Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Osamu Mizuno

Tohru Nakamura

Soichiro Fujioka

Akinobu Okuda

Yutaka Murakami

Hideki Aikoh

Toshinori Hirose

Tsuyoshi Tojo

Yoshihiko Matsukawa

Masanari Mohri

Akihiro Ohta

Hisayuki Enshu

Mizuho Sakakibara

Rie Takahashi

Hironori Tomita

Hiroshi Shirouzu

Hideki Nakata

Toshiaki Yamauchi

Takeshi Ando

Yoshihiro Ikawa

Noboru Kikuchi

Norihiro Shibata

Mitsuaki Oshima

Koichi Ogawa

Kanji Wakabayashi

Takeharu Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Mushika

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Takuya Wada

Hajime Kawano

Takanobu Tanimoto

Toshihide Ueda

Takatoshi Yukimasa

Takeshi Ishikawa

Masaaki Kaneda

Tatsuya Noike

Takashi Miyahara

Masanari Mouri

A mover according to the present disclosure includes: a body to move; a second member; a suction unit; a location detection unit; a first moving part, and a second moving part. The second member moves in a state where the second member is combined with a first member provided for an object, as the body is displaced relative to the object. The suction unit is sucked to the object in the state where the second member is combined with the first member. The location detection unit detects a location of the body with respect to the object by detecting movement of the second member. The first moving part moves the body until the state where the second member is combined with the first member is established. The second moving part displaces the body relative to the object in the state where the second member is combined with the first member.

Mover, carrier, moving system, and moving method

A carrier includes a body, a sensor, and an output unit. The body has the ability to travel autonomously and includes a holding mechanism for holding a burden. The sensor is provided for the body and detects a situation surrounding the body. The output unit outputs detected information, collected by the sensor, about the situation to a management device that manages operation of another carrier.

Carrier, carrier with reception capability, carrier system, host system, method for controlling the carrier, and non-transitory storage medium

Disclosed herein is a mover including an object detecting unit and either a masking processing unit or a transmission restricting unit as an additional processing unit. The object detecting unit detects an object based on a reception signal output from a receiver unit by having a transmitter unit transmit a scanning wave and by having the receiver unit receive a reflected wave, which is a component, reflected from the object, of the scanning wave. The masking processing unit performs masking processing of masking, in accordance with a timing at which, and/or a direction of incidence in which, a disturbance wave, not depending on the scanning wave, is incident on the receiver unit, a portion of the reception signal output from the receiver unit. The transmission restricting unit restricts a transmission range in which the transmitter unit transmits the scanning wave.

Mover, mover control system, method of detecting object by mover, moving system, and method of controlling mover

A picking system including: a picking robot for gripping a target; an operation unit for an operator to perform a remote operation of the picking robot; a learning unit that learns a movement of the picking robot when the target is gripped by the remote operation; and an assisting unit that assists the remote operation based on a learning result of the learning unit.

Picking system and method for controlling same

An apparatus for culturing cells of the present invention is an apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium in a culture vessel. The apparatus includes: pump connected to pipet held by first holder; first shifter configured to shift first holder; second holder configured to hold culture vessel; second shifter configured to grip and shift culture vessel; and controller. Controller is programmed to, when pipet draws a liquid in culture vessel or discharges a liquid into culture vessel, control second shifter to translationally shift lid of culture vessel in a horizontal direction.

Apparatus for culturing cells

An apparatus for culturing cells using a culture medium, including: a replacer that replaces the culture medium in a culture vessel held by a holder; a measurer that measures a pH of the culture medium in the culture vessel; and an instructor that instructs the replacer to replace the culture medium in the culture vessel, wherein the instructor gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than a predetermined pH threshold at a first replacement of the culture medium, and gives an instruction when the pH measured by the measurer is less than the predetermined pH threshold and the interval is less than an interval of a previous replacement of the culture medium at second and subsequent replacements of the culture medium.

Apparatus for culturing cells and method for culturing cells

A head care apparatus includes a unit base having independently rotatable first and second rotating shafts, a first link fixed on the first rotating shaft, a second link pivotally connected to the fist link, a third link fixed to the second rotating shaft, a fourth link pivotally connected to the third link, a support shaft pivotally connecting between the second and fourth links, an actuator supported by the support shaft, and an adjustment mechanism adjusting a posture of the actuator relative to person's head.

Head care apparatus

Provided is an automatic head care device that can reliably care a person's rear head. The automatic head care device includes a rear-head care unit, the rear-head care unit including contact units, each unit having a rotation gear rotating a plurality of contacts around a central axis of the rotation gear, a third arm rotatably holding the contact units, a cylindrical rack held between the contact units to be movable in an axial direction of the cylindrical rack, the cylindrical rack moving in the axial direction to rotate the rotation gears in opposite directions, and a motor for oscillating the contacts of the contact units by moving the cylindrical rack.

