Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Teruyuki Oka

Atsushi Demachi

Yasuhisa Saito

Toratsugu Kuwahara

Susumu Miyazaki

Takuro Koyanagi

Toshiyuki Higashi

Kenichi Ogawa

Hiroki Tahira

Satoshi Tabuchi

Toshiyuki Kubo

Ken Onuma

A bipedal robot of the present invention has a trunk consisting of an upper trunk and a lower trunk which are rotatable around a rotation axis relative to one another. The upper trunk has shoulders on the right and left sides. An arm is provided at each shoulder. A pair of right and left legs is attached to lower ends of the lower trunk. A storage battery is mounted to the back of the upper trunk, positioned within a shoulder width. The storage battery is positioned below the top of a head mounted on the upper trunk. When the robot walks a narrow passage or corridor having a width slightly larger than the width thereof, for example, this arrangement prevents the storage battery from interfering with the passage or the like.

Bipedal robot with storage battery

In a hybrid power supply device constituted such that a secondary battery ( ) is charged by a fuel battery ( ) and electric power is supplied from the secondary battery ( ) to a load ( ), even when there are variations among residual capacities of individual unit secondary batteries ( ) constituting the secondary battery ( ), the secondary battery ( ) can be charged properly without causing overcharging in each of unit secondary batteries ( ). The fuel battery ( ) is divided into a plurality of unit fuel batteries ( ), each consisting of a predetermined number of cells, and each unit hybrid power supply ( ) is constituted by connecting each unit fuel battery ( ) with each unit secondary battery ( ) through each charging switch ( ) in parallel. The charging switch ( ) is controlled independently for each unit hybrid power supply ( ) on the basis of the residual capacity of each unit secondary battery ( ) to perform charging of the unit secondary battery ( ) by the unit fuel battery ( ).

Hybrid power supply device

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Sayama, Japan

Teruyuki Oka