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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hisanori Nakamura, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318570 ; 3185681 ; 318601 ; 36447429 ;
Abstract
A tracing control method includes the steps of (a) controlling a movement direction of a move point to a tangential direction of an objective locus at a present position of the move point and (b) moving the move point in the movement direction at a non-controlled speed. A tracing control apparatus includes (a) a direction control actuator for controlling a movement direction of a move point and (b) a drive actuator for driving the move point at a non-controlled speed.