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Wearable Pet Enclosure

An enclosure for small animals which is wearable on the front or back of an animate being.

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Assignee: ABB AB


Location: Vasteras, SE
No. of applications: 43

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08/26/2010
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05/06/2010
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02/25/2010
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A control system for controlling an industrial robot including a manipulator. The control system includes a plurality of modules adapted to handle various functions. A first of the modules is a drive module adapted to control the motors driving the movements of the mani...
02/11/2010
20100004938SOFTWARE LICENSING SYSTEM
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01/07/2010
20090315572Method and Apparatus for Estimating a Mechanical Property
An apparatus for estimating or supervising one or more internal mechanical properties of a metal alloy object with a known chemical composition based on the resistivity of the metal alloy object. The apparatus includes a device for measuring the resistivity of the metal...
12/24/2009
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A system for controlling position and orientation of an object. A first part is adapted to receive forces and torques from a user. A sensor is adapted to measure forces and torques caused by changes in position and orientation of the first part relative to a second part...
10/15/2009
20090255642STIRRER
A device for casting of metal. The device includes a mold, a casting tube via which molten metal is supplied to molten metal in the mold in a region at a distance below a meniscus of the molten metal, and at least one stirrer including an iron core and a coil arranged a...
10/15/2009
20090249893MEASURING DEVICE INCLUDING A LAYER OF A MAGNETOELASTIC ALLOY AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF
A measuring device including a layer of a magnetoelastic alloy formed on a load-carrying member. The layer is intended for measuring stresses induced by a force applied to the load-carrying member. An average grain size of the layer is in the range of 100 nm to 10 000 n...
10/08/2009
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08/20/2009
20090187277 CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT
A control system for controlling an industrial robot and a method thereof. A control unit generates a control signal for controlling the motor. At least one drive unit controls the motor. The drive unit includes a switching unit adapted to convert DC current to alternat...
07/23/2009
20090164202SYNCHRONIZATION OF A GRAPHICAL PROGRAM AND A ROBOT PROGRAM
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06/25/2009
20090139364Wrist Unit to a Robot Arm
A wrist unit to be arranged in an industrial robot including a control system and a manipulator. The manipulator includes a robot arm and a wrist unit arranged on the robot arm and including a wrist housing arranged for rotation about a fourth axis of rotation, a wrist ...
06/04/2009
20090128079Industrial Robot System
An industrial robot system including at least one industrial robot including at least one manipulator located in a robot cell, a control unit for controlling the manipulator, a portable operator control device for teaching and manually operating the manipulator, a detec...
05/21/2009
20090114053Arm part of an industrial robot as well as an industrial robot provided therewith
An arm part of a manipulator of an industrial robot has at each end thereof a connector for connecting the arm part to a gear and a stiffener for stiffening the end region of the arm part. At least one aperture is arranged in a hollow structure of the stiffener for prov...
05/07/2009
20090096403MOTOR CONTROL
A method of controlling a current of a three-phase electric motor with a three-phase controller. The firing angles are adjusted so as to leave a range of firing angles in which DC components appear....
04/16/2009
20090088899Industrial robot
An industrial robot including a tool flange at an end of an outer arm of the robot. A tool is secured to the tool flange. A sensor is configured to sense forces and/or torques applied to a tool secured to the tool flange. The sensor is built into the structure of the ro...
04/02/2009
20090069936CONTROL METHOD FOR ROBOTS
A method of an industrial robot including a control unit and a manipulator including a tool including a defined tool center point and a device for determining a distance error between an inaccurately programmed position for a spot on a surface of a work piece and a corr...
03/12/2009
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A system of manipulators including several manipulators, namely robots and/or external axes, such as workstations or transport tracks, whereby each manipulator is controlled by a control system via communication means and is programmed to carry out a plurality of tasks....
12/11/2008
20080275593Industrial System Comprising an Industrial Robot and a Machine Receiving Movement Instructions From the Robot Controller
An industrial system including a machine for processing or producing a product. The machine includes at least one actuator providing a repetitive sequence of movements of a machine part, and a regulator controlling the movements of the actuator in response to a referenc...
11/06/2008
20080264195Industrial Robot
An industrial robot including a drive package with a motor and a gear between an output shaft of the motor and a third shaft of the robot in immediate proximity to the third shaft for rotation of an upper arm of the robot relative to a lower arm. The gear is a multistag...
10/30/2008
20080262652Method for an Industrial Robot
The invention relates to a method for an industrial robot that comprises a manipulator and a control system comprising a processor and a computer program that influences the processor and is adapted to control a process, wherein the computer program comprises a pluralit...
