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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156840 | Drive apparatus of substrate carrying robot including cooling circulation path There is provided a robot for carrying a substrate in which a contact type vacuum seal is cooled, the vacuum seal is prevented from exceeding a heat resistance temperature, and a trouble of leaking the atmosphere into a carrying chamber maintained in airtight is pre... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8109171 | Parallel mechanism An end effecter is positioned with high precision by stabilizing its attitude. Included are arms each having a pair of rods arranged in parallel, a bracket having the end effecter attached thereto and retained by the pair of rods, ball joints and each including a fi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8047093 | Parallel robot 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... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7997161 | Device for the movement and orientation of an object in space and use thereof in rapid machining The invention relates to a device which is used to move and orient an object in space and to the use thereof in rapid machining. The inventive device (1) comprises an object support which is borne by an intermediary mobile support (13) which is connect... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7984663 | Robot head comprising spindle drive A robot head, for example for use in surgery, provides a back-drivable system allowing a surgeon to closely control the position of a cutter or other tool. The cutter is mounted at the end of a telescopic arm (20) which can be rotated about two independent pe... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7975568 | Robotic arm driving mechanism A robotic arm assembly is provided comprising a driving mechanism including a rotor which is rotatable relative to a stator. The rotor is coaxially rotatable about a columnar shaft having a substantially hollow central longitudinal axis. A first arm having proximal ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971504 | Articulated manipulator This invention provides a manipulator that can facilitate a teaching method, improve the operation speed of an arm, and mount a heavy load in a narrow space. The manipulator includes a plurality of arm bodies provided in series, joint parts rotatably connecting two ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7874227 | Teleoperable electromechanical device The user's movement of the joints on a master mechanism is converted to electrical energy to control a kinematically similar arrangement of joints on a slave mechanism. Bi-directional, dynamic, force reflecting control of the slave mechanism is provided without a ne... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7752939 | Parallel link mechanism and industrial robot A parallel link mechanism arranged between a fixed base and a movable base includes a harmonic drive gear reducer, a first arm, a second arm, a connection base, a first auxiliary link, and a second auxiliary link. The harmonic drive gear reducer has a body, an input... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7735390 | High-speed parallel robot with four degrees of freedom The invention relates to a high-speed parallel robot with four degrees of freedom comprising four kinematic chains (1) articulated at one of their ends to a mobile platform (4) carrying the tool (5) and at their other end, through a rotational j... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7574939 | Intermediate segment of an articulated arm comprising a screw and nut transmission An intermediate segment of a control or other arm, fitted with a transmission for supporting a following segment is made up of a motor which is displaced towards the other end of the segment, preferably beyond the joint to a previous segment in order to reduce the t... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7513173 | Parallel link mechanism and industrial robot A parallel link mechanism includes a first arm, a second arm, a first auxiliary link, a second auxiliary link, and a drive motor. A cylindrical connection shaft having a first rotational axis is provided near the proximal portion of the first arm. The proximal porti... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7347120 | Robot of SCARA type A SCARA robot has a robot console, a first robot arm articulated on the robot console and swivelable about a first swivel axis, a second swivel arm articulated on the first swivel arm and swivelable around the second swivel axis extending substantially parallel to t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348699 | Encapsulated motor A canned motor providing a rotor having a rotor shaft; a can having a cylindrical wall which is closed at one end; and a stator, the cylindrical wall of the can being inserted between the rotor and the stator. To measure the rotational position and, where applicable... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340323 | Industrial robot with controlled flexibility and simulated force for automated assembly An industrial robot that uses a simulated force vector to allow a work piece held by the robot end effector to be mated with a work piece whose location and orientation is not precisely known to the robot. When the end effector makes contact with the location and or... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334304 | Machine tool In order to improve a machine tool for machining a workpiece by a relative movement between the workpiece and a tool, comprising a first receiving device for the workpiece or the tool, a compound slide system with a second receiving device for the tool or the workpi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336012 | Motor, robot, substrate loader, and exposure apparatus An apparatus that reduces vibration generation and magnetic leakage, wherein the apparatus is a motor, an articulated serial robot that has a motor built in, a substrate loader that includes the articulated robot, and a related exposure apparatus equipped with the s... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7274464 | Position measuring device A position measuring device for detecting the spatial position of a movable element in relation to a base body, the device including a linear measuring device that measures a distance between a movable element and a base body and an angle-measuring apparatus that me... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7264108 | Transfer unit for transferring glass articles A transfer unit for transferring glass articles from a supporting surface to a carry-off conveyor, the transfer unit includes a pickup member for engaging the articles for transfer and is hinged to one end of an actuating arm to rotate with respect to the actuating ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261502 | Numeric/control machine Described herein is a nNumeric-control machine (1) comprising: a flatbed (2) provided with a horizontal working surface (3), on which a workpiece (4) is to be positioned; a machining head (5) which is able to move in space above th... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259535 | Apparatus and method for situating a tool with respect to a work site on a workpiece An apparatus coupled with a mechanism and cooperating with the mechanism to locate an end-effector within a predetermined distance of a work site for situating the end-effector with respect to the work site includes: (a) a positioning unit coupled with the end-effec... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246800 | Sealing mechanism for sealing a vacuum chamber A sealing mechanism comprises a support member forming part of the semiconductor producing apparatus which has a vacuum chamber, a rotation shaft rotatably received in the support member, and at least three seal rings axially spaced apart from each other between the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245989 | Three-degree-of-freedom parallel robot arm A robot arm includes a drive assembly and an articulated arm assembly pivotally connected to the drive assembly. The articulated arm includes a pivoting base link system, a wrist link system, and a first elbow link system rotatably connected to the base link system ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233842 | Method of determining axial alignment of the centroid of an edge gripping end effector and the center of a specimen gripped by it A method determines axial alignment between the centroid of an end effector and the effective center of a specimen held by the end effector. The method is implemented with use of an end effector coupled to a robot arm and having a controllable supination angle. A co... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7206667 | Robot alignment system and method The robot alignment system is used for establishing a predetermined alignment position between a movable robot member and an article that is processed by the robot. The system includes a laser transmitter that emits a focused laser beam and a target against which th... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204168 | Hand controller and wrist device A compact four degrees of freedom parallel mechanism suitable for use as a hand control or wrist is provided that has backdrivability, is singularity free and has a large workspace and a large force reflecting capability. The structure is light but rigid, and the el... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201078 | Transporting apparatus A transporting apparatus includes a supporting part, first and second driving axles rotatably supported by the supporting part, a plurality of driving links respectively combined to the first and second driving axles, a plurality of transporting links rotatably conn... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7192241 | Substrate conveyer robot A substrate conveyer robot inserts and removes a substrate to and from a an arbitrarily positioned container. A base is rotatably driven by a first motor which defines a pivotal center. A first spindle is rotated by a second motor independent of rotation of the base... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188544 | Industrial robot An industrial delta robot with an arm system rotatable in space and including a base section, a moveable plate, several multi-jointed pull rods and a telescopic axle arranged between the base section and the moveable plate, opposite ends of the pull rods and of the ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181314 | Industrial robot with controlled flexibility and simulated force for automated assembly An industrial robot that has uses a simulated force vector to allow a work piece held by the robot end effector to be mated with a work piece whose location and orientation is not precisely known to the robot. When the end effector makes contact with the location an... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172511 | Amusement ride A gimbaled wheel amusement ride is disclosed. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171279 | Articulating arm for positioning a tool at a location A robotic arm device capable of accessing machinery and equipment, which is otherwise difficult access for maintenance and repair is provided. An apparatus comprising a support arm with a plurality of longitudinal segments each capable of movement one with respect t... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7151591 | Alignment system, alignment method, and lithographic apparatus A system and a method for aligning two devices with respect to each other are presented. A first device is provided with a proximity switch and the second device is provided with a reference mark. When the second device enters a detection area of the proximity switc... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7127962 | Four-degree-of-freedom parallel manipulator for producing Schönflies motions The present invention relates to a manipulating device (A) for producing Schönflies motions comprising a parallel array of at least two legs (B), each leg (B) including an actuator unit (C) having first and second ends and producing a pan-tilt motion, each leg (B) ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7128300 | Stand for a surgical microscope A stand (3) for a surgical microscope comprising at least one vertical rotary bearing (4). A pivot arm (5) is mounted rotatably in the rotary bearing (4). An electromagnetic brake (6) for blocking the pivoting motion of the pivot a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122926 | Fault-tolerant rotary actuator A fault-tolerant actuator module, in a single containment shell, containing two actuator subsystems that are either asymmetrically or symmetrically laid out is provided. Fault tolerance in the actuators of the present invention is achieved by the employment of dual ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7104153 | Linear element laying structure in relative rotation mechanism Pipes and/or wires extend in a bundle from a hollow portion of a second wrist element to a hollow portion of first wrist element of a robot. The first wrist element can rotate relatively to the second wrist element around an axis that passes through the two hollow p... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096983 | Biped robot The height from floor surface contact ends of leg linkages 2 to shoulder joints of a biped robot 1 when the biped robot is in an upright posture is defined to be a value falling within a range (Havg±½σ) set based on an averaged value Havg obtained b... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095202 | Performance input apparatus Operating section provided on a base is displaceable, in response to operation by a human operator, relative to the base with respect to at least one displacement axis, such as one linear-displacement axis and two rotary-displacement axes. A plurality of pivot axes ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086307 | Parallel control arm with two branches The robot arm is composed of two parallel branches (2, 3) formed from a reduced number of segments (5, 6, 7) and connected to each other by a wrist (5) through a wrist holder (8), the directions of which are kept approximately constant by... | 08/08/2006 |
