Abstract: Various embodiments of the technology described herein generally relate to systems and methods for trajectory optimization with machine learning techniques. More specifically, certain embodiments relate to using neural networks to quickly predict optimized robotic arm trajectories in a variety of scenarios. Systems and methods described herein use deep neural networks to quickly predict optimized robotic arm trajectories according to certain constraints. Optimization, in accordance with some embodiments of the present technology, may include optimizing trajectory geometry and dynamics while satisfying a number of constraints, including staying collision-free, and minimizing the time it takes to complete the task.

Abstract: A motion trajectory planning method for a robotic manipulator having a visual inspection system, includes: in response to a command instruction, obtaining environmental data collected by the visual inspection system; determining an initial DS model motion trajectory of the robotic manipulator according to the command instruction, the environmental data, and a preset teaching motion DS model library, wherein the teaching motion DS model library includes at least one DS model motion trajectory generated based on human teaching activities; and at least based on a result of determining whether there is an obstacle, whose pose is on the initial DS model motion trajectory, in a first object included in the environmental data, correcting the initial DS model motion trajectory to obtain a desired motion trajectory of the robotic manipulator.

Abstract: A robot system is provided and includes a robot body that performs predetermined work together with a user, and a control device that controls the robot body. The control device selects, in accordance with special information of the user, an action to be performed by the robot body during the predetermined work.

Abstract: The present invention includes a reference parallel line creation step of creating a pair of parallel lines that are respectively in contact with outer edges of a workpiece cross-section without traversing the workpiece cross-section and that are located on an extension plane of the workpiece cross-section, a first determination step of comparing a width between the pair of parallel lines that have been created in the reference parallel line creation step with a maximum separation threshold of the welding electrodes, and determining whether the maximum separation threshold is larger than the width between the parallel lines, and a pull-out direction determination step of determining a direction of the parallel lines as a pull-out direction, in a case where the maximum separation threshold is larger than the width between the parallel lines in the first determination step.

Abstract: A lab system configures robots to performs protocols in labs. The lab automation system receives, via a user interface, an instruction from a user to perform a protocol within a lab. The instruction may comprise text, and the lab may comprise a robot configured to perform the protocol. The lab system converts, using a machine learned model, the text into steps and, for each step, identifies one or more of an operation, lab equipment, and reagent associated with the step. In response to detecting an ambiguity/error associated with the step, the lab system notifies the user via the user interface of the ambiguity/error. The lab system may receive one or more indications from the user that resolve the ambiguity/error and update the associated steps. For each step, the lab system configures the robot to perform an identified operation, interact with identified lab equipment, and/or access/use an identified reagent.

Abstract: A robot control device that controls a robot including a driving section configured to drive an arm based on an operation command value and a first encoder section configured to output a first encoder value, the robot control device including a first command-value comparing section, a first mutual monitoring section, a second command-value comparing section, a second mutual monitoring section, and a power interrupting section. The first-command value comparing section performs comparison processing for a command value and a first encoder value and outputs a first command value comparison result. The second command-value comparing section performs comparison processing for the command value and the first encoder value and outputs a second command value comparison result. The first mutual monitoring section and the second mutual monitoring section output an interruption signal based on the first command value comparison result and the second command value comparison result.

Abstract: A handling system according to an embodiment handles/processes plural kinds of articles. The handling system includes first and second conveyance devices, and a control device. The first conveyance device transports a processing target article among the articles to a work area for a robot to handle/process the target article. The second conveyance device transports the target article to a work area for as operator to handle/process the target article. The control device determines by which of the robot or the operator the target article is processed according to process information generated based on an article handling/processing result by the robot in past. The control device transports the target article to the first conveyance device when the target article is determined to be processed by the robot and transports the target article to the second conveyance device when the target article is determined to be processed by the operator.

Abstract: A method is for operating a manipulator that has a movement device, a compensating device, and a tool. In the method, a relative displacement of the compensating device, with respect to a target position, is sensed during setting-up and is taken into account in a subsequent control of the manipulator.

