Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Tsuyoshi Yamane

Masaki Fujimoto

Tetsurou Kitao

Daisuke Satou

Daisuke Sato

Tatsuo Sakai

Tomoharu Nakahara

Yukihiko Kitano

Hiroyuki Fujii

Hitoshi Kitano

An autonomously moving robot that drives while evading an obstacle by an environment information acquisitioner. The information acquisitioner includes an imager that takes an image of a circumference on a driving route, an image recognition processor that extracts an area having a property relating to a region of a human body, a ranger that measures a range and an orientation to an object existing in the circumference on the driving route, a range information analyzer that obtains a shape of the object, and an environment recognizer that recognizes the environment information on the driving route. The environment recognizer compares the area extracted in the image recognition processor with the object recognized in the range information analyzer, and recognizes the object as a person when both of them agree with each other.

Autonomously moving robot

In a connector receptacle which is mounted on a printed circuit board, a pair of protection protrusions is formed to protrude outward in a insertion direction of a plug from a rear end of a bottom board of a metal shell. A plurality of terminals held on a plug holder is arranged between the protection protrusions in a widthwise direction in a cut portion of the bottom board, so that twisting force acting of the connector receptacle is mainly received by the protection protrusions, and thus, the terminals are protected from peeling off from the printed circuit board. A pair of slits is formed along an extension line of the rear end on the bottom board, so that melted solder for fixing the connector receptacle on the printed circuit board rarely diffused to a lower face of the bottom board.

Connector receptacle

Connector

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Tsu, Japan

Tsuyoshi Yamane