Tanabe Seiyaku Company, Limited

National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

Combi Corporation

Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

National Aerospace Laboratory of Science Technology Agency

Isao Yamaguchi

Osamu Okamoto

Teruomi Nakaya

Seizo Suzuki

Koji Yano

Heihachiro Kamimura

Norio Takamura

Masaru Inage

Katsuhiko Renbutsu

Isao Inoue

Mitsuharu Izaki

Takeshi Tamanouchi

Jyunichi Ueno

Yasuoki Usui

Hiroaki Nagano

Hideaki Sato

Atsushi Nakajima

Kazuya Matsumoto

Yasushi Takatori

Tameo Iwasaki

Asao Watanabe

Taku Nagao

Hakaru Muto

Shinji Itoh

Eiji Yamatani

Takao Tsuji

Kimiaki Hayashi

Kazuo Matsumoto

Shinsuke Nishiyama

Shuichi Sasa

Nozomi Itoh

Toru Miyachi

Sadasuke Kurabayashi

Kazuyoshi Yabuuchi

Ken-ichi Nunami

Masami Kubo

Hirohisa Suzuki

Shigeru Oyamada

Tadashi Kishimoto

Kotaro Matsumoto

Sachiko Wakabayashi

Tasaburo Kiguchi

Masatoshi Harigae

Shinichi Kodato

Yoshiaki Ohkami

Tokio Kasai

Kuniyuki Oda

Yoshiaki Akimoto

Hirotaka Inoue

A vehicle position notification apparatus include a main body unit which includes at least a detection unit, an attachment unit and a communication unit; wherein the detection unit detects a body under detection; the attachment unit makes the main body unit adhere to the body under detection detected; and the communication unit transmits position information of the main body unit.

Apparatus for position notification of vehicle, method and computer-readable medium

There is provided a child car seat that can be stably mounted on a seat of a vehicle by means of a simple mounting operation. A child car seat includes: a pedestal to be mounted on a seat of a vehicle, the pedestal including a base part having a front surface and side surfaces, and a standing part standing from the base part; and a seat body supported on the pedestal. The pedestal includes a waist-belt guide part for guiding a waist belt. The waist-belt guide part includes a front guide part extending on the front surface of the base part, and side guide parts continuous to the front guide part and extending on the side surfaces of the base part. The pedestal includes a lateral guide member having a laterally projecting part laterally projecting from the side surface of the base part, and an upwardly extending part extending upwardly from the laterally projecting part. The laterally projecting part forms at least a portion of a lower edge defining a side guide part.

Child car seat

There is provided a child car seat capable of preventing a seat body from being unintentionally moved to a turning position. The child car seat includes a pedestal and a seat body that can be slid with respect to the pedestal. A plurality of reclining positions and a turning position are included in a range within which the seat body can be slid. The seat body includes a retractable projecting member projecting toward the pedestal, and an operation member connected to the projecting member. The seat body can be held in the respective positions when the projecting member is engaged with the pedestal. An operation amount of the operation member, which is required for sliding the seat body between the reclining positions, is smaller than an operation amount of the operation member, which is required for sliding the seat body from the reclining position to the turning position.

A method of controlling a redundant manipulator for assigning one or more redundant joints from a plurality of joints and obtaining the solution to an inverse kinematics problem at high-speed. The joints are arbitrarily classified into redundant joints and non-redundant joints, and an initial value is set for the joint angle of the classified redundant joint as a parameter. Then based on an evaluating function or a constraint condition defined by the joint angle of the redundant joint provided as a parameter and the joint angle of the non-redundant joint, which is determined by the inverse kinematics calculation according to the change of the parameter, an optimum solution of a set of joint angles is determined, and until the optimum solution covers the target range of the hand position, the procedure to determine the optimum solution is repeated with relaxing the constraint conditions.

Method of controlling redundant manipulator

An offset rotary joint unit equipped with a rotation correction mechanism, in which a bending motion can be executed in a two-dimensional plane only by virtue of a rotary mechanism and which can support a high-load weight and is applicable for two-arm mechanisms such as nursing assistant robots. One offset rotary joint unitis composed of a first arm, a rotation correction armrotationally driven around the axial line of the first arm, and a second armrotationally driven around an axial line obliquely intersecting with the rotation correction arm. A rotation correction joint mechanismlinking the first armand the rotation correction armand an offset rotary joint mechanismlinking the rotation correction armand the second armare driven by a single motor, and the rotation correction joint mechanismrotates synchronously and in the reverse direction, following the rotation of the offset rotary joint mechanism, thereby allowing the second armto execute a bending motion in a two-dimensional plane with respect to the first armonly by virtue of rotary mechanisms.

Offset rotary joint unit equipped with rotation correction mechanism

A robot is obtained having various functions that are demanded for planetary landing vehicles, extreme operations robots or the like, in particular to provide a leg structure for a robot that is capable of getting up itself when overturned, facilitating take-off and landing on uneven ground, and that has a walking function and that has a hand function capable of three-dimensional operation. A robot comprises a main robot body and at least three legs mounted on this main body for enabling three-dimensional movement of the main robot body such as a self-erecting action or walking action; each leg is constituted by a multi-joint arm having a plurality of said offset rotary joints linked together and has a ground-engaging member mounted at the leading end of the arm, so that each leg is capable of independently controlled three-dimensional movement and drive.