Abstract: A knife includes a blade defining an aperture, a first handle and a second handle coupled to the blade. The knife includes a first catch coupled to the first handle and including a first protrusion, and a first spring coupled to the first handle and configured to apply a first biasing force on the first catch, and a second catch coupled to the second handle and including a second protrusion, and a second spring coupled to the second handle and configured to apply a second biasing force on the second catch. The first protrusion and the second protrusion are received within the aperture. The first handle rotates from a first position to a second position in a first direction about a first pivot axis and the second handle rotates from a third position to a fourth position in a second direction opposite the first direction about a second pivot axis.

Abstract: A guard to protect a user while cutting food (“guard”) has an outer body, a plurality of sides, and at least one grip to securely hold a piece of food within the guard. A plate is secured to the bottom of the outer body to add a further layer of protection. It is preferred that the outer body of the guard is made of a flexible material so that the sides can flex inwardly to accommodate different sizes of food. A method for using the guard to cut food has the food being placed inside the guard, the user gripping the guard and flexing the sides inwardly so that the at least one grip forms a secure connection with the outer surface of the food, and cutting the food such that the plate adds a layer of protection between the cutting instrument and the user.

Abstract: A vegetable slicing shield includes a root, a u-shaped handle, and a plurality of tines. The root is medially disposed between the u-shaped handle and the tines. The u-shaped handle is coupled with the root at opposing lateral regions of a first side of the root. The plurality of tines have first ends coupled with a second side of the root and extending outward from the root to second ends which form a row spaced apart points. Open slots are defined between adjacent tines of the plurality of tines. A subset of the tines are shaped between their first ends and their second ends to form slices of a containment basket which is curved in three-dimensions.

Abstract: A knife includes a handle, a neck configured to hold a blade, and a lever configured to selectively release the blade from the neck. The lever is coupled to a blade lock arm configured to extend along a side of the blade. A ramped surface pushes the blade lock arm into the blade to press the blade against a side of the neck to clamp the blade to the side of the neck when the blade lock arm is in a blade locked position.

Abstract: Examples of print media cutting procedures and devices are described. The print media is cut with a first cutting module while the print medium is advanced through the device. The print media is then reversed before being cut with a second cutting module. The first cutting module can be moved laterally at the same time as the print medium is moved in the reverse direction.

Abstract: The safety system for a machine (1), provided with a blade (12), comprises: means (2) for detecting a dangerous condition for the safety of an operator; and a cutting-off apparatus (2) adapted to cut off the blade (12), following the detection of the dangerous condition.

Abstract: A method for perforating a web with a perforating apparatus includes: rotating a cylinder about a longitudinal cylinder axis, wherein the cylinder comprises at least one shaped blade; operatively engaging a moveable support with the cylinder; positioning an anvil disposed on the support so as to cooperate in contacting relationship with the shaped blade, wherein at least one of the blade and the anvil comprise a plurality of teeth, and wherein adjacent teeth are separated by a recessed portion; feeding a web between the cylinder and the support; and perforating the web as the anvil cooperates in contacting relationship with the shaped blade disposed on the rotating cylinder.

Abstract: An oscillating power tool includes a housing, a motor, a tool holder driven oscillatingly, a flange threadedly coupled to a plunger, and a lever pivotable between a clamping position and a release position. The flange is configured to be movable in an axial direction. The flange is configured to clamp the output element onto the tool holder in the clamping position and configured to be displaced a first distance from the tool holder in the release position. The lever includes a cam surface including a substantially flat surface configured to engage the plunger in the release position. In the release position, a gap is disposed between the lever and the housing to allow the lever to be rotated past the release position. The lever is configured to displace the flange a second distance from the tool holder, larger than the first distance, when rotated past the release position.

Abstract: This invention discloses adhesive compositions useful for providing cohesive strength to particles, for example a mat of wood particles produced while making particleboard prior to curing. The adhesive compositions has a) one or more biopolymers and b) one or more monomers or oligomers. An oligomer may have a degree of polymerization of 4 or less. The weight ratio of the monomer/oligomer to the biopolymer is optionally between 30:70 and 80:20. Optionally, the adhesive compositions may be combined with an isocyanate. The adhesive composition may be used to make no added formaldehyde wood composites such as particleboard.

