Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| 7877225 | Method for determining measuring points In a method for determining measurement points on a physical object, a number of measurement points are first selected in a graphical computer model of the object, until a sufficient number of measuring points have been selected so as to allow the position and orien... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7742838 | Process and device for controlling the robotal device A process is provided for controlling a robotal device, such as a multiaxial industrial robot, by a control unit, with a control core for executing control processes for the robotal device. An interface function checks whether models and/or procedures optionally con... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7301117 | Process and device for controlling the pressing force of an electrode holder A process and a device for controlling the pressing force of the electrodes [of an] electrode holder driven by means of an electric motor, especially of an industrial robot, during the welding operation characterized in that the motor position is controlled or that ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298385 | Method and device for visualizing computer-generated informations To improve the operation of robots in installations reprogramming and emptying an operating sequence to be performed by them, the invention provides a method and a device for visualizing computer-assisted information in an image of the real environment on a viewing ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295891 | Method and device for controlling movements in the case of manipulators In a method for controlling the movement of a manipulator associated with an interpretation of a given point sequence of poses (positions and orientations) by splines, the motion components are separately parameterized. Thus, marked, subsequent changes to the orient... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292910 | Method and device for machining a workpiece A method for machining workpieces by means of a multiaxial manipulator, such as an industrial robot, with a tool moved proportionally by a control unit of the manipulator and which can perform characteristic movements with several degrees of freedom is characterized... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7086293 | Method for monitoring a machine and such a machine, particularly a robot In order to improve the monitoring of a machine with movable parts, such as in particular an industrial robot, and for increasing safety, the invention provides a method for monitoring movable parts of a machine, such as an industrial robot, in which at least two di... | 08/08/2006 |