10/23/2008
20080252248Device and Method for Calibrating the Center Point of a Tool Mounted on a Robot by Means of a Camera
A device and a method for tool center point calibration of an industrial robot. The device is intended to calibrate an industrial robot with respect to a tool mounted on the robot. The device includes a camera designed to take a plurality of images of at least part of t...
10/16/2008
20080234861Control System, Method and Computer Program For Synchronizing Several Robots
A control system for controlling the movements of a plurality of mechanical units. The control system includes a program that includes a plurality of mechanical unit programs. Each program includes movement instructions for at least one of the mechanical units. The cont...
09/25/2008
20080203072Method and a Device for Providing Feedback on Weaving Parameters
A method and a device for providing feedback on weaving parameters in connection with programming an industrial robot provided with a tool to perform a weaving movement. The device includes a simulation unit receiving the weaving parameters and on basis thereof performi...
08/28/2008
20080197715Method and Device For Controlled Reclosing of a Circuit Breaker
A method for controlled reclosing of branch elements in an electric power system that has been subjected to a disturbance and that includes at least one branch element and at least one circuit breaker connected thereto. The angular difference between voltage vectors on ...
08/21/2008
20080156137Method and a Contact Panel Having Contacts Protruding Through an Opening in a Cover Forming Part of an Industrial Robot
An industrial robot including a contact panel having one or several contacts to allow connection to the industrial robot of one or several cables through which energy, signals or a substance may pass to and/or from the industrial robot. A cover forms part of an outer su...
07/03/2008
20080147206Control system for Real Time Applications for Cooperative Industrial Robots
A control system adapted for real time applications for carrying out the following functions: communication, control of a process or a device, and safety functions. The control system includes a plurality of function modules adapted for at least carrying out the control...
06/19/2008
20080130179Method And Device For Fault Detection In Transformers Or Power Lines
A method for fault detection in a power transformer/autotransformer and/or interconnected power lines, which are within the zone protected by the differential protection, and particularly suitable for detecting turn-to-turn faults in power transformer/autotransformer wi...
06/05/2008
20080114492Method and System for Off-Line Programming of Multiple Interacting Robots
A method and apparatus are disclosed for off-line programming of multiple interacting robots. For example, a system for off-line programming (100) of multiple interacting robots includes a computer (110) for off-line programming and verification of program...
05/15/2008
20070273371Method And Device For Measuring The Thickness And The Electrical Conductivity Of An Object Of Measurement
A method for non-contact measurement of a dimension and/or an electrical property in an electrically conducting object to be measured by using electromagnetic induction. An electromagnetic field is brought to penetrate through the object to be measured. A transmitter co...
11/29/2007
20060208673Device and method to monitor an apparatus
An apparatus for monitoring and control of one or more electric motors, including a motor controller, equipped with a soft starter. The soft starter includes memory for storing operations and event data, as well as a human-machine interface for making the event informat...
09/21/2006
20060190584Method and system for automatically deciding what alarm, generated in an industrial plant, to hide or to present to an operator
A method and an alarm processing system for deciding what alarm, out of a number of alarms generated in an industrial plant or process, to present to a system operator. The method includes creating hiding rules, associating each hiding rule with a real-world object, sto...
08/24/2006
20060162895Control system, computer program product, device and method
A control system for regulating the flow of liquid metal in a device for casting a metal. A detector measures a process variable. A control unit evaluates data from the detector. At least one process parameter is automatically varied in order to optimize casting conditi...
07/27/2006
20060142964Fault location using measurements from two ends of a line
The present invention relates to a method to locate a fault in a section of a transmission line using measurements of current, voltage and angles between the phases at a first (A) and a second (B) end of said section. The invention is characterised by the steps of, afte...
06/29/2006
20060129682Distributed query of real world objects
A look-up function and query capability of aspects associated with aspect objects is enabled in a client device. A web client application, such as a web browser, executes in the client device. The aspects are associated with functions of real world objects such as pumps...
06/15/2006
20060087393Multiphase induction device
An induction device having windings of different phases arranged around magnetic core limbs. The magnetic core limbs are connected by at least one body formed from magnetic particles in a matrix of a dielectric material. ...
04/27/2006
20060054296Device and a method for continuous casting
A computer program product for controlling an apparatus for continuous casting of metals. The computer program product includes a computer readable medium and computer program instructions recorded on the computer readable medium executable by a processor for performing...
03/16/2006
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