Abstract: A press apparatus for vehicle crash pads including real wood sheets. The press apparatus includes a lower press including an engraved part, and a support part to support an upper press, the support part having a fixing protrusion, the upper press including an embossed part, first slides fixed to maintain a shape of the engraved part during a compression process of the real wood sheet, the first slides compressing a rear surface of the real wood sheet while rising along the embossed part, and a second slide to compress the real wood sheet during the compression process of the real wood sheet. During a wrapping process of the real wood sheet, the second slide compresses the real wood sheet to an inner rear surface of a core while falling such that a portion of the real wood sheet bent inward of the engraved part is wound around the core.

Abstract: A print head for printing three-dimensional structures made of concrete and a method used to deposit layers of concrete material one on top of the other. The print head is configured to be moved in space and to deposit individual layers of a concrete material, which forms the structure to be produced, one on top of the other. The print head includes a feeder configured to provide the concrete material, a conveying device configured to receive the concrete material from the feeder and to convey it, a shaping section configured to be filled with the pressurized concrete material and to define lateral dimensions of the layer to be deposited, an exit section pointing in a direction opposite to a feed direction of the print head, and an exiting prevention section configured to prevent the concrete material from exiting in the feed direction of the print head.

Abstract: A material for use as support material for energy-pulse-induced transfer printing, which contains (a) at least one energy transformation component, (b) at least one volume expansion component and (c) at least one binder and which has a viscosity at 25° C. of from 0.2 Pas to 1000 Pas and a surface tension at 25° C. of from 20 to 150 mN/m. The invention furthermore relates to a process for producing three-dimensional objects using the support material.

Abstract: Process and slip for the production of ceramic shaped parts made of zirconium oxide ceramic by a 3D inkjet printing process. The slip contains zirconium oxide which is suspended in a liquid medium, wherein the slip has a zirconium oxide content of from 68 to 88 wt.-% and contains not more than 5 wt.-% organic components. The process for the production of ceramic components comprises the layered shaping and subsequent sintering of the desired component from the slip.

Abstract: A concrete mixer vehicle includes a mixer drum, an additive admixture system, and a controller. The additive admixture system includes an air inlet valve, a fluid valve, an air valve, and a pump. The controller is configured to operate the additive admixture system to transition the additive admixture system between an additive addition mode, a drain mode, and a system clear mode. The controller transitions the additive admixture system into the additive addition mode and operates the pump until a desired amount of an additive is added to the mixer drum, transitions the additive admixture system into the drain mode for a predetermined amount of time in response to the desired amount of additive being added to the mixer drum, and transitions the additive admixture system into the system clear mode for a predetermined amount of time to clear stagnant fluid or built up mixture from the additive admixture system.

Abstract: An ultrasonic generation device and a concrete forming system are provided. The ultrasonic generation device includes a housing, a rotary vibration member, and a shaft body. The housing is provided with an air inlet. The rotary vibration member is disposed in the housing. The shaft body is relatively fixed to the housing, the rotary vibration member is sleeved on the shaft body, and the rotary vibration member and the shaft body are rotatable relative to each other. The shaft body is provided with a main air passage and a jet hole, a first end of the main air passage is in communication with the air inlet and a second end of the main air passage is in communication with the jet hole, the jet hole is provided in the shaft body at a position corresponding to the rotary vibration member.

Abstract: A power tool including a shroud for restricting the path of debris generated by a rotatable cutting disc and defining a shroud outlet opening through which the debris can be sucked by a vacuum device. The debris enters a sub-volume along a first axis and exits the sub-volume along a second axis in a different plane. A conduit having a curved wall defines the sub-volume such that debris travelling therethough undergoes a change in direction and exits the sub-volume along a direction substantially parallel with the second axis.

Abstract: An apparatus can include a first material support member and a second material support member each configured to removably attach to a tile tray. The material support members can define a linear saw blade slot through which a saw blade extends while cutting a planar material. The apparatus also can include a first paddle and a second paddle each configured to interpose a respective portion of the planar material between the respective paddle and a respective one of the material support members. Each of the paddles further can be configured to engage the respective material support member using an alignment pin that fixes a position of the paddle relative to the position of the respective material support member.

