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Apparatus for Simulating a High Five
A self-righting hand-arm configuration which is adapted to pivot when struck by a user, thereby simulating a "high five."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155781 | Automation system and method for movement control of at least one moveable machine element In order to improve movement control in an automation system for movement control, profiles for movement control are freely defined via functions. Polynomial interpolations or spline interpolations are used for the defined functions, the interpolations being of a hi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8131396 | Numerical control apparatus and numerical control system A first NC apparatus includes a virtual-axis setting unit that sets a predetermined axis coupled to a second NC apparatus as an axis controlled by itself. The second NC apparatus includes an axis-control-right switch processing unit that switches a control right of ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116901 | Method and device for controlling a motion sequence of a machine element For controlling a motion sequence of a machine element, with which the control of the motion sequence of the machine element is carried out based on a functional relationship between a master shaft and a slave shaft, the functional relationship IS ascertained with c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8060238 | Method of calculating recovery commands for numerical controlled system A method of calculating recovery commands for numerical controlled system that an upper controller provides position commands to a servo driver to drive a motor. A memory space is provided to store the position commands, and then a position matrix and a transformati... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036770 | Numerical control unit with set amount of execution A numerical control apparatus with a single block function is provided including a start button (3), an execution amount setting unit (13), and a machining program execution controller (4). Once the amount of execution of the machining program t... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7869897 | Numerical control method for five-axis processing machine If the angle α formed between the interpolated cutting surface perpendicular direction vector (It, Jt, Kt) and the interpolated tool direction vector (Ttx, Tty, Ttz) becomes smaller, movement of a tool becomes unstable. In this case, the tool diameter compensation ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7444202 | Method for smoothing polylines in NC programs In a method for smoothing polylines in NC programs, the coordinates of points which, connected by linear segments, represent an original polyline, are shifted in a geometrical filter unit such that a resulting polyline, made up of coordinates of points, is smoothed ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7392110 | Method and device for milling freeform surfaces A workpiece is milled by a tool of a milling machine to form a desired freeform surface. For this purpose, the tool is moved relative to the workpiece along at least one tool path defined via support points. The support points of the or each tool path are defined ei... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386366 | Feedback estimation of joint forces and joint movements Apparatus and methods are provided for estimating joint forces and moments in human beings. A forward dynamics module determines simulated kinematic data. An error correction controller forces tracking error between the simulated kinematic data and measured (or desi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7381944 | Systems and methods for ion species analysis with enhanced condition control and data interpretation The invention relates generally to ion mobility based systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples and, more particularly, to sample detection using enhanced condition control and data interpretation. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7366583 | Methods and systems for fabricating components A method for fabricating a component using a tool includes determining an actual property of a region of the component, comparing the actual property of the region of the component with an expected property of the region to determine a difference between the actual ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363094 | Multivariable controller design method for multiple input/outputs systems with multiple input/output constraints A method for dynamically controlling a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system having multiple input and output constraints, the method comprising. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes configuring a MIMO tracking controller to implement closed loop ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7347652 | Method for milling grooves in bored workpieces A numerical control unit issues a sequence of instructions for causing a spindle of a cutter disk in a tool machine to perform successive straight displacements approximating a spiral of Archimedes, with a predetermined angle step from one point to the next, and iss... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7318767 | Device and method for machine control A data set (D) is provided for machine control of a grinding machine to determine time-efficient, collision-free travel paths. The data set has a collision parameter of “0” or “1” in each separate coordination point (X, Y, Z, A) as well as for each combinati... | 01/15/2008 |
| RE39907 | Tolerance based motion control system The present invention involves a tolerance based motion controller. The controller is capable of processing a group of tolerance constraints. The tolerance constraints specify where and when each tolerance constraint is to be applied, along with the information spec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287939 | Method for controlling relative displacements of a tool against a workpiece Relative movements of a tool and a workpiece are controlled by moving a tool axis in all spatial dimensions for the material-removal machining of the workpiece to produce a desired target contour of the workpiece by a sequence of relative movements along a tool traj... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284937 | Machining apparatus A pulse generation means that generates a pulse each time an XY movable member moves linearly by a certain amount relative to a base is provided. A workpiece and a light and dark pattern member are provided on the base. A tool, a light and dark pattern scanning sens... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274969 | Curve interpolating method A method of generating a smooth curve to perform interpolation from a commanded sequence of points by a numerical controller for a multi-axis machine tool having three linear axes and two or more rotary axes. Corrected command points are obtained for linear axes and... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260450 | Apparatus and method for controlling elastic actuator An internal pressure of a hydropneumatic drive actuator is measured by a pressure measurement device, a displacement amount of a movable mechanism is measured, a desired value and a measurement value of the displacement are inputted so that a position error is compe... