Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Noboru Kawaguchi

Tomoya Hattori

Koji Hirose

Hidetaka Yamauchi

Shingo Kimura

Masaki Haruna

Junji Takaki

Ken Ueda

Shota Narasaki

Masaki Hirano

Satoru Sofuku

Yusuke Kibayashi

Hayato Hoshino

Toshitaka Nakaoji

Atsumu Oikawa

Yutaka Ezaki

Naoki Okada

Yusuke Saruta

Atsushi Kato

Koichi Takeda

Kazuhiko Fukushima

Mikio Yamashita

Ieyoung Kim

Yasushi Horiuchi

Masashi Ura

Atsushi Takimoto

Katsumi Yamasaki

Masaki Nose

Muneharu Kuwata

Masashige Suwa

Tomohiro Mizuno

Toshiyuki Ando

Yukihiro Homma

Yasuaki Kato

Hiroto Ado

Hitomi Ono

Masaki Tabata

Toru Sato

Kensuke Baba

Akihiro Fujie

Makoto Endo

Yoshitaka Koda

Yuto Owaki

Yosuke Tomida

Takashi Takanezawa

Hidenobu Nishihara

Yoshihiro Hasuyama

Katsumi Yamazaki

Robot includes two arms, a body, a vehicle portion, and a body position changing mechanism. Body position changing mechanism includes an elevation angle changing mechanism that supports body such that an elevation angle with respect to a vehicle portion reference plane is changeable, and an azimuth angle changing mechanism that supports elevation angle changing mechanism. Elevation angle changing mechanism includes a moving portion that is moved along a straight line parallel to the vehicle portion reference plane, a first link that includes a lower end connected to moving portion rotatably, extends in a direction forming an elevation angle with the vehicle portion reference plane, and supports body, a second link that includes an upper end connected to first link rotatably, and a link lower end support portion to which a lower end of second link is connected rotatably.

Robot with changeable position of body with respect to a vehicle portion

Provided are a driven object side presser to press the first holder from a side where the driven object exists, a force transmitter to convert a tensile force to a pressing force with which the driven object side presser presses the first holder and to transmit the pressing force to the driven object side presser, a fixed member side presser to press the first holder from a side where the fixed member exists, a support fixed to the fixed member, a link to be connected to the force transmitter rotatably, the support, and the fixed member side presser and to move the fixed member side presser in a direction approaching the first holder when the force transmitter is moved in a direction away from the first holder, and a locking force generator to generate the tensile force, and to lock the first holder so as not to be moved.

Locking device, gimbal mechanism, and telescope device

A robot includes: a chest; a pair of right and left upper limbs; and a pair of right and left shoulders connecting the right and left upper arms rotatably to the chest with two rotational degrees of freedom, respectively. The shoulder includes: a shoulder joint connecting the upper arm rotatably; a chest-side main link attaching unit provided; an upper arm main link attaching unit provided in the upper arm; an upper arm drive main actuator including an upper arm drive main link having a variable length and a power source for generating force changing the length of the upper arm drive main link; a chest-side auxiliary link attaching unit provided in the chest; an upper-arm-drive-main-link-side auxiliary link attaching unit provided in the upper arm drive main link; and an upper arm drive auxiliary actuator including an upper arm drive auxiliary link having a variable length and a power source for generating force changing the length of the upper arm drive auxiliary link.

Robot

A metrology system measures an amount of displacement of a structure of apparatus including primary mirror, the apparatus including primary mirror including a primary mirror portion including a primary mirror and a primary mirror supporting portion, an elevation axis structural body supporting the primary mirror portion, and being rotatable around an elevation axis, an azimuth mount being rotatable around an azimuth axis allowing an azimuth angle in the orientation direction to be changed, and to support the elevation axis structural body, and a pedestal portion supporting the azimuth mount, and the metrology system includes an elevation axis base portion provided along the elevation axis, passing through a position where the elevation axis and the azimuth axis intersect, and being fixed to the azimuth mount, and an inclinometer that is disposed at a position of the elevation axis base portion through which the azimuth axis passes and measures an inclination angle.

Metrology system, and apparatus including primary mirror

A robot arm includes a robot hand including a hand base to which first and second finger connection portions are connected, and a finger moving portion to move the first and second finger connection portions with respect to the hand base such that a distance between a first finger and a third finger increases or decreases. A rotation axis rotating the hand base passes through a midpoint between fingertips of the first finger and the third finger while the first finger and the third finger are perpendicular to the hand base. the robot arm includes a forearm and a wrist joint to connect the robot hand to the forearm rotatably with two rotational degrees of freedom or one rotational degree of freedom. The forearm is rotatable around a forearm rotation axis that passes through the forearm and is the rotation axis that allows the hand base to be rotated.

Robot arm and robot

A robot hand operation device through which an operator inputs an operation instruction to move a robot hand including at least three fingers includes: a main body portion held by the operator; and joysticks each being corresponded with each of the fingers of the robot hand to be operated and provided in the main body portion in a number that is the same as that of the fingers. When the operator operates each of the joysticks, the operation instruction to move the finger corresponded with the each of the joysticks is inputted, and when the operator does not operate each of the joysticks, the operation instruction to move the finger corresponded with the each of the joysticks is not inputted.