Abstract: Provided is a useful improvement in a manufacturing method of a CF-SMC using a partially split continuous carbon fiber bundle. The manufacturing method of an SMC of the present invention includes (i) a step of drawing out a continuous carbon fiber bundle (10) from a package, the continuous carbon fiber bundle (10) having a filament number of NK and partially split into n sub-bundles in advance, (ii) a step of chopping the continuous carbon fiber bundle (10) drawn out from the package with a rotary cutter (234) into chopped carbon fiber bundles (20), and (iii) a step of depositing the chopped carbon fiber bundles (20) on a carrier film (41) traveling below the rotary cutter (234) to form a carbon fiber mat (30).

Abstract: A pellet production method comprising: an operation in which a strand comprising a composition containing thermoplastic resin and reinforcing material is extruded from an orifice at a die; an operation in which the strand is drawn into water within a tank and is cooled; and an operation in which the cooled strand is cut to obtain a pellet; wherein at least one first guide roller for guiding the strand within the tank is provided within the tank, and an angle made by portions of the strand that are ahead of and behind that first guide roller which is in an upstreammost location is not less than 90° but is less than 180°; and wherein a ratio of a diameter of the pellet to a diameter of the orifice (diameter of the pellet/diameter of the orifice) is 0.45 to 0.80.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire is vulcanized by using a bladder provided with a coating layer formed by a release agent, and the release agent has a thickness, detected by an electron microscope, of 0.1 ?m to 100 ?m on an inner surface of a tread portion 1.

Abstract: A release agent for plastic contains the following components (A) to (E) and has an average particle size of 200 nm or less: (A) 100 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane having a viscosity at 25° C. of 100 to 100,000 mm2/s; (B) 0.1 to 15.0 parts by mass of one or more anionic surfactants; (C) 1.0 to 30.0 parts by mass of a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether; (D) 0.5 to 15.0 parts by mass of a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester; and (E) 50 to 100,000 parts by mass of water. The release agent is an organopolysiloxane emulsion having excellent dilution stability and mechanical stability and favorable wettability, and hardly cracking plastic.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a separate and continuous layer being essentially uncured. The method includes applying a powder mix including fibres and a thermosetting binder on a carrier, forming a powder mix layer, wherein the powder mix is connected together such that the powder mix layer is obtained and wherein the powder mix layer is essentially uncured, and releasing the powder mix layer from the carrier. Also, a layer and a method for manufacturing a building panel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a recoil pad making method and a method of using the same. According to certain embodiments, a recoil pad making method includes the steps of providing a base member attached to a first portion of a cushion member, shaping an amorphous hardening material on a first surface of the first portion to form a second portion of the cushion member, and shaping, prior to hardening of the amorphous hardening material, the amorphous hardening material around a portion of a shoulder of a user to create a second surface of the second portion that has a shoulder facing contour that matches a contour of the portion of the shoulder. The base member configured to be mounted to a buttstock of a gun. The first portion of the cushion member is pre-cured on the base member.

Abstract: A multilayer core molding method includes: an upstream process of obtaining an intermediate molded body 33; and a downstream process of performing molding using a downstream process molding apparatus 2, and wherein the downstream process includes: an intermediate molded body arrangement step of arranging the intermediate molded body on the intermediate plate cavity surface or the first downstream process mold cavity surface; and a first vulcanization step, performed after the intermediate molded body arrangement step, of vulcanization-molding the intermediate molded body until it is substantially or completely vulcanized, in a state in which at least the first downstream process mold and the intermediate plate are closed against each other.

