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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120103127 | ROBOT ARM ASSEMBLY A robot arm assembly includes a hollow wrist housing, a wrist rotatably connected to the wrist housing, a first driver, a first transmission mechanism, a rotary member, a second driver, and a second transmission mechanism. The first driver is assembled within the wrist ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120102717 | Wrist Assembly for Robotic Arm A wrist assembly (311) for a robotic arm or other mechanical device is provided. The wrist assembly comprises a first arm (313) which terminates in a first radius (317), a second arm (315) which terminates in a second radius (319), and... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120067157 | ROBOT A robot includes a base; a swivel unit rotatably arranged on the base; a lower arm having a base end portion, a tip end portion and a side surface, the base end portion rotatably supported on the swivel unit to enable the lower arm to swing in a front-rear direction; an... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120049037 | CONNECTING APPARATUS A connecting apparatus for a robot arm and effector includes a mounting member and a carrier connected to the robot arm and the effector, respectively. The mounting member includes a support body, and the carrier is slidable relative to the mounting member. The connecti... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120011956 | APPARATUS FOR A ROBOT ARM An apparatus for a robot arm of an industrial robot. A first module includes a first and a second member rotatable in relation to each other about a first axis of rotation. A second module includes a first and a second member rotatable in relation to each other about a ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120000312 | PAINTING ROBOT A robot, such as a painting robot for painting components such as motor vehicle body components, is disclosed having a plurality of robot elements that are pivotable relative to each other. At least one flexible supply line may run from a proximal robot element to a dis... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110295419 | APPLYING WORKSPACE LIMITATIONS IN A VELOCITY-CONTROLLED ROBOTIC MECHANISM A robotic system includes a robotic mechanism responsive to velocity control signals, and a permissible workspace defined by a convex-polygon boundary. A host machine determines a position of a reference point on the mechanism with respect to the boundary, and includes ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110264265 | ROBOT, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CONTROL PROGRAM A system and the like capable of maintaining the continuity or smoothness in the motion of a controlled object. According to a control system 1 and a robot R, which is a controlled object thereof, of the present invention, a desired position trajectory is generat... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110218676 | ROBOT, CONTROL DEVICE FOR ROBOT ARM AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR ROBOT ARM A robot arm, which is driven by an elastic body actuator and has a plurality of joints, is provided with an arm-end supporting member that supports the robot arm when made in contact with a supporting surface that is placed on an arm-end portion of the robot arm and a c... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211938 | Compliant End Of Arm Tooling For A Robot A robot (12) is used to pick parts from a bin (40 in FIG. 1). The robot has a compliant apparatus (42) and one or more tools are connected to the apparatus to perform the picking. The compliant apparatus has mechanisms for monitoring and/or c... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110186362 | FOOT FOR HUMANOID ROBOT The invention relates to a foot and a humanoid robot having the foot. The invention is of particular utility in the production of humanoid robots coming as close as possible to the human morphology. According to the invention, the foot includes: a sole, toes, a motorize... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110120255 | WRIST STRUCTURE OF ROBOT ARM A wrist structure of a robot arm includes a forearm body, a first rotating assembly, a wrist body, and a second rotating assembly. The first rotating assembly is disposed in the forearm body and drives the wrist body to rotate with respect to the forearm body in a first... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110040408 | ROBOTIC HAND A robotic hand assembly comprising: a hand section comprising: at least one digit provided with at least one actuatable joint; and a control section comprising: at least one actuation device, the at least one actuation device comprising: a sensing module configured to s... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100331857 | FLEXIBLE WRIST-TYPE ELEMENT AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF A flexible wrist-type element and methods of operation thereof, including variations having an angularly moveable hub housing a rotatable and operable end effector driven via a drive train having one or more universal-type joints and/or other flexible couplings moveable... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100291310 | ROTARY CONNECTION COUPLING A rotary coupling for a multi-axial robot hand (19) is provided with a rotatable hand housing (20) and an output element (21) that is rotatable on said housing. The rotary coupling (62) includes connections (65, 66, 68) for the output ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100229671 | INDUSTRIAL ROBOT The present invention provides an industrial robot, wherein a cable or the like spanned between an end effector and an upper arm has less bending due to a motion of a wrist portion, wherein the cable or the like does not twine around the upper arm, and wherein the cable... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100206120 | PARALLEL ROBOT PROVIDED WITH WRIST SECTION HAVING THREE DEGREES OF FREEDOM A parallel robot including a movable-section drive mechanism having a parallel mechanism configuration and operating to allow a movable section to perform a three-axis translational motion with respect to a base section, and a wrist-section drive mechanism operating to ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100196616 | ROBOTIC PAINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD A robotic painting system includes an applicator, a first paint metering device in fluid communication with the applicator, a second paint metering device in fluid communication with the paint applicator, and a paint supply in fluid communication with each the paint met... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100192720 | Parallel Kinematic Structure A parallel kinematic structure comprises at least two kinematic chains being functionally arranged in parallel. Each of the two kinematic chains has, at a moveable end thereof, at least one degree of freedom, and comprising a passive anti-planar joint arrangement having... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100180711 | ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD A robotic end effector system and method having a plurality of end effectors which are selectively suitable for particular applications on a workpiece. The end effectors include a resident controller adapted to execute tasks specific to the end effector and are rapidly ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100147098 | Robot A robot has a structure in which finger joints do not interfere with each other. The robot includes a first actuator driving the finger joint, a first power transmission, a second actuator driving the finger joint, and a second power transmission. The first actuator and... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100101358 | SWIVEL JOINT A swivel joint that is placed between a working device and a forwardly/reversely rotatable wrist section provided on a body section of an industrial robot and has a fluid transmission route for interconnecting the wrist section side and the working device side. The flui... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100101359 | DEVICE FOR DISPLACING AND POSITIONING AN OBJECT IN SPACE The invention relates to a device for displacing and positioning an object in a space, having at least three actuating arms that can pivot about a transmission axis. Each arm is connected to a motor unit/transmission unit. A carrier element is provided in order to arran... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100101360 | Robot provided with movable body moved along linear movement rail A robot is provided in a Cartesian space. The robot is provided with a linear movement rail, a movable body, a swing arm, a linear movement arm. The linear movement rail extends in parallel with the X-axis direction. The movable body is linearly moved in the X-axis dire... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100103431 | Determining Positions The position of a movable element such as the end of a robot arm (10) which has several degrees of freedom, being mounted on a base (11) and including a wrist mechanism, is determined by installing a multiplicity of base targets (32, 74) around the ... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100028109 | EDGE GRIP END EFFECTOR A robot is provided which comprises a wafer blade (105) having a pocket (109) therein for receiving a semiconductor wafer, and a retractable protrusion (107) which is movable from a first position in which said protrusion prevents the removal of sai... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100024594 | CONCENTRIC JOINT MECHANISM CAPABLE OF ROTATING WITH MULTIPLE DEGREES OF FREEDOM A concentric joint mechanism includes a frame, a flexible spherical body, a first friction wheel, a first power device, and a fixing device. The flexible spherical body is disposed inside the frame. The first friction wheel is disposed inside the frame and abuts against... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100000364 | ROBOT A robot includes a work tool, an arm, a cable, and a third member. The work tool is configured to perform a predetermined work with respect to a workpiece. The work tool is attached to the wrist. The arm supports the wrist and is rotatable around a rotational axis. The ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090320637 | FLEXIBLE WRIST-TYPE ELEMENT AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF A flexible wrist-type element and methods of operation thereof, including variations having an angularly moveable hub housing a rotatable and operable end effector driven via a drive train having one or more universal-type joints and/or other flexible couplings moveable... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090226285 | Robotic assembly providing leveling and joint stress reduction A robotic is provided which comprises a hub (203); (b) a first lower arm (209) comprising first (213) and second (215) lower arm segments and having a first set of upper arms (229, 231) attached thereto; and (c) a first adjusting means... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090173177 | Joint structure of robot A joint structure of a robot for moving an assembly 51 to be connected to a robot link with respect to the robot link, the joint structure includes a first motor 10 for causing the assembly a longitudinal swing motion, a second motor 20 for causing ... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090145256 | Device for Swiveling Objects The invention relates to a device for swiveling an object around a stationary axis (16) which lies outside the space occupied by the device. The inventive device is characterized by unusually great rigidity. A supporting coupler (5) and a guiding coupler (... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090118864 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINDING A TOOL CENTER POINT FOR A ROBOT USING AN EXTERNAL CAMERA Disclosed is a method and system for finding a relationship between a tool-frame of a tool attached at a wrist of a robot and robot kinematics of the robot using an external camera. The position and orientation of the wrist of the robot define a wrist-frame for the robo... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090095104 | Device For An Industrial Robot A device for adjusting the backlash in bevel gears in an industrial robot which includes a first conical gear wheel with a first axis of rotation and a second conical gear wheel. The device includes a displaceably arranged holder member adapted to fix and rotatably jour... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090084216 | Multiaxis Counterbalance and Positioning System Using a Spatial Linkage A spatial linkage including an inboard gimbal plate that provides a ground for the spatial linkage, an outboard gimbal plate, and three links that couple the outboard gimbal plate to the inboard gimbal plate. Each link has a longitudinal axis and two pivotal couplings d... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090074979 | Method For Controlling A Robot Tool Center Point A method for controlling a painting system including an industrial robot or manipulator arm arranged with a wrist section and carrying a paint applicator arranged on the robot wrist is described. Paint is applied by the applicator to a substantially circular or elliptic... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090071281 | Robot arm assembly A robot arm assembly a base unit with a shoulder assembly rotatably disposed on the base unit. A lower robot arm is pivotably attached to the shoulder assembly. An upper robot arm is pivotably attached to the lower robot arm. The base unit includes a first motor which r... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090019961 | Turning Portion Structure of Industrial Robot To facilitate an integrating operation and to make fabricating cost inexpensive. An idle gear for transmitting rotation of an input gear of a drive motor to a cylindrical gear is rotatably supported by an input side end portion of a specific one crank pin, and therefore... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080257095 | Adjustable wrist design for robotic arm A wrist assembly is provided for securing an end effector to a robotic arm. The wrist assembly comprises a first portion (205, 207) containing a slot for releasably engaging an end effector (231), and a second portion (203) which is attached to the ... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080236324 | Robot having working tool In an umbilical member processing mechanism of a robot, a working tool managing unit umbilical member (50) for supplying at least one of the power, the signal and the material to a working tool managing unit (34), is guided from a rotary barrel in the long... | 10/02/2008 |
