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An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| 8086330 | Accessing accelerometer data Systems and processes for accessing acceleration data may include an accelerometer coupled to a nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory may be coupled to a processor. Acceleration data may be obtained from the accelerometer via a bus coupling the nonvolatile memo... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078295 | Accumulative method for estimating velocity limitation A method for controlling acceleration and deceleration before interpolating is provided. The method includes steps of previewing and analyzing a processing program to estimate a limitation of a processing velocity and distributing a processing velocity according to ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7373396 | Information delivery system and method and program of the system An information delivery system and its method and a program of the system, in which plural robots are used and users can obtain information effectively via the plural robots from the wider range than the range where only one robot moves, are provided. Each of the pl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366576 | Position control device and position control method for machine tools A machine tool moves a driven member by use of a servomotor. A position control device controls the position of the driven member in accordance with full closed loop control. The position control device computes an integrated feedback value g in correspondence with ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353135 | Positioning and aligning the parts of an assembly The invention is an apparatus and process for obtaining values for one or more alignment quantities using one or more transportable devices. The process consists of establishing and maintaining a transportable device in a reference position and a reference orientati... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7319909 | Position control device, measuring device and machining device In a quadruple loop position control device (1) including: a drive controller (5) having a current control loop that controls motor current (I) and a motor speed control loop that controls a motor speed (Vm); a speed control loop (3) that contro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310562 | System and method for scheduling mold manufacturing A system for scheduling mold manufacturing includes a number of user computers (1) connected with a server (3) by a network (2), a standard parameter database (5), and a task scheduling database (6). Each user computer includes a s... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7289290 | Method of controlling track seek servo in disk drive and apparatus therefor A method of controlling a track seek servo in a hard disk drive and an apparatus therefor. A method of controlling a track seek servo includes moving a transducer to a track with an acceleration trajectory generated by a convolution operation, a rate of change of ac... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283887 | Method for determining a change in direction of rotation of a motor A method for determining a change in direction of rotation of a motor includes the steps of establishing steady state operating parameters of the motor, triggering a command interrupting the rotation of the motor, estimating the speed of the motor after triggering t... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269475 | Distributed control system with global contraints for controlling object motion with smart matter Embedded in a transport assembly are arrays of microelectromechanical sensors and actuators for detecting and propelling an object. A controller having defined therein local computational agents and a global controller controls the array of sensors and actuators. Th... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7242857 | Motor control circuit A motor control circuit includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generating circuit, a driving circuit and a waveform-shaping circuit connected between the PWM signal generating circuit and the driving circuit. The PWM signal generating circuit generates a squ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7222444 | Coordinated linkage system for a work vehicle A work vehicle with a tool pivotally attached to a linkage, an actuator for controllably moving the tool about its pivot, and a tilt angle sensor for sensing the absolute angle of the work tool relative to the earth. A controller is adapted to perform an auto-hold f... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218846 | Fan speed control circuit A fan speed control circuit includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generating circuit, a driving circuit and a phase compensation unit. The PWM signal generating circuit generates a PWM control signal with a sequence of alternating on-time and off-time, and ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7200464 | Digital control servo system An improved servo system for galvanometers, scanners and similar devices which uses digital processing to increase the dynamic range and provide greater effective resolution. The system provides digital control of a reference point that directly influences the excit... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191020 | Output service provision system, virtual object management terminal, mobile object, virtual object management terminal program, mobile object program, and output service provision method This invention provides an output service provision system which is capable of allowing a user to easily receive a provided output service, providing an output service responsive to the user and flexibly coping with situational variations. Upon determining that a vi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173390 | Method of detecting a malfunction during a displacement of an element by means of a drive system, and device suitable for carrying out such a method A method and a device are provided for detecting the occurrence of a malfunction upon movement of an element by a driving system. While the element is being moved, a difference between a predetermined value and an actual value is determined at regular intervals by m... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7149591 | Multi-resolution controller A method for producing a control output is described. The method includes identifying an error signal and decomposing the error signal into a plurality of signal components. The signal components are determined based on a plurality of orthogonal functions representi... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139662 | Device and method for determining the position of a working part A device and method for determining the position for a working part of a machine with a position-determining apparatus is disclosed. A detector is placed at a defined place on the machine to determine the position in a fixed coordinate system. A positional relations... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130716 | System of path planning for robotic manipulators based on maximum acceleration and finite jerk constraints A system for wafer handling employing a complex numerical method for calculating a path of wafer travel that controls wafer acceleration and jerk, and results in maximum safe speed of wafer movement from a first point to a second point. Motion is begun along a strai... