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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8025200 | Friction stir welding machine and friction stir welding tool A friction stir welding machine is provided that is adapted to perform solid phase welding on a welding portion of materials to be welded, by pressing a welding tool against the welding portion of the materials to be welded while rotating the welding tool, and forci... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8001786 | Combustor of a gas turbine engine A combustor of gas turbine engine, including: a fuel spray portion that sprays fuel to create a diffusion combustion region in a combustion chamber, the fuel spray portion including a fuel atomizing portion that atomizes the fuel, and a diffusion passage portion dis... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7942619 | Carrier unit of substrate transfer apparatus In the present invention, a base 43 of a robot 27 is fixed to a fixing portion 53 of a frame divided body 50. The base 43 allows force exerted from a robot main body 27A to be transmitted to the fixing portion 53 of t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7925382 | Robot controller and robot control method An input unit enters angular displacements by which drive shafts of a robot arm are to be turned as teaching data into a control unit. The control unit converts the input angular displacements into position-attitude data, namely, converted commands, indicating a pos... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921650 | Fuel spraying apparatus of gas turbine engine A fuel spraying apparatus of a gas turbine engine includes a first fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for diffusion combustion and a second fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for premixed combustion. The second fuel spraying section is dispos... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7900578 | Carrying system and processing equipment A carrying system includes first and second carrying machines each of which includes a holding unit, a base and a linkage having pivotally joined first and second links. The holding unit can be moved, by turning the second link relative to the first link which is tu... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7874782 | Wafer transfer apparatus and substrate transfer apparatus A wafer transfer apparatus is provided. In a minimum transformed state where a robot arm is transformed such that a distance defined from a pivot axis to an arm portion, which is farthest in a radial direction relative to the pivot axis, is minimum, a minimum rotati... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7841256 | Articulated manipulator A miniaturized articulated manipulator 20 has a first arm member 31A internally provided with two driving motors 33 and 34, and a second arm member 30B not provided with any devices corresponding to the driving motors 33 and... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836788 | Articulated manipulator An articulated manipulation device for increasing work volume that includes six links and corresponding joints. A first link connects to a base for rotation about a rotational axis aligned with the axis of the first link. A diagonal joint connects the first and seco... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7829178 | Delamination development preventable structure for sandwich panel A delamination development preventable structure is provided to prevent the development of delamination in a sandwich panel including a core and surface plates attached to the opposite surfaces of the core with respect to the thickness of the core. Arresters ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7816128 | Automatic cell cultivation apparatus having a multijoint robot An automatic cell cultivation apparatus is provided which is capable of conveying the culture container, exchanging the culture medium, and operating other jobs promptly by a robot. The automatic cell cultivation apparatus has a cultivation apparatus main body for c... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7799464 | Hybrid battery At least two types of active materials having different charge and discharge characteristics are combined and incorporated into a same cell to provide a battery. The active materials having different charge and discharge characteristics to be incorporated have any f... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7798387 | Friction stir welding apparatus and system A rotational tool retaining member unit 37 is mounted at one end portion thereof to a FSW gun body 26. The rotational tool retaining member unit 37 is provided at the other end thereof with a fitting hole 61 and a plurality of mounting pa... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7748592 | Friction stir welding device A friction stir welding device for welding an article by means of a welding tool, includes: a tool holding section configured to hold the welding tool and rotate round a predetermined reference axial line; rotation driving unit configured to drive the tool holding s... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7729804 | Robot controller and robot control method for synchronous operation and adjusting robot movement based on two movement times A controller calculates first movement times when moving each robot hand from a movement start position to a synchronous operation position in a shortest time and decides the longest first movement time as a second movement time. The controller generates, for each r... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7713396 | Method and apparatus for recycling electrode material of lithium secondary battery Lithium cobaltate forming the positive electrode of a lithium secondary battery is subjected together with lithium metal to reducing reaction in molten lithium chloride to produce lithium oxide and to precipitate and separate cobalt or cobalt oxide. The lithium oxid... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7677427 | Welding tool for friction-stir welding apparatus The invention is a welding tool used in a friction-stir welding apparatus for welding a plurality of members to be welded. The welding tool includes: a tool holder having a front end and a base end, the base end being held by the friction-stir welding apparatus so a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7651311 | Substrate container opener and opener-side door drive mechanism thereof In this invention, a movable body movable in forward and backward directions and a connector fixed to an opener-side door are connected with each other by link members so as to constitute a parallel link mechanism, such that they can be angularly displaced relative ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7644968 | Substrate holding device A supporting structure is mounted on a hand body facing a circumferential edge of a substrate from below the substrate to support the substrate. First and second guiding members are mounted on the hand body, and having guiding surfaces in contact with an imaginary c... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7628542 | Bearing vibration damping mechanism A squeeze film damper for a bearing and a vibration damping mechanism capable of damping the vibration of a rolling bearing are provided. The squeeze film damper is small in construction and can be easily made by mass production. The vibration damping mechanism is c... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7622001 | Robot A robot includes a body structure on which a robot arm having an end effector is rotatably supported. The body structure has a stationary base unit fixedly installed and a movable unit rotatably supported on the stationary base unit to turn about an axis of rotation... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7582057 | Endoscopic system using an extremely fine composite optical fiber Endoscopic system 40 comprises composite optical fiber 34 that consists of a large-diameter, laser light transmitting optical fiber surrounded by a large number of image transmitting fibers that are bundled together to form an integral assembly with th... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7575145 | Friction stir welding apparatus and robot employing the apparatus A friction stir welding apparatus capable of stably applying a pressure force without enlarging the apparatus, and a robot having thereof are provided. A rotating tool is provided with a rotational shaft and a hollow surrounding shaft is provided to surround the rot... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7558646 | Cooperative control system of robots The present invention has a communication connection means (21) which mutually connects communicatably control units (Ca, Cb) for individually controlling operations of robots (Ra, Rb) to constitute a network, input means (37a, 37b... | 07/07/2009 |
| RE40762 | Jet-propulsion watercraft A jet-propulsion watercraft, comprises a steering position sensor for detecting a steering operation of a steering operation means. A steering means adapted to be subjected to a steering assist mode control, when a signal indicating that the steering position sensor... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7547053 | Substrate gripping apparatus, substrate gripping method and substrate releasing method A robot hand 23 having a hand body 30 having a reference axis J1 is provided with fixed holding members 40 and 41 and a movable holding member 42. The holding members 40, 41 and 42 are arranged on the hand body... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7513174 | Industrial robot The present invention provides an industrial robot which can reduce torque required for driving an object to be moved. By providing a third reduction device and a third driving device separately, the dimension in the third axial direction of the third reduction devi... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7503299 | Twincam engine and motorcycle comprising the same A twincam engine including a rocker arm configured to transmit rotation of a cam to reciprocate at least one of intake and exhaust valves, the rocker arm being pivotally attached to a cylinder head between a center axis of a valve stem of the intake valve and a cent... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7455210 | Processing operation control method, processing operation controller, computer program for carrying out the method, information storage medium storing the computer program A processing operation control method controls a processing operation in which a rotary tool 1 is rotated by a rotative drive unit 51, and presses the rotating rotary tool 1 is pressed by a pressing unit 52 to force the rotating rotary to... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7424339 | Method and system for acquiring delivery position data of carrying apparatus In a searching step, a laser beam by a laser beam projector is projected toward an object to be detected, which is previously disposed at a delivery position, while moving a holding member which is positioned apart from the object to be detected. In a delivery posit... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7380624 | Air intake structure for motorcycle An air intake structure in a motorcycle having a body frame including a hollow head member in its front wall with an air inlet opening and supporting a steering shaft and paired hollow main frame members extending rearward from the head member on right and left side... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370388 | Air cleaner for portable engine An air cleaner for a portable engine, includes an air cleaner case attached to an upper part of an engine body of the engine. Preferably, the air cleaner case is supported on an upper wall of a shroud covering the engine. Preferably, the air cleaner case is formed i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7334391 | Electric power supply equipment An electric power supply system capable of maintaining stable power generation or the like regardless of variation in the amount of fuel gas being supplied and variation in the gas calorie, comprises a gas engine, a gas turbine, a suction device configured to collec... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7290695 | Friction stir welding apparatus The apparatus includes a base 23 fixed at a predetermine position, a tool holding jig 29, to which a welding tool 21 is mounted, installed on the base 23 rotatably about a preset reference axis L1 and movably along the reference ax... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7282882 | Robot controller A robot control system for simultaneously controlling multi-axial robots each of which has actuators, a standard movement part being set in each of the robots, includes: a single main controller for calculating respective movement positions of the standard moving pa... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260448 | Substrate holding device A substrate holding device includes: holding members configured to hold substrates, the holding members being arranged along a predetermined arranging direction and being movable along the arranging direction; an interlocking mechanism interlocking the holding membe... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7235947 | Synchronous motor control method and synchronous motor control system A desired q-axis current is determined based on a desired torque, and a desired d-axis current is determined based on the rotating speed of a synchronous motor when the terminal voltage of the synchronous motor coincides with a predetermined maximum permissible volt... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230547 | Indicator light apparatus of marine vessel An indicator light apparatus of a marine vessel is provided. The indicator light apparatus includes a sensor for detecting a value related to a traveling speed of the marine vessel, an indicator light provided in the marine vessel, and a control device configured to... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225996 | Fuel supply method and fuel supply system for fuel injection device A fuel injection device includes a fuel injection unit provided with a plurality of fuel injection members. The fuel injection unit is held by a holding-and-supplying unit. The fuel injection members are connected to the holding-and-supplying unit by a connecting-an... | 06/05/2007 |
| D542187 | All terrain vehicle | 05/08/2007 |
