  • Publication number: 20240100695
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that allow stable grasping of an object. An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a detection unit that detects a slip generated on an object grasped by a grasping part, and a coordinative control unit that controls, according to the slip of the object, movement of a whole body of a robot in coordination, the robot including the grasping part. The coordinative control unit controls movement of each of configurations that constitute the whole body of the robot, the configurations including at least a manipulator part to which the grasping part is attached, and a mobile mechanism of the robot. The present technology can be applied to a mobile manipulator that grasps an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240100696
    Abstract: In an approach for improving robotic automation systems, a processor receives a request for a set of materials for an activity to be performed. A processor identifies one or more materials of the set of materials. A processor determines a sequence of operations to move the one or more materials. A processor prompts a first robot to pick a first material at the place of origination using a clamping system and to deposit the first material in a first micro trolley. Responsive to determining an arm of the first robot is in a first orientation, a processor moves the first material along a first track on an arm of a multi-robotic system from the place of origination to the place of destination. A processor prompts a second robot to pick the first material from the first micro trolley at the place of destination using the clamping system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shailendra Moyal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Rasika Ashirwad Vyawahare, Partho Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20240100697
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-thread controller for a parallel robot. All tasks are concentrated in four layered threads, namely, a main thread, a real-time thread, a preprocessing thread and a background thread; different priorities of tasks are placed in different levels of threads, so that motion logic is first ensured, second motion planning, then communication and interface interaction, and finally file reading and time consumption calculation; various operations are strictly performed in respective threads; and between the threads are provided a thread security queue for data interaction and a thread clock calling and task pushing mechanism, so that the security of communication calling and the flexibility of data interaction are realized between the threads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Pingbu Zhu, Yanhua Li, Hui Wang, Zhifeng Li, Songtao Liu
  • Publication number: 20240100698
    Abstract: The observation update unit (152) increases a weight of a particle for a particle representing a position and a posture closer to a position and a posture of an operation object indicated by an observation result, and increases a weight of a corresponding particle for a particle closer to a state in which an object of interest and the operation object arranged in a position and a posture represented by each of particles are in contact with each other in a virtual space where shapes and a relative positional relationship of the object of interest and the operation object are expressed in a case in which the observation result indicates that the contact has occurred. A state estimation unit (154) calculates an estimated state that is a position and a posture of the operation object estimated based on a set of the particles in which a weight of each of the particles is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kennosuke Hayashi, Yohei Okawa, Yoshihisa Ijiri
  • Publication number: 20240100699
    Abstract: A controller of a robot executes processing of determining whether an apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact and, when determination is made that the apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact in a case where a movable part is in a first state in which the movable part is able to cause the apparatus to execute a physical operation, transferring the movable part from the first state to a second state for suppressing an impact exerted on the movable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Wataru NIMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Tomio HIGO
  • Publication number: 20240100700
    Abstract: A robot teaching method includes: a printing posture setting step of setting a printing posture that is a relative posture between the head and the workpiece in the printing operation. When a position where a positional relationship with the nozzle surface is fixed is a first position and a position different from the first position where a positional relationship with the nozzle surface is fixed is a third position, the printing posture is set in a virtual space in the printing posture setting step based on a positional relationship between the first position and the workpiece and a positional relationship between the third position and the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Kohei UTSUNOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20240100701
    Abstract: A method for determining a safety-limit zone, including: obtaining a first image from a limb taken from a first direction, wherein the first image includes a first effective area and a second effective area, and the first effective area is capable of matching with the second effective area; obtaining a second image from the limb taken from a second direction, wherein the second image includes a third effective area corresponding to the first effective area, and a fourth effective area corresponding to the second effective area, the third effective area is capable of matching with the fourth effective area, and the second direction and the first direction are perpendicular to each other; and obtaining a safety-limit zone and safety-rotation angles according to the first effective area, the second effective area, the third effective area and the fourth effective area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Jinmiao TANG
  • Publication number: 20240100702
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing a safety system for a mobile robot are described. The method comprises receiving first sensor data from one or more sensors, the first sensor data being captured at a first time, identifying, based on the first sensor data, a first unobserved portion of a safety field in an environment of a mobile robot, assigning, to each of a plurality of contiguous regions within the first unobserved portion of the safety field, an occupancy state, updating, at a second time after the first time, the occupancy state of one or more of the plurality of contiguous regions, and determining one or more operating parameters for the mobile robot, the one or more operating parameters based, at least in part, on the occupancy state of at least some regions of the plurality of contiguous regions at the second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: John Aaron Saunders, Michael Murphy
  • Publication number: 20240100703