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257578 | Control device capable of data communication and transmission system provided therewith A data transmission system in accordance with the present invention is configured so that a control device 29 of an NC machine tool 20 may be connected to a data management device via a network 2. The control device 29 comprises a data st... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248012 | Teaching data preparing method for articulated robot Set the first temporary attitude of an end effector for a plurality of work points (step S3). Determine the attitude of an articulated robot at one-end first work point out of a plurality of work points (step S4). Determine the attitude of an articulat... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239938 | Interference checking for a numerical control device The shapes of machine parts for which the possibility of interference exists are defined as rectangular parallelepipeds and it is judged whether or not there is interference between a first rectangular parallelepiped of a first machine part and a second rectangular ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7221151 | Magnetic array position sensor A sensor apparatus and method that can measure either a linear position or an angular position of a device. A linear array of galvanomagnetic sensing elements is fixedly mountable adjacent the device. A target is connectable to the device such that the target moves ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7196707 | Tangent balancing When a Bézier spline is fitted to a plurality of points the two tangent handles at each control point can be very different in length. A method of fitting a second spline to the first spline that has tangent handles of equal length at each control point is provided... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194321 | Modular multi-axis motion control and driving system and method thereof A modular multi-axis motion control and driving system includes a control board having a DSP and Flash ROM; a plurality of driver boards connected to the control board though a bus, each board including a FPGA device and a plurality of MOSFET power amplifiers; a com... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184858 | Apparatus and method for controlling elastic actuator An internal pressure of a hydropneumatic drive actuator is measured by a pressure measurement device, a displacement amount of a movable mechanism is measured, a desired value and a measurement value of the displacement are inputted so that a position error is compe... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180253 | Method and system for generating multi-dimensional motion profiles A motion control system comprises control logic and a programming interface. The programming interface is configured to permit a user to specify a plurality of non-tangential path segments, and the control logic is configured to generate a plurality of additional co... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167772 | Machining time calculating apparatus A structure having a parameter storing unit which stores a parameter to be used when a numeric control apparatus drives and controls the numeric control machine tool, a program interpretation unit which reads a part program to generate machining data for each block,... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161319 | Movable barrier operator having serial data communication A wall control unit for a movable barrier operator sends baseband signals over a wire connection to a head unit of a movable barrier operator to command the movable barrier to perform barrier operator functions. The wall control unit has a wall control unit port for... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149599 | Apparatus and method for creating tool path When creating other tool path from two tool paths for cutting a work accurately and efficiently, the data on the first tool path is composed of a position vector and a direction vector of a tool for use when the work is cut while moving the tool. The data on the sec... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146242 | Method and system for generating multi-dimensional motion profiles A system comprises control logic and a programming interface. The programming interface is configured to permit a user to specify a plurality of weighting points in a multi-dimensional coordinate space. The control logic includes spline computation logic configured ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7091479 | Threat identification in time of flight mass spectrometry using maximum likelihood A method for determining a threat substance encountered by a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) using a pre-computed threat library is described. The method comprising the steps of acquiring a spectrum of a test substance, wherein the acquired spectrum is an ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7083368 | Numerical control apparatus A machine having X- and Y-axis linear moving axes and a pivot axis B for rotationally pivoting a pivot member having a tool arranged at a distal end thereof about an axis parallel to a Z axis is controlled. A moving command obtained by a command program commanded by... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076322 | System and method for satisfying move constraints when performing a motion control sequence A system and method for specifying and satisfying move constraints when performing a motion control sequence. One or more motion control operations may be included in a sequence in response to user input. User input specifying one or more move constraints for a firs... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072734 | Method and apparatus for controlling a machine tool When a command radius r of a circular interpolation control exceeds a threshold value, a computer computes a speed limit for the circular speed at which the acceleration becomes constant. When the command radius r of the circular interpolation control is less than o... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062353 | Method and system for reconstructing a surface The invention relates to especially simple, rapid and multidimensional surface reproduction. According to the inventive method for reconstructing a surface of a structure which is described by 3D data points in chronological order, 3D data points are processed using... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062352 | Method for displaying tool locus in NC data and method for analyzing NC data With respect to two or more NC data points among a group of dots together representing a tool locus, a curvature radius of the tool locus is determined. Then, the NC data point and its succession with other points is displayed in a display color determined according... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050883 | Off-line feed rate scheduling for reduction of machining time and enhancement of machining accuracy in CNC machining An off-line feed rate scheduling method of a CNC machining process includes selecting a constraint variable and inputting a reference value related to the constraint variable; estimating a cutting configuration where a maximum constraint variable value (CVV) occurs ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7024333 | Coordinate measuring apparatus A coordinate measuring apparatus includes probe pin(s) fixed to a probe head displaceable in coordinates. The probe pin includes probe shafts having respective ends to which probe balls are attached. At least two of the probe shafts are differently oriented when the... | 04/04/2006 |