Abstract: A resin supply apparatus, a resin sealing apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a resin-sealed product are provided. A resin supply apparatus supplies a resin onto a workpiece on which elements are arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, respectively. The resin supply apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring arrangement information of the elements on the workpiece; a supply unit for supplying the resin onto the workpiece; a calculation unit for calculating a resin supply pattern based on the arrangement information; and a drive unit for moving at least one of the workpiece and the supply unit relative to the other along the resin supply pattern. The resin supply pattern has linear paths extending along the first direction, and a region between the mutually adjacent linear paths in the plurality of linear paths is opened to the outside of the workpiece.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process. In an embodiment, the process includes providing pellets of a regrind material. The regrind material is a post-consumer recycle multilayer film (PCR multilayer film) having at least three layers. The PCR multilayer film is composed of (i) a polyethylene layer, (ii) a polyamide layer, and (iii) a tie layer. The tie layer is composed of maleic anhydride grafted substantially linear ethylene polymer (MAH-g-SLEP) having a Mw/Mn from 1.5 to less than 3.5 and a melt index from 0.5 g/10 min to less than 25 g/10 min. The process includes extruding the pellets to form an extrudate, molding the extrudate, and forming, with the extrudate, a molded article having a surface. The surface of the molded article has a surface roughness value, Sa, less than 1000 nm and a root mean square roughness value, Sq, less than 1400 nm.

Abstract: A bi-injection moulded self-closing valve assembly is described. The assembly comprises a valve overmoulded on an insert. The overmoulded valve is injected using side gating of the mould.

Abstract: An injection unit for a moulding machine includes an injection cylinder, and an injection piston is provided in the injection cylinder. During an injection process, the injection piston is configured to push out a plasticized mass—in particular plasticized plastic—from the injection cylinder and to feed it to a moulding tool via an injection nozzle. At least two plasticizing units and two supply channels are provided, and the at least two plasticizing units can be fluidically connected with the injection nozzle by the supply channels. The at least two plasticizing units are configured to supply the injection cylinder with the plasticized mass via the supply channels and the injection nozzle prior to the injection process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a composite component having at least one functional element composed of at least one cylindrical hollow profile and at least one plastic to be introduced into the hollow profile by means of specific injection molding methods.

Abstract: This invention relates to a monolithic molded part comprising multiple cohesive matrices for the simultaneous diffusion of volatile active ingredients, in contact or separately, wherein said multiple matrix is formed by the combination of several simple matrices, characterized in that each of said simple matrices is capable of containing one or more active ingredient(s), each active ingredient having its own release kinetics.

Abstract: A system is disclosed for driving an actuator which comprises a chamber, a shutter of an injection nozzle for molten material for injection molding, and a piston translatable inside the chamber to actuate a shutter. Means are provided for the transfer of a predetermined amount of fluid between the outside and inside of the chamber, so as to bring/move the shutter from a closing position, in which there is no passage of molten material, towards an opening position, in which there is passage of molten material, by injecting the predetermined amount of fluid from the outside into the chamber or by injecting the predetermined amount of fluid from the chamber towards the outside, or vice versa.

Abstract: A production management system includes: an injection molding unit producing a molded product; and a control device. The injection molding unit includes: an injection molding machine molding the molded product by injection molding; a determination unit determining whether a number of the molded products to be produced is equivalent to a predetermined unit of production or not; and an operation information transmitting unit transmitting operation information of the injection molding unit when it is determined that the number of the molded products to be produced is equivalent to the predetermined unit of production. The control device includes an operation information receiving unit receiving the operation information transmitted from the operation information transmitting unit.

Abstract: A molding machine management system includes a display section configured to display, along a common time axis, identification indicators for identifying a component B, which is a first molded article, and a component C, which is a second molded article, produced after the component B, a production result for the component B including a molding result period and an arrangement result period for the component B, and a production plan for the component C including a molding planned period and an arrangement planned period for the component C and display the production result for the component B and the production plan for the component C in parallel on the common time axis.