Robot hand operation device, robot hand operation system, robot arm operation system, and robot operation system

A robot arm operation device is mounted on an upper arm, a forearm, and a hand of an operator and through which the operator inputs, by moving the robot arm operation device, an operation instruction to operate a robot arm to a control calculation device that controls the robot arm. The robot arm operation device includes: a shoulder joint angle measurement part to measure a shoulder joint measurement angle being an angle at which an upper arm structure is connected to an arm connection structure at a shoulder measurement joint; an elbow joint angle measurement part to measure an elbow joint measurement angle being an angle at which a forearm structure is connected to the upper arm structure; and a wrist joint angle measurement part to measure a wrist joint measurement angle being an angle at which a hand structure is connected to the forearm structure.

Robot arm operation device, robot arm operation system, and robot operation system

A rotation connecting mechanism includes: a joint that connects a second member rotatably to a first member with three rotational degrees of freedom; a first link and a third link in each of which one end is attached rotatably to second member with at least two rotational degrees of freedom while the other end is attached rotatably to first member with at least two rotational degrees of freedom, each of first link and third link having a variable length and five rotational degrees of freedom; a second link in which one end is attached rotatably to first link with at least two rotational degrees of freedom while the other end is attached rotatably to first member with at least two rotational degrees of freedom, second link having a variable length and five rotational degrees of freedom; and motors that generate force changing lengths of the three links.

Rotation connecting mechanism, robot, robot arm, and robot hand

A robot includes elbows connecting forearms rotatably to upper arms with two rotational degrees of freedom. The elbow includes: an elbow joint connecting the forearm and the upper arm with two rotational degrees of freedom; an elbow drive main link; an elbow drive auxiliary link; a forearm-side main link attaching unit attached with one end of the elbow drive main link with two rotational degrees of freedom, and provided in the forearm; an elbow-drive-main-link-side auxiliary link attaching unit attached with one end of the elbow drive auxiliary link with two rotational degrees of freedom, and provided on the elbow drive main link; and two linear actuators for moving two upper-arm-side link attaching units each attached with the other end of either the elbow drive main link or the elbow drive auxiliary link with two rotational degrees of freedom, and provided so as to be movable along the upper arm.

In a protective frame articulated body, a range of an connection angle between the protective frame body and the adjacent protective frame body is determined such that a plurality of protective frame bodies, being connected in series, through which a body to be protected is passed becomes a shape having a first bent portion, an intermediate linear portion being in a portion closer to a movable-side connection than the first bent portion, a suspending portion hanging from the movable-side connection, and a second bent portion connecting the intermediate linear portion and the suspending portion. In intermediate linear portion, a long-and-short ratio being a value obtained by dividing a long side of a smallest rectangle surrounding the protective frame body viewed from a side by a short side of the smallest rectangle is greater than or equal to a determined intermediate minimum long-and-short ratio.

Protective frame articulated body and suspending device

Primary mirror fixture for space telescope

A robot hand includes a first finger, a third finger disposed to face the first finger, a second finger disposed side by side with the third finger, a first finger connection portion to which the first finger is connected rotatably, a second finger connection portion to which the second finger is connected rotatably and to which the third finger is connected rotatably, a hand base to which the first finger connection portion and the second finger connection portion are connected, and a finger moving portion that moves at least one of the first finger connection portion and the second finger connection portion with respect to the hand base such that a distance between the first finger and the third finger increases or decreases.

Robot hand, robot arm, and robot

A support apparatus includes: a protective frame connected body to hold a plurality of protection targets flexibly, each protection target being a flexible cable or pipe having one end connected to a fixed-side member and the other end connected to a movable-side member that moves relative to the fixed-side member, the protective frame connected body having a bending portion bent in a middle, an upper side and a lower side of the protective frame connected body overlapped vertically; a lower supporter to support the lower side of the protective frame connected body; and a plurality of upper supporters, each of the plurality of upper supporters supporting the upper side of the protective frame connected body at a predetermined position of the protective frame connected body and being moved by movement of the movable-side member to pass the bending portion without being in contact with the bending portion.

Support apparatus

A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.

Remote control manipulator system and remote control assistance system

A flying mobile bodyincludes: a rotary blade to rotate to generate lift; an airframe in which the rotary blade is provided; a power reception antenna to include a power reception surface that receives a radio wave transmitting electric power, the power reception surface having an area larger than an area projecting the airframe onto a rotation axis perpendicular plane that is a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis direction that is a direction parallel to a rotation axis of the rotary blade, and a drag reducing structure that reduces a drag generated with respect to a descending airflow generated by rotation of the rotary blade: a converter to convert electric power of the radio wave received by the power reception antenna into DC electric power; a storage battery; and an electric motor to generate power rotating the rotary blade.

Aerial moving body and wireless power transmission system

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Tokyo, Japan

Noboru Kawaguchi