Necchi S.p.a.

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Amada Company, Limited

Prima Industrie S.p.a.

The Prima Group International

Gianfranco Carbonato

Franco Sartorio

Nereo Bianchi

Roberto Menin

Maurizio Gattiglio

Alberto Delle Piane

Carlo Mangiarino

Camillo Bussolati

Remote laser welding system comprising a laser beam generator and an optical head ( ) including a mirror orienting unit ( ) and a focusing device ( ), to orient and focus the laser beam (P) respectively inside a spatial sector (T). The mirror orienting unit ( ) is also arranged to orient the spatial sector (T) on a vertical plane and the optical head ( ) can be translated vertically.

System and method for remote laser welding

An operative head for a laser machine including a base rotatably mounted about a first axis and carrying a first mirror for receiving a laser beam along the first axis and for deflecting the laser beam along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, a rotating body carried by the base for rotation about the second axis, and an end body carrying a second mirror for receiving the laser beam along a third axis. The end body is movable with respect to the rotating body along a straight direction parallel to the second axis.

Operative head for a laser machine

A welding robot for performing welding on a workpiece has a base frame, an arm mounted on the base frame, a welding torch freely rotatable around at least one axis of a tip section of the arm, and a detector on the tip section of the arm, the detector being rotatable about the axis of the welding torch. The robot has a controller which controls the movement of the arm with respect to the base frame. The controller includes an arrangement for comparing the position of the welding torch detected by the detector with a desired position preprogrammed independenlty of prior robot movement.

Computer controlled welding robot

An improved household type sewing machine having a needle bar and a feed dog wherein an actuator adjusts the transverse position of the needle bar and the positional displacement of the feed dog in response to control signals provided thereto, in which a microcomputer integrated circuit is provided for controlling the machine in response to keyboard selectable pattern and control information stored in a static memory which is interchangeable with other memory configurations to provide different patterns, such as alphabetic stitch patterns. The keyboard contains a numeric display with each of the patterns having a corresponding numeric equivalent which is displayed on the keyboard to indicate which pattern is selected. The microcomputer is capable of selectively controllably functionally operating on the stored stitch pattern data in response to input control signals from the keyboard for controllably redefining the stored stitch pattern data to selectively create output control signals for the actuator different from the output control signals corresponding to any one of the stored stitch patterns whereby the position of the stitch forming instrumentalities may be selectively varied to redefine a stitch pattern arrangement different from any one of the stored stitch patterns. Thus, for example, a constant stitch density may be maintained for a selected pattern as the length of the pattern is varied by the operator in such a manner that the selected stitch pattern shape may be maintained.

Household type sewing machine having microprocessor control

The present invention is an improved electronic type sewing machine in which a microcomputer integrated circuit arrangement, such as a master/slave microprocessor configuration, is employed to effectuate stitch position coordinate servo control for both bight and feed through digitally closing the position servo control loop. The sewing machine includes actuator means for adjusting the transverse position of the needle bar means and the positional displacement of the feed means in response to control signals provided thereto and static memory means, such as a read-only-memory, for retrievably storing a plurality of different predetermined stitch patterns each having associated retrievably stored bight and feed data corresponding to predetermined positional coordinates of the needle bar and feed means for defining associated stitch position coordinates for the stitches comprising the stitch patterns. The microcomputer arrangement is connected to the actuator which it controls as well as to the static memory containing the requisite data. A transducer arrangement is connected between the actuator controlled and the digital input of the microcomputer for providing a digital input signal to the microcomputer representative of the actual position of the actuator. Where the master/slave microprocessor configuration is employed, the slave microprocessor is employed to close the position servo control loop and the master microprocessor is employed to process the stitch position coordinate data and provide the desired digital position input to the slave microprocessor for digital position error comparison with the actual digital position input.

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Turin, Italy

Gianfranco Carbonato