Industrial Technology Research Institute

Kinpo Electronics, Inc.

Other

Jiangyin Kao Yi Mechanization Industry Co., Ltd.

Yen-Chun Lin

Wei-Han Wang

Chao-Chi Wu

Ya-Hui Tsai

Lai-Sheng Chen

Chun-Yu Lin

Yen-Chieh Mao

Jen-Hua Wu

Yi-Ming Chu

Fan-Ching Chien

Ji-Shang Yu

Shean-Jen Chen

Yao-Jiunn Chen

Kuo-Tsung Tseng

Jeng-Nan Yih

Ching-Hsiang Lin

Sammy Shyue

A dual-column office table includes two oppositely disposed stationary upright columns with a connecting rod transversely connected therebetween, two guiding columns separately disposed in the two stationary upright columns, at least one steel ball sleeve fitted on either guiding column, two driving units separately disposed in the two guiding columns, and a table top to which a top portion of each guiding column is fixedly connected. A bottom end of each guiding column is provided with a limiting structure protruding outward. A bottom end of the each driving unit is fixed to a respective table base provided at bottom portion of each stationary upright column. The table top has a bottom surface fixedly connected with a fixing seat and is provided with a lifting control switch, the lifting control switch being connected with the driving units and having an end disposed in the fixing seat.

Dual-column office table

A single-column conference table includes a base, a table top, and a lifting mechanism. The lifting mechanism includes an upright column having a bottom portion fixed to the base. A first accommodating chamber is defined inside the upright column. A lifting sleeve is provided in the first accommodating chamber. A second accommodating chamber is defined inside the lifting sleeve. The lifting sleeve is fixed to the table top. A driving unit is provided in the second accommodating chamber. The driving unit is a gas spring. A bottom of the gas spring is fixed to the base together with the upright column. A top of the gas spring is fixed to the support seat. The table top connected with the support seat can be lifted or lowered through the gas spring. The conference table is more stable and reliable during the lifting operation and can prevent the table top from rotating.

Single-column conference table

A lifting device includes a driving unit, a moving tube, and a rolling unit. The driving unit includes an activating shaft having one end connected to an external object, a sleeve being fixed around the activating shaft and having axially extending flat surfaces, an activating cylinder connected to an opposite end of the activating shaft for driving the activating shaft to move with respect to the sleeve, and a controlling member connected to the activating cylinder for controlling the activating cylinder. The moving tube is mounted around the sleeve and connected to the external object. The movement of the activating shaft synchronously makes the moving tube move upward or downward. The rolling unit includes a plurality of rollers that are rotatably attached to the moving tube and maintain contacting the flat surfaces of the sleeve. Thereby, the lifting device lifts and lowers the external object stably.

Lifting device

An office machine with both platform-type scanning mode and feeder-type scanning mode. The office machine includes a reciprocally movable scanning module arranged on upper side of the office machine for scanning documents placed on a platform. The office machine further includes a sheet-feeding path positioned under a bed. The sheet-feeding path has at least one position where the documents passing through the sheet-feeding path can be scanned by the scanning module.

Office machine with both platform-type scanning mode and feeder-type scanning mode

A visual navigation system and method based on structured light are provided. The visual navigation system at least includes at least one projector for generating a specific path pattern formed by structured light, and a visual server. In addition to facilitating the visual navigation system to detect an obstacle, the pattern formed by the structured light provides a specific path pattern followed by robots during the navigation. In the visual navigation method, when detecting the obstacle, the visual server routes a virtual path and issues a movement-control command to the robots, which in turn follow the virtual path. The present invention is capable of raising the accuracy for the robot navigation and reducing operation burden of the visual server by using the structured light to guide the robots.

Visual navigation system and method based on structured light

System and method for graphically allocating robot's working space are provided. The system includes an image extractor, a task-allocating server and a robot. A graphic user interface (GUI) of the task-allocating server includes a robot's working scene area, a space attribute allocating area and a robot's task area. Thus, a user assigns one certain space area in the robot's working scene area with a 'wall' attribute, or another space area with a 'charging station' attribute. Meanwhile, by using the GUI, the user directly assigns the robot to execute a specific task at a certain area. Hence, the user or remote controller facilitates the robot to provide safer and more effective service through his/her environment recognition.

System and method for graphically allocating robot's working space

A method for coordinating cooperative robots is provided. The method includes following steps. An abnormal event is detected by a sensor disposed in an environment or in a robot. The abnormal event is broadcasted to the cooperative robots. Each robot determines whether the priority of the abnormal event is higher than that of its currently executing task. If the answer is 'yes,' whether function attributes of the robot meet attributes of the abnormal event is then determined. If the function attributes of the cooperative robot do not meet the attributes of the abnormal event, the robot broadcasts to acquire help from other robots, thereby constituting an instantly designated task team. The instantly designated task team goes to where the abnormal event takes place to process the abnormal event. After the abnormal event has been eliminated, the instantly designated task team is dismissed and these robots resume their original tasks.

Method for coordinating cooperative robots

A sheet-feeding apparatus having simple structure and capable of single-face/double-face scanning/printing sheets at high sheet-feeding efficiency. The sheet-feeding apparatus includes a sheet-feeding path in which sheets can pass through a scanning module and/or a printing module. The sheet-feeding path includes a first passage, a second passage communicating with the first passage and a subsidiary passage formed between the first and second passages. The sheets are selectively fed into and delivered through the first passage, the second passage or the subsidiary passage to be single-face/double-face scanned/printed.

Sheet-feeding apparatus

The present invention discloses a coupled waveguide-surface plasmon resonance biosensor, comprising: a grating layer formed of a transparent material, the grating layer comprising a first periodic grating structure; a waveguide layer formed on the first periodic grating structure, the refractive index of the waveguide layer being larger than the refractive index of the grating layer; a plasmon resonance layer formed on the waveguide layer, capable of being optically excited to cause a plasmon resonance wave; and a ligand layer formed on the plasmon resonance layer; capable of being bound to react with receptors of a sample to be tested.

Coupled waveguide-surface plasmon resonance biosensor

An automated induction toilet bowl seat lift system comprised of a drive mechanism, two detectors respectively provided in the front and in the rear at the bottom of a seat, and a circuit board module characterized by that both detectors detect approaching or leaving human body, e.g. one hand, to command the seat to lift up or to drop flat through the circuit board module.

Automated induction toilet bowl seat lift system

An apparatus and method for receiving a continuous time pulse amplitude-modulated passband signal is disclosed. The pulse amplitude modulated signal is periodically sampled by a local clock to generate received samples. A convolution of the received samples and an impulse response function is evaluated at a particular value of a phase difference variable to derive corrected samples. Using a narrow transmission band filter, a periodic signal is derived from the corrected samples. The periodic signal has a period equal to a symbol period of the pulse-amplitude modulated signal. Successive samples in each period of the periodic signal are compared to determine if the corrected samples lag or are ahead of optimal samples. If the corrected samples lag or are ahead of the optimal samples, the phase difference variable used to evaluate the convolution is varied by a fixed discrete stepsize.

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