    Abstract: The present utility model refers to a device coupled to a robot or another moving system, exerting elastic pressure on the upper part over can containers, allowing to keep the products to be moved as fixed, displacing and turning them, defining their positions and organizing them for later palletization, enhanced with the introduction of locking pins, side wings, a lower metal plate covered by an elastic polymer with an innovative checkerboard design and a compression spring system, in the field of application intended to the industry and distribution centres for beverage and food, in the area of preparation of product container layers, ready before palletization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Jose Bernardo SANMARTIN
  • Publication number: 20240100704
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for automating tasks are described. A multi-step framework enables a gradient towards task automation. An agent performs a task while sensors collect data. The data are used to generate a script that characterizes the discrete actions executed by the agent in the performance of the task. The script is used by a robot teleoperation system to control a robot to perform the task. The robot teleoperation system maps the script into an ordered set of action commands that the robot is operative to auto-complete to enable the robot to semi-autonomously perform the task. The ordered set of action commands is converted into an automation program that may be accessed by an autonomous robot and executed to cause the autonomous robot to autonomously perform the task. In training, simulated instances of the robot may perform simulated instances of the task in simulated environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Suzanne Gildert
  • Publication number: 20240100705
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus for performing reactive positioning of a robot gripper includes one or more fingers disposed on an end-effector of the robot, a signal processing circuit, a memory storing instructions, and a processor. Each of the one or more fingers includes a transducer configured to generate vibrational energy based on an input signal, and convert an acoustic reflection of the vibrational energy from an object into a voltage signal. The signal processing circuit is configured to provide the input signal to each transducer, and perform signal processing on the voltage signal of each transducer resulting in reflection data. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to perform pre-touch proximity detection on the reflection data, perform grasp positioning on the reflection data, perform contact detection from the reflection data, and provide, to the robot, results of the pre-touch proximity detection, the grasp positioning, and the contact detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Siddharth RUPAVATHARAM, Richard Howard, Daewon Lee, Lawrence Jackel, Caleb Sebastian Escobedo, Ibrahim Volkan Isler
  • Publication number: 20240100706
    Abstract: An apparatus control device includes an emotion setter that sets, in accordance with an external stimulus acting on the apparatus, an emotion parameter expressing a pseudo-emotion; and an emotion changer that changes the set emotion parameter when the pseudo-emotion is close to a predetermined state and, also, the external stimulus is not detected in a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Wataru NIMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100707
    Abstract: A robot imitating a living thing, includes a body, a head connected to a front end of the body, a movable portion for moving the head relative to the body, and a controller. In a state in which the body is placed on a mounting surface, the controller executes a first control that controls the movable portion to change a distance between the front end of the body and the mounting surface alternately between a first distance and a second distance by moving the head so that a state of the head pressing the mounting surface changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100708
    Abstract: A robot imitating a living thing and driven by a battery that is rechargeable, includes: an operator to perform an operation simulating a living thing; and a controller. The controller performs processing of causing the robot to perform a breathing operation that is an operation simulating breathing of a living thing at a predetermined cycle and processing of differentiating a control content of the operator between a charging breathing operation that is the breathing operation during charging of the battery and a non-charging breathing operation that is the breathing operation during non-charging of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100709
    Abstract: A robot that imitates a living thing and is driven by a battery that is rechargeable, includes an operator for causing the robot to perform an operation imitating a living thing, and a controller. In a case where the battery changes from a powered state in which a power supply operation for charging is in progress to a non-powered state that is a state in which the power supply operation is stopped, the controller controls the operator with a control content that is determined in accordance with the remaining level of the battery at timing corresponding to the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100710
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a robot kitchen are described. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes identifying a taste profile for a food item prepared by the robot kitchen. The taste profile includes a plurality of predetermined taste parameters. The computer-implemented method also includes generating a taste incidence for the food item by sensing a plurality of sensed taste parameters with a taste sensor module in contact with the food item. The plurality of sensed taste parameters corresponds to the plurality of predetermined taste parameters. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a taste differential by comparing predetermined taste parameters the plurality of predetermined taste parameters to corresponding sensed taste parameters of the plurality of sensed taste parameters. The computer-implemented method also includes calculating feedback for the food item based on the taste differential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Vijay Kodali, Ajay Kumar Sunkara
  • Publication number: 20240100711
    Abstract: A serving robot and a control method thereof are disclosed. The serving robot includes a main body, a loading part on which food is loaded, an arm of which one end is rotatably connected to the main body, and the other end is rotatably connected to the loading part, a driving part, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to control the driving part so that the loading part maintains horizontality at the time of a forward rotation or a backward rotation of the arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghan KOO, Sanghyun KANG, Hyunsuk KWAK, Minhee LEE
  • Publication number: 20240100712
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning device includes a chamber, a first processing part and a second processing part. The chamber forms a processing space including a first processing position and a second processing position. The first processing part performs a first process on a substrate disposed at the first processing position in the chamber. The second processing part performs a second process on the substrate disposed at the second processing position in the chamber. A main robot loads and unloads the substrate with respect to the substrate cleaning device by moving a hand holding the substrate. In addition, the main robot receives the substrate disposed at the first processing position by causing the hand to enter the processing space, transporting the substrate to the second processing position, and positioning the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki OKITA, Kazuki NAKAMURA, Yoshifumi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20240100713
