Fanuc Corporation

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.

Kazuhisa Otsuka

Masaru Oda

Nobutoshi Torii

Yasuo Naito

Atsushi Watanabe

Ryo Nihei

Seiichiro Nakashima

Shigemi Inagaki

Mitsuhiro Okuda

Eiichirou Nagasue

Hideki Sugiyama

Tetsuaki Kato

Susumu Ito

Kenichi Toyoda

Masayuki Hamura

Satoshi Kinoshita

Kiyonori Inaba

Kenji Takahashi

Tadanori Suzuki

Akira Tanaka

Toshimichi Yoshinaga

Kunio Ueda

Kazuo Hariki

Yoichi Yoshida

Hiroaki Kubota

Masaaki Sasaki

Tadamasa Horiuchi

Toshio Nakagawa

Noritaka Ando

Tetsuya Kawase

The present invention makes a more appropriate suggestion concerning a meal of a user. A food providing system is provided with: an information acquisition unit for acquiring user information relating to a user as a food providing subject; a recipe suggestion unit for suggesting a plurality of recipes of dishes to the user on the basis of the user information; a recipe selection result acquisition unit for acquiring a result of a selection by the user for the plurality of recipes suggested by the recipe suggestion unit; and a providing means selection result acquisition unit for acquiring a result of a selection by the user concerning providing means of food provided on the basis of the recipe.

Food providing system, food providing method, and program

The production planning apparatus includes a memory configured to store, with respect to each of a plurality of process steps included in a production process for producing predetermined articles, the number of resources for setup step that are available for a setup step in which setup for performing work of the process step is performed and a processor configured to determine, on the basis of the number of the resources for setup step, among the resources for setup step, resources that are allocated to the setup steps of respective ones of the plurality of process steps in such a way that a total of required times required for the setup steps of respective ones of the plurality of process steps is minimized.

Production planning apparatus

In a masking system a robot performs first conveyance work of making an object gripping unit grip an object and set the object at a predetermined position based on positional information of the object which was detected by a first detection unit, coating work of making a coating unit coat an adhesive on a masking location of the object which is set at the predetermined position, and second conveyance work of making a masking piece gripping unit adhere a masking piece to the masking location of the object based on positional information of the masking piece which was detected by a second detection unit.

Masking system using masking piece

A workpiece regrasping system for a robot. The system includes a manipulator grippable a workpiece; a deck member having a deck surface on which a workpiece is placeable; a support mechanism rotatably supporting the deck member about an axis parallel to the deck surface; a workpiece-orientation control section for controlling the manipulator so as to grip a workpiece at a first point of the workpiece and to bring the workpiece into abutment with the deck surface of the deck member, and configured to displace the workpiece together with the deck member about the axis, while maintaining a mutually abutted condition, until the workpiece occupies a desired orientation, with at least a part of a weight of the workpiece being carried on the deck surface; and a regrasping control section for controlling the manipulator so as to temporarily release the workpiece placed on the deck surface in the desired orientation and to regrasp the workpiece at a second point different from the first point. The workpiece-orientation control section may control an operation of the manipulator, or control a rotational drive section for the deck member, while maintaining the workpiece in abutment with the deck surface, to displace the workpiece to the desired orientation.

Workpiece regrasping system for robot

An object handling apparatus capable of securely holding an object and precisely transferring the held object from a first place to a second place without need of a specific jig for positioning the object on a pallet. A position of an object supplied to the first place is detected by a first visual sensor to obtain a compensation amount for compensating a position displacement of the supplied object. The object is held by a robot hand having position/orientation compensated using the compensation amount and position/orientation of the object held by the robot hand relative to the robot hand is detected by a second visual sensor. A displacement of the position/orientation of the object held by the robot hand from a reference position/orientation is compensated based on the detected position/orientation of the object on the robot hand, so that the object held by the robot hand is precisely moved to have a predetermined position/orientation to be transferred to the second place. The robot hand may be a servo hand having fingers driven by one or more servomotors so that position and force of the fingers in holding the object is controlled.

Object handling apparatus

A food dishing robot system capable of dealing with dishing operations of foods of various characteristics. Trays are supplied to vicinities of food dishing robots RB&#x2013;RBby food supplying lines L&#x2013;L. Four food conveying containers are placed on each tray. Each of the robots RB&#x2013;RBhandles a food conveying container containing a food on the tray to move the food conveying container over a lunch box supplied by a lunch box supplying line Lat a predetermined position, and dishes the food on a predetermined space in the lunch box. The food contained in the food conveying container is discharged through a cutout or an opening formed at a side thereof by inclining the food conveying container. The food conveying container may have a bottom plate to be opened/closed or the robot may have an auxiliary member in the form of scoop to forcedly discharge the food from the food conveying container. After completing the dishing of the food, the food conveying container is returned on the tray. Shaped, shapeless, solid, powdery, granular and liquid food can be dished on the lunch box.

Food dishing robot system

A machining system displaying operation programs and associated information for a plurality of components of the system on the same display screen for confirming, creating and editing of the operation programs and associated information. A machine tool, a jig device for fixing/unfixing a workpiece on the machine tool, a handling robot and a visual sensor are connected with an information processing device by a communication path. A list of items specifying operation programs and associated information for the respective components is displayed with respect to different kinds of workpieces on a display screen of the information processing device. When one or more of the items are selected by an operator, the operation program or programs and the associated information specified by the selected item or items are displayed in the form of a window on the display screen.

Machining system

A metal sheet is formed with a target shape portion, a remaining portion surrounding the target shape portion and elongated portion(s) joining the target shape portion with the remaining portion. An apparatus cuts out the target shape portion from the metal sheet by shearing the joint portion at a region bordering on the target portion. The apparatus includes a blade member movable to a position below the joint portion and a fixed blade member for pressing the joint portion from above. The apparatus, being placed at a fixed position, rotates or linearly moves the movable blade member with respect to the fixed blade member to shear the joint portion at the region and bend a sheared-side end of the joint portion upward.

Target shape portion cutting apparatus, robot equipped with the apparatus and target shape portion cutting method

A floating cylinder,and a rotating shaft fixing cylinder,are attached to a flange RB,at the distal end of a robot arm via an attaching member,. Attached to the floating cylinder,is a rotary tool,. To mount or demount a bladed tool to or from a collet chuck,, the rotating shaft fixing cylinder,is operated to advance a stopper,so that a rotating shaft,of the rotary tool is locked. The chuck nut of the collet chuck,is inserted and fixed into a collet fixing groove in which the bladed tool is stored. The robot is operated so as to rotate the flange RB,, by which the rotating shaft,and the chuck nut of the collet chuck,are rotated relatively to tighten or loosen the bladed tool in the collet chuck

Automatic bladed tool changer

A robot hand is provided with a bifinger unit integrally including a pair of fingers for grasping a workpiece therebetween, a finger feed unit for moving the pair of fingers between a predetermined open position and a closed grasping position, a single servomotor driving the feed mechanism to thereby move the pair of fingers so that a constant predetermined holding force is applied to the workpiece from the pair of fingers during the grasping operation of the fingers of the bifinger unit of the robot hand irrespective of the weight, the size, the shape or the surface condition of the workpiece.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Kazuhisa Otsuka