Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Asahi Breweries, Ltd.

Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.

Nabtesco Corporation

Kyokko Electric Co. Ltd.

Nipro Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)

Nabco Limited

The Ritsumeikan Trust

Takashi Wada

Hiroshi Yoshida

Naoki Muramatsu

Shuichi Inada

Kenji Kusunoki

Junichi Kitano

Yoshiharu Nishida

Yoshihide Inoue

Naoki Kida

Naoyuki Yamashita

Tsutomu One

Kenji Nishigaki

Shinsuke Mitsuhata

Takuya Komura

Atsushi Fukunaga

Satoshi Konishi

Shigeaki Sasaki

Masaki Harada

Kazuhiko Sakurai

Chiyoko Tada

Toru Tanaka

Nobuko Nakagawa

Hiroyuki Inoue

Hisayuki Kanki

Yasutaka Kanda

Norihide Takeyama

Toru Suzuki

Koji Tsutsumi

Tomohiro Takahashi

Yasuhiro Kurabe

Toru Iriba

Hidetoshi Fukunari

Takashi Nishio

Kiyoshi Andoh

Tomohisa Miyatani

Taizo Kobayashi

Fumihiro Hagiwara

Shinya Ikeda

Shota Tsuji

Yasuteru Kitada

Takeshi Kusunoki

Provided is a beer dispensing device not requiring cleaning by using a disposable flexible tube to form a beer passage, and also provided is a device capable of dispensing foam as well as beer, using a single flexible tube. A beverage dispensing deviceusing a combination of tubeshaving an elastically portion that is elastically deformable as a passage of a beveragecomprises a mechanismconfigured to set the bore of the flexible portion to a first state having a first cross-sectional area or a second state having a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area, selectively, and when the bore of the flexible portion is set to the second state, foam is generated from the beverage flowing through the tube.

Beverage dispensing device, beverage dispensing method, and beverage dispensing system

A sensor device is attached to, for example, a mechanical component. The sensor device includes a sensor unit, an output unit, and an energy harvesting unit. The sensor unit measures a condition related to the mechanical component. The output unit outputs information that is based on the measurement result from the sensor unit to the outside. The energy harvesting unit converts energy that exists in an external environment into electric power and supplies an electric power for operating at least one of the sensor unit and the output unit.

Sensor device, speed reducer, traveling unit for crawler, fluid valve, fluid cylinder, fluid pump, fluid compressor, electric motor, electric actuator, construction, method executed by sensor device, sensor system, and nomenclature plate

A liquid sales management device is to be added to a liquid supply system supplying a liquid within a storage container to a dispensing device through a supply pipe with the liquid pressurized in order to cool the liquid in the dispensing device, and dispensing the cooled liquid to a drinking container. The liquid sales management device includes an actual flow rate determining unit that determines an actual measured flow rate of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container from the dispensing device, a cleaning mode detection unit that detects a cleaning mode in the liquid supply system, and a consumption flow rate acquisition unit that determines an actual consumption of the liquid based on the number of cycles of the cleaning mode, a known liquid amount consumed in one cycle of the cleaning mode in the liquid supply system, and the actual measured flow rate.

Liquid sale management device

A liquid quality management device capable of being added to a liquid supply system supplying a liquid in a storage container to a dispensing device in order to cool the liquid and dispensing the liquid into a drinking container includes: a dispensing sensor; and a control device electrically connected to the dispensing sensor and configured to perform control operation of at least one of a refrigeration machine and a stirring device provided in the dispensing device at the same time when dispensing of the liquid is started.

Liquid quality managing device and method

A sensor relating to the present invention includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; a first attracting portion positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode and configured to receive conductive abrasion powder contained in a detection region and attracted onto the first attracting portion; a sensing unit for sensing a change in electrical resistance between the first electrode and the second electrode caused by the conductive abrasion powder; and at least one second attracting portion positioned within the detection region and configured to attract the conductive abrasion powder contained in the detection region.

Sensor

A liquid quality management device capable of being added to a liquid supply system which can supply a liquid within a storage container to a dispensing device in order to cool the liquid, and can dispense the liquid to a drinking container. The liquid quality management device includes an actual flow rate preparation unit including a flow rate sensor for determining an actual measured flow rate of the liquid; a dispensing liquid temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container; and a determination unit electrically connected to the actual flow rate preparation unit and the dispensing liquid temperature sensor, for determining an integrated flow rate of the liquid when the liquid temperature is equal to or higher than a set temperature, and for determining whether or not coolability of the dispensing device is suitable by comparing the integrated flow rate with a determination value.

Liquid quality control device

There is provided a conversion device () configured to convert a manual liquid supply device () into an automated liquid supply device, the conversion device comprising an automated operation portion () and a mounting plate () made of a resin, the mounting plate including a back surface (), a front surface (), and a liquid discharging portion opening () passed through the front and back surfaces, and the conversion device further comprising spacers () configured to be interspersed between the front surface of the mounting plate and the automated operation portion, and configured to create a gap between the front surface and the automated operation portion.

