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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7422412 | Horizontal articulated robot A horizontal articulated robot has a plurality of horizontal arms coupled by joint shafts, and a working shaft disposed at the extreme end of an extreme end arm among the horizontal arms has mounting portions of an end effector formed to both the upper and lower end... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7398707 | Roll-pitch-roll surgical tool A robotic surgical tool includes an elongate shaft having a working end and a shaft axis, and a pair of linking arms each having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is pivotally mounted on the working end of the shaft to rotate around a first pitch axi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392722 | Control unit with three parallel branches This controller, between a fixed base (1) and a control handle (4), comprises three similar arms (2) of which each comprises three links (5,6,7) jointed between the base and the handle platform by a pivot (8), two rotation joints (... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7337691 | Parallel kinematics mechanism with a concentric spherical joint A parallel kinematics mechanism is provided for uses such as robotics or machining. The mechanism has various limbs designed as elbow-linkages, at least some of which are actuatable, for moving an end component with multiple degrees of freedom. The mechanism advanta... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7309204 | Articulated arm robot In a multi-axis articulated arm robot for transferring workpieces, there is a robot base, on which a movement unit is able to be pivoted about a first axis, which is vertical in an operational state. The movement unit has a pivoting part adjacent to the base, an art... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300240 | Industrial robot An industrial robot including a platform arranged for carrying an object. A first arm is arranged for influencing the platform in a first movement and includes a first actuator having a first path and a first carriage linearly movable along the first path. A second ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7241102 | Robot Disclosed is a robot which is compact in structure and may be movable in a large working range, wherein move members 1, 1 may be moved by drive devices 4, 4 respectively along a straight line and in parallel with each other, the drive devices 4, 4 | 07/10/2007 |
| 7195441 | Manipulator having arm mechanism for hand According to this invention, there is provided a manipulator which can be suitably used as a compact manipulator apparatus which manipulates a minute target object. A manipulator of this invention includes, for example, a plurality of arm members whose attitudes can... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188879 | Slide gripper assembly A slide gripper assembly is provided having a slide assembly coupled to a gripper assembly. The slide assembly extends and retracts the gripper assembly. A bracket assembly is coupled to the slide and gripper assemblies to move the gripper assembly relative to the s... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7172385 | Light weight parallel manipulators using active/passive cables The present invention provides parallel, cable based robotic manipulators, for use in different applications such as ultra high-speed robots or positioning devices with between three to six degrees of freedom. The manipulators provide more options for the number of ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7146872 | Micro manipulator Provision of a 3-DOF micro manipulator easy to operate and capable of executing accurate positioning, wherein the link mechanisms of the micro manipulator whose main operation is parallel 3-DOF operation are implemented by cutting, folding, and moding a sheet of met... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136722 | Method for generating a motion of a human type link system A human-type link system, such as a humanoid robot having a dynamically feasible motion of the link system that is generated when a reference joint acceleration that is only calculated from a kinematical constraint condition is determined not feasible by an evaluati... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7121781 | Surgical instrument with a universal wrist A robotically controlled endoscopic medical instrument that includes an end effector coupled to a wrist. The wrist provides two separate degrees of freedom about the same pivot point. The end effector can be moved and actuated by pins. The pins allow for a compact m... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121198 | Screen-printing machine with a device for transferring objects to be printed The screen-printing machine (10) comprises: a print station (12); at least one support surface (40A, 40B) for supporting the objects away from the print station (12); and ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7086822 | Scalar type robot for carrying flat plate-like object, and flat plate-like object processing system An SCARA type robot comprises: an arm unit (14), whose one end is linked to a base (11) so as to be pivotable in a horizontal plane, and which is capable of horizontally bending and stretching; wrist portions (15a, 15b) whic... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7069808 | Line laying structure for robot wrist A line laying structure for a wrist of a robot capable of enhancing durability of lines of cables/pipes for flowing electricity, air, water, etc. to an end effector attached to the wrist, and reducing a restriction of angle of rotation of a wrist axis by rotation of... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7028578 | Wrist driving mechanism for robot A wrist driving mechanism capable of arranging a large amount of cables and pipes in a robot arm. A robot wrist mechanism having three degrees of freedom is driven by first, second and third drive shafts for transmitting driving forces of first, second and third mot... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013750 | Unit set for robot A unit for constructing a robot with units, wherein a joint unit comprises joint means and is organized in a joint casing having a surface profile of a dice-like cube, or a uniaxial cylindrical body, or an orthogonal dual-axis cylinder-like cubic with a uniform join... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013915 | Fluid delivery device Fluid delivery device, allowing a mechanical robot arm to be supplied with fluids from at least two sources of fluids, includes a fixed portion or stator, having connections to the sources of fluids, and a rotating... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6997669 | Parallel manipulators with four degrees of freedom A manipulator for receiving and displacing an object, comprising a moving portion, adapted to receive the object. Four support legs each extend between the moving portion and a ground for supporting the moving portion. Each support leg is connected to the ground by ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6976821 | Device for the translatory positioning of a platform In a device for the translatory positioning of a platform (1), in particular a tool mount, with articulated rods (2a, 2′a9 of invariable length, whose first ends are hinged to he platform (1), and whose second ends ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974297 | Industrial robot An industrial robot for movement of an object in space comprising a platform arranged for carrying the object, a first arm arranged for influencing the platform in a first movement and comprising a first actuator and two links, each of which comprises an outer joint... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6969385 | Wrist with decoupled motion transmission The present invention is a wrist mechanism and a method for making robotic devices in which the transmission of motion, force and/or torque around a revolute joint can be accomplished without coupling. This construction allows mounting the actuators on the base or l... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6943519 | Method and device for weight compensation in a mechanism with closed kinematic chains The aim of the invention is to compensate for the position-dependent length changes caused by the effect of weight in a variety of closed kinematic chains (K1 . . . Kn), for connecting a stationary first element (E1) to a movable second element (E2 | 09/13/2005 |
| 6896473 | Device for transmitting torque A changeable-length fourth axis of a delta robot has a first bar (82) and a second bar (83), which can be displaced parallel to one another in a slide bearing (84, 85). They are connected to articulation heads (80, 81) for leading in an i... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6879877 | Method and apparatus for producing operation signals for a motion object, and program product for producing the operation signals A method and apparatus for providing a motion object with psychological and emotional expressions characterized by simplified processing and reduced control data associated with controlling a series of motions for body groups of the motion object including a fundame... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6877392 | Gear, particularly for a robot In a gear, particularly for a robot, with a drive shaft and at least two parts rotatable relative thereto and to one another, in which a movement of one part is removable on its side remote from the other part, at least one of the rotary parts has a shaft connected ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6871563 | Orientation preserving angular swivel joint An orientation preserving angular swivel joint suitable for mechanical robotic arms and in particular snake robots, the joint comprising two members and an angular bevel gear train that connects the two members of the joint. The gear train allows an actuator to be p... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6865446 | Robot device and method of controlling robot device operation A robot apparatus is provided which includes body portions such as a head block (4), leg blocks (3A to 3D), an actuator (25) to actuate the body portions and a CPU (10) to supply a control signal to the actuator (25). In thi... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6860169 | Manipulation unit 3-degrees-of-freedom universal joints UJ1 and UJ2 for allowing the hand H1 to make up-down swing motions D1 and side-to-side swing motions D2 are joined to the top right and left parts, respectively, of the wrist portion of the han... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6840938 | Bipolar cauterizing instrument A bipolar surgical instrument that includes opposing grips that can engage the tissue. A current is delivered from an electrosurgical power source to electrodes disposed on the grips to cauterize the tissue. The electrode configurations provide efficient cauterizati... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6819978 | Robot, identifying environment determining method, and program thereof A robot is provided, wherein it is possible to reduce incorrect identification in the case of executing face identification in a place where lighting variations are large such as in a house and in a place where there exists a lighting environment that is bad for ide... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6817641 | Robotic arm and hand A robotic arm and hand for imitating the human hand. The robotic arm and hand includes a motor member being coupled to a frame member. The motor member is designed for being operationally coupled to the control system and a power source whereby the control system is... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6795750 | Industrial robot The present invention concerns an industrial robot (1) comprising an upper arm (2) that can be rotated around a first axis (A), a wrist (6) supported by the upper arm that can be rotated around a second axis (B), a hollow turning device (3, 3... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6741912 | Flexible tool for handling small objects A flexible tool for handling small objects, as well as a method for handling small objects using the flexible tool. The flexible tool comprises one or more mini robots, such as a free arm robot and one or more hexapod(s) working in an internal workspace when perform... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6711468 | Control system for robots A control system for robots comprising a control unit for generating and controlling the paths of a movement of the moving parts of the robot, a drive unit for generating the control signals for controlling the motors associated to the moving parts of the robot, and... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6701220 | Industrial robot device An industrial robot including a manipulator having a control system. The manipulator includes a common gear housing having first and second inner compartments connected with a passage channel. First and second gears are arranged in the first and second in... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6696810 | Wrist structure for a robot A member for piping and wiring to an end effector of a robot is discharged from a first wrist element into a void area in a position displaced from an axis c, being bent and loosened, and then guided to a hollow path. Any variance in a length of the pipin... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6685698 | Roll-pitch-roll surgical tool A robotic surgical tool includes an elongate shaft having a working end and a shaft axis, and a pair of linking arms each having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is pivotally mounted on the working end of the shaft to rotate around a firs... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6675671 | Planar-constructed spatial micro-stage A multiple degree of freedom platform assembly formed from a plurality of thin films on a substrate can, when activated, move out of the plane of the substrate without additional manufacturing steps. The platform is connected to the substrate by at least ... | 01/13/2004 |