Automatic head care device and automatic head care method

An automatic head care device includes independently rotated first rotational driving shaft and second rotational driving shaft, a first link having one end fixed to the first rotational driving shaft, a second link having one end rotatably connected to another end of the first link, a third link having one end fixed to the second rotational driving shaft, a fourth link having one end rotatably connected to another end of the third link, a working shaft rotatably connecting another end of the second link to another end of the fourth link, a working body caring the person's head, the working body being rotatably supported by the working shaft, and a control unit controlling rotation of the first rotational driving shaft and the second rotational driving shaft.

Provided is an automatic hair washing apparatus for washing person's hair in a safe and effective manner without applying a straining force on person's neck. An automatic hair washing apparatuscomprises a bowlhaving a head support; washing unitsL andR arranged with the head supportinterposed therebetween, the support shafts thereof being attached to the bowl; a driving section for rotating the washing unitsL andR about the respective support shaftsL andR; and a control section for controlling the driving of the driving section; wherein each of the washing unitsL andR comprises a plurality of contactson a surface opposite to the surface supported by the support shaftL andR.

Automatic hair washing apparatus

Provided is an automatic head care system and an automatic hair washing system for caring a person's head in a safe and effective manner without applying a straining force on the person's neck. In order to achieve the object, the following steps are performed in turn: a head receiving step in which a pair of armsL,R are placed at positions for receiving a person's headon a suppotring body; a water washing step in which water ejected from a plurality of nozzlesis poured to the headwhile the pair of armsL,R are swung; a shampoo step in which washing liquid ejected from the plurality of nozzlesis poured to the headwhile the pair of armsL,R are swung; and a head care step in which the headis cared by performing the push-rotating of the pair of armsL,R in the direction of approaching the headso as to bring the plurality of contactsinto contact with the headand by swinging the pair of armsL,R while moving the plurality of contacts

Method for controlling automatic head care system and automatic hair washing system, and automatic head care system

A syringe drive deviceincludes a fixing sectionfixing an outer tube, a movable holderholding a plunger, and a drive sectiondriving the holderalong an axis of the plunger to push and pull the plunger with respect to the outer tube. An internal pressure detectorhas a positive pressure detection switchdetecting an internal pressure of a syringe. A determination sectiondetermines the issuance of an alert when the holderis stopped and the positive pressure detection switchis ON. A display sectionis lit to indicate the alert when the determination sectiondetermines to issue the alert.

Syringe drive device and syringe drive method

A medicinal solution injection apparatusincludes a composite needleincluding a needle base portion, an injection needle, and an adjustment needle, a pressure generating portionconfigured to discharge a compressed air, a measuring portionconfigured to measure a filling amount and a filling speed of a medicinal solution by measuring a position of a gasketof a syringe, and a control portionconfigured to control the pressure generating portionand the measuring portion. The compressed air is introduced into a vial containerthrough an edgeof the adjustment needlelocated above a liquid surfaceof the medicinal solution in the vial container(outside the liquid surface) to press the liquid surfaceof the medicinal solution downward, so that a medicinal solutionis injected into the syringethrough an edgeof the injection needlein the medicinal solution. The medicinal solution injection apparatuscan accurately and efficiently inject the medicinal solutionof the vial containerinto the syringewhile suppressing the medicinal solutionfrom foaming.

Medicinal solution injection device and medicinal solution injection method

An object of the present invention is to care for the occipital region supported with an occipital region supporter, without leaving an uncared-for part thereof, at time of automatic care of the person's head. In order to achieve the object, an automatic head washing apparatusaccording to the present invention, is an automatic head care apparatus that cares for a person's head automatically, which has a first end effectorand a second end effector, and which is controlled by a plurality of modes including: a first mode for rubbing a second regionof the occipital regionby moving the second end effectorin a state in which the first end effectorcontacts a first regionof the occipital regionof the person with the first end effectorbeing fixed at a first position; and a second mode for rubbing a first regionof the occipital regionby moving the first end effectorin a state in which the second end effectorcontacts a second regionof the occipital regionwith the second end effectorbeing fixed at a second position.

Automatic head care apparatus and automatic head care method

An automatic head care apparatus comprises a bowl having a head support for supporting a person's head; a washing unit configured by fourth arms comprising a plurality of contacts at an end thereof and a rotation gear having a central axis thereof for rotating the contacts, third arms for rotatably supporting the fourth arms, a support shaft for rotatably supporting the third arms, a pushing mechanism for moving the support shaft, and a motor for oscillating the contacts by rotating the rotation gear of the fourth arms; and a control device for controlling movement of at least the pushing mechanism.

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Osaka, Japan

Osamu Mizuno