Conversion device for converting manual liquid supply device into automatic liquid supply device, and attaching plate provided to conversion device

Provided is a welding robot mechanism that has: a welding robot having a touch sensing function; a welding power source for supplying welding power to the welding robot; and a control unit for controlling the welding robot, wherein the welding power source has a welding power source communication unit that receives detection signals with regard to control of the welding robot and the touch sensing, and transmits the detection signals outward. The control unit is linked to the welding power source communication unit via a serial bus communication wire. The detection signals comprise a mass of data including a detection data group designated as a first group and a detection data group designated as a second group, and is configured to read the detection data group designated as the first group in a shorter cycle than that for the detection data group designated as the second group. The detection data group designated as the first group includes a detection signal obtained by the touch sensing.

Welding robot mechanism

Provided is a communication control system in which a control device and one or a plurality of control target devices are connected through a network, wherein at least one of the plurality of control target devices includes a sub master and a sub slave to be synchronously controlled with each other, and the control device includes a storage unit storing each pieces of information on a synchronization period for synchronizing with the control target device, communication periods, and mutual communication control information for mutually communicate in a mutual communication period shorter than the synchronization period, a calculation unit calculating a control command for commanding an operation in synchronization with the control target device for each control target device, and a communication control unit transmitting the control command including the mutual communication control information to the sub master and the sub slave of the at least one control target device.

Communication control system and communication control method

A control device connected to one or more to-be-controlled devices via a network includes: a storage that stores information of a synchronization period of a time interval for synchronization with the to-be-controlled devices, and communication periods of plural time intervals established in the synchronization period; a calculator that calculates, for each of the to-be-controlled devices, a control instruction instructing the to-be-controlled device to operate in synchronization; and a communication controller that performs, based on the information stored in the storage, a control such that the control instruction is transmitted and received between the control device and each of the to-be-controlled devices during the synchronization period, the communication controller allocating a respective control instruction corresponding to each of the to-be-controlled devices to at least one of the communication periods established in the synchronization period, thereby transmitting/receiving data including the allocated control instruction for each communication period.

A control device of a robot for controlling the angle of a joint of the robot that is driven by a motor. The control device is equipped with: a joint angle command-calculating unit for calculating a joint angle command value; an axial force torque-calculating unit for calculating the axial force torque generated in the joint axis; an elastic deformation-compensating unit for calculating a motor command angle by adding a joint deflection, which is calculated from the axial force torque and a joint spring constant, to the joint angle command value; a stopping position-detecting unit for detecting the angle of the motor when the robot contacts an external structure; and a command angle-switching unit for outputting the motor angle detected by the stopping position-detecting unit instead of the joint angle command value when the stopping position-detecting unit outputs the angle of the motor.

Robot control device

Provided are a control method and a control device that can make the range of periodic activity (amplitude of reciprocal movement) of an object of control, such as an industrial robot, the same as a case in which the reduction device has no backlash or the same as the amplitude of a position instruction signal. A control device () that carries out position control for an arm (), which carries out periodic movement, while compensating for backlash in the arm () is provided with a control unit () that adds to a position instruction signal, which gives instructions for the position of the arm (), a backlash quantity signal after the backlash quantity signal has been shifted so as to be delayed by a delay time, generates a final position instruction signal, and carries out position control of the arm () on the basis of the final position instruction signal that has been generated, said backlash quantity signal compensating for backlash.

Control method and control device

The position of blood vessels can be more appropriately specified by means of appropriately selecting, on the basis of the conditions and components utilized, and angle between a light emitting unit optical axis of a near-infrared light emitting unit and a normal light of an irradiated surface, and angle between an optical axis of a light receiving side lens and the normal line of the irradiated surface, and an angle between a light receiving surface of a photo diode array and the light receiving unit optical axis. Thus, the subcutaneous blood vessel depth in the direction of the normal line from the irradiated surface can be specified based on changes in illumination intensity in a photodiode array. Consequently, the position of subcutaneous blood vessels can be easily specified.

Blood sampling device

This control device () for compensating for the elastic deformation of an articulated robot is configured from a joint angle command value calculation unit (), an axial force torque calculation unit (), a first dynamic characteristic computing unit (), a feedback control unit (), and a motor angle command value calculation unit (). The first dynamic characteristic computing unit () is configured from an interpolation unit configured from an N-ary curve interpolation, and a filter unit configured from an M-ary filter, with N+M being at least 4.

Elastic deformation compensation control device for articulated robot

In an elastic-deformation-compensation control device (), a first dynamic characteristic calculation unit () performs filtering processing with respect to a motor-angle command value (&#x3b8;mc) outputted from a motor-angle-command-value calculation unit (), and outputs a processed motor-angle target value (&#x3b8;md). A second dynamic characteristic calculation unit () is provided with a high-frequency cutoff characteristic having a cutoff frequency which is lower than that of the first dynamic characteristic calculation unit (), performs filtering processing with respect to the output from an axial force torque calculation unit (), and outputs a processed axial force torque compensation value (fd).

Elastic-deformation-compensation control device and control method for articulated robot

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Takashi Wada