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to equipment used in the manufacturing of electronic devices, and more particularly, to a cleaning system, cleaning system hardware and related methods which may be used to transport and clean the surface of a substrate. According to one embodiment, a blade handling assembly for handling a substrate in a cleaning system includes a gripping assembly including a pair of gripping blades, the blades operable with a gripping actuator to hold a substrate at its edges. The assembly includes a first blade actuator for moving the gripping assembly and substrate between a horizontal and a vertical orientation utilizing a first axis. The assembly includes a second blade actuator for moving the vertically oriented gripping assembly and substrate 180 degrees utilizing a second axis, thereby causing the substrate to face an opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jagan RANGARAJAN, Edward GOLUBOVSKY, Edwin VELAZQUEZ, Adrian S. BLANK, Steven M. ZUNIGA, Balasubramaniam C. JAGANNATHAN
  • Publication number: 20240100714
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to equipment used in the manufacturing of electronic devices, and more particularly, to a cleaning system, cleaning system hardware and related methods which may be used to transport and clean the surface of a substrate. According to one embodiment, a substrate cleaning unit may include a pre-clean chamber that performs a pre-clean process on a substrate with the substrate in a horizontal orientation. The unit may also include a first cleaning chamber that performs a first cleaning process on the substrate with the substrate in a vertical orientation. The unit may also include a second cleaning chamber. The unit may also include an integrated cleaning and drying chamber that performs a cleaning and drying process on the substrate in the horizontal orientation. A substrate handler may transfer the substrate between the chambers. The first and second cleaning chambers may be positioned below the pre-clean chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jagan RANGARAJAN, Edward GOLUBOVSKY, Edwin VALAZQUEZ, Adrian S. BLANK, Steven M. ZUNIGA, Balasubramaniam C. JAGANNATHAN
  • Publication number: 20240100715
    Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a base having a mounting surface, an elastic member mounted on the mounting surface and forming a dome shape including a convex curved surface, a first pressure-sensitive element placed in a position between the mounting surface and the elastic member and corresponding to a vertex of the convex curved surface and outputting a first detection signal by sensing pressure, a second pressure-sensitive element placed in a position between the mounting surface and the elastic member and corresponding to a peripheral portion of the convex curved surface and outputting a second detection signal by sensing pressure, and a calculator performing a calculation on the first detection signal and the second detection signal, wherein the calculator measures hardness of an object based on a ratio R1-1/2 between the first detection signal and the second detection signal when the object is pressed against the elastic member with a first load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Takayuki YONEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240100716
    Abstract: A system for estimating friction, the system including a contact surface including a plurality of protrusions extending from a base surface, the contact surface further including a first contact surface region and a second contact surface region, the first contact surface region being configured to resist slip less than the second contact surface region, and a sensor arrangement configured for detecting displacement of at least three of the plurality of protrusions in three different dimensions to measure a three-dimensional force applied to the at least three plurality of protrusions at a moment of slippage of the first contact surface region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen James REDMOND, Heba KHAMIS, Benjamin XIA
  • Publication number: 20240100717
    Abstract: Inspection robots with removeable interface plates and method for configuring payload interfaces are described. An example robot may include a payload, with at least one sensor, mounted to a housing of the inspection robot. The housing may include a removeable interface plate coupled to the at least one sensor and to an electronic board, the electronic board positioned within the housing. The removeable interface plate may define an electrical coupling interface compatible with the payload, and the electronic board may include an electrical processing configuration compatible with the payload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Edward A. Bryner, Dillon R. Jourde, Edwin H. Cho, Mark Cho, Michael A. Binger, Katherine Virginia Denner, Michael Stephen Auda, Kevin Y. Low, Samuel Theodore Westenberg, Alexander R. Cuti, Ignacio J. Cordova, Francesco H. Trogu
  • Publication number: 20240100718
    Abstract: A gripping device includes a gripper gripping an object by decreasing a distance to the object, a pressure sensor provided in the gripper, detecting a contact force applied from the object when contacting with the object, and outputting a detection signal, a driver driving the gripper, and a first controller controlling operation of the driver based on the detection signal, wherein the first controller operates the driver in a first drive mode for decreasing the distance at a first speed when the detection signal is not output, and operates the driver in a second drive mode for decreasing the distance at a second speed lower than the first speed when the detection signal is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki YONEMURA, Takayuki KITAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100719
    Abstract: A gripper includes a body part, a finger base part coupled to the body part, and a finger part coupled to a first side of the body part or the finger base part and coupled to the body part or the finger base part to be reciprocal, wherein the finger part comprises a first link structure and a second link structure, sides of which are coupled to the finger base part, respectively, and wherein, in the first link structure and the second link structure, a first support area of the first link structure and a second support area of the second link structure reciprocate in only one of a plurality of directions that cross a direction in which the finger part reciprocates with respect to the finger base part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Beom Su Kim, Hyun Seop Lim, Ju Young Yoon, Kyu Jung Kim, Hyo Joong Kim, Seong Taek Hwang, Ho Jun Kim, Dong Jin Hyun, Min Woong Jeung
  • Publication number: 20240100720
    Abstract: A vacuum head and corresponding method for moving product at the end of a robotic arm includes a housing having a product contact surface. An array of at least two rows and at least three ranks of valves are arranged with respect to the product contact surface. A solenoid is connected with respect to each of the valves to selectively activate air pressure in one or more valves thereby enabling multiple switchable zones on the product contact surface and thereby enable transfer of product between stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Keith Merritt, Brett Alan Stripe