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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4606695 | Multiple axis robot arm A robot assembly includes a support for mounting at least two arm portions and a wrist portion about an upright axis. The wrist has three axes of movement that are mutually perpendicular, and they are controlled by a single motor through an arrangement of... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4602345 | Method and system for controlling industrial robot A control system and method for an industrial robot, wherein one of a plurality of command transforming programs is selected automatically depending on the number of transformed reference points (Pcn) which have been instructed, and the selected program t... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4594670 | Robot control apparatus An apparatus for controlling a robot having multi-articulation-type arms with a high accuracy. Work point data and work point instructions for the robot are stored in a main storage section, while data representing the present position of an operating end... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4586151 | Self-configuring computerized robot control system Apparatus constructed such that it may control various other equipment for the performance of various work tasks, even other equipment yet to be designed for work tasks yet to be designed. The apparatus comprises a central computer control means comprisin... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4578764 | Self-configuring robotic system and method A self-configuring robotic system and method are disclosed. The system employs a computer having a central processing unit and an operating system containing at least a nucleus, a sequence reprogrammer and task support services. A robotic device and at le... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4553077 | Industrial robot An industrial robot has a control system with a program memory. During programming, the robot is manually controlled to a sequence of desired positions. At each position, an operating member may be activated to store into the program memory an instruction... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4538233 | Apparatus and method for oscillatory motion control An apparatus and method are provided for controlling the motion of a point associated with a function element carried by a machine. The motion describes an oscillatory pattern in a selectable plane through a path between two positions defined by input sig... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4528632 | Industrial articulated robot linear interpolation control device In a control device for an industrial articulated robot, in the linear interpolation between two specified points, the distance between the two points is divided into segments, and the interpolation increments of the articulation drive axes for each inter... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4510574 | Servosystem between a master actuator and a slave actuator A force return servosystem between a master actuator and a slave actuator connected by transmission lines, which introduce a delay, ͌. At the master actuator, the servocontrol is realized by means of two devices supplying force signals, where the smaller is a... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4495588 | Robot locus control system In a robot locus control metod, the coordinates of first three representative points and first work points of an object to be handled by a robot are taught to the robot, when the relative position of the robot and the object is changed, the coordinates of... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4445184 | Articulated robot An articulated robot comprises one or more articulation angles that can assume two states on the occasion of the same position or attitude of an object being controlled. A change from one to the other of the above described two states is taught by operati... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4435837 | Pattern recognition and orientation system A system that automatically scans the shape of a flat object located in a viewing field, recognizes the shape by identifying at least one moment (e.g., the first moment, area; the second moments, products of inertia; or a higher moment), calculates the ce... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4432063 | Apparatus for automatically moving a robot arm along a nonprogrammed path Apparatus for moving a robot arm through a series of nonprogrammed points defining a nonprogrammed path in response to coordinate data supplied by an external device. During the automatic execution of a programmed cycle of operation, a robot control cause... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4429266 | Method of controlling an industrial robot An industrial robot, designed to machine a workpiece by means of a tool supported on an extremity of a mobile arm, is controlled by a programmer whose memory is initially loaded with a preliminary program including the locations of a multiplicity of close... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4419041 | Spacial mechanism and method A spacial mechanism includes an arm having first and second spaced support points. The first and second support points are supported by first and second swivel bearings. The first and second swivel bearings are supported by first and second rotary element... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4415965 | Programmable sequence controller A programmable sequence controller which enables display of the contents of a storage means for storing input and output data to and from a machine, and which permits numerical values to be set in the storage device from an external unit. The programmable... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4396973 | Programmable sequence controller A programmable sequence controller which need not be equipped with a tape reader for reading a paper tape bearing a punched sequence program or the like. A prepared sequence program or the like is punched in a paper tape in accordance with the standards o... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4388495 | Speech recognition microcomputer A simplified, speaker independent, selected vocabulary, word recognizing microcomputer functions without the use of a typical front end filtering network. The microcomputer identifies vowel-like fricative-like, and silence signal states within a word or p... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4385880 | Shock wave processing apparatus An apparatus and method are provided for making diamonds. In one form, a plurality of shock waves are generated and are directed or focused against carbon particles retained in a cavity of a die such that the heat and pressure of the shock waves will heat... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4381237 | Sludge robot A sludge robot for the removal of sludge from sedimentation tanks having planar bottoms comprises a rising tube (3) and two tube arms (5, 8) which are interconnected by two motor couplings (1, 2), by means of which the tube arms can be steered along a pre... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4366551 | Associative memory search system A knowledge storage and retrieval method is performed to result in a single address number of a storage region which represents a large quantity of information. A first character of a data sequence and a starting number are directed into a two-position bu... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4178472 | Voiced instruction identification system A voiced instruction identification system understands commands by examining a pattern of changes in short syllable (mora) sounds. Fundamental frequency is used as one symbolic value of mora for speech or humming sounds.... | 12/11/1979 |