Abstract: A device and method for the production of a tubular film in a blown film method with a blown film line. It includes a lay-flat device and a take-off device with a pair of take-off rolls, in which the tubular film can be laid flat, and at least one deaerating device of the previously flattened tubular film. The deaerating device includes a movement device for a cutting device with cutting elements and is arranged in the transport direction of the flattened tubular film downstream of the pair of take-off rolls so that the flattened tubular film can be slit and deaerated by the deaerating device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an external cooling system for a molten film tube produced by a blown film tubular extrusion process, comprised of one or more enclosures with one or more respective cavities that directly receive a portion of cooling gas emanating from one or more associated cooling elements. Each enclosure includes a port containing a variable exhaust device and optional flow buffer, acting to maintain a pressure differential between the cavity and an adjacent inside volume of the molten film tube, adjustable to optimize molten film tube stability cooling element efficiency and spaced apart dimension between cooling elements. Additionally, at least one cooling element is provided, comprised of a divergent cooling element with a divergent cooling interface containing a cooling gas deflector spaced adjacent to the molten film tube and providing an expelled cooling gas.

Abstract: A preform including: an opening portion; a body portion; and a bottom portion, the preform having a two-layer structure in which the body portion and the bottom portion include an inner layer made of a virgin material and an outer layer made of a recycled material, in which a weight ratio of the recycled material to a total weight of the preform is 50% by weight or more, a ratio of a thickness of the outer layer to a thickness of the inner layer in the body portion is 1.5 or more, and a haze of a body portion of a container molded from the preform is 1.8% or less.

Abstract: A method for controlling a machine block comprising a blow-moulding machine for producing bottles and comprising a filler for filling a liquid product into bottles, and a corresponding machine block. Accordingly, the blow-moulding machine comprises an electronic blow-moulding machine controller and an even number of circulating blow-moulding stations, and the filler comprises an electronic filler controller and an even number of circulating filling stations. Since the blow-moulding machine controller specifies a division selection, and the filler controller automatically selects, on the basis of the division selection, one of several filler operating modes all of the machine controllers in the region of the machine block can be instructed in a superordinate manner by the blow-moulding machine controller to automatically adjust the respective operating mode.

Abstract: Ways for simultaneously forming and filling a container with a product are provided that include a mold cavity, a two-stage injection unit, and a blow nozzle. The mold cavity defines an internal surface and is configured to accept a preform. The two-stage injection unit receives and dispenses the product where a first stage includes an extruder and a second stage includes an accumulator. The extruder imparts mechanical energy to the product to reduce a viscosity of the product and transfers the reduced-viscosity product to the accumulator. The accumulator receives the reduced-viscosity product from the extruder and dispenses a charge of the reduced-viscosity product. The blow nozzle transfers the charge of the reduced-viscosity product dispensed from the accumulator into the preform to urge the preform to expand toward the internal surface of the mold cavity and form a resultant container.

Abstract: An apparatus for blow-molding plastic containers includes at least one blow-molding station which defines at least one molding cavity which extends around a main axis of extension and further includes at least two lateral bodies and a respective bottom for each molding cavity that is defined by the blow-molding station. The bottom defines a recessed central portion, which is arranged around the main axis of extension, and a lateral containment portion, which has petal-shaped regions which have a substantially radial extension.

Abstract: A nozzle for forming a container preform into a plastic container includes a first cylindrical portion having a first diameter and including a first seal, a second cylindrical portion having a second diameter less than the first diameter and including a second seal, and a transition portion between the first and second cylindrical portions.

Abstract: A method including inserting into a mold a first tool having a first surface. The method further includes printing a second tool from a polymer material and inserting the second tool into the first tool. The second tool having a smaller wall thickness than the first tool and including a second surface opposing and in contact with the first surface of the first tool and a third surface formed on an opposite side of the second tool than the second surface.

Abstract: A preparation method of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-based membrane for preventing and removing ices covering wind turbine blades is provided and the method comprises: preparing a membrane into a PTFE rod material with polymerized monomers by using monomer polymerization methods such as blending, pre-compressing and pushing; making the membrane into a PTFE-based homogeneous membrane with micropores and nano and micron scale concave-convex geometrical ultra-structure morphologies under the condition that the membrane is cracked to generate a laminar exfoliated fabric-like structure in the hot calendaring process of the PTFE rod material by using a hot calendaring and fusion polymerization method; and applying the PTFE-based homogeneous membrane to blades of a large wind turbine in operation.