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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7324907 | Self-calibrating sensor orienting system Controlling an orienting/positioning system having a sensor and actuator for controlling at least one of an orienting and positioning action of the sensor. The invention (1) evaluates pre-action output information of a sensor in order to detect the position of a pat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7191036 | Motion generation system of legged mobile robot A model's ZMP (full-model's ZMP) is calculated using a dynamic model (inverse full-model) 100c2 that expresses a relationship between a robot movement and floor reaction, a ZMP-converted value of full model's corrected moment about a desired ZMP is cal... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7170250 | Holding arrangement having a device for actively damping vibration In a holding arrangement (101) for a medical-optical instrument (103), an electric motor is provided in a rotational joint (111, 119) to compensate a load torque occurring in this rotational joint. This electric motor is supplied with current in... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7120518 | Device for generating motion of legged mobile robot A model's ZMP (full-model's ZMP) is calculated using a dynamic model (inverse full-model) 100c2 that expresses a relationship between a robot movement and floor reaction, a ZMP-converted value of full model's corrected moment about a desired ZMP... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7109678 | Holding arrangement having an apparatus for balancing a load torque In a holding arrangement (101) for a medical-optical instrument (103), an electric motor is provided in a rotational joint (111, 119) to compensate a load torque occurring in this rotational joint. This electric motor is supplied with current in... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6997668 | Load handling device with servo feed-back control The invention concerns a handling device comprising, in combination, a mechanical equilibrium mechanism (10) with low reaction time, having an arm (20) whereof the proximal end (22) is locked on a pivot pin (18) and whereof the distal ( | 02/14/2006 |
| 6959231 | Robot system A robot system includes a plurality of segments 3, joints 4 for linking the segments together, drive units 5 for actuating the joints, and a controller 8 for controlling the drive units. Further, the robot system has bladders 2 fil... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952977 | Weight compensation device A robot is provided with a robot weight compensation device having at least one hose element including an internally pressurized gas-tight inner hose portion cooperating with a high tensile strength outer portion. The high tensile strength outer portion includes non... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6923613 | Manipulator A manipulator is provided that includes a foot part and a number of members connected to the foot part and to each other respectively, and at least a gripper part, such that the members, the gripper and the foot part form an arm. One or more motors are provided in t... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917855 | Real-time target tracking of an unpredictable target amid unknown obstacles Embodiments provide a strategy for computing the motions of a mobile robot operating in an obstacle-laden environment without requiring prior knowledge of the distribution of obstacles in the environment or knowing the trajectory of a target tracked by the robot. Em... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6910400 | Machine tool In a machine tool comprising a spindle mounting slide which is driven by a linear electric motor and which runs in a vertical direction in a slideway, the slide is equipped with a counterweighting device comprising an elastic element and a roller chain, the rigidity... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6876903 | Gait pattern generating device for legged mobile robot A gait generation system of a legged mobile robot, in particular a biped robot that has the dynamic model expressing the relationship between the motion of the body and leg and the floor reaction force, and provisionally determines the current time gait parameters i... | 04/05/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6848333 | Industrial robot with a balancing device Industrial robot arranged with a helical spring based balancing system, which is able to stand up to high load. ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6836702 | Method for fine tuning of a robot program A method for fine tuning of a robot program for a robot application comprising an industrial robot, a tool and a work object to be processed by the tool along a path comprising a number of desired poses on the work object, the robot program comprises a number of pro... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6804580 | Method and control system for controlling a plurality of robots A system for controlling a plurality of robots and a method for controlling said system. Said system comprises a plurality of controllers, each having an associated motion system adapted to control attached robots, with each motion controller being able to receive m... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6758113 | High speed pick and place apparatus A pick and place apparatus comprises a bond arm adapted for rotation about an axis between a pick location and a place location. The bond arm is formed with a cavity at an end of the arm remote from the axis, within which cavity are located a plurality of damping pa... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6732015 | Robot system A robot system includes a plurality of segments 3, joints 4 for linking the segments together, drive units 5 for actuating the joints, and a controller 8 for controlling the drive units. Further, the robot system has bladders 2 fil... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6689074 | Wearable muscular-force supplementing device A muscular-force supplementing device of the present invention includes an artificial muscular-force generating section and a control section that controls the driving of the artificial muscular-force generating section. The artificial muscular-force gene... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6690999 | Manipulator control method A method for controlling a hyper-redundant manipulator including a plurality of links coupled by joints by determining the shape the manipulator takes when the end of the manipulator is moved to a target position, includes modeling each link as an elastic... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6676669 | Surgical manipulator The present invention provides a surgical manipulator which capable of manipulating a surgical or medical tool in up to six degrees of freedom. The manipulator has a relatively lightweight, compact design as a result of the use of high force to mass ratio... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6640160 | Biped ambulatory robot A biped ambulatory robot is provided having a structure in which the electrical storage device is arranged to reduce the load on the joints (particularly the knee joints) of the leg members of the robot and to enable easy maintenance of stability of the r... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6580970 | Arm structure of human-type robot An upper arm portion and a lower arm portion are connected to each other by a substantially cylindrical elbow joint, and are bendable between an extended position in which they are extended into a substantially straight line and a bent position in which t... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6564667 | Device for compensating the weight of a robot arm A device for compensating the weight of a robot arm of a robot with a spring cylinder and having at least one helical spring is characterized in that there is at least one mechanism for the insertion and removal of at least one further, replaceable helica... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6556891 | Apparatus system and control box for same An apparatus system is provided with at least one robot and with a control unit accommodated in a control cabinet. To improve the integration of robot and technology control units and to utilize synergistic effects, at least one additional, independent el... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6526331 | Robot arm A robot arm which allows the two hands to be brought together in front of the chest. In a robot arm comprising a shoulder joint attached to a body so as to be rotatable around a laterally extending axial line, an upper arm attached to the shoulder joint s... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6408225 | Device and method for balancing the weight on a robot arm The invention relates to a device for balancing the weight carried by a robot arm of a robot. Said device comprises a fluid spring, rotably a pneumatic spring, and a control device for controlling the movements of the robot. The device is characterized by... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6393340 | Robotic mechanisms with active and passive joints Control of a robotic mechanism comprising both active and passive joints is accomplished, where the motion of one or more of the passive joints is constrained by one or more constraints imposed on the mechanism by the environment, the mechanical construct... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6377014 | Legged walking robot In a biped walking robot having a body and two articulated legs each connected to the body and each having a foot at its free end such that the robot is controlled to walk by landing a heel of the foot first on a floor. The heel of the foot has projection... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6354167 | Scara type robot with counterbalanced arms A SCARA type robot with counterbalanced arms and tilting base. This apparatus enables accurate planar movement of a probe. Weak or flexible foundations or footings do not affect positioning accuracy of the probe. Positioning accuracy, relative to the move... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6298569 | Adjustable counterbalance mechanism for a coordinate measurement machine A counterbalance mechanism for use with a multijoint manually positionable measuring arm of a three dimensional coordinate measurement system provides a reversible and adjustable counterbalancing force to offset the weight of the arm and facilitate its mo... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6253458 | Adjustable counterbalance mechanism for a coordinate measurement machine A counterbalance mechanism for use with a multi-joint manually positionable measuring arm of a three dimensional coordinate measurement system provides a reversible and adjustable counterbalancing force to offset the weight of the arm and facilitate its m... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6243623 | Leg type mobile robot control apparatus In a legged mobile robot, in particular in a biped robot, the feet position and/or posture is determined in such a manner that compensating moment of total floor reaction force about a desired total floor reaction force central point is determined, based ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6236906 | Process and apparatus for hand-controlled guiding of an instrument in a predetermined movement region A process for guiding an instrument in space, in which the instrument is arranged at the free end of an articulated arm whose arm sections are caused to pivot and/or travel with respect to each other by drive units. The instrument is caused to travel in a... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6226566 | Method of constrained cartesian control of robotic mechanisms with active and passive joints The present invention is a method of controlling a robotic mechanism comprising both active and passive joints, where the motion of one or more of the passive joints is constrained by one or more constraints imposed on the mechanism by the environment, th... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6199444 | Robot having multi-joint arms movable in horizontal plane Disclosed is a robot having multi-joint arms movable in a horizontal plane, which is mechanically compact as well as small sized and operated with high precision and a minimum output of drive sources, substantially comprising a robot body (1), a cylindric... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6186023 | Automatic balancing apparatus for balancing stand According to the invention, a latch 17 provided at a distal end of a lever 16 is urged to engage with a gear 13 fixed at a joint fulcrum 2 jointing a vertical arm 1 and a horizontal arm 3, for effecting angular displacement, thereby actuating a switch 20a... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6145403 | Robot arm with weight compensation A driven robot arm (1) has a torque compensation unit for a motional degree of freedom (4). A separate magnetic compensation unit (9) is proposed which is independent of the robot arm drive.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6145397 | Simple lift assist module A compact lifting device whose load arm is fixed to a cover of lid of a processing chamber provides, a tubular pan body with an externally easily adjustable spring counterweight type member passing through the tubular center of the pan body. The spring me... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5982127 | Spring device for balancing vertical movements of multi-joint robot A multi-joint robot is disclosed, wherein a mount structure is vertically moved by means of a drive mechanism including a vertical threaded shaft and a stepping motor for rotationally driving said threaded shaft, thereby to vertically move the mount struc... | 11/09/1999 |
