Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Other

Fuji Medical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Nobukazu Kawagoe

Yoshio Yuasa

Masahito Inaba

Kazuhiko Naruse

Hidetoshi Yasumoto

Yuichi Kawakami

Shigeru Oyokota

Masami Sugiyama

Kyoko Nakamura

Hideaki Nakanishi

Naoki Kubo

Yasuhisa Kinto

Takayuki Hamaguchi

Kiyoyuki Takesako

Yoshihiro Kiuchi

Satoshi Yokota

Tomoko Miyaura

Toshihisa Yoshida

Takao Kobayashi

Masashi Nishikado

Natsuko Waki

A primary object of the present invention is to provide a control method for a massage machine and a massage element of a massage machine which can provide pressing and rubbing kneading to a person to be treated. A control method for a massage machine contains a controlling process for individually controlling operations of a kneading motorfor operating a pair of massage elements, width adjustment motorsfor adjusting a width between the pair of massage elements, a strength-and-weakness motorfor adjusting strength of the pair of massage elementsand an up-and-down motorfor adjusting movement of the pair of massage elementsin an up-and-down direction.

Control method for massage machine and massage element of massage machine

A moving robot first moves straight in a first forward path. When encountering an obstacle such as shelf, the robot makes a U-turn to move straight in a backward path located with a prescribed distance away from the first forward path. When encountering another obstacle, the robot again makes a U-turn to move straight in a second forward path extending in the same direction as that of the first forward path but located with a distance away from the backward path. When the robot exceeding the point of the U-turn in the first forward path is detected during running in the second forward path, presence of a region where the robot has not run yet is recognized, and running in that region is carried out thereafter.

Moving apparatus for efficiently moving on floor with obstacle

When an autonomous vehicle detects an interruption in a wall, a plurality of optical distance measurement sensors provided in a driving unit measures the distance to a plurality of points of an object of interest located ahead. The configuration of the object of interest located ahead is recognized from the obtained distance information and from the attached angle of each optical distance measurement sensor to determine the subsequent operation of the autonomous vehicle.

Autonomous vehicle that runs while recognizing work area configuration,

An autonomous vehicle which permits a work area to be set without requiring the operator to input a numerical value includes a body, a travel unit for moving said body, a distance measurement unit for measuring the distance from the body to a wall, and a travel control unit for determining a work area depending upon the distance output from the distance measurement unit at the start of operation and controlling the travel unit to travel the body within the determined work area. Note that a method of controlling the traveling of such an autonomous vehicle is claimed as well.

Autonomous vehicle with an easily set work area and easily switched mode

In order to improve the quality of the work of a robot that applies wax, a user enters the ambient environment data (temperature, wax concentration, and the like) of the robot via a controller prior to initiation of the work by the robot. According to the input data, the maximum time (drying time) T before another coat of wax is to be applied without degradation in quality is identified. A travel path is generated according to the time T. The travel is actually carried out according to the calculated path.

Control apparatus of mobile that applies fluid on floor

The system includes a mobile work robot and a separate station. The mobile robot is equipped to perform prescribed tasks, such as cleaning building floors. The station is equipped to remotely control the movement of the mobile work robot and to perform maintenance on the mobile work robot, such as the replacement of parts as well as replenishment of consumable goods necessary for the mobile work robot to move and work. In addition, the cleaning means equipped on the station performs the cleaning and disinfection of the mobile work robot.

Mobile work robot system

A vehicle has a sensor for detecting a first distance to a first object and a second distance to a second object located on the other side of the first object. The vehicle travels along a path between the first object and the second object based on the detected first and second distances. A vehicle has a sensor for detecting a distance to an object and a working unit which is movably connected with a main body. The working unit is moved based on the detected distance to the object.

Automatic vehicle

A sterilizer supplies liquid over an object and then irradiates far-infrared radiation to the object. The object is fully sterilized since the supplied liquid well absorb far-infrared radiation with sterilizing effect.

Sterilizer

An apparatus of spreading a fluid on the floor includes four rectangular application rotating bodies partially overlapping each other, and four nozzles supplying the fluid provided in rotation areas of the respective application rotating bodies. The rotation position of the application rotating body is detected by a light shielding plate and a photosensor. A control portion controls each component so that the fluid is applied onto the floor from a tank through the nozzle by a pump when the application rotating body is not directly under the nozzle. As a result, the apparatus of spreading a fluid on the floor capable of optimally controlling the quantity of the fluid to be applied according to the application condition can be provided.

Apparatus spreading fluid on floor while moving

A running member is attached rotatably to a body member, and a working member is attached movably to the body member. Therefore, in a large area, a work can be carried out efficiently even in a corner portion, and a desired work can be implemented even in a narrowed portion by shifting the working member to a working area and directly operating the working member in the narrowed portion.

Running robot carrying out prescribed work using working member and

A first light receiving portion and a second light receiving portion are provided on the upper surface of a moving body having driving wheels at an interval of a prescribed distance in a plane. The first light receiving portion and the second light receiving portion rotate around the axis in the vertical direction. On the other hand, a first light emitting portion and a second light emitting portion are provided on the side face of a station serving as a reference station at an interval of a prescribed distance in a plane. The first and second light receiving portions carry out sampling while rotating, so that the quantity of light reception is changed according to the directivities of the first and second light receiving portions. When the peaks of the directivities of the first and second light receiving portions match the direction of the first light emitting portion or the second light emitting portion, the quantity of light reception is maximized. Based on a rotational angle at which the quantity of light reception is maximized, the relative positions and the relative directions of the first and second light receiving portions with respect to the first and second light emitting portions are calculated.

Position detecting system

A cleaner comprises a driving unit which moves the cleaner, a cleaner unit which cleans an object to be cleaned, a sensor by which a degree of dirt on the object is detected, and a driving controller which controls the driving unit on the basis of the detected degree of dirt. The cleaner unit further comprises a controller which compares the degrees of dirt detected by the sensor before and after a cleaning operation.

Cleaner

A spectrophotometer utilizes a band-pass filter array for splitting incident light into a plurality of light components of different wavelengths, a plurality of silicon photodiodes for receiving the respective light components, and a memory for storing spectral sensitivity information. The spectral sensitivity information is obtained by integrating the spectral sensitivities of spectrodetectors relative to each sectionalized wavelength regions sectionally generated from a measurement wavelength region. Each of the spectrodetectors include a band-pass filter array and a silicon photodiode in combination. A central processing unit calculates simultaneous equations representing the relation between the output from each of the silicon photodiodes, the spectral sensitivity information stored in memory and the light intensity of the sectionalized wavelength region, to obtain the light intensity.

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Toyonaka, Japan

Nobukazu Kawagoe