Helen of Troy Limited

Kokuyo Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.

Chiba Institute of Technology

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Leading Edge Design Corp.

Shunji Yamanaka

Hisato Ogata

Eugene Rye Kaneko

Kousuke Tokui

Takayuki Furuta

Masaharu Shimizu

Hideaki Yamato

Hideki Hayashi

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Tetsuo Tawara

Yu Okumura

Masahiro Tomono

Ken Endo

Tomoaki Tsukada

Jiro Nakasu

Yasushi Onooka

Masaki Shimomura

Kiyoshi Irie

Kunio Kodaka

Yuji Mitani

Provided is a movement robot configured so that various types of operation can be executed according to motion of other objects or a movement body and a utilization area can be expanded accordingly. The movement robot includes a robot body, a control unit, a traveling unit, and a detection unit. The control unitincludes a storage sectionconfigured to store detection information detected by the detection unitin chronological order, a map production sectionconfigured to produce a map of the periphery of the robot body, a movement body detection sectionconfigured to detect a movement bodydifferent from the robot body, a route control sectionconfigured to associate the map with robot route informationindicating a movement route of the robot bodyand movement body route informationindicating a movement route of the movement body, and an coordinated movement control sectionconfigured to move the robot bodyin coordination with the movement bodybased on the robot route informationand the movement body route information

Movement robot

Incubator

Draft chamber

Chair

A car includes a car body having a bottom portion, a wheel that is rotatable, and a supporting member for supporting the wheel, the supporting member being provided to the bottom portion. At least eight pairs of the wheel and the supporting member are provided. The supporting member has a first supporting portion for supporting the wheel rotatably, a second supporting portion for supporting the first supporting portion so that a direction of the wheel supported by the first supporting portion can be changed, and a turning portion that is rotatable about a rotation axis with its axial direction along a direction orthogonal to the bottom portion, the turning portion being provided to the bottom portion. The turning portion supports the second supporting portion so that a distance between the wheel and the bottom portion can be changed, and a position of the wheel can be moved by a rotation of the turning portion in a state that the distance is maintained.

A grater for cutting, slicing and grating food. The grater including a housing having a peripheral wall structure and a base cooperating to define a receptacle. The housing including a skirt portion extending away from the receptacle and being engageable by a user's hand to hold the housing in place on an underlying support surface. The grater includes a blade carried by the housing. The skirt portion receives a user's hand in a grasping position to simultaneously engage the skirt portion and the underlying support surface.

Grater

A pair of locking kitchen tongs for use in handling food items and the like is disclosed. The tongs have a pair of rigid steel arms each having a workpiece engaging or grasping end, a body portion and a pivot end from which the arms are pivotally connected together. The grasping ends are preferably scalloped along one edge, for handling relatively large items, and serrated (i.e., fine-toothed) along another edge, for handling of smaller or fine items. A bulbous, tear-shaped body made from a rigid, non-metal material encapsulates the pivot ends of the two arms as they are pivotally connected together to permit movement between an open position and a closed position. Also within and coupled to the encapsulating body is a sliding locking plate. The locking plate has a body defining a slot which allows the locking plate to slide between a locked position, maintaining the arms in their closed position, and an unlocked position, allowing them free pivoting movement.

Tongs with encapsulated locking mechanism

Tong head

A switching system (,) has, in addition to an ordinary accounting function, an origination-only accounting control unit,to monitor the number of message units used by an origination-only portable telephone (,B) identified by a terminal identification number and to deny the origination of a call by the origination-only portable telephone (,B) upon the increase of the number of used message units to a predetermined number. The origination-only accounting control unit (,) accepts the origination of a call made by the origination-only portable telephone (,B) when a prescribed input about the origination-only portable telephone (,B) is given thereto by a system operator by operating a predetermined terminal device (,) or the like after the denial of origination of a call by the origination-only portable telephone (,B).

Portable telephone system

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Shunji Yamanaka