Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hiroshi Minakami

Toru Nishiyama

Motonori Endo

A manipulator features the use of a single motor and a plurality of flexible cables which are interconnected with the motor via a plurality of clutches which can be selectively engaged and disengaged. The cables transmit rotational energy to elements of the manipulator via translation devices which convert the rotational motion into linear motion.

Manipulator using a single motor driving plural flexible shafts

In a position detection system when a preselected parameter magnitude of a signal produced in response to a received reflected laser beam, is excessively high, the power of the laser is reduced until such a satisfactory level is reached. On the other hand when the signal level is low and laser power cannot be increased further, signal amplification is induced until such time as the required level is produced.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroshi Minakami