Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Keiji Yasui

Yoshihiko Tanji

Toshihiro Yoshioka

Jiro Kubo

Takashi Horinouchi

Masahiro Oto

A user-friendly article identifying device capable of retaining voice data associated with a tag. The device contains a tag reading section; a voice data input section; a storage section; a determining section; a voice data replay section; and a controller for governing all the sections above. First, the tag reading section reads a tag having a specific identifier, and then the voice data input section accepts voice data. Storage section, which contains a voice data table, a tag/address table, and a memo data table, stores voice data from the input section so as to associate with the specific identifier of a tag. The determining section judges whether the tag identifier read by tag reading section is retained in the storage section. Voice data replay section replays the voice data associated with the identifier according to the judgment by the determining section.

Article identification device

An electric resonance element includes an electric resonator comprising a coil wound around magnetic materials and a capacitor. The electric resonance element is housed in a vessel made of non-magnetic materials. A detection apparatus for detecting the electric resonance element comprises a transmitter for transmitting an electromagnetic wave and a receiver for detecting the echo wave transmitted from the electric resonance element. A moving vehicle is controlled using a system which comprises the electric resonance element buried in a road, and the detection apparatus installed on a vehicle for detecting echo waves transmitted from electric resonance elements. The detection apparatus comprises a transmitter for transmitting an electromagnetic wave specific to the electric resonance element, a receiver that detects the echo wave, and a element or a circuit to suspend the operation of the receiver while the transmitter is on duty.

Electric resonance element, detection apparatus and moving vehicle control system

While transmitting an electromagnetic wave from a transmitting antenna to, for example, a magnetostrictive resonator, buried in a road, a reception section composed of a reception amplifier and signal processor is inactivated. After stopping transmission of the electromagnetic wave, the reception section is activated and a receiving antenna detects an electromagnetic wave radiated by the magnetostrictive resonator. In this method, a magnetostrictive resonator detection apparatus having a sufficient directivity and detection distance can be presented. The magnetostrictive resonator detection apparatus applying this detecting method is mounted aboard a vehicle, and a plurality of magnetostrictive resonators are buried in the road. By sequentially transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves at different resonance frequencies thereof, and judging the configuration of the road and the vehicle, a safe traffic system is presented.

Method and apparatus for detecting magnetostrictive resonator and

A robot controller comprises, (1) a servo motor driving a robot manipulator, (2) a motor current detector which detects a current driving the servo motor, (3) a motor rotational speed detector which detects a rotational speed of the servo motor, (4) a disturbance detector which detects a disturbance torque loaded to the robot manipulator by using the motor rotational speed and the motor current, (5) a force control calculator which outputs a force-control-instruction value responsive to a disturbance torque detected by the disturbance detector, and (6) a move restriction calculator which performs a force control by adding a force-control-instruction value to a regular position-instruction value of the robot manipulator. Further, the move restriction calculator switches a force control direction according to a move-restriction-direction-instruction value, and adds the force-control-instruction value to the regular position-instruction value of the robot manipulator so that the force control may move along a restricted direction which has been taught.

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Kawanishi, Japan

Keiji Yasui