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7110853 | Processes and devices for computer-aided adaptation of an application program for a machine tool A process and device for computer-aided adaptation of an application program for a machine tool is described. A sequence of control commands for feed axes of the machine tool defines a contour to be traveled by a tool relative to a workpiece. Based on the sequence o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7068002 | Motor control device A motor control device comprises: a current limiter 115 for limiting a current-instruction signal Ir for a motor 18 and for turning a limiting signal L from off to on when the current-instruction signal Ir reaches a predetermined value; a model-positio... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062368 | Combine having a system estimator to automatically estimate and dynamically change a target control parameter in a control algorithm An agricultural combine includes a rotor drive system to which sensors are coupled to signal the rotational speed of a hydraulic motor and an engine. An electronic controller that contains a mathematical model of the system reads the sensors and using the model esti... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062334 | Positioning control method, positioning control device, and electronic component mounting apparatus using same There are provided a positioning control method and a positioning control device, which enables high speed positioning with low power consumption without repeating two or more acceleration and deceleration operations during travel from an original position to a targ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050862 | Servo controlling device and method When a position/speed feedback changes while a control system for driving a feed axis uses an integration gain during a shaft stopping, the control system goes unstable to cause a torque instruction to vibrate or diverge. In addition, only a single, narrow-range fee... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043355 | Multisource target correlation An improved method for correlating between targets in an air traffic control system. A methods or systems according to the invention compare selected components of a first target report to the components of a second target report, produce a confidence level on each ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039494 | Controller for machine A controller that eliminates an error caused by acceleration/deceleration control, and controls the velocity of drive axes which is not represented by a rectangular coordinate system such that maximum allowable values of velocity, acceleration, and jerk of the drive... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7025148 | Vehicle with an attachment The invention concerns a vehicle with an attachment, which has a lifting drive with at least one hydraulic cylinder and a control device, the control device having a position sensor and a position generator. It is endeavored to improve the position control of the at... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7006880 | Method for controlling a device with a control system A method for controlling at least one device (12) with a control system (10). The devices (12) can provide input signals (16) to the control system (10), receive output signals (14) from the control system (10) to ope... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6993411 | System and method for discrete time trajectory planning for lithography A lithography system and method for calculating an optimal discrete time trajectory for a movable device is described. A trajectory planner of the lithography system calculates an optimal discrete time trajectory subject to maximum velocity and maximum acceleration ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6972532 | Controlled motor coast in media handling system By controlling all motors so that they all decelerate at substantially the same rate, buckling of media in a media handling system is substantially eliminated on shutdown. Preferably, the deceleration rate of the highest inertia motor is used as the common decelerat... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969961 | Method for controlling a rotation speed of a slave drive, a corresponding controller and a corresponding machine A method for controlling the rotation speed of a slave drive is described, where a reference rotation speed and a reference position is provided to a controller. The controller determines an estimated acceleration curve for the slave drive based on an instantaneous ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970761 | Method for actuating a holding brake Based on the realization that, at the instant a holding brake in the drive of a machine tool is actuated, it may not be necessary to precisely observe the setpoint values, it may be provided to adapt control parameters in the controller of the drive such that, given... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961629 | Output service providing system that updates information based on positional information, terminal, and method of providing output service This invention provides an output service provision system which is capable of allowing a user to easily receive a provided output service, providing an output service responsive to the user and flexibly coping with situational variations. Upon determining th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6940252 | DC motor control method and apparatus A DC motor control method and apparatus for reducing time required for deceleration without degrading positioning accuracy. In a device which drives a mechanism by using a DC motor as a power source, in deceleration of the DC motor, when the mechanism arrives at a p... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934616 | System for determining an implement arm position A control system for determining a position of an implement arm having a work implement is disclosed. The implement arm includes mating components connected by at least one joint. The control system includes at least one position sensor operably associated with the ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6914402 | Method for synchronized operation of machines having axes actuated by single drives In a method for operating machines (138) with a plurality of shafts (102, 110, 111), in which the shafts (102, 110, 111) are each driven, synchronized with one another, by individual drive mechanisms (103) belonging to them, in accordance... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909938 | Method of and apparatus for synchronous control A method of and apparatus for synchronous control of a leading element and a follower element in which synchronism is started smoothly and a mechanical shock at the start of synchronism is reduced. When the follower element is started to move to be synchronized with... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6889099 | Distributed control system and an associated system component for the distributed control system A distributed control system having system components (1, 2, 3). The positions of the system components (1, 2, 3) are stored in respective memories (11, 12, 13) as component-specific data, which represent the spatial coordinates of the positions... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6859007 | Servo motor drive control device Learning control is performed when carrying out processing by repeating instructions in a pattern cycle. Time/position converting means determines a positional deviation for a prescribed position with respect to a reference position, from the positional deviation de... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6845287 | Method, system, and computer program product for improved trajectory planning and execution A method, system, and computer program product for non-real-time trajectory planning and real-time trajectory execution. A trajectory planning process receives data generated by high-level control software. This data defines positions and scan velocities, where mult... | 01/18/2005 |
