National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Toudai Tlo, Ltd.

Akiya Kamimura

Tamotsu Murakami

Disclosed is a crawler robot which, even of a small size, can climb over a high step and which can perform various aspects of operations. Rollers, are arranged at apexes of triangular frames, and elastic crawlers are wrapped around the rollers, with the two frames being connected by a central support shaft. Rotatably provided to the central support shaft is a one-joint link composed of a first link and a second link connected together by a rotation shaft. An end portion of the second link is rotatably connected with a front shaft of a subordinate crawler device equipped with crawlers wrapped around rollers. As a result, the crawler robot is composed of a triangular crawler device and the subordinate crawler device connected together by the one-joint link. The crawler robot can be operated by rotating and bending the link and by rotating the crawler devices in arbitrary directions.

Crawler robot

In an optical lithography using a mask pattern, or producing a large quantity of three-dimensional articles rapidly with high precision, a predetermined mask pattern is drawn directly on the surface of a resin composition for optical lithography, and the mask pattern is irradiated with light, thereby irradiating the surface of the resin composition containing a photocurable component through the mask pattern The step of forming a cured resin layer corresponding to the drawing is repeated to form a three-dimensional article composed of multiple cured resin layers. Thus, unlike the beam scanning, the curing is uniform in cross section.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Akiya Kamimura