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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7960928 | Flux controlled motor management A motor in an electric vehicle can be controlled by receiving at least one of a user input or vehicle information, selecting one of a plurality of available flux modes using at least one of the user input or the vehicle information, and calculating a control signal,... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952315 | Cam drive system for an automated medication cart The system includes a plurality of vertically spaced medication trays with a base assembly and a motor, responsive to computer commands, mounted on the base assembly. A drive shaft case member extends vertically from the base assembly. A cam assembly includes a plur... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7366637 | Form measuring instrument A form measuring instrument comprising: a roughness sensor placed on the table, and for outputting measurement data that includes information on the cross-sectional shape; a relative movement mechanism for relatively moving the table and the roughness sensor such th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7284937 | Machining apparatus A pulse generation means that generates a pulse each time an XY movable member moves linearly by a certain amount relative to a base is provided. A workpiece and a light and dark pattern member are provided on the base. A tool, a light and dark pattern scanning sens... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7231277 | Surface shape determining device for a machining apparatus and surface shape determining method In a state of separating a front end face of an air injecting nozzle 23 from a worked work W by a predetermined interval h, the air injecting nozzle 23 is moved at a constant speed in an X axis direction, injects air from an injecting hole 27... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7142313 | Interaxis angle correction method An interaxis-angle correction method comprising: a reference sphere measurement step of scanning, with the sensor, a reference sphere located on the table, in the measurement-axis direction at a translation-axis-direction position on the reference sphere to acquire ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7082349 | Machining apparatus for machining a workpiece to reproduce a model shape A machining apparatus capable of easily machining a workpiece to reproduce a shape of a machining model or with alternation of a scale in a scanning or profiling direction. A non-contact displacement gauge is fixed to one surface of a tool rest, and a tool to the ot... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7030773 | System and method for communicating with an appliance through a light emitting diode An apparatus includes a controller for controlling operation of an appliance, an indicator light coupled to the controller to provide a visible indication of an operator selection in response to the controller energizing the indicator light, and a driver coupled to ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023564 | Sensor device for burr examination In order to provide a burr examination sensor device for the examination of burrs on a workpiece which can be used universally it is suggested that this comprise at least one distance sensor with a detector head, wherein the detector head can be positioned at a dist... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7000278 | Method and apparatus for end of cycle signal for laundry appliance A method is disclosed for producing an end of cycle for a laundry appliance having a drive motor, a timer motor, and at least one water valve. The method includes determining that the drive motor was previously running and is presently turned off, determining that t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6949905 | Servo control system and method of setting A servo control system which comprises an original cam pattern generator 11 for generating a first pattern of a cam shape relative to a phase corresponding to one revolution of a cam mechanism; a corrector 14 for differentiating the original pattern of... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6931302 | Method for a robot Method for synchronizing a robot where a target is arranged on the movable part of the robot at the respective robot axles. The movable part rotates back and forth and at the same time a sensor reads at least two distinct detectable changes on the target. The center... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6909939 | Numerical control method and numerical control device Two shafts whose moving directions do not intersect orthogonally with each other are set, then any one shaft of two shafts as an oblique reference shaft is set, then information based on an angle between two shafts whose moving directions do not intersect orthogonal... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6815917 | Automatic lathe, method for controlling the same, and device for controlling the same A method for controlling an automatically operated lathe provided with at least one spindle and at least one tool rest includes the following steps. First, each of a plurality of transfer position data required in a sequence of machining programs in connection with ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6781339 | Method of controlling an electronic cam type rotary cutter, and method of producing an electronic cam curve A method of controlling an electronic cam type rotary cutter or sealer driven by a servo motor. The method comprises preparing a correct position pattern for a whole region including cutting or sealing and non-cutting or non-sealing zones. An electronic cam curve of... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6456901 | Hybrid robot motion task level control system A hybrid control system is provided for controlling the movement of a robot. The hybrid control system includes a singularity detector; a task level controller that receives a motion plan and determines a first set of control commands which are defined in... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6246201 | Electronic cam control system An electronic cam servo apparatus uses a digital servo controller to perform motion equivalent to a mechanical cam. The control apparatus has one data table representing a characteristic of a mechanical cam and utilizes a data interpolation and the first ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6114824 | Calibration method for a visual sensor A calibration method enables a visual sensor attached to a robot to be calibrated easily, quickly, and accurately without using a mechanism for accurately setting a calibration jig or a wide jig setting space. First calibration pattern data, which include... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5910721 | Position control system and position control method In a position control system, the positional deviation between the position of the control point of the controlled object and the target position is corrected in accordance with the change of the relative positional relationship between mechanically relat... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5691904 | Process and device for determining the condition of machines with several measuring points The proposal is for a process and device making it possible to determine the condition of one or more machines (3) at several measuring points by means of a measuring head (MK) with measurement transducers (MW) which can be releasably fitted there and to ... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5654618 | Process for the two-dimensional determination of a work-area contour for lathes The invention pertains to a process for the two-dimensional determination of a work-area contour for collision monitoring of numerically controlled lathes. Disclosed is a process for the two-dimensional determination of a work-area contour wherein the wor... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5594310 | Apparatus and method for expanding and controlling the multifunction mechaposition A multifunction mechaposition expanding controlling apparatus and method thereof are provided which can expand and control the mechaposition according to the number of the function as many as the desired numbers by rotating, above 360°, having the progra... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5590244 | Profile control system for robots A robot profile control system permits a force control robot to perform a profiling operation on a surface of a work object having curved surfaces of unknown contours. The robot profile control system resets a profile coordinate system for the profile ope... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5498942 | Electronic packaging apparatus Electronic components such as chips are attracted to the tip ends of nozzles under suction, and mounted on printed-circuit boards when the vacuum condition in the nozzles is broken. The time for breaking the vacuum condition in the nozzles is adjusted by ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5485069 | Numerical control apparatus A numerical control apparatus which reduces a cycle time by executing the movement command of a next block without temporarily stopping the movement of a workpiece even if a skip signal is input. Upon receiving the skip signal SS output from a sensing dev... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5426356 | Non-contact profile control method A non-contact profile control method capable of being effectively applied to a model whose contour has an irregularity such as a step-like contour. A non-contact distance sensor generates a dark alarm signal when its measuring beam spot is formed out of i... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5343402 | Non-contact digitizing control unit The purpose of the invention is to carry out the most appropriate attitude control of non-contact distance detectors (5a, b) onto the tracer model (6) surface and provide a digitizing control unit with high accuracy. A non-contact distance detecting devic... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5333974 | Tracer control unit Movement of a tool is delayed for a specified time from the movement of a tracer head that probes a model and traces the same path so that a cutter does not attain a state of excessive overshoot at a corner of a workpiece. The tracer head is driven indepe... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5317517 | Digitizing method Disclosed is a digitizing method of sensing an amount of displacement of each axis applied to a stylus by a tracer head, profiling a model surface while controlling the stylus in such a manner that the amount of displacement is made equal to a reference a... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5309364 | Trace control method In a trace control method used for machining a workpiece by tracing a model with a tracer head, the path and speed of two axes (X- and Y-axes) are controlled by NC commands, but, three axes (X-, Y- and Z-axes) are controlled to carry out the tracing opera... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5298844 | Work holding device A work holding device is intended for use in combination with a processing machine, such as an assembling apparatus, an industrial robot or a machine tool. The work holding device comprises a base plate (8), a slide base (9) supported for vertical movemen... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5283509 | Tracing control system A tracing control system machines a workpiece to a desired contour corresponding to the surface of a model which is being traced. The tracing control system comprises a tracing control circuit, a digitizing circuit, and numerical circuits. The tracing con... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5276383 | Route interpolation method for robot A robot route interpolation method for interpolation a polygonal route of a robot which is defined by the predetermined three or more points, wherein the acceleration at the time when a first velocity on the above polygonal route before a turning point is... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274563 | Noncontact tracing control system A noncontact tracing control system for tracing machining a workpiece through a tracing of the contour of a model without contact. Coordinate values of a plurality of points on the model surface are acquired from measured values obtained by a plurality of... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5243265 | Non-contact tracing control apparatus A non-contact tracing control apparatus is disclosed which traces the surface of a model by using at least two optical distance detectors for detecting the distances therefrom to the model. When a first light corresponding to a first of the optical distan... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5241484 | Tracing control method A tracing control system machines a workpiece through tracing by repeating a plurality of tracing passes in a tracing direction which is constant to a pick feed while detecting amounts of displacement of respective axes applied to a stylus. A first abrupt... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5241485 | Noncontact tracing control system A noncontact tracing control system for machining or digitizing a workpiece through tracing the shape of a model without a contact therewith. Coordinate values of each vertex of a micro quadrangle on a model surface (6) are obtained from measured values a... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5209618 | Method of setting tracing zone A method of setting a tracing zone in a contour tracing in which a surface of a model is traced by a contour tracing to thereby machine a workpiece. The contour tracing zone is set by a plurality of straight lines forming a polygonal shape (43, 44, 45), a... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5193282 | Rotating body tracing control apparatus A rotating body tracing control apparatus which performs a tracing while rotating a model and a workpiece. A plurality of point coordinates (P1 or P10) are set on the outer peripheral surface of the model (6), which points depend on a position of the cent... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5180957 | Tracing control system A tracing control system for machining a workpiece through tracing by calculating speed command values of respective axes, using change amounts detected by a tracer head, and moving a cutter relative to the workpiece through control of the speed of the re... | 01/19/1993 |