Robot having offset rotary joints

The present invention provides a GPS device for measuring the wave height and current direction and speed, which is capable of accurately measuring the wave height (height of the waves) and current direction and speed (tidal current) in any point on the sea, ocean, lake, or marsh, and to a system using such a device. The GPS receiverof the GPS devicefor measuring the wave height and current direction and speed processes the GPS signals received with the GPS antennaand measures the three-dimensional position of antenna. The three-dimensional position data are recorded by the data recording unitconnected to the GPS receiver. When the floating bodyhaving those devicesinstalled thereon floats on the sea or ocean, it moves together with the waves and tidal current in the present location. The softwarefor conducting high-pass filter processing and smoothing processing is installed in the data processing unit, and the data on the wave height and current direction and speed are output, while the errors are being removed from the three-dimensional position data recorded in the data recording unit

GPS device for measuring wave height and current direction and speed and GPS system for measuring wave height and current direction and speed

Slits to be used for insertion of an FFC are formed in the root section of each of guide ribs of a male connector housing. A retainer provided integrally with the male connector housing is engaged with a rear-end opening section of the male connector housing. The FFC is sandwiched between a projecting section of the male connector housing and a recessed section of the male connector housing, in a folded manner.

Connector for connecting FFC

The present invention provides contact sensors capable of determining the pressure distribution over the whole surface of each of joint units having a cylindrical shape, both end portions of which are cut at an offset angle, and constituting robot arms. In order to provide a technology enabling real-time drive control of the robot arms by using detected values from these sensors, the points of intersection of the electrodes are distributed across the whole surface of each joint by forming a pressure-sensitive sheet sensor in which column electrodes arranged in parallel, and row electrodes arranged in a wound-string shape, are combined, these joints having a cylindrical shape, both end portions of which are cut at an offset angle. In addition, by making an electrode structure that covers a prescribed width in both rows and columns, the number of signal output terminals is reduced and the operation processing load is lightened. Moreover, after executing local processing, through the use of an encoder and pressure-sensitive sheet sensor provided in each of the joints, in addition to the information processing means, &lsqb;this data&rsqb; is sent to the CPU, whereby the central operation processing load is lightened.

Pressure-distribution sensor for controlling multi-jointed nursing robot

In a rotary articulated robot having at least a plurality of offset rotary joints in which a drive arm and driven arm are driven in rotation about an offset rotary axis inclined with respect to the arm axis, a hollow rotary shaft that is driven in rotation by a motor is arranged rotatably, being inclined, at the leading end of the arm of either the drive arm or driven arm while a rotor member to which turning effort from the hollow shaft is transmitted is fixed at the base of the other arm, said hollow rotary shaft and said rotor member constituting a high reduction ratio transmission/torque increasing mechanism. The method of control is that the operation of the joints is determined by dividing the operating region of the end effector into a plurality of blocks, the operating conditions of each joint necessary for movement to a prescribed block are converted to database form for each block, the teaching of operating points in the prescribed block region is converted to database form and a track is generated to the block of the operating region on the basis of the block region data; and when a reference point of the block is reached, the in-block operating point data is fetched.

Rotary articulated robot and method of control thereof

A synthetic-aperture sonar system of the present invention includes a range curvature compensating section having a divided aperture propagation time calculation 32. The calculation 32 calculates a round-trip signal propagation time on the basis of a divided aperture for transmission and a divided aperture for reception, thereby calculating a range curvature correction time. A transmission/reception section includes a PRF (Pulse Repetition Frequency) modificator and a divided aperture switch. The PRF modificator adjusts PRF such that a ratio between the aperture length and the divided aperture length of the transducer is an integral multiple. The divided aperture switch 16 switches the outputs of elements on the transducer each being assigned to one of the divided apertures, produces a sum of the outputs of the individual element on each divided-aperture, and feeds the sum to a range compressing section. With this configuration, the system reduces range curvature compensation errors, prevents the transducer from being scaled up, and eases limitations on the number of multi-transmission/reception ascribable to a platform speed.

Synthetic-aperture sonar system

Disclosed are a dicarboxylic acid compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, phenyl group or hydroxyl group; R.sup.1 represents a straight or branched alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or a lower alkyl group substituted by a group selected from aryl group, a sulfur- or nitrogen-containing heterocyclic monocyclic group and a cycloalkyl group having 4 to 8 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a cycloalkyl group having 4 to 8 carbon atoms or a sulfur-containing or nitrogen-containing heterocylcic group; X represents sulfur atom, oxygen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted imino group; Y.sup.1 represents imino group, oxygen atom or sulfur atom and Y.sup.2 represents nitrogen atom, or Y.sup.1 represents a vinylene group and Y.sup.2 represents a group: --CH.dbd.; m represents 0 to 3; and n represents 0 or 1, an ester thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and a process for preparing the same.

N,3-disubstituted alaninamide derivatives

Novel benzodioxole derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy-lower alkyl group, phenyl group or pyridyl group, R.sup.2 is hydrogen atom or a halogen atom and R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, and a salt thereof are disclosed. Said derivative (I) and a salt thereof have potent diuretic, saluretic and uricosuric activities.

Benzodioxole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions and use

Novel phenoxyacetic acid derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is a substituted or unsubstituted 5-pyrazolyl group, R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, R.sup.2 is hydrogen atom or a lower alkenyl group, X is a halogen atom and Z is oxygen atom or methylene group, and salts thereof have potent diuretic, saluretic and uricosuric activities.

Phenoxyacetic acid derivatives composition and use

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