Nikon Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki Seisakusho

Takashi Nagase

Kenji Omata

Kou Ohno

Akimitsu Ebihara

Toru Morita

Masashi Okada

Yoshiji Takahashi

Hiroyuki Kishida

Shintaro Hikichi

Kouichi Higashi

Hirofumi Takeuchi

Masami Kikyo

An encoder includes: a first scale which has a first index portion; a second scale which has a second index portion; a first detection unit which outputs a first signal based on the first index portion, regarding first relative rotation between a fixing member and a first rotating member; a second detection unit which outputs a second signal based on the second index portion, regarding second relative rotation between the fixing member and a second rotating member; and a signal-processing unit which calculates information regarding the first relative rotation on the basis of the first signal and which calculates information regarding the second relative rotation on the basis of the second signal.

Encoder, driving device, and robot apparatus

A drive apparatus includes a motor having a drive part that rotates a first shaft member; a transmission part that transmits rotation of the first shaft member to a second shaft member which is different from the first shaft member; a first detection device provided at the first shaft member to detect information regarding rotation of the drive part; a second detection device provided at the second shaft member to detect information regarding rotation of the transmission part; and a prevention part that prevents movement of foreign substance toward a detection part which includes at least one of the first detection device and the second detection device.

Drive apparatus and robot device

An encoder system includes: a first single-rotation absolute encoder that outputs a first signal corresponding to an angular position of a first rotatable shaft; a power transmission device that transmits the power of the first shaft to a second rotatable shaft with a predetermined transmission ratio; a second single-rotation absolute encoder that outputs a second signal corresponding to an angular position of the second shaft; and a signal processing section that generates data related to the rotation count of the first shaft based on at least the first signal and the second signal.

Encoder system, signal processing method, and transmission signal generation and output device

A motor device includes a base portion; a transmission portion that is formed with the base portion as one member and is wound around at least a part of an outer periphery of a rotator; and a driving portion which is supported by the base portion, moves the transmission portion by a certain distance in a state in which a rotational force is transmitted between the rotator and the transmission portion, and returns the transmission portion to a predetermined position in a state in which the rotation force transmission state is released.

Motor device, method of manufacturing motor device, and robot device

Absolute encoder

The rotation type absolute encoder of the present invention is constituted by a magnetic type one-pulse encoder for detecting one or more rotations, and an optical type absolute encoder comprising a plural number of aspheric LED lens as a light source, a group of detecting elements corresponding to the area of the light source, a slit disc beginning from the track of two slits, and a differential input type current-to-voltage convertor. This absolute encoder is also so constructed as to back up the circuit voltage by an external battery and an internal large capacitance capacitor when a current is cut, and has a circuit for serially transmitting a signal indicating the number of rotations and the absolute angle to an external controller, and a circuit for synthesizing and outputting one reference pulse per rotation from the signals of the magnetic type one-pulse encoder and the optical type absolute encoder.

Optical and magnetic encoder for serially transmitting absolute position

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Iruma, Japan

Takashi Nagase